The early settlers of the township had regarded the existence of a saw mill therein with great satisfaction, but subsequent experience forced the conviction upon them that it would be of little advantage to them. The more sagacious inhabitants desired to have such timber sawed as was necessary to the construction of comparatively small and rude habitations, reserving the larger and more valuable growth of pine, of which there were considerable quantities, for subsequent use or sale. They expected to pay bills for sawing by turning over to the mill owners a share of the lumber sawed, but such expectations failed of realization. John Grant from Berwick, Maine, had purchased the mill in 1803. Early in the spring of that year he appeared in the township with several brown up sons and a six ox team with the necessary equipment for the lumbering business. His plans were not at all in accord with the expectations of the inhabitants of the township. There were a good growth of pine on the mill lot, as well as on other lots in the vicinity of the mill site. In the language of one of the early settlers Òthere was upon the borders of the stream and meadows below the mill an abundance of pine as handsome as ever grew from Penobscot soil.Ó With a team of his own equipped for service and a crew form his own family to man it, and with a heavy growth of pine of is own in close proximity to the mill site and large quantities that could be purchased at a price merely nominal, he could stock his mill and supply the inhabitants of neighboring towns, and thereby establish a business that would yield him a fortune. The growing settlement of Blaisdelltown (Exeter), New Ohio (Corinth) and New Charleston (Charleston), extended to the GrantÕs considerable patronage, but not enough to make their business successful. One great hindrance to success was the lack of money. The early settlers were scantily supplied with this vital element of business enterprise. Another hindrance was the total absence of the spirit of accommodation in their dealings with their neighbors. One of these hauled some spruce logs to the mill with the purpose of having them sawed into boards. The logs were of medium size but not entirely innocent of knots. The Grant who had charge of the mill gruffly refused to saw them, giving as the reason that the knots were harder than spikes and that it would take two such logs to make a decent slab. Repelled by such rebuffs the inhabitants of the northern and western parts of Lincolntown obtained boards to cover their buildings at Elkstown (Dexter). Among those were Amos and Moses Gordon, Justus Harriman and John Chandler. The refusal of the Grants to saw spruce and hemlock was followed by the necessity of using pine lumber for the most common purposes. many of the buildings in this neighboring townships were covered with the best quality of pine boards, while hemlock lumber, which was equally as good grew, to make room for the crops because the mill owners refused to saw it. After draining the section of the township immediately around the mill site, the mill property passed into other hands about the year 1810.