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MOSCOU, SOCIETE IMPERIALE DBS NATURALISTES. Bulletin Aunee, 1870. No. 1 

 8vo pamph. 



PUBLISHERS. Christian World. Eclectic. Essex Banner. Gloucester Tele- 

 graph. Haverhill Gazette. Lawrence American. Literary World. Little Giant. 

 Lynn Semi-Weekly Reporter. Medical and Surgical Reporter. Nation. Nature. 

 Peabody Press. Quaritch's Catalogue. Salem Observer. Silliman's Journal. Soth- 

 eran's Catalogue. 



Augustus P. Hamblet of Salem, was elected a resident 

 member. 



EEGULAR MEETING, MONDAY, January 16, 1871. * 



The President in the chair. Eecords of preceding 

 meeting read. 



Mr. JAMES KIMBALL read an interesting communication 

 on the early MILLS in this vicinity, which contained 

 many citations from the records and affidavits on file in 

 the county offices of Essex. 



In the formation of a new settlement, attention is 

 immediately directed to secure a regular and sufficient 

 supply of bread stuffs, and every facility in that direction 

 is regarded of the highest importance ; hence the erection 

 of Grist Mills is necessarily the first movement in the in- 

 troduction of the manufacturing industries. It appears, 

 therefrom, that within four years from the landing of 

 Roger Conant and his companions, and two after the ar- 

 rival of Endicott, Capt. William Trask, one of the orig- 

 inal planters, was the first person who applied our water 

 power to economic use, in the erection of a mill, on a 

 small brook running into the North River, near the 

 crossing of the highway in the vicinity of the Railroad 

 Station in Peabody, called Gardner's Brook. Here upon 

 the narrow outlet of this stream a rude dam was con- 

 structed of logs with a power only sufficient for the most 

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