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HISTORY OF COHASSET. 



decai Lincoln to use the convenient water power of Bound 

 Brook. At least four places on the brook were favorable 

 for mill sites : one where Hackett's mill now is in 

 Hingham * just over the southwest line of Cohasset, and 

 three more on the way down to the mouth of the brook. 

 At these latter three Mordecai Lincoln before he died 

 had become a proprietor of gristmills, sawmills, and an 

 iron smelter with its forge. He was by trade a black- 





Plioto, Octavius KfUiny. 



Turtle Island Sawmill, Beechwood. 

 Riiilt 1813-14. A successor of Mordecai Lincoln's mill. 



smith, and a pair of heavy andirons, probably of his own 

 workmanship, are still kept in the house he gave to his 

 son Isaac. 



His ingenuity in utilizing the power of Bound Brook is 

 well illustrated by a tradition about his three milldams. 

 During the summer months the brook dwindles to a very 

 weak stream of water, but even this little power was so 



* I'ornierly lot fifty-six of the second |iart of Division Tliree. 



