A site for a mill.
1784. On these several branches of Licking, are good mill-seats, and navigation to the Ohio, from the fork down to its mouth.—John Filson, ‘Kentucke,’ p. 17.
1784. The several streams and branches of Salt River afford excellent mill seats.—Id., p. 19.
[Other examples in the same work.]
1788. A Mill-Seat on so valuable a stream may be of great value.—Advt., Maryland Journal, Feb. 29.
1788. A Mill-Seat within 21/2 or 3 miles of this town I will sell or exchange for Goods.—Id., March 4.
1795. Seats, at a very trifling expense, could be made for three times the number of mills already built [on the Brandywine].—Isaac Weld, ‘Travels through North America,’ p. 20 (Lond., 1799).
1820. Ravines, at the bottom of which flow small streams or brooks, here called creeks, forming a few mill-seats.—Zerah Hawley, ‘Tour’ [of Ohio, &c.], Oct. 20. (New Haven, 1822, p. 32.)
1821. [He owns] the manufactory, the mill-seat on which it stands, and a valuable house.—T. Dwight, ‘Travels,’ ii. 202.
1830. Upon said Farm is a valuable Mill Seat, with a Water Privilege six months each year.—Advt., Mass. Spy, Aug. 4.
