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Isaiah Day, a native of Warren, N. H., came to Corinth in 1846 and set- tled on a farm on road 6, where Shalor Day now lives, and there remained until his death in 1861, aged forty-one years. He married Mary A. Row- land, of Corinth, daughter of Shalor and Catharine (Taplin) Rowland, and their children were Catharine R. and Shalor R. The latter married Augusta A. Craggy, daughter of William and Sally P. (Carter) Craggy, and they have had two children, Sabin S., deceased, and Rowland W., and reside on a farm on road 6, in this town.
William Farewell, a resident of Topsham many years, moved to Albany, Vt., where he died. His wife was Mary Wiles, of Topsham, and their child- ren were Mary, Benjamin, Jacob, Alvira, William, Stillman, Monroe and Asa. The latter married, first, Charlotte Biggalow, of this town, and their children were Monroe J., who was killed in the battle of the Wilderness, Jason C., who was shot at Fort Hudson, Hattie M., Stillman and Joshua B. After the death of his first wife he married Hannah Wheeler, of Cabot, Vt., and their children were Cora B., Peter J., Sherman, Philip S., Elsie and Benjamin. Joshua B. Farewell married Hannah E. J. Chesley, daughter of Benjamin B. and Mary E. (Burroughs) Chesley, of this town, and their children are Charley L. and Minnie O. He resides in this town on road 20. He served in Co. B, 3d Vt. Vols., participating in the battle of Williamsburg, and receives a pension from the government.
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James Richardson, a native of New Hampshire, was one of the early set- tlers of Orange, where he remained many years, finally locating in this town, where he died in 1847, aged about eighty years. He was twice married, first to Abigail Martin, and second to Mrs. Mary Johnson. His children were Nathaniel and Robert, who served in the battle of Plattsburgh, Day, Daniel, William, Betsey, Jerusha, George, Samuel, Henry, James, Abbie and Julia. Samuel, who was a son of his first wife, married, first, Lovisa Dunbar, of Orange, who bore him children as follows: Harriet, Harrison W., Mar- tha, Miller, Eliza and Julia. His second wife was Almira Kimball, of Top- sham, and their children were Mary E. and Loren K. The latter married Emma S., daughter of John B. and Caroline (Taplin) Locke, and their child- ren were Byron, Mary E. and Wade H., deceased, and Fred R., who resides on the homestead farm on road 20, where he has lived since his birth.
James M. Richardson was born in Orange, Vt., and at the age of five years came to this town with his father. He married, first, Kate Miles, of Topsham, and their children were T. Franklin, Justin M., George B. and Eugene. By his second wife, Mrs. Nancy N. Webster, of Barre, daughter of Zenas and Susan (Nutting) Carpenter, he has had two children, George A. and Willie H. He resides on a farm on road 4, in this town.
Jesse Carpenter was a native of Rehoboth, Mass., where he resided many years, finally removing to this town, where he died, aged about seventy-five years. He was twice married, and his children were Zenas, Horace, Dr. Alvah, Converse, Abram, Jesse, Clarissa, Abigail and Calvin. The latter came to this town with his father and settled an a farm on road 5, about the year 1800, where he remained until his death, March 14, 1885, aged eighty- six years. He married Betsey Reynolds, of Cambridge, Vt., and their child- ren were Oren D., Calvin, Jr., Fanny E., Cordelia A., Mary A. and Edwin S. The latter married Annie R, daughter of David and Abigail (Hadley) Bonner, of Manchester, N. H., and they have had three children, Annie B. and Mary A., deceased, and Ray B. Mr. Carpenter is of the third generation to occupy the homestead farm settled by his grandfather. He discovered the copper mines in the northern part of this town, and was formerly engaged in the gold mines of California with Col. J. C. Fremont.
