The history of Orleans county, Vermont. Civil, ecclesiastical, biographical and military, Part 10

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Publication date: 1882
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The rock in this township is mostly gran- ite, with some lime in some places. The soil is fertile and well adapted to the growth of all kinds of grain. The hills make the best of pastures ; and the meadows up and down

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Barton River are as productive as any in the State. The woodland hills are covered with hemlock, spruce, beech, birch, maple, &c .- There is more maple sugar made in this town than in any other in the County, except Glover.

There have been some small bits of gold found in Willow River in this town; and some iron ore in some places.

BARTON VILLAGE

is situated at the outlet of the Lake, and con- tains 102 dwellings, 132 families, 2 churches, 1 school-house, 1 hotel, 1 depot, 11 stores, 2 jewellers' shops, 3 milliners' shops, 3 black- smiths' shops, 4 shoemakers' shops, 1 grist- mill, 2 saw-mills, 1 clothier's shop and card- ing-machine, 1 chair factory, 3 sash, door and blind factories, 1 tin, sheet-iron and copper- ware shop, 2 brickmakers' quarters, 2 shingle mills, one wheel-wright's shop, 1 cabinet- shop, 2 marble shops, 3 harness shops, a post- office ; "The Standard" printing office, Bar- ton Academy, 3 lawyers' offices, 3 doctors' offices, and 2 dentists' offices.

BARTON LANDING

is in the north corner of the town, 5 miles from Barton Village. This village contains 45 dwellings and 56 families, 1 saw-mill, 1 grist-mill, 1 starch-factory, 1 planing-mill, 1 carriage-shop, 2 shoemakers' shops, 1 har- ness shop, 2 blacksmiths' shops, a post-office, 5 stores, 1 milliner's shop, 1 doctor's office, 1 hotel, 1 school-house, 1 meeting-house, and a railroad depot.

JACKSVILLE, OR SOUTH BARTON VILLAGE, is 4 miles south of Barton Village, on a tongue of land that was taken from Sheffield. It contains 15 or 20 dwellings, 25 or 30 fam- ilies, a post-office, a school-house, a store, a blacksmith's shop, 3 saw-mills, and a railroad station.

There are 9 school districts in town ; whole number of scholars, 354 ; average attendance, 213; number of families, 347; the amount expended in schools, $15,088.99.

RELIGIOUS.

The first religious meeting was, in 1803 or 1804, appointed by Phineas Peck, a Methodist preacher, and held at Asa Kimball's house.

members, Priscilla Sturtevant, Eunice Kim- ball, Alice Wadham, Rhoda Pilsbury, and several others.

The first meeting-house was built in 1820, one mile north of the village, and occupied by the Congregationalists. The Methodists built a meeting-house in 1834, at the village. The Congregationalists built a meeting-house at the village in 1842.

The meeting-house at the Landing was built in 1848. The Methodists occupy it most of the time. They formed a church there about that time.

THE METHODISTS

organized a church in this town in 1807 or 1808. Wm. Gould, John Gould, Abraham Whitaker, Royal Cross, David Hamlet, David Abbott, Wm. Gould, jr., and Nathan Gould were among the first members. James Gould and some others from Glover were members of this church. They used to hold their meetings in a log school-house that stood on the road north of where Wm. Lang now lives When they had quarterly meetings, they were held in Wm. Gould's barn. This church became extinct after the war of 1812. The ministers were Wells, Sampson, Peck, and others.

The present Methodist Church was organ- ized in 1828. John Lord was presiding elder, and Royal Gage, preacher the first part of the year. Elihu Scott, Hezekiah S. Ramsdell, William Peck, John Smith, John Nason, - Kellogg, - Campbell, Moses G. Cass, G. B. Houston, Nathan Aspinwall, Hollis Kendal, A. T. Gibson, - Pettengill, - Spinney, D. S. Dexter, Otis Dunbar, Adna Newton, - Wooley, Dyar Willis, E. D. Hopkins, Isaac McAnn, Lewis Hill, H. P. Cushing, C. Taber, and G. H. Bickford have been the ministers on this circuit. The church numbers 85 mem- bers at the present time (1868.)

The Congregational church-members num- ber 93.

