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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The old powder house. (search)
thus:— Sir Walter Scott has said, nothing is easier than to make a legend. We need not invent, but only repeat one of which the Old Mill is a subject. This clipping proved to be a reprint or copy of Chapter V of Fields and Mansions of Middlesex. （S. A. Drake, 1874.) Referring our readers to the above book we will only quote:— Except that the sides of the edifice are somewhat bulged out, which gives it a portly, aldermanic appearance, and that it shows a few fissures in its outwach fair in 1878, was A Legend of the Old Mill, by Mrs. L. B. Pillsbury,—in all thirty-two verses. That writer (unlike the former one) had the grace to append a footnote, thus:— Suggested by the facts given in Drake's Fields and Mansions of Middlesex. As the eviction of the Acadians from Grand Pre was in 1755, and the sale of the old mill to the province for a powder house in 1747, there is room for doubt of the legend. But the writer certainly followed Drake's prose in poetic form.