History of the state of Vermont; for the use of families and schools, Part 19

Author: Thompson, Zadock, 1796-1856
Publication date: 1858
Publisher: Burlington [Vt.] : Smith and company
Number of Pages: 514


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APPENDIX.


No. VIII .- Lotteries.


The practice of raising money by lotteries for specific objects was, in early times, sanctioned by the legislatures of most of the states in the Union, and by that of Ver- mont among the rest. The following is an abstract of the several acts granting lotteries in Vermont.


1. Feb. 27, 1783. To raise $840, for building a bridge over Black river.


2. Oct. 26, 1789. To raise £150, for repairing the road between Chester and Black river.


3, Oct. 26, 1789. To raise .€150, to aid John Hubbard in erecting a brewery in Weathersfield. 4. Oct. 27, 1791. To raise £300, to make a road from Woodstock to Rutland.


5. Oct. 28, 1791. To raise £150, to repair a bridge in Royalton.


6. Nov. 3, 1791. To raise £200, to aid J.Hubbard and A. Downer in erecting a brewery.


7. Nov. 3. 1791. To raise £150, for building a road in Shrewsbury.


8. Oct. 25, 1792.


To raise £600 to assist in building a court house in Rutland.


9. Oct. 31, 1792. To raise £200, to Anthony Haswell to repair loss sustained by fire.


10. Oct. 31, 1792. To raise £1200, to Jabez Rogers, to repair losses by fire.


11. Nov. 8, 1702. To raise £300, for building a bridge over the river Lamoille.


12. Nov. 8, 1792. To raise £500, for building a bridge over White river at Hartford.


13. Nov. 8, 1792. To raise €150, for building a bridge over Deerfield river at Readsborough. 14. Oct. 25, 1793. To raise $2500, granted to A. Spoon- er, S. Barrett and S. Conant.


15. Oct. 30, 1793.


To raise $500, for building a bridge in Fairfax.


16. Nov. 7, 1796.


To raise $500, for making a road from Castleton to Sudbury.


17. Nov. 8, 1796. To raise $400, for building a bridge over White river in Stockbridge.


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18. Nov. 8, 1796. To raise $500, for making a road from Winhall to Bromley.


19. March 7, 1797. To raise $500, for building a bridge over Otta-Quechee river at Woodstock. 20. March 9,1797. To raise $500, granted to John Wood.


21. Oct. 30, 1798. 'To raise $2000, granted to Joseph Ilawkins of Alburgh


22. Oct. 31, 1799. To raise $1000, granted to Horatio Knight.


23. Nov. 1, 1800. To raise $4000, granted to Stephen Conant.


2.1. Nov. 8, 1804. To raise 2500, for building a bridge over Otter Creek at Vergennes.


No. IX .- Population.


Only five complete enumerations of the Inhabitants of Vermont, have taken place since the organization of the government, the results of which are expressed in the following


TABLE.


Counties.


1791


1800


1810


1820


1830


Addison,


9,488


13,417


19,993


20,469


24,940


Bennington,


12,254


14,617


15,893


16,125


17,470


Caledonia,


2,0-17


7,566


14,966


16,669


20,967


Chittenden,


3,918


9,563


14,684


16,055


21,775


Essex,


567


1,479


3,087


3,334


3,981


Franklin,


1,939


7,582


16,427


17,192


21,525


Grand-Isle,


1,155


2,498


3,445


3,527


3,696


Orange,


7,334


16,318


21,72.4


24,169


27,285


Orleans,


119


1,384


5,671


6,819


13,980


Rutland,


15,565


23,813


29,487


29,975


31,295


Washington,


711


5,703


10,190


14,725


21,394


Windham,


17,693


23,581


26,760


28,457


28,748


Windsor,


15,748


26,944


34,877


38,233


40,623


Total,


| 85,539


|154,465|217,804 |235,749|280,679


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APPENDIX.


No. X .-- Banks.


