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The method of caring for the poor has been, on the whole, creditable to the humanity and liberality of the town.
Previous to 1800, the amount expended annually for the sup- port of the poor was less than two hundred dollars. In 1850, the expense to the town for their support was less than five hundred dollars; since which date the town has published its report of ex- penditures.
As an item of interest we copy the following bill paid by the- town in 1825.
Isaac Perry was a ship builder in his active life, and died aged 89.
Sarah Dillingham was the wife of Henry Dillingham, a soldier- in the revolution.
"Town of Hanover to Gideon Studley, Dr.
1825 To a coffin for Isaac Perry .. . $2.50
To a coffin for Sarah Dillingham. .2.50
To opening grave for Sarah Dillingham 2.50
To a horse and going with the hearse for both the above persons 2.00
$9.50"
AGED PERSONS.
By Jedediah Dwelley.
The following named persons died in Hanover after reaching- the age of eighty five years. As careful a compilation as possible- has been made, although doubtless the list is incomplete.
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If the hoary head is a crown of glory there need be no apology for this presentation.
1901 Hannah O. Aiken ..... 86 1889 Joseph Brown .87
1891 Joshua Bates
89
1731 Mary Bryant "of a great age"
1891 Lucy D. Bates
95
1774 Thomas Barden. .86
1894 David Benham 85
1786 Dick, negro-man of Col. 1895 Ruth Brooks 88
Bailey 90
1899 Thos. M. Bates
85
1900 Harvey Bates
88
1904 Mary R. Bishop 87
1776 Experience Curtis 96
1789 Abigail Clark 85
1794 Sarah Church 91
1794 Samuel Curtis
86
1829 Samuel Brooks 87
1830 Elizabeth Brooks 89
1849 Reuben Curtis 86
1830 Ruth Bates 92 1852 John Curtis .90
1831 Abigail Bailey 86
1852 Lydia Curtis 94
1831 Mary Barrell 95 1865 Sarah Curtis
1831 George Bailey 91 1799 Abigail Curtis 90
1839 Capt. Clement Bates .85 1799 John Curtis 90
1842 Capt. Daniel Barstow .. 97
1811 John Chapman 105
1848 Martha Bates 87
1812 Capt. Joseph Chaddock 88
1851 Sarah E. Barstow 92
1851 Betsey Barstow 91
1853 Benjamin Bates .92
1895 Martin Church 90
1895 Hiram Curtis 85
1857 Anne Brooks 86
1857 Anna Brett 85
1861 Daniel Barstow 86
1863 Nabby Barker 92
1865 Fannie Baldwin 85
1893 Mary Dwelley .89
1865 Mary Burr 91
1893 Sarah J. Dwelley
87
1866 Ruth Bates 88
1902 William Dennis 89
1867 Elisha Bass 85 1903 John Damon 89
1869 Joseph Brooks 88
1903 Martha A. Damon 89
1874 Zadock Beal 86
1774 Matthew Estes 85
1885 Nathaniel Barstow 85 1810 Mordecia Ellis .93
1889 Mehitable Brooks 91
1823 Beulah Estes 88
1889 Hira Bates .92
1831 Ruth Eells .94
1801 Dea. Samuel Barstow. 93
1816 Joseph Bates 88
1821 Ruth Bailey .91
1826 Lt. Samuel Barstow. 92
1829 Elisha Barrell 93
1797 Mary Curtis
86
1848 Experience Curtis 87
88
1876 Sarah E. Curtis 88
1881 Christiana Clark 90
1854 Col. John Burding Bar- stow 90
1906 Eveline Cushing 89
1831 Avis Dwelley .90
1881 Nathan Dane 87
1882 Nathan Dwelley 85
1887 Lydia Darling .90
1795 Cuba, negro-woman
of
Dean Brooks 85
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1846 Zacheus Estes 85
1846 Patience Mann 85
1850 Priscilla Ellis .96 1851 Shubel Munroe 90
1864 Richard Estes 88 1867 Betsey Mann 91
1882 Zaccheus Estes 92 1888 David Mann 89
1883 Mary Estes 88
1893 Mary H. Magoun 88
1906 Mary T. Eells 87 1837 Lydia Monro 88
