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the requisite funds to transfer the title to the corporation ; but, until this is accomplished the society will pay rent to the proprietors.
Hitherto the fairs have fully met the expectations of the most sanguine. Many of them have been interesting and extensive, and, we think, have produced a favorable effect in stimulating efforts for improvement, and securing advancement in all the departments within the province of the society. There have been exhibited an extensive variety of the products of agriculture, horticulture, and of domestic and other manufactures ; and very often of numerous and fine specimens of painting, drawing and various kinds of orna- mental work by native artists. After what we have said of the stock department of agriculture, none will be disappointed when we say, that the exhibitions have been large and splendid in cattle, horses and sheep. Whatever others may say, the citizens of Addison County will not shrink from a comparison with the exhibitions of stock of any other County in the State, or perhaps of any other State.
The following have been the presidents and secretaries of the society.
FROM PRESIDENT.
TO
FROM
SECRETARIES. TO
1844 Silas H. Jenison,
1848.
1844 Harvey Bell, 1847.
1848 Elias Bottum, 1850. 1847 E. W. Blaisdell, Jr. 1850.
1850 Charles L. Smith, 1852. 1850 Joseph H. Barrett, 1857.
1852 Harvey Munsill,
1754. 1857 Justus Cobb, still in office.
1854 Edwin Hammond,
1857.
1857 William R. Sanford, still in office.
ADDISON COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.
The legislature, at their session in 1813, passed an act author- izing several physicians in each county by name, to form themselves into County Medical Societies, by the name of the Medical Society of the County in which they should be formed. And the societies were severally to be corporations with the usual powers, necessary for the purposes, for which they were designed; and were author- ized to adopt and alter a corporate seal. They were to have power to assess taxes on the members, " for the purpose of procuring a library and suitable apparatus, and for other uses." provided the
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tax shall not exceed three dollars. The officers authorized by the law are a president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, librarian and three or more censors. to hold their offices for one year, or until others are chosen. The several societies were required to " hold semi-annual meetings in the shire town in each county, at the time of the sitting of the County Court, for the purpose of establishing and regulating the libraries of said society, receiving and communi- cating medical information, examining students," and any other proper business. The act requires that students examined and ap- proved by the censors " possess a good moral character," and " have pursued the studies of physic or surgery at least three years ;" and, being approved, shall receive a diploma from the president, which shall entitle him to all the privileges of a member of the society. The same act authorizes the formation of a State Society, to consist of three delegates from cach County Society.
The physicians named in the act for this County are William Bass, Edward Tudor, Ebenezer Huntington, Asher Nichols, John Wilson, Nicanor Needham, Frederic Ford Jr., John Lyman, Frederic Ford, William Guile, John Willard, Luther E. Hall, James Day, Dan Stone, Levi Warner, David McCollister, Martin Gay, Zenas Shaw, Josiah W. Hale.
In pursuance of this act the physicians named met at Middle- bury on the 15th of December, 1813, and organized the Addison County Medical Society, and elected the following officers ; Ebenc- zer Huntington, of Vergennes, President, William Bass, of Mid- dlebury, Vice President, Luther E. Hall, Vergennes, Secretary, Frederic Ford, Cornwall, Treasurer, William Bass, Librarian, Dan Stone, Edward Tudor, Frederic Ford, Jr., John Lyman and David McCollister, Censors. Luther E. Hall and Dan Stone were ap- pointed a Committee to report a code of by-laws. It was further voted, that future meetings shall be held at Dr. William Bass's, in Middlebury, and that the President deliver an inaugural address, before the society, at their next meeting. This meeting was ad- journed to the 19th of January, 1814. At this meeting the Presi- dent delivered his inaugural address, and a code of by-laws, reported by the committee, was adopted. William Bass and Inther E.
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Hall and Dan Stone were also appointed a committee, to "present to the Society a device for a scal and form of diploma." At the first meeting a tax of one dollar was assessed, which at the next was increased to one dollar and fifty cents ; and at both these meet- ings, candidates were examined and licensed.
