THE
MILLER
in Eighteenth-Century
VIRGINIA
An Account of Mills & the Craft of Milling, as well as a Description of the Windmill near the Palace in Williamsburg
Williamsburg Craft Series
WILLIAMSBURG
Published by Colonial Williamsburg
MCMLXXVIII
The Miller in Eighteenth-Century Virginia
The reader of this account, being of open mind and charitable disposition, as good men and women have ever been, will readily recognize that whatever may appear in these pages to the discredit of millers in times past cannot be taken to reflect in any fashion upon the present master of Mr. Robertson’s windmill. Indeed, the age-old repute of the calling is as distasteful to him and his colleagues of today as it would be inappropriate if applied to them.