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Lot 3. The south part was first pur- chased by JOSIAH FREEMAN, and is now owned by Elijah A. Batchelder. The north part was first leased by James Perry ; now by Daniel Batchelder.
Lot 4 was settled by Dea. NEHEMIAH MACK, whose house was in Ira F. Page's pasture, east of his house now occupied by his son Dan. Page. Russell Young,
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brother of Cornelius, owned 45 acres next to Lampson's. He went to New York, and was drowned in North river when trying to escape from the police.
Lot 5. The western part was settled by JOSEPH LAMPSON, who was for many years constable of the town. He was a weaver, a large part of the cotton cloth used in town being woven by him. Dan- iel and Benjamin P. were his sons; Mrs. James Batchelder and Mrs. Jeremiah Batch- elder his daughters. His farm is now owned by Charles Bancroft.
Lot 6 is in the village, and was pur- chased of Robert Mellen by CHARLES McCLOUD, 2d, and mills erected in 1798, which were burned the same year, and re- built by McCloud. The first framed house in the village was built by him, where the Methodist church now stands, and is the old house back of it now owned by Wm. Bartlett.
The first store was a small one, opened by JOSEPH KILBURN, in 1803 or '4, on the Silas Willis place, near the Great Brook. The building was owned by ELIAS KINGS- LEY, the miller, and when sold to Ira Day, of Barre, in 1807, there was a kiln for making earthen ware between that and the brook. The next store was opened by Philip Sparrow about 1804, upon the place where Andrew Wheatley built the large brick store on the north side of the Meth- odist church common.
SILAS WILLIAMS built and opened the first tavern in the village, which is now the southern part of S. B. Gale's house.
SHUBAEL WALES, from Randolph, fath- er of George C. Wales, built the first cloth- ing works, below the mills, in 1805 or '6.
AMASA BANCROFT, in 1809, built the first trip-hammer, south of the Great Brook and just above the present tannery. He was a son of Lieut. John Bancroft, an of- ficer in the Revolution.
There have been three distilleries in the village-one on School street, in Mrs. Chamberlain's garden, one on High street, in Wm. Park's garden, and one east of S. B. Gale's house.
The cemetery in the village was at first just S. W. of the railroad station. Among
those buried there was Parnel, daughter of Joseph Lampson. She was the betrothed of Geo. Rich, who disliked the place, and gave the land for the present cemetery, and those interred in the old one were re- moved in 1814.
Range 4-lot I, was settled by the Free- mans, as mentioned.
Lot 2. Clearing began by John Nye, of Falmouth, but first settled upon by Rich- ard Kendrick. The eastern part is now owned by H. Q. Perry; the western by Hartwell Skinner and Enos P. Colby's estate.
Lot 3. The southern part was settled by David Kinney, and is now owned by Edward Bartlett. The northern part at a later date was settled by Jonathan White, and is now occupied by Solomon Bartlett.
Lot 4, now owned by Curtis Bartlett, was settled by WILLARD SHEPARD, of Sharon, about 1796. The first spring he had a yoke of oxen and was out of hay. He took his oxen and sled, went to the Four Corners near Freeman's, thence to Montpelier, and up Worcester Branch 2 miles, where he got a load of Col. Davis. By the time he got home nearly one-half of it had been shaken and pulled off by the bushes, which so disgusted him with that business that during his long life he never after bought a load of hay.
He had a small flock of sheep which he kept near the house for safety. One night he heard the wolves howling, and in the morning found they had killed every sheep.
He took a prominent part in town af- fairs, and did a large part of the business of justice of the peace. He removed to the farm partly in East Montpelier, now owned by his son Prentice, where he died.
Lot 5 is divided by the Great Brook. The eastern portion was settled by Nathan Jones. The lot is now partly owned by N. C. Page and George Huntoon.
Lot 6, now owned by Orrin Cree, was cleared by John Chase, who, unable to pay for it the second time, went West, but returned and died in Calais.
