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ames Sommerville,
as`tae 'Father
hum Somerville built lilistoty-rtttilciaaig;jburney,
the first; troll in West As builder of the first
Wawanosh on Lot lftf grist, milt in Wawanostt,
4" Ontnssiotk, NOUS. a Somerville's
boon it must istiowle4 e
buve been Te ' and skill as a
have, wheait .• millwright
Millet/ up to E destined that
that tithe he waS. to
mesal trips: to . 3 erect
(odtKrnrh,., l..uc:ktnQw`s
l
ayfieid,, or . , '*: first such till
Port .Alberts a few years •
anis from the. 'later and earn
latter,mill: 4for him the
c+noltl be title of "The..:
Father of the
obtained only
Village •
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reorded„ o1:the OOP extra- RetwsprS :).:
vanthat trade the slow • ,
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ancl: terlioUs. trip to
QUderiuh antl' return. ,with
the easttn8s, for the
Sduterville milli a jonrfney
that required the, fording
ot• the, Maitland River
which then, had not been
Eager to ttav4 a r.ntal
close'at hod. it was.not"
dtffic*1tUQ get helps r 'tu.
• snake, that, trip, and anion&
those who lent. their tirr
vicos: w4rc John
A mscrang, ;i +analct
Maepherson,'.fiugh
Ruthorforcl and Eben
Radfa'r.d, the Sof4erville
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