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Child Andrew J., of Weybridge, age 26, 2d Lieut. Co. E, 14th Regt., Oct. 21, '62. Mustered out of service July 30, '63.
Collins Isaac N., of Middlebury, age 20, private Co. C, 7th Regt., Nov. 20, '61. Sergt. Feb. 12, '62. Ist Sergt. Oct. 10, '62. 2d Lieut. Jan. 28, '63. Resigned Oct. 28, '63.
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Comstock Olney A., of Middlebury, age 22, zd Lieut. Co. B, 5th Regt., Sept. 16, '61. Killed in action at Savage Station, Va., June 29, '62.
Converse John R., of Panton, age 20, private Co. I, 14th Regt., Sept. 16, '62. 2d Lieut. July 3, '63. Mustered out of service July 30, '63. Re-enlisted Ist Lieut. Co. H, 17th Regt., May 19, '64. Killed in action before Petersburg, Va., July 30, '64.
Cook Hiram, of Bristol, age 35, private Co. B, 5th Regt., Aug. 3, '61. Sergt. Ist Sergt. Re-enlisted Dec. 15, '63. Wounded May 5, '64. Ist Lieut. Co. C, Nov. 10, '64. Capt. Co. B, May 2, '65. Mustered out of service June 29, '65.
Corey George H., of Bridport, age 18, private Co. H, 17th Regt., Feb. 29, '64 Sergt. April 12, '64. Ist Sergt. Ist Lieut. July 10, '65. Mustered out of service as Ist Sergt. July 14, '65.
Corey Charles W., of Bridport, age 25, private Co. D, 14th Regt., Aug. 29, '62. Ist Sergt. Oct. 21, '62. Ist Lieut. Co. D, May 1, '63. Mustered out of service July 30, '63.
Corey Charles W., of Bridport, age 27, Capt. Co. H., 17th Regt., May 16, '64. Brevet Major, April 2, '65, for gallantry in assault on Petersburg, Va., April 2, '65. Mustered out of service July 14, '65.
Crane Albert A., of Bridport, age 24, private Co. A, 6th Regt., Oct. 3, '61. Sergt. Oct. 15, '61. 2d Lieut. Co. A, Aug. 21, '62. Ist Lieut. Nov. 1, '62. Killed in action at Wilderness, Va., May 5, '64.
Crane Cyrus R., of Bridport, age 25, Ist Lieut. Co. F, 5th Regt., Sept. 4, '61. Capt. June 21, '62. Transferred to Co. K, Jan. 24, '63. Capt. Dec. 10, '62. Discharged March 13, '63, for wounds received in action.
Dayton Durell W., of Middlebury, age 35, Chaplain 2d Regt., Aug. 18, '62. Resigned Jan. 6, '63.
Decelle Augustus A., of Shoreham, age 18, private Co. K, 2d Regt., May 20, '61. Corporal Dec. 31, '62. Re-enlisted Jan. 31, '64. Sergt. Aug. 4, '64. Ist Segt. Dec. 24, '64. Ist Lieut. Dec. 24, '64. Capt. June 7, '65. Mustered out of service as Ist Lieut., July 15, '65.
Drury Eben M., of Vergennes, age 40, private Co. K, 2d Regt., May 15, '61. Sergt. June 20, '61. Ist Sergt. Wounded July 10, '63, and May 5, '64. Ist Lieut , Aug. 9, '62. Mustered out of service June 29, '64.
Dunshee Noble F., of Bristol, Capt. Co. G, 14th Regt., Oct. 21, '62. Mustered out of service July 30, '63.
Dyer Benjamin N., of Leicester, age 34, Ist Lieut. 3d Bat. L't Art'ly, Dec. 16, '61. Dismissed the service Oct. 25, '62.
Eaton Solon, of Addison, age 22, Capt. Co. K, 2d Regt., June 20, '61. Re- signed Aug. 4, '62.
Eells Isaac L., of Middlebury, age 27, private Co. F, 5th Regt., Aug. 27, '6 1. Corporal Sept. 16, '61. Sergt. Regt. Com. Sergt., May 1, '63. Re- enlisted Dec. 15. '63. 2d Lieut. Co. A, April 5, '64, Quartermaster, July 30, '64. Mustered out of service June 29, '65. 5
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Frost Henry M., of Middlebury, age -, Chaplain 7th Regt., Feb. 12, '62. Resigned Aug. 9, '62.
