For the next 20 years John Lyon Gardiner (1770-1816) made no notation in his farm book about the mill, then there was a storm and collapse in 1815 and he required new timbers.

This had to do with V's evolving use of different technology than when apprenticing for IV and the inside was more like contemporary windmills on Rhode Is.

Nathaniel Dominy V did more repairs in 1826 and worked for 6 days on Gardiner's Island in 1833, where he installed a new windshaft, stocks and points in the mill.

An 1885 article on Gardiner's Island appeared in The Century magazine which mentioned "the windmill that supplies flour for the whole population.

[5] The last known record of the operation of the windmill was an entry in Jonathan Thompson Gardiner's account book in 1889, which credited John B. Lawrence with "making Mill Sails".