The toll for having grain ground in a grist mill was usually paid in kind. In the pioneer days the fee for grinding was four quarts out of each bushel. Later this was reduced to two quarts. Some millers received one-sixth of the grain they ground. Millers also kept what was called the “mill ring.” This was the grist that remained around the stones after the grinding was finished. No wonder the old millers waxed fat, not only in girth but in worldly goods as well. Although battered by time and outdistanced in the march of progress, many grist mills still stand as a link between the slow sedate era of American production and these humming times of swift and continuous output. The Stony Brook Mill at Stony Brook, Long Island, is an example of how the old mills endure. Built in 1699, it is still doing business in the same quaint stone structure that housed it at birth. Grist mills are closely associated with the early history of Dayton and its pioneer personalities. The site of Dayton was purchased in 1795 by a group of Revolutionary soldiers seeking new homesites. It was laid out as a town the same year by Israel Ludlow and Daniel C. Cooper, and named in honor of Jonathan Dayton, a soldier in the War of Independence, who later became a United States Senator from New Jersey. Dayton was incorporated as a town in the year 1805. [Illustration: The old Patterson Mill stood on Brown Street at approximately the present location of the NCR factory.] [Illustration: It was advertised as the Rubicon Factory.] _THE RUBICON_ FACTORY, _Two miles below Dayton_. The subscribers inform their friends and the public, that their Carding and Spinning machines are now in complete operation, having this season made considerable improvement in their Factory—they are prepared to Card and Spin wool in the best manner. For Carding common wool 6 1·4 cts. per lb ” Spinning chain per doz. 18 3·4 cents, ” do. filling per do. 15 do. ” Carding, Spinning and Weaving 31 1·4 do. Cloth in 500 Reed, ” do. all above 500 in proportion, ” do. Casinett, do. ” do. Satinett, 37 1·2 cts. Every attention shall be paid to work committed to them, that it shall be done in the best manner and to the satisfaction of those employing them. Produce will be received, in part payment, at the market price. K. PATTERSON, H. HYATT. May 12th, 1823. 73 if