Gage William W., of Monkton, age 22, private Co. B, 11th Regt., July 21, 62. Sergt. Sept. 1, '62. 2d Lieut., Dec. 28, '63. Ist Lieut., Co. F, June 2, '65, Mustered out of service June 24, '65.
Gale George S., of Bridport, age 47, Surg. Ist Cav., Nov. 19, '61. Mustered out of service Nov. 18, '64.
Grace James, of Middlebury, age :8, private Co. B, 5th Regt., Aug. 19, '61. Sergt. Sept. 16, '61. Re-enlisted Feb. 20, '64. Wounded May 5, '64. Ist Sergt. Feb. 1, '65. Ist Lieut. Co. H., June 13, '65. Mustered out of service June 29, '65.
Hamilton Eugene A., of Salisbury, age 31, 2d Lieut. Co. F, 5th Regt., Sept. 4, '61. Ist Lieut. June 21, '62. Capt. Jan. 24, '63. Mustered out of service Sept. 15, '64.
Hanchett Henry, of New Haven, age 22, private Co. C, 7th Regt., Nov. 21, '61. Ist Sergt. Feb. 12, '62. 2d Lieut. Oct. 9, '62. Resigned Jan. 27, '63. Heath Orville W., of Middlebury, age 25, 2d Lieut. Co. I, Ist Regt., May 2, '61. Mustered out of service Aug. 15, '61.
Herbert Henry, of Middlebury, age 19, Ist Lieut. Co. H, Ist Bat. L't Art., Dec. 31, '61. Resigned Nov. 24, '62.
Howe George G., of Shoreham, age 26, private Co. B, 11th Regt., July 17, '62. Ist Sergt. Sept. 1, '62. 2d Lieut. June 7, '63. Ist Lieut. Dec. 28,
'63. Capt. Co. I, June 6, '65. Mustered out of service June 24, '65. Hoyt Jonathan M., of New Haven, age 24, 2d Lieut. Co. K, 2d Regt., June 20, '6r. Resigned July 17, '62.
Hulburt Ward B., of Weybridge, age 19, private Co. K, 2d Regt., May 20, '61. Corporal June 20, '61. Sergt. Sept. 1, '62. Re-enlisted March 20, '64. Ist Lieut. Co. K, June 20, '64. Capt. Co. K, Feb. 5, '65. Mustered out of service July 15, '65.
Hunsdon Charles, of Shoreham, age 32, Capt. Co. B, 11th Regt., August 13, '62. Major Nov. 2, '63. Lieut-Col. Sept. 2, '64. Col. June 2, '65. Mustered out of service June 24, '65.
Huntingdon Henry D., of New Haven, age 21, private Co. B, 5th Regt., Aug. 23, 61. Re-enlisted Dec. 15, '63. Sergt. Dec. 20, '63. Wounded June 29, '62, May 5, '64, and June 3, '64. Ist Lieut. Co. C, May 4, '65. Mustered out of service June 29, '65.
Jones Walter S., of Shoreham, age 22, private Co. B, 11th Regt., Aug. 11, '62. Corporal Sept. 1, '62. Sergt. April 7, '63. Ist Sergt. Aug. 11,'63. 2d Lieut. Co. C, Dec. 2,'64. Ist Lieut. Co. K, May 23,'65. Transferred to Co. B, Capt. June 6, '65. Mustered out of service June 24, '65. Kidder Charles W. B., of Vergennes, age 43, Surgeon 11th Regt., Sept. I, '62. Resigned Sept. 10, '63.
Lucia Joel H., of Bridport, age 22, private Co. H, Feb. 29, '64. Ist Sergt. April 12, '64. Wounded Sept. 30, '64. ist Lieut. March 9, '65. Mus- tered out of service July 14, '65.
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Mason Andrew J., of New Haven, age 26, private Co. F, 5th Regt., Sept. 5, '61. Ist Sergt. 2nd Lieut. July 9, '62. Resigned March 31, '63.
