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in 1841 by Rev. John Dudley. They were followed by the Rev. Thomas Canfield and Rev. Sidney Holman. During the time the latter was pastor dissensions arose among the members and there has been 110 settled minister since, and no meetings have been held since 1878. By the will of Major Charles Jarvis the church was to receive the in- terest on $1,500 to support preaching, if religious services were held twenty-six Sundays in the year. The interest of this fund goes now to the Home Mission.
The Methodist Episcopal Church of Perkinsville was organized in 1838 with 124 members. The church was built in 1836, and Rev. Silas Quimby, the first pastor, had a class there since 1835. The church has been supplied by the General Conference from that time to 1889, when Rev. J. S. Little took charge; but owing to decrease in menibership, which is now fifteen, no services are being held there.
The Baptist Church of Perkinsville was organized May 28, 1835, by a council of ministers, Rev. David Burroughs being installed as pastor. Barney Bigelow was elected deacon, and J. M. Aldrich, clerk. The church building, a brick structure, was erected in 1832, and previous to this time was used by the Episcopal and Congregational societies. The first meeting of the Baptist society was held June 12, 1835, and the first person was baptized on the 14th of that month. The Rev. Mr. Bur- roughs was dismissed August 6, 1837, and Rev. William M. Guilford filled the pulpit till November, 1839, when he was succeeded by Rev. J. Freeman. In 1841 Rev. Theodore H. Lunt began to preach, and had charge of the congregation until the fall of 1842. An invitation was extended in February, 1843, to Rev. William M. Guilford, asking him to again fill the pulpit, which he accepted and continued till 1847, when he removed to Newport, N. H. During this time Mr. Guilford was principal of the Perkinsville Academy. The next minister was Rev. F. Page, from 1847 to 1849, and the following two years Rev. Luke Sher- win filled the pulpit. From the organization of the church to the present time different ministers have divided their time between the Baptist churches at Felchville and at Perkinsville. From February 1, 1852, to January 27, 1856, the Rev. Charles L. Frost supplied the pulpit, and for the next four years meetings were held only twenty-six Sundays in the the year, the society being under the charge of Rev. J. Freeman. On
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February 1, 1860, Rev. Nathaniel Cudworth was installed and continued to preach until his death, August 2, 1870. For the two following years there was no settled minister. The society at this time had a member- ship of forty-three. The Rev. William H. Rugg began his labors in January, 1873, but on account of ill-health was obliged to resign Octo- ber 2, 1881. For over two years the church was then without a pastor, but in May, 1884, the Rev. William H. Stewart took the charge and re- mained until December 1, 1886, when the present minister, Rev. Henry M. Hopkinson, was installed. The present membership of the church is eighty-five.
Rev. Nathaniel Cudworth was born in Putney, Vt., January 2, 1814, and was ordained to preach in his native town in 1841. Previous to this time he studied theology at Hamilton, N. Y., for two years, but was compelled to relinquish his studies on account of ill-health. Before coming to Perkinsville he supplied the pulpits at Putney, Jamaica, North Springfield, and Ludlow. His ill-health obliged him to cease his labors at the latter place, where he resided until 1860. He represented that town for two years in the Vermont Legislature. He married Maria Bennett and had a son and a daughter.
The Corners Church Society .- This society worships at a meeting- house located at Ascutneyville, where the first meeting was held June 27, 1846, at which time it was voted that it should be a union church There being $1,220 pledged towards building an edifice, a committee consisting of John H. Billings, James Weston, and Amasa Gay was ap- pointed to have charge of the construction. It was also resolved that the majority of the stockholders should decide of what denomination the service should be. The corner stone of the church was laid August 14. 1846, and on the 19th of November of that year it was dedicated. Elder Harding, of Springfield, preached the sermon. The original stockholders were John H. Billings, Daniel Haskell, Amasa Gay, James Weston, Charles Mather, Elijah Whitmore, Giles W. Clark, Reuben M. Weston, Jonas B. Davis, Pliny Gay, Franklin Norton, William P. Hatch, J. R. Haskell, Samuel Warren, Isaac Litchfield, and Lysander M. Rice. The Rev. Freeman became the first pastor and remained until 1850, when he was succeeded by Rev. Moses Kimball, who remained until 1867. Since that time there has been no regular minister, though services have been
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held regularly. Services are held on alternate Sundays of the Congre- gationalist and the Methodist faiths.
