History of Royalton, Vermont, with family genealogies, 1769-1911, Part 4

Author: Lovejoy, Mary Evelyn Wood, 1847-
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: Burlington, Vt., Free press printing company
Number of Pages: 1280

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By the terms of the charter, within three years from Nov. 13, 1769, or by Nov. 13, 1772, there must be settled within the township of Royalton 30 families, and 900 acres of land must be under cultivation, if we take as an estimate that one-half of the land was arable. It is not likely that a dozen families had settled in town at that date, and even in 1791, over twenty years after the charter was granted, the number of acres of improved land was only 1768. The General Assembly had some ground for stating that the land was vacant, when it meditated the re- granting of it to Danforth Keyes and his associates.

A careful examination of the foregoing charter shows that (1) the petitioners for the land declared it to be vacant and unpatented, (2) that the town was named by said petitioners, (3) that the grant was for 30,000 acres, (4) that the petitioners had had a grant of this land three years before, November 7, 1766, and had had it surveyed before the issuance of the charter, (5) that there were certain reservations, (6) that a yearly rent was to be paid, (7) that the number of town officers and manner of choosing them, and filling vacancies were designated, (8) that certain conditions of occupancy were specified, (9) and that provision was made for a permanent record.

It will be of interest to some, no doubt, to compare this charter with the Vermont charter, which, in accordance with statute law, was inscribed on the first pages of the Proprietors' book of records.

"The Governor, Council, and General Assembly of the Freemen of the State of Vermont,

To all People to whom these Presents shall come Greeting,

Know ye that Whereas Comfort Seaver, Esq., and his Associates our worthy Friends have by Petition requested a Grant of a Tract of unappropriated land within this State in order for Settling A new Plantation to be Erected into a Township, We Have therefore Thought fit for the Due encouragement of their Laudable Designs, and for other Valuable considerations us hereunto moving, and do by these Presents, In the Name and by the Authority of the Freemen of the State of Vermont, give and grant the Tract of Land hereafter de- scribed & bounded unto him the said Comfort Seaver and unto the Several Persons hereafter named his Associates in equal Shares Viz.

Elias Stevens, Elisha Kent, John Kent, Elisha Kent Jur., John Hibbard, James Hibbard, Jedediah Hide (of Royalton) Ebenezer Dewey, Ebenezer Church, Nathan Fish, John Safford, Benjamin Park- hurste, Simon Sheperd, Reuben Parkhurste, Daniel Gilbert, Daniel Rix, John Kimbal, Garner Rix, Ebenezer Parkhurst, David Fish, David Brewster, Robert Havens, William Blackmer, Heman Durkee, Ebenezer

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Brewster, Medad Benton, Nathanel Morse, Robert Handay, Benjamin Day, Timothy Durkee, John Jillet, Adan Durkee, John Billins, Joseph Fish, John Hibbard Jur., John Willcox, Samuel Benedict, Calven Park- hurste, Josiah Wheeler, Joseph Parkhurste, Elias Curtis, Joseph Havens, Johnson Safford, John Stevens Jur., Isaac Morgan, Zebulon Lyon, Nathan Morgan, Daniel Tuller, William Joiner, Martin Tuller, Daniel Havens, Benjamin Day Jur., John Evans, Jeremiah Trescott, Israel Wallow, William Jones, John House, Tilley Parkhurste, Phineas Park- hurst, Jabez Parkhurste, Samuel Clap, and Joel Marsh (of Sharon) which together with the five following rights reserved to the Several uses in Manner following, includes the whole of said Tract or Town- ship Viz. one Right for the use of a Seminary or College; one Right for the use of County Grammer Schools in said State, Lands to the Amount of One Right to be & remain for the purpose of Settlement of a Minister and Ministers of the Gospel in Said Township forever; Lands to the amount of one Right for the support of social Worship of God in said Township, and Lands to the Amount of one Right for the Support of an English School or Schools in said Township, which said Two Rights for the use of a Simenary or College and for the use of County Grammer Schools as Aforesaid, and the improvements, rights, Rents Intrest and Profits Arising therefrom shall be under the Control, Order, direction and disposal of the General Assembly of said State forever;

