Yale University Library 39002005339073 YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Bought with the income ofthe PRESIDENT NAPHTALI DAGGETT FUND COLLECTIONS RELATING TO THE HISTORY AND INHABITANTS OF TUl? ^^ OWI( OF Ml VERMONT. BY JAMES H. PHELPS. F^RT I, Js^CTON BRATTLEBORO : PRINTED BY GEO. E. SELLECK, ,. ' i877i COLLECTIONS RELATING TO THE HISTORY AND INHABITANTS OF THE TOW^ OF TOWfiSHEND VERMONT. BY JAMES H. PHELPS. BRATTLEBORO : PRINTED BY GEO. E. SELLECK, 1877. INTRODUCTORY. Most of the papers and records copied for the First Part of our Collec tions were found in the town clerk's office of Townshend. Of these some are given in substance only, others are tabulated, and some are presented without abridgment. To the written testimonies above mentioned, we have added a few statements made to us by aged people whose memory reaches back to within a few years from the town's first settlement. These sources of information, together with certain public records and documents of this County and State, the State of New York, and the United States, are authorities for the facts herein stated. In some of the Family Registers, all members of the family do not ap pear upon record. A few of these omissions have been supplied, where evidence justified the making of the addition. In all other instances, we present the record as it was written by the recording officer. The number of registers would have been very much increased, had there been a more general compliance with the Statutes relating to the record of marriages, births and deaths. The list of deaths is made of names and dates copied from records both public and private, and from memorial stones in grave-yards. It is the intention of the writer to publish by next Summer a portion, possibly the whole, of the Second Part of his Collections relating to the history of Townshend. West Townshend, Vt., October 8, 1877. ACTON. The present township includes the original town of Townshend, and also the town formerly known as Acton. Therefore, our materials are divided into two parts, and in each part — commencing with Acton — we present what has been collected touching the history of the towns above named. Acton is a portion of what was granted by New York on the fourth day of November, 1769, to Garrett Slover, and thirteen others, with the township name of " Warrens-Town." No evidence has come to the knowl edge of the writer that this grant of fourteen thousand acres was ever surveyed, or that it is the source of any existing land title. Indeed, the first settlers took so little notice of it that we find in many of their convey ances but one allusion to the corporate name, and that single reference is in Jamaica land records, where the stream known to us as Turkey Moun tain Brook, is called " Warrenston Meadow Brook." After town lines had been located, there remained a tract of unappro priated land which had a very irregular form, and was bounded on the North, by Londonderry, Chester, and Thomlinson now Grafton; East, by Thomlinson, Rockingham and Athens ; South, by Athens and Townshend; West, by Jamaica and Londonderry. A portion of this territory, one hundred forty-eight rods wide and six miles long, popularly called Mack's Leg, and lying between Londonderry and Thomlinson, was granted Feb. 27, 1782 ; and, when chartered in 1801, received the name of Anderson's Gore. Another part containing -thirteen hundred eighty acres, known as Avery's Gore, was granted to Samuel Avery of Westminster, by the Gen eral Assembly. This tract was one hundred fifteen rods wide, by six miles long, and adjoined the south line of Thomlinson. What remained of the unappropriated tract above mentioned was generally known as Waltham, or Waltham Gore; being called by one of these names about as often as by the other, in many of the title deeds executed prior to 1793. Waltham also appears on Whitelaw's map of the State, published in 1794, and found in the first edition of Williams' History of Vermont. Soon after Waltham began to be settled it was granted by the General Asserably, and conveyed by the following charter : 6 The Governor, Council and General Assembly of the Freemen of. the State of Vermont. To all people to whom these Presents shall come. Greeting : Know Ye, that whereas our worthy friends. Lieutenant Moses John son and Company to the number of thirty-three, have by Petition requested a Grant of unappropriated Land within this State, for the purpose of making a New Settlement; We have therefore, thought fit for the due en couragement of their laudable designs, and for other valuable causes and considerations us hereunto moving, and do by these Presents, in the name and by the authority of the Freemen of the State of Vermont, hereby give and grant the tract of land hereafter described and bounded unto the said Moses Johnson, and the following persous hereafter named, his associates, viz : Haile, Amos Haile, Amos 2d Haile, James Hayward, Silas Holden, Philemo-n Hooker, Israel Houghton, Cyrus Houghton, Ebenezer Hooker, Asal Hooker, John Hooker, Riverio-us * Which tract of land hereby given and granted aforesaid is described and bounded as follows, viz : Beginning on Townshend North line, running North 13 Degrees East, two miles and 10 chains ; West, 3 miles and 33 chains; South, 10 Degrees West, 53 chains ; North, 63 Degrees West, 68 chains ; South, 20 Degrees West, one mile and 10 chains; South, 80 Degrees East, four miles and 21 chains, on Townshend North line, containing five thousand and forty acres. And that the inhabitants possessing the aforesaid Tract of Land shall be entitled to equal privileges as the inhabitants of any other Gore of equal extent within this State and that it shall be called and known by the name of JOHNSON'S GORE. To have and to hold the said granted premises as above expressed, with all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging, unto them and their respective heirs and assign forever, on condition that each proprietor of said tract of land shall do the settling duties on each respective right * Names of the grantees are arranged by us in alphabetical order. Bartlett, Moses Bivins, Ebenezer Burt, Asahel Burt, Moses Cummings, Oliver Day, Elkanah Fairbanks, Nathan Fisher, Noah Fisk, Stephen Fisk, Sylvanus Goodhue, Josiah Jr. Kathan, Gardner Kathan, John Knap, Paul Lochlin, Dennis Moore, John Moore, Willard Tinkham, Jeremiah Wire, Samuel Wiswell, Samuel Wood, John or share, the same as is required to be done in the respective towns within this State, and to be under the like penalties and forfeitures, in case of neglect. In Testimony whereof, we have caused the Seal of this State to be L. S. affixed, in Council this 23d day of February, 1782, in the Sth year of our Independence. THO'S CHITTENDEN. Attest, Joseph Fay, Sec'y. The charter of Johnson's Gore was recorded by our County Clerk, June 21, 1797, and many deeds from the original proprietors and subsequent owners were recorded by the same officer. Sorae of their conveyances, however, are found in the land records of Townshend, which adjoined the district. Possibly deeds of land in this Gore may be found recorded in other adjoining towns. Our Statutes of 1779 required that deeds be recorded in the town clerk's office of the town where the lands lie ; and if " there are no inhabitants in such town, and consequently no town clerk or register, in every such case, such Grants or Deeds shall be recorded in the town clerk's record in the next adjoining town; and in case there is no clerk's offiee in any adjoin ing town, then such Grants or Deeds shall be recorded in the records of the County Clerk in the County where the lands are." These requirements continued in force until the rising of the Assembly at its February Session in 1787, when the law of that year upon the same subject took effect. The Statute last alluded to changed the previous en actment by directing " That in towns where there is or shall be no town clerk elected, such grants of, or incumbrances upon, land shall be recorded in the County Clerk's office of the County where the land lies." Previous to March 1797 the legislature made no provision for the reg istry of deeds conveying lands that were outside of a township. This omission was supplied by a clause in the revised statutes of that year re quiring that all '• deeds and conveyances of lands, tenements, or heredita ments, lying in any town or place in this State, in which there shall be no town clerk, shall be recorded by the clerk of the County Court, in the same county, in which the lands, tenements, or hereditaments as aforesaid shall lie." Lieutenant Moses Johnson, for whom this Gore was named, resided in Putney at an early day, and held some offices within the gift of that town. About the year 1768, he built the first two-story house erected at Putney Street. He was one of the number who commenced a settlement in the year 1777, " at the south end of the Gore,'' which subsequently became a part of Athens, and is now included within the territorial limits of Brookline. His title was derived from the position he held when in the active military service of this State. In 1790, he was a resident of Bridport, in the county of Addison. Afterwards, he lived in Westmoreland, N. H., Dum- merston, and Putney. The tract of land described in the preceding charter is situated nearly midway between the east and west limits of the county of Windham ; its north line is about six miles south of the county of Windsor, and it contains seven and seven-eighths square miles of land. At-the date of the charter the grant was bounded on the North, by Londonderry, Mack's Leg and Avery's Gore ; East, by Athens ; South, by Townshend ; West, by Jamaica and Londonderry. After the incorporation of Windham in 1795, it was bounded on the North by that town and Avery's Gore ; and on the West, by Windham and Jamaica. There are two ranges of hills, amidst which are the sources of Acton Brook, and Sirapson Brook, whose waters flow in a southern direction. The South Branch of Saxton's River runs near the north-east corner of the territory, and in a south-easterly and north-easter ly direction. Each of the aforesaid streams has a number of tributary rivulets within the tract described in the charter. The land is uneven and elevated. An eminence of the east range of hills has been named " The Fisher Hill." About one-fourth of the surface inclines to the west, the remainder having an eastern or else a southern slope. Calcareo-mica slate, seamy and of loose texture, and gneiss are the rocks commonly found. But little of the land is waste, and most of it is capable of tillage. The soil produces large crops of potatoes, oats, barley, and grass ; and returns a fair yield of corn and wheat. Apples and the com mon vegetables of the garden are among the products of every farm. A good share of the first growth of forest trees consisted of the beech, birch and maple; spruce and hemlock existed in quantity more than sufficient to supply any want of these kinds of wood by the inhabitants for build ing, fencing and other purposes ; ash, elm and basswood, were found less frequently. The second growth furnishes, in addition to the above list, oak to some extent and popple. The principle farm products turned ofi^ and sold are cattle, horses, sheep, butter, wool, maple sugar, timber and fire wood. Most of the original proprietors were inhabitants of Jamaica, Towns hend, Athens, Westminster, Putney, and Dummerston ; a few resided in Walpole and Richmond, New Hampshire ; only four of them — Ebenezer Bivins, Noah Fisher, Amos Haile, 2d, and Philemon Holden — ever lived upon the land conveyed by the charter. The first settlement was made in 1781 — about one year before the date of the charter — by Riverious Hooker, John Hooker, Ruel Hooker, Noah Pisher, Ebenezer Bivins, and Eleazer Fisher. Of these persons the first three returned to their homes in Athens, after laying the foundation of a settler's claim to the several tracts of land where they pitched; the last three became the first permanent settlers of the district by continuous occupancy of their claims. The small openings made this year in the forest were upon lots marked No. 1, to No. 6, inclusive, upon the plan of the Gore. Lot No. 1 , lies on the west bank of Acton Brook, and the tracts indicated by the other numbers are in the valley of Simpson Brook. The original proprietors seem to have been organized as early as Septem ber, 1781. Probably they had business meetings before that month. How ever this may be, no minute of what was done thereat has come down to us. Proprietors doings, subsequent to date of the charter, were noted upon scraps — often mere bits — of paper, and these were not arranged or filed by the clerk. Of course, many original minutes are irrecoverably lost, to gether with all knowledge of the facts written thereupon. To rescue from oblivion the most valuable of what remain of these papers, we present them in chronological order and without abridgment. " Putney, March 7th, 1782. Met according to adjournment. Voted: To dismiss Mr. Nathan Fisk, as clerk. Chose Amos Haile, clerk for said Propriety. Voted: To choose a committee to adjust all accounts that shall be brought in for past services, or money paid for the use of said propriety. Chose Mr. Nathan Fisk, Mr. James Haile, Mr. Riverious Hooker, Mr. John Kathan, Amos Haile, Esq., for said committee. Voted: Thatthe committee meet on the Sth of April, next, at Mr. Ptter Wilson's, ten o'clock in the morning, for the above mentioned purpose. Voted : That all persons bring in their accounts at said time, for adjust ment and settlement. Voted: That the meeting stand adjourned till the 9th of April, next, ten in the morning, at Peter Wilson's, in Putney.'' "April 9th, 1782. Met according to adjournment. Voted: Thatthe vote be reconsidered as to the adjustment of Abel Mattoon and Silas Hayward's accounts, and that said accounts be referred to the committee now sitting on the business of adjusting accounts. Voted : To accept the committee's report of accounts. Voted: That all persons indebted to the propriety pay the sums due from them into the hands of the treasurer, for the use of the propriety, or give their security to the treasurer. Voted: To choose a committee to inquire into each petitioner's right of claim as a petitioner. Chose James Haile, Solomon Harvey, Lieut. Moses Johnson, Riverious Hooker, and Amos Haile. 2 10 Voted: That Mr. Abel Mattoon and Mr. Samuel Wiswell be conpled.* That Willard Moore and David Hooker be coupled ; that Cyrus Whit comb and Moses Bartlett be coupled. Voted : That the paper money found on hand be delivered to the treas urer, which is Nine Pounds and Six Shillings, for him to dispose of in the best manner be can. Hard money on band. Five Shillings and Five Pence. Voted : That the treasjurer be empowered to receive money on account; and pay to Lieut. Moses Johnson, and take bis receipt for tbe same. Voted : To adjourn this meeting till the first Monday in May, next, 6th day, to Peter Wilson's, ten o'clock in the raorning." " Putney, May 6th, A. D., 1782. Then met according to adjournment. Voted: To reconsider the vote passed in September, 1781, for each petitioner to pitch one hundred and four acres. Voted: That Riverious Hooker, John Hooker, Ruel Hooker, Noah Fisher, Ebenezer Bivins and Eleazer Fisher hold one hundred and four acres, as they have laid it out, to be considered as their first division lot ; the four acres to be considered for the use of roads. Voted : That there be one hundred and four acres laid out to each right; the four acres to be for the use of roads, if wanted for that purpose. To choose a committee to lot out to each right one hundred and four acres of the best land for settlement; to choose a committee of five. Proceeded and chose Mr. James Haile, Amos Haile, Esq., Mr. Riverious Hooker, Mr. John Moore, Mr. Samuel Wiswell. Voted : That the committee go on the business of lotting out the above said land on the second Monday of June, next, and report to this meeting on the first Monday of July, next, ten of the clock in the morning. Voted : That the committee be allowed eight shillings per day, each, saidj-committee to find themselves all. Voted : That the proprietors find the committee two gallons of rum ; that Mr. Nathan Fisk procure it and deliver the same to Mr. James Haile. Voted: That the treasurer pay unto Lieut. Moses Johnson, twenty shil lings. State Money, in lieu of one hard dollar. Voted : That Amos Haile be collector. Voted : That the treasurer collect money due on note. Voted : That the prudential committee be dismissed and another chosen. Chose. Amos Haile, Esq., Mr. John Moore, and Lieut. Moses Johnson. Voted : That there be two dollars granted on each right, to be paid by the first of July for said committee. * Probably these persons stood in the relation of landlord and tenant to each other, and were " coupled " for the same reason that owner and occupant of real estate used to be united under our listing law. 11 Voted: That this meeting be adjourned till the first Monday in July, next, ten in the morning, at Araos Haile's in Putney." " 1782. July 1st, Being the first Monday. Met according to adjournment. Voted: To dismiss Mr. James Haile from the committee to lot out said land, and that Mr. Samuel Wiswell be one in his stead," The committee were then directed to lot out to each right the one hundred and four acres of land already voted, and report their doings to the pro prietors at Amos Haile's, in Putney, on the sixteenth day of the following September. The meeting held on the day last named was adjourned to the nineteenth of the same month, when the report of the committee was made and accepted. The proprietors, on the 19th day of September, then ''Voted: To choose a committee to draw; and chose Dr. Josiah Goodhue and John Kathan. Voted : To choose a committee of inspection ; and chose Lieut. Moses Johnson, Mr. Samuel Wire and Mr, Ebenezer Houghton. Voted: That there be one Pound granted on each right including the twelve shillings granted by a former vote, and that the sarae be paid by the 19th day of October, next." Lots numbered 1 to 6, inclusive, had been assigned to settlers on the preceding sixth day of May, and were not drawn. A few of the pro prietors had sold out, aud in such cases the purchaser held the land which his grantor would have taken. The result of this drawing is shown by the following exhibit. First Division of Lots in Johnson's Gore, as drawn by the proprietors on the 19th day of Septeraber, 1782. No. 7, Drawn by Josiah Goodhue, No. 21, Drawn by Dennis Lochlin, " 8, " " Nathan Fairbanks, " 22, " Samuel Wiswell, " 9, " Benj. Fletcher, " 23, " Oliver Cummings, " 10, " Silvanus Fisk, " 24, " Silvanus Fisk, " 11, " Moses Burt, " 25, " Silas Hayward, " 12, " Jeremiah Tinkham " 26, " John Moore, " 13, " Paul Knapp, " 27, " John Kathan, " 14, " Nathan Fisk, " 28, " Gardner Kathan, " 15, " Ebenezer Houghton " 29, " Amos Haile, " 16, " John Wood, " 30, " Moses Bartlett, " 17, " Sarauel Wire, " 31, " Nathan Johnson, " 18, " Moses Johnson, " 32, " Cyrus Houghton, " 19, " Azal Burt, " 33, " Willard Moore. " 20, " Josiah Cummings, 12 On the ninth day of April, 1792, Amos Haile, Esq., Samuel Wire and Samuel Wiswell were directed by vote of the proprietors, " To lay out two ten-acre lots to eaeh right, to be called the 1st and 2nd division of ten-acre lots, and take a survey of the reraainder of the Gore." No record was preserved of what was done to carry this vote into effect, but both of the ten-acre divisions were surveyed and drawn for by the proprietors. The last act of the proprietors in regard to dividing and distributing their property which has come to the knowledge of the writer is the vote taken November 14th, 1793, "To accept the pitches and draughts in John son's Gore, as pitched and drawn by the proprietors according to the plan of said Gore." The plan has not been wholly preserved, and the corner that is gone showed the location of a few lots both in the two ten-acre divis ions and in the first division. We have found only one vote of the proprietors which appropriates any thing for laying, making, or repairing highways. It is without date and in the following words. "Voted: That there be a tax of six shillings raised from each right in Johnson's Gore, for the purpose of laying out highways and repairing the same ; to be paid in labor ; common labor to be at three shillings per day, and other matters accordingly. Or said tax to be paid in cash, and within four raonths from this date. The Prudential Committee to be collectors of said tax and to superintend the work." Lines were marked probably in 1780, which becarae the outside liraits of Johnson's Gore. Lot lines of the first division were surveyed by James Mack, in 1782. Upon the East side, the line of separation frora Athens was a disputed boundary. On the part of that town this line was run in 1793, by Ephraira Nash, County Surveyor. To preserve the knowledge of what Mr. Nash saw and did upon that oc casion, we present a copy of his report. "Minutes of a Survey taken 6th Julj', 1793. Beginning at a stake and stones, being the South-West corner of Westmin ster ; which place of beginning is also the South-East corner of Athens, be ing in the north line of Putney; and runs from thence. North, eighty-one Degrees forty-five Minutes West, by the Needle, in the dividing line be tween Putney and Athens on an ancient marked line of trees, five hundred and forty -six rods, to a beech tree marked on the South-East side. Putney, N. W. Corner ; on the' North side, B, B.; and on the West side, 1761, or 1767 ; which of the two I was not certain, supposed to be in the East line of Townshend ; and run from thence North, about eighteen Degrees for ty-five Minutes East, on an ancient marked line of trees, eighteen hun dred and seven rods, to a line running North eighty Degrees West ; where I erected a corner for the North-East corner of said Townshend ; thence 13 North, eighty Degrees West, on a marked line of trees, four hundred and eighty rods, and erected a corner (being a stake and stones) for the South-East Corner of Johnson's Gore, so called, and for the South-West Corner of Athens three miles square, so called; and run frora thence, North, thirteen Degrees East, (by the Needle) six hundred and eighty rods, to a Black Spruce Tree which I marked 1793, where we left running. EPHRAIM NASH, County Surveyor. N. B. Charles Pierce, and Newton. S-worn Chainmen." Our inforraation in regard to the first settlers of the district and their hardships is mainly derived from the personal recollections of Dennis Hol den, son of a charter grantee, and a resident of the territory from his birth, in 1784. No other person born in the district and known to the writer to be living has so great an age. He distinctly reraerabers events which oc curred before the enactment of our legislature making the dollar and its parts the money of account within the State. We now give a part of the statement he dictated to us in 1869 : " All our first settlers were persons of small property. I doubt whether any of them had more than enough to pay for his land. Sorae could not do even that. They came here to become tillers of the soil, and to make happy homes for theraselves and families in a dreary wilderness. My father's first dwelling was a log cabin, but I cannot reraeraber back to the time when he lived in it. Two frarae houses were built and occupied by him before his death, in 1804. He built the first frame building in the district, and Dea. Isaac Fisher put up the second. The other inhabitants, as their resources enabled thera, substituted frame residences for the log cabins they were obliged at first to occupy. While clearing away the primitive forest, it was our practice to burn the log heaps made of the felled trees, leach the ashes thus obtained, and boil down the lye into potash salts, in the same raanner that we converted into sugar the sap of the maple. Bags of these salts were slung across the back of a horse or other beast, and usually carried to Ensign Wiswell's, in the easterly part of Townshend, who took in various products of the farm for merchants in Putney. Skillful placing and constant watching were re quired to prevent the salts from eating ofl^ the hair against which the bags rested. The proceeds of these salts were a very important item on the credit side of our store bills, and, quite often, this property was all we had to offer in payment of anything. 14 It was possible for us to free our choppings frora limbs and trunks of trees, but the new stumps with which the fields were thickly dotted, and the green roots were too much for us. In time, however, with the assistance of cold and heat, rain and drought we fitted the land for thorough cultiva tion. After our farms were partly cleared, and before we could have used plows had we possessed them, the crops for some tirade were as large a yield as we now get. At first, our stock consisted of cattle and hogs, only. The forraer were few in nuraber, and yet we were under the necessity of working hard, es pecially in winter, to obtain sufficient fodder and browse to keep them alive. Our hogs, whose flesh we ate more than any other kind of animal food, were suffered to run at large, so long as they could fatten upon what they picked up in forest and clearings; then they were driven to the house and slaughtered. Horses were not owned here before our mowings had consid erable size, nor until the inhabitants had more than a short experience in testing the fitness of the ox for carrying property and persons. A good deal of flax was raised, and made into tow cloth by hand. The garments worn by the people were made of this fabric more than any other. It was a nuraber of years before we could boast of our woolen apparel of horae raade cloth. While the corporate narae of the district was Johnson's Gore, the free men did not vote at elections of town, county, or state officers. There were no schools, except those which were infrequently opened at private cha.rge in some person's dwelling, and for short periods of time. The roads, if they can with propriety be so called, were laid, constructed and main tained by virtue of some vote passed by land poor proprietors, who, in the main, were non-residents. Our poor were supported by private charity. No grand-list of the Gore was ever made. The territory never had a village, or an organized church within its lim its. Religious meetings were occasionally held however, and, in private houses and barns, before our school-houses were erected. About the year 1810, Mrs Stone, a Congregationalist, and Mrs. Haile, a Baptist, appointed and conducted a series of conferences which resulted in a powerful religious revival. A number of persons were hopefully converted; some of whom united with the Congregational church in Windham, and others with the Baptist church at South Windham. Of six members of our family, who, at one time then joined the Congregational church in Windhara, I have been for fifteen years the sole survivor." This district could not present so many attractions to eraigrants as were possessed by adjoining towns which had more corporate privileges, and 15 there were but few settlers here prior to 1797. The families of Scott and others carae about that tirae, and efforts were then raade to procure the grant of a township charter. By statute passed Nov. 6, 1800, it was enacted, "That from and after the first day of January next, all that tract or parcel of land now known by the name of Johnson's Gore, in the county of Windham, be and hereby is incorporated into a town, by the name of Acton ; and the inhabitants re siding therein shall have all the privileges and immunities which by law the inhabitants of other towns in this state have and enjoy, excepting that of electing and sending a representative to the General Assembly, and State Conventions." " That the freemen of said town may assemble for the time being, with the freemen of the town of Townshend, for the choice of State officers, and representatives, either in Congress, or in the State : and it is hereby made the duty of the first Constable of the town of Townshend, to warn the free men of said town of Acton, to assemble with the freemen of the town of Townshend, in all freemen's meetings, by posting a warning of said meet ing, in the most public place in said town of Acton." That part of the foregoing statute which deprived the new town of its right to elect a representative was so manifestly repugnant to the constitu tion of the State, that one is surprised to find such a clause in the enact ment. Nothing of the kind would be attempted now. Formerly, however, it was no unusual thing for the legislature, when incorporating a town hav ing but few people, to divest it of representation in the General Assembly, and require its inhabitants to vote for representative either in the towns from which they had been taken, or whcire it was best for them, all things considered, to attend freemen's meetings. In the case of Acton, its free men were warned by the constable of Townshend in the manner prescribed by statute, until 1824 ; and, according to Mr. Deming, this was the next year after the discovery was made that an incorporated town could not be deprived by the legislature of being represented in the General Assembly agreeably to the State constitution. The meeting to organize the town of Acton was held at the dwelling-house of Noah Fisher, on the 3d day of March, 1801, by virtue of a warning dated the 14th day of the preceding month, and signed by John Hazelton, Justice of the Peace. At this meeting, nothing was done except to elect a full board of town officers. The line of separation between Acton and Athens was a disputed bound- dary, and received early attention. It was settled by the following agree ment which is duly recorded. "Whereas Samuel Bailey, Thaddeus Alexander and James Shafter, a 16 committee appointed by the town of Athens for the purpose of agreeing, settling and establishing a permanent line of division between the towns of Athens and Acton, late Johnson's Gore ; and also Noah Fisher, Aaron Knap and William Jennison, a committee elected for the same purpose as above mentioned by and on the part of said town of Acton, having met for that purpose at said Acton, on this 25th day of April, A. D., 1801, and mutually considered the subject respecting said line, for which we were ap pointed by our several towns, and after taking into view every particular circumstance attending the same; we do make, declare and publish the fol lowing to be the line of division between said towns of Athens and Acton. Beginning at a hemlock stake and stones standing on the line commonly called and known by the name of the Kelley line, where the same is inter sected by a line run in the year 1797, by Stephen Choat, Surveyor; then South, 13 degrees West, on what is commonly called and known by the name of the Choat line, to Townshend North line, which we consider to be agreeably to the charter of said town of Athens. The above described line we mutually agree to, in our said capacities above mentioned, in behalf of the said towns of Athens and Acton, and es tablish as the permanent line of division between said towns of Athens and Acton; In witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names in our said capacities, on the date above mentioned. Thaddeus Alexander, Samuel Bailey, [• Committee, on the part of Athens. James Shafter. Noah Fisher, Aaron Knap, >- Committee, on the part of Acton." The first grand-list of the town is dated Sept. 14, 1801. Twenty-six names are upon it, only one of which was a non-resident. The list also shows that there were subject to taxation by the town about the time of its organization, 20 Polls at $20, 17 Horses at $13.50, 43 J Acres improved land at $1.75, 5 Two-year-old colts at $6.50, 20 Oxen at $10, 2 Yearling colts at $3.50, 51 Cows and three-year-olds at $6.50, 8 Houses assessed. 16 Two-year-olds at $5. We now give the personal Hsts found upon the first grand-list of Acton. Polls listed are indicated by the letter a, and the non-resident's narae is in italics. 17 a Butler, David $ 26 25 Howard, Levi $ 5 25 a Covey, Joseph 30 87 a Jennison, William 137 50 a Farr, Thomas 41 75 a Johnson, Elisha 28 25 a Farr, Thomas Jr. 26 50 a Kathan, Rufus 40 87 a Fisher, Gurdin 20 00 a Kingsbury, Philip 21 75 a Fisher, Isaac 114 25 Knap, Aaron 11 25 Fisher, Noah . 79 50 a Levins, Abel 62 12 a Fisher, Noah Jr. 39 75 Prentiss, Elijah 5 25 a Fisher, Timothy 64 75 Prentiss, Joseph 55 00 a Green, Francis 46 50 a Scott, Shepard 20 00 a Haile, Amos 111 00 a Scott, Waitstill 90 62 Hicks, John 21 25 a Scott, Woodruff 82 75 a Holden, Philemon 83 87 a Streeter, Otis 70 00 Amount, $1,326.85. From 1797 to 1820, the valuation of polls and ratable property under our listing law was the same. The grand-lists of Acton for 1819 and 1820 are supposed to be lost. We give the grand-list of 1818, that it may be compared with the list of 1801, for the purpose of showing the gain of the town in material prosper ity during the first seventeen years and nearly half of its existence. a Allen, Peter $ 99 25 Howe, Benjamin $ 8 76 a Brooks, Eben'r 71 00 a Huntington, Ebenezer 84 75 Burby, David 35 25 a Jennison, William 130 50 Conant, Luther 33 75 a Johnson, Elisha 71 50 a Covey, Levi 96 25 a Johnson, William 48 25 a Fairbank, Iri 69 37 a Jordan, Sylvanus 91.25 a Farr, Joel 53 00 a Kingsbury, Asa 50.00 Farr, Leonard 4 00 a Loss, Benjamin 55 25 a Farr, Thomas 28 75 Lovell, Willard 4 00 a Farwell, Lemuel 105 26 a Marsh, Alpheus 31 50 a Fisher, Isaac 146 00 a Scott, Rhodolphus 117 00 a Fisher, Noah Jr. 131 00 Smith, Ephraim 75 75 a Fisher, Timothy, 92 75 a Sprague, Major 75 50 a Fisher, Timothy Jr. 20 00 a Stone, Amos 118 50 Gates, Thomas 14 75 Streeter, John 75 25 a Hagar, Benjamin 20 00 a Streeter, Otis 20 00 a Harris, William Jr. 33 50 Taft, Josiah 14 00 a Hazelton, Heman 39 50 a Town, Daniel 24 00 o Hildreth, Wilson 90 00 a Wellington, Nath'l 26 60 a Holden, Dennis 100 75 a Wilder, Ephraim 20 00 a Holden, Squire 59 75 a Wilder, Milton 54 37 Howard, Levi 14 00 Willey, Benjamin 70 00 a Polls listed. (3) 18 33 Polls at $20.00 $660 00 122 Acres improved land at $1.76 213 60 34 Oxen at $10.00 840 00 119 Cows and three-year-olds at $6.60 773 60 34 Cattle two years old at $6.00 170 00 28 Horses at $13.50 378 00 6 Horses at $6.50 39 00 5 Horses at $3.50 17 60 24 Houses assessed $1150.00 at 2 per cent. 23 00 Amount, $2614 50 The last grand-list of Acton was made in 1840, and agreeably to a stat ute which differed from that of 1797 in regard to assessment valuations. The personal lists upon it are entered as follows: School District No. 1. a Baldwin, Lawson B, $12 75 a Osgood, Joseph $22 44 Farr, Joel 2 87 a Smith, Eli 65 14 a Fisher, Nathan 44 35 a Smith, Elisha 30 62 a Hazelton, Oliver 28 22 Stiles, Elhanan 7 56 a Holden, Dennis 51 55 Streeter, John 13 15 Holden, Philemon 7 56 a Wilbur, David 19 78 a Holden, Philemon 27 67 a Wilbur, Ephm.& Bradford 21 73 Melendy, John G. 10 32 a Wilbur, Field 40 50 School District No. 2. Farr, Kimball $11 02 a Holden, Squire $38 89 a Fisher, Daniel 36 84 a Huntington, Ebenezer 40 27 Fisher, Isaac 32 70 a Jennison, John 24 73 a Fisher, Isaac Jr. 32 45 Kimball John 7 87 a Fisher, Pliny 27 92 a Lamphear, Jesse 12 05 a Pisher, P. & Lamphear J. 8 04 Osgood, Joseph 1 89 a Hazelton, Israel 27 15 Stone, Horace W. 6 90 Holden, Dennis 8 87 Stone, H. W. & Fisher I. Jr. 11 27 School District No. 3. Ames, Abia $6 30 a Jennison Joseph $51 47 Cobleigh, Eleazer 6 25 a Sprague, Major 83 22 Howard, Albert 1 67 a Taft, Josiah 64 90 Howe, Clark 6 80 19 School District No. 4. Burby, David $15 70 a Whitcomb, Ansel $33 60 a Francis, Apollos 37 45 Whitcomb, William 17 64 o Harris, Christopher 24 04 Willey, Benjarain 7 56 Huzzy, 3 00 Amount of list for County, Town and other purposes, $101 6 98 a Poll listed. The following items are taken from the suraraary of particulars given upon said grand-list. 26 Polls, 19 Two-year-olds. 30 Oxen, 31 Horses. 119 Cows, and other cattle 3 661 Sheep. years old and upwards SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND SCHOOLS. The war of the Revolution, and the controversies which were closed by the admission of Vermont into the Union delayed the passage of a law to carry into effect the constitutional provisions adopted in 1777 concerning schools. As soon, however, as the State's existence had been made reason ably secure, due attention was given to comraon schools. The revised laws of 1779 contain no enactraent concerning schools. The first statute relat ing to the subject, entitled an act " For appointing and supporting schools," was passed on the 22d day of October, 1782. This was about five years after our first constitution began to be enforced, nearly at the close of the fifteenth session of the General Assembly, and when more than two hun dred days of the five years had been spent in raaking laws for the State. The power of a town to divide its territory into school districts dates frora this primary law. The town of Acton established its school districts on the 13th day of April, 1801, and with the following limits. "The first district to include Amos Haile, Francis Green and all the in habitants east of them. The second district to include all the inhabitants west of said Haile and said Green, to the Gulf Brook, so called. The third district to include all the inhabitants of said town west of said Gulf Brook." A division by lines upon the territory divided would have accorded bet ter with the fitness of things, and with decisions of the Supreme Court. 20^ The first and second districts were organized soon after they were consti tuted. The third district, which contained but few people, never had a school-house, and practically was always a part of the adjoining district in the town of Jamaica, to which it was annexed by a concurrent vote of the towns in the month of March, 1819, under the act of 1808. On the 4th day of March. 1816, the town voted "To set off the following inhabitants in the east part of the first school district either into a separate district, or to join them with the inhabitants in the north-west part of Athens, for the support of schools ; to wit, Solomon Hudson, Iri Fairbanks, Benoni Ray. The tract of land occupied by these persons became the fourth district of Acton. By an act of the legislature passed in 1816, the north-west corner of Athens and a part of Avery's Gore were annexed to Grafton. This ac cession became part of the llth district of Grafton, to which the fourth dis trict of Acton was united by concurrent vote of the two towns. The school-house of the fourth district was removed to where the brick school- house now (1870) stands, and became the school-house of the llth district above named. Formerly, school monies were divided yearly among the districts of a town, in proportion to the number of scholars in each district. The divis ion was based upon annual returns by district clerks to their town clerk specifying the!* number of children between the age of four and eighteen years in the district of the certifying clerk. It was the duty of town clerks to make an entry on record of these returns. Such was the law of 1797. None of the original returns have come down to us, and those of an earlier date than 1812 were not recorded. We have obtained from record the facts shown by the following table which exhibits the number of schol ars in each school district for the years named. Year. District No. i. District No. 2. District No. 3. District No. 4. Total. 1812. 62 33 13 98 1813. 51 41 16 108 1814. 38 42 15 95 1816. 36 39 25 100 1816. 33 89 23 10 105 1817. 37 39 12 11 99 1818. 32 44 18 9 103 1819. 27 89 16 7 89 1820. 19 81 22 9 81 1821. 26 31 20 6 82 1822. 31 30 17 7 85 1823. 22 34 12 8 76 1824. 17 33 9 9 68 21 Year. District No. i. District No. 2. District No. 3. District No. 4. Total. 1825. 21 31 10 7 69 1826. 14 84 9 11 68 1827. 18 35 8 12 73 1828. Not recorded. 1829. 14 86 9 13 71 1830. 18 24 8 11 56 1831. 12 84 7 20 73 1832. 13 19 7 16 55 1833. 18 20 11 16 65 1834. 18 19 14 16 62 1835. 11 19 8 12 50 1836. 12 17 7 11 47 1837. 15 14 6 8 43 1838. 15 18 7 6 46 1839. 13 20 8 7 48 1840. 16 15 9 8 48 1841. 23 21 SUMMARY. 1812-16. Yearly average, rejecting fractions, for 5 years. 101 Scholars 1817-21. " " " " " 6 years. 90 " 1822-26. " " " " " 5 years. 73 " 1827-31. " " " " " 4 years, 68 " 1832-36. " " " " " "5 years, 55 " 1887-40. " " " " " 4 years. 46 " Returns for 1828 were not recorded, and those of 1841 embraced only two school districts. To give an idea of the number of weeks' schooling in each district, we present the following facts, obtained from returns which were made agre- ably to the law of 1821. Year. 1822. District No. i. Weeks. 2 District No. 2, Weeks. 6 District No. 3, Weeks. 6 District No Weeks. 24 1824. 18 20 8 27 1825. 16 16 16 29 1826. 16 15 8a 24 1827. 16 20 8a 21 1829. 17 8a 28 1880. 1881. 1616 1620 2020 26 24 22 Year. 1832. District No. i, Weeks. 16 District No. 2, Weeks. 16 District No. 3, Weeks. 20 District No. Weeks. 24 1833. 16 16 20 20 1834. 16 19 24 24 1835. 16 20 12a 24 1836. 16 13 22 25 1837. 16 14 22 19 1838. 1889. 18 18 19 16 22 16 24 1840. 18 9 16 1841. 18 16 a. At the expense of the district exclusive of the public money. A superintending committee of schools — the board to consist of three, five or seven persons— was required to be chosen in and for each town, by a law passed in 1827. We present the names elected by the inhabitants of Acton. 1828-29. Ebenezer Huntington, Lemuel Farwell, Nathan Fisher, Isaac Fisher, Jr., William Harris, Jr. 1830. Lemuel Farwell, Daniel Fisher, Thomas Farr. 1831. Ebenezer Huntington, Daniel Fisher, Isaac Fisher, Jr. 1832. Ebenezer Huntington, Lemuel Farwell, Nathan Fisher, Isaac Fisher, Jr., Major Sprague. 1833. Lemuel Farwell, Daniel Fisher, Major Sprague. On the 81st day of Dec. 1836, the town voted to receive the portion of the public money deposited by the United States with this State, belonging to said town; and Ebenezer Huntington, Dennis Holden and Isaac Fisher, Jr. were then chosen Trustees, " To receive said money and dispose of it as the law directs." These persons served till the annual meeting in March, 1838, when they gave place to Nathan Fisher, Eli Smith and Joseph Jen nison, who served to the close of the town's corporate existence. UNITED STATES DEPOSIT MONEY. Distributed to Acton on census of 1830, $420.15 " on census of 1840, $889.82 ROADS. The character of the first roads in the district was determined by the circumstances and needs of the inhabitants. Being destitute of money and not possessing a carriage or even a cart, the first settlers had a highway 23 sufficient for them, when a path, indicated by a line of raarked trees, was in such state of repair that a person with a burden on his shoulders, or a beast with a load on its back could travel therein. In the valley of Acton Brook there were three public roads of this description, which, except the discontinued part leading over Fisher's hill, have been widened and wrought and are highways of the present day. The one near the west line of the town was made a county road in 1802, by Ephraim Holland, James Shaf ter and Daniel Read, a Committee appointed by the Legislature of 1801, " To lay out and survey a County road from the Court-house in New-Fane, in the County of Windham, to the north line of said County, in the direc tion to Rutland." Our records show the number of altered, discontinued and newly laid roads usually found in towns of like extent, location and population. Of the more important highways now used, that over which the stage passes in going from Townshend to Grafton was laid by Peter R. Taft, William C- Hawkins and Thomas F. Hammond, Commissioners appointed in 1832, at the April Term of Windham County Court, on the Petition of Epaphrodi- tus Ransom and others. This road was constructed in 1833. The road in the north-east part of the town, near the South Branch of Saxton's River, was built in 1836 ; and the Brook Road, extending from the school-house in District No. 1 to the saw-mill at the foot of the hill, was made in 1839-40. In the raonth of September, 1831, the town voted a labor-tax of seven cents on the dollar of its grand-list ; and ordered that it be expended, under di rection of highway surveyors, upon the present road leading westerly from the school-house in District No. 1, to the town line of Windham. HIGHWAY TAXES. The money ordinarily laid out for repairing roads in Acton was derived from two sources. First, the highway tax which the statute directed the selectmen to levy yearly. Second, such additional sum as the town raight vote to have expended for the same purpose. The statutory amount was fixed in the years and manner following. 1797. By a tax on the list of the polls and ratable estate to the amount of four days, at least, to be computed at sixty six cents per day, to each male person over twenty one years of age and under sixty (ministers of the gospel, the president, professors, tutors and students of colleges and annual school masters excepted). Tax estimated and apportioned on the list. 24 1818. By a tax on the list of the polls and ratable estate to the amount of four days' work, to be computed at ninety two cents per day, to each male person over twenty one years of age, and under sixty (min isters of the gospel, the president, professors, tutors and students of col leges and annual school masters excepted). Tax estiraated and ap portioned on the list. 1824. By an annual tax of four cents on the dollar of the lists of each town, in lieu of the amount ascertained by counting the polls. 1826. By tax of six cents on the dollar of the lists of each town. The sums voted by Acton for the repair of roads, in addition to the yearly statutory tax, are given in the following table. Year. Year. 1801. April 13, Ten per cent, of 1832. grand list, 1833. 1802. March 21, five per cent. 1834. 1822. March 25, six per cent. 1835. 1828. March 3, ten per cent. 1837. 1830. March 22, ten per cent. 1838. 1830. Sept. 7, ten per cent. 1840. 1831. Sept. 6, seven per cent. March 6, four per cent. March 18, twenty per cent. March 3, four per cent. March 2, four per cent. Sept. 6, six per cent. March 5, six per cent. March 2, four per cent. Year. 1825. 1826.1827.1828.1829.1830. 1831.1832.1833.1834.1836.1836. 1887. 1838. 1839.1840. Statutory Tax. Four per cent. Four per cent. Six per cent. Six per cent. Six per cent. Six per cent. Six per cent. Six per cent. Six per cent. Six per cent. Six per cent. Six per cent. Six per cent. Six per cent. Six per cent. Six per cent. SUMMARY Additional Town Tax. Ten per cent. Twenty per cent. Seven per cent. Four per cent. Twenty per cent. Four per cent. Four per cent. Six per cent. Six per cent. Four per cent. Whole sum expended. Four per cent. Four per cent. Six per cent. Sixteen per cent. Six per cent. Twenty-six per cent. Thirteen per cent. Ten per cent. Twenty-six per cent. Ten per cent. Ten per cent. Six per cent. Twelve per cent. Twelve per cent. Six per cent. Ten per cent. 25 1825-29. Yearly average for the five years, seven and one fifth per cent. 1830-34. Yearly average for the five years, seventeen per cent. 1836-40. Yearly average for the six years, nine and one third per cent. 1826-40. Yearly average for the sixteen years, eleven and one sixteenth per cent. CEMETERIES, Of the two grave-yards, the land occupied by the older was conveyed to the inhabitants of Johnson's Gore for a place of burial, by Isaac Fisher, on the 26th day of February, 1796. It is situated, a few rods below the pres ent residence of Dea. Daniel Fisher, and on the east side of the highway, A number of the first settlers were buried in this yard, some of whora re pose beneath unraarked mounds, and neither stranger nor descendant can identify their places of rest. When the east part of the town became more thickly settled, another yard was needed ; and, in 1813, a piece of ground belonging to the Hil dreth farm was purchased by the town and made a ceraetery. This burial- place is a short distance below the school-house in District No, 1, and on the north side of the road. GRAVES WITH MEMORIAL STONE IN ACTON. Cummings, Simeon B. Died Cummings, William Farr, Nancy, Mrs. Fisher, Azubah, Mrs. Daniel Fisher, Bradford Fisher, Merrill Fisher, Philander Gates, Caleb Gates, Josiah Gates, Mind well Hildreth, Lucy Hildreth, Lucy, Mrs. Hildreth, Phebe Holden, Laurintha Holden, Phidelia Jordan, Jerusha M. Jordan, Sylvenus Pierce, Benj., Jr. Preston, Marshall Putnam, Wilson Aug. 21, 1834, age 17 years. Dist. No. 2 Sept. 1, 1836, age 21 years. " 2 Oct. 3, 1826, age 26 years. " 2 July 8, 1840, age 31 years. " 2 March 12, 1837, age 10 years. " 1 Nov. 20, 1840, age 2 years. " 2 June 22, 1887, age 20 years. Aug. 14, 1827, age 78 years. March 10, 1812, age 28 years. Nov, 22, 1826, age 80 years. Feb, 9, 1830, age 89 years. July 1, 1831, age 61 years. Oct. 11, 1834, age 33 years. Aug, 8, 1821, age 6 years. July 31, 1821, age 2 years. Jan. 22, 1818, age 8 years. June 19, 1S21, age 48 years. Oct, 17, 1804, age 8 years. Jan, 17, 1817, age 29 years. Aug, 11, 1833, 4 age 8 years. 26 Rugg, Elijah March 6, 1801, age 2 years. Dist. No. 2 Smith, Solon March 16, 1886, age 1 year. " 1 Stone, Hannah E. March 19, 1884, age 4 years. " 2 Streeter, Clark W. Feb. 15, 1835, age 11 months " 1 Whitman, Ona's daughter Dec. 9, 1827, age 9 days, " 2 MILLS. No streara affords sufficient water to turn the wheel of a grist-raill or saw-mill at pleasure of the tender. It is only in the Spring and Fall, and after an occasional rain that the water here can be profitably used to drive machinery. The best privilege, and the only one ever used, was first improved by Granger, who built a saw and grist-mill where Covey's saw-mill now stands. There was not water enough for the motive power required by both mills, and the little grist-mill, which was the less profitable of the two, after do ing a sraall business for three or four years was taken out of the building. Before Granger set his mill going, the inhabitants in the east part of the town used to carry their grain for grinding to a grist-raill that stood fifty or sixty rods above Weatherbee's in Townshend ; those living in the west erly part were accoramodated at West Townshend, and at the old John Howe raill in the edge of Jamaica. We give the names of mechanics and merchants that have come to our knoweledge, and in the order of their residence. The first shoe-maker was Ebenezer Bivins or Biddens as sometimes called, one of the* original proprietors of Johnson's Gore. He occupied the lot next south of Noah Fisher's original lot, and did tiot stay a great while. After Bivins moved away, a man by the narae of Glynn worked here at that business. Elisha Covey followed hira, and Timothy Fisher followed Covey. Francis Green was a tanner by profession and lived on the present (1869) Robert Bartlett farm. His tan-yard was in the vicinity of his residence and near Simpson Brook. Desiring a better location, he removed to West Townshend in the Spring of 1804, and built a house on the ground now oc cupied by the residence of widow Martin, His shop stood a little east of the house, and adjoined the cloth-dressing establishment of EdwarcJ Sumner. For crushing bark. Green used a large circular stone attached to a revolving shaft placed in an upright position. This rude contrivance worked by horse-power was without cover, and after its removal from Ac ton stood in the tan-yard at West Townshend, In 181 3 the stone was moved into the tannery building at West Townshend and turned by water power. Green lived in Townshend till about 1809. 27" The first blacksmith in Acton was David Butler. He was married to Miss Wellington who resided in the south-west part of Grafton. They commenced house keeping in Isaac Fisher's neighborhood, and stayed there four or five years. In the Fall of 1804, he removed to West Townshend, where he built the house now owned by Harvey Taft, bringing the frame from Acton. His shop, standing on the ground now occupied by the resi dence of O. H. Kimball, was burned in 1810. Soon after the fire he erected the house subsequently owned by Benjamin Dunklee, and worked in a shop put up by Lemuel Marsh where the tannery of Pomroy and Barber now stands. He removed from West Townshend in 1814, and left the reputa tion of being an excellent mechanic and an industrious and worthy man, Mr, Butler used to say the following occurrence happened about the time his shop was destroyed by fire in 1810. We give the story as it was dictated to us in 1868. " At that time uncle David Butler had an apprentice named Samuel J who was very intimate with Dwight H a notorious thief. These two persons watched the steel traps set by village boys for furred ani mals on the meadow. One day Mr. Butler found a number of musk-rat skins that had been left to dry in the coal house of his shop. Soon after making this discovery, he said to Dwight "How do you and Sam contrive to catch so many musk-rats ?" Dwight, having an impediraent in his speech, stammered out the reply, "We r — r — run 'em down.'' Sam and Dwight were together in and about the preraises at a late hour of the night on which the building was destroyed, and the burning of the shop was supposed to have been occasioned by fire which they care lessly dropped on the coal-heap while engaged in preparing for market the fiir pelts taken from animals they had stolen, Charles Kathan came from Westmoreland, N, H,, and remained only a few years. His smithy stood near the present dwelling place of Dea, Dan iel Fisher. Daniel Brown lived near the present stage road to Grafton, and worked in a building that stood on the lot where the Huzzy faraily afterward resided. Capt. Christy of Grafton built a blacksmith's shop near Brown's, and worked in it for two or three years. Before the name of the district was changed to Acton, Charles Kathan placed on sale a small stock of goods in a room of the house where Dea. Fisher now lives. The merchant was also a landlord, and further served the public by furnishing entertainment to those who had occasion to go on the favorite road at that time between Windham and Putney. Disposing of his real estate here, he took his family to South Windhara and opened a store there. Thence he went to Westmoreland, N. H. After Kathan left, Noah Fisher, Jr. kept store for two or three years in the building where Isaac Fisher lived. 28 Our brief biographical notices are limited to first settlers, soldiers of the revolutionary war, and a few leading men of the town who are not living. NOAH FISHER. He was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and came here from Hartford, Conn., in 1781. His first clearing was part of the lot awarded to him as one of the original proprietors and first settlers. It is now a past ure belonging to John L. Nichols. He had seven children, all of whom were born before his removal to Vermont. Their names were Timothy, Isaac, Polly, Noah, Ann, Lucy and Gurdin. It is believed that his first wife was the first person who died in the district. After his marriage to widow Skinner, he lived awhile with his son Noah ; then he removed to Ja maica, where he died about the year 1820. TIMOTHY FISHER Wae a revolutionary war pensioner, and carae here in 1781 with his father, Noah Fisher. The stateraents made to the writer all show that he cut the first tree felled in the district for the purpose of clearing the land. He married Elizabeth Caswell, and commenced house keeping in a log cab in which he built on his father's farra. Afterward he removed to the pres ent Robert Bartlett place, where he lived in a log house until he erected the frame house now standing "on that farm. During his stay in town, he worked at farming and as a shoe-maker. His pension was delayed for many years ; but coming at last, it found him in penury and kept him frora want. ISAAC FISHER Bought the lot west of where his father, Noah Fisher, settled, and added thereto by purchasing the several places occupied by Timothy Fisher, John Woodcock, David Butler, Francis Green and Charles Kathan. His wife's maiden name was Hannah Cobb, a daughter of Capt, Siraeon Cobb, who reraoved from Taunton, Mass,, to Westmoreland, N, H,, at the close of his service in the revolutionary war. After marriage they resided upon their large farm during their lives. His name is the only one that appears on every grand-list made by the listers of Acton, Upon profession of faith he was admitted to the Baptist Church at South Windham, and became a deacon of the same. Industrious, prudent, candid, dignified, unfailing in the performance of his duty and his promise, he was a thrifty farmer, an honest man, a respected and influential citizen. He died May 13, 1851, aged 86 years. His wife died July 1 7, 1851, aged 89 years. 