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

608 HISTORY OF DORCHESTER.
it appears that the Reverend John Oxenbridge, pastor, the Reverend James Alien, teacher, and Robert
Sanderson, one of the deacons, of the First Church in
Boston, with Captain John Hull and Freegrace Bendall, both merchants of Boston, purchased of John
Gill, of Milton, by deed dated August 22, 1673, a
piece of land situated at Neponset River, in Milton,
thirty rods long and six rods wide, together with
one half the stream, for the purpose of erecting a
powder-mill-the land described being the mill privilege just above the bridge at the Lower Falls, now
owned by Webb & Twombly.
Oxenbridge, Allen, Sanderson, Hull, and Bendall,
together with Mr. Thomas Thatcher, Sen., Mr.
Humphrey Davie, and Mr. John Wiswall, Sen., by
written articles of agreement, dated July 16, 1675,
entered into a copartnership for erecting a building
and improving a powder-mill at Neponset, in the
township of Milton.
John Wiswall paid in twenty-four pounds as his
share of the stock, by deeding to the proprietors all
his share in the first division of lots in the Cow Walks,
being lot No. 69, which was laid out in common
to him, with George Dyar and Enoch Wiswall, containing in all fifteen and three-fourth acres, of which
eight acres, one quarter and sixteen rods belonged
to Wiswall, and was conveyed to the company as an
appendage to the powder-works. This land was
situated just below the Lower Falls, in Dorchester,
Preston's mill now occupying the mill seat.
The mill was built just above the bridge in Milton, and the stone watch-house and a house for the