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In 1798 Lowrey hired Thomas Elliot to build a grist mill along the Delaware River. He paid for the construction by selling 1000 acres south of Milford to Paul Prevost, a former French army officer who had fled France during the French Revolution. In honor of Prevost the residents named the new village Frenchtown. The grist mill was completed in within a year and was followed by a second sawmill. Around that time Lowrey renamed the village after himself, calling it Lowreytown, a name which lasted only until 1804 when the village was renamed Millsford.
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