29 PHILEMON HOLDEN Came from Shirley, Mass. He commenced his clearing in 1782, and built a log house to which he brought his wife and oldest child in the fol lowing Winter, or early in the Spring of 1783. This comfortless habita tion gave place to the first frame house in the district. In course of a few yeai's, this was taken down and a more commodious building erected on its site. Weakened by feeble health he lived in the dwelling last named until his death which took place in the month of October, 1804. He had not a vigorous body, but he wisely directed his business, and his gains were not wasted. So, in spite of hardships and sickness, he added yearly to the sum of his property, and left a competence to his faraily. AMOS HAILE Was born in the year 1768, in the town of Swanzey, R. I. His name was written Amos Haile 2d, upon the charter of Johnson's Gore. He re moved to Putney, Vt., with his father's family, and thence about the year 1796 to this district. For two or three years before marriage, he worked at clearing his land and as a mason ; boarding and making his home with Philemon Holden. During this period he built a house, and began to cul tivate what became a productive farm by his skillful industry. About 1798, he was married to .Miss Nancy Skinner of Jamaica, who is now (Feb. 1870) living. In 1817, his grand-list was larger than that of any other person in town. The various town offices held by hira are mentioned in the tables which conclude this Part of our Collections, Active, sensible, quick to perceive the right and obstinate in pursuing it, he is remembered for his in dustry, discernment, sagacious management of business raatters and up rightness. The deed of his farm — lately the homestead of Nathan Fisher — to N. & P. Fisher is dated January 25, 1827. At that date he had removed to Brookline, Vt., where he died in 1840. WILLIAM JENNISON Was born Jan. 18, 1760, in Sutton, Mass ; and was a brother of Robert Jennison who married Hannah, a daughter of Dea. Benjarain Howe, William married Miss Judith Kenney of Sutton, and their oldest child, born in 1785, was a year old when they came to Vermont. A yoke of ox-. en and sled composed tbe team which brought the family and effects from Sutton to this State. He first settled near the south-west corner of John son's Gore ; his house standing' not far from the junction of George Ad ams' lane with the road leading to Townshend. Afterward he lived in Townshend near the West village, and in the first house that stood on the 30 old road above Dr, Hazelton's residence. Thence he moved back to Ac ton, and built the brick house lately occupied by his son Joseph, where he lived the remainder of his days. In 1801, he was listed as the wealthiest man in town ; and, down to the division of his estate among his children in 1827, public estimation placed him in the class of substantial men of the vicinity. He held various offices within the gift of Acton, and was a Deacon of the Baptist Church at West Townshend. Under the act of Congress passed in 1832, he became a pensioner of the war of the Revolution. As a soldier he was faithful and observant of his duty. At the close of the war he was reduced to poverty by the worthlessness of his continental money ; but he was hopeful, sober minded, industrious, frugal, not easily moved frora his purpose, and kind. The commencement of his life work found him destitute of pecuniary means and among strangers ; at its close he had faithfully discharged his duties as a Christian citizen, and had accuraulat ed an estate, which by his care and foresight was a goodly inheritance. Then, after a few fleeting years spent among friends who loved him and acquaintances who esteemed him, he went to his reward. He died Feb. 14, 1838, aged 78 years. His widow died in the sarae house on the 19th day of March, 1855, aged 89 years, LEMUEL FARWELL Removed from Chesterfield, N, H., to this town with his wife and oldest child, in the Spring of 1804. During the first year of his residence, he oc cupied a part of the house where Philemon Holden lived. Then he gained possession of the house on the farm he owned and had carried on the year before. Here he resided until the Spring of 1836, when he moved to the Gen. Fletcher homestead which had been purchased in Townshend by him and his oldest son. On the death of this son their farm was divided, and the father built a new house upon his part where he lived until his decease. His first wife died on the eighth day of February, 1839, and he was subse quently married to widow Waity Walker, who survives him. By assiduous labor, shrewdness, order and economy he gained a property which mu(^h exceeded the average araount possessed by his acquaintances. He was a Deacon of the Baptist Church at South Windham, to which he was united on profession of faith. His official term as Justice of the Peace comraenced in 1813 and continued by annual appointment for thirty- seven consecutive years. In length of continuous service he ranked any Justice that ever lived in Acton or in Townshend. Frequent elections to various offices by his town and and by voluntary associations prove that he had more than ordinary natural abilities, and was highly esteemed at home, the place where a man usually is best known and justly appreciated. He died Sept. 11, 1865, being seven days short of eighty-five years of age. 31 EBENEZER HUNTINGTON Removed to this town near the raiddle of December, 1811, from Wind ham, Conn. His wife with a child of youthful age, and two maiden sisters came with him. These ladies remained unmarried, and were merabers of his family until their decease, which occurred a few years before their brother terminated his residence in the State. His first and only purchase of land was lot No. 7, on the plan of Johnson's Gore, and the cultivation of this farm was the principal business of his life. Being an excellent instructor, his services as teacher were in great re quest soon after he carae to Vermont. Increasing cares, however, prevent ed him from yielding assent to applications of this nature, after teaching a winter school for few terms in districts near his residence. A portion of his time was spent in serving those who employed him to manage their suits before Justices, Arbitrators, Commissioners and the like. The ability he showed on such occasions secured to him an enviable reputation as a good debater, and proves that he might have gained distinction at the bar, had he chosen the practice of law for his profession. He was often select ed by parties to determine their matters of controversy, and in 1820-21-22, he received the appointment of county court judge. He was the delegate of Acton to the county convention for locating the shire of Windham County, held by virtue of a resolution passed by the General Asserably in 1823 ; also the delegate of his town to the county convention called by the statute of 1826, for disposing of the old court-house, jail, land and appur- tences thereto belonging ; and the agent of the town to prosecute and de fend suits, whenever a suit was to be brought or defended by that spunky community. He was often called to fill other positions of trust and re sponsibility whose duties he discharged with ability, fidelity, and to the satisfaction of those who had honored him with their confidence. The political opinions of Judge Huntington long coincided with the views of those who were always in a hopeless minority both in his town and county; so that nominations often given him by his party never received the number of votes necessary for an election. But when the democratic party became an organization to extend, strengthen and perpetuate human slavery, he withdrew from it, became a free-soiler and then a republican. Had he remained in the State, his conceded ability and weight of character would have secured his election to offices by the political party of which he be carae a member. He was thoroughly awakened upon the subject of religion by the dis courses of Rev. Mr. Burchard at Grafton, in 1834, or 1835. Adopting the denominational views of the Methodists, he was an able and frequent lead- . er of their class and other religious meetings. His general intelligence, ready wit, facility of expression, and affability made him ever an agreeable and welcome companion. 32 His children had gone, and were fighting the battle of life at the West, his sisters and his wife had been taken away by death. In the month of March, 1857, he sold his farm, and removed from the State in the succeed ing Fall. He died Oct. 24, 1866, at Spring Mills, Alleghany County, New York, when residing with Mrs. Diana Cobb, his oldest child. His wife, Mrs, Lydia Huntington, died Jan. 12, 1857, aged 70 years. UNITED STATES PENSIONERS, Pensioners under act of Congress, March 18, 1818. Eleazer Cobleigh, Druraraer, N. H. Annual pension $96.00. Com mencement of pension, April 10, 1818, Age, a, 80. Timothy Fisher, Private, Conn. Annual pension $96.00. Coraraence ment of pension, April 10, 1818. Age, a, 72. Jaraes Huzzy, Private, Mass. Annual pension $96.00. Coraraence ment of pension, April 9, 1818. Age, a, 82. Died March 11, 1822. a. Age of the person when he applied for a pension. Pensioner under act of Congress, June 7, 1832. William Jennison, Private, Mass, Cont. Line. Annual pension $96,00. Comraenceraent of pension, March 6, 1818. Age, 74. U. S. Pensioners residing in Acton, June 1, 1840. Susannah Huzzy, age 88. Family with whom residing, Susannah Huzzy. Judith Jennison age 74. " " " " Joseph Jennison. Eleazer Cobleigh, age 87. " " " " Eleazer Cobleigh. ANNEXATION. The expensive duties cast upon organized towns soon made the inhabi tants of Acton sensible of the benefits they would derive from au enlarge ment of their territorial liraits. As early as the Fall of 1801, an effort was made to get the south half of Windham annexed to Acton, with a view of having the central village at South Windham. Had this project succeeded, a very acceptable addition would have been made to Acton, while Windham, which never had large extent, would have lost half its territory and been diminished to less than half the average size of towns in the county of Windhara. In 1812, an attempt was made to have the town enlarged by adding a school-district in Jamaica to which the third district in Acton practically belonged. But the raeasure could be productive of only small results, and ts friends were so feebly supported that they came far short of accomplish- ng their design. 33 Acton was defeated at the trial of a pauper suit by Windham County Court in September, 1829. The inhabitants of this small town justly apprehended burdensome taxation for a long time, if the final decision of this suit should be adverse to them, and they proposed to gain relief by action indi cated in the following resolution, which was passed in town meeting, March 2, 1829. "Resolved: That it is expedient to annex the town of Acton to the town of Windham ; and that the Selectmen of 'said Acton be directed to solicit the passage of a vote, at the adjourned meeting in the town of Windham, to have the town of Acton set to and annexed to said town of Windham ; and that the same be petitioned for at the next session of the Legislature of this State." Public opinion in Windham did not express itself in favor of the prop osition ; the Supreme Court disposed of the pauper suit by establishing the rule, that a person owning and occupying a freehold estate is not liable to be reraoved therefrora as a person likely to become chargeable to the town where he is residing. This decision was in favor of Acton, and its good people in their joy soon dropped the subject named in the above resolution, A road, which would have been an expensive work, was laid from Graf ton across the north-east part of Acton, to Windham. Even the laying of this road was an inducement persuasive enough to secure a passage of the following vote by the town on the first day of March, 1830. " Voted : To be set and annexed to the town of Townshend, without proviso or condition, in pursuance of the 5th article in the warrant," At the same meeting, Lerauel Farwell, Isaac Fisher, Jr, and Nathan Fisher were chosen a Committee to attend the adjourned meeting of the town of Townshend, and solicit the passage of a vote at said town meeting to have the town of Acton set to and annexed to said town of Townshend. Acton procured a discontinuance of the road above named before it was built, and the question of annexation was again postponed, to wait the pressure of a more enduring motive. In 1836, an effort was made to have a part of Townshend and a part of Jamaica annexed to Acton, with the intention of having West Townshend the central village. In the Legislature, the petitions were referred to a select committee consisting of the members from Windham County, to join a committee from Council, This committee reported that the prayer of the petitioners ought to be granted, and brought in a bill in accordance there with, with a recomraendation to pass the same. The conclusions of the committee were not adopted by the House ; and, after discussion, the mat ter was referred to the next Session. 34 Before the Legislature met in 1835, Townshend voted to resist dismem berment, but also voted to receive the town of Acton, At first, Acton was in favor of the proposed measure, but when brought to the test, it plainly appeared that she— Judge Huntington remarked that Acton repre sented the female raarried by the law uniting the two towns— had become demoralized by the more acceptable connection proposed in the vote of Townshend. The towns interested being all opposed to the bill, it was de feated of course. On the 3d day of Sept. 1839, the town "Voted: To petition the Legisla ture of this State to be annexed to the town of Windhara, or to have it send out a coraraittee to set off said town of Acton to the town or towns they in their wisdom shall see fit." The town of Windham opposed the proposition, and it was thought best not to bring the matter to the consider ation of the Legislature, The next action of the town upon the subject was taken in 1840. Any project of the kind could assume but one of two forms; annexation to Wind ham, or annexation to Townshend. Windhara was the more conveniently situated, but its inhabitants stoutly resisted the measure. They did not care to make South Windham the place of holding their town meetiifgs. Among the attractions presented to Acton by Townshend, were a cordial desire for the union and a grand-list raore than double that of Windham, Under an article in the warning " To see if the town will take further raeasures for the annexation of the town to Windhara," Joseph Jennison, Eli Smith and Pliney Fisher were chosen on the first day of September, 1840, "a Committee to take such measures as they shall think best for al tering the condition of the town, as mentioned in the second article of the warrant for the meeting," It was soon ascertained that Windham could not be persuaded to favor its enlargement in the raanner proposed, and the idea of being united to that town was then abandoned. The population and wealth of Acton were gradually diminishing while the burden of its liabilities was increasing. No change for the better could be discerned by looking at what was likely to happen in the future. Nay, it was painfully apparent that what was in store for this people would place them in less favorable circumstances in the matter of taxation, and so make it very difficult if not impossible for them to obtain relief. If an nexation to Townshend was ever to be accomplished, ordinary sagacity suggested speedy action to secure such a result, and while the inhabitants of that town were in favor of the union. On the third day of October, 1840, Acton " Voted, unanimously, that said Acton ought to be annexed to the town of Townshend ; and that we 35 will petition the Legislature of this State, at their next session, for the fore going object." At the same meeting, the town also " Voted, to raise a Com mittee of three, to meet a Committee chosen by the town of Townshend, to agree upon the conditions of union and the other acts necessary to be done for the accomplishment of the proposed union. Ebenezer Huntington, Joseph Jennison and Pliney Fisher were chosen to be said Committee." Soon after this meeting, petitions for the annexation of Acton to Towns hend were presented to the Legislature, and in due time, a law to that effect passed, and was approved Oct. 29, 1840. By the first section of this statute, Acton was to become a part of Townshend on the first day of February, 1841, upon the condition set forth in the second section, that each of the towns shall, at a town meeting legally warned and holden for that pur pose before the first day of February next, vote to adopt the provisions of this act. Each of the towns, on the 10th day of November, 1840, voted to adopt the provisions of the statute which made them one town. The citizens had a meeting at the West village, on the first day of Feb ruary, 1841, to celebrate the union of their towns. Reraarks and senti ments appropriate to the occasion were offered by Charles Phelps, John Roberts, Ebenezer Huntington, William R. Shafter, Sarauel F. Thompson and others. ANNUAL EXPENSES. The yearly cost to Acton of maintaining its roads has been giveu. We now exhibit the sums raised by corporate vote to pay the other liabilities against that town. 1801. April 13. Six dollars raised. 1802. March 21. Sum raised, "to defray the last year's expenses." 1803. March I. Seven dollars raised. 1804. March 4. Three dollars raised. 1805. March. Five dollars raised. Sept. 30, five dollars raised. 1806. March 3. Seven dollars raised. 1807.1808.1809, March 6. Seven dollars raised, 1810,1811. March 4. Eight dollars raised, 1812.1813. March 1. Ten dollars raised. 1814. Oct. 18. Two per cent, of grand-list. 1816. March 6. U per cent. Dec. 18, i per cent. 1816. January 29. IJ per cent. 36 1817. April 17. 1 per cent. 1 1818. March 2, J per cent. 1819, March 1. Fifty dollars raised. 1820. March 29. 2 per cent. 1821. April 2. 2J per cent. 1822. March 26. 2 per cent. Aug. 10, 1 per cent. 1823. April 7. 2J per cent. 1824. March 1. 3 per cent. 1825. March 7, 3 per cent. 1826. March 6, 4 per cent. 1827. March 28. 10 per cent, 1828, March 3. 9 per cent. 1829. March 2. 16 per cent. State tax remitted to town treasury. Oct. 1 4. 3 per cent. 1830. March 22. 13 per cent, 1831, March 7, 8 per cent. " April 9. Board tax on grand-list to support a pauper. 1832. March 5. 16 per cent, 1833, March 18, 3 per cent. Sept, 3, 10 per cent. 1884. March 3, 7 per cent. 1835. March 2. 4 per cent. Nov. 16, 12 per cent. 1836. Sept. 6. 12 per cent, 1837. Sept. 5. 15 per cent. 1838. Sept. 4. 20 per cent. 1889. Sept. 3. 40 per cent. 1840. Sept. 1. 10 per cent. SUMMARY. 1827-81, Yearly average for the five years, 11 4-5 per cent. 1832-36. " " " five years, 12 4-5 per cent. 1837-40. " " " four years, 21i per cent. 1827-40. Yearly average for the fourteen years, 14 6-7 per cent. PLACES OE HOLDING TOWN MEETINGS. 1801-06. At the dwelling house of Noah Fisher, 1807-08. " " " John Warren. 1809. " " " Lyman Scott. 1810-15. " " " Benjamin Janes. 1816. January 29. The town voted, " To hold the town meetings at the School houses in the First and Second School Districts alternately." 37 The annual meeting in March, 1816, was held at the School house of the first district, and the subsequent meetings were held at the two School houses, pursuant to the vote above given. MARRIAGES EECOEDED IN THE TOWN RECORDS OF ACTON. 1806. BRIDEGROOM. BRIDE. March 19. Moses Clayton, of Acton. Abigail Kingsbury, of Acton'. 1807. Feb. 11, Zolvey Cobleigh, of Acton, Hannah Jennison, of Acton, 1811. Aug. 16, Adin Cobleigh, of Acton. Huldah Dyer, of Chester. 1812. Dec, 4, Elias Jennison, of Townshend. Hannah Gates, of Acton. 1813. Feb. 9. Squire Holden, of Acton. Lucy Chaffin, of Acton. Oct. 8, Joel Farr, of Acton, Phebe Ray, of Townshend. Oct. 8. Arza Ray, of Townshend. Lois Kingsbury, of Acton. 1814, Feb. 12, Joseph Franklin, of Grafton. Rachel Covey, of Acton. July 17. Solomon Hudson, of Acton. Hannah Scott, of Windham. Dec, 1, Jasher Harris, of Grafton. Betsey Jordan, of Acton, 1817. Dec. 21. Benj. Howe, Jr,,of Townshend, Sophia Jennison, of Acton. 1819, Jan, 21. John Guild, of Newfane. Betsey Jennison, of Acton. Dec. 5. Squire Kingsbury, Wallingford. Esther Streeter, of Acton. Dec. 20. John Streeter, of Acton. Betsey Farr, of Acton. 1820. Jan, 9. Joseph Howe, of Windham. Phila Johnson, of Acton. 1824. April 27. Horace W. Stone, of Acton. Hannah Fisher, of Acton. Sept. 5. Benj, Tripp, of Windham, Betsey Farr, of Windham, Dec. 8. Kimball Farr, of Townshend. Sophia Farwell, of Acton. 1825. June 25. John Streeter, 2d, of Acton. Polly E, Thomas, of Acton. 1826. Aug, 29. Jonas Holden, of Acton. Roxana Jordan, of Acton. BRIDEGROOM. 38 1827. BRIDE. May 13. Eli Smith, of Acton. Betsey Gleason, of Grafton. 1829. April 1. Flavel Jennison, of Acton. Almira Farwell, of Acton. 1831. Feb. 17. Porter Gale, of Windhara. Delila Hazelton, of Acton. Sept, 13. Jonathan Melendy, Jr., of Londonderry. Silence Jennison, of Acton. Dec. 8. Israel Streeter, of Dorset. Betsey Hildreth, of Acton. 1833. Jan, 10, Sara'l Oak, of Athens. Abigail Brown, of Acton. FAMILY REGISTERS RECORDED IN THE TOWN EECORDS OF ACTON. Covey, Joseph and Theodosia, his wife. Their children are Elisha, born, Aug. 25, 1773. Theodosia, born. Sept. 17, 1786 Joseph, Oct. 11, 1775. Levi, t( Aug. 12, 1788. Theodore, Sept. 11, 1777. Lyraan, (t May 2, 1791 Polly, Aug, 21, 1779. Ransora, " Oct. 15, 1793 Rachel, Nov. 9, 1781. Sophy, It Nov. 6, 1795 Azel, March 31, 1784. Samuel, ll Dec. 26, 1798 Sophia, born, Paschal P., " Almira, " Azubah, " Lemuel, " Farr, Thomas. Thomas, born July 20, 1826. Farwell, Lemuel. Lemuel Farwell, born Sept. 18, 1780. Zilpha Farwell, his wife, born Sept. 13, 1782. Their children are Aug, 16, 1803, Winslow, born, Jan, 13, 1814. May 80, 1805. Jason A., " Nov. 24, 1815. Dec. 23, 1806. Emily, " Sept. 5, 1818. Feb, 12, 1809. Lucretia, " Feb. 12, 1821. Jan. 13. 1812. Salina, " Dec. 22, 1824. Fisher, Daniel and Azubah (Farwell), his wife. Chastina A., born, Sept. 3, 1836. Merrill, born, March 31, 1838. Isaac, Hannah,Nathan, 39 Fisher, Isaac and Hannah, his wife. born, Sept. 7, 1794. Pliney, born, Jan. 3, 1798. Aug. 21, 1800. Daniel, Sept. 10, 1808. Oct. 9, 1806. Fisher, Isaac, Jr. and Caroline, his wife. Hannah A., born, Feb. 26, 1833. Aurelius D., born Nov. 9, 1846. Isaac A., " July 15, 1841. Merrill A., " June 15, 1862. Alfred J., " June 23, 1844, Fisher, Nathan and Celestia, his wife, Jane E,, born April 1, 1888, Byron O., born, Jan. 10, 1846. Charles C, " June 21, 1839. Sarah E,, " March 19, 1849. Maria A., " May 31, 1842. Willie R., " July 16, 1855. Fisher, Pliney and Mary Ann, his wife. Octavus L., born, March 19, 1838. Ellen M., born, Dec. 7, 1840. Fisher, Timothy. Mary C, Philander,Royall E., born, ll ll Nov. 27, 1814. Nov. 16, 1816. May 5, 1820. Charles C. Almon, Nancy C, ,, born, llIt • Jan. 8, 1822. Nov. 24, 1823, July 18, 1826. Haile, Amos and Nancy (Skinner), his wife. Achsah, Nancy,Lucy, Nathan, Charles, born, « It (( March 16, 1801. May 30, 1808. Aug. 14, 1804, April 2, 1806, Nov, 26, 1808, Cyrene,James, Mary, Walter, born, tt It March 4, 1810. Sept. 26, 1812. Feb. 2, 1814, Jan. 27, 1816, Harris, William, Jr. Jonas, Charles, born May 11, 1816. Nov. 18, 1823. John, born, Sept. 7, 1826. Holden, Dennis and Achsah, '. his wife. Philemon,Sabra,Ira,Lurintha, born, tt tt it Aug, 18, 1808. Nov. 3, 1809. Dec. 4, 1812. Aug. 15, 1814. Achsah, Loisa, Fidelia, born, ll ll Jan. 14, 1815, July 17, 1817, Feb. 27, 1818, Sabra, Sylvenus, John, Jonas, born, 40 Holden, Philemon. Dec. 23, 1782. Dennis, Jan. 1, 1788. May 31, 1791. Squire, Willard, June 1, 1796. Lorenzo, born. Dec. 6, 1784. July 14, 1789. Feb, 8, 1793. Sept. 5, 1798. Huntington, Ebenezer, Diana, not recorded. Born in Connecticut. Lucretia, born, June 26, 1815. Jared H., Ebenezer H., " Feb, 27, 1817. Olive, Eleazer P., " Feb. 27, 1817. Lucretia, DeWitt Clinton, not recorded. born, Feb. 18, 1820. " March 21, 1822, " April 15, 1827. Minerva, not recorded. Jennison, William and Judith (Kenney), his wife. John, born, Hannah, " Olive,Betsy,Polly, Feb. 8, 1785. Nov. 14, 1786, Jan, 4, 1789. Feb, 9, 1796, Feb. 15, 1798. Samuel, born, Flavel, Joseph, " Silence, " Aug. 29, 1800. Nov, 20, 1803. May 4, 1807. May 5, 1810. Smith, Eli and Betsey (Gleason), his wife. Calista, born, July 7, 1828. Lowell, born, Aug. 26, 1886. Philinda, " Aug, 12, 1832, George, " April 21, 1841, Sprague, Major, Derick L,, born, Aug, 3, 1819, Mary L,, born, April 6, 1824. Rachel, Streeter, John, born, June 17, 1820, Elizabeth, born, Dec, 1, 1823. Woodcock, John and Polly, his wife. John Woodcock, born Oct. 6, 1777. Polly Woodcock, born Aug. 21, 1779. Their children are Polly, born, Aug. 5, 1800. Loren, born, Susannah, " Oct, 7, 1802, Nov, 20, 1804, STATISTICS FROM THE GRAND-LISTS OF ACTON. Year, 1801 1802 1803 1805 1808 1809 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1824 Polls, 20 25 22 31 33 34 29 84 39 37 31 36 87 39 33 29 Acres of improved land, 43>^ 46 85 108 117 104 128 120 109 132 116 122 125 123 122 Houses, 7 6 9 10 13 15 13 15 18 8 19 18 25 25 24 28 Oxen, 20 26 20 27 40 42 34 88 43 54 82 38 44 48 84 46 Neat cattle 3 yra, old & upwards 51 60 71 76 98 84 96 108 140 116 127 180 129 121 119 112 h(^1 » 05 Two-year-olds, 16 22 29 69 27 33 38 45 39 41 40 33 48 63 34 44 Horses, 17 25 25 24 32 34 29 29 28 33 83 30 33 29 28 21 Two-year-old Colts, 5 2 1 6 5 1 1 4 6 5 3 5 10 6 6 Yearling Colts, 2 3 8 1 2 3 6 6 5 6 7 4 12 3 5 3 Watches and Clocks, 1 2 1 4 4 1 1 2 1 Debts due & money on hand, 6 00 150 00'200 00 850 00 850 00 200 00 200 00 350 00 300 00 250 00 800 00 No, listed for debts due & money, one two one one two one one two two one one YcBr. 1829. 1830. ISSI. 1832. 1833. 1834. District. one two three four one two three four one two three four one two three four one two three four one two three four Polls, at $in. 18 10 8 3 12 9 3 3 10 8 8 4 18 8 8 4 12 7 3 4 13 9 4 4 Acres of land, at 6 per cent., 297 818 140 155 292 318 140 155 297 326 140 155 295 270 150 148 295 289 150 148 295 289 150 143 Houses and lots, at 4 per cent.. 11 10 5 4 11 10 5 4 11 10 5 4 11 10 5 4 11 10 5 4 11 10 5 4 Oxen, at $2, 10 14 2 4 14 18 6 4 12 14 8 4 15 10 7 2 16 12 8 6 16 10 6 6 Cows and other cattle 8 yrs. old. 49 44 17 7 46 45 20 9 50 86 19 10 39 40 83 14 40 88 24 12 44 25 25 12 Cattle of 2 yrs. old, at 75 cts., 25 15 8 1 24 10 4 3 17 28 10 22 17 11 8 26 24 4 4 86 16 6 4 Horses and mules. 12 12 2 3 15 12 2 4 17 14 8 6 13 18 7 5 23 11 5 6 6 7 5 7 Sheep, at 10 cts.. 150 165 58 88 138 144 26 50 153 132 47 64 149 183 65 46 146 192 64 48 129 207 71 56 Common watches, at $1, 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 - No. listed for money and debts. one Money on hand and due. $400 to Year. 1835. 1836. 183T. 1838. 1839. 1840. District. one two three four one two three four one two three four one two three four one two three four one two three four Polls, at $10, 13 9 3 5 14 7 2 5 9 8 3 4 9 9 3 3 10 10 3 6 11 8 3 8 Acres of land, at 6 per cent.. 295 289 150 143 296 289 150 143 296 328 170 168 '286 823 160 168 296 828 160 153 296 823 160 153 Houses and lots, at 4 per cent.. 11 10 6 4 11 10 6 4 11 8 4 4 11 8 4 4 10 8 4 4 10 8 4 4 Oxen, at $2, 16 8 8 4 18 8 2 2 14 8 4 12 6 6 4 8 9 4 2 14 6 6 4 Cows and other cattle 3 yrs. old, 48 38 29 21 48 37 22 5 88 39 14 15 29 84 16 6 80 85 21 8 38 39 31 11 Cattle of 2 yrs. old, at 75 cts. 19 12 14 2 83 16 2 11 14 6 11 10 2 12 17 6 9 7 2 1 Horses and mules. 18 9 4 8 17 17 4 3 18 13 4 8 12 12 4 4 11 11 3 6 12 11 6 5 Sheep, at 10 cts.. 223 233 73 60 203 107 29 32 200 161 85 22 168 142. 60 86 191 178 75 48 280 206 100 65 Common watches, at $1, 1 1 No. listed for money and debts, two one two one two one three one three one Money on hand and due, $ 400 100 300 100 800 100 300 150 575 150 43 FOOTING OP THE GRAND-LIST OF ACTON FOR THE FOLLOWING YEARS. Year. Amount. Year. Amount. Year. Amount, Year. Amount 1801. $1826.05. 1808. $2732.22. 1812. $3127.50. 1816. $3062.75 1802. 1591.20. 1809. 2635.23. 1813. 8006.00. 1817. 3042.41 1803. 1641.45. 1810. 2643.75. 1814. 2761.00. 1818. 2614.50 1805. 2298.07. 1811. 2719.00. 1815. 2834.50. 1824. 1895.09 Year. Amount. Year. Amount. Year. Amount 1829. Sch. Dist. 1, $395.58 1833. Sch. Dist 1, $418.69 1887. Sch. Dist 1, $393.95 2, 345.66 " 2, 420.11 " 2, 351.92 " 3, 128.77 " 3, 177.84 « 3, 165.04 " 4, 122.70 " 4, 160.20 " 4, 159.65 Amount of list, $992.71 Amount of list, $1,176,84 Amount of list, $1,070.56 1830. Sch. Dist 1, $396.92 1884. Sch. Dist 1, $446.34 1838. Sch. Dist. 1, $374.24 2, 336,33 " 2, 423,21 " 2, 348,52 " 3, 136.42 " 3, 181.29 " 3, 166.54 « 4, 129.14 " 4, 162.90 " 4, 138.80 Amount of list, ,81 Amount of list, $1,213,74 Amount of list, $1,028,10 1831, Sch. Dist 1, $379.95 1835. Sch. Dist 1, $442.74 1839. Sch. Dist 1, $819.75 2, 313.68 " 2, 421.30 " 2, 346.60 3, 145.42 " 3, 180.74 " 3, 158.76 4, 143.29 " 4, 180.15 " 4, 152.80 Amount of list, $982.29 Amount of list, $1,224.93 Amount of list, $977.91 i.24 1840. Sch. Dist 1, $386.11 328.94 " 2, 322.86 188.84 " 3, 169.01 158.10 " 4, 189.00 1832. Sch. Dist 1, $414.34 1836. Sch. Dist. 1, 2, 342,10 " 2, " 3, 191,44 " 3, 4, 155.75 " 4, Amount of list, $1,103,63 Amount of list, $1,076.12 Amount of list, $1,016.98 Summary showing the average amount triennially of the grand-lists of Acton taken under the listing law of 1825, and remaining in our town clerk's offlce. 1829, 1830, 1831, Average Amount' $991.27. 1882,1833,1884, " " 1164.73. 1835,1836,1837, " " 1128.87. 1838,1839,1840, " " 1007,66. Census of 1792, 1800, 1810, NUMBER OF INHABITANTS, 49. Census of 1820, 204. 132. " 1830, 176, 245. " 1840, 170. -44 REPRESENTATIVES TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 1824, 26, 28. Ebenezer Huntington. 1825. Lemuel Farwell. 1829, 30, 35, 38, 40. Nathan Fisher. 1827, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 39. Not represented. DELEGATE TO CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS. 1828. Not represented. 1836. Nathan Fisher. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. 1802,03,06-11. AmosKaile. 1813-35, Lemuel Farwell. 1805, 06, 08. Aaron Knap. 1817-19, 22-40. Eb'r Huntington. 1811, 12. John White. 1829-40. Nathan Fisher. 1812. Alexander Haile. 1836-40. Daniel Fisher. PROPRIETORS' CLERKS. Previous to March 7, 1782, Nathan Fisk, After March 7, 1782, Amos Haile. TOWN OFFICERS. TOWN CLERKS. 1801-08. Waitstill Scott, Jr. 1819-29. Eb'r. Huntington. 1809-17. Amos Haile. 1830-33, 36-40. Daniel Fisher. 1818. William Harris, Jr. 1834-35. Lemuel Farwell. MODERATORS OF ANNUAL MARCH MEETINGS. Farr, Thomas, 1804. Farwell, Lemuel, 1807, '08, '09, '12, '13, '19, '28. Fisher, Noah, Jr., 1805, '06, Fisher, Timothy, 1802, '10, '11, '14, '15, '20, Harris, William, Jr,, 1823. Holden, Philemon, 1801. Holden, Squire, 1825. Huntington, Ebenezer, 1816, '17, '18, '37. Knap, Aaron, 1803. Scott, Rhodolphus, 1821, '22. Sprague, Major, 1824, '26, '27, '29, '30, '31, '32-36, '38-40, 45' TOWN TREASURERS. 1801-06, 19-22. Isaac Fisher. 1823-29, Eb'r Huntington. 1807-08. Amos Haile. 1830-33,36-40. Daniel Fisher. 1809-18, 34, 35. Lemuel Farwell. SELECTMEN. 1801, Amos Haile, Aaron Knap, W'illiam Jennison. 1802, Amos Haile, Aaron Knap, Waitstill Scott 1803, Waitstill Scott, Thomas Farr, William Jennison. 1804, Amos Haile, Aaron Knap, Joseph Covey. 1805, Amos Haile, Waitstill Scott, Lemuel Farwell, 1806-08, Waitstill Scott, John Warren, Wilson Hildreth, 1809, Amos Haile, W^illiani Jennison, John White, 1810, Amos Haile, John White, Benjamin Janes. 1811, Lemuel Farwell, Josiah Gates, Isaac Fisher. 1812, Amos Haile, John White, Lemuel Farwell. 1813, Amos Haile, Lemuel Farwell, Timothy Fisher, 1814, Lemuel Farwell, Azel Covey, Timothy Fisher. 1815, Timothy Fisher, Isaac Fisher, Rhodolphus Scott, 1816, Timothy Fisher, Rhodolphus Scott, Isaac Fisher. 1817, Amos Hale, Rhodolphus Scott, Lemuel Farwell. 1818, Lemuel Farwell, Rhodolphus Scott, Levi Covey. 1819, Lemuel Farwell, William Harris, Jr., Major Sprague, 1820, Timothy Fisher, Rhodolphus Scott, Major Sprague. 1821, Rhodolphus Scott, Ebenezer, Huntington, John Streeter. 1822, Rhodolphus Scott, John Streeter, Isaac Powers. 1823, William Harris, Jr., Isaac Fisher, Lemuel Farwell. 1824, William Jennison, Noah Fisher, Isaac Fisher. 1825, Ebenezer Huntington, William Harris, Jr., Lemuel Farwell. 1826, Ebenezer Huntington, Lemuel Farwell, William Harris, Jr. 1827, Lemuel Farwell Isaac Fisher, Jr., William Harris, Jr. 1828, Lemuel Farwell, William Harris, Jr., Isaac Fisher, Jr. 1829, Isaac Fisher, Jr., Ebenezer Huntington, Nathan Fisher. 1830, Isaac Fisher, Jr., Nathan Fisher, Dennis Holden. 1831, Isaac Fisher, Jr., Nathan Fisher, Apollos Francis. 1832-33, Lemuel Farwell, Major Sprague, Horace W. Stone. 1834, Major Sprague, Horace W. Stone, Joseph Jennison. 1835, Nathan Fisher, Ebenezer Huntington, Joseph Christy. 1836, Joseph Jennison, Major Sprague, Israel Hazelton. 1837, Major Sprague, Israel Hazelton, Nathan Fisher. 1888-39, Major Sprague, Squire Holden, Eli Sraith. 1840, Squire Holden, Eli Smith, Isaac Fisher, Jr. 46 LISTERS. 1801, Amos Haile, Waitstill Scott, Jr. 1802, Philemon Holden, Rufus Scott. 1803, Isaac Fisher, Aaron Knap. 1804, Waitstill Scott, Solomon Hudaon. 1805, Amoa Haile, William Jennison, Timothy Fiaiher. 1806, Thomas Farr, Lemuel Farwell, Eleazer Cobleigh. 1807, Amos Haile, Isaac Fisher, William Jennison, John Streeter. 1808, Josiah Gates, John White, Ezra Streeter. 1809, William Johnson, John Streeter, Rhodolphus Scott. 1810, Lemuel Farwell, Josiah Gates, William Jennison. 1811, John White, Isaac Fisher, Benj. Sumner, Jr. 1812, Benjamin Janes, John Streeter, Peter Allen. 1813, Wilson Hildreth, Noah Fisher, Benjamin Sumner. 1814, Amos Haile, Lemuel Farwell, William Johnson. 1815, William Jennison, Rhodolphus Scott, Ebenezer Brooks. 1816, Milton Wilder, Ebenezer Huntington, William Johnson. 1817, William Harris, Jr., Levi Covey, William Johnson. 1818, Milton Wilder, Ebenzer Huntington, Isaac Fisher, Jr. 1819, Lemuel Farwell, Ebenezer Huntington, Major Sprague. 1820, Ebenezer Huntington, Isaac Fisher, Rhodolphus Scott. 1821, Ebenezer Huntington, Isaac Fisher, Lemuel FarwelL 1822, Ebenezer Huntington, Major Sprague, William Harris, Jr. 1823, Isaac Fisher, Jr., Major Sprague, Timothy Fisher, Jr. 1824, Ebenezer Huntington, Lemuel Farwell, Timothy Fisher. 1825, Isaac Fisher, Jr., Micah R. Farr, Major Sprague. 1826, Squire Holden, Thomas Farr, Zebulon Jefts. 1827, Ebenezer Huntington, l.iemuel Farwell, William Harris Jr. 1828, Nathan Fisher, Eli Smith, Zebulon Jefts. 1829, Lemuel Farwell, Major Sprague, Thomas Farr. 1830, Thomas Farr, Pliny Fisher, Squire Hoden. 1831, Major Sprague, Horace W. Stone, Iri Fairbanks. 1832, Nathan Fisher, Ebenezer Huntington, Samuel Jennison. 1833, Joseph Jennison, Isaac Fisher, Jr., Alonzo Hildreth. 1834, Nathan Fisher, Israel Hazelton, Alonzo Hildreth. 1835, Major Sprague, Isaac Fisher, Jr., Pliny Fisher. 1836, Pliny Fisher, Israel Streeter, Isaac Fisher, Jr. 1837, Ebenezer Huntington, Isaac Fisher, Jr., Alanson Hildreth. 1838, Dennis Holden, Joseph Jennison, Isaac Fisher, Jr. 1839, Nathan Fisher, Joseph Jennison, Israel Hazelton. 1840, Major Sprague, Pliny Fisher, Apollos Francis. 47 CONSTABLES. 1801. Isaac Fisher. 1812. Ezra Streeter. 1802, 05. Timothy Fisher. 1813. Peter Allen. 1803. Rufus Scott 1817. Ebenezer Huntington, 1804. Noah Fisher, Jr. 1829-34. Jonas Holden. 1806-10. Josiah Gates. 1835, 36, 40. Philemon Holden. 1811. Rhodolphus Scott 1837-39. Dennis Holden. 1814, 15, 16, 18, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26. Timothy Fisher, Jr. 1819, 20, 23, 27, 28. Squire Holden. OOLHiEICTIOISrS ftStATINQ-lq, TBE-, HISTORY AND INHABITANTS mi F.r D m nk- VERMONT, I:N tiiree P»i?^RT8, JAMJBS H. PHELPS, FAJ^rt II- -BBi-TiiaKBOJlO : , I'EINTED BY SELLECK <& DAVlS. '¦:' ' i-" . 1884. ' ' - ' TOWNSHEND. The oldest towns in the present county of Windham were granted by the Colonial Government of New Hampshire, when Benning Wentworth was Governor of that province. Their corporate names remind one of the Earl of Halifax, the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl of Wilmington, the Marquis of Rockingham, Francis Fane and Charles Townshend, who were distin guished members of the Ministries at whose pleasure Governor Wentworth held his office. Of New Hampshire grants on the east side of the Green Mountains, the seventh in chronological order was called Townshend. This town is situated a little north of the geographical center of Windham County, and, at the time Acton was annexed, was bounded North, by Acton and Athens ; East, by Athens and Brookline ; South, by Brookline and New fane ; West, by Wardsborough and Jamaica. Since the addition of Acton, Townshend has been bounded on the North by Windham, Grafton and Athens ; West, by Wardsborough, Jamaica and Windham ; while on the East and South the bounds of 1840 remain at the present day. Indian relics have been found in the vicinity of West Eiver. A stone axe, a number of arrow and spear points, and a clay tube eight inches in length by one and a quarter inches in diameter have been preserved. The implement last named was discovered in November, 1869, by laborers while shoveling dirt from a knoll near the river and a mountain rivulet ; a posi tion which overlooks a prospect exceedingly beautiful. Bones, evidently human, were taken up with the tube; but these crumbled to dust on exposure to the air. Within the limits of the town are four neighborhoods ; the East Village, West Village, Harmonyville and Simpsonville. Of these, the largest is the East Village, which is the business center of little less than six-sevenths of the area of the town exclusive of Acton. Persons residing in the north west part of the town, the west part of Acton, south part of Windham and . east part of Jamaica, do a good share of their business at the West Village, Simpsonville and Harmonyville are hamlets situated in the vicinity of the East Village ; the first being little over a mile north, and the second about half a mile south of that place. The East and West Villages are about five miles from each other. 50 Both villages have a post-office in daily communication each way with Brattleboro' and Bellows Falls, which are seventeen miles from the East Village by the nearest road. But the stage to Bellows Falls passes through Grafton, and so goes four miles further than it would by the other road through Athens. Tri-weekly service is rendered on the mail routes from West Townshend to Stratton, and to North Windham ; the former route being nearly fifteen miles, and the latter ten miles in length. West River, in passing ^through the south-westerly part of the town, re ceives the waters of Acton -Brook, Fair Brook, Negro Brook, Joy Brook and Mill Brook. Fletcher Brook is a tributary of Acton Brook, and Simp son Brook is the main branch of Mill Brook. Numerous springs and rivu lets furnish an abundant supply of pure water for domestic use. Of late, the seasons have been so dry that irrigation has been resorted to in some instances, but a more general use of water for that purpose could easily be made. Mill Brook is largest of the brooks above named, and drains about two-thirds the area of the town. At the distance of one-half to three-fourths of a mile from the river, and from the bed of the other streams the land rises, often gradually, sometimes precipitously to the ridges by which the valleys are terminated. These divides are of considerable height, and, especially in the vicinity of West River, present a succession of rocky hills. Two of these eminences have been named Peaked Mountain and Bald Mountain, from the peculiarity of their appearance. The original town has nearly the rock formation whieh exists in Acton. Fine specimens of quartz crystals have been found at the south-east part of the town, upon the Jasper Murdock farm. A ledge upon the James Gray farm affords material for excellent lime. Boulders of granite and svenite that can be split into fence posts are occasionally found. No ores have been discovered, neither have any stones been quarried for building purposes. The primitive forest, unbroken and extending to the summit of the hills, mostly consisted of the maple, birch, beech, hemlock aud spruce ; among these were interspersed the ash, oak and elm. Basswood, cottonwood, butter nut and pine were more rarely found. Land in vicinity of the river is very productive aud readily sells for a good price. Upon the hill sides plenteous crops of vegetables, cereals and grass are obtained, while the more elevated portions of the town are excellent grazing grouud. Fine apples, and pears of excellent quality grow upon most of the farms. Quinces, plums and grapes are raised iu the valley of West River. Peach trees are seen iu some yards and gardens, but the long intervals between their bearing greatly discourage those who try to cultivate that delicious fruit. Blackberries and raspberries are found in clearings and by the roadside. Two flourishing villages, two thriving vills, besides many comfortable, and 51 desirable dwellings, scattered about town are outgrowths of what has been done here in the way of business by an industrious, intelligent, thrifty and .generous people. The inhabitants, with few exceptions, have been engaged in agricultural pursuits; and their success has been such that Townshend now, 1871, ranks in population as ninth of twenty-three towns comprising the county of Windham, and the sixth in wealth. 1748-1763. Commissaries, under the treaty of Aix la Chapelle, failed of coming to any agreement respecting the territorial limits of Acadia and Canada. The unsettled controversy made the governments of France and England more warlike, as well as more active in enlarging the number of their military posts, and in extending their settlements for the purpose of getting control of the vast territory in North America to which each laid claim. By a fundamental principle in English law, the King of England became original proprietor, and the only source of valid individual title to land in every English colony. Whenever grants from him were obtained through the proper Colonial Governor and Council, those officers named the grantees, and caused a conveyance to be duly executed in the King's name. Signa tures of the Governor and Secretary to a charter, having the Provincial Seal annexed, were sufficient to establish a grant from the King, and justi fied the passing of such charter from the Secretary's office. The original proprietors of Townshend obtained title from the Crown through the Colonial Governor and Council of New Hampshire. The in strument of conveyance to them, or, in other words, the town charter is dated June 20, 1753. It is in the usual form, and we now give only the particulars wherein it is supposed to differ from any township charter executed by the same Magistracy. The premises conveyed are bounded as follows : "Beginning at a stake and stones, the North-Easterly corner of Fane; thence running six miles North, twenty degrees East, to a stake and stones ; thence West ten degrees North, to a stake and stones ; thence South twenty degrees West, to the North-West corner of Fane ; thence East ten degrees South, by Fane aforesaid, to the North-Easterly corner thereof, being the stake and stones begun at." Another portion of the charter is expressed in these words : "The first meeting for the choice of town officers, agreeable to the laws of our said Province, shall be held on the last Wednesday in August, next; which meeting shall be notified by John Hazeltine, Esq., who is hereby, also appointed the Moderator of said first meeting, which he is to notify and govern agreeable to the laws and customs of our said Province ; and that 52 the annual meeting forever hereafter, for the choice of such officers of said town, shall be on the second Wednesday in March annually." Had the town been organized under the jurisdiction of New Hampshire, and the second Wednesday in March become an inconvenient' time for the voters to attend meeting, they could have been called together on any other day of that month ; for the law of New Hampshire required the election of town officers to be " sometime in the month of March, annually." The ownership of the grant was divided into seventy-four shares. Sixty- nine persons, whose names are on the back of the charter, took one share each ; the other five shares were conveyed in these words : " To His Excellency, Benning Wentworth, Esq., a tract of land to contain five hundred acres, which is to be accounted two of the within shares. One whole share for the incorporated Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign parts. One whole share for the first settled Minister of the Gospel in said town. One whole glebe, for the Ministry of the church of England as by law established." The sixty-nine grantees arranged in alphabetical order comprise the fol lowing names : Atkinson, Theodore Baker, MarshaU Baker, Moses Barnard, Isaac Barnard, Jonathan Barnard, Joshua Brown, Luke Chase, Abel, Jr. Chase, Daniel Chase, Moody Chase, Moses Chase, Samuel Chase, Samuel, Jr. Clayton, Alexander Clements, John Daggett, Samuel, Jr. Denney, Thomas Downing, John Dyer, Joseph Fisk, Elisha Fisk, Ebenezer Fletcher, Eleazer Fry, Jonathan Gale, Isaac Gale, Josiah , Gile, Samuel Hale, Jonathan Hall, David Hall, Da-vid, Jr. Harrington, Isaac Harrington, Isaac, Jr. Hawley, Samuel - Hazeltine, Abner Hazeltine, John . Hazeltine, Paul Hazeltine, Silas Holland, Antipas Holman, Jonathan Holman, Solomon Holman, Solomon, Jr. Leland, James Leland, Phineas Marsh, Benjamin Miller, Isaac Bice, Eliakim Robbins, Lemuel Sawyer, Abner Sheafe, Sampson Shelburne, Henry Smith, Jesse Smith, Samuel Sparhawk, Joseph Stmoell, John Stowell, Hezekiah Wait, Jason Wait, Jonathan Wait, Jonathan, Jr. Wait, Natlianiel Walker, Henry Ward, Hezekiah Warner, Daniel Warren, Jonas, Jr. Wellman, James Wentworth, John, Jr. Wibird, Richard Wilson, Jonathan Woodbury, Benjamin Woodbury, Joshua Young, William Each of the shares, except those of the Governor, represents a little more 53 than three hundred and thirteen acres of laud. Records in the town clerk's office show that Rev. Nicholas Dudley and Luke Knoulton conveyed the rights which belonged to the Governor. The ministerial right passed to Rev. Nicholas Dudley, find was located where Dea. Belknap afterwards lived. The Glebe seems to have been located upon the steepest part of the rocky hill back of the preseut residence of Col. Twitchell. Any attempt to get a near view of that Glebe would probably fail, from au unwillingness of the beholder to be in so great personal danger. The safest, if not the only way of examining that lot is by looking through a spy-glass. If the incorporated Society's share has au appearance upon our land records, it has certainly escaped the writer's notice. Nothing is known of what became of the original charter. In the town clerk's office there is a copy which was duly authenticated by the Secretary of State of New Hampshire, on the 29th day of June, 1774. Upon it is also the following certificate, in compliance likely with some action under a resolution of the General Assembly passed in June, 1779. "State op Vermont, Surveyor General's Office, August 7, 1780. The foregoing charter and bounds of the several towns, (Halifax, Marl borough, Fane and Newfane,) are recorded in the first Book of New Hamp shire Charters, from page 20 to 28. Examined by Ira Allen, Surveyor General." Col. John Hazeltine procured the granting of the to'wnship, and the first settlers used to relate that he had names of his neighbors and acquaintances entered as grantees on back of the charter without their knowledge ; that soon after the town was granted, he went round and called upon these unadvised proprietors, saying to each, after ingeniously breaking the ice, " What shall I give you for a quit-claim of your right in Townshend ? " The invariable reply was, " I don't know as I have got any right, or interest there." This answer brought out the inquiry, " What is it worth to you then, and what will you take for it?" The satisfactory reply was, "Oh, give us a mug of tod, and I will deed you all the right I have to anything up there." The liquor would soon be furnished, and under its inspiration a deed would be executed. There may be more of fact than fiction in the story, for our land records show that within nine months from date of charter. Col. Hazel tine became owner of sixteen rights for the consideration of oue shilling each, which is about the sum he would have paid for the toddy, had it been brought in when a deed of one of the rights was delivered to him. It is our purpose to give, without abridgment, proceedings of the pro prietors while they were controlled by the laws of New Hampshire, and while the to-wn was considered as a part of that Province. Before doing so, however, it may not be out of place to present some of the statutory require- 54 ments which, during that period, guided and directed the proprietors in making a division in severalty of the land constituting the town. The following is copied from a Statute of the Colony of New Hampshire, passed in the 5th year of the reign of Geo. I : "Proprietors of the common or undivided land within each town and precinct of this province, where the same have been heretofore stated, (each one's proportion being known) shall be and hereby are impowered to order, improve or divide in such way and manner, as shall be concluded and agreed upon by the major part of the interested, the voices to be collected, and accounted according to the interests. And the proprietors of all undivided or common lands not stated and proportioned as aforesaid, shall and hereby are impowered to manage, improve, divide or dispose of the same, as hath been, or shall be concluded and agreed on by the major part of such pro prietors. That no cottage or dwelling-place in any town, shall be admitted to the privilege of auy commonage for woods, timber, and herbage, or any other the privileges which lie in common in any to-wn or peculiar, other than such as were erected or privileged by the grant of such town or peculiar." The statute for recording title papers provides, "That henceforth all deeds or conveyances of any houses or lands within this province, signed and sealed by the party or parties granting the same, having good and law ful right or authority thereto, and acknowledged by such grantor or granters before a justice of the peace, and recorded at length in the records of this province, where such houses and lands do lie, shall be valid to pass the same without any other act or ceremony in the law whatsoever." This law, enacted in 1702, continued in force during the existence of that Colonial Government, and until county recorders were chosen by virtue of a statute of the State of New Hampshire passed in December, 1776. No evidence has been discovered shomug that any conveyance of land in this town was recorded agreeably to the act of 1702. There was a statute authorizing township proprietors to prosecute and defend suits pertaining to land undivided and owned in common. Proprie tary officers, however, were chosen in accordance with custom, rather than by virtue of written law. It was the common practice for proprietors to elect a clerk, treasurer, prudential committee, and one or more collectors ; but their official duties are not prescribed, nor their time of service limited by any act the writer has been able to find in the compilation of statutes by order of the Governor, Council aud Assembly of New Hampshire, passed October 16, 1759. The proprietor's book of records shows what was done by the original grantees to effect a division in severalty of their land, and to forward a settlement of the town ; it also contains the pitches of land made by the proprietcu'.s, aud laid out by committees appointed for that purpose ; but no couveyauce from grantor to grantee was recorded therein. 55 We now present a copy of the proprietors' record prior to the year 1755 : Warning and Proceedings of First Meeting of the Peopeietoes. " July the 24th, 1753. I, the subscriber, being appointed by the Governor and Council of New Hampshire Government to notify the grantees of a new township, viz : To^vnshend, to atteud the first meetiug on the last Wednesday of August, in this present year ; you are hereby notified to attend the first meeting of the grantees of Townshend, in the Province of New Hampshire. Said meeting to be held at the house of Mr. Luke Brown, innholder, in Worcester, at ten of the clock in the forenoon of the last Wednesday of August, 1753 ; to choose town officers for said To-wnshend, agreeably to the laws of the Province of New Hampshire; and likewise to choose proprietors' officers for the township of Townshend ; and also to transact any other affairs, matters or things that the said proprietors or grantees shall then think proper to encourage, promote and forward the settlement of the said town of Townshend. John Hazeltine. At a meeting of the grantees of the township of Townshend, in the Province of New Hampshire, regularly assembled and met at the house of Mr. Luke Bro'wn, on the last Wednesday of August, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, in the year 1753. Said meeting was authorized and appointed by His Excellency, the Governor and the Honorable Council of said Province of New Hampshire, in and by the charter of said Townshend ; and likewise John Hazeltine appointed moderator of said meeting. At said meeting the following votes were passed, or the things hereafter mentioned were transacted. 1. William Young chosen Town Clerk for said Townshend, and likewise clerk for said Grantees in land affairs, and sworn to the faithful discharge of his office in the meeting. 2. John Hazeltine, Esq., Isaac Barnard, Esq., and Mr. Benjamin Wood bury, Benjamin Marsh, and William Young chosen Selectmen. 3. William Young and Thomas Denney chosen Assessors. 4. Jonathan Haile chosen Treasurer, and was sworn to the faithful dis charge of said office in said meeting. 5. Abner Hazeltine chosen Constable and Collector. 6. Voted, That the above named Selectmen be a committee to prosecute affairs respecting the settlement of said Townshend, and agreeable to such directions as shall be hereafter given them. 7. Voted, That said committee proceed to run the lines or bounds of said township, agreeable to the charter, as soon as may be ; likewise that tract of land noted in the charter of which each grantee is to be allotted one acre. 8. Voted, That said committee then proceed and lay out seventy-two lots, each lot to contain as a standard either forty or fifty acres, as said com- 56 mittee upon viewing said township shall judge convenient or most proper; and that said lots be laid out quantity for quality ; and also five hundred acres in one tract for His Excellency, Benning Wentworth, agreeably to the charter. 9. Voted, That a tax of two dollars be assessed ou each right, and that said tax be paid to the Treasurer at or before next meeting for drawing of the lots. Voted, also, that any of the grantees which shall neglect or reftise to pay said tax as above shall be secluded the privilege of drawing his or their lot or lots. 10. Voted, That the above uamed committee be a committee to appoint meetings of said grantees for the future ; and that they notify all such meet ings as they shall appoint by posting up notifications in writing, fourteen days before the meeting, at the dwelling houses of Mr. Luke Brown in Worcester ; Jonathan Haile aud Samuel Buck, in Sutton ; and that in said notifications be inserted the time when, and place where, of such meetings, together with the articles to be acted upon by said grantees when met. 11. Voted, That the charges or expenses of this meeting, viz : five pounds five shillings and three pence, old tenor, be paid by the treasurer, Mr. Jonathan Haile, out of the public money of said society or grantees. Then said meeting was dissolved. Test, William Young, P. Clerk. Meeting of the Peoprietors, March 12, 1754. The Grantees of the township of Towusheud, in the Pro^-ince of New Hampshire, are hereby desired to meet at the dwelling house of Mr. Jonathan Haile, innholder, in Suttou, on the second Tuesday of March next, at nine of the clock in the forenoon ; then and there to act on the following particulars, viz : 1. To hear the report of the committee appointed to survey said town ship, and lay out the house-lots therein. 2. For the grantees to prescribe what method or methods shall be taken for the further carrying on the affairs of said township. 3. To see what money said grantees will grant for defraying the charges that have already arisen, or that may arise. 4. To propose aud act any thing or things, matter or matters that said grantees shall judge for their interest. John Hazeltine, ) February 25, 1754. William Young, V Committee. Bexjamin Marsh, j At a meeting of the proprietors of the township of Townshend, iu the Province of New Hampshire, regularly assembled aud met at the dwelling house of Mr. Jonathan Haile, in Suttou, ou the second Tuesday of March, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, 1754. Voted as follows : 57 1. John Hazeltine chosen Moderator of said meeting, by unanimous vote. 2. That the committee formerly appointed for laying out the land, as per charter, for the one acre lots. His Excellency's farm, and seventy-two fifty acre lots make report of their doings in said affairs in writing. Said committee reported as follows, viz : The Committee of the Proprietors of the township of Townshend, in the Province of New Hampshire, report : That upon their viewing said township, thought it not proper to lay out the lots as directed by said proprietors at their meeting on the last Wednes-- day of August, 1753, by reason said township, especially near the center, is so mountainous and rocky as to be unfit for settlement. John Hazeltine, \ Isaac Baenaed, / Benjamin Woodbury; Committee. Benjamin Marsh, \ William Young. / 3. Voted, This report be accepted. 4. Voted, There be a committee of three persons sent to take a further -view of said township of Townshend, and the unappropriated lands adjoin ing thereto, if any there be, and such other unappropriated lands as they, upon information, shall think likely to obtain by petitioning the Governor and Council of New Hampshire ; pro'vided said township and the unappro priated lands adjoining thereto prove not satisfactory. 5. Voted, John Hazeltine, Esq., Benjamin Woodbury and William Young be the committee for said service. 6. Voted, John Hazeltine, Esq., repair to the Governor and Council of the government of New Hampshire, and in the grantees name pray they ¦vrill take into consideration our misfortune ; first, respecting Marlborough ; and secondly, in respect of To'wnshend ; and pray for such favor respecting the above said misfortunes as they in their wisdom shall see good to grant us. Or in other words, to pray for the grant of such land as the above committee shall think proper to petition for in behalf of the grantees. 7. Voted, There be paid by the treasurer to John Hazeltine, Esq., Ben jamin Woodbury, Benjamin Marsh, Isaac Barnard, Esq., Abner Hazeltine, Abner Taylor, viz : to eaeh of them the sum of one pound, eighteen shil lings and eight pence, for their services done in October, 1753. 8. Voted, That William Young, as a surveyor, be paid by Mr. Jonathan Haile, Proprietors' Treasurer, three pounds, five shillings and four pence, lawful money, for his services in October, 1753. 9. Voted, That there be paid to Mr. Jonathan Haile, treasurer, for the use of the propriety, -viz : to defray such charges as have arisen and as may 58 arise by the proprietors, one milled dollar for each right. Pursuant to said vote. Rev. Mr. David Hall paid one dollar ; Mr. David Hall, Jr., one dollar ; and Mr. Jonathan Haile, one dollar, in meeting. 10. Voted, That the treasurer, Mr. Haile, pay out none of the proprie tors' money to any person for any service, except such as produce an order from under the hands of the committee appointed for that purpose, or the major part of them. 11. Voted, John Hazeltine, Esq., Isaac Barnard, Esq., Messrs. Benjamin Woodbury, Benjamin Marsh and William Young be a committee to give orders as above, viz : to such persons as may have a right to receive of the proprietors' money. 12. Votad, The charges of this meeting, viz : £5, Od., 3qr., or one pound eighteen shillings, old tenor, be paid by the treasurer out of the proprietors' money. 