The society thus organized continued in full life and vigor until about the year 1824. Dissertations and addresses on medical sub- > jects, under appointment for that purpose, were read ; difficult and uncommon cases of disease and their treatment reported by the members; new members admitted, candidates examined and ap- proved by the censors received diplomas, taxes were assessed, a library collected and delegates regularly elected to the State Society. In 1822, the State Society commenced a series of resolu- tions proposing measures for the regulation of the County Societies: One requiring the County Societies to make an annual report of the "diseases prevalent in the County during the year," " under & penalty of five dollars fine on failure ; " one prescribing new qualifications for the admission of candidates for license; and another affixing a penalty of five dollars for a neglect of the County Society to " send their proceedings to the State Society, annually, as required by law ; " also a regulation respecting the dismission or withdrawing of members from the County Societies.
These proceedings were not received with much favor by this County Society ; and at the annual meeting in December, 1824, a committee was appointed to take into consideration the proceed- ings of the State Society, and "report some plan of management for our Library." At an adjourned meeting the committee reported, recommending a dissolution of their connection with the State Society ; and another committee was appointed to confer with the other County Societies on the subject. At a meeting in June, 1825, a resolution was passed instructing the delegates to request the State Society to " petition the Legislature so to alter the act of incorporation as to render the County Societies independent of the State Society."
The result of the proceedings, so far as appears of record, was that, at a meeting in May, 1826, a resolution was adopted to "put
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up our library at auction to the members of this Society ;" and the sale took place in June following. In the meantime, several mem- bers had withdrawn with the consent of the Society, few attended the meetings, and the measure above mentioned was adopted, we suppose, to close the existence of the Society. The last meeting of which there is any record, was in October 1826; when the whole business related to closing the financial affairs of the Society. The organization of subsequent societies seem to have been regarded as a revival of this society, formed under the act of 1813, although at each of these organizations, new constitutions were adopted.
Dr. Ebenezer Huntington, the first president, was continued in that office until 1823, when Dr. Luther E. Hall was appointed, and continued president until 1826, when Dr. William Dass was appointed the last president. Dr. Luther E. Hall was secretary from 1813 to 1820, when Dr. Thomas P. Matthews was appointed and continued to the close.
On the 24th of December, 1855, & County Medical Society was organized and adopted a Constitution, and on the same day held its first meeting. Dr. Jonathan A. Allen was chosen President, Dan C. Stone and E. D. Warner, Vice Presidents, Ralph Cowdey, Secretary, and Atherton Hall, Treasurer. About six months after, in June, 1886, another meeting was held, and this closes its written history.
" The Addison County Medical Society " was re-organized by a convention held at Vergennes on the 30th day of June 1842, adjourned from a preliminary meeting held at Middlebury two weeks before. A new Constitution was then formed, by which the object of the organization is declared to be, " to promote a knowledge of medical and surgical science, and a friendly intercourse among the members of the faculty." The officers of the Society are "a President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Librarian, and three Censors, together with the President and Vice President, who shall be ex-officio Censors," and they are elected annually. "Any regular practicioner of medicine, a graduate of any legally author- ized medical institution, who resides within the State, and shall sign the constitution and by-laws, and conform to the objects de- signed, may be a member of the society : and any person, who sus-
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tains a good moral character may become a member, who shall have studied the science of medicine and surgery three years under the direction of a regular practicioner, and attended at least one course of medical lectures, in some legally established institution, and has passed an examination by the censors, and by them recom- mended." Any person having passed such satisfactory examination " may become a member by signing the constitution and by- laws, and receive, if he wish, a diploma by paying five dollars." According to the by-laws, meetings are to be held "at Middlebury semi-annually, on Thursday of the first week of the County Court." The first meeting was held on the day on which the Constitution was adopted, and Dr. J. A. Allen of Middlebury, was chosen President, Dr. Dan C. Stone of Vergennes, Vice President, and Dr. David C. Goodale of Addison, Secretary.
Since the last organization in 1842, the society has been in efficient and successful operation. The meetings have generally been regularly held and attended ; and we judge many of them most interesting and profitable. A member at one meeting was often appointed to make an address or read an essay on some important subject at the next, and at all the meetings it was made the duty of each member to report such interesting and difficult cases of ' disease as had occurred in his practice, and each case was discussed by the other members of the society. It was one of the rules of the society that each person appointed president should make an address at the close of the term for which he was elected. At the annual meeting in June, 1847, Dr. Jonathan A. Allen, having oficiated as President the previous year, read an address which was published. From this we make a quotation, principally to show how he regarded the influence of the organization. He says, " It is now five years since the Addison County Society was organized in its present form. During this period twenty meetings ·have been held, generally well sustained by the attendance of the members. Many facts, highly interesting to the profession, and consequently useful to the public, have been presented. Much valuable information has been elicited by our discussions, and we m a member has failed of adding
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to his general stock of practical knowledge. In addition to these advantages, valuable acquaintances have been formed, generous, elevated and kind professional feeling promoted. Many of these endearments will reciprocally remain among our members until the closing period of their existence. Jealousy, suspicion and want of confidence have been almost entirely removed from our ranks. Our members meet as friends. Consultations now, in lieu of being objects of bickering, are generally desired, and usually, by the mutual and kind expression of opinion, result beneficially to the sick." The whole community would feel safer if such an influence should prevail generally among the doctors.
