”The pioneer paper-mill was erected here in 1790 by John Ware, a veteran officer of the Continental army, and brother of Professor Henry Ware, D.D., of Harvard College, one of the chief leaders (with Channing and Norton) in the great secession of the then new Unitarian sect from the old Puritan church. Messrs. Conant and Hurd afterwards became associated with Mr. Ware; …”

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King's Handbook of Newton, Massachusetts, by Moses Foster Sweetser, 1889, page 220