Hope Valley contains a national and a savings bank, mammoth brick mill 316 feet long, built in 1877, and and a manufactory for steam-engines and printing-supplied with first-class machinery for the manufacture presses. of jeans, doeskins, &c. Other villages are Ashaway, Bethel, Laurel Dale, Locustville, Barberville, Wyoming, Rockville, Centreville and Acadia. RICHMOND Consists of Carolina, Shannock, Usquepaug and several other villages. Woollens and cassimeres are manufactured at the first-named place and at Shannock. Usquepaug is noted for its romantic situation. EXETER comprises several small settlements, mostly engaged in manufacturing. At Yawgoo, jeans, doeskins and other fabrics are produced. NORTH KINGSTOWN contains no less than 13 villages, some of considerable importance. At Lafayette is a A little removed from this, is the more ancient village proper, where a manufacturing business has been conducted since 1800, when woollen cloths were first manufactured here. As early as 1720 its then mill was used for grinding grain. A later-built mill was destroyed by fire in 1847. This was soon rebuilt and operated. The village is noted as the Davisville* is a thrifty hamlet in the northern part of the town on the Stonington Railroad. In the vicinity of Hammond's Hill stands the house in which Gilbert Stuart, the portrait painter of world-wide fame was born. Almost connecting with this house is the mill known as the "old snuff mill," which for the last century has been used for grinding grain. In 1750 Dr. Moffat, a Scotch merchant, settled in Newport, employed Gilbert Stuart of Scotland, the father of the artist, to emigrate, erect this mill and engage with him in the manufacture of snuff. Here, in 1755, the birth of this artist took place. seat of the Le Moines or Mawneys, the Huguenot family who early began a settlement near this spot. The present owners, the Davis brothers, whose ancestor, Mr. Joshua Davis, operated the mill in 1720, are connected, through an ancient marriage tie, with the Le Moine Huguenot family. ADDENDA. NOTES REFERRING TO THE SKETCHES OF THE HISTORY OF DUKES COUNTY AND ITS TOWNS. It cannot but be patent to the mind of the reader that, as it requires time to prepare, print, and issue a work of the size and importance of this, some events may have transpired since the writing of this History which could not receive notice in the original manuscripts. The sketches of Dukes County and its towns were made and sent forward late in December, 1878, and were put into type during the year 1879. The destruction of the entire edition of the book by fire at the Wright & Potter Printing Establishment, in February, 1880, the plates being preserved, — affords opportunity to make a few brief notes at the end of this second edition. - 1. The division of Edgartown and the incorporation of the northern part, as described, including Eastville, the Camp Ground, the Highlands, Oak Bluffs, and vicinity, into a new town, named ·Cottage City," took place Feb. 17, 1880. 2. Instead of building the contemplated Tabernacle upon the Camp Ground of wood, it was constructed, in the summer of 1879, mainly of iron. To these notes the author of this part wishes to add a remark or two. 1. To the traditional part of the account of the first settlement on this island by white men, he would add, that it has come down through but very few mouths, only three, at most, between the John Pease named and the writer. Who would not credit such an ancestral narration, so well corroborated as shown? 2. With reference to the former double claim, under the crown of England, to these islands, the one by the Earl of Stirling, and the other by Sir Ferdinando Gorges, it is suggested by a friend, that, from the fact that at the time referred to, territorial boundaries in this then "new world" were imperfectly known in England, sections of territory granted sometimes overlapped each other. NOTE IN REFERENCE TO WILBRAHAM, MASS. (See p. 174.) -The population of this town has been materially lessened by the formation, in 1878, of the town of Hampden. It is now probably about 1,600, instead of 2,576 as given. Page 265, line 48, for " 1733 " read "1633." Page 340, line 30, for "Frederick Mills " read "Frederick Miles." Boston Tea Party, 253. Boston Elm, 258. Bolton, 386. Braintree, Mass., 226. Brainerd, David, 346. Bradford, Mass., 146. Bradford, William, 22. Briggs, Gov. George N., 103. Brighton, Mass., 269. Bridgewater, 238. Brooklyn, Ct., 390, 394, 395. Brownell, Thomas C., 322. Bryant, William Cullen, 185. Buckland, 159. Canonicus, 399. Carver, John, 22, 72. Chatham, Ct., 351. Charlemont, 159. Channing, Rev. W. E., 249. Charlestown, Mass., 261. Charlestown, R. I., 446, 453. Cheever, Master, 263. Chilmark, 129. Chicopee, 172. Church, Col. Benjamin, 123, 431. Clinton, 282. Connecticut, State of, 291. Conant, Roger, 28, 132. Confederacy, N. E., 38. Congress, Continental, 56, 57. Congress, Provincial, 56. Conway, Mass., 152, 159. Court of Assistants, 30. Coddington, William, 31, 399, 400, 422. Cotton, Rev. John, 33, 242, 245. Colt, Samuel, 322. Colchester, Ct., 372. Columbia, 384. Commonwealth Period, 58. Connecticut, State of, 291. Connecticut Charter Troubles, 292, 313. Copley, John Singleton, 273. Farmington, Ct., 328. Fires in Boston, 242, 247, 248, 251, 254. Fort Griswold, Capture of, 295. Foxborough, 229. Franklin County, Mass., 147. Franklin County, grouped towns of, 160. Franklin, Mass., Town of, 228. Freetown, 113, 123. G. Gallaudet, Thos. H., 322. Georgetown, Mass., 146. Gomez, 12. Gorton, Samuel, 417. Gosnold, Bartholomew, 13, 124. Griswold, 372. Groton, Mass., 203. Groveland, 143. Guilford, Ct., 362. |