John Kimball, son of J. H. Kimball, born in 1831, is a Congregational minister in Washington, D. C .; and T. C. and Edward, sons of J. H. Kimball, produce merchants in New York. Roger Sargent, son of Stephen and Fanny Sargent, who was born in Barton, though he left when but a few years old, is a Congregational minister.

THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH was organized, Aug. 27, 1807, by Rev. Elijah Lyman and Rev. Walter Chapin. The male members were Lemuel Sturtevant, Joseph Our young men, mostly, when they arrive at maturity, seek a home in the West, or Taber, John Brown, Samuel Thatcher, Cyrel Sturtevant, and Josiah Smith; the female lelsewhere. There are not over 30 or 35 men

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in town, over 21 years of age, who were born in town.

LONGEVITY.

The oldest person that has died in town was Elizabeth May, aged 92 years, 9 months and 9 days. The oldest man that died in town was Benjamin Nutter, aged 90. The oldest person now living in town is Prudence Martin, who is 92 years of age (1868.)

SOLDIERS OF THE WAR OF 1861.

Volunteers for three years, credited pre- vious to the call for 300,000 volunteers of Oct. 17, 1863 : -

Names.

Reg.

Co.

George W. Abbott,

4 D

James B. Abbott,

Cav. D

Tho's Alford, killed in action May 5, '65.

Harvey J. Allen,

Cav.

Alexander Andrews,

Edward B. Varney,

Martin H. Barney,

Frederick C. Wiggin,

Cav.

D -

George Bellers,

Cav. 5

Edgar Blake,

Elijah J. Williams, died of

Simeous Bleau,

Hobart Bliss,

John S. Brown,

Mitchel Wright,

Thomas J. Burnham,

VOLUNTEERS FOR THREE YEARS.

Credit under call of Oct. 17, 1863 : .

Joseph Arnold,

Erastus G. Collister,

James Clark,

Moody Bedell,

William J. Cutting,

James Brown,

Jos. Demaro, killed in action Aug. 30, '64.

Cav.

Charles Devereux,

Julius S. Dorman,

Jacob L. Downing,

Orville Drown, d. Mar. 30, '65.

Archelas Drown,

3 D

Zelotes Drown,

Alonzo D. Folsom,

Mozart Foss,

Charles Henry,

Cav.

John Gillingham,

Thomas Hyde,

George Grigwire,

William H. Kennedy,

William A. Hall,

Page Orland G.,

Edward A. Haltham,

2 S. S.

Riley Randall,

Orin Š Hunt,

Lorenzo Jenkins,

Aaron Skinner,

Morris Kennedy,

Alexander S. Whipple,

2 S. S. H

Hubbard S. Kimball,

Ira A. Willey, died at Charles-

James Kinehan,

Cav.

ton, June 20, '64. 11

John Kinnehan,

William J. Lucas,

Daniel Ash,

Albert Mann,

Hershel Marckres,

Joseph Brooks,

Bertrand D. Campbell,

Cav.

Peter May,

Dudley H. Holbrook,

James McCarty,

2 Bat. 3

Names.

Reg. Cb.

Robert Mclellan,

Cav. M H

Carlos McDaniels, d.Nov.22,'62

Cornelius McGoff, 3

Henry N. Northrup,

Ben Provost,

Cav.

John H. Putney,

Ozias S. Putney, 11

Geo. W. Quimby, killed Nov. 2, '62.

Martin V. Reuell,

Cav.

John B. Robinson,

George A. Sanborn,

Edmund Saul,

Joseph B. Skinner,

Theodore P. Skinner,

Cav.

Bowman Smith,

2 S. S.

Harry E. Smith,

Jasper A Smith,

Sanford A. Smith,

Christopher Snell,

George D. Tucker,

James A. Wiggin,

Frederick T. Bickford,

Ira A. Willey, 4 D

6 w'ds rc'd in ac'n May 5, '64. Orin Willis, 2 S. S.

ARA F D

Thomas Butler,

James M. Cass,

Cyrus D. Colliston,

Charles H. Bean,

David A. Connor,

Charles Bishop, 11

Leavitt F. Burroughs,

2 S. S. H

Carlos E. Clark,

William H. Colby, killed at Spottsylvania May 12, '64. 3

Lewis Davis,

Ozmond Dwire,

Thomas Foster,

James W. Folsom,

John Henry,

Ephraim Guild,

Moses Lathe,

Orange S. Hunt,

Benjamin F. Robinson,

Thomas J. Robinson,

Nathan D. Leonard,

VOLUNTEERS FOR ONE YEAR.

