The history of Washington county, in the Vermont historical gazetteer:, Part 148

Author: Hemenway, Abby Maria, 1828-1890, [from old catalog] ed
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Montpelier, Vt., Vermont watchman and state journal press
Number of Pages: 1066

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Thro' the woods on foot we traveled with our marked trees on before,

But when winters's snows came on, say four feet or more it fell,

Snch mnsie with the deer we had as no one now can tell,-

No there's no one now can tell,

How the hounds would scream and yell,

When they drove their game up to us and at our feet it fell.

Vermont's first Inhabitants a hardy set of men,

Hewed the lofty maples down with some fighting now and then ;

Their wives would use the siekle and the rake when in the field,

And the husbands oftentimes to the women had to yield,-

Yes, the husbands had to yield.

(Not for work done in the field,)

But the number of the skeins of yarn their wives quite often reeled.

In the good old days of pumpkin pies and checkered aprons too,

The farmers wore their home-spun coats, and linen frocks would do,

The women made their cloth so stout 'twas not called poor or thin,

And 'twas really entertaining, to see them card and spin,-

Yes, to see them card and spin, Mid their weaving, warping din,

O! the times gone by have charmed me, so I wish they'd come again.

Great Britain's on our north, yet we never mean to fear,

On the East a sister State known as Granite New Hampshire,

On the South is Massachusettsand New York is on the West,

But ot all the States around her Vermont is still the best, ---

Yes, Vermont is still the best,

For in evergreen she's drest,

Like the country maid with milk, green becomes us much the best.

Sir Geo. Prevost at Plattsburgh, tho' in a sister state, Said Vermont has sent her boys to fight, defeat is sure our fate,

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To his fourteen thousand men he said we leave this ground of Platts,

Don't you see them Vermont boys have come with green sprigs in their hats,-

With green sprigs in their hats, They 're ready for combats,

I had rather fight the devil than these Vermont demo- crats.

Commodore Downie now came up for battle but in vain,

McDonongli whipped him well on our little Lake Champlain.

He made for home 'tis hoped and has not again been seen,

Since the eleventh of September, eighteen hundred and fourteen, --

In eighteen hundred and fourteen, A treaty made between,

Stop'd our fighting on the water and our merchantmen are seen.

The many ponds in Vermont are well stored with fish, You can take the salmon trout or the pickerel if you wish,

Should you prefer the scaly perch, the sucker or the dace,

You can take a back-load of them out almost at any place,-

Yes, almost at any place, Ifyou've the fishing grace

If not you may not have a bite 'twill alter some the case.

Our farmers cultivate the soil not as they did of old, For then they could not get such plows as in Vermont are sold,

The hoe, the horse-rake, spring-steel fork, the scythe, the snath, the ax,

We have, and when we use them well a good round price we tax,-

Yes, a good round price we tax, For to none we turn our backs,

In the chopping, mowing, pitching line, we're speaking now of facts.

Just one word more we wish to say should you pass thro' the State,

You'll find these tough Vermonters work both early, sure and late,

But if one calls to see our friends from distance or near home.

The best they have enough of it-you're welcome when you come.

Yes, you're welcome when you come, We're not disposed to gum,

We'll take some good old cider now-my friend, won t you have some ?

The happiest people in the world on Vermont hills are found,

Their charity begins at home, extends to all around, [Should fortune smlle or even frown or trouble ere confront,]

On these green hills there is a balm you'll find it in Vermont,

You'll find it in Vermont,

The green mountain state Vermont,

Spontaneously it grows among the green hills of Ver- mont.

[See Woodbury, pp. 882, 883.]

MEMORIAL.

BY MRS. IRENE D. DWINELL.

An elegy on the death of Sergeant WY- MAN R. BURNAP, who died of wounds re- received in battle, Sept. 21, 1864.

To free our country from the tyrant's thrall, We mourn to-day a patriot brave; To lift from off her face that dark'ning pall, Has made for him that soldier's grave.

Full oft that voice in " gone-by " days Has thrilled the sense to concord sweet; Those brightened hours, in after lays, The soldier's tent no more may greet.