The Congregational Church of Ascutneyville was formed in 1869, and the Revs. J. Q. Bittinger and George Byington supplied the pulpit till the latter part of 1870, when Rev. Franklin Butler was hired and filled the position until 1875. The next incumbent was Rev. R. D. Searle, who remained till 1877. A grandson of Consul Jarvis, the Rev. Jarvis Richards, became the supply in 1879, remaining until 1880. The Rev. Moses Wells was in charge the early part of the year 1883, and the lat- ter part of the same year Rev. Frank Tompkins supplied the pulpit, con- tinuing until 1887, when he was succeeded by the present incumbent, the Rev. Sanford S. Martyn. The membership is twenty-eight.
Post-Offices, Early Stores, etc .- The first post-office established in Weathersfield was at " The Bow," previous to 1800. Among the later postmasters were Bailey Bartlett, Hollis Howard, who was succeeded in 1861 by the present incumbent, Miss Louisa C. Danforth.
There was a store and a tavern kept here, and George Lyman built the first frame house and kept the first store in the town at this point. There are at the present time at the Bow six dwelling houses and a church.
The second post-office in Weathersfield was established at Greenbush in 1820, in the northwest part of the town. George Potwine was ap- pointed the first postmaster, and was succeeded in 1827 by Reuben Squires. He held the office until 1835, when John Spafford was ap- pointed and continued until 1841. He was succeeded by George White, who kept the office until 1850, when it was removed about two miles south and called Upper Falls. There was a store kept at Greenbush as early as 1818, by Foster Henry; also a tavern as early as 1815, by George Potwine. Isaac Eddy, an inventor, about this time erected a building where he experimented with perpetual motion. He afterwards converted it into a printing and copper-plate engraving establishment, publishing wall maps. This building in 1838 was made into a church, though there was no organized society or settled preacher. It was torn down a few years ago.
When the post-office was removed to Upper Falls Japhet F. Warner was made postmaster. At this point in 1836 John Dunbar began build-
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ing a cotton-mill, which was operated in 1844, and employment given to thirty hands. This mill burned down in 1848, and a store, which was carried on there at that time, has since fallen into decay. Roswell Downer became postmaster in 1860, and in 1878 Charles Amsden was appointed and the office removed to Amsden.
Amsden is a small hamlet located in the northwestern part of the town, on the west bank of a stream known as Mill Creek, which rises in the town of Reading and empties into the Black River about a mile and a half east of Perkinsville. At Amsden is located the only water privi- lege there is on this stream in the town of Weathersfield. As early as 1782 Levi Stearns built a saw-mill on the east bank A man named Culver afterwards built a saw and grist-mill, which was improved by Joseph Spafford. None of these are now in existence. In 1838 Abel Page built a grist-mill on the west bank of the stream, which was pur- chased in 1848 by John Howard. On March 20, 1849, Charles Amsden came to work for John Howard in this mill, and two weeks later pur- chased the property, he being then not quite seventeen years old, and having only about one hundred dollars cash capital. During the follow- ing year he began to trade a little in the mercantile line in his mill, and the business rapidly increased. At this time there were but two dilapi- dated buildings where now stands the village of Amsden with its thirty buildings, twenty of which are dwelling houses occupied by Mr. Ams- den's employees. Mr. Amsden, by his business enterprise and energy, blasted away rocks, filled up frog ponds, and on the village site there now stands a school-house, a large store, a blacksmith shop, a saw and grist-mill, which was built in 1869, a little south of the old mill site, filled with modern machinery, a circular saw, besides wood-working machinery.
