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CHURCH OF THE DISCIPI.E3.
In 1831, this church was formed under the guidance of Elder Worden P. Reynolds, then recently of the Baptist church. Dea. Jero- miah Arnold was the first to espouse the po-
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culiar doctrines of this church. Besides him, among its first members, were David Carver, Thomas Laing, Rufus Conant. Jas. T. Bates. Rufus P. Conant. David Hollister and Luther Arnold. Its growth, for awhile was rapid, meetings being held in the old meeting house and in school-houses alternately. In 1847, this society built a church at West Pawlet ; Elder Lowell preached on the occasion of its being opened. After Elder Reynolds left, in 1833, it was destitute of a pastor a share of the time, though its meetings on " the first day of the week " were generally sustained Since 1866 Rev. A. W. Olds has supplied the pulpit of this church, and there has been a large increase in its membership, which now numbers 80. A bible-class and Sabbath school are now in successful operation. Its only resident ministers have been Elders Worden P. Reynolds, E. T. Wood, and Thom- as Laing. Elder Clayton, then of Rupert, served the church one-half of the tiene for a year or two. Besides ministers from abroad have called and held series of meetings. In 1836, Rev. Alex. Campbell, from Virginia. visitied this society, and preached in the old Baptist church.
PROTESTANT METHODIST CHURCH.
BY REV. GEORGE SMITH.
" In the year 1832, a Methodist Protestant church was formed on Pawlet mountain, near Aaron Bennett's. Its first principal members were Jesse Munroe, Aaron and Leonard Ben- nett, Austin Johnson, Joel Baldwin, Amos Wooster and Isaac Roberts. A meeting house was built near John Stearns' in 1833. Geo. Smith, Chandler Walker, Ziba Boynton, Wm. Gone, Daniel Vaughn, Eldridge G. Drake and John Croker. supplied the church with preaching about 23 years. Then, as the most prominent members moved out of the State, the church ran down. The meet- ing-house was sold, taken down and convert- ed into a dwelling house."
An Independent religious society was formed at the village in 1855, under the au- spices of Rev. Jason F. Walker, then late of the Methodist church. For some years, while Mr. Walker was statedly with them, their meetings were largely attended, being held mostly in the academy. For some time, their meetings have been wholly discontin- ued.
Besides the churches and societies already
named, the Universalists have been numer- ous particularly in the north part of the town, and have affiliated with those of like faith in Wells. Joseph P. Upham, Ephraim Jones, Innett Hollister, Reuben Smith, Eli- jah Brown and Daty Allen, 21., were among its most prominent members. Their meet- ings were generally held in Wells, though sometimes at the old Baptist churchi, a con- siderable part of which was ownel by thein.
The peaceful and exemplary Friends have not been without their representatives. Many of our older citizens will remember the genial and hospitable Wm. Boyce, who lived on the Lyon place, and Lemuel Chase, who lived quite retired, in the west part. Other Friends have, from time to time, lived in various parts of the town.
MORMONISM.
Soon after the rise of Mormonism in west- ern New York, its missionaries found their way to this town, and held stated meetings for several weeks. Among them came Brig- ham Young, then young and unnoted, who visited this town and held' his meetings at the Old red school-house, not 10 rods from where we now write. Joseph Smith, Sen., also visited the town, preached and baptized Mrs. Cornwall Marks. A few adherents were obtained, mostly from families educated in the Congregational church, who followed the fortunes of the party to Kirtland, Olio, thence to Nauvoo, Illinois, and thence, some of them. to Great Salt Lake City.
In 1833, Capt. Win. Miller, the founder of the Second Advent church, visited this town on the invitation of the writer, and made his first oral effort in advocacy of his pecu- liar views. His mission here was followed by slender results. About 1850, one, Mr. Lyon promulgated the same views, substan- tially, of the Disciple's church, and baptized a few converts.
FREE MASONRY.
BY JONATHAN RANDALL.
