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^140,000. The insurance is placed in the following companies : 

 Etna, Hartford, and Phoenix of Hartford ; Home of New York ; 

 North British and Mercantile ; Springfield Fire and Marine ; Fire 

 Association of Philadelphia ; Meriden Fire ; Roger Williams of Provi- 

 dence, and Shawmut of Boston. It is divided as follows : On mill, 

 $50,000; machinery, $24,000, and on stock, covering the probable 

 loss, $8,000. It is not yet known how the fire occurred. 



The mill was again rebuilt, this time by Lyman HoIIings- 

 worth, and the manufacture of book paper continued, now 

 with a daily product of about five tons. On December 13, 

 1 88 1, the establishment was sold to Messrs. Tileston and Hol- 

 lingsworth, of Boston, and in July, 1889, by them transferred 

 to the Tileston and Hollingsworth Company, of Boston, a cor- 

 poration organized under the laws of the Commonwealth. 



During the autumn of 1882 Messrs. Tileston and Hollings- 

 worth caused a suitable stone to be placed by the wayside, 

 near the mill, bearing the following inscription, which will 

 explain itself: 



NEAR THIS SPOT 



JOHN SHATTUCK, 



A SELECTMAN OF GROTON, 



AND 



HIS SON JOHN 



WERE KILLED BY THE INDIANS, 



May 8, 1709, 



WHILE CROSSING STONY FORDWAY, 



JUST BELOW THE PRESENT DAM. 



18S2. 



For many of the facts in this article I am indebted to 

 Charles William Jenks, of Boston, who for a long time was 

 connected with the mill. After graduating at Harvard Col- 

 lege in the Class of 1871, he came to Groton and remained 

 ten years, during which time he was engaged in the business 

 of paper-making at this mill. Mr. Jenks writes me, under 

 date of September 28, 1889: 



I was at Groton from the year 18 71 to 1881. When I went 

 there we thought two tons a good day's run, but when I came away 



