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 age. Also some unmarried women came, some of them as dependent relatives of the other immigrants, others induced to come with the understood if not avowed object of finding husbands in America.

Soon the newly-acquired ships of the governor began to arrive, bringing a great many immigrants. With increased force, men were set at work to dig a long mill-race, bringing water from above the "Little Falls" of the Potomac to the head of tide water, where, with a great volume and ample fall of water, large saw-mills were built. Logs could then he run down the river from above by the current, brought from below on the river by towing or the incoming tide, and floated out of Rock Creek. Lumber then became an important article of export, selling at a good profit in the English markets in competition with handsawn lumber. It was more than thirty years before the colonists of Mortonia had any competition in mill-sawn lumber, and then it came from the shrewd Puritans of New England.

With abundance of mill-sawn lumber, a new style of architecture replaced the log cabins chinked with sticks and clay. Frame houses, much better looking and more cleanly than the