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lot # 32 brokrm front Lake Erie.
MILL SITE:::
County Historical Society:
In
Feb.
on
a
10th.,
stream
a
He wanted permission to build
living
near
Crane signes
In
by.
a
and his
It
was
granted
of the district •
part
on
signed by
was
July 10th.,
petition praying for
was
front
M:Lll
a
of lot
Grist Mill on his
a
petition
1797 this petit�on
residents
ertie Twn.
on
li tt:J.,e below Point .. Abin:>.
Crown to Timothy Skinner:
of the settlers,
B
Settlement of
1793 Timothy Skinner obtaj_ned permission to build
lot 32
In
page 34 welland
a
grant
refused,
at
land
32 :100
for the
acres.
use
forty-one persons
and in
of the
1796 Jacob
same
the request
privd.lege.
of
seven
•
1802 Timothy Skinner sold lot
32,
100
acres
to Issac Abraham
Laing.
The above information
book Papers and
from the
Re rords: page 34
:
Welland Historical Society
Settlement
of Township of Bertie.
�DF.SCENDENTS OF DA'."i!EL FORSYTH OF POIN'r ABI:MO•
AND PORT COLBOTJRNE, ONTARIO, CANADA
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DANIEL FORSYTH (Jame a, James, Jamee, -OJIIIMI t) , was born in
the year or 1772 in Pennaylvll?lia, the seoond child and second son
ot James and Eunioe Forsyth of Niagara Falla, Ontario. (ONTARIO
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
VOLUME XXV, PAGE 29'7,, NIAGARAFALLS
PUBLIC LIBRARY, lttAGARA F LLS, ONTARIO).
PAPERSf
Petitions For Land Grants,
I796-9
THE PETITION OF RESIDENTS OF ABINO (POINT) AND
TIMOTHY SKIN:IBR
To His Excellency John Graves Simcoe, Esqr.
Lieut Governor or the Province of Upper Canada &o., &o., &c.
The Petition or Timothy Skinner
Humbly Sheweth
To Your Excellency 1n Council that your Petitioner suffer•d very
much by Fines, Imprisonment and other Oppression f'ron1 the Americans
during the late War and that he came and put himself' under the
British Government soon &1.'ter the war was over and has lived ever
since in this DistrictBega to 1n1"orm
Excellency that there is • small Creek a little
below Point Ebeno
above Fort Erie running thro a piece of waist land
trom a Swamp capable or Erecting a small Mill for the Benetit of the
Neighborhood which is much wanted there.
Your Petitioner therefore moat humbly Requests that your Excellency
will pleaee to pe1-mit him to build a Mill thereon and grant him one
Hundred Aores of Land adjoining thereto on the same Terms as ia
granted to the re st ot the ProvinceAnd Your Petitioner will be ever bound to Pray
TIMOTHY SKIKHER
We the undernamed subscribers living in the Nabourhood about Point
*
humbly Crave that this Petition .ay meet with your Excellency's
Ebeno
Approbation •• we are in great want of a Grist Mill in this part or
the Settlement.
One of the Subscribers was:
"DANIEL FORSYTH"
lour
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Endorsed:
-
reed this petition ot
Mr. P. Terry
2 July 1793
read in C ouncil July IO
Granted.
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(
mile
Creek: also named Rickert's
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opposite.
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family,
1810.
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on
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�6 Mile Creek:::
(
from the
1851 census.:::;
Valentine Sourwine lived
by the water power supplied by the
It ran for
Valentine Sourine 68 yrs. b. 1783.
Children::
Sourwine
Peter
17 yrs.
George
28 yrs.
Margarette
(
the property,
Mill stream, operated a
only 3 months of the year.
Barbara
on
25 yrs.
Mary
3 yrs.
c.
1 yr.
and
saw
mill.
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16 flt
......._
10() ac res.
Crown to
..
May 9.,
1831 ..
6 ..
1832 ..
to Willson He.un
B.& S,,
May 22 ..
Dischrge
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on Hau n B�llO. \i\flI8
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230 aeres ..
to Daniel Al
of Morgage: Sam u el St.,
to JOHN RICKERT.,
1 Alward to Jediah f.'Iathei<vs:
1833 ..
Jan,.22.,
1836 ..
J
. uly
B.,&:.
9,.
S.,
I s adi a h Mathews to C hri sti an Hershey;
t.1
B.,&S ..
1840 ..
20 acres ..
John R icker t and w:i.:fe Mary to Christian H e rshey :
Daniel Alward �{
B.&s.
: 150 acres$
to-the
and all the lands
same,
overflmvs;
to
water
of the.JflJ.LJ;_POND
that now belong to said C hrist ia n H er s h e y ;
time f orrnerly
or may at
b elong to the late Mathias
Ha u n ,.
e tc ®
et c a
1850 ..
J uly
11,.
B.&.s ..
1852..
Valen tine Sourwine to the Buffalo Brantford and Goderi
1856..
May 2 ..
1867 ..
May 8.
B.& .. s.
B .. & S,.
John Kirpatrick at aux ..
to Valentine So ur wi n e:
Val e ntine Sourwine to
chael Sourwine:
railway prope:bj;y ..
exc
Michael S ourwin w qi.t a ux ..
to
220 acres.,
JONATHAl\J" SEXSMITH
ACRES .. _$ 4000 .. oo .. lot 16 .. con .. 1 .. & 2 ..
s xce p t 2 acr es part of lot 16 .. con .. 1 o wned
Grand Tr un k Rail way .,
·--
Jonathan Sexsmith to Municipality of Bertie.
'
parts of lot 16 .. con .. l.& 2.
1917 ..
19 J2.,
June
11 .. B.& .. S.,
rnay ..
19 .. Will:
Oct..
16.
Grant:
the
lo acres
Jonathan Sexsmith &� wife to Mathew Sexsrnith :100 acres.
Johnathan Sexsmith to wife Rebecca:
his home property: N.W .. Lot 16.
C li f ford H
..
Sexsmith ?:x Edith M .
3/8 acre.
Jackson m arrie d woman
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�The Dominion
1800's:
Road::::
In the early
1880's the Garrison Hd. from the
Stonfmill
the Quarry
The
�
old road
ran
from
an
was
not
open west in
elm tree est
area.
a
of
dir.ect line.
of the Sexsmith
property ( about where the Dormhnion later came) crossed
over
on
high ground
,
over two wooden bridges built
over
6 mile Creek ( owned by the Sourwines in the early 18001s)
then headed south west, to Haun Town by the Lake,
Ridgeway.
and
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