To thee, dear Lord, the costly sacrifice, We yield our brother, child and friend; Where "dust to dust " now sleeping lies, Let holy angels guard and tend.

East Calais, Jan. 1, 1865.

ABIJAH WHEELOCK,

[BY JULIUS S. WHEELOCK, OF BERLIN.]

was born in Charlton, Mass., in 1764. He was a son of David Wheelock, who was one of the original proprietors of Calais. He gave his son Abijah a deed of lot No. I, in the second division of the town- ship of Calais, dated Charlton, Mass., April 17, 1788. David Wheelock was a son of Benjamin, son of Benjamin, son of Ralph, who was born in Wales County, Salop, in 1600; was educated at Cam- bridge University, where he took his de- grees in 1626 and 31 ; came to this coun- try in 1637 ; first located at Watertown, Mass., but removed in 1638 to that part of Dedham which became Medfield. He represented Dedham in 1639 and 40; was made clerk of the court in 1642, in place of Edward Allyen, deceased ; was the first representative of Medfield, in 1653, 63, 4, and 6; was the father of Benjamin, Sam- uel, Record, Experience, Gersham and Eleazer, and perhaps others. He died Jan. II, 1684.

Eleazer was the father of the 2d Ralph, born in 1682, who was the father of Rev. Eleazar, founder and first president of Dartmouth college. Ralph Wheelock was the father of the race of that name in this country, as there is no record of any other one coming to this country between 1620 and 1693, when emigration to New Eng- land stopped, when William and Mary as- cended to the throne of England.

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COUNTY PAPERS AND ITEMS.

MISS ELLEN O. PECK,

" daughter of the late Addison Peck, of East Montpelier, has become an industrious contributor to the 'Cottage Hearth,' Boston, 'New England Journal of Edu- cation," 'Mrs. Slade's Magazine' and ' Good Times.' Among her press ar- ticles may be named 'The Early Home of Governor Peck,' and of her poems, her poetical address read before the alumni of the Vermont Methodist Seminary, 1876." We hope to receive " The Early Home of Gov. Peck," etc., with other papers from East Montpelier, for the general supple- ment .- ED.

SEPTEMBER SUNSET. BY MISS MARY E. DAVIS.

Lo! the evening spreads her banners In the far and radiant west, Where the crimson feet of sunset Linger on the mountain's crest ; While the sun, that shining monarch, Of the fast departing day, Gathers up his robe of glory While he passes thus away.

Back upon the sky of azure Steals a bright and rosy hue, Fringing all those clouds of purple, Sailing through the boundless blue; And far east, where blushing morning Breaks the silver glow of night, Even there the snow-white eloudlets Catch the melting, trembling light.

Whlle o'er plain and wood majestic, Touched with Autumn's " mellow beam," And the hills, still bright with verdure, Rising 'mid the vales serene. . ·

As I watch the radiance glowing All around my cherished home,

Thoughts of wonder, thoughts adoring, Thrilling o'er my spirit come. O! if earth may wear such beauty- Earth so stained with crime and siu, What must be that glorious City, Where no sin can enter in.

Miss Davis was born in Plainfield, this county, but now, and has for many years past resided at East Montpelier, and we reserved, when we compiled the paper for the Montpeliers, a notice of her and her poetical volume, except the brief notice in Mr. Gilman's bibliography for Mont- pelier, for Plainfield, which in making up Plainfield we overlooked till too late, but for a closing note. The above lines, sent to us some years since by the author, are all that we now have in hand of her writings .- En.

UNDER THE APPLE BOUGHS.

BY EDNA M. SNOWS. 1

He lies 'neath the spreading apple boughs, My little brother Jim ;

No care from the busy world around Casts its shadow over him. The golden sheen of his tangled curls 'Mid the clover blossoms gleams;

He Is floating out, on the tide of sleep, To the happy sea of dreams.

Dreaming there, with his bare, brown feet Kissed by the August sun; I think of the brave and earnest paths Our little boy may run- Toilsome and rough to the idle throng Who shrink from the summer's heat;

Of noble toil for those who tread With true and patient feet.

