History of Swansea, Massachusetts, 1667-1917; - citizen hylbom blog
History of Swansea, Massachusetts, 1667-1917; - citizen hylbom blog
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Business 131<br />
the 1/4 part <strong>of</strong> a certain piece <strong>of</strong> land purchased <strong>of</strong> Benjamin<br />
and Philip Martin containing by estimation one acre with 1/4<br />
part <strong>of</strong> a cotton factory thereon standing with all the apparatus<br />
belonging and the quarter part <strong>of</strong> a grist mill and as large<br />
privilege <strong>of</strong> pondage as it shsdl ever need and <strong>of</strong> both dams and<br />
a privilege to pass from the highway to said factory and mill<br />
with a cart team and horse where the path is now trod.<br />
The factory and dam was constructed this year by Oliver<br />
Chace.<br />
1807 D & N Wheeler sold James Maxwell one fifth part.<br />
1809 D & N Wheeler sold James Maxwell, <strong>of</strong> Warren,<br />
Oliver Chace and Sabray Lawton, <strong>of</strong> Rehoboth 3/5 <strong>of</strong> the land<br />
owned by the factory company.<br />
1811 Oliver Chace sold 4/5 <strong>of</strong> half an acre to James<br />
Maxwell, James DriscoU Sabray Lawton, D & N Wheeler.<br />
1811 Dexter Wheeler sold 1/20 <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Swansea</strong> Cotton<br />
Manufacturing Company to Joseph Buffington.<br />
1811 Benjamin Buffington <strong>of</strong> Somerset bought 1/20 for<br />
$700.<br />
1811 D & N Wheeler & Sally Wheeler sold OUver Chace<br />
the farm bought <strong>of</strong> B & P Martin with all their buildings<br />
thereon except what has heret<strong>of</strong>ore been deeded to O. Chace,<br />
James Maxwell, James DriscoU, Sabray Lawton and Benjamin<br />
Luther.<br />
1813 Nathaniel Wheeler sold John Martin 1/10 part for<br />
$2000.<br />
1813 Sabray Lawton sold James Maxwell, James DriscoU<br />
& Oliver Chace aU right in the <strong>Swansea</strong> Cotton Manufacturing<br />
Company.<br />
1813 James MaxweU, James DriscoU & OUver Chace sold<br />
Joseph G. Luther 1/20.<br />
1818 The <strong>Swansea</strong> Cotton Manufacturing Company consisted<br />
<strong>of</strong> James MaxweU, James DriscoU, OUver Chace,<br />
Benjamin Buffinton, James Martin WiUiam Mason, Joseph<br />
Buffington and Joseph G. Luther.<br />
1827 Oliver Chace sold Thomas Wanning 1/20 part.<br />
1830 OUver Chace sold Thomas Wanning the farm 35<br />
acres.<br />
The factory was burned about 1836 and never rebuilt.<br />
This privilege had the greatest faU <strong>of</strong> any on the stream.<br />
OUver Ames has some negotiations concerning its purchase<br />
About the year 1805, Dexter Wheeler, mentioned above,<br />
conceived the idea <strong>of</strong> spinning cotton by horse power, and for<br />
that purpose he made two spinning frames, a card, and roving<br />
and drawing frame, and moved them by horse power making<br />
as handsome yarn as did Samuel Slater. This he performed on