13. Voted, The meeting be adjourned to this place, the last Monday in April, next ; to meet then and there at one o'clock in the afternoon. Att., William Young, P. Clerk. Attest, John Hazeltine, Moderator. Proceedings of this adjourned meeting were not recorded. The next was the annual -meeting of 1754, and its doings were entered upon record in the following words : At the annual meeting of the proprietors of the township of Townshend, held on the second Wednesday of March, 1754, at nine of the clock in the forenoon, it being the day appointed by charter of said Townshend, at the dwelling house of Mr. Luke Brown, innholder in Worcester : John Hazeltine was chosen Moderator, 2. Voted, That those persons which served as to-wn officers in said Towns hend in the year 1753, serve in said office this year also, and also till others are chosen in their room and stead. Attest, William Young, To-wu Clerk. John HazeltinI;, Moderator. While the French and Indian war was raging, a settlement of the towff was impracticable, and proceedings of proprietors were suspended during the eventful years from 1754 to 1761.' The victory of Wolfe in 1759 and the capitulation of Vaudreuil in 1760, followed by the treaties of Fontain- bleau and Paris, severed Canada and the Districts east of it from the control of Prance. French and Indian incursions, which had so long scourged the people of New England, were to be feared no longer. A frontier of wide extent had been opened for settlement under the quiet and security of English rule. Provincial soldiers discharged upon the surrender of the 59 French in Canada, and resolute adventurers flocked hither to occupy and become owners of the land known as the Hampshire Grants. The settle ment conditions set forth in the charter of the town could now be performed, and it was necessary for the proprietors to speedily commence a settlement of their land in order to prevent a forfeiture of the grant made to them. Two paragraphs of the charter are expressed in the following words : " That before any di-yision of the said land be made to and among the grantees, a tract of land as near the center of said to-wnship as the land will admit of shall be reserved and marked out for town lots, one of which shall be allotted to each grantee of the contents of one acre." " That every grantee, his heirs or assigns shall plant and cultivate five acres of land, within the term of five years, for every fifty acres contained in his or their share or proportion of land in said townsLip, and continue to improve and settle the same by additional cultivations, on penalty of the forfeiture of his grant or share in the said township, and of its reverting to his Majesty, his heirs and successors, to be by him or them regranted to such of our subjects as shall effectually settle and cultivate the same." We now present a copy of the record showing what was done by the proprietors at theu- first meeting after the formal surrender of Canada to the English, in 1760. Meeting of the Proprietors, March 10, 1761. January 16, 1761. The proprietors of the township of Townshend, in the Pro-vince of New Hampshire, lying west of Connecticut River, near Fort Dummer, are hereby notified to meet at the dwelling house of Mr. Jonathan Haile, innholder, in Sutton, on the second Tuesday of March next, at one o'clock in the afternoon, then and there to act on the foUo'wing particulars, viz : 1. To choose a Moderator. 2. To choose a committee to lay out said township in that way the pro priety, or their committee shall think proper. 3. To grant such a sum of money as the propriety shall think needful for defraying former charges, and for any other use the propriety may think proper. 4. To see what measures the propriety will come into, in order to have said to-wnship settled ; or what encouragement they will give to such as shall actually settle there the ensuing season ; and to act on such other things or matters as they, when met, shall think proper. William Young, Pr. Clerk. At a meeting of the proprietors of the township of Townshend, in the Pro-rince of New Hampshire, regularly assembled and met, at the dwelling 60 house of Mr. Jonathan Haile, innholder, in Sutton, on Tuesday the 10th day of March 1761, the following votes were passed, viz : 1. John Hazeltine, Esq., was chosen Moderator, by a unanimous vote. 2. John Hazeltine, Esq., Dea. Benjamin Woodbury, Lieut. Benjamin Marsh, Messrs. James Taylor and Paul Hazeltine were chosen by a unani mous vote a committee for the service mentioned in vote third. 3. Voted, There be a committee of five persons chosen to take a further view of the township of Townshend, in order to lay the same out, if they think it suitable to make settlements ; and the vote passed in the words following, viz : That said committee repair to Townshend, -yiew the same, and, if needful, the King's land adjoining the same and elsewhere; and upon finding said Townshend, or other lands suitable for settlements, that they proceed to lay out the same, and lot out therein seventy-two acre lots and make return at the next meeting. 4. Voted, That the treasurer pay of the proprietors' money to John Hazeltine, Esq., £4, for his time and expense in going to Portsmouth in March, 1754. 5. Voted, That a tax of nine shillings per right be paid by each proprie tor to the collector, for defraying such charges as have, or shall arise. 6. Capt. John Fray chosen Collector and Treasurer, by a unanimous vote. 7. Voted, That John Hazeltine, Esq., Isaac Barnard, Esq., Dea. Benja min Woodbury, Lieut. Benjamin Marsh, William Young, Abner Tyler and Abner Hazeltine be paid twenty-four shillings each, for their expenses in going to Townshend in October, 1753. 8. Voted, Mr. Jonathan Haile be paid £13, . 4d., for expense at the meeting in March, 1754, and March, 1761. 9. Voted, That each proprietor neglecting or refusing to pay to the col lector, at or before the last Monday in May, next, their quota of the money voted to be raised at this meeting and at the former meeting, be excluded the privilege of drawing their lot, or lots. 10. Voted, That this meeting be adjourned to the dwelling house of Mr. Jonathan Haile, innholder in Sutton, to the last Monday in May, next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. Said meeting accordingly adjourned. Test, John Hazeltine, Moderator. Adjourned Meeting held May 25, 1761. Agreeably to the aforesaid adjournment, the proprietors met and passed the following votes, viz : Made choice of James Taylor, Proprietors' Clerk ; and he was sworn to the faithful discharge of his office, before me, John Hazeltine, Justice of the Peace. 61 Voted, That the plan of the lots laid out by the committee appointed by the propriety, the 10th of March, 1761, as surveyed by Mr. Ebenezer Waters, surveyor, be accepted. Voted, That the committee be paid by John Fray, treasurer, fifteen dol lars each, for their services, expenses and horses while lotting out the town ship of Townshend. Voted, That Ebenezer AVaters be paid sixteen dollars for surveying and lotting out the township of Townshend. Voted, If any persons, when they come to choose their first fifty acre lot, don't like such lots as are already laid out, they have the liberty to drop said lot, or any part thereof, and pitch on auy other unappropriated land in said To-wnshend, pro-vided it be done in one year and return be made to the committee. Voted, That -where the River runs through any lot, the owner or owners shall have it made good in other unappropriated land, with the same quantity of land adjoining to some of their former surveys. Voted, That there be an allowance made for highways through every lot, for roads, not exceeding four rods wide. Voted, That Dea. Benjamin Woodbury settle two rights in said Towns hend, and have two men at work on the spot by the Sth of June, next. Also, that Mr. Thomas Mar-yin settle five rights in said Townshend, and have five men at work on said spot, by the Sth day of next June. Voted, Esq'r Hazeltine settle ten rights, and have ten men at work on the spot, by the Sth day of June, next. Voted, That Mr. James Taylor settle two rights, and have two men at work on the spot in said town, by the Sth of June, next. Voted, That Paul Hazeltine settle five rights, and have five men at work on said spot, by the Sth day of June, next. Voted, That the man who first settles in said township take his choice of the lots already laid out ; and the second man have his choice of what is left ; and the third man to have his next choice. So to be settled through the whole. Voted, That this meeting be adjourned to the dwelling house of Mr. Jonathan Haile, innholder, in Sutton, on Monday the 23d day of November, next, at nine o'clock in the forenoon. Said meeting accordingly adjourned. Att, James Taylor, Prop'rs Clerk. Agreeably to the aforesaid adjournment, met at time and place appointed, and voted as follows, viz : That every proprietor who shall be in the to-wn ship -within seven weeks, in order to settle their lot or lots, and shall actually djoceed to carry on their settlement, shall have an equal share to a farm of 62 eleven hundred twenty-five acres, planned at the south-east corner of the township, according to their rights they shall settle. N. B. This last vote was passed at the meeting held on the last Monday of May in 1761, and should have been entered on the book before the ad journment last above written, but is misplaced through a mistake. Attest, Samuel Fletcher, Pr. Clerk. Voted, That six one hundred acre lots be laid out to Esq. Hazeltine, and one hundred acres be laid out to any other right, upon condition they want such lots to settle people thereon as soon as said lots are laid out. Being one hundred acres to a right, which shall be accounted as second di-yision land to each right, in quantity and quality, in making the second di-yision through said town. Voted, John Fray, James Taylor, Paul Hazeltine a committee to lay out the above said lots. Test, John Hazeltine, Moderator. The plan of first division lots, surveyed by Mr. Waters, has not come down to us, and the records are silent as to nearly all the land which he lotted for the several proprietary rights. Probably the Waters or Range lots, which contained fifty acres each, were drawn for in .the usual way. With few exceptions these lots were dropped and other lands taken in their stead, agreeably to proprietors' votes. Rights to the farm of eleven him- dred twenty-five acres were doubtless adjusted by a proprietors' committee, and an equivalent in some other portion of the town granted to the parfy. The other lot divisions, three in number, were wholly located by pitch, lay ing out and survey duly recorded. Thus all the land in town, save a few Waters lots, passed to individual ownership through proprietors' committees duly chosen, who awarded land to parties according to their rights. These awards or layings out contained a description of the premises, and were signed by the committee. Proprietary transfer of the laud was completed by recording the committee's laying out, as surveyed by the proper surveyor. Settlement of the town was commenced by John Baird, Thomas Baird and Col. John Hazeltine, about the first of June, 1761. Nothing was done this season, except to build a log hut aud commence work upon the Waters lots taken by the new comers. Poor shelter, scanty supplies, fewness of people, and the inevitable snow blockade in -winter compelled them to return to Massachusetts in the Fall. But they came back to theii- work in the fol lowing Spring ; and so went and returned till 1766, when they ventured to remain in Townshend during the cold season of the year. Years ago, the folloAving anecdote was in circulation about the first settle meut of the town. The story is given as we wrote it from the lips of an old gentleman. At a meeting in Massachusetts of the grantees, old Col. Hazeltine got it so fixed that the proprietor who should get here first, with the intention to 63 settle, might have the first choice of lots which had been surveyed. The two Bairds were present ; they saw what the Colonel was up to, and mistrusted that he would be in Townshend as soon as possible, to take up the best lots. They determined to get in ahead of him, and started for this town at close of the meeting. Col. Hazeltine went home and passed the night. Early in the morning, he said to his wife, " Jane, put some bread and cheese into the saddle-bags ;" and to his boy, " Peter, lead up the old switch-tailed mare, for I am going to Townshend." He was soon on his way, and without an un necessary halt, came to what is now called the Elder Hodges farm, in Ne-wfane, where he stopped over night. Starting in good season the next day and hurrying on, it was not late when he forded West River where the lower bridge stands. On reaching the bank, he saw a smoke and near it found the two Bairds engaged in clearing a spot for their cabin. " Good morning," said the Colonel. " Good morning," they replied. " What upon airth sent you up here so soon," inquired he. One of the Bairds, eyeing the Col. askance, drawlingly replied, " and what upon airth sent you here so soon ? " The other Baird, with the corners of his mouth slightly drawn down, gave a significant look at the person on horseback. Instantly comprehending the situation, the old gentleman, with a low bow and bland good-bye, gave the bridle reins a jerk or two, put spurs to. his horse, rode on and selected lots farther up the River. The land taken up by Col. Hazeltine in 1761, was situated in the west part of the town, where he soon afterwards built a log fort upon the meadow now owned by Dea. Pierce. During the same season, the Bairds located their rights near the ford of West River, where the town's lower bridge now stands. Joseph Tyler of Uxbridge, and John Howe of Framingham, sometimes called MUler- John, commenced their clearings in 1764 ; the for mer, upon the present Bridge farm near the east -village ; the latter, upon the Hiram Howe farm in School district No. 7. John Burt of Killingly, Conn., and Paul Hazeltine of Uxbridge came in 1765. None of the settlers remained here, however, during the winter months prior to 1766. On petition of proprietors, the time of settling and for performing the other conditions named in the charter was extended one year by the Governor and CouncU of New Hampshire, on the 20th day of August, 1762. 1764-1774. By an order in CouncU passed on the 20th day of July, 1764, King George, the III. declared the western bank of Connecticut River to be the boundary line between his Provinces of New Hampshire and New York. This order was proclaimed by Governor Colden of New York, on the 10th day of April, 1765 ; and the Governor of New Hampshire, by proclamation, recommended to the proprietors and settlers of " The Grants," submission 64 and due obedience to the authority and laws of the colony of New York. The proprietors of Townshend were neither alarmed, nor made indignant by the transfer of jurisdiction to New York. Management and control of their proprietary interests were little changed thereby. Whatever opposition was made to their land-titles proved to be of a yielding nature, and they submitted to the new authority. In due time, their New Hampshire charter was confirmed by the government of New York, in response to a petition for that purpose. Agreeably to a Colonial statute of New York, deeds and conveyances of any interest in real estate were recorded in the secretary's office of the Colony, or in the county records of the county where the real estate was situated. This law was in force while the town remained uuder the juris diction of New York. Meeting of the Proprietors, April 21, 1766. Notice is hereby given to the proprietors of Townshend, lying on the west side of Connecticut Rivfir, and on West River, so caUed, adjoining to Fane, to meet at the house of Mr. Follansby Chase, innholder, in Sutton, on the third Monday of AprU, next, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to act on the following articles : 1. To choose a Moderator. 2. To choose a Proprietors' Clerk. 3. To see if said proprietors will take the saw mill now buUt in said Townshend, with the corn mill irons, and preparations for said corn null, and pay for them. 4. To see what said proprietors will give as an encouragement to any suitable person who will take the saw mill, and finish the corn mUl now begun, aud keep them in good repair for the space of ten years next to come, for the benefit of said proprietors. That is, said propritors to aUow customary toll for grinding, and the common price for samng. 5. To see if said proprietors will choose a committee to let said mUls out, and take proper security for said proprietors, and give proper security to the person who takes them. 6. To see if the proprietors will have a proprietors' book bought by the proprietors' clerk, fit to enter everything in that concerns the proprietors. 7. To see if the proprietors will allow any one and every one of the said proprietors, if they see cause, to drop their fifty acre lot or lots, they being first division, or any part thereof, and lay out what they drop anywhere in said proprietors' then common and undivided lands ; he or she first bringing an account to the proprietiors' clerk, signed by a committee and surveyor, of what they have dropped, in order to be entered on the proprietors' book. 65 8 To see if said proprietors will choose a committee and surveyor, to do the business spoke of iu the 7tli article, and to lay out such common or undi-yided lands to such person or persons as shall want to have it done. 9. To see if the proprietors ^vill choose a committee to settle with former treasurers, and pay what said proprietors owe as such. 10. To see if the proprietors will choose a Treasurer. 11. To see if the proprietors will raise money to defray past charges, and charges to come. 12. To see if said proprietors will choose a Collector to gather their money. 13. To see if said proprietors will have any roads laid out at present. 14. All persons are desired to come to meeting with money to pay up what is behind, aud ^yhat may be raised at said meeting. 15. All persons are desired to bring in their demands on the said proprietors, 16. To see if said proprietors will choose a committee to call proprietors' meetings for the future, or otherwise as they shall think proper. 17. To see if said proprietors will give John Hazeltine as much of their common and undivided lands for the laud on which the saw mill now stands as that is worth. The foregoing done at the desire of a number of the principal proprietors aforesaid. Dated at Sutton, the 24th day of February, 1766. Pr. me, John Hazeltine. At a meeting held at Follansby Chase's on the Bd Monday of April, 1766, by the proprietors of Townshend. 1. Chose Esq. Hazeltine, Moderator of said meeting. 2. Chose Joshua Wood, Clerk, to record the votes passed by said pro prietors, and sworn by Esq'r Barnard, at said meeting. 3. Voted, To pay John Hazeltine, Esq., the sum of twenty-two pounds, five shiUings and eight pence, lawful money, for the mill irons now on the spot in Townshend, in answer to the 3d article. First, for the coru mill irons and saw miU irons, weighing SSIJ pounds, also the saw. 4. Voted, To give some suitable person, who shall be agreed with, a fifty acre lot on which the saw mUl now stands ; and fifty acres more adjoining, for his buUding the corn mill, and keeping that and the saw miU both in re pair for fifteen years from the first day of August, next ; and to receive the customary price for sawing, and customary toll for grinding. 5. Voted, To choose a committee of three men to let the mUls ; and 66 chose Esq. Hazeltine, Thomas Baird, Jr., and Joseph Tyler, Jr., for that service. 6. Passed over the 6th article. 7, Voted, That any person have liberty to drop, and give up his fifty acre lot, or any part thereof; and to have the same quantity of laud aUowed and laid out for him of the then undivided land, where he shall choose, agreeable to the 7th article in the warrant. 8. Chose a committee of five men, viz : Esq. Hazeltine, Paul Hazel tine, Thomas Baird, John Read and Joseph Tyler, Jr., and they to pro-vide a surveyor, and to do the business of the 7th article above, viz : to lay out any land that there shall be occasion for, as there mentioned. 9, Chose a committee of three men, -viz : Stephen Johnston, Silas Hazel tine and Ebenezer Waters, to settle with the treasurers, agreeably to the 9th article in the warrant. 10. Chose James Taylor, Treasurer. 11. Voted, To raise three dollars upon each right, to defray past, present and future charges. 12. Chose Ebenezer Waters, Collector. Voted, To pass over the 13th, 14th and 15th articles in the warrant. Voted, To not choose a committee as mentioned in the 16th article. Voted, To allow John Hazeltine, Esq., as much land that is common and undivided as the committee mentioned in the eighth article above shall think the lot is worth that the saw mill stands upon. The foregoing yotes are all true and just. . Test, John Hazeltine, Moderator of said meeting. Proprietary action, for obtaining from New York a confirmation of the town charter, was taken nearly three months after the Governor and Coun cil of that Colony made an order, that all persons holding or claiming lands under grants by New Hampshire "do, as soon, as may be, appear by them selves or their attornies, and produce the same, together with all deeds, con veyances, or other instruments by which they derive any title or claim to the said lands, before his ExceUency in Council ; aud that the claims of such person or persons who shall not appear, and support the same as aforesaid, within the space of three months from the date hereof, be rejected ; and the petitions already preferred for the said lands forthwith proceeded upon ; also that notice hereof be given, by publishing this order three weeks suc cessively in one or more of the public news papers printed in this city." Meaning the city of New York. We now present a copy of proprietors' further proceedings, prior to con firmation of the town charter by New York. 67 Meeting of the Proprietors, Aug. 25, 1766. Notice is hereby given to the proprietors of Towusheud, lying ou West River, so called, ou the west side of Connecticut River, to meet at the house of Mr. Jonathan Haile in Sutton, innholder, on the 25th day of this instant August, at ten o'clock, of said day, in the morning ; then and there to act on the following articles : First, to choose a Moderator. 2. To see if said proprietors will choose any person or persons to go to New York about said Towusheud ; in answer to what the Governor of New York has put into the public prints relating to towns on the west side of Connecticut River. 3. To see if said proprietors, when met, will act ou any other matters and things, as may appear to them to be for the advantage of said proprie tors, and to act accordingly. The foregoing done at the desire of more than thirty of the above said proprietors. Per me, John Hazeltine. Upton, August 11, 1766. Agreeably to the above notification, the proprietors of said Townshend met at the time and place mentioned. 1. Made choice of John Hazeltine, Esq., Moderator of said meeting. 2. Voted, That John Hazeltine, Esq., go to New York, to represent the proprietors of Townshend ; iu answer to the second article of the notification. Test, John Hazeltine, Moderator. Meeting of the Proprietors, Sept. 22, 1766. Sutton, Sept. 16, 1766. At the request of a number of the proprietors of To-n'ushend, lying north westerly of Fort Dummer, upon West River, and on the west side of Con necticut River ; these are to notify the proprietors of the said township to meet together at the house of Follansby Chase, innholder, in the first Parish in Sutton, on Monday the 22d day of this instant September, at three o'clock in the afternoon, for the foUo-wing purposes : 1. To choose a Moderator for the said meeting. 2. To choose one or more committee-men, to serve in laying out such lands as may be set off from such lots of the first division as there may be occasion for, pursuant to a late vote of the proprietors ; and for such other intentions as said propriety thinks proper to empower them to do. 3. To see what return may be made by John Hazeltine, Esq., lately empowered to act for said proprietors at New York ; and to see what said propriety wiU further do about sending some proper person to New York, in 68 order to the securing their interest in the said township, pursuant to an advertisement dated. New York, Sept. 3, 1766. Per me, John Hazeltine. Sutton, Sept. 22, 1766. The Townshend proprietors being met at time and place, according to the above notification : Voted, 1. That John Hazeltine, Esq., be the Moderator of this meeeting. And then adjourned to the 29th of September, current, to meet at Mr. Follansby Chase's, in Sutton, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon on said day. According to the above adjournment, the proprietors of Townshend met at time and place above mentioned, and passed over the second article for the present meeting. In answer to the 3d article. Voted, Not to send any person to New York for the securing our inter est in the township of Townshend ; but to send by the way of writing to the New Hampshire patentees, who meet at the house of ]Mr. Hugh Rider, in New York on the 13th of October, next. The follo-«dng is an exact copy of the writing to be sent : Sutton, September 29, A. D., 1766. To the New Hampshire Patentees, on the west side of Connecticut River, who meet at the house of Mr. Hugh Rider in New York, on the 13th of October, next. Gentlemen: On sight of your advertisement of September 3d instant, the proprietors of Townshend had a meeting to consider what inight be expedient for us to act relative thereto. Now, gentlemen, we would heartily concur in any measures that are hon orable and rational in pursuance of what appears to be the object in your view. But as the distance makes it difficult for us to attend with you at the time you mention, so we have apprehended that it may serve the common cause for us to consult with the interested persons in our Pro-^-ince, and in New Hampshire. That in case New York Government iusist on such high demands, as, in addition to the great expense we have already been at, appears or shall appear to be unreasonable and oppressive ; we may then, in such case, all agree as with one consent to make application to His Majesty, by way of complaint, for relief; which, at this present, is the firm and steady resolution of Gentlemen, your most obedient humble servant. By order of the proprietors of Townshend. John Hazeltine. And then adjourned to meet at the house of Paul Hazeltine, li-ving in Townshend, on the second Monday of October next, at eight o'clock in the forenoon of said day. Met at time and place above mentioned and dissolved said meeting. Test, John Hazeltine, Moderator. 69 , The New Hampshire grant of the town was coiffirmed by New York on the second day of April, 1767. Meeting of the Proprietors, April 13, 1767. The proprietors of Towusheud, ou the west side of Connecticut River, and on West River, so called, and adjoining to Fane, are hereby notified to meet at the house of Mr. Jonathan Haile, iu Suttton, innholder, on the second ilonday of April next, at one of the clock in the afternoon of said day, then aud there to act on the following articles : First. To choose a Moderator. 2. To choose a committee to reckon with all said proprietors' creditors, and to lay their account before said proprietors ; and also to see how much money has been raised on a right. 3. To see how much money said proprietors will raise on a right, to defray charges with. 4. To choose a committee and surveyor to do the business of that com mittee and surveyor that were chosen under the Sth article of the warrant, whereby said Townshend proprietors were notified to meet at the house of Mr. Follansby Chase, innholder, in Sutton, on the third Monday of April, next, at 9 o'clock in the morning of said day. Said warrant dated at Sutton, Feb'y 24, 1766. 5. To see what shall be done by said committee, when chosen, in this case, namely : if two, or three, or four, or five, or auy number whatsoever of said proprietors should pitch on one aud the same spot of ground ; saying, that the aforesaid committee shall lay out to me, and me, and so on and so forth. 6. To see if said proprietors will allow said committee to make allow ance in all lands they shall lay out, for highways ; and as much as said committee shall think proper ; and also to run any lines in or about said township, as they think proper. 7. To see if said committee, above spoken of, may choose the surveyor above spoken of. The foregoing is the desire of a number of the principal proprietors above spoken of. Dated at Upton, the 2Sth day of March, 1767. Pr. me, John Hazeltine. At a meeting of the proprietors of Townshend, at Mr. Jonathan Haile's in Sutton, on the second Mondy of AprU, 1767, th£ following votes were passed : First. Chose John. Hazeltine, Esq., Moderator of said meeting. 70 2. Voted, To choose a committee of three meu to reckon with the pro prietors' creditors, and to lay the accounts before the proprietors ; and to see how much money has been raised upon a right, namely : James Taylor of Sutton ; Joseph Tyler and Paul Hazeltine of Townshend. 3. Voted, To raise three dollars on each right of laud, to defray charges with. 4. Voted, To choose a committee of seven men, to do the business of the fourth article, namely: Esq. Hazeltine, Paul Hazeltine, Daniel Baird, James Taylor, and Joseph Tyler of Townshend, Peter Hazeltine, and Timothy Tyler. 5. Voted, On fifth article, that when a number of persons choose' oue and the same piece of land, that the same land be divided amongst those that choose it ; each one to have according to his interest in the undivided and common laud in said propriety. 6. Voted, That the above named committee be empowered to run any lines in or about said Townshend as they think proper. The seventh article read and voted in the affirmative. Test, John Hazeltine, Moderator. Meeting of the Proprietors, May 10, 1769. Notice is hereby given to the proprietors of Townshend, Ijing on the west side of Connecticut River, and on West River, so called, and joins to Fane, to meet at the house of Da-yid Wood, innholder, in Upton, on the second Wednesday of May, next, at 10 o'clock iu the forenoon ; then and there to act upon the followiug articles. First. To choose a Moderator to regulate said meeting. 2. To see if said proprietors will choose a committee to do the business of the committee that was chosen under the 4th article in the warrant dated March 25, 1767 ; and whether the above said committee, if there be one chosen, shall have liberty to choose a surveyor. 3. To see if said proprietors will choose a clerk to keep their books and enter their records. 4. To see if said proprietors will choose some persou, to take aud deliver the preseut records and books to the clerk that shall be chosen at the above said meeting. The forgoing done at the desire of more than half said proprietors. Dated at Upton, April 18, 1769. John Hazeltine. Upton, May 10, 1769. This day met at the house of Da-yid Wood, within named, agreeable to the above uotice ; aud acted ou the articles within ns follows : 71 First. Chose John Hazeltine, jNloderator for said meetiuEr. 2. Voted, To choose a committee, viz : Johu Hazeltine, Paul Hazeltine, Joseph Tyler, John Baird, Timothy Tyler, Jonas Butterfield, Samuel Fletcher. Put to vote, to see if the committee above choseu shall have the liberty of choosing a surveyor ; and passed in the affirmative. 3. Chose Samuel Fletcher, Proprietors' Clerk. 4. Chose John Hazeltine, Esq., to deliver the books and present records to Samuel Fletcher, the above said clerk. Test, John Hazeltine, Moderator. The first families which settled in town were those of Paul Hazeltine, John Howe and Beujamiu Ho^ve. These came in 1766, and were followed by the household of Joseph Tyler, probably in 1767. The families of Wil liam Hayward of Mendon, and IMoses Holbrook of Upton, came in 1768 ; those of Col. Hazeltine, Jonas Butterfield, Josiah Fish and Samuel Fletcher iu 1769. Meeting of the Proprietors, July 8, 1771. Townshend, May 30, 1771. Notice is hereby given to the proprietors of said Townshend, lying on the west side of Connecticut River, and on West River, so called, to meet at the house of Mr. Paul Hazeltine in said Townshend, on the secoud Monday of July next, at 9 o'clock in the forenoon of said day, then and there to act on the foUowing articles : First. To choose a Moderator for said meeting. 2. To see how much longer time said proprietors will allow to such of said proprietors as have not as yet dropped any part of their fifty acre lot or lots, or the whole of said fifty acre lots, and got it laid out elsewhere by the committee chosen by said proprietors for that purpose, as by said proprietors' book more fully appears. 3. To see if said proprietors -will lay out a second division, and if agreed to, then how much to a right. 4. To see if said proprietors will choose a committee to lay out said second division. 5. To see if said proprietors will allow their committee they choose to lay out said second division, to make the land they lay out alike good, by m&king allowance for bad land, if any should be laid out. That is, what land wants in quality to be made up in quantity by said commitee. 6. To see if said proprietors will allow every proprietor to lay out his second di-yision adjoining his other land, if he choose it. 7. To see what said proprietors wiU have said committee do, in case two, or three, or more persons, proprietors, pitch on one aud the same piece of land. 72 8. To see if said proprietors will sell some of their land, to pay Mr. Matthew Martin what they owe him for repairing the saw mUl. The foregoing done at the desire of more than twenty of said proprietors. Test, John Hazeltine. Townshend, July Sth, 1771. This day met at the house of Mr. Paul Hazeltine, according to the notifica tion for said meeting, and acted on the articles named in the notification, as follows. First. Chose Johu Hazeltine, Esq., Moderator of said meeting. 2, Voted, On the second article, that all such proprietors of said Towns hend as have not as yet drof)ped any part or the whole of their fifty acre lot or lots, have three months from this present eighth day of July to do it in, and uo more, except minors, 3. Voted, To lay out a second division, viz : One hundred acres to every seventy-fourth part, it being meant to one right. 4. Voted, To choose a committee to lay out a second di-^-ision, -viz : John Hazeltine, Esq., William Hayward, Ezra Holbrook, John Burt, Peter Haz eltine, David Lindsey, Sam'l Fletcher, Timothy Tyler, aud Benjamin Howe. S. The fifth article put to vote, and j^fissed in the affirmative. 6. The sixth article read, and voted in the affirmative. 7. Voted, On the seventh article, that the coimnittee there spoken of are hereby ordered, in case two, or three, or more proprietors pitch on one and the same piece of land, as spoken of in the said 7th article ; then' said com mittee to lay to each proprietor according to his or their interest ; that is, if said proprietors claiming cannot agree. This meeting adjourned to the second Monday in August next, to the house of Paul Hazeltine, near his potash house, at one o'clock, P. M. Met at time aud pilace. The meeting being opened, proceeded to busi ness. 8. Voted, To sell as much undivided land as shall be sufficient to pay Matthew Martin for repairing the saw mill where he now lives, which was let to him by John Hazeltine, Esq., Thomas Baird, and Joseph Tyler, who were the committee, chosen by the proprietors of said Towusheud, to let out said mills. Meaning Townshend proprietors undivided lands. The sum due to said Matthew Martin is eight pounds five shiUings aud four pence, in dollars, at six shillings per dollar. Test, John Hazeltine, Moderator. Meeting of the Proprietors, October 8, 1771. Towusheud, September 12th, 1771. Notice is hereby given to the proprietors of said Townshend, lying on West River, so called, to meet at the house of JMr. Paul Hazeltine, near his potash, on the Sth day of October next, at two of the clock in the afternoon of said day ; then and there, to act on the following articles : 1. To choose a Moderator for said meeting. 2. To choose a committee, to sell and give a deed of the land voted to be sold to pay Matthew Martin for repairing the mills where said Martin no-w dwells. As more fully appears by the vote of said proprietors of date, July Sth, 1771. The foregoing done at the desire of the owners of more than twenty rights. Att., John Hazeltine. Townshend, September 13, 1771. The proprietors of said Townshend, lying on West River so called, are hereby notified: That so much of their common land is to be sold on the Sth day of October next, at four of the clock in the afternoon of said day, to be sold at public vendue to the highest bidder, as will pay Mr. Matthew Martin what they owe him for repairing the mills where said Martin now lives ; which is eight pounds five shillings and four pence, in dollars at six shUlings per dollar ; also the charges of selling. Note. Those proprietors that appear at time of sale, or before, and pay said Martin their proportion, and take his receipt for it, and bring or send it to the meeting and give same to the committee that are to sell said land ; their lands not to be sold. The sum to be paid is about two shillings and six pence, like money ; that is, to one right, which is about three hundred acres. The place where said land is to be sold, is Paul Hazeltine's house, near his potash. The repairing said mills was for the use of said to-wn and proprie tors. John Hazeltine. To-wnshend, October the Sth, 1771. Then met at time and place agreeable to the above written notification. 1. Made choice of John Hazeltine, Esq., Moderator for said meeting. 2. Chose Benjamin Flood, John Burt, Da-yid Lindsey, Committee. Test, John Hazeltine, Moderator. Meeting of the Peopeietoes, March 11, 1771. Townshend, February 19th, 1772, Notice is hereby given to the proprietors of said Townshend, lying on West River so caUed, to meet at the house of Joseph Tyler, in said Townshend, on the second Wednesday of March next, at two of the clock in the afternoon of said day ; then and there, to act on the following articles : 1. To choose a Moderator for said meeting. 2. To see if said proprietors -will choose a new committee, to lay out their second di-yision land ; and to lay it out as the committee was ordered to do, 4 74 that was chosen July Sth, 1771. As fiiUy appears by said proprietors' book. 3. To see if said proprietors wiU aUow Matthew Martin, with the com mittee that now is, to lay out the second di-yision ; or the committee that may be chosen the second Wednesday of March next, to lay out the fifty acres of land at the meadows. Taking in part payment thereof, what said proprietors owe said Martin for building the mills where said Martin now lives. As more fully by said proprietors' book appears. The foregoing done at the desire of a number of the aforesaid proprietors. Test, John Hazeltine. Townshend, March the llth, 1772. This day met at the house of Mr. Joseph Tyler, according to the notifica tion for said meeting, and passed the following votes : 1. Made choice of John Hazeltine, Esq., Moderator of said meeting. 2. Voted, To choose a new committee of five men, to lay out their second di-yision land ; and to lay it out as the committee was ordered to do that was chosen July Sth, 1771, viz: John Hazeltine, Esq., John Burt, Ezra Holbrook, David Lindsey and Amariah Taft. 3. The third article of the warrant read, and voted in the affirmative. Test, John Hazeltine, Moderator. Our copy of proprietors' proceedings closes with the warning and votes of the meeting held ou the Sth day of April, 1774. Meeting op the Proprietors, AprU 5, 1774. Notice is hereby given to the proprietors of To-wnshend, lying on West River so called, to meet at the house of Paul Hazeltine, near said Hazeltine's potash house, in said Townshend, on the first Tuesday of April next, at 10 o'clock in the morning, then and there to act on the following articles : 1. To choose a Moderator for the meeting, 2. To see if the proprietors aforesaid will stand by Paul Hazeltine afore said in the suit which said Paul Hazeltine is to answer, the third Tuesday of April next, at the City Hall in New York, by being by the Supreme Court made defendant ; or lose the land on which he now lives, as is said, which is occasioned by Luke Knowlton, Esq., and John Taylor. 3. To see what said proprietors will further do relative to the foregoing articles, or any other matters or things, as they shall think proper when met. The foregoing done at the desire of above twenty proprietors. March 22, 1774. Attest, John Hazeltine. Met at time and place agreeably to the notification for said meetiug, and voted as follows, viz : 75 1. Made choice of John Hazeltine, Esq,, Moderator for said meeting, 2, Voted, To send a man to New York, with power of substitution, to get Mr, Paul Hazeltine made defendant in the suit depending between Luke Knoulton, Esq., and John Taylor, and Paul Hazeltine aforesaid, agreeably to the second article of the warrant. And then voted, to adjourn said meeting to the third Tuesday of May next, to the house of Mr, Hazeltine, near where his potash house stands, at 2 o'clock, P, M. Met at time and place agreeably to adjournment, and voted as follows, -yiz: To choose a committee to notify the proprietors of Fane and New Marl borough to perambulate the lines of our towns with us, if they will ; and if they reftise, said committee to go with a Surveyor and measure the lines of the to-wns aforesaid, as they shall think proper. 2. Voted, That John Hazeltine, Esq., William Hayward, Joseph Tyler' Benjamin Howe, and Ezra Holbrook be a committee to do the service spoken of. The division line between the proprietors of Townshend and Ne-wfane had not been mutuaUy established, and the suit above named probably was one of the results of this unmarked boundary. But however this may be, or whatever may have been the object or result ofthe suit aforesaid, no attempt was ever made to dispossess any claimant under the New Hampshire charter of this town, by -virtue of title emanating from the government of New York. A third di-yision of fifty acres of land to each right was ordered on the 29th day of May, 1778 ; and a fourth division of sixty acres, on the 29th day of May, 1780. The last meeting of the proprietors was held on the 7th day of October, 1782, Peopeietoes' Cleeks, 1753, Aug, 29, WUUam Young. 1769, May 10, Samuel Fletcher. 1761, May 25, James Taylor. 1778, June 18, Amos Holbrook. 1766, April 21, Joshua Wood. 1782, Oct. 7, Joshua Wood. Committees to lay out Land. 1753, Aug. 29. John Hazeltine, Isaac Barnard, Benjamin Woodbury, Benjamin Marsh, WiUiam Young. 1761, March 10. John Hazeltine, Benjamin Woodbury, Benjamin Marsh, James Taylor, Paul Hazeltine. 1761, Nov. 23. John Fry, James Taylor, Paul Hazeltine. 1766, April 21. John Hazeltine, Paul Hazeltine, Thomas Baird, John Read, Joseph Tyler, Jr. 76 1767, April 13. John Hazeltine, Paul Hazeltine, Daniel Baird, James Taylor, Joseph Tyler, Peter Hazeltine, Timothy Tyler. 1769, May 10. John Hazeltine, Paul Hazeltine, Joseph Tyler, John Baird, Timothy Tyler, Jonas Butterfield, Samuel Fletcher. 1771, July 8. John Hazeltine, William Hayvvard, Ezra Holbrook, John Burt, Peter Hazeltine, David Lindsey, Samuel Fletcher, Timothy Tyler, Benjamin Howe. 1772, March 11, John Hazeltine, John Burt, Ezra Holbrook, David Lind sey, Amariah Taft. 1778, April 16. John Hazeltine, John Burt, Ezra Holbrook, David Lind sey, Amariah Taft, John Howe, Jr., Benjamin Howe. 1778, May 29, Joseph Tyler, Samuel Fletcher, Benjamin Howe, John Burt, Ezra Holbrook. 1778, June 26. John Burt, Ezra Holbrook, Benjamin Howe, Amariah Taft, Paul Hazeltine. 1778, Dec. 18. John Burt, Paul Hazeltine, Amos Holbrook, Timothy Holbrook, Thomas Wood. 1780, May 29. Silas Hayward, Joshua Barnard, Amos Holbrook, Thomas Wood, Timothy Holbrook. 1782, Oct. 7. Edward Segrieves, Amzi Doolittle, Thomas Wood Timo thy Holbrook, John Hazeltine, son of Silas Hazeltine. Persons to whom the township was divided, and whose names are entered upon the proprietors' book as land owners. Austin, Asa Barnard, John Barnard, John, Jr. Baxnard, Joshua Barnard, Joshua, Jr. Barnes, Thomas Blanchard, Daniel Burt, Eben'r Burt, John, Capt. Butterfield, Jonas, Dr. Chamberlain, Joseph's Heirs Chase, Amariah Chase, Henry, Lieut. Chase, Jacob Clayton, Jonathan Cook, Moses Darling, Caleb Doolittle, Amzi, Lieut. Dresser, John Dudley, Nicholas, Rev. Dyer, Elizabeth, Wid. Dyer, John Dyer, Joseph Fay, Cyrus Fay, Thomas Fish, John Fish, Josiah, Esq. Fletcher, Benja. Fletcher, Sam'l Gray, Jonas Hayward, Caleb Hayward, Eli Hayward, Levi Hayward, Silas Hayward, William Hazeltine, John, Esq. Hazeltine, John, son of Silas Hazeltine, Paul Hazeltine, Peter Hazeltine, Silas' Heirs Hazeltine, SHas, Jr. Hill, Caleb Hinds, John B. Holbrook, A-mos Holbrook, Asa Holbrook, Elias Holbrook, Ezra Holbrook, Moses Holbrook, Peter Holbrook, Timothy HoUand, Antipas' Heirs 77 HoUand, John Howe, Benja. Howe, John Howe, John, Jr. Johnson, Michael Johnson, WiUiam Kenney, 'Moses, Dr, Lincoln, Enos Lindsey, David Lowe, Thomas Martin, Matthew Murdock, Benja. Ober, Eben'r Parkhurst, Sam'l Partridge, Lovett Penniman, Jesse Rawson, Bailey Rawson, Gardner Rawson, Stephen Rawson, Thomas Ray, Benja. Read, Thomas Rice, Thomas Robbins, Lemuel Robbins, WiUiam Sawyer, Abner's Heirs Shepard, Eph'm Smith, David Taft, Amariah Taft, Eben'r Taft, Lyman Tyler, Susannah, Wid. Tyler, Tim'y's Heirs Utley, Wm. Jr. Walden, James Walker, Jeshurun Walker, Timothy Ward, William Watkins, James Watkins, James' Heirs Watkins, Patience, Wid. White, Edward Wiswell, Sam'l, Ensign Wood John, Dr. Wood, Joshua, Dr. Wood, Thomas Tyler, Joseph, Esq. By di-vision of the original rights into parts and sale thereof, the number of land-o-wners was increased from seventy-four to ninety-eight, which is the number to whom the town was laid out on pitch and survey. Distribution of the land was so justly and so correctly done, by proprietors' committees, that courts have never been called upon to decide more land cases from Towns hend than from any town where the land was lotted and drawn for in the usual way. No minute or record has been preserved of what was done at any town meeting in Townshend previous to March, 1781. By an official signature of Samuel Fletcher, it is shown that a Constable, who was a resident town officer, was serving here on the 6th day of May, 1771. Probably, the town was organized a few weeks before May of the year 1771, and in conformity with the law of New York, requiring certain town officers to be chosen annually on the day named in the charter, or on the first Tuesday in April. The writer of an article in Thompson's Gazetteer, however, says, " The first meeting for the transaction of town business was on the 30th of May, 1771." The following is a copy of the census of Townshend taken early in 1771, pursuant to directions from the Governor of New York. Heads of Families in the Town op Townshend. Burt, John Cook, Moses Field, Benja. Fletcher, Benja. FUetcher, Sam'l Hart, Isaac A, Hayward, Paul Hayward, WiUiam Hazeltine, John, Esq. Hazeltine, Paul Hazeltine, Peter Holbrook, Moses Hopkins, John Howe, Benja. Howe, John Howe, John, Jr. Johnson, WUliam Lindsey, David Martin, Matthew Moredock, Benja. Ober, Eben'r Read, Thomas Street, Benja. Tyler, Joseph Tyler, Timothy 78 25, Number of the heads of families. Males, under 16, 33. Males, above 16 and under 60, 40. Males, 60 and upwards. 1. Females, under 16, 35. Females, above 16, 26.- -135. Blacks. Females, above 16, 1. Total, 136. Townshend, May 6th, 1771. Samuel Fletchee, Constable. A Court of Common Pleas and a Court of General Sessions of the Peace for the County of Cumberland, New York, assembled at the Court House in Chester on the 2d day of June, 1772. After being duly opened, the court adjourned to the Meeting House in the to-wnship of Westminster, until the 9th day of the same June ; when the business of the term was taken up and disposed of Causes were tried and decided at each subsequent term of said Court, down to and including the December term of 1774. Residents of Townshend were impaneled at Westminster before the Court above named, and as follows : 1772, June Term. Joseph Tyler, petit-juror. Forty cases were disposed of at this term, 1772, Dec. Term. Benjamin Dyer, grand-juror. Sixty-one cases were disposed of at this term. 1773, June Term. David Lindsey, Joseph Tyler, Paul Hazeltine, petit- jurors. One hundred and eight cases were disposed of at this term. At the June Term, 1772, David Lindsey was licensed to keep tavern in Townshend. The following list of births is made from entries found in the first volume of town records : Father. Name. Date of Birth. Paul Hazeltine, Mary, Aug. 5, 1766. John Howe, Jr., EUzabeth, Feb. 14, 1767. John Howe, Jr., Abel, Aug. 7, 1768. Joseph Tyler, Ruth, Aug. 10, 1768, Isaac Hart, Isaac, Jan'y 12, 1769. Samuel Fletcher, Mehetabel, May 29, 1769. John Burt, Eunice, June 7, 1769. Paul Hazeltine, Elisha, Oct. 19, 1769. Moses Cook, Mary, Nov. 18, 1769. John Howe, Jr., Simeon, Nov. 29, 1769. Father. Benjamin Howe, John Burt, Samuel Fletcher, William Johnson, Joseph Tyler, Isaac Hart, Paul Hazeltine, Moses Cook, Benjamin Howe, John Burt, Samuel Fletcher, 79 Name, Benjamin, Benjamin,Eleazer, Hitty,Joseph, Elisha,Submit, Hannah, Hannah, Joseph, Lucindia, Date of Birth. AprU 8, 1770. Oct. 31, 1770. March 15, 1771 AprU 12, 1771. AprU 14, 1771. May 29, 1771. July 31, 1771. March 13, 1772. AprU 7, 1772. July 10, 1772. Nov. 10, 1772. In May, 1774, a committee of correspondence, numbering fifty-one mem bers, was appointed in the cify of New York for the purpose of drawing out and uniting the sentiments of the people in opposition to the Boston Port BUI, and other laws of Parliament ; and creating that public opinion of which the first Continental Congress, with its resolves and recommendations, was the outcome. Meetings of the people in Cumberland county were held, to consider the measures and policy of the British government relating to administration of the English colonies in North America. The first of these meetings was a convention, which assembled at Westminster on the 19th day of October, 1774. Eighteen delegates from twelve towns were present; and John Hazeltine, a delegate from Townshend, was appointed Chairman of the meeting. That assembly had under consideration a letter from Isaac Lowe, chairman of the committee of Correspondence of New York; also the Act of the British ParUament laying a tax or duty on tea, for the purpose of raising a revenue in America ; the Boston Port Bill, so called ; and divers other late Acts of the British Parliament. After sundry debates on the subject matters of Mr. Lowe's letter and on the Acts of ParUament above named, the convention made a statement of certain rights that belonged to English colonists in America, and then passed the following among other resolutions : " II. That as we wUl defend our King while he reigns over us, his sub jects, and wish his reign may be long and glorious, so wUl we defend our just rights, as British subjects, against any power that shall attempt to de prive us of them, while breath is in our nostrils, and blood in our veins." "IV. Sensible that the strength of our opposition to the late Acts con sists in a uniform, manly, steady, and determined mode of procedure, we wiU bear testimony against and discourage all riotous, tumultuous, and un necessary mobs which tend to injure the persons or properties of harmless indi-yiduals ; but endeavor to treat those persons whose abominable princi ples and actions show them to be enemies to American liberty, as loathsome 80 animals not fit to be touched, or to have any society or connection with." " V. That we choose a Committee to correspond with the other Com mittees of Correspondence of this Province and elsewhere ; and that Mr. Joshua Webb, John Grout, Esquire, Deacon John Sessions, Major William Williams, and Captain Jacob (Joab) Hoisington be a Committee as afore said." In June, 1775, the proceedings and resolutions of the above named con vention were published in the city of New York, for the purpose of sho-wing that the county of Cumberland was not " inimical to the proceedings of the late Continental Congress at Philadelphia and to the several Provincial Congresses, since held in the respective British Colonies in America, in de fence of their just rights and freedom." In the month of October, 1774, the Continental Congress adopted a de claration of Colonial rights, in the form of a series of resolutions ; and, as means for enforcing this claim of rights, certain articles of association, known as the non-importation, non-consumption, and non-exportation asso ciation, were also adopted. When these proceedings of Congress became known, John Hazeltine, by the advice of some of the leading men of the county, issued a circular for another County convention to meet at West minster, on the 30th day of November, 1774. The following statements contain all that is known of the proceedings of this convention : "Immediately after [the convention of October 30, 1774], the people of the county aforesaid received the resolves of the continental congress. They called a county congress, and did adopt all the resolves of the con tinental congress as their resolves, promising religiously to adhere to that agreement or association. There was a committee of inspection moved for, to be chosen by the county, according to the second resolve [llth article] of the association aforesaid ; but being much spoken against by a justice and an attorney, and looked upon by them as a childish, impertinent thing, the delegates dared not choose one." — Vt. Gov. and .Coun., 1, p. 321. " The state of the county was then considered, as were also the inconven iences to which the inhabitants were subjected in collecting their dues in the province of New Hampshire." — East. Vt., p. 204, There was no delay on the part of the people of Cumberland County in executing every requirement or recommendation made by the Continental Congress for them to observe, 1775-1777. Warrants for calling a County convention on the 7th day of February, 1775, were signed by John Hazeltine, on the 30th day of the preceding 81 January, This body met at Westminster, and delegates from twelve towns were in attendance, John Hazeltine was chosen Moderator. This conven tion recommended it to their constituents " to choose a man for their super- \-isor at the next annual meeting such as they would choose if they were to send him to New York as their Assembly-man ; that so the supervisors may select two men out of their body, such as they shall think most proper ; which they the supervisors of the County are desired to return to their con stituents for their consideration and approbation by a regular vote \vhen called upon to choose Assembly-men in said County." A standing committee of Correspondence, consisting of twenty-eight mem bers from twenty-one towns, -ivas appointed to correspond with the committee of Correspondence for the city of New York, and committees of Corres pondence elsewhere. John Hazeltine was appointed Chairman of the com mittee of Correspondence ; and he was " impowered to call the county to gether, by way of their delegates, on any important immergence." It was " ordered that on the application of the committee of three towns to our chair man it be in his power to call a meeting of the committee if he shall think proper, but on application of five towns by their committees that then a meeting shall be called immediately.'' •Colonial administration of Cumberland county terminated in the West minster massacre, on the 13th day of March, 1775. But civil government in the couuty did not theu come to an end. The towns maintained law and order and managed civil affairs by means of town officers, committees of safety, conventions, congresses, committees of correspondence, and other needed appointments. These appointees served the people until executive and judicial officers were chosen agreeably to the constitution and laws of Vermont. No record has been preserved of the election of town officers in this town for the years 1775 aud 1776. As the town then recognized the jurisdiction of New York, the presumption is that Townshend chose a board of New York town officers in each of those years. • On failure of Cumberland county, from want of sufficient notice, to send delegates to the first New York Provincial Congress ; the committee of Cor respondence at New York, by letter to the county committee of Correspond ence, requested that Cumberland county should send delegates to said Provincial Congress ; and desired the people of said county to fully make known their sentiments in regard " to the hostile measures that are using by the British Parliament to enforce the late cruel, unjust, and oppressive Acts of said British Parliament, through the British Colonies in America." A county congress, or convention, was called by John Hazeltine, Chairman of the county committee of Correspondence, to consider the matters named 5 82 in the letter from the New York committee of Correspondence. This assembly consisting of delegates from the several towns of the county, convened at Westminster, on the 6th day of June, 1775. John Hazeltine was chosen Chairman. As to that part of the letter which requested the appointment of delegates. Col. John Hazeltine, Doctor Paul Spooner, and William Williams, Esquire were chosen; and they took their seats as members of the New York Pro-yincial Congress, on the 21st day of June, 1775. In answer to the other part of the letter, the Convention passed the fol lowing among other resolutions, and forwarded them to New York through the county committee of Correspondence : 1. Resolved, neni. con.. That the late Acts of the British Parliament, passed in order to raise a revenue in America, are unjust, illegal, and diametrically opposite to the Bill of Rights, and a fundamental principle of the British Constitution, which is, ' that no person shall have his property taken from him without his consent.' 2. Resolved, nem. con.. That we will resist and oppose the said Acts of Par liament, in conjunction with our brethren in America, at the expense of our lives and fortunes, to the last extremity, if our duty to God and our Country require the same. 3. Resolved, nem con.. That we think it needless to pass many resolves exhibiting our sentiments with regard to the unhappy controversy subsisting between Great Britain and America. Let it suffice, therefore, that we fully acquiesce with what our brethren have lately done at New York, in their late Association ; and it is hereby resolved that the late Association entered into at New York is perfectly agreeable to the sentiments of the freeholders and inhabitants of this County, and that they fully acquiesce in the same. The convention proceedings forwarded to New York were signed, John Hazeltine, Chairman of the County of Cumberland Congress and- Committee of Correspondence. The associati^ alluded to in the third resolution ^yas adopted in the city of New York during the preceding April, and is in the following words : Persuaded that the salvation of the rights and liberties of America depend, under God, on the firm union of its inhabitants, in a vigorous prosecution of the measures necessary for its safey, and convinced of the necessity of pre venting the anarchy, and confusion which attend a dissolution of the powers of Goverument ; We, the Freemen, Freeholders, and inhabita,uts of the City and County of Neiu York, being greatly alarmed at the avowed design of the Ministry to raise a reyenue iu America, and shocked by the bloody scene now acting in the Massachusetts-Bay, do, in the most solemn manner. 