Fifty Years Ago - Mr. Editor: ... Nelson BULMER, now 80, tells of his grandfather Dixon. Mr. DIXON came to Nova Scotia in 1773 with a number of others, the first settlers. He was the ancestor of all the Dixons in Sackville (West. Co.) Mr. Bulmers says 'I recollect the old gentleman coming to our house. I was a boy then and when he wanted to go home, he said, 'Nelson my boy, yoke up the oxen and take me home. He lived where Alfred DIXON now lives. I said, 'Why did you not take the horse and wagon; he replied 'No horse, carts or wagons in those days'. I recollect the first of that kind of thing in Sackville, Mr. MILLEDGE, a merchant of Westcock and Major WILSON, now living in Sackville, imported one each from Connecticut, a two wheeled chaise. He says his father purchased Mr. Milledge's chaise at Milledge's decease as well as a table. Mr. Bulmer says that a Mr. LOCKHART told him he was the firstman who passed through the Dorchester woods with a loaded team. He went with an ox team for a hogshead of rum for Mr. Milledge and often had to pry up his load to clear his axles of rocks. In the record of marriages, Mr. Milledge is found to have been married to Miss Sarah BOTSFORD by Charle DIXON, Esq. in 1790. (see original)