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"We dined on the beach at the Twenty-Mile Creek and went across the great pond to one of Col. Butler's houses, where we slept, after taking great pains to smoke the house and fix the mosquito net well; for this place abounds so much with mosquitoes that the farmer does not sleep in his house from June til September, but sleeps in his barn to avoid them. The pond is full of wild rice, a marshy weed."
- July 27th, 1794
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20 Mile Creek, Ontario, May 10, 1794, (detail)
Elizabeth Simcoe, (1766-1850)
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Reference Code: F 47-11-1-0-130
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"We rose at six and left for the Forty-Mile Creek. We walked through the village and beyond Green's Mills a little way up the mountain . . . Green [a Loyalist from New Jersey who had settled in the area around 1788 and accompanied Simcoe on many of his trips) ground the corn for all the military posts in Upper Canada. His mill stood five miles east of Hamilton on the Stoney Creek Road. A mile further is a mill and a small waterfall, and at a season when the water is higher the scenery must be wonderfully fine. I drank tea at Green's and unwillingly left this fine scenery. Mrs. Green advised me to give Francis crow's foot boiled in milk until it becomes red and thick, which she said would cure the present complaint in his stomach. There are 100 people settled at the Forty, and there have been but seven graves in five years. The Governor promises that I shall ride on the mountain above the Forty this season."
- July 28, 1794
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