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Grave and Gravestone Move Notes – Hartland Village Cemetery

From the 1984 Hartland Village Cemetery directory by H. Atwood, beginning on page 65 of the manuscript. Page references are to this document, which can be viewed at the Hartland Historical Society library.

There are at least fourteen people whose death date on their gravestone occurred before the Hartland Village Cemetery was established — after 24 February 1834, that is. See deed on page 67 and others that follow.

Some of these person's names and dates were placed on large family monuments
by their descendants.  Some have brought their ancestor's original gravestones
from older cemeteries in town to this new cemetery.   The remains of some people
were re-buried in the Hartland Village Cemetery, others were not.

Charles E. Colston lot, page 28:
Sukey, wife of Charles E. Colston, died Dec. 20, 1828, aged 44, also her
        daughter Manerva, aged 2 years.
Josiah Brown, died March 7, 1827, aged 25. His widow, Lucy Bagley, later
        married Charles E. Colston.
Lucina C., daughter of Josiah and Lucy Brown, died April 1, 1828, aged 9 months.
        (The original burial place of the above persons is unknown.)

W. S. Crooker lot, page 12:
Barker Crooker, died Dec. 30, 1825, aged [blank]
        Barker Crooker, his wife Deborah, William S. Crooker's wife, Paulina (Paul)
        Crooker and their daughter Eliza were originally buried in the Center of
        Town cemetery.  See note on page 12.

Benjamin F. Gates lot, page 43:
Catherine L. Gates 1832-1833
John Nelson Gates, M.D. died August. 12, 1827, aged 27.
Elizabeth, daughter of Zelotes & Margaret Gates, died Aug. 12, 1822, aged 21.
Zelotes Gates, died March 19, 1823, aged 67.
        The Gates family members were buried in a private cemetary on the Gates--
        Spear homestead in the Weed district, which is still owned by descendants.
        Many years ago their gravestones and bodies were removed to the Hartland
        Village Cemetery, according to their descendant, Stanley Gates Spear. (His
        brother Ernest A. Spear was an undertaker in Woodstock, Vt.) The removal
        must have taken place before 1907 because these and other members of the
        Gates family are recorded as being in the Hartland Village cemetery by Byron
        P. Ruggles in 1907.

James Hyland lot, page 26:
Children:
        William L. Hyland, died March 8, 1819, aged 1 year, 7 months.
        John B. Hyland, died Feb. 13, 1824, aged 1 year, 8 months. He has a
        gravestone in the Walker Cemetery, near Charlotte Gilbert's late home, and
        Helen T. Hyland, John's sister also has a gravestone there.  She died Sept.
        22, 1835, aged 3 months.

Buckley Marcy lot, page 8:
Mary Hadlock Marcy, wife of Buckley Marcy, died Dec. 24, 1834, age 34. Was
        she one of the first burials in this new cemetery?  She was buried at first
        in the Walker cemetery.  Her gravestone is still there, badly broken and lies
        flat on the ground.  Its record is barely legible. [The stone was repaired and
         was standing as of 2011.]

George Merrill - Joseph C. Bates lot, page 27:
        "In Memory of Mr. Jofeph Bates, who died Augt 27th 1789 in the 68th year
        of his age." His former place of burial is unknown.

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James N. Willard lot, page 26:
Children:
        Eluthera Willard, died May 13, 1823, aged 8 weeks
        Louisa Maria Willard, died Sept. 9, aged 1 yr, 4 months

William Short lot, page 18:
Charles H. Young, died Dec. 17, 1867, aged 28 years, 19 months.  Although he
        died some 33 years after the cemetery was established, he is included in
        this list because he was also buried elsewhere.  At first in the Center
        of Town cemetery and later re-buried in the Hartland Village Cemetery.
        He was listed in the "Middle of Town Cemetery" on July 30, 1907, but
        was not listed by B. P. Ruggles in Aug. 1907 in the Hartland Village
        Cemetery, so his re-burial must have taken place later on.  His gravestone
        is no longer at the Center of Town cemetery.

Removing bodies to another location or even entire cemeteries is not so
unusual, but usually requires an eminent domain determination.

Not so many years ago, Dartmouth College wished to expand their campus by
taking over adjacent land occupied by a very old cemetery in Hanover, N.H.
The villagers overwhelmingly opposed the idea and nothing has yet been done
as far as is presently known.  Many of the town's earliest settlers are buried
there, including Eleazer Wheelock, the founder of Dartmouth College.

One of the largest projects of this sort occurred in central Massachusetts.
In the town of Were, on a side road is access to the "dam of the Quabbin
Reservoir, constructed (1937) in the Swift River valley" in order to increase
the water supply for the city of Boston.  "The towns of Enfield, Greenwich
and Prescott" (including North Dana) "were inundated" entirely.  All of the
bodies in a number of cemeteries had to be removed.  A drive through the area
(the roads still remained) revealed only cellarholes where houses had been.
Almost spooky in the day time.  All of the forests were lumbered off.  Here is
an example of where "clear cutting" is excusable and necessary.  What couldn't
be used for lumber was probably burned on the spot.

"The reservoir has 177 miles of shore line, surrounding 39 square miles, with
a maximum depth of 150 feet and a storage capacity of 415 billion gallons. The
water will flow by gravity into Wachusetts Reservoir through Quabbin aqueduct,
a 24.6 mile tunnel through solid rock."

About a mile away from the reservoir is "the Quabin Park Cemetery established
by the commonwealth for the bodies disinterred when the Quabbin Reservoir
was build."

There probably wasn't much to remove of bodies buried as long as 200 years
at the most.  About the best they could do with the oldest graves was to take
some of the earth at the level where the body was supposed to be and put it in
a new coffin.

The references enclosed by quotation marks are from the Massachusetts Guide
(1937), page 526.

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Vermont Journal April 26, 1884, Hartland News by Gilbert Thayer:

The remains of deceased members of the C.H. Rodgers family, two in number,
were removed from the old Weed burying ground to a recently purchased lot in
Hartland Village Cemetery. (Gravestones not noted in either Weed or the
Village cemetery. The Rodgers lot is recorded on page 3.)

Vermont Journal, April 26, 1884, Hartland News:

The remains of deceased members of the Weed family, four in number, were
removed on Tuesday from the old Weed burying ground to a recently
purchased lot in Hartland Village Cemetery.

See page 17:

Of twelve persons buried in the Weed family lot in Hartland Village Cemetery,
Miss Abbie Green Weed (1849-1884), who died February 10th, may have been the
first member of her family to be buried there.  Seven others died after 1884.
The four remaining were Abigail (Green) Weed (1788-1878); Asa Weed (1821-1862);
Asa Weed (1792-1847); Eva Nannie (1860-1864); and Nathaniel Weed (1821-1862).
They were the ones bought down from the Weed cemetery to be re-buried in the
Hartland Village Cemetery.  Only about six persons surnamed Weed have
gravestones in the Weed cemetery, viz:

Nathaniel Weed (1742-1818); Rhoda Weed (1747-1816); Miss Lois Weed (1778-1803);
Mr. Jacob Weed (1771-1820); Moses Weed (1782-1840); Jacob C. Weed (1820-1824).
No gravestone was found for Catherine, wife of Moses Weed, nor was there one
recorded by Mr. Ruggles in August 1907.

