Excerpt from A Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Capt. William Fowler of New Haven, Connecticut At the second General Court, in Milford, held March 9th, it was agreed between william fowler and the Brethren, that he should build a mill and have her going by the last of September, - when the town was to take it off his hands if they saw proper, for 100; or else the Brethren should elect five Judges, who should appoint what toll he should take. For his encouragement the town made him a grant of thirty acres of land, which long bore the name of the mill lot.. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.