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General Timothy F. Chipman, from Sheffield, Mass., aided in the town sur- veys in 1783, and then settled on the farm now owned by Clement Fuller. He was born in Barnstable, Mass., on February I, 1761, and died in Shoreham May 17, 1830. He was descended directly from John Chipman, who came to this country from Dorchester, England, in 1631. Timothy F. Chipman entered
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the American army in the Revolution in 1777, as substitute for his father, who was obliged to support a large family. He served in the retreat of the Amer- ican forces before Burgoyne. He married Polly, daughter of Captain Stephen Smith, on the 24th of May, 1786, and became the father of two sons and nine daughters. He kept a public house in Shoreham for years. He commanded a company of Vermont volunteers on the way to Plattsburgh, but was a day too late to take part in the battle.
Stephen Barnum came in 1784 from Lanesboro, Mass., and was followed by his family in 1785. He located on a large farm embracing land now owned by Loren Towner, and raised a large family of children. He was great-uncle to Elmer Barnum. He was born in 1757, and bore an active and honorable part in the War of the Revolution. He died here on August 24, 1834, aged seventy-seven years.
Smith street derived its name from four brothers named Smith who settled on that road. They emigrated from Nine Partners, N. Y., and came here from Manchester, Vt. Stephen Smith built a log house in 1784, on the place now owned by Orson Martin, and brought his family here in 1785. Deacon Eli Smith came also in 1784, and in 1785 located on the farm where Widow D. C. Smith now lives. He was in the battle at Stillwater, and beheld the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga. He was born on November 10, 1751, and died on June 16, 1816. Major Nathan Smith in 1792 settled on the farm now occupied by Mrs. Voss. He was in the battle of Bennington, and with Benjamin Vaughan was the first to scale the breastworks in pursuit of the enemy. He died before 1800. Amos Smith, a carpenter and joiner, came here in 1793; two years later opened a store in a house owned by Jordan Post, and about 1798 lived on Smith street. About 1808 he went to Canada, where he died eight years later. Philip Smith, son of Nathan, came here in 1786 and settled on Barnum Hill. He served as constable and deputy sheriff for several years, and died February 4, 1847, aged eighty-two years.
Timothy Larabee settled first, in 1784, on the farm owned now in part by George S. Larabee, his grandson, and by Orson S. Jones, and sold it to Hop- kins Rowley, in 1792, and went to Georgia, Vt. In 1798 he returned and set- tled on the place now owned by George S. Larabee, though not inhabited. His birth took place in Plainfield, Conn., on July 6, 1753. He came here from Pownal, and died here on August 21, 1831, aged seventy-eight years.
Up to this time the town had remained unorganized, no town officers hav- ing been chosen and no taxes levied except those assessed by the proprietors, for the purpose of constructing roads or bridges, or for supporting schools. The progress of settlement, according to Mr. Goodhue, to the beginning of the year 1786, was so slow that the whole number of families at this time was only eighteen ; and counting five persons to a family, the population did not exceed ninety.
