Hi,
Here's the rest:
"Isaac Partridge, Nathaniel Loring, and others built a saw mil on Pine Brook, the
southwest boundary between Duxbury and Pembroke. It was actually on the Pembroke side but
is here listed because it was always wholly or in part owned by Duxbury men, and always
served Duxbury people. Isaac Partridge was born in 1705 and Nathaniel Loring was married
in 1736, so it is probable that the mill was built about 1730. A 1752 deed confirms an
agreement with Ephraim Holmes of Kingston, the then owner, about flowage and rights of
way, and a later deed gives a great deal about the location and builders:
" "Know all men by these presents, that I, Abigail Turner of Pembroke in the
Province of Massachusetts Bay Colony, in New England. Widow, for and consideration of the
full and just sum of Twelve pounds, to me in hand, well and truly paid by Ephraim Holmes,
Jr, of Kingston, Yeoman, in the county aforsd, do by these presents give, bargain, grant,
and sell, one sixth part of a saawmill built by Isaac Partridge, Nathaniel Loring and
others, the owners of a Sawmill built on the land of Rebecca Tilden, wife of Johnathan
Holmes of Kingston aforsd, on a certain stream known and called Pine Brook, near the house
of Rolland Goodwin of Pembroke, and I the sd Abigail Turner have the good right and lawful
power to dispose of the same as Executor of the will of my husband, the late Israel
Turner, lately deceased, and I the sd Abigail Turner do make over to and for the sd
Ephraim Holmes, Jr., to have and to hold to him, his heirs, and assigns, to his and their
proper use and benefit, beho!
of, with all the rights, privileges, and commodities belonging thereto, agreeable to an
agreement and lease given to the owners of the sd mill, with all the earnongs of the sd
mill, since the last settlement with the owners of the mill, fromme my heirs assigns,
etc." '
"In recent years Horatio Chandler operated a saw mill on this same site and the pond
now is called Chandler's Pond."
"There was a textile mill by the misleading name of Cranberry Factory, on the South
River where Chandler Street crossed it. There is only a cranberry bog with a stream
flowing through it now where once was a pond that held water for the mill."
As I get time, I will look at some of my other sources and post other info as I find it.
Joan Earnshaw