At a subsequent meeting in February, 1848. the death of Dr. Allen was announced by Dr. Russel, who stated that " the princi- pal object of the meeting was to adopt measures suitable to the occasion " of his death. "The President, Dr. Bradford of Ver- gennes, read a short but expressive paper concerning his life and death;"' and appropriate and commendatory resolutions were adopted. The Society also appointed Dr. S. P. Lathrop, of Middlebury, to prepare a biographical sketch, which was afterwards ordered to be published in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.
The following have been the Presidents and Secretaries of the Society.
FROM PRESIDENT. TO
FROM SECRETARIES. TO
1842 Jona'n A. Allen, Middlebury,1844. 1842 David Goodale, Addison, 1844.
1844 Joel Rice, Bridport, 1845. 1844 S. Pearl Lathrop, Middlebury, 1846.
1845 Dan C. Stone, Vergennes, 1846. 1846 W. P. Russel, 1847.
1846 Jonathan A. Allen, 1847.
1847 Charles L. Allen, still in office.
Dr. Allen is also Treasurer and Librarian.
1847 A. Bradford, Vergennes, 1848.
1848 E. D. Warner, New Haven, 1850,
1850 Earl Cushman, Orwell,
1856.
1856 E. D. Warner, still in office.
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CHAPTER XII.
POPULATION-CHARACTER-ADVANTAGES-DANGERS.
The population of Addision County does not materially differ from that of the other Counties in this State, and other New Eng- land States. The whole exhibits the influence of the spirit of emi- gration and colonization, which has prevailed and increased since the first settlement of the country. The character of the whole population of the country has been modified and, in many respects, we think, improved by this disposition, especially in its spirit of en- terprise and individuality. An individual, who has courage to leave the place of his birth, and remove three hundred or a thousand miles to the outskirts of civilization to better his condition, learns that there are other places and people besides those he has left behind, and per- haps equal or superior to them. His views are enlarged, and his inqui- ries are no longer confined to the limited sphere of his early home, and he begins to think there may be still other regions beyond and elsewhere. If he has energy to remove once, he has still more to remove again, when profit or pleasure tempt him. He learns also that there are other countries beyond the oceans, which encircle him, and he looks to them as fields for indulging his thirst for spec- ulation or his curiosity. Wherever he locates himself, he finds other men and other customs and manners and ideas which are new to him, and which he studies, and thus improves his own, and shakes off his provincial habits and prejudices.
Added to this cause, which to some extent is common to all the States, the early settlers of Vermont experienced a long course of discipline in the hardships and self-denial and energy required for their hard contested controversy, in defending themselves and their property against the oppressive claims of exterior powers, and especially in the contest for their separate independence.
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Although we cannot boast of large numbers of learned men, like some other States, more favorably situated, we do not shrink from a comparison of the mass of our population, for general intelligence and practical energy, with any other. Not a few intelligent men, who have long resided in other New England States and elsewhere, have expressed to the writer of this sketch the conviction, that in no State is the population of the same classes, and especially the farmers, superior, if equal, to that of Vermont. No State, we believe, has sent out more efficient, practical and useful emigrants to people the "new countries." Vermont is an inland State, and agriculture is the pursuit of the great body of its inhabitants ; and she has no foreign commerce to build up large cities, where great wealth is accumulated, and learned men congregate.
Among the most important influences, which operate in modifying the character of our population, are our liberal institutions, placing, as they do, every man in the dignity and responsibility of a man. And paramount to all others perhaps is that of town corporations, which are common and almost peculiar to New England. They are not only pure democracies, but they are schools, in which the prin- ciples of democracy are taught ; where all meet on a common plat- form, with equal rights and powers, not only as voters, but as can- didates for office. So numerous and extensive are the legislative and administrative powers within their limits, that all have an opportunity to become acquainted with our laws and institutions, acquire habits of public business and qualify themselves for higher political trusts.