Range 5-lots I and 2, were settled by Judge BRADFORD KINNE, about 1795. The northern part he deeded to Philoman
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and Stephen Perkins in 1803, but they oc- cupied it in 1801. This part is now owned by A. Gunnison : the southern by J. Batch- elder. Judge Kinne was born in Preston, Conn., but moved here from Royalton, Vt. He was the most prominent man in town, and with good advantages might have become a distinguished lawyer. The story is well known of his defending Fisher in the suit of Cairnes v. Fisher, for assault. at the Caledonia County Court, where he directed his client to cry, when he himself did. Kinne made a pathetic appeal to the jury in favor of his client, who was a poor man, assuring them that "every dollar they took from him, they took from the mouths of babes and sucklings," at which dismal prospect Kinne burst into tears, and was followed by such a tremendous boo-hoo from Fisher, that the damages were assessed at a trifling sum, although the assault was a severe one. He re- moved on to the Washburn pitch in 1812, where he died in 1828, aged 64. Brad- ford Kinne Pierce, the distinguished Meth- odist clergyman, is his grandson.
Lot 3 was settled by James Perry. He was one of the first deacons of the Con- gregational church, but became a Metho- dist preacher. His farm is now owned by his grandson, Daniel A. Perry. The northern part of this lot was settled by Ja- cob Perkins, about 1799. It is now owned by Emmons Taft, who married his daugh- ter.
Capt. JONATHAN KINNE was born in Preston, Conn., where he married, and mov- ed to Bethel, Vt. He lived there 10 years. In 1793, he commenced clearing lot No. 4, living in a shanty through the week and going to Seth Freeman's on Sundays. He lived thus for two summers, and built a framed house in 1794, the first in town, which stood nearly opposite to H. Q. Perry's present residence. He moved his family here in Feb., 1795. The death of their little boy, Justus, Mar. 6, 1796, was the first death in town. He was the first minister in town, and preached for the Congregational church many years. He died at Berlin, in 1838. His son, Dea. Justus Kinney, lives upon this farm.
No. 5. is lease land. The southern 50 acres was leased by Dea. GEORGE AYERS, who was the progenitor of all of that fami- ly in this town. This place is now occu- pied by Ira Stone. The middle 50 acres of this lot was first leased by Elder James Perry's son. Elijah. The northern 50 acres was leased by Aaron Whittlesey. The last two portions are now leased by Levi Bartlett's estate.
Lot 6 is lease land. The eastern por- tion was first leased by John Moore, now by Hiram G. Moore. The western portion was first leased by Levi Bartlett, now in part by Lee Batchelder.
The southern 100 acres of lot 7 was settled by ASA BANCROFT, of Warmouth, Mass., about 1797. About the year 1801, as he and his wife were coming home, one evening, from Jeremy Stone's the wolves began to assemble in their rear. His wife was on a horse carrying their infant son, Tyler. They hurried on as fast as possi- ble, but the wolves came so near, that they abandoned to them a piece of fresh meat that Mrs. Stone had given them, and reached home safely, the wolves howling about the house as soon as they entered it. Mr. Bancroft was frequently elected to town offices, and died in 1856, aged 87. His children were, Tyler, William, John, Eunice (Mrs. Ira F. Page) and Mrs. Reu- ben Huntoon. When it began to be ru-
mored that the settlers' titles were not good, he went to Jacob Davis', who gave him security on other property, and sent word by him to the other settlers, that if they were frightened he would secure them. This quieted their fears, and only one or two went.
No. 8 was settled by JOHN MOORE. His son, Heman Allen Moore, born here, was elected a representative to congress from Ohio, in 1844, but died the next year. Wm. Huntoon now owns this farm.
Range 6, lots 1, 2 and 3, were settled by JOSEPH NYE, of Falmouth, Mass. Several members of this family settled in Plainfield, or owned land in it. They were of Welch descent, and when they first came to Falmouth wrote their name Noye. Joseph Nye was representative 5 years,
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justice of the peace a long time, &c. His son, Vinal, died many years since, leaving several children, Irving, George, Alanson, and Mary, wife of Edward Bartlett. . Jo- seph's daughter, Sally, married Nathaniel Townshend, Cynthia, Daniel Gunnison, Augusta, Elijah A. Batchelder. Lots I and 2 are mostly owned by Dudley B. Smith. Seth F. Page lives upon No. 3.