Mason Charles W., of New Haven, age 23, 2nd Lieut. Co. G, 14th Regt., Oct. 21, '62. Mustered out or service July 30, '63.
McCormic Charles, of Middlebury, age 18, private Co. C, 7th Regt., Dec. 27, '61. Corp. Feb. 12, '62. Sergt. Sept. 12, '62. Re-enlisted Feb. 15, '64. Ist Sergt. July 1, '64. Ist Lieut. Dec. 5, '64. Mustered out of service March 14, '66.
Middlebrook Theophilus C., of Ferrisburgh, age 23, Ist Lieut. Co. I, 14th Regt., Oct. 21, '62. Resigned, Jan. 7, '63.
Moore Franklin, of Shoreham, age 45, Capt. Co. K, Ist Cav., Nov. 19, '61. Resigned, July 14, '62.
Moore Herbert H., of Middlebury, age 18, private Co. C, 9th Regt., June 7, '62. Corporal July 9, 62. Sergt. July 11, '63. Ist Sergt. March 17, 64. 2nd Lieut. June 10, '64. Ist Lieut. Dec. 29, '64. Resigned May 9, '65.
Murdick Newton, of Middlebury, age 24, private Co. B, 5th Regt., Aug. 24, '61. Re-enlisted Dec. 15, '63. Wounded April 16, '62, and June 3, '64. Sergt. Oct. 18, '64. Ist Sergt. May 12, '65. 2nd Lieut. June 4, '65. Mustered out of service as Ist Sergt. June 29, '65.
Neddo George, of Middlebury, age 22, private Co. A, 6th Regt., Oct. 2, '61. Sergt. Ist. Sergt. 2nd Lieut. May 15, '64. Ist Lieut. July 1, '64. Mustered out of service Oct. 28, '64.
Needham Henry B., of Middlebury, age 23, Ist Lieut. Co. E, 14th Regt., Oct. 21, 62. Mustered out of service July 30, '63.
Palmer Edson B., of New Haven, age 21, private Co. C, 9th Regt., Nov. 30, '63. Corp. June 15, '64. Transferred to Co. A, by reason of consoli- dation of regiment, June 13, '65. Sergt. June 14, '65. 2nd Lieut. Sept. 2, '65. Mustered out of service Dec. 1, '65.
Parker Charles E., of Vergennes, age 22, Adj't 7th Regt., Jan. 1, '62. Capt. Co. E, Dec. 9, '62. Resigned Oct. 22, '63.
Parker Edward B., of Middlebury, age 20, private Co. B, 11th Regt., Aug. 8, '62. Sergt. Sept. 1,'62. 2nd Lieut. Jan. 16, '64. Taken prisoner June 23, '64, and died at Columbus, S. C., Oct. 13, 64, from injuries received from bloodhounds.
Parker George, Jr., of Vergennes, age 21, Capt. Co. A, 6th Regt., Oct. 15, '61. Resigned Oct. 21, '62.
Perry Henry L., of Salisbury, age 27, private Co. C, 7th Regt., Dec. 14, '61. Re-enlisted Feb. 23, '64. Corporal May 1, '64. Sergt. July 1, 64. 2d Lieut. March 1, '66. Mustered out of service as Sergt. March 14, '66.
Porter Henry M., of Middlebury, age 26, Capt. Co. C, 6th Regt., Jan. 15, '62. Major Aug. 28, '62. Lieut .- Col. June 29, '65. Col. Sept. 1, '65. Mustered out of service as Lieut .- Col. March 14, '65.
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Prindle John A., of Vergennes, age 19, private Co. C, 7th Regt., Nov. 21,
'61. Regt. Qr. M. Sergt. July 1, '63. Re-enlisted Feb. 18, '64 1st Lieut. Co. K, Sept. 13, '64. Capt. Nov. 23, '65. Mustered out of service March 14, '66.
Randall Charles J. S., of Bristol, age 28, private Co. A, 6th Regt., Oct. 14, 61. Regt. Qr. M. Sergt. Aug. 25, '62. 2d Lieut. Co. A, Nov. 1, '62. Ist Lieut. May 15, '64. Qr. M. Jan. 28, '65. Mustered out of service June 26, '65.