And the proprietors of Said Township are hereby authorized & impowered to locate said Two rights justly and equitably or quantity for quality in such parts of said Township as they or their Committee shall judge will least incommode the General settlement of said Tract or Township; And the said Proprietors are hereby further empowered to locate the lands aforesaid amounting to three Rights assigned for the settlement of a minister and ministers for their Support, and for the use and Support of English Schools in such and in so many places as they or their Committee shall judge will best accommodate the Inhabitants of said Township when the same shall be fully settled and improved laying the same equitably or quantity for quality which said Lands, amounting to the three last mentioned Rights, when located as aforesaid, shall together with their improvements Rights, Rents, Profits, dues and Intreste remain inalianbly appropriated to the uses and pur- poses for which they are respectively assigned and be under the charge, direction and disposal of the Inhabitants of said Township forever;

Which said Tract of Land hereby Given & Granted as aforesaid is bounded and described as follows, viz. Beginning, at Sharon Southwest corner then North forty Degrees East 496 Chains to Tunbridge, thence North sixty Degrees West 456 Chains to Bethel, Thence South forty Degrees West 496 Chains on Bethel line to Barnard, Thence South Sixty Degrees East 456 Chains on Barnard to the Place of Beginning con- taining 22320 Acres. And that the same be and hereby is incorporated into a Township by the name of Royalton, And the Inhabitants that do or shall hereafter Inhabit said Township are Declared to be Infranchised and entitled to all the Privileges & Immunities that the Inhabitants of other Towns within this state do & ought by the Law and Constitution of this State to Exercise and enjoy. To Have and to Hold the said Granted Premises as above expressed, with all the Privileges, and appurtenances thereto belonging and appartaining unto them and their respective heirs and assigns forever, upon the following Condition and Reservations Viz. That each Proprietor in the Township of Royalton aforesaid his heirs or assigns, shall plant and cultivate five acres of Land and build an House at least Eighteen feet square upon the floor, or have one Family settled on each respective Right or Share

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within the Term of Eighteen Months from the date hereof, on penalty of the Forfeiture of each Respective right of Land in said Township, not so improved or settled, and the same to revert to the Freemen of this State to be by their Representatives regranted to Such persons as shall appear to Settle and Cultivate the Same. That all Pine Timber suitable for a Navy be reserved for the use and Benefit of the Freemen of this State; In Testimony, whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Caused the seal of this state to be affixed in Council this 20th Day of Decr. 1781 and in the fifth year of the Independence of this State

By His Excellency's Command

Thos. Chittenden

Tho. Tolman Dy. Secy.

State of Vermont

Arlington

Bennington County S December 21st 1781

then rec'd and Recorded above Charter Tho. Tolman Dep Sec'ry This is a true Coppy of the Original

Elias Stevens, Props Clerk."

The charter as given is as it stands in the office of the Sec- retary of State. The town of Linfield, sometimes written Lint- field, and Litchfield, will be noticed on the chart of Tunbridge Gore as occupying the territory now covered by Royalton. Slade in his Vermont State Papers gives a list of Vermont towns granted by Benning Wentworth, Governor of New Hampshire, and includes Lintfield (Royalton) as having been chartered Aug. 4, 1763, before the King gave New York jurisdiction over this territory. On an old English map printed in 1774 it is named Linfield. John Kelly, one of the New York grantees of Roy- alton in 1769, also made a list of Gov. Wentworth's Vermont grants, which he swore on Mar. 6, 1771, was taken from a N. H. map, purporting to be an authentic draft of lands granted by Gov. Wentworth in Vermont, with dates of patents, in which list Lintfield did not appear. In the Documentary History of N. Y., Vol. IV, pages 704-707, it states that the copy of charters in the office of the Secretary of State at Montpelier, which was certified to by the Secretary of State of N. H. in 1857 as correct, and supposed to include all grants in Vermont territory, has all towns in both lists except Lintfield.

No further proof of such a grant has been found, though it would seem that it might have been meditated, else it would not have appeared on any map. It was eleven years after the charter is said to have been given, before the English map re- ferred to was printed, and Royalton then was already settled by men taking their holdings from the N. Y. grantees. An appeal to the State Librarian at Concord brought forth the fol- lowing from his assistant, with reference to the statement in N. H. State Papers, Vol. 26, p. 681, which has already been given. "This statement was written by Hiram A. Huse, late of Mont- pelier, and I can add nothing to it. There is positively no evi- dence that such a grant was ever made by the government of New Hampshire." 2

CHAPTER III.

THE PROPRIETORS' RECORDS.

