In this article from William Wilkinson’s scrapbook “One Hundred Great and Near-Great Events, Person and Places in Rochester History” (1947) he writes about Ebenezer Allan. He was a Tory during the Revolutionary war. It is said that he had a white wife and an Indian wife. The mill didn’t have enough customers so Ebenezer moved to richer lands in Canada.

Genesee water splashing down a crude mill wheel was the first sound of industry in what is now Rochester. It was on November 13, 1789 that the grist mill erected by Ebenezer (“Indian”) Allan began to grind wheat for the early white settlers of the vicinity, who had wearied of course meal prepared Indian fashion. The site of the mill was on the west side of the Genesee River between what is now Aqueduct and Graves streets. Autos are now parked there. The falls of this mill cascaded from a height of about 14 feet. The rocks were blasted away in 1833 when the first aqueduct was built. The land on which the structure stood was a part of what became the 100-acre tract which was later purchased by Nathaniel Rochester, Fitzhugh and Carroll and became the nucleus about which our present city made its start. The old mill burned but the millstones had been removed. You can see them today ob the wall of the second floor west corridor of the present Court House..