In April, 1781, the Legislature of Vermont, for the payment of the State debts, authorized the issning of bills on the credit of the state, to the amount of $25150. These Bills were to be redeemed by the treasurer of the state, with specie before the first day of June 1782. The first bank in Vermont was established in 1806, and consisted of two branches, one at Woodstock and the other at Middlebury. The next year two other brauches were established, one at Burlington and the other at Westminster. This bank was managed by 13 directors, who were appointed annually by the legislature, and who chose one of their number president. All the property and profits of this bank belonged exclusively to the state. After continuing this experiment for a few years the bank was found not to answer the purposes intended, and its bills were consequently withdrawn from circulation. There are at present 17 Banks in Vermont, incorporated as exhibited in the following.


BANKS.


CAPITAL.


INCORPORATED.


EXPIRE.


Burlington Bank


$150.000


Nov. 9 1818


Jan. 1


1849


Windsor Bank


100.000


Nov. 9


18


do.


49


Brattleborough Bank


do.


Nov. 5


21


do.


37


Rutland Bank


do.


Nov. 1


2.1


do.


40


Caledonia Bank


do.


Nov. 1


25


do.


41


Montpelier Bank


do.


Oct. 28


25


do.


41


St Albans Bank


do.


Oct. 29


25


do.


41


Vergennes Bank


do.


Oct. 27


26


do.


12


Bennington Bank


do


Oct. 25


27


do.


43


Orange Bank


do.


Nov. 3.


27


do.


43


Woodstock Bank


do.


Nov. 9


31


do.


47


Middlebury Bank


do.


Nov. 9


31


lo.


47


Bellows Falls Bank


do.


Nov. 9


31


do.


47


Manchester Bank


do.


Nov. 7


32


do.


48


Newbury Bank


do.


Nov. 7


32


do.


48


Orleans Bank


60.000


Nov. 8


32


do.


48


Essex Bank


40.000


Nov. 7


32


do.


48


The aggregate capital of these 17 Banks is $1.650.000. Each bank is managed by a board of five or seven directors and their proceed- ings are annually inspected by a committee appointed by the legisla- ture. Six per cent of the profits of each bank incorporated before 1830, and ten per cent of those incorporated after 1830, is to be paid into the treasury of the state. A Branch of the Bank of the United States was established at Burlington in 1830.


Although Vermont had no banks till long after her admission into the Union, she exercised the power of coining money sometime be- fore that period. In 1786, Reuben Harmon was authorized by the legislature to establish a mint for the coining of copper for the term of eight years from and after the 1st of July, 1787. The pieces coined were to weigh 4 prot. 15 grs., and to have on ono side u head with the motto Auctoritate Vermontensium, and on theother a wo- man, with the lottors I N D. E T L I B., for Independence and lib- orty.


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APPENDIX.


No. XI .- Colleges in Vermont.


The University of Vermont was established at Bur- lington by an act of legislature passed November 3, 1791, and went into operation in the year 1800. The first col- lege edifice was completed in 1801, and was 160 feet long, and 75 feet wide in the central part and 45 feet on the wings. This spacious building was accidentally consum- ed by fire on the 27th of May 1824. Three new buildings have since been erected on the same site, each 75 feet in length and three stories high, the centre one, surmounted by an elegant tower and dome. The following table ex- hibits the succession of officers in this institution in the three principal departments.


Presidents.


Prof. Math. N. Phi.


Prof. Languages.


1800 D. C. Saunders.


1809


1811 66


1815 Saml. Austin.


1819


1022 Daniel Haskell. 1824 Willard Preston.


G. W. Benedict.


1825


1826 James Marsh. 60


James Dean. 66 G. S. Olds. ¥


J. C. Chamberl'n. James Murdock . Lucas Hubbell. -


J. J. Robertson. Wm. A. Porter. Joseph Torrey.


Middlebury College was incorporated by the legisla- ture November, 1. 1800. Instruction was commenced in this institution the same year. The following is a list of the officers in the three principal departments.


