The Jamestown windmill,

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Date: 1916

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Date: 1916

Image 3 of The Jamestown windmill, 89 J3 S7 opy 1 m THE JAMESTOWN WINDMILL MAUD LYMAN STEVENS J ^!sl^9^^H -mM^ IH^^S NEWPORT, R. I. REMINGTON WARD, PRINTER, CLARKE STREET 1916

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Date: 1916

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Date: 1916

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Date: 1916

Image 7 of The Jamestown windmill, The Jamestown Windmill MAUD LYMAN STEVENS There lies, near the mouth of beautiful Narragansett Bay a pleasant island, still retaining its Indian name of Conanicut. Par- allel with the island of Rhode…

Contributor: Stevens, Maud Lyman
Date: 1916

Image 8 of The Jamestown windmill, houses appear, and it is plain that this is the permanent settlement of a real little town, with town hall, library and all the para- phernalia of modern life. This is Jamestown,…

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Date: 1916

Image 9 of The Jamestown windmill, of land whereon a new state might be found- ed. William Coddington was the head of the band of colonists desirous of making a settlement, Roger Williams, already comfort- ably placed in…

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Date: 1916

Image 10 of The Jamestown windmill, then turned his attention to the islands still held by the Indians. There had been some trouble about the use of the grass in the year of Arnold s ar- rival, which…

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Date: 1916

Image 11 of The Jamestown windmill, settlement is. The plan, however, was never carried out. The lands were held in common for eight or nine years, and then divided among the original purchasers, and those whom they admitted…

Contributor: Stevens, Maud Lyman
Date: 1916

Image 12 of The Jamestown windmill, For twenty years then, the Hulls, Carrs, Weedens, Arnolds and Bulls enjoyed their island farms, until the density of population, and perhaps some diversity of interest, seemed to warrant a separation from…

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Date: 1916

Image 13 of The Jamestown windmill, to require the mild island air to bring it to perfection. In early times it was one of the chief articles of diet, and with the pumpkins that were grown in the…

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Date: 1916

Image 14 of The Jamestown windmill, buy stores and irons for the building a Wind- Mill, and the money to be paid out of the Treasury, Ordered: that Richard Tew and Thomas Carr provide lumber for the afore-…

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Date: 1916

Image 15 of The Jamestown windmill, years. If ye main part of said imill with good management will stand so long, and to give a bond of one hundred pounds for the true performance of all ye above…

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Date: 1916

Image 16 of The Jamestown windmill, Mill required a yoke of oxen to turn its head, so that the sails might come into the wind. Supposing this to be the mill on Mill Hill, precursor of the present…

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Date: 1916

Image 17 of The Jamestown windmill, favorably received, and the reply of the As- sembly is duly recorded in Jamestown s book of Land Evidence. This is the text of it. In General Assembly, March, 1787, upon the…

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Date: 1916

Image 18 of The Jamestown windmill, land is to revert to and for the use of this State. The land on which a site for the mill was thus granted was part of the farm of Colonel Joseph…

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Date: 1916

Image 19 of The Jamestown windmill, ciples, was much thrown with the British, and it is probable that he retired with them on their evacuation of the town of Newport, for in the following year he died in…

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Date: 1916

Image 20 of The Jamestown windmill, farm, which were in this year granted, after a committee had inquired as to what was justice. Mrs. Wanton s difficulties had, how- ver, been solved some time earlier by her marriage…

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Date: 1916

Image 21 of The Jamestown windmill, corn as one hundred dollars will purchase for the faithful performance of his duties. In the following year we see him installed. March 25th, 1788. Voted and resolved by this meeting that…

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Date: 1916

Image 22 of The Jamestown windmill, Newport Mercury. To be sold at public vendue on Monday, the 22d day of June next, at 11 o clock A. M. on the premises, A Wind Mill and Dwelling House at…

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Date: 1916

Image 23 of The Jamestown windmill, the year to Arnold Hazard, receiving $1,800. Arnold Hazard gave Job W. Hazard a quit claim deed, in 1850, the sum agreed upon be- ing $1,025. Job W. Hazard, after five years,…

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Date: 1916

Image 24 of The Jamestown windmill, mill is once destroyed, no amount of money- can ever replace it. Not only is it an object general that so interesting a link with the past should not be lost to…

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Date: 1916

Image 25 of The Jamestown windmill, not take place before our eyes without an effort on our part to prevent it; for if the of beauty in itself and a fine specimen of a type of building very…

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Date: 1916

Image 26 of The Jamestown windmill, ganlzation. Accordingly a Historical Society was formed, its members including both sum- mer and permanent residents, Miss Lena Clarke of Jacnestown being its first president. The object of the society was to…

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Date: 1916

Image 27 of The Jamestown windmill, tinue its usefulness for many years, and has undoubtedly a most valuable possession in the old mill. As these old mills have nearly all disappeared, this is perhaps the only so- ciety…

Contributor: Stevens, Maud Lyman
Date: 1916

Image 28 of The Jamestown windmill, future by other fittings. The society is anx- ious to restore the old features now, while there are those still living who can give exact information on the subject. It would be…

Contributor: Stevens, Maud Lyman
Date: 1916

Image 29 of The Jamestown windmill, affords the miller a modicum of much needed wanmth. The trade of a miller must have had its charms. He was, in the first place, the centre of much coming and going.…

Contributor: Stevens, Maud Lyman
Date: 1916

Image 30 of The Jamestown windmill, pole, slightly varying the pressure of the stones, as the wind increases or diminishes. Uneven meal would result from lack of care in this direction. It was work that called for experience…

Contributor: Stevens, Maud Lyman
Date: 1916

Image 31 of The Jamestown windmill, in the errain causing it to become musty if kept for any length of time. It is to be hoped that through the efforts of the old mill s friends we may,…

Contributor: Stevens, Maud Lyman
Date: 1916

Image 32 of The Jamestown windmill, And poured them all an oaken chest within Corn meal and rye, two bushels in each bin; A third compartment of the oaken chest Held sieves and rolling pins and all the…

Contributor: Stevens, Maud Lyman
Date: 1916

Image 33 of The Jamestown windmill, Like the Friend s Meeting house, its neighbor there, The mill still stands upon its hill site fair, As if to watch the boats that glide alway O er the blue waves…