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Among the families who came here between this and 1800 may be men- tioned the following :
Noah Jones moved here with his family in March, 1786, from Worcester, Mass., after having been here two seasons before that. He built a log house on Worcester Hill, on the place now owned by Milan Cook, where he died in September, 1850, aged ninety-two years. Eleazer Holbrook, who came with Jones when but fifteen years of age, remained with him until he was twenty- one, lived then a short time in Bridport, and settled early on the farm now owned by J. T. Stickney. He passed the later years of his life with his son, David Holbrook, in Orwell. In 1790 James Moore settled on the farm now owned by William W. Moore and his mother. Ebenezer Turrill, from Lenox, Mass., built a log house in 1786, near the site of the Catholic Church at the Center, and in 1795, near the same site, he erected the large two-storied house, afterward a well-known tavern by the name of the Hill House. He was born in New Milford, Conn., in 1742, and removed to Lenox in 1759. His son, Truman Turrill, began to keep the old tavern about 1810, and it was after- ward occupied as such by various persons until about 1849. Ebenezer Tur- rill made potash for some time. He held for several years the office of justice of the peace. He died in 1825, in the eighty-fifth year of his age. Daniel and Beebee Turrill, his sons, settled about 1792 on the farms now owned by Milan Cook and Royal Witherell. Thomas and Nathaniel Rich, brothers, from Warwick, Mass., purchased in 1785 a tract of land embracing the present village of Richville. They were great hunters, and were well ac- quainted with this part of the country before they made their purchases. Thomas Rich had before this been to New Hampshire with the purpose of buying land about the falls in Salisbury, Vt., but was a day too late to effect the purchase ; whereupon he proceeded to Middlebury to look at land there in the market, lying north of the falls, but did not purchase there. In 1786 he brought several men to his land in Shoreham, and began clearing the land and preparing for the building of a dwelling and mills. In 1787 he came again, with his brother Nathaniel, and his son Charles, then sixteen years of age, and who became a representative in Congress. Mrs. Andrew Wright, resident about three-fourths of a mile distant, did the cooking for the party. That season Thomas Rich built a saw-mill alone, and did much work on the grist-mill of Nathaniel. The brothers brought their families here in the winter of 1787, and completed the grist-mill in the following spring or summer. Will- iam Jones, from Worcester, Mass., lived for a short time, from 1787, on the farm now owned by James E. Wolcott, but soon after purchased the lot now owned by James F. Moore. He was the grandfather of Elmer Barnum. He died here on November 27, 1833. Asa Jones, also from Worcester, located on the farm now in the hands of Kent Wright, in 1788, and died there on the 2 Ist of April, 1841, aged seventy-six years. Levi Birchard, from Becket, Mass., in
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1787 began to improve the farm now owned by his grandson, Edson A. Birch- ard, and brought his family there in 1789. He died January 14, 1844, aged eighty-four years. Andrew Birchard came from the same place with Levi, and worked for him two years. He first settled on the lot now owned by Zenus Myrick, and afterward on the place which Conrad E. Birchard now owns. He died on December 31, 1857, aged eighty-nine years. Samuel Hunt, a native of Hardwick, Mass., came to Shoreham from Pawlet in 1787, and settled on the farm now belonging to the heirs of Nazro Northrup. He afterward moved on to the farm now owned by B. B. Tottingham, where he died on the 15th of February, 1825, aged sixty-two years. Jeremiah Northrup, from Lenox, Mass., first settled just south of B. B. Tottingham's, and soon after removed to the place now owned by the heirs of Nazro Northrup. He died on the 12th of April, 1840, at the age of seventy-four years. Samuel Northrup, from Lenox, Mass., first carried on his blacksmithing in a small house a little south of B. B. Tottingham's about 1793. In 1815 he removed to the place now owned by Milan Cook, where on the 17th of January, 1839, he died, aged sixty- six years. Deacon Stephen Cooper was born in East Hampton, L. I., June 22, 1746, and came to Shoreham in the fall of 1789, and was distinguished for his Christian meekness and devotion. He died on January 29, 1827. Samuel Hand came in 1789 from East Hampton, L. I., and bought the farm embrac- ing what is now known as Hand's Point. His father, Deacon Nathan Hand, came from the same place in 1790 to live with him. Deacon Hand died on the IIth of May, 1811, aged sixty-four years, and Samuel died on September 13, 1845, aged seventy-six years. In 1787 Gideon Jennings, first from Natick, Mass., and afterward from Bedford, N. Y., settled on the farm in Shoreham which his son, Isaac D. Jennings, now owns. He was a soldier of the Revolu- tion. Silas Brookins about 1788 located on the place now owned by the heirs of Thurman Brookins. In 1795 Ebenezer Hawes, from Worcester, Mass., set- tled on the farm now owned by J. T. Stickney, formerly belonging to Gasca Rich. David Ramsdell came from Warwick, Mass., in 1787, and settled on the farm now owned by Pliny J. Waite. Jeremiah Brown, from Long Island, set- tled on the southwest corner of Mrs. A. R. Minturn's farm about 1790, and afterward built the house in which Edward Harrington now lives, and remained there several years. He died in Benson.