John Robie, a native of England, came from England about 1725 and lo- cated in Chester, N. H., where he engaged in tanning. He was a justice of the peace and town clerk for more than twenty years, and remained in Ches- ter until his death. He was twice married. His son John, Jr., settled in Candia, N. H., where he died May 6, 1825, aged eighty years. John, Jr., mar- ried Mahetable Hall, of Chester, N. H , who died July 15, 1832, aged eighty- three years. His children were Nancy, William, Mahetable, Sarah, Priscilla, John, Ichabod, Naomi, Ebenezer and Jonathan. The latter was twice mar- ried. By his first wife, Eleanor M. Wilson, of Chester, N. H., he had child- ren as follows: Robert W., Sarah J., Susan T., Gardner F., Jennette G., Mary A., Ruth D., Polly F., Abigail M., John W. and Lyman M. His sec ..
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ond wife was Mrs. Mary L. Harris, of Corinth, daughter of Dea. Samuel and Polly (Leavette) Glines, and he resides in this town at the advanced age of ninety-three years, the oldest man in the town. Mrs. Mary L. Robie had four children by her first husband, Horatio W. Harris, a Freewill Baptist clergyman, who died March 10, 1865, aged fifty-six years. They were Aaron B., Mary L., Martha N. and Marcella. John W. Robie married Grace B., daughter of Charles and Lydia (Wright) Childs, of West Fairlee, and their children are Lydia C. and Charles C. He has occupied the farm where he now lives for fifteen years.
Caleb Munson was long a resident of Litchfield, Conn., whence he moved to Canada, where he died. He married Mary Lee, of the family of General. Lee, of Revolutionary fame, and their children were John, Seth, Jesse, Caleb, Ammi and Reuben. The latter, who served in the War of 1812, was a resi- dent of South Duxbury for a number of years, and finally removed to Morris- ville, Lamoille county, where he died in 1871, aged over eighty-nine years. He married Mary Miller, of Marlow, N. H., with whom he lived sixty-four years, their death occurring only fifteen minutes apart. His children were Almira, Elizabeth, Bethewell M. and Reuben L. The latter married May C., daughter of John and Elizabeth (Heath) Magoon, and has resided on road 48 in this town for eleven years. He served in Co. K, 2d Vt. Vols., as a musician, during the late war, and was honorably discharged. His daugh- ter Helen P. P. married Paul -- , of Hyde Park, N. Y., who is a whole- sale dealer in foreign fruits, in Beaver street, New York city.
Joseph Raymond, who served as lieutenant in the War of 1812, came from Newbury to this town, where he died. He married Dorothy Johnson and their son Simon, who was born in Newbury, located in this town on a farm on road 49, where he remained until his death, in 1876, aged sixty-eight years. He married Mary Eastman, of Corinth, daughter of Jesse and Polly (Swift) Eastman, and their son George H. resides on the homestead farm with his widowed mother, who survives her husband at the age of sixty-four years.
George Sleeper was a resident of this town where he died at the age of ninety-one years. His children were Thomas, Rowe and Charles. The lat- ter, who resided in this town, married Emeline Low, of Bradford, daughter of Ira and Jane (Welch) Low, and they have one son, George I., who is a farmer with his father on road 312, where the latter has resided for forty years
Joseph Knight, son of Joseph, was a native of this town, and married Mary, daughter of Jonathan and Olive (Towle) Robie, of Corinth, and located on a farm on road 18, where he died, aged seventy years. Their children were Hale, Lydia, Daniel, Mary, Joseph, John and Joshua N. The latter married Emily, daughter of Aristarcus and Sophronia (Sawyer) Taplin, and their children are Annie M. and Frank E. He has resided in Corinth Center for twenty-four years.
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Jonathan Tenney, of English descent, first settled in Salem, N. H., and afterwards in Corinth, where he died. His children were Asa, Jonathan, Eli- phalt and Joshua. The latter was the first doctor in this town, and remained here until his death, in 1844, aged eighty years. He married Susan Allen, daughter of Captain David Allen, who served in the battle of Bunker Hill, and their children were Amos C., Hilas, Erdix, Ruth A., Viva, Corban and John A. The latter married, first, Mary, daughter of Capt. Henry and Jennie (McKeene) Doe, and second, Lydia, sister of his first wife, by whom he has one daughter, Mary, and resides in this town on road 49. John A. "Tenney has been justice of the peace twenty years, town clerk twelve years, served as side judge of Orange county three years, as register of probate three years, as judge of probate for Bradford district eight years, and repre- sented the town in the state legislature in 1848-49.
