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Show 3 PAPERMAKIN BY HAN IN AMERIC Such a monopoly was tendered the first paper mill to be establfshed i the MassachusettsBay Colony entgfvin th exclusive right tomake paper fora te years wa ranted f{ve prominent Boston gentlemen: Dantel Henchman, Gil %}\]llipx,Bcn‘am ng) (enchman, th der by trad neuil Tho ancock;an Henr Derfng (Deer thes Boston citizens had close family connections. Danie princ mber of the pa firm with a prosperous publishing and bookselling busines on Cornhill. Thomas Han ad formerly serve asana ice bookbinding with Henchman, but at e o papermill heowned hisown publishingand booksellingestablishmen w of the historic Hancock mansfon onBeacon Hill, which was demolishe 111863, He dfed in 1764, bequeathing the greater portion of hisestate t his nephew, John Hancock, wh became governor o Massachusetts but{s now best remembered for hisbold signature on the Declaration o ndependence. Benfamin Faneul was the tather of Peter Faneutl, wh entof themill, wit odman, an Englishman as forem aniel Henchman was farsighte and well aware that the successo pe mill undertakin would depend upon the quantity of line and cotton rags that would beavaglable. Only safter the exclustv privilege to manufacture pape had been granted Henchman wa appealing for old rags fnanadvertisement, dated September 20,1728, { "The New-England Weekly Journal,"anewspaper published in Bosto by Samuel K neeland and Timoth Green "To turn the manufacturing monopoly to profitand to comply wit thetermsof the courtagreement, the ffve membersof themill compan leased a mill building adjoining the Neponset River, then in the tow chester, now Milton, aboutseven milessouth of Boston, The mil structure had been erected fn 1717 by Joseph Belcherasa fulling mill. I 173t samples of the paper made {n the mill were presented to the Legfs. Iature, and the productfon of mediocre paper contfnueduntfl 1737 when enry Woodman terminated his dutfes as foreman, Likewise, Henr Digitalimag © 2004 Marriott Library, Universiy of Utah. All ights reserved |