Our common schools and seminaries of learning for the instruction of all classes, and our churches of various denominations, where all may meet for public worship and for instruction in their religions, social and civil duties, are means of spreading general intelligence and virtue through the community. Besides these every family is more or less supplied with books and periodicals, which keep them informed of the passing events, and remind them of their duties to their country and the world. The writer of this sketch has been as long and as advantageously situated as any one to ascertain the ability of all classes of men in this County to write, and he has no
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recollection of more than one or two native Americans, residing in the County, who could not write his own signature ; and these were brought up in regions remote from schools. The twenty-five native Americans, who are reported in the census of 1850, in this County, as being unable to read or write, were probably similarly situated in the early settlement of the country.
If the population of Addison County is distinguished from that of any other County, it is occasioned by the influence of Middlebury College situated among them. This influence is not confined exclu- sively to this County ; but no person, who has been long acquainted with the history of that institution, has failed to observe its influ- once upon the intelligence of the community in its neighborhood, and in raising the standard of education in the subordinate institu- tions. Few towns, if any, in the country, have afforded a larger number of young men for a collegiate education, in proportion to their population, than many of the towns in Addison County.
It may be mentioned as an evidence of the peaceable and orderly character, as well as prosperity of the inhabitants, that courts of justice have less business in this County, in proportion to its popu- lation, than in any other County. No person has ever been convicted of a capital offence in the County. Four have been tried for murder, one in 1815 and one in 1825; but both were con- victed of only manslaughter. Another was since tried twice, but the jury failed in both cases to agree on a verdict, and he was dis- charged ; and the other was acquitted on account of insanity.
From the foregoing sketches, it will be seen, that the County of Addison has sufficient resources for wealth and material prosperity, and that its citizens have sufficient intelligence and enterprise, in due time to develope them. It will be seen also, that they have the means of intellectual, moral and religious improvement. And we may well congratulate ourselves that we live in an agricultural district, where there is a general social equality ; where there are few so rich as to excite the envy and ill-will of their neighbors, or to be free from the necessity of some active occupation, or so poor as to necd charity. We have no large cities with their accumulated masses of wealth, poverty and crime. We have no such wealth to
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foster extravagance, luxury and a factitious aristocracy, with its arbitrary conventional ceremonies, as in large cities sets at naught the equality, simple manners and sober verities of the country. We are not like them, beset on every hand by temptations to dissi- pation and debauchery, and we have no such masses of corruption to spread a moral pestilence through the atmosphere. We have no such large collections of the refuse population of Europe-its paupers and criminals-broke loose from the restraints of govern- ment and law at home, that they may riot here in their imaginary freedom from all restraints ; who nightly disturb the peace of the community with riots and quarrels and murders ; and who are ready at the call of designing politicians, to control our elections. The institution of the family, so important in the country, for its restraints and the cultivation of the social affections, is to a great extent obliterated in some of the large towns. There hundreds of children have no home but in the streets, and no associates but their fellows in the same condition. The crowded population everywhere, and the artificial conventionalisms of the more wealthy households forbid the salutary restraints and separate and undisturbed inter- course of the family circle. And thus the young grow up with the feeling that they belong rather to the great public than to the family in which they were born. These evils are not to be charged to the inhabitants generally of larger towns, but are inci- dent to, and inseparable from, their position. No more moral, pious and philanthropic men are anywhere to be found. And yet the evils exist.
We ought to bear in mind, that there is danger from this source to the whole country, and that a serious responsibility rests upon the people in the rural and agricultural districts, like the County of Addison, in relation to them. The influence of large commercial towns is gradually extending itself over the country for evil, as well as for good. The evil influence may, and should be counter- acted by an influence from the country. A large proportion of the teachers and influential professional and business men, and of the annual increase of the population, in the large towns, are educated in, and are emigrants from the country. There is besides a constant
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intercourse and mutual influence going on between the city and country. From the distinguished advantages enjoyed by the rural districts, it is, we think, their province to save the rest of the country. Our free institutions, as every one understands, will depend on the intelligence and virtue of the people. It is therefore the first duty of all patriotic citizens of Addison County, as well for their own safety as for that of the country, to encourage and support all needed educational and religious institutions in efficient operation.
