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Ripley and Doolittle built the first store building on this site and later it was moved forward and joined to the building near the street, and was used as a store by Wilder, Cheney and Brown, later by J. S. Newell, L. Mer- rifield and Co., also by the post office in 1837, followed by I. and J. Williams, C. H. Pierce and Co., A. Johnson,
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J. H. Converse, and Anson Howard. This building is said to be the same one owned and occupied by the Hon. H. H. Wheeler, now owned by Ralph J. Daggett, 1939.
The second store was built by S. T. R. Cheney, and used later by Brown and Furnace, J. G. Sumner, Sumner and Brimhall, Union Stores Association, and the Jamaica Leather Co. This building was destroyed by fire.
In 1846-47 J. G. Sumner built the store opposite the hotel, later occupied by Birchard Livermore and Co., Liv- ermore and Howard, Benjamin Livermore, H. J. Phelps, Abijah Muzzy, A. Muzzy and Son, J. A. Muzzy Co. In 1849 the Union Stores Association Co. fitted up and oc- cupied the building where L. H. Phelps' store was, and later used by O. F. Knowlton, Knowlton and Foskett, Knowlton and Butler, H. A. Butler, Butler Bros., Daniel Sherwin, Harry S. Sherwin who was town clerk, and had the office here for several years.
In 1852 C. H. Pierce built the building on Mechanic Street and it was used as a store by C. H. Pierce and Co., and in 1854 by John Williams as store and post office, then by D. G. Dexter, Pierce and Dexter, F. E. Smith. It is now used as a grain store by Frank A. Rush.
Elisha Livermore had a store in what is now the Ma- sonic building, and sold to S. T. R. Cheney.
Caleb How's shoe shop was the house now owned by John Wolcott near the Baptist church.
Mr Williston Sir
Please to Sind ml Bottleof Shoe Blacking Dollars worthit good Chewing Tabacco Jamaica May 9 th 1831 Caleb How
CALEB HOW SIGNATURE.
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Credit items copied from his book :
1828, Nov. 4 By one bbl. cider $ .75
11 " 16 nots of shoe thread .20
" Dec. 16 weaving 81/2 yds. wool cloth at .06 .51
1829 Sept. 4 weaving 3 yds diaper at .08 .24
1829 Mar. 12
" 91/2 gals. soap 1.00
1828 Apr. 30
66 most one day setting out maple trees .42
1828 June 20
1 gallon and 7 gills cider brandy .60
66 May 16 " 71/2 lb. veal forequarter at .021/2 .19
1829 July 5 " Carding 61/4 lbs. wool at .05
.31
Aug. 16 123/4 lbs. cheese at .03 .38
60 Dec. 23 " 44 lbs. beef at .031/4 1.43
Sept. 27 " 1 small coffin
.67
Sept. 19
Windmill to clean 2 bushel beans .02
1830, Mar. 23
" 6 qt apple sauce and 12 qt. do .56
" mare to Townshend singing lecture .36
" May 13 Dec. 8 sitting 6 hoops on meat tub .18
1831, July 11 71/2 lb. butter at .12 .88
66
5
60 making two pr. everyday pantaloons .50
.50
66 66 Sept. 6 making shirt for Jerry
.17
16
cards ginger bread
.50
1832, “ 2
Nov. 12
" trimming bonnett
.18
66
" 30
66 covering hand bellows
.20
66
66
6
101/2 lb. steak with some bone .40
66 Aug. 12
" horse and shay to Wardsboro City .72
1828, Dec. 16
" dressing a hog-cutting it up .50
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one day sawing wood .34
1829, Oct. 16 making fence .50
9 "' 22 1b. 9 oz fresh pork at .041/2 1.02
May 31
66 51/4 lb. trouts
2 doz. eggs at .10 and 1 doz. do.
