Squire Hinckley kept the post-office in 1827, at his house in the north part of the village. He kept a store in the same building. He was also, in company with his brother Ashael, proprietor of a hotel in the village, and ran a two-fired forge where W. H. Stower's saw-mill now stands. Squire Hinckley, it should be stated, was the owner and manager of this forge also in 1818. In 1830 he kept a store in the building now occupied by Albert A. Boynton, and his faded sign is still faintly visible after weathering the sun and rain of more than fifty years.