Fenelon Belknap,

Lyman Mason, died in Ander- sonville.

David Green, 11

K Daniel R. Hunt,

Moses Valley, Jr.,

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Names.

Reg. Co. 9 M

Philo M. Mason,

Charles Powers,

Gustavus H. Veazey,

John W. Weeks,

Samuel N. Whipple,

James Clark,

VOLUNTEERS RE-ENLISTED.

William H. Daniels,

Cav.

Albert Mann, 4

Henry M. Northrup,

Christopher Snell,

Edward Varney,

Freeman B. White,

Enrolled men, furnish Substitutes.

Jerry Drew,

William F. Walker,

B. M. R. Nelson,

Miscellaneous, not credited by name. Nine men volunteers for nine months.

William S. Allard,

15 H

Fenelon A. Belknap,

John Colliston,

John Desmond,

Osmond C. Drew,

William S. Drew,

Levi Dudley,

Benjamin F. Emerson, 15

Justin B. Ford,

George W. Foss,

Ethan Foster,

Augustus F. French,

Anson W. Gray,

William W. Grout,

James W. Hall,

Oel Harvey,

Amasa T. Hunt,

Patrick Kerwin,

Palmer Leland,

Donald McIver,d. May 19, '63.

Lucius D Richards,

Levi E. Robbins, 15

Silas G. Shattuck, d Nov.7,'62. 15

Francis A. Stafford,

Charles Taplin,

William M. Tibbets, died, March 18, '63.

VOLUNTEERS FOR NINE MONTHS.

Alexander Tripp,

15 H

Alfred W. Varney,

Joseph N. Webster,

Furnished under Draft, paid Commutation.

Charles Clark,

Henry Lewin,

Grovenor J. Drown,

Archibald E. Mills,

Joseph R. Folsom,

John W. Pierce.

John Leland,

Procured Substitutes.

J. P. Baldwin, Myron W. Joslin,

William C. Brown,

Wilbur F. Mason,

Edward F. Dutton, Oliver T. Willard.

Entered Service.

Thomas Hendry, 2d Reg., Co. E.

John Devereux, formerly of this town, enlisted in Massachusetts, died of wounds

Alonzo F. Willey, from this town, enlisted in Massachusetts-killed.

Henry Dexter, formerly from this town, enlisted in Cavalry in California-killed in skirmish.

ANNALS OF BARTON.

FROM THE PAPERS OF THE LATE REV. P. H. WHITE.

The first incident which has come to the knowledge of the writer, in the history of Barton is this : Roger's and his rangers, con- sisting of 300 men, after having destroyed the Abernaqui village-St. Francis, having learn- ed they were discovered by the Indians, and their main object being to get back in safety to New England, divided. A part of them at- tempting to go back to Missisco Bay, were overtaken aud destroyed. The remainder followed up the St. Francis river and Mem- phremagog lake, then up the Barton river. When they arrived at the head of the Falls at the outlet of Bitterwater pond, they found said outlet from said Falls, to the pond, a distance of about 60 rods, " full of nice trout," the same being their spawning beds. The provisions of the rangers having already been exhausted, and some of their number having become so faint from hunger that they had stopped to die, the starving soldiers gladly rested and replenished their stores from the river. The chronicler from whom I obtained the above story, says they were trout-he was probably mistaken in the kind of fish, they were lunge, as the trout in this pond cast their spawn in September.

I well remember that early in this century, the Indian cabins or wigwams in a decayed state, were very numerous in the vicinity of the outlet of the above pond, from which we infer that this had been a favorite hunting ground of the Indians. In confirmation, Dr. I. A. Masta informed me he was told by an old Indian by the name of Foosah, that he killed 27 moose, beside large numbers of bea- ver and otter near this pond in the winter of 1783, '84.

In 1781, Colonel William Barton, Cotton Gibson, John Moony, Hon. Ira Allen, Hon. Daniel Owen, Elkanah Watson and others, among whom was John Paul Jones, the , " bravest of the brave among naval com- manders," petitioned the governor,council and general assembly of this State, for a grant of unlocated lands for the purpose of settling a new plantation to be erected into a township

James R. Colliston,

John Freating,

BARTON.

by the name of Providence. The township, in compliance with said petition, was granted Oct. 20, 1781, and a charter given to said pe- titioners Oct. 20, 1789, and in the 14th year of the Independence in which it received the name of Barton and was signed,

MOSES ROBINSON. By his Excellency's command, JOSEPH FAY, Sec'y.

