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James Ball and Perley Starr, together, bought the original right of John Fassett, jr., near where Rodney Field lives, and early began improving the same. They left in a short time.
Sometime before April, 1783, Captain Eleazer Dudley and Abijah Peet, both from Woodbury, Conn., settled in town, the former on or near the old school lot about where Mrs. Maria Abell now resides, and the latter farther north. Thomas Dixon came from Castleton about this time and settled on the Benson line, next north of Mr. Peet's. John Howe, of Woodbury, Conn., Elijah Tryon, of Granville, Mass. and Elisha Frisbie, John and Henry Cramer, lived in the east part of the town. Timothy Lindsley and others came the same year from Connecticut and were closely followed by Heman Barlow, Cor- nelius Brownson, David Sanford, Samuel Lee, Amos and John Mckinstry and others. John Howe occupied the present farm of John Moon, and Elijah Tryon settled on the place still occupied by his grandson, Cyrus W. Tryon. In 1786 Benjamin and Cooley Weller and Benjamin Chippann located on the west side of Bald Mountain on the place since known as the Benjamin farm. James McCotter, from Pennsylvania, came this year and erected the first grist-
1 A. N. Adams's History of Fairhaven.
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mill on the place now owned and occupied by Michael Blake. The first saw- mill stood on the lower fall on Hubbardton River, and is now known as the Hunt mill.
In the early part of 1785 Charles Rice came to Fairhaven from Brookfield, Mass., and was first constable in that town in 1793 and 1794. Late in 1795 he removed to Westhaven and kept a tavern on the place occupied a few years ago by Nathaniel Fish, and now occupied by Mrs. Maria Abell. His wife, Abigail, sister to Isaac Cutler, of Fairhaven, died June 19, 1820. He died in Canada, whither he had removed before the War of 1812. His tavern sign read :
" Nothing on this side, and nothing on t'other ;
Nothing in the house, nor in the stable either."
Dr. Simeon Smith came from Sharon, Conn., in 1787, being compelled to retrieve [his declining fortune in a new country. He built a saw-mill on Hub- bardton River, and operated a forge on the Falls, afterwards owned by Gen- eral Jonathan Orms. He leased the lot owned by Captain Eleazer Dudley, and erected there the house afterwards occupied by Major Tilly Gilbert, across the road from Dr. Smith. He was selectman for the old town of Fairhaven in 1789, '90 and '91 ; representative in 1789, 1792 and 1797 ; was the delegate for the town to the State Convention at Bennington in January, 1791 ; in 1788 was elected one of the assistant judges of the Rutland County Court, and in 1792 was probate judge for the district of Fairhaven. At his death, on the 17th of February, 1804, at the age of seventy years, he bequeathed to the town of Westhaven the then generous sum of $1,000, to be kept at interest for sixty years, and afterwards devoted to the following uses : "To have one good grammar school kept in Westhaven near the village where I now live, the over- plus for the benefit of other schools and the support of a gospel minister, well- educated and regularly instructed in the ministry, and if any over for the sup- port of the poor and needy in the said town of Westhaven, under the direction of the civil authority and the selectmen of said town."
William J. Billings, a hatter, came from Greenfield, Mass., in 1810, and re- sided in town until 1834, when he removed to Fairhaven to live with his daughter, Mrs. Joseph Sheldon. He died December 30, 1850. He had de- scendants now living in this vicinity.
On the 30th of June, 1780, Oliver Church, from New Marlboro, Mass., bought of Samuel Allen, of Tinmouth, the right of Nathan Clark in the old town of Fairhaven, but did not settle until about ten years later. In 1801 he removed to the farm first settled by Hiram Barlow, where he remained until his death in 1826. He married Lucy Barker in 1800, who survived him until 1859. He represented the sister towns in 1803, '06, '07, '10, 'II and '19; and held the office of justice of the peace many years. Descendants of his are still living in town and in different parts of New York. Harvey Church, of Fairhaven, was his nephew.
