. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . r - - \ Residence of John L. Jeweil. it is true, that the name is a modi-fied form of the English Strcatham,but as adopted it is peculiar to thetown and has never been appliedelsewhere. Moreover, its probablederivation from the G relic Strath,signifying a vale, is most appropri-ate to its location in the valley ofthe Swamseot. It is uniformly pro-nounced Strattum. From the time of the charter aperiod of development began. New. Residence of O. B. French. the town. This was the DeaconSamuel Lane whose faithfully keptj
. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . r - - \ Residence of John L. Jeweil. it is true, that the name is a modi-fied form of the English Strcatham,but as adopted it is peculiar to thetown and has never been appliedelsewhere. Moreover, its probablederivation from the G relic Strath,signifying a vale, is most appropri-ate to its location in the valley ofthe Swamseot. It is uniformly pro-nounced Strattum. From the time of the charter aperiod of development began. New. Residence of O. B. French. the town. This was the DeaconSamuel Lane whose faithfully keptjournal, covering a period of oversixty years, is not only the sourceof much historical information, butpossesses all the interest of a were cooper shops and tailorshops. William Pottle, Jr., had abrewery here at the time of the rev-olution, and Deacon Boardman tes-tified publicly that he made goodale, though he urged every patriot 140 A SKETCH OF STRATH AM. to refuse to drink it because thebrewer was a tory. There were mills of various Clarks, Deacon Moses and hisson, Levi, had prosperous cloth millson Winnicutt river until about 1S28. E. J. The Jewells had a lumber and grist-mill on the same stream, and therewas a second grist-mill owned byThomas Piper. On Sawmill brook there was asawmill and grist-mill. Major Bar-ker had a cloth mill, and lower downthere was a tide mill. There wasalso a sawmill on Thompsons are a few of the little enter-prises that
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