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Gilbert has been a life-long farmer. He is a Republican in politics, has served his town as assessor and lister. Though past four-score years he is well preserved in mind and body. In 1887 he had the misfortune to lose his left eye. He has been a member of the Christian Church, Woodstock, for sixty years. Samuel R. Gilbert married, Novem- ber 26, 1846, Man 'ana R., daughter of Barnabas and Hannah (Shaw) Thompson. Mrs. Gilbert was born in Bridgewater. June 8, 1823. Her father was brother of Professor Zadock Thompson, author of Thompson's Gazetteer of Vermont. Her mother was a daugh- ter of Benoni and Hannah (Winslow) Shaw. The children of Samuel R. and Mandana R. Gilbert are Delia M., Eugene S., Mary J., Henry H., who lives with his parents, Nellie E., and Willie B. Mr. Gilbert was born in the house where he has always lived. He owns and carries on the homestead farm. Ile has served as justice of the peace, was executor of his father's and administrator of Jonathan Gilbert's estates. No man com- mands more universally the respect of their townsmen and neighbors than do Jacob and Samuel Gilbert.
Goddard, Aaron (deacon), was born October 28, 1771, and having lost both of his parents, was brought up by an uncle. He came from Swanzey, N. H., to Reading at an early day. He married Elizabeth Howe, and they had the following family : Eunice (deceased), married Sewall Fullam, jr .; Arnold Candace (deceased), married Benoni Buck ; Hiram, died in Reading ; Jubal, died single in Reading; Cynthia (deceased), mar- ried Allen Spaulding; Laura, died at eighteen years of age; Aaron Winchester, resides in Reading. Aaron died September 27, 1856. Arnold (son of Aaron) was born in Reading, April 5, 1798, and married Sarah Rice. They had but one child, Mrs. Sarah A. Hager, of Proctorsville, Vt. Arnold died June 12, 1869.
Maxham, Henry Olin, was born in Woodstock, Vt., February 4, 1828. His parents were Chester and Rosalinda (Darling) Raymond. His mother died a day or two after his birth, and he was adopted by Nehemiah B. Maxham, brought up by him and received his name. He lived with this family until he reached his majority. They lived four years in Barnard, and the rest of the time in the town of Pomfret. He learned the carpenter's trade of his adopted father, and has followed it as his chief occupation. He married, January 19, 1851. Adelaide D., daughter of Isaac and Hannah (Corner) Jillson, who was born in Williamstown, Orange county, Vt., December 2, 1833. In 1853 Mr. Maxham purchased. in the southwest part of Pomfret, the Bridge Farm, so called, and built all the buildings now on the place, and has carried on the farm ever since, though he has devoted eight to ten months every year to his trade. He has superintended the erection of many of the best business blocks and private residences to be found in Wind- sor county. Notable among them is the business block of South Royalton, one of the first, in the State, three of the best business blocks of Bethel, and the Jones Bank and Fairbanks blocks at Woodstock, and numerous other buildings. In politics Mr. Maxham is a Republican, but has been too busy a man in his busmess as a builder and farmer to desire or seek public office. Mr. and Mrs. Maxham have children as follows : Hattie A .. born January 12, 1852, married George F. Green, January 10, 1870, a farmer living in Bridgewater, and have had three children, Laura Bell. Floyd F. (deceased), and Floy A .; Clara H., born August 27, 1853, married, December 25, 1870, Benjamin F. Ashley, a stonemason living in Woodstock, and died April 24, 1890; Mary A., born February 14, 1855, married, October 6, 1879, Charles H. Perry, a farmer in Pomfret, had one child, Gend Adalaide, and died July 19, 1889; Frances H., born June 17, 1857, married, Janu- ary 1, 1878, Albert F. Hart, a farmer living in Quechee ; George H., born July 4, 1860. married, May 4, 1886, Evie Berk, and they have one child, George Ernest; Herbert O., born April 22, 1862, graduated from Tufts College in 1889, is postmaster at Tufts Col- lege, Massachusetts, is studying for the ministry, and married, June 22, 1889, Elizabeth F. Faulkner; Charles J., born August 25, 1865, married, March 15, 1887, Eulalia M. Perry, and their children were Turner P., Verne F. (deceased), and Arthur E .; Flora Belle, born July 16, 1867, married, December 25, 1889, Mark O. Boynton, a farmer in Pomfret, and they have one son; Mark, born June 15, 1871, and Mervill, born June 8, 1878, are both living at home.