Jerry Green Hadley was buried in the Elisha Gallup cemetery on Weed Hill in
1864 and his gravestone was recorded there August 3rd 1907 by Byron P.
Ruggles.  After his wife Hannah A. Gallup died Nov. 22, 1907, Jerry's body
was brought down to the Hartland Village cemetery and other members of his
family who died after 1907 are buried there.  See pages 45 & 46 of the
Hartland Village Cemetery record.

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2017-03-22

The Walker Graveyard

“Sunday Picnic in the Cemeteries”

by Howland Atwood

Carleton Eastman’s first wife was Cyrena Walker. Carleton Eastman’s second wife was Ann Henderson, who came from New York State and was supposed to be of Dutch descent. Carleton Eastman died in 1859 and Mrs. Ann Eastman later married Elihu H. Pitkin. Their daughter, Lucy M. Eastman, who married Charles Carter was Nellie Murphy’s mother and great grandmother of Priscilla Atwood. Lucy Eastman Carter is buried beside her mother. The Pitkins had two younger daughters, Mrs. Lottie Dunbar and Mrs. Hattie Cavanaugh and a son Sid Pitkin. The Pitkins lived in a house later owned successively by Mary Perkins, Raymond and Alice Burke and Arthur James.

James Hyland, whose two young children are buried here, lived in Hartland Four Corners in a house that stood on the east end of the garden spot, just south of the barn that burned down recently on the Skunk Hollow Tavern property. James Hyland once had a blacksmith shop near the site of the present Universalist Society, Mr. Hyland may have had the Varney blacksmith shop built. Mr. Hyland’s daughter, Calista, married H. B. Watriss and is said to have been given their house as a wedding present. Her granddaughter, Blanche (Leonard) Bagley sold the place to Chester Smith many years later.

Isaac Sargent came to Hartland from Ware, N. H. in 1792, locating upon the farm now owned by his grandson, Isaac N. The house the latter occupied was built during that year. The house was taken down in the 1940’s and a house built from the materials in the Bates District by Mr. Winans. It was beyond Craig’s.

John Barrell was the ancestor of the Barrell families in Hartland.

James Walker came to this town from Massachusetts, in 1781, locating upon the farm now owned by his great-grandsons, J. and S.S. Walker. The old frame house used by N. F. English as a machine shop was built by James Jr. in 1800. This farm was owned in the 1930’s by Eldridge Davis and later owned by Audrey Collins.

Elnathan Walker used to manufacture spinning wheels.

Gardner Marcy is said to have lived in the large house in Fieldsville that is now surrounded by the outside storage of materials and that is opposite the Frank French house that is falling down. Maxwell Evarts is said to have obtained a rare fireplace mantel from the Marcy house for his large new house on Juniper Hill in Windsor. This Marcy house may have been used as an inn in the days when the mineral water from the place across the road (Frank French’s) was sold and used for its supposed curative properties. Delia Field said that some of the rooms still had room numbers painted over the doors when her family lived there. The well was dug deeper to obtain still more water but in the process the mineral vein or content was lost. John Field is said to have lived in the Frank French house and his son, Wardner L. Field, lived across the road in the Gardner March house. His wife was Lydia Jennie Weston, a direct descendant of Myles Standish and had an ancient pitcher brought over on the Mayflower. It has been handed down from generation to generation to a daughter named Lydia. But Mrs. Fields didn’t like the name Lydia and didn’t give the name to either of her two daughters. So after her lifetime the pitcher would revert to another line of Standish descendants who did have a daughter named Lydia. Mrs. Field always went by the name Jennie Field or L. Jennie Field and latter form appears on her gravestone. The Standish pitcher was in Pilgrim Hall in Plymouth, Massachusetts for a number of years. One year, about 1930 and near Thanksgiving time, Della Field brought over to the Four Corners school, then next door to the Fields’ home, newspaper clippings and a picture of the pitcher to show to the school children.

Mrs. Field’s sister, Mary Weston, who lived in Massachusetts, withdrew the pitcher from Pilgrim Hall many years ago. Its present whereabouts is unknown.

The Fields had three children, a son, Warren, who never married, Estella who married Elisha Flower and Adella, who in later life became the second wife of Leon Ayers. In the 1920’s Mrs. Field, Warren, and Della moved to the house at the Four Corners, presently owned by the McLeans.

Curiously, Mr. John Harding is not mentioned in either the Windsor County Gazetteer or the Windsor County History which supplied some of the above information about the Walkers and Sargents. Dr. John Harding, Sr. lived in Charlotte Gilbert’s house. Dr. John Harding, Jr. lived at the Four Corners. He built the house now owned by Mrs. Keffer. It was build in 1827, not 1820 as a later owner arbitrarily decided and placed the date on the front side of the house. The six Willard brothers of Mrs. Harding, skilled brick masons, did the work. Their excellent workmanship is just as evident to this day. While the house was being built the Hardings lived in the Clifford Coombs house (later Spencer’s) at the foot of Town Farm Hill. Dr. Harding’s office was in the west end of the frame ell that extends westerly from the main house. Beyond the office in the end of the ell were open sheds for the storage of carriages and farm equipment. The sheds continued around the corner of the barn. These open sheds were removed by Mr. Parkes. Mr and Mrs. James B. Miller occupied Dr. Harding’s office area after they moved down from their farm to the Four Corners to take over the Post Office and they lived at the Harding place until the property was purchased by J. C. Parkes. The Post Office was then in the east end of the Ladies Aid Hall. The Millers brought down to the Post Office a long narrow wall cabinet of small drawers from Dr. Harding’s former office. Each drawer was about 8 x 10 inches and there was a single row of them in a framework. The knobs were of metal and were fluted. The drawer fronts had been painted to resemble natural wood graining. They probably originally contained medicines and pills. The drawers probably remained there until later years when the ground floor of this building was completely changed and renovated into a garage of heavy equipment by Leslie Lyman. Dr. Harding made a lot of his own medicines and raised herbs for this purpose in the garden south of his house. Nancy Darling wrote that “Dr. Harding, Sr., a prominent and revered physician lived twenty five years in Hartland. He had three sons who were physicians, one of them D. John Harding, Jr. continued his father’s work.” in Hartland. Dr. Hardings’ saddle bags containing hand blown medicine bottles are in the Hartland Historical Society room. Which Dr. Harding used them is uncertain, perhaps both did. Analdo English said that Dr. John Harding had a big grape arbor and mulberry trees in the lot on the south side of the house — beyond the driveway. He raised silkworms, bees and herbs. He used to put a beehive between his legs and take the bees off a grapevine with his hands with no protection whatsoever. He always moved very cautiously when handling bees, being careful not to excite them and in this way handled bees easily. John Harding III had a marble shop for the manufacture of gravestones in a building that stood between the Lobdell store and the Mills Billings blacksmith shop (Gene Driscoll’s home) building. A France frenchman, Joe Hodet, carved the little lambs and other designs. The marble shop building was later moved up on High Street by ox teams to become the house where Photographer Brousseau now lives. During Millard White’s ownership this house was renovated and enlarged to its present form.