1753 Margaret Frank 96 1900 Lydia Merrill .87
1798 Hannah Ford .88
1871 Grace Foster 87
1897 Rosamond Foster 86
1875 Hannah Gardner 86
1879 Rebecca Grose 89
1893 Andrew Green 85
1900 Ellen Goodrich 86
1787 Sarah Hatch 86
1796 David House 87 1825 Margaret Prouty 87
1798 Hannah Ford .88
1808 Mary Hifford 92
1811 Abigail Hanmer 93
1824 Bathshua Hatch 85
1828 Orpha Hatch
85
1858 Sibyl Hatch 88
1899 Edward Y. Perry 86
1868 John Hatch 92 1900 Catherine H. T. Phillips 92
1888 Eliza Holbrook 86
1773 Sarah Ramsdell 91
1899 Catharine Haley
85
1905 Nancy N. Hall 90
1729 Henry Josselyn
90
1787 Joseph Josselyn
88
1831 Cuffee Josselyn 103
1877 Hannah R. Jacobs 94
1880 Oren Josselyn 86
1890 Eliza Josselyn
88
1900 Ira Josselyn
86
1886 John Kane .85
1871 Lewis Litchfield .87
1881 Betsey Litchfield .85
1884 Eunice T. Leavitt 85
1797 Widow Magoun 90
1801 Alice Mann 88
1802 Ellise Mann 88
1815 Mary Munro .91
1816 Benjamin Mann .89
an
90
1812 Mary Rogers 96
1829 Capt. Timothy Rose .86
1833 Caleb Rogers .85
1865 Abigail Phillips .86
1867 Reuben Rogers .87
1743 Robert Stetson .90
1773 Dea. Joseph Stock-
bridge 100
1775 Elijah Stetson 89
1842 Japhet Studley 85
1843 David Stockbridge 88
1849 Belchor Sylvester
85
1814 Peg Peters, negro-woman 87
1822 Bethiah Perry 89
1824 Relief Perry .85
1825 Dea. Isaac Perry 89
1857 Asa Poole . 93
1865 Abigail Phillips 86
1879 Sylvanus Percival
85
1887 Samuel Perry 88
1898 Charles Palmer 85
1788 Joseph Ramsdell 86
1805 Caleb Rogers 88
1807 Lucy Ramsdell 89
1807 Hannah Robbins
.86
1808 Rhoda Rose, negro-wom-
1836 Abigail Neal 88
1748 Elnathan Palmer 86
1788 Ezekiel Palmer 87
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1859 Samuel Stetson 87
1803 John Torrey 88
1865 Hannah Stetson .89 1805 Ruth Turner 86
1788 Hannah Stockbridge
.95
1815 Waitstill Turner
93
1790 Capt. Joseph Soper 87
1848 Lidia Tilden 88
1795 Mary Stetson 90
1852 Benjamin Tolman 92
1796 Benjamin Sylvester 87 1862 Rebecca Tolman 92
1797 Mary Studley
90
1798 Michael Silvester
85
1807 Joshua Simmons 88
1811 Molly Silvester 86
1824 Nathaniel Stetson 89
1882 Deborah Turner 92
1825 Jabez Studley .86
1826 Rachel Studley .92
1893 Sarah B. Thomas 92
1832 Rosamond Studley
92
1839 Ruth Stockbridge 85
1840 Elizabeth Sylvester 85
1813 Lydia Wright 94
1814 Hannah White 94
1868 Jabez Studley 91
1820 Isaiah Wing 89
1872 Japhet Studley 85
1873 David Studley .90
1873 Lucy Studley 99
1880 Melzar Sprague 86
1883 Welthea Stetson 86
1885 Lucy T. Sylvester .85
1886 Hannah M. Sylvester .88
1890 Bethia Simmons 93
1890 Charlotte C. Smith 86
1891 Eliza Salmond 89
1891 Lucy Smith 87
1851 Priscilla Whiting 89
1851 Tryphuna Whiting 89
1867 Ruth Wilder 88
1899 Robert Sylvester 93 1876 Oliver Winslow 88
1902 Frances H. Soule 95
1891 Charles Winslow 88
1904 Ruth B. Stetson 86 1899 Harriet H. Winslow .. 94 1905 Benjamin Stetson 91 1905 Margaret L. Winslow .. 96
1744 Widow Turner 86
1831 Ruth Wing 86
1834 Hannah Wing 95
1839 Benjamin White 88
1841 Cornelius White 86
1841 Mary White 86
1848 Caleb Whiting 87
1849 Molly Whiting 94
1892 Michael Sylvester 89
1895 George Studley 87
1865 Ezekiel Turner 88
1866 Lucy Tubbs 89
1870 Lucinda Turner 88
1879 Polly Tribou 88
1888 Mary Tubbs 87
1905 Jane S. Tobey 85
1761 Joanna Wing 100
1841 William Stockbridge 88
1823 Mary Wing 86
1824 Freelove Witherel 86
1826 Mary Whiting 95
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CHAPTER X.
