Grind your Grists

 

The Cohas is a rapid stream, some more than three miles in length, from the Massabesic to the Merrimack. In this distance there is a fall of one hundred and twenty feet, affording of course some fine mill-privileges. These have long been occupied. Webster's mills near the outlet of Lake Massabesic, have been noted mills in times past.

 

 

At this privilege John McMurphy Esq. built mills in the early settlement of Chester, fifty acres of land at this place having been granted him in 1739, by the proprietors, upon condition that he should build a Grist Mill upon the privilege, within two years, and should "Grind for ye Proprietrs & inhabitants of Chester, aforsd & their successors before, & in preference of their Grists to ye Grists of any other prson or prsons wtsoever, for three days in every week forever, (viz:) every Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday forever."

 

 

 

The following reports are self-explanatory:

 

Mr. William K. Robbins, the expert chemist and colorist of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. and clerk of the City Board of Health, has examined the Cohasaukee properties and taken samples from the springs as follows:

 

Manchester, N. H., Dec. 18, 1908.

Cohasaukee Corporation,

Manchester, N. H.

 

Gentlemen:

I have carefully examined your properties in Londonderry, and find that the springs are located well up on a hill in a forest of old growth pine, and are so far removed from human habitation or cultivated land as to preclude the possibility of contamination.

 

I took samples of the water as it flows at the spring house and in person conveyed them to the Boston Bio-Chemical Laboratories for biological examination.

 

Sincerely yours,

WILLIAM K. ROBBINS

 

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