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APPENDIX
No. 1 .- CHIEF JUDGES OF THE COUNTY COURT UNTIL THE NEW ORGANIZATION OF THE JUDICIARY IN 1825.
Names.
Residence.
Appointed.
Left.
Years in Office
John Strong
Addison,
1785
1801
16
Joel Linsley,
Cornwall,
1801
1307
6
Henry Olin,
Leicester,
1807
1308
1
Joel Linsley,.
Cornwall,
1808
1810
2
Henry Olin,.
Leicester,
1810
1821
14
Dorastus Wooster,
Middlebury
1824
1823
1
ASSISTANT JUDGES OF COUNTY COURT.
Gamaliel Painter,
Middlebury,
1785
1786
1
Ira Allen, ..
Colchester,
1785
1786
1
William Brush
Vergennes,
1786
1787
1
Abel Thompson,
Panton,
1786
1787
1
Hiland Hall,
Cornwall,
1786
1789
Samuel Lane,
1786
1787
1
Gamaliel Painter
Middlebury,
1787
1795
8
Abel Thompson,
Panton,
1789
1801
12
Joel Linsley,
Cornwall,
1795
1801
6
Abraham Dibble,
Vergennes,
1801
1805
4
Henry Olin,.
Leicester,
1801
1807
6
Samuel Strong,
Vergennes,
1805
1808
3
Charles Rich.
Shoreham,
1807
1813
6
Henry Olin,.
Leicester,
1808
1810
2
Mathew Phelps, Jun.
New Haven,
1810
1812
2
Samuel Shepard,
Panton,
1812
1813
1
Samuel Strong,
. Vergennes,
1813
1815
2
Ezra Hoyt,
New Haven,
1818
1818
5
Charles Rich,.
Shoreham,
1815
1816
1
William Siade, Jr
Middlebury,
1816
1322
6
Stephen Haight, Jr.
Monkton,
1818
1826
5
Elisha Bascom
Shoreham,
1822
1824
2
Ezra Hoyt,.
New Haven,
1823
1824
1
John S. Larabee,
Shoreham,
1824
1825
1
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Nunes.
Residence.
Appointedl.
Left.
Year: in Office
Daniel Collins,.
Monkton,
1824
1825
1
Dorastus Wooster,
Middlebury,
1825
1831
6
Eben W. Judd,
1825
1829
4
Silas H. Jenison
Shorcham,
1829
1835
6
William Myrick,
Bridport,
1831
1833
2
Samuel H. Holley.
Bristol,
1833
1842
9
Calvin Solace,
Bridport,
1835
1888
3
Davis Rich,
Shoreham,
1838
1842
4
Calvin Solace,
Bridport,
1812
1844
Fordyce Huntington
Vergennes,
1812
1844
Dorastus Wooster
Middlebury,
1844
1846
2
*Jesse Grandey,
Panton,
1814
1845
6 mo.
*Ville Laurence,
Vergennes.
1845
1847
2
George Chipman,
Ripton,
1846
18-19
3
Elias Bottum,.
New Haven,
1847
1849
2
Calvin G. Tilden
Cornwall,
1849
185]
2
Nathan L. Keese,
Ferrisburgh,
1849
1851
Joseph Haywood,
Panton,
1851
1854
3
Roswell Bottum. Jr.
Orwell,
1851
185-1
2
¡Dorastus Wooster
Middlebury,
1854
Jan. 1855
2 mo.
Erastus S . Hinman,
New Haven,
1854
1856
#Samuel Swift,
Middlebury,
1855
1857
8
John W. Strong,
Addison,
1856
1858
2
M. W. C. Wright.
Shoreham,
1857
1855
HIarison O. Smith,
Monkton,
1858
1855
COUNTY CLERKS.
Samuel Chipman, Jr.,
.. Vergennes,
1785
1786
1
Rosweil Hopkins,
1786
1803
17
Darius Matthews,
Middlebury,
1803
1808
5
Martin Post,
1808
1810
John S. Larabee,
1810
1814
4
Samuel Swift,.
‹ :
1814
1846
82
George S. Swift,.
1846
1855
9
John W. Stewart,.
1855
1855
6 mo
Dugald Stewart,.
1855
STATE'S ATTORNEYS.
Seth Storrs,.