MILLS, MANUFACTURES AND INDUSTRIES.
By Jedediah Dwelley.
About 1730, Joshua Jacobs and his brother, Dr. Joseph Jacobs, built a dam across the Third Herring brook at Assinippi. These men are the progenitors of the present owners of the saw and grist- mill which was then erected upon that dam. The property has remained in this one family for one hundred and seventy-five years. It originally consisted of a gristmill on the westerly flume, and a sawmill for long logs on the easterly flume. The addition of a mill for sawing boxboards was made about thirty years ago. The gristmill has fallen into decay and is no longer used, the general use of western grain having changed the methods of business. The mill is now owned by Dr. Henry Barton Jacobs of Baltimore, Maryland. The pond which the dam has created is a beautiful sheet of water, and with its wooded island adds much to the natural scenery of Assinippi village.
Next below Jacobs mill on the same stream, distant about one mile south, is the mill of John Clapp. Its dam has but one flume and a wasteway. It was built for a sawmill, and has always been used as such. Alonzo Henderson used its power for two or three seasons to run his machinery for winding evergreen, an industry which Mr. Henderson started in town, and for which he invented his own machinery.
A few rods below this mill is the Curtis privilege, now known as Church's mill from its present owner, Mr. Samuel H. Church. This is in an excellent state of preservation, is in annual use, and the gristmill is still used weekly, it being the only one of its kind within a radius of ten or twelve miles.
The sawmill here was built in 1688, probably by Benjamin Curtis, and later a gristmill was erected. The property was owned "in part, by Constant Clap and the Curtis family" (Deane). The mills passed, early in the nineteenth century, into the hands
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of Thomas J. Gardner, who married the daughter of Capt. Edward Curtis, a direct descendant of William Curtis, the father of Ben- jamin, who built this mill. Mr. Church married the daughter of Mr. Gardner.
As we proceed south along the Third Herring brook, we pass through a wide extent of fresh marsh, now known as "Old Pond." This land was once covered by the waters of a pond raised by a dam erected, in 1656, by Cornet Robert Stetson, Timothy Hatherly, and Joseph Tilden, for the purpose of running a sawmill. The pond was drained in 1676, after the burning of the mills by the Indians, and the land was then laid out in lots "unto the new pro- prietors of the towns or their successors" (Deane) according to the vote of the town of Scituate in 1673. In 1837, Capt. Samuel Tol- man erected a dam and built a tackshop thereon, just below the old Cornet Stetson mill on the other side (the southerly) of East street. The pond was small and was used by the builder and his sons, Samuel, Jr., and James T., for manufacturing tacks. Capt. Tolman (called Col. by Briggs) built also a box board and shingle- mill on the Hanover side of the stream. The tackshop was used by Mr. Henderson for one or two seasons, but the dam and all the buildings have now (1905) gone to decay.
Next below this is the sawmill of Charles Simmons & Sons, which has been built but a few years. Briggs says it was used, twenty- five or thirty years ago, by Pratt & Lapham.
