“Forty Years Later…”
…John Wadlin is living in Northport, ME and he sold all his land in Lyman to Simeon Chadbourne of Alfred. This is NOT the Simeon Chadbourne on South Waterboro Road in Lyman. The land he sold is the exact lot he had purchased from George Jellison, spelled this way but same person as Jellerson.
John Wadlin was born in 1767 and died in Northport in 1856. HIs wife was Catherine Chadbourne, whose father was Simeon Chadbourne for whom the Chadbourne Cemetery is named. He had a son, John, who was born in Lyman in 1802. This proves he was actually living here and not just running the mill.
Simeon Chadbourne (from Alfred) sold the land to three proprietors (investors) one year later. From then on, proprietors had control of the mill for the next 25 years. One of the proprietors, Magnuss Smith, sold 2/24 of HIS mill priviledge (the buildings, the water flowage, and all the equipment but not the land), of the the Wadley Sawmill to Samuel and James Roberts in 1962. THE HISTORY OF YORK COUNTY (the year 1880) lists “the old Wadleigh Mill near Barker’s Pond” as a manufacturer inEllen Grant Lyman. Notice the evolution of the spelling from “Wadlin” to “Wadleigh”!
In 1882, the fifteen current proprietors of Wadleigh Pond Mill sold a controlling interest to William F. Warren. His wife was Ellen Grant and they had seven children. He died in Portland in 1899. His son, Clinton, received the “Wadleigh Mill” priviledge situated at the outlet of Wadleigh’s Pond two weeks before his father died. Clinton was a teacher and the assumption is, he may not have known how to run a sawmill so he gave it to his brother, Leonard! Leonard knew and he kept it for twelve years, then selling it to Leonard Walker of Saco.