Jonathan Winchester was long a resident of Westmoreland, N. H., where he died, aged over eighty years. His children were Daniel, a Christian clergyinan, Elhanan, Jonathan and Salmon. The latter, who was a Metho- dist clergyman, came to Corinth and preached on the Vershire circuit, dying in Strafford in March, 1821, aged thirty-six years. He married Lucinda W. Hancock, of Westmoreland, and their children were Salmon, Horatio, Lu- cinda, Joseph F., John L. and Greenleaf M. The latter, who was born in Westmoreland, came to Corinth about 1820. He married, first, Sarah T. Pratt, and second, Mrs. Jane E. Young, and has been a resident of this town about sixty-five years. He has been selectman ten years, represented the town in 1863-64, and has hield many other offices of trust.
Dr. Richard Estuss, son of Henry, who was a physician, was a native of Cornish, England, from which town he removed to America at the age of forty-two years, and located in Craftsbury. At the age of fifty-one years he was murdered for his money, his horse returning home, but his body was never found. He married Betsey Gay, of Rhode Island, and their children were Lurena, Melinda, Benjamin, Richard, James, Louie, William, Rebecca, Isaac and Sarah. The latter married. first, Horace Daloph, who died in 1877, aged seventy-eight years, and by whom she had children as follows; Elizabeth, Permelia, Marcia, Salem, Horace, Charley, Eddie, Albert, Willie and George. By her second husband, John Bennett, she had two children, Henry and John, and she survives her husband at the age of forty-nine years.
Jonathan Kenney, son of Joseph and Jemima (Lamb) Kenney, was born in Preston, Conn., and died in Berlin, Vt., in May, 1838, aged seventy-six years. He married, first, Lydia Kendrick, and their children were Wealthy, David, Jonathan, Lucy, George, Amory, Abigail H. and Justus. The latter was born in Plainfield, Vt., where he died in 1883, aged eighty-four years. He married Lois Taft, of Barre, with whom he lived fifty-nine years. Their children were Charles H., George F., Francis L., Abigail E., Harriet T. and Amory E. The latter married, first, Carra L., daughter of Amherst and Ex-
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perience (Reed) Perkins, by whom he had three children-Ida E., Homer L. and Frank E. His second wife was Hester Ann, daughter of Daniel and Clarissa G. (Noyes) Nutt, of Lyndon. Amory E. Kenney has held the office of justice of the peace two years, has been notary public thirty-two years, was side judge in 1872-73, and county commissioner in 1873. He resides on a farm on road 32, in this town, where he has made his home for ten years.
Jeremiah Dimcey was a native of London, Eng. His son John married Mary Hart, by whom he had one son, Jeremiah, who came to America in 1853 and located in this town. He married Juliette C., daughter of Albert and Eleanor (Bowen) Cooke, and resides on a farm on road 56, where he has lived thirty years.
Asa Day was a native of Cornish, Me., where he died. His children were Noah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Joseph, Dolly, Louisa and Ezekiel. The latter was born in Cornish, Me., and served in the War of 1812. He resided in Warren, N. H., and also in Haverhill, dying in the latter place, aged eighty-four years. He married Rebecca Bodge, of Parsonfield, Me., and their children were Joseph, Isaiah, Betsey, Ezekiel, Daniel, Ruth, Lydia, Mary, Benjamin F. and Jeremiah. The latter married Almira Terry and their children were Harvey (deceased), Jasper, Sarah, Harvey E., Isabella, Clarence, Albert, Mabelle and Leston. He has recently removed to Vershire, this county.
