OLD MILL-SITES IN GROTON. 



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is found in Chapter IV. of " Groton during the Indian Wars." 

 Even now there is a deep place in Paugus Brook, known as 

 Paugus Hole, on the west side of Brown Loaf, where, it is said, 

 the body of Paugus's descendant, who came to kill Chamber- 

 lain, many years after the Fight, was sunk, after he himself was 

 killed. A small elm stands on the south bank of the brook, 

 very near the place. Chamberlain is supposed to have died 

 about the year 1756, though no record of his death is found. 

 The appraisal of his property was made on March 31, 1756, 

 according to papers in the Middlesex Probate Office at East 

 Cambridge. The old mill-race is still to be seen ; and twenty- 

 five years ago, in company with Francis M. Boutwell, Esq., I 

 examined the site. The mill is not mentioned by Dr. Oliver 

 Prescott, Jr., in his survey of 1794, and, of course, was not 

 standing at that time. It was sold by Joseph Gilson, Jr., hus- 

 bandman, to Eleazer Gilson, cooper, February 13, 1 716-17, 

 as recorded in the Middlesex Registry of Deeds (XIX. 131, 

 132). The land is described as lying on both sides of " Brown- 

 lofe Brook," and bounded westerly by the road leading to John 

 Chamberlain's corn-mill, which at that time was the mill men- 

 tioned in the next paragraph. There has been, however, a 

 grist-mill on or very near the same s'te in modern days, 

 which was built by George Russell about the year 1870; but 

 this was carried away during a freshet in March, 1877. 



A grist-mill stood for a long period on Baddacook Pond 

 Brook, about two miles and a half from the Unitarian Meeting- 

 House, on the Lowell road. It is given by Dr. Oliver Pres- 

 cott, Jr., on his plan of 1794, and was standing in the early part 

 of the last century. John Chamberlain, yeoman, conveyed it 

 to Eleazer Gilson, February 13, 171 6- 17, — the same day that 

 Joseph Gilson, Jr., sold his mill to Gilson, as recorded above. 

 The grantor afterward became the famous Indian fighter, 

 as already stated. The land is described as lying on the 

 southerly side of " Battecook Medow," and from the descrip- 

 tion the road ran then as it does now. When Mr. Butler's 

 map was made, from a survey during the years 1828 and 1829, 

 the mill belonged to Amelia Woods, and before that had 

 been owned successively by her father and brother, Nahum 