.30
1828 en Esq Benja Fulton May 7 buy tant to Drie out Man une about 3 aday-34
June 11
My ? a day to Oren Flowing
Totale Patch 50
20ly gs of fresh Pork af s 048 30 kg / gallon
gill of ender Brandat 3/- 060 August 14
012 July 25 utwor Brandy My 1 st of eher Brandy 013
Junta
lg Lyman Los Oxen Gating in Stalk, - 34 22 mg Van Santto get unii Low Buns School of ComQq
27 by Unen cart nosty a day Drawing Logs 150 flaps 34 Oct y ly xen Meant to draw Load of Potatoes & Load of Beans for Load of Corn 5 Lymanto get the Corn 8 by Dineros Can't to gut in form
COPY OF PART PAGE OF CREDITS FROM CALEB HOW'S BOOK.
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Debit items copied from the How book:
1828, Aug. 30 To one pr. morroco shoes .63
6 Oct. 22
" mending shay harness .13
1829, July 1 making 1 pr. girles booties .46
1 " patching one boot leg .08
66 Sept. 17 making 1 pr. thick shoes and thread .61
1830, May 15 1 pr. Prunello pumps for Re- becca .50
5
" young calf sold to your wife .50
" Aug. 14
" making 2 pr. thick shoes for twins 1.00
1830, Feb. 13
By patching 1 pr. thin boots .13
1831, June 21
new vamping 1 pr. worn shoes .17
1832, June 1
making 1 pr. thick shoes for Gilbert .50
" June 2
66
making 2 pr. cloth shoes at 2/6 .84
1833, Dec. 20
Sept. 16
66
varnishing 1 pr. morrocco shoes .06
1.00
Dec. 10 66
soeing 1 morrocco pump .06
Nov. 27 66 making 1 pr. girles shoes .37
1825 Sept. 20 66 house wrent 5 months and 2/3 a 3/ 2.83
1829 Apr. 22
1 day and team drawing stone 1.00
1828 Dec. 14 tap and heal tapping 1 pr. shoes .20
1829 Mar.
4
"
fixing clock
.12
Oct. 23
puling 2 teeth .17
1831 May 15 "' coffin for Dennis Lind, lined and handles 1.50
66 Oct. 25 " sharpening 2 rasors .10
" Nov. 8 " file and setting mill saw .10
Sept. 21 66 soeing and peging 1 pr. boots .08
1832 July 26 " taping 1 pr. thick shoes .17
stringing shay bells and leather .67
Mar. 8
66
mistake in wreckening
56- 1827 Haft Banziani Howand Dr
geht's to making fre think Thous to thered. 061
828 To making frituren thous Sthread 076
1820 10 mald igling ginles Boutry fitmed 045
Decome to making Im thin Boots at Cash of
1.83
18.30 To ina Counter Stiftung, &Bindings .. 150
Maven 19 to making for these Shoes to heal Frailes_ 14
Cet ro to Join your writing & aring Deed
79 1
Sum ito, makingitaz this Baute 1.75 1432 to making itis think Bootnosso leather far gilbert 1.75 Fraley y to & Duebill ruining to beable 534 T143
COPY OF PART PAGE OF DEBITS FROM CALEB HOW'S BOOK. Capt. Banyard Howard was the first child born in Jamaica. From "Child's History of Windham County, Vermont."
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Caleb How, Shoemaker Customers' names in book for years 1827 to 1832
Baldwin, Asa
How, Susan
Barnes, Charles
Howard, Amos
Brown, Capt. James
Howard, Capt. Banyard
Chamberlain, Dr. Moses
Howard, Boswil
Chase, Eseck
Howard, Dexter
Cheney, S. T. R.
Howard, Jared
Coombs, Jethro
Howard, Luke
Cowding, Mrs. Abi
Howard, Luther
Crosby, Eli
Howard, Nathan
Davidson, James
Howard, Stoddard
Davison, John
Howard, Zimri
Eaton, Hemphrey
Johnson, Arad
Felton, Esq. Benj.
Johnson, Ira
Fisher, Joseph
Johnson, Orrin
Follett, Samuel
Johnson, Vri
Gage, P.