I know there are snares for heedless steps In the luring haunts of sin; There's fruit so fair to the passing gaze, But ashes and dust within. And I kiss the sleeper's trustful lips, With a swift and silent prayer

That the God of his childhood's love and faith Be his leader everywhere.

-From " The Little Corporal."

EMERY G. JUDKINS, M. D.,

[FROM OBITUARY BY S. A. SABIN.]

Died in Waitsfield, June 29, of diphtheria, after a sickness of but 5 days, aged 33. He was born in Unity, N. H., received his early education in this town, was appoint- ed at 19 to the United States Coast Sur- vey, and served one year under Capt. Cram. He studied medicine with Dr. Nathaniel Tolls, of this town, and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1852, one of the first in his class. He immediately received an appointment in the Hospital at Blackwell's Island, where he remained one year, when he returned to this town, and entered upon the practice of his profession ; in 1861, was appointed acting assistant surgeon in the United States Navy, and served in that capacity until the spring of 1862, when he removed to Waitsfield, where he had an extensive practice and many friends, and will be remembered by many. Having known Dr. Judkins from early youth, and having been for several years most inti- mately connected, the writer feels by his death he has lost a valuable friend, and the medical profession an honorable mem- ber. He leaves a young wife.

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MEMORIES.

BY MRS. LAURA BRIGHAM BOYCE.

From our historian of Fayston to her sister, Mrs. Sarah Brigham Mansfield, our historian of Roxbury, on the occasion of her silver wedding, celebrated at Roxbury a few years since. Mrs. Boyce and Mrs. Mansfield being the only two sister his- torians in the Gazetteer, we will thus give to them the compliment of the closing column in this County.

Are you thinking to-night, O sister mine, Of the years so long ago ?

Of the visions that danced in your merry head As we lay at night in the trundle bed ? Of the tales we told as we sank to rest, With our heads upon our pillow pressed ? In such rest as children know:

Are you thinking to-night, O sister mine, Of the old white rock on the lea? Where we " kept honse " in the summer days, -- Went " visiting " with such old, old ways, One would have deemed we were grand-dames sure, With faces drawn in such look demure,

While eyes danced in hidden glee.

Are you thinking to-night, O sister mine, Of the orchard, and its spring, With its sparkling water pure and cold ? The mossy green that its banks enfold, And the " spring tree " bending o'er it too, As if its shadow it loved to view,

Like a vain and girlish thing.

Are you thinking to-night, O sister mine, Ot the happy autumn days ? When we gathered apples in merry glee From the spreading boughs of the white " full tree," 'Neath the old " stoop-tree" that bent so low,

And that was Sarah's tree, you know; While only a little ways

Above it stood our " Mother's tree "; The white " full tree " is living to-day, And " Mother's tree " will blossom in May? But where are now that merry band, Who gathered fruit with dextrous hand, And laughed in their childish glee ?

Scattered and sundered far and wide! Broad lakes and prairies lie between, Those wanderers and the mountains green, And in the churchyard 'neath the hill Others are lying pale and still In their cold graves side by side.

And now of all that merry crew We three, alas! are left here alone; And we so staid and sober have grown, That we scarce remember the wild ways We had in our childhood's olden days, Nor half of the pranks we knew.

Ah well! time flies! proverbial of truth; And twenty-five years have borne away Some friends who loved us in youth's bright day ; Summer is ne'er what the springtime seemed- The hopes we cherished, the dreams we dreamed, Are gone with our vanished youth.

We are growing old, O sister mine! There are lines of care on cheek an'} brow. And children who call us mother now Are more like the selves we used to be Twenty-five years ago, than you or me As we are to-day in look or sign.

How the time goes on! but yesterday As it seems to me since you were wed- 'Tis twenty-five years! where have they fled ? We have hardly marked them in their flight, Yet by this festive scene to-night

We know they have passed away.

And so the years must still go on, And may your years that lie before Have joy and love and peace in store ; May Heaven's rIch blessings on you rest, And all your coming years be blest Till your last year is done.

