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Show PAPERMAKIN i BY HAN IN AMERIC 20 CALEB BURBANK, MILLBURY, MASSACHUSETTS. Th Hth paper mill n Massachusetts was erected by Abfjah Burbank wh Was bor n Sutton, Massachusetts, in 1736, The Burbank mill began th §Blumm of Isata Thomas's Worcester newspaper "The Massachusett PY," "that the manufacture of paperatSutton, fsnow carried ontogrea Petfection." A month later he informed the public through the sam Master of the art of papermaking. The mill was sftuated on the outle ;f Crooked Pond, now known as Singletary Lake. In 1813 this sectfon o S¥lsafah Thomas, thecelebrated printero erican Antiquarfan Socfety, the possessors of the orfgtnal Caleb BurBank Jabe] £rom which the example herewsth has been reproduced E‘{l ELIJAH BURBANK, WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS J.ah Burbank was the son of Abfjah Burbank (born 1736), from who ®learned the papermalking trade, the father having established a pape :uu in Worcester County, Massachusetts, n1776. Eltjah and CalebBur the Paper Museu ofthe Massachusetts Institute of Technology there gt o nkantique-lafd mould with the watermark " > and the date 1804, with a finely-executed seal of Massa\setts, all fashfoned fn delfcate copper wire Th Worcester Coun aullmade much of the paper used by Isafah Thomas, the famed printe §24 publisher of Worcester. We have found two wood-cut paper label oM the Elfjah Burbank establishment, both on thick wove paper, eac i1y 08 the same design but one marked "Foolscap, No. 1." printed fn re lz1a0d the other marked "Pot, No.1." printed in black fok. The latte <L 1s pen dated "1812," and had been used asa folded cover for a smal Pmphiet, whichaccount for the preservatfonof man of the old labels |