Robert W. Robie, son of Jonathan, married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard and Dollie (Rowe) Robie, and their children are Cornelia M., and Allen and Alvin, twins. Mr. Robie died July 19, 1863, and his widow survives him at the age of sixty-two years, and has resided on the farm where she now lives forty-one years. Her mother is still alive at the age of eighty-three years. Cornelia M. Robie married Cyrus H. Parker, and resides in this town on road 57. Cyrus H. Parker served in Co. G, 9th Vt. Vols., three years, and was honorably discharged. Allen Robie married Jennie B. Morrison, of Hyde Park, Mass., by whom he has one daughter, Jennie B., and resides in Boston, Mass.
James Thompson, a native of Walpole, N. H., came to Corinth and set- tled on road 66, where he died at the age of ninety years. He married, first, Polly Paul, and second, Sophia Currier, and his children were Ira, Moody, James, Louisa, Mary A., Marcia, Hiram, Sylvester, Hial, Horace and Phil- ander. Moody Thompson was born in Walpole, N. H., and came to Corinth at the age of twenty-five years. He married, first, Sarah Rowell, of Springfield, N. H., and their children were Sylvia, Eunice, Hepsia and James H., and second, Mrs. Harriet Templeton, of Barre, daughter of John and Rebecca (Boutwell) Gale. James H. served in the 8th Vt. Vols., and was killed at Port Hudson, June 14, 1864. Mr. Thompson resides in this town on road 48.
John Ovitt, who served in the War of 1812, died in Fairfield, Vt., in 1850, aged about eighty years. He married Clara Reed, and their children were Dennis, Cary, Goodsell, Hamilton, Alonzo, Mariah, Lois, Dianna, Louisa,
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Emeline, Orissa, Ruth, Rhoda and J. Calvin. The latter was born in Fair- field, Vt., and came to this town in 1848, locating on road 36. Later he re- moved to Chelsea, where he died, aged sixty-eight years. He married Theo- docia Willis, of Orange, daughter of Melletiah and Martha (Seaver) Willis, and their children were Lucinda L., Martha J., Delia, Sophia, Aaron C. and Alonzo W. The latter married Lucy S., daughter of Corbin and Sally (Smith) Tenney, of Corinth, and resides in this town on road 67, where his mother also resides, aged eighty-four years. He is proprietor of Ovitt's California cough syrup, which has been in use fifteen years.
Michael Comstock, who served in the Revolutionary war, was a native of Vershire, where he died. His children were Orange, Lucy, Willard and Michael. The latter resided in Strafford and Vershire, dying in Vershire at at the age of eighty-two years. He married Betsey Bacon, of Strafford, and his children were Royal, Harvey, Harrison, Angeline, Ann Julia and Jackson R. The latter married Eunice, daughter of Luther and Harriet (Young) Aldrich, and they have one adopted daughter, Rosie. Mr. Comstock resides in this town on a farm on road 57, where he has lived sixteen years. Daniel T. Aldrich served in Co. B, 4th Vt. Vols., in the late war, and died in the army. Joseph Young, grandfather of Mrs. Jackson R. Comstock, served in the War of 1812.
Elijah Rowell, a native of Hampstead, N. H., located in Bradford, where he died, aged seventy-five years. He married Sarah Whitaker, of Weare, N. H., and their children were Elijah, Ralph, Ransom, Phebe, Esther, Fanny and Rufus. The latter was born in Bradford, where he now resides. He married Betsey, daughter of Sherborn Prescott, of Vershire, and their child- ren were William, Orange, Byron, Nelson, Lydia A. and Adolphus Prescott. Adolphus Prescott Rowell married Ann E., daughter of Hiram and Mary (Heath) Thurber, of this town, and their children are Benton R., Ada M., Almond N., Augusta F. and Bertha M. Mr. Rowell has resided on a farm on road 44, in this town, for twenty-six years. His son Almond N. married Hattie E., daughter of John A. and Susanna (Walker) Norris, of this town, and they have one son, Glen N.