Johnson, Willis
Gage, Reuben
Kellogg, Alphus
Gage, Sullivan
Kellogg, Amos
Gleason, Allen
Kellogg, John
Goodale, Esq. T.
Kellogg, Josiah
Grimes, Johnson
Kingsbury, Nathaniel
Heaton, Cyrus
Kingsbury, Rev. Samuel
Higgins, David
Livermore, Asa
Hill, David
Livermore, Ezra
How, Aseneth
Livermore, Justice Lot
How, Benjamin
Maynard, Elisha A.
How, Freeman
Muzzy, Benjamin
How, Gilmore
Pierce, Benjamin
How, Lucius
Puffer, Amos
How, Mylon
Rawson, Luther
How, Peter
Rice, John
How, Rogers
Rice, Stephen
How, Simeon
Sabins, Ebenezer
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Shepard, Ezra
Thayer, Moses
Shepard, Joseph
Thayer, Warren
Shepard, Reuben
Turner, Ezra
Shunway, Lewis
Underwood, Isaac
Skinner, Jainey Skinner, Esq. Z. Smith, Rufus
Wellman, Asa
Wellman, Charles
Wellman, Reuben
Smith, Willard
Wheaton, Deac. C.
Spaulding, Rev. P.
Wilder, Ezra W.
Stevens, Esq. A.
Young, Job
Sumner, Deac. Benj.
Young, Jonathan
CHAPTER III
SCHOOLS, TOWN AND PRIVATE
1791. The first schoolhouse was built of logs on road 29 at East Jamaica on the south side near the Training Ground up the little hill, at that time known as School- house hill across the West River. It was built soon after the first settlement of the town, and was probably the first public building erected in town.
Zelotes Skinner was teacher, and was supported by voluntary contribution. The town was divided into four- teen school districts, and each district had a board of di- rectors to decide on the expense of the teaching and re- pairs, and to provide for the board of the teachers.
1862. The village school had seventy-two scholars, and was crowded in a room that would accommodate about fifty, so the scholars could not study. Soon after the school opened an effort was made to have it divided, but it was voted down. E. L. Waterman, Superintendent.
Jamaica School Districts in 1869
District No. 1 River School, 20 families
No. 2 Village School, Grammar and Primary
No. 3 South Hill School, 22 families
No. 4 West Hill School, 20 families
No. 5 Dinsmore, N.E. School, 10 families
No. 6 Dunbar School, 12 families
No. ' Gleason School, 8 families
No. 8 Sheldon School, 6 families
No. 9 Turkey Mountain School, 14 families
No. 10 Rawsonville School, 35 families
No. 11 Maynard Hollow School, 15 families
No. 12 West Jamaica School, 25 families
No. 13 Pikes Falls School, 12 families
No. 14 Pratts Bridge School, 7 families
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HISTORICAL NOTES
1890. State school law for all towns to take over the school districts; District No. 10 Rawsonville objected very much against it, claiming that the building did not belong to the directors, but was owned by the people.
1893. Town paid to each school district $36.55. Total $402.05.
1895. State law that all towns supply books and appli- ances at expense of town.
1898. The River School was taught the first two terms by Miss Mary K. Cheney, and when the school was moved to the Dunbar District No. 6, Miss Cheney went with it. "This was a very good arrangement, for Miss Cheney is an exceedingly well qualified teacher." S. H. Taylor, Superintendent, Jamaica, February 13, 1899.
1900. Miss Edith M. Clark, age 17, was teacher at South Hill, District No. 3. This was her first school, and there were 16 pupils; taught 28 weeks, and no vacation, was paid $5.00 per week and boarded herself, was then sent to Pikes Falls to finish a term; the building was in very poor condition, cold, the wind and snow blew in, and the 24 pupils and teacher crowded around the stove to try to keep warm, was paid $6.00 per week and boarded herself. J. G. White, Charles Taynton, A. W. Kidder, Directors.