Raymond Edson M., of Orwell, age 32, private Co. H, 5th Regt., Sept. 3, '61. Corporal Sept. 16, '61. Sergt. Dec. 15, '63. Re-enlisted Dec. 15, '63. Ist Lieut. Co. D, Sept. 15, '64. Capt. Dec. 31, '64. Wounded April 2, '65. Honorably discharged June 2, '65, for wounds.
Rice John R., of Bridport, age 28, private Co. K, Ist Cav., Sept. 24, '61. Sergt. Nov. 19, '61. Ist Sergt. Wounded July 6, '63. Re-enlisted Feb. 18, '64. Ist Lieut. Nov. 19, '64. Mustered out of service June 21, '65.
Rich Edwin, of Middlebury, age 39, Capt. Co. E, 14th Regt., Oct. 21, '62. Mustered out of service. July 30, '63.
Rose Charles W., of Middlebury, age 23, Ist Lieut. Co. I, Ist Regt., May 2, '61. Mustered out of service Aug. 15, '61. Re-enlisted. Capt. Co. B, 5th Vt. Vols., Sept. 4, '61. Wounded June 29, '62. Lieut .- Col. 14th Regt. Oct. 21, '62. Mustered out of service July 30, '63.
Ross Oliver E., of Cornwall, age 24, Col. 12th Regt., Jan. 29, '63. Mustered out of service July 14, '63.
Russell William P .. of Middlebury, age 50, Surgeon 5th Regt., Sept. 16, '61. Honorably discharged Oct. 11, '62, for disability.
Sayles Lensie R., of Leicester, age 50, Capt. 2d Battery L't Art'ly, Dec. 16, '61. Resigned Feb. 20. '62.
Severance Philo S., of Middlebury, age 22, private Co. B, 11th Regt., July 16, '62. Corporal Sept. 1, '62. Sergt. Dec. 26, '63. 2d Lieut. June 16, '65. Mustered out of service June 24, '65.
Smith Luman, of Addison, age 18, private Co. C, 9th Regt., July 7, '62. Cor- poral. Sergt. March 21, '64. Ist Sergt. March 24, '65. 2d Lieut. May 20, '65. Mustered out of service as ist Sergt. June 13, '65.
Smith Charles H., of Addison, age 19, 2d Lieut. Co. B, 11th Regt., Sept. 1, '62. Deserted from arrest June 8, '63.
Sneden George W., of New Haven, age 22, private Co. C, 9th Regt., June 21, '62. Corporal July 9, '62. Sergt. July 11, '63. Ist Sergt. Aug. 20, '64. 2d Lieut. Dec. 29. '64. Resigned May 4, '65.
Sprague Edwin H., of Middlebury, age 45, Surgeon 14th Regt., Oct. 21, '62. Discharged Nov. 14, '62, for incompetency.
Spencer Orrin L., of Salisbury, age 25, private Co. F, 5th Regt., Aug, 20, '61. Sergt. Sept. 16, '61. Sergt .- Major, July 10. '62. 2d Lieut. Co. D, Jan. 24, '63. Ist. Lieut. Co. G, Nov. 24, '63. Mustered out of ser- vice Sept. 15, '64.
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Stowell Henry, of Vergennes, age 22, private Co. B, 7th Regt., Dec. 28, '61. Corp. Feb. 12, '62. Sergt. Oct. 18, '62. 2d Lieut. Co. F, March 1.'63. Ist Lieut. Oct. 22, '63. Capt. Co. C, Sept. 27, '64. Mustered out of service March 14, '66.
Thomas Cyrus, of Weybridge, age 26, private Co. B, 11th Regt., Aug. 7, '62. Sergt. Sept. 1, '62. Co. Qr. M. Sergt. May 2, '64. 2d Lieut. Jan. 6, '65. Wounded, Oct. 19, '64, and April 2, '65. rst Lieut. Co. D, June 4, '65. Mustered out of service as 2d Lieut. Co. B June 24, '65.
