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Henry Willard, from Lancaster, Mass., came to Dummerston, where he married Sarah Wilder about 1785, or '86. His oldest son, Benjamin, was born here in 1787, and married Lydia, daughter of Samuel Bennett. He lived many years where S. H. Barrett now resides. He was one of eight children, and he himself raised a family of ten, five sons and five daughters. He was for many years a justice of the peace and one of the board of the town officers. His son, Nelson W., is a farmer and has always lived in Dummerston. Another son, Benjamin F., has lived in this town with the exception of twenty-five years spent in Chicopee, Mass., having resided twenty five years on his present farm. He is a stone mason and has been foreman on many large jobs in this and other States.
John S. Gates, from Worcester, Mass., married Hannah Moore, of that State, and had five sons and three daughters, of whom Shepherd, who was born in Dummerston in 1780, married Polly Dutton in 1808, and had two sons, the eldest of whom, Alanson, born in 1808, married Julia A. Turner, of Putney, Vt., and lives on the Laughton farm in district No. 4.
Asa Dutton came to Dummerston from Worcester, Mass., before 1790, and settled in the southeast part of the town, where he pursued the vocation of a farmer, and died in February, 1836, aged seventy-eight years. Not one of his eight children survives.
Peter Stickney was born in Harvard, Mass., April 7, 1761. In April, 1778, he enlisted in the Continental army and served several years in the struggle for independence. In 1782 he married Eunice (Willard) Carleton, and about 1792 he came to Dummerston and bought and cleared the farm where S. W. Estey now lives. He was a carpenter and cooper by trade, and the father of four children. Benjamin, his only son, was born in Leominster, Mass., March 15, 1785, and succeeded to his father's estate. He married Sally, daughter of Thomas Betterley, of Newfane, October 25, 1807. They resided in Dummerston, and reared nine children. Benjamin, Jr., their oldest son, was born in Dummerston September 4, 1808. He learned the trade of a carriage maker and pursued that vocation in the same shop for fifty-five years. He has been chosen to various town offices, and for fifty-two years he has been a member of the Baptist church. He married Betsey Tenney, April 25,
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1831, and has had five children, of whom George W., Albert W., and Ada L. (Bailey) now live in Dummerston. Peter, another son of Benjamin, Sr., was born July 21, 1820, married Abigail Wellman, and still lives in this town.
Hon. Asa Knight was born in Dummerston February 29, 1793. He died July 20, 1851. His ancestors came from England and settled in Massachu- setts in 1620. He filled successfully for many years the various public offices of constable, collector, deputy sheriff and representative. In 1824 he removed to Newfane Hill, the county seat, and was keeper of the county jail for two years. He returned to Dummerston in 1828 and commenced business as a merchant. He was judge of probate for this district for the three years, 1835, '36 and '37. He was eminently successful in business, and his large and varied experience, together with his extensive acquaintance with the prominent men of the county and State, made him the associate of the first in the legal fraternity. He was bold and fearless in the enunciation of his principles, and was greatly beloved for his genial, social qualities and noble and generous nature. He gave liberally to the poor and needy, and was ever ready to lend a helping hand to the oppressed and down-trodden. He was a devoted member of the Masonic fraternity, and a strong adherent of the principles of the old Democratic party, which propensity he inherited from his ancestors. May 1, 1822, he married Susan, daughter of John and Mary (Davenport) Miller, and granddaughter of Capt. Isaac Miller, the pioneer settler and surveyor of Dummerston. She was born October 22, 1896. She was strictly disciplined in her youth in industry, economy, a sacred regard for truth, and the religious faith of her Puritan ancestors, in whom these were prominent characteristics, and her life evinced their most rigid observance. She possessed a vigorous constitution and was untiring in her devotion, and faithful in the discharge of her duties to her husband and family. She was distinguished for patience, cheerfulness and excellent judgment. She is still living, at the age of eighty-seven years. This worthy couple had eight chil. dren, three sons and five daughters. Seven of them are still living, though widely scattered over the country, only one, Mary Esther, born in Newfane July 26, 1826, and now living with her mother, residing permanently in this town or county. One son, Randolph, after an absence to the West of nearly twenty years, returned with his family about three years since.
