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the two-year-old. John now owned one whole house and Levi 11/2 houses. Whoever owned the other half of Levi's house is a matter for conjecture. Later, a further study of the records reveals that Levi had just purchased the Manasseh Boynton farm in company with Joseph Atherton.
Sarah continued to have the two cows and one two-year-old, but her number of sheep varied from year to year. Once at least she was the only Piper to have any sheep listed. Probably she was able with her own hands to convert the wool that grew on the backs thereof into mittens, stockings and homespun cloth for the needs of her numerous progeny.
Noah Piper died Sept. 17, 1829, aged 79 years. Sarah Piper died April 8, 1843, aged 93 years. Both are buried in Baltimore cemetery with tall marble slabs marking their resting-places.
The provisions of Noah's will make interesting reading in this day and age. We find he made the important document in 1823. To his beloved wife Sarah he bequeathed 2 cows, 6 sheep, 1 horse, also one-half of all the real estate and all the furniture, the same to be divided after her death among the daughters.
Other bequests were as follows:
$1 to Amos Piper; $76 to Rufus to be paid in good neat cattle; $106 to son David in good neat cattle 2 years after the decease of me or his mother; $66 to Ruth Piper in good neat cattle in 4 years; $66 to Lucretia Cheney in good neat cattle in 5 years after my decease; $66 to Eunice Green in good neat cattle in 6 years after my decease and the decease of her mother if she should outlive me; $66 to Prudence Cheney in good neat cattle in 7 years; $66 to Patty Green in good neat cattle in 8 years; $23 to Wealthy Piper on the day she shall arrive to the age of eighteen years; $10 on the day of her marriage also $66 to Wealthy of good neat cattle in 9 years; to sons John and Levi all the residue of my estate. The two last-named sons were also named for sole executors.
In 1824 Father Noah added a codicil. Evidently, he had mellowed towards son Amos as he willed him two notes against James Phillebrown amounting to $17.50. He gave John and Levi all his farming utensils, also four notes against sons David, Rufus, Prudy Cheney and James Phillebrown amounting to $168.94. To Sarah his wife he willed two notes against David Piper and one against James Phillebrown $52.08. Wealthy finally married James Phillebrown. In an inventory made of Noah's estate the farm is listed as 160 acres valued at $1800, one cow was appraised $13, another cow $11, 90 bus. potatoes $15, certainly not a high valuation. Among articles not found in appraisals of household equipment nowa- days were a brass kettle $8, 2 chests $2.50, 2 spinning wheels $2, one loom $3, 2 pewter platters $1, 8 pewter plates and 1 pewter pot, 4 diaper tablecloths. The sum total valuation of personal property was $463.63.
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John Piper Family
John Piper-b. in Weathersfield married Polly Butterfield son of Noah & Sarah Piper of Andover, Vt. dau. of Eleazer & Mary
Butterfield
d. Baltimore, Vt. May 13, 1860 Age 68 yrs. 11 mo. 23 d.
b. Ashby, Mass.
d. Apr. 29, 1867 Age 78 yrs. 7 mos.
Children, all born in Baltimore, Vermont
Infant son-died April 15, 1814. Age 9 days. Mary E .- (always called Eleanor) b. 1815. d. Aug. 8, 1870. Age 55 yrs. Unmarried: John Willard-b. Feb. 14, 1817 d. in Weston, Vt. July 4, 1901 Age 84. Carter Rodney-b. 1823 d. 1870. Rodman-died Dec. 4, 1823 aged 10 mos. Probably the last two were twins.
John and his wife Polly were the ones that Fate decreed should stay on the old farm and keep the home fires burning for Noah and Sarah.
This augured well for the town as John and later his son Rodney became very efficient townsmen, always busy in the work of the town. John tried his young wings as hayward in 1813, served as surveyor and lister, and in 1820 he was elected constable and collector which office he held for 12 consecutive years. He was then unseated in favor of Earle Woodbury but continued to be elected to office every year, which showed that his interest in town affairs did not wane. In 1840 he was chosen first selectman and town clerk which two highly important offices he held for six years out of eight, failing to be elected selectman in 1843-'44. In 1851 he was again elected to the two highest offices and continued to be elected to both for eight years or until 1859. His son Rodney was elected assistant town clerk in 1856; probably his father's health had begun to be pre- carious at that time, as he died of what was termed a cancerous humor in 1860.