Probably it will never be known whether all of the records of the proprietors under the New York charter have been de- stroyed, or whether some of them do not still exist in musty archives or cobwebbed garrets. The "Proprietor Book" in pos- session of the town deals with transactions after the grant by Vermont only, and has on the fly leaf the date, "February 1781." The first recorded action is as follows :

"Royalton June 5th 1781

at A proprietors Meeting, the Township of Royalton holde at Lut Timothy Durkee one of the Clo'k on sd Day

1 Chose Calvin Parkhurst Moderator

2 Chose Elias Stevens Propt Clark

3 Chose Comfort Sever esqr Tresure

4 Chose Lut Zebulon Lyon Collector

5 Chose Esq Sever Calvin Parkhurst John Hibbard A Perdential Committee

6 Voted that Every Proprietor Shall be Quited in his Possion Except John Stevens and he is to hold one whole Right of Land and no more through the town and that he shall hold Right in Lot No 30 in the Larglotments west side whitch he bought of Hibbard and Adams.

7 Voted that Every man that Can make it Apear that he has Purchased Land and has Paid for the Rite of Site Shall hold all he has paid for and a Proprietors Right beside his paying Charter fee for the hole

8 Voted that all Proprietors that haint no Land in Town shall have the Liberty to pitch one hundred Acres in the individual Lands Lay this Lot Parel with the town Lines North and South 9 Voted that the Widdow Sarah Rude Shall have a Right of Land through the town Except the second hundred of sd Right and that Lot Daniel Billing Son of Benj Billins Shall have that with his paying Charter fees for the same

10 Voted that the Proprietors will Vandue one hundred Acres of Land and that the Purchaser Shall have Liberty to have the first pitch in the undivided Lands and that the perdential Committee shall give the Purchaser A good Deed of said Lot and the Proprietors will keep them from harm

11 Voted that Benj Parkhurst Shall have the Liberty to Pitch one hundred acres of Land in the undivided Lands

12 Voted that Ebenezer Parkhurst Shall have the Liberty to pitch Lot No 2 Larglotment for his Right of Land in Royalton

13 Voted that Elias Stevens shall have a pitch of one hundred of Land in Lot No 6 East side Larglotn on his Right

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14 Voted that Israel Wallow shall have a pitch of his second hundred Acres of his Right of Land in Royalton

15 Voted that Nehemiah Nobles Shall have the Liberty to pitch the second hundred Acres of Land Belonging to William black- mores Right

16 Voted that Samuel Clap shall have the Lot that was pitch for the first hundred acre Lot of the Throop Right in Lue of his first hundred Acre Lot and that the proprietors will Chop four Acres for the sd Clap

17 Voted that the Selectmen Shall Take the Lot that is none by the Name of the Clap Lot and swop with Mr Elisha Kent for thirty acres of Land Adjoining to Leut Benton for a Ministerial Lot and that the perdential Committee shall give Leut Lion a good Deed of the Clapt Lot and the proprietors will save them from harm.

18 Voted that Tilly Parkhurst Shall have a pitch of one 100 in Lot No 31 Town Plot as he bought it of the proprietors at Vandue and gave twenty pounds Old way

19 Voted to Chose a Committee to Receive the Numbers of Lots and Acres of Land belonging to each Proprietor and the Committee here After Chosen shall prepare and Make up a Draft so that each proprietor shall have three hundred Acres of Land Laid out to his Right and that the Committee shall Make A Return to the Next meeting of their Doings

20 Voted Chose Esq Sever Calvin Parkhurst Daniel Rix Joseph Fish & Elias Stevens A Committee to Receive the Numbers and Lots and acres of Land and perseed and Make up a Draft

21 Voted that the Proprietors will sell the Right of Land none by the name of the throop for one hundred pounds hard Money and that the Right be Left in the hands of the perdential Committee hand for sail

22 Voted to Except the Plan as it now stands for our survey, and Lots of Land Laid Down on sd plan of sd Town and Numbers of Acres to Each Lot on sd Plan of sd Royalton

But nevertheless if any proprietor is Not willing to take his Lot as it now stands on the Plan he shall have the Liberty to mesure his Lot and Make Returns to the Committee before the next meeting Otherwise sd plan is to Remain as it now stands

23 Voted to Ajurn this meeting till the 21st Day of this Instant Month at the house of Lut Calvin Parkhurst at twelve of the Clok on sd Day

Elias Stevens Pro Clark"

John Stevens was probably never a resident of the town, but he had bought land and was permitted to keep it, but not allowed an after division. The action of the proprietors as indicated in Section 7, will explain why some of the grantees held more land than others. Several had paid the New York proprietors or their agents for their holdings, they had been the pioneers in clearing land and making roads, and it was deemed only just and fair that they should share equally with other grantees under the new charter. Considerable difficulty, no doubt, was experienced by some in proving that they really had bought the land and paid for it. The deeds of many were burned at the time of the Indian raid, and they had little proof

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to show. They had to trust to the honesty of the original own- ers, and to verbal evidence.