1914. Vital Statistics, A. W. Thomas, M.D. Medical Examiner.
1917. It was voted that pupils living one and one-half miles from school should have free transportation.
1918. Pikes Falls District No. 13 petitioned to have eleven pupils transferred from Maynard Hollow District No. 11 to Pikes Falls School. So voted. A. G. Wiggin, Superintendent.
1921. Reported by District Health Officer, C. S. Leach, M.D., five cases of measles and four cases of whooping cough.
1923. Paid $470.06 for alterations, village school.
1927. Medical Examiner O. V. Hefflon, M.D.
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1927. Dental Hygienist, provided by the Thompson Fund, Brattleboro, Vt.
1931. The Eugenics Survey of Vermont in its work called Jamaica "Sylvania" and gave the following items :
Population in 1930 as 563
Homes occupied in 1930 as 155
Summer homes in 1930 as 20 Houses vacant in 1930 as 57
Year Ending February 1
No. of
Superintendent
Schools Expense
1863
E. L. Waterman
12
$ 909.48
1873
Directors
12
472.95
1880
O. G. Baker
11
1331.30
1892
Rev. S. L. Vincent
459.78
1894
Director, W. H. Taft
2200.09
1895
Rev. S. L. Vincent
2031.26
1896
D. Sherwin, Director
10
2877.44
1897
D. Sherwin, Director
11
2368.89
1898
C. B. Doane
9
1943.89
1899
S. H. Taylor
7
1698.75
1900
Aurora L. Taynton
7
2018.84
1901
N. W. Hankemyer
6
2176.31
1902
Mrs. H. F. McLean
7
2709.37
1903
Mrs. H. F. McLean
7
2506.18
1904
Mrs. H. F. McLean
7 2319.95
1905
Eva A. Wolcott
8
2792.72
1906
Mrs. Emma S. Brigham
12
2015.27
1907
Mrs. C. R. Bowman
7
2179.74
1908
Mrs. C. R. Bowman
5
2149.77
1909
Mrs. Mabel S. Robinson
7
2233.89
1910
Miss Edith M. Clark
7 1872.16
1911
Merle H. Willis
6 1894.40
1912
Merle H. Willis
6
2416.30
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HISTORICAL NOTES
1913
Merle H. Willis
6
1914 Merle H. Willis
6 3102.53
1915 Merle H. Willis
to June 30
6
2996.08
1916 Merle H. Willis
to Jan. 31, 1916
1696.70
1917
Clarence E. Michels
6
3062.46
1918
A. D. Wiggin
6
3576.27
1922
Frank R. Adams
6
5774.56
1923
Frank R. Adams
5
6195.35
1924
Directors
5
5632.35
1925
Directors
5
5670.48
1926
Directors
6
6150.73
1927
G. W. Powers
6272.29
1928
G. W. Powers
6289.65
1929
G. W. Powers
7993.60
1930
G. W. Powers
6
7926.38
1931
G. W. Powers
6
7552.40
1932
G. W. Powers
6
7850.98
1933
G. W. Powers
6
7998.21
1934
G. W. Powers
6
7710.63
1935
G. W. Powers
5
7133.56
1936
G. W. Powers
5
7535.17
1937
G. W. Powers
5
7644.85
1938
G. W. Powers
5
8096.23
1939
G. W. Powers
5
8842.73
The Flora Howard house was once the village school- house, and the entrance was on the end facing the church, and seated sixty scholars.
1879. Mr. Jerry Powers taught the grammar depart- ment in the village school.
Mrs. Phoebe Powers was in charge of the primary de- partment.
1880-01-02. John Howard taught penmanship in the vil- lage school.
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Report of School District No. 7 Known as Gleason District
Jamaica January 10, 1812, notice is hereby given to the in- habitants of the Seventh School District, that are qualified by law to vote in School District meetings, to meet at the school- house in said District on Thursday, the 16th of this instant Janu- ary, at 4 P.M. then and there to act on the following articles, viz :
1st To choose a moderator to govern said meeting.
2nd To see if the District will raise a sum of money for the support of a school the ensuing year.