83 resolve never to become slaves.; and do associate, under all ties of religion, honor, and love to our Country, to adopt and endeavor to carry into execu tion whatever measures may be recommended by the Continental Congress, or resolved upon by our Provincial Convention, for the purpose of preserv ing our Constitution aud opposing the execution of the several arbitrary and oppressive Acts of the British Parliament, uutil a reconciliation between Great Britain and America, on constitutional principles, (which we most ar dently desire,) can be obtained ; and that we will, iu all things, follow the ad\dce of our General Committee respecting the purposes aforesaid, the pre servation of peace and good order, and the safety of individuals and private property. The association above given is the association agreement mentioned in the following document, which contains the names of all the men of Townshend on the day the paper bears date. Names are arranged by us iu alphabetical order. Province of New York, Cumberland County, Townshend, July 12, 1775. We, the subscribers, heartily and sincerely adhere to the proceedings of the Continental Congress, held at Philadelphia on the Sth day of September, 1775, more especiaUy the Association Agreement ; as witness our hands : Barnes, Ephraim Barnes, John Blanchard, Daniel Burt, John Christopher, William Clayton, Jonathan Darling, Caleb Dyer, Benjamin Dyer, John Fish, Josiah Fletcher, Benjamin Hart, Isaac H. Hayward, Benjamin Hayward, Caleb Hayward, Calvin Haywardj Eli Hayward, Paul Hayward, Silas Hayward, William Hazeltine, John Hazeltine, John Jr. Hazeltine, Paul Hazeltine, Peter Holbrook, Amos Holbrook, Ezra Holbrook, Moses Holbrook, Timothy Howe, Benjamin Howe, John Howe. John Jr. Howe, Joseph Johnson, Michael Johnson, William Lindsey, James Martin, Abraham Martin, Matthew Ober, Asa Ober, Ebenezer Read, Thomas Robbins, Lemuel Robbins, William Rugg, Benjamin Taft, Amariah Tyler, Joseph Walker, Jeshurun Walker, Thomas Watkins, James Wiswell, Samuel Wood, John Wright, John Lindsey, David The above Subscribers are all the men now in Townshend, those out of town are: Samuel Fletcher, Benjamin Moredock, Oliver Moredock, Aaron Johnson, Samuel Parkhurst, Thomas Barnes, Ebenezer Burt. These are in the service at Roxbury, under Gen. Washington. The above 84 completed July 12, 1775, but no safe opportunity till now, the 6th day of December, 1775. This from a real friend to liberty. John Hazeltine. Two other county Congresses met at Westminster during the year 1775. At the one which assembled on the 26th day of July, the foUo-wing resolu tion was passed : In Congress, Westminster, County Hall, July 26, 1775. Resolved, nem. con.. That our Delegates chosen on the 7th day of June last, be qualified to act in the Provincial Congress at New York, singly, in as ample and full a manner, when but one is present, as the whole of said Del egates, when the whole are present at said Provincial Congress. Attest, James Clay, Chairman pro tem. of said County Congress. The other Congress in 1775 commenced its session ou the 21.st day of November, and was a meeting of the county committee of Safety. This body chose Major William Williams, and Doctor Paul Spooner to represent the people of the county in the Provincial Congress of New York. These delegates were chosen pursuant to a resolution of the Provincial Congress of New York passed on 18th day of the preceding October. Certain names were recommended by this county Congress to the Proviucial Congress for commissions in the upper and lower regiments, and in the regiment of min ute-men belonging to the county. From the fact that no record exists of town proceedings prior to 1781, no list can be furnished of committees of Safety elected by this town. Some journals of the county committee of Safety have been preserved, and they show attendance of the followiug delegates from Townshend at the conven tions hereafter uamed of the committee of Safety for the county. 1776, June 11. At Westminster, Joseph Tyler, Samuel Fletcher. 1776, June 20. At Westminster, Samuel Fletcher. 1776, Nov. 5; At Westminster, Capt. Samuel Fletcher. The Dorset convention of July 24, 1776, was the first representative body which decided that an appeal to the inhabitants of the Grants should be raade to haye them form the same into a separate State. Townshend was the only town on the east side of the Green Mountains represented in that Assembly. The first step taken by the convention towards the making of the appeal was to declare its purpose in the form of a resolution, " That application be made to the inhabitants of said Grants to form the same into a separate District.'' A committee was then raised, to exhibit the proceedings of the convention to the inhabitants on the east side of the IMountains, and to treat 85 with said inhabitants relative to their associating with that Assembly. Capt. Heman Allen, Col. William Marsh, and Doct. Jonas Fay, in conjunction with Capt. Samuel Fletcher and Mr. Josiah Fish, the two delegates from this town, were chosen the committee. Doct. Jonas Fay, Col. Thomas Chittenden, and Lieut. Ira Allen were appointed to prepare instructions 'for said committee. So influential and energetic a committee under so able guidance would be like to succeed, where success was possible. When the Dorset convention above named was held, inhabitants on the west side of _ the Green Mountains very generally favored the movement for a new State. On the east side of the Mountains, however, the new State party did uot number one-half of the people. But the party was growing fast. The convention proposed to win an adverse majority, by sending the wisest and most sagacious members of that body to labor for this object with the people on the east side of the Mountains. In this town, the plan of the convention was so thoroughly executed that, by the month of December, 1776, all the inhabitants were in favor of inde pendence of the Grants. The Dorset convention of July 24, 1776, also adopted the following preamble and association : This Convention being fully sensible that it is the will and pleasure of the Honorable the Continental Congress, that every honest friend to the liberties of America, in the several United States thereof, should subscribe an Asso ciation, binding themselves as members of some Body or Community to stand in the defence of those liberties ; and whereas it has been the usual custom for individuals to associate with the Colony or State which they are reputed members of; Yet nevertheless the long and spirited conflict, which has for many years subsisted between the Colony or State of New York, and the inhabitants of that District of Land, commonly called and known by the name of the New Hampshire Grants, relative to the title of the Land on said District, renders it inconvenient in many respects to associate with that ' Province or State, which has hitherto been the sole reason of our not sub scribing an Association before this. The better therefore to convince the Public of our readiness to join in the common Defence of the aforesaid Liberties, We do publish and subscribe the following Association, viz : We the subscribers inhabitants of that District of Land, commonly called and known. by the name of the New Hampshire Grants, do voluntarily and solemnly engage under all the ties held sacred amongst Mankind at the risk of our lives and fortunes to defend, by arms, the United American States against the hostile attempts of the British fleets and armies, until the present unhappy controversy between the two countries shall be settled. Every member of the convention, save one, signed the foregoing Associa- 86 tion. Among the signers, are the Tiames of Samuel Fletcher and Josiah Fish, the delegates from Townshend. The foUowing is a list of delegates from Townshend to the General Con ventions which had under consideration the independence of the New Hamp shire Grants, and the taking of exclusive jurisdiction on the same by the State of Vermont : 1776, July 24. At Dorset, Capt. Samuel Fletcher, Josiah Fish. 1776, Oct. 30. At Westminster, Capt. Samuel Fletcher. 1777, Jan'y 15. At Westminster, Capt. Samuel Fletcher. 1777, June 4. At Windsor, John Dyer. After November, 1776, no inhabitant of the town was friendly to the jurisdiction of New York on the Grants, It is hardly credible, therefore, that town officers were chosen in Townshend from the beginning of 1777, to the time they were elected in the manner j)ro-vided by the General Assembly of Vermont. 1778-1878. A paper found in the town clerk's office shows that the following names AVere entered upon the grand-list of Townshend for the year 1799. With few exceptions, all the persons mentioned upon the list w^ere residents of the town in that year, Belknap, Joseph, Lieut. Doolittle, Amzi Black, John Doolittle, Amzi, Jr. Brigham, Eben'r, Lieut. Doolittle, Origen Adams, Abram AUbe, Aaron Allen, Cornelius Allen, Josiah J. Allen, Samuel Ames, Amos Ames, John Ames, Lemuel Atherton, Peter Austin, Asa, Lieut. Austin, George Ayres, Levi BaU, SUas Barber, Benja. R. Barber, Thomas Barber, Thomas, Jr. Barnard, Alpha Barnard, Joshua Barnard, Silas Barnard, Stephen Barnes, Thomas Burby, David Burby, Jonathan Burby, Thomas Burt, Eben'r Burt, John Chase, Bazaliel Chase, Elias Chase, Enoch Chase, Henry, Lieut. Chase, Lemuel Church, Nath'l Clayton, Jonathan Clayton, Moses Cobleigh, Daniel Cole, Ephraim Crosier, Alexander Cutler, Jonathan Davis, Hammond Doolittle, Roswell Drake, Abijah Drake, Paul Duncan, Eben'r Dunton, Joseph Dyer, Eliza, Wid. Dyer, John Dyer, John, Jr. Ewings, Calvin Fessenden, Sam'l Fish, Jacob Fish, Ward, lAeut. Fletcher, Sam'l, Esq. Franklin, James Franklin, John Frost, Bazaliel Frost, Sam'l, Esq. Gray, Amos Gray, James Gray, Jesse Gray, Jonas Gray, Jonas, Jr. Gray, Joseph Gray, Matthew Green, John Green, Nath'l Harris, Eben'r Hart, Elisha Hayward, Levi Hayward, Nathan, Jr. Hazeltine, Asa, Lieut. Hazeltine, Elisha Hazeltine, John, Esq. Hazeltine, John, Lieut. Hazeltine, John, 3d. Hazeltine, Peter, Ensign Holbrook, Abner Holbrook, Alfred Holbrook, Amos, Capt. Holbrook, Arad Holbrook, Asa Holbrook, Eli Holbrook, Ezra, Capt. Holbrook, Jared Holbrook, Lyman Holbrook, Thomas Holbrook, Timothy Holland, Joseph Hosley, Asa Howe, Benjamin Howe, Benja. Jr. Howe, John, Jr. Howe, John W. Howe, Rogers Joy, Thomas Jennison, Robert Jewett, Joseph W. Kimball, Charles Kimball, Eben'r Kingsbury, Sam'l Lee, Joel 87 Livingston, Benja. Capt. Livingston, James Lovering, Sam'l Jr. Lowe, Thomas Lowell, Solo'n, Doct. Marsh, Eber Mason, Anthony Morse, Johu Murdock, Benja. Maj. Murdock, Benja. Jr. ]\Iurdock, Jesse, Ensign Murdock, Sam'l Newell, Hiram Nichols, James Nichols, Reuben Oak, Seth, Esq. Ober, Ezra Parkhurst, Sam'l Prentiss, Elijah Prentiss, Joseph Prentiss, Joseph Jr. Puffer, Richard Putnam, John Ramsdell, Isaac Ramsdell, William Ransom, Ezekiel Rawson, Bailey Rawson, Gardner Rawson, Stephen Ray, Reuben Read, Evans Read, Thomas Read, Thomas, Jr. Robinson, Elijah Scott, Robert Sergeant, Enoch Shattuck, Jonathan Shattuck, Jona., Jr. Smith, David Snow, Joseph Squires, Charles Stockwell, Daniel Street, Benja. Sumner, Benja. Sumner, Edward Sumner, Thomas Taft, Aaron Taft, Amariah, Col. Taft, Amariah, Jr. Taft, Eben'r Taft, Israel Taft, Willard Taft, William, Lieut. Thomas, Gardner Thomas, Washington Thwing, Nath'l Tourtellott, Abram Tyler, Joseph, Esq. Tyler, Joseph, Lieut. Tyler, Timothy Waldron, Benja, Walker, Jeshurun Watkins, John Watrous, Joseph Wheelock, Caleb Wheelock, Ephr'm Wheelock, Winslow Whipple, John Whitcomb, Jonas White, Edward Wilder, Aaron Wilder Joseph Wilkinson, Elijah Wilkinson, Oliver Wiswell, Levi Wiswell, Sam'l, Capt. Wiswell, Sam'l Wood, John, Doct. Wood, Joshua, Esq. Wood, Joshua, Jr. Wood, Nathan Wood, Thomas Woodburn, Thos., Maj. Woodward, Joel Woodward, John Woodward, Nath'l 88 MILITAEY. Residents of this town during the Revolutionary war, who were in active military service, served with Continental troops, or they belonged to the militia of Vermont. A few names of the former class have been given upon a previous page. Three more persons can be added to that list, on authority of the following statement, which was dictated to us in 1857 by an aged man. Probably, the men named in the statement served in the campaign of 1775. I remember that Samuel Parkhurst, Amos Holbrook, Benjamin Moredock, Joseph Howe, and John Johnson served as volunteers with the Continental troops of the Revolutionary war. They went together, and on their way stopped over night with father when he lived in his log house. Soon after reaching Canada, they were captured by the British. Parkhurst and Hol brook came back, but the others died of dysentery when prisoners. All of these volunteers, when at home, liyed in log houses. The iold hut of Park hurst, with stone chimney for part of one of the walls of the structure, stood in the East Village and on the corner where Zatter Butterfield afterwards built his residence. Holbrook was unmarried and lived -with his father, Dea. Moses Holbrook, near the deep hole against the meadow now belong ing to Nathan Pierce. Murdock liyed just over the River south of Hol- brook's house, and near the road as it was then traveled. Joseph Howe lived on the road leading from the West Village to Windham, and where the spearmint grows by the west side of the highway between the former dwellings of Rice Howe and John W. Howe. John Johnson was a single man and lived with his father in a house that stood on north side of the road near the bridge below where Col. Twitchell now resides. Militia-men of this town were called out by State officers to fight British troops, to defend this State, and to put down insurrection at home. Names of privates and subalterns upon those occasions are unkno-wn to us ; but among the commissioned officers were Capt., CoL, and Brig. Gen'l Samuel Fletcher, Capt. Josiah Fish, Capt. Johu Burt, Capt. Joseph Tyler. The military company of this town, -ndth Capt. Samuel Fletcher at its head, participated in the battle of Bennington, and continued in the field until the surrender of Burgoyne in the following October. Joseph Tyler, a member of the company, received a pension from Vermont, by reason of a wound received in that engagement. Tradition saj's that every man belong ing to the company was at the front during the campaign of 1777 ; and uo one can doubt the truth of the statement who knows the character and in fluence of Capt. Fletcher, or the spirit and patriotism of his townsmen. Of the Vermont militia assembled at Brattleboro in January, 1784, in order to crush the Yorkers, the company from this town numbered fifty-three men, aud was commanded by Capt. Josiah Fish. 89 Many years ago, as tAvo celebrated attornies were conversing in a public room of the hotel at Newfane, during a Term of Windham County Court, a gentleman from Guilford came iu who had been summoned as a witness in one of the causes about to be tried. He was immediately recognized by one of the attornies as an old friend and former to-wnsman, and was so introduced to the other. Their short interview terminated as follows : Said oue of the attornies to the other, " Judge T., the people of Guilford are loyal to the State now; my duty compelled me to conquer that town, once." Instantly the man from Guilford became angry, for he had been a noted Yorker. He replied : " Gen. B., I know that you plundered Guilford, once ; never before did I hear that you conquered it." In October, 1781, a provision tax was laid by the legislature for feeding the troops to be employed in the service of this State during the year 1782. The Act provided for a general levy on the pound of the grand-list for 1781 of twenty ounces of wheat flour, six ounces of rye flour, ten ounces of beef, and six ounces of pork without bone, except rib and back-bone. The first section of the law also provides, " That the selectmen of the several towns be, and hereby are directed to make a provision rate, according to the foregoing prc^ortion, on the inhabitants of their towns respectively ; which, with their warrant, they shall direct to the constables of said towns, impowering them to collect the same by the first day of February, next. And the selectmen of the several towns are hereby ordered to see that the said beef and pork be well salted, and that thewhole of said provision be properly stored and se cured in barrels, at some convenient place in each town ; and that the whole of the expense of securing, salting and storing said provision be defrayed by the several towns, wherein the same is collected as aforesaid." On the 13th day of December, 1781, the town Voted, To raise the provision in this town that the Assembly sent for agreeably to the Act of said Assembly ; that each person bring in to the selectmen one quart of salt to every twelve pounds of pork ; also, to raise twenfy bushels of Indian corn to enable the selectmen to get casks for storing the aforesaid pro-vision. At the same meeting, Dec. 13, 17S1, upon another article of the warning, the tqwn voted as foUows : That one hiindred eighty doUars, and interest on the same since the year 1777, be immediately assessed ; and the same be paid to the committee that borrowed this sum of John Hazeltine, Esq., in the year 1777, for a bounty to the men that went into the service. During the February Session of the Vermont legislature in 1782, a statute was passed requiring, "that there be three hundred effective, able-bodied men (including officers) raised in the several towns within this State, (except the towns on Connecticut River, north of Barnet) to be commanded by one 6 90 major, five captains, ten lieutenants, twenty sergeants, and twenty corporals and to be allowed ten drummers and fifers — in the following manner, viz ; that the Board of War be, aud they are hereby directed to divide to each town respectively their quota of said men, according to the common list of said towns, made for the year 1781. And the Board of War. are hereby further directed and required, forthwith, to transmit to the selectmen of the respective towns aforesaid, their several quotas so divided ; who are hereby impowered and required immediately to call together the inhabitants of such towns, whose duty it shall be, when met, to raise, by enlistment or otherwise, their said quota of men, according to their lists aforesaid ; and to have them ready for service by the fifteenth day of April next, and to continue in service until the fifteenth day of December next, unless sooner discharged." Samuel Minott, Esq., was appointed muster master for the men to hi,' raised in Col. Bradley's Regiment, which included the militia of this town. The several towns in Col. Bradley's Regiment were directed to parade their respective quotas of men for muster at the house of Elkanah Day, in Westminster, on the third Tuesday of April, 1782. And the towns were required to pay the wages of their non-commissioned officers and soldiers by a tax upon the grand list^ The wages to be, for each sergeant, per month, two pounds eight shilling ; each corporal, drum and fife, two pounds four shillings ; and each private, two pounds ; and that the field and staff officers, and commissioned officers be paid out of the treasury of the State. In consequence of the law above mentioned, the town on the 18th day of March, 1782, "Voted, To raise three able-bodied men, as the quota of the town for the ensuing campaign ; in pursuance of orders received from the Board of War for that purpose." Names of these three men do not appear upon the town record. After their discharge from service, under an article iu the warning, "To see if the town will raise a sum of money to pay the soldiers for their service the last campaign, and how much ;" it was voted on the 6th day of January, 1783, "To raise money sufficient to pay thirty shillings per month to the soldiers who served in the last campaign ; and if any have served as non-commissioned officers, to pay them while in service the wages directed by the Board of War for the campaign of the year 1782." United States pensioners residing in Townshend. Names were found in official documents published by order of Congress. Invalid Pensioners. Annual Commencement Pension. of Pension. Died. Joseph Tyler, Private. [Vt. Militia,] $30.00. May 11, 1809. July 25, 1815. Thomas Lowe, Private. War of 1812, 96.00. July 25, 1815. May 30, 1855. Ebenezer Mcllvaine, Mass. Cont'l, 96.00. April 24, 1816. Dec. 31, 1838. 91 Pensioners under Act of Congress, March 18, 1818. Annual Pension. Comm't of Pension. George Austin, Priv. R.I. Cont'l, $96.00. Amos Holbrook, Private. 96.00. April 11, 1818. Pensioners under Act of Congress, June 7, 1832. Amos Gray, Priv. and Serg't, Levi Hayward, Priv. Mass. Militia, 24.65. Benja. Murdock, Private, 80.00. Ezekiel Ransom, Priv. ]\Iass. Cont'l, 37.00. Eben'r Taft, Priv. Mass. State, 82.66. WUliam Taft, Priv. Mass. Jlilitia, 80.00. Sam'l Wiswell, Priv. Vt. Militia, 26.66. Annual Commencement Pension. of Pension. Age. $50.00. March 4, Ml. 73. Died. 81. May 14, 1838. 76. Oct. 12, 1833. 70. 'S3. Feb. 3, 1840. 75. Sept. 22, 1832. 74. U. S. Pensioners residing in Townshend, June 1, 1840. Mary Austin, Age, 76. Family with whom residing, Asa Austin, George Austin, Age, 77. Ruth Burt, Age, 95. Martha Mansfield,Age, 86. Amos Gray, Age, 79. Miriam Holbrook, Age, 90. Mary Sergeant, Age, 81. Thomas Lowe, Age, 53. George Austin. Warner Burt. Harry Carey. Amos Gray. Miriam Holbrook. Ruth S. Dunklee. Thomas Lowe. In consequence of the country's domestic troubles, the state of affairs on the Indian frontier, our relations with France, and the claim to belligerent rights made by Great Britain ; the President, by Act of Congress approved May 9, 1794, was authorized to require of the Executives of the several States, to take effectual measures, as soon as may be, to organize, arm and equip according to law, and hold to march at a moment's warning, the fol lowing proportions respectively, of eighty thousand effective militia, officers included, to wit : From the State of ,^ ,^ ,,; ,^ ,^ Vermont, 2139. * :): h= * * • By reason of orders from Vermont officers to carry into effect the forego ing law of Congress, a town meeting was duly called in this town, "To act on the request of Samuel Fletcher, Esq., and others to raise a sum of money sufficient to make up the wages of those men who are called upon to march at a moment's warning from this town, to the following sums, viz : For a Sergeant, forty-eight shillings per month ; Corporal and Music, forty-four shillings per month ; and Privates, to forty shillings per month, with what 92 is now allowed them by Congress. Provided, the same be not granted them by the Legislature of the State." Upon this article of the warning, the town, on the Sth day of September, " Voted, That if the minute men that are called for to hold themselves in readiness to march should be called into actual service ; then and in that case, the town raise a sufficient sum of money to make up the wages of their proportional part of the men that shall march, agreeably to Act of Congress passed in May, last, to the sums specified in the above named article of the warrant. The money to be raised under the same restrictions that are set forth in the warrant." Although this vote of the town was of no consequence, so far as expend iture of money is concerned ; still, it is very gratifying to know that the in habitants of Tow]?shend, in a very critical time, promptly gave the response of a generous and loyal people to the call of President Washington. The difficulties between the United States and France remaining unsettled, a law of Congress, approved June 24, 1797, apportioned among the several States a detachment of eighty thousand militia, to be ready to march at a moment's warning. Of this number, 2150 men were required of Vermont. An article for consideration of the town on the 12th day of February, 1798, is in these words: "To see what encouragement the said inhabitants will vote to give those persons that shall enlist agreeably to the orders re ceived by Capt. Benja. Murdock for supplying the quota of men caUed for by the Congress of the United States." On the day last named, the town voted, " To raise the wages of every man that shall be called into actual service agreeably to the order above mentioned, (in addition to what is allowed by Congress) to the sum of sixteen shiUings to Privates ; which sum is to be made good to those who enlist, to the number of men according to the proportion which ought to go from this town." Also "voted, to give ten dollars bounty to each man, if caUed into actual sevice; five to be paid when they march, and the remainder on their return." At this time, as in 1794, no resort was had to arms ; and the national law was enforced no further than to have the men ready, on summons, to take the field. In regard to volunteers from this town in the War of 1S12, we have the following statement dictated to us by Lucius T. Wheelock, in 1869. Early in the Spring of 1813, I was engaged in recruiting men for the United States Army, and enlisted myself during May of that year, recei-ving the appointment of Sergeant. My commission as Ensign is dated in the Fall of 1813, and I was 2d Lieutenant when discharged in September 1815, 93 after the war closed. I belonged to the Slst Regiment of Infantry com manded by Col. Dana. Of the fights in which I participated, the more im portant were those at Chateaugay, the Stone Mill, and the battle of Platts- burgh. I remember that Stephen Barnard, Thomas Lowe, Benjamin Shattuck, John Shattuck, Thomas Holbrook, and Thomas Parkhurst enlisted from this town and served in the last War with Great Britain. John Shattuck and Lowe were wounded. Lowe belonged to the llth Regiment of Infantry, and received a pension during life for wounds received in battle at Lundy's Lane'. The facts, which we have collected touching the soldiers and expenses of the to-wn by reason of the War of the Rebellion, are now presented in tabu lar form upon the next aud following pages. CALLS OF THE PKESIDENT, AND QUOTAS OF THIS TOWN. Date of Call. 1861,1861, 1861, 1861,1862, 1862,1862,1863, 1864, 1864, 1864, 1864, April 15. May 3. May 3. May 3. July 1. Aug. 4. Aug 4. Oct. 17. Feb. 1. Mar. 14. July 18. Dec. 19. No. men called for. 75,000 42,03422,714 18,000 300,000 300,000 800,000 200,000200,000500,000300,000 2,257,748 Classification of the men wanted. Volunteers.Volunteers. Addition to standing array. Volunteers for the navy. Vols. On suggestion and advice of loyal Governors. Drafted militia. To fill by draft deficiency under call of July 1, 1862. Vols. Deficiency on Jan. 6, 1864, to be filled by draft. Drafted. Vols, to be credited on March 10, 1864. Drafted. Vols, to be credited on April 16, 1864. Vols. Deficiency on Sept. 5, to be fllled by draft. Vols. Deficiency on Feb. 15 , 1865, to be filled by draft. If drafted, men to serve one year. Term of Service. Qnota of this town. 3 months. 3 years. lyr. & not over 3yrs. 3 yrs. or for the war. 9 months. With forraer quotas 4814 3yrs. nr for the war. 3yrs. or for the war. 3yrs. or for the war. 1 year. 1, 2, or 3 years. 16 8 9 21 Quota of yrs, of service under this call, 49 CO i4^ 1865, May 81, Surplus credit iu men at close, of war, 5. DEAFTED MILITIA, Paid Commutation of |300, fixed hy law. Blodgett, Eoyal T. Farwell, Atwell G. Pisher, Albert J. Howard, Levi C. Howard, William H. M. Howe, John C. Morse, ElUot S. Pierce, Merrill Entered Service. Hazelton, Nelson W, SUBSTITUTES. Names. Contribution of Sum, Town Bounty. Total Bounty. Enlisted. Eank. Co. Eeg Eemarks, Dennis, Morris Oscar E. Garfleld, $310.00 $890.00 $700.00 July 13, 1864 Deserted aftermuster in Cook, William Eev. C, L. Cushman, 30C.00 400.00 700.00 July 15, 1864 Priv. B 17 Deserted. Clough, Eodney William Holbrook, 275.00 375.00 650.00 July 15, 1864 " B 17 - Frank, Charles Granville J. Austin, 237.50 412.50 650.00 July 15, 1864 (h B 17 ii McFeety, Edward Fernando C. Gale, 300.00 400.00 700.00 July 15, 1864 U F 17 .i Simonds, James B. S, D, Winslow, 200.00 500.00 700.00 July 15, 1864 " F 17 Ll McKeever, Edward Jos, E. Howard, 205.00 495.00 700.00 July 21, 1864 " F 17 u Madden, William S. Wm. L. Gale, 250.00 450.00 700.00 July 21, 1864 ii F 17 lb Porter, James Alonzo M. Wood, 250.00 600.00 850.00 July 29, 1864 it, E 17 Deserted Aug. 9, 1S04. Welch, David Nelson Winslow, 201.00 649.00 850.00 July 29, 1864 " A 6 Must, out June 20 1865. Disney, Joseph Geo. C. Holland, 112.00 888.00 1,000.00 Aug. 18, 1864 Deserted. Flynn, Patrick Martin L. Lowe, 200.00 800.00 1,000.00 Aug. 18, 1864 u Fitkins, Edward Alonzo Starkey. 102.00 848.00 950.00 U. S. Navy. Livingston, Frank Jason D. Thayer. 110.00 1,240.00 1,350.00 Aug. 31, 1864 Priv. I 8 Must, out July 11 1865. $3,052.50 $8,447.50 $11,500.00 CO NINE-MONTHS MEN. Names. Town Bounty. Enlisted. Mustered in. Eank. Co. Reg. Eemarks. Bailey, Lyman P. $75.00 Aug . 29, 1862. Oct. 23, 1862. Priv. D 16 Mustered out Aug. 10, 1868. Capen, James H. 75.00 i a ll U " I 16 kk kC kk Chamberlain , Harrison H. 75.00 i U £1 U ll D 16 kk kk kk Coats, Ezekiel B. 75.00 i ¦ ii Jan'y 8, 1863. Corp'l. Ik 16 kk kk .1 Cook, Allen L. 75.00 i ll U U Priv. kb 16 kk kk kk Dyer, John 75.00 I ll ii ll " u 16 Killed at Gettysburgh July 3, 1863, Flint, Eoyal M. 75.00 I ll ll ll " ll 16 Mustered out Aug. 10, 1863. Follett, James 0. 75.00 I l( U U Corp'l. ll 16 IL tl (I Franklin, Henry F. 75.00 ( (( ii a '' u 16 ll It It Gale, Marshall H. 75.00 b u It U Priv. kk 16 ll I. ll Gale, William L. 75.00 1, l( il u (( u 16 tt a ll Goodhue, Charles E. 76.00 I ll Aug, 29, 1862. 1st Lt. kk 16 ul a tc Holbrook, Hugh H. 75.00 i u Oct. 28, 1862. Serg't. ll 16 u It tl Holbrook, John D. 75.00 I ll ti a Priv. kk 16 Discharged May 18, 1863. Holbrook, Pardon D, 75.00 I ll il ;c a ll 16 Mustei'cd out Aug. 10, 1863. Humphrey, Thomas E. 75.00 I ll u u ll kC 16 ll tt tl Jennison, Henry F. 75.00 i ll It. a tt kk 16 a a <.h Jennison, William 0, 76.00 I ll ll ii ll (k 16 ll lu CC Pratt, Melvin E. 75.00 L It U Ct U " 16 ll ll CC Pratt, Watson 0. 75.00 I ll l( hi ll ll 10 tt ll CL Eichardson, Alvaro V. 75.00 ( ll C( ii ll " 16 Died Feb. 15,1863. Sanderson, Eoyal 75.00 I ll (I ll ll kk 16 Mustered out Aug. 10, 1863. Sparks, Martin L. 75.00 I ll U u kk 16 tk ut ct Stearns, Adelbert J. 75.00 I ll (c U ll ^^ 16 ,( ll tu The town paid to G. J. Austin a bount V oi i, S75.00 duG William II. Wilson, a nine ! taonths man who died in hospital at CDOi Brattleboro before he was mustered in. ONE-YEAE MEN. Names. Town Bounty. Enlisted. Mustered in. Eank. Co. Eegiment. Eemarks. Austin, Addison A. $200.00 Jan'y 3, 1865. Jan'y 4, 1865, Priv. F Front Cav. Mustered out June 27, 1865. Benson, Dexter 525.00 Aug. 23, 1864. Sept. 3, 1864. C( E 7 Mustered out June 18, 1865. Benson, William A. 600.00 Sept. 3, 1864, Sept. 3, 1864. (( A 7 Mustered out June 27, 1865. Fay, James 352.00 Aug; 16, 1864. Aug. 16, 1864. u A Cavalry. Mustered out June 21, 1865. Gale, Marshall H. 200,00 Jan'y 3, 1865, Jan'y 4, 1865, (1 F Front Cav. Mustered out June 27, 1865. Holbrook, John D. 200.00 Jan'y 3, 1865. Jan'y 4, 1865. :t F Front Cav. Mustered out June 27, 1865, Holland, Charles H. 625.00 Sept. 1, 1864. Sept. 13, 1864. tc H 8 Mustered out June 1, 1865. Howard, Horace J. 200.00 Jan'y 3, 1865. Jan'y 4, 1865. (C F Front Cav. Mustered out June 27, 1865. Kidder, Washburn A. 625,00 Sept, 1, 1864. Sept. 13, 1864. ' ki H 8 Mustered out June 1, 1865. Pratt, Melvin E. 625.00 Sept. 2, 1864. Sept. 13, 1864. ll H 8 Mustered out June 1, 1865. Prouty, John F. 625.00 Aug, 30,1864. Sept. 18, 1864. ll H 8 Died Nov. 1864. Prouty, William C. 200.00 Jan'y 8, 1865. Jan'y 4, 1865. i( F Front Cav. Mustered out June 27, 1865. Sparks, Martin A. 200.00 Jan'y 8, 1865. Jan'y 4, 1865. Corp'l. F Front Cav. Mustered out June 27, 1865. $5,177.00 * CD THEEE-YEAES MEN. Names. Ames, John R. Austin, Royal M. $100.00 Bailey, Samuel H. - Bartlett, Charles Bellamy, Eraerson E. 100.00 Bellamy, Henry H. 100.00 Bergen, George D. 300.00 Bush, Coramodore D. 1,000.00 Chase, Dennis Churchill, Charles L. 30000 Covey, Suel P. 100.00 Day, John II. 300.00 Derby, Henry N. 800.00 Derby, Webster D. Derry, Benj'. F. 200.00 Derry, Ormando C. 800.00 Dunton, Joseph N. Fairbanks, Artemas P. 800.00 Felton, Frederick D. Fish, Walter W. 800.00 Follett, Sarauel W. 300.00 Gale, Burnell B. Gray, Adelbert E. Hall, Charles H. 100.00 Henry, James M. Hobart, Charles P. Town Bounty. Enlisted. Aug. 24, 1861 Aug. 18, 1862 Dc-c. 28, 1861 Jan'y 23, 1862 Aug. 18, 1862 Aug. 18, 1862 Dec. 11, 1863 May 1, 1861 Dec. 7, 1863 Aug. 18, 1862 Dec. 10, 1863 Dec. 8, 1868 May 23, 1861 Jan'y 15, 1862 Dec. 4, 1868 Nov. 23, 1861 Dec. 16, 1863 May 1, Dec. 4, Dec. 7, Jan'y 2, May 81, Aug. 15, 1862 Jan'y 17, 1862 Aug. 15, 1861 Mustered in. 1861 18631863 18621862 Sept. 21, 1861 Sept. 30, 1862 Feb. 18, 1862 Feb. 18, 1862 Sept. 30, 1862 Sept. 30, 1862 Jan'y 28, 1864 Aug. 31, 1864 June 20, 1861 Dec. 14, 1863 Sept. 30, 1862 Jan'y 28, 1864 Jan'y 28, 1864 June 20, 1861 Feb. 18, 1862 Jan'y 28, 1864 Feb. 18, 1862 Jan'y 22, 1864 June 20, 1861 Jan'y 28, 1864 Dec", 14, 1863 Feb, 18, 1862 July 9, 1862 Sept. 30, 1862 Feb. 18, 1862 Sept. 21, 1861 Eank. Co. Reg. Private. C 2 " I 4 Serg't. II 8 Private. H 8 il A 4 " A 4 ll H 8 kk " C 2 " G 11 ll I 4 ll D 8 " C 8 (. I 2 " H 8 " H 8 Corporal. H 8 Private. A 9 " C 2 ll II 8 (( G 11 Wagoner. II 8 Serg't. K 9 Private. I 4 " H 8 ll I 4 Re marks. Died Sept. 22, 1861. Mustered out June 19, 1806. Dischavjjed Dec. 11, 1862. Killed at Port Hudson, May 27,1863 Mustered out June 19, 1865. Died July 15, 1863. Mustered out June 28, 1865. U. S. Colored Troops. Died Sept. 22, 1861. Mustered out Aug. 25, 1865. Transferred to Vet. Reserve Corps. SupposVl kill'd in action Oct. 19,1864 Died March 31, 1864. Tr. to Invalid Corps Noy. 20, 1863. Mustered out June 28, 1865, Mustered out June 28, 1865. Pr.Cap. Co.C. Mus.out June 28,1865 Mustered out Dec. 1, 1865. Discharged Jan'y 25, 1863. Died April 25, 1864. Died Aug. 11, 1864. Died Aug. 16, 1862. Dkcharged March 18, 1863. Mustered out Juue 19, 1865. Died Oct. 15, 1862. Discharged Oct. 8, 1862, CDOo THEEE-YEAES MEN.— Continued. Names. Holden, Adelbert D. Howard, Eraery Howard, Horace W. Howe, Gardner H. Hudson, Napoleon B. Ingalls, Williara H. Johnson, Lewis L. Knapp, Lyman E. McClure, Henry K. Miles, Williara H. Moran, Newton T. Ormsby, George E, Ormsby, John L, Osgood Asahel Pease, Oliver Porter, Newton II, Prouty Chesselton E. Prouty, Fred N. Ehodes, Jason O. Eood, Stephen W. Scott, Henry A. Scott, Oscar D. Shine, M;vron M. Smith, William H. Snow, Alroy A. Stoddard, Frederick A. Streeter, John Twitchell, Marshall H. Watkins, Charles B. Wellman, Merrill W. Winslow, Lemuel J. Town Bounty. $100.00 200.00 100.00 100.00 300.00 300.00300.00 200.00 300.00100.00 200.00800.00800.00 300.00 100.00200.00 200.00 100.00 100.00300.00300.00 Enlisted. June 17, July 30, Jan'v 8, Aug-: 9, Aug. 18, Dec. 6, Jan'y 2, Apr. 12, Nov. 22, Aug. 21, Dec. 7, Dec. 8, Dec. 31, Aug. 15, Aug. 27, Jan'y 18, Aug. 26, Dec. 8, Dec. 7, June 10, July 24, Sept. 14, Dec. 28, Nov. 19, July 30, May 1, Aug. 15, Aug, 26, Aug. 21, Dec. 14, Dec. 9, 186218621862 1862 186218611864186418611861 186318611863 18621861 18621861186318631862186218631861 1861 1862 18611862 1861 1861 1863 1861 Mustered in. July 9, 1862 Sept. 1, 1862 Feb. 18, 1862 Sept. 80, 1862 Feb. Ifi, 1862 Jan'y 18, 1864 Apr. 12, 1864 Feb. 18, 1862 Sept. 21, 1861 Jan'y 28, 1864 Jan. 28, 1864 Sept. 80, 1862 Sept. 21, 1861 Feb. 18, 1862 Sept. 21, 1861 Jan'y 28, 1864 Jan'y 28, 1864 July 9, 1862 Sept. 1, 1862 Apr. 12. 1864 Feb. 18, 1862 Feb. 18, 1862 Sept. 1, 1862 June 20, 1861 Sept. 30, 1862 Sept. 21, 1861 Sept. 21, 1861 Jan'y 28, 1864 Feb. 18, 1862 Eank. Private.Corporal Private. Captain. Corporal. Private. Sergeant DrummerPrivate.Sergeant. Corporal. Private.Sergeant. ll Private. Serjeant. Reg 9 11 8 11 48 11 17 8 488 84 4 8 4889 11 17 Eemarks. Died May 1,1868. Mustered out May 25, 1865. Pro. Corp. Must, out June 28, 1865. Discharged Aug. 2, 1863. Killed at Cedar Creek Oct. 19, 1864 Discharged June 27, 1862. Mustered out Aug. 26, 1865. Pro. Major Nov. 1, 1864. Killed in action June 22, 1802. Mustered out July 18, 186.5. Mustered out June 28, 1865. Killed at Cedar Creek, Oct. 19, 1864 Mustered out June 28, IfiOo. ._ Died April 6, 1863. § Killed neai' Fred'ksburo: Dec. 19, '02 Discharged Feb. 21, 1866. Died of wounds rec'd May 6, 1864. Mustered out June 28, 1865. Mustered out June 28, 1865. Discharged Jan'y 16, 180.3. Mustered out June 24. 1865. Discharged May 17, 186.5. Mustered out June 28, 1866, Capt. Co. F. Must, out June 28, 1865. Mustered out May 26, 1865. Died July 9, 1861. Killed at Wilderness May 6, 1864. Pro. 1st Lieut. Colored Troops. Died Jan'y 6, 1863. Mustered out June 14, 1865. Discharged Feb. 12, 1864. 100 The Town paid to this State a bounty of $400.85 for a recruit from the Southern States ; also to Mrs. Hutchins flOO.OO, being bounty due 0. S. Hutchins, a three-years man, who died in hospital before leaving the State for the seat of war. StJMMAEY. No. nine-months men furnished, 25 Bounty paid nine-months men $1,875.00 Bounty paid one-year men, - 5,177.00 Bounty paid three-years men, 9,000.85 Commutations paid, _ 2,400.00 Paid substitutes, - 11,500.00 Paid services and expenses of 120 agents to procure men, 1,060.86 No. one-year men. - 13 No. three-years men. -59 Eesults of draft. 9 No. substitutes. 14 $31,013.71 Population of town, census of 1860, males 682 ; females, 694. Total, 1376. 1870, Total, 1171. By an act passed at the October Session of the Legislature in 1780, for the purpose of procuring provision for the troops to be employed in the service of this State for the year ensuing, the quota assigned to Townshend was 3750 pounds of flour, 1250 pounds of beef, 625 pounds of salted pork, 105 bushels of Indian corn, 52i bushels of rye. A tax was assessed by the selectmen, for the procuring of the quota above named, and also such quan tity of salt, and number of barrels as might be found necessary, and- all the attending charges. The statute required this tax to be paid either in the articles before described, or in silver or paper currency. The kindness of Hon. B. H. Hall of Troy, N. Y., enables us to present the following pay rolls, which were received from him, as the last pages of our military chapter were going to the press. Members of the militia company in Athens, who appear upon Capt. Fish's pay-roll for 1782, are omitted from our copy of that document. The entire roll contains seventy-nine names, and sixty-three of them appear upon our copy, being those who are supposed to have resided in Townshend. The men formed part of the State troops whieh were called out in the Fall of 1782, to make the Yorkers in Windham County submit to the government and laws of Vermont. The paper has the foUowing title, SEPT. 1782. Pay EoU of Capt, Josiah Fish's Company in Gen. Fletcher's Brigade, Col. Bradley's Eegiment. Barnes, Ephraim Bruce, Elijah Burt, Eben'r Bruce, Asa Bruce, Ephraim Darling, Caleb 101 Doolittle, Amzi, Lieut. Doolittle, Luther Dunton, Thomas Dyer, Benjamin Dyer, John Ewings, Calvin Fish, John, Jr. Fish, Josiah, Gapt. Hart, Isaac Hayward, Caleb Hayward, Calvin Hayward, Calvin, Jr. Hayward, EU Hayward, Levi, Corp. Hazelton, John Hazelton, Peter Hitchcock, Eph'm Holbrook, Amos Holbrook, Asa Holbrook, Eli Holbrook, Elias, Serg't Holbrook, Ezra, Lieut. Holbrook, Timothy, Serg' Holmes, Absalom Howe, Benjamin, Serg't Howe, John, Jr. Howe, John, 3d Johnson, Michael Lawson, Isaac Lindsey, Peter McMaster, John Miller, Daniel Potter, William Eawson, Bailey Eawson, Stephen Eead, William Eichardson, Jeremiah Eobbins, William Eutter, Philip Scott, Samuel Taft, Amariah, Serg't 0 00 a Wliite, Phinehas 53 00 a Shattuck, Jonathan 13 00 Whitney, Judith, Wid. 78 50 Shattuck, Jonathan, Jr. 97 50 b Wilder, Xathauiel 79 50 Shepard, Joseph 03 o> ¦0><0<0<00>0>0>0'0> lO CO IO OS CD C^l 05 GO CCl C &: ^ 6= S cs S S .S .S .2 .2 .S WWWWf^PHpMPHPHPqfRfeS e e see C I>> r^ O fa o3 OS oj CJ Cj .^< 03 ^ t-, _t h tj O M o -aH d OJ .in =3 3 P5 o S °8 O S .03 Mh ^ pi hs 03 a l-^-s «, Eph ;s, Lori ¦s, Med ^ ^-T >< a .s bo ba e 53 C^ ^ C2 05 ^ CS W W W W M W rd Q fXc TS O '> cj fl clo fl tT fl fl" .-,'¦ o O o o o +J .^ .JJ ^ QJ s OJ 03 03 o3 o3 E K K ffi OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoOO000000000000000000000000o00000000000000 C^OOlCDOiCOOOi— ICDCDOOOCOC<100(mcS5? ., ^ I-*" m Ti .. S S ® fl fl iH ^ ^ ^ cj cj ^ pq PQ m 1-5 ^2 ^! -^ rC -§ >D_bC &D_W) g M "G 'S 'fi 'S 'S m pq pq pq pq pq fq pq 2 ^ 03 QJ S g pq pq c3 O O ^ Qj" ¦ QJ O O rfl Oa fl s fl pq pq 8 O QJ rt "S fl fl pq pq QJo >.t-5a .3 -^ i ¦4-J OS oj .fl Q O rt CU I/} i § 'fl c3 C3 OD W flP^ fl QJ .. .. 1 r.O r^ S * rfl rC M -fl O O fl O Q O Q eea B fl ^ g fl u ¦fl 13 11 O C e °^ ^ H QJ QJ g rt 1-5 02 CC .rt- 3 fl all Co., Vt. Military Life. In the year 1775, he entered the service as a volunteer in the array before Boston, and did the duty of an Orderly Sergeant, from May to the next January. 1776. In March, received a Captain's Commission over the MUitia in Townshend; and, receiving orders from the County Convention to raise minute men, called his Company together ; when they all turned out, at the beat of the drum, under him for that purpose. 1777. In June, he received orders to march his Company to Ticonderoga, when it was besieged by the British. He was there when it was evacuated ; and, when retreating, he with about thirteen men pursued forty of the 161 enemy, and took seven of them without the loss of a man. When he arrived at Manchester, he received a Major's Commission ; and continued in service until after the taking of General Burgoyne and his army ; he was present at doing the same and then returned home. 1778, He received a Colonel's Commission over the militia where he lived, 1781, In February, he received an appointment of Lieutenant Colonel Commandant over the troops raised to guard the frontiers of Vermont ; -and coutinued in that service until the troops were discharged iu the fore part of the Winter following ; and while in that Campaign, to wit, on the 27th day of June, he received a Brigadier General's Commission over the Militia in the County of Windham ; and reinained in that service until 1791, the 20th day of January, he received a Major General's Commission over the First Division of Militia in the State of Vermont ; in which office he con tinued six years and then resigned all Military command, Samuel Fletcher's Civil and Executive Life. In 1778, he represented the inhabitants of Townshend in the General Assembly. 1779. He was elected to the office of Councilor ; and continued in that office by annual appointment, iintil the yeai' 1788, when he resigned that office for the office of Sheriff of Windham County, 1788, He was appointed Sheriff of Windham County, and continued in said office of Sherifi" eighteen years. Previous to his appointment as Sheriff, he had served as a Judge of Windham County Court three yeaTs. After being left out of the office of Sheriff, he served as Eepresenta,tive in the General Assembly of Vermont one year ; and the next year as Coun cilor, which finished said Fletcher's Public Life, Samuel Fletcher, N, B. Oraraitted in the foregoing narrative : Said Fletcher, when seventeen years old, then an inhabitant of Grafton, in the County of Worcester, enlisted as a soldier in the Provincial Service against Canada ; marched to Crown Point, and there served from the first of June 1762, until the Noveraber next following. Also ommitted, the said Fletcher served as a Justice of the Peace for the County of Windam for the year 1808, January, 1813, Samuel Fletcher,'' It should not be forgotten, although not mentioned by himself in the fore going record, that General Fletcher was elected by his town one of its Coramittee of Safety in 1776, and delegate to the Conventions of 1776-77, which considered and declared the Independence of the New Hampshire Grants. Neither should it be forgotten that he was a very sagacious, reso lute, trustworthy and highly esteemed member of the New State Party. 15 162 Captain Amos Holbrook was the second blacksmith. He was a resident of the town in 1775. His shop stood near the Moses Holbrook house of 1786. In that line of business, most of the custom work at this part of the town was done by Holbrook, until David Butler moved into the village. Holbrook worked in his shop on the meadow until he occupied the house and shop which he built near the old road over Sand-hill. Captain Holbrook volunteered and served in Canada as private during a campaign of the war of the Eevolution, The exposure and suffering of that service hardened him for life. He never wholly gave up profanity, nor entirely abstained from the cup that intoxicates. At an early day, he became Captain of a Militia Company of Artillery with two cannon. It is related, that on a training day this Company was in two platoons, for the purpose of executing some movements of a sham fight ; Captain Holbrook having command of one platoon, and his Lieutenant having direction of the other. It was planned, that the Captain'^ party should capture a cannon from the Lieutenant's party, and the Lieutenant's party should recapture the gun. At the proper time. Captain Holbrook with his platoon marched up to execute their part of the performance. They were upon the point of making the rush, when some one cried out, fire. The powder in the Lieutenant's gun instantly exploded, and sent to the rear the Captain with a number of his party. No one was hurt, but the Captain lost his cap and temper ; and, in some other respects, was in a disordered condition. He soon carae to the front however, and made himself known by exclaiming in his sharp, piercing voice, " G — ! This beats Anti-Christ ! Who in h — told you to fire ? " In ihe Fall of 1804, David Butler moved his family from Acton and lived for a short time in the dwelling framed to the back side of th j Lemuel Marsh store. Thence he moved into the house now occupied by Harvey Taft. Chandler, Bigelow & Co., had just erected a shop on the ground now occupied by 0. U. Kimball's dwelling house. Butler worked in this smithy as Marsh's hired man until the building was destroyed by fire in the FaU of 1810. Marsh then built a new shop where Pomroy and Barber's tannery now stands. This building was finished when Samuel Phillips conveyed the ground upon which it stood to Marsh, on the 24th day of November, 1810. Soon after Marsh's failure, in February, 1811, David Butlera nd EosweU Walker becarae partners, with the firm name of Butler & Walker. They bought the Marsh shop, the old saw-miU above it with part of the yard adjoining, and the Bigelow machine for cutting nails then in the mill. For a short tirae, nail making was added to the other business done at the smithy, Butler sold out to Walker in March, 1814, but worked there as hired man till about 1820. Walker sold out to E. H. Eanney in 1814. 163 Eleazer H, Eanney owned the shop from 1814 to the Spring of 1817. Chapin Howard owned the property frora May 24, 1817, to March 18, 1822. Emery Alexander bought the place March 18, 1822, and worked there until February 8, 1823. Alexander put in a grind-stone turned by water power, and also a trip-hammer. Chapin Howard bought back the property of Alexander, February 8, 1823, and was owner thereof until May 3, 1828. Samuel Wright worked here from Spring to October, 1823. John M. Orvis from 1822, to Spring of 1824. Jonathan Melendy from Spring of 1824, to Spring of 1828. Benjamin Dunklee bought the shop May 3, 1 828 and worked in it until a few months before his death in 1836. He put in machinery for blowing the bellows by water power. Jonas L. Conant & Co., carried on business here in 1836. and 1837. The partners were Jonas L. Conant and Abiel Stoddard, Conant did the shop work, Silas B, Gassett bought the property Februa,ry 16, 1839. Soon after coming here to reside in the Spring of that year, he tore down the building and built upon its site another and larger shop, and largely repaired the house that had been occupied by Mr. Dunklee. He moved away early in 1841. After Gassett left, Willard Simonds and Jonas L. Conant worked in the shop till the Spring of 1842 ; when Timothy W. Boynton hired the premises and turned the building into a cabinet shop. The trip-hammer and grind stone moved by water power were taken out, and the water-wheel was used to operate machines on the second floor for doing work of a cabinet maker. Conant was the last blacksmith that worked in the building. About the year 1826, Jonathan Melendy built a shop on the ground where Da-yid Burroughs' hous© now stands. This shop was occupied by Melendy until he moved away in 1828 ; and the building was then taken down. Emery Melendy and John G. Melendy built a shop on the island, about the year 1828. Their building stood on west side of road near the south end of bridge over canal leading to the mills. This shop was demolished about the tirae they moved from town in 1831, John H. Kimball, Ira Goodell and Clark Puffer became partners for carrying on the business of a blacksmith, with the firra name of Kimball & Co. This company, soon after formation , built a .shop on east side of the Brook near the bridge by Kimball's shop, and commenced business in 1841. Josiah W. Barnard did the company's work for one-half the profits, and he hired Stephen E. Ttayer. 164 In March 1842, this firm sold out to Puffer and Thayer, who continued in business until Puffer sold to Thayer in July 1844. Thayer run the shop until Osmon F. Coombs took possession in February 1850. Coombs hired Henry W. Bailey, and, at the end of two years, sold to George and Ellery E. Person. The Persons worked there till the Fall of 1856, and moved to the State of Minnesota. Coombs reoccupied the shop in October 1855, and remained there until he went into the shop erected by him in 1861, at the east end of bridge over the Brook. He converted the shop built by KimbaU & Co., into a barn, which was washed away by the freshest of October 1869, Coorabs sold to Jerorae G, Adaras, the present occupant, who took possession April 1, 1870. In the Fall of 1853, Stephen E. Thayer built a smithy on east side of road to the Mills, and a short distance below the stage road. He worked in this shop until he moved to Manchester, in the Spring of 1862. Pomroy and Barber bought the building in 1866, and used it for storing their rough leather until the Spring of 1879, when Winchester Puffer leased and made it into a tinner's shop, where he now works at making tin-ware. Andrew Dodge had been a machinist, and was a worker of iron. He resided here from October 1857, to the latter part of August 1865 ; and occupied the shop where WUUam Parkhurst had worked. CABINET MAKERS. Samuel Kingsbury came to this placein 1797, from Dedham, Mass., and commenced the business of a cabinet raaker. He raade the school- house answer for shop and ware-roora, until that building was burned in January, 1798, together with Kingsbury's tools and stock on hand. During 1799, he built the dwelling now occupied by Frank Waterhouse, and raoved his faraily into it from the house on Howe hill where Benjamin Sumner, his father-in-law was living. About the year 1805, Kingsbury sold his business and real estate to Matthias Sumner, a cousin of Kingsbury's wife, Sumner had just completed his apprenticeship to Kingsbury, and took possession of the real estate in May 1805, The building was used by Sumner for shop, ware-room and dwelling-house until he removed to Michigan in May, 1835, After the sale to Sumner, Kingsbury built and occupied what is now the 165 first house below the cemetery, and lived there until he removed to South Windham with his family in 1823. There was a shop in this house, where Mr. Kingsbury worked occasionally at his old trade. About 1827, Luther Boynton opened a cabinet maker's shop in the chamber and over the shed of the Eanney store. In the course of two or three years, he raoved his place of business to a shop built by Abiel Stoddard on the opposite side of the road, and a little west of the old location. He occupied the shop till he removed to Ludlow in the fore part of 1836. Timothy W. Boynton and Varnum Boynton bought out Luther, They were in corapany one year, Varnum sold to Timothy in 1836, who continued in business there until the Summer of 1839. Amos F. Edson bought the shop of Tiraothy W. Boynton in July, 1839. He was occupant of the building when it was destroyed by fire on the night preceding the 7th day of October, 1840. Edson's loss by the fire was about five hundred and fifty dollars ; on which he received one hundred and fifty dollars insurance ; being fifty dollars on tools, and one hundred dollars on furniture. After this shop was burned, Edson worked for about a year in the lower part of the house now occupied by Daniel Harris, and then moved away, Timothy W, Boynton worked occasionally in Edson's shop till April, 1840, and then went to keeping tavern. In April 1842, he resumed the business of cabinet raaker, and worked on second floor of the building erected by Gassett, in 1839 ; where he reraained until his removal to Jamaica in October, 1845, During this time, he was in corapany with Osmon F, Coombs from the Fall of 1843, to the Spring of 1845. Upon dissolution of the firm Boynton & Coombs, Coombs commenced business for himself, and worked in a room over S. E. Thayer's blacksmith shop, where he remained until February, 1850; then hired Henry W. Bailey, and began to be a blacksmith. At the time Edson's shop was burned, Levi J. Boynton worked there at making sleighs and cabinet ware. His loss by that fire was a little more than one hundred and fifty dollars, with no insurance. In the following Spring, he resumed business in the house now occupied by A. A. Barber ; where he remained until April, 1844, and then moved to the farm on Howe hill now occupied by K. D. Lawrence. Here he carried on business until he moved to Salem, N. Y., in April, 1853, Manley Boynton worked with his brother Levi J,, in the Barber house and on the Lawrence farm. At the latter place they worked in the shop erected by Eice Howe when he owned that farm, Manley moved away in April, 1848, 166 Derick L. Sprague comraenced making doors, sash and window blinds, about 1842. His shop was on the first floor of the building erected in 1839 by Gassett for a blacksmith's shop. He sold out in 1844. Sardis E. Chase bought out Sprague and occupied the shop from 1844, until he moved from town in the Spring of 1854. Derick L. Sprague began to make melodeons in 1844, and worked on second floor of the bnilding built by Gassett in 1839. He remained there until the Spring of 1854. Then he occupied rooms near where he lived, until he moved into the shop built by him in 1855 on site of the Chapin Howard tannery. He worked in this shop till he moved to Chester, in 1857. Sprague and Chase used a planer, tenoning machine, groover and circular saws which were driven by water power. Junia Howard run the grist-mill from the Spring of 1848, to August, 1856, and occupied a room in the baseraent of his mill where he made doors and window sash. Daniel Harris bought of Sprague his melodeon shop, and in the Spring of 1858 occupied it for making doors and sash. This shop was ruined by the freshet of October, 1869. During 1870, Mr. Harris rebuilt upon the old site, and is now in business there. He uses a planer and circular saw. Sawed shingles are also made at this shop. Barnas Coombs was a cooper by profession and moved to this school district, on the 27th day of March 1827, From the day of his coraing here till May 12, 1828, he lived in the house occupied by Peter Hazelton in 1830, From May 12th to September 6, 1828, he resided with Daniel Elhs ; and, from Septeraber 6 to December 29, 1828, in the house now occupied by Harvey Taft, From the 29th of December, 1828, to the date of his last sickness, he lived where S. E, Williams now resides. Prior to December 29, 1828, he worked in what is now the back kitchen of the 0. H. KimbaU house ; and since that date, his shop has been a room of his place of residence. Daniel Harris, He comraenced coopery here in 1868, and is engaged in that business at the present time. He has worked in the shop where sash and doors have been made by him. Caleb Garfield carae here to reside, on the 4th day of June 1811. He worked at making hats from that date until 1841. In 1843, he sold his shop buildings to Wm. H. Ormsby, who converted them into a dwelling house. He was a well informed man and had decided opinions upon aU subjects that he had considered. His memory of facts and dates was remarkable. No other person could give so full an account of local events that had happened since his residence in town. The political history of the country was very famiUar to him ; and on local and political matters he 167 never neglected a good opportunity of giving reasons for the faith that was in him. Strictly honest and truthful himself, he became indignant at deviation on the part of others from truth and fair dealing. He was industrious in his calling and took good care of his earnings ; at the same time he was quickly moved by an appeal in behalf of the needy who had been unfortunate. He is remerabered for his honesty, thrift, cordiality of his likes and dislikes, kiudness to the afflicted, general intelligence, and willingness to defend his opinions. William H. Ormsby was a tailor by profession. He carae here to reside in 1840, and left town in the Fall of 1849. He moved into the house now occupied by Edward A. Holmes, and thence in the Fall of 1843 to the house where E. C. Wheeler now resides. His shop was a room of the house where he lived. WHEELWRIGHTS. Daniel Tufts worked here at the wheelwright business for nearly nine years. He came from Chester, Vt., in 1819, and his first shop was in the old building that now stands just east of Josiah W. Taft's dwelling house ; where he reraained for two or three years. Afterwards, he worked in a shanty standing against the back kitchen of O. H. Kimball's house ; and then in the house now occupied by Harvey Taft. He went back to Chester in 1828. Just before moving away, Mr. Tufts had the misfortune to be iraprisoned for debt. When in jail, he sent the following coraraunication to the Over seers of the Poor of this town. The letter explains itself. " Gentlemen of Townshend, and the United States, and all others that are alive, or that breathe the breath of man : It is as true as it is awful, think as you please, I Daniel Tufts am shut up in one stone jail in Newfane, in the State of Vermont, similar to shutting up hogs in a pen. The difference is the odds ; and fhe odds is, I am in stone, without bristles, and without shirt to keep me clean, and I think alive. When I shut up hogs, I see that they are kept clean ; and, I think, men ought to take as good care of human beings as they would of their hogs. But we are all liable to mistakes in judgraent ; but I am not mistaken in this, you raay depend. Where is the charity that is due to man in this world ? If there is none due to rae, there is none due to any. In every sense, I ara entitled to charity and ought to have it. I have been sick a good many days since I have been here, and if I had not been one of the strong constitutions, I should have died here before this time. I wish this 168 letter handed to Charles Phelps, Esq., one of the Overseers of the Poor. Hoping you are all well. Yours, etc., a well wisher to all, as witness my hand. Daniel Tufts. Newfane, August the 27, 1828. This is no spite, nor malice, nor envy. But I pity you all. I have no tobacco, nor nothing to buy any with. If mankind are void of benevolence, so must it be ; if not, they will bestow some on me. I was hungry, and he took me not in ; I was thirsty, and he gave me no drink ; I was naked, and he clothed me not. But I am not all this. When I am hungry he gives me meat, and when I ara thirsty he gives rae drink, but when I am naked he clothes me not. I ask, and do not receive." Soon after writing the above letter, Mr. Tufts took the poor debtor's oath and was released from jail. Horace Lane had a wheelwright shop for about a year and a half, in the house now occupied by widow Twitchell. He came here in the Spring of 1836, and left in the latter part of 1836. John H. Kimball opened a shop in the west part of the Eanney store, during the Fall of 1836. From this location, he moved to the shop which he erected in 1836 on the bank of Acton Brook, where he worked during the rest of his life. He died, September 10, 1871. John E. Kimball, son of John H., now carries on the wheelwright business in the shop occupied by his father. In the building, are a circular saw, upright saw, boring machine and lathe driven by water power. John F. Brown coramenced the business of sleigh making, in the latter part of December, 1873. His shop is nearly opposite to that of John R. Kimball, and he now works there. SADDLE AND HARNESS MAKERS. Major Ezekiel ^Eansom employed a journeyman who made saddles and harnesses in a room of Eansom's currier shop. The Major continued to carry on this business till about 1811. Charles Chandler came to this part of the town in 1804, and went away in 1807, His shop, standing on ground afterwards occupied by the office of Charles Phelps, was burned in 1805, He engaged in other business after the burning of his shop. He tended carding machine in 1806, for Simeon Kimpton ; and, in 1807, worked awhile with Timothy Burton, who had purchased one-third of Kimpton's interest in the carding machine property. 