William Armstrong removed from Fairlee to Bradford, where he died, Feb- ruary 9, 1855, aged sixty-five years. He married Margaret Scott and their children were John A., Scott, Julia A., Elizabeth, George W., Mary E. and James. The latter married Mary J., daughter of John and Hannah (Worth- ley) Sanborn, and their children are Flora, Lizzie A., Mary B., Julia E. and Abbie W. He served as selectman five years, dying December 1, 1884, aged fifty five years. His widow, who survives him at the age of forty-eight years, resides on the home farm on road 14, in this town.
Burgess Metcalf was born in Piermont, N. H., in 1772, where he died in 1831. He married, first, Elizabeth Wait, and their children were John W., Louisa, Charles B., Sarah, Cynthia, Mary and Elizabeth ; and second, Rachel Taplin, by whom he had one daughter, Louisa, 2d. His son John W. mar-
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ried, first, Jane S. Barker, by whom he had one son, John H., and second, Mrs. Jerusha Shaw, by whom his children were Harriet A., Charles T., Bur- gess C., Celecta J. and Solomon H. Mr. Metcalf died at Piermont, aged fifty-four years. His son Dea. John H. came to Corinth in 1868, where he married Hannah, daughter of Isaac Taplin, who bore him children as fol- lows : William T., Susan J. and Charles H. He married for his second wife Ellen A., daughter of Jacob and Nancy (Cilley) Taplin, of Topsham, and has resided eighteen years on a farm on road 36, in Corinth.
Enos Porter was the first white male child born in Vershire, February 6, 1789, near the center of the town. He passed his entire life in Vershire and Corinth, as a farmer, dying in the latter town in 1880. He was one of the Plattsburgh volunteers. His wife, Electa Matson, who was born in Ver- shire, bore him six children, four of whom lived to maturity. One son, Lyman, a carpenter and farmer, has been actively interested in town affairs. He has served as selectman and justice of the peace, and held the office of lister twelve years. He has also settled a number of estates in this town. He married Harriet N. Hildreth, of Chelsea, and of seven children, John L., of Boston, is the only one living.
The Methodist Episcopal church of Corinth, located at Corinth Corners, was organized through the efforts of John Langdon, the first local preacher east of the Green mountains, in 1798, and was probably the first Methodist Epis- "copal church in Orange county. The first house of worship was built just over the line in the town of Vershire. The present building, a wooden struc- ture, was built in 1842, at Corinth Corners, will comfortably seat 150 per- sons, and is valued at about $1,500. The first pastor was Nicholas Sneth- ins, who was induced to come up from Wilbraham, Mass., by John Langdon. who lived on the Moses Spear farm, in Vershire, and in whose house the first sermon was preached about 1796. The present number of members is fifty-nine, under the pastoral charge of Rev. W. R. Puffer, of Chelsea.
The First Free Baptist church of Corinth, located at West Corinth, was or- ganized by Elder Ballard, of Unity, N. H., in 1798, and consisted of twenty members, with Rev. Daniel Bachelder, first pastor, who was ordained May 20, 1799. This is the oldest Free Baptist church in this region, and is the " mother church" of Corinth quarterly meeting, which includes the churches of this denomination in Corinth, Orange, Washington, Topsham and Williams- town. The first house of worship was erected in 1816, and was superseded by the present wooden edifice in 1852, at a cost of $1,700, besides a bell which cost $300. The building will comfortably accommodate 300 persons, and is valued, including grounds, at $1,200. The society has about thirty-two members, with Rev. H. F. Dickey, pastor.
The Union church, at East Corinth, was organized in 1840 by about twenty-five members. Their house of worship was erected in 1840 at a cost of $2,000, and is now valued, including grounds, at $2,500, and will comfortably
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seat 400 persons. The society has no regular pastor, and the building is now used by the Congregationalists.
The Second Freewill Baptist church, located at South Meadow, in the southeast part of the town, was organized in 1830 by its eighteen original mem- bers, with Rev. Nathaniel Bolles as first partor. Their church building, erected in 1838, of wood, at a cost of $2,000, will comfortably seat 300 per- sons, and is valued, including other church property, at $3,000. The society now has eighty members, with Rev. M. C. Henderson, pastor. The Sunday- school has a membership of seventy, with Dea. C. Slack, superintendent.