Hiram Lodge, No. 8, was organized Mar. 22, 1796, and met, for the first time, at Sam- uel Rose's, in the south part of the town. At that meeting William Cooley was ap- pointed master, Zadock Higgins, senior war- den, and George Clark, junior warden.
The 24th of June, this year, the lodge cel- ebrated the nativity of St. John the Baptist.
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The Rev. John Griswold preached a sermon before the lodge at the meeting house.
In February, 1799, the lodge met at the hall of Ephraim Fitch, and continued to hold the meetings there until the house was burned, in October, 1806; in that fire some of the records were destroyed. At that time the lodge numbered about 70 members.
Social Royal Arch Chapter, No. 10, was chartered and met for the first time at the hall of Lemuel Barden, in Pawlet village, Feb. 9, 1819. The three principal officers were Titus A. Cook, Jonathan Robinson and Phineas Strong. A public installation was held at the Congregational meeting house the same year, the Rev. Jonathan Nye, of Newfane, preached a sermon on the occasion, before one of the largest assemblies ever con- vened in Pawlet.
At present, the Free masons in Pawlet are members of lodges in the vicinity, some be- long to the lodge at Poultney, others to the Manchester and Rupert lodges.
The masonic institution suspended their meetings in 1834, and they have not been resumed.
INCORPORATED MANUFACTURING COMPANIES. BY JONATHAN RANDALL.
In November, 1814, the legislature passed an act incorporating the Pawlet Manufactur- ing Company. The corporators were John Guild, Ozias Clark, John Penfield, Jr., Jon- athan Robinson, Nathaniel Robinson, Jr., William C. Robinson, Napthali Guild, David Richardson, Dan. Wilmarth, Daniel Fitch, and their associates, successors and assigns.
The first meeting of the corporation was held at the dwelling house of John Guild, in Pawlet, the first Monday in January, 1815. John Guild was chosen agent.
The company, that year, erected their fac- tory building of brick, 70 feet by 36, 3 sto- ries, situated about half a mile east of Paw- let village. It made a good article of cotton sheeting and cotton warp or twist for mar- ket. There were in the building 860 spindles and 16 looms. They employed about 25 hands and the company did a very good bus- iness for many years, or during the time Mil- ton Brown was agent. There was a store connected with the manufacturing business and this was about one of the first cotton factories built in the State. There was a machine shop connected with the factory,
where much of the machinery was made by Nathaniel Robinson and others. But a few years after Mr. Brown retired from the agen- cy, the company failed; the machinery was sold, building taken down, and nothing marks the spot where the factory stood ex- cept some foundation stones.
The Flower Brook Manufacturing Compa- ny was incorporated in November, 1836, by act of the legislature; the persons incorpor- ated, Sheldon Edgerton, Jacob Edgerton, Jr , Jonathan Randall, John M. Clark, John T. Barden and William Wallace, for manu- facturing cotton and wool, and the first meet- ing was held at the house of John T. Bar- den, in Pawlet, on the first Tuesday of Janu- ary, 1837, at which Jonathan Randall was chosen agent, and Jacob Edgerton, Jr., clerk.
The factory building was at Pawlet village, 80 feet by 36 feet ; 5 stories on the west end, 3 stories on the east end.
There were 3 sets of carding-machines, or 9 machines, 720 spindles and 10 broad-looms. The machinery all running worked 300 pounds of wool a day and employed 21 or 25 hands.
There were two water-wheels, one above the other, in the mill, one wheel of 18 feet diameter, the other wheel was 11 feet ; the water was used over twice. There was about 34 feet fall of the water; the wheels were overshot. Mr. Randall was agent 3 years, William Wallace 2 or 3 years, when John M. Clark bought out all the stock holders, and ran the factory a year or two, when it finally failed. The machinery was sold at auction, the building taken down, and the site forms a part of the yard used in connection with R. C. Wickham's cheese-factory.
The establishment cost about $20, 000.
