surmise. According to Rupp, it was built at great expense in the same year that the town wa s laid out, 1730, and the earliest mention os the sulling mill in any deed I have seen is in Record Book L, p. 62, when sor the sum os £40 and for his natural affec- tion, Stephen Atkinson, under date of March 30

our local Court in 1760. I secured per- mission to make a copy of the in- ventory of his personal effects. Noth- ing is said in it about his lands. Doubt- less he made distribution of these prior to his death, among his children, which would account for there being no record of his real estate- The in