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BENJAMIN PARMENTER was one of the earli- est settlers of the town, and built a house near the Cedar Swamp. He married Azubah. the second daughter of Oliver Cleveland. He is said to have resided at one time on the knoll east of the railroad depot, where Mr. Kittredge's dwelling now stands. He had a daughter Ann, who married a Plummer, and one, Polly, who died at Harvey Church's.
THE GILBERTS were the descendants of Thom- as and Jemima Gilbert, of Brookfield, Mass.
Thomas was the son of Thomas and Martha Gilbert. and was born in Brookfield, in 1723.
His wife, Jemima, was the widow Cutler, of Brookfield, and had a family before she married Mr. Gilbert as follows :
Gen. John Cutler, who came to Fair Haven, and died here, Aug. 21, 1821, aged 70 years.
Isaac Cutler, Esq., a prominent early inhabit. ant of Fair Haven.
Abigail, who married Charles Rice, and died in West Haven, June 16, '20, in her 66th year, and Catherine, who married Dr. Simeon Smith, and afterward Christopher Minot, Esq., of Bos- ton, and died in West Haven, in '33.
By Mr. Gilbert her family were:
1. Eliel, b. April 10, 1766 ; resided in Brook. feld.
2. Tilly, b. Nov. 10, '71; came to Fair Ia- ven.
3. Sally b. Jan. 23, '69; m. Nathaniel Dick- inson and died in Fair Haven, Dec. 16, 1810, aged il years.
Upon Mr. Gilbert's decease, she came to Fa .: Haven and resided with her son Isaac. In Aug. 1807, she bought a farm of 42 aeres. on Scotch Hill, of her son, John Cutler, and sold is to John Snell, in Jan., 1811; she residing in West Haven.
TILLY GILBERT, known in former days as " Major Gilbert," (see page -) though never enjoying the advantages of mor: this two months at school himself, was ye: 3 very good scholar and competent teacher, an i wrote finely and correctly, as the town records, kent by him for so many years, abundantis evince.
After studying medicine with Drs. Hull and Witherell, and taking the freeman's osth. in town, in the summer of 1791, he went into mer- cantile business in Benson, and then into the manufacturing of iron in Orwell.
Returning to Fair Haven, in 1799. he entered actively and extensively into business, opening a store of merchandise, and also sup; ying the inhabitants with their drugs and med ches from his house, where the Vermont Hotel Low is. He owned a half interest with his brother. Kiel in the lower saw-mill unt 1 November, 7522, when he bought out his brother's share, together with the 264 acres of land Eltel had purchased of Col Lyon. He bought the saw-mill, co the Upper Falls above the iron works, in the sum- mer of 1806. He sold the lower mill to J.cob Davey, in December, 1813, and the upper mit in December, '22.
He built the house in which his son, Benjamin F. now resides, in '14.
He was chosen town clerk in April. 1-03. to fill the vacancy caused by the sudden death of Josiah Norton, and was re-elected to the (Cca every year thereafter, while he remained in town, except the time from 1809, to '13, when Echan Whipple was clerk.
He removed to West Haven-to the old Vi- not house, so-called. in 1832 or '33, where he re- mained retired from active duties till his death, at West Haven, Sep. 5, 1850. aged 79. Interest- ing anecdotes, illustrative of his life and charac- ter, are told of him, many of which will, no doubt, be made public by his son, Jarvis J.
He married Patty La Barron, in Benson. Feb- ruary 12, 1793. She died in West Haven Nov. 28, 1852, aged 80 years. Their family were: Sally Maria, Benjamin Franklin, town clerk in 1832, and nearly every year thi '59. No vier person living remembers so well the early ada.rs and history of the town.
James Jarvis, b. March 13, 1800: m. Mary Ruggles; he married, 2d, Sarah C. Beach : con-
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dren ; Mary R., Jarvis; Sarah E., B. Franklin, | tillery on Bunker Hill started the Colonies to enlisted in the army at Flint, Mich .. and died at Nashville Tenn. ; Harriet A., Guy R., John Q. A., and Edward J.
