SEPARATION FROM HINGHAM. 



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glacial bowlder which now rests a few feet away, and lay 

 with its flat, circular side upturned, suggesting the idea of 

 a millstone. The author has seen just such another stone 

 in the woods a mile back of the old Mordecai Lincoln 

 house; but any of the glacial bowlders are so subject to 

 cracks as to make poor millstones. However, two corn 

 mills were enough. 



Of the other industries that urged on the precinct's 



Photo, M. H. Reamy. 



Mystery Millstone, Back of Town Hill, half mile west 

 OF King Street. 

 No one knows who made it, nor when, nor why. 



growth as early as the year 1737 coopering was an impor- 

 tant one. Fish barrels and firkins and tubs had to be 

 made in some abundance to supply the growing trade with 

 Boston ; so that several coopers, among whom were Heze- 

 kiah Tower and his son David, were kept busy for a part 

 of the year in their little shops, or in sheds at the back of 

 their houses. 



