It turns out that I have a few extra minutes now so here's a little more:
"Several grants fell to men who seem to have had them only because they drew them by
lot and who sold them almost immediately. It may have been that they were young men not
ready to farm or they may have preferred other locations. At any rate, just beyond Island
Creek were some narrow, relatively small lots which fell to Robert Hicks, John Barnes, and
for a short time by purchase to Edmond Chandler. Between 1634 and 1648 John Rogers
acquired all of these lots, nearly a hundred acres, including a point of land called
Hicks' Point for the original owner."
Note Edmond Chandler and Edmund Chandler are the same person. The spellings in the book
vary a little, and probably varied in the original records.
"On Island Creek, near the bridge by the Mill Pond, a Privateer was launched during
the Revolution, and shortly after that Isaiah Bradford had a shipyard at the same
location, building the Sloop Hero, 1794, the Schooner Fox, 1803 and remodeling the
Schooner Morning Star, 1816. Captain John Alden built four or five vessels at
Seabury's Point, just a little east of Island Creek mouth, between 1802 and
1817."
"On the shore at the foot of Soule Avenue, James Soule built fourteen vessels from
1812 to 1843, and had a prosperous wharf from which cargoes went to Boston. For some
years he also manufactured salt from sea water. There were several other places in town
where salt was made, all at about the same time, but Soule's is the only salt works
mentioned in the western part of town."
"There was a saw mill on Island Creek not far from the pond, authorized at a Town
Meeting, June 15,1702:
' " The town have given liberty to Ensign Seabury to make a dam upon Island Creek
pond brook, provided that he leaves a sufficient and free passage for the herrings up, and
down, and also makes a sufficient cart way over the said broook' ".
"Quantities of lumber were got out at this mill, which was operated after Seabury by
several Chandlers, a Phillips, a Peterson, and a Sprague, until it gave way about 1845 to
a larger, more modern mill farther down stream. "
Note: book does not identify which Chandlers were involved in the mill
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