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Melendy, William, the supposed progenitor of all who bear the name in America, came from England about 1701, settling in Charlestown, Mass. He married Sarah Stan- dish. Their children were William, William, 2d, John, Thomas, Richard and Sarah. John, his third son, born in Charlestown, October 11, 1705, married Rebecca Lampson, of Reading, Mass., in 1727. They settled in Medford, Mass. Their children were John, William, James, Thomas, John, 2d, and Ebenezer. John Melendy enlisted as a soldier in the War of the Revolution, from Sutton, Mass., in 1775. He was in Lieutenant Car- rick's company at the battle of Bunker Hill; was detailed from his company to serve as a personal attendant upon General Washington, when the latter had his headquarters at Cambridge. He was with the Continental Army in Rhode Island, also at Claverack, N. Y. About the year 1777 he married Sarah Esty, of Sution, Mass., whose grand- father, on her father's side, was a Hancock, near kin to John Hancock, and her mother was a Davenport, near kin of Governor Carver. John and Sarah Melendy, about the year 1785, moved from Sutton to Croydon, N. H., afterwards to Grantham, and finally to Waterford, Vt., where they died : John, in 1848, aged ninety-one, and Sarah, in 1844, aged eighty-seven. Their children were: Lydia, John, Abigail, William, Betsey, Mary and Lucy, and a child that was killed by the falling of a chimney. The children named married and reared families. Otis Chamberlain, son of Abigail, who married Laban Chamberlain was for many years one of Pomfret's most prominent citizens. He was town clerk for forty-nine years, selectinan, and represented the town in the State Legislature. He died in Pomfret, February 9, 1884. Israel Goodwin, who married Betsey, was elected to the Legislature of his State (Vermont). two years as representa- tive, and two years as senator, and was also appointed side judge. Elam Marsh Good- win, their son, of Hartland, Vt., has represented his town and district in both branches of the Vermont Legislature. Marmaduke Allen, who married Mary, was "kith and kin " of General Ethan Allen. Jolin, the eldest son of John and Sarah Meiendy, born in Sutton, Mass, November 11, 1780, married, November 23, 1809, Sarah, daughter of Captain Nathan and Sabrina (Metcalf) Clark, born in Croydon, May 2, 1792. After his marriage he settled in Croydon, and lived there till the death of his wife, December 25. 1831. The children by this union were Rachel, Harvey. Elbridge Gerry, Catharine, Alonzo, Almira Jane, Albert, David, Zelinda Clark and Sarah C. He married, second, Mrs. Betsey Martin, of Springfield, N. H. After this marriage he moved from Croy- don to Grantham, N. H., where he died March 28, 1860. He was prominently identi- fied with the anti-slavery cause, being a co-worker with William Lloyd Garrison at a time when it required rare nerve. He prophesied the near downfall of slavery, and had he lived three years longer would have lived to realize and rejoice over its fulfillment. Of his children, Rachel and Catharine died of typhoid fever ; Elbridge is a retired gent- man, living in Broadhead, Wis. Alonzo was for many years superintendent of the Ogden Knitting Mills at Cohoes, N. Y., now living in Waterford, N. Y. Almira was the wife of Winslow Twitchell. She died in Cohoes. She taught school in George- town, D. C., during the administration of James K. Polk. Albert died in childhood. David is a farmer, living in Cornish, N. H. Zelinda is the wife of Noah Allen, farmer living in East Westmoreland, N. H. Sarah is the wife of Bela Chapin, of Claremont, N. H. She was a graduate of Kimball Union Academy, at Meriden, N. H., and for four years taught school in the Edgefield district, S. C., and