John Piper held the office of town clerk until his death or for 20 years in succession, the longest of any man to that time. The records as he made them were so well and faithfully kept that the voters were justified in his continuance of office. He also served as justice of the peace many years.
He had a live interest in school matters as was evinced by his being elected committee man several times. He did not bid off the teachers' board but twice, but the Piper home with two families in it did not have "rooms to let." He was moderator all through those exciting school meetings of 1835 to '38 which must prove to us. his active interest, also fairness of mind. He was chosen as a dele- gate to the Constitutional Convention from Baltimore in 1843.
That the Pipers were a scholarly-minded family is attested by the fact that Rodney and Eleanor were teachers. Some remarkably fine penmen were to be found among the Pipers and still are. Mr.
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Winfield Piper over 70 and Myron Piper, 85, have contributed to this effort in most excellent handwriting.
John Piper's land transactions were not numerous. In 1848 he bought from Obed Thurston 85 acres now the Geo. Cook place, for $1000. He placed a mortgage on it for $600 in favor of Thurston who had moved to Ludlow. His son John Willard lived here for a few years. John sold two pieces from this land to his son Carter who had bought the Gregory place (now Sundgren's), one piece containing 5 acres south of the highway and the 30 acres of pasture on the hill west of the buildings. Carter mortgaged this back to his father for the full purchase price. This explains the lane leading up to the top of the hill back of Geo. Cook's house. Carter Piper and later Elijah Bemis used to drive their cows to that pasture daily.
It appears that John was seized with a high and holy ambition to help each of his sons to a farm in Baltimore.
In 1851 John and Polly deeded the homestead containing 81 acres formerly owned by Noah Piper deceased to Rodney L. Piper his heirs and assigns, also all stock then on said farm belonging to the said John and Polly his wife except sixty-six dollars worth one half of it to be turned out on a legacy due to Patty Green, April 8, 1851, and the other half on a legacy due to Wealthy Phillebrown April 8, 1852, "if I the said John Piper should not live to settle said legacies." If Rodney L. should sell any part of the above-granted and premises during the natural life of the said John and Polly or the survivor of them then this deed was to be null and void. In consideration for all this property Rodney was to "see his parents through life." He agreed to well and faithfully carry on said farm in a good husband-like manner and to deliver to John and Polly during the natural life of said John at the house where he now lives the following articles: "One half of all the grain, one half of the beans and one half of the potatoes raised on said farm each sach said grain and beans to be harvested and put into the grainery and said potatoes to be put into the cellar, one half of the pork after fatted and killed, one half of the pigs raised on said farm, one half of the butter and cheese of two good cows, the said John is to furnish one half of the salt and rennet for making said butter and cheese, the butter to be divided as it is made, well worked and salted fir to lay down. One half of the milk of another cow making three good cows to be kept on the place each year, one half of the calves killed on the place one half of all the poultry and one half the eggs, one hundred pounds of good beef which shall be a hind quarter and one lamb, or two good fat sheep and one lamb each year and draw a sufficient quantity of wood yearly for the said John and Polly during their natural lives ...... one half of the currants, one half on the fall and winter apples picked and put into the house, one half on the cider each year and one half of the garden sauce, and have hay and pasturing for friend's horses and stable room for the same and furnish the said John and Polly with a suitable horse and carriage when they shall want unless said horse is wanted in the team on
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said farm, the said John is to pay one half the expense of keeping the horse shod that he has to use and to furnish one half of the store shoats and one half of the raw materials to keep the store shoats on the said John is to have one half of the pumpkins and is to find one half on the grain for the poultry and to furnish one half of the seed to sow and plant, all the foregoing articles are to be divided each year equal in quantity and quality. The said John and Polly are to have the use of the east part of the house they now live in ...... except the said Rodney L. is to have a privilege in the north room, the said John and Polly are to have the use of one un- divided half of the backroom and woodshed and to pay one half the expense in keeping said house and shed in repair ...... The said Rodney L. is to furnish the said John and Polly with twelve pounds of good wool each year and pay the said John thirty dollars in cash in the month of January annually during his natural life."
