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Dexter Parker. Enlisted August 25, 1862, in Company B, Thirteenth Regiment. Mustered in October 10, 1862. Wounded July 3, 1863, at Gettysburg. . Mustered out July 21, 1863.
Jerome W. Parker. Enlisted November 30, 1863, in Company C, First Vermont Cavalry. Mustered in December 25, 1863. Transferred to Company A, June 21, 1865. Mustered out August 9, 1865.
Levi C. Peabody. Enlisted December 16, 1861, in Company K, Seventh Regiment. Mustered in as Corporal, February 12, 1862. Honorably discharged October 24, 1862.
Thomas T. Prentis. Enlisted November 28, 1863, in Com- pany H, Second United States Sharp Shooters. Mustered in December 18, 1863. Transferred to Company H, Fourth Regiment, February 25, 1865. Honorably discharged September 8, 1864.
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John H. Quigley. Enlisted June 19, 1862, in Company I, Ninth Regiment. Mustered in as Sergeant, July 9, 1862. Mustered out June 13, 1865.
Loren B. Reed. Enlisted August 25, 1862, in Company B, Thirteenth Regiment. Mustered in October 10, 1862. De- tailed for service as musician in the brigade band. Died at Wolf Run Shoals, Va., May 30, 1863.
Oscar Carlisle Reed. Enlisted August 25, 1862, in Company B, Thirteenth Regiment. Died in a hospital near Fairfax, Va., December 26, 1862.
John Waldron Richardson. Enlisted August 25, 1862, in Company B, Thirteenth Regiment. Mustered in October 10, 1862. Mustered out July 21, 1863.
Edwin R. Richardson. Enlisted August 14, 1861, in Company H, Sixth Regiment. Mustered in October 15, 1861. Promoted Corporal, February 8, 1862. Promoted Sergeant, July 10, 1863. Promoted First Sergeant, June 5, 1864. Killed at Charlestown, Va., August 21, 1864.
Loren S. Richardson. Enlisted November 28, 1863, in Company H, Second United States Sharp Shooters. Mustered in December 18, 1863. Wounded at Cold Harbor, June 10, 1864. Transferred to Company H, Fourth Regiment, February 25, 1865. Mustered out July 14, 1865.
John N. Richardson. Enlisted November 28, 1863, in Company H, Second United States Sharp Shooters. Mustered in December 18, 1863. Promoted Corporal, November 1, 1864. Transferred to Company H, Fourth Regiment, February 25, 1865. Mustered out July 14, 1865.
Thomas Sanders. Enlisted June 19, 1862, in Company I, Ninth Regiment. Mustered . in as Corporal, July 9, 1862. Mustered out June 13, 1865.
Lucius D. Savage. Enlisted May 20, 1861, in Company F, Second Regiment. Mustered in June 20, 1861. Severely wounded and taken prisoner at Savage Station, June 29, 1862. Released July 25, 1862. Honorably discharged November 29, 1862.
Levi Seaver. Enlisted August 25, 1862, in Company B, Thirteenth Regiment. Mustered in October 10, 1862. Mus- tered out July 21, 1863. Re-enlisted April 6, 1865, in Company K, Ninety-Sixth New York Veteran Volunteers. Honorably discharged February 15, 1866.
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Albert Hezekiah Selleck. Enlisted May 20, 1861, in Company F, Second Regiment. Mustered in June 20, 1861. Wounded July 21, 1861. Honorably discharged March 21, 1863.
Henry Charles Shaw. Went out as Assistant Surgeon of the Second New Hampshire Regiment. Mustered out at the end of three months' service, he returned to the front as Assistant Surgeon of the Fifth Vermont Regiment, August 15, 1861, and died at Alexandria, Va., September 7, 1862.
Daniel Perry Shepherd. Enlisted August 14, 1861, in Company H, Sixth Regiment. Mustered in as Corporal, October 15, 1861. Wounded at Lee's Mills, Va., April 16, 1862. Mus- tered out June 26, 1865.
Mason Chellis Shepherd. Enlisted August 14, 1861, in Company H, Sixth Regiment. Mustered in October 15, 1861. - Wounded at Lee's Mills, Va., April 16, 1862. Mustered out June 26, 1865.