On the east bank of the stream, about a quarter of a mile below the village site, are located three lime quarries. They run along the side of the stream for about half a mile, then towards the interior of the town about a quarter of a mile. Before 1849 little had been done towards developing this industry, though there had been some work done on two of the quarries. Soon after this Mr. Amsden obtained an interest in the quarries and subsequently purchased them entire, and has averaged shipments of eight thousand barrels of lime yearly, and given employment to about twenty hands.
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Mr. Amsden was born in West Windsor, May 6, 1832, and married Abbie Craigue, and has a daughter, Mary Melvina, wife of Charles E. Woodruff, of Woodstock, Vt.
Perkinsville .- A post- office is located in the southwestern part of the town, and in early days was called Duncanville, after Nahum Duncan, who was the first store and tavern-keeper at that point, and lived on the hill where George S. Alford now keeps a hotel. Perkinsville is named from James Perkins, a Boston capitalist, who became interested in the mill. The first postmaster was John Kidder. J. Field Chilson, R. Henry, and Martin J. Bixby (the present occupant) have filled the po- tition since. There are at present, besides the interests mentioned else- where, a store, quite a number of dwellings, two churches, and a popu- lation of about two hundred in the lower and upper villages.
Perkinsville has two water privileges on the Black River. Previous to 1830 there was on the privilege located at the upper village a saw- mill built by Benjamin Chilson, and a small woolen-mill, erected by Sewall Kennedy and Solomon Davis, which, in that year, was enlarged by Mr. Perkins, mentioned above. He died suddenly on a journey to Boston, and the mill then passed into possession of Joseph Williams & Co., who manufactured a fine line of broadcloth. The next owners were Prentiss & Lawrence, and in 1848 Alexander Pope purchased the mill. He was succeeded by Ruel T. Warfield, who disposed of it to his broth- ers, S. R. and A. L. Warfield, and they sold to Moody Proctor. In the latter part of 1868 Calvin W. Shattuck, Samuel J. Whitton and Thomas Proctor formed a partnership and purchased the mill, but owing to losses sustained in the flood of 1869 this firm was dissolved and the property passed into the hands of Whitton & Call. On the death of the foriner, in 1873, Joseph A. Call purchased the entire plant and continued the business until 1886, when the mill was shut down. During this time light cotton goods, sheetings and print clothis were manufactured. Em- ployment was given to about forty hands. There is a fall here of twenty- five to twenty-seven feet, it being the highest dam on the Black River. Mr. Call died in 1889, and in consideration of the town exempting the property from taxation for five years from April 1, 1890, his son, Ed- win I. Call, agreed to start the mill at its full capacity.
On the privilege at the lower village there was built in the fall of 1798 a grist mill by Captain John Williams. He sold the property in 1805
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to his son, J. R. Williams, and Nahum Duncan. In 1826 the site was owned and occupied by Francis Nichols, who suffered loss by fire. The next occupants were the Woodbury brothers, John, George and Daniel.
There was erected in 1838 by Francis Nichols and Francis Kidder a brick mill, 160 feet long, 40 feet wide and four stories high. It contained eight sets of machinery and had a capacity for manufacturing 750 yards of cassimere daily. Employment was given to 150 hands. The busi- ness was carried on in the name of the Ascutney Manufacturing Com- pany. This company was unfortunate and the property was bought in 1839 by Mr. Skinner, of Boston, for $48,000. It was totally destroyed by fire in November, 1839, being insured for $81,000. The privilege was afterwards occupied by Messrs. Nichols, Stevens and Williams, at different times, but was finally sold to Samuel Alford, who began the lumbering business. He sold to L. Darling, who manufactured stoves, but the buildings were again destroyed by fire. The site was then pur- chased by David A. Wheeler, who erected a grist-mill, which was burned January 8, 1883, and was rebuilt in that year by Melvin G. Robinson, who carries on the business at present, employing about fif- teen hands. The mill is filled with wood-working machinery. Chair and carriage-stock, lath, shingles and lumber are manufactured.