No. 4 was settled by Elder James Perry's son Stephen, in 1818, who built the plas- tered house standing upon it, now owned by Alba F. Martyn.
No. 5, the southern part now owned by A. F. Martyn, was settled by Joseph F. Ayers, who moved to Thetford, and thence to Manchester, N. H. The northern part, now owned by Nathaniel Townsend, was settled by Gideon Huntington, father of Amasa, and of Mrs. Leonard Moore, and uncle to David and Samuel Huntington, of Marshfield.
No. 6 was settled by Frank Crane and Joseph Deering. It is now mostly owned by N. Townsend.
HARVEY BANCROFT, from Ware, now Auburn, Mass., settled upon lot 7, in the 6th range, part of lot 7 in the 7th range, and a part of lot 6 in the 8th range, next to the Bancroft pond. He was clerk under the attempted organization of St. An- drews Gore as a town. His house was opposite to the burying - ground near Newcomb Kinney's. While clearing some land, about 20 rods easterly of Benjamin F. Moor's present residence, he fell a tree upon a small one, which fell across another. The small one flew up striking him on the chest. He died July 8, 1797, a few days after the injury, aged 27. He left a wife and two small children. One died young, the other was Dr. Nathaniel Bancroft. His widow, Polly Carrol, married Sanford Kinne, a brother of Jonathan and of Brad- ford Kinne. Sanford purchased nearly all the land formerly owned by Harvey Ban- croft, but upon the death of his wife, in 1814, he went West, and his fate is un- known. Newcomb Kinney is his son.
No. 8 was settled by Ezra Bancroft, father of Horace Bancroft, now of Barre, but it was first owned by his brother,
Aaron, of Boston. It is now occupied by Duron Norcross.
Range 7, lots 1, 2, 3 and 4, were pur- chased of Davis by Enos Colby, of Hawk, N. H. He made a clearing and built a house in 1800, some fourth of a mile west of the Great Brook, on land now owned by C. H. Heath. He stayed in it one night, and then went back to N. H., leav- ing it in care of Moulton Batchelder. One Currier without leave moved into the house, and was sued off by Heman Allen, who found when too late that Currier was not holding under Colby, who thereby got it by possession against Allen. Lots I and 2 are now mostly owned by his grand- son, Moses Colby. No. I is only 20 rods wide ; 3 and 4 are partly owned by Henry Camp, whose wife is Colby's grand- daughter.
Lot 5 is mostly lease land, and portions , of it were rented to Eli Boyd, Isaac Perry, James Perry, Jr., and the N. E. corner next to Moses Bancroft's was sold to Patrick Reed. It is now leased to Nathan Hill, Seneca S. Bemis and Lyman Moore.
No. 6 was probably first owned by Harvey Bancroft. It was on the north- east corner of this lot that he was at work when fatally injured. It is now owned by Joel Sherburn, Baxter Bancroft and Henry Moore.
No. 7 was first owned by Harvey Ban- croft and Charles Bancroft. Lee Martin's farm is a part of it.
No. 8 was settled by ZOPHER STURTE- VANT, of Worcester, Mass. He was per- suaded by his friend Harvey Bancroft to come up and buy a farm next to him. He returned to Mass. to earn money to pay for it, and while there heard of Bancroft's death. Sewell Sturtevant was his son. It is now occupied by Newcomb Kinney.
Range 8-lots I and 2, were purchased and settled by STEPHEN PERKINS, who built a saw-mill in 1812-'13. He also had one set of mill-stones. In the summer of 1857, the banks by the side of the dam gave way, and the pond of about 7 acres was discharged in a short time, carrying off every bridge on the Great Brook. It was repaired, but gave way again before
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the pond was quite filled. It was again nor any of the neighbors had chimneys to repaired more thoroughly, and held until a heavy rain in the spring of 1869 carried off the new dam and all the bridges below. It was repaired, and when the pond was about half filled it burst through the quick- sands under the dam, and no more efforts to repair it were made. R. L. Martin then put in a steam-mill, which was burned in
No. 3 was settled by Ralph Chamber- lain, of Hanover, N. H., and is now owned by his grandson, Jeremy Stone Chamber- lain. Plainfield Sulphur Springs are on this lot.