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He entered Middlebury College in 1816, but left after 2 years and went with his brother, Benjamin F., to Virginia as a teacher, returning after one year and studying theology with Rev. Amos Drury, then of West Rutland. He was licensed to preach as a Congregational minister by a council of ministers held in Fair Haven ; preached for a time in Hartford, N. Y .; went thence to Chesterfield, N. Y., and was settled 9 or 10 years in Brumantown, N. Y. He preached in West Haven for 2 years, about 1841, and was afterwards settled in West Dorset and did missionary labor, also, in Sunderland and Arlington-returning to West Haven to reside, after his father's death ; William S. d, Hamilton ; Martha; Mary L. m. E W. And- rus, a minister from Connecticut, and resides near Martinsburgh, Vt ; Harriet Ashley drown- ed in January, '64, in Hoosic river.
DAN SMITH, b. Jan. 28, 1759, in Suffield. Ct. ; came from Sharon, Ct., to West Haven. then Fair Haven, at an early day. He resided in close proximity to the town line, and was more or less intimately associated with the business and interests of the town for several years. He was a nephew of Dr. Simeon Smith. and must have come into town as early as the Doctor himself being chosen one of the listers here at the March meeting of 1788. In the summer of 1801, he leased the Iron works in our village, of Edward Douse. of Dedham Mass. ; purchased them in July, 1781, and sold them to Jacob Davey, Oct. 1, 1807, He had a forge and nail-factory, also, on the falls in West Ha- ven, built during the war of 1812 and 14, and made nails on the Fair Haven side of the road, opposite the old Smith tavern. He early-about 1804-built the house which is now owned and occupied by Wm. Preston ; considered, in its day, one of the finest in the whole country.
Family : Betsey, Lucy, Loraine, Wm. Ward and L. J. Mr. S. removed to Panton. where he died in February, 1853.
WILLIAM L. G .. SMITH, son of Apollos, Jr., graduated at Middlebury College, and is now a pract sing lawyer in Buffalo, N. Y.
JAMES WITHERELL, late of Detroit, Michigan, formerly of Fair Haven, Vt., was born in Mans- field, Mass., June 16, A. D., 1759. His ances- tors emigrated from England soon after the ar- rival of the Mayflower. When the roar of ar-
arms, he volunteered, June, 1775, with his townsmen to go to the siege of Boston. Afier the British had been compelled to evacuate Bos- ton he served with the "grand army," as it was called, during the whole war until it was dis- banded at Newburg, in 1783. Ile was at the battles of White Plains. (where he was severely wounded,) Rhode Island, Stillwater, Bemis' Heights, and at the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga. He was in camp at Valley Forge through the terrible winter of starvation and suffering, and in the following summer at the battle of Monmouth, and bore a part in many other actions of lesser note. During the latter part of his service he held a commission in the 11th Mass. Reg. on the Continental establish- ment. On the disbanding of the army in 1783, he found himself in the possession of $ 70, in Continental money, the avails of eight years hard service. With this he treated a brother officer to a bowl of punch, and set out penniless to fight the battle of life. The world was all before him-where and what to choose ; and he chose Connecticut, and the profes ion of medi- cine. Having acquired his profession he started north to what was then called " the new State," and by some "the future State"-Vermont. This must have been about the year 1788. He stayed a while with Samuel Beaman, Esq., in Hampton, and then came to Fair Haven, then a new and sparsely settled town.
He first located to practice his profession about a mile west of the " city, " as it was then, and for many years afterwards, called." The late Major Tilly Gilbert studied medicine with him, and bore the title of Dr. Gilbert for years after. About 1789, the young Doctor mar- ried Amy, daughter of Charles Hawkins, Esq., and a lineal descendant of Roger Williams, who with his family, had then lately removed from Smithfield, Rhode Island. to Fair Haven.
Judge Witherell in early life held many offi- ces; among others associate and chief justice of the county court of Rutland county, member of the Governor's Council, and of the Legislature.