A government marker for Ichabod Hatch was placed perhaps after Mr. Byron Ruggles compiled his record of the gravestones, which he did about 1907. Icabod Hatch, a veteran of the Revolutionary War, was the ancestor of Arthur Hatch and Lillian Marcotte.

Frank Sargent was the last of the Sargent family to live on the Sargent farm before it was acquired by Allen Britton.

At present, no information is known about the other persons buried in this small cemetery, other than what is recorded on their gravestones. There are graves marked only by rough field stones and probably some of the graves were not marked at all. Probably most of the people lived in nearby houses. The Hartland land records may reveal some information, but some may not have owned land. Therefore any type of record at all is very important and should never be destroyed — school district records, merchant’s account books, family papers, newspapers, old letters, etc., for such may contain the only record of some former resident, even though but mere mention of a name.

The Windsor County Gazetteer on page 144 states that “Capt. Caleb Hendricks, from Massachusetts, was among the earliest settlers. He located with his father, upon the farm now owned by J. and S. S. Walker. They brought with them two slaves, Caesar Brockey and his brother and located them upon the piece of land adjoining the farm. A rough stone now marks the colored men’s graves and the spot where stood their cabin.” This farm on which the Hendricks settled may have been the one on Hendricks Hill, recently the Erroll Rice place, one time home of Veterinarian George D. Wood. This farm land extended over towards Lull brook. The Brockey cabin was in this area, once pasture land, now densely forested. Whether the Hendricks were buried in the Walker Graveyard or not is not known.

2017-03-22

Hartland Business Directory 1883-1884

Business Directory: HARTLAND, WINDSOR COUNTY, VT
1883–1884

EXPLANATIONS

Directory is arranged as follows: ~

1. Name of individual or firm.

2. Postoffice address in parenthesis.

3. The figures following the letter r indicate the number of the road on which the party resides, and will be found by reference to the map in the back part of this work. Where no road number is given the party is supposed to reside in the village.

4. Business or occupation.

5. A star (*) placed before a name indicates an advertiser in this work.

6. Figures placed after the occupation of a farmer indicate the number of acres owned or leased.

7. Names in CAPITALS are those who have kindly given their patronage to the work, and without whose aid its publication would have been impossible.

ABBREVIATIONS. — Ab., above; ave., avenue; bds., boards; bet., between; cor., corner; E., east; emp., .employee; fac. op., factory operative; h., house; manuf., manufacturer; Mfg., manufacturing; N., north; n., near; opp. opposite; prop., proprietor; reg., registered as applied to live stock; regt., regiment; S., south; supt., superintendent; W., west.

The word street is implied.

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Abbott Solon S., (Hartland Four Corners) r 48, farm laborer.

Ainsworth Edwin S., (Hartland) r 23, wool grower 125 sheep, and farmer 200.

Alden Mary A., (Hartland) resident.

Alexander Charles O., (Hartland Four Corners) r 69, farmer 80.

ALEXANDER EDWIN, (North Hartland) r 12, boot cutter, and farmer.

Alexander Foster T., (Hartland Four Corners) r 69, farmer 85.

Alexander Frank S., (North Hartland) r 12, farmer, works for Mary M. 80.

ALEXANDER FREDERICK R., (Quechee) r 8, 8 head of cattle, farmer 160.

Alexander Mary M., (North Hartland) r 12, widow of Elias, farm 80.

Alexander Taylor, (Hartland) retired farmer 115.

Allen William, (North Hartland) r 18, farmer 20.

Allen William I., (North Hartland) r 18, farmer.

ARCHER ISAAC H., (Taftsville) r 25, life, fire and accident insurance agent, general agent for the Granite State sap and cider evaporator, wool grower 100 sheep, 15 head of cattle, sugar orchard 1,000 trees, and farmer 225.

Ashey Joseph, (North Hartland) r 14, laborer.

Ashey Joseph, Jr., (North Hartland) r 14, laborer.

ASHWORTH JAMES E., (Hartland) manuf. and wholesale dealer in heavy army and horse blankets, bed blankets, and custom wool carding.

Atwood Dana P., (Hartland Four Corners) r 46, works on shares for Frances P. Barstow 200.

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Badger Nathan W., (North Hartland) r 16, machinist.

Badger Osman P., (North Hartland) foreman of the weaving department in Ottaquechee Woolen Mills, and machinist.

Bagley Arnold G., (Hartland Four Corners) r 57, carpenter and joiner.

Bagley Sanford B., (Hartland Four Corners) r 68, wool grower 50 sheep, carpenter and joiner, and farmer 125.

Bagley Mary, (Harland. Four Corners) r 58, widow of Perkins, farm 17.

Bagley Melissa, (Hartland Four Corners) r 57, (Mrs. Dwight,) farm 10.

Bagley William W., (Hartland Four Corners) r 49, carpenter, farmer 65, and leases of Asa Weed 260.

Bailey Baxter, (Hartland) r 42, farmer 6.

Bailey Charles D., (Hartland) r 42, laborer.

Balch Lowell C., (Taftsville) r 2, farmer 35.

Barbour David P., (Hartland) r 59, shoemaker.

Barrell Alonzo M., (Hartland) r 38, farmer.

Barrell Charles H., (Hartland) r 45, laborer.

Barrell Daniel W., (Hartland) laborer.

Barrell Elisha, (Hartland) r 59, farmer 65.

BARRELL JOHN F., (Hartland) r 38, owner of Morgan stock horses “Dreadnaught” and “Independence,” farmer 70.

Barrell Hubbard, (Hartland) r 23, laborer.

Barrell Paschal S., (Hartland) r 38, farmer.

Barstow Frances P., (Hartland Four Corners) r 46, widow of Henry, farmer 200.

Bates Augusta, (Hartland) widow of Jacob F., resident.

Bates Homer H., (Hartland) r 23, farmer.

Bates Jacob, (Hartland) r 45, farmer 175.

BATES JAMES G., (Hartland) r 23, vice president Vt. Farm Machine Co., agent for Meadow King mower and Gleaner wheel rake, wool grower 150 sheep, 30 cattle, and farmer 400.

Bell Alfred W., (Woodstock) r 71, wool grower 65 sheep, farmer 225.

Bell Darwin C., (Woodstock) r 71, son of A. W.

Bell Orlando A., (Woodstock) r 71, farmer.

Benjamin Alvin, (Quechee) r 7, farmer 90.

Benjamin Filmore, (Quechee) r 7, farmer.

Benjamin George W., (Quechee) r 7, son of Alvin.

Benson Fred L., (Quechee) r 7, farmer.

BENSON LYMAN M., (Quechee) r 7, wool grower 47 sheep, dairy 5 cows, and farmer 194.

Billings E. Willis, (Hartland Four Corners) carriage maker and general blacksmith, farmer 30.

Billings Elias, (Hartland Four Corners) off r 34, wool grower 50 sheep, and farmer 80.

BILLINGS FRANK P., (Hartland) dealer in stoves, and wholesale and retail dealer in tin, copper and sheet iron ware, wooden ware, pumps, lead pipe, hides, pelts, furs, etc.

Blanchard Ira, (North Hartland) r 16, farmer 2.

