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Mr. and Mrs. James Beach. This farm was taken from the Crown at two different dates. Jonn Hewitt, of the Townâ€" ship of Ssugeen, in the Cotmty of Bruce, yeo- man, paid One Hundred Dollars to the Crown, for the east half of Lot number 20, in the first concession of Saugeen Township, on the twenty second day of August, Eighteen Hundred and Seventy. John Hewitt, of the town of Orangeville, in the County of Dufferin, formerly of Saugeen Township, Bruce County, yeoman, paid One Hundred Dollars to the Crown for the west half of Lot number 20, Concession 1, Saugeen Township, Bruce County, on the second of December, Eighteen Hundred and Eighty Four. On the fourteenth day of July, Eighteen Hundred and Eighty Five, John Hewitt, and his wife, Ann Jane l-Ieuitt, solo to John licLaren, farmer, and his wife, Sarah Jane licLaren, Lot number 20, Saugeen, for the sum of Five Thousand Five Hundred Dollars. THE MITCHELL PLACE . ,7â€"/3 Saugeen ’I‘wp., Lot 20, Con. l. On July tenth, Eighteen Hundred and Ninety, John Mitchell and his wife, Janet (Forrester) Mitchell bought this farm. They had four sons James, Peter, Thomas and John, and four daughâ€" ters - Agnes, Janet, Grace and Jane. Johr Mitchell, at the time of his death, on July tenth, Eighteen Hundred and Ninety Nine, bequeathed Lot 20, Saugeen, to his son, James. James (.iitchell was unmarried, and lived, after his retirement, with his sisters, Mrs. James Brunton and hrs. hirard, in Port Elgin, until the time of his death. Reoch Brothers, James and Arthur, purâ€" cnaseu the farm December Sixth, T'ineteen Hundâ€" red and Forty Three. In April, Nineteen Hundâ€" red ard Fifty Five, Arthur sold his share of the farm to his brother, James. at the time of purchase, there was a gurage, house and burr on the property. The garage was moved to another farm, the house torn down, and the barn solo to James meaning ir lineâ€" teer- Hundred and Fifty Eight. Charles Kelly, Sr., remembers being at the barn raising at the time the secord barn was being built.