David Belknap, from Massachusetts, located on road 36, where C. G. Roel now lives, previous to the Revolution. He married Betsey Plummer and had six sons and four daughters. John, who was born in 1808, became an exten- sive railroad contractor and builder. He married Harriet P., daughter of Nathaniel French. Their son Chester P. resides on the Belknap homestead on road 20. He was born in 1838, married Julia E. Norcross, and has one son, Harry C.
Alexander Kathan, one of the first settlers of the town, located on the farm now occupied by Dr. Shoals. Mrs. Adin A. Dutton and Mrs. Larken G. Cole, of this town, are great-grandchildren of his.
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Dea. Dan Wilder, son of Joshua and Lois Wilder, was born in Massachu- setts in 1786, and came to Dummerston with his father in 1795. He located on road 54. He had eight sons and five daughters. Leroy Wilder, his grand- son, who was born in 1808, and married Patience Gould in 1832, lives on the homestead. He is the son of Dan Wilder, 2d, who married Joanna Bemis, of Dummerston, in 1806, and had seven sons and three daughters.
Samuel Stoddard, from Chesterfield, was born in 1767, married Zeruah. daughter of Ephraim and Anna Richmond, who was born in 1770, and located on Dummerston Hill in 1767. He had three sons and three daughters, one of whom, Levi, died in 1863, aged ninety-two years. Horace R. Stoddard. son of Levi, was town representative in 1878-'79.
Dr. Abel Duncan was born in Petersham, Mass., in 1772. He studied medicine with Dr. Gould, of Chester, and came to Dummerston about 1798. He married Lydia Miller, of this town, by whom he had one son and two daughters. The former, Charles M., who was born in 1808, was a physician. and married Lucinda Easterbrook. Fanny M., who was born in 1810, mar- ried Joel Knight, whom she survives, and resides on the old homestead with her daughter, Mrs. E. D. Greenwood. The other daughter, Evalina, who was born in 1813, married Marshall Newton, and died in 1834.
Dudley Bailey, with his family, from Westminster, Mass., after a few years' residence in Brattleboro, located, in 1798, in Dummerston, on road 39. on the farm now owned by his grandson, Silas A. Bailey. His son David, who was a native of Westminster, and one of a family of four sons and one daughter. succeeded to the ownership of the homestead. He married Lydia Allen, and spent his life on the farm, where he raised ten sons and two daughters. He died in 1867, aged eighty six years. One of the daughters, Mrs. Anna Bald- win, and three of the sons, Levi, Silas A. and Abner B., still reside in Dum- merston. Chester W. resides in Brattleboro, William D. in Rhode Island, Ora in Fitchburg, Mass., and Ephraim D. in Canada. Silas A. Bailey was born November 9, 1815, and married October 17. 1849, Arvilla, daughter of David Jackson, who was born in Newfane July 17, 1831. Their only son, David J., was born in Newfane, July 26, 1850. December 24, 187 2, he mar- ried Ada L., daughter of Benjamin Stickney, who was born January 11, 1851. They reside on the old homestead purchased by Dudley Bailey in 1798, and have one daughter, Grace A.
Jesse Knight was an early settler in the south part of the town. He was a farmer and plow-maker. He died about 1846, aged eighty-three years. He raised ten children, six of whom are now living. Perry, who was born in 1796, has spent most of his life in Dummerston and Putney. He married Eliza Fairbanks, who has borne him eleven children, five of whom are now living, James H. and Charles D., in Putney.
Cromwell Burnham, who came in company with two brothers from England, settled at an early day in the central part of Dummerston, where he resided till his death. He served in the war of the Revolution. He raised ten chil-
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dren, who were equally divided as to sex. His son Cromwell was born in Dummerston, in 1802, and lived here until 1844, when he removed to Putney to live with his son. He died in 1867. He raised ten children, only three of whom are living, one, Henry J., in Putney.