Then follows the agreement as to what Rodney L. should furnish Polly the wife if she outlived the said John, which was to be one- fourth part of all the articles to be divided; Polly was to furnish one-fourth part of the salt, rennet, seeds to sow and plant.
It appears that in their rush they nearly forgot the "sweetening," etc., because at the very end of the things specified it states "the said John and Polly are to have one half of the maple shugar made on said farm during their natural life."
Let us pause and reflect, gentle patient reader, upon this ar- rangement as it affected the declining years of John and Polly. Were they not happy and secure in their old age against the need of food, shelter, fuel and warm clothing and means of transportation? What they needed to buy for comfortable maintenance would be covered by thirty dollars; their tastes were not extravagant, and it did not cost so much to keep up with the Joneses in those days.
We may wonder if son Rodney fell heir to any great legacy after "full filling" each, every and all of the foregoing covenants and agree- ments because there are more to mention.
It appears there was an unmarried daughter Mary E. for whom John and Polly wished to make provision. Rodney L. was to pay her $200 within two years after the decease of said John with interest after John's decease; if Mary should outlive her parents and should live a single life, she was to have the use of the east bedroom and buttery and south room that John was to have during his natural life, the east chamber and clothes press. This was practi- cally all the front end of the house. She was to have a privilege in the cellar, woodshed, backroom, also the use of the flower garden at the east end of the house. Wood, apples, currants were to be furnished Mary E. by Rodney L. if she should live a single life. But "should she see fit to marry she is to have none of the above granted privileges except that she is to have the two hundred dollars." This only daughter of John and Polly always wrote her name Mary E. but was known to everyone by her middle name Eleanor. For some time the writer was misled into thinking there were two sisters, Mary and Eleanor.
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John lived nine years after deeding his property to Rodney, and Polly survived him several years. Rodney probably had always lived on the old home place. It is safe to infer that all the sons of John Piper stayed at home until they were twenty-one, as they each one took the Freeman's Oath here. The same is true of Amos' four sons and of Levi's only son Edwin. Be it remembered that children in those days were more helpful to their parents before reaching their majority. It would also seem that they felt more responsibility for their parents' well-being when old age overtook them. The parents gave to their children the best that they had, believing that the best from their children would come back to them. Old Age Assistance for worthy old people came from natural sources instead of from the state and nation.
Rodney Piper Family
Rodney Piper married 1st Gratia H. (?) b. 1823 d. 1853, Jan. 3 d. 1870, Jan. 11 aged 20 years. 2 mos.
age 46 yrs. 11 mo. 6 days
2nd Selina White, Ludlow, Vt.
heart disease
Children by 2nd wife:
Gratia Louisa b. Oct. 27, 1855
d. Sept. 24, 1863 of diphtheria age 7 yrs. 10 mos. 27 days
Ida Eleanor Piper b. June 5, 1859
d. 1894, Nov. 20 of consumption age 35 yrs. 5 mos. 15 days
Clarence Rodney b. Oct. 11, 1863 (17 days after little Gratia died) d. 1888, June 4 of consumption age 24 yrs. 7 mos. 23 days
The town of Baltimore has much evidence that Rodney L. Piper was one of its most outstanding citizens in his day and age. After his father's death he kept the records until after his mother died in 1867.
As previously noted his handwriting was excellent; no previous town clerk ever approached and no subsequent clerk ever has or will surpass the plainness and uniformity of the writing with which he recorded deeds and "doings." His father before him was a very useful townsman; so Rodney was of the manner born. He was elected town clerk, treasurer and auditor in 1860. He must have audited his own treasurer's account to the entire satisfaction of those most concerned as he was re-elected to the very same offices the next year. In 1862 he was duly elected town clerk, treasurer, auditor, lister, grand juror and highway surveyor, virtually the town's manager, and it is pleasant to think that the town's oldest house was the administration building or municipal office in modern terms of speaking.
