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JQ '.NATHAN SEXSMITH::
In 1862
front.
� oh nathan
DOMINION
·
Sexsmith
ROAD
bought Lot l&�
con.16 bertie
The farm exstended from the lake to Nigh Road.
property of Michael Sourwine.
north side
Sexsmith custom's &
into the red brick home
Mather
The old tw o story frame
home stood
o
Sexsmith
had a large
later t h e
immigration officer moved
just across the road,
a
short distance east.
heard of cattle.
The home was ajacent to six mile
Southern ,
It had been
of what was to become many years later Dominion Road.
In 1880 MathewW.
�r.
Bertie Township.
Creek and the old lake Erie
Grand ttunk ran past the rear forty,
&
over the
old.Sourwine Bridge.
Beside this stream
and s hown on
stood
an
old· :._·oaw mill·
Mill stood an old two story frame house.
,
home .
T�e
to nut
di�ing
a
Dominion Rd,
just east of the
The lumber from this building
room on the back
stream to two Mr.
of the red
six
mile
Creek then it fallowed
the buggy.
high rize of
Creek turned from one
Previous to these bridges the road
·now doubt crossed at a narrow spot in the Creek just
their buggies.
a
Sexsmith had constructed two wooded bridges.The road
over these and headed west.
and the old home,
brick
f ront of this home. The road ran west to a
ground in a south westerly direction. Where the
past
water wheel,
for many years before_ the turn of the century
and after did not run in
oint
a
old map of the 182011s as Rickert's Mill. beside the
an
was later used
ran by
w h ere
up from the Mill
in later years the Sexsmith's used
The old grist mill was
used to house their
to wash
horse and
The � pper floor had grain bins all along one wall,
of these was used as a standing stall.
The ground floor
machinery for the Mill and the upper floor was used for
and one
housed the
storage.
�
b
After living in Toronto for many years Mrs. Sexsmith � ackson came back �q
to Bertie with her husband.On his death she moved intb this home, her
on
birthplace to live with her brother
and on his death lived
____ ..
in the old homestead.
'
�SOURWINE:::
from the 1851 Census::::
Valentine Sourwine
•
Barbara
68 ytrs.
Sour wi ne
Children:::
Peter
17 yrs.
George
28 yrs.
Margarette
25 yrs.
Mary
3 yrs.
Valentine S�urwine lived at
he
•operated a
..
mill stream.
•
•
saw
It ran
mill
for
,
6 mile Creek east of Ridgeway, where
which was powe5ed by the waters
only 3 months
of the year •
of the
�
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