James H. Somerville. Enlisted August 29, 1864, in Com- pany G, Sixth Regiment, and was mustered in on the same day. Mustered out June 19, 1865.
Lewis M. Spaulding. Enlisted August 14, 1861, in Company H, Sixth Regiment. Mustered in October 15, 1861. Killed at the battle of The Wilderness, May 5, 1864.
Solon S. Spaulding. Enlisted August 14, 1861, in Company H, Sixth Regiment. Mustered in October 15, 1861. Promoted Corporal. Honorably discharged June 12, 1865.
John Sterling. Enlisted November 30, 1863, in Company C, First Vermont Cavalry. Mustered in December 25, 1863. Transferred to Company A, June 21, 1865. Mustered out August 9, 1865.
Doric Smith Stoddard. Enlisted August 25, 1862, in Company B, Thirteenth Regiment. Mustered in as Corporal, October 10, 1862. Mustered out July 21, 1863.
Simeon Stoddard. Enlisted August 14, 1861, in Company H, Sixth Regiment. Mustered in October 15, 1861. Wounded May 5, 1864. Honorably discharged, October 28, 1864.
Harlan Page Stoddard. Enlisted May 1, 1861, in Company F, Second Regiment. Mustered in June 20, 1861. Severely wounded at Savage Station, June 29, 1862. Honorably dis- charged, July 30, 1863.
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Horace Bartlett Stoddard. Enlisted September, 1861, in Company F, Second Regiment. Mustered in October 18, 1861. Killed at The Wilderness, May 5, 1864.
William Henry Stoddard. Enlisted November 28, 1863, in Company H, Sixth Regiment. Mustered in December 18, 1863. Mustered out June 26, 1865.
Lathrop Thompson Stoddard. Enlisted August 25, 1862, in Company B, Thirteenth Regiment. Mustered in October 10, 1862. Mustered out July 21, 1863. Re-enlisted January 5, 1864, in Company C, Seventeenth Regiment. Mustered in as Corporal, March 2, 1864, and served as Color-bearer. Severely wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of Petersburg Mine, July 30, 1864, and died August 4, 1864, while in the hands of the enemy.
Lyman Stoddard. Enlisted September 20, 1861, in Com- pany G, Sixth Regiment. Mustered in October 15, 1861. Mustered out June 26, 1865.
Cyron G. Thayer. Enlisted August 25, 1862, in Company B, Fifth Regiment. Mustered in October 10, 1862. Died May 20, 1863.
James M. Thayer. Enlisted August 25, 1862, in Company B, Thirteenth Regiment. Mustered in October 10, 1862. Honorably discharged January 22, 1863, and died soon after of sickness contracted in the service.
Julius E. Tucker. Enlisted October 9, 1861, in Company G, Sixth Regiment. Mustered in October 15, 1861. Mustered out May 23, 1865.
Harvey Morgan Waite. Enlisted August 25, 1862, in Company B, Thirteenth Regiment. Mustered in October 10, 1862. Mustered out July 21, 1863.
Almon Walker. Enlisted August 11, 1862, in Company H, Sixth Regiment. Mustered in September 22, 1862. Trans- ferred to the Invalid Corps, and mustered out July 10, 1865.
George P. Welch. Enlisted August 3, 1864, in Company B, Eleventh Regiment, and was mustered in on the same day. Mustered out August 25, 1865.
Edmund Whitcomb. Enlisted August 25, 1862, in Com- pany B, Thirteenth Regiment. Mustered in October 10, 1862. Mustered out July 21, 1863.
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Orcas C. Wilder. Enlisted August 25, 1862, in Company B, Thirteenth Regiment. Mustered in as Captain, October 10, 1862. Mustered out July 21, 1863.
Ira C. Williams. Enlisted October 3, 1863, in Third Ver- mont Battery. Mustered in January 1, 1864. Mustered out June 15, 1865.
In addition to those whose names appear above, the follow- ing men who were either residents of the town at the time or who had been born and brought up within its limits enlisted from other places, and it seems desirable that a brief record of their service should be here recorded:
Matthias Joslin Bushnell. Enlisted August 24, 1861, in Company B, First Wisconsin Cavalry. Mustered in as Corporal. Killed near Madison, Ark., August 3, 1862.