Addison,
1787
1797
10
Daniel Chipman,
Middlebury,
1797
1804
7
* Judge GRANDY died before June 1st, 1845; VILLE LAWRENCE Was appointed by the Governor in his place.
+ Died January 1853.
# Appointed in place of D. Wooster
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Namcs.
Residence.
Appointed.
Left.
Yearsin Office
Loyal Case,
Middlebury,
1804
1808
4
David Edmond,
. Vergennes.
1808
1810
2
Horatio Seymour
Middlebury,
1810
1813
3
David Edmond.
Vergennes,
1813
1815
2
Horatio Seymour,
Middlebury,
1815
1819
4
"David"Edmond,
Vergennes,
1819
1824
5
¡Noah Hawley,
1824
1821
5 mo
Enoch D. Woodbridge,
1821
1827
3
George Chipman,
Middlebury,
1827
1830
3
William Slade,
1830
1831
1
Ebenezer N. Briggs
Salisbury,
1821
1839
8
Ozias Seymour,
Middlebury,
1839
1845
6
George W. Grandey,
Vergennes,
1845
1848
3
John Prout, .
Salisbury,
1848
1851
3
John W. Stewart,
Middlebury,
1851
1854
3
Frederic E. Woodbridge, .. Vergennes,
185-1
SHERIFFS.
Noah Chittenden,
Jericho,
1785
1786
1
Gamaliel Painter,
Middlebury,
1786
1787
1
Samuel Strong,
Vergennes,
1787
1789
2
John Chipman,
Middlebury,
1789
1801
12
William Slade,
Cornwall,
1801
1811
10
Jonathan Hoyt, Jun.,
New Haven,
1811
1812
1
John Willard,.
Middlebury,
1812
1813
1
Samuel Mattocks,
1813
1815
2
Jonathan Host, Jun.
New Haven,
1815
1819
4
Abel Tom'n'son,
Vergennes,
1819
1821
5
1821
1828
4
Muy hry,
1828
1831
3
1831
1833
2
Mij ilebury,
1833
1835
2
hallo . Mardo
1800
1836
1
1856
1837
1
LtuanS .. it. ..
Monkton,
1837
1839
: 2
iVilli in B. Martin,
Middlebury,
1639
1840
1
Adlıh Smith,.
1840
1842
2
Caius A. Collamer,
Bristol,
1842
1844
2
David S. Church,
Middlebury,
1844
Jan. 1859
14
#William Joslin,
Vergennes,
Jan. 1859
* Died in spring of 1824.
Appointed by Court in place of D. Edmond.
¿ Appointod by the Governor on the death of D. S. Church.
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APPENDIX.
HIGH BAILIFFS.
Names.
Residence.
Appointed.
Left.
Yearsin Office
Samuel Mattocks,
Middlebury,
1798
1806
S
John Warren,.
~
1806
1808
Artemas Nixon
1808
1810
Moses Leonard,
1810
1812
2
James Jewett,.
1812
1813
1
Benjamin Clark,
. Weybridge,
1813
1814
1
Eliakim Weeks,
Salisbury,
1814
1816
Wightman Chapma
Weybridge,
1816
1820
10
Nathaniel Foster,
Middlebury,
1826
1829
3
John Howden,.
Bristol,
1829
1830
1
Marshall S. Doty
Addison,
1830
1931
Myron Bushnell,
Starksboro,
1831
1833
Milo Winslow,.
Middlebury,
1833
1835
2
Gaius A. Collamer,
Bristol,
1835
1837
Wightman Chapma
Weybridge,
1837
1820
Harry Goodrich,
Middlebury,
1830
1810
1
Asa Chapman,
=
1940
1849
Goorge C. Chapman,
1849
1850
1
William Joslin,
Vergennes,
1859
1853
G A. Collamer
Brislol,
1850
JUDGES OP PRODATE-District ef Addison.
John Strong,
Addison,
1887
1801
11
Darius Mathews,
Cornwall,
1801
1819
18
Samuel Swift
Middlebury,
1819
1841
22
Silas II. Jenison
Shoreham,
1842
1847
C
Horatio Seymour
Middlebury, .
1847
1855
8
Calvin G. Tilden,
Cornwall,
1855
DISTRICT OF NEW HAVEN.
Ezra Hoyt,
.New Haven,
1824
1829
5
Noah Hawley
Vergennes,
1829
1831
Jesse Grandey
Panton,
1831
1839
Adin Hall,
New Haven,
1833
1835
Harvey Munsil,
Bristol,
1835
130
APPENDIX.