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Samuel Adams came from Suffield, Conn., in 1792, with his wife, daughter and four sons, and settled on the place which has remained in the family ever since. His son, Horace Adams, came into possession of the place upon his father's death, and became an influential citizen, representing the town for three years. He died March 28, 1866, at the age of eighty-two years, leaving the property to his son Samuel.
Oliver Hitchcock, born at Bristol, Conn., March 12, 1776, came to this town from Great Barrington, Conn., in 1816; went back in 1818, and in 1820 returned and stayed. He soon came to be well known as the proprietor of the "Gleason stand." Willard, Miriam, Oliver F., Alman and Rollin, all his children, resided in town for years, the first named coming in 1832 and estab- lishing a salesroom for the "Terry mantel clock " near the Apollos Smith place. The only one now remaining in town is Rollin, who was born on the farm he now occupies September 24, 1822.
Nathaniel Dickinson, who came to Fairhaven as early as 1790 from Massa- chusetts, and kept store and tavern - the old Lyon tavern - there, resided in Westhaven, near Dr. Simeon Smith's, as early as 1809, and died there in July, 18II. His wife was Sally Gilbert, only sister of Major Tilly Gilbert, of Fair- haven.
Stephen Fish, born in 1787, came to Fairhaven, about 1810 to reside with his uncle, Joel Hamilton. He shortly afterward removed to Westhaven, where he carried on the old Minot farm until 1827, residing meanwhile at the foot of the long hill on the old turnpike, where he kept the turnpike gate. In Sep- tember, 1819, he purchased, in company with Heman Stannard, 100 acres, which he afterwards owned in full and which he sold to Otis Hamilton in May, 1835. He died December 3, 1849.
Asa Goodrich resided at an early day near Jonathan Orms's mill. He had three sons, Erastus, Ansel and Alvin, the first of whom was an apprentice of General Orms, the second a tanner, and operated the old Beriah Rogers tan- nery in Fairhaven, and the third was drowned at seven years of age near Car- ver's Falls about 1799.
Major Tilly Gilbert, who came to Fairhaven in 1788, and became promi- nent there, removed to the old Minot house, so called, in this town, in 1832, and remained until his death, September 5, 1850, at the age of seventy-nine years. Among his descendants is his son Benjamin Franklin Gilbert, still liv- ing in Fairhaven at the age of eighty-nine years.
The Minot farm before mentioned is so called from Christopher Minot, who resided there as early as 1805, and afterwards owned a strip of land in Fair- haven, including the site of Ira C. Allen's marble dwelling-house. In 1806 he presented the town of Fairhaven with the bell which still swings in the bel- fry of the village school-house. He died in Westhaven, August 22, 1824, in his seventy-first year. His wife, who survived him, was Catherine Cutler,
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widow of Dr. Simeon Smith. His son-in-law, John Thomas, afterwards kept a store here.
General Jonathan Orms, a carpenter and mill-wright, came from Northamp- ton, Mass., about 1788, by the way of Pittsfield, Vt. He first engaged in building a forge for Dr. Simeon Smith on the west side of the falls, which he afterwards purchased, and on which he erected the saw-mill and grist-mill known so well as "Orms's Mills." He was employed by Solomon Cleveland, in 1796, on Lyon's mills in Fairhaven. About 1790 he married Eunice Hines, at the house of Timothy Goodrich, and removed to Westhaven, on the ground lately owned by Seth Hunt, building the two-story dwelling which still stands there in 1804. He afterwards resided on the south side of the highway in Fairhaven. During the War of 1812 he was appointed general-in-chief of all the militia in Vermont, having his headquarters at Burlington. His wife died in Westhaven March 27, 1824, and was buried in the cemetery just north of his house. He was afterwards twice married. In 1842 he removed to Castle- ton Corners, where he died August 8, 1850, aged eighty-six years, and was buried beside his first wife in Westhaven. His descendants, who are numer- ous, reside in Whitehall and Jamestown, N. Y., Cleveland, O., and elsewhere.
