<\/a><\/div>\nThere were other kinds of mills besides sawmills and grist mills. In fact, the meaning of \u201a\u00c4\u00f2grist\u201a\u00c4\u00f4 changed as the area became more settled. At first it meant anything produced by grinding grain. But later it came to mean the coarse feed used by livestock, while flour mills made the finer textured product required for good bread. Amwell\/Delaware had lots of grist mills, but in the earliest days, flour mills were scarce and required traveling to places like Ringoes and Pittstown.<\/p>\n
There were oil mills that ground flaxseed into linseed oil, while the residue or oil meal was fed to cattle.\u00ac\u2020 Plaster mills ground lime into plaster dust. There were also a few clover seed mills. Clover seed needed to be separated from its husk, which was a very dusty business if done by hand. Millstones could rub the husks loose and fanning machines blew away the chaff.\u00ac\u2020 Clover mills were basically fanning mills, which were designed to blow the chaff off of any sort of grain.\u00ac\u2020Fanning mills\u00ac\u2020can be found\u00ac\u2020in some farmers\u201a\u00c4\u00f4 inventories.<\/p>\n
Most of the early tanneries had their own bark mills, which crushed and ground oak bark to be used in the tanning process. Fulling mills hammered newly woven woollen cloth until it had shrunk and felted enough to hold its shape. There were very few fulling mills in Amwell Township; one of them was Green Sergeant\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s mill. In 1837, Mr. Sergeant also advertised his picking machine, which pulled fibers apart and cleaned them,\u00ac\u2020and a\u00ac\u2020carding machine, which\u00ac\u2020pulled the fibers into long rows. By the middle of the 19th century, fulling mills were scarce in Hunterdon County. For more information on old mills, look for\u201a\u00c4\u00ec<\/p>\n
Weiss, Harry B. and Grace M. Weiss, “Early Fulling Mills of New Jersey,” Trenton, NJ: NJ Agricultural Society, 1957;
\n“Early Sawmills of New Jersey,” Trenton, NJ: NJ Agricultural Society, 1961;
\nand “Forgotten Mills of Early New Jersey,” Trenton, NJ: NJ Agricultural Society, 1960.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
first published in \u00ac\u2020The Delaware Township Post, August 16, 2006 This article is similar to the previous article, \u201a\u00c4\u00faDelaware Township Villages and Mills,\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 but just different enough to be allowed in the archive. Gradually I will collect here all my published articles on Delaware Twp. mills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,9],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delaware-township","tag-post","tag-mills","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14842,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/14842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}