The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884; . ational meeting-house. The Plough-Works succeeded to these. William Boardman, now of the house of William Boardman k Sons,of Hartford, was the first to start the important industry of coffee andspice grinding in this vicinity, if not in the State, about forty years ago,in Wethersfield. In 1843 Hiram Havens began the manufacture of ploughs forThomas Smith & Company, of Hartford, now Smith, Bourn, & were for the Southern trade. In 1845 the number made was onethousand. The works were removed to Hartford in 1848. The Griswo
The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884; . ational meeting-house. The Plough-Works succeeded to these. William Boardman, now of the house of William Boardman k Sons,of Hartford, was the first to start the important industry of coffee andspice grinding in this vicinity, if not in the State, about forty years ago,in Wethersfield. In 1843 Hiram Havens began the manufacture of ploughs forThomas Smith & Company, of Hartford, now Smith, Bourn, & were for the Southern trade. In 1845 the number made was onethousand. The works were removed to Hartford in 1848. The Griswoldville Manufacturing Company manufactured the firstedge-tools and hammers, at Griswoidville, in 1837. The charter mem-bers were Thomas, Jacob, Justus, and Stanley Griswold, and AsherRobbins; and their works were in the brick factory, which they was destroved by fire in 1847. They were succeeded by Bailey &Wolcott (Arnold Bailey and Oliver Wolcott) in 1847-1848, whose workswere in the old cloth-dressing mill next west of the Jacob Griswold. WETHERSFIELD. 489 dwelling-house. The manufacture of axes was begun at Dividend,in Rocky Hill, about 1830, in the old grist-mill standing on the siteof the Rev. Gershom Bulkeleys mill. The same works were kept goinguntil about 18(37 by several parties, including Israel Williams, WilliamButler, and Welles & Wilcox (General Leonard R. Welles and AlfredWilcox), respectively ; the latter addingchisels and plantation hoesto the list of goods made. About a hundred years ago Captain Thomas Danforth, at RockyHill, was a manufacturer of pewter and tin wares, mostly for theSouthern States. Ho used horse-power to drive some of his had among his apprentices Ashbel Griswold (born in 1784), alsoof Rocky Hill. The latter, in 1808, removed to Meriden, and therebegan the manufacture of articles of block-tin. He thus was one ofthe earliest promoters of the britannia industry for which that cityhas become famous. He died wealthy, in 185
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