REV. WILLIAM SCALES,

died in Lyndon, Jan. 24, 1864, aged 58 years, 3 months and 27 days. He was a son of William and Rebecca (Smith) Scales, and was born in Lebanon, N. H., Sept. 28, 1805. In early life he removed to Cabot, and was there brought up. He was graduated at Middlebury in 1832, and im- mediately entered the Seminary at Ando- ver, but in 1835, he left, on account of ill health, and spent about two years princi- pally in teaching ; then returning to the Seminary, he was graduated in 1837.

His first settlement was at Lyndon, where he wns ordained pastor Dec. 27, 1837. Rev. Chester Wright of Hardwick, preached the sermon. He was dismissed June 16, 1841, and went immediately to Rochester, where, after two years of ser- vice as stated supply, he was installed July 12, 1843. Rev. James Meacham of New Haven, who had been his classmate at Middlebury, preached the sermon. From this pastorate he was dismissed Aug. 3, 1847. He then became stated supply of the Congregational Church in Brownington, being at the same time preceptor of the academy at that place. Here he remained 4 years. In the fall of 1851, he removed to Conneaut, Ohio, and there remained, sometimes teaching and sometimes preach- ing, till May, 1855, when he returned to Lyndon, and became stated supply. He continued in that relation till his death, with an interruption of 2 or 3 years by pro- tracted ill health. The last sermon he de- livered was from Deut. 30 : 19 ; a text which his subsequent short sickness and death rendered singularly appropriate. P. H. W.

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WASHINGTON COUNTY INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER .- BY Dr. G. N. BRIGHAM, I- 23; RANDALL PAPER, 16-18.

BARRE.

CARPENTER PAPERS .- Early History, 23, 24; Town Officers, Col. Benjamin Walker, Maj. Nathan Harrington, Hon. James Fisk, Hon. Warren Ellis, Dea. Jonas Nichols, Capt. Joseph Watson, Hon. Denison Smith, Denison K. Smith, 27-31.

CHAS. A. SMITH PAPERS, Barre Academy, The National Bank, Norman W. Braley, M. D., 24, 25 ; Masonic papers, (by or from) 37, 38; The first Granite shop in Barre, 39 ; Soldiers of 1861, 43-47.

PRIEST PAPER .- Goddard Seminary, 26, 27.

BLISS PAPER .-- The Universalist Church, Rev. Wm. Farwell, Rev. John E. Palmer, 30, 31.

WOOD PAPERS .- Early business, Roads, Stage coaches and old time teams ; Stock and farming, Early postmasters, First merchants, Hotels, Landlords, Promi- nent men, Dr. Paddock, Dr. Van Sicklen, Dr. Burnham, Lawyers, Soil, Game, Barre Village, Cemetery, Library, Newspapers, Manufacturers, Fire Company, Cornet Band, Barre Boys West, Longevity, Old people, 31-37 ; Plattsburgh Company, Barre Com- pany Volunteers in the war of 1812, 41, 42; Judge Chapin Keith and Family, 47-49. CARLETON PAPER, 40.

William Clark, William A. Dodge, 40, 41.

HOLDEN PAPERS .- Town Officers, 38; Safford & Holden Mf'g Co., 51.

E. L. SMITH PAPER .- Barre Quarries, 38, 39.

PARKER PAPER .- Quarry and works, 39.

CLAFLIN PAPER .- War Report, 42.

D. P. THOMPSON PAPER .- Calvin J. Keith, 47, 48.

WATCHMAN PAPER .- Joshua Twing, 48, 49. COGSWELL PAPER, 49.

BARTLETT PAPER .- List of M. E. Preachers in Barre, 51.

TELEGRAPH OFFICE .- Samuel Goodell, 52.

CROSBY PAPER .- Johonnott Family Geneology, 917. PALMER .- Hymn, 919.

BERLIN.

