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Abel Norton, from Connecticut, located upon the farm now owned by Hi- ram Norton, in 1790, and died here in 1833, aged fifty-six years. Hiram has eight children, all of whom except Lucy (Mrs. F. M. Moulton, of Vergennes) reside near the old farm.
Gideon Seeger, from Shaftsbury, Vt., located upon the farm now owned by Byron Smith in 1791. He was one of the early postmasters, an office he re- tained for many years, and which was afterwards held for a long time by Gid- eon, jr. Luman Seeger, here now, is a grandson of Gideon.
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Peleg Whitford, the founder of the Whitford family in Addison, was born in Rhode Island in 1744, and after three months' schooling was apprenticed to a tailor. He married in the town of Coventry, and removed to Lanesboro, Mass., living for a short time near a place called " Cheshire Meeting-House," and since known as "Whitford's Rocks." In the spring of 1781 he again moved, this time to Shaftsbury, Vt., where he remained until February, 1802, when he sold out and came to this town, and resided here until his death, at the age of eighty-eight years. His only son, William, was a resident of the town many years, served in the War of 1812, and left a family of ten children.
Levi Meeker came to Addison from Elizabethtown, N. Y., in 1806, locating in the southeastern part of the town upon the farm lately owned by Horace Meeker, deceased, and now the property of his nephew. He held various town offices, and died at the age of seventy-eight years.
Israel Taylor came to Addison from Middlebury in 1816. He followed the carpenter and joiner trade; reared nine children, two of whom, Cyrillo H. and Esther, now reside here.
Samuel J. Benedict is a son of John Benedict, an early settler in Wey- bridge, who died in Cornwall in 1873, aged eighty-seven years. S. J. Bene- dict has been in Addison thirty-four years, thirty-one of which on this place, which he sold to his son-in-law, Frederick P. Owen, in the spring of 1883.
Arnold Gulley, from Rhode Island, came to Addison in 1804, locating upon the place now occupied by his son Erasmus.
Henry Brevoort came from West Haven, Vt., in 181I, and located upon the farm now owned by his son Henry F. He was a tanner and shoemaker by trade, and a very public-spirited man. He represented the town in the Legislature in 1825-26 ; was a justice of the peace thirty years, and died here in 1880, aged ninety-two years.
James Gorham came on foot from Massachusetts in 1810, locating upon the farm now owned by his son Edward. He was a carpenter and joiner by trade, and was ever respected as an upright, industrious citizen.
Gideon Carpenter, from Bennington, Vt., located in 1802 upon the farm now occupied by his son Isaiah. He had four children, viz. : Ruth, who mar- ried Daniel Jackson ; Roxana, who married Erasmus Gulley ; Truman, a resi- dent of Vergennes, and Isaiah. Gideon died in 1803 or '04, aged eighty-four years.
Asaph Haywood, who settled in Weybridge in 1805, upon the farm now . occupied by Joseph Brown, was the grandfather of Benjamin Haywood, who resides in the northeastern part of this town.
James Hindes came from New Jersey in 1800, locating upon the farm now owned by Aaron Hindes, in that part of the town known as "Nortontown." The homestead descended from James to Aaron, and thence to Aaron, jr., who has been a prominent man in town affairs, being now upwards of seventy-five years of age.
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Wheeler French located in Addison in 1833, and his father, Nathaniel, was one of the early settlers in New Haven. George, son of Wheeler, now resides here, one of the ex-representatives of the town in the General Assembly.
John Vanderhoof, from New Jersey, located upon the farm now owned by his grandson, Oliver Vanderhoof, early in the present century.
