In 1760, Asher Mott inherited a gristmill and 45 acres along Hollow Brook after the death of his father, William; the mill had three sets of grinding stones powered by an overshot wheel. In 1768, Asher sold his share to his brothers John and Gershom after deciding to settle along the Delaware River north of Trenton, and after Gershom's death five years later, his widow Ann sold his share to his brothers. During the Revolutionary War, John Mott served in the militia as a captain and used his knowledge of the Trenton area to guide General George Washington and the Continental Army on their surprise attack on Hessian-occupied Trenton after the Christmas night crossing of the Delaware River in 1776. John's grandson, Gershom Mott, later became a distinguished Union Army major general in the Civil War, fighting at Spotsylvania and Petersburg and being wounded at Bull Run and Chancellorsville. In 1800, the Mott family sold the mill and 30 acres to Robert Emley for $213.30; about a year later, the mill and 23 acres passed to Elijah and Martha Blackwell, and in 1811 they sold the property to Samuel and Susanna Johnston for $600. John Teeter, a German immigrant who had settled in the area in 1780 and built a fieldstone home, bought the mill from the Johnstons in 1814 with his wife Hannah, when it stood at the social center of a hamlet with six residences and a sawmill where farmers gathered for business and news; the hamlet became known as Teetertown. In 1820, the mill was extensively remodeled and turned over to John Teeter's son-in-law Samuel Dorland, and the Teeter family kept title until 1850. After Samuel Dorland's death in 1874, his family continued operating the mill until 1881, during which time Henry Suydam leased it and replaced the overshot waterwheel with a metal water-driven turbine. George Apgar acquired the site in 1901 and made further improvements, including patent rollers and a new miller's residence, but ownership changed again in 1904 when it was sold to Frederick Pfeiffer. In 1908, Frederick Pfeiffer sold the mill to Phillip Sliker and his wife Minnie, and Sliker processed flour under the brand name Teetertown Buckwheat Flour for the next decade before retiring after World War I when he could not keep up with commercial demand. He kept the property until William Friars acquired it in 1941; by then, age and disrepair had ended the mill's working life. In 1961, Merv Griffin bought the site as a country retreat for his family, sold it in 1980 after spending less time there, and by 2001 the mill was dismantled and reassembled near Waco, Texas, as the Homestaed Gristmill, where it again became functional and produced flour.