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The year was signalized by great accessions to all the churches. The Baptist church records show sixty- one additions in 1830, and forty-eight in the succeeding years, and there was a corresponding increase in the M. E. church .. As might be expected, changes were sometimes made from one church to the other, as when Diadorus Holcomb and his wife Sylva left the Baptist church for the Methodist. These were trying occa- sions, and doctrinal discussions were frequent and searching, forming a common topic of couversation. It was at about this time that the wife of Elder Isaac Saw- ver (born Mary Willoughby,) delivered one of those pithy sayings so fondly cherished by posterity as indi- cative of character: "We hear a great deal about Free- will Baptists," said she, "and Hard-shell Baptists, but the greatest trouble I have is with self-willed Baptists!"
Another subject of conversation was the Anti-Masonic
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movement, which had been growing ever since the mys- terious disappearance of Morgan in 1826, and was Dow at its height as a political power. Caroline Hal- stead wrote in her diary in 1830, "Attended the Asso- ciation (of the Baptist Churches) in October. The pro- ceedings there caused me many very painful feelings. Some of the churches were more engaged about Anti- Masonry than religion, I fear." But all were not of her mind, for the Westport churches passed a strong resolution against Free Masonry in 1831, followed, it would seem, by divisions and unhappiness, as might have been expected. "Sister (Mary Hunter) Cutting" confessed in 1833 to having been much "troubled about Masonry," being apparently quite out of sympathy with the action of the church.
This year the hotel at Wadhams was built by Isaac Alden, a descendant of John Alden of the Mayflower. His wife was the first white child born in the vicinity of Montpelier, Vt. He was the father of Gen. Alonzo Alden of the Civil War, who was born at Wadhams in 1834, attended the Academy at Keeseville, and in 1815 taught school in Westport. He afterward graduated from William Colleges, and practiced law in Troy until the Civil War, in which he rendered distinguished serv- ices, becoming a brigadier-general.
1832.
Town Meeting at Elijah Newell's. Barnabas Myrick, Supervisor. Aaron B. Mack, Clerk.
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Jesse Braman, Alanson Barber, Gideon Hammond, As- sessor's.
Joseph Hardy, Collector.
George B. Reynolds and John Chandler, Poor Masters.
James W. Coll, Willard Church, Newton Hays, Highway Commissioners.
Ira Henderson. Horace Holcomb, Asahel Lyon, School Commissioners.
Josepb R. Delano. D. S. Holcomb, Abiatbar Pollard, School Inspectors.
Joseph Hardy. Theron Slaughter and Joel A. Calhoun, Constables.
Newtou Hays, Pound Master, and also the incumbent of a new office, that of Town Sealer of Weightsand Measures .* Gideon Hammond. Justice.
Pathmasters -- Joseph Bigelow, John Stone, Alansou Barber. Ase Loveland, Caleb P. Cole, Asabel Lyon. Bar- nabas Myrick, Myron C. Cole. Nathaciel Allen, Henry Royce. George Fortune, Isaac Alden, Thomas Hadley, Au- gustus Hill, Samuel A. Wightman, Jobb Lobdell. Jobnsou Hill, Timothy Draper, Andrew Frisbie, Jonathan Nichois. Giles Shirtliff, Forest M. Goodspeed, Eli Ferris, Epbraim Coulburo. Josepa Farnham. Jobo Sweat, Nathaniel Hink- ley. George Vaughan, Jonathan Cady.
Vored to the support of the poor. $93. 75.
It was this day enacted that the collector should "collect for three per cent. of the whole amount." Also that setool commissioners and school inspectors should serve for $1.00 a day. Also that all neat cattle should run as free com- mouers, and that a lawful fence "must be made of sound materials and be 41 feet bigb.
It was in 1832 that the Kents came, from Benson, Vt., and a new industry was started. Dan Kent was a hatter, and he made hats in a building at the east end of the bridge at Northwest Bay, employing a number of
*This office, which was regularly filled every year for twenty-two years, was considered very important at the time. It was the duty of the Sealer to examine weights and measures in the town, and certify those which accorded to the legal standard by affixing a seal. This was a protection to the ignorant or unwary from unscrupulous dealers, and also a welcome endorsement for all honest tradesmen.