In 1854 Martin J. Billings began prospecting for soapstone, and opened up the ledge located near Perkinsville, known as the upper ledge. Through the efforts of Asa Wentworth, of Bellows Falls, a stock com- pany was formed under the name of the Hawks Mountain Soapstone Company, who continued the prospecting and erected a steam mill in about 1857 at the ledge, and began to manufacture register frames, sinks, cisterns, and wash tubs. They continued the business until 1864, when the property was purchased by L. B. Darling, of Pawtucket, R. I., who conducted the business under the name of the Windsor County Soapstone Company. Employment was given at that time to twenty- five or thirty hands. This company failed in 1869 and the plant, under a mortgage foreclosure, was placed in charge of Edward Dean and Ira Holden ; but the Springfield Soapstone Company was formed, bought the mortgages and worked the ledge for a number of years, when the property came into court on a question of liquidation, and has been worked and owned since 1884 by Charles Williams, of Manchester, N. H.
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The ledge known as the lower ledge was opened a few years after the upper ledge, and was leased by Gardner & Brown, but, the quality of stone being poor, it was abandoned. It is now operated by parties re- siding in Francestown. N. H. The manufacture of soapstone stoves was begun in Perkinsville in 1852, and continued thirty years by Henry & Dodge. The building used by them was formerly a fulling-mill, afterwards a bobbin-mill. It is located on the Black River, and is now used by Charles Williams in which to saw soapstone.
Weathersfield Center, located in about the center of the town, at the present time consists of a few dwellings and a church. It was made a post- office in 1855, and James W. Goldsmith was made its first post- master. He held the office till about 1883, when he was succeeded by his son, James H. Goldsmith, the present incumbent. In early days at the Center various kinds of business were carried on. More than sev - enty years ago a store was located on the green in front of the church. It was burned in 1843, at which time it was run by John Phinney. Pre- vious to his time it was kept by Eber Gridley and Edwin Stone. A blacksmith shop was run by Horace Cook in 1821, and after his death by James W. Goldsmith. Mr. Cook also kept a tavern, and Carlos Cole was engaged in the same business A tannery was carried on by Mr. Mosely, and for a number of years a distillery was in operation. A hat ter named Dickens and a shoemaker also plied their trades here.
The following physicians resided at different times at the Center : Dr. Redfield, Dr. Oliver Pierce, and Dr. Angier. A soldiers' monument was erected at the Center by the town.
The fourthi post-office located in Weathersfield was in the northeast corner of the town in about 1826, and was known by the name of " The Corners "; it was called by some " Weathersfield Four Corners." Dr. Furber was the first postmaster, and he was succeeded by Amasa Gay. A store was kept there as early as 1829 by Lemuel Hitchcock, and now there are about a dozen dwellings, two stores, a church, a blacksmith shop, and saw and grist-mill. Some twenty-five years ago, through the efforts of some of the inhabitants, the name of the hamlet was changed to Ascutneyville.
Cemeteries .- The first burying place in the town was located on the road near the farm owned now by Luther P. Warren. In 1887 Na- thaniel Stoughton and John Williams gave to the town a lot of land
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consisting of three acres just west of the Crown Point road for a bury- ing-place. This has been enlarged to eight acres and contains many fine monuments, among which may be mentioned those of Charles Amsden, Samuel Whitton, Samuel Alford, Daniel Mudgett, and Napo- leon B. Roundy. The first person interred in these grounds was Jane, daughter of Gideon and Lydia Chapin, who died on March 14, 1790, aged three years and twenty-four days. There are four other burying- places in town, viz .: one about a mile north of the " the Bow"; one at Ascutneyville ; one near what was once Greenbush ; and the other about two miles south of Weathersfield Center.
Schools .- The town is divided into thirteen school districts, each having a suitable school- house. The first schoolmaster in town was Captain John Coffin, of Cavendish. The second was Dr. Redfield. Since 1850 every school district has decreased in population excepting the eighth.
Hotels .- In the early days the traveling public were accommodated in various parts of the town, as before stated. The Hawks Mountain House, at Perkinsville, was run as a hotel for a number of years, and then closed and used as a private residence. Afterwards it was opened again by David F. McIntire, who continued to run it until his death. It is now closed. Since 1886 George S. Alford has kept a hotel at Perkinsville. The Downer's Hotel is situated in a lovely spot in the northwestern part of the town, and was built in 1830 by Samuel Downer, who died in 1838. The house has been kept by his son Ros- well since 1841.