Asahel Barnes was a native of Bristol, Conn. From there he removed to New Haven, where he remained about seven years, then went to Canada and remained two years, and finally, in 1823, came to Addison, locating upon the place now occupied by his son Asahel, jr. The earliest settler on this place was Benjamin Paine, though Mr. Barnes bought it of James Lewis, whose wife was an adopted daughter of Paine. Mr. Barnes died in June, 1859, in his eighty- second year, while on a visit to his daughter, Mrs. Alfred Roscoe, of New Ha- ven. Asahel, jr., was born in 1810, at Bristol, Conn., and came to Addison with his father. He purchased the homestead in 1844. In 1837 he removed to Canada, but returned in 1845. Mr. Barnes married Salina Northrup, of Burlington, October 8, 1844, who died May 14, 1847, and in November, 1849, he married Ellen S. Crane, of Addison. Mr. Barnes has had six children born to him, though but four are living, viz. : Charles N., born March 28, 1847, now residing with his father; Albert, born in June, 1853, now of Chicago ; Ella, born in September, 1854, wife of Winslow C. Watson, of Plattsburgh, N. Y .; and Millard Fillmore, born August 21, 1856.
Arzah Crane came from Burlington in 1814 and settled on the farm now occupied by Shepard Olcott, about one and one-fourth miles north of Asahel Barnes's. His daughter Ellen is the wife of Asahel Barnes. He died at Essex, N. Y., in 1861.
In the following paragraph we give briefly the names and the location chosen by a number of the early settlers, which, with what we have already written, will give the reader a tolerable idea of the town in its early days :
John Murray located upon the farm now owned by Judson Hurd. The Picket family located in the southwestern part of the town, on the lake shore. Jeremiah Day located near "The Corners," but subsequently moved to Can- ton ; among his descendants are Judson and George Day. Levi Hanks, father of William, located in the southeastern part of the town, near Asa Willmarth's; Lyman Hurd, just south of Asa Willmarth's ; Simon Smith, in-the northeast- ern part of the town; Samuel Low, in the eastern part of the town; Eli Squires settled in the northeastern part of the town. Isaiah Clark settled near the center of the town and had three sons, Lyman, Asahel and Isaiah, jr., and. Lyman occupies the old homestead. Asahel is represented by his sons Warren D. and Isaiah, jr., by his son George, and a daughter, Mrs. Byron Smith ; Thomas Dexter, in the western part of the town; Otis Pond upon the place now owned by George Clark. Aaron Warner located upon a farm north of the present residence of C. W. Reed. Justus Smith, father of Byron Smith,
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lived and died about three-fourths of a mile east of the meeting-house at the Center. Joseph Spencer lived in the northeast part of the town upon the farm now occupied by Joseph Barber, and had a son Joseph and a daughter Susan. Andrew Murray settled in the western part of the town. The Sacket family located in the northeastern part of the town; Jeremiah Adams and David White in the northeastern part of the town; Robert Chambers in the western part of the town; Jacob and John Post in the neighborhood of the Willmarths; William Mills in the northeastern part of the town. David Pond settled upon the farm now owned by his son Alvin. Benjamin Norton settled in what is now known as "Nortontown." John Herriman located in the southwestern part of the town, near Hospital Creek, which formerly bore his name.
Town Organization .- The town was organized and the first town meeting held March 29, 1784, when the following list of officers was chosen to govern its affairs : Captain Zadock Everest, moderator ; Colonel John Strong, clerk ; Colonel John Strong, Zadock Everest and Joshua Whitney, selectmen ; Colonel John Strong, treasurer ; Lieutenant David Vallance, constable; Benjamin Paine, Benjamin Everest and Lieutenant Joshua Whitney, listers ; David Vallance, collector ; Colonel John Strong, leather sealer; John Ward and Ebenezer Wright, grand jurors; Joseph Chilson, tithingman; Timothy Woodford, brander of horses; Samuel Strong, pound-keeper ; and Benjamin Everest and David Whitney, fence viewers. It was also voted at this meeting that "Colonel Strong's cow-yard be and is hereby made a pound for the present year." That " the bank of the Lake for this year be Considered as a Lawful fence."