Hiland G. Campbell. Enlisted from the town of Warren, Vt., September 2, 1864, in the Third Vermont Battery. Mustered in September 4, 1864. Mustered out June 16, 1865.
Israel Childs, for many years a resident of the town, enlisted in the Thirtieth Wisconsin Regiment, and performed some three years of service.
Chester Stephen Dana. Enlisted from the town of Fayston, Vt., July 18, 1862, in Company B, Tenth Regiment. Mustered in September 1, 1862. Promoted First Sergeant. Honorably discharged May 22, 1865.
Edwin Harvey Dana. Enlisted from the town of Water- bury, Vt., December 23, 1863, in Company B, Tenth Regiment. Mustered in December 31, 1863. Wounded at Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864. Honorably discharged January 27, 1865.
Jackson Samuel Dana. Enlisted from the town of Fayston. Vt., in Company B, Thirteenth Regiment. Mustered in October IO, 1862. Wounded at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. Mustered out July 21, 1863.
William Wordsworth McAllister. Enlisted from the town of Barre, Vt., August 9, 1864, in Third Vermont Light Artillery. Mustered out June 15, 1865.
Harlan Gaius Newcomb. Enlisted August 19, 1862, in Company K, One Hundred Forty-fifth New York Volunteers. Mustered in September 22, 1862. Transferred March, 1864. to Company I, One Hundred Seventh New York Volunteers. Detailed at Division Headquarters, September, 1864. Rejoined his Company, May 23, 1865. Mustered out June 19, 1865.
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Judson W. Richardson. Enlisted November 30, 1863, from Fayston, Vt. Mustered into Company H, Sixth Regiment, December 18, 1863. Corporal, June 19, 1865. Mustered out June 26, 1865.
Daniel Russ. Enlisted June 23, 1862, in Company I, Ninth Regiment. Mustered in July 9, 1862. Promoted Sergeant, March 26, 1864. Promoted First Sergeant, March, 1865. Honorably discharged, June 8, 1865.
James C. Russ. Enlisted in Company A, Forty-second Wisconsin Volunteers, Mustered out June 28, 1865.
Edward M. Savage. Enlisted from Rochester, Vt., August 28, 1861, in Company E, Fourth Regiment. Mustered in September 26, 1861. Discharged for disabilities, November 27, 1862. Enlisted October 22, 1863, in Third Vermont Battery. Promoted Corporal, December 30, 1863. Mustered in January 1,- 1864. Mustered out June 16, 1865.
Frank E. Spaulding. Enlisted from Sheldon, Vt., Sep- tember, 1861, in Company K, Sixth Regiment. Mustered in October 15, 1861. Honorably discharged, June 30, 1862.
George E. Spaulding. Enlisted from Albany, N. Y., in Company G, Tenth New York Volunteers. Served from April to August, 1865.
Franklin Stoddard. Enlisted from Warren, Vt., August 12, 1864, in Second Vermont Battery. Mustered in same day. Transferred to First Company Heavy Artillery, March 1, 1865. Mustered out July 28, 1865.
Nathan Thayer. Enlisted from Fayston, Vt., August 13, 1862, in Company H, Sixth Regiment. Mustered in September 22, 1862. Honorably discharged, June 3, 1863.
Charles D. Tewksbury. Enlisted September 17, 1861, in Company B, Fifty-second Illinois Volunteers. Mustered in October 25, 1861, as Corporal. Promoted Sergeant, April, 1864. Mustered out July 6, 1865. Wounded at the battle of Shiloh.
Isaac N. Tewksbury. Enlisted in a Michigan Regiment, and was killed at the battle of Pittsburg Landing.
This was the town's great sacrifice upon the nation's altar, but mention must be made of lesser gifts. In August, 1862, a small bounty was voted to soldiers who should enlist from the town, and in November, 1863, this was considerably increased, so that by the end of the war the contribution of the town for this and kindred purposes amounted to $10,433.13.
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Mothers and sisters wrought tirelessly and well, and many a soldier lad told, in his letters, of comfort and good cheer dis- covered in the depths of boxes sent from home. A society was organized, auxiliary to the Christian Commission, and many army supplies, prepared by bands of devoted women that met regularly in the hall of the brick tavern in the village, were shipped directly to the front.