These proceedings indicate that Mr. Throop, probably John Throop, had expected to have a right, perhaps to settle in town. He was a resident of Pomfret and remained there, one of the most influential of its early citizens. They show also, that for some reason Mr. Clapp did not have the lot originally intended for him, or on which, perhaps, he had already settled. Rufus Rude had died before the new charter was granted, and his widow was generously provided for. The land records do not show that she ever had any land. She was sixty-two at the time this right was granted her. Her daughter Sarah married Elias Stevens, and Rufus Rude willed a large share of his property to Lieut. Stevens, with whom perhaps, Mrs. Rude lived, and in that case, Mr. Stevens may have made a pitch on her right.

The "first hundred" in the division of lots was in Dutch Allotment, the second in Town Plot, and the third in Large Allotment. The most desirable lots had been taken previous to the grant of the Vermont charter, and the grantees who had not already settled in town, had necessarily to take less valuable lots. Doubtless, some of the grantees had had no deed of their land, but had taken a lot with the hope or understanding that they would be quitted in possession after clearing the land and build- ing homes. Comfort Sever, as related in another place, is an example of this class. It was to the interest of the New York proprietors to secure a certain number of virtual settlers to conform to charter requirements, and to enhance the value of their property.

Just how the lots were cast is not stated. From accounts of drafts in other towns it is learned that the names were writ- ten on pieces of paper and put into a receptacle. Then one person read off a number, and another drew out a name from the box, and so on until all the names had been drawn out. In the Hartford records it is stated "the first shall make his pitch by monday Next and get the two first letters of his Name on the bound tree under the Number that is on the bound tree with a certificate from recorder their hand to be Delivered to the Clark." A similar method was doubtless followed here, and had become so well known then that it did not need specific direc- tions. The names of the owners were on trees, and some of them, possibly, can be found today by sharp eyes.

In granting the charter, the Assembly considered the cases of non-residents. If the land was held chiefly by such a class, it was in reality vacant land, and subject to grant. The proprie- tors of Royalton, at their first meeting did not encourage such holding of property, and in the cases of the Blackmer and

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Throop rights, dealt with them stringently. William Blackmer was a resident of Barnard.

They met a second time on June 21st :

"1 Voted that the Committee that was to Make up the Draft shall Make Report at the Next meeting

2 Voted to Chose A committee to see that the Land is Cut for Mr. Clap as twas Voted Last meeting Chose Jo. Parkhurst Esq Sever Elias Stevens Benj Parkhurst & John Billins a Committee to see to the Choping Done

Voted to Ajurn this meeting till the 28th of this Instant Month 4 at the house of Lut Timothy Durkee At one of the Clok on sd Day Elias Stevens Pr Clark"

They met according to adjournment, and the committee re- ported the holdings of those who owned their land. This list shows who claimed to own land before the Vermont charter was issued, and not long after the destruction of the town. A number had not received the allotted 300 acres, and the com- mittee reported that they had made a "Lotry to be Drawn for the same." John Hibbard, Jr., Daniel Rix, Mr. Day, Mr. Clapp, and Mr. Lyon were chosen to draw the "Lotry." The result of the draft is shown in the list by "d." placed before the num- ber of acres. The abbreviations used in condensing the list are A. for acres, D. for Dutch Allotment, L. for Large Allotment, T. P. for Town Plot, N. for North, S. for South, E. for East, W. for West, M. for Middle, d. for draft, and m. d. for missed draft, in which case the lot was cast later. The arrangement is, first, the name, second, the number of acres, and third, the lot. Benedict, Samuel-128 A .- 32 D .; 100 A .- 16 D .; 100 A .- E. 4 L. Benton, Medad-200 A .- W. 5 L .; 25 A .- 26 D .; m. d. 100 A .- 9 T. P. Billings, John-255 A .- 19 & 20 T. P .; 100 A .- W. 41 L.

Blackmer, William-100 A .- E. 27 L .; 100 A .- W. 33 L .; d. 100 A .- M. 13 L.

Brewster, David-100 A .- M. 54 T. P .; 100 A .- 30 D .; 100 A .- E. 21 L. Brewster, Ebenezer-309-46 T. P. (D .? ).