In 1807 he was elected to Congress, and had the pleasure of voting for the act abolishing the slave trade, which was passed in 1808. While in Congress he was appointed by President Jefferson one of the judges of the supreme court of the Territory of Michigan, and soon after re- signing his seat in Congress, started on his long journey to that almost terra incognita-Michi- gan. The territory was then a vast wilderness, its jurisdiction extending from the great lakes
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to the Pacific ocean, and containing some 3000 | left and removed to Detroit with his father's white inhabitants, scattered along the margin of family in 1810; was there taken prisoner by the English at the surrender of the city; was paroled and went to Poultney, where he re- mained an invalid for about a year, and died Aug. 26, 1813. the lakes and mouths of the rivers. The duties of his office were arduous, the governor and judges constituted the legislature of the terri- tory, and were required to act also as a land board in adjusting old land claims, and in lay. ing out a new city-Detroit.
In 1812, the war with England was declared, and Judge Witherell, being, in the absence of Governor Hull, the only Revolutionary officer in the territory, was appointed to command the " Legion" ordered out to defend the territory. He was soon after appointed to command a bat- talion of volunteers.
On the surrender of Detroit, he refused to sur render his corps, but let them disperse wherever they chose. In 1810, Judge W. removed his family, consisting of his wife and 6 children, from Fair Haven to Detroit; but the hostilities of the savages, who were hovering about Detroit in vast numbers. induced Mrs. Witherell and the younger children to return on a visit to Vermont, in the autumn of 1811.
The surrender of Detroit made judge Wither. ell, his son James C. C. (who was an officer in the volunteer service, ) and his son-in-law, Col. Joseph Watson, prisoners of war, and as such they were sent with the other prisoners to Kings- ton, C. W., and then paroled and rejoined their family. who had assembled in West Poultney. Vt. After being exchanged he immediately re- turned to his duties as judge, and continued in the same office 20 years: at the end of which time, he, with the consent of President Adams, exchanged the office of judge for that of the Secretary of the Territory.
The above was prepared for this work about six years ago, by Judge Witherell's youngest son, Benjamin F. H. Witherell, who was him- self a judge in the circuit court of Michigan, and a highly respected and influential citizen of De- troit ; but who has since, also, passed away. .
Judge Witherel!, Sen. died at his residence in Detroit. Jan. 9, 1838, and at a meeting of the bar of the supreme court of Michigan, held the following day, and presided over by Hon. Hen- ry Chipman, resolutions of respect and monrn- ing were adopted.
He studied medicine with Dr. Billings, of Mansfield. Mass .; came to Fair Haven in 1789, and married Amy Hawkins, November 11, 1790; having the following family born in towa:
1. James Cullen C., b. July 14, 1791; en- tered, Middlebury College in 1SOS or '09, but
2. Sarah Myra, b. Sept. 16, 1792; m Col. Joseph Watson. She died in Poultney, March 22, 1818, in the 25th year of her age.
3. Betsey Matilda, b. in 1793; m. Dr. Ebe- nezer Hurd.
4. Mary Amy, b. Oct., 1795 ; m. Thomas Palmer. Ile died in Detroit, Aug. 3. 1868. Mrs. Palmer still lives, occasionally visiting her native town, and has contributed to the interest and value of this volume. She has two children living ; Thomas W. Palmer, in Detroit, and Ju- lia Elizabeth, who is married to Henry W. Hub- bard, and resides in New York.
5. Benjamin F., b. in 1797; d. June 22, '67. 6. James B., b. May 12, '99 ; became a mid- shipman in the U. S. Navy, and died Oct. 20, '22, of a malignant fever. on the U. S. ship Pca- cock, during a pasage from Havana to Hampton Roads.
7. Benjamin F. H., m. Mary Ann Sprague, of Poultney, in 1823. Family, Martha E., d .; James B., was lost at sea, in 1861 ; Harriet C., m. Friend Palmer; Julia A., m. Henry A. Lacy ; and Charles I.