Still further below lies Tiffany mill, now used by the successors of Samuel Salmond & Sons for a tack manufactory. The pond takes its name from Recompense Tiffany, who owned it at one time. In 1673 the town of Scituate, through its committee on lands, offered "30 acres of land to any person, who, within six months, should erect a gristmill on the Third Herring brook and engage to tend the mill for 14 years." (Deane.) This offer was accepted by Charles Stockbridge and, about 1677, he erected a corn and grist- mill below the present Tiffany mill. The remains of the old dam are still visible. About 1697, Mr. Stockbridge removed his machinery to a new mill, which stood near the factory of Samuel Salmond & Son. Charles and Thomas, sons of Charles Stock- bridge, inherited this mill and, in 1692, Thomas sold one-half to John Bryant and Samuel Stetson, (according to Briggs) and in 1728 Thomas's son, Thomas, sold one quarter of the sawmill to Jonah Stetson, (Samuel Stetson, having sold one-quarter of the
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corn-mill to Jonah Stetson, in 1726), and the property came to be known as Jonah's mill. Recompense Tiffany, a son-in-law of the second Charles Stockbridge, was for a time the owner of this mill, and it was for a long time called the Tiffany mill. Until 1850 or later, this mill served the public in grinding the grain which the farmers produced.
In 1830, tackworks were erected here by Capt. Zephaniah Talbot and John and William Salmond, brothers of Samuel Salmond. In 1838, Samuel Salmond, who had spent his life up to that time in Maine, in the South and in Cuba, settled permanently in Hanover and engaged in the tack business in this place. He then employed 15 male and 5 female hands, and used 20 or 25 machines, consum- ing about 60 tons of tack-plate per year. In May, 1859, his son- in-law, Edmund Q. Sylvester, became a member of the firm of Samuel Salmond & Son. A month later, Mr. Salmond died and Mr. Sylvester carried on the business until his death, in 1898, since which date the business has been conducted by two of his sons, Joseph S. and Albert L., under the same firm-name. Their product is known all over the world, and is in steady demand, especially among upholsterers.
The mill on Pleasant street, near the West Hanover depot, is now owned and was, until recently, used by Lot Phillips & Co., as a sawmill. It is called "Elihab's mill," from having been owned at one time by Elihab (or Eliab) Studley.
In January, 1724, Nehemiah Cushing owned this privilege, there then being a sawmill thereon and Nehemiah, in a deed of that date, speaks of it as the property he had of his father. How long the mill had been built is uncertain but, probably, not more than ten years.
In 1728, Nehemiah sold mill and privilege to Edward Estes and, from that date until 1790, it was owned by several different persons among whom were Edward Estes, Richard Estes, Luther Bailey, Joseph Curtis, and Marlboro Turner. It was known for a long time as the Curtis mill. In 1791, Eliab Studley became part owner of the property, and there was then a gristmill as well as a sawmill thereon. £ Besides sawing boards and grinding grain, one of the mills was used for a time for making boxes and buckets. Eliab Studley and his family owned the mill for a long time, and for a century it was known as the "Elihab mill." In 1850, it was occupied by Nahum Stetson for sawing shingles. It is now and for a long time has been owned and occupied by Lot Phillips & Co.
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in connection with their box-making business, principally for saw- ing lumber.
This privilege has never been operative in the summer time as the right of flowage has been limited to a period beginning in October and ending in April. The limit of flowage has been at. a point just west of the end of Cedar street as, if the dam is raised above a certain height, the water flows across Whiting street into the brook east of it. A deed from Seth Curtis to Joseph Curtis, dated 1778, speaks of a gristmill near Eliab Studley's, Jr., and we assume that it relates to this privilege, and that for a time there was a gristmill here.
The old mill spoken of as Drinkwater mill, stood on Circuit street, perhaps two hundred feet west thereof, opposite the house of Daniel J. Head, the dam being plainly visible. It is certain that there was a mill here in 1694, and that it was standing in 1730.
This mill stood on land which was granted to Cornet Robert Stetson by the Colony Court. Previous to 1694, Mr. Stetson sold the east end of the aforesaid grant to Edward Wanton, Robert Orchard, John Rodgers, Thomas Macomber, Timothy White and Joseph House. This grant was a mile in length on the west side, and bordered on what was then known as the Scituate line, extend- ing from near the West Hanover station to a point near the stream just north of the house of Mrs. Saba D. Church. The proprietors aforesaid divided this land by two deeds, one dated 1696, the other 1704. In neither of these divisions was the mill and a narrow strip of land included, although the mill was referred to therein. We have been unable to find a record of the deed from Cornet Stetson to the persons named, but it must have been after 1676, as on that date some of the persons named were not twenty-one years of age.