169 Benjamin Loss moved to this place in 1807, aud worked as journeyman for Ezekiel Eansom at the business of making saddles and harnesses. About the time Eansom quit harness-making. Loss opened a shop in the village, and worked there at his trade until he moved away in 1821, The next harness-maker was John Fessenden, who came here in Feb'y, 1817, and was in business from that time to Dec, 1839. His first shop was in the west part of Charles Phelps' office building, being the sarae rooms which had been occupied by Ephraira Wheeler for his store. Thence he removed to the shop erected by him in 1823, at a short distance west of his dwelling-house. Levi W. Page bought the business of Mr. Fessenden in the latter part of Nov., 1839, and ever since has been in business here for himself. Until the Fall of 1841, he worked in the shop vacated by Mr. Fessenden, and then he occupied his present shop. The Fessenden. shop was moved in the Spring of 1841 to south side of the road opposite the house of Charles Phelps ; and in the Fall of that year it was placed where it now stands, be ing the first building east of the house where A. A, Barber now lives. SHOE-MAKERS. Eichard Puffer was living in town as early as Oct, 1787. He was a farmer by profession, nevertheless he worked some at shoemaking for a good many years ; his bench was in the kitchen of his house. Ezekiel Eansom employed journeymen to work at shoemaking in a room at the south end of his tannery building. Eansora quit the business about the tirae he exchanged farras with Gen. Fletcher, in Dec, 1810. William Parkhurst came here with his family to reside, about the year 1808. With the exception of one year in Putney prior to 1820, three years in Springfield, Mass., 1832-36, and one year in East Townshend, 1837- 38, Parkhurst lived in this place till the Fall of 1857, when he removed to Claremont, N. H. Prior to 1820, his shop was a room of the several houses where he lived. Frora 1820 to 1837, he worked in a shop erected by him near his home and a short distance north of the school-house. When own ing and occupying the first house east of the tavern, he built in 1839 the shop which stood a few feet east of his dwelling-house, where he worked un til he went to Claremont. In Dec, 1873, John F, Brown moved this shop and made it his place of business for sleigh making. 16 170 Peter Hazelton worked here one year commencing sometime in 1826 ; and four years, commencing sometime in 1829. From 1829 to 1833, he re sided in the yellow house that stood about twenty feet east of the present tannery of Pomroy & Barber. His shop was the northeast corner room of his house. John Kimball built a shoeraaker's shop in 1836, a short distance west of the tannery of J. & 0. H. Kiraball, and worked there till the latter part of October, 1842. In 1845, this building was made a house with shop in the basement. The place is now occupied by Charles Holden. James Eay worked here one year, commencing soraetirae in 1837. He lived and worked in the Briggs house, which stood on the east side of the mill-road, and a few rods south of the stage-road. This buUding was de molished in the Spring of 1847, Loring Loveland came here in 1836, and moved to Jamaica in 1841. He worked in the west part of Charles Phelps' office building till Sept., 1837 ; in the finishing-room of J. & O. H. Kimball's tannery, from Sept., 1837, to Nov., 1838 ; and in the southeast corner room upon first floor of saw-miU building on the island, during reraainder of his residence here. William T. Smart resided here from May 12, 1846, to March, 1855. He lived in the house and worked in the shop that Orator Boutelle made of the John Kimball shop. In 1852, Smart repaired the building, and added a piazza to front of the house. In 1848, he built to the north side an addi tion which was afterwards finished by Lyman F, Prouty. Ezekiel B. Coats carae to this place Feb. 3, 1860, and moved to Ja raaica in the Fall of 1863. Prior to April, 1861, his shop was in the first building east of A. A. Barber's present residence ; then he worked awhile in a roora of the building that is now the dwelling-house of D, A. Bur roughs ; frora there he moved his shop to annex at west end of A. E, Pierce's present store building, and worked there during his stay in town. While Marshall M. Martin kept the tavern — April, 1874, to April, 1877, — he worked some at shoemaking in a room back of his bar-room. In the Spring of 1879, Charles O,, son of John H, KimbaU, opened a shop in a chamber at the south end of the house where his mother resides. He worked here until Nov., 1881, when disease had impaired his health to such an extent that he was obliged to give up business. \ 171 PHYSICIANS. John Hazelton. He was a son of Paul Hazeltine, and grand-son of Col. John Hazeltine. We have the Doctor's autograph, and give his word ing of his surname. His spelling accords with the -vN'ord as it was pronounced by himself and by other descendents of Col. Hazeltine who have resided here, and who wrote their surname as it was commonly spoken. But we write the names of the Doctor's father and grand-father as they wrote them. In July 1776, Doctor Hazelton owned and Uved upon the farm where John Sanderson now resides. His frame house and office stood on west side of the old road leading to Windham. The house was built in 1786, and the office was put up soon after. Prior to this date, he occupied two log houses which he had erected on the same farra. These buildings stood a few rods north of where the office was afterwards built. His first wife was Lieut, Amzi Doolittle's sister, by whom he had twelve children, of whom seven died in infancy, and two others did not attain the age of ten years. His second wife was Dr. Nathan Weeks' sister, who bore him five children. During six months of the year 1781, he served as Surgeon of Col, Fletch er's Eegiment of State troops, and attended upon the garrisons at Castleton and Pittsford, He represented this town in the General Asserably of 1791, 1794 and 1795, He was chosen Justice of the Peace in the years 1796-1806 and 1815-18, The report we have in regard to him is, that he was popular as a physi cian, impartial and just as a magistrate, kind and obliging as a neighbor, and that he had the confidence of those araong whora he lived. He sold his farra to Mr. Sanderson in March, 1821, and soon after went to Manchester, Verraont. His family remained here until the following October, and then raoved to that town. He died at Manchester in the month of July, 1822. Waitstill E. Eanney. He moved his family from Chester, Vermont, to this viUage in 1814, and lived here till the Fall of 1815, or Spring of 1816; then he went to Wardsboro and resided until he came back here in the Spring of 1820. In the Spring of 1822 he moved frora the village to the farm purchased about that time of Ezekiel Eansora, and situated about half a mile below the village on the old road leading to Brattleboro. He lived on this farm until 1837, when he removed to the village of East Townshend, and lived there the remainder of his days. He was married twice, and had by his first wife thirteen chUdren who survived him. He represented Townshend in the Constitutional Convention of 1828, and 172 General Assembly of 1833, and was one of the Senators from this County in the Legislatures of 1836-'37-'38. In 1841 and 1842 he was elected Lieut.-Governor of the State. He presided with dignity and ability at the great Whig convention held at Stratton in July 1840, when Daniel Webster addressed the assembled multitude upon political questions which were debated in the Presidential campaign of that year. When a member of our County Convention for nominating County officers, he sometimes and always very acceptably served as presiding officer. His addresses — some of which were printed — and lectures before literary institutions, agricultural, temperance and medical societies won for him the reputation of an able and interesting public speaker. At social and society gatherings and in town meetings he was frequently a speaker. His remarks on these occasions were extemporaneous, and were always heard with pleas ure. The thoughts then expressed were the deliberate conclusions of a well informed and conscientious man, and were uttered earnestly in language readily understood. Although he did not always prevail in an appeal to the sagacity and candor of others, yet his hearers were slow in overruling his opinions. Other Physicians lived within what might be regarded as the territorial limits of his professional practice. Their number and character reduced his income to what would now be called a moderate sum, but was then consid ered a fair return to a practitioner for his services. But with popular and lively competitors as hindrances, his business increased as the active period of his life passed away. In public life, he always acted in accordance with his con-yictions of what was just and right. Being a man of integrity, with more than ordinary mental capacity, his official record is creditable, and no part of it needs to be explained away. His speech and his influence were at all times in favor of entire absti nence from every alcoholic beverage. In 1830 a Temperance Society was formed at the West Village, No one did more to gain its organization and add to its numbers. Many persons, both young and old, then signed the pledge ; most of whom ever after faithfully kept their promise. In 1810 he became a convert to Christianity. Of the Congregational church in this town he was the leading member. In the Sabbath School, in conference meetings and meetings for prayer and praise he bore his part, to the great profit and edification of his hearers. Organic difficulty of the stomach began to do its fatal work upon him. In about three years he, was reduced in weight from 200 pounds to less than half that number. He died the 23d day of August, 1853, aged 62 years. 173 Moses Chamberlain commenced practice here in February, 1834, his office being in the store buUding of Lafayette Marsh, During the next April, Marsh deeded to him the first house east of the tavern, and the Doc tor occupied it with his faraily soon after raaking the purchase. He raoved to Jamaica, after living here about one year, and died in that town. His wife was a daughter of Benjamin Felton, Esq. Anson L. Pettee. He moved his family in the Spring of 1835, and occupied the house that had just been vacated by Dr. Chamberlain. After living here about one year he moved away. Under an agreement with the Universalists of this place and vicinity, he preached here occasionally from 1833, until he left town. He afterwards resided in Wilmington, Vt. William M. Ladd. He opened his office here in the Fall of 1837, and a few months after receiving a diploraa from Medical College. Near the close of 1842, he sold out to John W. Bement, and left town in the Spring of 1843. During his stay, he was leader of the village choir, and greatly improved its singing by his instruction. After removing from town, he married a daughter of William Parkhurst, and now resides at Claremont, N, H. Dana Hyde. Before reraoving here frora Wardsboro', in 1845, he had gained and ever after raaintained the reputation of a well instructed and successful practitioner. He had previously lived and been in practice in Guilford and Brattleboro'. . His wife was a daughter of William Gregory, of East Guilford. In 1826 and the year following, he represented Guilford, his native town, in the General Assembly ; and was Judge of Probate for the District of Marlboro' in 1837 and 1838. He was a great reader, had a retentive meraory, could speak readily and pertinently, and delighted in the conversation of well inforraed persons. During his residence here he was an Anti-Slavery raan of radical type, and became noted for the force and feeling with which he justified his views of the peculiar institution. Although he was soraetiraes not under coraplete self-control, yet he was universally held in high estiraation for being an in telligent, social, generous and kind-hearted man. On his way horae from a riumber of professional visits in Jaraaica and Wardsboro', he and his son William were drowned while fording the stream below North Wardsboro', in AprU, 1850, John W. Fay, Not long after receiving the degree of Doctor of Medi cine, he came here, in 1851. After staying about a year he moved his fam ily to Bennington, Vermont. 174 Edwin A. Stebbins. He was a dentist, and resided here from the Spring of 1866 to April 1, 1870. He lived in the store building opposite the tavern, and his office was in rooms of the house he occupied. He moved to Shelburne FaUs, Mass., and now resides there. Frank E. Pomroy. His diploraa from the Dental College at Philadel phia, Penn., is dated Feb. 27, 1874,. and he was in business here from the Sumraer of that year until the Spring of 1878, with the exception of a few raonths spent at Erie, Penn. His office was in the dwelling-house of N. B. Pomroy. Frank I. Wilder. He opened a dentist's office Feb. 12, 1880. Ex cepting an absence from Nov. 3, 1881, to Dec. 23 of the same year, he has been in business here since opening his office, and has occupied a room in the dwelling-house of David A. Burroughs. ATTORNEYS. Samuel B. Goodhue was adraitted to the bar, at November Terra, 1796, of Windhara County Court. He opened an office here in 1806, and moved from town in 1809. He died a patient at the Insane Asylum, Brattleboro, Vermont, Charles Phelps, He was a son of Timothy Phelps of Marlboro ; was admitted to the bar of Windham County Court in 1807, and came here to reside on the 7th day of Septeraber of that year, A pair of saddle-bags, ¦with apparel therein, and the colt upon whose back he rode, constituted the sura total of his property. This beast was a docile and hardy aniraal, but, after a few months, the business of its owner raade necessary the purchase of another horse. His office-building was erected by Thoraas Sumner, in 1807, By the close of 1810 he had purchased the land which became his homestead. He boarded with Lemuel Marsh until sometime in 1812, and then at Benjamin Eider's hotel for about a year. As soon as his dwelling- house was corapleted, he went to house-keeping. Prior to his marriage, his sister Anstis had charge of his domestic affairs. He married the daughter of Jaraes Houghton, of Guilford, July 21, 1814, and had six children. His wife and four children survived him. He was elected member of the Vermont Council in 1820, '21, '22; Judge of Probate for the District of Westrainster in 1821, '22, '24, and a Judge 175 of Windham County Court in 1832, '33, '34. Holding each of the above- named offices for three years. Of his discourses on public occasions, there were printed the address at Townshend, July 4, 1811 ; the lecture before the Windhara County Bible Society at Marlboro, July 4, 1826 ; the address before the Windhara County Bible Society, at its annual meeting in August, 1830; and the lecture on "Temperate Drinking," delivered at Wardsboro in June, 1832. To the close of Madison's administration, he was a zealous and active Democrat. Many political articles which appeared in newspapers of that day were written by him, and he often spoke in defence of the party to which he belonged. During the Presidential campaign of 1824, he sup ported Mr. Adams, and was in ever-increasing syrapathy with hira while he was so honorably earning his noble title of "The old raan eloquent." On receiving Mr. Garrison's prospectus for publishing "The Liberator," he be carae a subscriber, commencing with No. 1 of Vol. 1, of that paper, and re newing his subscription yearly so long as he lived. For the Anti-Slavery cause he was an ever-willing writer and speaker. Before the darkness of slavery had passed away, he was summoned from the world. But in his last days he was confident that emancipation morning was near, and the belief gladdened his heart. In the management of town affairs he was often called to take part. By his official services he proved himself sagacious, energetic, prudent, true to his trust, and at the same time just to all. Popular education always found in him a ready and earnest supporter. It was his practice to visit the public schools and speak words of advice and encouragement to those in attendance. By personal efforts, to which he eon- t;rihuted his full share, many subscription and select schools were instituted at this part of the town. Through the purchase of warrants located in Illi nois and issued to soldiers of the Eevolution, he became owner of nuraerous tracts of land in that State. Nearly all of these lots, amounting to very many thousand doUars in value, were given to Knox College a few raonths before his death. Down to 1830 his books and dockets contain abundant evidence to show that his professional practice was large and remunerative. At that tirae his private affairs claimed and thereafter occupied the greater part of his time. His religious training began with the dawn of understanding. By the time he could read he had learned the Shorter Catechism, and through life could repeat the same from beginning to end. He was weU instructed in the essential doctrines of Christianity, and always led a moral and exemp lary life. In 1838 he became a raember of the First Congregational Church in Townshend. Then he erected the family altar, and during the rest of his Ufe made daily supplications to the Heavenly Father for the doing of His 176 will on earth as it is done in heaven, for daily bread, for forgiveness, for de liverance from temptation and evil, and for light and guidance through the wickedness aud misery of this world to a future life of holiness and happi ness. Neither bad habits nor crooked practices cast their blighting and de pressing influence upon him. At all times he had the cheerful, open, manly countenance borne by the just and the pure. The libraries, lectures, public meetings, and religious privileges of a supe rior order, which are so common in cities, were strong inducements for putting an end to a longer country life. The residence of a daughter in Cincinnati, Ohio, decided the question. In the Fall of 1846 he removed with his family to that city, where he died on the 19th day of November, 1854. The two following sketches will complete our biographical notices. Col. John Hazeltine. The writer has not been able to establish with certainty the place of his birth. He came here with his faraily from Sut ton, Mass., in the Spring of 1769, and, during the rest of his life, his home was in this town. He lived in the same house with Samuel Fletcher, his son-in-law. The appointments he received after coming here to reside have been named. They were responsible positions, and none but trustworthy and influential persons would have been chosen to occupy them. The oflices by which he gained his titles of Col. and Esq. were probably conferred dur ing his residence in Massachusetts. Col. Hazeltine owned nearly one-fourth of the town. This proprietorship required a large expenditure of time in procuring settlers to improve and possibly buy some of his unoccupied acres. The reranant of tirae left him was spent in carrying on the farra where he lived. We are informed that his daughters were Eachel, Mrs. Joshua Wood ; Jenny, Mrs. Jonas Butterfield ; Lucy, Mrs. Joshua Barnard ; Mehitable, Mrs. Sarauel Fletcher ; and Elizabeth, Mrs. Josiah Fish. His sons were Paul, who died a resident of this town ; Asa, who moved from here to Bakersfield, Vt., and died there ; Peter, who lived in this town, and died while visiting his friends in Massachusetts ; and Silas, who was a manufacturer in Sutton, Mass., and lived there all his days. Townshend land records show that Col. Hazeltine was living Sept. 25, 1777 ; and that he died prior to June 12, 1778. Of his widow, Mrs. Jane Hazeltine, we have the following account : "Col. Hazeltine left a great portion of his property to Gen. Fletcher, and his 177 widow Uved with said Fletcher till she died, (Feb. 16, 1810,) at the age of 104 years. This old lady was very industrious, always spinning at the Uttle wheel as long as she lived. When she was 100 years old, it is said that she got up from her wheel and danced." From the records of Sutton we learn that the Provincial Grant of that town to individuals is dated May 16, 1704 ; that Col. Hazeltine was a dealer in lands there from June 15, 1726, to Dec. 29, 1768 ; and that the births of some of his children are dated as follows : Paul, Nov. 20, 1728 ; Eachel, Feb. 26, 1730— '31 ; AbigaU, March 14, 1732— '33; EUzabeth, August 9, 1755. Peter E. Taft. During the winter of 1798-99, his father, Aaron Taft, came to this town from Uxbridge, Mass., and bought the farm where Peter Hazelton lived, on Taft hill. Jesse Murdock, son-in-law of Aaron, negoti ated the purchase. On the 9th day of March, 1799, the family started frora Uxbridge for their new home in Townshend. The household goods were loaded upon a sled which was drawn to West Townshend by two yoke of oxen, and the snow here was so deep that it took nineteen yoke to move the effects from West village to end of the journey. At that time the snow in Uxbridge was not over three inches deep, while in the woods here it was six feet deep, on a level. Peter E., then fourteen years of age, accompanied the family. He came all the way on foot, and drove the cow. In the winter, like other farmers' boys, he did chores, helped prepare wood for the fire at horae, and went to the District school. During the other raonths, he spent his time in helping his father carry on the faraily homestead. His education, however, was un der the oversight of his father, who was a college graduate. Fondness for mathematics resulted in his becoming a land surveyor, and receiving the appointraent of County Surveyor. The accuracy of his work in establishing disputed lines, and in making divisions of real estate, brought him into pub lic notice, and gave him much employment in every part of the county. The duties of this office often made necessary a long attendance on his part at the terms of our County Court. On such occasions he was a willing as well as attentive Ustener, and so gained a knowledge of many legal princi ples which a person of his parts would be apt to apply correctly in unfold ing the twist of a complicated law-suit. From his first experience as a trial justice, the entire pubUc had great confidence in him as a magistrate ; and, in one capacity or other, he was often called upon to decide matters in dis pute between litigants. While pursuing his studies, he devoted a portion of his spare moments to . reading — a habit which grew with his advancing years. Later in life he was, indeed, a great reader. In early manhood he taught the winter terra 17 178 of our district school for a number of years, and was employed as long as he could be hired by the district for that service. As a teacher, he had an ex cellent reputation. No person was oftener called upon to fill our town offices. In one position or other his service was almost continuous. This was the case, also, in Ja maica, to which town he removed in 1826, When he gave up farming, and returned to Townshend, in 1837, its voters, with unanimity, replaced him in the offices which he had so acceptably filled in forraer years. To the guidance of business raatters he brought intelligence, honesty, energy, pru dence, and a judgment that hardly ever mistook the right way. In the efforts made to establish what is now Leland and Gray Seminary, he took a very active part. His name heads the list of corporators, and he was the person designated in the statute for calling the meeting which organ ized the corporation. As one of the committee for erecting the Academy building, his foresight and executive talent were highly appreciated. Dur ing his residence in the State he was one of the Board of Trustees, and was regarded as one of their most thoughtful and reliable advisers. In 1827 and 1828, he was chosen the first of a board of Eoad Commis sioners. These were county officers, and were elected annually by the Gen eral Asserably, as required by the statute of 1827. The nature of the duties cast upon this office made their performance laborious and perplexing. He was chosen Judge of Probate for the District of Westminster in 1830, '31, '32 and '33; a Judge of Windham County Court in 1835, '36 and '37; a Justice of the Peace in 1818, 1824, 1825-'35, 1838-'40, making twenty-two years of service as Justice. In the General Assembly of 1818, '20, '22 and '24, he represented Townshend, and in 1827, '33 and '34 he represented Ja maica. As a private citizen, he was esteemed for his general information, his read iness to do a favor, and for his social and genial qualities. At the age of 25 years he was married to Sylvia Howard of this town, with whom he lived until her death, in 1866, About 1839, his only child, — Hon. Alphonso Taft, — commenced the prac tice of his profession in Cincinnati, Ohio, To that city the father removed from this town in Fall of 1841, and died there January 1, 1867. 179 INNKEEPERS. Before the present tavern building was erected, the traveling public were entertained under licenses granted at various times to Gen. Fletcher, Ezekiel Eansom, Amariah Taft, Thoraas Suraner, Lemuel Marsh, John Putnam, and possibly other persous residing here. Timothy Burton built, and in 1811 finished the house, where, with a single exception, the only hotel of the place has ever since been kept. From our court records, and, failing there, frora other sources of information we have prepared the following Ust of innkeepers at West part of the town. Where licenses were granted, they expired in one year. 1789, June Term, Samuel Fletcher. 1789, June Term, Amariah Taft. 1790, June Term, Samuel Fletcher, 1792, June Term, Sarauel Fletcher. 1793, June Terra, Thomas Sumner. 1799, June Term, Ezekiel Eansom, 1800, June Term, Ezekiel Eansom. 1811, FaU, to 1813, Fall, Benjarain Eider. 1813, Fall, to 1816, Eleazer H. Eanney. 1816, FaU, to 1817, November, Elisha Taft. 1817, December, to 1819, April, Simeon Leland. 1819, April, to 1820, AprU, John Adaras. 1820, FaU, to 1821, FaU, Benjamin Loss. 1821, Fall, to 1822, FaU, Soloraon WiUard. 1822, Fall, to 1824, Fall, Asa Farnsworth. 1824, AprU, to 1828, April, Jonathan Melendy. 1829, December, to 1832, November, Chapin Howard. 1832, November, to 1840, April, Zadock Sawyer, 1840, AprU, to 1842, AprU, Timothy W. Boynton. 1842, April, to 1848, April, Theodore Phelps, 1848, April, to 1861, April, F. D, & E, Sawyer. 1851, April, to 1853, April, there was no hotel kept in the place, 1863, April, to 1864, April, Orison H, Kimball, 1854, April, to 1 858, March, no one in the place kept a hotel, 1858, March, to 1859, Sept. 23d, Jay S. Gates, 1859, Sept. 23, to 1860, April, Benjamin B. Burroughs. 1860, AprU, to 1867, April, Barton B. Cook. 1867, AprU, to 1868, May, Archibald L. Allen. 180 1868, May, to 1869, April, Mrs. A. L. AUen. 1869, April, to 1870, April, Josephus Dunham. 1870, April, to 1872, AprU, Osmon P. Coombs. 1872, April, to 1874, April, Josephus Dunham & Son. 1874, April, to 1877, April, Marshall M. Martin. 1877, April, to 1883, Eansel Frast. 1829, April Term, license was granted to Abiel Stoddard, who kept a ho tel in the brick house now occupied by J. H. Fullerton. SCHOOL-HOUSES. Four school-houses have been erected by District No. 1. The first was built before the town was divided into school districts in 1793, and stood about two rods east of Peter Hazelton's saw-mill, aud a short distance above what is now Pomroy & Barber's tannery ; the second and third stood upon ground occupied by the present school-house. The first two were burned ; one in January, 1798, and the other in January, 1819. The third was de molished, just before the present house was erected, in 1853. The first hou.se was described tothe writer inthe following words : "I went to school in the school-house that stood above Pomroy & Barber's tan nery, and well remember the building. It was about 20 by 18 feet in size, and battened so as to be comfortable. It stood with end fronting the south, and the door was at the northeast corner. A small entry with the large stone chimney occupied the entire north end of the building. The fire-place faced the south ; the plank seats, resting upon legs, were movable ; and a long bench, resembling the counter of a store, stood between each row of large seats and the teacher, and was used for a writing-desk. There were two rows of seats for large scholars, with writing desks as above-mentioned and another row of lower seats for small scholars. I remember the following persons as teachers, who instructed me in that house : Col. Joseph Tyler, — and he kept a good school too, — Dr. Littlefield, also Ward Fish, a younger brother of Capt. Jacob Fish. There must have been as many as eighty scholars who went to school there with me. This house took fire frora ashes in a wooden vessel left in the entry, and was burned when the winter school was nearly closed." The second house was built and paid for, agreeably to the following vote of the district passed on the 7th day of February, 1798 : "Voted: That they will build a school-house twenty-four feet square, with a hipped roof, and a sraall porch ; that the joists shall be eleven feet high ; 181 that said house shall be corapleted by the first day of Noveraber next ; and that the pay for building said school-house shall be paid in raoney, or wheat at six shillings per bushel ; or rye at four shillings, or corn at three shillings per bushel ; or black salts at the price now given at the stores now occupied by Judge Knowlton, at Fane ; Chandler & Bigelow, at Putney ; or Holbrook or Haile stores in Brattleborough ; or in beef, at the market price at any of the slaughter-houses in the County of Windham." At first a fire-place was built in the house. By this means the house was warmed until a stove was put into the building in the Fall of 1818. During winter school of 1818-19, the boys took turns in building the morning fire, taking the ashes they raight find for their trouble. On the llth day of January, 1819, the ashes were taken up iu the raorning and put in a half-bushel measure, which stood .in the entry all of that day, and,' through forgetfulness, was not taken by the boy on going home that after noon. Before dawn of next day the building was in ashes. The third house was built in pursuance of the following vote passed by the district on the 24th day of March, 1819 : "Voted : To build a school-house for said district, as near as may be where the old one stood, twenty-four by twenty-six feet ; to be painted on the out side, and finished properly on the inside. That the district committee close a contract with Waitstill and Eleazer H. Eanney, and give them two hun dred and sixty dollars, for building and finishing said house to the accep tance of them, the said committee ; and, if said committee do not accept of the house as being done according to agreement, the matter to be referred to Silas Ball, Esq., and Eice Harrington." A wood-house was put up in 1821, and cost twenty-eight dollars. This additiori was twenty by fourteen feet in size ; stood at the southwest corner of the original building, and was built by John Warner Howe, A stove chimney was made about 1825, and in 1836 the old seats were removed and new seats put into the house. The present house is 68 by 26 feet in size, and was built by Nathan Pierce in 1853. It has two school-rooms and cost three hundred dollars. 182 SELECT SCHOOLS. Commencing in 1826 and ending in 1833, during the Fall of each year a Select School was kept at the West village. The terms for 1826 and 1827 were kept by Mr. Fisher ; those for 1828 and 1829 by Mr. Cressy ; and that for 1830 by Mr. Stuart. These gentlemen were college graduates ; the first two of Amherst and the last of Middlebury college. Each of Mr. Cressy's terms was closed by an exhibition given in the meeting-house. The catalogue and programme of exhibition for 1828 were dated Nov. 21, and were as follows : TIMOTHY E. CEESSY, A. B., INSTEUCTOE. Alphonso Taft, Assistant Inst'e. gentlemen. Ebenezer Taft Allen, West Townshend, Vt. Edson AUen, John Elson Butler, Jamaica. Daniel Chase, " Edwin Wrifford Cressy, Benjamin Dyer, Eli Sergeant Dunklee, Celatia Farr, Hiram Atwell Graves, Squire Gleason, Cheney Howe, Aurelius Chapin Howard, David Howard, Henry Howard, Jesse Howard, Orraando Sraith Howard, Jaraes Eergers Miltiraore, Evander Willard Eanney, Darwin Harlow Eaimey, Sarauel Eansom, Charles Phelps, Jr,, James Houghton Phelps, Harley Flavel Sraith, Abishai Stoddard, Alphonso Taft, George Washington Taft, Hopkinton, N. H. Townshend. It Acton,West Townshend, Jamaica, West Townshend. Jamaica, West Townshend. Townshend. West Townshend, Jamaica. West Townshend. Moses Tyler, Asa Stevens, Asa Whitman, 183 Townshend,Jamaica, Windham, (29 Gentlemen,) MISSES, Mary Ann Florinda Allen, West Townshend. Windham.West Townshend. Townshend. Lucy Maranda Cobb, Hannah Cook Dunklee, Melinda Dyer, Mirinda Fessenden, Christiana Blandin, Sarahann Graves, Aurilla Gray, Catharine Armelia Howard, West Townshend. Clarina Irene Howard, " " Mary Atlante Howard, " " Sarah Nurse, Eliza Phelps, Lusina Parhurst, Clarissa Eansora, Lucina Laurette Eansom Stella Laurenza Eanney, Louisa Emily Eobbins, Eliza Suraner, Martha Ann Stevens, Abigail Stearns Taft, Mary Adeline Taft, EUzabeth Clarinda Walker, Townshend. (23 Ladies.) Brookline. West Townshend. Townshend. Townshend. West Townshend. Jamaica. West Townshend. Jamaica. West Townshend. OEDEE OF EXEECISES AT THE > I «»» I < SACEED MUSIC— PEAYEE. 1st. ADDEESS in Latin, James Phelps. 2. *DISSEETATION. Importance of Mathematics, James E. Miltimobe. 3. 184 *ESSAYS. Mental iraproveraeut a source of happiness. Influence of Music, Eeflection a source of improvement, Benevolence a source of personal happiness, 4. *CONFEEENCE. Love of Immortality, Moral influence of Novels, Moral influence of Balls, Moral influence of Slander, 5. *DISSEETATIONS. Hopes of Immortality, Comparative of a Scientific and an Ornamental Education to Females, Miss C. I. Howard. 6. THE CHUECH-YAED. Miss A. Gray. Miss H. Dunklee. Miss A. Taft. Miss A. Nurse. Miss C. A. Howard. Miss S. L. Eanney. Miss L. L. Eansom. Miss M. A. Stevens. Miss C, Eansom. First and Second voice, 7. *POLITICAL DISCUSSION (Charles Phelps, \Ormando S. Howard. Jackson and Adams, I Daniel Chase, I Elson Butler. 8. *C0NFEEENCE. Comparative demands ~1 Indians, upon our benevo- [- Slaves, and lence, of the ~ ) Temperance, * Original. DIALOGUE. David and Goliah, 10. Hiram A. Graves. Abishai Stoddard. Cheney Howe. (Darwin H. Eanney, 'j_Eli S. Dunklee. DANIEL— A Sacred Drama. Persons of the Drama. Darius, King of Media and Babylon, Pharnaces, \ Courtiers, and enemies SoRANvis, j to Daniel, Araspes, a young Median Lord and convert to Daniel, •Daniel, 11. "The Field is the World." 12. "The Object of Missions," A. C. Howard. (Alphonso Taft, '(Cheney Howe. Evander Eanney. Jesse Howard. Samuel Eansom. E, W. Cressy. 185 13, OE ATION, Expectations of human life corapared with experience, Jesse Howard 14. POEM. "The Triumph of the Church." A. Stoddard. 15, BELSHAZZAE, a Sacred Drama, Persons op the Drama. Belshazzar, King of Babylon, Alphonso Taft. CC. Farr, Courtiers, < Asa Stevens, (a. Stoddard. , ( Eli Dunklee, Astrologers, { Daniel Chase, Daniel, Cheney Howe, T (A, Howard, J^^«' I B.Dyer. 16, VALEDICTOEY OEATION. Enterprise, A. Taft, Sacred Music, POST-OFFICE. In the year 1811, this town was upon the post-route from Brattleboro to Manchester, and, on the 23d day of March, of that year, the Postmaster- General established the post-office of Townshend, locating the same at the West Village. Here the office reraained until the close of 1820, when it was removed to the East Village, which is near the geographical center of the town. At date of this transfer, the office was at north end of the post- route established by Congress in 1818, leading from Brattleboro', by New fane, to Townshend. The West Townshend post-office was established about January 1, 1824. From 1811 to 1824, service on the route was weekly, and it was performed on horseback, Frora 1824 to 1828, the carrier made use of a gig for trans porting newspapers, parcels, and occasionally a passenger. The trips were made weekly. In 1828, the first mail coach was used upon the route. The trips were increased to two for a short tirae, and then to three each week. About 1844, service was increased to daily trips each way, which is the pres ent service. Transportation of the mail by rail-car comraenced December 20, 1880. 18 186 Compensation of carriers prior to 1824 added but a sraall sum to the in come of the receiver. The pay of Levi Crosby, the most noted of them all, was the proceeds of the Townshend office, being eleven to thirteen dollars quarterly, the sums paid hira for doing errands and carrying newspapers, and the characteristic title of "Old Eesurrection." The following persons have held the office of postmaster at West Towns hend : Charles Phelps, March 23, 1811, to January 1, 1821. Charles Phelps, January 1, 1824, to April, 1825, John Fessenden, April, 1825, to January, 1860. George T. Phelps, January, 1860, to October, 1856, Levi W, Page, since October 24, 1865. CENTRAL LODGE, NO. 47. Central Lodge, No. 47, of Free and Accepted Masons, was constituted by the Grand Lodge of Verraont on the 7th day of October, 1818, under the restriction that the Lodge shall be holden at the West Village in Towns hend, Its first communication was held on the 10th day of November, 1818, when it was voted that future regular comraunications be holden the Tues day on or preceding the full raoon, at 2 o'clock P, M., in each raonth, ex cept when two of these days happen in a month, then the first Tuesday in such month to be the day. The following officers acted at the first raeeting : Munnis Kenney, W. Master. Amzi Doolittle, S, Warden, Eben'r Huntington, J, Warden, Pro Tem. Judson Murdock, Secretary, Pro Tem. Leonard Farr, Treasurer, Pro Tem. Elisha White, S, Deacon, Pro Tem. Timothy Burton, J, Deacon, Pro Tem. Sam'l Wilkins, Tyler, Pro Tem. 1819, July 1, in Lucius Doolittle's Hall at East Townshend, a procession formed by Central Lodge and visiting Brethren and marched to Meeting- House, where said Lodge was installed by the M, W, Grand Lodge of the State of Vermont, by the name of Central Lodge, No, 47, An appropriate discourse was delivered by Eev. Joseph Elliot, D. G. M. 187 Original Members. Burton, Timothy Huntington, Ebenezer Eipley, Philip Cady, David Kelley, Eichard Shattuck, Jonathan, Jr, Doolittle, Amzi, Jr. Kellogg, Alpheus Stevens, Abram Doolittle, Origen Kenney, Munnis Stevens, Asa Farr, Leonard, Murdock, Judson Taggart, Jaraes Fessenden, John Ober, Ezra Viall, Sarauel Howard, Luther Eansom, Ezekiel ViaU, Thoraas S, Members by Initiation and : by Letter. 1819, Jan, 5. Eev. Benjamin I. Lane, initiated. (( 5, Sarauel J. Taft, initiated. (( 5, Alexander Leland, Esq., initiated. (( 6, Jude Farr, initiated. (( 6, Lucius Doolittle, by letter. tl 6, Sarauel Wilkins, by letter. tf 19, Elihu Chapin, initiated. tl 19, Ezra Pierce, initiated. " 19, Sem Pierce, initiated. Feb. 9, Abiel Evans, initiated. tt 9, Samuel Goddard, initiated. Mar. 9, Thaddeus Johnson, initiated. u 9, Harvey Ellis, initiated. " 9, Henry Adaras, initiated. Apr. 6, Caleb Howe, initiated. a 6, Simeon Leland, Esq,, initiated. tt 6, Eleazer H, Eanney, initiated. May 4. Jonas Goddard, initiated. tl 4, Levi Briggs, initiated. June 8, James Mack, by letter. (( 8, Silas Brown, by letter. It 25, Samuel Moore, initiated. It 25, Ziba Chapin, initiated. July 6, David Stiles, initiated. Sept. . 1, Peter E. Taft, initiated. <( 28, Gardner Bruce, initiated. tt 28, Lerauel Farwell, initiated. Oct. 26, Clark Holbrook, by letter. Dec, 28, Daniel Phillips, initiated. i( 28, Lawrence Pierce, initiated. It 28, Frederick Kellogg, initiated. 188 1820, Feb. 22, John W, Harris, initiated. Mar, 28, Ebenezer Colby, initiated, Aug. 22, Elder David Sweet, initiated. 1821, Jan. 16, Eev. John E. Dodge, initiated. 1821, June 26, Festival of St. John the Baptist. The brethren forraed in procession and raarched to the meeting house (West Village). An appropriate discourse was delivered by Eev. Joseph Elliot. 1822, Feb. 5, Lafayette Marsh, initiated. May 28, Jacob Eugg, initiated. 1823, Feb. 26, Wales Cheney, initiated. April 8, Orrin Doolittle, initiated. July 22, Oliver Wilkinson, Jr., initiated. Oct. 14, Cyrus Eobbins, initiated. Dec. 16, EUsha White, by letter. 1824, Jan. 13, Jairus B. Collins, initiated. " 13, Hubbard Barrett, initiated. " 13, Daniel Cobb, Jr., initiated. Mar. 22, Jethro Coombs, initiated. " 22, Cyrus Babbitt, initiated. Sept, 21, Elijah Baker, by letter. 1825, Jan, 4, Dr, Moses Chamberlain, initiated. June 28, Jonas Twitchell, initiated. Aug. 23, Thomas Axtell, initiated. " 23, Abiel Stoddard, initiated. 1826, Jan. 17, John S, FuUerton, initiated, Feb. Stephen Bowker, by letter. Mar, 21, Eev, Joseph M. Graves, initiated. June Thomas Higgins, initiated. July 18, Eead Wilkinson, initiated. Aug. 15, Epaphroditus Eansora, initiated. Nov. 14, Iri Shattuck, initiated. Dec. 12, Lyman Cobb, initiated. 1827, May 8, Asa Livermore, initiated. 1827, St. John's Day celebrated at East Village. Procession forraed in J. Taggart's hall, and raarched to the meeting-house. Discourse by Bro. Joseph Elliot, and oration by Bro. Epaph roditus Eansom. 1829, NoV. 24, Seymour Hubbard, by letter. 1830, June 24, Passed a vote of thanks to Bro. Huntington for his ad dress this day to the Lodge. 1831, Sept. 19, Last communication held by the Lodge. 189 MEETING-HOUSE. The raeeting-house at West Townshend was built in 1817, by a voluntary association formed on the 24th day of March of that year, and called The Village Society in Townshend. This society was constituted at the West Vil lage for the purpose of building a meeting-house in or near said village, and was organized agreeably to the statute passed in 1797. Among other things, the articles of association directed that "each denomination of Christians, being proprietors in said house, shall have equal rights and privileges ac cording to their numbers;" also, "that the majority shall in no case have a right to impose a tax on the minority." By-laws were adopted May 5, 1817. We arrange in alphabetical order names of the original merabers : Butler, Aaron Cobleigh, Eleazer Cushing, Sarauel Garfield, Caleb Garfield, Joshua Hazelton, John Holbrook, Amos Holbrook, Franklin Howard, Chapin Howard, Henry Howe, Benjamin, Jr Howe, Benjamin, 3d Howe, John W. Johnson, Williain Marsh, John P. Parkhurst, William Phelps, Charles Puffer, Eichard Eanney Eleazer H, Eanney, Waitstill, Eansom, Ezekiel Eead, Evans H, Sprague, Major Sumner, Edward Sumner, Matthias Taft, Amariah Taft, Amariah, Jr, Taft, Elisha Viall. Nathaniel Watkins, Daniel Whitcomb, Peter Eead, Evans The Society bought of Eleazer H. Eanney a piece of land with north and south lines of six rods and four feet each, and with east and west lines of fourteen rods each. Upon the south part of this purchase the house was built, and the land north of the house has since been used as a public com mon. The coramittee to superintend building of the house was Peter Whit comb, Waitstill Eanney, Ezekiel Eansom, Amos Holbrook, Evans Eead and John W, Howe, who jobbed the work to Major Sprague, Bills of tim ber and other materials of wood were sold to lowest bidder. Pine shingles were laid upon the roof, aud they lasted uotil 1873. In size the house is 52 by 40 feet, and cost $2627.09. Bell tower at center of front end is 12 feet by 7 in size. There were fifty pews on the lower floor, and eighteen in the gallery. There was not full compliance with vote that the house be finished in 1817. Indeed, a considerable sum had to be expended after that year. Payment of this deficiency was assumed by the fourteen, at a meeting of the Society on the Slst day of March, 1818, and in the following raanner: 190 "Voted, That the names of the persons be taken who do agree to pay for finishing the meeting-house in proportion to their record interest which, they have in the house. And that the expense of finishing, except that which may be defrayed by the sale of pews, be individually borne in that propor tion." The persons who voted for this proposition, with direction to have their naraes recorded by the clerk, are — Ezekiel Eansora, Benjarain Howe, Franklin Holbrook, Amos Holbrook, Major Sprague, Elon Cobleigh, WiUiam Johnson, Evans Eead, Chapin Howard, John W. Howe, Siraeon Leland, Gardner Howe. Charles Phelps, Benjarain Howe, Jr. The tirae assigned to each denomination for occupying the house was de termined by the following vote, passed Dec. 4, 1818 : "Voted, That the So ciety of Eestorationists have the house every 4th Sabbath in succession, commencing 2d Sabbath in Dec, 1818. The Baptists have the house half of the time, every other Sabbath in succession, commencing the 3d Sabbath in December. The Congregationalists to have every 4th Sabbath, commenc ing 4th Sabbath in December. And if any different arrangement is desired, leave is to be had of Dr. Hazelton, Esq. Eanney, Major Eansom, and E, Eead ; and notice given two weeks previous to change." The original belfry, with lightning-rod, vane and letters indicating the cardinal points, was removed, and the present turret built in the Spring of 1839. The house was not warmed artificially until the Fall of 1839, when two stoves were put in and used for that purpose. In 1848, it was decided to remodel the house in the inside, and make ex tensive repairs. By the recorii of proceedings, it appeared that no meeting of the old Society had been held since the 26th day of May, 1824 ; and it was thought best not to terminate so long a repose. Besides, the old articles of association were not comprehensive enough to embrace all that the inhab itants wanted to accomplish by means of corporate effort. Agreeably to provisions of the Eevised Statutes, and in accordance with articles of association, a new Society was formed on the 26th day of Febru ary, 1848, and called The Village Society in West Toivnshend. By-laws were adopted on the day last naraed. This Society was organized for the following purposes : First. For the support of the Gospel, the maintenance of public worship ; and to provide, hold and keep in repair a house of public worship in said village. Second, To provide, hold aud keep in repair suitable grounds and con veniences for burying the dead, in or near said viUage. The Society cannot contract a debt ; but can control the expenditure of 191 any sura raised by subscription to carry into effect either of its corporate powers. The following is a list of the original raerabers, arranged in alpha betical order : Atwood, Esek Boynton, Manly Chase, Sardis E, Cook, Thoraas, Jr. Coorabs, Osmon F. Farwell, Jason A. Farwell, Lemuel Farwell, Lemuel, Jr, Fessenden, John Fullerton, John S, Garfield, Oscar E. Goodell, Ira Holmes, Hiram Howard, David Hyde, Dana Kimball, Jobn H. Page, Levi W. Parkhurst, William Person, Ealza Person, Samuel Phelps, James H. Phelps, Theodore, Pierce, Nathan Eice, John Eobbins, Cyrus Eobbins, Loring Sawyer, Zadock Sprague Derick L. Taft, George W. Taft, Harvey Taft, Willard Thayer, Stephen E, Wheeler, Eben'r C, Eanne;^ Alfred A, Pews in the old house were appraised on the 23d day of March, 1848, by Densel D, Eand of Townshend, Daniel Eead and Calvin Taylor of Wards boro ; and the owners conveyed to the new Society their property in the old house for the sum naraed by the appraisers. The proposed alterations, with the price of each slip, were indicated upon a plan which was adopted by the Society ; and the slips were sold to respon sible parties for prices marked upon the plan. Alterations and repairs were jobbed by the Prudential Coraraittee to Eans ley Harrington for amount of the slips, together with materials removed from old house, less the appraised value of the old pews, which was $472,48, There were 34 slips, and their valuation amounted to $854, Worth of .the materials removed from old house by contractor, in order to do his job, is not known. No bell was hung in the belfry until February, 1867, when the bell in present use was placed there. In 1862, the basement of the house was divided into three rooras and lathed. These rooms were plastered in the Summer of 1871, and from the largest room a vestry was partitioned off, with extension of the east flue of the chimney from floor of the upper room to the ground. 192 THE PARSONAGE. This dwelling, with adjoining shed and adjacent barn, was built in 1852 by an association organized in that year agreeably to the Corapiled Statutes of Vermont, with the corporate name of Ihe Parsonage Soeiety in West Townshend; "for the purpose of procuring, holding and keeping in repair a parsonage, the use and avails of which shall be appropriated to the support of public worship in the village of West Townshend." By-laws were adopted Feb. 13, 1852. Power to contract a debt for any purpose is expressly withheld from this Society, The articles of association limit expenditure to the amount of sub scriptions previously made to the Society for any particular object. Those who subscribed to the fund for putting up the buildings were origi nal merabers. Subsequent members must be admitted by vote of the Society at a meeting called for the purpose. OEIGINAL MEMBEES. Atwood, Esek Kiraball, John H. Eobbins, Cyrus Boynton, Levi Page, Levi W. Sawyer, Francis D. Cook, Thoraas, Jr, Parkhurst, William Sprague, Derick L, Fullerton, John S. Phelps, Charles Taft, Josiah W, Garfield, Oscar E, Phelps, Jaraes H, Thayer, Stephen E. GoodeU, Ira Pierce, Nathan Wheeler, Ebenezer C, Holraes, Hirara Eanney, Alfred A, Ho-ward, Henry Eice, John The following persons were added to the membership by votes passed January 24, 1881 : Barber, Augustus A, Kidder, A. Washburn Eobbins, Charles Garfield, Sidney O, Kimball, John E, Taft, Eoyal E, Holmes, Edward A, Pierce, Albert E. WUUams, Sarauel C. Six hundred and fifteen dollars were contributed for the purpose of carry ing into effect the objects of the Association. The Prudential Committee was A, A, Eanney, N. Pierce and H. Holmes. They purchased a piece of ground of O. E. Garfield on the 17th day of July, 1862, and thereupon erected the buildings during that season. John Eice superintended the car penter and joiner work. When the bills were brought in, it was found the actual cost to the Society had been considerably diminished by gratuities of the Committee and carpenter. 