BOWERS JAMES H., (Hartland Four Corners) r 73, wool grower 60 sheep, farmer 56, and in West Windsor 34.

Boyce James, (North Hartland) r 16, spinner in woolen mill.

Boyd Charles H., (Hartland) r 63, laborer.

BRENNAN VINCENT J., (North Hartland) superintendent of Ottaquechee Woolen Co.’s mills.

BRITTON HENRY S., (Hartland) r 63, lister, stock dealer, wool buyer, wool grower 550 sheep. dairy 40 cows, farmer 200.

BRITTON ROBERT L., (Hartland Four Corners) r 70 cor 71, butcher and meat peddler, dealer in cattle, sheep and hogs, farmer 105.

Britton William E., (Hartland) r 62, farmer 90.

Britton Wilson, (Hartland) r 59, lister, dealer in horses and cattle, money and real estate broker, farmer 40.

Brothers George, (North Hartland) r 18, farmer.

Brothers Oliver, (North Hartland) r 18, farmer, leases of George Eastman, of Naugatuck, Conn., 122.

BROTHERS OLIVER, JR., (Hartland) r 23, inventor and manuf. of patent wagon wrench and can combined, farmer 80.

BROWN FREDERICK A., (Quechee) r 5, farmer 40.

Brown Frederick C., (Quechee) r 5, farmer.

BROWN SIDNEY W., (Quechee) r 3, dairy 6 cows, farmer 160.

Brown William S., (Quechee) r 5, farmer.

Bryant Elbert A., (Hartford) r 24, farmer.

BRYANT GILBERT E., (Hartland) r 24, farmer 90.

Buckman Louisa, (North Hartland) r 12, widow of William W., resident.

Buckman William S., (North Hartland) r 12, works estate of Jasper Buckman, 100 acres.

Burill George W., (Hartland) r 20, farmer 42.

Burk Albert B., (Hartland Four Corners) r 46, farmer 86.

BURK CYRUS P., (Hartland Four Corners) r 49, live stock dealer, fruit grower 150 trees, breeder of Chester county swine and Morgan horses, and farmer 100.

BURK GEORGE A., (Hartland Four Corners) r 46, stock dealer, farmer 86.

Burk Jacob P., (Hartland Four Corners) r 50, carpenter, and farmer.

Burk Tobias, (North Hartland) r 18, section foreman.

Burk William W., (Hartland Four Corners) r 50, sheep shearer, farmer 100.

Burnham Benjamin F., (Taftsville) r 2, farmer 50.

Burnham Charles G., (Hartland Four Corners) r 35, with O. F. Hemenway, wool grower 100 sheep, and farmer 230.

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Cabot Asa A., (Hartland Four Corners) r 66, farmer, leases of George Marcy 80.

Cabot George D., (Hartland Four Corners) r 80, wool grower 60 sheep, farmer 50, and in West Windsor 100.

Cady Daniel I., (South Woodstock) r 72, farmer, with Frank B. 160.

Cady Frank B., (South Woodstock) r 72, farmer, with Daniel I. 160.

CADY, see also CODEY.

Carey Ruth E., (Woodstock) r 34, resident.

Carpenter Frank L., (Hartland Four Corners) molder in F. Gilbert’s foundry.

Carroll Wilber E., (Hartland) r 59, works in F. Gilbert’s foundry.

Case Hubbard W., (Hartland) r 60, farmer 22.

Caswell Joseph C., (Taftsville) r 1, fire, life and accident insurance agent, dairy 10 cows, and farmer 112.

Chase George C., (Hartland) r 18, laborer.

Chase George H., (Windsor) r 65, farmer, leases of Melinda Tinkham 155.

Chase Orrin A., (Hartland Four Corners) r 48, farmer.

Chase Orrin K., (Quechee) r 11, farmer 85.

Chase Stratton S., (Quechee) r 11, laborer.

Chase William, (Hartland) r 39, laborer.

Churchill Clarence E., (Hartland) pastor of Universalist church.

Clark Fred W., (Hartland Four Corners) r 54 cor 55, wool grower 100 sheep, and farmer 140.

Cleveland Albert S., (Hartland Four Corners) r 47, farmer 100.

Codey Charles S., (Hartland) r 41, farmer 50 in Norwich, leases of W. Sabine, of Windsor, 100.

Codey Peter D., (Hartland) r 41, farmer.

CODEY, see also CADY.

Colby Charles B., (Woodstock) r 29, wool grower 100 sheep, farmer 110, and in Barnett 30.

Colston George W., (South Woodstock) r 51, farmer 65.

Conant Addie A., (Hartland) r 42, farm 35.

Conant Lucy A., (Hartland) r 42, widow of Samuel, resident.

Corey John S., (Hartland) r 60, weaver in blanket factory.

Coutremash Eldoras, (North Hartland) r 14 laborer.

Coutremash Euzeb, (North Hartland) r 14, laborer.

Crandall Aaron L., (Hartland) r 40, blacksmith, and farmer 30.

CROOKER ETHAN A., (Taftsville) r 26, farmer.

CROOKER WILLIAM S., (Taftsville) r 26, wool grower 40 sheep, and farmer 100.

Crosby Albert, (Hartland Four Corners) r 49, laborer.

Crosby Augustus J., (Hartland Four Corners) r 67, farmer 90.

CROSBY GALO R., (Hartland Four Corners) r 76, lister, cider mill, wool grower 115 sheep, and farmer 260.

CUMMINGS PAUL, (Hartland) prop. of Central Hotel, and farmer 350.

Cushman Edward W., (Hartland Four Corners) off r 70, laborer.

Cyrs Alexander, (North Hartland) r 16, laborer.

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Damon Elizabeth E., (Hartland) r 63, resident.

Damon Sarah J., (Hartland) r 63, resident.

Damon William E., (Union Square, New York City) owns with Elizabeth E. and Sarah J. Damon and Lucy E. Lamb, farm 160.

Darling Charles E., (Hartland Four Corners) r 34, farmer 55.

Davis Almond L., (Hartland Four Corners) off r 34, roof slater, and farmer 130.

Davis Oscar P., (Hartland Four Corners) r 48, farmer.

Davis Ozro P., (Hartland) r 36, cooper, and farmer.

Davis Samuel W., (Hartland) r 63 works for A. A. Martin, farmer 4.

DAVIS WILLIAM E., (Hartland Four Corners) r 48, prop. of stock horse Hermit, breeder of horses, and farmer 125.

Densmore Frederick, (South Woodstock) r 51, farmer.

Densmore James M., (South Woodstock) r 51, wool grower 100 sheep, farmer 125.

Densmore Marshall M., (South Woodstock) r 51, wool grower 100 sheep, farmer 100.

Devins James, (North Hartland) r 14, night watchman in woolen mill.

DICKINSON HIRAM L., (Hartland) general blacksmith.

Dunbar George A., (Hartland) r 20, farmer, leases of T. Alexander 115.

Dunbar Henry T., (North Hartland) r 18 dental student.

Dunbar Henry D., (North Hartland) r 18, inventor of the compound engine, piston packing, machinist and engineer, farmer 365.

Dunbar Joseph H., (North Hartland) r 18, principal of Haverill Academy Haverill, N. H.

