Milford Fair Saturday, September 18 9 cy TE 3 wld Psen n 0F LUIS CONE CG JTOIT Prd, for other than passing comment. No, the celebration of the town's two hundredth birthday was almost unon dla mim ws eb J LLL oo iy NASR WT LHS, and there was still a great nur moar Ci Lh ys [RV] done and many pians to be finalized. Of course Agnes's contribution would be missed. for she was one of the Being nract tical, it was a nitv this Sy Se a ALY town's heat organizers, tm SOUR AP EP PAN. ~~ mlm me Le hadto happen when iLGia, 107 itmeant parceiing ne out to others and everyone that couid be invoived had been, and no one was interested in taking on anvthin avira Hiram Osler, the dri agist , expressed ital fsom Ta Sa Ci a uggs "aa -- ot 4 "Te faery - what t triteiy, Wien ne said, mpestiugit. wall tjust star around and talk about Agnes and Charlie with all the things that have to be done." He returned to preparing a addi ik with come WOT < 2 @ >t [¢] [@] ambiouity ® Anyway, prescription, siguity, ANYY SVT XR [) 3 Q 6] 00) = ® [$9] 8 rom the i on the ta the other. She was proofreading t oi n that was to be released in book form as part of the B-sanionmal h i @ 1 a, een vere the Hoist: Voukhe Jamon sm im ebm on, the typist, igi peewee ue her to aimost fall evening o i doors, rapped eatly in paper, causin s a over the parcel when she uniocked her door on returning from Jeremy's. The text had been compiled from the family histories that filled the genealogy section of the Weaver 5 Mills Library, by a committee of three young S people from the high school working during the summer Hilda oy written or edited t al LIRRLAS Lon LRESA A 18 Ty fist 2 wa A i 3 3 oO he O = [0] Q Q [4 Q Jak = «QQ @ a3 a a o pl 5 3 ) jos | : = @ 0 £4 9 Jebediah, who had comefrom Ireland, first to Upper New York State, then in 1785, to Uppe rc anada with the growing finnd of | Inita, They had felt wing floed of Unite no particular loyaity to RE Shas King, but had found the unrest in the American colonies bad for business, and wanted to settle where there was greater political and min ctahilihy With that in mind thay had moved nomic stability, rind, they had moved rom one side of the Great Lakes to the other and been rewarded for their loyalty by being given a grant of land. This new location, with its plenitude of clear, running water, its proximity to the lakes and their chipping lanes, ] TAS ~ K nad seemed ideal. With refugees seeking work, it was not difficult to recruit a werk force. Then too there was the forest from which to obtain plentiful and near at hand, hnilding matariale oulcing maieriaic., hat e Cid Lica aid All that was needed was a supply Bn oink and they would establish, in this new land, woolei mills 'that would soon be able to ship woolen cloth bac to England. ac A ~Narei e timber anc tons was cut and quar x0) Q ' *Y Nd, where ne purchased the regnant ewes and two rams, their breeding being Cotswald bred to Spanish Merino. Tha rameo ware niira San nick Marine from stock INraristht Han WRC Drou LENT i 1 1 Samuel returned 1o rela begin nninas of aflock of six Ki er "0 rn | Vadim 4 PLL. PTT TIE Alllle Lla in the [= YR i SN LeiLuy. With Ese a8 & beginning, further sheep couid be bought from the domestic flocks being brought up from the colonies to the south by the loyalists, The sheen wold nrovide a ~~ mo] ma HN a Ta ~~~ ready source of both food and income forthese erugees and wouid provide em pioyment for many more. As oid Jebediah had been quoted as having said, "Twas a grand scheme, Warthy of an hii "And it had worked, bn nal prospered under ui Weavers' Mills h had Growin benevolent dictatorship of the Steeios, Land was cieared around the settlement, first for timber to cut into lumber for ik mille and housse, then for wood to heat the mille MLS TO, Tris LU ITS L o_o Tem Sm Le anda nouses. Ife ana uus c! ear ad Was OTOKEN up af cl crops were planted on the hundred acres farms that soon lined the roads that had been surveyed in this lake hug- Aina township, And of course, almost evens farm. as well ging tow! An course, almost every as having a couple of cows, a couple of pigs and a of chickens, had a flock of sheep. In ten years, the settlement of Weavers' Mills and the surrounding township had a look of prosperous permanence that it would enjoy for the next two hundred yun is. Not just satisfied to establish an industry, the Steeles recognized that they were also r a health of their workers, and the community generally, With this in mind, they had recruited a young doctor, one Alexander Wesley Fegan, who came out from England with the latest 18th century surgical training and avoung hrida, They had settled, produced a family o of three, and IT ST eli Camo Sia { ou Ry fg. § 1% py [ oo J o the best of their combined apilities, for Sarah regan became not only her doctor husband's helpmate, but also his assistant, cared for he health needs of the t, Itwas Seaiding LES 4 ft] --F oh X) Sarah gon tn -- as many of the wounded as did her husband, and as she was much accomplished in needle worl oroduced much neater scars with her stitches than oi Sada meme did her husband. Sarah Fegan had also acted as mid- wife at the births of all the children of Jebediah and his wife Josephine Asselstine, and Samuel and his wife Abigail McMurtray, five children in all, three for Josephine a ic 3 dwt and two for Abigail. And her husband deferred to her in matters of birthing, leaving even the most complicated to her, for Sinsugh he was a good surgeon, childbirth tarrified terrified him . twas somethir ney of a icke tharefare when CS Sv PS PVINT LNT Si ve his own children were born, two fine sons and a daughter, each with the assistance of a mid-wife trained by his wife, while he paced the hall and gulped a calming glass of brandy, during h ig asi fo' s travails, As Defitling his position in the community, and be- cause he wanted his wife to have as large and comfort- able a home as their circumstances permitted, he had a ouse now Ane = oN now occu ous by his direct d decieniiant : ent, ctor, Jeremy Fegar led as she read nese words, remembering heh had written them, she had speculated on what ao ooked like in the nrecant little thinki ny iz fob ie ininkiAa ig * Loe 7) p21 tha hate Cue 7 wouid be not only given a tour of if, but also offered prospect of being mistress of it, as Jeremy's wife. 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