• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • With the British loss at the Battle of Lake Erie in September possessions as well as their crops and livestock, taken to of 1813, supplies could no longer be brought by boat to supply troops on the Detroit frontier. Among the targets on Forts Detroit and Malden on the Detroit River. With many these raids were the few flour mills in the region. The mills Native Allies to feed, the British were forced to withdraw supplied flour used in the production of bread needed along the Long Woods Road towards Burlington to fed the army. Burning the mills made it harder for the Heights, near present-day Hamilton. The British settlers and the British Army to obtain food. endured yet another loss at the Battle of the Thames in October of 1813 during which Tecumseh was killed, On September 19, 1814, Talbot’s mill at Port Talbot was ending the Native resistance to American settlement burned and all that remained were the mill stones and south of the Great Lakes. some metal fittings. Talbot offered to give the material including the stones to Peter McKellar, if he would build The west end of Upper Canada was now open to raiding by a mill at Sixteen Mile Creek. The McKellar mill operated from American forces aided by rebels who had turned on their 1821 until the 1890s when it was demolished. One of the former neighbours. Many of the raids focused on the settlements stones was later used to support a barn on the farm of Duncan Col. omas Talbot (1771-1853) Tecumseh BATTLE OF THE THAMES, 5th Oct. 1813 by EDWARD WILLIAM CLAY near Port Talbot where Col. Talbot lived. His settlers lost personal and Angus Gray. Col. R. M. Johnson fatally wounds Tecumseh, c. 1833

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • From the reminiscences of Sheriff Peter McKellar, 1911

BURNING1 OF THE MILLS PRESENT DAY “My father sold (the mill) in 1837 and it was in operation many years afterwards. 12 PLAQUES 1 Burning of the Mills, 1814 As the Sixteen Mile Creek was not a living stream, the provisions for the summer had 2 Brock’s Creek, Elgin County in the War of 1812 to be ground between the middle of March and the middle of June. To do the grinding Additional Locations of Interest for the settlement in so short a time, my father ran the mill day and night and did it all A Arts and Cookery Bank - 242 Graham Road, West Lorne alone. He would start the mill at 2 a.m. on Monday morning and never leave it until AB ASite of the Battle of Longwoods and Memorial Plaque 9 p.m. Saturday evening. I have seen women come to the mill, each carrying a bag of C Ye Olde Jail - 135 Queen Street, Rodney grain on her back. When the grain was ground, they carried the bags of meal home D Site of McKellar Mill (1821-1890s) again. Meantime the husbands were at home preparing the land for a spring crop." • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

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