Page:A topographical and historical sketch of the town of Andover, in the county of Hillsborough, and state of New Hampshire.djvu/14

 mills; 2 bark mills, and 2 tanneries. The first saw-mill was built in 1767, the proprietors granting 40l. to the person who built it, together with the water privilege and site, "on condition that he should saw all the loojs which the proprietors should haul to the mill, at the halves (or ten years." The number of inhabitants was in 1775, 179; in 1790, 645; in 1800, 1133; in 1810, 1259; and in 1820, 1642—giving for this latter year an average of about seven persons for each family. The body of inhabitants are industrious farmers, raising ordinarily a surplus with which to furnish their families the "little necessaries," which common custom or inclination invites them to procure.

Andover was granted by the proprietors of lands purchased of John Tufton Mason in 1746, to the following persons, viz:

Edmund Brown, William Swain, Archelaus Lakeman, John Hoyt, John Brown, Daniel Cram, Nathan Row, Amos Dwinell, Daniel Sanborn, John Sanborn, Joseph Gove, Benjamin Leavitt, Nathan Longfellow, David Norton, Walter Williams, Benjamin Swett, jun. Benjamin Shaw, Benjamin Tilton, Joseph Prescott, Thomas Sillia, Israel Blake, John Ellis, Daniel Weare, Nathaniel Healey, Benjamin Sanborn, Robert Miller and Tobias Lakeman, of Hampton Falls.

Edward Brown and Jonathan Beck, of Salisbury, Mass.

Samuel Bathrick, of Portsmouth. Ezekiel Worthen, Joseph Weare, Samuel Blake, jun. John Chapman, Samuel Blake, Nathan Dow, Samuel French, William Brown Clough,