l86 FACTS RELATING TO GROTON, MASSACHUSETTS. 



Judge Bennett was the son of Josiah Kendall and Lu- 

 cinda (Nutting) Bennett, and born at Groton, on February 

 4, 183 1. 



STARCH-FACTORY AND PAPER-MILLS. 



In the spring of 1832 the following Act was passed by the 

 General Court of Massachusetts; and under the authority of 

 the enactment a company was organized at Groton for the 

 manufacture of starch. 



A mill was built for the purpose on the Groton side of the 

 Squannacook River, three-quarters of a mile above the village 

 of West Groton, but the undertaking did not prove to be a 

 success. It stood on the site of the present paper-mill in 

 that locality; and the place is shown on Mr. Butler's Map of 

 Groton. It was expected that this new industry in the town 

 would help the farmers of the neighborhood by encouraging 

 the cultivation of potatoes which were to be used in making 

 starch, but the scheme was a failure. 



CHAP. CXXVII. 

 All Act to incorporate the Dana Manufacturing Company. 



Sec. I. Be zV enacted by the Senate and House of Represefitatives, 

 in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That 

 Oliver Sheple, Samuel Dana, Samuel Dana, Jr., Oliver Shepie, Jr, 

 James Dana, and Washington Sheple, their associates and assigns 

 be, and they hereby are constituted a corporation and made a body 

 politic, by the name and style of the Dana Manufacturing Company, 

 for the purpose of manufacturing cotton and woollen goods, iron 

 wares, and starch from any materials, in the respective towns of Gro- 

 ton and Shirley in the county of Middlesex, and for this purpose 

 shall have all the powers and privileges, and be subject to all the 

 duties and requirements contained in an act passed the twenty third 

 day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred 

 and thirty, entitled " an act defining the general powers and duties of 

 manufacturing corporations. 



Sec 2. Be it further enacted, That the said corporation may take 