NYE PAPERS .- First Things, Dr. Heaton, Dr. Jacob Miller, Dr. John Winslow, Dr. Orin Smith, 54; Jacob Fowler, Hezekiah Silloway, Hon. Salvin Collins, John Taplin, Capt. James Hobart, 55-57 ; Zachariah Perrin, Eleazer Hubbard, David, Elijah and Solomon Nye, Joshua Bailey, Capt. James Sawyer, Jabez Ellis, William Flagg, Jacob Black, Capt. James Sawyer, Jabez Ellis, Capt. Daniel Taylor, Capt. Jas. Pearley, Stephen Pearson, Joel Warren, Abel Knapp, Major Jones, Major Benjamin, Elisha Andrews, Safford Cummings, Col. Johnson, 57-60 ; Simeon, Wm., Israel, Henry Dewey, Dea. Cummings, Russell Strong, Nathaniel and Dea. Jonathan Bosworth, Asa Andrews, Joseph Arbuckle, Porter, Rev. Wm., Rev. Truman, Geo. K., Henry M., Porter K. and Wm. B. Perrin, Chauncey L. Knapp, Judge J. C. Knapp, Chauncey Nye, Rev. G. C. Moore, 60-64 ; Congregational Church, Rev. James Hobart, Rev. Austin Hazen, 64-66; Methodist Church, 67 ; Soldiers of 1812, 1861 ; Major Crandall, 68 ; Hon. D. P. Thompson, 69 ; Great Wolf Hunt, 70; Berlin Pond, 72; Henry Luther Stuart, Hon. Chas Bulkley, 73 ; Berlin Street, Stevens' Branch, Dog River, 74, Song, 720.

CABOT.

FISHER PAPERS .- Grantees, Surveys, Hazen Road, Whitcomb's Rangers, Benj. and Nathaniel Webster, Lieut. Heath, Lieut. Lyford, Yellow House and Smuggling, Doings and Votes 1788 to 1806; John W. Dana, 74-81 ; Cabot Village, The Centre, East Hill, Wm. Osgood, David Haines, Lower Cabot, Moses Stone, Hector McLean, South Cabot, East Cabot, South-west Hill, West Hill, Petersville, Market Road,

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Freighting, First Things, 81-87 ; Graveyards, Schools, Ponds, Mineral Spring, Going to mill, First wagon, stove, clock, carpet, Distilleries, Post-office, Telegraph, 87-93 ; Congregationalists, Rev. Moses Ingalls, Rev. Levi H. Stone, 93-97 ; Baptists, 94-97 ; Methodists, 98-101 ; The Advent Church, Physicians, Epidemics, Native Clergy, Lawyers, College Graduates, Literature, Masonic, 101-103; Town Officers, County Officers, 103-105 ; Bear Story, Temperance Societies, Good Templars, 105-109; Na- thaniel Webster, Lieut. Lyford, Dr. Scott, Joseph Fisher, Elihu Coburn, Col. Stone, Hon. John W. Dana, Leonard Orcutt, Dea. Marsh, Dea. Fisher, Joseph Lance, John Damon, Zerah Colburn, Hon. John McLean, Thomas Lyford, 109-116; Military Rec- ord, Cabot Monument, Lieut. Col. Kimball, 116-128.

CONGREGATIONAL BEQUESTS-920. Rev. WM. SCALES, 924.

CALAIS.

TOBEY AND ROBINSON PAPERS .- Ponds, Mountains, Grantees, Name, Propri- etors' doings, Town organized, First officers, settlers, schools and districts, roads, 128-137 ; Slayton, Hathaway, Palmer, Goodell Families ; Barnabas Doty, Elijah White, 139-143; First Meeting-house Society, 143, 144; Revolutionary Soldiers, of the War of 1812, Plattsburgh Vols., Soldiers of 1861-'65, 147-151 ; Kent Family, 158; Thomas West, Moses Stone, Samuel Twiss, Robinson Family, Zoeth Tobey, 168-170; Town Officers, County Officers, Grand List Records, 172-177.

WHEELOCK AND DAVIS PAPERS .- The Christians, 144, 145.

WARREN PAPER .- Universalist Church, 145-147.

GILMAN PAPERS .- Dr. John M. Gilman, Israel E. Dwinell, Rev. C. L. Goodell, Col. Caleb Curtis, Dr. Chas. Clark, Face, Name of Township and Items, Gilman Fam- ily, 151-157.

