In his deposition, given in 1796, Ephraim Dyer testified that he carried down about four hundred pounds' worth of provisions and other stores; that he remained and helped the Millikens near a fortnight, during which time the men made use of his vessel to live in until they had built a house. This "house" was but a rude camp built against a huge boulder named by an early surveyor the "Punch Bowl; " and a daughter of Benjamin Millliken, then only fourteen years of age, afterwards Mrs. Lord, cooked the first meal ever prepared by a woman European settler in the township.