Early Records, etc. - The first proprietors' meeting of which there is a rec- ord was held at the house of Elihu Smith, in Clarendon, on April 28, 1783, Colonel Ephraim Doolittle being chosen moderator. Thomas Rowley was chosen proprietors' clerk, Daniel Hemenway treasurer, and Asa Hemenway col- lector of taxes. Among the measures of the day which may be of interest now were the following :
" Voted, That those Proprietors who have made improvements on the lake shore shall have their twenty-six acres to cover their improvements and no
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more, in equal width with the other lots for their draft in said division, in pro- portion to one right of twenty-six acres as above mentioned. Voted, Mr. Dan- iel Hemenway be a superintendent to oversee the business of laying out of lands voted to be laid out by the Proprietors of Shoreham. Voted, Thomas Rowley, esq., to be the surveyor to lay out the lands voted to be laid out in Shoreham and his wages to be one dollar each day while in service. Voted, To lay a tax of five Spanish Milled Dollars on each right or share of land in Shoreham, to defray the charges of laying out the lands now voted to be laid out, and other back charges against the Proprietary, and that said tax be col- lected by the first day of October next. Voted, That this meeting be adjourned to the sun's rising to-morrow morning. The meeting opened according to the adjournment, on the 29th of April, A.D. 1783. Voted, That one hundred acres be surveyed and laid out as aforesaid, to enclose the place where the saw- mill formerly stood, and the same be set to the right of which Ephraim Doo- little was the original grantee : And it is expected that the said Doolittle cause a saw-mill and a grist-mill to be built at said mill place as soon as possible, and that there be reserved, for the use of said mills, sufficient pond room for the use of said mills forever. Voted, That this meeting be adjourned to the first Mon- day of October next, at one o'clock in the afternoon, then to meet and open at the house of Amos Callender in Shoreham.
"THOMAS ROWLEY, Proprietors' Clerk."
The first town meeting of which there is any record was held for the pur- pose of organizing the town, choosing and qualifying town officers, etc., No- vember 20, 1786. Present : Nathan Manly, esq., justice of the peace ; Thomas Rowley, esq., was chosen moderator and town clerk ; selectmen, Amos Callen- der, Ebenezer Turrill, Eli Smith ; town treasurer, Ebenezer Turrill ; constable, Elijah Kellogg. The remainder were chosen by nomination, to wit: Daniel Newton, Stephen Barnum, John Larabee, listers; Elijah Kellogg, collector ; Stephen Barnum, grand juror; David Russel, Daniel Newton, Nathan Rowley, Ebenezer Turrill, Josiah Pond, surveyors of highways. The above officers were sworn before Nathan Manly, justice of the peace. May 30, 1791 .- A committee of seven was appointed to divide the town into convenient school districts. March 4, 1793 .- A report was received and adopted, dividing the town into eight school districts. March 3, 1823 .- A committee was appointed to build, or otherwise procure, a Poor House, for the reception of the poor, with discretionary power to expend not exceeding Six Hundred Dollars for the same. September 1, 1829 .- The selectmen of the town of Shoreham, Messrs. Kent Wright, Silas H. Jenison, and Isaac Chipman, made a report ascertaining and defining the rights of the town to the common. April 29, 1844 .- A motion being made to approbate Inn-keepers to sell spirituous liquors for the ensuing year, after discussion, it was decided in the negative by vote, 14 to 87. On motion, it was Resolved, That the civil authority be instructed to approbate
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such persons as they may judge expedient, to sell spirituous liquors, by retail, who will pledge themselves to sell only for medicinal and manufacturing pur- poses. Passed unanimously.
Early Roads .- The Old Military or Crown Point road, which passed through the town on its route from Chimney Point, in Addison, to Charles- town (Number Four), N. H., was begun in 1759, by a detachment from the army of General Amherst, but was not for some time completed.
The first road laid out by the proprietors of Shoreham was that which leads over Cream Hill and by the house of Mrs. Luther Parish into Orwell. In early times, at several points it ran farther east than it now does. In 1781 the road was worked which led from Colonel Ephraim Doolittle's to the site of the bridge across the Lemon Fair, at the old De Long place. In 1786 the first bridge at that place was built, and not long after this a road was opened from Shoreham to Middlebury.