Presidents. Prof. Math. N. Phi. Prof. Languages.


1800 Jere. Atwater. 1806 66 1810 Henry Davis.


Frederick Hall.


1811


66 66


1812


66


1817 .6


1818 Joshua Butes.


60


Edward Turner .!


Oliver Hurlburd. John Hough. R. B. Patton.


John Hough.


James Dean.


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APPENDIX.


No. XII .- Councils of Censors.


List of the Councils of Censors elected at the several Septenaries.


Elected on the last Wednesday of March 1785.


Increase Moseley, Ebenezer Curtis, Ebenezer Wal- bridge, Benjamin Carpenter, Stephen Jacob, Jonathan Hunt, Ebenezer Marvin, Elijah Robinson, Micah Towns- end, Joseph Marsh, John Session, Lewis Bebee, and Jon- n athan Beacc.


Elected in 1792.


Daniel Buck, - Bridgeman, Benjamin Burt, Elijah Dewey, Jonas Galusha, Anthony Haswell, Roswell Ilop- kins, Samuel Knights, Beriah Loomis, Samuel Mattocks, Elijah Paine, Isaac Tichnor and John White.


Elected in 1799.


Moses Robinson, Nathaniel Niles, Samuel Knights, Benj. Emmons, David Fay, John White, John Willard, Elijah Dewey, Jonathan Hunt, Noah Chittenden, Elias Buel, John Leverett, and Lot IIall.


Fleeted in 1806.


Moses Robinson, Isaac Clark, Apollos Austin, Loyal Case, Udney Hay, Ezra Butler, John Noyes, Mark Rich- ards, William Hunter, James Tarbox, S. Huntington, Josiah Fish, and Thomas Gross.


Elected in 1813.


Isaac Tichenor, Nathaniel Chipman, William HIall Jr., Charles Marsh, Isaac Bailey, Luther Jewett, Ebenezer Clark, Elijah Strong, Nicholas Baylies, Robert Temple, Daniel Farrand, David Edmunds and Solomon Bing- ham Jr.


Elected in 1820.


Wm. Hunter, Charles Rich, Joel Brownson, Joseph Scott, Augustine Clark, J. Cushman, J. Y. Vail, Wm. Nutting, John Phelps, Joel Pratt, Amos Thompson, Asa Aldis, Jedediah Hyde.


Elected in 1827.


Asa Aikins, Wm. A¿Griswold, Daniel Kellogg, John W. Dana, Jedadiah II. Harris, Obadiah Noble Jr., Wm. Gates, Wm. Howe, E. P. Walton, Bates Turner, Samuel S. Phelps, Leonard Sargeant and Jool Allen.


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CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX.


FEAR. 1492 America Discovered by Christopher Columbus


13


1534 River St Lawrence discovered by J. Cartier 14


35 Cartier visited Hochelaga-named it Montreal 14


1603 Champlain first visited Canada


14


07 Jamestown, Va. settled by the English


17 15


08 09 Lake Champlain and Lake George Discovered


15 17


09 Hudson river discovered by Henry Hudson


11 Captain Smith explored the coast of New England - 17 17 14 New York Settled by the Dutch - 17


20 Plymouth settled by the English


23 Settlements begun at Dover and Portsmonth N. HI.


30 Indians plot the extermination of the English


33 Windsor, Connecticut settled


35 Springfield, Massachusetts settled


37 War with the Pequod Indians


90 Judians destroyed Schenectady and Salmon F. Fort 91 Colonel Schuyler attacked the French settlements Deerfield destroyed by the Indians


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1704 24 First Settlement made in the territory of Vermont


25


31 French built Crown Point-Settled in Addison 26, 53 41 South line of Vermont surveyed 46 Hoosuc Fart taken by the French and Indians . 55 27 27