was a contributor to the Lowell Casket. Harvey Melendy was born in Croydon, August 17, 1812. He passed his minority at home, receiving his education in the common school. When twenty-one years of age he engaged in the manufacture of whips and rakes in the employ of Nor- man McGregor, at Newport, N. H .; then at Plainfield, N. H., with Wilder & Eddy, in the same line. He then set up for himself in Hartland, Vt., the manufacture of hand and horse-rakes, and continued in the business till 1853. He then sold his factory in Hartland, and settled in Pomfret, on the "Sylvester Miller" farm, where he has since resided. Though at first a manufacturer and then farmer, Mr. Melendy has been all his life a great reader of general literature, and has made history, theology, anatomy, and
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physiology subjects of special study. He married, August 28, 1836, Emily, daughter of George and Dotha (Miller) Gerry. Mrs. Melendy was born in Pomfret, February 15, 1817. Losing her mother when three years of age, she lived till her marriage with her grandmother, Esther Miller, on the place now owned and occupied by Mr. Melendy. The children of Harvey and Emily Melendy are Gustavus S., Ellen, Delavan, Erwin and Emma.
Newton, Reuben Whipple, was born in Norwich, Vt., October 5, 1835, the eldest in a family of two children of Calvin C. and Sarepta (Whipple) Newton. His first great- grandfather Newton married Mary Collons, by whom he had six children, viz .: Mollie, Avis, Anna, Isaac, Joseph and David. The latter, his great-grandfather, born in Mil- ford, Conn., married Mary Hazen of Norwich. They had sixteen children, ten sons and six daughters, born between the years 1774 and 1799, viz .: Sheldon, Rufus, Avis, David, Truman, Andrew, Anna. Rebecca, Polly, Abner, Elizabeth, Lucy, Daniel, Enos Wood, Jasper and Solon. Truman Newton, fifth of the above, born October 1, 1779, grand- father of Reuben W., married Eunice Wilson, born August 31, 1785. Their children were Calvin C., Eunice, Orson, Daniel, Russell, Enos, Laura, Joseph T., Edward Orvis and Leonard, twins, and Sarah Lucinda. All except Russell and Leonard, who died young, were married and raised families. Calvin C. Newton, the eldest above, was twice married. First he married, October 5, 1834, Sarepta Whipple, born August 16, 1806, died November 5, 1840. The children by this union were Reuben Whipple and Elizabeth Snow. He married, second, October 2, 1843, Mary Howard Spencer, born September 18 1816. The children by this union were Maria Louisa, Carlton Spencer and Lucy Ida. They also had an adopted child, George G., who was killed in the bat- tle of the Wilderness. In 1837 Calvin Newton moved from Vermont to Denmark, Lee county, Ia., where his wife died, and he returned to Vermont in 1842, going and return- ing with a private team, and after his second marriage he settled in Pomfret, near the west and central part of the town, where he died May 15, 1875. Reuben Whipple New- ton lived with his father in Iowa, Norwich and Pomfret, Vt .. until he was twenty-two. He then went to work for Amos Wood in Pomfret, and October 2, 1858, married his daughter, Frances A., born Jannary 17, 1830. Her father, born May 4, 1793, died September 3, 1865. His wife, Eunice Vail, born July 6, 1789, died August 7, 1890, aged ninety-one. Mr. Newton worked for his father-in-law until the latter died, then carried on the farm until the death of Mrs. Wood, when he became its owner, and is now car- rying it on. His wife died October 12, 1884. He married, second, June 7, 1885, Mary A., daughter of Jonathan and Polly P. (Wilson) Keith, born in Enfield, N. H., June 7, 1856. Mr. Newton is a Republican in politics, and is a member of the First Congregational Church of Pomfret.