He was the first superintendent of schools 1846 and duly examined would-be teachers in spelling, reading, writing, geography, arithme-
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tic and English grammar. Miss Eliza Davis was the first to stand before his august presence and pass his questioning. Chas. Durant not only passed but furnished satisfactory evidence that he sus- tained a good moral character. Others who later were examined and found qualified were Betsey S. Harris, Helen Preston, Isadore Albee, Jennie Demary, Emma Preston, Lucy Martin, and Lewis Sanborn.
Rodney continued to be clerk, treas., selectman and supt. of schools as long as he stayed in town. He also served several years as justice of the peace, and in 1862 and '63 he represented Baltimore in the legislature. He signed the warning for town meeting in March 1868 but was not elected to any office at that meeting; so we may be sure he was about to move to Ludlow. His parents were both gone now, and he bought a farm on South Hill where he lived until he died in 1870.
The records show that he and his wife Selina had sold the old homestead to Joseph W. Leland 2nd and Geo. H. Piper, Dec. 31, 1867. Possession was to be given March 1st, 1868. This was the last deed Rodney ever recorded in Baltimore.
In Jan. 1866 he had sold 50 acres of mountain land back of the Sherwin place to Thomas Preston. His sister Mary E. had deeded Rodney all her right title, interest, property, estate, and demand that she had in and to her late father's property on Dec. 25, 1867, for $400. In payment she took a mortgage on 40 acres of pasture and woodland on the north side of the road next to Weathersfield line. This piece is still called the Rodney lot.
Ida E. and Clarence were both pupils in Baltimore schools, Ida in 1864, Clarence in 1868. They both received college educations in Middlebury. Ida was the preceptress in Black River Academy, Ludlow, a very proficient teacher of mathematics. Several of her pupils in the academy are known to the writer. One of them re- lates that a boy in Miss Piper's bookkeeping class was asked by her to read his solution of a particular problem. He proceeded to do so with much hesitation and stumbling under pretense that his hand- writing was so nearly illegible that he was under much difficulty to decipher it. When Miss Piper collected the papers to correct she ignored this boy's efforts, explaining that she would not attempt to read any writing which the writer thereof could not make out-he must rewrite his solution before she would consider it.
Clarence Piper was a college mate and close friend of Frank Walker of Ludlow who later became Probate Judge. When enter- ing college young Piper was somewhat shy and countrified, so did not make his way socially very easily. He had a "friend in court" in Frank Walker who told the college boys of the worthwhileness of young Piper and suggested, or rather recommended, that they in- clude him in their social activities and good times. They followed the suggestion and in a few weeks Piper was one of the most out- standing and popular students on the campus. He graduated with honors, proceeded to study law for about two years. He then went to Concordia, Kansas, where he was employed in a bank for about
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two years. But the poor fellow had to return to Ludlow where he was to die of tuberculosis in 1888, only 25 years old. It is lamen- table that two such fine promising young people as Clarence and Ida Piper had to have their earthly careers cut so short. Their mother buried her husband and all her children. The Rodney Piper line ended here, sad to relate.
Eleanor Piper
Mary Eleanor Piper never married. In her younger days she taught school in Baltimore. The records bear evidence that in 1845 the town paid "Ellonar" Piper twelve dollars for teaching three months of school. She did not board at home, the town paying her board as follows, (spelling copied from the original): "Oren Avrill four boading Mistress four weeks $3.30; Obed Thurston four boading Mistress two weeks 1.75; Willard Davis four boading mistress six weeks 5.76." It will be seen that the town paid nearly as much for board as for the teacher.
In later years Eleanor and her mother wove very fine bed blankets to sell, produced in part from the wool of their own sheep. Mrs. Alice D. Lawton of Chester is still using one of those blankets bought at Eleanor's auction probably in 1870. Surely a durable piece of handwork to leave behind. The initials M. E. P., beauti- fully done in cross-stitch, are in one corner.