46 Bridgeman's Fort defended against the Indians


27


49 First township granted in Vermont


55


52 English attempted to settle at Coos


52


54 General Colonial Convention


54 Settlements made on Connecticut River


54 Whole number of grants in Vermont 16


29 53 55 30


54 Gen. Braddock defeated by French and Indians


32


55 Fort William Henry built


55 Bridgeman's fort taken by the Indians


31 160 35


56 Oswego taken by the French


57 Unsuccessful Expedition against Louisburg


33


57 Massacre of the English at Fort William Henry


37 41 41 43


58 Forts Frontenac and Du Quesuo taken


59 Quebec taken by Wolf 45


59 French retire ou Lake Champlain 46 47


59 Rogers' Expedition against the St Francis Indians 60 All Canada Surrendered to the Engligh


50


5


Sixty townships grauted in Vermont


55


63 Controversy began between N. Hampshire and N. York 6.4 Decided by the. King in favor of New York


56 57


64


Newbury Settled


75 75


Population of Vermont 7000


76


74 New York passes an act of outlawry 68


74 Remonstrance against said act 70


75 Massacre at Westminster March 13 73


75 Battle at Lexington April 19


75 Ticonderoga taken by Ethan Allen May, 10, 77


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Quebec settled by the French


19 18 18 19 20


47 Charlestown defended by Captain Stevens


55 The French Defeated at Lake George


53 Abercrombie defeated at Ticonderoga


58 Louisburg taken


65 Vermont first divided into counties


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1775


75


75 St Johns taken by General Montgomery November 3,


75 Montreal taken November 13


75 Montgomery defeated and slain at Quebec December 31


76 76 Naval Battle on Lake Champlain October 11,


76 76 Independence of the United States declared July 4


77 General Burgoyne's council with the Indians June 21 " The Americans abandon Ticonderoga July 6


" Battle at Hlubbardion july 7


Battle at Bennington August 16


" Burgoyne crossed the Hudson September 13


Battle of September 19


" Burgoyne Surrendered Oct. 17


" Vermont declared her own Independence January 15 Convention to form a Constitution met July 2


78 First meeting of the Vermont Legislature March 12


79


80 Negotiation with Canada begun, March 30


Royalton Destroyed by the Indians


162


80 80 Alarm in Windham County 166 143


81 Second Union with part of N. H. April.


A part of N. Y. received into Union with Vi. June 16 144


149


" Allen's Report to the assembly June


Letter from Lord Germain to Sir H. Clinton intercepted 153 Allen has another interview with the British in Sept. 154


155


Preliminary requisition of Congress, August 20


172


82 Vt. Resolved to comply with the resolution of Aug. 20 173


173


83 Peace between G. Britain and the United States


185


90 Controversy with New York Settled


188 190


97 Resignation and death of Governor Chittenden


191


97 Parties first distinctly formed in Vermont


193


97 Mr. Tichenor elected Governor


200


1800 Middlebury College incorporated


20-


06 State Bank established


211


07 Israel Smith elected governor


210


08 Black Snake affair


214


09 Jonas Galusha first elected governor


211


10 I. Smith 4th Governor of Vermont died


12 Embargo laid for 90 days April 3


212


12 War declared with G. Britain June 18


212


13 Capture of the Growler and Eagle


215


14 Battle at La Cole Mills


-


217


14 Battle at Plattsburgh September 11


.


217


252 YEAR.


CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX.


Ethan Allen taken at Montreal, September 25, - 83 Colonel S. Warner defeated General Carlton 84 81 85 86 88 Americans retreat from Canada 91 117 Convention met at Dorset January 16 and July 24 118 97 100 101 107 111 113 114 119 124 128 128 Sixteen towns from N. H. united with Vt. June il Union with N. IL. dissolved, February 11 Vermont appealed to the world, December 10 132 137 I46


" Colonel f. Allen sent to Canada, May I


15I


"


" The Birtish army advanced up the lake October


Vermont applies for admission into the Union - 167 165


82 Gen. Washington wrote to Gov. Chittenden Jan. 1


82 Vt. dissolved bor Unions February 22


81 Disturbances in Windham County


182


91 Vermont admitted into the Union March 4


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