The petitioners of said township, with the exception of the celebrated Ira Allen, whose home was Vermont, mostly resided in Provi- dence, R. I. These grantees when they had associated together had drafted their petition for a township, by the name of Providence, naming it after Providence, R. I. But the brave captor of the British Gen. Prescott, anxious to immortalize his own name, careful- ly scratched out the name Providence, and in- serted his own name Barton, by which namo the town was chartered and has since been called. (This statement is made on the au- thority of Abner Allyn, Esq., late of Charles- ton, Vt. *

The proprietors took prompt measures to allot and settle said town. The 21st of Oct. 1789, the next day after obtaining their char- ter, they applied to Luke Knowlton, Esq. of Westminster, a justice of the peace-who is- sued his warrant, warning a meeting of the proprietors of Barton, in the County of Or- ange, to meet at the home of Charles Evans in Brattleboro, in the County of Windham, on the 2d Tuesday of Feb. next, 1st to choose a Moderator, Treasurer and Collector, 2d to see if said proprietors would agree to lay out said township into 70 lots, 3d to appoint a committee for that purpose. 4th to vote a tax to defray the expense of lotting said township.

In pursuance of said warning Daniel Cahoon of Lyndon, was chosen proprietors' clerk. Col. William Barton, Mr. William Chamberlain and Elder Philemon Hines were chosen a committee to allot said township, also a tax of £1 13s. in cash on each proprie- tor's right was voted to defray the expenses of allotting said township, and other inciden- tal charges. Daniel Cahoon was also ap- pointed collector of said tax. Gen. William

Chamberlain made a survey and plan of said town, which was accepted by the proprietors Oct. 18, 1791, and said lands were sold Dec. 19, 1791, by their collector Daniel Cahoon, who entered into his memorandum book ;

"No. 1. John Murray, tax and cost, £0 18 3,-bid off by Philomon Hines.

No. 2. Ira Allen, do., £0 18 3,-do., Jona- than Arnold, Esq."

I thus find this recorded. It appears that the minutes of the vendue are incomplete, by reason of Daniel Cahoon Junior's being taken sick, and deceased on the 11th of June, 1793, after being sick,about a year.

"I hereby Certify that what is Contained in this book is the only minutes left by him of the said vendue at his death.

Attest, DANIEL CAHOON, Senior executor of his last will and testament."

Which minutes with the above certificate of the executor were, with all due formality, re- corded in the town clerk's office in Barton on the 25, of Nov. 1798, and were supposed suf- ficient to make a good title of the lands. They have proved a ruinous source of litigation.

THE SETTLEMENT.

FIRST ROADS .- In 1794 or '05, the road was made from the Hazen road in Greensboro, through Glover, Barton, Brownington and Sa- lem to Derby. The making of the road was very rude, cutting away the logs across the path falling the few trees which stood in the way and bridging the rivers and brooks with poles. It was made under the direction of the late Timothy Hinman, of Derby, as was the road made about the same time from its junction with the road on tbe lot No. 6, in the 4th range at the Pillsbury farm to Shef- field. (Lot No, 6, is the Mansfield farm.)

FIRST CULTIVATION OF THE SOIL .- The first land cleared in town, (if it deserved the name of cleared land,) was by four or five Rhode Island men, who came to Barton on foot from Lyndon, and among other things brought a few potatoes. They encamped on the south side of the outlet of Bellewater pond (Crystal lake) about 10 rods from the head of the Falls, where they chopped down and partly cleared a small parcel of land, and planted their potatoes. Mr. Samuel Nichols inform- ed the writer, that the next spring his father and himself went up to Barton, that the fal- len leaves and snow had effectually protected the potatoes from the winter's frost and that, on the plenty of good lunge, which they took

* But it must be borne in mind, the Allyn's may not be regarded as friends, perhaps, of Col. Barton. It was Jonothan Allyn who held Col. Barton so long in jail on a small debt. See papers by Mr. May .- Ed.

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from the pond, and their potatoes, they fared most luxuriously.