Eleanor died Aug. 8, 1870, outliving her mother three years. The epitaph on her gravestone in Baltimore cemetery is quaint and especially appropriate for her:
"Thou art missed among thy flowers at home And in the house of prayer
But Jesus kindly bade thee come
His own blest home to share."
Mary's flower garden is now a much neglected spot, a regular tanglewood of weeds and shrubs. But locust, syringas, blue honey- suckles, blue myrtle and roses still gladden the eye and yield their perfume in that little plot in which Eleanor Piper spent hours work- ing and planning that things beautiful might grow. The writer's soul delights itself each year with yellow roses and syringas that came from Mary's garden.
John W. Piper settled Mary Eleanor's estate and discharged the mortgage on the Rodney lot so-called Oct. 15, 1870. She outlived her brother Rodney by only a few months and resided at that time in North Springfield in the Sally Smith house, first house below Edgar Chapman's. Her estate was appraised for $2043.61, her heirs being John Willard, Carter R. and Rodney's two children, Clarence and Ida.
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Amos Piper Family
Amos Piper b. 1776 son of Noah & Sarah Piper d. 1848 Age 72 yrs. 2 mos.
married Polly Martin b. 1773 d. 1847 Age 74 yrs. 1 mo.
Moved to St. Johnsbury, at least their first three children were born there.
Their children: Leonard-b. Aug. 7, 1806 d. 1892; Prudence d. Jan. 16, 1834 age 27 yrs .; Stillman-listed for first poll tax 1830 was in Baltimore until 1843, then went west to eastern N. Y .; Perry Bingham-listed for first poll tax 1833; Albert Gardner-listed for first poll tax 1840 m. Susan Hardy Nov. 2, 1842, by his uncle John Piper Justice of the peace, dau. Mary J., 2nd wife Wd. Eliza Heald (Amos Heald's mother); Charlotte.
Amos Piper and wife lived in a small house near the southwest corner of the cemetery. There is no deed of this property on record, but tradition says that Noah built it for his son Amos. Amos was generally elected sexton. The last family to reside there was that of Gardner Piper. Eventually the house fell down and the land was considered a part of the Graves place. A controversy once arose as to whether Amos or the Graves owned it. It is expected that Amos and his wife Polly are buried in Baltimore cemetery. There are several graves with no headstones in the vicinity of the Piper lots which may afford the last resting-place of Amos and his wife.
Leonard Piper, Amos' oldest son, evidently left town soon after becoming 21 as he settled in Proctorsville. We are well pleased to insert herewith the genealogy of the Leonard Piper family.
Leonard B. Piper married Elvira Warren dau. of b. Aug. 7, 1806 May 12, 1836 Benj. & Rena Warren d. 1892 in N. Springfield b. Sept. 24, 1815 d. Jan. 23, 1850
Their Children:
Ann S. b. Feb. 20, 1837 m. Chas. H. Parker Nov. 11, 1855
Collins L. b. Dec. 1838 m. 1st Fannie Simonds Mar. 16, 1864; 2nd Mary Simonds Nov. 15, 1871
Nelson A. b. Apr. 22, 1840 m. Almira Blood Oct. 10, 1865 Children: Robert d. in infancy; Lillian b. Aug. 22, 1872; Ralph b. June 23, 1876
Mary E. b. Aug. 31, 1843 d. Feb. 29, 1848
Elvira M. b. Apr. 13, 1849 d. Jan. 23, 1850
Marvin S. b. Aug. 23, 1850 d. in N. Springfield, Vt. unmarried
Oscar S. b. May 20, 1856 d. Aug. 29, 1863
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Perry Bingham Piper Family
Perry Bingham m. 1st Sarah Hayward; 2nd Lydia (Mark) Fairbanks d. 1892
Children by first marriage:
Charlotte-b. in Weathersfield Dec. 16, 1836; d. in Springfield,
June 23, 1901; m. Squire Baker; children-Inez d. June 22, 1890; Ida d. July 27, 1891.