Was this mill constructed by Cornet Stetson and when? We have found no evidence except that in a deed from Joseph Stetson to James Hatch, dated 1717, recorded Book 2, Page 172, of a parcel of land east of the Drinkwater mill, one of the boundaries is described "as the brook that comes from Cornet Stetson's mill." At that date it must have been known as Cornet Stetson's mill, and so much is offered in favor of its construction by him. If it was not constructed by him, then the conclusion is that it was con- structed by the aforesaid partners, after their purchase. In 1704, Timothy White made his will, and therein gave to his "well beloved wife all the income of my part of a sawmill at Drinkwater, during her natural life," and after her to his son Timothy White.
TACK FACTORY OF EZRA PHILLIPS & SONS, SOUTH HANOVER
THE OLD FORGE ON KING STREET (1860)
PLANT OF NATIONAL FIREWORKS COMPANY, KING STREET
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The evidence that the mill was standing in 1730, is contained in a deed of the house lot now owned by Mrs. Mary T. Briggs, and oc- cupied by herself and her son, Charles W. Briggs. This deed gives, as the southerly boundary of the premises, the northerly side of the sawmill pond. The pond formed by this mill must have covered a great many acres, extending, as will be seen by this deed, and by known levels, for nearly two miles in length, and doubtless gave to a tract of land the name of "Pine Island," as this flowage must have surrounded that tract. Doubtless it was a winter privilege only.
We have given this detailed statement regarding this mill, partly because of its early importance and partly on account of the names of the original owners. Robert Stetson, Edward Wanton, Timothy White and Joseph House were pioneers, and their names should not be forgotten.
How did these lands come to be known as the Drinkwater lands and the stream, the Drinkwater river; and the road from Washington street to these lands, as the Drinkwater road? Barry gives a tradition that, when the mill was erected, cold water, in- stead of spirituous liquors, was furnished as a beverage, and this gave rise to the term "Drink Water." This is a pleasant solution, until a better one is furnished.
Barry also gives as tradition that the first mill here was burned by the Indians in 1676. So far as is known to the writer, there is no other evidence. This mill stood near the border line of Bridgewater and Scituate. Neither Deane nor Mitchell speaks of this burning, though both were very careful and painstaking in their descriptions of the buildings destroyed.
As the Indians, in their raid of 1676, came through Hingham and entered the town of Hanover at Assinippi, following Washing- ton street, going down East street, destroying Cornet Stetson's mill on the Third Herring brook,-then onward to the Four Corners and so down through Scituate to Greenbush, it hardly seems prob- able that they could have been at any time in the vicinity of this Drinkwater mill. Query : Was this mill constructed as early as 1676 ? Mr. John F. Simmons, in his life time clung to the tradition and believed that the Indians separated at Hanover, a part going to West Hanover. His reason will be found in another place.
Barry says that about the year 1710, the Drinkwater Iron Works was erected and that the early history of the same is involved in
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some obscurity. The writer regrets that he cannot lift the veil.
In 1710, the land on the south side of this stream was owned by Joseph Barstow. He sold it to Samuel Thaxter, in 1713, (Plymouth Deeds, Book 34, Page 171), and Thaxter conveyed it to Joseph Stockbridge in 1726.
Cornet Stetson was the first owner of the land on the north side of this stream and, before 1713, probably before 1700, it came into the possession of Edward Wanton.
August 2, 1713, Edward Wanton sold this land to James Barker and, in 1722, the executors of the will of said Barker sold the same to Jeremiah Hatch. Robert Barker, the father of James, was at this time living on the land near the stream. In this deed they "except the Furnace and Sawmill for the owners and, for the use of the Furnace, all the land and the privilege of the ways that. is conveyed by one deed under the hands and seals of Robert Barker, Daniel Allen, Caleb Barker, and Hannah Barker," dated August. 10, 1719.
The Barkers were founders, and to the writer it seems reason- ably clear that they must have been the pioneers. Edward Wanton was of course a very busy, enterprising man and his activities seem to have been tireless ; but he does not anywhere appear as a founder ..
The Weekly Advertiser for January 15, 1754, has this advertise- ment : "Caleb and Robert Barker in Hanover : Cast bells for Meeting Houses and other uses, from a smaller to a greater, even to one of two thousand weight; cheaper than they can be imported : By whom all persons may be supplied on reasonable terms."