Dunbar Norman W., (North Hartland) r 18, manuf. and layer of cement aqueduct, breeder and dealer in Spanish Merino sheep, reg., farmer 205.

Dunbar Samuel M., (Hartland) r 20, farmer.

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Eastman James C., (Hartland) r 63, farm laborer.

EASTMAN JEROME H., (Quechee) r 3, wool grower 60 sheep, dairy 12 cows, farmer 200.

Eastman William, (Quechee) r 3, retired farmer 185.

Emery Harry P., (Hartland) r 60, sash and door maker.

Emerson Jacob H., (Hartland) r 59, harness maker and carriage trimmer.

ENGLISH NATHAN F., (Hartland Four Corners) r 59, practical machinist, fine model maker, and inventor and maker of machinist’s tools of all descriptions; lens, microscope and opera glasses made and repaired.

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Fields John, (Hartland Four Corners) r 58, farm 75.

Finley Horace H., (Hartland Four Corners) r 35, wool grower 50 sheep, and farmer 140.

Finley Horace L., (Hartland Four Corners) r 35, tin peddler.

Fitzmorris Catharine, (North Hartland) r 16, widow of Michael, resident.

Flower Curtis A., (Hartland Four Corners) r 34,) brick mason.

Flower Dennis, (Hartland Four Corners) r 50, mason, and kalsomining.

Flynn Martin, (North Hartland) foreman of carding room in Ottaquechee Woolen Mills.

Follansbee John H., (Hartland) r 41, farmer.

Freeman Frederick, (Hartland) sexton Congregational church.

French Albert W., (Hartland Four Corners) r 40, molder in Gilbert’s foundry.

French Carlos E., (South Woodstock) r 72, farmer 114.

FRENCH CHARLES H., (South Woodstock) r 72 cor 73, wool grower 150 sheep, farmer 140.

French George, (South Woodstock) son of Chas. H.

FRENCH ROBERT E., (Hartland Four Corners) r 68, stock dealer, and farmer 200.

French Robert E., Jr., (Hartland Four Corners) r 68, stock dealer, and farmer.

French Simeon R., (Hartland Four Corners) r 68. son of Robert E.

Furbur Benjamin C., (Hartland Four Corners) r 68, farmer 30.

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Gage Moses C., (North Hartland) r 17, farmer.

Gage Sophia M., (North Hartland) r 17, (Mrs. Moses) farmer 80.

GALLUP ELISHA, (Hartland) r 49, wool grower 120 sheep, farmer 260.

GARDNER CHARLES S., (Hartland Four Corners) r 48, farmer, leases of Daniel Barrel 8.

GATES CHARLES, (North Hartland) r 17, (C. Gates & Sons.)

GATES CHARLES C., (North Hartland) r 17, (Charles Gates & Sons.)

GATES CHARLES & SONS, (North Hartland) r 17, (Charles, Charles C. and Elisha B.,) breeders of pure Jersey cattle and Morgan horses, farmers 456.

Gates Elbridge J., (Hartland Four Corners) r 49, stone layer, lumberman, and farmer 100.

GATES ELISHA B., (North Hartland) r 17, (C. Gates & Sons.)

Gates James A., (Hartland Four Corners) r 57, farmer 124.

Geer George D., (Hartland) r 24, wool grower T25 sheep, farmer 50, and leases of Eben Perry 160.

*GILBERT FRANCIS. (Hartland) r 56, manuf. of and dealer in box and cottage stoves, sinks, hollow ware, plows, cultivators, kettles and arch grates. [Card on page 466.]

Giles Ethen A., (Hartland) r 28, building mover, and farmer 164.

Giles Lemuel L., (North Hartland) r r9, section hand, farmer 10.

Giles William H., (Hartland) r 23, farmer.

Gill Rush V., (Woodstock) r 29, sugar orchard 500 trees, wool grower 100 sheep, farmer 135.

GILL THEODORE H., (Woodstock) r 31, wool grower 200 sheep, farmer 250.

Gilson Albert O., (Hartland) r 39, dealer in fast horses, butcher, wool grower 75 sheep, farmer 140.

Gilson Allen P., (Hartland Four Corners) off r 34, laborer.

Gilson Nathaniel, (Hartland) r 60, cooper, and farmer 15.

Goodwin Elam M., (Hartland) r 63, member of state agricultural board, state senator, fire insurance agent, farmer 85.

Graham Joseph IL., (Hartland) r 64, farmer 85.

Green Calvin R., (Woodstock) r 33, wool grower 150 sheep, farmer 200.

Green Frank H., (Quechee) r 3, farmer 27.

Green J. Albert, (Hartland) r 39, farmer 1.

Green Peter, (Hartland Four Corners) r 70, pensioner.

Griffin Warren T., (North Hartland) r 36, mason.

GROUT WILLIAM A., (Quechee) r 11, wool grower 100 sheep, 20 head cattle, farmer 245.

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Hackett Lorenzo, (Quechee) r 23, farmer 115

Hadley George L., (Hartland Four Corners) r 67, wool grower 100 sheep, farmer 160.

Hadley James, (Hartland Four Corners) r 34, farmer 85.

Hadley James L., (Hartland) r 24, farmer 2.

Haley Edward W., (North Hartland) clerk for H. R. Miller.

Haley Mary, (North Hartland) widow of John, resident.

Hall Charles, (Quechee) r 5, farmer 110.

Hall Chester P., (North Hartland) r 18, farm laborer.

Hall John, (Hartland.) r 60, laborer.

Hammond Mary E., (Hartland) Widow of Louis H., resident.

Harding Edward B., (Hartland Four Corners) r 58, musician and farmer.

Harding Watson, (Hartland Four Corners) r 58, sewing machine agent and repairer, musician, farmer 20.

Harlow Marshall C., (Hartland) r 46, sheep dealer, farmer 130.

Harlow Nathan, (Quechee) r 9, wool grower 40 sheep, 10 head cattle, farmer 200.

Harwood David T., (Hartland Four Corners) r 80, farmer, leases of S. B. Bagley 11 acres.

Hatch Lucina, (Hartland Four Corners) r 59, widow of Benjamin F., h and 3 1/2 acres, and with Leslie B. 72 1/2.

Hatch Leslie B., (Hartland Four Corners) r 59, tin peddler, farmer with Lucina Hatch 72 1/2.

Hawkins Benjamin F., (North Hartland) r 14, laborer.

HAZEN GEORGE T., (North Hartland) postmaster, station and express agent, and telegraph operator. (Removed to Royalton.)

Headle Reuben W., (Hartland) boot and shoe salesman for Batchelder & Lincoln, of Boston.

Healey George W., (Woodstock) off r 31, sugar orchard 700 trees, farmer 60 with J. H.

Healey John H., (Woodstock) off r 31, farmer 60 with G. W.

HEMENWAY OSCAR F., (Hartland Four Corners) r 35, carriage maker, and farmer 214 In Woodstock, and with Chas. G. Burnham wool grower 100 sheep, dairy 6 cows, farmer 230.

Hill Archie E., (Hartland) r 62, weaver in blanket factory.

Hodgman Adeline, (Hartland) r 59, widow of Jonathan, resident.

Hodgman George M., (Hartland) r 62, teaming, and farmer S.

