1720The town granted John Bennet the right to the Fulling Mill Brook for a corn mill.Economy and Industry, Agriculture, Industry

The town granted Bennet “the privilege of the brook called the fulling mill brook, whereon to set a corn-mill on the lower end of the brook, near where the tide ebbs and flows, so long as he keeps a corn-mill on said stream, and no longer.” (Babson, 203)