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to Henry Knox

Discusses the new technology for a mill and includes a small diagram on the first page on the left side. Also writes about the joys of an agricultural life, asking Knox, "have you become a farmer? is it not pleasanter than to be shut up within 4...

GLC02437.06430

to Ebenezer Dunton, Thomas Vose, and James Waller Head, and [Life] Wilson

Marked "copy." Includes several letters. The first, to Mr. [Life] Wilson, provides instructions for him to build a saw mill in the St. Georges region of Maine using lumber from Mr. James Waller Head. The second note, to Mr. Head, asks him to...

GLC02437.06717

to Henry Knox

Informs Knox he was unable to secure a price for "ground" on the Mill River in Maine. Notes the owner says he will have a referral for the "grounds" upon Knox's arrival. Also mentions the owner was pleased about Knox's idea of building some mills...

GLC02437.06277

[John Fairfield's declaration regarding a settlement near Witchcassett]

John Fairfield offers an affidavit regarding Witchcassett, "four miles from Sheepscott and thirty four miles from St. George River, in the County of York" (present-day Maine). Attests that he moved to Witchcassett in 1738, commenting that at the...

GLC02437.10408

[John Campbell's declaration regarding the Damariscotta River settlement]

Attests that he took up land in an area under the charge of Colonel [David] Dunbar. Dunbar was replaced by Colonel Samuel Waldo, and some families left the area while others remained. The greatest concentration of settlers dwelled in the township...

GLC02437.10411

[Thomas Henderson's declaration regarding a settlement in the Eastern part of Massachusetts Bay]

Henderson attests that he became a settler on the Eastern part of Massachusetts Bay in 1728. Took up a lot of land on St. George's, a colony of which Colonel [Samuel] Waldo was the proprietor, in 1735. Moved to Lincoln (present-day Maine) in 1736...

GLC02437.10409

to Henry Knox

Says that for the past several years he has been trying to make gunpowder "to as great a degree of perfection as I was able." Claims he supplied large amounts to the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War. States the "Essaymaster for this state"...

GLC02437.05079

to Henry Knox

Mentions that the mechanic Joseph Pope, who invented the orrery purchased by the legislature for Harvard, "brought with him on his return from England, a great Variety of Drawings of many of the most useful and late invented machines, mills, &c...

GLC02437.05129

to John Gleason

Gives Gleason directions concerning construction and business, such as asking him to have the mills repaired and wheels made. Also draws a couple of diagrams, one of which appears to be for a new barn.

GLC02437.06990

[Estimate of probable expenses at St George]

List of expenses from "1 Decr 97 to 1 Decr 98" at the "winter establishment at Montpelier." The list includes "the Gleason family" among the expenses as well as the staff and the cost of the mills.

GLC02437.07217