193 CHURCHES. The churches which have been organized at the West Village are the First Baptist, the First Eestorationist, and the Second Congregational of the town of Townshend. The First Baptist Church was formed on the 20th day of September, 1810, and existed until near the close of 1840, Meetings were regularly held in the school-house until occupancy of the raeeting-house built in 1817. The acting pastors of the church and society are as foUows ; Samuel Kingsbury, from ordination in 1808, to 1817. Benjamin I. Lane, Fall of 1817, to about January, 1819. Lathrop, January, 1820, to June, 1821. George Eobinson, December, 1821, to December, 1824. Joseph M. Graves, January, 1825, to January, 1829, Simeon Chamberlain, March, 1831, to March, 1834, Hiram A, Graves, Spring and Sumraer of 1835. Nathan Ames, 1836, Charles Farrar, Spring of 1837, to Spring of 1838, The church membership consisted of the following persons : Naraes and dates are copied frora record-book of the church, but names are arranged in alphabetical order : From Eev. Samuel Kingsbury's record, who was Clerk from formation of the church until July 31, 1817 : Adams, Fanny Austin, Lois, Austin, Mary Dyer, Elizabeth Dyer, John Ewings, Calvin Ewings, Desiah Farr, Joshua Hart, Abigail Hart, Anna Hart, Elisha Hart, Isaac Hazelton, Peter Howard, Bethiah Howe, Benjamin Howe, Benjamin Jr, Howe, Hannah Howe, Hannah Jr, Jennison, Judah Jennison, Hannah Jennison, WUliam Johnson, Matilda Johnson, Euth Kingsbury, Samuel Kingsbury, Susan Parkhurst, Eachel Eansom, Lucinda Suraner, Betsey Suraner, Martha Suraner, Thomas Tourtellott, Abram. From record by Matthias Sumner of names returned to the Association of 1817: 19 194 Cushing, Huldah Cushing, Soloraon Dewey, Betsey Dyer, Clara Hastings, Loring Hastings, Phebe Hastings, Polly Kingsbury, Mary Kingsbury, Patty Kingsbury, Susannah Loss, Abigail Loss, Sally Lyon, Sybil Parkhurst, Abigail Eecord by Matthias Sumner of names returned to the Association of 1818 : Cushing, Ehoda Howe, Mitte Loss, Benjamin Puffer, Prudence Eansom, Philinda Eead, Esther Eead, Evans Eead, Lydia Sumner, Lucretia Tourtellott, Abby. Darling, Stephen Ewings, Hannah Ewings, Levi Ewings, Luther Gould, John Howard, Aurilla Howard, Birsha Howard, Chapin Howard, Clarina I. Howe, Gardner Howe, John W. Howe, Polly Jennison, Betsey Jennison, Hannah Jennison, Polly Jennison, Sally Jennison, Sophia Johnson, Philinda Johnson, Polly Johnson, Thaddeus Lane, Benjamin I. Lane, Susan Palmer, Betsey Parkhurst, Orphy Eansom, Clarissa Eansom, Ezekiel Eansora, Fanny Sprague, Walter W. Sumner, Benjamin Jr. Sumner, Matthias Sumner, Sarah Watkins, Hannah, Additional names recorded by Matthias Sumner : Adams, Henry Gage, John Parkhurst, Hannah Dewey, Anna Leland, Simeon Wright, Samuel. Names recorded after Matthias Sumner was Clerk : Araes, Phebe Blodgett, Willard Boynton, Anis P. Boynton, Luther Boynton, Timothy W. Charaberlain, Dinah Charaberlain, Siraeon Clark, Harriet Cutler, Euth Cutler, Samuel Dennis, Mary Fessenden, Anstis Fessenden, Miranda Fessenden, Sarah Fisher, Thirza Graves, Hiram A. Graves, Joseph M. Graves, Sarah A. Graves, Susannah Hall, Jeremiah Hart, Patty Hart, Euth Hazelton, Delilah Hescock, Clarissa Hescock, Ehoda Holbrook, Ardilla Howard, Catharine A. Howard, Cynthia Howard, Ellen Howard, Laurinda Howard, Keziah Howard, Ormando S. Howe, Alonzo Howe, Benjamin Howe, Clark Howe, Horace Howe, Julia A, Howe, Lucy Howe, Phebe Howe, Philinda Howe, Eiley H. Jefts, Hannah Jefts, Zebulon Jennison, Selim Johnson, Lewis Livermore, Eachel Lovering, Anna Lovering, Hiram MeUen, William Osgood, Hannah Parkhurst, Abigail Parkhurst, Lucina Parkhurst, WiUiam Eanney, Darwin H, Eanney, Evander W. Eanney, Stella L. Eansora, Lucinda L. Eead, Lucinda Added by baptisra Noveniber 29, 1837 : Thayer, Cordelia Thayer, Mary Added by baptism December 5, 1837 : Dunklee, Nathan S. Watkins, John. Added by baptism March 8, 1838 : Coombs, Itharaar Jennison, Levi 195 Scott, Eunice Spaulding, Mary Spaulding, Priscilla Spaulding, William Stevens, Patty Sumner, Alonzo B, Sumner, Collin Sumner, Eliza Suraner, Fanny Suraner, Henry Sumner, Lucretia Sumner, Miranda Suraner, Sarah A. Taft, Alphonso Taft, Mary Taft, Sylvia Taft, William Woodward, Araasa White, Edward, Watkins, Susan. Kiraball, John EoUins, Maria. Ellis, Daniel Jennison, Elias Farwell, Paschal P. Jennison, March 10, 1838 : Ellis, Betsey, Added by baptism, March 11, 1838 : Coombs, Osmon F. EUiSj Daniel Jr. Howe, Lydia, Added by baptisra March 26, 1838 : Boynton, Mary, The First Eestorationist Church was organized in 1818, during the rainis try of Eev. Eussell Streeter, then of Eockinghara, who preached in the meeting-house once a raonth for two years, commencing in FaU of the year last named, Mr. Streeter's compensation was six dollars each Sabbath, and his services continued until he removed from Vermont to Maine. There were between thirty and forty communicants. After Mr. Streeter went away, the Eestorationists ceased to have preaching at stated intervals. Commencing about the year 1830, the Methodist Conference having charge of this circuit sent sorae very able clergymen, who labored as itiner ant preachers in this and neighboring towns down to about 1836, The first two who entered upon this service were Eev. Mr, Beckley and Eev, Mr. Fuller. They were followed by Eev. Zeb. Twitchell and Eev. Mr. Brews ter. In September, 1835, a Methodist camp-meeting, which continued about a week, was held in a grove upon the farm where Oscar Dean now lives. There was a large attendance at this meeting from the Methodist Societies at Athens, Newfane, Wardsboro and Londonderry, 196 From Spring of 1839, to Spring of 1843, the people of West Townshend and vicinity attended upon the ministrations of Methodist clergyraen : Eey. Harvey Guernsey supplying for first two years of the terra, and Eev, Will iam H. Hodges for the last two, Eev. L. E. Sikes labored one year, commencing in Spring of 1844 ; Eev, Samson Powers one year frora Spring of 1847 ; and Eev, Eussell Wheeler from May to October, 1849, Mr. Sikes was a Congregationalist; Mr. Pow ers and Mr. Wheeler were Baptists. Frora Spring of 1843, to Spring of 1849, when no rainister was laboring here, other clergyraen were hired to supply the desk for shorter periods than one year. The Second Congregational Church was forraed on the 8th day of Octo ber, 1860. Its acting pastors are named on the following list : Philetus Clark, March, 1850, to March, 1857. Seth S. Arnold, June, 1858, to June, 1864. C. W. Piper, Noveraber, 1864, to March, 1867. Oscar BisseU, July, 1867, to AprU, 1868, John H. Thyng, March, 1869, to March, 1870, Daniel H. Babcock, June, 1871, to January, 1873. Joseph B. Baldwin, March, 1873, to March, 1878. Christopher J. Switzer, April 21, 1878, to April 24, 1881, George Porter, May 8, 1881, to August 1, 1883. Those who have served as deacons, are : Nathan Pierce, chosen Septemper 4, 1851. Ebenezer C. Wheeler, chosen January 14, 1852. Newton Gage, chosen March 24, 1859. Naraes of members, and year of adraission : 1850. Dale, Eoxana Mrs. Wheeler, Sarah A, Mrs. Atwood, Esek Fullerton, Eleanor E, 1851, Barber, Augustus A, Fullerton, Martha S, Mrs,Pierce, Charles Goodell, Ira Goodell, Cynthia Mrs. Pierce, Nathan Eanney, Alfred A, Goodell, Eraeline Mrs, Howard, Ellen E. Mrs. Eice, John Howard, Angenette M, Kiraball, Abby J. Mrs. Taft, Amariah, Eanney, Nancy C. Mrs. Parkhurst, Taft, George W. Eead, Hannah Mrs. Pierce, Ann H, Mrs. Wheeler, Ebenezer C. Eice, Mary Mrs. Puffer, Abigail S. Mrs. Atwood, Aurilla G. Mrs. Sawyer, Hannah Mrs. Sawyer, Sarah Mrs. Boutelle, Adaline M. Mrs. Shaw, Hannah S, Mrs. Taft, Olive Mrs, Boynton, Hannah C, Mrs, Taft, Dotia Mrs, 1853, Clark, Delila H, Mrs, Taft, Lucien M. Mrs. Clark, Araelia Irene Garfield, Patty Mrs, Eobbins, Lydia Augusta Eobbins, Ehoda Mrs, 1854, Pierce, Albert E. Pierce, James E, Atwood, Eliza Ann Holraes, Ellen Howard, Frances N. Kiraball, Abigail Mrs. Kimball, Martha A. Martin, Eoxana H. Mrs. Pierce, Julia Eanney, Victoria Sawyer, Mary 1856. Eice, Julia S. Mrs. 1858. Arnold, Seth S. Eev. Gage, Newton Arnold, Naomi Mrs. Gage, Olivia A. Mrs. Holraes, Abigail Mrs. Pierce, Marcia L. Starkey, Mary Mrs, 1859, Burnap, Filinda Mrs. Pierce, Mary Ella Eanney, Martha C, Eanney, Stella E, 1860, Wood, Sophia Mrs, 1862. Hutchins, Samuel 0. Hutchins, Atlanta S.Mrs, Kidder, Clarissa Mrs, 197 1864. Taft, Fanny Agnes 1866, Williaras, Sarauel E, Burroughs, Lydia A, Mrs, Kidder, Angie C. Eanney, Phebe Wheeler, Lois C, WiUiams, Sarah A. Mrs. 1867. Boynton, Hannah Mrs. Sanders, Lydia L. Mrs. 1868. Davis, Franklin C. Davis, Lydia Ann Mrs. Thompson, Sarah J. Mrs. 1869. Kidder, Mary E. Kimball, Florence Phelps, Eliza S, 1870, AUen, Clyraena G. Mrs. Goodell, Sila E. Kiraball, Addie E. Sawyer, Sarepta H. Mrs. 1872, Eobbins, Charles Eobbins, Mary Mrs, Walker, Laurana Mrs. 1873. Boynton, Levi J, Johnson, Henry Kimball, John E, Livermore, Lyraan Eobbins, Charles N, Baldwin, Eosina P. Mrs, Burroughs, Abby J, Daniels, Ella Holden, Nancy Mrs, Howard, Ann C. Mrs, Howard, Etta Mrs. Livermore, Elizabeth Mrg Phelps, Sarah J. Phelps, Sophia E. Mrs. Pomroy, Anna Twitchell, Mary A. Mrs. Wilder, Sophia Mrs. 1874. Barber, Theodore P. Brown, Daniel F. Hastings, William H, Lawrence, Williara A, Wilder, Frank I. Brown, Jerusha Mrs, Chase, Angenette Chase, Mary Etta Coats, Nora B, Taft, Lillie G, 1876, Aldrich, Jaraes B. Aldrich, Alice M. Burroughs, Stella L, Wilder, Hattie L, 1879, Holmes, Lilian J, Mrs. 1881. Howard, Martha Mrs. 1882. Barber, Louise M. Bonnell, Alma L. Gour, Adelia M. Mrs. 198 CEMETERIES. On the farm of General Fletcher, and a short distance from the present dwelling-house of John S. Fullerton, were buried all who died in the district prior to 1 799. Use of this place for burial purposes was abandoned near the close of 1814. Here are the graves of General Fletcher and some members of his family. Lot for the ceraetery southeast of the school-house was purchased of Tim othy Burton in 1814 ; and from that year to present time persons who have died in the village have been carried there for burial. People upon Howe hill coramenced in 1799 using the lot which is their present cemetery. The first bodies buried here were those of John Hov/e, father of Dea. Benjamin Howe ; Eoxana, a child of Abram Adams ; and Chloe, a daughter of Eichard Puffer. These persons died in the summer of 1799. In the yard upon Taft hill, is the grave of Aaron Taft, father of Peter E. Taft, who died in March, 1808. The inclosure has been used for interment of those who have died in that part of the district. THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH:. This body of Christian believers was organized at the East Village. Eev. George Porter, in his anniversary sermon, sketches the history and growth of this church in the following manner : The first town raeeting of which we have any positive knowledge, was held on the 30th day of May, 1771. This was ten years after the first settlers began to occupy the town, and when the resident families were twenty-five in number. That during these ten years there had been spiritual as well as material seed sowing, praying and watching, the voice of God within cheer ing the hearts already touched with love to Him and their race is evinced by after fruit. For these stalwart men, while clearing the forests, plowing fields, gathering harvests and building horaes for theraselves, their children, and children's children, felt that they could only do so safely, wisely and well, by the public recognition of God as their God ; and that there was a more durable inheritance than that which they could gather from the val leys and hillsides of Verraont, to wit, an heavenly. When and in what nuraber the inhabitants were forraed into a church the town records say not. But the Araerican Quarterly Eegister states that Eev. Nicholas Dudley, born at Epping, N. H., graduated at Harvard College in 1767, was ordained 199 at Townshend, Vermont, June 21, 1777, and was disraissed in 1780; thus laboring between two and three years, and taking up the lot granted by the charter of the town to its first settled minister. But with the aid thus ren dered, we are told he left for the want of adequate support. The only per sons that we can find associated with him as members of the church are J, Fish, John Hazeltine, Holbrook, and J, Tyler, This infant church is left without a pastor. Then came the inroads by death and probably emi gration. So the church seems to die out, or at least the vine is withered. But who dares doubt the faithfulness of God, aud that he will be faithful in watching this vine of Kis own planting ? Keeping alive, as witnesses for Himself, a remnant that shall yet rejoice in the warmth of fire rekindled by a live coal from off His altar. On the 7th day of Septeraber, 1792, Eev. Aaron Hutchinson was present at the reorganization of the church with a raerabership of fifteen, whose names are E, Ober and Hannah, his wife ; John Wood and Eachel, his wife; Joseph Tyler and Euth, his wife ; Stephen Eawson and Silence, his wife ; Lerauel Ames and Catharine, his wife ; Elizabeth Barnes, Deborah Fish, Euth Holbrook, Mary French, and Mary Christopher. Joseph Tyler was chosen moderator, and Joshua Wood clerk, of the church. Five other per sons were added to the church during this year. Eev. Aaron Hutchinson was born at Hebron, Conn., in March, 1727; graduated at Yale College in 1747 ; was ordained at Grafton, Mass., June 6, 1750, and was disraissed from there Noveraber 18, 1772 In 1773 he purchased a farra in Porafret, Ver mont, and agreed to supply some neighboring towns for five years. This he did raore or less gratuitously. He raoved his family to Porafret in 1776, and it was during his residence there that he preached in Townshend. He died in Porafret in 1800. In August, 1794, Eev. Sarauel Cheever, D. D., received a call to the min istry over this church, and appears to have remained in this work Until 1797, He was living in Hartland, Verraont, in 1800, Frora 1797 the church was suppUed by the ministrations of Eev. Heze kiah Taylor, J, Kemmington, and Mr, Whiting, neighboring rainisters. On September 25th, 1803, Eev, Mr, Tufts of Wardsboro preached, and received into feUowship with this church, Benjamin Murdock, Judith Brig ham, and Patty Eead ; administering the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, and baptizing two children of Josiah AUen. In 1804 seven others were re ceived into the church by the same minister ; and among the seven stands the name of Samuel Lovering, who was father of sister Eice, the oldest member of this church to-day, and a continuous member for sixty-two years. Brother Ward Wilkinson, who was with us a year ago, and sister Eice united with the church on the same day. 200 The raeeting at the raeeting-house on Monday, July 30th, 1804, was opened with prayer, and then proceeded to business. The record first declares that the church unanimously agreed and voted that they were fully satisfied with the performances of Mr. Josiah Moulton as a Minister of the Gospel, and that they do hereby think it their duty to invite the inhabitants ofthe First Congregational Society to unite with thera in giving Mr. Moulton a call to settle with us in the work of the rainistry. He appears to have accepted the call and labored about a year. This is his record : He was born at Hopkinton, Mass., in 1676; graduated at Dartmouth in 1802; and was or dained at Oxford, Mass., in 1805. After reraoving frora Townshend, he was installed at Hamilton, N. Y. He also preached at Union, N. Y., and Wilkesbarre, Penn. ; then was settled at Whitesboro, N. J. ; after which he lived at Ashford, Mass., where he died Septeraber 1st, 1827, After Mr, Moulton, the next pastor of the church was Simeon Snow, a Baptist rainister who erabraced open communion, and was quite an accepta ble preacher among the Congregational Churches of this County. He ap pears to have supplied the church about one year. In the latter part of 1807, Eev. Williara Eiddell was present adrainister- ing the Lord's Supper, the rite of baptism, and officiating at admission of merabers into the church. He was born at Coleraine, Mass., Feb. 4, 1778 ; graduated at Dartraouth in 1793 ; and was licensed to preach at Newbury, Vt., in January, 1794, But he afterwards studied theology for several raonths with Dr, Eraraons, and was ordained at Bristol, Maine, in 1796. He was dismissed from there in 1804, and came to Townshend in 1807, where he remained about three years. He was installed at Whitinghara, Vt., Sep tember 27, 1815 ; and was dismissed from there in August, 1817. He after wards lived at Bernardston, Hadley, Gill and Deerfield, Mass. ; and died at the place last named, on the 24th day of October, 1849, aged eighty-two years. He married a daughter of Eev, Samuel Hopkins in 1797, by whom he had seven children, one of whom was the well-known Eev, Samuel Hop kins Eiddell, From the cessation of Mr, Eiddell's labors, we again find the church adopting the method of supply by ministers from Dumraerston, Wardsboro, Jaraaica, and other neighboVing towns, until March 20th, 1815, when the church voted to call Eev, Luke Whitcorab, He accepted the call, and was ordained and settled over the church August 29th, 1815, He remained its pastor until his death at Savannah, Ga., Jan. 2d, 1821. Eev. James Tufts of Wardsboro, in a funeral sermon delivered before the church, says : "He who raised up your pastor and qualified him for his work, sent him to you and made hira a burning and shining light, and enabled you to profit and rejoice in his light, has removed him from you to a brighter and better 201 world, where he has received a crown of glory." Forty-two persons were received into the church during the years of Mr. Whitcomb's pastorate. Most of these have gone to glory too, to live and reign with him in the church triumphant. After Mr. Whitcomb came Philetus Clark, who was ordained and installed Noveraber 21, 1821, and was dismissed July 6, 1824, It is evident that the Lord used hira in winning souls to himself. Sixty-two persons united with the church during his ministry of about three years. Then the church extended a call to Jaraes Kimball to become their pas tor. On acceptance of the call, the church voted the 12th day of January, 1825, as a day for setting apart Mr. James Kimball to the work of the Chris tian ministry. At the time appointed, ministers and delegates came from Jamaica, Wardsboro, Brattleboro, Newfane, Dummerston and Marlboro, and formed a Council. On the following day the Council proceeded to the raeeting-house and, in presence of the assembled people, inducted Eev, James Kimball into the sacred office of the Christian ministry, and as pastor of the Congregational Church of Townshend. On the first Sabbath in March following, the Sacrament was administered ; and at a church meeting on the 13th of April, it was voted, that a commit tee consisting of the four deacons — Eand, Boutelle, Burnap and Salisbury — be appointed to converse with those in town who, in their judgment have a right to church merabership, upon the propriety of uniting with Christ's church. It was also voted, that we will consider ourselves under obligation to punctually attend preparatory lectures and monthly concerts for prayer. Mr, Kiraball, during his five years of labor araong this people, received one hundred and eleven persons into church-fellowship ; adding their naraes to this church's roll-book, only, as we hope, in evidence of their names being enrolled in the Lamb's Book of Life, Mr. Kiraball went to his rest in 1861. His son Jaraes is now one ofthe Secretaries ofthe Araerican Tract Society. Eev. Charles Brown dispensed the word of life about one year, and was succeeded by Eev. Horatio N, Graves, who was ordained and installed on the 5th day of February, 1833. After giving the right hand of fellowship to one hundred and eighty-two persons, and admitting them to the commun ion ofthe church, he was disraissed in 1848, after a pastorate of fifteen years, Eev. Jaraes Curamings then supplied as acting pastor, for less than a year. Next in the order of pastors is Eev. John Wood, who honored us by his presence, and by presiding at our Centennial celebration a year ago. In January, 1849, the church voted to extend a call to the Eev. John Wood of Langdon, N. H., to become pastor of this church. The eall was accepted, and, after installation in 1850, he served in the office of pastor for nearly nine years, and received thirty-seven persons into the church. The Council, 20 202 in advising his disraissal, expressed syrapathy with the church in being de prived of the labors of so faithful a pastor. At a regular meeting of the church December 1, 1859, it was voted to in vite Mr. Chester L. Cushman. Under date of December 22d, of the same year, the record states that this day Mr. C. L. Cushman was ordained and installed pastor of the First Congregational Church in Townshend. And under date of October 15th, 1866, the action of a Council to dismiss Eev. C. L. Cushraan closes with these words : "It is unanimously voted to dissolve the relation existing between the pastor and church, and recommend him to the Congregational Church of Ludlow, Mass." Fifty-eight were received into church fellowship during this pastorate, two of them being our- present acting deacons. The church met in January, 1867, and after a season of conference and prayer, it was voted unanimously to unite with the Society in calling Eev. Mr. Barton of Saxtons Eiver to become pastor of this church and people. It was also voted that J. B. Ware and Harvey Burnap act for the church in calling a Council of churches to settle Mr. Barton. In answer to the call, the Council met March 12th, 1867, and installed Mr. Barton pastor of this church. He served in the office during two years and nine raonths. His resignation was accepted by the church on the 29th day of November, 1869. The Council for his dismissal met December 13th, 1869, and united in rec ommending him to any and all evangelical churches of our order. About twenty were admitted to the church during these nearly three years of labor. Next, as a laborer in this vineyard to look after the -vine of the Lord's planting, carae Eev. F. W. Olmsted, who was inyited by vote of the church June 13, 1870. Mr. Olmsted's pastorate closed in May, 1877, after seven years of faithful labor, during which thirty-eight names were added to the church roll. Your present pastor (Eev, George Porter) closed his second year of labor on the last Sabbath in July of the present year (1879), Our work we need not review this morning, further than to say, that during these two years twenty-three persons have united with the church. Judging the past by the present, of the men above-named who have gone in and out araong the people of this church during its existence of one hun dred and two years, not one was perfect ; neither did they serve a perfect people. Yet frora its past history and present existence, we cannot doubt that the Lord planted this church, and throughout all its years has watched over and guarded it. At tiraes sorae of the members have proved unfaith ful, and have turned aside. Sorae have been dealt with by discipline of the church, Soraetiraes the pastors have been found fault with, and would have been had they corae, angel-like, directly frora the Eternal throne. Some times the church and sometimes the pastors have taken the unwise course 203 Dark clouds have gathered over the church ; but again and again have the dark clouds been rolled back, and many precious seasons of revival have been rejoiced over both in the church on earth and iu heaven. There have been seasons when scores of awakened souls could be heard crying for mercy. Nearly seven hundred have united with this church. Many of them have gone up on high. "And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me. Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth : Yea, saith the Spirit, that they raay rest from their labors ; and their works do follow them," From this church raissionarles have gone forth to alraost every part of this Union ; from many of whom last year we received letters expressing the strongest attachraent to the church, and raany fervent wishes for its con tinued prosperity. Many accorapanied their words with donations either of money or books. Hence we this year rejoice in a circulating library of be tween five and six hundred volumes, which I hope you are enjoying more and raore. Frora these facts gathered frora the history of this church of one hundred and two years of existence and labor, who can estiraate the value of the Work done, the araount of evil destroyed, the influence for good she has ex erted and still exerts ? The Great Head of the church has seen rauch of imperfection in pastor and people. Each has felt it to be so ; has repented, wept, prayed, believed, and frora time to time been delivered. The enemy has thrown stumbling-blocks in the way. Making use sometimes of the sins and failings of its members ; even using one meraber against another ; sowing seeds of discord, sorrow and grief. Yet the church still has a narae to live, and surely is not dead. Surely we raay say, the Lord is with us yet. Seeing that it is not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts ; we may hope and pray for a more vivid assurance of His presence, and that He by His spirit will revive us again with showers of blessing. Oh, brethren, how exalted are we in the rich and precious prom ises of heaven. How they glitter in the Celestial firmament over the ador ing head. How varied, how full, how free, how sure, how everlasting. Make them all thine own by prayer and faith's appropriation. Enjoy them here, as thy spiritual birthright. Anticipate by lively hope those which refer to the eternal glories of the future world ; celebrate by loudest praise the grace and love from which they emanate, and know that the church to which thou belongest is Christ's church, notwithstanding her raistakes. Mistakes ! Do you ask, why not do away with the church, if its merabers make so raany mistakes ? Would you take away the lighthouse because careless marin.ers, through wrong observations, run their ships high and dry upon the shore ? Would you put out the lamp in your house, because moths burn their wings in its flarae ? True, if there be ceaseless quarrels and disputations in a 204 church about little things, instead of growing it wUl decUne ; instead of ad vancing in its majestic raission, it will positively decay, aud, ere long, will die a suicide. The body of man has many members differing in size, use and beauty ; but there is only one spirit occupying it. The spirit of Ufe which moves one member moves all. So the church has many members varying in gifts and graces, iu degrees of life and usefulness. But there is only one spirit pervading, possessing, impelling the whole. And it is impossible to over-estimate, or rather to estimate the power that is latent in our church. We. talk of the power that is latent in steara. Latent, tUl Watts evoked its spirit frora -the waters, and set the giant to turning the iron arms of machinery. We talk of the power that was latent in the skies, till science climbed their heights, and, seizing the spirit of the thunder chained it to earth's surface ; abolishing distance, outstripping the wings of time and flashing our thoughts across rolling seas to distant coun tries. Yet what are these to the moral power that lies asleep in the Chris tian churches of our country and the world ? We pray that God may again renew the merabers of this church. "Forgetting those things which are be hind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before," let us "press toward the raark, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." * ^ ift * * To the foregoing extracts from Eev, Mr. Porter's sermon, we add the fol lowing letter of Eev. Philetus Clark, dated Feb. llth, 1870, and addressed to the writer : Agreeably to your request, I will pen a few reminiscences of Townshend, as it was in bygone days. Or as it appeared to me in 1821-2-3 and 4. The location has ever remained the same. But the changes have been most raarked and wonderful in the comraunity within fifty years. My first visit to the place was in the Spring of 1821. The village then contained only a few houses. The rocks and large stones had mostly been removed from the coraraon ; yet the holes where they had laid reraained unfilled, and its rough and uneven surface made it almost impossible for vehicles to pass over it. The meeting-house still stands on the same spot. There were only four dwell ing-houses, a store and school-house surrounding the great square. The Esq, Butterfield house, standing on the northeast corner, is the dwelling- house now reraaining there, A little north of Butterfield's and on the east side of the road, was a house occupied by Marble. South of that, on the southeast corner of the coraraon, stood the public house, owned and occupied by Silas Brown. The store of Doolittle and Eipley stood a little south, across the road, on the southeast corner of the coraraon ; and the dwelling- house of James Taggart on the southwest corner of the same. South of the public house a few rods, on the east side of the road, stood the dwelling- house and office of Esq, Munnis Kenney," The Doolittle house some rods 205 below on the opposite side of the street, and one raore still further down the road, were all the houses till you reached Harmonyville, North of the But terfield house towards Athens was only one house on the west side of the highway, and only two on the east side, till you come to Mr. Belknap's ; and only one frora there — Dr. Chamberlain's — till you reached Stephen Eawson. I purchased the only house then directly north of Esq, Butterfield, and with ray own hands, frora the mountain pulled up and set out some maple shade trees ; two of which are still standing before the house, or were a few days since, large and flourishing. They have stood there for almost half a century ; aud they bid fair to live and grow long after the hand that planted thera shall have crurabled back to dust, and the planters's name forgotten by all the inhabitants of the living. The morals of the people in that day were similar to most other places in the region. They had enjoyed the regular ministrations of the gospel only about five years under the labors of that worthy raan, Eev. Luke Whitcomb, For forty years the raeeting-house was a Union concern ; owned by the Con gregationalists and Universalists, the latter occupying it only a sraall portion of the tirae. When I began ray labors in Townshend, the Congregational church was sraall and feeble, and somewhat divided. Only twelve raale raerabers ; raost of thera old, all of them moneyed raen ; and about thir ty feraales. The religious society was composed of the good, the bad, and the indifferent. Like Israel of old, who wanted a king in order to be like the nations around them ; so the coraraunity wanted a rainister, to be like other religious societies. Having for several months been without the regu lar ministrations of the Word, they all united in my support. I was or dained in November following, (1821), and shortly afterwards occupied the house of God the whole time. In 1823, the rainds of the people became deeply affected with religious subjects, A most powerful revival of religion comraenced. God heard prayer, and poured out His blessed spirit, which re sulted in the conversion of many souls. Something like 70 indulged hopes in the Lord Jesus Christ. Fifty-seven, I think, united with the church in one day. There were eight children baptized in one household. And raany other believers' children were publicly consecrated to God in the ordinance of baptism. Some aged persons were living in Townshend when I went there, who were the first settlers of the place. They gave many amusing, and some very thrilling accounts of their privations and dangers at the first. Of their hunting and fishing exploits ; of their catching salmon and other large fish in West Eiver, Araong the first settlers was Mrs, Euth Tyler, the mother of Col. Joseph Tyler, who told me she was the first white woman that came to reside in the place. Four men and herself came from Brattleboro on the ice. She was 206 drawn by them upon a hand-sled. They informed her there was a half-way house where they would call and dine. They moved cheerfully on the way, as fast as their feet and load would permit. Suddenly they stopped, and, running up the bank, told- her to follow them. She did so, but on gaining the bank, she could discover no one in sight. AU she could see was a thick forest. She, however, raoved on, and soon came to a very large tree with a hole in it near its roots. She passed in, and there found her missing com panions. This place was their dining-room. Within the tree all the five rested and refreshed themselves. After eating a good hearty meal and tell ing stories, they went on their way. Since writing the above, I thought you might wish the names of the male members of the church at the time of my settlement in Townshend, They were the following : Stephen Eawson, Jacob Allen, Williara Boutelle, Seth Duncan, James Lamb, Barnard Salisbury, Luke S. Eand, Densel D. Eand, Ebenezer Barber, Waitstill Eanney, Eleazer Eanney, Jacob Allen, Jr. The two deacons at that time were Williara Boutelle and Luke S. Eand. Two others were chosen afterwards, while I reraained with them — Barnard Salisbury and Luther Burnap. Both were sterling men, active and efficient in their office ; to whora I was greatly indebted, under God, for the good that was accoraplished araong the people. This church was re-organized Sept. 7, 1792, erabracing fifteen members. Its pastors have been : L. WHITCOMB, Ordained and installed Aug. 29, 1815, Died at Savannah, Ga., Jan. 2, 1821. PHILETUS CLAEK, Ordained and installed Nov, 21, 1821, Disraissed July 6, 1824, JAMES KIMBALL, Ordained and installed Jan, 13, 1825, Disraissed Oct. 6, 1830. H. N. GEAVES, Ordained and installed Feb. 5, 1833. Dismissed Sept. 14, 1848. JOHN WOOD, Carae January, 1849. Settled January, 1850, Dismissed AprU 11, 1854, Eemained as pastor till Nov, 11, 1858. C, L, CUSHMAN, Ordained and installed Dec, 22, 1859, Dismissed Oct. 15, 1866, 207 A. S, BAETON, Installed March 12, 1867, Dismissed Deceraber 13, 1869, F, W, OLMSTED, Acting Pastor, Called June 1 3, 1870. Eesigned May, 1877. GEOEGE POETEE, Acting Pastor, CaUed July 1, 1877, Eesigned October, 1882. H. H. ACTEEIAN, Acting Pastor. CaUed July 1, 1883. ARTICLES OP PAITH AND COVENANT. Brethren and Friends : You have presented yourselves before God and these witnesses to raake a solemn and public profession of your faith in Christ, and to enter into cove nant with God and with this church. We will therefore now ask the ex pression of your assent to that Confession of Faith and Covenant which have been adopted as the symbol and visible bond of our fellowship. CONFESSION OF FAITH. We believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaraent were given by inspiration of God, and are the only perfect rule of our faith and practice. We believe that there is oue only living and true God, subsisting in these co-equal persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, self-existent and infinite in every perfection, the Creator, the Preserver, and the Governor of the Universe, We believe man was created in a state of perfect holiness, but that he fell from this state by sinning against God : and that in consequence of the fall mankind are by nature destitute of holiness, and in a state of total- aliena tion from God, We believe that it is only by the effect of a free and sovereign purpose of God, and by the power of the Holy Spirit, that any are restored to holiness and the Divine favor, and secured to eternal life. We believe Jesus Christ is both God and man, and that by his suffer ings and death upon the cross, the just for the unjust, he made a complete atonement, which forras the only basis of the forgiveness of sin. We believe that salvation is freely and earnestly offered to all men, on the conditions of repentance toward God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, We believe that without regeneration, or a change of heart, no sinner can be saved. 208 We believe that those who are renewed by the Spirit, and pardoned and justified through the blood of Christ, will be kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation. We believe that the sacraments of the New Testament are Baptism and the Lord's Supper ; that only believers in regular standing can consistently partake of the Lord's Supper, and that only visible believers and their households can consistently be admitted to the ordinance of Baptism. We believe that there will be a general resurrection of the dead, when Jesus Christ shall judge the world in righteousness ; and that the wicked shall go into everlasting punishment, and the righteous into life eternal. COVENANT, In the presence of God and this assembly, you do now solemnly avouch the Lord Jehovah, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, to be your God, the supreme object of your affections, and your portion forever. You do solemnly devote all your faculties, powers and possessions to the service and glory of your Maker ; covenanting that you will be the Lord's forever ; engaging that, through the aid of His Spirit, you will cleave to Him as your chief good ; will love Him supremely and obey Him faithfully ; that you will give diH gent attention to His word and ordinances ; that you -will seek, above all things, the honor and interest of His kingdora ; and that you will aim, without ceasing, to adorn your profession, by a blameless life and by holiness of heart. You do also now cordially join yourselves to this Church of Christ, and engage to submit to the regular administration of its governraent and disci pline ; to strive earnestly for its peace, edification and purity, and to walk with its merabers in Christian faithfulness, fellowship and love. In consequence of these professions and engagements, we, the members of this church, do now affectionately receive you to our communion, and in the uame of Christ declare you entitled to all its visible privileges ; we welcome you to the fellowship with us in the blessings of the gospel, and on our part engage to watch over you with Christian fidelity and tenderness, and seek your spiritual edification ; imploring of the great Head of the Church, that both you and we may be faithful to our covenant, and glorify Him with the holiness which becometh His house forever. 209 NAMES OP MEMBERS. 1792 Ober, Ebenezer 1823 " Wood, Joshua " Tyler, Joseph " Ames, Lemuel " " Eawson, Stephen " " Eead, Thomas 1803 Murdock, Benj, jr. " 1804 Livingstone, Benj. " " Allen, Jacob 1824 " Duncan, Seth ' " 1806 Lamb, James " " Taft, Aaron " Taft, WUlard 1825 1807 Taylor, Ezra 1808 Boutelle, WiUiara 1826 1816 Salisbury, Barnard " " Shuraway, Peter " Eand, Luke S. " Barber, Ebenezer " " Wheaton, Eeuben " Bailey, Zenas 1827 " Eand, Denzel D. 1817 Eanney, Eleazer " 1819 Eanney, Waitstill " Allen, Jacob jr. 1822 Eanney, WaitstiUE. " " Clark,PhUetus,Eev " " Owen, Linus " 1823 Burnap, Luther " AUen, Elisha " Boutelle, Orator " " Tyler, Moses D, " Tyler, Ferdinand " Allen, Elijah " McClure, Thomas " Wheelock, Caleb " Mack, John " AUen, Henry " Allen, Charles " Eawson, Thos, Eead " Wilkinson, Sam'l G, 1827 Woodward, A, D, " Charaberlain,Gilman " WisweU, Sam'l jr, Chamberlain,Ch, P. 1828 Eand, Abner " Woodward, Lucius 1829 Allen, Alpheus 1832 Brown, Silas " Bailey, Daniel H. Lamb, Asa " Lovering, Hiram 1833 Knowlton, Arad " Wilkinson, Ward " Barber, Amzi D, " Lovering, Sam'l L. " Newell, Hiram 1834 Lowe, Lodowick 1835 Shepard, Origen " Barber, Calvin " Cady, Ezekiel Dunton, Joseph " Bailey, Eichard " Nourse, WiUiam " Barber, Eber M. Charaberlain, Joel 1836 Ware, George W. " Tyler, Curtis 1838 Kimball, Ebenezer " Potter, Henry Brigham, Ebenezer " BaUey, Abishai " Barber, Luther H, " Eawson, Luther K. " Wilkinson, Hezekiah " Wilkinson, Elijah Whitcomb, Hirara " Lovering, Willard " Wilkinson, Oliver " Bailey, Dana " 21 Gray, Alonzo Simpson, Orrin Taft, Amariah Eand, Ezekiel French, William French, Eussell Bailey, Henry Tyler, Joseph Shattuck, Elijah P. Brigham, Lyman Franklin, Philip Bruce, Gardner Haywood, Lyman Wood, Zelotes Doolittle, Oscar B. Bliss, Bishop Howard, George Ells worth, Hiram B. Tyler, Jerome Blodgett, David Eand, Luke Baylies, Timothy Atwood, Ezekiel Ware, Joseph B. Dunton, Joseph Orrasby, Lyraan Walker, Lyraan Wheelock,Altheron Wilkinson, Step, E. Christy, Jaraes H, Wilkinson, Philetus Burnap, Jason Burnap, Martin L, Bruce, Eichard E, Brown, Lucius T. Ewings, Luther B. Austin, Aurelius Haywood, Joseph Haywood, Charles Bixby, Manasseh 210 1838 Doolittle Eoswell 1843 " Sirapson, Chas. C. " " Ewing, Sarauel 1846 " Fairbanks, Art. P. 1847 " Fairbanks,Orraond 1848 " Ware, Dana F, " Murdock, Jesse " " Phelps, Charles " Eanney, Alfred A, " " Eanney, Henry D. 1850 " Eanney, Lafayette " " Eanney, James W. " " Taft, George W, 1853 " Barber,Lysander C, 1854 " Hay wood, Joseph H. " " Stoddard, Henry H, " " ' Burt, Warner " Taft, Lucius C, 1855 " Hazelton, David W. " " Cheney, Henry W, 1857 " Allen, Elijah B, 1859 " AUen, Henry L, " Harris, Norman W, 1860 " Gale, Gordon H, " Higgins, Thomas " " Ware, Joseph " " Ware Eichard B, " DooUttle, Willard " Stoddard, Sarauel 1839 Harris, Eben'r H, 1861 " KimbaU, John 1840 Cheney, Nathaniel 1862 " Holden, Forbes 1842 Pierce, Nathan 1864 " Eice, Stephen 1865 " Eeed, Luther " Petty, SUas " Powers, Nath'l W. " 1843 Burnap, John T. Brintnall, Ealph 1866 Goodell, Ira WeUs, Orrin Wheeler, Eben'r C. " Eoel, S. B, Harris, Edwin D, " Pierce, Charles " Morse, Albert E. " French, Lyman E. 1867 Frost, Ezekiel C. 1868 Eanney, Martin L. " Locke, Ezekiel P, Walker, John 1869 Harris, Charles N. " Harris, George W, " Burnap, Harvey " Gray, Jaraes Salisbury, Clark W. " Barnes, Eri H, 1871 Eutter, PhiUp 1873 Conkey, Andrew " Whitcomb, Eoswell " Gale, Fernando 1876 Hibbard, Moses " Eandall, John " Thayer, Jason " Winslow, S, D, 2d, 1877 Eand, William Ware, Osmore " Berais, David " Eand, Lincoln 1878 Holbrook, Hugh Follett, Jaraes " Wells, Lucien E, 1879 Putnam, William J, " Goddard, Daniel 1880 Pratt, Oliver 1882 Piper, Harvey C, " Bradley, Calvin Amsden, Arba L, Amsden, Edgar M, Amsden, Sidney L, Derry, Ormando C, Ellis, Wales H. Dr, Holbrook, John D. Phillips, Eeuben Eice, George C, Winslow, George Leonard, Moses MiUer, Eobert E. Salisbury, Henry Hastings, Henry E. Hescock, Sylvanus Holden, Alvinsa 8. Pomroy, Calvin C. Ware, Lucius I, Ware, Enoch G, Batchelder, Ira K. Aiken, David Ingalls, William H. Leonard, William Bailey, Sarauel H. Carr, Haskell H. Holt, Cyrus P. Howe, WiUiam A. Chaffee, Harry C, Fairbanks. Eose, N. Pierce, James A, Salisbury, Frank F, Clark, Lucius F, Hastings, Loring Johnson, Henry Burnham, Eev,Chs. Livermore, Fred, F. Eandall, Herbert A. Hastings, Holland Burnap, Orrin 211 1792 Christopher, Mary 1816 " Ober, Hannah Mrs. " Wood, Eachel Mrs. " " Tyler, Euth Mrs, " Ames, Catharine Mrs, " Eawson, Silence Mrs " " Barnes, Elizabeth " " Fisher, Deborah " Holbrook, Euth " French, Mary « Eead, Thomas Mrs. " " Wilkinson, Widow " " Eawson,SusannahMrs " " Gray, Betsey E.Mrs " 1803 Brigham, Judith Mrs " " Eead, Patty Mrs. 1804 Allen, Sarah Mj:s. " " Duncan, Sarah Mrs, 1817 " Livingston, Marga- " ret Mrs, " " Lovering, Phebe Mrs 1805 Wheaton, Nabby Mrs, " 1806 Taft, Ehoda Mrs. " Butler, Annis Mrs. " " Burbee, Margaret " Mrs, " 1808 Boutelle, Tabitha 1818 Mrs. 1819 1810Holbrook,AnnaMrs. " 1813 Lowell, Sophia " Allen, Beulah Mrs. " " Whitney, Judith Mrs. 1822 1816 AUen, Dolly " Henry, Lucy 1823 " Salisbury, Arethusa " Mrs. " " Shumway, Sarah " Mrs. " "' Belknap, Keziah Mrs. " Tourtelott,LydiaL. 1823 Mrs. " Eand, Luke Mrs. " Squires, Hannah, " Mrs, " Woodward, Clarissa " Wilder, Polly Murdock, SeUna " Doolittle, Clarissa " Mrs. " Harris, Sally Squires, Polly " Bailey, Almira Mrs. " Barber, Mildred Mrs " Shattuck, Huldah " Mrs. " Whitcomb, Esther Newell, Charlotte " Lovering, Anna Barber, Polly B. Mrs. Barber, Hannah M. " Eanney, Eleazer " Mrs. " Tyler, Lucy Mrs. Eand, Mary Simpson, Elcedicea " Wheaton, Alraira " Eanney, W. Mrs. Eanney, Abigail " Eanney, Sophia " Allen, Nancy " McClure, Sally Hubbard, Polly Owen, Orrilla " Burnap, Mary Mrs. 1824 AUen, Elvira 1825 Boutelle, Laura " Boutelle, Nancy " Tyler, Adaline Allen,Weltha O.Mrs." Lamb, Lydia Mrs, " Wheelock,SallyMrs Hill, Laura Burnap, Maria Eead, Olive W. Eead, Eraily Ward Barber, Sally M. Barber, Eraily E, Murdock, Selina F, Wiswell, Elizabeth Davis, Eliza Wilkinson, Lydia Wilkinson, Susan Wilkinson, Lurinda Wilkinson, Sophia Wilkinson, Weltha Scott, Arethusa Howe, Cynthia Kiraball, Keziah W. Mrs, Charaberlain, EuthMrs, Charaberlain, Maria Chamberlain ,Louisa Forbes, Hannah L. Forbes, Sarah B. Brown, Irene Barber, Belief Brown, Almira E. Wood, Mary H. Wood,HannahS.H.Wood, Mary Eand, Lucinda Allen, Nancy Allen, Persis Allen, Atlanta B. Forbes, Mary B. Hayward, Polly Austin, Patty Taft, Anna Bailey, Polly Gray, Mehitable M. Eand, Eoxana 212 1825 Bowker, Prudence 1827 " Kimball, Emily P, " Mrs. " " Steams, Hannah " 1826 Lowe, Esther " Lowe, Lydia " " WiUard, Mary " Lamb, Eoxana " " Simpson, Asenath " Mrs. " " Barber, Clarissa " " Hayward, Maria " 1827 Cady, Hepzibah " Potter, Mary " Harris, Mitte Ann " " Nourse, Olive, " Nourse, Sarah " " Carr, Caroline " Nourse, Lucy " " Barber, Sally EeUef " " Burnap, BeUnda 1828 " Burnap, Lucy " " Wilkinson, Clarissa " D, F. " " Salisbury,Philomela " " Ware, EUzabeth " Tyler, Kelita Eead " " Tyler, Lucy 1829 " White, Juliana " KimbaU, Eebecca 1832 " Haywood, Matilda " " Clough, AdaUne " McClure, Fanny " " Shattuck, Louisa " " Eand, Amanda " " Potter, Sarah " Murdock, Lurinda " " Wilkinson, Mindwell " " Miles, Diana " " Taft, Mary A, " Taft, AbigaU S, " Loring, Laura Eawson, Electa Wilkinson, Olive Austin, Polly Bixby, Sophia 1833 Shattuck, Adaline 1834 Barber, Miranda " Marble, Christina 1835 Graves, Martha A. Whitcomb, Abigail Austin, Cynthia " Woodward, Zerua " Bailey, Betsey Mrs. " Gray, Aurilla " Dunklee, Hannah " Barber, Hannah E, " Woodward, SaUy Woodward, Lucretia " Barber, Polly Eobbins, Fanny " Salisbury, Amanda " Stoddard, Melissa " Murdock, Harriet " Mrs, Eand, Lorinda Wood, Marcia Owen, Fidelia Goodell,Abigail Mrs Shattuck, May E. Simpson, Lovisa Whitcomb, MaryW. DooUttle, Sarah Baylies,Hannah Mrs Barber, Desdemona PhilUps, Mary Dunton, Louisa Mrs Hazelton, Huldah Salisb'ry,LucindaD. 1836 Harris, Harriet Newell, Eebecca Ehodes, Keziah Tyler, Hannah Eand, Suviah Eand, Sophia Dunklee, Euth French, Lydia French, Julia Bailey, Sarah Mrs. Bliss, Nancy K, Eanney, Phebe Pierce, Ann Hale Bailey, Orrissa Taft, Abby Eawson, Louisa Eawson, Mary Ann Doolittle, Sophia Bruce, Sarah Mrs, Gray, Betsey Mrs, Brighara, Laura Ware, Lucinda Murdock, Deborah Mrs. " Wiswell, Catharine Mrs, " Wilber,Martha Mrs " Harris, Harriet A. " Walker, Lovisa " Barber, Miriam Mrs 1837 Shafter, EUzabeth 1838 Walker, Olive " Carr, Ellen E. " Lowe, Jane " Eand, Susan M. " Haywood, Lydia " Salisbury, Arethusa E, " Lowe, Esther P. " Haywood, Sarah " Chamberlain, Soph ronia " Ware, Sarah L, " Parker, Caroline F. " Taft, Martha S, " Wilkinson, Eliza " Arras, Cornelia J. 213 1838 Chamberlain, Mar- 1841 Goodell, Silas Mrs. 1852 Ware, Elmira B. tha. " Eand, Sophronia " Wood, Lorinda M, (( Taft, Alstien A, 1842 Eead, Mary Mrs. tl WisweU, EUzab'hS, . " Davis, Eliza L. 1853 Walker, Lydia It Eichmond, Sarah E . " Eeed, Mrs. " Walker, Mary C. " Austin, Mary L. " Barber, Eraily 1854 Langdon, Sarah S. U Eood, Lydia M. " Sawyer, Sarah Mrs. " Harris, Ellen Lau tt Haywood, Elvira J, 1843 Ehodes, Nancy Mrs, rinda. ll Eand, Elvira E, " Wilson, Hannah " Simpson, Sarah M. tl Wright, Philinda " Higgins, Lucy Ann " Clayton, Laura Ann it Wyman, Mary 1845 Eand, Olive I, " Burnap, Mary B. it Eanney, Nancy C. " Barber, Desdemo Mrs. it Phelps, Eliza Mrs, na L, " Salisbury, Arethusa tt Potter, Susan C, " Eoberts, Susan Ann E. tt Walker, Aurilla Mrs, 1866 Eice, Sarah A, ll Walker, Lovisa 1846 AUen, Lovisa 1857 Eutter, Sarah Mrs. it Walker, Persis E, 1847 Wheeler, Sarah Mrs " Eutter, Sarah E. tt Wood, Lucien M, Z. " Kidder ,Clarissa Mrs " Faulkner, Mary M, " Harris, Fanny S. 1848 Brintnall, Sarah B. " Eutter, Hannah E, C( Eanney, Helen L " Fullerton,EleanorE, 1860 Hibbard, Mrs, It Eanney, Frances S. " Eoss, Hannah " Hibbard, Sarah ll AUen, Elvira W, " Eoss, Susan " Hibbard, Ellen M. (1 Arms, Mary J, " Salisbury, Harriet " Persons, Elthine tt Bixby, Persis H, " Pierce, Lucia " Thayer, Olive Mrs. tt Burnap, Mary Ann 1848 Pierce, Marcia " Wiswell, Harriet tt Fairbanks, Melinda I " Bailey, Mary L. Mrs. ll Adams, Maria A, " French,Lucia A. Mrs " Howard, Martha tl Stoddard, Euth E, " Ewings, Calista L, " FrankUn, Martha tt Shafter, Mary L, Mrs, " Boutelle, Nancy tt Wilkinson,Mary L, " Drown, Lucy Mrs, " Franklin, Eraily V, li Gale, Orphy " GoodeU,Eraeline H, " Lovell, Vesta M, tl Higgins, Lucy S. Mrs. Mrs. tt Stoddard, Naomi 1849 Goodell, Cynthia H. 1861 Bemis, Margaret Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. tt Wood, Sophia 1850 Wood, Jane G. " Wilkinson, Adaline it Gray, Polly " WUlis, Lois L. Mrs. tt Marsh, Nancy " Dunton, Olive M. ] L862 Sawyer, Hannah 1839 Ware, MaryL, Mrs, " Dunton, Julia A. Mrs. (( Kimball, John Mrs. " Boyd, Caroline F, " Sawyer, Mary 1840 Cheney, Maria M. " Willis, Mary E. " Burnap, Phebe Mrs. (t Holden, Hannah " Eanney, Mary A. " Bolles, Emeline E. 1841 Barber, Sarah A, " Eice, Hannah L, Mrs. 214 1863 1864 1865 Taft, Abby Mrs. 1867 Winslow, Abby A, 1876 Ware, Arvilla Mrs. Powers, Selina Mrs. 1877 Fairbanks, Isadore Lowe, Eliza A. Mrs. 1868 Leonard, Mrs. " Hastings, Abby L. Boutelle, Susan Mrs. " Miller, Eobert E. " Howe, Eraraa Bolles, Esther A. Simpson, Adelaide Isadore Putnam, Sarah I. Mrs. Putnam, Flora I. Goddard, Fanny A. Mrs. Bailey, Augusta E. Mrs. Mrs. " Pierce, Mary A.Mrs Salisbury, A UceMrs 1878 Burnap, Emily C. Tyler, Martha E. Mrs. 1869 HoUand, Florence E. Mrs, " Johnson, Ella S, " Pomroy, Abby A. " Pomroy, Justina Mrs. Follett, Clara E.Mrs 1871 Batchelder, Annie 1866 Piper, Sarah Olney Mrs, Bradley, Harriet Mrs, Amsden, Joanna M, Mrs. Dudley, Sarah A. Mrs. Batchelder, Nancy Mrs, Morse, Elsie Mrs. Olmsted, Cora Olmsted, Eraraa Olmsted, Mary Mrs. Mrs, 1873 Aiken, Abbie W, EUis, Abbie E, Mrs, Goodhue, Sarah E, Chaffee, Luceba Mrs. Clark, Jennie C. Mrs Connor, Anna FoUett, EUza Mrs. Hastings, Octavia Mrs. Hescock, Sarah Mrs Howard, Ada Maria Howard, Ann Clara Mrs. Howard,Esther Mrs Howard, Mary Jane Johnson, T, M.Wid. Plumb, Ellen M. Mrs. Eand, Laura Mrs. Mrs. Holbrook, Mary M. Mrs, Phillips, Mary Mrs. 1867 Mrs, 1879 Burnham, Mrs, Eddy, Mary Jane " Livermore, Abbie Mrs, Mrs. Higgins, Mary A. 1880 Eddy, Gertrude S. Eandall, Carrie E, " Fessenden,EraraaC. Mrs. " Leonard, Abbie Mrs Pond, Jerusha M. 1875 Osburn, Ida Louisa 1881 Hastings, Mary Mrs Mrs. 1876 Carr, Anna Mrs. 1883 Harris, Minnie White, Fanny " Holt, Carrie Ardilla " Simpson, Clara Bell Barton, Mary C. Mrs. " Howe, Ella S. Mrs. OFPICERS AND MEMBERS, May, 1884. Acting Pastor: EEV. H. H. ACTEEIAN. Deacons : SAMUEL D. WINSLOW, 2d, Elected June 28, 1864. JAMES 0. FOLLETT, Elected June 28, 1864. 215 Amsden, Arba L, Amsden, Edgar M, Amsden, Sidney L. Batchelder, Ira K, Bemis, David Bradley, Calvin Burnap, Orrin Carr, Haskell H. Chaffee, Harry Clinton Clark, Lucius F, Derry, Orraando Ewings, Sarauel Aiken, Abby W, Mrs, Present Membership. Follett, James 0, Harris, Edwin D, Harris, George W, Hastings, Henry E, Hastings, Holland Hastings, Loring Hescock, Sylvanus Holbrook, Hugh H. Holt, Cyrus P. Ingalls, William H, Johnson, Henry Leonard, William, Livermore, Fred, F. PhilUps, Eeuben Eand, Williara Eandall, Herbert A. Eice, George C, Salisbury, Henry Sirapson, Charles C. Thayer, Jason D. Ware, Joseph B. Whitcomb, Eoswell Winslow, Samuel D. 2d. Pratt, Elthine Mrs. Eand, Laura Mrs. Eand, Lizzie H. Mrs. Follett, Eliza Mrs, Amsden, Joanna W, Mrs. Franklin, Belinda Mrs BaUey, Augusta E. Gibbs, Ada M. Mrs. Barber, Clarissa Goodhue, Sarah E. Mrs. Eandall, Carrie E. Mrs Barrett, Fanny Mrs. Harris, Minnie Ehodes, Nancy Mrs. Batchelder, Annie Mrs. Hastings, Octavia Mrs, Eice, Anna Mrs, Batchelder, Nancy Mrs. Hescock, Sarah Mrs. Eice, Nancy, Mrs. Bemis, Margaret Holbrook,MaryM,M,Mrs Eoss, Susan Bixby, Persis A, Holbrook, Orrissa Mrs, Eutter, Sarah E, BoUes, Emeline E, Holland, FlorenceU, Mrs Salisbury, Alice Mrs. Bradley, Harriet, Mrs, Howard, Anna C, Mrs. Howard, Etta A. Mrs, Howard, Mary Jane Ingalls, Mary Mrs, Johnson, T, A, Mrs, Jones, Ella J. Mrs. Burnap, Emily C, Burnap, Phebe A, Mrs. Burnham, Mary Mrs, Carr, Anna Mrs. Chaffee, Luceba Mrs. Chamberlain,MaryB.Mrs Leonard, Abby Clark, Jennie C. Mrs. Derry, Abby L. Mrs, Eddy, Erama C, Mrs. Eddy, Gertie S, Eddy, Mary Jane Mrs, Follett, Clara Mrs. Livermore, Abby Mrs, Sawyer, Hannah Mrs. Sirapson, Clara Bell Sirapson, Louisa Sirapson, Sarah M, Mrs, Taft, Abby Mrs, Thayer, Olive Mrs, Ware, Arvilla Mrs, Ware, Mary L, Mrs. Livermore, Aurilla Mrs, Wilkinson, Adaline Mrs, Lowe, Esther P. Winslow, Abby A. Mrs. MUes, Diana Winslow, Mary E. Mrs, PhilUps, Mary Mrs, Wiswell, Catharine Mrs. Plumb, Ellen Mrs. Wiswell, Harriet Mrs. No. Males, 35 ; No. Females, 69 ; Present Membership, 104, 216 LEGACY OP AURELIUS 0. HOWARD. In the will of Mr. Howard, this bequest is expressed as follows : It is my will, and I hereby direct, that the sum of ten thousand dollars be set apart and given to the town of Townshend, in the County of Wind ham and State of Vermont, to be under the control of the Treasurer of said town, or one or raore Trustees to be elected by said town for that special purpose. The said Treasurer, Trustee or Trustees, to give bonds with good and sufficient sureties in a sura equal to the amount of said fund, with inter est and accuraulations thereon, for the faithful raanageraent of the sarae, and to account therefor as the town shall direct. The interest of said ten thousand dollars to be applied in providing for, and corafortably supporting the poor of said town of Townshend, so long as ray lineal descendants shall not require the sarae for their support and main tenance. And provided that if at any tirae hereafter, any one or more of my lineal descendants shall need aid for their comfortable support and main tenance, then it is my will and I hereby direct that so much of the interest, and, if necessary, of the principal of said ten thousand dollars be applied in the support of such needy lineal descendant or descendants as raay be necessary for his, her, or their comfortable raaintenance ; to be paid and ap plied under the direction and order of the Probate Court having the princi pal jurisdiction of the probate of this will, unless otherwise agreed upon. At a raeeting duly held on the 19th of December, 1881, the town voted to accept the legacy, and engaged to comply with the terms and conditions upon which it was raade. Three Trustees — Horace C. Howard, Ormando S. Howard and James H. Phelps were chosen to receive, raanage and have control of the bequest. The Trustees were directed to execute a bond to the town in the penal sum of twelve thousand dollars, conditioned for the faith ful performance of their trust. Said bond to be approved by the selectmen, and kept on file in the Town Clerk's office. The auditors were directed to yearly audit the account of the Trustees, and to have the sarae printed in their annual report. The Trustees were further directed to invest, as soon as raay be, the whole legacy of ten thousand dollars in the unpaid railroad aid notes due frora the town. In the raonth of April, 1882, the Trustees received the legacy frora the executors of Mr, Howard's estate, and, agreeably to vote of the town, they have invested same in the unpaid railroad aid notes of the town, as fast as they have been able to purchase said notes. When aid notes to the araount of five hundred dollars more are taken up by the Trustees, the whole legacy will be represented by said notes, as the towu has directed. 217 BRATTLEBORO AND WHITEHALL RAILROAD COMPANY. Town of Townshend has 370 shares of stock at $100 each, $37,000. ORIGINAL stockholders RESIDING IN TOWNSHEND. Junia D, Barber, 2 shares, 8200 James H. Phelps, 6 shares, Ira K, Batchelder, 1 share, 100 N, Pierce, 2 shares, 200 Eev, Mark Carpenter, 3 shares, 300 Daniel Eead, 3 shares, 300 Adin Holbrook, 1 share, 100 A. Stoddard, 2 shares, 200 A, C, Howard, 10 shares, 1000 Josiah W, Taft, 1 share, 100 0, S, Howard, 3 shares, 300 S, D, Winslow, 2d, 2 shares, 200 No, shares taken by persons above-named, 36, at $100, $3,600 00 No, shares taken by the town, 370, at $100, 37,000 00 Given by tax-payers of Townshend towards building the railroad $40,600 00 Shares of the town were taken on condition that the railroad from MiU Brook, Harmonyville, to Jaraaica line, should be located on, and not be re raoved from the east, or left bank of West Eiver, Shares of J, H, Phelps and J, W. Taft were taken on condition that if there is but one depot for West Townshend and Wardsboro, it shall not be further west than the line of O, E. Garfield's land ; if two, the one for West Townshend to be not further west than the bulkhead west of the mill of Kidder, Livermore & Co. Assessm't. Due. Paid. Amount. 1st, July 1, 1878, Nov, 20, 1878, $1,850 00 2d, Nov. 10, 1878, Jan'y 7, 1879, 3,700 00 3d, Dec, 10, 1878, April 2, 1879, 3,700 00 4th, May 20, 1879, May 17, 1879, $ 500 00 May 22, 1879, 6,900 00 7,400 00 5th, June 20, 1879, June 23, 1879, 3,700 00 July 12, 1879, 8,700 00 7,400 00 6th, July 20, 1879, July 22, 1879, 3,700 00 7th, Aug, 20, 1879, Sept. 3, 1879, 1,850 00 Sept, 11, 1879, 1,000 00 Sept, 12, 1879, 600 00 Sept, 24, 1879, 250 00 3,700 00 Sth, Oct, 1, 1879, Nov, 6, 1879, 1,850 00 Nov, 28, 1879, 1,850 00 3,700 00 9th, Dec, 1, 1879, Dec, 29, 1879, iven by town of Townshend, 1,850 00 Eailroad aid g; $37,000 00 22 218 1878, Nov. 25. Ground first broken in Townshend for grading the railroad. 1879, Dec. 1. Grading and trestlework on railroad finished in Townshend. The grading was commenced near Mill Brook in Harmonyville, Length of Road. Quantity of Land. Land Damages Land Damages Land Owners. Feet. Acres. Appraised. Paid Philip H. Eutter and son. 3,036 $175 00 Moses Eandall, 1,079 125 00 Jonas L. Livermore, 1,561 1,791 $180 00 180 00 Sarauel Ober, 1,018 1.122 100 00 100 00 E. S. and H. Morse, 537 0,616 60 00 60 00 Mrs. L. H. Ewings, 116 0,100 6 00 5 00 I. Boyden and L. Osgood, 194 0,222 10 00 10 00 E, L. Eand, 333 0,383 15 00 15 00 L, H, Cathan, 280 50 00 E, L, Hastings, 3,181 3,650 326 00 325 00 0, S, Howard, 656 0,752 35 00 36 00 Daniel Eead, 534 0,613 30 00 30 00 J, Twitchell's Estate, 2,889 3,316 130 00 135 00 C. Q. Stebbins, 1,140 1,208 130 00 150 00 H, Underwood, 674 0,775 90 00 100 00 Hiram Howe, 297 0,341 40 00 40 00 Lucius N. Twitchell, 1,813 2,195 100 00 lOOOO Joel S, Leonard, 3,470 3,983 250 00 250 00 Sylvester Hescock, 2,335 2,568 333 00 340 00 Nathan Pierce, 4,555 6,159 Not appraised. 200 00 Edward A. Holmes, 2,229 2,719 176 00 175 00 L, W, and E, A. Page, 1,058 1,214 125 00 125 00 W, E, Livermore, 655 0,749 100 00 100 00 Kidder, Livermore & Co. 49 5 00 5 00 D. A. Poraroy, 306 0,351 25 00 25 00 0. E, Garfield, 2,144 1-18 Acre, 90 00 90 00 Abel Kidder, 1,066 1,223 120 00 120 00 Charles Eobbins, 250 0,287 30 00 30 00 Length of road in Townshend, ! 57,455 feet, — 7,1 miles, nearly. Araount paid for land daraages in Townshend, raoney. t $2,895 20 Amount paid for land damages in Townshend, stock. 200 00 Amount of land damages in Townshend, $3,095 20 Appraisal of road-bed in Townshend by Commissioners in 1881 : 2i miles in District No. 1, appraised at $1000 a mile, $2,500 2 railes in District No, 6, appraised at $1000 a mile, 2,000 2i miles in District No. 8, appraised at $1000 a mile, 2,500 7 milea, appraised at $7,000 219 Araount of work done from north end of Pile Bridge at Harmonyville to town line Townshend and Jamaica, up to the SOth day of Septeraber, 1879 : David HaU, Sub-Contractor. $4,314 60 Pile Bridge, 1006 Unear feet, at $2.60, $2,515 00 \ Hemlock in work, trestle. 30,020 feet, board / ^j^j,j.gjj Harris raeasure, at $12.00, 362 40 V Pine in work, trestle, 10,804 feet, board measure, I Sub-Contractor, at $15.00, 162 06 / $3,039 46 Eock, 1244 cubic yards, at 75 cents. $933 00 Loose rock. 71 ' at 30 cents. 2130 Earth, 34,730 ' at 11 cents. 3820 30 Masonry, 3d c. 91 at $3,00 273 00 Masonry, 4 c. 674 at $1,50 86100 Paving, 187 ' at 75 cents. 130 26 Slope wall. 178 at $1,00 178 00 Eiprap, 117 ' at 75 cents. 87 75 $7,364 06 David HaU estimates the cost of work done by him in Townshend to be very near $6,540 00 Warren Harris received for materials and work from MiU Brook to Jaraaica Une, 3,039 46 Cost of grading in Townshend, $9,579 46, nearly. Total araount of work done to November 18, 1879, on the Brattleboro Division between the town of Brookline and the southern end of the Jamaica Division of the Brattleboro & Whitehall Eailroad : Cubic yards of earth, 15,644 Cubic yards of rock, 900 I C. E, Danforth & Co. Cubic yards of loose rock, 30 Fourth class masonry culverts, 212 Linear feet. Pile Bridge, 345, W. S. Harris, Sub-Contractor. Distance from Brookline to north end of Brattleboro Division, viz : to north end of PUe Bridge at Harmonyville, 7,726 feet. The ties delivered in Townshend cost from 12 to 14 cents each. . The 370 shares of the town were represented as follows : Cash paid toward assessraents, $3,000 00 Notes refiinded by vote of June 13, 1879 : First issue of bonds, $13,600 00 Notes refunded by vote of December 1, 1879 : Second issue of bonds, 13,500 00 Contractors. 220 $27,000 00 Notes refunded by vote of March 2, 1880 : Third issue of bonds, $7,000 00— $34,000 00 Araount of aid contributed by the town, $37,000 00 Five hundred dollars of each issue were due February 1, 1881, and yearly thereafter. Yearly rate of interest is five per cent, and the interest is repre sented by coupons due each February 1, and August 1, preceeding the ma turity of note to which they belong. First and second issues are redeemable at pleasure of the town after February 1, 1890; the third issue is redeema ble after February 1, 1881. At this date, June, 1884, indebtedness of the town for railroad aid is rep" resented as follows : Town notes to Trustees of A. C, Howard's legacy, $9,000 00 Due for bonds delivered to Town Treasurer by said Trustees for cancellation. Town note therefor not yet executed, 500 00 First issue of bonds in hands of private persons, 11,500 00 Second issue of bonds in hands of private persons, 11,500 00 $32,500 00 Eails laid April 12-13, 1880, frora Verraont & Massachusetts Eailroad in Brattleboro, to Narrow Gauge bridge over West Eiver, Laying of the rails resuraed at Brattleboro, September 10, 1880. Eails laid to West Dummerston Station, " 17, Eails laid to Williamsville Station, " 20, Eails laid to Newfane Station, " 23, Eails laid to Townshend Station, " 28, Eails laid to West Townshend Station, October 2, Eails laid to Wardsboro and Windhara Station, " 4, Eails laid to Jamaica Station, " 7, Eails laid to South Londonderry Station, " 20, Eailroad formally opened for freight and passenger traffic, Nov. 18, 1 880. Telegraph poles set to Townshend Station, December 16, 1880. Telegraph poles set to West Townshend Station, Deceraber 20, 1880. Daily stage made its last trip from Jaraaica to Brattleboro, Dec, 20, J 880. December 20, 1880, up train this evening frora Brattleboro brought the maU for first tirae. Telegraph instruraents set up in West Townshend Station, Dec, 31, 1880. Eraery Knowlton Express Agent Dec. 20, 1880, to March 1, 1881. United States and Canada Express Co. commenced business on this road March 1, 1881. 221 SUMMAEY OF BUSINESS AT TOWNSHEND STATION, JAN, 1, 1882, TO JAN, 1, 1883, E, L. HASTINGS, Station Agent. Freight Forwarded. Pounds. January, 104,112 February, 48,000 March, 76,622 April, 166,800 May, 32,100 June, 121,377 July, 137,200 August, 266,100 Septeraber, 287,500 October, 298,916 Noveraber, 294,500 Deceraber, 285,824 Freight Received. . Pounds. January,February, March, April, May, June, July, August, Septeraber, October, November,December, 37,81225,402 90,750 66,835 76,969 45,346 64,547 63,334 76,292 46,231 38,627 110,406 Total freight forwarded, 1,059 tons For freight forwarded, not prepaid. For freight forwarded, prepaid. Collected on freight received. For tickets sold. received, 365 5-20 tons. $12 39 1,627 76 1,503 76 $1,228 61 2,043 91 Total, ' $3,272 42 Among the articles forwarded were 250 tons of soapstone, 235 tons of logs, 206 tons of lumber, 82 tons of poplar or "pulp" wood, -80 tons of chair stock, and 270 tubs of butter. Araong the articles of freight received were 135 tons of meal, 358 barrels of flour, and 25 barrels of kerosene oil. 222 SUMMAEY OF BUSINESS AT WEST TOWNSHEND STATION, JANUAEY 1, 1882, TO JANUAEY 1, 1883. D. E, BOYDEN, Station Agent, Freight Forwarded. Pounds. January, 49,500 February, 17,705 March, 169,160 April, 139,710 May, 159,400 June, 65,130 July, 102,270 August, 39,730 Septeraber, 4,246 October, 61,693 November, 126,715 December, 106,368 Total, 1,040,627 Freight Received. Pounds. January, 65,009 February, 33,137 March, 14,569 April, 99,804 May, 49,972 June, 34,277 July, 25,628 August, 27,554 September, 41,007 October, 16,660 November, 45,407 December, 50,075 493,099 $749 87 $5 39 921 88 73105 $1,658 32 For freight forwarded, not prepaid. For freight forwarded, prepaid. Collected on freight received, For tickets sold. $2,408 19 Among the articles forwarded are 285 barrels of apples, 279 tubs of but ter, 8,500 pounds of wool, 33,900 pounds of palraleaf hats, 800,000 pounds of luraber, and 147,000 of shingles. Among the articles received are 522 barrels of flour, 2,579 bushels of grain, 8,200 pounds of iron, 22 barrels of lime, 41,500 pounds of palraleaf, 35 barrels of kerosene oil, 52 barrels of sugar, 23,000 pounds of salt, 46 barrels of crackers, and 14,000 pounds of coal. The foregoing list does not include many tons of butter, eggs and poultry and other articles that are forwarded alraost wholly by express, nor a large amount of merchandise received by express, nor a large amount of lumber forwarded for railroad use. 223 COMPENSATION PAID SUPERINTENDENTS OP COMMON SCHOOLS. 1846, Eev, Horace Fletcher, paid by town 1847, ll (( It (( 1848, tl It It (( 1849, It It tl it 1850, (( ({ ll i( 1841, Waitstill E, Eanney, •* 1852, Eev, Horace Fletcher, (( 1853, ,( (. (( It 1854. ,, tl .. ll 1855, Eev. John Wood, ll 1856, Claudius B. Sraith, " it 1857, (C Ci (( tl 1858, Claudius B, Sraith, paid by State, 1859, Moses Hibbard, it 1860,1861, j- Eev, Chester L, Cushman, paid by State, 1862. tl It It tl U 1863. It tl It it it 1864. Nelson Winslow, It tl 1865. (1 (( it It 1866. ft It it ll 1867. Lincoln E, Shattuck, it il 1868. Nelson Winslow, tt tt 1869. George H, Houghton, il " 1870. tt It It tt 1871. 