3rd To see what method they will take for boarding the Master and Mistress, and to getting the wood.
Asa Baldwin, District Clerk.
January 16, 1812. Then met according to notice given.
1st. Chose Benjamin Gleason, Moderator.
2nd. Voted to raise $30.00 for support of a school the ensuing year.
3rd. Voted to set up the boarding of the Master and Mistress at Public Vendue at the lowest bidder.
4th. Asa Sharp bid off the Master at $.97 per week. Asa Sharp bid off the Mistress at $.70 per week.
Voted to raise the wood by a tax, and have the wood at the school house, fit for the fire, by the 27th day of the instant month. Voted to raise 13 cords of wood. Alphus Kellogg bid $.64 per cord. Voted to raise $8.45 for wood.
Benjamin Gleason, Moderator.
January 26, 1816. Then met according to notice given, and was voted as follows, viz :
1st. Voted and chose Ichabod Higgins, Moderator.
2nd. Voted to raise 1500 feet of good spruce boards, and said boards to be brought to the schoolhouse, and stuck up in a good order, said boards are to be there by the first of month.
3rd. Voted to set up the boards at public vendue at the lowest bidder, three hundred feet at a time.
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HISTORICAL NOTES
Samuel Wilder, bid 300 feet at 9$6d
Ephraim Higgins 66 " 10$
Ichabod Higgins
" 105 Ephraim Wilder 66 60 66 9$11d
Abraham White
" $1.66
Voted to raise 400 feet 1/2 in. hemlock boards. Benjamin Glea- son bid at $12.99.
Voted to raise $26.00 to finish the school house by the 15th of November next, in a good workmanlike manner.
Ichabod Higgins, Moderator.
November 9, 1816. Voted that David Warren should have the privilege of sending his scholars the ensuing year, by paying the same as though he lived in the District, and leave to the commit- tee concerning Ebenezer Taylor's scholars.
November 28, 1817. Voted not to take any scholars this winter out of any other District.
January 18, 1818. Voted to have David Warren and Ebenezer Taylor annexed to the District, upon the condition they pay an equal share.
November 25, 1825. Voted to get wood as in last year, and to be set up at the lowest bidder. Bid in by Josiah Gleason, Jr. at $.48 a cord.
Voted the Master should go round to board as is thought best.
September 15, 1828. Voted to raise $40.00 to repair the school- house, and buy a stove. Adjourn 3 weeks.
October 6, 1828. Met according to adjournment and voted to set up repairing the schoolhouse, and the lowest bidders were as follows :
Luis Bill bid 100 feet hemlock boards at $.36
Benjamin Baldwin bid 1000 feet spruce shingles at $1.17
Benjamin Wilder bid 4000 feet spruce shingles at $1.25
Selus Howard bid 1000 feet spruce shingles at $1.25
Solomon Higgins bid 15 lbs. nails at $.091/2 lb.
Cyros Gleason bid shingling the schoolhouse at $6.84
James Clark bid making the chimney at $2.50
Benjamin Baldwin bid 100 feet hemlock boards at $.36
James Clark, Dist. Clerk.
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September 28, 1837. Voted to have twenty weeks school and have a woman teacher. Squire Gleason, Moderator.
October 2, 1848. Voted to have twenty-four weeks school. Voted to raise $30.00 for same. Voted to build a new schoolhouse 22 x 24 feet. Voted to raise $90.00 for same. J. M. Farr, Moderator.
May 2, 1863. Voted to have six weeks school with Victoria J. Watson of Wardsboro teacher.
Voted to pay Alfred Howe $1.02 per week for the board. J. C. Ramsdell, Moderator.
April 10, 1865. This district lost its organization for twelve years and had to call on the town to set it up again. S. Gleason, Moderator.
April 29, 1878. Notice to the legal voters of school district No. 7 are warned to meet at the schoolhouse on Wednesday, May 8 at 6 P.M. to act on the following articles :
1st. To choose a moderator.
2nd. To choose a clerk, treasurer, collector and one or more Prudential Committee.
