A site bordering on water, which is adapted to the purposes of a mill.
1812. To be Sold! A Water Privilege in Wrentham.—Advt., Mass. Spy, Sept. 9.
1822. Valuable Mills and Water Privileges.—Id., July 31.
1827. Taken on execution,… one of the best Water Privileges on the north branch of the Nashua.—Id., Jan. 17.
1829. The numerous water privileges on the line the railroad will pass will be taken up for manufacturing establishments.—Id., April 15.
1841. The Senator from Connecticut cannot bear the idea of a poor man having the privilege of entering by pre-emption 160 acres of rich land; because the brute may have the audacity to select a spot of land where there may be water privileges.—Mr. John Sevier in the U.S. Senate, Jan. 14.
1852. The best water privileges, mill privileges, on favored soils.—Mr. Cartter of Ohio, House of Repr., Feb. 24: Cong. Globe, p. 628.