THE WASHINGTON BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.
was a secret political organization which spread over New England, and to some ex- tent, in other Northern states. A branch was established in this town about the breaking out of the war of 1812. Its friends claimel that it was merely a protective institution, to preserve the interests of the North against the obnoxious acts of the federal administra- tion. Its enemies charged it with treasona- ble proclivities. At the conclusion of a treaty of peace with Great Britain, in 1815, the or- ganization was dissolved, and all that has been heard of it since is an occasional fling at its friends by the opposing party.
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ADAMS, GIDEON, from Canterbury, Ct., 1770, m. Jude Leach, a sister of James Leach, Sen., who died in 1819, aged 75, leaving three chil- dren, Jude, Margaret, who married Joseph Keigwin, and Mary, who married John Kirby, Middlebury. He settled where Henry S. Lathe now lives. He at once took a leading position in the town, which then contained ouly 9 families. He was in the legislature in 1778, and served in the whole, 6 years. He was town clerk and justice 39 years. A man of ready wit and genial temper, strong sense and sound judgment, won and retained through his whole career, the confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens in an eminent de- gree and died in 1827, aged 84.
ALLEN, TIMOTHY, from Woodbury, Ct., 1768, a cousin of Ethan Allen, was the first settler in the N. W. quarter of the town. He was inoderator of the town-meeting in 1770 and is well remembered by many of our older citizens as a man of singular piety and eminent gifts. The detachment of troops that surprised Ticonderoga in 1775, halted for the night at his house on their march to that place. He died in 1810, aged 96. His son, Parmelee, was town clerk in 1770, and a captain in Col. Herrick's famous regiment of Rangers, organized in this town in 1777. An- other son, Daty, was a physician and an em- igrant to Mt. Clemens, Mich., in 1800.
ALLEN, TIMOTHY jr., was in the battle of Bennington in 1777, at the age of 17. He was an early settler of Bristol, and deacon of the Baptist church in that place. In 1814, he removed to Hartford, N. Y., where be died, 1834, aged 74. Of Dea. Allen's children, Rev. Barna Allen is Baptist minister in Hub- bardton, (1866) and Hon. Alanson Allen, of Fairhaven, has been county judge and State senator, and is now assistant assessor of in- ternal revenue.
ALLEN, CALEB, came with his father, Tim- othy Allen, in 1768. He was a land jobber, a vocation which the peculiar condition of real estate in the early years of the settlement of the State demanded. Most of the land was owned by non-residents, many of whom took little interest in it. Hence business men looked them up, bought their claims, many times at a nominal price, and then sold the land in parcels to actual settlers. The cemetery in the north part of the town was given by him to the school district in
which it lies. Its first occupants were Revolu- tionary soldiers. He died in 1804, aged 53. His son, Daty, succeeded to the homestea i, which he held till 1816, being followed by David C. Blossom. He removed to White- hall, N. Y., where he died some years ago, leaving numerous descendants.
ALLEN, JOHN, from Danby, 1815; settled with his sons, Nathan and Elisha, on the Jonathan Willard place; was a thrifty far- mer, held in high esteem and died in 1352, aged 91 ; his wife in 1851, aged 71.
ALLEN, NATHAN, m. Julia, da. of Jeremiah Lettingwell, of Middletown ; was one of the earliest and most influential members of the Methodist church ; was one of the directors of the Poultney bank several years ; died in 1863, aged 72; children, John, m. Ellen, da. of Joel Winchester ; Charles, m. Anna, da. of James Rice ; was in the legislature 2 years, and lives in Darien, Wis. Isaac, m. Eliza Allen, has been attorney general of Iowa. Henry, m. Sarah Shedd, of Pittstown, N. Y., and succeeded to the homestead. Sarah, m. Lewis F. Jones, of California. She was s graduate of Troy Conference Academy, and its female principal 2 years. Lucy, m. Rich- ard H. Winter, of Whitehall, N. Y.