Ainsworth Post, No. 36, Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Vermont.
On Saturday evening, December 16, 1871, the preliminary steps were taken for the formation in Waitsfield of a Post of the Grand Army of the Republic. The meeting was attended by Henry Newton Bushnell, Orcas C. Wilder, Robert J. Coffey, Lucius D. Savage. Ziba Hamilton McAllister, Chester Stephen Dana, William Mitchell Strong, George Somerville, Eugene Edwin Joslin, John N. Richardson, Edward Anson Fisk, Jack- son Samuel Dana, Harvey Morgan Waite, George O. Boyce, George W. Fisher, William F. Wilder, Seymour L. Kneeland, George J. Ainsworth, Leonard C. Berry, Anson Brigham, La- fayette Myers, Cornelius McMullen, William Blair and Robert Maxwell, and convened at the hotel hall. The necessary funds for a charter were subscribed, and the name "Ainsworth" was chosen in memory of Captain Luther Ainsworth, who fell at Banks Ford, Va., May 4, 1863.
On Tuesday evening, January 9, 1872, the Post received its charter, and was formally organized by Inspector General John J. Bain. At this time the following names were added to those given above as charter members of the Post: Henry F. Dana, Thomas Maxwell, Samuel Maxwell, Harlan Page Stoddard, J. W. Chandler, Orville M. Eaton, Edgar A. Hastings, Allen E. Mehuron, Silas S. Blakely.
The members made choice of Lucius D. Savage as Com- mander and Robert J. Coffey as Adjutant.
At the end of a year the roll of members numbered more than fifty, of whom a number were from Warren. Some years later a Post was organized in the latter town, and this resulted in a transfer of some members, but at the present time both towns are united in Ainsworth Post.
From its organization the Post has not failed to observe Memorial Day with fitting exercises, and since 1898 the town
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has annually made an appropriation for the purpose, and has appointed a committee of citizens to act in conjunction with that of the Post.
Since 1882 this organization has held a yearly meeting, at which all old soldiers, irrespective of membership, and their families, meet to renew old associations.
Commanders of Ainsworth Post, No. 36 .:
Lucius D. Savage, 1872-4. Cornelius McMullen, 1875-6. John N. Richardson, 1877-8. Orcas C. Wilder, 1879-80. Ziba Hamilton McAllister, 1881-2.
William Mitchell Strong, 1883-4.
Orville M. Eaton, 1885-6.
Edward Anson Fisk, 1887-8.
Lucius D. Savage, 1889.
Charles H. Clay, 1890. William Wordsworth McAllister, 1891.
Allen E. Mehuron, 1892.
Henry Newton Bushnell, 1893-4. Byron J. Stockwell, 1895.
Dorric Smith Stoddard, 1896.
Edward M. Savage, 1897-8.
Stephen Johnson, 1899-1908.
On Memorial Day, 1907, a beautiful monument purchased by contributions from residents and former residents of the town, was dedicated to her soldiers in the Civil War. On a plot of ground fronting on the main street of the village, and conveyed to the town for the purpose, in part by the Methodist Episcopal Society, and in part by Valley Lodge I. O. O. F., a handsome Barre granite ashlar was erected. Empanelled in this stone is a bronze tablet 3 ft. 8 in. by 4 ft. 3 in. in size, bearing the following inscription:
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IN MEMORY OF THE BOYS IN BLUE WHO MARCHED FROM THIS TOWN TO THE BATTLEFIELDS OF THE CIVIL WAR. 1861-1865.
