Hi Sheryl, I missed your message back on New Year's Day with the slowdown / backup of RootsWeb lists that occurred that day. It's fascinating that Seaborn Jones was advertising the sale of Paris's Mills in the Augusta Chronicle, as it was Seaborn Jones who purchased the mills & surrounding lands in 1795 & '96 from Francis Paris, Sr. and Francis Paris, Jr. From my readings about this matter, there were at least two mills located at the dam across Brier Creek and there may have been a third mill co-located at the site. My gggg-grandfather Nicholas Reddick had land adjoining Paris' millpond. Two of his three brothers (Jacob & Peter) also had land along Brier Creek upstream from the mill site at Millhaven. A fourth brother (Francis Reddick) didn't have land appears to disappeared from the areas sometime around the mid-1790s. This raised the suspicion that he left when the mill was sold and that he may have been an employee of Francis Paris at the mill site. Dale ___________________________________ sherylpadgett wrote: > I found a notice in the Augusta Chronicle concerning the sale of Paris mill. > > Augusta Chronicle, December 27, 1794 > > For Sale, > > Paris's Mills on Brier Creek, > > With 5000 acres of well timbered pine land > > lying around the same.The creek affords > > sufficient water at all times for any number of > > saws; and the mills which may be erected there, > > can be made more productive than any other in > > the state; possessing this peculiar advantage, > > that rafts of any size may be formed at the mills, > > and carried without obstruction to Savannah, > > free of the expense, trouble and delay of waggonage,. > > which usually cvonsumes half the profits of a saw mill. > > For terms apply to Seaborn Jones > > > > Sheryl Padgett > >