Church, Ebenezer-80 A .- 3 D .; d. 100 A .- E. 15 L .; d. 100 A .- 24 D. Clapp, Samuel-100 A .- M. 39 L .; 100 A .- W. 27 L .; d. 100 A .- 23 T. P. Curtis, Elias-200 A .- 29 & 34 D .; 100 A .- W. 21 L .; 100 A .- W. 32 L. Day, Benjamin-167 A .- W. 34 L .; 100 A .- E. 14 L .; d. 40 A .- W. 8 L. Day, Benjamin, Jr .- 100 A .- 14 D .; 100 A .- E. 25 L .; 100 A .- M. 6 L. Dewey, Ebenezer-260 A .- 4, 5 & 12 D .; m. d. 50 A .- N. W. 28 L.

Durkee, Adan-100 A .- M. 36 L .; 100 A .- E. 19 L .; d. 100 A .- E. 28 L. Durkee, Heman-100 A .- N. 53 T. P .; 175 A .- E. 30 L .; d. 25 A .- M. 32 L. Durkee, Timothy-260 A .- 53 T. P .; d. 40 A .- M. 12 L.

Evans, John-225 A .- 27 & 29 D .; d. 75 A .- M. 32 L.

Fish, Nathan-100 A. 15 T. P .; 100 A .- E. 31 L .; d. 100 A .- W. 12 L.

Fish, David-100 A. 18 T. P .; d. 100 A .- W. 29 L .; m. d. 200 A .- 13 & 22 T. P.

Fish, Joseph-100 A .- W. 54 T. P .; 200 A .- 10 & 11 D.

Gilbert, Daniel-100 A .- 19 D .; 80 A .- 2 D .; d. 100-E. 33 L .; 20 A .- 17 D. (Cut off by Sharon line.)

Gillett, John-100 A .- W. 36 L .; 100 A .- W. 31 L .; 100 A .- M. 33 L.

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Handy, Robert-100 A .- W. 19 L .; 100 A .- M. 8 L .; 100 A .- N. E. 22 L. Havens, Robert-137 A .- 37 D .; 100 A .- W. 35 L .; 100 A .- 3 T. P .; d. 100 A .- E. 7 L.

Havens, Joseph-75 A .- 36 D .; 100 A .- 44 D .; 100 A .- M. 4 L.

Havens, Daniel-142 A .- 42 D .; 200 A .- W. & M. 23 L .; 100 A .- 18 D.

Hibbard, John-204 A .- 28 & 29 T. P .; d. 100 A .- W. 24 L.

Hibbard, James-253 A .- 37 & 38 T. P .; d. 47 A .- M. 29 L.

Hibbard, John, Jr .- 228 A .- M. 27 & 36 L .; 100 A .- M. 7 L.

Hide, Jedediah-100 A .- E. 40 L .; d. 100 A .- W. 20 L .; d. 100 A .- M. 28 L.

House, John-128 A .- 32 T. P .; d. 100 A .- E. 27 L .; d. 100 A .- W. 15 L. Joiner, William-100 A .- W. 17 L .; 100 A .- M. 19 L .; 100 A .- M. 15 L. Jones, William-100 A-9 D .; 100 A-M. 20 L .; m. d. 100 A .- 8 T. P.

Kent, Elisha-280 A .- 10 L .; d. 20 A .- M. 25 L.

Kent, Elisha Jr .- 100 A .- E. 39 L .; 200 A .- E. & W. 9 L.

Kent, John-100 A .- 45 D .; 80 A .- 1 D .; 100 A .- 16 T. P.

Kimball, John-50 A .- E. 8 L .; 128 A .- 35 T. P .; 100 A .- 26 T. P .; (?) 32 A .- 34 T. P.

Lyon, Zebulon-100 A .- E. 54 T. P .; 100 A .- E. 20 L .; 100 A .- W. 14 L. Marsh, Joel-100 A .- W. 37 L .; m. d. 100 A .- E. 24 L .; m. d. 66 A .- N. 30 T. P .; m. d. 36 A .- S. W. 28 L.

Morgan, Nathan-170 A .- M. 5 L .; 25 A .- 26 D .; d. 100 A .- 17 T. P .; d. 50 A .- M. 25 L.

Morgan, Isaac-100 A .- 35 D .; 50 A .- 31 D .; 8 A .- N. E. & S. E. 1 L .; d. 50 A .- M. 29 L .; d. 100 A .- M. 27 L .; d. 100 A .- E. 32 L.