3rd. To see if the district will vote to sustain a school therein for the ensuing year and if so for how many weeks.
4th. To see if the district will vote money to defray expenses. 5th. Any other business.
D. Sherwin Wm. Hastings M. C. Boynton Jamaica - Selectmen of
May 8, 1878. Voted to have eight weeks summer and twelve weeks winter school.
Voted to put board at $1.25 for summer.
Voted to put board at $1.50 and $1.75 for fall and winter term per week. Lyman S. Carter, Moderator.
School District No. 11
First schoolhouse in this district was built of slabs on the rise of ground beyond the barn of Leonard White's camp, Maynard Hollow.
The second school building was just above where the present schoolhouse stands. This house was built in 1890.
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School District No. 12 West Jamaica
Miss Jennie Day taught this school in 1892. 1894. Mrs. Agnes Wolcott taught the winter term.
Public and Select Schools Jamaica, Vt. Mrs. E. A. Kenyon, Teacher Concert, Opera Hall Wednesday Evening, November 14, 1886
Part I
Happy Greetings
Chorus
Drive Dull Care Away
Juvenile Class
Angels Watching
Ollie Shumway
Have You Seen My Doll ?
Zippie Kellogg
Song
Grace Sherwin
Frogs in the Pond
Song
Quartette Cora Johnson
Some Folks Misses Ruby, Johnson, Frost and Wardwell
Part II
Wearing of the Green
Chorus
Character Song
Blanche Butler
Try, Keep Trying
Duet and Chorus
Slumber Sweetly
Clara Smith
Little Brown Church
Kitty Pop-Corn
Misses Barber and Wood Ola Howe, Soloist Myrtle Kellogg, Soloist
A Boy Is a Boy
Womans Rights
Ola Howe and Stephen Dutton Annie Wells
Character Song
The Scholars Complaint Addie Boynton Miss Lou Wood, Organist
Vocal Medley
Commences at 7:30 Tickets 10 cents
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Public Examinations Friday, November 16, 1886
A.M.
P.M.
8:45 Morning Exercises 1:30 Physiology
9:00 Reading
2:15 Algebra
9:30 History
2:45 Analysis
10:15 Grammar
3:30 Geography
10:45 Arithmetic 4:00 Spelling, Reports, Compo- 11:15 Arithmetic Adv. sitions, etc.
Exhibition Friday Evening, November 16, 1886
Music
The First Echo
Wallace Reed
Play
No Cure, No Pay
Misses Barber, Wood, Sage, Ola Howe, May Howe, Johnson, Kellogg
Music
Too Late for the Train Annie Wells
Columbia's Union Party Columbia, Uncle Sam, Bro. Jonathan, and all the states with gifts and songs
Betty and the Bear Hattie Wardwell
The Rival Poets
Hal Waterman and Eddy Ruby, Kate Ketchum, Mattie Sage
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HISTORICAL NOTES
Play
A Drop Too Much
Misses Wells and Sage, Masters Dutton, Cutler, Sherwin, Ruby A Bachelor's Sale
Minnie Day
Opera Hall. Commences at 7:30 Tickets, 10 cents
The Newton School, located at Hamilton Falls, is a preparatory school for boys, under the management of Mr. David Newton, a graduate of Princeton (1923), and Mrs. Newton (Vassar 1924).
Cost of Building Schoolhouses in 1894
District No. 14
$ 85.46
District No. 11 329.48
District No. 3
261.78
The Parent-Teachers Association
Officers for 1939 :
President, Alice Clark
Vice-President, Anita Aldrich
Secretary-Treasurer, Mildred Perry
The P. T. A. have paid for improvements in the schools :
1929 $166.15 at Rawsonville, East Jamaica, and Village 1930 352.01 at Rawsonville, East Jamaica, and Village
1932 294.85 at Rawsonville, East Jamaica, and Village 1934 24.95 electric lights in the Village school
1935 25.00 electric lights in the River school
1936
1937
1 56.65 electric lighting for the Village school
1938 - 47.85 for the Infantile Paralysis Fund
Also have given to the Red Cross. Have held three dental clinics, have entered nine children in tonsil clinics, and
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ten were furnished glasses, to help bring the children up to normal as far as health was concerned.
