1830-1850 WORKERS at STYLES MILL

James McCURDY, William LEWIS, John McFARLANE, Henry SIMPSON, Robert HEWITT, Joseph DOTEN, Samuel BECKWITH, John McGOWAN, Moses McCOUBREY, William HITCHING, Michael GRIFFIN, George WILSON, James CARR, Irvine GOSS, John BUCKSTAFF, Benjamin LEVER, Luther LAWRENCE, William CHASE, Isaih ROGERS, James THOMPSON, John Nisbet, David HANSON, Thomas STEEN, James McGILL, Charles FOSTER; Richard DELANCET, James HEWITT, Richard WOODING, Edward BUDD, Samuel ARNOLD, James RAGAN, Samuel McFARLANE, James LEIGHTON, Joseph NEWEL, Edward TOWERS, William MONTGOMERY, David JOHNSON, William TOWL, William KERR, George McKAY, Peter McCALLUM, Charles BROCKWAY, Charles WILLIARD, Theodore WOODS, Adam HEWITT, Nathan SMART, Jacob REED, James SCULLIN, Donald MORRISON,  A.W. SMITH; James McCULLOCH, James SIMPSON, Jeremiah STEWART, James ELLIOT, William CRAIG, Daniel CRAIG, Henry McFARLANE, Robert McCOUBREY, George CONNICK, William JOHNSON, Horatio TOWL, Chandler McCURDY, James McCORMACK, Natan LAWRENCE, James MONTGOMERY, William THOMAS, Henry STYLES, Michael REED, John McLEOD, James McCARTNEY, Samuel McCARTNEY, Robert CURLY, James LOWDEN, John MURPHY. The great majority of the above list comprise the names of those who were either periodic workers at Henry STYLE'S mill or customers of his grist or saw mills over the period of about 1836 to 1850, covering a wide-ranging area emcompassing Rollingdam. 

These names are drawn from Mr. STYLE'S "Business Accounts Book", courtesy of Mr. Henry STYLES, St. Stephen.  Some were teamsters delivering lumber to distant points in the country,--for example;  April 2, 1840:  (for) oxen and cart to the shore with load, both ways, 12 shillings and 6 pence."  Again--"My cart to Schoodack (St. Stephen) three days, 7 shillings and 6 pence."  "Wagon travel to Calais; wagon travel to St. Andrews--5 shillings (each)".  "Horse and sled to St. Andrews, 4 days--15 shillings."  "Boy and horse to George McKAY'S (Digdeguash)--2 shillings and 6 pence."  "My cart to the shore with shingles--James CARR,"  Teamster, April 1836.  Mr STYLES also had workmen periodically on his farm as well as in his mill, and since train transport had not yet arrived all such travel was by ox or horse-drawn vehicles. Perhaps one of the most welcomed and frequent visitors to the STYLES Mill in the 1840's was the Rev. Adam Duncan THOMSON, founder and pastor of the local Baptist Church.  The Baptist Meeting house was opened August 8, 1846.  Important to this development were;  Henry STYLES, Esq., and Messrs. Irvine GOSS, Robert McCLASKEY, John BUCKSTAFF, A. BROCKWAY, James SIMPSON, Edward TOWERS, Ephriam TURNER and William STEWART.

Written by Rev. Charles M. Smith, Rollingdam, NB
Found in October 12, 1972 edition of the Saint Croix Courier.
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