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130 HISTORY OP the townsliip, on the lands now owned by widow Blish, on which farm Mr. John More built a saw-mill before the war. This is said to have been the first saw-mill in this section of country ; some remains of the mill were in existence in 1780. The first mill built after the war, in this county, was built by a man named Potter, near where the Hobart furnace now stands, some time between 1782 and 1786. Potter sold this mill to a Mr. "Warn, and he sold it to Bears & Foote. Potter then built a grist-mill on Betty's Brook, and in conse- quence of some difficulty with one Mills, an agent of the Kortright patent. Potter moved his mill in the night, down on the west side of the river, (about two miles,) on land now owned by James Wetmore. During the same season, and shortly after the capture of the Bonnets, a party of Indians made an incursion into Colchester, then known by its Indian name of Papagonck. The families composing this settlement had for the most part sought safety along the Hudson — a man named Rose, had, however, remained with his family unmolested in this exposed situation, during the whole war. The father of the family, at the time of this incursion was absent on a scouting excursion, which fact doubtless, had it been known to the Indians, would have proved a source of mischief to his family, but as it was, they did no injury, except appropriating whatever they chose, to themselves, without asking leave. At the time the Indians approached the residence of Mr. Hose, his son William was engaged in constructing a canoe on the bank of the river, a short distance from the house. He was shortly afterwards surprised and taken prisoner, and was informed that he must accompany them to the home of the Red men in the west. He protested stoutly against accom- panying them, but all in vain. The Indians also took three cows belonging to his father, which they drove before them, together with whatever the house contained which seemed to