ALLEN, ELISHA, m. Annis, da. of Dr. Jon- athan Safford; settled on the place and built the brick house now owned by Albert A. Boynton ; was a leading member of the Methodist church ; in the legislature + years, two of them in thesenate, judge of the county court 3 years, town clerk 19 years ; director of the Poultney bank several years, died in 1856, aged 62. His oldest son, Horace, m. Kate, dr. of Jacob Edgerton, jr., and d. in St. Paul, Minn., in 1865, aged 43. He was a graduate of Union College, and an attorney ; represented Rutland in the legislature 2 years, and was State senator one year. His youngest son, Merritt. was an attorney, and died at St. Paul in 1855, aged 24.
ANDRUS, HON. JOHN H., from Danby, 1820: settled on the present town-farm; was a rep- resentative in the legislature from Danby several years, and a judge of the county court ; died in 1841, aged 73; his wife in 1821, aged 50.
ANDRUS, Capt. ZEBADIAE, sen., from Nor- wich, Ct, 1784 : settled on the present home- stead of David R. Smith. He died in ledt, aged 86; his wife in 1789, aged 74.
ANDRUS, ZEBADIAH, jr., came with his
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father from Norwich, Conn., and settled with him. He d. in 1830, aged 86; his widow d. in Mt. Tabor in 1850, aged 94. Her death was caused by her clothes taking fire.
ANDRUS, ASA, sen., son of Zedadiah, Sen., died in 1821, aged 79. ANDRUS, ASA, jr., succeeded to his father's place; sold out in 1821 and removed to Lockport, N. Y., where he died in 1863, aged 90.
ANDRUS, REV. LEMON, son of Asa Andrus, jr., was licensed to preach in 1821, by the Baptist church in West Pawlet ; was pastor in Low Hampton, N. Y., several years ; left about 1830, for western New York.
ANDRUS, ALLEN, son of William Andrus, m. Betsey, da. of Rev. John Griswold, and settled as a physician in Pulaski, N. Y. He died in this town.
ANDRUS, BENJAMIN, son of Zebadiah An. drus, jr., married and settled on the mountain, near Rupert. He died in 1864, aged 81.
ANDREWS, REUBEN, from Connecticut, at an early day; settled near the old Baptist church. He was an ingenious mechanic, and made the old fashioned 8-day clock, which was in common use 50 years ago.
ARMSTRONG, JOSEPH, from Bennington, 1776; settled in the N. E. part of the town, and kept tavern some 25 years.
ARNOLD, JONATHAN, from Connecticut who settled here at an early day was an intelli- gent, exemplary citizen. He died in Gran- ville, N. Y,, in 1838, aged 83.
ARNOLD, JEREMIAH, son of Jonathan, m. Mary Ellsworth. He struggled manfully against the adverse influences of chronic ill health and slender means and educated his numerous family well. For several years he was engaged in riding post, delivering news- papers at the door of subscribers. He was a deacon of the Baptist church, and the first in this vicinity to embrace the peculiar views o: the Church of the Disciples. He removed to Wisconsin, where he recently died, aged about 70.
AVERILL. Gen. ELISHA, from New Milford, Ct., 1787, was among the most prominent of the early settlers. He was the first captain of the light infantry. He removed West in 1803 and died at Manchester. N. Y., in 1821, agel 67 and his widow in 1823, aged 63.
ADAMS, GEORGE JONES, from Maine, 1857, occupied the pulpit of the Disciple's church at West Pawlet, 6 or S months. He had been an extensive traveler on the Eastern conti-
nent. He exerted a magnetic and fascinat- ing influence over most persons with whom he came in contact. In his religious history he had " swung around the circle," having been, it is understood, a Methodist, Mormon, Freewill Baptist and Spiritualist before he joined the Disciples. He was also professor of elocution and a theatrical performer. He is now the founder of a colony of 160 persons at Jaffa in Palestine. Newspaper reports, during the last winter, have represented this colony as on the point of breaking up; but the latest accounts (April, 1867), show it to be in a thriving condition. They took the timber of their houses from the State of Maine, and are said to have 300 acres under cultiva- tion and plenty of provisions.
BAKER, REMEMBER, whose career makes so prominent a part of early Vermont history, was a proprietor and temporary resident of this town as early as 1768. He built the first grist-mill erected in town on land now owned by George Toby.
