Compton, Québec, Canada (Saint-Thomas-de-Compton)
1832 - COMPTON,

township, in the co. of Sherbrooke, joins Ascot N.W., Barnston and Barford S.E., Hatley S.W. and Clifton N.E. and is in no respect inferior to Ascot. In various parts it has many wide spreading but gentle rises of most excellent land thickly covered with pine, maple and beech timber of fine quality and large size. - Completely watered by the rivers Coaticook and Moose, the former connecting with Lake Tomefobi and both with the St. Francis, besides many less considerable streams near which are some fine breadths of luxuriant meadow and pasture. - An industrious population, about 1200 souls, inhabit numerous settlements on the banks of the rivers where most of the farms appear to be in a very thriving and excellent condition, generally producing crops of wheat of excellent consumption. Many large patches of land might be very beneficially employed in the culture of flax and hemp. The principal rivers work several mills and there are some manufacturies fo pot and pearl-ash. - Through the most cultivated parts roads have been opened and bridges thrown over the rivers, all kept in good repair, by which a communication is formed with the main road to Quebec and with the state of Vermont. - There are a few traders and artisans, who, in following their respective trades, create something like the first rudiments of commerce and confer a comparative importance upon this increasing settlement. This township was erected by patent in 1802, when 26,460 acres were granted to Jesse Pennoyer, Esq., and several associates, much of which was immediately cleared and is the best settled and best cultivated part of the T.; the greatest portion of this grant is at present held by various settlers, M. Pennoyer having retained no more than a sufficiency for his own use. In the year 1810, 13,110 acres in the easternly part were granted to Sir Rob. S. Milnes, Bart., and several lots of it are now in an advanced state of cultivation; the whole, from the general quality of the soil, by a little industry and good management, might be turned to a very profitable account. - The common price for clearing lands in this T. is from 10 to 12 dollars an acre.

Population 1202
Churches, Pro. 1
Schools 1
Corn-mills 2
Saw-mills 7
Carding-mills 1
Fulling-mills 1
Potasheries 1
Pearlasheries 1
Shopkeepers 2
Taverns 2
Artisans 9

A Topographical Dictionary of The Province of Lower Canada by Joseph Bouchette, Esq., London, 1832

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