Dan Smith, nephew to Dr. Simeon Smith, was born January 28, 1759, in Suffield, Conn., and came from Sharon, Conn., to Westhaven as early as 1787. He resided near the town line. In the summer of 1801 he leased the iron works in Fairhaven village ; in July, 1803, he purchased them, and in October, 1807, sold them to Jacob Davey. During the War of 1812 he built a forge and nail factory on the falls in this town, and also made nails on the Fairhaven side of the road, opposite the old Smith tavern, now Ransom Wood's. He died in Panton, February 15, 1833-
Apollos Smith, senior, a brother of Dan Smith, removed from Sharon, Conn., to Troy, N. Y., and thence to Westhaven about 1787, where he opened the celebrated "Smith Tavern," kept for so many years by his son, Apollos, and now kept by Ransom Wood. He was born in Suffield, Conn., December 5, 1756; married Anna Gay, December 3, 1778, and died February 25, 1810. His children were: Augustus, Apollos, Simeon, Horace, Augustus 2d, Corne- lia, Henry G. and James.
Upon the division of the old town of Fairhaven this town was immediately organized, with William Wyman first town clerk. The other officers are not known, as the records cannot be found. At a meeting held in " March ye 10 day 1800," Oliver Church was chosen moderator; William Wyman, town clerk; Oliver Church, Isaac Howe, Joel Dickinson, selectmen ; John Howe, town treasurer ; Artemas Wyman, constable; John Barne, Elijah Tryon, Will- iam Wyman, listers; Noah "Preast," grand juror; Hezekiah Heler, Isaac Stevens, Samuel Adams, jr., Barnabas Lerdie, Simeon Downs, Isaac Howe, David B. Phipponee and Elisha Orton, surveyor of highways; Ebenezer Ste-
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vens and Person Kelsy, fence viewers; Lemuel Hyde and Clement Smith, pound-keepers; Ashel Cone, sealer of leather ; "Captain" Dan Smith, sealer of weights and measures; Joel Jones, tythingman.
At the same meeting a tax of one cent on a dollar was laid to hire preach- ing.
Business Interests .- Aside from the forges and mills on the falls already mentioned, there has never been any very extensive manufacturing interests in this part of the town ; owing, no doubt, to the proximity of Westhaven to the thriving village of Fairhaven, with its vastly superior privileges, and, since the opening of the railroad, its additional shipping facilities.
About 1790 the first store in town was started on the knoll northeast of the residence of J. G. Briggs, by Smith & Woodward ; the business being afterwards continued by Charles Rice and Bohan Shepard, and earlier still by " Shipherd," Rice & Higgins.
Lemuel Hyde and John Bronson also kept a store near the present resi- dence of Mrs. Adelaide Hitchcock. Previous to 1800 this firm was dissolved, and the trade continued by John Van Allen and others for a few years.
About the year 1802 Erastus Coleman established a carding-machine and clothing works on the upper falls of Hubbardton River. This business he continued for about thirty years, when he erected a woolen factory on the same site, and operated it until 1844.
Rollin Hitchcock is authority for the following account of former business operations in town :
The saw-mill now operated by J. P. Hunt was built for a woolen factory about 1834 by Isaac Norton, of Benson, and Hiram Coleman, son of Erastus, of Westhaven, and served the purposes of its construction about twenty years, William Eastwood succeeding Mr. Norton not far from 1850, and afterward owning the entire interest. The building was then unoccupied for a time, until a Mr. Vowers, of Warren county, N. Y., converted it into an ax-helve and spoke factory. J. P. Hunt went in with him, and bought him out about twelve years ago.