Hoisington Albert L., (Hartland) r 45, farmer, with Sylvester.

Hoisington Charles H., (Quechee) r 11, farmer.

Hoisington Freeman B., (Quechee) r 11, farmer 120.

Hoisington Harriet, (Hartland Four Corners) r 69, widow of Elias, resident.

Hoisington Lucina, (Hartland) r 45, widow of Cyrus H.

Hoisington Sylvester E., (Hartland) r 45, wool grower 103 sheep, farmer works estate of Cyrus Hoisington 200.

Holmes Wallace W., (Hartland Four Corners) r 70, farmer 25.

HOLY JAMES H., (Hartland Four Corners) r 47, farmer.

Holt James C., (Hartland Four Corners) r 47, dairy 6 cows, farmer 120.

HOLT JOSEPH S., (South Woodstock) off r 75, wool grower 200 sheep, farmer 325.

Holt Melvin J., (South Woodstock) r 75, wool grower 80 sheep, farmer 154.

Holt Oliver, (Hartland) r 60, egg buyer.

Hosmer Joseph, (Woodstock) r 29, laborer.

Hough Henry C., (Hartland) r 22, farmer 21.

Houghton Warren T., (Quechee) r 9, farm laborer.

Howard Abel, (Hartland Four Corners) r 46, farmer 7.

HUMPHREY CHARLES D., (Quechee) r 9, farmer 95.

Humphrey Owen W., (Quechee) r 9, wool grower 75 sheep, and farmer 140.

HUNT PHELPS, (Hartland Four Corners) farmer 21.

Huntley Ann J., (Hartland) r 50, resident.

Hurley Michael D., (North Hartland) station agent C. V. R. R., agent U. S. & C. express, and telegraph operator.

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Jaquith Nathan H., (Hartland Four Corners) r 76, mason and farmer, aged 77.

Jaquith Wesley A., (Hartland Four Corners) r 76, wool grower 125 sheep, farmer 103, with E. H. Spaulding, of West Windsor, and 150 in Reading.

Jenne Albert S., (Hartland Four Corners) r 73, owns saw mill with S. C. Jenne, and farmer.

Jenne George M., (Hartland Four Corners) r 73, farmer.

JENNE SEBASTIAN C., (Hartland Four Corners) r 73, owns saw mill, wool grower 100 sheep, and farmer 225.

Jenne Walter E., (Hartland Four Corners) r 73, mason and farmer.

Johnson Jesse D., (Hartland.)

Jones Elwin B., (North Hartland) r 18, poultry buyer.

Jones George, (North Hartland) r 18, farmer 95.

Jones Lyman, (Hartland Four Corners) farmer.

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Keene Ernest A., (Hartland) r 45. molder in F. Gilbert’s foundry.

Ketchum Ellen B., (Hartland Four Corners) r 46, widow of Henry M., resident.

King Levi B., (Hartland) r 60, blanket weaver.

KINGSLEY THEODORE A., (Hartland) farmer 26, and in Reading 160.

Kingston William, (Hartland Four Corners) r 46, farm laborer.

Kneen John J., (Woodstock) r 49, wool grower 110 sheep, and farmer 450.

Kneen Thomas A., (Hartland Four Corners) r 49, wool grower 70 sheep, dairy 5 cows, farmer 217, and 100 on r 29.

Knight Celestia, (North Hartland) widow of Lorenzo M., resident.

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LABAREE BENJAMIN F., (Hartland) dealer in dry goods, groceries, flour, hardware, crockery, hats, caps, boots and shoes, ready made clothing, drugs, medicines, etc.; undertaker, and dealer in undertakers’ goods, and with Mrs. F. P. Barstow owns farm 200.

Labaree Ralph, (Hartland) r 48, station and express agent, and telegraph operator.

Lachure Frederick L., (North Hartland) r 12, laborer.

Lamb Edward E., (Hartland) r 63, son of Julius, farmer.

LAMB JULIUS, (Hartland) r 63, farmer 341.

Lamb Lucy E., (Hartland) r 63, resident.

Lamphere George H., (Taftsville) r 2, farmer, leases of Timothy Hastings, of Mount Holly, 50.

Lamphear William N., (Hartland) r 39, farmer.

Lamphere Reuben, (Hartland) r 39, resident.

Lattimer E. Lovina, (Woodstock) off r 49, widow of James L., farm 50.

Leonard Frank M., (Hartland Four Corners) (Marcy & Co.) postmaster.

Leonard George S., (Hartland Four Corners) farmer.

Leonard James H., (Hartland Four Corners) r 33, sugar orchard 1,000 trees, wool grower 75 sheep, farmer 150.

LeSeur George H., (North Hartland) carpenter and joiner.

Lewin Elmer H., (North Hartland) r 14, butcher and meat peddler.

Livermore Joseph, (Hartland) ‘r 42, resident, aged 94.

Livermore Julia A., (Hartland) r 42, widow of Benjamin, farmer 40.

Litch Edwin, (Hartland) r 14, carpenter and joiner.

Longley George, (Hartland) r 38, farmer 20.

LULL ALBOURNE, (Hartland) r 21, dairy 8 cows, farmer 100.

Lull Charles, (Hartland) r 36, laborer.

Lull Laura P., (Hartland) widow of Chauncey, resident, bds at Pavillion House.

Luce Napoleon, (Hartland) r 22, farmer 25.

LYMAN JOEL F.; (Hartland) r 62, saw mill manuf. and dealer in lumber, shingles and lath, farm 15.

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Marcia Richard, (North Hartland) r 14, laborer.

Mackenzie Charles A., (South Woodstock) r 54 farmer.

Mackenzie Elmer E., (South Woodstock) r 54, farmer.

Mackenzie George O., (South Woodstock) r 54, farmer.

MACKENZIE JAMES M., (South Woodstock) r 54, dairy 6 cows, wool grower 100 sheep, farmer 300.

Marcy Adaline A., (Woodstock) r 34, widow of George S., farm 250.

Marcv Amarilla, (Hartland Four Corners) widow of Buckley, resident.

MARCY ANDREW C., (Hartland Four Corners) (Marcy & Co.)

Marcy Charles C., (Hartland Four Corners) r 34, wool grower 60 sheep, farmer 170.

Marcy Daniel. (Hartland Four Corners) off r 57, dairy 4 cows, farmer 200.

Marcy George, (Hartland Four Corners) r 66 cor 58, agent for Vt. Mutual, Farmers’ Mutual, and Union Mutual insurance companies, wool grower 50 sheep, farmer 210.

Marcy Ithamar, (Hartland Four Corners) r 59, retired farmer.

Marcy Lewis J. M., (Taftsville) (Marcy & Co.)

MARCY & CO., (Hartland Four Corners) (Andrew C. Marcy, G. S. Marcy, deceased, L. J. M. Marcy, F. M. Leonard) dealers in dry goods, groceries, clothing, boots and shoes, crockery, glassware, etc.

MARTIN ALONZO A., (Hartland) r 62, manuf. of and wholesale and retail dealer in doors, sash, blinds, glazed windows anti house finish, boxes and tubing for water wheels, tanks, packing boxes, and lock corner boxes for mail purposes.

Martin Ella M., (Hartland) r 62, (Mrs. A. A.,) book keeper.

