"About 1800, however, Mr. Christopher Arnold...built a flower and saw mill, run by water power, which was on the old Arnold homestead, Lot No. 4, River Range, Howard...".
"To go back to an historical period, we have the old mill house of Mr. Christopher Arnold's
where Tecumseh ate his last breakfast, while waiting to pilot his army by the mill so they would not burn it, on the morning of the battle at Moraviantown in which he fell [5 October 1813]."
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| Statue Of Tecumseh (Garden Of The Gods Area In Illinois) |
Was William Howard (my ancestor) a next door neighbor on Lot #5?
...Petition of William Howard of the Township of Howard.....200 acres of Land, being the front or northerly part of Lot No. 5 in the Front Concession of Howard on the River Thames under the authority of a Land Board....25th July 1809
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