Important Events .- The first white child born in the town was Dor- cas, daughter of Eliphalet Spafford.
By an act of the General Assembly John Hubbard was given the right to hold a lottery in the town for the purpose of raising $150 to erect a brewery in Weathersfield, October 26, 1789. By a similar act on November 3, 1791, Abraham Downer and John Hubbard were given the privilege to raise £200 to aid them in erecting a brewery.
During the spring and summer of 1791 there were over seventy cases of small-pox in the town, nine of which were fatal. In the epidemic of spotted fever in 1812 the town lost seventy of its inhabitants.
In 1841 an academy was opened at Perkinsville under the superin-
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tendence of A. P. Chase and S. A. Bullard. It was conducted success- fully for a number of years.
On July 23, 1867, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Gowing were murdered at their home in the east part of the town for their money, by Hiram Mil- ler, who was executed for the crime at Windsor, July 25, 1869.
On January 31, 1867, De Witt C. Gardner killed on Pine Hill, near Downer's, a male panther seven feet in length, two feet nine inches high, and weighing 1211/2 pounds.
List of Supervisors of Weathersfield during the time it was a part of Cumberland county, N. Y .: 1772, Dan Tuttle ; 1773, William Richard- son ; 1774, Hezekiah Grout; 1875-76, Oliver Kidder ; 1777, Eliphalet Spafford.
Selectmen .- 1778, Israel Burlingame, Asaph Butler, Levi Stevens ; 1779, Israel Burlingame, Levi Stevens, Edward Grannis ; 1780, Israel Burlingame, Edward Grannis, William Upham; 1781, Asaph Butler, Eliphalet Spafford, Ambrose Cushman; 1782, Nathaniel Stoughton, Joshua Dart, Henry Tolles ; 1783, Nathaniel Stoughton, Henry Tolles, Joseph Hubbard ; 1784, Waters Chilson, Joseph Hubbard, Oliver Cham- berlain ; 1785, Hezekiah Grout, Colonel John Boynton, Colonel Elijalı Robinson ; 1786, Colonel John Boynton, Nathaniel Stoughton, Heze- kiah Grout; 1787, Henry Tolles, Waters Chilson, Oliver Kidder ; 1788, Joseph Hubbard, Oliver Kidder, Asa Field; 1789, Waters Chilson, Jo- seph Hubbard, John Boynton; 1790, Joseph Stoughton, Joseph Hub - bard, Waters Chilson; 1791, Joseph Hubbard, Waters Chilson, Lieuten- ant Thomas Prentice ; 1792, Joseph Stoughton, Nathaniel Stoughton, Samuel Steel ; 1793, Joseph Stoughton, John Bennett, Gideon Chapin ; 1794, John Bennett, Gideon Chapin, Jonathan Whipple ; 1808-09, J. Boynton, Zenas Clark, Aaron Hall; 1810-12, Zenas Clark, Aaron Hall, Silas Bigelow; 1813-14, Oliver Whipple, John Bennett, Silas Bigelow; 1815, John Bennett, Oliver Whipple, Nahum Duncan ; 1816- 17, John Bennett, Nahum Duncan, Benjamin Tolles ; 1818-19, Aaron Hall, Joshua Upham, Amos Hulett ; 1820-21, Joshua Upham, Amos Hulett, Henry Tolles ; 1822, Benjamin Deane, Barnabas Deane, Nahum Duncan ; 1823-25, Benjamin Deane, Barnabas Deane, Silas Demary ; 1826, Barnabas Deane, John Davis, Givens Boynton; 1827, John C. Haskell, Jacob Perkins and Aaron Hall; 1828, Amos Hulett, Jacob