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men. This "hat shop," standing where the public fountain now stands, was three-storied, and built in a square, massive style, with many windows. It was used as a tenement after the manufacture of hats ceased to be profitable, and was not torn down until about 1887. The builder was David Clark, (grandfather of the present builder of the same name,") and the first owner seems to have been John H. Low.
Dan H. Kent married Samantha Hammond, daughter of Gideon. His sister Harriet married Ralph Love- land, son of Erastus and grandson of Enos. Katharine Kent was a peculiarly beloved school teacher among the village children, and married the Rev. Mr. Whit- ney .* Augusta Kent was also a school teacher, in Westport and in the south, and married Mr. Victor Spencer, who was book-keeper for Silas Witherbee at Jacksonville, and also well-known as a teacher. He was for a while in business with Dr. Richardson of Whallonsburgh, and afterward went to Michigan, where he was connected with Mr. Loveland in the lumber business. Mrs. Spencer has been of the greatest assist- ance in preparing this part of this history, especially in a vivid account of the village as she first saw it, com- ing into it on the road from Barber's Point, a lit- tle girl nine years old. So many changes have come
*One of the most irrepressible of the boys who went to school to Miss Kent was Conant Sawyer, and he afterward gave evidence of the love and respect which she . inspired in him by naming his daughter after her. The Kents were cousins of Mrs. Katy Childs Walker, a well-known contributor to the Atlantic Monthly of a generation ago. One of her wittiest and most often quoted articles was "The Total Depravity of Inanimate Things." She often visited in Westport.
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about in the seventy years since then that it would take pages to explain to a stranger her account of the houses which stood between the Point and the bridge in the village, but it has been invaluable to the writer as the one point of solid ground upon which to stand in looking forward and back in an estimate of the histori- cal growth of the village. She saw a little country place, of hardly more than one street running along above the shore, quiet and yet busy, slow but not yet shabby, with good houses and well-dressed people, and a social life in which it was possible to find cultivated minds aud manners, with leisure for conversation.
Many a glimpse of these conditions is given in Mrs. Spencer's letters, like this incident of her first summer in Westport.
"Eliza Durphy lived at our house then, and took me with her to Caroline Sawyer's, -the old Halstead house on the corner. She was after a copy of the missionary hymn written, I think, by the author of 'America,' Smith. It began :
'Yes. my native land, I love thee well ;
Can I, can I leave thee, far in heathen lands todwell?"
"I remember so well your grandmother's soft voice and pleasant ways, and the big bunch of flowers she gave me, with some pink lavender which she called 'cu- pids.' Your mother was born soon after. I was only nine years older than she was." A missionary hymn. and a gift of flowers, remembered for seventy years, show that there was gentleness and refinement at home in this remote place. And the child who "was born
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soon after" loved flowers and poetry with a passionate love all her life.
Mrs. Spencer goes on to say that Aaron B. Mack built the brick house just north of Judge Hatch's, afterward occupied by Charles B. Hatch, that summer, and in the fall the house still further north, commonly called "the Aikens house," from the fact that Judge Aikens after- ward owned it, was built for John H. Low.
This was Dr. Abiathar Pollard's first year in West- port, he being elected school inspector immediately after his arrival. He was born in Bridgewater, Vt., in 1808, and had just graduated from Castleton Medical College. His parents were Abiathar Pollard, from Massachusetts, and Comfort Sisco Pollard. The Sis- cos had been at Sisco bay at least since 1824. After about four years' practice in Westport, Dr. Pollard at- tended lectures at the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1835 married Hannah Douglass, daughter of Ebe- Dezer. He was six years in Chazy, Clinton county, eight years in Keeseville, two in New York and eight in California, and in 1861 returned to Westport and there remained until his death.
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Town Meeting held at the Ion of Newton Hays.
Asahel Lyon, Supervisor. Aaron B. Mack, Clerk. Jesse Braman, Justice.