NATHANIEL DICKINSON came into town from Massachusetts, as early as 1790. Ile built a store near Dr. Witherell's on West street. In June '95, he was keeping Col. Lyon's tavern, and kept it for several years afterward. He was constable in 1802, and is said to have lived in a part of the old Hennessy house in '04, and to have been afflicted with paralysis. He resid- ed in West Haven, near Dr. Smith's, in 1809, and died there in July '11. His funeral was held at the church on the 14th of July. His wife was Sally Gilbert, only sister of Tilly Gil- bert. She died December, 1$10, aged 42 years. JAMES DOWNEY. "James Downe" took the freeman's oath September, 1791, and we hear that a man of this name lived where Cyrus C. Whipple now does, working for Col. Lyon in the forge, and that he had several sons, among them one Lysander "Downie," who drew a prize of $ 10,000 in a lottery, went away and educated himself, and then purchased a military commis- sion in the British army in Canada, and became commander of the English fleet that fought against Commodore MeDonough in the war of 1812 and '14. We cannot verify the story aud give it for what it is worth.
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BENJAMIN WATSON took the freeman's oath here in July, '91, resided with Joshua Quinton at a later period, Mr. Quinton having married his daughter. He is said to have been drowned through the ice near the eastern shore of Cas- tleton Pond-Lake Bomoseen-on a Christmas ere.
Col. JOSEPH WATSON m. the eldest daughter of Judge Witherell, and owned property and re- sided for a while in the town, as early as 1814. He died at Washington, D. C., and left two children.
JEREMIAH DWYER came to Fair Haven from Pomfret, Vt., through the influence of Col. Lyon, about 1793. In December, '95, he was post rider from the printing-office in Fair Haven, through Castleton, Hubbardton, Sudbury, Whit- ing and Cornwall to Middlebury Falls.
Family : Jeremiah Howard, Polly, James, Fanny, Hannah. John, Patrick and William.
Jeremiah H. was a Baptist minister, and re- moved to Whitehall, where he married a Miss Barlow. He is said to have been involved in the conspiracy to blow up Squire Cook's office in Poultrey, and to have fled the State in con- sequence. He had two sons who were min- isters.
Polly, in 1827, named as "a sick person chargeable on the town."
JOSEPH SHELDON, son of Joseph Sheldon of Dorset, b. in 1776; came to Fair Haven in '98, he being then 22 years old. He married Dia- dama Preston of Poultney, about the year 1800.
He engaged in farming and an extensive lumber business, and rearing his large family.
His wife died June 29, '46, and he married 2d, Rachel Preston, a sister of his first wife.
Family : Julia d .; Joseph, Harmon, Eme- line, Asaph d., Betsey Eliza, Jolin P. and Lou- isa L.
Capt. Joseph Sheldon ran a boat through the Champlain Canal from the time he was 21 years old until the year '36. For ten years afterward he ran his boat from Whitehall to New York, through the canal and river.
Ile engaged extensively, after '46, in farm- ing and sheep raising, obtaining a large reputa- tiou for the value of his stock. He has also worked a valuable quarry of slate on his Scotch Hill farm. He has been for a number of years president of the First National Bank, of which his son-in-law, S. W. Bailey, is cashier.
JOSIAH NORTON, Esq., who is mentioned as having bought out the paper-mill and much of Col. Lyon's interests in the town in the year 1800,
was born October 12, 1747. He removed from Berlin, Ct., to Castleton, in '97, and died in Fair Haven March 26, 1803, aged 55 years. He was buried in Castleton. His first wife, Rebecca Cogswell, died Jan. 14, '97, aged 42 years. Children : Lucinda, Abigail, Salmon, Burke Eli, Rebecca, Erastus and Isaac. He married, 2d, widow Margaret Cole, who survived bim, and afterward married Moses Sheldon of Rupert. Lucinda m. (2d) a Mr. Boland, who died in the war of '12 and '14. She died in Castleton, March 1, '48.
Rebecca married Alexander Dunahue, and afterwards Dr. A. Kendrick of East Poultney. She died about '40 Erastus died in the war of '12 and '14. Isaac married Mrs. Adams of Hampton, N. Y. He died in Benson, about '53.