Among important and quaint votes recorded in the town records during the first few years of the town's corporate existence may be quoted the fol- lowing :
September, 1784 .- That the town be divided into two school districts, north and south districts.
1785 .- An early highway was surveyed from Hospital Creek, northward to the south line of Panton to be ten rods wide. Surveyed by David Val- lance.
1789 .-- Survey was accepted of a road from Bridport to Panton, through Addison near Snake Mountain, eight rods wide.
1797 .- Committee of selectmen appointed to "find out the center of the town."
1798 .- Voted " to see if the inhabitants will agree to petition the General Assembly of the State next to be holden at Vergennes, to divide the town of Addison into two distinct towns, making Dead (Creek) the divisional line."
1800 .- Town divided into seven districts.
1801 .- "Voted to divide the town into two parishes."
1812 .- "Voted to divide the town into nine school districts."
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The part taken by the early inhabitants of this town in the wars of the Revolution and 1812 has been described in preceding pages; but it may be added that the descendants of Addison's pioneers fully sustained the records of their ancestors for bravery and patriotism, when the country was threatened with internal war. Men and money were freely supplied for the preservation of the Union, and many fell in defense of their country. The following list gives the names of those who enlisted in the town in Vermont organizations, as compiled by the adjutant-general :
Volunteers for three years credited previous to call for 300,000 volunteers of October 17, 1863 :
J. Q. Adams, D. Barrow, P. Barrow, S. Bachman, C. Bowers, E. Casey, W. D. Clark, G. W. Converse, J. Crowley, L. Davis, G. H. Dobbin, S. Eaton, H. Elmer, W. F. Elmer, E. Fuller, W. Fuller, O. Gordon, F. Harris, G. A. Holcomb, W. J. Hurd, E. Mckenzie, J. Morgan, L. Murray, C. Norton, H. Palmer, C. H. Smith, D. Smith, L. Smith, J. Turney, J. Vanderhoof, O. S. Van- derhoof.
Credits under call of October 17, 1863, for 300,000 volunteers, and subse- quent calls :
Volunteers for three years .- J. Arno, B. P. Bowers, J. Bogor, jr., D. S. Day, E. Dushon, A. H. Harris, I. C. Heath, S. Knight, H. Laptad, J. Miller, jr., A. Mumble, D. Murray, L. Murray, P. Ruin, L. St. Clair, L. Tatro, M. H. Taylor.
Volunteers for one year .- E. Briggs, jr., C. M. Bucklin, D. W. Clark, H. M. Fifield, D. St. Johns, J. F. Todd.
Volunteers re-enlisted .- J. Bovia, J. Daniels, J. Morgan.
Not credited by name .- Two men.
Volunteers for Nine Months .- P. Berges, M. A. Clark, A. Dachno, J. W. Dallison, A. Dayton, C. L. Elmer, H. B. Heustis, P. Finegan, F. King, W. H. Merrill, A. L. Norton, F. Pasno, J. Pecu, C. Riley, C. Sprigg, J. A. Strong, R. C. Whitford.
Furnished under draft .- Paid commutation, D. R. Brown, E. A. Field, O. H. Fisher, F. Morby, V. Norton, B. Smith, L. H. Smith, W. D. Smith, G. H. Sprigg, H. Warner, T. S. Warren, P. C. Whitford.
The growth and fluctuations in the town's population may be seen in the following statistics from the census reports for each decade since 1791: 1791, 401 ; 1800, 734; 1810, 1,100; 1820, 1,210; 1830, 1,306; 1840, 1,229; 1850, 1,279; 1860, 1,000; 1870, 911 ; 1880, 847.
MUNICIPAL HISTORY.
Addison is exclusively an agricultural township. Though one of the oldest and in a historical point of view one of the most important towns in the State, the only settlement within its limits at all approaching the dignity of a village
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is a small cluster of houses in the northeastern part of the town, and known as " The Corners." Here is located the town hall. As early as 1830 there were two stores located here, and the mercantile business was continued down to about ten years ago, the last merchant being Stephen Gregory.