Tracy Amos S., of Middlebury, age 32, Ist Lieut. Co. K, 2d Regt., May 28, '61. Capt. Co. H, Jan. 24, '62. Major April 2, '64. Lieut .- Col. June 17, '64 Wounded, May 3, '63, and Oct. 19, '64. Brevet Col. April 2, '65, for gallantry in assault on Petersburg, Va., April 2, '65. Mustered out of service as Lieut .- Col. July 15, '65.
Walker Aldace F., of Middlebury, age 20, Ist Lieut. Co. B, 11th Regt., Aug. 13, '62. Capt. Co. C, Nov. 30, '62. Transferred to Co. D, July II, '63. Major June 28, '64. Brevet Lieut .- Col. Oct. 19, '64, for dis- tinguished gallantry in the several engagements in the Shenandoah Val- ley. Lieut .- Col. June 2, '65. Mustered out of service June 24, '65.
Ward John S., of Shoreham, age 41, Ist Lieut. Co. K, Ist Cav., Oct. 21, '61. Capt. July 16, '62. Resigned Nov. 19, '62.
Wright Don Juan, of Shoreham, age 27, 2d Lieut. Co. D, 14th Regt., Oct. 21, '62. Mustered out of service July 30, '63.
Williamson Charles H., of Middlebury, age 18, private Co. B, 5th Regt., Aug. 20, '61. Sergt. ist Sergt. 2d Lieut. Co. K, March 21, '63. Trans- ferred to Co. B, March 25, '63. Ist Lieut. Nov. 14, '63. Mustered out of service Sept. 15, '64.
Worcester George B., of Ferrisburgh, age 22, private Co. G, 2d Regt., May 7, '61. Sergt. June 20, '61. Ist Sergt. 2d Lieut. March 10, '63. Dismissed the service, April 5,'64, for inefficiency and conduct unbecom- ing an officer and a gentleman.
Wright Wilson D., of Middlebury, age 23, Ist Lieut. Co. B, 5th Regt., Sept. 16, '61, Honorably discharged Aug. 23, '62, for wounds received in action at Savage Station, June 29, '62.
OF THE 5,022 MEN DISCHARGED, 317 commissioned officers resigned, sixty- one commissioned officers and 3,865 enlisted men were discharged for disa- bility, forty-four commissioned officers and 596 enlisted men, for wounds received in action. Eleven enlisted men were paroled prisoners. Twenty-eight commissioned officers and one hundred enlisted men were dishonorably dis- charged.
Among the whole number of troops it is to be expected that some were not true, and the records show that 2,219 men (mostly, if not all of whom were substitutes,) deserted.
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The Number of Engagements in which the several Regiments, Batteries and detached troops, (officered in part by Addison County men,) bore honorable part during the war, are as follows :-
First Regiment, Infantry.
I
Second Regiment, Infantry
28
Fifth Regiment, Infantry.
25
Sixth Regiment, Infantry
25
Seventh Regiment, Infantry
5
Ninth Regiment, Infantry.
4
Eleventh Regiment, (First Regiment Heavy Artillery).
12
Fourteenth Regiment, Infantry
I
Seventeenth Regiment, Infantry
13
First Regiment, U. S. Sharpshooters.
37
Second Regiment, U. S. Sharpshooters
24
First Battery, Light Artillery
4
Second Battery, Light Artillery
2
Third Battery, Light Artillery. 4
First Regiment, Cavalry.
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IN CONCLUSION.
It may be well to state that the War Department accredited to this State 5,242 men ; being one thousand and four more than are shown by the State records, and gives the State credit over the aggregate quota under all calls, of fifteen hundred and thirteen men. "This discrepancy may be and probably is to be accounted for," says Adjutant.General P. T. Washburn, "by enlist- ments in organizations of other States, to the credit of this State, which appear upon muster rolls of those organizations and were not reported to the State."
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GAZETTEER OF TOWNS.
DDISON, a lake town located in the western part of the county, in 43° 58' north lat. and long. 30° 53' east from Washington, * bounded north by Panton, east by Waltham and Weybridge, south by Bridport, and west by Lake Champlain, was chartered by New Hampshire in 1761. As most of the towns granted by New Hampshire were chartered with the same reservations and restrictions, we herewith give a form of the document, which we shall omit in subsequent towns.
GEORGE the third.
[L. s.] By the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, KING, Defender of the Faith, &c.