Nathaniel French was one of the early settlers in the town of Brattleboro, on the road running south of the Miller farm, and by what was known as the Peter Willard tavern. One of his eleven children, William, was killed at West- minster court-house, March 13, 1775. Another, Nathaniel, Jr., settled in Dummerston, on the farm owned by Henry H. Norcross, where he lived and died. He was born November 17, 1789, and married Sally Walker, of Dum- merston, who was born March 15, 1790. He lived on the old homestead until all of his eight children were born, after which he lived on the west side of West river. He was killed by the fall of a tree, September 8, 1854. Three of his children survive him, Harriet, who lives where her father died, Almira, in Putney, and Chester W., who was born in Dummerston, February 12, 1 819, and married Mary Foster of that town, in Vernon, to which town he removed in 1870.
Samuel Morse came to Dummerston in 1801. He married Mercie Vail and located on the farm now occupied by his grandson, Francis H., son of John H. Morse, the latter of whom was born in 1814, and married Eliza S. Nichols, in 1858. Francis H. served three years in the war of the rebellion, and was present at the taking of Richinond. His brother, John F., was also a soldier and died in the army in 1863.
Wilson Hadley, son of Benjamin and Abigail (Spaulding) Hadley, was born in 1810, on the farm on which he now lives, on road 56, school district 2. He married Olive Bryant of Dummerston, and has three children, Clarissa, Mrs. Geo. J. Bond, of Searsburg, Vt., and George D. and Ellen L., the latter a school teacher, who are living at home.
William O. Miller, son of William and Esther Miller, was born on the Miller homestead in 1816. His mother was a daughter of Joel Knight. He has been constable and collector about forty years, and postmaster twenty-two years. He married Julia J., daughter of Ira and Jemima (Ward) Haven, and has three sons, one of whom, William D., was graduated from Williams col- lege in the class of 1882.
Enos Leonard was born in Westford, Mass., April 29, 1784. He married Matilda Keep, January 7, 1817, and soon after came to Vermont. He spent about a year in Dover, when, in 1818, he bought the place, on road 38, now occupied by his grandson, W. B. Leonard, where he died in 1866, aged eighty- two years, and his widow in 1877, aged eighty-eight years. The fruit of this wedded life was five children, three of whom died in infancy. The youngest son, John Keep Leonard, spent his life upon the homestead and became a prominent and respected citizen. He was for a number of years a justice of the peace, and was chosen to represent the town in the legislature of 1867-'68. He was for several years a deacon of the 12
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Baptist church, which position he held at his death, March 1, 1875, at the age of forty-six years. His wife was Mary, daughter of James Miller, who bore him two sons, J. Franklin and Willle B. The former died in 1875; the latter occupies the paternal homestead.
John Greenwood, from Millbury, Mass., went to Stratton, Vt., about 1788 or 1790. In 1822 he exchanged his farm in Stratton for one on the site of the village of West Dummerston and removed to it. He raised seven chil- dren, all of whom became members of the Baptist church. Deacon John Greenwood, of West Dummerston, one of the younger sons, is the only sur- vivor. His residence occupies a part of the farm where his father spent his later years. He was born in Stratton in 1807, and in 1830 married Betsey, daughter of David Belknap, one of Dummerston's pioneers. He has been a liberal supporter of the Baptist church, which he joined at the age of nine years, and of which he has been a deacon since 1863.
Gardner S. Kathan was born in Dummerston in 1821. He married Eliza- beth Knight, who bore him a son and a daughter, and died in 1858. In 1868 he married Martha E. Lane, of Putney, who bore him a daughter in 1870. His mother, Jerusha Kathan, resides with him on road 15, school district 4.
