Contents

• Preface
• The Early Indian Occupation of Kent
• Fairfield, the First Moravian Village on the Thames
• Early Settlement and Surveys Along the River Thames in Kent County
• Lord Selkirk’s Baldoon Settlement
• Tecumseh
• Beginning of Settlement on the Sydenham
• The Birth of Chatham
• Pioneer Days on the Thames
• Along the Talbot Road
• Pioneer Life in Kent County
• The Old Log School House
• The Beginning of Church Life in Kent
• The History of the 24th Regiment of Canadian Militia
• Historical Sketch of the Press of Chatham
• Municipal Government in the County of Kent
• Negro Colonies in Kent County
• Bothwell and Kent’s First Oil Boom
• Historic Sites in Kent