Lillias "Lily" Millar

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• Name: Lily Millar
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-79402P
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-12296
• Residence: 1790, Dundee, Forfar, Scotland

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TRANSCRIPTION FROM THE HANDWRITING OF WILLIAM G. MILLAR

The ship's name in which we crossed the ocean was the Mentor of New Bedford, 250 tons Burden. We learnt through the papers that she was lost on the coast of America some years afterwards. We left Dundee in Scotland on the fourth day of June 1804 and did not reach New York in the United States until the fourth of August. We staid in that City about three weeks and then removed to Albany
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In coming over to America Our Ship encountered a severe storm off the banks of Newfoundland. She was laid to for many hours under the three sails seen on the ship below. Our Father [Captain Alexander Millar] who had been many years at sea declared he had never seen the waves run higher. They seemed to me to to reach an altitude as high as top of the main mast.
We shipped a sea that rose like a house. It swept decks of everything on them. Our Father saved himself by running his arm down to his shoulder into one of the holes in the windlass. The Captain told the owners of the ship at New York that, but for the assistance of our Father, they would never have seen their ship again.

We landed in New York from Dundee in Scotland on the 4 of August 1804, where we staid three weeks and then removed up to Albany, and remained there nine months, and during that time our Father purchased land on the Niagara River, and to which place we removed in the spring of 1805, and where we continued to reside until we Came to Canada, about the Year 1824.

Our brothers, John & David, had preceded us to Canada to Waterloo township, and Commenced to keep a store at what was called Crofts. After a time we joined them there and I assisted in the business for nearly three Years. About that time David and myself left Crofts and went to New York City in order to purchase some goods, and which we did-- and again returned to Canada, and made a beginning at Stoney Creek. But not likely to succeed there, we returned to Waterloo again & commenced the second time near Abram Erb's mill. After a time we removed to Green Bush and carried on our business for nearly three Years there, in a rented house. Soon after this we purchased a lot in Berlin as it is now Called, and we built the first frame house there.

W. G. M

Alexander married Janet Gourlay 22 Mar 1790, Dundee, Forfar, Scotland. Janet was born 1769; died 1822, Lewiston, Niagara, New York, United States. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Janet Millar
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-74015
• Residence: 1790, Dundee, Forfar, Scotland