Perkins, Joel, who settled in Pomfret about the year 1799, came from West Spring- field, Mass., and was a descendant in the seventh generation from Jolin Perkins, who was born in England, came to Boston with his family in 1631, and removed to Ipswich, Mass., in 1633. The second son of John, Deacon Thomas Perkins, who was born in England in 1616, settled in Topsfield, Mass., where he engaged in farming, and lived in great esteem till his death in 1686. His eldest son, John, also lived in Topsfield, where he died in 1668, within two years after his marriage, leaving an only child, Thomas, who removed to Enfield, where he died in 1709, leaving six children. The oldest of these, also named Thomas, left a son, John, who was born in 1723, and married Mary Bramble. John lived for a time in East Windsor, where his sixth son, Joel, was born in 1761. He afterwards removed to West Springfield, where he died, leaving a numer- ous family. His will is dated February 1, 1782. Joel Perkins married Eunice Fuller, of Halifax, Mass., and after living with his father for a time at West Springfield, re- moved to Vermont near the close of the last century. He died at Pomfret in 1841, leaving five sons, Ebenezer, John, Ansel, Nelson and Alva Chipman. Ebenezer Per- kins, father of Albro E. Perkins, was born in West Springfield, Mass., August 7, 1790, married February 26, 1816, Mary C., daughter of Barnabas and Katura (Conant) Wash-
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burn. His wife's parents came from Bridgewater, and settled on Bridgewater Hill, Pomfret. Mary C. Perkins died in Pomfret, April 10, 1860. The children of Ebenezer and Mary C. Perkins were John W., Martin L., Mary A. and Albro E. Albro E. Per- kins has always lived on the place of his birth. He purchased the homestead of his father in 1845. He married, September 30, 1846, Emeline, daughter of Simeon and Ju- dith (Huse) Bacon, sister of Albert Bacon above mentioned. Mrs. Perkins was born in Vershire, Vt., January 6, 1827. For about forty years Mr. Perkins has been identified as one of Vermont's leading breeders and dealers in Merino sheep. His first transaction was the purchase of thirty-four Merino ewes of W. R. Sanford, of Orwell, Addison county, Vt. This was in 1857. In 1859 he purchased twelve Merino ewes of Edwin Hammond, of Middlebury, Vt. These were inbred with rams also purchased of Mr. Hammond, Victor Wright and Colonel E. Stowell. He has always taken great pains in the breeding of his flock, and has established a name as a successful breeder and dealer scarcely second to none in the State. His sheep have been sold in at least four- teen States of the Union. He has been by far the largest dealer in sheep in eastern Vermont. He has made several trips, connected with this traffic, to Texas, Wyoming and Nebraska. He was awarded a gold medal for "Best Flock Merino Sheep " at the Vermont State Fair, 1875. He received a " Certificate of Award " from the United States Centennial Commission at the the International Exhibition at Philadelphia in 1876, "first, for the best American Merino Ram, 'Constitution,' one year old ; sweep- stakes for three breeding American Merino ewes; second, for three breeding ewes, American Merino, four ewes and one ram, American Merino; third, for American Mer- ino ram, two years old." The reasons assigned in giving these awards are, high excel- lence in quality, uniformity, symmetry and evenness of fleece, length of staple, large con- stitutional development, and for being very superior specimens of the breed to which they belong. Mr. Perkins has the reputation of using a good deal of common sense in the breeding of sheep. His preference is for the "golden mean," between what are re- garded " smooth " sheep and those covered with folds from the "tip of the nose to the tips of the toes." He secures, in this mode of breeding, sheep with a hardier constitu- tion, and while not realizing as much wool to the single fleece, he makes up for this loss in wool in sheep decidedly better for the mutton market. Mr. Perkins is a Republican in politics. He was selectman six years, overseer of the poor and lister three years. He represented the town in the Legislature in 1885, and was a member of the State Board of Agriculture two years. During the War of the Rebellion he was assistant provost- marshal for Pomfret. His children are Ellen M., born December 26, 1847; Pamelia A., born August 24, 1849; Willie A., born May 8, 1852 ; Fred H., born November 3, 1853 ; Clara E., born July 28, 1856; Abbie M., born February 4, 1860; Walter E., born De- cember 8, 1861 ; and Frank, born July 29, 1872.
