William Hawes (miller)

Hawes was born in Dorchester, Province of Massachusetts, on October 23, 1772,[1] the son of John and Sarah.

[2] In 1816, Hawes founded the first cotton rag paper mill at North Yarmouth's Second Falls, and ran it with father-and-son duo Henry and George Cox.

With Susan, Hawes had the following children: Marcia Scott (1818), Clarissa (1820), Joseph (1822), Mary Goold (1824), Matilda (1827), William (1832) and Elizabeth Russwurm (1835).

"[1] Hawes moved to the Back Cove farm (now known as the John B. Russwurm House) of his wife and her ex-husband after 1817.

[7] In 1850, Hawes owned a house on Yarmouth's Main Street, where today's First Parish Congregational Church was built in 1867.

Hawes lived with his second wife, Susan, at this home (now known as the John B. Russwurm House ) in Portland's Back Cove