Newton Hays, Collector.
Alexander Spencer, Diodorus Holcomb, Joseph Hardy, Assessors.
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' Hezekiah Barber, James W. Coll. Jobn Greely, Jr., Highway Commissioners.
Abiatbar Pollard. Horace Holcomb, Ira Henderson, School Commissioners.
D. S. Holcomb, Asabel Lyon, Myron C. Cole, School In- spectors.
George B. Reynolds and Abel Baldwin, Poor Masters.
Newton Hays, Joel A. Calhoun, Therou Slaughter, Con- stables.
Newton Hays, Pound Master, and Sealer of Weights and Measures.
Pathmaster -- Horace Ormsby. Isaac Stone. Ebenezer Spencer. Andrew Frisbie, William Frisbie. Norris Mc- Kinny, Cyrus Richards. Myrou C. Cole, Calvin Angier. Danea Dodge, Willard Church, Lemuel Whitney, Abel Baldwin, Joel Finney. Jeduthan Cobb, Willard Hartwell. Amos Smith, Oliver B. Babcock. Platt Sheldon. William Stacy. William Perkins, Archy Dunton. Orria Skinner. Moses Felt, Edward Harper, George Skinner, Nathaniel Hinkley, George Vaughan, Jonathan Cady, Elisha Royce.
It was voted that the balance of the money in the hands of the Poor Masters belonging to the town should be ap- plied to the purchase of Weights and Measures.
"The Inn of Newton Hays" stood on the corner of Main and Washington streets, on the present Library lawn. Tradition saith that this inu was first built by Aaron Felt. Next year we find it occupied by Harry J. Person. I have been told that Newton Hays built the brick house standing above the Library, so long known as "the Walker Eddy house," at about this time. In the road surveys we find a new road laid out "from Douglass wharf to David S. MeLeod's." The McLeod house on the corner was burned in 1901.
1834.
This year the Town Meeting was held ' at the Inn of H. J. Person." This shows that it was at this time that H.
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J. Person bought the hotel on the corner, which was so well known a landmark until it was burned in the fire of 1576. Mr. Person kept it until his deatb.
Ebenezer Douglass, Supervisor.
Benjamin P. Douglass. Clerk.
Diodorus Holcomb, Justice.
Alanson Barber, John Chandler and Joseph Hardy, As- sessors.
Hezekiah Barber, John Greely, Jr., Abel Baldwin, Road Commissioners.
Newton Hays. Collector.
Ira Henderson, D. S. Holcomb, William L. Wadhams. School Commissioners.
Miles M'F. Sawyer, Abiatbar Pollard, Joseph R. Delano, School Inspectors.
John Lobdell, Levi Frisbie, Poor Masters.
Newton Hays. Theron Slaughter, Marcus J. Hoisington, Granville Stone, Joel A. Calboun. Constables.
Enos S. Warner, Sealer of Weights and Measures.
Norris MeKinney and Thomas Weston, Pound Keepers.
Two pounds are established this year, for the first time. showing the increasing needs of a growing settlement. Norris MeKinney lived at North West Bay, and Thomas Weston bear Wadhams Mills.
Pathmasters .-- Thomas Loek. Otis Sheldon. Union Coll, Noel Merrill, David Rogers. Newton Hays. Jobn Greely. Jr .. Willard Frisbie, Eleazar H. Ranney, Henry Royee. George W. Sturtevant, Jason Braman, Joseph Hardy. Charles Denton, John Stanton. Jobn Lobdell, Ephraim Bull, Lyman Smith, John F. Alexander, William Perkins. Giles Shirtleff, Stephen Barber, Lee Prouty, Moses Felt. Robert MeDougal. Leonard Taylor. Ebenezer Douglass. George Vaughan. Jopatban Cady. Thomas Fortune.
Voted to appropriate 85.81 to purchase the Desk ex- amined by the Auditors for the deposit of town Books and Papers. The Auditors were the Town Board.
This year a road was discontinued. "beginning at the intersection of the road leading from O. H. Barrett's with the road leading from Wadbams Mills to Jobu Daniels forge. to the north line of Jesse Braman's Lot."
