"Joseph Haines and his family had made steady progress in developing the mill and surrounding property. Peter Whitney, Haines's partner in the purchase from Lawrence's executors, had left the Humber. He had sold his interest to Haines on 7 July 1801 and on 8 May 1807 he sold the adjoining lots wahich he had bought from John Willson on 25 May 1800 to Joseph Haines Jr. The two Haines then owned all propenty on the east bank of the Humber from John Dennis's shipyard to the Dundas Street crossing, where there was an excellent mill-site which Joseph Haines Jr. wold to William Cooper on 9 May 1807. Cooper promptly erected a grist mill and developed the property so energetically that he place the Haines mill at a disadvantage. In 1815, Joseph Haines Jr., who had gone to Niagara to live, sold the rest of the former Willson property to Cooper.
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