Willard Dodge was born in 1813. At the age of fifteen he took the farm of Deacon Ira Havens to work on shares for three years. He subsequently worked the Margaret Boyden farm for ten years. He married Zilphia Temple, who has borne him four sons and four daughters, and is now a farmer on road 4. His father, Josiah Dodge, who was born in New Hampshire, in 1778, and married Phebe Kathan, widow of W. Wilder, was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was shot through the hand at the battle of Plattsburgh. He died of lock-jaw in 1815.
George Warrick was born in Shuckburgh, Warwick county, England, and married Emily E. Bloxham, of Leamington, in the same county, in 1866. He emigrated to America in 1869, and after a residence of three years in Putney, bought the farm on Mount View, in Dunimerston, where he now resides.
Whitney Tenney, son of Calvin and Betsey (Woodburn) Tenney, of Wind- ham, was born in 1836, and married Sarah H. Page in 1855. He lived seven years in Nashua, N. H., six in Windham, Vt., two in Lynn, Mass., and one in Chester. He came to Dummerston in 1882.
Joel Knight Jr., son of Joel and Esther (Farr) Knight, was born in 1794 and died in 1874. He married Fanny M. Duncan, who bore him two sons and six daughters, among whom is Evaline D., widow of William H. Green- wood, (who was killed in Mexico in 1880,) who resides with her mother in the paternal homestead.
Abram Houghton, from Bolton, Mass,, was a Revolutionary soldier and was present at Braddock's defeat. He settled in Putney, and married Sarah Divall. His son Henty married Sally Perry, of Putney, and had three sons and three daughters, of whom Don A, who married Emily R., daughter of Luther Miller, resides in Dummerston.
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Alvin Knapp was born in Dummerston in 1781 and died in 1850. He married Rinda Fuller, of Putney, in 1807, and had one son, Milton I., who was born in 1808. The latter married Sarah Wheeler, who had two sons and a daughter ; Sarah S., Mrs. R. M. Williams, of Brattleboro ; Alvin, born in 1850, a physician and dental surgeon, who graduated from the Fort Wayne college of medicine, and in denistry from Michigan university; and, Wheeler W., who was born in 1852, and resides with his father in the north part of the town.
Lewis Allen was born in Rehoboth, Mass., in 1766, and married Lydia Ingalls, who bore him four sons and seven daughters. His son Luther, who was born in 1792, married Mary O. Dickinson in 1816, and had four sons and two daughters. Pamelia E. married Nelson Willard, and Mary O., who was born in 1826, became the wife of John R. Pitkins.
Benjamin Foster was born at Hanover, N. H., in 1803. He was gradu- ated at Amherst college and entered the ministry at Salisbury, N. H. He married Mary Johnson, widow of George Perry, of Manchester, Mass., and had one daughter, Nellie F. He took charge of Congregational church at Dummerston in 1846, and died much respected in 1867.
Benjamin Buffum was born in Richmond, N. H., April 2, 1821, and removed to Winchester at the age of nineteen. He married Almira Cun- ningham and had three sons and two daughters, of whom Arthur M. now resides upon road 53.
Thomas P. Morse, son of Ephraim M. and Polly (Cook) Morse, was born in 1817, and was thrice married, first to Martha Kelsey Ingham, second to Mary Alden Adams, and third Mary Lane, daughter of George Lane, of Put- ney. He and his second wife's son, S. L. Adams, live together on road 46, and are successful farmers.
Frank A. Johnson, son of Ransom and Nancy (Killian) Johnson, enlisted in Co. A, 3d Vt. Vols. and served three years. He married Emogene E. Bemis in 1867, and now resides on road 51.
Moses Roel was born in Oxford, N. H., in 1781. In 1808 he married Olly French, of Dummerston, and located where his son, Chas. G. Roel, now lives on Dummerston Hill. He had six sons and four daughters, two of whom, Edson M. and Charles G., are now living. Charles G. was born March 4, 1822, and married Julia A. Ward, who died in 1858. He married the same year Marcia M. Wellman. He is a successful farmer and has been selectman for nine years.