No. 4 was settled by David Benedict, of Randolph, who sold the southern part, now owned by Scott and Smith, to Amasa Bancroft, and the northern part, now owned by Goodrich. to Robert Carson. Feb. 29, 1816, an old house on this lot, occupied by Moses Reed, and used for a school-house, caught fire, and a little son of Reed was burned to death. David, Patrick and Woodman Reed were his sons ; Joanna (Mrs. William Parks) his daughter.
No. 5 was settled by Charles R. Wool- son, who sold the northern part to his wife's father, Moses Bancroft, of Ward, Mass., in Nov. 1796. Woolson was not able or willing to pay for his land the sec- ond time, and removed to New York, where he became rich. His son Ephraim getting homesick, returned, and bought back the old farm, on which he died. It is now owned by Erastus Batchelder. Mary, wife of S. O. Goodrich, and Sarah, wife of Joseph Lane, are Ephraim's daugh- ters.
Moses Bancroft had 4 sons : John, Charles, Chester and Baxter. John had 2 sons : Lewis, of Calais, and Preston, of Marshfield. Charles had a son Charles, and Mrs. Wm. Skinner and Mrs. Lewis Wood are his daughters. Baxter had but one child, Moses.
Baxter has resided in Plainfield longer than any other person-84 years. He says that as late as Oct. 1804, neither his father
their houses. Stones were laid up into some form of a chimney for a few feet, and the smoke allowed to go out, if it would, through a hole in the roof. The roof for years was made of large pieces of elm bark, tied on with strings of the same. Sometimes a storm in the night would blow off these pieces, and his father would 1871, and he removed the remains of it to get up and tie them on again. It would Harris Gore. Dudley Perkins and Silas often get on fire, and once the house burned down. Worthen occupy portions of these lots.
One summer they had nothing to eat but milk for a long time, until Willard Shep- hard gave them a bushel of rye very badly sprouted, but some of this ground and cooked tasted the best of anything he ever ate.
The senior Moses had a brother, Lieut. John Bancroft, a Revolutionary soldier, who began a clearing on Prentice Shep- hard's farm (lot 5, range 1), but soon re- moved to the village. Amasa Bancroft was his son. C. Watrous and Carlos Ban- croft, of Montpelier, were his sons.
No. 6 contains the Bancroft Pond, and was purchased by Harvey Bancroft.
No. 7 was settled by Charles Bancroft, and is now owned by Gardner Heath.
No. 8 is mostly a swamp.
Range 9. Lot I is 110 rods long, and 7 rods wide at one end, and a point at the other. It was never sold by the original proprietors.
No. 2 was a part of Stephen Perkins' purchase, and is now owned by his grand- son, Emory F. Perkins.
No. 3 was settled by David Reed, of Hanover, N. H., in 1809, and is now own- ed by David Perkins.
David Reed and Ralph Chamberlain married sisters of Israel Goodwin, who lived many years in this town, but remov- ed to East Montpelier. T. Goodwin Reed is David's son.
No. 4, now owned by Erastus Batchel- der, was settled in 1796, by James Bout- well, of Barre, a relative of Col. Levi Boutwell, of Montpelier.
Oct. 9, 1804, snow fell to a great depth, some 3 or 4 feet. One Richardson, of Orange, started a bear out of his corn-
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field, and followed it to Capt. Boutwell's and returned. Boutwell, Robert Carson, and Jeremy Stone, pursued it to the round mountain, north or east of Pigeon pond, where they treed her. Boutwell fired, wounding it in the neck, it ran by Carson who fired and missed. Stone followed after with an ax, having no gun, setting on the dogs. Stone soon saw the bear re- turning, perhaps to defend her cubs, and got upon a rock, and when the bear at- tempted to get on, tried to split its head open with the ax, but the bear instantly knocked it from his hand, mounted the rock, pushed Stone off from it into the snow, and then over on to his back, getting top of him. Stone put up his hand to push its head away from his, when his little finger went into the bear's mouth, which began to chew it. At this moment, Boutwell, who had reloaded and come up, fired, the bear's head being only a few inches from Stone's, and bruin fell dead.