F AIRLEE is a small border town located in the eastern part of the county, in latitude 43° 56' and longitude 4° 20', bounded north by Bradford, south by Thetford, east by the west bank of Connecticut river, and west by West Fairlee. In giving a brief sketch of this town it is necessary to include both Fairlee and West Fairlee, down to the year of 1797, as they were originally one town from the date of the charter, to that year, when the territory constituting the township was divided, by an act of the legislature, into two separate townships, called Fairlee and West Fairlee. The town was granted by Governor Benning Wentworth, September 9, 1761, to Josiah Chauncey, Joseph Hubbard, Wilder Willard, and others, to the number of sixty-four, and "contained about 24,000 acres," which tract was to contain "something more than six miles square, and no more," out of which an allowance was to be made for highways and unimprovable lands, and was bounded as follows :-
" Beginning at a tree standing on the bank of Connecticut river, marked with the figures 7 and 8, which is the northeasterly corner bound of Thet- ford ; thence north 61 degrees, west six miles, by Thetford aforesaid, to the northwesterly corner bound of Thetford; thence north 33 degrees, east 62. miles ; thence south, 61 degrees east, seven miles, to a tree marked with the figures 8 and 9, standing on the bank of Connecticut river aforesaid ; thence down said river as it runs, to the bound first above mentioned."
Although the town charter names the amount of about 24,000 acres as the original area of the township of Fairlee, it really contained over 27,000 acres, and retained the same until the township of West Fairlee was taken from it in 1796, the natural cause of which division being the almost impassable range of hills, or, perhaps, more properly called, mountains, extending from near the southern extremity of the town to its northernmost limits. The town now con- tains an area of about 12,900 acres.
The surface of Fairlee is rough in appearance, except the territory in the eastern part immediately adjacent to the Connecticut river, although two mountains rise very abruptly to the height of several hundred feet from the bed of the river,-Sawyer mountain in the north, standing so near the river as barely to give room for the highway and Passumpsic railroad, which ex-
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tends north through the eastern part of the town, and Morey's mountain, or Mount Moriah, as it is sometimes called, standing near Orford bridge, com- manding a splendid view of the Connecticut River Valley.
Just back of Morey's mountain is Fairlee pond, a beautiful little lake of crystal clearness, with pebbly shores, and enclosed within forest-clothed hills. It is about two miles long, and from one-half to one mile wide, its outlet be- ing about half a mile from the river and Fairlee station. Though it has long been a favorite resort for fishermen, it has, until recently, offered no accom- modations to the tourist or health-seeker in the way of boarding-houses or hotels. This pond is noted as the place where Samuel Morey, the inventor of the steamboat, launched the first boat ever successfully propelled by steam, and from which Robert Fulton took the ideas that gave him the fame to which Morey was entitled. Near the western shore of this pond is a beauti- ful cascade, which comes tumbling down through a gorge in the rocks from thirty to forty feet in depth, and over a perpendicular ledge about thirty feet high into a circular pool at the base.
Westward from this pond stretches the long range of hills which divide the town from West Fairlee. Fairlee lake, another small sheet of water, lies partly in Fairlee, West Fairlee and Thetford, and discharges its waters into the Ompomponoosuc river, and from thence into the Connecticut.
A small stream rising in West Fairlee flows southeast into Fairlee, and empties into Fairlee lake. The rocks entering into the geological structure of the territory are principally of clay slate formation, although a vein of tal- cose schist underlies the eastern part, extending the whole length of the town, while calciferous mica schist underlies the extreme southwestern corner, ad- jacent to Fairlee lake.
Under the charter, the town of Fairlee was a part of the province of New Hampshire, and several of the first meetings were held in Orford, in that state, although the territory was claimed by New York. It appears by the following warrant for a proprietors' meeting, that the proprietors of Fair- lee were willing to date their warrant and hold their meetings in New Hamp- shire, still calling themselves inhabitants of Gloucester county, N. Y .:-
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