I'm trying to find information on it....
The town I lived in, West Stockbridge MA, had a water operated saw mill around 1800. The boards in our 1824 farmhouse were cut in that mill. The cool part, the mill used an up/down motion, not a spinning blade. That type of machine was not developed until later.
This is the type:
https://www.ledyardsawmill.org/exhibits/the-up-down-sawmill