Mills – Freeport History Timeline

John Carman is operating a mill on the northwest corner of Hicks’ Neck

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– Presently Silver Lake Park, Baldwin

– John Carman’s son

– Acting as Townsmen of Hempstead

– Later becomes Baldwin’s Mill

Joshua Carman dies / will

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– John and Caleb to manage their uncle Joshua’s estate

– Abigail to receive the field called “Tylsum”

– Benjamin to receive the house formerly belonging to “Latten” and “the old field at the south”

– Joshua and Joseph to have his grinding and sawing mills upon their majorities, operated by John and Caleb (Presently site of Silver Lake Park, Baldwin)

– Samuel and Thomas to have the meadow next to the lot formerly the “Jacksons”

– John Carman’s grandchildren

Hempstead Township grants John Pine permission to build a grist mill on Tredwell’s land

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– Presently Milburn Pond Park, Freeport

Daniel Raynor purchases the saw and grist mills on Mill Road from Joseph Swezey

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For $5,500, this purchase also includes the pond to the north to become known as Horsefall Pond, later the site of the Freeport Recreation Center. The Raynor homestead, located opposite the mills on South Main Street, becomes a grocery store and stage coach stop as well as considered a community center.

South Shore Millers of Hempstead Town – The Indispensable Few by Clinton E Metz