The old turnpike road, leading from Bridport to Orwell and Benson, was completed in 1810. The road from Larabee's Point to Middlebury was laid out at different times, each portion finding strong opponents to the straighten- ing process. The road by Richville, to Whiting and Brandon, has also more than local importance.
Lemon Fair River has its source in Sudbury, Orwell, and Whiting, passes through this town, Bridport, and Cornwall, and flows into Otter Creek in Wey- bridge. At Richville a dam extends across the river, which raises a pond ex- tending nearly three miles up the stream, for the supply of mills below. There were at this place in 1860 two saw-mills, two shingle-mills, one grist-mill and flouring-mill, and tannery. Two miles below this place there was also in 1860 a saw-mill and a small works for carding wool and manufacturing cloth.
On Prickly Ash Brook, which flows north from the Great Swamp, Alonzo Birchard then had two saw-mills situated at the falls, and a run of stones in one of the mills for grinding corn. The supply of water here is sufficient to run these mills only in the spring and fall. Earlier still there was a grist-mill which did considerable business. The other streams are small and furnish no water power.
Schools .- The first school in town was taught by a lady on Cream Hill, probably as early as 1785 or '86, a school being kept up in that neighborhood a portion of every summer and winter for three or four years before there was any other in town.
About 1789 a log school-house was built at the "Corners." For several years the children in the Birchard and Larabee districts were sent to school there. A school was also commenced about the same time on Smith street. The log school-house in the Birchard district was built in 1794. Gideon Sis- son, who had a knowledge of the Latin and French languages, taught a school there in 1795, and was employed as instructor several years. Newton Acad-
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emy was incorporated in 1811. The origin of its name in uncertain, there be- ing two suppositions-viz., that it was so called in honor of an early citizen of the town, from whom material assistance was expected, and that the favor of the shade of Sir Isaac Newton was sought. From the time of its organization a school of the usual grade of academies has been kept up, with few intermis- sions. The original cost of the building was $2,000. In 1853, after the col- lection by subscriptions of $1,600, the Newton Academy Association was formed and the property conveyed to them. A boarding-house was then at- tached to the academy building, and an expenditure made of $2,200. Many changes have taken place since then. While the excellent standard of the old academy is maintained, the institution has in a measure laid aside its purely academical character, and is now regarded as a common school with two de- partments. W. W. Eaton is the principal. Counting the academy as two common schools, there are now fourteen schools in the thirteen districts in town.
Military History .- Most of the early settlers of Shoreham were men who, having been actively engaged in the service of their country during the war, were attracted hither by the thrifty forests and fertile, well-watered soil of the territory. The position of Ticonderoga in particular had an important influ- ence on the early settlement of the town.
In the second war between the United States and Great Britain this town contributed more than thirty volunteers, who did honorable service.
During the War of the Rebellion Shoreham maintained the standard of patriotism which the soldiers of former days had established. The following list contains the names of those from Shoreham who joined Vermont organiza- tions in this war.
Volunteers for three years credited previous to call for 300,000 volunteers of October 17, 1863 :
J. Bolton, G. D. Bryant, T. A. Canfield, F. Y. Center, B. S. Clark, W. H. Cowan, J. A. Dana, A. Decelles, E. Denno, M. Denno, S. Denno, T. Denno, J. O. Green, E. Guyette, W. Higgins, G. G. Howe, C. Hunsdon, H. Johnson, E. C. Jones, V. A. Jones, W. S. Jones, J. Keefe, M. H. Keefe, J. Kelly, A. Ladam, H. H. Lambert, G. Lamot, F. Lapelle, Z. Lapelle, H. Lapham, C. W. Lemarder, L. S. Lewis, W. F. Lewis, F. Moore, A. Mosely, O. Nephew, H. Nicholson, H. B. North, A. P. Palmer, C. F. Powers, O. E. Pratt, A. L. Reed, C. B. Sloan, E. P. Sloan, S. Smith, F. Trimble, P. Trudeau, J. S. Ward, J. White, H. J. Wideawake, E. F. Wright, L. Young.