Martin Frank P., (Hartland) r 62, (Martin & Stickney) h and lot.

Martin & Stickney (Hartland) (Frank P. Martin, Charles S. Stickney) manufs. of doors, sash and blinds, house finish of all kinds, moldings, brackets, etc., tubing for water wheels, bleaching tubs for paper mills, and all kinds of large tubs, store counters, office desks and tables, packing boxes, etc.

MARKHAM ALBERT S., (Hartland) pastor of M. E. church.

McArthur Johnson A., (Hartland) r 44, farmer 70.

McCabe Edward, (North Hartland) dairy 6 cows, farmer 90.

McGregor Carlos, (Hartland Four Corners) r 54, farmer 75.

McLaughlin Frank, (North Hartland) r 18, with Fred, wool grower 125 sheep, farmer 250.

McLaughlin Fred O., (North Hartland) r 18, with Frank, wool grower 125 sheep, farmer 250.

Meader Mary A., (Hartland Four Corners) r 34, resident, farm 50.

Merrill & West, (South Woodstock) off r 75, (Calvin M., and Luther W. of Sherburne) farmers 12.

Merritt Asa, (Hartland) prop. of saw mill, grist mill, and cider mill.

Merritt Lewis H., (Hartland) r 41, apiarist 12 colonies, dairy 7 cows, wool grower 150 sheep, farmer 325.

Merritt Willis S., (Hartland) r 59, farmer 100.

Metcalf Monroe, (Hartland Four Corners) farmer.

Meyett Anthony, (Hartland) r 62, laborer.

MILES CHARLES W., (Quechee) r 8, brick and plaster mason, dairy 10 cows, farmer 140.

Miller Frank H., (Hartland) r 44, farmer.

Miller Harris, (Hartland) r 44, wool grower 40 sheep, 8 head cattle, farmer 94.

*MILLER HENRY R., (North Hartland) postmaster, dealer in general merchandise, carriages, platform and farm wagons, harnesses and sleighs, Wood mowers and reapers, horse hay rakes, etc. [Card on page 466.]

MILLER HOWARD J., (North Hartland) r 14, wool grower 50 sheep, dealer in cattle, sheep and hogs, farmer 50, works for Martha A. Miller 200.

Miller Hugh H., (Hartland) r 44, farmer.

Miller Martha A., (North Hartland) r 14, widow of Richard, wool grower 60 sheep, 9 head cattle, farm 200.

Morgan Daniel F., (Hartland Four Corners) r 34, wool grower 125 sheep, farmer 200, and in Woodstock 125.

Morgan Homer L., (Hartland) harness maker, and carriage trimmer, dealer in lap robes, blankets, etc.

Morgan James, (Hartland Four Corners) r 31, with Joseph G., wool grower 200 sheep, farmer 270.

MORGAN JOSEPH G., (Hartland Four Corners) r 31 cor 49, wool grower 200 sheep, apple orchard 500 trees, sugar orchard 500 trees, farmer, with James 270.

Morrison Adeline F., (Hartland) r 59, resident.

Morrison Lorenzo, (Hartland) r 59, clock tinker.

Murphy George, (Hartland) r 38, farmer 2.

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Neal James L., (North Hartland) r 14, farmer 70, and in Hartford 65.

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O’Neill John & Co., (White River junction) branch grocery store, Andrew Renehan, manager.

Osmer William A., (Taftsville) r 2, farmer 86.

OTTAQUECHEE WOOLEN CO., (North Hartland) V. J. Brennan, superintendent.

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Paddleford James L., (North Hartland) r 12, wool grower 110 sheep, 20 head cattle, farmer 220, and in Pomfret 100.

Page Daniel D., (South Woodstock) r 51, Second Advent clergyman, and farmer, leases of B. F. Wilder 170.

Parker Frank E., (Woodstock) r 27, wool grower 50 sheep, and farmer 100.

PARKER SIDNEY M., (Taftsville) r 1, scythe maker, h and 1 acre.

PAVILLI0N HOUSE, (Hartland) W. R. Sturtevant, prop., J. W. Reed, manager.

Perkins Augustus E., (South Woodstock) off r 75, carpenter and farmer.

Perkins Edwin H., (Hartland) teacher of music.

Perkins Henry F., (Hartland Four Corners) r 26, wool grower 100 sheep, and farmer 250.

Perkins Lucia, (Taftsville) r 1, resident.

Perkins Norman, (South Woodstock) r 50, farmer 90.

Perry Ebenezer W., (Hartland) r 59, farmer 165.

Perry William T., (Hartland) r 18, farmer 100.

Petrie Charles, (North Hartland) r 14, commercial traveler.

Petrie William, (North Hartland) r 14., dealer in wool waste, and farmer 65.

Picard Edward, (Hartland) r 62, laborer.

Pierce Francis M., (Hartland) r 60, farmer.

Pierce Owen, (North Hartland) r 16, truckman.

Pierce Summer T., (Hartland) r 62, carpenter and joiner.

Pike Lucian, (Woodstock) off r 29, farmer 38.

Pitkin Ellhu H., (Hartland Four Corners) r 46, farmer 19.

Pixley James E., (Woodstock) r 29, laborer.

Powers Joshua R., (North Hartland) r 16, peddler, manuf. of medicines, liniments and essences, and farmer 20.

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Rahue Frederick, (Hartland) r 38, farmer.

Ramsey David M., (Hartland) sash, door and blind maker for A. A. Martin.

Reed Alonzo, (Hartland Four Corners) r 34, farmer.

REED JASPER W., (Hartland) manager of Pavillion House for W. R. Sturtevant.

Renehan Andrew, (North Hartland) manager John O’Neill & Co.’s branch grocery.

Rice Frank, (North Hartland) r 27, laborer.

Rice Joseph E., (Taftsville) r 27, farmer 90.

Rice Luther, (South Woodstock) off r 72, farmer 50, and pasture lot 45.

Rice Luther H., (South Woodstock) off r 72, farmer.

Rice Owen C., (Taftsville) r 27, laborer.

Richardson Edward C., (Hartland) resident.

RICHARDSON NANCY T., (Hartland) widow of Paul D., resident, h and 6 acres.

Richmond Barzillai, (South Woodstock) r 52, farmer 100.

Rodgers Lorenzo, (Hartland Four Corners) r 50, miller and peddler.

Rodgers William W., (Hartland Four Corners) r 50, farmer 130.

Rogers Cyrus W., (Hartland Four Corners) r 31, farmer 185.

ROGERS DANIEL P., (Hartland) r 40, farmer 125.

Rogers Ira S., (Hartland) r 59, farmer 60.

ROGERS JEROME, (Hartland) r 37, wool grower 100 sheep, dairy 6 cows, and farmer 300.

Rogers John D., (Hartland) r 40, farmer.

Rogers Lewis, (Hartland) r 22, farmer 8.

Rogers Lorenzo, (Hartland) r 39, farmer 48.

ROGERS PEARL E., (Hartland Four Corners) r 1, c, breeder and dealer in Durham cattle, Norman Percheron horses, and Southdown sheep, farmer 150.

Rogers Willie E., (Hartland) r 37, wool grower 75 sheep, farmer 95.

