Stamford Township

Following the creation of Upper Canada in 1791, Township #2 was renamed Stamford and placed within the newly created County of Lincoln.

[2] It was developed and settled initially by Loyalists, primarily from New York State and other areas of the British colonies with the first two settlers being the Thomas McMicking and Philip Bender families.

[2] The British Crown granted land to Loyalists in Upper Canada to compensate them for their losses in the Revolution and to settle this area.

New settlers were initially mostly ethnic British, although some from New York also had more distant Dutch, Mohawk and French ancestry.

The building of the Stamford Meeting House took place in 1787 next to the local cemetery which villagers called God's Half Acre.