Credits under call of October 17, 1863, for 300,000 volunteers, and subse- quent calls :
Volunteers for three years .- J. Basonait, G. D. Bryant, E. E. Cudworth, W. H. Deming, C. Draper, A. Elger, J. A. Huestis, W. Hurley, M. H. Keefe, P. Ladam, I. N. Lewis, E. Lumbard, J. N. Payne, L. B. Powell, T. Ryan, G. H. Shepherd, G. W. Shepherd, W. G. Willey, T. Wisell, J. Woodward.
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Volunteers re-enlisted .- G. F. Bennett, J. Clair, O. Clair, B. S. Clark, A. Decelles, J. Kelley, K. Morrill, E. P. Sloan, L. Young.
Enrolled man who furnished substitute .- C. E. Bush.
Not credited by name .- Two men.
Volunteers for nine months .- O. F. Atwood, A. Austin, C. A. Bugbee, P. Carney, W. M. Corey, E. C. Cudworth, N. B. Douglass, T. Duchan, I. Farn- ham, B. C. Jennings, E. T. Kellogg, J. W. Knapp, E. Laundre, W. A. Mead, B. Moriarty, S. I. Northrup, P. Sangrah, A. M. Smith, C. Spaulding, J. Q. Stickney, A. J. Towner, D. J. Wright.
Furnished under draft .- Paid commutation, H. A. Bascom, A. J. Carr, E. E. Cudworth, R. S. Kellogg, G. L. Moore, J. Newell, M. Platt, C. C. Rich, J. V. Sanford, C. B. Williams. Procured substitute, E. N. Bissell, J. Frost, H. W. Jones, J. S. Jones, H. C. Mead, P. T. Wolcott.
Present Officers .- The town officers of Shoreham, elected at the March meeting of 1885, are as follows : Town clerk, C. W. Howard, M.D .; selectmen, D. C. Smith (since deceased), L. E. Moore, K. W. Merritt ; listers, J. N. North, Frank Moore, E. G. Farnham ; overseer of the poor, Myron Platt; constable, Elmer Barnum (with jurisdiction of the State) ; auditors, M. Platt, E. Barnum, I. B. Rich ; fence viewers, H. W. Jones, E. Barnum, M. Platt; school commit- tee (Newton Academy), L. E. Moore, James Forbes, H. W. Jones ; treasurer and trustee of public money, V. Rich ; agent to prosecute and defend suits in which the town is interested, H. W. Jones ; grand juror, Irving B. Rich ; super- intendent of common schools, C. W. Howard.
Population Statistics .- The following figures give the population of the town at the several dates when the United States census has been taken : 1791, 721 ; 1800, 1,447; 1810, 2,033; 1820, 1,881; 1830, 2,137; 1840, 1,675; 1850, 1,601 ; 1860, 1,382; 1870, 1,225; 1880, 1,354.
MUNICIPAL HISTORY.
The Center .- The towns of New England were generally laid out by the proprietors and settled by the earliest inhabitants with a view to the erection of a village at the " center of the town." This plan has many advantages, as the place for holding town meetings, the building of houses of worship, the establishment of stores, and the opening of inns, being equidistant from the four corners of the orthodox township, afford equal facilities to all the inhabit- ants. It often happens, however, that the water privileges and available sites and manufacturing enterprises are situated at one side; the stores follow the shops, and the center of business activity is thus separated from the " center of the town." Otherwise all the towns would need and have but one village and one post-office. This is exemplified in Shoreham; for though the Center will always maintain the importance due to its territorial position, it will have an able rival in Richville, because of its manufacturing importance, as it formerly
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had at Larabee's Point and Watch Point by reason of their commercial advan- tages.
The first house at the Center was built of logs by George Leonard as early as 1786, and stood on the site of the house now occupied by Levi Wolcott. About 1798 he built the frame house now occupied by Richard H. Preble. He was a native of Germany, and a soldier in Burgoyne's army. He was a tailor, and for years the only one in town.