BAKER, ELIJAH, from Canterbury, Ct., 1786, settled in the south part of the town with three sons, Ebenezer, Rufus and Icha- bod, who all raised large families. Few of their descendants remain in the vicinity. He died in 1811, aged 86.
BALDRIDGE, DANIEL, from Rhode Island, about 1785, settled on the present homestead of Henry Smith. He was one of the first Methodists in town. His sons, Daniel jr., and Edward succeeded him and raised large families, all but one of whom, Catharine Jones, have left town.
BARDEN, LEMUEL, from Dighton, Mass., 1814, succeeded Ephraim Fitch, in the brick hotel at the village, which he kept until about 1830. Though of a rather rough exte- rior, he was a kind hearted, benevolent man, and would not serve his customers with liquor after he thought they had enough. He died in 1839, aged 81; his wife in 1839, aged 79.
BEALL, Rev. ISAAC, from Clarendon, 1800, first settled pastor of the First Baptist church, a man of great shrewdness and strong intel- lect, which compensated, in part, for deficien- cies in his early education. He was a gentle- man of the old school, courteous and affable in his deportmient. The large house in which he preached was wont to be well filled. Ha died in Clarendon in 1833, aged 82; his wife did not long survive him.
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BARDWELL, CONSIDER S., from Shelburn, Mass., 1834 His farin buildings and sur- roundings are models of taste and convenience. He has an artificial pond fed by springs gush- ing from its own bosom, which supplies mo- tive power for machinery and is well stocked with trout. It is a favorite resort for sports- men from the city. He carries on the edge- tool manufacture, and, with his strong right arm, has hammered out a handsome proper- ty. He built in 1864, the first cheese-factory in the State, which is now run by a dairy association, incorporated in 1865. Peat, said by experts to be of the best quality, is found on his premises, contiguous to the rail-road.
BEEBE, Rev. LEWIS, from Arlington, 1787, was the first settled minister, and obtained the lot of land reserved for that purpose in the charter. He was ordained June 14. 1787, and dismissed - May 6, 1791. while living in Arlington, he was a member of the first council of censors, convened in 1785. This council was the most important ever convened in the State, as the task devolved on it of reviewing and recommending the re- peal of much of the crude legislation of the 7 ยท preceding years. He removed hence to Lan- singburgh, N. Y., and abandoned the clerical profession.
BENNETT, AARON. from Canterbury, Ct. about 1784; raised a numerous family, many of whose descendants remain in town. His sons, Leonard and Ahira, were well known and respected citizens. The former removed to the west; the latter was drowned in Lake Champlain. He died in 1849, aged 83; his wife in 1842, aged 76.
BENNETT, SAMUEL, from Canterbury, Ct., 1784 .. His only daughter married Benjamin Sage, and raised a family of three sons, Sam- nel, Wesley, who was killed by the premature explosion of a gun on independence day, 1816, and Benjamin jr., and one daughter.
BENNETT, BANKS, from Halifax, 1790; set- tled near Capt. Pratt's. He suffered from a rheumatic affection, which drew his head down so that it rested on his breast. He died in 1829, aged 88.
BEECHER, Rev. DAVID, a native of Gran- ville, entered on the ministry in the Baptist church over 20 years since. Ile first settled in Collins, N. Y .. thence removed to western Pennsylvania, thence to Harmony, N. Y., and thence in 1859, to West Pawlet, where he assumed the pastorate of the Baptist | Troy, Saratoga and Union Village, N. Y., 3:
church, in which his labors have been emi- nently successful.
BETTS, SELAH, from Norfolk, Ct., 1733; settled on the present homestead of Jota Betts. He was in the battle of Danbury, C :. , under Gen. Wooster. During the battle the lock of his gun was shot away, when be coolly remarked, "They have shot of the lock of my gun," seized another musket aci continued the fight. He died in 1823, agel 68 ; his wife, Sibel, in 1849, aged ST.
BETTS, JOHN, m. Lydia, da. of Hosea Lore- land, and, with his brother Selah, jr., suc- ceeded to the homestead. He has raised a family of 6 sons and 2 daughters ; of whom Royal C., is an attorney at Granville and special judge of Washington county, N. Y.
