The history of the town of Dorchester, Massachusetts, By a committee of the Dorchester antiquarian and historical society ...

626 HISTORY OF DORCHESTER.
Jackson into one estate, which had been separated
for seventy-eight years.
Tileston and Hollingsworth united, repaired and
remodelled both the McLean and Boies mills; they
enlarged their business, and conducted it so successb
fully, that in April, 1831, they took into partnership
Edmund PR Tileston and Amos Hollingsworth, sons
of the old proprietors, and the business continued
until the death of the elder Tileston, October 22,
1834. The following spring the elder Hollingsworth
retired from the business, and lived upon the property which he had amassed, until his death, February 28, 1855, at the age of seventy-eight.
These mills are still exclusively devoted to the
manufacture of paper, and a firm of the same'style
that has been so favorably known for upwards of
fifty years, but composed of sons of the founders of
the firm, still continues to manufacture paper there,
as well as at their other mill about one mile above,
also at the mill they hire of the trustees under the
will of Walter Baker, at the lower falls.
The mill-site, known as Preston's Mill, was conveyed by John Wiswall to the proprietors of the
powder-mill as an appendage to it, in 1675, and
the proprietors, one after another, sold out to
Walter Everden, so that in time he became sole
owner of the privilege, as previously stated. At
what time the first water wheel was put in, is not
known; but in 1724, Walter Everden conveyed the
land with the powder-mill upon it to his son
Benjamin Everden. In 1729, the latter obtained
a grant from the town of the right to continue his