EATON PAPER .- Jacob and Judge Nathaniel Eaton, 160.

DWINELL PAPERS .- Capt. Joshua Lilley, Shubael Wheeler, Capt. Samuel Rich, Israel Dwinell Family, Alden Family, Jona. Herrick, Doctors of Calais, Collegiates, East Calais Fire, Remarkable Preservation, 161-165.

TUCKER PAPER .- Longevity, Old People Living, 165-167.

MORSE PAPER .- Accidental Deaths, Murders, 167; Manufactories, 170, 171 ; Golden Weddings, 172. Poems, Abijah Wheelock, 920, 922.

FAYSTON.

Mrs. LAURA B. BOYCE PAPERS .- Description of Early History, Boyce Family, Indian Scare, Wm. Newcomb, Brigham Family, 177-183, 186 ; Jotham Carpenter, Porter Family, Eli Bruce, G. N. Brigham, M. D., Silas and Benjamin Fisher, Joseph Marble, Freshets, 183-187 ; Longevity, Town Officers, 188 ; Samuel Dana, 197.

ANNA BRAGG PAPER .- Miss Susan Griggs, 190.

STODDARD PAPER .- Soldiers of Fayston, 194-197.

POEMS from Mrs. Laura B. Boyce, Dr. G. N. Brigham, Mrs. Celia B. Brigham, Elisha A. Brigham, U. J. Baxter, Sarah Brigham Mansfield, Ziba W. Boyce, Mrs. D. T. Smith, Mrs. S. Minerva Boyce, Sabrina Baxter, Emogene M. Boyce and D. S. Stoddard, 187, 89, 94, 96.

MARSHFIELD.

Mrs. HANNAH C. PITKIN'S PAPERS .- Stockbridge Indian grant, First settlers, Early freemen, First religious meeting, 197-201 ; Schools, First things, Congregational Society, Bears, Deer, Nigger Head and pond river falls, Mill-sites, Orchards, Farming, Seasons, Fires, Casualties, Fine barns, Town officers, Taverns, Stores, Doctors, Longevity, Mills, Library, 201-206; Methodist church, Stephen Pitkin, 209-212 ; Dea. Spencer, Caleb, Joshua and Hon. Stephen Pitkin, Capt. Stephen Rich, Capt. Jonah and Hon. Horace Hollister, 202, 213; Rev. Marcus M. Carleton, Soldiers of 1812, Jesse Webster, 215, 216; Railroad, Poetry, 218.

MISS BULLOCK PAPER .- Christian church, Advent and Baptist church, 207, 08. SCOTT PAPER .- Universalist Society, 208.

Mrs. SOLOMON WELLS PAPER .- Hon. Wm. Martin, 213.

JUDGE PUTNAM PAPER .- Jacob Putnam, 214.

Mrs. H. L. GOODWIN PAPER .- Jonathan L. Goodwin, 215.

Gen. PITKIN PAPER .- Soldiers furnished for the war of the Rebellion, 217.

FORBES PAPER-(218.) Town history not included by Mrs. Pitkin, Lewis Barnes, Ira Smith, 219-222.

MIDDLESEX. .

HERRICK PAPERS .- Grantees, Thomas Mead, Town organized, Samuel Mann, Samuel Haskins, Lovewell Warren, Hon. Seth, Jacob and Eben'z. Putnam, William

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Holden, Jeremiah Leland, Joseph Chapin, Nathaniel Carpenter, Capt. Robert Mc- Elroy, Jesse Johnson, Ephraim Willey, Rufus Chamberlain, Merchants, Churches, 222-26; Micah Hatch, Solomon Lewis, Ezra Cushman, Capt. Zerah Hills, Col. Hutch- ins, 225, 226; Carrying their Visitors Home, 234; Stephen Herrick, 246; Soldiers of 1861-65; of 1812, 247-251.