The surveyor was Joel K. French.
It was about this time, perhaps somewhat earlier,
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that Asahel Root came from Elizabethtown and settled on the lake road, on the farm so long occupied by his son, Col. Samuel Root, until the property was sold to the Westport Farms in 1897. Col Root was a boy of sixteen when the family moved into town. He after- ward married Cynthia Fisher, and one of their daugh- ters is Mrs. Charles H. Pattison of Moriah. He re- ceived his title through being elected Colonel of the militia at the time of the Civil War, and though he never weut to the front, he did gallant service in rais- ing the war quota of the town. (His father had been a sergeant in the militia during the war of 1812.) He might be called our "war supervisor," since he held that office from 1860 to 1863. He represented the county in the Assembly 1868 and 1869.
In 1834, David Clark came to this village with his family, from Cornwall, Vt. He was a house builder, and a good proportion of the houses now standing in Westport were built by him, and by his son, and by his grandson, the latter being still the principal contractor for new buildings. Mr. Aaron Clark was for many years a prominent man in the affairs of the M. E. church. He married Harriet Clark, a grand-daughter of Capt. Levi Frisbie, and their children were : David married Minnie Pattison. Aaron B. took orders in the Episco- pal Church, and is now living in Dakota. Mary mar- ried Edmund J. Floyd. Theresa married Nelson J. Gibbs. Anna married Mr. Middlebrook, and is now living in Vergennes.
Immigration was now brisk from all directions. From:
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the north came in the Stevensons, and settled in the extreme south of Bessboro, on the lake shore. This family came from Kelso, Scotland, on the river Tweed. William Stevenson was a carpenter, and he, with his wife, three sons and one daughter, came to America about 1830, landing at Quebec and com- ing from there to Whallonsburgh, and a ilttle later to Westport where he bought a farm near the "stone bridge," at the mouth of Beaver Brook. The canny Scotchman watched his neighbors at their farin- ing, and observed that they were using an old-fashioned kind of plow, not adapted to the soil which they were working. He had made for himself a plow after the pat- tern of those which he had seen in the old country, and so introduced the first "long-mold-board, long handled plow" ever seen in Westport. The Stevensons were all skilled mechanics, the three sons working for the Bay State Iron Company at Port Henry for many years, besides carrying on their farms in Westport .*
This was one of the earliest springs on record, the ice being out of the lake at Plattsburgh March 15. But
* William Stevenson was thrice married. His son Thomas was the child of the first wife, John of the second wife, and Alexander and Margaret of the third wife. Thomas married Isabella dughter of Robert Williamson of Galtonside, Roxboroshire, and they had six children, the oldest of whom was Lieut William Henry Stevenson of Co. F, 118th N. Y. V. John Stevenson married Sarah VanAntwerp, and they had six children, of whom Jacob V. was in the 77th N. Y. V., and William was also in the service of the United States during the Civil War. Alexander married his cousin, Margaret, daughter of Robert Richardson, and they had nine children, the oldest of whom is Robert Richardson Stevenson, at one time editor of the Ticonderoga Sentinel, and School Commissioner, (Charles W. Stevenson of Westport is his son.)
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it was also a year when the spring went backward, as the 14th and 15th of May saw a great snow storm, pil- ing the snow in drifts. Barnabas Myrick went to the Assembly at Albany this year, and another event, quite as much a matter of comment, was the death of Joseph Call -- "Joe Call, the Lewis giant,"-who had moved to Westport some years before this time. Essex county mythology is enriched by many a yarn about the strength of this man. He had been a soldier in the British army, had won a watch in a wrestling match in Scotland, had come to America and fought on our side in the war of 1812, bad crushed between his hands a British grenadier in Plattsburgh who would not wrestle fairly, and was altogether beloved as a typical embodi- ment of the strength of the young republic pitted against the unfair bullying of England. One delightful story, altogether "too good to be true," is of his fame reaching to England, or perhaps being never forgotten there, and of a champion wrestler crossing the seas and seeking him out on his Lewis farm, where he was discovered plowing. Now Joe Call did not show bis immense strength at the first glance, being no more than six feet high, and "heavier'n he looked," (perhaps when local genius elaborates this point there is a subtle intention to imply that one must
Margaret, daughted of William Stevenson, married John Ormiston, who came from Berwick-on-Tweed, and they had seven children. As William Stevenson, the founder of the family in America, had twenty-eight grand children, nearly all of them born in Westport, no one will expect me to so much as make a beginning at naming his descendants. The records of this family have been kept with an admirable fidelity and exactness, showing that the spirit of the old Scot . ush clan still survives among these American Steven sons.