In 1794, Col. Wm. Barton of Providence, R. I. cleared off some 3 or 4 acres of land on lot No. 5 in the 7th range on the ridge of land westerly of the old road and extending to the top of the hill easterly of the present road. He also cut down 10 or 15 acres more on the side hill toward the northeasterly corner of the lot. He also built a frail log-house on the ridge at the easterly side of said old road, It was without floor or chimney, and con- tained only one room. The same season Asa Kimball, from the village of Nepucket, R. I., cleared up a few acres on lot No. 5 in the 6th range near and easterly of where the pound now stands. He also felled down about 4 acres on lot No. 5 in the 5th range, on the ridge easterly of Mr. Mansfield's house and toward the brook. The summer of 1795, Col. Barton, raised 30 or 40 bushels of wheat on the piece cleared by him the year before, and Mr. Kimball 40 or 50 bushels on the above piece cleared the year before.

These were the first pieces of land cleared, and this the first grain grown in the town.

JACOB EDDY AND PELEG HICKS.

In the Fall of 1795, Peleg Hicks and Jacob Eddy with their families moved into town, into rude houses which they had previously constructed. Hicks lived on the south-westerly corner of lot No. 8 in the 5th range, on the easterly side of the road, and Eddy on the north-easterly corner of lot No. 7 in the 4th range on the westerly side of the road : the dwellings being about 40 rods apart.

Here, at least 13 miles from the nearest neighbor, (at the old mile stand in Sheffield,) they agreed to stand by each other through the then approaching winter. The provid- ing for the coming winter was no easy task. The road was little more than bushed out, and the most necessary articles they had to carry to their new homes-not in wagons and baggage cars, but on their own shoulders. Eddy at one time carried a common five- pail iron kettle and the meal of half a bushel of grain from Wheelock to Barton, the kettle he carried bottom up over his head. When he got to the place cleared by Col. Barton, he put down his kettle to go to a spring a few rods from the road. (For the rest of this story see preceding papers by Mr. May.)

When winter came, the courage of Hicks failed him and he removed with his family to

Wheelock. Eddy, whose courage was equal to every emergency, with his wife and young family braved the coming winter. Such nec- essaries as he needed, he obtained where he could find them through the woods in Wheel- ock, Danville, Lyndon and other places. On one occasion their food was becoming short, the snow was deep and the path to Wheelock but little trod and the cold the coldest of the season. He started to go through the woods to get a little food for his wife and children, when he reached the Miles opening-although a tall and strong man he found that he was well nigh exhausted and cried out for assist- ance. They both heard and saw him from the house and hastened to his assistance, when they reached him such was the effect of the cold air of the open-land, that he could nei- ther stand nor speak. They carried him in and he revived.

This winter the road was kept broken out from Wheelock to this town and so on to Derby, but the wayfaring man seldom came along, and Eddy kept his family through the Winter by getting supplies in Caledonia Co., and bringing them in on his back. These hardships were too much even for Eddy, and in the Spring, 1796, he removed to Billy- mead, (now Sutton) where he staid a few years and then went West.

DAVID PILLSBURY AND JOHN AMES,

In 1796, the forepart of March, Mr. David Pillsbury and family, consisting of his wife, Rhoda Hadloch, and 4 or 5 children, and John Ames and his wife removed into town. Mr. Pillsbury settled on lot No. - the farm now owned by Mr. Albert Leland. His house stood a little southeast of the orchard. Mr. Ames' house was on the same lot, south about 6 or 7 rods on the Greensboro road, near where the apple trees now stand in the field.

JAMES MAY.

Mr. James May and his wife, Elizabeth Owen, and Asa Kimball and his wife, Naomi Owen removed from R. I. in Feb. to Lyndon, in Caledonia Co., and on the 1st day of April they came in, on a two-horse-sleigh, to Bar- ton, and went to Pillsbury's the first night.

DAVID ABBOT.