Morse, Nathaniel-209 A .- 20 & 21 D .; 100 A .- W. 25 L.

Parkhurst, Reuben-100 A .- E. 41 L .; 100 A .- W. 4 L .; 100 A .- 10 T. P. Parkhurst, Benjamin-108 A .- 4 T. P .; 100 A .- 30 T. P .; 100 A .- M. 41 L.

Parkhurst, Ebenzer-300 A .- 2 L.

Parkhurst, Jabez-167 A .- E. 34 L .; d. 100 A .- E. 39 L .; m. d. 33 A .- 17 D.

Parkhurst, Phineas-200 A .- 26 L., (on the river) ; m. d. 100 A .- 23 D. Parkhurst, Joseph-176 A .- E. 16 L .; 100 A .- W. 6 L .; 50 A .- 31 D .; d. 34 A .- M. 25 L.

Parkhurst, Tilly-265 A .- E. 1 L .; 100 A .- 13 D.

Parkhurst, Calvin-134 A .- W. 16 L .; 100 A .- S. E. 22 L .; 25 A .- 26 D .; d. 40 A .- W. 8 L.

Rix, Daniel-100 A .- 38 D .; 100 A .- 43 D .; 32 A .- 34 T. P .; 25 A .- 26 D. Rix, Garner-100 A .- W. 22 L .; 100 A .- M. 26 L .; d. 100 A .- 14 T. P.

Safford, Johnson-100 A .- S. (?) 26 L .; 128 A .- 33 T. P .; 64 A .- 34 T. P. Safford, John-100 A .- W. 22 L .; 100 A .- 25 T. P .; d. 100 A .- 24 T. P. Sever, Comfort-180 A .- 11 & 12 T. P .; 100 A .- 40 D .; d. 20 A .- W. 8 L. Shepard, Simon-195 A .- 7 & 8 D .; d. 100 A .- E. 13 L.

Stevens, John-300 A .- W. 30 L.

Stevens, Elias-100 A .- W. 1 L .; 50 A .- E. 5 L .; 100 A .- E. 6 L .; 100 A .- 41 D .; 100 A .- 28 D.

Triscott, Jeremiah-72 A .- 15 D .; 100 A .- E. 23 L .; d. 100 A .- M. 24 L .; d. 28 A .- M. 12 L.

Tullar, Daniel-244 A .- 38 L .; m. d. 56 A .- 7 T. P.

Tullar, Martin-100 A .- N. 18 L .; 100 A .- E. 12 L .; 100 A .- M. 21 L. Waller, Israel-100 A .- 6 D .; 100 A .- W. 39 L .; 100 A .- M. 14 L.

Wheeler, Josiah-100 A .- 25 D .; 100 A-E. 36 L .; 100 A .- M. 31 L.

Wilcox, John-100 A .- M. 37 L .; 100 A .- E. 35 L .; 100 A .- W. 7 L.

Nathan Kimball, John and Johnson Safford, Daniel and Garner Rix held nearly 1000 acres of undivided land, which makes it difficult to determine just which lots each held, but the

ROYALTON

TOWN PLOT

South 57% 30' East 618 Chains

DUTCH ALLOTMENT

College Right 300 Acres

Samuels

William Jones

John Kent

Daniel Havens 42

Robert Havent 37

Samuel Benedict 32

John Evans 27

Elias Stevens 22

Parkhurst

Benj. Day

David Fish 22

Warner Rix 14

Amma Smith 6

SIMPSON

Daniel Rix 7

DIaniol 38

Nathaniel Alger 33

Etids Stevens 28

Phineas Park hurst

Daniel Gilbert

Joteph Fish 10

Daniel Gilbert 2

Tine

Samyel ClaPP

Nathans

Daniel Tutier

Joseph Havens 44

Elia & Curtis 39

Elias Curtis 34

Evans 29

Ebenezer Church 24

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15 Fish

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John Kent

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Timothy Durkee

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Nathan Morgan 17

Miedad Benton 9

Stephen Billings 2

Ebenezer Brewster 40

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Nathaniel Morse 20

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History of Royalton, Vermont, with family genealogies, 1769-1911, Part 4

Author: Lovejoy, Mary Evelyn Wood, 1847- Publication date: 1911 Publisher: Burlington, Vt., Free press printing company Number of Pages: 1280

Author: Lovejoy, Mary Evelyn Wood, 1847-
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: Burlington, Vt., Free press printing company
Number of Pages: 1280