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The Brown Mill must have been just below the dam in Bank Village. I'm surprised that I never saw any evidence of it in my many hikes on the pipe from Highbridge to Bank Village. I have presently have friends named Champney or Brown. I'll have to ask them if they're related. Here's a clip from Chandler's history of NI families: Eleazer Brown

b. 1778; d. July 24, 1855; m. Feb. 6, 1806, Hannah Morgan [d.

Jan. 25, 1867]. In middle life he became interested in cotton

manufactures, then steadily increasing in New Ipswich, and

about 1825 in connection with Samuel Batchelder he estab-

lished a factory for the manufacture of tickings, between the

sites of the mills known at different periods as the "Upper

Factory" and the "Lower Factory," as the "Waterloom" and

"Souhegan Mills," and still later as the "Columbian, No. 3"

and the "Columbian, No. 2." "Brown's Factory" was active

until, in the changing methods of competition, the smaller

mills were unable to maintain a profitable activity. For a

considerable period the tax assessed against Mr. Brown was

exceeded by that of only one fellow townsman. He was in-

terested in military affairs, and his command of one of the

militia companies caused him to be generally mentioned as

"Capt. Brown."

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