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Show PAPERMAKIN BY HAN IN AMERIC 22 lix] JOHN SAVELS, GARDINER, MAINE, This papermaker born1775, received histrafning fnamillin Milton, Massachusetts,wher he was working 1n1799. During this year he kept adfary that fs mouw 1 George Washington, perhaps the only exi: ting contemporary notic the Ceneral's dat ‘written by a paperm e first refer£ce reads;: ‘Saturday, Decembe 28, 1799, The Great, the Good, the Im- fportal Patrfot fs gone. Washington fs no more." The following day th diarfst wrote: an died on th 14t Instant, ver sudde 3hinflamatio in the throat." In 1806, after serving fn the Milton mill John Savel ed to Gardiner, Mane wher ca me Cox, also from Milton, Massachusetts a journey Machine an family untfl the middle of the nineteenthéentury. The woo ot of ti fallsan mill show the label s nodoubt of anearlfer period tha the hcomely typographical border. The fmprint ("Stoddard's Print, Offic Of the Rural R eposttory")a the bottom of the label, probably refers t §member of the Stoddard family of printers, of which family Ashbe Stoddard was the first to engage fn the printivgand newspaper busines beterfounded "The Huudson Weell 12411 1803, when the establishment was sold to George Chittendenan "assoctates, publishers of "The Balance, and Columbian Repository. |