Mr. David Abbot, (son of David Abbot of Andover, Mass.) removed with his family (consisting of his wife, Sarah Kezer and their children, Polly, born at Parsonsville, Me. Oct. 10, 1789, Prudence, at Parsonsville. Jan. 10, 1791,) from Parsonsville to Sheffield in

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the Winter of 1795-6, being accompanied by Mr. Samuel Lord and his family. In the spring Mr. Abbot and Lord remained in Sheffield and made maple sugar. They then came to Barton, the last of April and prepar- ed for moving their families. Mr. Abbot ob- tained Mr. Jonathan Robinson, or as he was then called by the people, who highly esteem- ed a military title, Ensign Jonathan Robin- son to remove his family in a wagon drawn by an ox-team in the month of August, to their future home in Barton. The spot se- lected by Mr. Abbot for their future home was the southerly half of lot No. 2, in 7th range on the Greensboro road, as he had but very little time to construct his log-cabin, in addition to the imperative necessity of clear- ing land and raising what he could for the sustenance of his family, when Winter came (1796-7) he moved in with Mr. P. Kimball who lived in his log-house of two rooms, where he wintered, the two families winter- ing in the same house-this was on lot No. 4, in the 8th range-the farm afterwards oc- cupied and owned by Mr. Welcome Brown and being full 4} miles from his home on the Danville road. The next Winter he moved in and wintered with Samuel Nichols, who lived on lot No. 3, in the 10th range, the last place being about 6 miles from his house.

Mr. Abbot had his full share of the hard- ships of the early settlers, one of which the writer has heard him relate in after life. In the case of the sickness of his family on the 6th of Oct. 1798, he went on foot for Dr. Samuel Huntington, of Greensboro, he being the nearest and only physician in the County, a distance of 12 miles through mud and snow, and having sent the Doctor on with his lan- tern on horseback, hastened on as fast as he could and finding some burning log-heaps sat down to rest a few moments, fell asleep and nearly perished. Mr. Abbot died in Barton, March 8, 1847, aged 81 years; Mrs. Abbot deceased in 1816, aged 53 years, leaving one son, David S. Abbot, born Oct. 6, 1798, and several daughters.

MR. SAMUEL LORD,

with wife and family, removed from Maine to Barton in June, 1796. In the Winter of 1795-6, they came to Sheffield where they remained till spring, when Mr. Lord came to Barton, purchased and made preparation to move on to the westerly 50 acres of lot No. 4, in the 5th range. He put up his log cabin

and removed his family in June. He built his house on the swell of land below the old Greensboro road about 40 rods northerly of the same range. In 1799, he sold out this place, purchased and moved on to a half of lot No. 1, in the 12th range. The reader will feel no little surprise to learn that his object was, to move away from a lone place and to go among folks and keep tavern. Mr. Lord resided upon this lot until near the time of his decease. His widow still survives.

MR. SOLOMON WADHAMS

was from Brookfield. He came into town in the Summer of 1797. He purchased lot No. 1, in the 6th range and made a beginning on his land preparatory to making it the place of his future home. Soon after he was at Brook- field, married to Alice Huntington, (Mrs. Wadhams is not an unworthy cousin of the late Governor Huntington of Connecticut.) and they removed to their new and future home. Mr. and Mrs. Wadhams were both good economists, which added to a good share of industry they were rising to a good degree of competency, when it was found out that Col. Barton was not the owner of the land he had sold them, and Mr. Wadhams was under the necessity of repurchasing his farm of the true owner. On this he compromised with Gen. Barton, taking his note for a much less sum than the value of his farm. On one of the notes he sued Gen. Barton and took a judg- ment against him for about $225, debts and costs on which he committed him to the jail in Danville in Caledonia Co. in 1812, where the captor of Prescott remained in confinement, although he had abundant means with which to pay the debt and fees, until he was lib- erated against his will by Gen. Lafayette, in 1825.

JONATHAN ROBINSON,

formerly of Petersham, Mass. married in Win- chester, N. H. Hannah Owen, the daughter of Daniel Owen, and removed from Winchester to St. Johnsbury, where he resided 7 years till he removed to Barton, in June 1796. Here- moved into the log-cabin built by P. Hicks the year before on the southwesternly corner of lot No. 5, in the 8th range. He deceased 6th May 1852, aged 87. Mrs. Robinson Nov. 14, 1852, aged 90 years. They lived together after they were married 67 years.

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The history of Orleans county, Vermont. Civil, ecclesiastical, biographical and military, Part 10

Author: Publication date: 1882 Publisher: White River Junction, Vt., White River Paper Co. Number of Pages: 404

Author:
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: White River Junction, Vt., White River Paper Co.
Number of Pages: 404