Another time Boutwell went up on to the high, round topped hill north-east of his house, after partridges. He found a bear up a tree. His gun was loaded with shot and he had no ball. He drawed the shot and whittled a beach plug, with the end pointed, and loaded with this. The first shot had no effect, but the second killed the bear.
He was captain of the first militia com- pany in town ; was one of the selectmen from 1799, until his death, in 1813, of typhoid fever, at that time very prevalent and fatal. He was a man whose character was almost above reproach ; but his dog was even more strict in his faith and prac- tice than his master. The dog had learn- ed to observe the Sabbath, as intelligent dogs in Christian families often do, and never attempted to follow his master on that day. Once when Boutwell was on his way to church, he met a party in pur- suit of a bear, and they wished for the dog, which was a famous hunter. Bout- well went back with them to the house, and ordered the dog to follow them, but it refused. He called it to follow him, but it would not. He then took off his Sun- day clothes and put a gun on his shoulder,
when the dog, probably thinking that it was not Sunday after all, followed. Bout- well was justly punished for his duplicity by not getting the bear. The dog after- ward followed a deer into the woods, and was never seen again.
Lot 5 was first purchased of Heman Allen by Eathan Powers, who hired men to cut and burn wood for the ashes. Syl- vester Grinnel, a quaker, first resided up- on it.
Lot 6 was settled by Moses Bancroft's son, John. Charles Morse owns a portion of it.
No. 7 was settled by JEREMY STONE, of Ward, Mass., in 1796. He chose this place because he expected it would be near a good road. The legislature, in 1797, appointed a committee to work a road from Chelsea court house to Danville court house. This committee reported to the county court at Chelsea, in 1799, that they had built the road through Washington and Orange. A little work was done on it in Goshen gore, near Plainfield line, and the work abandoned. Ira Stone, Rev. Jesse Stone of Maine, and Jeremy Stone are his sons; Mrs. Hial P. Chamberlain and Mrs. Marian Stone Tarbell, his daugh- ters. His farm is now owned by Ira Rob- inson.
Lot 8 was settled by Daniel Rice, of Barre, in 1825. Dudley Marshall now re- sides upon it.
According to Thompson's Gazetteer, the town was organized Apr. 4, 1796, under the name of St. Andrew's gore, and Har- vey Bancroft elected town clerk. This is probably true, but it was illegal, a gore not having the power to form a town or- ganization. Nov. 6, 1797, the gore was incorporated into a town by the name of Plainfield, and the town meeting held at James Perry's, in Mar., 1798, is the first of which there is now any record, but was not the first, because called by Joshua Law- rence, James Perry, Moulton Batchelder, as sclectmen of Plainfield. At this meet- ing, Thomas Vincent was elected town clerk. Town meetings after this were held at Capt. Jonathan Kinne's until 1823, when they were held in the village.
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In 1798, '99 and 1800, the road tax vo- ted was 4 days work for each poll. In 1798, the General Assembly, at the request of the town, voted a tax of one cent per acre, which was to be used to build roads. In 1807, another of three cents per acre was laid upon Plainfield. At that time, improved lands were listed at $1.75 per acre, unimproved not at all. Polls at $20, a yoke of oxen $10, houses worth less than $1000, 2 per cent, over $1000, 3 per cent. Interest money 6 per cent.
The first road in town was worked from Seth Freeman's north westerly to Hezekiah Davis' in Montpelier, as early as 1794, but no highways were laid out until June, 1799, when this and several others were laid.
In 1798 and 99, the town sent no repre- sentative, probably because a town with a grand list of less than $3,200 was not " doomed" to pay a state tax, if it sent no representative.
Thomas Vincent was a federalist. All the other representatives were republicans, until the reorganization of the parties under Jackson and Adams. After that they were all democrats except John Vin- cent, antimason, until the formation of the antislavery party, which elected D. A. Perry. Frank Hall was the only whig.