Densmore W. Blood, son of Peter and Irene (Fisher) Blood, was born in Putney in 1839. In 1863 he married Lorinda O. Bragg of Westminster, and in 1869 he came to Dummerston, locating on the old Duncan home- stead on road 28.
Lewis C. Combs, son of George W. and Abigail (Baker) Combs, was born in Winchester, N. H., in 1843. In 1862 he enlisted in, Co. C, 14th N. H. Vols., and served three years, till the close of the war. He participated in the battles of Winchester, Cedar Creek, Fisher's Hill, and many others, and
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was wounded in the second engagement. In 1870 he married Charlotte Nor- cross, and now resides on the Belknap homestead, in the northerly part of the town.
Asa Dutton, son of Asa and Mary Day Dutton, of Chesterfield, N. H., was born on his grandfather's farm, in 1822. In 1861 he married Mary L., daughter of Joel Knight. His widow, and daughter Eva M., reside on the old homestead, where he died in 1878.
Stephen L Dutton, brother of Asa Dutton, was born in 1827. He mar- ried Electa Sargent, of Brattleboro, who died in 1876. He is a civil engineer and surveyor, and resides on road 55, in the south part of the town. He was town auditor for eighteen years, and town representative in 1869, '70, '72 and '80.
Addison B. Knapp, son of Gardner and Fanny (Taft) Knapp, was born in 1824, and in 1848 married Harriet Field. Ed. J. Knapp, a merchant in Townshend, is a son of his, and Mrs. Frank Churchill, of the same town, is a daughter. Luella F. Knapp, residing on the Foster homestead, is another daughter.
James Sargent was a soldier and pensioner of the war of 1812. He mar- ried Polly Burnham, by whom he had two sons and three daughters. His widow, who is also the widow of William Bemis, is still living at the age of eighty-three years, with her daughter Sarah, who was born in 1833, and was married first to Benjamin Ray, who died in 1856, and in 1858, to G. W. Taylor.
Anthony L. Huntley, son of Lyman and Lydia (Bennett) Huntley, of Putney, married Maria Jane, daughter of Jonas Walker, and resides on the homestead of his grandfather, Elder Jonathan Huntley.
Chauncey Jillson, son of Sylvester and Hannah (Reed) Jillson, was born in Marlboro, in 1811, and in 1838 married Electa Horton, of Brattleboro, by whom he had four sons and one daughter. One son, John S., was a member of Co. F, Ist. Vt. Cavalry, and served during the war of the rebellion. His other surviving children are George S., Julia E., widow of Carter F. Nor- cross, now the wife of Chester Belknap, and Luther C., who married Mary L. Weld, and resides on road 6.
Samuel C. Betterly, son of Chester H. and Sophia B. (Nichols) Betterly, was born in 1852, married Etta M. Jones, of Newfane, in 1874, and now resides on the Bixby farm, on roads 61, on Dummerston Hill.
S. W. Estey, son of Bartlet Estey, was born in Hinsdale in 1837. He removed to Brattleboro, where he married Malonna Gray, and resided until 1861, in which year he enlisted in Co. F, 4th Vt. Vols., serving three years. He was wounded at the battle of the Wilderness. He is at present a pros- perous farmer and merchant, on road 60, and has been postmaster of West Dummerston for three years.
Franklin Butterfield, son of Luke Butterfield, was born in 1809, and mar- ried Mary Holland, who bore him three sons and a daughter, of whom John
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F., born in 1837, married Eliza J., daughter of J. W. Chamberlain, in 1873, and resides on road 65.
John T. Cooper, son of Russell Cooper, was born in Dover in 1841, and married Lorend I., daughter of John Lazelle of that town, in 1862. He was a member of Co. F, 16th Vt. Vols., and was wounded in the hand and knee at the battle of Gettysburg.