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Perkins, and John Bennett, jr .; 1829, Amos Hulett, John Ben- nett, jr., and Joseph R. Williams; 1830, Joseph R. Williams, James Newton, Sewall Clement; 1831, Joseph R. Williams, John Sherwin, Sewall Clement; 1832, John Sherwin, Sewall Clement, Jonathan Law - rence ; 1833-34, Barnabas Deane, Nathan B. Deane, Allison Richards ; 1835, Barnabas Deane, Nathan B. Deane, Amos Hulett; 1836, Men- zies A. Thomson, John Allison, Sewall Clement; 1837-39, Menzies A. Thomson, Charles Barrett, John C. Haskell ; 1840-42, Barnabas Deane, Allison Richards, Charles Sherwin ; 1843-44, Allison Richards, Au- gustus Tuttle, J. Field Chilson ; 1845, J. Field Chilson, Charles Barrett, Daniel Haskell ; 1846, J. Field Chilson, David Sherman, Josiah Newell ; 1847, David Haskell, J. Field Chilson, Chauncey M. Chamberlain ; 1848, Chauncey M. Chamberlain, Barnabas Deane, Samuel R. Kendall ; 1849-51, Barnabas Deane, Charles Sherwin, Samuel R. Kendall ; 1852, Napoleon B. Roundy, Franklin Norton, Alvah Chamberlain ; 1853-54, Napoleon B. Roundy, Franklin Norton, Alvah Chamberlain ; 1855, Charles Sherwin, Erastus Conner, William P. Hatch ; 1856, Barnabas Deane, Samuel Alford, jr., Henry S. Bowen ; 1857, Barnabas Deane, Augustus Tuttle, John Sherwin; 1858-59, Barnabas Deane, Henry H. Spafford, Edson Chamberlain ; 1860, Henry H. Spafford, Edson Cham- berlain, William Sheldon ; 1861, Edson Chamberlain, William Sheldon, Henry Prentice ; 1862, Edson Chamberlain, Henry Prentice, Roswell Downer ; 1863, Roswell Downer, Phineas Leland, William P. Hatch : 1864, Edson Chamberlain, S. J. Demary, James M. Stearns ; 1865-66, Edson Chamberlain, Samuel Alford, jr., James M. Stearns ; 1867, Ed- son Chamberlain, Walter Newell, W. J. Tolles; 1868-69, W. J. Tolles, Justus Dartt, Henry S. Bowen ; 1870-72, De Witt C. Thrasher, Hor- ace M. Morton, Erastus N. Dartt; 1873, Addison Slayton, George N. Sheldon, Chester Adams; 1874, Addison Slayton, Chester Adams, Ed- win S. Jackman ; 1875-76, George Barrett, F. E. Putnam, George A. Weston ; 1877, George Barrett, Henry P. Tolles, William H. Boynton ; 1878, Henry P. Tolles, Almon N. Guild, Fred W. Blanchard ; 1879-81, Henry P. Tolles, George C. Shedd, Francis G. Upham ; 1882, George C. Shedd, Francis G. Upham, F. E. Putnam ; 1883, Francis G. Upham, F. E. Putnam, George W. Kenney; 1884-85, Francis G. Upham, George W. Kenney, James H. Goldsmith; 1886-87, James H. Gold-
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smith, C. F. Aldrich, F. A. Newell; 1888, J. W. Leland, George G. Wilson, Luther P. Warren ; 1889, George G. Wilson, Luther P. Warren, John Gould.
Town Clerks .- 1772, William Upham ; 1773, Benoni Tuttle ; 1774- 81, Israel Burlingame ; 1782, Hezekiah Grout; 1783, Israel Burlin- game ; 1784-91, Gershom Clark ; 1792, Thomas Prentice ; 1793-1808, Gershom Clark; 1809-13, Jonathan Whipple; 1814, Eber Gridley ; 1815-18, C. Cowles ; 1819-25, James Converse; 1826-48, Joshua Up- ham ; 1849-62, J. Field Chilson ; 1863-68, Vincent R. Henry ; 1869- 73, Gilman Shedd, who died in office, and remainder of his term was filled by his son, George H. Shedd, who continued in the office to 1882 ; 1883-85, William M. Pingry. He died in office, and Daniel C. Rich- ardson was appointed, but resigned, and George Barrett served out the term. The present town clerk is William H. Rugg, who has held the office since 1886.
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