New England family history : a magazine devoted to the history of families of Maine and Massachusetts . n 1715,probably at AmeslDury. He had learned the fullers art—or the methods ofcloth manufacture—at Salem by the time he was wellinto his twenties; and in his twenty-sixth year he hadfound a place supplying waterpower and other advan-tages sufficient for starting a cloth factory of his own,at Somersworth, New Hampshire, across the riverfrom Berwick on the Salmon Falls river, at a placecalled Ouamphegan (see illustration). He had madeup his mind to live there, for he was a member ofCapt. John
New England family history : a magazine devoted to the history of families of Maine and Massachusetts . n 1715,probably at AmeslDury. He had learned the fullers art—or the methods ofcloth manufacture—at Salem by the time he was wellinto his twenties; and in his twenty-sixth year he hadfound a place supplying waterpower and other advan-tages sufficient for starting a cloth factory of his own,at Somersworth, New Hampshire, across the riverfrom Berwick on the Salmon Falls river, at a placecalled Ouamphegan (see illustration). He had madeup his mind to live there, for he was a member ofCapt. John Hills Company of Berwick, on the 22Oct., 1740. There were no ready made clothes for sale in thosedays and consequently no persons whose occupationwas what we understand by the term clothier; thatword was in use to designate one who manufacturedcloth, or owned as they said in those days, a fullingmill. December i, 1741, Benjamin Quinby bought a millprivilege at the place above described, from threeRobertses, Love, Samuel and Sarah, who were resi-dents of Somersworth. In the deed Ouinby is called. quamphp:gan falls (as It looks nowadays)From Old Kittery by Ke\. E. S. Stackpole 171 clothier, of Salem, Mass., and the location of hismill privilege is thus described; at Quamplegon atSomersworth, there where ye Saw Mill lately stoodcalled ye old Erigg (26 N. H. Deeds, 134). The Rev. Everett S. Stackpole in Old Kittery andHer Families, says of the spot where John Quinbycommenced business as fuller: The tract of landcalled Quamphegan, was the private estate of Saga-more Rowles, it seems. March 19, 1650, he sold itto Thomas Spencer for five pounds. It was a Parcelof Land called by the Name of Ouamphegon &bounded betwixt the two little fresh ~Creeks nearestadjoining unto the same & the uppermost Bounds inLength to go to the First little Swamp that lieth at theupper End of the said Ground. The name was ex-tended to the falls near the present bridge at SouthBerwick, and then to the rive
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