Lewis H. Lynde, son of Daniel and Tamson (Mc Clure) Lynde, was born in 1841. In 1861 he enlisted in Co. F, 4th Vt. Vols. He was a sergeant, and served three years. He was wounded at the battle of the Wilderness- In 1864 he married Emma R. Gates, of Dummerston, and is now town rep- resentative.
Oscar L. F. Bennett, son of Orren L., married Lydia Herrick, of Dum- merston, in 1852, and resides on road 19. He is a selectman.
J. Armes Miller, son of Joseph, married Sarah M. Reed, of Wardsboro, in 1871, and resides on the Reed homestead, on road 12.
Erastus T. Corser, son of Josiah and Prudence (Heath) Corser, was born in 1812, and married Harriet Bigsbee, of Springfield, and after her death, Lucy Ayer, of Rockingham. In 1868 he bought the Underwood farm. He is a breeder of fine Merino sheep, and an extensive dealer in cattle, sheep, and wool. He resides on road 17.
Wm. H. Greenwood was born in Dublin, N. H., March 27, 1832. Quite early in life he determined to be a civil engineer, and in 1850 he entered Norwich University, graduating in 1852. He was engaged in railroad engi- neering until the commencement of the late war. In January, 1862, he en- listed in the 51st Ill. Vols. as ist lieutenant and became captain May 9, 1863. He was selected by Gen. Rosencrans to organize a topographical engineer service, and was ordered to report to Gen. Stanley, then in command of the cavalry of the army of the Cumberland. As lieutenant-colonel and inspec- tor he continued with that command until the close of the war, and received conimendatory notice from its commandant. In 1865, while still in the service of the government, he rebuilt the Gulf and San Antonio railroad. In 1867 he was appointed chief engineer of the Kansas Pacific railroad, which position he resigned in the summer of 1870. He then accepted an appointment as general manager of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad, resigning this posi- tion in 1874. After a residence of two years in Vermont (1875 and '77), and one (1876) in Philadelphia, in 1878 he took charge of the construction railroad now operated by the Denver and Rio Grande Company. In 1879 he was in charge of the construction of the Marion and McPherson railroad in Kansas, and in 1880 he took charge as chief engineer of the surveys for the Mexican National railway. In August of the latter year, while on his way to the capital to spend the Sabbath with his family, he was waylaid and mur- dered by Mexicans, whose cupidity the excellent qualities of his horse had excited, while stopping at a wayside inn for refreshments. His body was interred in the American cemetery of the Mexican capital, September 1, 1880,
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and in May, 1882, was removed to Dummerston, where a beautiful granite monument marks his final resting-place. May 19, 1857, Col. Green- wood married Evalina D, daughter of Joel and Fanny M. (Duncan) Knight, who requited his affection as a husband with a wifely devotion of equal ardor.
John Bradley was a poor boy and was brought up by a merchant in Wor- cester, Mass., till he was sixteen years of age, when he entered the army as a waiter. Hle afterwards became a soldier and served through the war for inde- pendence under Lafayette. After the close of the war he married Elizabeth Cowden, of Worcester, Mass., and moved to Newfane, where he bought and cleared wild land, making himself a home about one and one- half miles north- west of the village. There he lived and brought up eleven children. He died in Jamaica, aged about eighty-five years. Calvin K. Bradley, now living on road 12 in Dummerston, aged eighty-one years, is the youngest of seven sons and the only one living. Elizabeth Brown is the only surviving daughter. Calvin K. married Sally Temple, a granddaughter of Joseph Temple, who cleared up the farm on which they now live in Dummerston. He was a native of Worcester, Mass., and drew the land in a lottery which was insti- tuted for the purpose of raising money to build highways and a meeting-house in Dummerston. The farm is now owned by Mrs. Augusta Bennett, the daugter of Calvin K. and Sally T. Bradley. Mrs. G. C. Worden, of Dover, is the youngest of their family of ten children. Alonzo Bradley, residing on road 12, in Dummerston, is their only surviving son. Louisa S. Halliday, of Guilford, is their eldest daughter.
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