The public house now kept by Ransom Wood was first opened by Apollos Smith, sr., before 1790, and afterwards kept by his son, Apollos, jr., until near the middle of the present century. One Fayette Smith then succeeded him, remaining only five or six years, and followed by a Mr. Booth. Ransom Wood came into possession of the property about thirty years ago.
The first saw-mill in town, as before stated, " the Hunt mill," was erected on the lower fall of Hubbardton River in 1785. There have been three other saw-mills on that stream in town ; the first being a saw-mill erected by Erastus Coleman about one and one-half miles above the Hunt mill ; Quartus Torrey operated one between the spoke factory site and the Coleman mill, and Isaac Norton ran one between the Torrey mill and the spoke factory.
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There used formerly (about 1850) to be a union store kept at what is called the village. Before that and as early as 1828 or 1830 Harry Palmer kept store there, being followed by Quinton, Church & Torrey four or five years. After- wards Church & Quinton failed.
Hunt's cheese factory, T. G. Hunt proprietor, was built in 1875, and man- ufactures over 40,000 pounds of cheese per annum.
J. & A. Adams & Co.'s boat yard, located on East Bay, was established more than thirty years ago. They manufacture from one to six canal boats every year, and employ from five twenty-five men.
The grist-mill and saw-mill of Nelson O'Donnell has been in operation for ten or twelve years ; L. B. Cook is the present proprietor of the spoke factory.
Post-office .- It is probable that the post-office in Westhaven was estab- lished in the first quarter of the present century, with Apollos Smith, jr., as first postmaster. The office was then in the old Smith tavern, where Ransom Wood now lives. It was then moved into the neighborhood of its present lo- cation, and kept by Ransom Armstrong for about fifteen years. John Adams and E. F. Baker followed successively, for about five years each. When James Field was appointed the office was removed to about a mile east of the resi- dence of Mrs. Hitchcock. In about a year Moses Field succeeded James and brought the office back to its former site. Newton 'Sawyer succeeded Moses Field and remained in the office about eight years; Perry W. Smith followed him about one year, when the present incumbent, Rollin Hitchcock, was ap- pointed in the spring of 1884.
Professional .- There are no physicians in town at present, though in times past such able physicians as Drs. Heler, Armstrong, Sanford (now of Castleton) and Palmer, have had extensive practice in town. The only attorney at pres- ent in town is Hon. R. C. Abell, who was born on the 17th of October, 1831 ; studied law with William Barnes, of Albany, N. Y., and admitted in March, 1856. He has always practiced in Westhaven and vicinity.
Military .- In the Revolutionary War the territory of Westhaven, em- braced within the limits of the original town of Fairhaven, was too thinly peo- pled to furnish any conspicuous chapters to the history of that war. In the War of 1812 the inhabitants actively interested themselves on the side of their country. It is probable that the town united with Fairhaven, which started a body of troops for Plattsburg. They were informed before they had reached their destination that the battle had been fought. In the last war, the Rebel- lion, the following names are accredited to Westhaven, sufficiently illustrating the readiness with which the inhabitants responded to the several calls for men:
Volunteers for three years, credited previous to the call for 300,000 volun- teers of October 17, 1863. - Oscar O. Cook, Henry F. Davis, co. C, 11th regt .; William Edwards, co. B, 9th regt .; Timothy W. Lamphere, 11th regt .; Fred- erick Mayhew, co. I, IIth regt .; Norman Pratt, co. C, 11th regt .; Edgar W. Sager, co. B, 5th regt .; Willard J. Sisco, co. B, 9th regt.
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Credited under call of October 17, 1863, for 300,000 volunteers and subse- quent calls. Volunteers for three years .- Dorwin A. Forbes, John Grant, 9th regt .; William Jones, co. I, 17th regt .; Thomas Marlboro, 8th regt .; Lewis F. Montgomery, cav .; Doran H. Orms, 9th regt .; John W. Owens, co. F, 4th regt .; Shepard C. Parker, co. E, 8th regt .; Frederick Plumtree, 7th regt .; Theodore R. Smith, 9th regt .; Lewis B. Vananden, co. C, 11th regt.