Tinkham, Nathan, great-grandfather of Orville M., was born in Halifax, Mass., April 27, 1724, died in Pomfret, Vt., October 3, 1807. He married Sarah Soule, born in Ply- mouth, Mass, June 15, 1726, died in Pomfret, September 25, 1807. Their youngest child, Isaiah, grandfather of Orville M., was born in Halifax, September 19, 1757, died September 29, 1842. He married Susannah Ellis, of Middleboro, Mass., who died May 12, 1844. Soon after his marriage he moved from Halifax and settled in North Pom- fret, on a place held in the family many years, now owned by H. W. Colburn. The house built by him in 1793 is now occupied by Mr. Colburn. Isaiah and his wife died in Pomfret. Their children were Isaiah, Sarah, Noah, Zenas, Susannah, Ellis, Daniel, Celia and Sophia. With the exception of Isaiah, all were born in Pomfret. Isaiah married Ruth Childs. Charles Tinkham, for many years a merchant in Quechee, and still a resident there, is his son. Sarah, wife of Ephraim Brownell, moved to St Law- rence county, N. Y., where she died aged ninety-three years. All the others died in Pomfret. Noah and Zenas died in childhood. Orville M. Tinkham, born in Pomfret, July 30. 1831, has always lived on the place of his birth. He was educated in the pub- lie schools of Pomfret and the West Randolph Academy. Judge Austin Adams, now
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judge of the Supreme Court of Iowa, was the principal. Mr. Tinkham married, May 20, 1854, Mary A., daughter of Mathias and Betsey (Joslin) Jones. Mrs. Tinkham was born in Waitsfield, Vt., January 13, 1832. Their only child, Lucia Lydia, born Janu- ary 20, 1862, married, December 31, 1882, Walter Harrington, farmer of Pomfret. Their children are Bessie Faith, born August 10, 1885; Angie May, born February 19, 1887; and Ellis Tinkham, born April 9, 1889. Mr. Tinkham taught in the common schools of Vermont, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. . He has taught singing-schools at dif- ferent periods for thirty-five years. From 1856 to 1869 he was employed as a commer- cial traveler. He has served frequently as agent for publishing and other commercial houses requiring special and confidential work. In 1877 he accepted the chair of agri- cultural editor of the Green Mountain Freeman, published in Montpelier, which position he held for seven years. In 1869 he introduced the first thoroughbred Jersey cows that were brought to Pomfret, and has taken an active interest in the raising of Jersey stock and the sale of it in the West. He is a life member of the Vermont Dairymen's Asso- ciation, its secretary six years, and president two years. In 1881-82 he was Assist- ant State Commissioner of Agriculture. In 1884 he was appointed State Dairy Commissioner of the World's Exposition at New Orleans. He has filled a number of town offices, and represented the town in the Legislature in 1886. Mr. Tinkham is often called upon to deliver addresses, chiefly upon dairy topics, in Vermont and other States. He is a man of commanding presence, a fluent and forcible speaker.