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be much more than six feet high and proportionately strong to excite notice among our stalwart mountain- eers,) and when the stranger inquired the way to Joe Call's house, the plowman lifted his plow in one hand and silently pointed to the nearest farmhouse! Of course the story concludes with the statement that the stranger had no courage to try a fall with the famous wrestler after that.
On May 1st, 1834, the Essex County Academy was established in Westport under an act of the Legislature authorizing Asahel Lyon, Platt Rogers Halstead and Benajah P. Douglass to incorporate the same. This Academy was for twenty years or more one of the most important schools along the lake receiving students from New York and Montreal, as well as from Vermont and from all the towns of the county. Its sessions were held in a large building on the south side of Washing- ton street, jon the site now owned by Frauk E. Smith,) which was built for a dwelling house by Austin Hickok* a few years before this time. The large white house just above it, now occupied by Mrs. E. B. Low, was built as a boarding house for the Academy, and so used as long as the Academy flourished. The old Academy building burned about 1874. The first trustees of the Academy were Aaron B. Mack, Judge Charles Hatch, Charles B. Hatch, George B. Reynolds, Ira Henderson, Norris MeKinney, Barnabas Myrick, Caleb P. Cole and Joseph Cole. The capital was $2500, in shares of $25
*Austin Hickok was a brother of Dr. Henry Hickok, so long pastor of the Pres- byterian Church of Orange, N. J., and Mrs. C. H. Eddy (born Marietta Hickok) was his sister.
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each. March 6, 1838, the Academy received a charter from the Regents.
This year a parsonage was purchased for the M. E. church, but I have failed to find where it stood. The "committee appointed to manage the business was John Gibbs, Joseph Burlingame, R. S. Odeli, D. Holcomb and William Frisbie. At this time Westport and Moriah belonged to the Middlebury District, and the preachers were Ezra Sayres and Andrew C. Mills. The summer camp meeting was held, not on the lake shore, but in a grove near the brook on Platt Halstead's farm-since Albert Carpenter's.
This year Capt. Ira Henderson, the boat-builder, erected a large house on North street with fireplaces and brick oven. In 1848 it was converted into a hotel by his son-in-law, William Richards, and so used until it was burned in 1893.
1836. .
Town Meeting at the Inn of H. J. Person.
Ebenezer Douglass. Supervisor.
Beuajab P. Douglass, Clerk.
Ira Henderson. Justice.
Horace Holcomb. Abel Baldwin, Isaac Stone, Assessors.
Miles M'F. Sawyer, Alanson Baroer, Moses Felt, Road Commissioners.
Marcus J. Hoisington, Collector.
D. S. Holcomb. Abitbar Pollard, William Frisbie, School Commissioners.
Enos S. Warner, Asabel Lyon, Albert P. Cole, School Inspectors.
Newton Hays, Marcus J. Hoisington, Alanson Denton, Constables.
Levi Frisbie and Jobn Lobdell, Poor Masters.
Barnabas Myrick, Sealer of Weights and Measures.
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Pathmasters .- Thomas Lock, Ephraim Colburn, Union Coll. Levi Frisbie, Amos Culver, Newton Hays. Hiram Avres, Willard Frisbie, Calvin Angier, Charles M. Church, Abram E. Wadhams, Jason Dunster, Augustus Hill, Oliver H: Barrett, Willard Hartwell, Jobnson Hill. David Smith, John F. Alexander, Jonathan Nichols, Bejamin West- gate, Solomon Stockwell, John Chamberlin, Darius Mer- riam, Joseph Farnam, George Skinner, Ebouezer Doug- lass, George Vaughan, Jonathan Cady, Emory Mather.