Verses copied from a book presented to Miss Olive H. Clark by her pupils in 1835. This book has about sixty pages, cardboard covers bound with string and has many bow knots of hair and water-colored flowers, with hearts and seals.
To My Instructress
May you my friend be ever blest With all the cares that you possess May troubles never haunt your breast Be thou my friend forever blest
By your scholar A. A. Rice Age 9 years
To My Teacher
Adieu my dear friend Adieu till we shall meet again If we meet on earth no more O may we meet on Canaan shore
Composed by your scholar C. E. S. Rice Age 7 years
March 15, 1835
To Olive
Farewell dear friend a few short days Have fled on lightsome wings away But friendships pure and lasting rays Shall not my love with time decay
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CHAPTER IV
CHURCHES
The Baptist Church of Christ in Jamaica, Vt.
Was organized March 25, 1790.
Calvin Hayward, the first convert, was baptized in Turkey Mountain Brook by Elder Aaron Leland January 20, 1789.
At a meeting led by Elder Edgar Leland June 11, 1790, Isaiah Stone was chosen moderator, Calvin Hayward, First Deacon.
Meetings were held at Calvin Hayward's house every first Thursday in the month at 10 o'clock A.M.
Calvin Hayward, church clerk.
1791 was the first mention of preaching and on March 3 it was voted to raise nine pounds for the support of the gospel for the year and request Elder Stone to be our minister.
1796. The first settled minister was Elder Simeon Coombs.
1801. The church voted to continue Elder Simeon Coombs as their minister at $150 per year.
November 3, 1803, he was reinstalled and remained un- til 1805.
1811. Rev. Simeon Coombs deeded two acres of land for a church building.
1817. Church built.
One of the stories told of Elder Coombs was that dur- ing a hard thunder shower he leaned out of his bedroom window and used this ritual at a wedding :
Under this window in stormy weather
I join a man and woman together,
Let none but Him who made the thunder
Ever put this man and wife asunder.
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HISTORICAL NOTES
Elder Coombs, being the first settled minister, was en- titled to the ministerial aid and it was so voted by the town, and when the Congregational Society asked for aid for Rev. John Stoddard, Rev. Coombs consented to divide the aid between them. "Glebe land" means "parish land."
Early members :
1801 Calvin Hayward Caleb Hayward Benjamin How Betsy Vaile William Taft Isaac Hart
First church built 1817.
1822. The church voted henceforth and forever to have no fellowship with the principles of Freemasonry.
1833. The Baptist society was formed and reorganized with 160 subscribers. Soon a new parsonage was built, church pews were appraised and sold to the stockholders and the money used to remodel the church and build a belfrey with a bell, at a cost of $1072.
The old parsonage burned and a new one was built in 1855 at a cost of $814. Later this building was moved across the street.
1918. Baptist church voted to federate with the Con- gregational church, with Rev. L. H. Sprague as pastor.
Pastors
1796 Rev. Simeon Coombs
Rev. Chamberlain
1806 Rev. Choat
Rev. T. Blood
Rev. Shomway Rev. Baker
Rev. Nathan Arms
Rev. Leland Huntly
Rev. Graves
Rev. Nathaniel Cud-
Rev. Bruier
Rev. Robinson
worth
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Photograph by Ruth C. Robinson.
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JAMAICA, VERMONT
Rev. Timothy Spaul- ding
Rev. Samuel W. White
1870 Rev. C. P. Frenyear
Rev. Ziba Howard
1884 Rev. Edwin Small
Rev. Rufus Smith
1886 Rev. Tilden
Rev. Mr. Kingsbury
Rev. Norman Clark
1899 Rev. F. C. Wright Rev. Safford
Rev. L. H. Wood
Rev. Knobbs
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