Chimney Point was formerly a place of considerable importance, and bid fair to one day be the site of a flourishing village. But with the advent of the railroad the course of commerce was taken from the lake; the village declined and its once crowded wharf has long since gone to decay. Asahel Barnes, sr., began keeping hotel here at an early date. In 1841 this was taken by George B. Pease, who ran the business about four years and failed, when Asahel Barnes, jr., bought the property and kept the hotel down to about 1861, when he gradu- ally discontinued the business. In 1824 Amos B. Chubb opened a store here, and after a time was succeeded by Byron Murray, who continued the business until 1837. He was succeeded by Rev. Mr. Goodwin, a Methodist clergyman, and by Benjamin C. Needham, down to about 1854, when the business was discontinued.
Asahel Barnes, sr., had a cabinet and clock-shop here a few years. The ferry at the Point was established a few years before Asahel Barnes, sr., came here, and has been continued since. It is now controlled by John Wright, though Asahel Barnes, jr., had it for a number of years prior to 1885.
West Addison is a small hamlet located in the western part of the town.
Town Line is the postal name given a neighborhood on the line between Addison and Bridport.
Postmasters .- The first post-office in the town was established at Chimney Point about 1823, with Amos B. Chubb, postmaster. He held the office about two years, and was succeeded by Byron Murray, and he by Asahel Barnes, sr., who held the office until he went to Burlington, in 1841, when Dr. Prentiss Che- ney had it for a time ; then Dr. David C. Goodale, and finally, in the autumn of 1847, it was taken by Asahel Barnes, jr., who has been continued in the office up to the present time.
At the Corners a very early postmaster was Gideon Seeger. The present incumbent of the office, Miss R. E. Watson, succeeded Stephen Gregory in 1876.
West Addison has for its postmaster Milo Everest.
The Town Line office, only established about two years ago, is held by Elisha Smith.
The Grandview House, located upon the summit of Snake Mountain, was built in 1874 by Jonas N. Smith, the present proprietor. It has an observa- tory sixty-eight feet in height, from which an unexcelled view of the surround- ing country may be obtained, showing quite distinctly the old forts at Ticonder- oga and Crown Point, a fine view of Lake George, South Bay, West White- hall, Lake Champlain from South Bay to Cumberland Head, Crown Point vil-
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lage and furnaces, Port Henry and its two furnaces, Moriah Four Corners, Mo- riah Center, Mineville, Westport, Split Rock, Point Essex, the spires of churches in Plattsburgh, Middlebury, Vergennes, Bristol, North Ferrisburgh, Panton, Bridport, Shoreham, Orwell, Whiting, Leicester, Salisbury, Brandon, Sudbury, the Adirondack Mountains from Fort Edward on the Hudson to their northern terminus, 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.
ECCLESIASTICAL.
A Congregational Church was organized in the western part of the town by Rev. Job Swift, assisted by Rev. Increase Graves, of Bridport, in Novem- ber, 1804, its members being as follows: John Strong, Solomon Butler, Jacob Hindes, Oliver Smith, Lyman Grandey, Ichabod Bartlett, Anna Butler, Mary Ann Swift, Mary Grandey, Eunice Smith, Triphena Henderson, Sarah G. Swift, and Sally Hickox. The church services were held in the old academy, located two miles north of Asahel Barnes's. A few years after the academy was moved about a mile and a half east on to the east road and made into a church. The church has passed away, though the buildings are standing yet. Meetings continued until 1852, Rev. Benjamin Abbott being the last pastor. There is now only one member of this old church in town, Mrs. Wright, daughter of Ichabod Bartlett, now one hundred and two years old. The old academy stood on the place now owned by Daniel Smith, and was once quite an important institution.
