One may weary of reading about who married whom and how original grants of land were traded, sold or passed from family to family, but in communities like Sheffield Mills that's what history actually is. Our roots are in the land and histories cannot be written without acknowledging this, obliquely or otherwise. Thus Mrs. Ells provides significant information when she traces ownership of the original land grants in the Mills. There is more than this in her history, of course. We are told about the Acadians and the evidence that they colonized the Mills.
Ells mentions the Acadian homestead sites, the Acadian apple trees, and the Acadian blacksmith shop.
Canada at the present day. Borden received a large land grant in the Mills, running from the Mills along the entire length of Borden Street.