Phineas Mixer...was born at Norridge, Massachusetts, February 3, 1756; was a Revolutionary soldier, and after the war married Abigail Fobes. They had five children, and Phineas, the youngest, was ten years of age when he brought the family to the Western Resrve in 1805. He had bought 300 acres of the Connecticut Land Company and, finding no roads west of Buffalo, in order to reach his destination was obliged to follow the winding beach of Lake Erie. He finally located his tract one mile east of Madison Dock, his nearest neighbors (barring Indians and wild beasts) being five miles away. A few years afterward a road was opened between Buffalo and Cleveland, and Phineas Mixer (1) bought ninety-three acres on the South Ridge, near Unionville, two miles east of Madison, and there built a long tavern, which he conducted with the postoffice. This farm, now rightly known as the Old Homestead, has been the home of five generations of the Mixer family, its present owner being Don Barns, whose daughter Mary is a great great granddaughter of Phineas Mixer, Sr., who died there November 3, 1821, aged sixty-five years.
Phineas Mixer...was born at Norridge, Massachusetts, February 3, 1756; was a Revolutionary soldier, and after the war married Abigail Fobes. They had five children, and Phineas, the youngest, was ten years of age when he brought the family to the Western Resrve in 1805. He had bought 300 acres of the Connecticut Land Company and, finding no roads west of Buffalo, in order to reach his destination was obliged to follow the winding beach of Lake Erie. He finally located his tract one mile east of Madison Dock, his nearest neighbors (barring Indians and wild beasts) being five miles away. A few years afterward a road was opened between Buffalo and Cleveland, and Phineas Mixer (1) bought ninety-three acres on the South Ridge, near Unionville, two miles east of Madison, and there built a long tavern, which he conducted with the postoffice. This farm, now rightly known as the Old Homestead, has been the home of five generations of the Mixer family, its present owner being Don Barns, whose daughter Mary is a great great granddaughter of Phineas Mixer, Sr., who died there November 3, 1821, aged sixty-five years.
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