Luella J .- b. 1847; d. 1911; m. Albert Robbins; child-one dau. Emma M .- m. Sardine Parker; children-one daughter, Edith M. Cluff, d. 1935.
George Hayward Piper-b. Jan. 13, 1841; d. Apr. 6, 1936; m. 1st Pauline Bemis, dau. Elijah Bemis, 2nd Emma Freeman; children -Bert by 1st wife
Adelaid-d. in Cavendish; m. Henry Sanders; no children.
Children by second marriage (born in Baltimore):
James Piper-d. July 26, 1864-diphtheria, age 10 yrs. 3 mos. 27 days
Charles Piper-m. 2nd Carrie Drury; child-Lilla Cook Tenny- son (adopted by Mr. and Mrs. John Cook)
Cullen Piper-m. Anna Pike; no children
Samuel M .- m. Stella Whittaker; b. July 5, 1867; children- one daughter, two sons
Winfield G .- m. Matilda Gorman; children-two sons
Bingham's second wife was a widow with at least three children of her own. Sometimes as many as six children attended school from that family.
Bingham Piper or "Bing," as he was usually called, never owned any real estate in Baltimore, but he rented the Freeman place several years when Zenas Graves owned it. He and his family also lived on what is now the Hammond and the Geo. Cook places. His four girls and six boys all grew to adulthood except James and became useful and respected citizens of neighboring towns. George Piper lived to the ripe old age of 95. Temperate in habits, honest, industrious, kind and thoughtful to his family and neighbors, an excellent farmer, the writer is pleased to mention him as a splendid example of a typical Vermonter.
Winfield Graves Piper is the only one living today of the above- named children of Bingham Piper. He is a registered nurse in Mass. City Hospital, having served in that institution since his graduation therefrom over forty years ago. He has also perfected remedies used by foot specialists on which he has secured patents and which receive ready sales.
Levi Piper Family
In perusing Noah Piper's will it would appear that John and Levi were favored sons. Levi who was the youngest of Noah's twelve children was seemingly the most prosperous one. John and Levi divided their father's land between them, Levi taking what has long been known as the Carrigan place. On Jan. 11, 1816, he
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married Miriam Bartlett who likewise was one of a family of twelve children, and they both outlived the other twenty-two brothers and sisters. Miriam Bartlett was the sister of Rachel Bartlett who had married Edmund Batchelder in 1809 and lived on the Volney Foster place.
Levi built the second house on the Noah Piper farm. It was a substantial one-story brick house which many living today remem- ber although it burned forty years ago. The floor plan stands out very vividly in the writer's memory as it was one of the happiest haunts of her early childhood.
In the first grand list of Baltimore made out in 1828 we find Noah, John and Levi each taxed for 97 acres. Levi's 33 house was ap- praised as much as the one John and Noah occupied. The stock on the two farms were practically the same as to number and value, but Levi had $100 in cash. In 1831 and '32 he had $70, in 1834 and 35-$200, in 1838-$250, in 1839-$350 and in 1840-$400. In 1842 Levi Piper was the biggest taxpayer in town, owning 141 acres $1800, personal property $922.50. Possibly he did not care for this dis tinction because the next year he did not list any personal property in excess of debts owing to be taxed.
Levi Piper did not share his brother John's capacity for holding town office. He served his apprenticeship as hayward in 1816, the year he was married, but held no other office until 1822 when he was elected lister and highway surveyor. He does not appear on the records again as an office holder until 1830 when he was again lister and highway surveyor. The next two years he was town treasurer, then selectman two years, but in 1835 he was demoted to the posi- tion of fence-viewer. Three years more as selectman and three years after that as overseer were the high lights in Levi's political career. As overseer of the poor in 1843 he requested the Probate Judge for a guardian for a certain man in town who by idleness and debauchery "so spends, wastes, and lessens his estate so as to expose himself and his family to want and suffering and the town of Balti- more to charge and support of the same." Levi showed himself a true prophet. The idle fellow did become a town charge.