SALMON NORTON, ESQ., eldest son of Josiah Norton, born in Berlin, Ct., in 1782; upou his father's death. in March, 1803, succeeded to the possession of the paper-mill and lands adjoining. He was chosen constable and collector in '05 and '06, and selectman in '09. He was chosen con- stable again in March, '12, but resigned his office in Sept., as he says " he is detached for a cam- paigu in the war." He enlisted as adjutant un. der Gen. Orms, and went to Burlington, where be was stationed under Gen. Williams. His family were living at this time in the house formerly owned by his father, east from the church. He came home on a visit in the winter, was taken suddenly sick. Dr. Hurd bled him, and he died Jan. 7, '13, in the 32d year of his age. He mar- ried, about 18C2. Rebecca, a daughter of Mi. chael Merritt. They had children : Josinh, d. Salmon C. d. Lucy Maria, Glorvina Emily and Josiah.
Mr. Norton's widow is said to have married John W. Robinson, a poor man called "long Jolın."
DANIEL MUNGER came from Litchfield, Ct., in the summer of '83-settled on what is known as the " Munger road." He was a deacon in the church, and had the reputation of being very rigidly religious. He died Feb. 10, 1805, in his 80th year. He had a brother Eli.
Family : Asahel, Elizabeth, Hannah, Cal- vin, Phebc.
CALVIN MUNGER, son of Daniel, Icarned the shoemaker's trade of Stephen Rogers, and bought out Rogers' house, shop and tannery on the west side of the common, March 31, 1801. Ile died April 17, 1806, in his 31st year, and his wife removed to Shoreham. They had two sons : one of them, Sendol Barnes Mun- ger, born here October 5, 1802, was educated
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at Middlebury College, and went to India as a Missionary in '34.
GORDON JOHNSON, originally from Guilford, Ct., came into Fair Haven from Granville, N. Y., about 1802. He was a fuller and clothier and had a fulling-mill near the river, south of Gen. Orms's saw-mill. He was driven out of his house by the great freshet of July, 1811, and removed his residence.
To an account against Enoch Wright for dressing cloth, beginning in April, 1805, and dated at Fair Haven, March 19, 1806, he ap- pends these amusing lines :
" The above account, if you will pay in wheat, I and my family will eat ; But if you do n't, I'll tell you what,
I and my family must go to pot : But if you pay in wheat at large,
I and my family will you discharge."
He died in 1812. His family were : Clar- issa F., Gurdon C., Vacton, Esther, Brainard and Statyria.
ESTHER -- was a poetess, and stories were told in former years of her hermit-like haunt in one of the ancient " pot-holes" at the foot of the Dry Falls, whither she was accus- tomed to retire to indulge the visitations of the Muses. She married Corril White, and re- moved to Skaneateles, N. Y., and is said to re- side now in the town of Aurora, N. Y.
PAUL GUILFORD, Sen., came to Fair Haven from Conway, Mass., in the fall of '98. One tradition is, that while in Massachusetts his wife left him and went to reside among the Quakers; while, according to another account, he came away from Conway to get rid of her. He married Deborah Bundy, in Fair Haven, and is said to have dropped down dead in the corn-field.
JONATHAN CADY, born May 19, 1760, is said to have resided at one time on Hampton hills. He was school committee in South district in 1807. He was a soldier in the war of the Revolution; was stationed for a time at Fort Ticonderoga, and was present at the surrender of Gen. Burgoyne. He lived to be 92 years old, walking to the village of Westport, 5 miles and back, only a few days before his death, which occurred in Westport September 20, '52.
JOHN CADY, born June 7, 1762, came from Reading to Fair Haven in 1803-remaining here until '13. He is said to have built a house in the woods, east of where John Moore lives, but sold the place to Maj. Tilly Gilbert as early as '07, and removed into the grist-mill house, where he lived in '08. He left Fair Haven in
'13, and died in Wirt, N. Y., in '45, in his 83d year. He married first a Clark, and afterwards a Sherwin. He had children : Benjamin ; Adin, who was fife-major in the 11th Regiment in the war of '12, and died in the army. He is said to have been wounded in the battle of Lundy's Lane, and brought into Buffalo, where the physician pronounced him in a fair way to recover ; but upon the removal of the hospital patients from the city at the threatened attack of the British, he was exposed, took cold and died in the hospital-children: Lucinda, d .; Hannah. b. '95-is still living in Illinois; Lewis -now resides in Whalonsburg, N. Y. ; Clark C., who resides in Middlebury, Vt .; Eliza and Ze- ruah, who died and were buried in Fair Haven, and Eliza, the youngest, who now resides in Al- leghany county, N. Y.