In Sept. 1801, Isaac Tichenor received 10 votes for governor-all that were cast. In 1802, Isaac Tichenor had 25, Jonas Galusha 23, which was the largest vote cast for several years. .
PHYSICIANS.
The first physician in town was AM- HERST SIMONS, from Windham, Ct. He studied with Dr. Glysson, of Williams- town, and came to Plainfield in 1801. For many of the last years of his life he was blind.
Dr. EBENEZER CONANT studied with Dr. Robert Paddock, of Barre, and came to Plainfield in 1809. In 1832 he remov- ed into Marshfield, about 2 miles from Plainfield village, near Perkins' mill, but returned to Plainfield after a few years, where he died.
Dr. NATHANIEL BANCROFT was brought to Plainfield by his father, Harvey Ban-
croft, from Ward, Mass., when an infant. When 12 years old he went to Montpelier, where he attended school, and at last stud- ied medicine with Dr. Lamb. About 1822, he came to Plainfield to practice, where he remained until 1851, when he went to Ohio, where he stayed 2 years, thence to Belvidere, Ill. His pungent and witty sayings are still often quoted by his old friends in Plainfield.
Dr. DANIEL KELLOGG came to Plain- field in 1834, and built the brick house east of the hotel. His health failing he removed to Berlin in 1836, where he soon clied.
Dr. JARED BASSETT came to Plainfield in 1839, and removed to Northfield in 1843, and thence to Chicago.
Dr. DANIEL BATES was here from 1845 to 1851.
Dr. STEPHEN BENNETT from 1851 to 1856, when he removed to Ohio.
DR. PHINEAS KELLOGG, of Brookfield, commenced practice here in 1851. He died of diphtheria Apr. 10, 1862, age 39.
Dr. WALTER S. VINCENT, of Chelsea, now of Burlington, had his residence here for several years, but a large part of the time he was surgeon in the Union army in the war of the rebellion.
Dr. DUDLEY B. SMITH, of Williams- town, came to Plainfield in 1856, and Dr. W. F. LAZELL, of Brookfield, came in the fall of 1867. They remain here now.
LAWYERS.
The first lawyer in town was CHARLES ROBY, who came about the year 1812- not long after the result of the Allen law- suit had put a mortgage on nearly every farm in town. Probably the people had no desire or money for any more lawsuits at that time, as he left soon.
In 1828, AZEL SPALDING, of Montpe- lier, now of Kansas, was here one year.
In 1833, SYLVESTER EATON, of Calais, came and stayed until 1838.
STILLMAN H. CURTIS was here from 1838 to 1843.
J. A. WING was here from 1836 to 1852, when he went on to his farm on Maple ·Hill, in Marshfield, where he stayed about
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3 years, then moved to Plainfield, and from here to Montpelier in 1857.
In 1843 LEWIS CHAMBERLAIN came .. He died in Aug. 1863, of dysentery, which was very prevalent and fatal at that time, there being 18 deaths from that disease, 16 of which were within or near the village.
CHARLES H. HEATH came here in 1859, and removed to Montpelier in 1872.
S. C. SHURTLEFF commenced the prac- tice of law here in 1864, and removed to Montpelier in 1877.
O. L. HOYT came here in 1873, and still remains.
THE FIRST CHURCH
was organized Nov. 13, 1799, at Jonathan Kinne's, under the name of
THE CHURCH OF CHRIST IN PLAINFIELD.
The council called to organize this church was composed of Rev. Richard Ransom of Woodstock, Rev. John Ran- `som of Rochester, Rev. James Hobart of Berlin, Dea. William Wood of Wood- stock, Capt. Peter Salter of Orange. Dea. Judah Willey, Henry Taft and Joseph Sterling, of Barre, were invited to join the council. The members embodied into a church were only six : Capt. Jonathan Kinne, James Perry, James Boutwell, Mrs. Esther Perry, Deborah Boutwell, Judith Batchelder. Others joined soon after. In June, 1801, they passed this vote :
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