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

618 HISTORY OF DORCHESTER.
pear on reference to the account of the powder manufactory in this chapter. In 1722, Israel Howe, the
last of this company, sold out his interest in the
powder business, to Walter Everden, by making a
division of the property, Howe taking the privilege
in Milton, and Everden taking that in Dorchester,
with all the rest of the property formerly belonging
to the proprietors of the powder-mill. Howe died
in 1736, and his property went to his two daughters,
Elizabeth and Sarah. Elizabeth married a Gilman,
and Sarah died. The widowT of Howe married a
Jenkins, and after the death of her second husband,
inherited a part of the mill-estate of her daughter
Elizabeth, who died leaving no children. One half
of the mill went into the possession of Nathaniel
Gilman, of Halifax, and was set off on execution, in
1752, to Ebenezer Storer. The property remained
in common, owned by Ebenezer Storer and Elizabeth
Gilman, until 1762, when it was divided. Elizabeth Gilman died soon after, and her half went to
her mother, Judith Jenkins, and was sold by her
guardian (she then being non compos) Joseph Howe,
to Edward Wentworth and Henry Stone. Ebenezer
Storer sold his half, in 1765, to James Boyce, who
conveyed the same to Edward Wentworth. From
the time the old powder-mill blew up, this privilege
had remained unimproved-a space of about twenty years. Wentworth and Stone commenced erecting a saw and chocolate mill; but on the night of
October 17th, 1764, the foundation of the saw-mill
was destroyed by some evil-minded persons. The
damage, however, was soon repaired, so that by