NO. 2.
The following statement of " Agriculture, Farms and Implements, Stock:, products," &e., is taken from the census of 1850.
Addison County. Acres of improved land 243,312, unimproved 115,287. Cash value of farms $7,799,257. Value of farming implements $256,270. Horses 5,921. Asses and Mules 1. Milch Cows 10,691. Working Oxen 2,815. Other Cattle 13,248. Sheep 188,'54. Swine 5,822. Value of Live Stock $1,289,608. Value of animals slaughtered $176,856. Wheat, bushe's of 103,44. Bushels of Rye 20,006. Bushels of Indian Corn 175,478. Bushels of Oats 211.385. Pounds of Wool 622.594. Peas and Beans 26, 355. Bushels of Irish Potatoes 318 421. Of Barley, 149. Of Buckwheat 15,659. Value of Orchard products $11,606. Gallons of Wine 114. Pounds of Butter, 876,771. Cheese 817,!49. Tons of Hay 88,793. Bushels of Clover Seed 5. Other Grass Seed 1,589. Pounds of Hops 5,062. Of Flax 1,232. Busheis of Flax Seed 51. Pounds of SiIk Coccoons 76. Of Maple Sugar 205,263. Gallons of Molisses 65). Beeswax and Honey pounas of 40,654. Value of IIome Manufactures $9,648.
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APPENDIX.
NO. 3.
The following table shows the population of the several towns in the County of Addison, at each United States Census, since Vermont was admitted into the Union.
1791
1800
1810
1820
1830
1840
1850
Addison,
401
781
1100
1210
1306
1220
1279
Avery's Gore,.
18
29
78
Bridport,.
449
1124
1520
1511
1774
1480
1393
Bristol,.
211
665
1179
1051
1274
1283
1314
Cornwall, ..
826
1163
1279
1120
1264
1163
1155
Ferrisburgh,
481
956
1647
1581
1822
1755
2075
Goshen,
4
86
290
555
621
486
Granville,
101
185
321
328
403
545
603
Hancock,
50
149
311
442
472
455
430
Leicester,
313
522
603
548
633
602
506
Lincoln, .
97
255
278
639
770
1057
Middlebury
005
1263
213S
2535
3468
3 162
3517
Monkton, ..
450
880
1218
1152
1384
1310
1246
New Haven,
723
1125
1688
1566
1834
1503
1663
Orwell,.
778
1386
1819
1730
1598
1504
1470
Panton,
220
363
520
546
605
670
559
Ripton
15
42
278
357
567
Salisbury,
416
014
709
721
997
942
1027
Shoreham, ..
721
1447
2033
1881
2137
1675
1601
Starksboro,
40
359
726
914
1312
1263
1400
Vergennes,
201
516
835
817
CEG
1017
1878
Waltham,.
21
2-14
261
301
283
270
Weybridge,
175
502
750
711
850
797
804
Whiting, .
250
404
565
609
653
660
629
7,267
14.745
21,643
21,879
26,503
25,074
26,549
132
APPENDIX.
CENSUS OF 1850.
WHITES,
FREE COLORED.
Male :. Females. Total. Males. Females. Total Ag'gate.
Addison,
659
620
1279
1279
Bridport,
785
638
1803
1893
Bristol,
668
6-14
1312
16
16
32
1344
Cornwall,
576
577
1153
2
2
1155
Ferrisburgh,
1016
1023
2063
2
4
6
2075
Goshen,.
261
225
486
486
Granville,
314
280
603
603
Ilancock
236
10-1
430
430
Leicester .
290
305
395
1
1
596
Lincoln,
564
488
1052
3
2
5
1037
Middlebury
1730
1769
8499
8
10
18
3517
Monkton, ..
600
C46
1246
1246
New Haven,
825
832
1657
5
1
6
1663
Orwell,
727
742
1469
1
1
1470
Panton,
287
267
55.1
3
2
5
559
Ripton,.
803
264
567
567
Salisbury
526
501
1027
102
Shoreham
822
779
1601
1601
Starksboro,
725
675
1400
1400
Vergennes,
658
694
1347
13
18
31
1378
Waltham,
141
129
270
270
Weybridge,
399
405
801
801
Whiting,
311
317
628
1
1
629
13,398
18,043
26,441
54
54
108
26,512
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