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Show PAPERMAKIN BY HAN IN AMERIC 27 [Xxv] MEETEERS CECIL COUNTY, MARYLAND. Thiswa the first paper mill fn Cecil County, Mxryland on Littl Ell Creek, a Rockville,,alucal name that has been lost {n this county. The mill wa owned by two brothers, Samuel and William (1788-1833) Meeteer, of Delaware family. The e mill probably had its orfgin about 1812, and as i delineation of the vatman was copfed fro a woodeut fn "The Book o English Trades," fssued tn London at the start of the nineteenth century [xxvi] R.PARK & CO, TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS. Th Paper mill that was later acquired by RichardPark(xcprexentedby(h morouslabel),wa orfginally established by John West merchanto Bh:n who b (hewater-powerm m1809 Richard Park, anadep aku,waxemployed asmanager, butafter the death of the owne in 1827, Park gained control of the business. R ichard Park ded fn 1833 [xxvif GEORGE COX & CO,, HALLOWELL, MAINE, Thi skilled papers mmalker learned his trade noneof the severalmillsfn Milton at once. Followin ereconmucuon continued {n th Ixxviii] JOSEPH MC DOWELL, PHILADELPHIA., One of th finest engravcd labels that was used fn America durfng the first quarte Of thenfneteenth century. Joseph McDowell was born in 1791, and deennypack Creek, Montgomer County, and latera mill on th Mana Yunk where wrfting paper was made until the mill was burned in 1858 |