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other.
Chris hev wed, threshing spring
eat at (iairhratd, Dr,
neaps pester in Cloborne, in
arc, 14.11 1• retries in the
rbraid dairy ••hint` that the
ration r•,it, t, d two clays.
,lanu,tr\ 1, there came
m Piper', two men and
yokei,f ov t n On the 18th
force tncludi d "1. Lamb
two yoke ,if ykt n: Piper's
me.1 nd one }oke."
leust.of mil.. in threshing
ain h rnit t xltiitined in any
thepuhhtati„n,, 1>•ur-porting
girt. thy Iistory of
iculiurt' in Huron, but it
y be sur rt.ised that
nlop`s grain would he
led to a null . This would`
necer,arily h,' Piper's; he
not own the mill site in
Land if in husmess there
ouldhas tcr.,rnt.
hatever its relevance, if
y, to the threshing "bee,"
re appeal's in the diary,
ween the two threshing
I St es,thefollow nig entry:
'Sunday. ,tan 1(1 - Got 8
Is. Whiskey from M.
skier."
own 11111 Road, still so
lied. there v ere for many
s husv industries at
per Dar.. inch served
sdi,tritt tt,i 1: ref century
more sins! :1, 1, rred 'Mere
.nut+ n., ., • of them,
feetth,tt z.h : thi' river is
•seen the
in,•,+r iur, it tr. the darn,
eel ,i'i4,9 :,ill'' ago in a,
g fre•Iier In the 1850s
re was a gri.,,t mill. car
I mill and a brewery, A
lication of that decade
ed "a grist mill, sawmill,
woollen factory on the
land. " The late William
phell, 1 who gave his.
iniscenses td the
derich Star in 1927
alled'that "Buxton's
tsery Was'at Piper's mill,
Matheson's distillery,
rtcnUy,•n as Montogomery
eeling's, was -on the river
k past the cemetery, The
1 flour mill was Piper's.
spring, farmers came with
Ons and pitchforks and
ted sucker from below
dant.,"
he industries apt Piaper's
m chitny;cd 'owners many
es through t h i yea's, and
of the most picturesque
SV lliane Ley, who came
Gtderich in 1869, and
ght the Piper mill. Lee
been a youthful freighter
ox•tcsrms travelling to
United Stat, now West,
lin his 'us ;r soldier in the
thern ,I:•nay F•Ie
rated the ".ill for three
rs. whir h , ,.curl be after
deut,h of \C;11i,n,il and
Gam Pito r .n,d before
HilLir, d t.“(11, it over.
shipp..c! ri:,•il to Britain
ugh Month,' i ,end i:n 1874
d a end 11'wi;.int.,ss which
antimere urs rl his death in
• fie d ,, '" for_
der, and 441 -rough that
m hr'Iongs tll;tiiily to the
1y' years of shipping, when
k•as much commerce
betroit, I.ce always used
ec married
, Matilda
umhi
r'Inas daughter of
reser Crahh. Some of
r descendants are with
other members of the
he settled in Chicago,
brewery at Pier's was
IdaP the hill. Its great
mbers remain,
the site stion r heavily w oded
a good photograph was
°batined. The eaonn for
Dation was a stream of
g Water, desirable for
In the brew of the time.
ill Road wasindustrial hub
c/
Irs
The carding mill was
powered by the same stream.
Indeed, both the little stream
and the woollen mill, both
long gone, are named as
landmarks in the deed to
Ezekiel and
probably other documeii"tt::'-'”
William and Samuel Piper,
horn. in England, undoubtedly
were associated in operation
of the grist -mill. for each is
designated as "miller" in
many records. and there is
no evidence of Samuel being
connected with any other.
The same records, however,
describe Samuel's property
as Lot 8, Con. 1, Colborne.
This river land now included
in Maitland Conservation
Authority's Falls Reserve
park, was sold by the Canada
Company in 1843 to Baron
Van Tuyll, who mortgaged
the 158 acres to the Bank Of
Upper Canada for I:'9"3
pounds; 14 shillings and
four•pence• -I'ht' Bank sold to
Sani Piper in 1st'. and after
five years he sold to William,
who in 1870 sold 148 acress to
the township. Skipping over
numerous later transactions,
one pause's with interest at
the following entry in 1 00
"Joseph Goldthorpe and NI C;
(•,trneron, Lot e; etc., to John
l\' Moyes, 0,31.: and •tock
1n echo of the Ontario 11', .'
_'ritfi,r-t Railw tv affair.:\1+,y,•,,.
the pi ornoter•. ,,tid ht
; rt',,'d to h.tr'ness chi.
!Maitland for power.
ti,tni Piper tied March .."!1.
14 i. aged :,:. \\'illi;tne died
hehrtr,try 11 of the sante year,
;igen ••. 1'he Maitland burial
n
r'ecor'd offers no other pair
titulars except that both were
Presbyterians and William
died of a disease of the kid-
neys. Buried in the same plot
is Thomas Piper, son of
Samuel, \vho died May 19,
I' (1• aged 5 years and two
•months. The stone in
Maitland Cemetery was
"erected by his widow,
Susan." 'I'he fourth grave,
presumably is that of
Hui..1 •
1 sp ositt
Pre„
I1 1', re;es,art,,} -x,1,1,,,.,•
that \4.tlli,tnt I':t' •,i,!, ,I
sornewher>' ,w; 11%1'1'
prnl>ert}•.:aid it ,• r:'I r.'.n licit
there were sYt.11,11 it t;•,
long gone inn:, 'I hi ;.:1•J rifle.
operated with stone-, was:
powered from ,t tl.tnl lust ,t
few rods west of the path h t. )n
which visitors tonity go do\vn
to the flat ruck. The water
travelled along an earthen
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raceway: the depression is
till s isible along the hank.
Inhn McCreath worked at
the mill. Iiteti in one of the
houses on that lot, and it is
recalled l th;tt it daughter was
horn there in 18.0,
\\ iIti,rnl Pt1.>r r s w ill afl'tn•ds
rvg,rrtling the
.101 r+f null ol)er',ttions,. He
I,r„\rdt cl tor the silly by ries
+.,futit I'1tt, Ail:amson
owl! cloth, and William.
Young, of his ''personal and
t'•,tl estate, mortgages and
„•cur'ities . • his wife to
i, t,'itr the interest foc life.
Ili- bequeathed to "my friend
1„lee Tones my past
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to rot' by N•laitland Lodge 117,
Fry(' and Accepted Masons,
trusting that he will present
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