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Greenwich became the site of the Dunbarton flax spinning mill in 1880, bringing hundreds of Irish laborers and others lured by prosperity and steady employment offered by the mill. These hardy workers gave the town a special character that lives on today.

During the Revolution, various states enacted laws that allowed for the confiscation and sale of land which was held by known loyalists. In New York, following the 1779 Act of Attainder, the estates of fifty-nine individuals were confiscated. Four of those on the list were Roger Morris, Esq. (late member of the Council for the Colony of New York) and his wife, Mary Morris; and, Beverly Robinson and his wife, Susannah Robinson. As heirs of Frederick Philipse, his daughters, Mary Morris and Susannah Robinson, held life estates in approximately two-thirds of the Philipse Highland Patent. Their...

Greenwich became the site of the Dunbarton flax spinning mill in 1880, bringing hundreds of Irish laborers and others lured by prosperity and steady employment offered by the mill. These hardy workers gave the town a special character that lives on today. Volume 2, "The Directory," includes genealogical info about some 1900 individuals who worked in the Dunbarton mill.