The Addison Baptist Church, located at Addison village, was organized by a council consisting of the Baptist Churches of Cornwall, Shoreham, Panton, and Pleasant Valley, in 1797, having twelve members. Rev. Samuel Rogers was the first regular pastor. The present church was erected in 1817, though it was repaired and greatly improved in 1849. It is a pleasant wood structure, having accommodations for 250 persons, and valued, including grounds, etc., at $4,000. The society now has fifty members, with Rev. J. H. Archibald, D. D., pastor, who was installed in October, 1883. Its deacons are Rufus Smead and Asa Willmarth, and Rufus Smith, superintendent of the Sunday- school.
The Methodist Church, located at West Addison, was organized by Rev. H. Meeker, the first settled pastor, in 1825, with six members. A church build- ing was erected at an early date, which did service till 1881, when the present structure was erected, which will comfortably seat 200 persons, and is valued, including grounds, at $3,000. The society has about fifty members, but is now without a pastor and regular service.
The Advent Christian Church of Addison, located in the eastern part of the town, was organized July 5, 1850, by about thirty members from the Bap-
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tist Church, who had united with others who held the truth of the Advent faith. Rev. Pliny B. Morgan, the first pastor, was mainly instrumental in effect- ing the organization. The church building was erected in 1849, costing $1,- 000, and is valued, including grounds, at $1,200, and is capable of accom- modating 250 persons. There is no regular pastor serving the church at present.
CHAPTER XVII.
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF BRIDPORT.
B RIDPORT lies upon the lake shore, the center one of the county's western tier of towns. It is bounded on the north by Addison ; on the east by Weybridge and Cornwall ; south by Shoreham, and west "by the center of the deepest channel of Lake Champlain." The charter deed which brought the township into existence was signed by Benning Wentworth, the royal gov- ernor of New Hampshire under King George III, October 9, 1761, granting to Ebenezer Wiswall and sixty-three others " a tract of land six miles long, from north to south, and seven miles broad from east to west, bounded on the west by the waters of ' Wood Creek'"; for such was the early name of this part of Lake Champlain. This charter gave these sixty-four grantees, most of whom were residents of Worcester county, Mass., 25,000 acres of land, the same that makes up the area of the Bridport of to-day, for no material changes have been made in the town's original boundary lines.
The surface of this tract which England's erratic king granted to " his lov- ing subjects," for the " due encouragement of settling a new plantation in our said province," is generally level, with perhaps just hills and rolling land enough to lend a pleasing landscape contour. The soil is principally a brittle marl, or clay, with loam upon the higher land. The timber in the eastern part of the township is mostly maple and beach, and in the western part oak, with some white and Norway pine along the border of the lake. Few streams or springs of importance are afforded, while the water, except that of a few good wells, is somewhat distasteful for drinking or domestic purposes in some parts of the town on account of a strong impregnation of epsom salts, making it taste brackish; for this reason rain-water is extensively used. The streams are low and sluggish, affording no good mill facilities; on this account manufac- turing has never been carried on here, the inhabitants being almost entirely devoted to farming and stock and sheep-raising, the latter occupation latterly and for many years taking precedence. Lemon Fair River is the largest stream. It crosses a portion of the southeastern part of the town, where it flows through a heavy swamp and is joined by Birchard's Creek. It is also
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swelled by one or two other small tributaries. Two streams rise in the south- ern part of the town, called East and West Branches, respectively, flowing north into Addison, where they unite to form Dead Creek. These, with the exception of several small brooks which empty into the lake, are the only streams in the township.
Settlement and Organization .- The first deed of land recorded in Bridport bears date May 20, 1766. It was given by Colonel Ephraim Doolittle, and reads as follows :
" For six pounds to me in hand paid by Daniel Hemenway, of Shrewsbury, Worcester county, Mass., to six rights of land granted by his Majesty King George III, under seal of the province of New Hampshire, situate on Wood Creek or South Bay Waters, on the east side thereof, near Crown Point and Ticonderoga forts. The rights granted to Nathan Baldwin, Samuel Crawford, Nahum Willard, Samuel Brewer, Noah Jones and Jacob Hemenway, which I, Ephraim Doolittle, have received deeds of release from the original proprie- tors, which township of lands are now in the province of New York, set my hand and seal, May 20, 1766, in the sixth year of his Majesty's reign.
