“The Beginning”
A search of Wadlin (Wadlen, Wadley) deeds prior to 1800 shows only one parcel of land purchased in Coxhall (Lyman). All the spellings were interchangeable in those early deeds! John Wadlin (from Berwick???) purchased 40 acres in Coxhall (Lyman) from George Jellerson on March 29,1793.
The following is the first reference to “Wadlen Mill” and dam is in Volume I of books of town records that lists roads in Coxhall, 1791-1799:
“Road from Wadlen Mill. Southwesterly through Kimball to Joshua Nason’s land, then on the same course to the “South West corner of Captain Nathaniel Gould’s land marked with the letter R, from thence South 20 degrees East on that line betwixt James Maddox and Tad Nason to Robert Gould’s corner, thence on the same line betwixt Robert Gould and said Maddox, South 39 degrees to Roson land, thence on said course to Thomas Clark’s land, and then South Westerly through said Clark’s land 80 rods to the road leading to Clark’s Mill to Joseph Roberts.”
A May 5, 1817 entry references “Road laid out from Wadlins Mill Pond to the road by Thomas Clark Jr’s.”