Luther Ainsworth
Eugene McCarty
Edward L. Allen
Victor B. Mix
Alexander Baird
Ireneas P. Newcomb
Albert D. Barnard
Alson D. Page
Mitchell Basconner
Edwin F. Palmer
Leonard C. Berry
Dexter Parker
Thomas Burke
Jerome W. Parker
Edward A. Burns
Levi C. Peabody
Fordis O. Bushnell
Thomas T. Prentis
Henry N. Bushnell
John H. Quigley
Bertrand D. Campbell
Loren B. Reed
Oliver C. Campbell
Oscar C. Reed
Foster S. Dana Harry F. Dana
Edwin R. Richardson
Wesley E. Dana
Loren S. Richardson
Joseph P. Davis
John W. Richardson
Albee H. Dewey
Thomas Sanders
Hiram F. Dike
Lucius D. Savage
Julian Dumas
Levi W. Seaver
Alba B. Durkee
Albert H. Selleck
Isaac H. Elliot
Henry C. Shaw
Edward A. Fisk
Mason S. Shepherd
Daniel Foster
Perry D. Shepherd
Heman R. French
James H. Somerville
Ephraim H. Fuller
Lewis M. Spaulding
David Gleason
Solon S. Spaulding
Daniel Grandy
John Sterling
Wm. H. H. Greenslit
Dorric S. Stoddard
George B. Hall
Harlan P. Stoddard
James Harriman
Horace B. Stoddard Lyman Stoddard
. John Hines
L. Thompson Stoddard Simeon Stoddard William H. Stoddard
Manley N. Hoyt
George M. Jones
Cyron G. Thayer
Holland Jones
James M. Thayer
John F. Jones
Julius E. Tucker
Eugene E. Joslin
Harvey M. Waite
George S. Kneeland
Almon Walker
Seymour L. Kneeland
George P. Welch
Hiram A. Luce
Edmund Whitcomb
James L. Maynard
Orcas C. Wilder
Ziba H. McAllister
Ira C. Williams
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Edgar A. Hastings
Philip Hoffman
John N. Richardson
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CHAPTER IX.
ECCLESIASTICAL-CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND CONGRE- GATIONAL SOCIETY IN WAITSFIELD, 1796-1830.
On June 27, 1796, a Congregational Church was gathered in Waitsfield, the first church of any denomination to be organ- ized within the present confines of Washington County. The religious life of this community developed with exceptional rapidity and strength. At the first meeting held for the organ- ization of the town a committee was chosen to "Lay out a Meeting Hous Spoat and Other Public Yard," and at the second town meeting held on July 28, 1794, John Barnard, Benjamin Wait and William Joiner were chosen a committee to procure a preacher, and it was voted to "raise twelve pounds in wheat to pay for preaching."
It need occasion no surprise to find the State and Church so closely interwoven, for under the Act of October 18, 1787, a majority of the inhabitants of a town could organize for the support of the gospel and assess taxes for the purpose upon all legal voters unless an elaborate certificate of dissent were filed, and it was not until the passage of the Act of October 26, 1797, that voluntary associations for the support of the gospel were recognized. Thus it comes about that until the organization of a Congregational Society in 1800 the town records are the source of information concerning the material side of divine worship, and the Church as a distinct religious organization deals only with matters purely ecclesiastical.
Religious services upon the Sabbath were commenced as early as 1793, under the leadership of John Barnard, a deacon in the Shelburne Church, from which he came. It is certain that there was some preaching during the year 1794, furnished doubtless by itinerant missionaries, for at the March meeting in 1795 the town voted that the last year's tax be reduced so as to "no more than pay for what preaching they had the last year," and the tax for the ensuing year was reduced to 9f, payable in wheat at 4s. per bushel.
It has been a subject of much speculation as to where the early church services were held, but a careful examination of
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the records leads to the conclusion that the first were at General Wait's house or barn. A change was apparently made in August, 1795, as we find it recorded that, "it was moved and seconded to see if General Wait's be a place for holding meetings on Sunday-past in the negative." In the following March, how- ever, it was voted "that the meetings on Sunday shall be held as nigh the centre as possible," and "voted and agreed that Benjamin Wait's barn be the place for holding of meetings on Sunday."
The place of meeting continued to be a matter of con- troversy. In 1797 it was fixed at William Palmer's house, and in September, 1797, at the request of Francis Dana, it was voted to return to General Wait's barn. In that year an attempt was made to join with the Northeast School District in building a combination meeting-house and school-house on the Common, but the district withdrew and the town later repudiated its contract with Salah Smith and refused to pay him for the frame which he had erected.
The opening record of the church organization reads:
"Waitsfield, 27th of June, 1796. This day a Church of Christ was embodied in this town by the Rev. Mr. Ebenezer Kingsbury, of Jericho, on the following confession of faith and covenant."
