Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-04-21
First Thing in New England.

Amid our unbounded prosperity and
unceasing activity in every direction to
which ingenuity and industry lead, it may
be well for us to look back to the "day OF
small things" and note when and where
industries and interests which are now OF
great and mighty consequence had a be-
ginning. We have before us a stately
volume, published in Philadelphia, ent-
tied "a History of American Manufac-
lures from 1908 to $780," 1t is the first
volume of series and carries the history
down to the close of the eighteenth cen
fury, and it carries us back to the earliest
origin of manufactures and the useful
arts in the Colonies. From the pages
before us we gather chapter of first things
in New England.
The first vessel was built in Plymouth
in 1924. The colonists in that year re-
ceived an accession of carpenter and
sail-maker.: OF the former, Gov. Brad
ford says: "He quickly builds two very
good and strong shollops, with great
and stronger lighter; and having hewn
timber for ketchers, "a much larger des-
cription of vessel but this spoilt; for in
the heat of the season he falls into fever
and dies, to our great loss and SORROW"
The first vessel built in Boston was the
"Trial," of one hundred and sixty tons
burthen. She sailed for Bilboa on the
4th of June, 1912, Thomas Graves, master,
laden with fish, which she sold there at
good rate, and from thence she freighted
to Malaga.
The first saw mill was set up in Salem
in 1929. In the second letter of instruc-
tions to Gov. Endicott, he is directed to
'give appreciation and furtherance to
Francis Webb in setting up his saw mill"
The first mill in New England was
wind mill, near Watertown, which was
taken down in 1882 and rebuilt in Boston.
The first corn mill in Boston was re-
moved from its original site (the locality
not given) in 1881, because it would
not grind but with westerly wind" 1t
was set UP on Cops Hill, afterwards
called Wind Mill Hill, by which name it
is mentioned in the records in 1885. This
mill was conspicuous object throughout
the settlement, as being the first attempt
to supercede the mortars and handmills
previously used by the people.
The first printing press was set up at
Cambridge in 1888, and the work issued
from it was "The Freeman's OATH" The
second issue was an almanac for 1889, "by
Pierce, Mariner" Stephen Day was the
first printer.
In 1868, two hundred and one years
ago, the entire Old and New Testament,
with the New England Psalms, all in
Indian verse, translated by the Rev. John
Elliot, minister of Roxbury, into the dia-
lect of the Nipmuck or Natck Indians,
was printed in quarto, with marginal
notes, and issued with the joint imprint OF
Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson.
The first American edition of the Eng
lish Bible was published in 1882. Sewers
German Bible came out eighty years after
Elliot's, and forty years before the English
imprints. ,
The first paper mill was set up in Mil
ton. seven miles south of Boston, on the
Neponset river. below the head Of the
tide. The proprietors were Daniel Hench-
man, Gilman Phillips, Benjamin Faneuil,
Thomas Hancock. and Henry Dering.
They furnished the Legislature with
sample of their manufacture in 1881, and
the mill was probably built early in the
previous year.
The first glass works are said to have
been erected in Braintree, but the first to
which we are enabled to assign a date
were commenced in Salem, in 1859, in
which there were "granted to We glass
men several acres of ground adjoyning to
their houses" q.
Captain Sedgewick set up the first Brew
House soon after the settlement Of Boston.
In November, 1887, the General Court,
for the protection of common brewers, or
dered that "no person shall brewe any
beare, or malt, or other drinke, or sell in
gross, or by retail, but only such as shall
be licensed by this Courte, on pain Of
flOO; and whereas Capt. Sedgewick hath
before this time set up brewe house at
his great charge, he is freely licensed 20
brewe beer during the pleasure OF this
Courte."
The first regular attempt at an improved
manufacture of cloth-particularly woolen
was made by company of Yorkshire
men who, in 1858, settled at Rowley, In
Essex county.
As early as 1861 shoes were exported
to England from Lynn, where that busi-
ness had already begun to take root.