It is situated on what is known as the Huron Tract, Kent County, London District, and is the next north of the township of London.

Our neighbors on the south, were a company of Irish people, who owned the township, and on the west side were a township of Welshmen, a hardy, industrious and enterprising people.
In Wilberforce there were no white inhabitants; the land appeared level and handsome, with but one stream of any magnitude running through it; this was the Oxsable, which was dry during a part of the year.

All was one vast forest of heavy timber, that would compare well with that of Western New York.

Beech, maple, ash, elm, oak, whitewood, bass, balm of gilead, &c.

The soil was good for corn, wheat, rye, oats, and most kinds of the grain and vegetables raised in New York, and was a superior grazing country, about fifteen miles from London.