Levi was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1850. He and his wife were very active church members, he serving as deacon for many years in the North Springfield Baptist Church.
Levi sold his farm of 141 acres to Samuel Alford a land speculator in Perkinsville. The tract consisted of what is now the Erwin Con- verse farm including the Eaton lot, the Field pasture owned by Celia Cogswell and the Bibens pasture of 13 acres. He and his wife were industrious, thrifty Christian people and their removal from town was a distinct loss to the community. They moved to the Eureka district in Springfield in 1859.
Levi Piper married
b. Baltimore June 28, 1793
d. Springfield Jan. 3, 1877
Miriam Bartlett of Townsend
d. Baltimore Jan. 26, 1882 age 83 yrs. 6 mo. 13 da.
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Their children all born in Baltimore:
Edwin b. Dec. 11, 1817 d. Apr. 9, 1893 m. Esther A. Brierly Adaline b. July 20, 1820 m. Thomas Preston (appears in Preston sketch)
Martha b. May 4, 1823 d. Aug. 14, 1871.
John Willard Piper Family
John Willard m. Esther Rumrill sister of Moses b. in Springfield Dec. 23, 1816
Their children: Mary E.
b. in Bridgewater, Vt. Dec. 1, 1842 m. Norman F. Marble
Edmund W.
d. Wallingford, Vt. Dec. 25, 1927 b. in Stoughton, Mass. May 19, 1844
m. Abbie Abbot b. in Weston, Vt. May 20, 1844
Eleanor E.
d. Apr. 13, 1849 age 2 years 9 mos.
Abbie Arabella
d. Apr. 3, 1850 age 9 mos.
Frederick Elisha b. in Baltimore Aug. 28, 1850 m. Elizabeth Wood d. in Watertown, N. Y. July 1, 1929
Myron Alphonzo b. in Baltimore Dec. 25, 1855, still living in Chester, Vt., and has furnished the writer with much data concerning this once numerous Piper family. Myron A. was married twice. His first wife was Ann R. Davis, b. in Peru, who died in 1891. His second wife was Nettie A. Aldrich who died in 1921. The children of Myron and Nettie Piper were Lester died in 1925 aged 25 years, John died at age of 27 and Lula M. Piper Hunsdon still living.
John Willard Piper owned his farm here in Baltimore from 1848 to 1861. He then moved his family to Weston where he lived until his death. The old-time residents of Weston remember him as a very religious man and active in church work. His wife, Esther, became extremely stout, weighing in the vicinity of three hundred pounds.
Carter Piper Family
Carter Piper
married Roxanna Robinson of Weathers- field, Vermont
Their children:
Henry Jairus Piper b. in Baltimore, Vt. Sept. 29, 1843
John Herbert Piper b. in Stoughton, Mass. Nov. 25, 1845
Francis Eugene b. in Illinois May 21, 1849
Theron Dubois
b. in Illinois July 20, 1851
Celia Elmira
b. in Illinois Oct. 28, 1853
Eva Roxanna b. in Illinois Jan. 7, 1856
Lucas Carter
b. Baltimore, Vt. Mar. 30, 1858
Evidently Carter moved back to Baltimore in 1857. On Jan. 1, 1858, he is listed in the heads of families as being entitled to send Henry, Herbert, Francis, Theron, and Celia to school. It was in
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1857 that Carter bought out the Gregory's and Leonard Redfield's rights and titles to land that had originally comprised the Gregory homestead. Carter was greatly aided and abetted in this transac- tion by money borrowed from his father.
The Baltimore History must end here as this is all the material the writer prepared before her death. The History has been published as it was written but the following order or arrangement has been used. In the section on The Story of Baltimore People, the Chaplins who settled on the Henry Hammond place appear first, with their neigh- bors the Davises and a few families over the Old Road. Then follows the story of the old families who lived along the main road up toward Hawks Mountain, next those of the West District, the families under the mountain and finally the Pipers, who settled in the eastern part of the new town. This is a geographical arrangement rather than a chronological one and encircles the town.
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