Vanghan, Charles H., born in Pomfret, January 23, 1840, was the only son of Oliver and Mary Ann (Henry) Vaughan. His grandfather, Caleb Vaughan, native of Massa- chusetts, came to Vermont and settled first in Pomfret, and afterward in Woodstock, where he died. He married a Miss Thomas. Their children were Huldah, Oliver, Mercy, La- throp and Ansel H. Charles H. Vaughan has always lived in Pomfret. He received his education in its common and high schools. He married, December 19, 1865, Lucia, daughter of Wesley and Julia (Hewitt) Lamberton. Mrs. Vaughan was born in Pom- fret, January 17, 1845. She died June 12, 1887. Her father died in Pomfret, Febru- ary 22, 1875. Her mother makes her home at M . Vanghan's and at her daughter's, Mrs. Darroch. The latter was Emma Lamberton, only sister of Mrs. Vaughan, born July 14, 1846, married, January 1, 1881, Robert Darroch, born in Scotland. April 20, 1850, is a farmer living in Pomfret. They have one child, Elmer Robert, born October 1. 1885. Mr. Vaughan has followed general merchandising at the Center of Pomfret since 1873. He has been postmaster from that year to the present. He was selectman in 1878-79 and 1880 and town lister four years He is at the present time overseer of the poor, town treasurer and town clerk. He has often been called upon to act in the set- tlement of estates The children of Charles H. and Lucia Vanghan are Herman H., born September 13, 1867, died August 19, 1868; Mabel Ellen, born September 14, 1868; and Anna Hewitt, born June 6, 1870. The latter two are both graduates of the Woodstock High School.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF SHARON.
T HE town called Sharon is one of the northern tier of towns of Wind sor county, and is bounded on the north by Strafford in Orange county ; east by Norwich ; south by Pomfret ; and west by Royalton. And Sharon is among the mountainous towns of the county, more so
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than some of the adjoining towns, as if nature had made an extraordi- nary and highly successful effort at grouping high and almost inaccessible peaks within the single town. Unlike many others in the county's towns these high elevations are not susceptible of any cultivation, which, aside from their very rocky character, are exceedingly steep and with great difficulty ascended. But notwithstanding this unfavorable physi- cal formation Sharon has numerous fine farming lands and fertile val - leys, than which there are none better or more productive in this county.
Sharon, too, is an exceedingly well drained town, the streams all tend- ing from the borders of the town toward the central portion and dis - charge their waters into the White River, the latter being in this locality a stream of considerable magnitude. It enters the town from Royalton on the west, and courses through the valley generally southeast to a point about a mile west from Sharon village, where it turns suddenly to the east and northeast, and at the village and beyond it forms a complete ox-bow ; thence it continues south and southeast, leaving the town near the southeast corner.
The hamlet called Sharon village is the only trading center of any consequence in the town, and is situate on the White River, very near the geographical center of the town. Its location here was a wise meas- ure on the part of the proprietors, for the valley at this point is as broad, perhaps, as anywhere in the town, and the lands as well adapted for vil- lage occupancy as could be selected near the center. The village, al- though in the valley, is nevertheless considerably elevated above the bed of the river, the rise from the surface of the water to the highway, at a point near the post-office, being variously estimated from eighty to one hundred feet. And this is a fortunate elevation, for there have been oc- casions, within the memory of middle-aged residents, upon which the waters of White River have reached extraordinary heights, sweeping away ever movable thing in its path.
The town of Sharon was brought into existence by virtue of a char- ter granted by Governor Benning Wentworth, of the province of New Hampshire, on the 17th of August, 1761, to John Taylor and his asso- ciates, sixty-two in all, with the customary reservations-one right for a glebe for the Church of England, one for the society for the propaga- tion of the gospel in foreign parts, one for the first settled minister in
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the town, one for the benefit of a school, and 500 acres in the northwest corner of the town for the emolument of the worthy benefactor himself -Benning Wentworth. The town, according to the charter, con- tained 22,000 acres of land, the equivalent in square miles being thirty- four and three-eighths.
Among other things the charter provided that the first meeting of the proprietors should be held on the first Monday of September, 1761, for the purpose of choosing town officers, and appointed Benjamin Spalding moderator to govern said meeting. But it is quite doubtful whether the proprietors met in accordance with the terms of the charter, and if they did they left no record of their doings for the use of succeeding genera- tions. The first proprietors' meeting of which there appears any record was held on the 30th of November, 1761, at Plainfield, "in the province of New Hampshire," at which Captain Timothy Wheeler was chosen moderator " for the work of the day," no other officers being chosen.
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