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

616 HISTORY OF DORCHESTER.
whom he was fond of exchanging jokes, although
they differed widely on the government measures of
the day. Nothing but Mr. Smith's age prevented
him from taking up arms in defence of American
liberty. While agent for the company, Mr. Smith
became the personal friend of Mr. Thomas Hancock,
one of the company, and upon his death the friendship and intimacy passed to the late Gov. Hancock,
at whose hospitable board the wits of the day were
ever welcome, and Mr. Smith was never absent for
want of an invitation.
Mr. Vose continued the paper-making, as also
various other kinds of business, until near the close
of the last century, when he relinquished them all.
John Sullivan and Joseph Bodge then hired the mill,
and carried on the business until the year. 1800.
The paper-mill lay still about one year, when, on
April 1st, 1801, Mr. Isaac Sanderson, from Watertown, took it and carried it on for many years. In
September, 1803, Mr. Sanderson manufactured, for
the use of the Boston Custom House, the first foliopost and quarto letter paper that was ever made in
New England, Mr. Daniel Vose died in December,
1807, and in 1810 his children-Daniel Thomas
Vose, and Elizabeth, the wife of Edmund Bakersold the mill to Mr. Sanderson. In 1817, Ir. Sanderson built a new paper-mill just below the old one,
and put in a wrought-iron tub-wheel, which was the
first iron water-wheel used in this vicinity. In 1827,
he put in a machine for making paper, which was
the second one in this vicinity. In 1830, while laying among the beach-grass at Cape Cod, waiting for