" EPHRAIM DOOLITTLE."
This deed, it seems, was the initiatory step in a scheme formulated by Colonel Doolittle to colonize the town on something after the co-operative plan. He succeeded in inducing a number to locate in the southwestern part of the town, where they began improvements, holding all things in common, but not bringing their families to the new territory. This plan, however, proved abortive. Fever and ague prevailed extensively, and after a time all had left except the colonel, who spent several seasons in this vicinity and in Shoreham. It will be noticed, also, that in this, the first deed recorded in the newly-granted township, intimation is given of the pending land-title troubles between New York and the "New Hampshire Grants," or Vermont.
In 1798, two years after the failure of the plan above noted, the first per- manent settlement was begun. Philip Stone, afterwards colonel, then twenty- one years of age, came from Groton, Mass., and commenced improvements on the lot of land he had purchased. Soon after, two families, Richardson and Smith, settled upon land held under the New York titles, and three, Towner, Chipman and Plumer, under New Hampshire titles.
The second permanent settler was Samuel Smith. In the autumn of 1770 he started from New Jersey with his family and effects in a "Jersey wagon," drawn by a yoke of oxen. This conveyance they used until they arrived at Skenesboro (now Whitehall, N. Y.), where they disposed of the land-convey- ance and took passage in a bateau. Journeying down the lake until they reached the township of Panton, they landed and located upon the land sub- sequently owned by Nathan Spaulding, November 9, 1770. Here they re- mained until 1773, when they removed to Bridport.
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Not long after Mr. Smith and his family took up their residence here, such uncertainty, disquietude and unsafety arose among the settlers, in consequence of the quarrel between the government of the province of New York and the people of the "Grants," and especially upon the reception of the news of the approach of Burgoyne's army, in 1777, that most of the families in the town, especially those who had settled on or near the shore of the lake, left their homes and moved to more quiet localities. A few remained, however, and among the number was the family of Mr. Smith. Although frequently an- noyed by the impertinent demands and hostile demonstrations of the "York State men," they succeeded in maintaining full possession of their domicile, living in peaceful and friendly relations with the Indians, who frequently visited the settlement, until a short time previous to Carleton's raid in 1778. On receipt of the news of the approach of that irregular and destructive band, Mr. Smith's family, with the exception of Nathan and Marshall, after selecting what articles could be best carried on their backs and in their arms, the bundles being apportioned according to the age and strength of each, left their home and started through the forest to the stockade forts at Pittsford, in Rutland county. Nathan and Marshall remained for the purpose of securing, if possi- ble, and secreting the fall crops which were then on the ground. The family left in September, though the hostile party did not actually arrive until the Ist of November. On the 4th of that month Nathan and Marshall, with a man by the name of Ward, were captured and taken to Quebec, while improve- ments and buildings erected in the settlement were destroyed by fire, one dwelling only in town escaping the general disaster. After a weary period of nineteen months' imprisonment in Canada, the young men succeeded in making their escape, and, after being once recaptured, finally reached the forts at Pitts- ford. On their long journey thither they stopped one night in Bridport, stay- ing in the abandoned house of Asa Hemenway, the only one that had escaped the ravages of the enemy. Nathan spent some three years in the neighborhood of Tinmouth, and in the spring of 1784 married Mrs. Wait Trask, formerly Miss Wait Allen, and immediately came on and settled upon the farm in Bridport, where he died about fifty years after. Soon after Nathan settled here he in- vited his father and mother to reside with him, where they remained during their life, the death of the former occurring on the IIth of November, 1798, aged seventy-eight years ; and the latter on December 22, 1800, aged seventy- four years.
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