Forge Owner Joshua Foote Bloomery Assabet River / Town Dighton Norton Bridgewater Pembroke Hingham Location/Name Dates Taunton River / Luddams Ford Town River / Middleboro Nemasket River / State Furnace Bridgewater Matfield River / Brook Bourne Manomet River / Forge Nemasket River / Sippican River / Bridgewater Town River / Kingston Weweantic River / Furnace Taunton Mill River / Stillwater Furnace Titicut River / Braintree Monatiquot River / Indian River / Hopewell Ironworks Middleboro Nemasket River / Hopewell Ironworks Town River / Head River / Easton Queset River / Mt. Carmel / Bourne Back River Hanover Drinkwater River / Woods Hole Wankinco River / Walpole Location/Name Dates Neponset River / Blackstone River / Taunton Mill River / Squawbetty Forge Winnetuxet River / Tremont Easton Weweantic River / Saugus Saugus River / North Furnace Mill Bridgewater Town River Bridgewater Town River Taunton Mill River / Brummagen Forge Town River / Hanover Drinkwater River Taunton Two Mile River / Bridgewater Matfield River / /
OperatingSystem
Hurd / /
Organization
Whitman PL / /
Person
Elliott Briggs Weston / James Leonard / Isaac Hobart etc / Nathaniel Thomas / Eliphalet Leonard / Thomas Cushman Ironworks / John Ames / Briggs Forge / Hugh Orr Galer / George Keith Col. Bartlett Murdock / Lewis Pratt Murdock / Joshua Foote Bloomery / James Perry Isaac / John Harden Abbington Pembroke Bridgewater / Peter Bennet / Elliott Smith / Brook Easton / Carver Kingston / Amos Binney / Lemuel Curtis / Oliver Ames / Zenias Wood / Nathan Pratt Chaffin Cyrus Alger / Quincy Furnace Brook / Able Washburn / Henry Leonard John Winthrop Jr. / John Adams / Jediah Holmes Jr. / Thomas Leonard / Stafford Forge Jacob Chaffin Leonard / Ingram Robert Orr / Seth Drew Elliott Galer / Alijah Perry Mighill / Ruben Curtis / Leonard (son) James Leonard / Daniel Wheaton / John King / Hartley Ingram / Francis Miller Sources / Eliphalet Chaffin / James Winthrop / Leonard Timothy Cooper Blast / Zephaniah Leonard Hugh Orr / Ingram Old Colony Briggs (Hingham) / Thomas James / Jonathan Leonard Col. Hugh Orr / Joseph Jencks / James Leonard Timothy Cooper / Ingram Mitchell / Ironworks David Perkins John Harden Abbington / Ebenezer Lobdell / Edmund Bridges / Jonathan Parker / Elliott Elliott Weston / Wade Briggs Henry / Aaron Hobart / Nathaniel Leonard (son) James / Leonard Chatier Forge / Elliott John / Bartlett Murdock / Peter Oliver Sources / Aaron Pratt / Nathaniel Lazell / Hobart Bell Foundry Stillwater / Pond Easton Kingston Beaver Brook / Thomas Weston Weston Josselyn Briggs / Hugh Orr Sources / John Williams / Oliver Hudson Purchas Ezra Perry / Mulholland Galer / Robert Orr Col. Hugh / Thomas Brattle Oliver Hudson Purchas / Isaac Hobart Theodosuis Moore Deacon Alijah / Cyrus Alger Chaffin Seth Washburn / Pond Furnace Pond Ganit / Weston Elliott Chaffin Murdock / Robert Salmon Briggs Elliott Briggs / Thomas Bardin Briggs / Mitchell David / Isaac Leonard Chaffin Jonathan Leonard / Henry Leonard Joseph Jenks / Ingram Col. Hugh Orr / Benjamin Ellis Eliphalet Leonard Nathaniel / Ebenezer Alger Oliver Ames / Carver Sampson / Mulholland Timothy Hatherly Magoon / Elliott Weston Mendell / John Brown Chatier Isaac Leonard / Zephaniah Leonard Hugh Orr Old Colony Forge / /
Position
Captain / General / Location/Name Dates Marshall / Colonel / blacksmith / gunsmith / Richard Leader / /
Appendix B Survey of Ironworks in Southeastern New England, 1645 – 1848 Ironworks located to the north and west of Boston are in parentheses () This is a preliminary listing of the forges and furnaces of southeastern N