BIGART, JAMES, a native of Scotland, whence he came when a lad, with his father, to this town, kept the Vermont Hotel, at North Pawlet, for several years, closing iu 1852, when he removed to Sandy Hill, N. Y. He brought out in 1347, the celebrated horse Rattler, which is noticed in the chapter ca Stock.
BIDWELL, JONATHAN, from Glastenburg, Ct., 1810. His wife's name was Betsey Strong. They raised a family of 6 children. Ansca, the oldest son was instantly killed by falling from a staging, aged about 30.
BLAKELEY, DAVID, from -Woodbury, C :. , 1782, settled on the late homestead of bis son, Dan Blakely. He was noted for indus- try, frugality and thrift. He died in 1521, aged 72; his widow, who was an aunt of Gov. Hiland Hall, died in 1831, aged $5.
BLAKELY, Capt. DAVID, jr., m. Esther, da. of Jacob Edgerton, and settled in the N. E. part of the town. He was in the legislature 2 years, and has been deacon of the Congre- gational church since 18 -. Their family con- sists of 10 children.
BLAKELY, Rev. JACOB E., Pastor of the Congregational church in Poultney, died in 1854, aged 34; and Rev. Quincy Blakely, pastor of the Congregational church in Hampton, N. H., were his sons.
BLAKELY, JONATHAN, from C: , 1785, m. Margaret, da. of Christopher Billings, and settled at the village. He died in 1845, agel 70; his widow, who was a woman of Fara worth and devoted to deeds of kindness, diet in 1863, aged 85. Their son, Billings Blake- ly, was favorably known as hotel keeper a:
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which latter place, he died in 1864, aged 66. in the legislature 3 years, a director of the Anna, who married Jonathan Randall, is the only survivor of the family.
BLOSSOM, DAVID C., from Wells, 1316, m. Lucy, da. of Daniel Goodrich, and settled on the Timothy Allen Farm, where he lives, re- tired from business, at the age of 83. His wife died in 1852, aged 65. They raised a family of 7 children. David G. Blossom, the only one remaining in town, m. Fidelia Good- rich, and succeeded to the homestead, on which he has just erected an elegant and convenient house.
BRACE, Hon. JONATHAN, from Glastenbury, Ct., 1780, was probably the first attorney in town; a man of commanding talents and contributed largely to set the machinery of society in order. He settled near the present idence of James Leach, the contemplated : that day of the county buildings. He :uember of the council of censors in few years he returned to Con-
he became distinguished in public life.
m Norwich, Ct., 1784,
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He dies 1.86; his wife ... 812, aged 73.
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and also from Albany to Buffalo. 1853, aged 73.
BONNEY, Rev. ELIJAH, from Hadley, J. BUSHNELL, Dea. BENAJAH, an early settler 1844, succeeded Rev. Dr. Plumb in the pas- held in high esteem, died in 1814, aged 71; torate of the Congregational church. Re- his wife in 1814, aged 73. served and circumspect in his deportment, his public efforts evinced careful preparation. In his private and pastoral relations he was highly esteemed. He married Jane, da. of Asa S. Jones. He is now in Vernon, N. Y.
BREWSTER Rev. TIMOTHY, from Norwich, Ct., settled on the Ezra Andrus homestead, in 1784; was licensed to preach by the Bap- tist church in 1791, removed to Ellisburg, N. Y., in 1813, and became pastor of the Baptist church in that place, lived to a great age and frequently visited this town.
BROMLEY, Henry, son of Capt. Lovine and Betsey (Hulett) Bromley is blind and has re- ceived an education at the asylum for the blind in Boston.
BROWN, Capt. MILTON, from Attleboro, Mass., 1815, m. Eunice, da. of John Guild, was agent of the cotton factory some 30 years,
bank of Manchester 25 years, for several years its president, and deacon of the Congre- gational church from 1844, until he left for Potsdam, N. Y., in 1853.
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