The Covenant is signed:
John Barnard Bissell Phelps
William Joiner Daniel Wilder
Ezekiel Hawley Eli Skinner
Jared Skinner Daniel' Taylor
Samuel Bayley
"The following united afterward:" Jerusha Joiner Abigail Rider
John Barnard was moderator of the meeting, and Bissell Phelps was clerk.
No articles of practice were adopted, the church voting to "take the Bible for our rule." Indeed it was not until October 22, 1801, that the rules for procedure in discipline, necessary and much used in those days, were adopted.
During the whole period that we have been considering there was no settled pastor, and church services were conducted and the sacraments administered only by the itinerant preacher or the pastor of some neighboring church. The names of many
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of these men are now lost, but among them were Rev. Ebenezer Kingsbury, of the church in Jericho already referred to; Rev. Martin Tullar, of Royalton, a brother-in-law of William Joiner; Rev. Elijah Lyman, of Brookfield, and Rev. Jedediah Bushnell, a brother of Doud Bushnell, and who was for a time a missionary, and was later settled for many years over the church in Corn- wall, Vt. In the winter of 1799-1800 he spent several weeks in Waitsfield, and through his successful preaching the member- ship of the church was doubled. Encouraged by this increase in numbers, the Church was led to make provision for the support of a settled pastor. Hence it was deemed advisable to form a society in accordance with the statute, under whose auspices the services of the Congregational Church might be conducted, and on September 27, 1800, the Congregational Society of the Town of Waitsfield was organized, and has since that date had charge of financial matters connected with Congregational worship in the town, strictly religious matters being still in the control of the Church and both organizations uniting in a call to a pastor.
The warning for the meeting referred to called upon the Inhabitants of Waitsfield to meet at the house of Ezra Wait on the date named and the society was organized by the election of the following officers:
Benjamin Wait, jr., Clerk.
Col. Elias Taylor, Treasurer.
Jared Skinner
Levi Wilder
Assessors.
Samuel Bayley
Phineas Rider, Collector.
John Barnard
Salah Smith Committee of the Society.
Simeon Stoddard
The Act of October 18, 1787, was repealed by the legislature of 1797. The Act of October 26, 1797, to which occasional reference will hereafter be made, recognized and permitted voluntary associations of persons for the maintenance of social and public worship, but the freedom in the exercise of religious beliefs thus secured by the first section of the act was in large measure nullified by following sections, which provided that whenever any number, exceeding twenty-five, of the inhabitants of a town, being of a similar sect, should think themselves able to build a church, a meeting should be called by the town clerk.
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at which the inhabitants of the town might organize themselves into a society for the support of the gospel, to be governed in all matters by a majority vote, except that in the determination of a site for a meeting-house, the hiring or settlement of a min- ister, and the levying of a tax for the support of services, an affirmative vote of two-thirds of those present was required, with further provision that there must be a minimum affirmative vote of 25. Furthermore, every legal voter was assumed to be of the religious opinion and hence subject to the taxes of the society, unless before or at the time of its organization he presented a certificate signed by a minister, deacon, elder, moderator or clerk of the sect or denomination to which he belonged showing him to actually be of a different religious opinion; and any person afterwards moving into a town was so bound unless be filed a similar certificate within a year, such certificates to be recorded on the town records.
This Act, it is apparent, gave great advantage to the first society within a town to organize under its provisions.
Few if any certificates of dissenters provided for in the Act of 1797 are found in the Waitsfield records, but these provisions of the statute provoked much opposition throughout the state, on the ground that they violated the Bill of Rights. Consequently the legislature of 1801 passed an amendment permitting any inhabitant to dissent by filing for record at the time of the meeting a declaration in following form:
"I do not agree in religious opinion with a majority of the inhabitants of this town."
There was a further provision that any person once a member of the dominant society could thereafter dissent upon paying up back taxes.
Funds necessary to conduct the affairs of the society were raised by a tax levied by the society assessors upon the taxable list of all members. The first assessment (1801) was at the rate of two cents, six and 1% mills, on each dollar of a list amounting to $6383.95. The sum so raised was sufficient to pay the salary of the minister, amounting to $166.66, and leave a working balance of 59 cents in the treasury.
This method of raising funds continued for more than forty years, but the formation of other religious societies and the increasing annual budget rapidly increased the burden of taxation for those who remained, and in 1843, when Rev. Calvin
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