The name of "Mighill" does not anywhere appear on the records of our town, nor do the records of deeds show that he ever owned land within the borders of the present town of Hanover. But, as early as 1685, Charles Stockbridge conveyed to Thomas Mighill and Nathaniel Church a cornmill in Plymouth, which said Stockbridge had erected in 1683, by authority of the town, and this is the only record or reference the writer has found where the name of Mighill has been connected with mills of any kind. The conveyance from the town of Plymouth to Charles Stockbridge, as well as that from Stockbridge to Mighill, are both on record at Plymouth. See sixth book of Colony Court Orders, Page 95.
The tradition as to Mighill is found in Deane's History of Scit- uate, Page 195, where he says "There was a Mr. Mighill who erected Iron Works at Drinkwater about 1710, and owned a considerable tract of land in that vicinity." But, as stated above, there is no evidence on the records that he ever owned land in Hanover, and
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the records are clear as to ownership of land on the borders of this stream.
In March, 1701-2, Francis Barker, Robert Barker, Samuel Barker, Joshua Barker, Josiah Barker, Robert Barker, Jr., and Michael Wanton, were connected with Lambert Despard in the construction of a blast furnace in Pembroke (Briggs, page 2). Before 1715, at least two of these Barkers, and probably Michael Wanton, were in the immediate vicinity of the Drinkwater Iron Works.
Quoting again from Briggs' History of Shipbuilding, page 24. "These works have had many proprietors, and tradition says again that, during the Revolution, cannon were cast here and carried down to the old fulling-mill near the iron foundry and tested and that Tilson Gould was killed by the bursting of one of these guns, the pieces of which are said to be still lying in the bottom of the old furnace pond." Mr. George J. J. Clarke, who is president of the National Fireworks Company, has in his possession cannon balls which he has found on these premises, and pieces of an exploded cannon-quite likely the one referred to in connection with Tilson Gould. Mr. Clarke says that these cannon balls were not moulded but were wrought or hammered into shape. Tilson Gould married Mary Hatch in 1776, and a son Tilson, was born in 1778.
And again quoting, "About the year 1816, Charles and Orrin Josselyn, Timothy Rose, Calvin Bates, and others, erected a forge on this dam. Beside the forge, there were a gristmill, a sawmill, a box-board mill, and a shingle-mill, all owned by the same com- pany. Messrs. Bates and Holmes finally came into sole possession of these works and usually employed five hands in the forge, making bar-iron and from fifty to sixty tons of anchors annually. Edwin Barstow was the last anchor-maker in town, and the last anchors manufactured in town, only a few years ago, were made here under his supervision."
After Mr. Barstow's death, Charles T. Stetson purchased the property and, until his own death, he occupied the establishment as a Machine-manufacturing shop, and for making covering for elec- tric wires, etc.
After the death of Mr. Stetson, George J. J. Clarke purchased the property, using the forge for the manufacture of fireworks. He had occupied it but a few years, however, when the building was destroyed by fire. He then associated himself with Mr. W. A. Luce of Boston, and they began erecting one-story, metal-clad, detached buildings, some of them being one hundred feet in length.
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There are now more than one hundred of these buildings, many of them small, scattered over several acres of ground. The business is conducted under the name of the National Fireworks Company, Mr. Clarke being the president. The output is very large. While explosions have been rare, yet two valuable lives have been lost in this way. The damage to the property has, however, been slight.
On this stream, quite a distance east of King street, and on the premises occupied by the Fireworks Company, there was, early in the history of the town, a fulling-mill, and later a foundry, and later still, for a short time, a small tack-factory operated by Barstow and Russell; and, about 1830, Joshua Barker erected an iron- foundry here, at which stoves and hollow ware were cast.
Brief reference will be made to Hatch's mill in Hanson, near Teague's bridge, so-called, formerly Hatch's bridge.
This mill stood, when constructed in 1716, on land then in Ab- ington, and which, on the incorporation of Hanover, was included in the territory of the latter town. While the proprietors in their agreement speak of a sawmill they are building in Scituate upon Drinkwater river, near where the line between Scituate and Abing- ton crosses this river, the writer believes that they were mistaken as to just where the line did cross the river. The mill was several rods west of the Scituate line. It was constructed by James Hatch, Amos Turner, Joseph Barstow, Samuel Barstow, Michael Wanton, and others, the persons named all being residents of terri- tory now included in Hanover.
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