Voted that the balance of money in the hands of the Poor Masters be applied for the support of the common schools. and that the books kept by the Poor Masters be deposited in the Town Clerk's office.
That the School Commissioners revise and regulate the boundaries of the school districts.
Adjourned to Spencer's Hotel.
This year a special Town Meeting was called in June to elect an Assessor in the place of Isaac Stone, who did not serve. Diadorus Holcomb was elected to the vacant place.
In the road surveys we find an alteration of the road "leading from Whallon's Mills to North West Bay, begin- ning opposite Henry Royce's dwelling house." The sur- veyors were Abram Stone and Joel K. French. A new road was opened "from Moses Felt's to Darius Merriam's. and to Felt and Merriam's Mill Yard." Platt Rogers Hal- stead surveyed a road "from Luther Angier's to Whallon's Mill."
Now begins another era, with the prosperous exist- ence of the Academy. From the first, Westport has never been unmindful of her schools. Even the primi- tive district schools seem never to have been taught by the most worthless members of the community, as some stories of early backwoods schools in other places would indicate, and Dr. Cutting has left his testimony that in 1823 he found what he calls "a good school"' at North- west Bay. We wish he had recorded the teacher's name, as very few of the early teachers are remembered to-day. The names of Miss Cady and Miss Dates are
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* mentioned, and we know that Lucetta Loveland, (after- ward Mrs. Egerton,) and Huldah Holcomb, (afterward Mrs. Bartlett,) taught several terms. Later, the teach- ers of the township were almost universally from the Academy -- Mr. Wheaton Cole writes: "Afterward I attended the Westport Academy, where I finished my school work, and began teaching in Panton, Vt., at the princely salary of eleven dollars per month, and boarded around. 'Four months gave me forty- four. dollars. I was rich. It was the most mou- ey I had ever had at one time in my life. I always loved the school room, and taught twelve terms, ten of them in Westport schools. I was the town su- perintendent for Westport, and in after years was the county superintendent of Fayette county, Iowa, for seven years. My last school was taught at Wadhams Mills; the teacher left, and I finished the school term."
Happily, a catalog of the first working year of the Academy has remained, not yet "overtaken by etern- ity," like so many documents that we would like to see. It is here printed entire. After the names of res- ident pupils the address "Westport" is omitted.
CATALOGUE OF THE OFFICERS AND STUDENTS OF THE ESSEX COUNTY ACADEMY, WESTPORT, FOR THE YEAR 1836.
Trustees: Charles Hatch, George B. Reynolds, Aaron B. Mack, Barcabas Myrick. Ira Henderson, Charles B. Hatch. Norris MeKinney. Caleb Cole, Abiathar Pollard, M. D.
Instructors : Orson Kellogg, A. M .: Principal.
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Abial P. Mead. M. D .. (of Essex.) Lecturer. Mr. Jesse P. Bishop, Male Teacher. Miss Emily P. Gross, (of Keeseville, ) Teacher. Miss Mary Severance. Music Teacher.
Miss C. S. L. MeLeod, Teacher of Primary School. Evander W. Rapney, M. D., appointed Lect- urer for the ensuing year.
Male Department,
Lewis Bartlett, Jay. Jesse P. Bishop, Panton, Vt. John F. Donner, Montreal, L. C. Judson Bostwick. Ed- win N. Bostwick, Montreal. James P. Butler, Moriab. Thomas W. Call. Francis Chase, Keene. Adams Clark. David Clark, Aaron Clark. Dexter B. Colburne, Moses Coll. Harry N. Cole, Dan Cutting. Thomas Donaldson, New York City. Ebenezer Douglass, Ticonderoga. Francis A. Douglass, Ticonderoga. Edward Douglass, Cornwall, Vt. James W. Eddy, Samuel H. Farnsworth. Daniel French, Lewis. James Farnsworth. Albert A. Farns-
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