VAUGHN PAPERS .- Early town business, Natural curiosities, Middlesex Narrows, Mills, Freshets, Animals, Mineralogy, Magnetic variation, Animals, County Member- ship, Population, Grand List, Schools, Town officers, Postmasters, Doctors, Clergy, Rev. Stephen Herrick, Nathan Huntley, Elder Benj. Chatterton, 226-229, 231-238 ; Settlements in the early part of the town, Money Diggers, Coldest night, Fires, Sap feeder, 240-243 ; Burying-grounds, Cemeteries, Longevity, Case of putrefaction, Sud- den deaths, 243-246; Revolutionary pensioners, Soldiers of the war of 61 buried in town, 247.

CHAPIN PAPER .- Mountains of Middlesex, 229.

HOLDEN .- Bear Story, 239.

POEMS .- Mrs. Alma R. Vaughn, 250.

Errata- 246; also Mrs. Richardson's 3d not 2d marriage.

MONTPELIER.

WALTON PAPERS .- Grants, proprietors, 251, 257 ; First settlers, 259 ; First things, 261 ; Vital statistics, epidemics, 263 ; Organization, 265 ; Habits of the first settlers, 266 ; Prices of labor, stock, exports, imports, grand list, political history, 268, 269 ; Representatives, citizens who have held U. S. offices, State offices, County offices, manufacturers, 272, 3, 4 ; Attorneys, physicians, merchants and traders, 277, 8 ; Banks and Insurance Companies, 281, 2 ; State-houses, County buildings, hotels, 283 to 287 ; Ist and 2d Congregational church, Free Will Baptist church, Universalist, Unitarian, Protestant Episcopal church, Catholic, 288, 9; Libraries and Debating Societies, Washington County Grammar School, Union Graded School, Newspapers and Authors, 290, 1 ; Military-Minute-men, Governor's Guard, War of 1812, Larned Lamb, Sylvestar Day, Gustavus Loomis, Sylvester Churchill, Capt. Cyrus Johnson, Lieutenants West, Putnam, Eddy, Richardson, etc., War of the Rebellion, 295 to 299 ; Public enterprise, Winooski Turnpike, Projected canals, 299, 300-307 ; Railroad enterprises, 301 ; Wm. K. Upham, Maj. Chas. C. Upham, Mrs. George Langdon ; Hon. Joseph Howes and wife, 477 ; Capt. Nathan Jewett, Col. E. P. Jewett and portraits, 483, 484 ; Hon. John Spaulding, 487 ; Maj. R. W. Hyde, 488, and portrait ; Gov. Asahel Peck, 495, and por- trait ; Hon. Geo. Worthington, 498; Maj. A. L. Carleton and portrait, 500 ; George Langdon and portrait, 603; George W., Charles, and J. Warren Bailey and portrait, 504, 505 ; Hon. R. W. Keith and portrait, 510; Dea. C. W. Storrs, 512, portrait, 591 ; James G. French ; Luther, Charles and Timothy Cross, 515, and portrait; Abraham G. D. Tuthill ; Joshua Y. Vail ; Cyrus, John and Zenas Wood, and portraits, 517, 520, 550 ; James R. Langdon and portrait, 544; Hon. John A. Page and portrait, 548 ; Hon. Nelson A. Chase, 546; Union Mutual Fire Insurance Co., 550; Thomas W. Wood, portrait promised, 552; Gen. P. P. Pitkin and portrait, 554; Hon. Joseph Poland and portrait, 566; Wm. W. Cadwell, 557 ; Marcus D. Gilman, 558; Hon. E. P. Walton, portrait, 541, 542 ; George C. Shepard, 567.

GILMAN PAPERS .- Postmasters, Newspaper Record, 307 ; Bibliography, 313-324 ; Hon. E. P. Walton, 538; M. D. Gilman's portrait, 558 ; residence, 571.

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The history of Washington county, in the Vermont historical gazetteer:, Part 148

Author: Hemenway, Abby Maria, 1828-1890, [from old catalog] ed Publication date: 1882 Publisher: Montpelier, Vt., Vermont watchman and state journal press Number of Pages: 1066

Author: Hemenway, Abby Maria, 1828-1890, [from old catalog] ed
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Montpelier, Vt., Vermont watchman and state journal press
Number of Pages: 1066