Volunteers for one year. - Charles Allard, Harvey W. Harrington, 11th regt .; John Humphrey, co. C, 7th regt .; James Johnson, 9th regt .; Matthew M. Kelley, co. C, 11th regt .; Daniel Rearden, co. C, 7th regt .; Francis Rivers, IIth regt .; Joseph Rivers, Joseph White, 9th regt.
Volunteers re-enlisted. - Frederick Mayhew, Edgar W. Sager.
Volunteers for nine months. - Henry J. Adams, Windham H. Eastwood, Samuel A. Fish, John Q. Gilbert, George D. Hunt, Eugene S. Lee, George Offensend, Herbert C. Rice, Samuel B. Rice, Gardner S. Roberts, Theodore R. Smith.
Furnished under draft and paid commutation. - Walter C. Brockway, An- drew B. Cole, Emery Wood.
The present officers of the town of Westhaven (1885) are as follows : Vol- ney N. Forbes, town clerk and treasurer; Rodney C. Abell, John S. Moore, Isaac Jakway, selectmen ; W. L. Hitchcock, William Preston, Edward Adams, 2d, listers; Charles Ingalls, constable; Willard Hitchcock, Henry J. Adams, David Offensend, auditors; James Kelley, Orville O. Hitchcock, fence viewers ; Robert Doig, David Offensend, Justus Briggs, grand jurors ; Rodney C. Abell, town agent ; W. L. Hitchcock, superintendent of schools; James Kelley, over- seer of the poor.
The population of the town has varied according to the following figures : 1791, 545 ; 1800, 430; 1810, 679; 1820, 684; 1830, 724; 1840, 774; 1850, 718; 1860, 579; 1870, 713; 1880, 492.
Ecclesiastical. - The First Baptist Church of Westhaven was organized in 1803, with a membership of nine persons. William Ellis Patterson was their first pastor. The society now has a membership of between thirty and forty, with no pastor. The church edifice was erected in 1831 at a cost of $2,000, and has a seating capacity for 200 persons. The property is valued at $5,000.
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CHAPTER XLIV.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
A DAMS, JOSEPH, the youngest of the seven children of John Adams, esq., was born in Londonderry, N. H., February 1, 1802. His mother was Mary Ann Morrison, a daughter of Joseph Morrison, esq., of Londonderry, and the second wife of John Adams.
The settlers of the old town of Londonderry were Scotch people, Protestant Presbyterians, who fled from Argyleshire, Scotland, early in the seventeenth century and made their abode in the north of Ireland, taking part there, not a few of them, in the memorable siege of London- derry in 1688, which had a marked effect on the subsequent history of Protestantism. Thence they came to America early in the eighteenth century and were known in this country as the "Scotch-Irish." Dr. Belknap, in his history of New Hampshire, describes them as "a pecu- liarly industrious, frugal, hardy, intelligent and well-principled people, who constituted a valu- able acquisition to the province." They brought with them from their ancestral home, and retained for many years, their peculiar Scotch customs, habits and speech. The strongly marked physical characteristics of the Adamses and Morrisons attested the purity of their national origin.
Mr. Adams removed with his parents, in the autumn of 1806, to Whitehall, N. Y., where he learned to work with his father on the farm and at the trade of boot and shoe-making, with such advantages for an education as he could command, until he was of age. On the 6th of November, 1823, he married Stella Miller, daughter of William Miller, esq., of Hampton, N. Y., and a sister of Rev. William Miller, widely known subsequently as " Prophet Miller."