To all persons to whom these presents shall come, Greeting :- Know ye, that We, of Our special Grace, certain knowledge, Mear Motion, for the due encouragement of setting a New Plantation within our said Province, by and with the advice of our trusty and well-beloved BENNING WENTWORTH, ESQ., our Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Our Province of NEW HAMPSHIRE, in New England, and of our COUNCIL in the said PROVINCE, HAVE, upon the Con- ditions and Reservations, hereinafter made, given and granted, and by these presents for Us, Our Heirs and Successors, do give and grant in equal shares unto our loving Subjects, Inhabitants of Our said Province of New Hampshire and Our other Governments, and to their Heirs and Assigns forever whose names are entered on this Grant, to be divided to and amongst them into six- ty-eight equal shares, all that tract or parcel of Land situate, lying and being within our said Province of New Hampshire, containing by Admeasurement, Twenty-Eight Thousand Eight Hundred Acres, which Tract is to contain something more than Six Miles square, and no more, Out of which an allowance is to be made for highways and unimprovable Lands, by Rocks, Ponds, Mountains and Rivers. One Thousand and Forty acres free, ac- cording to a plan and survey thereof, made by our said Governor's order, and returned into the Secretary's Office and hereunto annexed, butted and bounded as follows, viz :- * * And the In- habitants that do or hereby shall Inhabit the said Township are hereby to be enfranchised with and entitled to all and every the privileges and Immunities that other towns within Our Province by Law Exercise and Enjoy : And further, that the said Town as soon as there shall be fifty families resident and settled thereon shall have the liberty of Holding Two Fairs, one which shall be held on the - and the other on the - annually, which fairs are not to continue longer than the respective - following the said - and that as soon as the said Town shall consist of fifty families a Market may be
. As the whole county is in north latitude, and longitude reconed east from Washington, "north" and " east' will hereafter be omitted.
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TOWN OF ADDISON.
opened and kept, one or more days in each Week, as may be thought most advantageous to the inhabitants. Also, that the first meeting for the choice of Town Officers agreeable to the laws of our said Province shall be held on the first Tuesday in January next which said Meeting shall be notified by -- , who is hereby also appointed the Moderator of the said first Meeting which he is to notify and govern agreeable to the laws and Customs of our said Province and that the Annual Meeting forever hereafter, for the choice of such Officers of said Town, shall be on the second Tuesday in March Annually.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said Tract of Land as above expressed, together with all the Privileges and Appurtenances, to them and their respec- tive Heirs and Assigns, forever, upon the following conditions, viz :
I. That every Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns, shall plant and cultivate five acres of Land within the term of five years, for every fifty acres contained in his or their share or proportion of Land in said Township, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional Cultivations on penalty of the For- feiture of his Grant or share in said Township, and of its reverting to Us Our Heirs and Successors, to be by Us Regranted to such of our subjects as shall effectually settle and Cultivate the same.
II. That all White and other Pine Trees within the said Township fit for Masting Our Royal Navy, be carefully preserved for that Use, and none to be cut or felled, without Our Special License for so doing, first had and ob- tained upon the penalty of the forfeiture of the Right of such Grantee, his Heirs and Assigns to Us, Our Heirs and Successors, as well as being subject to the penalty of any act or Acts of Parliament that now are or shall be here- after enacted.
III. That before any Division of the land be made to and among the Grantees, a tract of Land as near the Centre of the said Township as the Land will admit of, shall be reserved and marked out for Town Lots, one of which shall be allotted to each Grantee, of the contents of one Acre.
IV. Yielding and paying therefor to Us Our Heirs and Successors for the space of ten years, to be computed from the date hereof, the rent of one Ear of Indian Corn only, on the Twenty-fifth day of December annually, if Law- fully demanded, the first payment to be made on the Twenty-fifth of Decem- ber 1761.
V. Every proprietor Settler or Inhabitant shall yield and pay unto Us Our Heirs or Successors, yearly and every year forever, from and after the expiration of ten years from the above said Twenty-fifth of December, name- ly, on the Twenty-fifth day of December, which will be in the year of Our Lord 1771, One Shilling Proclamation Money, for every hundred Acres he owns settles or possesses, and so in proportion for a greater or less Tract of said Land, which Money shall be paid by the respective persons abovesaid, their Heirs or Assigns in our Council Chamber in Portsmouth, or to such Officer or Officers as shall be appointed to receive the same, and this to be in Lieu of all other Rents and services whatsoever.