1872, Eev, Franklin W. Olmsted, If ll 1873. (( (I II tt (1 1874, « « li " (( 1875, ii il it tl (f 1876, Ii Ii Ii It (( 1877. Prof, C, C, Boynton, tt li 1878, ii ii tl ti it 1879, Ira K, Batchelder, ti t( 1880, •i Ii ll it 1881, II ii paid by town, 1882, II Ii it tl 1883, Mrs, Emily A, Kenvon. it It U, S. Deposit Money distributed to Townshend on census of 1880 $2,212 93. $15 50 17 93 2170 23 46 19 48 18 57 19 31 17 00 13 26 17 00 10 68 12 50 10 00 15 00 36 00 26 00 3175 28 00 28 00 16 00 24 00 13 00 20 00 18 00 28 00 48 70 48 50 45 50 45 00 62 00 88 75 37 62 34 25 24 60 25 25 40 00 224 ¦ JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. Cumberland County, New York, existed frora March 19, 1768, to March 13, 1775. Its bounds extended from west bank of Connecticut Eiver in North line of Massachusetts, to the South-east corner of Stamford ; thence, to South-east corner of Clarendon ; thence, to South-west corner of Tunbridge ; thence, on South line of Strafford and Thetford, to Connecticut Eiver; thence, on West bank of Connecticut Eiver, to the place of beginning. On the West and North, Cumberland County, N. Y., does not coincide with the present lines of Windham and Windsor Counties. And yet their bounda ries are the sarae to so large an extent that one often hears, it remarked that Cumberland had the territorial limits of Windham and Windsor. No resi dent of Townshend was appointed Justice of the Peace by the Provincial Governraent of New York. Curaberland County, Vermont, was established March 21, 1778. It ex tended from Massachusetts to Canada, and from west bank of Connecticut Eiver to suramit of Green Mountain range. Its existence was terrainated by the statute of Feb. 16, 1781, which divided its territory into the Counties of Windhara, Windsor and Orange. Down to 1786, this town had but one Justice of the Peace residing within its limits. Agreeably to statute of June 17, 1778, Joseph Tyler was elected and his name returned to the Governor and Council for commission as Jus tice of the Peace for the County of Cumberland. His authority to discharge the duties of that office dates frora October 20, 1778, and ended when the County became extinct. The County of Windham was incorporated Feb. 16, 1781, and with same limits it has at the present day. Frora July, 1786, to 1850, Justices of the Peace were elected by the Joint Asserably ; and since 1849, by freeraen of the towns wherein the appointees reside. Since 1869, they have been chosen biennially ; and since November, 1787, their official term has commenced the 1st of December following their election. The following list contains names of those residing in Townshend who have been elected Justice of the Peace for the County of W^indhara, with the year in which they were severally chosen : Aiken, Henry L, Year of appointraent, 1839-49 Allen, Jacob Jr, " " 1828-29 Atwood, Esek " " 1849 1851-68 Austin, Granville J, " " 1862 1868-69 Bailey, Dana " " 1818-50 1857-58 BaU, Silas " " 1807-8 1810-12 1816-20 BaUou, Masenna F. " " 1862 225 Barber, Ebenezer M. Year of appointment. 1837-49 Batchelder, Ira K. ii 1869-82 Bixby, Thaddeus ii 1846-49 Blandin, John Jr. ii 1833- i9 1861-55 1861 Brigham, John H. ii 1825-26 1829-34 1837-54 1860-62 Brown, Thomas It 1826-34 Burnap, Harvey It 1855 Burton, Timothy tl 1821-23 Butterfield, Zatter ll 1823-24 Cathan, Emery It 1836-48 Chamberlain, Gilman ii 1866-67 Chamberlain, Joel ii 1826-40 Cheney, Nathaniel Jr, Ci 1836-49 Converse, John H, tt 1863-66 Cook, Thomas Jr. tl 1842-49 Doolittle, Amzi Jr, It 1813-24 Dunklee, Benjarain It 1829-30 Dyer, John ll 1804-13 Dyer, Lucius ll 1830-35 Farrar, Ephraira H, Ii 1847-59 Farwell, Lerauel, ci 1836-49 Fish, Josiah II April 17, 1781, to Nov '. 1, 1786 Fisher, Daniel ti 1841-49 1858-65 Fisher, Nathan It 1841-52 Fletcher, Sarauel li 1807 Forbes, Moses ii 1814-15 1825 Fullerton, John S, It 1847-49 1851-82 Garfield, Caleb II 1824-32 Garfield, Oscar E, tt 1880-82 Goodrich, Allen tt 1833-34 Gray, Sarauel it 1834-49 Gray, Sharon ll 1835 1838-49 Hazelton, John tt 1 L796-1806 1815-18 Holbrook, Arad tl 1827-36 Holmes, Hiram ll 1845-60 Hovey, Isaac ll 1849 Howard, Aurelius C, It 1841-49 1856-57 1868-76 Howard, Chapin tl 1825-40 Howard, David It 1848-49 1878-82 Howard, Ormando S, It 1845-49 1863-69 1878-82 23 Howe, John W. Huntington, Ebenezer Jennison, Joseph Johnson, Abner Joy, William H. Kenney, Munnis Kidder, Francis Kingsbury, Samuel Murdock, Benjamin Murdock, Judson Nichols, HoUis, Nichols, John L. Page, Levi W, Phelps, Charles Phelps, James H. Pierce, Nathan Eand, Denzel D, _ Eand, Luke S, Eanney, Eleazer H, Eanney, Waitstill Eanney, Waitstill E, Eansom, Epaphroditus Eansora, Ezekiel Eead, Evans Eipley, Sarauel Eoberts, John Salisbury, Barnard, Sawyer, Zadock Shafter, James McM, Shafter, WUliam E, Shattuck, Edmund Stoddard, Abiel Stoddard, Abishai Taft, Peter E, Taft, Willard Taggart, James Thorapson, Samuel F, Twitchell, Jonas Tyler, Joseph Tyler, Joseph Jr, Tyler, Moses W, 226 Year of appointment. 1841-49 1869-60 1863-67 1817-201840-46 1828-29 1831-38 1825-32 1848-49 1820-23 1829-40 1832-341851-56 1841-491842-49 1841-49 1815-22 1866-78 1808-23 1813-141825-261841-49 1870-82 1848-50 1835-411869-82 1839-49 1864-65 1825 1819-201824-25 1843-49 1826-29 1843-60 1842-45 1840-49 1825-30 1833 1807 1830 1823-241838-491831-491833-491840-421856-631847-491834-40 1841 1818-24 1838-40 1806-7 1834-40 1844-45 1868-76 1786-1806 1809-401841-44 1830 1837-42 1853-61 227 , Warner, Gideon Year of appointmeut. 1821 Wheelock, Ephraim it It 1792-1803 Whitcomb, Peter ti a 1816 Wilkinson, Clark it tl 1840-49 Wilkinson, Oliver Jr, 11 tt 1829-30 1835-49 Willard, Charles H. It ft 1867 Wiswell, Samuel tt it 1812 Wood, Joshua Dr, tt It 1786-81 REPRESENTATIVES TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 1778-79, 1807, 1780, 1781, 1785-90, 1782,1783-84, 1791, 1794^85, 1792-93, 1796-1803, 1804-06, 1809-11, 1808, 1812-13, 1814^15, 1816-17, 1821, 1818, 1820, 1822, 1824, 1819, 1823, 1825,1826-27,1828-30, 1831,1832, 1833,1834-36,1837-39, 1840, 1841-42,1843, 1844-45,1846-47,1848-49, 1867, 1850, 1851, 1853, 1861, 1854,1855-56, Samuel Fletcher, Silas Hayward. Dr. Joshua Wood. No choice, Joseph Tyler, Dr, John Hazelton. Ephraira Wheelock. John Dyer. Ezekiel Eansom, Amzi Doolittle, Jr. Munnis Kenney. Peter E. Taft. Dana Bailey. Luke S, Eand. Epaphroditus Eansom. William E. Shafter. John P. Marsh. No choice. Waitstill E. Eanney. Chapin Howard. John H. Brigham. Samuel F. Thompson, James McM. Shafter. Nathan Fisher. Henry L. Aiken. Aurelius C. Howard. James H. Phelps. WiUiam H. Joy. Francis D. Sawyer. Eev. Horace Fletcher. Esek Atwood. 228 1852, 1857-59, 1878-79, Oscar E. Garfield. 1859-60, Abishai Stoddard. 1862, Jonas Twitchell, 1863-64, Ormando S. Howard. 1865-66, John H. Converse. 1868-69, Henry Salisbury, 1870-71, 1882-83, PhUip H, Eutter, 1872-73, Masenna F. BaUou. 1874-75, John S. Fullerton. 1876-77, Eev. Franklin W. Olmsted. 1880-81, Joseph B. Ware. VOTES ON LICENSING INTOXICANTS. Prior to March 1, 1846, inn-keepers, grocers, and sellers of intoxicants were licensed by the County Court, as provided by law. On the day last naraed, the power to grant license to persons engaged in those occupations was committed to three County Comraissioners, who were chosen yearly for that purpose by the voters in each town of candidates' County. At the first election of Coraraissioners in Windham County, the names on the temperance ticket were Samuel Clark, Erastus A. Holton, and Oliver Wilkinson, Jr, Names on the liberal ticket were Ebenezer Huntington, Asa Keyes, and Ellery AUbe. At the second election, the temperance ticket was David Crawford, John H. Campbell, and Lovell Farr ; the liberal tick et was Ebenezer Huntington, Ellery AUbe, and Jarvis F. Burrows. In Windham County, the liberal ticket prevailed at both elections. The vote of Townshend was as follows : 1845, Temperance ticket, 137. Liberal ticket, 100. 1846. Temperance ticket, 127. Liberal ticket, 78. By statute approved Nov. 3, 1846, grocers and inn-keepers were licensed by the board of civil authority for the town where the applicant proposed to engage in business. Tavern keepers and other sellers of intoxicants received their license frora the Assistant Judges of the several County Courts. If the raajority of votes in the entire State was License, it was the duty of the Judges to grant licenses, agreeably to provisions of the act, to all such per sons as raade application therefor, and who sustained a good raoral character. If such majority was No License, the Judges had power to grant licenses only for raedicinal, chemical and mechanical purposes, and to such persona only as were approbated by the civil authority of the several towns wherein the business was to be entered upon. Law of 1846 was changed in 1850, Under the law of 1846, the vote of Townshend, was as follows : 1847, No license, 177 ; License, 36. 1849. No license, 157 : License, 73. 1848, No license, 153 ; License, 76, 1850. No license, 140; License, 61. 229 The State raajorities were as foUows : 1847. For no Ucense, 8,091 1847. For no license, 12,445 1848. For license, 13 1850. For no license, 7,304 The Maine liquor law, so-called, as modified by Dr. Powers and others, was enacted in Vermont by a statute approved Nov. 23, 1852. It was pro vided in the act that the first twenty-six sections thereof were to take effect on the second Tuesday of March, 1863 : Provided, that if a raajority of the ballots to be cast in the entire State, as required, shall be No, then the act shall take effect on the first Monday of Deceraber, 1853, At this election the ballots were Yes by a raajority of eleven hundred and twenty-one. On this question the vote of Townshend was as foUows : Yes, 116 ; No, 128. VOTES CAST IN TOWNSHEND FOR GOVERNOR. Naraes in first column show who was elected Governor in the year against each name. Where a blank occurs, the record is silent. Federals in Eo man, Eepublicans in Italics. 1800 Isaac Tichenor. Israel Smith. 1801 Isaac Tichenor. Israel Smith. 1802 Isaac Tichenor. Moses Robinson. 1803 Isaac Tichenor. 1804 Isaac Tichenor, 77 Moses Robinson, 1 1805 Isaac Tichenor, 93 Jonathan Robinson. 1806 Isaac Tichenor, 83 Jonas Galusha. 1807 Israel Smith, 10 Isaac Tichenor, 157 1808 Isaac Tichenor, 178 Israel Smith, 31 1809 Jonas Galusha, 19 Isaac Tichenor, 160 1810 Jonas Galusha, 27 Isaac Tichenor, 150 1811 Jonas Galusha, 33 Martin Chittenden, 157 1812 Jonas Galusha, 41 Martin Chittenden, 208 1813 Martin Chittenden, 195 Jonas Galusha, 28 1814 Martin Chittenden, 193 Jonas Galusha, 38 1815 Jonas Galusha, 27 Martin Chittenden, 199 1816 Jonas Galusha, 28 Samuel Strong, 206 1817 Jonas Galusha, 23 Isaac Tichenor, 120 1818 Jonas Galusha, 28 National Adrainistration or National Eepublicans in Eoman. Opposition in Italics. 1819 Jonas Galusha, 53 William C. Bradley, 28 1820 Eichard Skinner, 95 1821 Eichard Skinner, 48.- 1822 Eichard Skinner, 48 230 1823 CorneUus P. Van Ness, 87 Dudley Chase. 1824 Cornelius P. Van Ness, 62 Joel Doolittle, 1825 Cornelius P, Van Ness, 66 18261827 1828 1829 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 National Eepublicans, Eoman, Jackson Democrats, Italics. Ezra Butler, 7 Joel Doolittle, Ezra Butler, 85 Joel Doolittle. Samuel C. Crafts, 101 Joel Doolittle, National Eepublicans, Eoman. Jackson Democrats, Italics. Anti-Masons, small caps. 75 1 Samuel C. Crafts, 93 Samuel C. Crafts, 92 Wm. a. Palmer, 102 Wm. a. Palmer, 76 Wm, a. Palmer, 106 Wm. a. Palmer, 77 1836 18371838 1839 1840 Joel Doolittle, 40 Ezra Meech, 27 Ezra Meech, 22 Ezra Meech, 24 Ezra Meech, 95 Wm. a Bradley, 37 Silas H. Jenison, Lieut.-Governor and Acting-Governor, , Wm. a. Palmer, 89 Wm. C. Bradley, Whigs in Eoman. Democrats in Italics. Silas H. Jenison, 93 Williavi C. Bradley, Heraan Allen, 23 Wm, a. Palmer, 45 Heman Allen, . 70 Samuel C, Crafts, 70 Horatio Seymour. Horatio Seyraour, 67 Silas H. Jenison, Silas H, Jenison, Silas H, Jenison, Silas H. Jenison, Whigs, Eoman, 121 William C. Bradley, 134 William C. Bradley, 155 Nathan Smilie, 216 Pavl Dillingham, Democrats, Italics. Liberty Party, small caps. 6570 71677168 1841 18421843 1844 1846 18461847 1848 1849 1860 1851 1862 186318541866 Charles Paine, 109 Charles Paine, 170 J'n Mattocks, 127 Wm. Slade, 177 Wm. Slade, 129 Horace Eaton, 127 Horace Eaton, 129 Car. CooUdge, 138 Car. Coolidge, 177 C,K.WUUaras,163 C,K,WiUiaras,132 E. Fairbanks, 131 Nathan Smilie, 54 Nathan Smilie, 72 Daniel Kellogg, 71 Daniel Kellogg, 69 Daniel Kellogg, 61 John Smith, 46 Paid Dillingham, 49 Paul Dillingham, 22 Jonas Clark, 27 John Roberts, 30 John S Robinson, 45 46 Titus Hutchinson, 74 C. K. Williams, 12 C. K. Williams, 35 Wm. E, Shafter, 27 Wm, E. Shafter, 46 Law. Beainerd, 49 Law. Brainerd, 38 Oscar L. Shafter, 78 HoRAT, Needham, 57 Lucius B, Peck, 28 Tim. P, Eedfield, 34 Law, Beainerd, 31 John S. Robinson, John S. Robinson, elected by the Joint Assembly, E. Fairbanks, 134 J. S. Robinson, 79 Wm, M, Pingrey, 36 Stephen Eoyce,l 62 Merritt Clark, 44 StephenEoyce,172 Merritt Clark, 41 Wm. E. Shafter, 23 Eepublicans, 1856 Eyland Fletcher, 1857 Eyland Fletcher, 1858 Hiland HaU, 1869 Hiland HaU, 1860 [ Erastus Fairbanks, 1861 Frederick Holbrook, 1862 Frederick Holbrook, 1863 John G. Smith, 1864 John G.Smith, 1865 Paul DUlingham, 1866 Paul Dillinghara, 1867 John B. Page, 1868 John B. Page, 1869 Peter T. Washburn, 231 Eoraan. Democrats, Italics. 190 Hen-ry Keyes, 162 Henry Keyes, 126 Henry Keyes, 181 John G. Saxe, nf.. Robert Harvey, ^^'- John G. Saxe, 194 Benjamin H. Smalley, ] 65 Benjamin H. Smalley, 180 Timothy P. Redfield, 195 Timothy P. Redfield, 173 Charles N. Davenport, 189 Charles N. Davenport, 137 John L. Edwards, 226 John L. Edwards, lil Homer W. Heaton, BIENNIAL elections. 1870-71 John W, Stewart, 148 1872-73 JuUus Converse, 193 1874-76 Asahel Peck, 123 1876-77 Horace Fairbanks, 223 1878-79 1 Eedfield Proctor, 147 1880-81 Eoswell Farnham, 246 1882-83 John L, Barstow, 119 Homer W. Heaton, Abram B. Gardner, W. H. H. Bingham, W. H. H. Bingham, Charles W. Willard, W. H. H. Bingham, Edward J. Phelps, George E. Eaton, GRAND LIST FOR THE YEAR 1802, 31 6448 52 32 18 46 46 49 58 32 35 28 40 35 27 31 1630 27 13 39 27 Adams, Abram $57 00 AUen, Cornelius 32 25 Araes, Katharine 13 00 Ames, Lerauel 80 50 Atherton, Peter 106 00 Austin, Asa 143 50 Austin, George 60 25 Ayres, Joseph 21 75 Ayres, Levi 28 25 BaUey, Eichard 73 00 Balch, Sarauel 10 50 BaU, Silas 75 25 Barber, Benj, E. 64 75 Barber, Daniel M. 26 50 Barber, Thos, Jr, 881 50 Barnard, Alp, ) ^gg g^ Barnard, Josh, j Barnard, Silas 46 00 Barnard, Soloraon 38 00 Barnard, Stephen 20 00 Barnes, Daniel 20 00 Barnes, Thomas 91 00 Belknap, Joseph 140 60 Bigelow, Levi 16 50 Brighara, Eben'r 309 75 Brown, Thomas 29 50 Burt,Eb.&Johnl9100Burby, Thomas 40 00 Chase, Henry $126 50 Chase, Enoch, 110 50 Chase, Solomon 37 75 Church, Nath'l 43 50 Church, Thoraas 47 00 Clayton, Moses 73 50 Coats, James 20 00 Codding, Eobert 31 50 Crosier, Alex, 43 25 Cutler, Jonathan 84 25 Cutting, Joel 38 00 Davis, Hammond 67 00 Davis, Solomon 22 25 Doolittle, Amzi 89 25 Doolittle, Arazi Jr. $89 50 Doolittie, Origin 67 26 Doolittle, Eoswell 66 50 Drake, Abijah 25 75 Drake, Paul 109 00 Duncan, Eben'r 39 50 Duncan, Seth 26 60 Dunton, Joseph 126 75 Dyer, EUza Wid. 75 50 Dyer, John Sen'r 62 50 Dyer, John 2d 61 00 Dyer, Joseph 66 60 EUenwood, Jona. 5 25 Ewings, Calvin 198 00 Farr, Joshua 20 00 Farr, Thoraas Jr. 26 50 Fessenden, John 40 00 Fish, John & Jacob 99 00 Fish, Ward 26 50 Fisher, Williara 20 00 Fletcher, Sarauel 302 00 Fletcher, Squire H. 97 00 Franklin, James 78 25 FrankUn, John 37 00 Frost, Bazaliel 84 25 Frost, Samuel 16 50 Gray, Araos 76 00 Gray, James 118 50 Gray, Jesse 103 75 Gray, Jonas and) ^^g ^^ Gray, Jonas Jr. \ Gray, Joseph 55 00 Green, John 20 00 Green, Nathaniel 28 25 Grimes, Jaraes 26 50 Harris, Ebenezer 42 50 Hart, EUsha 26 50 Hart, Isaac H, 13 50 Hayward, Henry 73 60 Hayward, Levi 312 50 Hazeltine, Alpheus 61 75 Hazeltine, Asa 34 50 232 Hazeltine, Asa jr, $20 00 Hazeltine, Dwight 20 00 Hazeltine, John 58 25 Hazeltine,Jno,|258 00 2d & Ensign J Hazeltine, I 157 25 John s heirs, j Hazeltine, Peter 78 50 Hazeltine, Siraeon 73 60 Hazeltine, Stephen 64 76 Hodge, Joseph 25 50 Holbrook, Abner 71 60 Holbrook, Amos 110 00 Holbrook, Arad 131 50 Holbrook, Arba 33 50 Holbrook, Asa) j., ^.r. Holbrook, Alf]" ®* "" Holbrook, EU 197 00 Holbrook, Ezra 150 00 Holbrook, Jared 33 00 Holbrook, Lyman 57 50 Holbrook, Thos. 20 00 Holland, Jonah 161 60 Holmes, Thomas 26 50 Howe, Benj. Sen. 72 25 Howe, Benj. Jr. 101 00 Howe, David 31 60 Howe, John 26 00 Howe, John Jr. 69 00 Howe, John W, 62 60 Howe, Milo 26 50 Howe, Simeon 20 00 Jennison, Eobert 26 60 Jewett, Joseph M, 19 00 Johnson, Aaron 33 00 Johnson, Eben'r 36 00 Johnson, Michael 58 60 Johnson, Wm, Jr, 40 00 Joy, WUder 33 60 Kidder, David 55 50 KimbaU, Eben'r 68 60 Kimball, John 33 50 Kingsbury, Sara'l $20 00 Larab, Isaac 37 00 Lamb, Jaraes 20 00 Lamb, Eichard 40 00 Laruard, Asa 44 50 Lee, Joel 182 50 Livingston, Benj. 149 00 Livingston, " jr. 20 00 Livingston, Jaraes 87 00 Livingston, Mat. 193 00 Lovering, Sara'l 67 75 Lowe, Thoraas 67 00 Lowe, Joseph 33 50 Lowell, Soloraon 32 50 Marsh, Eber 33 00 Mason, Anthony 45 75 Morse, John 46 50 Murdock, Benja. 123 50 Murdock, " jr. 92 00 Murdock. Jesse 129 00 Murdock, Sam'l 76 50 Murdock, Thad. 44 75 Negus, Jonas 26 50 Newell, Hiram 113 00 Nichols, Eeuben 79 00 Oak, Seth 7 00 Ober, Asa 43 25 Ober, Eben'r ] Ober, Ezra J Ober, Eben'r jr, 90 50 Parkhurst, John 20 00 Parkhurst, Sam'l 103 25 Perham, John 33 50 Prentiss. Elijah 20 00 Prentiss, Jos. jr. 211 75 Preston, Stephen 33 50 Puffer, Eichard 106 25 Putnam, John 261 50 Eansom, Ezekiel 65 25 Eawson, Bailey 155 50 Eawson, Gardner 51 75 Eawson, Stephen 120 00 188 00 233 Eay, Eeuben Eead, Elkanah Eead, Evans Eead, Thomas Eice, Nathan Eobbins, Nath'l Eobinson, Elijah Eobinson, James Scott, Eobert Shattuck, Jona, Shattuck, Jona, jr, Smith, David Squires, Charles Stockwell, Daniel $56 50 Taft, Ebenezer $173 25 Whipple, John $103 50 38 50 Whipple, Joseph 20 00 1 02 00 Whitcomb. Jonas $64 60 352 50 White, Edward 192 00 111 60 Wilder, Joseph 49 60 20 00 WUkinson, Elij, 129 00 73 50 Thomas, Wash'ton 43 60 Wilkinson, OUv. 188 00 20 00 Thwing, Nathan'l 63 60 WisweU, Levi 74 50 Tourtellott, Abram 69 76 Wiswell, Sam'l ) 249 00 ^^^^-®^k ®'Ur- J 20 00 Taft, EUsha 71 60 Taft, Israel 16 00 Taft, Willard 33 00 Taft, WiUiam 17 50 Tenney, Sarauel 26 50 Tyler, Joseph ) .jr, j Wood, Daniel 82 00 Wood, John 40 75 Wood, Joshua 91 25 210 50 57 00 63 50 11 50 59 60 Tyler, Jos, 60 75 Tyler, Timothy 55 00 Waldron, Benja, 59 50 Waldron, Jaraes Sumner, Benjarain 43 00 Walker, Jeshu'n 168 00 Wood, Thoraas 156 60 Sumner, Edward 20 00 Warren, Jonas 33 00 Wood, Uriah 20 00 Sumner, Thoraas 250 25 Warren, Jonas jr, 33 50 Woodward, Joel Taft, Aaron 112 00 Warren, Levi 20 00 Woodward, John Taft, Araariah,Col 178 60 Wheelock, Caleb 6 75 Woodburn, Thos, Taft, Amariah jr. 87 00 Wheelock, Ephr, 56 50 Among the items taxed are 192 polls, 1096 acres of improved land, 93 houses, 175 oxen, 641 three-year-olds and upward 245 two-year-olds 310 horses and horse kind, 2 brass clocks, listed to Ebenezer Brighara and Joseph Belknap ; $2500 raoney at interest, whereof there were listed to Eb'r Brig ham, $400 ; Levi Hayward, $300 ; Edward White, $100 ; Sam'l Fletcher, $500 ; heirs of John Hazeltine, $1000 ; Joshua Wood, Jr,, $200 ; and the mills of Eben'r Harris were assessed $20. 6 50 Wood, Joshua jr. 168 50 26 50 57 60 33 00 Araount of the grand-list for State taxes. Amount of grand-list for town taxes. $14,322 25 $16,381 25 GRAND LIST FOR THE YEAR 1830. Adams, Samuel $3 24 Alden, Phinehas, 8 84 Allen, Alpheus, 10 00 Allen, Edson 10 00 Allen, Elijah 31 89 Allen, Jacob 1 25 Allen, Jacob jr. 37 73 Allen, Peter 62 19 Austin, Arnold 19 50 Austin, Asa 44 05 Austin, George $9 94 Austin, Jonathan 34 93 Bailey, Dana 44 27 Bailey, Henry 37 93 BaUey, Eichard 19 93 Bailey, Zenas 12 90 Barber, Daniel M, 12 96 Barber, Benj, E, 36 08 Barber, Eben'r M, 39 33 Barber, Lewis P. 5 00 24 Barber, Polly B. I Belknap, Joseph Bemis, David Bemis, Harvey Bemis, Philip Bemis, Philip jr. Bixby, Archelaus Bixby, Ira Bixby, Manasseh Bixby, " jr. 14 98 75 47 6 48 10 00 11 25 11 25 4192 13 25 33 55 2 25 234 Blandin, John jr, $56 58 Bliss, Bishop 11 25 Blodgett, Jonas 15 25 Blodgett, Joseph 27 72 Boutelle, Arteraas 1 25 Boutelle, William 29 13 Boynton, Luther 18 26 Bradley, John jr, 25 99 Briggs, Dean 19 05 Briggs, William Briggs, Wra, & D, 12 48 Brighara, Eben'r 63 11 Brighara, John H, 62 41 Brighara, Lyra'n H. 25 20 Brigham, Moses 33 68 Brown, Thoraas 39 02 Brown, Tiraothy 3 30 Bugbee, Calvin 11 74 Burgess &Stodd'd, 27 50 Burnap, Luke Burnap, Luther 37 93 Burt, Deborah Wid, 63 54 Burt, Warner Butterfield, EraUy 71 42 Butterfield,OscarF,ll 00 Cady, Ezekiel .1 26 Carey, Henry 3 24 Chamberlain, Joel 122 94 Chamberlain, Gard. 32 76 Charaberlain, Gil. 4 00 Childs, Elijah 1 25 Clark, Charles 10 00 Clark, Silas 29 25 Clark, Philetus 8 00 Cobb, Lyman 26 75 Coorabs, Barnas 28 25 Cushing, Sarauel 54 29 Cushing, Warren 6 48 Cutier, Ira 42 22 Cutler, Jonathan 9 72 Daggett, John 11 25 Doolittle, Eoswell 49 77 Doolittle, Will'rd $21 97 Dunklee, Benj. 24 00 Dunton, Arven 27 28 Dunton, John 17 18 Dunton, Levi 27 48 Dunton, Pardon 61 41 Dyer, Benjarain 14 00 Dyer, John's est. 102 67 Dyer, Lucius 16 92 Ellis, Daniel 10 50 Evans, Charles 40 12 Evans, Dolly Wid, 4 25 Evans, Wash'ton 26 49 Farr, Arnold 10 00 Farr, Celatia 10 00 Farr, Kimball 8 75 Farr, Leonard 78 91 Fay, Curtis 3 24 Fessenden, John 43 25 Fessenden, Joseph 9 72 Fish, EUzabeth 11 26 Fish, Elizabeth 18 00 Fish, Walter W, 15 25 Forbes, Moses 67 44 Forbes, Moses B, 11 00 Forbes, Moses ) i n ^n S. & C.Clark f ^^ ^^ Fisher, William 71 73 Fisher, Willard E, 1 00 Franklin, Eri 8 00 Franklin, James 76 92 FrankUn, Jas. jr, 32 63 Franklin, Philip 12 00 French, Wm,& Eus.53 31 Frost, Washburn 24 28 Garfield, Caleb 36 98 Goodhue, Joseph 6 48 Graves, Joseph M. 6 00 Gray, Amos 38 91 Gray, James 106 41 Gray, Jesse 55 75 Gray, Jesse jr. 9 75 Gray, Samuel $53 92 Gray, Sharon 3 24 Gray, WiUis 2 25 Hall, Silas 13 25 Harris, Chester 10 00 Harris, Ebenezer 11 25 Harris, Wm, N. 32 48 Hastings, Ephraim ¦¦ Hazeltine, Peter 11 25 Hescock, Nathan 1 00 Hescock, Sylvester 60 21 Hill, Daniel 1 25 Holbrook, Aaron 22 70 Holbrook, Arad 126 13 Holbrook, Arba 32 07 Holbrook, Chloe 19 68 Holbrook, Harvey 16 64 Holbrook, Me-") „„ ,„ hi'ble& Ursula]" ^"^ *" Holbrook, Franklin Holbrook, Luke 26 78 Holbrook, Sarah 18 82 Holbrook, Thomp. 26 25 Holland, Joab 45 92 HoUand, Thos. S. 48 25 Howard, Chapin 254 35 Howard, Charles 13 20 Howard, David' 13 00 Howard, Henry 175 21 Howard, Joseph 41 35 Howard, Levi 3 25 Howard, Levi jr. 116 62 Howard, Lyman 39 91 Howe, Benjamin 37 16 Howe, Benja. jr. 75 68 Howe, Clark 16 80 Howe, Gardner 51 49 Howe, Horace 97 65 Howe, Jaraes 10 00 Howe, John 39 45 Howe, John W. 78 96 Howe, Joseph 4 05 235 $9 75 Nichols, Orrin 21 60 Nichols, Sarah 38 73 Nichols, Eeba 33 63 Nourse, Williara , „ . Oak, Seth * *** Ober, Eben'r 2d 16 25 Ober, Ezra lonn Owen, Linus ^^"" Parkhurst, Wm, 12 50 Perry, Jesse 22 75 Perry, Wm, W, 79 33 Phelps, Charles PhiUips, Ezekiel 5 00 Potter, Henry 1 25 Potter, and L, ) 52 96 Howard, jr, j Lovering, Willard 13 24 Puffer, Clark Lowe, Lodowick 67 24 Puffer, Eichard 10 00 Eand, Chester 34 27 Eand, Ezekiel Howe, Eice Howe, Eiley H. Joy, Wilder Joy, WilUam H. Joy,Wm.&L. > P, Barber, j Kathan, Emery Kathan, Wyman ) & I, B. Wilson, J Kidder, David Kiraball, Eben'r Kimball, John KirabaU, John H. Kimball, Orison Lamb, Asa Lovering, Samuel $13 00 Ehodes, Edmund $2 50 13 24 Entter, Stephen 3 24 17 10 SaUsbury,Barnard47 75 7 90 Sanderson, John 44 71 10 00 Scott, Shepard 26 00 Scott, Shepard } 29 18 and Woodruff S 27 24 Scott, Ward 15 26 Scott, Woodruff 50 71 Shafter, Wm. E. 149 49 10 00 Shafter, Wra. E. ) r^ ^n 42126 &I. B.Wilson, J ^^ ^^ 4 75 Shattuck, Elij. P. 34 73 98 48 Sherwin, Eos- 1 oi 44 43 92 13 72 8 25 8 49 16 20 well & Charles ( Lowe, Thomas Manning, Sarauel Marsh, John P. Marsh, Lafayette Mason, Anthony McClure, Thoraas McMaster, John Mellen, Lewis Melendy, Emery? and John G. > Morse, Jason Morse, Martin Morse, Martin (fel A. Larab, j Murdock, Benj. Murdock, Jasper Murdock, Jesse Murdock, Judson Murdock, Luther Murdock, Samuel Newell, Hiram 43 05 Eand, Luke S.) Shipman, Chas. C. 11 25 10 00 Shipman, Josh. W. 11 25 94 36 Sirapson, Orrin 32 93 69 69 Sirapson, Thomas 3 25 28 49 Smith, Eoland 89 15 Q. 'f.f. Spaulding, Wm. 13 24 37 75 and Denzel D. f ^ " Starkweather,Hor.23 00 4 21 Eanney, Wait. E. 142 15 Stearns, Hannah 16 98 11 26 Eansom, Alexis Stoddard, Abiel 5 25 11 25 Eansom, Epaph. 56 25 Sumner, Edward 5 74 15 26 Eansora, Ezekiel 105 86 Suraner, Matthias 22 70 f-Q p-f. Eansom, Eoswell 16 00 Taft, Amariah 49 44 oy ou r> o._j — I 75 T^fj_ Ebenezer 6 48 Taft, Elisha 4 00 Taft, Ezekiel P 10 00 Taft, Harvey ou QA Taft, Hibbard Eawson, Gardner 29 08 Eawson, Jason 1 00 Eawson, Stephen n «jj Eead, Benjamin Eead, Benj. and) 25 48 P, White, ) 26 53 Bead,' Evans 80 14 Eead, Evans H,) 6 00 and Daniel J 28 98 Eead, Evans H. 50 Eead, Lyraan 41 76 Eeeve, Spaulding 13 75 Temple, Joseph NeweU, Mary Wid, 4 45 Eemington, Diah 33 74 TourteUott, Benj Nichols, HoUis 5 40 Eobbins, Nath'l 26 92 Towl, WiUiam Nichols, Jaraes 14 25 Eobinson, Araaz'h 38 73 Tyler, Joseph Taft, Josiah 98 31 Taft, Josiah on qf; Taft, Lewis ^" ^^ Taft, Mary 6 00 Taft, WUUam 11 00 Taggart, James 36 64 5107 22 78 10 00 4147 6 48 55 74 34 38 18 00 45 70 42 75 3 24 32 83 20 98 8108 236 Tyler, Moses W. $3 00 White, Edw'd jr. $25 93 Wiswell, Eben'r $45 37 Walden, Benjamin 29 43 White, Syril 48 25 Wiswell, John 66 69 Walden, Daniel 18 60 Whitney, Angus. 37 97 WisweU, Sam'l ) „ . Walker, Dexter, 23 63 Wilbur, Field 52 65 and Sam'l jr. j °* *^ Ware, Joseph 3 30 Wilki's'n,Clark} gc „„ Wood, Augustus 23 44 Watkins, Daniel 150 and Oliver ) ''^ ^^ Wood, Joshua 37 00 Wetherbee,Micajahll 26 Wilkinson, Elijah 40 52 Wood, Octavus 40 07 Wheelock, Caleb 34 93 Wilkinson, 01. jr. 49 81 Wood, Suel 26 39 Wheelock, Luc. T. 11 26 Wilkinson, Ward 39 20 Wood, Zelotes 61 45 Whipple, John 8 48 WiUard, Hosea 21 98 Wood, Thomas 1 25 Whitcomb, Hirara 37 96 Willard, Hos. & 01. 9 00 Woodward,Amasa 11 25 Whitcorab, Joshua 11 25 Willard, Josiah ) , oc Woodward, Ands'n 1 95 White, Phinehas 9 72 & L. Prouty j Woodward, Israel 6 55 White, Araasa 34 24 WiUiams, Wra. H. 3 24 Woodward, Luc. 22 35 White, Edward 94 77 Wilson, Isaac B. 5 26 GRAND LIST FOR THE YEAR 1840. Adams, Samuel $4 32 Bemis, David jr. $41 98 Burnap, Luther, $30 10 Aiken, Henry L. 36 43 Bixby, Archelaus 39 55 Burt, Deborah 5 80 Aiken, H. L. Da-) Bixby, Thaddeus 57 20 Burt, Maria 2 50 vis and Holland [¦ 27 00 Bixby & Hoi- 1 ^ ,.„ Burt, Warner 45 00 ocprs. 3 land, T.J. J '^ "" Butterfield, Osc.F. 11 00 Allen, Elijah 47 37 Black, James 8 00 Cady, Ezekiel 7 25 Allen, Harvey 13 30 Blandin, John 138 35 Carey, Harry 41 35 Allen, Peter 57 23 Blandin, J. &"| „„ „ , Carr, Daniel 38 80 Austin, Arnold 27 51 Woodward, W. j ''^ "* Cathan, Emery 15 25 Austin, Asa 63 35 Blandin & Barber, 4 00 Charaberl'n, Gard. 10 00 Austin, George 7 66 Bliss, Bishop 5 00 Charaberlain, Gil. 23 25 Austin, Jonathan 46 60 Blodgett, Jonas jr. 8 00 Charaberlain, Joel 17 25 Bailey, Abishai 52 86 Boutelle, Artemas 1 25 Cheney, Nath'l jr. 63 25 Bailey, Dana 46 35 Boutelle, Orator 76 10 Christy, Jaraes 10 00 Bailey, Henry 70 39 Boynton, George 11 00 Christy, Joseph 16 35 Barber, Benj. C. 10 80 Boynton, Tira. W. 33 25 Clark, Charles 39 25 Barber, Benj. E. 31 66 Bradley, John jr. 22 00 Colburn, Thad, est, 3 00 Barber, Daniel M. 14 40 Brigham, John H, 21 10 Cook, Barton B. 11 80 Barber, Eben'r M. 17 26 Brighara, Judith 3 00 Cook, Thoraas jr. 11 00 Barber, Lys'nder C. 44 50 Brighara, Lyra. H. 51 62 Cook, Park & ) „ f-f. Barber, Thomas 3 60 Brigham, Moses 43 29 Wiswell J Barnes, Hiram 39 45 Brooks, William 26 00 Cook & Fessenden, 25 00 BayUes, Tiraothy 1 25 Brown, Joseph 10 00 Coorabs, Barnas 25 25 Bellaray, Charles D. 4 32 Brown, Lucius T. 27 05 Cudw'th & Farrar, 6 00 Bellaray, Ed wards. 10 00 Bugbee, Calvin 16 46 Cutler, Ira 64 00 Bemis, David 34 50 Bullard, Calvin 44 35 Cutler, Jonathan 9 72 237 Daggett, Linsley $10 00 GoodeU, Ira $14 25 Howard, C. & U.^q,j 33 Davis, Curtis 10 00 Graves, Horat, N. 14 00 Orraando S. ) Davis, George 28 15 Gray, Alanson 22 25 Howard,'David 14 25 Davis, Hiram 10 00 Gray, Alanson 1 j^ gg Howard, Henry 114 25 Derry, Abner T. 10 00 and Orison J " Howard, Keziah 64 05 Derry, James D, 13 15 Gray, James 30 98 Howard, K. & ) 3 go Doolittie, Eoswell 35 83 Gray, Jas. & Son 113 96 M. Brighara j Doolittle, WUlard 38 06 Gray, Samuel 82 95 Howard, Wil'd W. 3 00 Dunton, Arven 47 79 Gray, Sam'l Guar. 12 00 Howe, Benj. jr. 85 25 Dunton, Ar. G'd'n 12 00 Gray, Susannah 12 14 Howe, Clark 55 95 Dunton,Joseph 20 25 Gray, WUlis 21 76 Howe, Gardner 55 09 Dunton, Levi 37 47 Hall, George H. 15 84 Howe, Hiram 35 90 Dunton, Susan Wid. 7 25 Hall, Eoyal T. 11 25 Howe, Horace 48 90 Durgee & BayUes, 4 00 Har'gton, Eansley 13 00 Howe, John 18 25 Dyer, Benjarain 15 37 Harris, Chester 10 00 Howe, Luke 1 25 Edson, Amos F. 4 00 Harris, Eben'r K, 1 25 Howe, Peter & ) o 00 Ellis, Daniel 19 60 Harris, WiUiara, 14 00 Twitchell, J, j Evans, Washington 16 Harris, Wra. N. 43 46 Howe, Eice 63 50 Fairbanks, Art. P. 10 00 Haywood, Charles 10 00 Howe, Eiley H. 60 00 Farr, David E. 1 56 Haywood, George 16 25 Ingalls, Ezra 31 25 Farr, Kimball 39 50 Hescock, Nathan 19 80 Jennison, Flavel 43 70 Farr, Samuel 16 10 Hescock, Sylvester 47 84 Jennison, Selira 2 40 Farwell, Lerauel | gr lyr. Hescock, Sylv. jr. 18 16 Johnson, Abner 1 25 and Paschal | °^ ^^ Higgins, Thoraas 20 25 Joy, William H. 135 61 Fessenden, John 26 00 Hildreth, Alanson 30 75 KeUogg, John M. 10 00 Fish, Frederick 36 10 Holbrook, Aaron 30 75 Kimball, J'n Dea. 25 05 Fish, Jacob 25 75 Holbrook, Arad 44 25 KimbaU, John 35 25 Fish, J. & M. B. 1 „ . „ Holbrook, A.& 1 r. f,(i KimbaU, John H. 32 75 Forbes, | ^ -^^ Teleutes | ^ ^^ Kiraball,OrisonH.31 25 Fish, Walter W. 31 25 Holbrook, Frank, 39 70 KirabaU, J.& 0,H, 24 00 Fisher, Wm, & Son 64 21 Holbrook, Har-) ,,. „. Kimball & Murd'k, 7 20 Forbes, Moses 22 15 vey P, j *° ^^ Knight, Maynard 24 00 Forbes, Moses B, 18 90 Holbrook, Luke 30 25 Ladd, Williara M, 20 00 Forbes, M, & 1 ^oor, Holbrook,Teleutes35 65 Lane, Horace 5 25 Twitchell, ) ^^ °" Holbr'k& Christy 44 24 Loveland, Aaron Franklin, Eri 43 84 Holden, Forbes 15 25 Loveland, Loring 26 75 FrankUn, Jaraes jr, 38 50 Holden, Jonas est, 6 80 Lovering, Hiram 11 45 Franklin, Philip 8 48 Holland, Joab 110 84 Lowe, Lodowick 82 94 Gale, Gordon H, 111 70 Holland, Thos, J, 96 00 Lurabard, Martha 22 10 Garfield, Caleb 41 99 Howard, Aure, C. 3 00 Marsh & Tyler, 4 50 Gilson, Luther 10 40 Howard, Chapin 105 70 Mason, Anthony ' 8 10 238 Mason, Anth.&Son $9 90 Mason, Ephraira H. 2 90 Mcllvain, Hannah 13 45 Metcalf, Eebecca 3 00 Morse, Jason 77 10 Morse, Melvin 34 05 Mundell, 12 25 Murdock, Jasper 42 92 Murdock, Jesse 33 00 Murdock, Judson 5 00 Murdock & Powers, 21 25 Nichols, Hollis 28 67 Nichols, Jaraes 1 25 Nichols, John L, 37 06 Ober, Ebenezer 21 82 Orrasby, Asa 1 85 Ormsby, Geo. W, 11 00 Ormsby, Wm. H, 1 25 Page, Levi W, 1100 Parkhurst, Wm. 11 00 Perry, Heraan E, 35 95 Perry, Jesse 54 07 Pettee, Silas Phelps, Charles 464 52 Phelps, Charles jr, 158 00 Phelps, James H, 5 00 Pierce, Nathan 97 50 Pond, Jotham 11 25 Powers, Nath'l W, 14 00 Prouty, Lyman H, 1 25 Puffer, Clark 102 26 Puffer, Eichard 9 00 Eand, Chester 49 41 Eand, Densel D. 59 65 Eand,LukeS,&son71 92 Eand, Eichard L, 23 43 Eand, Seviah 7 38 Eand & Graves, 12 00 Eanney, Alfred A. 4 00 Eanney, Waitst'lE, 49 45 Eanney, W, E. ] qi qi and Son | "^ "^ Eay, James 11 00 Eead, Daniel $51 97 Eead, Evans 24 90 Eead, Evans H, 60 72 Eemington, Diah 30 20 Ehodes, Jason 11 25 Eice, John 57 70 Eice, Stephen 46 85 Eichardson, Matt. 1 85 Eichardson, David 10 00 Eoberts, John 34 25 Eoberts, John jr, Eoberts, Nath'l 34 20 Eutter, Stephen 6 00 Salisbury, Barn'd 85 35 Sanderson, John 45 76 Sargent, EU & Bliss 9 00 Sawyer E. and I 9348 Franklin j Sawyer, Zadock 24 25 Scott, Shepard 33 65 Scott, Walter 25 00 Scott, Ward 52 42 Scott, Ward &Wal. 12 90 Scott, Woodrufi 24 83 Shafter, Wm. N. 10 00 Shafter, Wra. E, 135 83 Shattuck, Edraond 25 25 Shaw, Henry S. 10 00 Siraonds, Willard 1 25 Simpson,01iyerW, 10 54 Sirapson, Orrin 25 35 Sraith, Eoland 100 50 Smith, Sarah 6 60 Sparks, Aaron 11 26 Sprague, Derick L. 10 00 Stebbins, Sara'l 30 40 Stebbins, S, & ) no sn WellmonA, | ^'^ °^ Stoddard, Abiel 89 96 Stoddard, Sarauel 6 35 Sweet, Ezra 29 35 Taft,Ara'ah&sou81 10 Taft, Elisha 26 74 Taft, Ezekiel P. $57 32 Taft, Harvey 10 00 Taft, Hibbard 44 00 Taft, Josiah 3 00 Taft, Josiah W, 10 00 Taft, Peter E. 90 50 Taggart, James 66 45 Thoraas, Araos 39 17 Thorapson, Gilman 3 30 Thompson,Sam. F, 57 00 Thrasher, Lockhart 9 00 Tourtellott, Asahel 3 00 Tourtellott, Benj, 42 10 Tourtellott, Paris 10 00 TwitcheU, Dan, W. 4 25 Twitchell, Har. D. 20 35 Twitchell, Jonas 85 15 Tyler, Joseph 32 14 Tyler, Moses W, 52 49 Underwood & 1 „ r,n Fletcher, | ^ ^^ Uphara, Wra, D, 15 25 Walden, Daniel 30 65 Walker, Asa 1 00 Walker, Ephr'ra 10 00 Walker, Lyraan 43 35 Ware, Joseph 10 50 Ware, Joseph B, 46 45 Ware, Morris 10 00 Wetherbee, Micaj. 15 30 Wheaton, Childs 23 05 Wheaton, Lewis 22 75 Wheelock, Caleb 6160 Wheelock, Luc, T, 4 25 White, Alanson 20 72 White, Edward 38 99 White, Hirara 10 00 White, Nathan 10 00 White, Syril 67 00 White, S. and ) ^g 70 Ihrasher J White Thoraas) 33 53 and Hirara ; 239 White, WiUard Whitraan, Noah Whitney, Sol. F, Wilbur, David Wilder, John jr. Wilder, Samuel Wilkinson, Clark Wilkinson, Elijah $12 15 WUkinson, OUv, $37 90 10 00 Wilkinson, " jr, 70 40 13 95 Wilkinson, Ste. E, 36 70 23 50 Willard, Hosea 12 80 4 50 WiUard, Hosea) « nn 2 00 and Oliver i "^ "" 82 61 WisweU, Eben'r 41 50 18 55 Wiswell, Sam'l 87 85 Wood, Aug. & \ a„„ ,(. Brigham,L.H. P^^*" Wood, Octavus 48 10 Woodward, A. D. 14 25 Woodward, Wm. 11 65 Wyman, Thos, j .,- ^^ and Farr, D. j ^^ ^" aHAI^D LIST STATISTICS. Year. 1802 1803 1804 1805 1806 1808 1809 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815 1817 1818 1819 Polls at twenty dollars, Acres of improved land, at $1.75, Houses, Stores and Shops, at 2 per cent., Sheep, Oxen at $10 each, Three-year-olds and upward, at $6.50, Two-year-olds, at $5, Horse kind of 8 years and over, at $13.50, Horse kind of 2 years old, at $6.50, Horse kind of 1 year old, at $3.50, Stallions of 3-years-old, at $50, Stallions of 4-years-old and over, at $150, Nuiuher of carriages listed, Pleasure carriages, at one-half of value, House clocks, at $10, Gold watches, at $10, Gold watches, at $5, Number listed for money on hand, Money on hand or due, at G p ct. of same, Number of Attorneys assessed, Attorneys assessed at Number of Physicians assessed, Physicians assessed at Number Merchants and Traders, Merchant and Traders assessed at Number Mills and Machines, Owners of Mills and Machines assessed at Number Mechanics, Mechanics assessed at 192 192 186 181 188 200 157 155 165 151 144 144 151 145 149 119 1096 1149 1067 1199 1159 1155 1147 : 1233 : 1206 : 1037 : 1052 : 1886 : 1005 965 : 1035 1053 93 92 91 97 77 125 117 100 99 95 75 81 77 79 91 93 1288 1550 1744 175 182 157 142 194 210 208 225 220 200 244 235 269 245 215 230 641 621 650 668 675 662 666 699 738 696 771 816 808 725 715 691 245 261 354 311 326 303 298 298 413 400 366 362 357 407 343 268 219 203 239 239 246 229 246 241 238 249 229 228 224 217 215 321 31 54 41 59 40 42 37 33 35 40 47 43 54 38 50 40 65 41 50 1 25 1 24 36 30 35 41 4 42 34 36 41 1 42 44 1 35 5 2 3 3 1 1 3 1 2 2 2 2 - 2 2 to 1 1 3 4 4 3 2 1 $30 40 90 100 85 85 13;^ 25 O 2 2 4 1 6 5 6 7 7 8 7 7 1 7 7 G 1 8 1 18 22 24 27 24 33 29 27 27 26 22 19 16 14 22 27 6 ifl.TO 5 123 7 165 5 84 6 129 6 99 5 120 183 90 60 93 96 138 186 120 225 2 $80 1 50 1 50 1 50 1 30 1 30 1 35 1 15 2 40 2 40 2 40 2 $70 2 70 1 30 2 70 2 35 2 40 1 35 4 70 1 15 1 15 1 15 3 $90 1 80 1 50 2 60 2 65 6 135 4 95 1 $20 io $153 3 35 3 40 2 20 3 50 225 no 4 80 4 65 1 15 10 $195 9 230 9 180 7 75 3 25 3 65 3 40 5 100 241 Grand List Statistics. 18SO. 134 Polls, at $20.00, $2,680 00 1667 acres of land, assessed in the whole at 8 per cent, 2,145 00 Houses and lots appurtenant, at 4 per cent., 1,312 00 MUls, stores, &c., with their iraproveraents at 6 per cent., 56 00 255 oxen, at $10.00, 2,550 00 662 cows and other cattie of 3 years old, at $6.00, 3,972 00 287 cattie of 2 years old, at $5.00, 1,436 00 223 horses and mules of 3 years old and upward, at $14.00, 3,122 00 37 horses and raules of 2 years old, at $7.00, 259 00 40 horses and mules of 1 year old, at $4.00, 160 00 1 stallion of 4 years old and upward, at $160.00, 150 00 Pleasure carriages assessed at 12 per cent., 39 00 6 house clocks of brass, at $10.00, 60 00 1 gold watch, at $10.00, 10 00 12 comraon watches, at $5.00, 60 00 $4,550 money on hand and debts due, at 6 per cent., 273 00 2 attorneys, assessed in the whole at 50 00 2 physicians, assessed in the whole at 25 00 4 merchants aud traders, 62 00 1 mechanic, 20 00 Deduct 6 polls equipped, 38 minors equipped. Amount of grand list, $17,580 00 $100 00 760 00 $18,440 00 860 00 "STBA-H. isai. xsaa. No. Amount. Polls at #20,00, Acres of land, assessed at 8 per cent. Houses and lots appurtenant, assessed at 6 per ct. Mills, Stores &c., assessed at 6 per cent. Ozen at $6, Cows and other cattle of three years old, at $8, Cattle of 2 years old, at $2, Horses and mules of 3 years old and upwards, $8, Horses and mules of 2 years old, at $5, Horses and mules of 1 year old, at $8, Stallions of 3 years old, at $60, Stallions of 4 years old and upwards, at f 150, Pleasure carriages assessed at 12 per cent.. House clocks of brass and brass time-pieces, at $10, Gold watches, at $10, Common watches, at $6, Money on hand and debts due $ , at 6 per cent. Attorneys assessed in the whole at Practitioners of Physic and Surgery assessed at Mechanics assessed in the whole at Merchants and traders assessed in the whole at Deduct for persons equipped. Polls, Deduct for persons equipped. Minors, Horses of Cavalry exempted, at $8,00, 186 4509 130 6 248 702 848 . 194 4288 7 1 5 $6260 2 8 $2720.00 2141.00 1977.50 72.00 1805.002106.00 696.00 1562.00 168.00 99.00 39.00 70.00 10.00 25.00 815.00 50.00 40.00 8 86,00 5 100,00 29 580,00 135 $2700.00 4609 2141 00 180 5 219 773 899187 42 29 2 16 $5050 2 2 25 25 1977.50 72.00 1095.00 2319.00 798.00 1496.00 168.00 87.00 100,00 4 62.00 9 90.00 76.00 803.00 85.00 35.00 25.0045.00 100.00 500.00 1833. No. Amount. 1824. 18SS. 150 4509 155 5 282 913 897 212 81 32 $8000.00 2141.00 1991.50 78.00 1410.00 2789.00 794.00 1696.00 124.00 96.00 2 300.00 5 48.00 9 90.00 10 $7700 1 2 8 29 21 6 60.00 • 462.00 26.0060.0037.00 46.00 180.00 420.00 40.00 No. Amount. No. Amount. 128 $2560.00 4801 2262.00 170290 874 868 215 86 84 1861.50 105 00 1460.002622.00 786.00 1720.00 140.00 102.00 1 150.00 3 38.00 7 70.00 9 45.00 *6500 390.00 1 25.00 2 40 00 5 61.00 25 6 600.00 48.00 148 $2860.00 4802 2488.20 170 1861.50 99.00 275 1875,00 826 2475,00 382 764.00 221 1768.00 36 180.00 88 114,00 to 1 150.00 oo 2 24,00 7 70.00 2 20.00 18 90.00 $7800 468.00 2 40.00 2 50.00 9 72.00 4 75.00 3 60.00 30 600.00 6 48.00 ¦S-EA.It. Polls at $10, Acres of land, assessed at 6 per cent.. Houses and lots appurtenant, assessed at 4 per cent,. Mills, Stores &o., assessed at 6 per cent.. Oxen at $2, Cows and other cattle of three years old, at $1,25, Cattle of two years old, at $0.75, Horses and mules assessed at $1 Horses and mules over $25, and not over $75, at $ Horses and mules over $75, at $6, Horses and mules of two years old, at $2, Horses and mules of one year old, at $1.25, Stallions of 4 years old and upwards, at $75, StallioQS of 3 years old, at $30, Sheep, at 10 cents per head. Carriages assessed at 6 per cent.. House clooks of brass and brass time-pieces, at $3, Gold watches, at $4, Common watches, at $1, Money on hand and debts due, at 6 per cent., Bank and Insurance stock, at 3 per cent., Attorneys assessed in the whole, at Practitioners of Physio and Surgery, assessed at Mechanics and manufacturers, assessed in the whole at Merchants and traders, assessed in the whole at Polls equipped, deducted, at $10, Minors equipped, deducted, at $10, Horses of Cavalry exempted, at $3, 1 8 2 T. 18 2 8. 1 8 2S). 1 8 30. 18 3 1. No. Amount. No. Amount. No. Amount. No. Amount. No. Amount. 145 $1450.00 218 $2180.00 282 $2320.00 222 $2220.00 218 $2180.00 6210 2294.38 60391^ : 2279.20 6118>^ 2281.18 5903>^ 2161.08 6190^ : 2292.47 172 1294.00 173 1330.00 178 1355.00. 175 1338.00 184 1886.00 16 183.50 14 157.50 15 178.50 15 , 178.60 14 151.80 24a 486.00 233 466.00 293 586.00 808 606.00 278 866.00 662 815.00 800 lOOJ.OO 926 ¦ .1157.50 927 1158.75 947 1188.75 347 260.25 416 312.00 360 270.00 387 290.25 642 406.6Q 16 16.00 14 14.00 18 18.00 30 3).00 50 50.00 ^3, 193 679.00 205 615.00 223 669.00 225 675.00 200 600.00 2 12.00 10 60.00 9 54.00 5 80.00 9 64.00 37 74.00 46 92.00 89 78.00 44 88.00 84 68.00 29 36.26 31 38.76 40 60.00 S4 42.50 49 61.2& t^ 2 160.00 1 75.00 2 150.00 t^ 8088 308.80 8162 316.20 3217 321.70 8012 801.20 3363 336.30 3 10.60 5 16.80 16 34.50 12 26.40 15 33.60 7 21.00 8 24.00 9 27.00 9 27.00 9 27.oa 1 . 4.00 16 15.00 18 18.00 36 36.00 27 27.00 34 34.00 $10460 627.00 $10290 617.40 $25620 1581.20 $14000 840.00 $18300 798.00 $1160 34.50 $1360 40.50 $1360 40.50 $1800 89.00 $1800 39.00 2 50.00 2 46.00 2 50.00 2 60.00 2 60.00 2 50.00 2 60.00 8 55.00 4 70.00 5 65.00 eat 10 65.00 ¦ 18 98.00 146.00 123.00 116.00 4 65.00 4 70.00 5 85.00 4 50.00 8 50.00 66 660.00 74 740.00 67 670.00 66 660.00 36 860.00 37 1 370.00 8.00 33 1 330.00 3.00 21 210,00 17 170,00 -5rB.A.I*. No. 183S. Amount. No. 1S33- Amount. No. 1835. Amount. isse. No. Amonut. issr. No. Amount. Polls at $10, Acres of land, assessed at 6 per cent., Houses and lots appurtenant, assessed at 4 per cent. , Mills, Stores, &c., assessed at 6 per cent.. Oxen at $2, Cows and other cattle of 8 years old, at $1.26, Cattle of two years old, at #0.75, Horses and mules assessed at $1, Horses and mules over $25, and not over $75, at $3, Horses and mules over $75, at $6, Horses and mules of two years old, at $2, Horses and mules of one year old, at $1.25, Stallions of four years old and upwards, at $75, Stallions of three years old, at $30, Sheep at 10 cents per head. Carriages assessed at 6 per cent.. House clooks of brass, and brass time-pieces, at $3, Gold watches, at $4, Common watches, at $1, Money on hand and debts due, at 6 per cent.. Bank aud Insurance stock, prior to 1836, at 3 per cent.; after 1884, at 6 per cent.. Attorneys, assessed In the whole at Practitioners of Physic and Surgery, assessed at Mechanics and manufacturers, assessed in the whole at Merchants and traders, assessed in the whole at Polls equipped, deducted, $10, Minors equipped, deducted, $10, Horses of cavalry, exempted, at $3, 214 6539 187 18 308 990 607 44 206 68 1 8682 16 11 80 $1400 $1496 2 4 $2140,00 2428.07 1893.00 135.00 606.00 1287.50 380.25 44.00 615.00106.00 75.00 863.20 30.00 38.00 30.00 846.00 44.8J 40.00 65.00 82.00 56.00 219 6684 194 13 882 1019 486 59 216 8 48 48 8449 17 6 47 $9650$2370 3 4 56 14 $2190.00 2449.96 1418.00 189.60 664.00 1278.76 864.50 59.00 646.00 18.0096.00 60.00 344.90 82 70 18.00 47.00 679.00 71.00 50.00 55.00 91.00 70.00 560.00 140.00 212 6533 191 17 278 997 488 45 228 14 44 57 1 4056 21 7 42 $7760 61 23 $2120.00 2468.60 1420.00 181.60 656.00 1246.25 866.00 45.00 684.00 84.0088.00 71.25 76.00 406.50 42.90 21.00 42.00 466.00 461.40 10.00 40.00 106.00 60.00 610.00 280.00 223 6657 199 16 280 964887 46 224 14 47 89 1 5191 21 8 1 34 $7450 $8426 1 3 49 21 $2280.00 2460.78 1465.00 168.00 560.00 1206.00 290.26 46.00 672.00 84 00 94.00 48.75 75.00 619.10 37.80 24.00 4.00 34.00 447.00 606.50 10.0030.00 90.00 80.00 490.00210.00 221 6618 216 17 229893314 31 234 25 27 80 $2211.00 2736.48 1604.00 160.00 458.00 1116.25 235.50 81.00 702.00 160.00 64.0037.60 6161 20 6 41 $6900 $7436 2 64 20 616.10 34.5015.0041.00 414.00 446.10 20.00 30.00 77.00 112.00 640.00 200.00 to ¦STE-A-H. 1838. 1839. 184=0. 1841. PoUs at $10, Acres of land appraised at $ , assessed at 6 per cent, Houses and lots appurtenant, assessed at 4 per cent.. Mills, Stores &c., assessed at 6 per cent.. Oxen at $2, Cows and other cattle of three years old, at $1.25, Cattle of two years old, at $0.75, Horses and males assessed at $1, Horses and mules over $25, and not exceeding $75, at $3 Horses and mules over $75, at $6, Horses and mules of two years old, at $2, Horses and mules of one year old, at $1.25, Stallions of four years old and upwards, at $75, Stallions of three years old, at $30, Sheep at ten cents per head. Carriages assessed at 6 per cent., House clocks of brass and brass time-pieces, at $3, Gold watches, at $4, Common watches, at $1, Money on hand and debts due, at 6 per cent. Bank and Insurance stock, at 6 per cent.. Attorneys assessed In the whole at. Practitioners of Physic and Surgery, assessed at. Mechanics and manufacturers, assessed in the whole at. Merchants and traders, assessed in the whole at, Polls equipped, deducted, at $10, Minors equipped, deducted, at $10, Horses of Cayalry exempted, at $3, No. Amount. No. Amount. No. Amount. No. Amount. 203 $2300.00 233 $2330.00 234 $2340.00 245 $2450,00 6655 2751.06 6763 2733.52 2712.78 2890.09 217 1629.00 182 163.36 1627.36 1792.07 16 147.00 13 131.40 144.00 17 164.00 210 420.00 196 392.00 212 424.00 266 532.00 752 940.00 737 921.25 824 1030.00 862 1077.60 152 116.00 240 180,00 337 252.75 423 317,50 65 65.00 42 42.00 48 48.00 62 52.00 3, 192 576.00 240 720.00 198 594.00 197 591.00 11 66.00 5 30.00 33 66.00 15 30.00 9 18.00 15 30.00 18 22.50 4 5.00 9 9.00 18 1 22.5075.00 5103 513.30 B156 515.60 5621 562.10 6219 621.90 14 81.50 15 30.00 4 15.60 5 11,40 11 33.00 8 24.00 7 21.00 9 2 27,00 8,00 38 38.00. 35 35.00 38 38.00 34 34,00 $8776.00 526.56 $6644.00 398.64 6665.00 399.30 $8076.00 484.60 $8297.50 497.85 9447.50 666.86 10897.00 653.82 10343.00 620.00 2 20.00 2 20.00 15.00 45.00 3 40.00 3 40.00 2 25.00 3 42.00 68.00 76.00 51,00 76.00 3 85.00 3 85.00 4 87.00 3 90.00 71 710.00 64 640.00 62 620.00 50 500.00 28 280.00 28 280.00 23 230.00 26 260.00 to Oi 248 James H. Phelps, son of Charles Phelps, was born in West Townshend, Vt., Septeraber 6, 1817, where he has always raade his horae. After gradua tion at Middlebury College, in 1835, he studied law with his father, and was adraitted to the bar by Windhara County .Court in 1839. About this time his father decided to close his business in Verraont, and remove from the State. Settlement, of his affairs, which consisted largely of financial trans actions, was placed at first, partly, and then wholly, in charge of the subject of this notice. But the matters to be handled were many, and were of such character that they could not be concluded short of a terra of years. A business thus prolonged, and which suited the person conducting it, could not easily be abandoned, even when the cause of its beginning had ceased to exist. Hence it soon becarae a chief raeans of support, and has continued to the present day. The town offices which the people of his native town have conferred upon him need not be raentioned. They are raany, and cover nearly the whole period since he becarae a voter. He was Register of the Probate District of Westrainster from December 1, 1842, to December 1, 1846; a Judge of Windham County Court from December 1, 1846, to De cember 1, 1848; he represented Townshend in the General Asserably of 1848, 1849, 1867, and was a State .Senator in 1864 and 1856. He married Miss Sophia A. Robbins Noveniber 7, 18441 , Their children are Eliza Sophia (Mrs. Pierce), born June 1, 1851, and Sarah Jane, born October 20, 1853. 'Lcui.^ui.^ J^ . t/%u-.-^y^ 249 HISTORY AND MEMBERSHIP OF THE SECOND BAPTIST CHUECH, JULY 4, 1827, TO JANUAEY 1880, BY EEV. T, M, BUTLEE. [History being the substance of an Historical Sermon delivered July 1877, on the fiftieth anniversary of the organization of said church.] At the time of the organization of this body, a Baptist church had existed for seventeen years at the west village, had maintained its pastor or stated supply, and had occupied its proportion of the tirae in the meeting-house. It reported to the Woodstock Association one hundred and three mem bers, with Rev. J. M. Graves, pastor. During the winter and spring it had enjoyed a revival, from which it had received twenty-eight persons by bap tisra. Rev. Jos. Kiraball was then pastor of the Congregational church at the centre of the town, where a similar revival had occurred, so that thirty were received to membership during this and the preceding year.' But the West Townshend church was located at one corner of the town, reraote from the great raass of its inhabitants, araong whom there were raany of Baptist sentiraents, who could not, without great inconvenience and labor, meet for worship with brethren of a like faith. In the other direction the nearest church was in Brookline, separated frora Townshend by lofty hills and roads nearly impassable for a large part of the year. This church had many raerabers in school districts Nos. 3 and 4, while there were also found in the coraraunity raerabers of. the Baptist churches of Jamaica, Windham, Graf ton, West Wardsboro and Mount Holly. Many who regularly attended the Congregational church at the centre were known to be strongly Baptist in sympathy and conviction, though raaking no profession of piety ; so that many years before Evans Reed was heard to say, "A Baptist church will some day be formed at East Townshend ;" and we raay presurae that, as of ten as the pastor frora the west village visited this part of the town, he was cordially received, and any religious services held would have a generous attendance. Such meetings, so far as we can learn, were not frequent, and yet occasionally Baptist preachers may have occupied the parish pulpit.' In deed, we are assured by those who remember, that about this tirae arrange ments were raade that it should be so occupied during the two Sabbaths yearly which by law were accorded to this persuasion, besides several other Sabbaths belonging to Methodists and Universalists. Baptist sentiraents were raore common farther north, and the brethren were wont to gather soraetiraes for prayer and exhortation, though no minister was present to lead thera. Providence gradually prepared the way, until the hour ripened for the fulfUlment of prophecy and the answer to prayers so long offered. Rev. Jos. Elliott, pastor of the Westminster and Rockingham church, by invita tion held a number of raeetings in the old brick school-house. District No. 3, and several had been converted. It may be Elder Graves lent a helping hand. Several of the brethren who were members at the west village and regularly worshipped there, attended. Among these we recognize the names of Evans Reed, Abraham Tourtelotte, Deacon Sumner, and Chapin Howard. The revival, which was felt to sorae extent throughout the town, gave the irapulse towards the new organization. Rev. Jos. Elliott, once a student, if not graduate, of the Vermont University, a good scholar and easy speaker, and Rev. J. M. Graves, a rugged and forceful preacher, whora God had ap pointed to this work, were men of ability and piety, such as are felt in any age, and they were ready. The first record of any definite step looking to the formation of this church is from the pen of Samuel Gray, of sacred raemory, who served as its clerk for forty-three years, until at death the pen dropped from between his fin gers. On the 16th of June, 1827, a number of brethren and sisters, of whose naraes twenty-four are recorded, raet in the dwelling house of Edward White : after a season of prayer, in which Bros. Bixby, Manning, Cutler and Graves participated, an organization was efiected by the choice of Rev. J. Wellman, chairman, and J. M. Graves, clerk. The record reads : " Took measures to ascertain the views of the brethren and sisters present, relative to the forraation of a Baptist church in the northeast part of the town. Having ascertained that Bros. S. Manning, W. Fisher, S. Gray, A. Austin, H. Austin, A. Bixby, A. Carpenter, E. White and A. Tourtelotte ; and Sisters Mary Austin, R. Austin, L. Austin, Lois Austin, H. Gray, M. Perry, E. Fisher, T. Fisher, S. White, E. Tourtelotte, P. Reeves, P. Bixby, A. Bixby and K, Manning, would be inclined to unite in Christian covenant in the said vicinity, and they request the privilege of so doing, by organizing a new church, it is the opinion of this convention that a Baptist church of Christ may with propriety be organized in said northeast part of Townshend," After requesting Rev, Jos, Elliott to prepare articles of faith and a cove nant, the experiences of Eben Wiswell and wife were heard, and they were received as candidates for baptisra, a sermon was preached in the school- house by Rev. Mr. Elliott, the ordinance of baptisra was attended at the water, and the convention adjourned. This was done on Friday, A week from the next Lord's Day another meeting was held, probably at the school- house, when it was voted that Dea, Samuel Manning should write for the pastor and delegates of Townshend, Rockinghara, Grafton, Brookline and Windhara churches, to assemble in council "for the purpose of organizing a church in the northeast part of the town," July 4th was specified as the time, and Dea, Manning, Wm, Fisher and Sarauel Gray were appointed a 261 3 coraraittee of arrangements relative thereto. On the next Thursday, the 28th, the record informs us that Rev. J. Graves preached by request, Wra. Fisher was chosen deacon, and Samuel Gray, clerk. According to congregational, and, as we believe, the true scriptural polity, a church of Christ is an independent body of baptized believers ordinarily worshipping together, and organized for the observance of the ordinances of Christ and the extension of his kingdom, to which work its merabers sol- eranly covenant to give theraselves. Its right to exist depends upon no act of council or ecclesiasticism, but its own will, in subjection to Christ. The forraal organization had now been effected, while the covenanting act was teraporarily deferred, frora questions of expediency, until they should re ceive the advice of good and wise brethren called by themselves for this purpose. Holding in abeyance their scriptural right to complete their or ganization into a church, out of deference to surrounding churches with whom they would naturally be called to act, as well as the long-established usage of the denoraination, they took all the preliminary steps, and then asked for a council from sister churches to approve or disapprove their pur pose, ready, if so advised, to publicly enter into covenant with all the stimu lus and confidence the presence of such a body should furnish. The council met as requested, on Independence Day of 1827, in the brick school-house still standing in District No. 3, and organized by the election of Rev. Jos. Elliott, raoderator, and Bro. Jeremiah Hall, clerk. There were present : from West Townshend, Rev. J. M. Graves, Dea. Ezekiel Ransom and Jereraiah Hall ; Rockingham and Westminster, Rev. Jos. Elliott, Dea. Samuel Mason, Richard Cobb, Jr., and Samuel Tuthill ; Brookline, Rev. Isaac Wellman, David Cutler, Daniel Bixby, and Rev. J. Blandin ; Grafton, Dea. Goodrich and Joseph Crumb. The following brethren were in vited to confer with thera : Deacon P. W, Deane, Deacon Chapin Howard, Deacon Barrett, Siraeon Pierce, Evans Reed, J. Blandin, Jr., Abraham Tour telotte, L. Farwell, W. C. Wiley, Wm. Taft, Wra. Ober, F. Crane, H. Ear ly, L. B. and 0. Osgood. After prayer the following brethren and sisters, with letters of disraission from their respective churches, presented them selves for membership in a new church : frora Andover, Samuel Maiming ; West Townshend, Abraham Tourtelotte, Desire Manning, Lois Austin, Clara Wright and Thirza Fisher ; Westminster, Philander Reeves ; Brookline, Asa, Horace, Mary, Rebecca and Lovina Austin, Hannah Gray, Samuel Gray, Archelaus Bixby, Abishai Carpenter, Parmelia and Ataline Bixby. The fol lowing presented theraselves, proraising to procure letters, not having yet re ceived them : Edward and Sarah White of Jamaica, Wm. and Electa Fisher frora Mt. Holly, Prudence Farr frora Windham, and Susannah Huzzy from Brookline. The following, recently baptized, also presented themselves : — Ebenezer WisweU, Anna WisweU, Syril White, Sally Sraith, Sarah T. Bix by, Lydia Dunton and Tappan Reeves. After due consultation and the ex- S&1 4 amination of the Articles of Faith and Covenant, which were a transcript of those of the First Baptist Church of Roxbury, Mass., it was unaniraous ly voted to coraply with the request raade, and recognize the above-naraed thirteen brethren and eighteen sisters, as constituting a Baptist church. This was formally done in a public meeting held at three o'clock of the sarae day. The services on this occasion were as follows : Rev. J. M. Graves preached the serraon. Rev. Sarauel Kingsbury ofiered the prayer of consecration. Rev. Jos. Elliott extended the right hand of feUowship, and Rev. Isaac Wellman offered the concluding prayer. The same day David Streeter, Martia Weth erbee and Roxanna Miller were added by baptisra. Two raonths after, wheii the first letter was written to the Woodstock association, a raerabership of forty was reported. The recognition of the church having been secured, the consciousness of church functions was iraraediately apparent. On the 19th of the following October, a coraraittee was chosen to draft rules of discipline. Deacon Wra. Fisher was elected treasurer, and Bre. Man ning and Bixby were chosen to circulate a subscription paper to secure the services of Rev. Jos. Elliott one-fourth part of the time, and the regular ap pointments for worship and conference were fixed. It is not probable that the effort to secure the services of Mr. Elliott succeeded, for he continued to preach at Rockingham during the next year, and, on the first Sabbath of January following, it was voted to eraploy Rev. J. M. Graves one-third of the tirae. He complied, comraeucing the last Sabbath of April ; and a subscription paper, circulated by Mr. Gray, secured pledges for about one hundred dollars towards his support. In the May following (1828), Mr, Graves was elected superintendent of the Sabbath school, the first record of such institution. The first death within the church was that of Mary Ed wards, who entered into rest Oct. 1st. Thence commenced the gradual trans fer of its membership frora the railitant into the glorified church above. The first exclusion occurred about this time. The same month Samuel Murdock and wife Louisa, J. Blandin, Jr., and Mary Blandin, Susanna, wife of Jesse Gray, and Susan Gray, were received by. letter. Septeraber llth, 1829, and again Jan. 16, 1830, we find Mr. EUiott in council with the church, and, at its request, acting as moderator. It is prob able that Mr. Graves' services were continued for one-third of the tirae, not raore than one year. July Bd, 1830, it was voted to have preaching as soon as a minister could be secured. August 26th, Elder A. Leland preach ed, and in December of the same year it was voted to secure the services of Elder Kingsbury to break bread. In the letter to the association the next year, at Chester, we learn that Rev, Siraeon Chamberlain is supplying the church one*half the time, but "no special reUgious interest has been felt." He probably commenced labor the June preceding. Four years have now passed since the organization of the church. It has enjoyed the stated preaching of Rev, J, M. Graves one-third of the time for 253 5 one year ; and, perhaps, of Rev. Jos. Elliott an equal araount of tirae, with occasional preaching during the intervening years. But we find that all through this critical period it was working, and growing in graces, raeraber ship, and the respect of the community. Several raembers have died, a larger number have been excluded ; but these trials were God's appointed raeans of testing and developing its strength. In perusing the records of this period — of conflicts without and scandals within — we are filled with ad miration of the fidelity, the candor, the dignity and devout deliberation with which each step was taken. Each member seemed to feel engaged in the Lord's work, and so thought the community ; for, without any general revi val, or any conversions that we know of, and notwithstanding these nuraeri cal losses, the church steadily increased in merabership from the thirty-one at organization to fifty-two. Its meetings for prayer and the improveraent of gifts had been maintained with growing interest, unity pervaded the body, and its growth in all the essential eleraents of spiritual strength was truly marvellous. And here occurs one of the bright spots of its history. October 15th, Dea. Fisher, Samuel Gray, A. Bixby, J. Blandin and Deacon Manning were chosen, "at the request of our Congregational brethren," to accorapany a like coraraittee on their part in endeavoring "to ascertain the religious feelings of each family of the several school districts." On the 13th of the next month, in which Willard R., Sophia and Mary Fisher were baptized, Wra. Fisher, Sarauel Gray and J. Blandin, Jr., were appointed to confer with a like cora mittee of the Congregational church in making arrangeraents for a protract ed meeting. The sequel was a revival, in which both churches participated ; Mr. Chamberlain preached out one-half of his engagements in the village, the Congregational church being opened for this purpose. A year later the church expresses its satisfaction with the services of Mr. Charaberlain, and continues the coraraittee of previous years — Evans Reed and Samuel Gray — to circulate the paper for his support. His services closed at the end of the third year. By reference to a paper of iteras preserved, we learn that there were raised towards his support the successive suras of $127, $146, $160. The ministry of Mr. Chamberlain was a successful one; for, while the addi tions during these years were not numerous, they were of those whose infiu ence has continued during nearly a half century. Among the fifteen he baptized were Lucius and^ Mary Dyer, MeUnda Gray, Hannah and Emily Taft, Ezekiel P, Taft, Thirza Wood and Deborah Murdock, To outward appearance, the year 1834 was a dark period in the life of the church. The clerk writes to the association : "We are in a cold, backward state, bearing Uttle if any fruit to the glory of God. We have not had set tled preaching during the year, but are desirous of obtaining a pastor," But even then God was preparing great things for this band of disciples, Octo ber 31st of thjs year, the legislature passed an act for the incorporation of 6 "Leland Classical and English School," and the same body to which this lu gubrious epistle was written appointed a coramittee to select twenty persons for trustees to this acaderay. Though no pastor had been secured the next year, the letter was more cheerful, as this extract from the associational record shows : "Townshend is becoming an iraportant place. A talented, judicious and holy minister is greatly needed there. * * * j^. .