OLIVER CADY b. September 20, '81, came in- to town from Reading in 1803, and took the freeman's oath here at the freeman's meeting in September of that year. He is mentioned as leader of the choir of the Congregational soci- ety in 1801. He married, Oct. 12, '05, Abi- gail Brainard, a daughter of Deacon Timothy Brainard. Both were very fond of music, and . communicated the musical talent to their child- ren. They are said to have lived over the riv- er in Mr. Richard's neighborhood, in 1811. They resided in Orwell in '13; and either while there or previously, he went out as drum- major with a company which started to join the American army at Plattsburgh ; (probably the company from Fair Haven) but too late to take part in the battle. From Orwell they seem to have gone to West Rutland to reside in 1815. From West Rutland they removed to Westport N. Y., in the fall of $19, where Mr. Cady died, April 30, '41. She lived until April of the present year, when she died at 82 years of age, at Plato, Ill. She was a woman of great ener- gy and executive talent-"active and playful as a child up to the very day of her death, and " talked of her death as cheerfully as if it were only a pleasant journey."
Mr. Cady suffered from poor health the last years of his life, so that while "honest and thoroughly upright," " despising a mean act," he lost his property and left his family in debt. This indebtedness was paid by his widow, with the help of her youngest son, Chauncey M, who worked out on a farm at $10 per month, for two seasons after the father's demise. Of such stuff was his family made.
Children : Clara, Charlotte, Calvin Bramard, born July 11, 1809, at Fair Haven; a gradu-
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ate of Middlebury College, and Congregational | the week, and preaching on Sunday. He was minister at Alburgh Spa, Vt.
Charles Thomas, b. May 18, 1811, at Fair Haven ; now in Detroit, and former member of the Michigan Legislature.
Cornelius Sidney, b. in Orwell, Feb. 28, '13, is a graduate of Oberlin College and Theologi- cal Seminary, and a Congregational minister at Evanston, Ill., near Chicago.
Chester Oliver, b. in West Rutland, '17; died at Cooperstown. N. Y., '44.
Chauncey Marvin, b. in Westport, N. Y , May 16, '24; fitted for college at Oberlin ; engaged in a clerkship in Michigan : taught music and assisted to found Olivet College in Michigan ; and. graduating from Michigan University in '51, went to New York and engaged with W. B. Bradbury in musical labors, being editor of the New York Musical Review until, in '56, he removed to Ch.caso, and has been engaged wi h George F. Root, in the publication and sale of music, under the firm name of Root & Cady, since December. '58.
Caroline Matilda, b. in Bridport, Vt .; d. at Elizabethtown. N. Y., in '32.
ELIJAH COLEMAN, a nephew of Dr. James Witherell, took the freeman's oath here in Sep- tember. 1803-studied medicine with Dr. With- erell, and went away in 1808.
AMOS CLARK of Whitehall, in December, '04, came and lived on Scotch Hill. He worked at coaling for Jacob Davey, until June, '13, when he purchased 20 acres of land, and thereon built and resided for some years. His wife's name was Betsey. He had also a daughter Betsey, and a son Joseph who taught singing, and af- terward became an Episcopal clergyman ; is said to have removed to Skaneateles, N. Y., and to have died in the West.
ELDER JORDAN DODGE was a Baptist preach- er, resident here in 1804, and is said to have been really the first settled minister of the town. He preached in the school-house and in private houses, and a portion of the tiene at the church in Hampton. In common with many others, and in keeping with the custom of the day, he was warned out of town, with his family, in May. 1804. He lived at one time on the south side of West street, beyond the old burying- ground; at another and perhaps a later period. on the north side of the street running past the iron works, then called "Johnny-cake Lane ;" having a shop on the rocks above the iron. works, where he is said to have worked at his trade of nail-making. Dr. Beaman represents him as a bloomer, working in the forge during
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