In testimony whereof we have caused the Seal of our said Province to be hereunto affixed. Witness,
BENNING WENTWORTH, ESQ.,
Our Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Our said Province, this 14th day of October in the year of our Lord CHRIST, One Thousand Seven Hundred Sixty-one, And in the Second Year of Our Reign.
B. Wentworth.
By his EXCELLENCY'S Command
with Advice of Council.
Theodore Atkinson, Sect'y.
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The charter has also this endorsement, together with a list of the grantees :--
" His Excellency, Benning Wentworth, Esq.
A Tract of Land to contain Five Hundred Acres, marked B. W. on the Plan, which is to be accounted two of the within shares.
One whole share for the incorporated Society, for the propagation of the Gospel in Foreign parts.
One share for the Glebe for the Church of England, as by law established. One share for the first settled Minister of the Gospel, and one share for the benefit of Schools in said Town.
Province of Newhampshire,
November 3d, 1761.
Theodore Atkinson, Sect'y."
In granting the town of Panton, its territory was extended so far south as to overlap the territory of Addison, and the first settlers of this town sup- posed they were located in Panton. This led to litigation between the towns, continuing until May 17, 1774, when the affair was settled and Addison held her territory according to charter, by right of priority of grant, though she gave 8,000 acres of the disputed territory to the Panton proprietors, "for a reward for duties done in settling said tract." Again, October 22, 1804, 2,000 acres from the southeast corner of the town were annexed to Wey- bridge, and three days later a part was annexed to Waltham, making the only changes in area since it was chartered.
The surface, except in the eastern part, is moderately level, with a general marl or clay soil, with some alluvial tracts along the streams. The highest elevation is Grandview, or Snake Mountain, in the eastern part of the town, with an altitude of 1,310 feet above the ocean, the highest point in the county west of the Green Mountains. Upon its summit, a hotel, called the Grandview House, was built in 1874, by Mr. Jonas N. Smith, under whose operation it now is. It has also an observatory sixty-eight feet in height attached, from which an unexcelled view of the surrounding country may be obtained, showing quite distinctly the old forts at Ticonderoga and Crown Point, Lake George, South Bay, West Whitehall, Lake Champlain, from South Bay to Cumberland Head, Crown Point village and furnaces, Port Henry and its two furnaces, Moriah Four Corners, Moriah Centre, Mineville, West Port, Split Rock, Point Essex, the spires of churches in Plattsburgh, Middlebury, Vergennes, Bristol, North Ferrisburgh, Panton, Bridport, Shore- ham, Orwell, Whiting, Leicester, Salisbury, Brandon, Sudbury, the Adiron- dack Mountains from Fort Edward on the Hudson to their northern ter- minus, and the Green Mountains from near Massachusetts on the south to their northern terminus in Canada, while forty-two churches may be counted from the tower.
East, Middle, and West Branches, flowing a northerly course from Brid- port, unite near the center of the town forming Dead Creek, which flows a northerly course into Panton ; Otter Creek forms the western boundary be- tween this town and Waltham, making with Ward's and Hospital Creek in
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the southwest part of the town, the principal streams. No good mill- sites are afforded, consequently the business of lumbering has never been conducted very extensively, though the territory was originally covered with a dense growth of pine, cedar, maple, basswood, oak, elm, etc. Sheep breed- ing and wool-growing forms the principal source of wealth, though the land affords good crops of wheat, barley, oats, rye, buckwheat, Indian corn, pota- toes and hay. The geological formation of the rocks underlying the western part of the town are Utica slate and Trenton limestone, in two narrow, parallel ranges lying along the lake shore ; west of this, until the mountains of the eastern portion are reached, the rock is an immense bed of Black River limestone, cut by a narrow ledge of calciferous sandrock. The moun- tainous portion is composed of Trenton limestone, Utica slate and red sand- rock, the latter predominating. Iron ore is discovered to some extent, but in small quantities.
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