Abraham killed an "eight foot long black bear" and received a bounty from Dedham for killing rattlesnakes on the 70 or 80 acres he received from Dedham for the bridge and corn mill he was to build. He probably died unexpectedly at age 53 and maybe completed the bridge (one source credits him with "building the first stone carte bridge across the Charles River") and probably didn't complete the corn mill. One of his reasons for building the bridge was to access his corn mill. His family may or may not have completed the corn mill after he died in 1638 or 1639 (maybe he only wrote his will in 1638; one source has him writing it in Nov 1638 after he died in Oct 1638); his family moved east to Weymouth so they may not have been around to finish the corn mill. In any case, Abraham must have been a talented man. He was a clothier, which in that era, could mean he made cloth, made clothes, and/or sold cloth or clothes. In addition, he mined for coal and "yron" ore in Yorkshire (he seems to have sold those mines as he came to America) and he had received was to get one-half of any coal or iron he mined in Dedham, he was known as a "planter," and evidently had the skills to build a stone bridge and a corn mill. And shoot a black bear and rattlesnakes. One would have to suspect without multi-skilled men like Abraham, the wilds of America would never have been settled. He was a settler of the back-country (all the way five miles or so west of Boston) because he was one of the signers of the covenent establishing Dedham.