Mosa Township, Ontario

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Mosa

Source: The Canadian County Atlas Digital Project:
Illustrated Historical Atlas of the County of Middlesex, Ont.
Location: Mosa Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada
Map Title: Mosa
Date(s): 1878
Source: http://web.library.mcgill.ca/countyatlas/Images/Maps/TownshipMaps/mid-m-mosa.jpg

Highlighted areas (clockwise, from top):
Note the map's orientation: north is to the bottom right

Top red highlighted area
- Farm of John McKellar, who married Sarah Livingston, eldest child of Neil and Janet (McNair) Livingston
- McKellar left to find work and died in the United States circa 1850
- John Livingston (Sarah's brother) worked the farm until the McKellar sons came of age
Bottom red highlighted area
- Farm settled by Neil and Janet (McNair) Livingston in 1829
- Concession IX portion (south) inherited by Neil and Janet's oldest son Duncan. In the 1878 map, Duncan's eldest sons, Neil and Donald, were the proprietors.
- Some time after 1878 John Livingston – Neil and Janet's third son – bought his nephews' farms and he and his wife Sarah Campbell raised their family there until John's death in 1895.
- Neil (oldest son of John Livingston) and Christine Clark had three children here: Annie, Jessie, and John.

- Concession X portion (north) inherited by Neil and Janet's second oldest son Neil.
- In 1873 Neil sold the west portion of the lot to his brother John Livingston (reflected on map)
- Sarah Livingston (later McCrie) born here in 1876
- In late 1878 Neil sold the remaining portion to a John Campbell (the map shows Neil still owning it at the time it was surveyed in 1878).

Blue highlighted area
- Farm settled by Malcolm McKellar in 1831. He married Catherine Leith in 1849
- Birthplace of Duncan McKellar, their seventh child, in 1862
- Home of Margaret "Maggie" Livingston when she married Duncan in 1887
- Birthplace of Katie McKellar in 1889
- Maggie died here in 1895 and Duncan in 1900
Yellow highlighted area
- Site of the McKellar Common School (School Section No. 8)
- One acre was sold by Malcolm McKellar in 1867 to the school trustees of Section 8
- Attended by a number of Livingston and McKellar children, including Sarah Livingston (later McCrie) and Katie McKellar
- Closed in 1951 and demolished in 1999