^^jjj j^g gratify ing to the friends of the Redeeraer, who properly appreciate the cause of education, to know that we have now, within the bounds of the association, two fiourishing academies. The Leland English and Classical School is lo cated at Townshend. This institution has a good brick building." Sorae reraeraber that one Mr. Chandler supplied the church for sorae time, about this period, though no records indicate the length of his labors. One hundred eighty dollars were rasied for his support, and he preached in the school-house No. 1, and in other parts of the town. In the establishment of the academy, and the influx into the comraunity of the youth who assembled for instruction, there was both responsibility and inspiration for Christian people. The northern half of the building was used as a chapel and study room, and served also as a place of public wor ship for the Baptist church. The first teacher was a minister, and frequent ly preached. Rev. Erastus Willard, then pastor at Grafton, and afterwards missionary to Paris, opened the first term of the school in absence of Rev. Mr. Tilton, the elected preceptor, and frequently preached during the sum raer with acceptance. In May there were indications of a revival, and a protracted meeting was held. The result was an extensive interest, which, for both suddenness and depth, had seldom or never been witnessed in town. Among those who were gathered into the church, as fruits of this work, were Dr. Charles Clark and wife, Mary and Leland Howe, Hannah and Octavia Wiswell, Ursula, Sarah and Phila Holbrook, Hiram Howe, Mary Howard, Alonzo Blandin, and othe];s, to the number of twenty-eight. September 29th of this year, and after the accessions were principally made, the church cel ebrated the Lord's Supper in the east village for the first tirae in the chapel of the acaderay. The next three years are raemorable as the transition period of the church. Rev. R. M. Ely receives a call to be pastor, and moves his faraily into the community in order to give hiraself to the spiritual culture of his people. He is the first pastor of the church, and the first rainister to transfer his membership to the church and supply its pulpit the whole time. With the increase of the late revival, the stimulating influence of the school, and the establishraent of the Sabbath services at the village, a new life is entered upon. Chapin Howard removes frora the west village, bringing his influence and patronage ; a society is organized, and a church edifice is erected. Though no revival had occurred, in the year 1837, twenty-one raerabers were added by letter, including the pastor and wife, Chapin Howard and jvife, and Or- 266J-7 raando Howard. Preparatory to building, $2050 was subscribed for slips in the new church, and the coraraittee — Chapin Howard, Samuel Gray, J Blandin, Jr., Joab Holland and Hiram Lovering — carried the work forward to completion. It was dedicated Jan. llth, 1838. On that day, according to the will of the society, Ezra Ingalls rang the bell ; Aurelius Howard, Alonzo Blandin, Otis Ormsbee and Nelson Evans had the honor of seating the people; while Capt. Willard Fisher, Evans H. Reed, J. L. Nichols, Frank lin Holbrook and Nelson Shafter were raade responsible for the singing. In the absence of Rev. Elijah Hutchinson, Elder Ira Parsons of Windsor preached the dedication sermon ; and thereafter a protracted meeting of twenty-one days was held. The letter to the association in Grafton this year recites: "In January a revival commenced, imraediately succeeding the dedication of the new house of worship, which resulted in a glorious work, and of which fifty-four were baptized." So the Lord rewarded the outlays of his people, and approved the action of the church in establishing its worship at the village.. Alraost before the fruits of this revival had been gathered, for reasons of which no record or hint remains, Mr. Ely resigned the pastorate and re moved to Chester. But his place was soon filled. Rev. W. D. Upham, a young man of promise and the principal of Ludlow Academy, supplied the church during his vacation, and, in Deceraber following, signified his decision to accept the earnest solicitations of the church and become its pastor. He was a pious man ; and, both as teacher and preacher, he won the heart that he might interest the mind and establish the faith of the disciple. He had an exacting ideal of what a Christian and church should be, but he led his flock with silken bands ; there was no chafing under his leadership — rather an emulation for spiritual attainment which made duty a pleasure. By in digence driven frora the classic halls of Brown University to teach school, he generously gave $175 of his scant earnings to the church and Sabbath school established principally by his own religious labor ; and, while at the Ludlow Academy so efficient in Christian work that the church constrained him to receive ordination, he instantly transfuses a similar energy and spirit of benevolence and piety into the Townshend church. The great objects of benevolence begin to receive due attention under his influence, and the first respectable contributions are this year made for foreign missions and rainis terial education. The Sabbath school now numbers sixteen teachers and one hundred eighty-three scholars ; the next year, twenty-three teachers and two hundred twenty-six scholars. The year 1842 was marked by the meeting of the Woodstock association at Townshend, The church was now entering upon its golden age of pros perity, A new and commodious edifice, a prosperous academy, the raost flourishing Sabbath school in all the association, a membership of 195, and a revival in progress having continued through the suramer, frora which thirty-seven had already been baptized, were some of the eleraents of pros perity which were notable. The part in all this which Mr. Uphara sustained is unwritten save in the records of heaven. God had honored hira with all the gifts of usefulness in this life ; he had a higher honor awaiting him above. His last text was, " The Spirit and the Bride say come ; and let him that hear- eth say come ; and let him that is athirst come ; and whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely ;" and before the raemory of those silvery ac cents had grown dim, with this divine invitation to his people to follow him, he passed into the unseen Holy of Holies. His pastorate extended through four years, and was marked by a continuous revival. The letter to the association the next year is a wail of sorrow which every person of the church made his own. It is as though the first born had been taken from each family, and the great loss were irreparable. But God was about to show the church that his resources are not exhausted in the produc tion of any one man, and that this people are a vine of his own planting. He who slays can make alive. The same letter says; "We have secured the services of Bro. Horace Fletcher of Bennington for the present.'' Mr. Fletcher had graduated at Dartmouth college at the age of twenty-one, the first scholar in his class. Five years he then spent in teaching and the study of law, was adraitted to the bar, and had spent fifteen years in his practice. But he was raoved to enter the ministry, and God found hira a field in Town shend. Fitting successor indeed to the worthy leader who had fallen ! Add ed to his erudition as a scholar, the matured experience, the practical com raon sense and knowledge of men and things which the practice of law in variably secures,'he came with all the enthusiasm and freshness of youth. The church was quick to recognize his abilities, and the foUowing January (1844) he was ordained its pastor. His modesty and dignity everywhere compelled a respectful attention to both his advice and instruction, while his courteous demeanor, his warm piety and loving intercourse, readily won the hearts of his people. He was a man the church trusted from the first, and that trust was never betrayed. He readily took up the work where it had been laid down. The writer is aware that he encounters no slight difficulty in portraying the church's history from this time forward. It has now reached the age of maturity, has the possession of all its faculties ; it has outgrown childish foi bles, if it ever had any ; the current of its life has broken over the mountain side and burst out through the gorges, and henceforth is to flow peacefully through the broader but more level fields, whose greenness its waters are henceforth to support. Its work is now so exceUently and systematically done, under the leadership of Horace Fletcher, that its progress must be gradual, aud, to a great extent, uniform aud uneventful. There are not soon to be vacancies in the pastorate, periods of anxiety as to its continued visibility, and times of such spiritual depression that there is no outward 9 show of prosperity in any direction. For a third of a century and more, its congregations are continued and not perceptibly diminished. The Sabbath school is a regularly established, wisely and efficiently conducted institution in church work. The benevolent work never reaches the ideal Mr. Upham set before it, nor secures the general co-operation for which his successor so constantly labored ; but it is regularly performed. There are no special quickenings of the Spirit ; but the Spirit has never been wholly absent. There have been groanings unutterable, and these have been followed by precious revivals, the memory of which is still fragrant to a majority of its present merabership ; but they produced no such raarked transitions in its life, or in that of the coramunity, as when such a season could double the working force of the church. Nor were the number of conversions so large at those times as they otherwise would have been, from the fact that conversions have occurred all along through the years, too numerous for us to recall. The largest number of members which the church has had at any one tirae was 231, in the year 1854, Additions occurred every year but one during Mr, Fletcher's pastorate, increasing as the time went on. The pre ceding year three were baptized and ten added by letter ; and yet its nura bers had dirainished; for six had died, five were dismissed, and two excluded. The letter to the association writes : "We had indications of a revival ; but the cloud passed with only a few drops. 'Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.' Our congregations on the Sabbath are usually large and attentive, our academy is prosperous and flourishing, and our Sabbath school never more prosperous." The association was invited. With its greeting the next year, we read : " Early in the winter there was seen to be raore than usual divine interest felt in our prayer raeetings. Prayers were characterized by increased fervor and great readiness of access to the throne of grace. Soon were witnessed the evidences of conviction for sin. This state of things continued through the winter. There seeraed a pressing de mand for greater effijrts. Rev. E. Andrews was called to our aid, and preached every evening during the month of March. A precious refreshing frora the Divine presence was enjoyed ; and fifty-six in all have been baptized into the fellowship of the church," A similar revival was experienced in 1866, commencing with the annual fast for colleges and institutions of learning. First developing in the school, it reached the whole community, as one by one came in to observe, but went away thoughtful and penitent. By the help of Mr. Judson, the principal, and Rev. M. Carpenter, who then resided in the place, raeetings were held every evening of April, May and June. About forty were received by bap tisra, as the result of this work. The part taken by this church in the war for the preservation of our na tional life, with its exciteraents, its anxieties, its hopes and its sorrows, in holding up the feeble hands and strengthening the trerabling knees, stimu- 2 268 10 lating to faithful endeavor and even to the sacrifice of life, the corafort it afibrded by its sympathy and prayers for hearts bereaved and farailies torn asunder, was prompt and decided ; its work can never be forgotten, nor its influence lost. But the record appears in another place. Rev. Horace Fletcher grew in intellectual and spiritual strength, as well as influence and reputation, even into old age. In 1860 he preached the annual sermon before the State convention held at Fairfax, and in 1863 he served as its presiding officer. The honorary title of D. D., conferred upon him from Hamilton Theological Seminary, was justly earned by his scholar ly life and fidelity to the work of expounding the word of God. After an uninterrupted pastorate of nearly twenty-eight years — ^from January, 1844, to Noveraber, 1871 — he was called of the Master to his reward. The history of the church in detail during this period might be preserved with profit and interest, did space permit ; and raany a rerainiscence might be called up that would deUght the reader. Only one incident of this time, as a suggestive item relative to twenty-seven years of continuous labor in one pastorate, and another period leads us on. During the early years of Mr, Fletcher's work at Townshend, somewhere in the second or third year, there was felt by a few of the church a slight dissatisfaction and restiveness, that their pastor was not as voluble and brilliant in speech as some of the pastors of this and the Congregational church had been. One member, a man of piety and quite prorainent in the church, approached Chapin Howard with the inquiry whether something could not be done to induce Mr. Fletcher to send in his resignation. But the good brother as really failed to understand the attitude of Mr. Howard as to appreciate the true worth of his pastor. Mr. Howard's answer was characteristic of both his skill in estimating char acter and his independence in expressing his convictions : "If you choose to undertake the unsettUng of Mr. Fletcher, you wUl do so on your own re sponsibility ; and reraeraber, in case you succeed, his successor has none of my money for his support. But, if you wish to withdraw your subscription, or any others so desire, I will pay them myself, Mr, Fletcher is a man of ability and piety, and is to be sustained," The good brother was never heard afterwards to complain of his pastor, nor did he lessen his subscrip tion, but became himself one of Mr, Fletcher's warmest friends and sup porters. Rev, G. S. Abbott supplied the pulpit several months during the last year of Dr. Fletcher's life, and at his death was called to succeed hira, but was un able to accept on account of the invaUd condition of his wife, which necessi tated a residence near the sea. He served the church with great acceptance nearly a year. He speaks of his venerable predecessor as to hira "the per sonification of all that is pure and lovely and gentle and true— leaning upon the bosom of Jesus" and worthy of a "special reward for the untiring fideh- ty and the pure example with which he went in and out before his church for more than a quarter of a century." Rev. R. R. Prentice became pastor May 1st, 1872, and held this relation two years. No special revival took place during his ministry, but numerous additions by baptism occurred during his first year, and some who then en tered at once took prominent places in the church. In 1875, Rev. C. P. Frenyear was called to the pastorate. He evinced an unwonted interest in all the raembers, and great activity in engaging each one in some service. The natural result was an increased interest, and in the early winter there were evidences of a work of grace. Protracted meetings were held, and subsequently about forty were added to the church as fruits of this rainistry. But God had better things for the pastor than the reaping of sheaves on the earth; he was called while this harvest lay ungarnered. Overwork and a violent cold, together with the anxiety and fatigue attendant upon the sickness of his family, threw him into a violent fever ; and while scarcely con scious of any real danger to life, his spirit was released from earthly toil, May 10, 1876. In October of the sarae year Rev. T. M. Butler accepted the call of the church to becorae its Pastor, a position whieh he has held until the tirae of writing. Upon an examination of the records of the church during the fifty years following the day when that noble company of thirty-one, standing before the Council, entered into covenant, the following suraraary appears : 385 persons have been baptized into the fellowship of the church. 6 have been received by experience. 185 have been received by letters frora other churches. 191 have been dismissed to other churches. 28 have been excluded, of whom two were afterwards restored. 33 have been dropped from the church rolls. 116 have been transferred to the heavenly rest. 212, the nuraber when its serai-centennial anniversary was observed. 152, now resident members. But these iteras imperfectly, represent the influence exerted through all these years : a truthful representation would involve a history of many who have received their first religious impressions, or a decided impulse, through its instrumentality, and have given their strength to other churches and interests. No less than ten young raen have gone out from it to enter the gospel rainistry and perpetuate its influence in other fields. Wm. B. BunneU, licensed April 11, 1845, ordained at Ludlow as Pastor. C. L. Frost, Ucensed November 4, 1849, was ordained at Perkinsville, Noveraber 14. 1852. James A. Duncan was licensed to preach Septeraber 9, 1849. F. J. Glazier, licensed May 5, 1853, was called up higher March 22, 1854. Wm. H. Parsons was licensed to preach the gospel Deceraber 14, 1854. '^ 12 Charles Richardson, baptised March 9, 1854, was licensed Nov, 15, 1855. Prof, C, B, Sraith was disraissed to the Brookline church for the purpose of being ordained its Pastor, February 8, 1856. David Palraer, baptised here May 1, 1864, was ordained as Pastor, West Wardsboro. G. N. Atkinson, disraissed November 29, 1855, was afterwards ordained at Halifax, Prof, Edward Judson, Ucensed to preach the gospel August 31, 1867, was Professor of Modern Languages in Madison University for two years, and afterwards called to the pastorate of a Baptist church in Orange, N. J. These are only a few of the 191 disraissed to other churches, many of whom have reached no mean distinction in the noble enterprises of the nineteenth century. Nor can we fail to mention the savory influence of the 116, (now number ing 126) who have passed on before, whose works follow them, but also remain to exert their power on the earth, Samuel Gray, the first clerk of the church, through all the varied inci dents of church experience, faithfully performed his work, never asking release, until age began to shatter his frame, and he heard the footsteps of the angel sent to accompany him home. He was a Deacon of the church from May 2, 1846, to his death, and a ready and wise counselor. He gave liberally for the erection of the meeting house, and the support of his pastor, being accustomed frora early times to give him a barrel of the best flour as an annual donation, besides his subscription. When the seminary, towards whose founding he had paid heavily, had incurred a debt of five hundred dollars, he cancelled it hiraself, for which act the Trustees added his name to that of the seminary, and it thereafter was caUed "Leland and Gray Seminary," In addition to his sterling common sense and busi ness tact, he had a vein of humor in his nature, which was never wanting for opportunities of manifestation. These raade him popular as a citizen and especially useful in the financial and business affairs of the church. His hand grew unsteady, and his record almost unintelligible, but he con tinued his entries, the last being of a church meeting July 3, 1870, It raay be said, he died August 13, with the pen in his hand. So wrought, accord ing to their measure of ability and in their places, Wm, Fisher who died in 1851, Archelaus Bixby up to 1869, Edward White till 1831, Abraham Tourtelotte to 1835, Benj, Howe, Joab Holland and Ezekiel P, Taft who have since gone horae. Nor can the record stop without the personal raen tion of Sister Samuel Gray and Emily Taft, who were mothers in Israel, characterized ever by their piety and zeal and spirit of benevolence. All these died in the triumphs of faith, while the praise of their deeds was upon all tongues. The following paragraph, by the pen of Rev. M. Carpenter, respecting another whose residence in the village was closely identified with the pros perity of the church, has a fitting place here, " Dea, Chapin Howard was genial, cheerful and cordial in his bearing, " ever ready with his abundant raeans to carry forward the infant "Leland " and Gray Serainary" and the church ; safe and wise in counsel, efficient in "executing plans for the benefit of the church, the serainary and the town. " He was erainently a peace-raaker ; clearly discerning the right, he would " raildly but firmly raaintain it. He was ever a friend of his pastor, Rev. H. " Fletcher, D. D., and would let no raeans be wanting to render his pastorate "permanent and successful." A fitting close to this sketch of the Second Baptist Church of Townshend is the following peroration of the historical serraon : Certain elements of the vigor and prosperity of the church, during all these years, deserve a raoraent's notice in conclusion. One is the very large nuraber of wise and devoted raen which were always to be found for both counsel and labor. Such were its early merabers. From the day of the council, the church was vigorous and strong ; there was no necessity of crowd ing its burdens upon the shoulders of one or two raen. There were wise counselors, and the troubles incident to church life were promptly met and always removed. The discipline was attended to and judiciously raanaged without very rauch interference or aid from the minister. The preparation of the letter to the association was never left to fall upon the clerk without instructions. The social meetings were regularly continued, whether there was a Pastor or not. In the numerous coramittees appointed, there was a considerable rotation of office, A second element of power was in the culture, ability and piety of its Pastors, They were wise as well as pious, able as well as scholarly, Mr, Elliot had studied medicine before preaching, and while in the ministry received literary honors from Vermont University. He was an eloquent preacher and able expounder of the word of God. Rev, J. M. Graves was a self-made man, but original in thought and forceful in language. Mr. Chamberlain of less ability, was mighty in the scriptures ; and all were men of God, whose limited labors with the church during the first ten years of its history, left an indelible impress ; and did more than we can realize to shape its future character, Mr, Ely was wise and judicious, or he could not have raarshaUed his workers and secured the results which attended this transition period of its history, Mr, Upham came from the schools, was a raan of reraarkable promise, and of great personal power. Of Dr, Fletcher, I need only to point to the reputation he sustained among the very first in the denomination. The third element of our prosperity, and not less important than those mentioned has been the school. There is danger to-day lest both church and comraunity should underrate its value. Were this its only claim, we should 262 24 cherish it for its past work ; but it is ready to do for the future all that it has done for the past. It would deserve the patronage of the Windham Associa tion as a denominational agency ; but such has never been its claim : it is a christian institution knowing no denominational boundaries, doing a work for man as man, and appeals to the public spirit and manhood of every per son within the range of its patronage. But if this church is to raaintain her prestige in the past for growth, culture, and christian benevolence — retain the height she has won — Leland and Gray Serainary must be cared for as one of the vital eleraents of her vigor and prosperity ; and yet I speak this without a tincture of sectarianism. With scarcely a variation and no less truthful ness, I might use the same language were I addressing the Congregational churches of Townshend ; for I observe that their officers, and raost talented raen and women were trained in this institution, and some are only held here by its influence and patronage. Finally, I may mention its faith. It has wrought its destiny through faith. Prayer has pervaded its counsels, maintained its union and piety, because the prayer of faith. When. the writer of Hebrews had enumerated a long list of worthies who fought the fight for truth and God by the power and inspiration of faith, he exclaims : "Wherefore, seeing we also are encurapassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith." So, as we recall the meraory, and glance over the noble lives of these worthy raen and women who have lived before us, and realize the fact that they lived for us ; that we are the reapers of what they sowed, heirs on the earth to their examples and influence; that their christian experiences, holy lives and triuraphant deaths have accuraulated new evidences of the truth and power of our religious life and faith ; and that all of these fifty years have brought upon us new possi bilities as well as new obligations and increased responsibilities : let us be stiraulated ; let us be enlarged ; let us be strengthened in Christ ; and let us stand more firmly in our faith, enlarge our plans for christian labor and self sacrifice, and so live that in our declining years the beauty of holiness may cover us as the mellow rays of the setting sun paint the heavens with beauty ; and as that prophesies of the morrow so that we say, "It will be fair weather," so shall this declare to the world that our day beyond shall be fair and raore beautiful, and all raen shall say : "There is to be a life above, and a day of the incorruptible inheritance." Townshend, Sept. 20, 1879, 268 ARTICLES OF FAITH. As the Lord has been pleased to plant a branch of his zion in the north-east part of Townshend, under circumstances peculiarly harmonious and pleasing, and with the evident tokens of his approval, we feel it a duty, and to the glory of the Re deemer, to unite and covenant together in bonds of christian fellowship, under the name of the Second Baptist Church of Townshend. And knowing that as with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, so with the mouth confession is made unto salvation, we acknowledge the following Articles of Faith. I. We beUeve that the Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired,' that it is the only sufficient and perfect rule of faith and practice,^ and that it teaches the following doctrines : — 1. 2 Tim. iii. i6; 2 Pet. i. 19-21 ; Rom. iii. i, 2 ; Luke xxiv. 44-46; John x, 34, 35; Matt, v, 17, 18; John v, 36-39, 45-47; John xiv. 26, xvi. 12-15; Gal. i. 6-12, ii. 8, 9; 2 Pet, iii, 15, 16. 2. 2 Tim. iii. 15-17; 2 Pet, i, 19-21 ; Matt, v. 19; John xii, 47, 48; Matt, xv. 9. II. There is one God,' self-existent,^ infinite in every natural and moral excel lence.^ He has revealed himself as existing in three persons, — the Father, and the Son (or the Word), and the holy spirit.* These three are one in respect to divine essence, though difiering in the relations which they bear both to one another and to created beings.^ 1. Deut. vi. 4; Isa. xiv. 21, 22. 2. Exod. iii.. 13-15; Isa. xliii. 10. 3. Deut. xxxii. 4; Exod. xxxiv. 6, 7; Ps. xxxvi. 5-9; Matt. v. 48; i Pet i. 14-17. 4. Matt, xxviii. 19, iii. 16, 17; 2 Cor. xiii. 14; i Cor. xi. 3-6; John i. 1-13. xiv, 26, XV, 26, xvi, 13, 14 ; Acts v. 3, 4 ; i Cor. iii. 16, 17. 5. John i, I, 2, v, 17-30, xvi. 14, 15, xvii, S, 24; Heb. i. 1-4; Col. i, 15-17; Rev, xxi. 22, 23. Ill, Man was created holy,' but by wilful disobedience to God he fell from the state of holiness, aud became guilty and depraved.'' In consequence -of this fall, thewhole human race is depraved ;= moreover, aU responsible human beings have actually sinned, and are justly exposed to condemnation in the 16 sight of God.* The sinful character of raen consists in this, that they are destitute of love to God, and self-wiUed, instead of obedient to him.* 1. Gen. I. 27, 31 ; Rom. v. 12. 2. Gen. iii. 1-7; Rom. v. 12-19. 3, Rom, v, 12-19; John iii. 6, 7; Eph. ii. 1-3. 4. Rom. iii. 9-12, 19, 20, 23; Gal. ii. 16, iii. 10-12, 22. 5. Matt. xxii. 35-40; Rom. xiii. 8-10; i John iii. 4; Ps. xxxvi. i; Rom. i. 21, 28; Jer. ii, 13; xvii, 9, 10; Rom. viii. 7; Eph. ii. 3; John v. 40. IV. The only way of deliverance from this state of sin and condemnation is through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ,' who is the Eternal Word in personal union with human nature.^ He freely offered himself as a substitute, to suf fer and die in behalf of all men.' In thus offering himself to God, he be came a perfect Saviour,* by whom all who will may be saved.^ All men are invited to accept him as the Saviour of their souls,^ and to all who do so ac cept him ke is the actual ground of justification and eternal Ufe.' 1. Luke xix. 10; John iii. 36; i John v. 12 ; Acts iv. 12. 2. John i. 1-5, 9-14 ; Rom. ix. 5 ; i Tim. ii. 5; Phil. ii. 5-8; i John iv. 2, 3. 3. 2 Cor. V. 14, 15, 21 ; i Pet. ii. 24; Matt. xx. 28, xxvi. 28; Heb. ix. 13, 14, ii. 9. 4. Rom. iii. 20-26; Heb. ix. 26, x. 10-14, '^'i- 25; John i. 29. 5. Acts. xvi. 30, 31, xiii. 38,39; John vi. 37 ; I Tim. ii. 4; 2 Pet. iii. 9; Rev. xxii. 17. 6. John vi. 29, 35, vii. 37; i John iii. 23; Matt. xi. 28; Isa. Iv. 1-7. 7. I Tira. iv, lo; 2 Cor. v. 17; Rom. v. 1-5, x. 4; John iii. 16-18, 36. V. All who truly obey the' gospel were chosen in Christ "before the foundation of the world," by Him who sees the end frora the beginning ;' and, in conse quence of God's purpose and grace, they are regenerated by the Holy Spirit,^ without whose regenerating influence none would ever repent and believe.' 1. Eph. i. 3-6; 2 Thess. ii. 13 ; 2 Tim. i. 9; Rom. viii. 28, 29. 2. 2 Pet. i. 2, 3; Jas. i. i8; Eph. ii. 8-10; Tit. iii. 4-7; Rom. ix, 16, 3, John iii. 3-8; Acts ii. 33, v, 31 ; 2 Tim, ii, 25 ; Gal, v. 22, 23 ; i John ii. 29, iv. 7, V. 1, 4. VI. Nothing can separate true believers frora the love of God ;' but they will be "kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation,"- the sure and final proof that they are true believers consisting in the continuance oftheir attachraent and obedience to Christ until the end of life,' 1. John X, 27-29, vi, 39, 40, V. 24; Rom, viii, 31-39. 2. I Pet. i. 3-5; Phil. i. 6; iThess. v. 23, 24, 3. Col. i. 21-23; Heb. iii. 14; i Cor, ix, 26, 27; 2 Pet, i, lo; Phil, ii, 12,. 13, ir-' VII, A church is a company of baptized believers, worshiping together, organ ized for the preaching of the gospel, the observance of the ordinances, and the promotion of Christ's kingdom,' Each church is independent and self-governed, though in fraternal fellowship with other churches;^ The officers of a church are pastors and deacons,' 1, Acts ii. 41-47, xi. 22, 26, XV. 3, 4, 41 ; Gal. i. 2 ; i Cor. i. 2, 13, 14, vi. 11, xi. 18-23 ; xiv. 2. I Cor. v. 4, S, 13 ; 2 Cor. ii. 5-8 ; Matt, xviii. 15-17 ; 1 Cor. xvi. i ; Acts xv. 3. Acts XX. 17, 28 ; Phil. i. i ; i Tim. iii. 1-13 ; Tit. i, 5-9 ; i Pet, v, 1-4. VIII. The ordinances of the gospel are baptism and the Lord's Supper,' Bap tisra is the first formal act of the Christian life,^ It is iraraersion in water, into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,' and is administered only to professed believers in Christ,* The Lord's Supper is observed in commemoration of the death of Christ,^ and by scripture exam ple follows baptism,^' ^ 1, Matt, xxviii. 19, 20 ; i Cor, xi, 23-26, 2, Acts ii, 37-41, xxii, 16, xviii, 8, xvi, 14, 15, 32-34; John iii. 5; Gal. iii. 26, 27. 3, Matt, iii 16; Acts, viii, 38, 39; Rom, vi, 3, 4; Col, ii, 12. 4. I Pet iii, 21 ; Mark i, 4; Rom. vi. 1-6; Gal. iii, 26, 27; Eph, iv, 5. 5. Matt. xxvi. 26-30 ; i Cor, xi, 23-26, 6. I Cor, xi, 18-22, IX. The first day of the week is to be observed as tie Lord's Day, in com memoration of the resusrection of Christ from the dead,' 1, John XX. 19, 26; I Cor, xvi, i, 2; Acts xx, 7; Rev. i. 10. Compare Gen. ii. 2, 3 ; Exod, XX. 8-11. X. There wiU be a resurrection of the dead,' and a final judgment^ at the time of Christ's second coming,' Then the wicked will go away into everlast ing punishment,* but the righteous into everlasting life," 1. John V. 28, 29 ; i Cor. xv. 2. 2 Cor. V. 10 ; Matt. xxv. 31-46. 3. Acts i. II ; ¦^ Tim. iv. i. 4. 2 Thess. I. 6-10; Mark ix. 43-48; Matt v. 26, 5, John xiv, 2, 3 ; i John iii, 2 ; Rev, iii. 12, xxi, 3, 4. 266 CHURCH COVENANT. As we trust we have been brought by divine grace, to receive the Lord Jesus Christ, and to give up ourselves to hira, so we do now, relying upon his gracious aid, soleranly covenant with each other, and proraise that we will walk together in brotherly love, as becomes the merabers of a Christian Church ; that we will exercise an affectionate care and watchfulness over each other, and faithfully admonish and entreat one another as occasion may require ; that we will not forsake the assembling of ourselves together, nor neglect to pray for ourselves and others ; that we will endeavor to bring up such as may at any time be under our care, in the nurture and admoni tion of the Lord, and by a pure and holy example, to win our kindred and acquaintances to the Saviour, to holiness and to eternal life ; that we will rejoice at each other's happiness, and endeavor with tenderness and syrapa thy to bear eaeh other's burdens and sorrows ; that we will not bring forward to the Church a complaint against any member for any personal trespass against us, until we have taken the first and second steps pointed out by Christ in the 18th Chapter of Mathew, and that all private offences which can be privately settled, we will never make public ; that we will live circum spectly in the world, "denying ungodliness and worldly lusts," setting a worthy exaraple, aed remembering, that as we have been voluntary buried by Baptism, and have been raised up from the erableraatical grave, so there is on us a special obUgation, henceforth to lead a new and holy life ; that we will strive together for the support of a faithful Evangelical Ministry among us ; that according to our ability and opportunities we will, as faithful servpnts of the Lord, do good to all raen, especially in helping to extend the Gospel in its purity and power to the whole huraan faraily ; and that through Ufe, amidst evil report and good report, we will humbly and earnestly seek to live to the glory of Hira who hath caUed us out of dark ness into his marvelous light. 267 CONSTITUENT MEMBERS. Note : The letter J. indicates that the member was received by Baptism ; /. by letter ; e. by experience ; d. that the person died ; dis. that he was dismissed ; dr. dropped ; ex. excluded ; and er. erased. I. July 4, 1827, Samuel Manning, dis. May, 1834. I. July 4, " Abram Tourtelotte, d. Feb'y 1835. I. July 4, " Desire Manning, d. May, 1834. I. July 4, " Louis Austin, d. April 28, 1838. I. July 4, " Clara Wright, d. April, 1839. I. July 4, " Thirza Fisher, d. Aug. 4, 1877. I. July 4, " Philander Reeves, dis. Dec. 15, 1838. I. July 4, " Asa Austin, ex. April 17, 1851. I. July 4, " Horace Austin, dis. Sept. 18, 1839. I. July 4, " Mary Austin, , d. Dec. 25, 1850, I. July 4, " Rebecca Austin, d, July 3, 1872. I. July 4, " Lovina Austin, dis, Aug, 18, 1838, I. July 4, " Hannah Gray, rf, Oct. 22^ 1838. I. July 4, " Sarauel Gray, rf. Aug, 13, 1870, I. July 4, " Archelaus Bixby, rf. Jan. 6, 1869. I. July 4, " Abishai Carpenter, rfw. Jan'y, 1834. /, July 4, " PermeUa Bixby, rf. Feb, 5, 1841. I. July 4, " Ataline Bixby, ex. July 4, 1846. Z. July 4, " Edward White, rf. Dec. 9, 1831. I. July 4, " Sarah White, rf. AprU, 1834. I. July 4, " William Fisher, rf Sept, 25, 1851. I. July 4, " Electa Fisher, rf. Aug, 9, 1867, I. July 4, " Prudence Farr, . dis. Oct, 4, 1845, Z. July 4, " Susanna Huzzy, rf. Oct. 18, 1866,] b. July 4, " Ebenezer Wiswell, ex. April 16, 1836. 6. July 4, " Syril White, rf- April, 1872. b. July 4, " SaUy Smith, ex. Oct. 2, 1833, 6. July 4, " ^SarahT, Bixby, rf, Oct, 16, 1879, b. July 4, " 'Lydia Dunton, rf. Aug, 31, 1850. J. 'July 4, " Tappan Reeves, ex. Sept. 11, 1829, i. July 4, " Anna WisweU, rf- Feb'y, 1835. 263 20 MEMBERS ADDED SINCE ORGANIZATION. b. July 4, 1827, b. July 4, " b. July 4, " 6, Aug, 17, " b. Aug, 17, " 6, Aug. 17, " b. Aug. 17, " • b. Sept, 8, " I. Sept, 15, " I. Sept, 16, " e. Oct, 13, " b. July 13, 1828. Z. Nov. 15, I. Nov. 15, I. Nov. 15, ;. Nov. 15, I. Nov, 15, ;. Nov, 15, b. Sept, 27, 1829. I. Jan, 16, 1830, I. Aug. 26,. " i. Aug. 28, " ;. Sept, 20, " I. Sept, 25, " I. Sept, 25, " b. Nov. 13, 1831, b. Nov, 13, " b. Nov, 13, " b. Nov, 27. " b. AprU 27, 1832, b. June 24, 6, June 24, b. June 24, 6. July 22, b. July 22, b. Aug, 5, 6, Aug. 19, b. Oct, 14, David Streeter, Martha Wetherbe, Roxanna Miller, George Huzzy, Emery Farr, Mary Edwards, Chloe Tourtelotte, Martha Austin, Elsie Tourtelotte, Abigail Smith, Margaret Perry, Loretta Waldo, Samuel Murdock, Louisa Murdock, John Blandin, Jr,, Mary Blandin, Susanna Gray, Susan Gray (Bixby),, Lydia Reed, John Daggett, Jesse Gray, Celia Walden, Hibbard Taft, Jesse Walker, Waity J, Walker, Willard R, Fisher, Sophia Fisher, Mary Fisher (Howard), Miriam Daggett, Mary Dyer, David Kidder, Hannah Taft, Melinda Gray, Ezekiel P, Taft, Arvilla Austin (Simpson), Thirza Wood, Fanny Reed (Barber), Delphia Kidder, dis. Feb. 1, 1843. rf. Nov. 9, 1863. ex. Oct, 11, 1828, ex. Nov, 18, 1828, rfr. Sept, 11,1833, rf, Oct, 1, 1828, rf, Jan, 11, 1853, rf. May 3, 1879, rf, April, 1839, dis. AprU 24, 1830, rf, March 1, 1861, rf, 1867. rf. March 7, 1867. rf. May 20, 1858, ex. AprU 14, 1859, rf, Dec, 22, 1870. rf. May 27, 1853. rf. June 27, 1856. rf. June 25, 1859. rf. Sept. 26, 1849. rf, March 27, 1832, rf. Sept, 9, 1859, ex. June 19, 1850, rf, Feb, 5, 1837, rf, Nov,, 1858, rf, Dec. 20, 1855. rf. Aug, 18, 1861, dis. rf, Aug, 10, 1838, ex. Dec, 16, 1834, rf, AprU 7, 1878. rf, Aug, 3, 1878, rf, Oct, 8, 1845, rf. June 15, 1852. ex. Jan, 17, 1839, 21 I. Jan, 16, 1833. Amy Spaulding, dis. April 15, 1846. b. Jan, 30, " Fanny Perry, dis. AprU 27, 1842, ;. Nov, 17, " Rebecca Metcalf, rf. Nov, 29, 1844, b. May 31, 1835, A, M, Field, er. Jan, 11, 1866. b. May 31, " Mary Howe, dis. March 31, 1859, b. May 31, " Leland Howe, er. Sept, 9, 1866, b. June 15, " Micajah Wetherbee, rf, Oct,, 1868, b. June 15, " Lucius Dyer, rf, Nov, 24, 1835, b. June 15, " Hannah Wiswell (Hastings), rf, March 24, 1872. 6. June 15, " Octavia WisweU, er. Jan, 18, 1866, b. June 15, " Mary Austin (Bridges), Resident at Athens. b. June 15, " Sarah Holbrook, rf. March 7, 1856. b. June 15, " Phila Holbrook (Wheaton), rf. 1870. b. June 16, " Peter Allen, ex. Feb. 11, 1837. b. June 15, " Sally Allen, ex. April 2, 1846. b. June 15, " Dr, Charles Clarke, b. June 15, " Hannah Clarke, b. June 16, " Mary Ann Burke, dis. March 28, 1854, b. June 15, " Lucy Gibbs, dis. May 28, 1837. b. June 19, " George Lamb, dr. Jan. 11, 1866. b. June 19, " Oscar Howe, Resident at Halifax, b. June 19, " Ursula Holbrook, rf, Dec, 11, 1875. b. June 19, " Samantha Perry (Nichols), b. June 19, " Martha Evans, ex. May 12, 1846. 6, June 19, " Mary A, Howard, dis. Oct. 22, 1838. b. June 19, " Mary Spaulding, er. June 11, 1866. 6. June 19, " Sophia Howe, dis. Aug, 8, 1855, b. June 19, " Analine Blodgett (Shipman), er. Jan, 11, 1866. b. June 19, " Mary Ann Wilson, d. Jan, 1, 1838. h. June 19, " Mary A. Woodard, dis. Dec. 3, 1836. 6. June 19, " Asenath Albey, dis. Feb, 15, 1866. I. Aug. 2, " Hiram Lovering, dis. Feb. 4, 1847. b. Nov, 1, " Alonzo Blandin; rf. May, 1839. b. June 26, 1836. WilUam W. Perry, rf. July, 1875. b. July 3, " Mary Gibbs, rf. Feb. 1, 1843. b. July 3, " EUzabeth Ames (Richardson),rfis. Mar. 24, 1839. I. July 3, " Lula A. Murdock, rf. Dec, 15, 1859. b. Oct. 2, " Charlotte Howe, rf. Jan. 15, 1866. 6. Oct, 2, " Arvilla White (Scott), rf. March 15, 1864. Z.Dec, 3, " Robert Allen, Jr,, rfis. May 2, 1839, 270 22 I. May 6, 1837. I. July 1, " I. July 1, " . I. Sept. 3, " I. Sept. 3, " I. Sept. 3, " I. Sept. 3, " 7. Sept. 3, " Z. Sept. 3, " Z. Sept. 3, " Z. Sept. 3, " Z. Sept. 3, " I. Sept, 3, " Z. Sept, 3, " Z. Sept. 3, " Z. Sept. 3, " Z, Sept, 3, " I. Sept, 3, " Z, Sept. 3, " Z. Jan. 18, 1838, b. Feb, 16, " b. Feb, 16, " b. Feb, 16, " 6. Feb, 16, " b. Feb. 16, " b. Feb. 16, " b. Feb. 16, " b. Feb. 16, " b. Feb, 16, " 6. Feb. 16, " b. Feb, 16, " b. Feb. 16, " b. Feb. 16, " b. Feb. 16, " 6. Feb. 18, " b. Feb. 18, " b. Feb. 18, " b. Feb, 18, " h. Feb, 18, " 6, Feb, 18, " 6, Feb, 18, " h. Feb, 18, " Sarah Woodward, Abishai Carpenter, Sarah A, Carpenter, Rev. Richaed M. Ely, Mrs. Lora Ely, Dea. Chapin Howard, Birsha Howard, Orraando S. Howard, Lorinda Howard (Farrar), Ellen S. Howard (Cobb), Nelson Wheeler, Benjamin Howe, Sophia Howe, Ezra Sweet, Mary Sweet, Joseph E. Sweet, Nancy Sweet, Hibbard Blandin, Sarah Blandin, Stella M. Harris (Church), Esther Johnson, Joab Holland, Phebe Holland, Martha Harris, Soloma A. Wilkinson (Morse Elvira Holland (Carey), Squire Fletcher, Bainbridge Howard, Samuel M. Lovering, Mary Dyer (Lyford), Dyer Remington, Mary Remington, Granville Austin, Sarauel Fessenden, Ebenezer Brigham, Otis Orrasby, Lyman Prouty, Dorcas Prouty, James Nichols, Wealthy C. Nichols, Judith Holbrook, Julia Guile, dis. Nov. 1, 1846. dis. Dec. 3, 1837, dis. Dec, 3, 1837, dis. May 6, '38, F, P, dis. May 6, 1838, rf. May 6, 1864. rf. Sept. 14, 1866. er. March 21, 1861, dis. March, 1866, dis. Oct. 22, 1838. rf. March 8, 1870. rf. Sept. 2, 1878. dis. April 15, 1848. dis. April 15, 1848, dis. June 17, 1843. dis. April 15, 1848, rf, Nov. 22, 1844. rf. March 7, 1846. dis. Dec. 5, 1847. rf. Feb. 14, 1873, dis. April 19, 1854, ),rfis, July 3, 1870. dis. March 26, 1867. rf. Feb'y, 1854, dr. Feb. 24, 1847, dis. Feb. 24, 1827, dis. July 6, 1850. ex. June 13, 1842. dis. AprU 24, 1856. er. Feb. 1, 1869. rf. Sept. 16, 1877. dis. Oct. 11, 1843. dis. Jan. 20, 1840. dis. June 16, 1859. rf. 1870. dis. Oct, 11, 1843, dis. Oct, 11, 1843, dis. Aug, 18, 1839, dis. Aug. 27, 1842, 271 28 h. Feb. 18, 1838. b. Feb, 18, b. Feb. 18, I. Feb. 18, b. Feb. 18, 6. Feb. 18, b. Feb, 18, I. Mar, 3, b. Mar. 4, b. Mar. 4, 6. Mar. 4, 5. Mar. 4, 6. Mar. 4, S. Mar. 4, 5. Mar. 4, b. Mar. 4, b. Mar. 4, 5, Mar. 4, 5. Mar. 4, 5, Mar. 11, 6. Mar. 11, 6, Mar, 11, b. Mar, 25, b. Mar. 25, fi. Mar, 26, I. Mar. 25, Z, Mar, 25, b. May 6, b. May 6, 5, May 6, b. May 17, J, May 17, b. May 17, b. May 17, 5, May 17, I. Jan. 6, 1839. b. Jan, 6, 5, Jan, 6, I. May 3, Z, June 20, I. July 6, I. July 6, Araos D, Coorabs, Lafayette Blandin, S. Decatur Prouty, Nelson Evans, , Wra. Woodward, Willard Taft, Alfred Araes, Sylvia Taft, Benj. C Barber, Martin Dunton, Lucius Dunton, Sally Brighara, Sarah Graves, Calvin O. Brigham, Maria Rice, Curtis Carey, Zilphia Howard (Tuthill), Jos. E. Howard, Preston W. Taft, Abigail Mcllraine, Sarah Graves 2d, Mary Taft (Miller), Harriet Holland (Holbrook), Marion Holland, Nancy Graves, Phebe Newton, H. Davis 2d, Jonas Gray, Merril Holland, Orseraus Reraington, Asa Lamb, Arnold Austin, Martha Austin, Ju. W. Brigham, Hala F. Brigham, Mary White, Silutia White, Esther Fisher, Lucy A. Shattuck, Mrs. C. J, H, Carpenter, Rev, Wm, D, Upham, Lucy M, Upham, er. Jan, 11, 1866. rf. Nov. 19, 1845. dis. Sept. 1, 1864. ex. Mar; 12, 1846, Resident at Pawlet, rf. Aug. 13, 1849. ex. July 13, 1842. dis. May 4, 1844. ex. Apr. 18, 1839, rf. Jan. 11, 1866. dis. Nov. 3, 1839, rf, Aug, 1862. rf. May 14, 1847. ex. May 12, 1859. dis. May 24, 1853. dis. Mar. 26, 1857, Fayetteville, ex. June 17, 1850. dis. AprU 14, 1854. rf. AprU 17, 1865, rf. May 14, 1847, dis. AprU 14, 1854, rf, July 12, 1877. ex. AprU 27, 1864. dis. May 2, 1839, dis. Nov. 6, 1842, rf. Jan. 5, 1842, er. Sept, 9, 1866. ex. May 11, 1854. rf. dis. July 6, 1850. ex. March 17, 1853. dis. Apr. 7, 1839. dis. Apr, 12, 1842, rf, Nov, 11, 1874, dis. Aug, 31, 1843, rf, June 30, 1843, dis. 1843, 272 24 I. July 6, 1839, Rosetta Bates (Graves), rf. I. July 6, tl Abigail Murdock, rf, Sept. 5, 1856. b. Aug, 31, " Mary Ann Brighara, dis. Oct. 14, 1876. Z, Oct, (( Mary Brooks, dis. Feb. 1, 1843, Z, May 20, 1840, Alanson Wilcox, dis. Oct, 10, 1841. I. May 20, *i Eunice Wilcox, dis. Oct, 10, 1841. I. May 20, ll Eliza Wilcox, dis. June 11, 1845. Z. April 24, 1841, Flavel Jenison, rf, Au^ t .2, 1869, I. April 24, ii Alraira Jenison, rf, Nov, 2, 1849, I. AprU 25, il Daniel Chase, dis. Jan, 18, 1848. Z, Sept, 26, ii Mary J, Chase, dis. Jan, 18, 1848, b. Sept. 26, tt Mary Blodgett, dis. Nov. 17, 1844. Z. Nov. 6, tl Stella L, R, Gray, rf, April 10, 1878, e. Nov. 22, ii Jos, Blodgett, rf, January, 1848. Z, Jan, 17, 1842, Dr, Jno. Austin, Resident at Athens, Z, Jan. 17, it Minerva Austin, rf, July 27, 1878, Z.Jan. 17, tt Jno. H. Austin, Resident at Athens, b. Apr. 1, ti Sally Sawyer, er. 1854, ;6. Apr. 2, ii Jesse Derry, rf. J, Apr, 2, it Alonzo, Fessenden, ef. Feb, 15, 1866, ^. Apr, 12, It Abner Derry, b. Apr, 12, (( Fanny Derry, er. August 31, 1872 i5, Apr, 12, ll Mary A. Gray, er. Sept, 1866, b. Apr, 12, it Erailine Blodgett, dis. Nov, 17, 1844. J. Apr, 16, it Asa Fisher, rf. March 5, 1880. b. Apr, 16, a Alanson White, b. Apr, 16, ll Sophia Thorapson, rf. August 6, 1849, J, Apr, 16, it Marion H, Hix, rf, October 4, 1853, I. Apr. 16, a Elizabeth Wellraan, er, Jan. 18, 1866, 5. Apr. 16, li Ada Wiswell, dis. Sept, 4, 1842, 6. Apr, 16, it Ann White, rf, AprU, 1861, h. 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July 2, " 6. July 2, " b. July 2, " b. July 2, " 5. Julv 2, " 33 Alice Churchill, Fannie G. Lewis, Milon Davidson, Gratia L, Davidson, Belle Boutwell, Ida Osborne (Howe), Lizzie Church (Ware), Susie Boutwell, Geo. H, Houghton, Judson Gould, T. C. Frenyear, Leslie Fuller, Margaret Watson, EUa P. Mason, Emma A. Austin, Henry M. Twitchell, W, H. Fuller, Thos, S, Crane, Fred Willard, Nettie E. Symister, Royal M. Austin, Benj. F. Derry, Wra. H. Miles, Henry Prouty, NeUie A. Miles, Marcia L. Jenkins, Frances M. Derry, Julia P. Fuller, Wm. Fisher, Ora Ober, Albert Austin, O. A. Davis, Sarah M. Davis, Abbie L. Willard, Frederika B. Stoddard, Ann Nichols, Sarah Nichols, Jane Nichols, Addie Gale, Rosa Smith, Jennie Colburn, Flora Ober, 5 ¦rf. Nov. 12, 1877. Res. at Fayetteville. Res. at Fayetteville. Res. at Jamaica. Res. in the West. dis. April 18, 1878. dis. Feb. 14, 1878, 282 34 b. July 2, 1876. Z. Sept. 2, " Z. Sept. 2, " Z>. Sept. 3, " Z. Nov. 4, " Z. Nov. 4, " 6. Nov. 5, " Z. Nov. 5, " Z. Nov. 5, " Z. Apr. 1, 1877. Z. Apr. 1, " Z. May 6, " Z. June 30, " i. Sept. 2, " &. Sept. 2, " 6. Sept, 2, " b. Sept, 2, " e. Sept. 2, " e. Sept. 2, " Z. Sept. 2, " Z, Sept. 2, " Z. Sept. 2, " b. Oct. 7, " Z.. Oct. 7, " 6. Oct. 7, " 6. Oct. 7, " Z. Nov. 3, " e. Nov. 4, "¦ 6, May 12, 1878, 6, May 12, I. Sept, 1, Z. Sept, 1, 6, Sept, 15, b. Sept. 15, b. Sept. 16, 6. Sept, 16, b. Sept, 15, Z. May 4, 1879, Z, May 4, " 6, Aug, 31, " I. May 1, 1880, Mary Stebbins, C, C, Boynton, Mrs. Gratia P. Boynton, Frank E. Robbins, Rev. T. M. Butlee, Mrs. Annie J. Butler, Wm. H. Fuller, Jr., Gilbert B. McClure, Mrs. Garfelia H. McClure, Lyman Lindsey, Mrs. Louisa Lindsey, Sarah J. Mason, George E. Ware, Horace C. Howard, p. Willie Dutton, Ella Parkhurst, Ella Stebbins, Rosa Esterbrooks, Mrs. Judith L. Wilson, Mrs. Lovina York, Frances York (Phillips), Mrs. Jane M, Howard, Mrs. Elizabeth Davis, Etta Morse, Sibyl Holbrook, Minnie Wilson, Mrs, Lettie Dutton, Mrs, Catharine GoodeU, Mrs, H, M, Derry, Mary Weatherhead, Dr. H. B. Kenyon, Mrs. Eraily A. Kenyon, John Greenwood, Sarah E. Lindsey, Ada E, Barber, Lura L. Flagg, Etta C, Scott, L. O, Thayer, Mrs, Eliza M, Thayer, Charlie Howe, Maria E, Davis, Res. at Brattleboro. Res, at Brattleboro, Res, at Wethersfield. Res. at Wethersfield, Res. Londonderry. 283 35 OFFICERS OF THE CHURCH. J. M, Graves, Jos, Elliott, S, Charaberlin, Richard M, Ely, W, D, Upham, Horace Fletcher, R, R, Prentice, C, P. Frenyear, T. M, Butler, PASTORS. Acting, 1827, Acting, 1830, Acting, 1835, Frora 1836 to 1838, Frora 1838 to June 30, 1843, From January 1844 to Nov. 1871. From 1872 to" 1874. From 1875 to May, 1876, From October, 1876, Wra. Fisher, Archelaus Bixby, Ward Scott, Sam'l Gray, Sara'l D. Winslow, Charles H. WiUard, A. Stoddard, Charles Q. Stebbins, DEACONS. Elected June 24, 1827, " May 2, 1846. " May 2, 1846, " May 2, 1846. " Sept. 3, 1864. " Sept. 3, 1864, " Sept, 2, 1871. " Sept, 2, 1871, Resigned May 2, 1846, Sept, 3, 1864, Died April 10, 1863, " Aug, 13, 1870, Dis, to Grafton, Sept, 2, '79. Resigned Jan, 2, 1869, Sam'l Gray, E, Lincoln Shattuck, H, A. Scott, Edward L, Hastings, CLERKS, Elected June 24, 1827. " Aug. 25, 1870. " Sept. 2, 1871. " Apr, 2, 1874. Served until de^ith. Resigned Sept, 2, 1871. April 2, 1874. NOTE.— Sam'l Manning was chosen Treasurer at the commencement, but since, that office has been provided for by the Deacons or the Society, ERRATA. Page 21, fifth name from the bottom read, Sally Smith, dis. Sept. 24, 1863. Page 22, after seventh name read, b. Sajly Whitcomb, ex. May 2, 1833. Page 24, ninth name read, Laurinda for Lorinda. Page 25, thirteenth narae read, Sarah Graves, d. Apr. 13, 1842. Page 25, third name frora bottom of page read, Mrs. C. I. H. Carpenter. Page 27, first line read, Sarah White, d., oraitting the date of death. Page 28, twentieth name read, Frances Gray, for Francis Gray. Page 30, sixteenth name read, Bellamy for Ballaiiiy. INDEX. PARTS I. AND II. Anderson's Gore, 5 Avery's Gore, 5 Mack's Leg, 5 Waltham Gore, 5 Warren's Town, 5 Johnson's Gore. Boundary aud descrip tion of. 8 Charter of, 6 Johnson, Moses Lieut Notice of, 7 Lot lines. 12 Lots, Division of. 11 Nash's East line. 12 Outside lines. 12 Proprietor's. Where from. 8 Proprietors' Clerks, 44 Proprietors votes. 1782, March 7, 9 1782, April 9, 9 1782, May 6, 10 1782, July 1, 11 1793, Nov. 14, 12 Settlement. First, 8 Settlers, First 13 Streams and Prod'tions, 8 ACTO!V. Annexation, 32 Biographical Sketches. Farwell, Lemuel 30 Fisher, Isaac 28 Fisher, Noah 28 Fisher, Timothy 28 Haile, Amos 29 Holden, Philemon 29 Huntington, Eben'r 31 Jennison, William 29 Blacksmiths, 27 Cemeteries, 25 Census, 1792-1840, 43 Constables, 47 Constitutional Conven tion, Delegate, 44 Deposit Money, U. S, and Trustees, 22 Family Registers. Covey, Joseph 38 Farr, Thomas 38 Farwell, Lemuel 38 Fisher, Daniel 38 Fisher, Isaac 39 Fisher, Isaac jr. 39 Fisher, Nathan 39 Fisher, Pliney 39 Fisher, Timothy 39 Haile, Amos 39 Harris, WiUiam jr, 39 Holden, Dennis 39 Holden, Philemon 40 Huntington, Eben'r 40 Jennison, William 40 Smith, EU 40 Sprague, Major 40 Streeter, John 40 Woodcock, John 40 Grand List of 1801, 16 1818, 17 1840, 18 Grand List Statistics, 1801-24, 41 1829-40, 42 Grand Lists. Yearly footing 1801-40, 43 Graves with Memorial Stone, 25 Incorporated, 15 Justices of the Peace, 44 Line adj'ning Athens, 15 Listers. 1801-40, 46 Marriages, 37 Mechanics, 26 Merchants, 27 Mills, 26 Moderator of Annual Meetings,' 44 Organized, 15 Pensioners, 32 Representation in General Assembly, 15 Representatives to General Asserably, 44 Roads, 12, 22 School Districts and Schools. Division of Town into Districts, 19 No. Scholars in each District, 1812-41, 20 W'ks Schooling in each District, 1822-41, 21 Superintending Cora raittee of Schools, 22 Selectraen, 1801-40, 45 Shoemakers, 26 Statutes for Recording Deeds, 1779, '87, '97, 7 Taxes, Town purposes, 1801-40, 35 Taxes, Highway, 1801-40, 23 Town Clerks, Names of, 44 Town meetings, places of holding, 36 Town Treasurers, Names of, 45 286 INDEX— TOWNSHEND. Baptist Church, First 193 Baptist Church, 2d 249 Births, Early. List of 78 Boundary between N. H. and N. Y., 63 Boundary, Charter 51 Boundary, Present 49 Brattleboro & White hall Railroad, 217-22 Census 1771, 77 Charter, 61 Charter, Confirmatory by N. Y., 64, 66, 69 Comraittees of Safety, Town 84 Committees to lay out land, - 75 Cong'l Church, First 198 Cong'l Church, 2d 196 Congress, County, June 6, 1775, 82 Congress, County, July 26, 1775, 84 Congress, County, Nov. 21, 1776, 84 Conventions, General Delegates to 86 Convention, Dorset, July 24, 1776, 84 Convention, Westrains- ster, "Oct. 19, 1774, 79 Nov. 30, 1774, 80 Feb. 7, 1775, 81 Deeds, Registry of 54, 64 Deposit Money, U.S. 121,123 Families, First settled 71 Glebe, 53 Governor, Right of 63 Governor, Votes for 229 Grand List, Names on 1799, 86 Grand List, Amount of yearly 108 Grand List of 1802, 231 1810, 110 1820, 121 1830, 233 1840, 236 Grand List Statistics from 1802-19, 240 1820, 241 1821-26, 242 1827-31, 243 1832-37, 244 1838-41, 245 Grantees, Naraed on Charter, 52 Hills and Mountains, 50 Howard, A. C. Leg- , acy, 216 Independent Compa nies, Military 103 Indian Relics, 49 Intoxicants; yotes on Licensing, ' 228 Jurors Impaneled at Westrainster, 78 Justices of the Peace, 224 The King, paramount proprietor, 61 Land Products, 50 Lot Divisions, 62, 76 Men in town July 12,1775, 83 Military, 88 Ministerial right, 63 Mountains, 60 Name, Corporate 49 Pensioners, Invalid 90 Pensioners, Act of March 18, 1818, 91 Pensioners, Act of June 7, 1832, 91 Pensioners, Resident June 1, 1840, 91 Postal Arrangements, 50 Population & wealth. Rank in County, 51 Proprietors! Clerks, 75 . Proprietors' Meeting to choose Ofiicers, 51 ProJDrietors' Meeting August — , 1753, 55 March 12, 1754, 57 Annual Meeting, March — , 1754, 58 March 10, 1761, 60 May 25, 1761, 60 Nov. 23, 1761, 60 April 21, 1766, 65 August 25, 1766, 67 Sept. 22, 1766, 68 AprU 13; 1767, 69 May 10, 1769, 70 July 8, 1771, 72 Oct. ti, 1771, 73 March 11, 1772, 74 April. 5, 1774, 75 Proprietors naraed on Prop'rs record book, 76 Proprietors' Records, 54 Railroad Co. , Brattle boro & ^yhitehaU 217 Representatives to the General Assembly, 227 Residents in Town July 12, 1775, 83 Rock Forraation, 50 School dist. &sch'ls, 114 287 INDEX— TOWNSHEND. (Cont'd.) Scholars, Nuniber of State Troops, Captain Taxation, Statistics 1812-41, 118 Fish's Company, Jan. of 1781-1801, 105 No. of 1842-77, 119 1784, 101 Taxation, Statistics Settleraent conditions Statutes. N. H. record- of 1802-1877, 108 extended, 63 ing land papers, 54 Town Meeting, First 77 Settlement, First 62 Statutes. N. H. divid- Town Ofiicers, 1777- Settlers, Early. Naraes ing land owned in 1778, 86 of 63 comraon, 54 Trustees U. S. Deposit Shares,Original. No. of 52 Statutes, Y. Y., Regis- Money, 121 Soldiers, War of Rev. 88 try of Deeds, 64 Vills and Villages, 49 War of 1812, 92 Streams, 50 Wood-growth, 50 War of Rebellion, 94 Supt. of Schools, 120 State Troops, Capt. Fish's Supt. of Schools, Comp'y, Sept., 1782, 100 Compensat'n rec'd, 223 SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1. Acres, Number of 126 Hazeltine, John Col. Ranney, Wai tstiU R. 171 Attorneys, 174 53, 62, 176 Ransom, Ezek'l Maj. 158 Baptist Church, Firsi 193 Hazelton, John Dr. 171 'Restorat'ist Church, Blacksmiths, 160 Holbrook, Amos 162 First, ' 195 Cabinet Makers, 164 Howard, Chapin 16^ Roads, 127 Cemeteries, 198 Hyde, Dana Dr. 173 Saddle and Harness Central Lodge, No. 47, 186 Innkeepers, 179 Makers, 168 Cong'l Church, 2»irf 196 Kingsbury, Sam'l 164 School-houses, 180 DweUings and Fami- Marsh, Lemuel 147 Select Schools, 182 lies, 1785, 128 Meeting-House, 189 Shoemakers, 169 DweUings and Farai- Merchants, 145 Streams, 126 ' lies, 1798, 130 Methodist Preach'g, 195 Sumner, Edward and Dwellings and Fami- Mills, 153 Thomas, 145 lies, 1830, 131 Parsonage, 192 Taft, Peter R. 177 Dwellings and Fami- Phelps, Charles 174 Tanners and Cur- lies, 1880, 138 Phelps, Jaraes H. 248 riers, 158 Fletcher, Samuel 160 Physicians, 171 Wheelwrights, 167 Garfield. Caleb 166 Post-Office, 186 00533 9073