Early Merchants .- The first regular store at the Center was opened in 1802 by Thomas J. Ormsbee, from Warwick, Mass., who did a good business for about two years. Other early merchants here were Alvin and William Wol- cott, about 1804 and '05 ; Barzillai and Eleazur Cary, from 1808 to '19; Dr. Luther Newcomb, from 1805 to'15 ; Spaulding Russell where Lynde Catlin now lives, from 1818 to '27; Truman Turrill, from 1816 to '23; Samuel H. and John Holley, one or two years following 1819; Ansel Chipman, about 1820; Perez Sanford in the same place previously; Hiram Everest, from 1816 to about '31 ; David Hill, James Turrill, and Levi Thomas, from 1830 to '32; Moses Seymour, 1829-30; Delano, Hitchcock & Co., from 1830 to '32; A. C. & E. S. Catlin, from 1832 to '36; Kent Wright, from 1832 to '49; E. S. & L. Catlin, a short time in 1839; Atwood & Jones, from 1843 to '46; E. S. At- wood, for many years after 1846; Brookins & Birchard, 1849 to '50; union store, from 1851 to '58; Wright & Hall, 1858 and '59; Hall & Hunsden, 1859. The store now occupied by C. N. North was built by Kent Wright about 1838, and was occupied by Brookins & Birchard, the union store, E. S. Atwood, Atwood & Son, H. M. Atwood. About 1867 Mr. North went into partnership with H. M. Atwood, and in 1870 assumed the sole management of the business. In the spring of 1880 C. B. Kendall began keeping a hardware and general store below the hotel. In February, 1883, he came into the build- ing now occupied by himself and partner. K. W. Merritt came in with him in April, 1885. The building is an old store, having been formerly occupied by A. B. Catlin. It was built by Hall & Hunsden.
The Professions .- The first lawyer in town was Moses Strong, who prac- ticed at Richville from about 1800 to '10, when he removed to Rutland. Sam- uel H. Holley practiced at the Center from 1809 to '21, when he removed to Middlebury. Udney H. Everest practiced here from 1812 to '45. Samuel Wolcott continued in practice here from 1821 to February 28, 1828, the date of his death. Albert G. White practiced here from 1845 to '47. Charles K. Wright was here from 1847 to '55. There are now no attorneys in town.
The first regular physician in town, Dr. Timothy Page, came from Troy, N. Y., in 1788 or '89. He died here in 1810. Others who have been in prac- tice here in earlier days were Tyler Stickney, from 1798 to 1800 or 1801; John McLaren, 1792 to 1800; John Wilson, at Richville, from 1801 to '22; Erastus Blinn, from about 1819 to '42; William H. Larabee, a short time in
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1802; Nicanor Needham, from 1808 to '47; Caleb Hill, from 1826 or '27 to 33; Nelson G. Chipman, from 1833 to '34; William A. Hitchcock, for more than thirty-five years following 1824; David E. Page, from 1842 to '56.
The physicians now engaged in practice in Shoreham are Drs. Platt and Howard. Dr. William N. Platt was born at Enosburgh, Vt., on the 7th of October, 1849. He received his general education at the Plattsburgh (N. Y.) Academy, and Hobart College, in Geneva, N. Y. He was graduated from the medical department of the University of Vermont, at Burlington, in the spring of 1869, and then took a post-graduate course in New York city. He began to practice in Shoreham in 1870. On the 23d of November, 1880, he was united in marriage with Lizzie L., daughter of Samuel O. Jones, of Shoreham. By virtue of his thorough medical education, scholarly attainments, and fidelity to business he has achieved a highly honorable position among the members of his profession in the county and State. He is president of the Addison County Medical Society, having been elected to that position in 1881. Dr. Charles W. Howard was born on the 4th of December, 1845, at Windham, Vt. He was graduated from Middlebury College in 1872, and from the Med- ical University of Vermont, at Burlington, in 1874. He practiced a year in the hospital in Hartford, Conn., after which he came to Shoreham in 1876. He has also won a high position in the esteem of his fellow townsmen.
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