In January, 1825, he took up his residence in Fairhaven, Vt., building a house on West street and carrying on his trade as shoemaker, but removed in a few years to a central part of the village, where he erected a house and shop and carried on an extensive wholesale and retail business, employing many journeymen and apprentices and supplying most of the mer- chants from Massachusetts to Canada with ladies fine shoes. He sold out in Fairhaven in 1843 and removed with his family to Racine, Wisconsin, where he spent about a year. Re- turning to Fairhaven, he engaged in the spring of 1845, in company with Alonson Allen and William C. Kittredge, in building a mill and sawing Rutland marble, a business then in its infancy. There being no railroad, the marble had to be hauled from the quarries at West Rutland in blocks, and when sawed into slabs, as most of it was at first, hauled again to the canal at Whitehall, and thence shipped to various points for use. This was a large under- taking for those days, and required a relatively large amount of capital. Mr. Kittredge soon withdrew from the firm. Mr. Allen being extensively engaged in the production and manu- facture of slate, then just begun, the lahoring oar of the marble business fell to Mr. Adams. For two years the current set strongly against him. Much of the marble was unsound and worthless, and the immense outlay was unremunerative. To overcome this embarrassment required the closest application, untiring energy and perseverance, qualities inherent in the Scotch blood and physique of Mr. Adams. In 1851 the business had so far improved that they rebuilt and enlarged the mill, and, in company with William F. Barnes, of West Rutland, opened a new quarry, which proved in the end of great value. Mr. Ira C. Allen joined the company in 1852 ; Mr. Alonson Allen withdrew in 1854, and the firm then became " Adams & Allen," which continued until 1869, when, having sold the quarry at West Rutland, Mr. Adams purchased Mr. Allen's interest in the mill and continued to run it in connection with his son, Andrew N., and his son-in-law, Divid B. Colton, until his death, February 26, 1878. Mr. Adams was president of the Washingtonian Temperance Society, organized in Fair- haven in 1841 with over five hundred members. He was a leading member of the Odd Fel- lows in 1851-55 ; was chairman of the directors of the Park Association in 1855-56 and con- tributed largely to the erection of the park. He took an active part in building the school- house and town hall in 1860 and frequently proposed and advocated the introduction of public water works. He was the original mover in the establishment of the First National Bank of Fairhaven ; was one of the first and largest stockholders ; was chosen a director in 1864 and became its president in 1873, holding the office until his death. He represented the town in the Legislatures of 1854 and 1855, being an active and prominent member.
While his opportunities for an education were only ordinary, yet he was not an uneducated man, hut like many others of his time, was self-educated. He knew what was in many good books, being naturally of an active mind, with a genius for philosophy and mechanics, which
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led him always to inquire thoroughly for the causes and grounds of every opinion or statement. He was little inclined to accept anything upon authority, and from a somewhat extensive acquaintance with men, as well as from his own personal study, was well informed in history, in constitutional and international law, in trade, mechanics and science. He was an indepen- dent and fearless thinker in politics and religion. He early espoused the cause of the slave and was among the first subscribers and readers of the National Era, an anti-slavery journal edited by John G. Whittier at Washington in 1846-48, when slaves were bought and sold at public auction in the capital of the nation. He freely questioned and publicly combated cur- rent traditions, and alone, by his own study and reason, arrived at and defended rational opin- ions of the Bible, which were pronounced heretical by his friends, but which are now widely held and sustained by the critical scholarship of cyclopedias and reviews. He always had " the courage of his convictions," and so great was his confidence in what he deemed to be true and right that, while admitting the equal privilege and freedom of others, he yet made personal enemies by saying openly what he disdained to say covertly. But he possessed a most forgiving and tender heart, and would as soon do a kind service for an enemy as for a friend. Aiming always to be just, with pride in honor and honesty, he delighted in generosity.
During the last two or three years of his life he endured much pain, but was composed and cheerful and met death without a fear, surrounded hy all that devoted, loving children and grandchildren could bring to his comfort. Writing of his death at the time, a friend says : " For more than half a century he has been closely identified with the business interests of Fairhaven, and has been one of its most respected and public-spirited citizens. * *
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