Perhaps the reader will be inclined to marvel a bit that the product of such a mill is so good. And perhaps he will look with some compassion on a man who is so completely a slave to the elements. If some of the miller’s fellows have been disposed—on occasion—to take just a trifle more toll than law and custom allow, well, let him who is without fault cast the first stone. Millstone, that is.
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
Greville Bathe and Dorothy Bathe, Oliver Evans: A Chronicle of Early American Engineering. Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1935.
Richard Bennett and John Elton, History of Corn Milling. 4 vols. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1897-1904.
Carl Bridenbaugh, Cities in the Wilderness: The First Century of Urban Life in America, 1625-1742. New York: Ronald Press Co., 1938.
——. The Colonial Craftsman. New York: New York University Press, 1950.
Philip Alexander Bruce, Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century. 2 vols. reprint ed. New York: Peter Smith, 1935.
William Coles Finch, Watermills & Windmills: A Historical Survey of Their Rise, Decline and Fall as Portrayed by Those of Kent. London: C. W. Daniel Co., 1933.
Douglas Southall Freeman, George Washington: A Biography. 6 vols. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1948-1954.
Stanley Freese, Windmills and Millwrighting. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1957.