Rogers Silas, (Hartland) r 39, farmer 45.

Royce John B., (Woodstock) r 56, farmer.

Royce Joseph B., (Hartland) r 60, works in blanket factory.

Rugg David F., (Hartland) physician and surgeon.

Ruggles Byron P., (Hartland Four Corners) r 59, farmer 78.

Rundlett Charles E., (North Hartland) overseer of finishing room in Ottaquechee woolen mills.

Russ George A., (North Hartland) r 14, carpenter, and farmer 160.

RUSSELL ABIJAH J., (Hartland) r 22, (J. E. & A. J. Russell.)

RUSSELL J. E. & A. J., (Hartland) r 22, (Jonas E. and Abijah J.) cidermill, dairy 20 cows, farmers 257.

RUSSELL JONAS E., (Hartland) r 22, (J. E. & A. J. Russell.)

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Sanderson Leander J., (Woodstock) r 49, laborer.

SARGENT ISAAC N., (Hartland Four Corners) r 65, wool grower 100 sheep; farmer, 150.

Sawyer John W., (Hartland) r 44, farmer 75.

Scott Charles, (Hartland) pastor of Congregational church.

Shattuck Charles, (Woodstock) r 49, laborer.

Shattuck Eliza J., (Hartland) r 39, widow of Eliphalet, farmer 45.

SHATTUCK THOMAS H., (Hartland Four Corners) r 34, works town farm of 218 acres.

Shaw Eliza, (Hartland) r 58, resident.

Shedd Emma E., (Hartland) r 59, widow of Henry, resident, owns farm 10.

Shedd Lyndon A., (Hartland) r 46, teacher of vocal and instrumental music, dairy 7 cows, farmer 50.

Shepard Catharine W., (Hartland) r 39, widow of Noah S., farmer 63.

Shepard Eli, (Hartland) laborer.

Shepard Frederick S., (Hartland) r 20, laborer.

Shepard Harry N., (Hartland) r 39, teaming, and farmer.

Shepard Sanford S., (Hartland) r 20, laborer.

Shepard Sylvanus H., (Hartland) r 20, farmer 15.

Sherwin Elwin P., (Hartland) r 45, farmer, leases of Jerome Rogers 100.

Sherwin Frank N., (Hartland) r 63, farm laborer.

Sherwin Leonard P., (Hartland) r 45, farmer.

Short Daniel, (Hartland) r 18, farmer 140, and leases of William T. Perry. 100.

Short John F., (Hartland) r 22, wool grower 33 sheep, farmer 120.

Short John M., (Hartland) farmer 61.

Short Samuel F., (Hartland) r 43, farmer 75.

Slayton Edwin, (Quechee) r 8 cor 10, farmer.

SLATON TRUMAN L., (Quechee) wool grower 200 sheep, 20 head cattle, farmer 300.

Sleeper James M., (Hartland Four Corners) r 67, farmer, leases of G. Crosby 60.

Sleeper John S., (Hartland Four Corners) farmer 20.

Small Herbert W., (Hartland Four Corners) r 59, carpenter, farmer 4.

Small John, (Hartland) Sawyer.

Small Lucius W., (Hartland) sash and blind maker for A. A. Martin.

Small Sumner B., (Hartland Four Corners) r 79, carpenter and joiner, farmer 14.

Smith Fred W., (.Hartland) r 63, farmer on L. Damons estate.

Smith Oliver, (Hartland) retired farmer.

SMITH PLINY B., (Hartland) custom tailor, mail carrier from Hartland Four Corners to depot.

Smith S. Jasper, (Hartland Four Corners) r 49, carpenter and joiner.

Smith William, (North Hartland) r 12, farmer r 25.

Snow Justin H., (Hartland Four Corners) farmer 75.

Solger Dallas E., (Taftsville) r 2, laborer.

Solger John G., (Taftsville) r 2, farmer 1.

Spafford Nathaniel, (Hartland Four Corners) r 35, farmer leases of Leslie B. Hatch.

Spaulding Charles C., (North Hartland) r 17, farmer 80, and leases of H. D. Dunbar 365.

Spaulding George, (Hartland) r 63, spinner in blanket factory.

Spaulding George C., (Hartland) r 63, door and blind maker for A. A. Martin.

Spaulding Nancy A., (Hartland) r 46, farm 10.

Spear Albert H., (Hartland) r 20, farmer, leases of William Short, of Quechee, 95.

Spear Edgar F., (Hartland) r 36, wool grower 100 sheep, farmer 228.

Spear George W., (Hartland Four Corners) r 49, wool grower 50 sheep, farmer 150.

Spear John W., (Hartland) r 36, farmer 100.

St. Clair Charles E., (Hartland) weaver in blanket factory.

Steele Martha S., (Hartland) widow of Judge Benjamin H. Steele, resident.

Stevens Andrew J., (Hartland) r 60, farmer 60.

Stevens Augustus N., (Hartland) r 60, farmer 18.

Stevens Samuel E., (Hartland) r 60, physician and surgeon.

Stickney Charles S., (Hartland) (Martin & Stickney.)

Stillson John P., (Hartland) r 56, farmer 12.

Stocker Osmond D., (Hartland) r 59, resident.

Stockwell Bradley T., (Hartland) carder in blanket factory.

Stockwell James F., (Hartland) r 47, farmer, leases of Maria Cobb 47.

Strong Green B., (Hartland) carpenter.

Strong John C., (Hartland) peddler.

Strong Lewis H., (North Hartland) laborer.

Strong Lewis J., (North Hartland) carder in woolen mill.

Strong Wallace L., (North Hartland) laborer.

STURTEVANT ADALINE A., (Hartland) r 24, widow of Tames B., farmer

Sturtevant Clarence E., (Hartland) r 24, music teacher, breeder of Spanish Merino sheep, reg., farmer 80.

Sturtevant Cullen F., (Hartland) resident, aged 88.

Sturtevant George F., (Hartland) r 62, resident.

Sturtevant James R., (Hartland) r 24, farmer.

STURTEVANT WILBER R., (Hartland) justice of the peace, postmaster, town clerk, life and fire insurance agent, prop. of Pavillion House, dealer in dry goods and groceries, boots and shoes, clothing, hardware, and all grades of flour.

SUMNER FRANCIS A., (Quechee) off r 3, wool grower 65 sheep, farmer 130.

Sumner James M., (Quechee) off r 3, farmer 100.

SUMNER WELTHY T., (Hartland) widow of David H., farmer 50.

Sumner William A., (Hartland) carpenter and wheelwright.

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Tarbell George E., (Hartland Four Corners) r 69 sugar orchard 400 trees, breeder and dealer in registered sheep 60 head, farmer 130.

TEMPLE EDWARD S., (Hartland) r 71 cor 56, tin peddler, farmer 26.

Temple George H., (Hartland Four Corners) r 69, farmer 50.

Tewksbury Jacob, (Hartland) r 44, carpenter and joiner.

Thayer Gilbert, (Hartland Four Corners) boot and shoemaker, dealer in boots, shoes and rubber goods.

THOMPSON CHARLES I l., (Hartland) r 45, stone mason, wool grower 100 sheep, farmer, works of shares for Jacob Bates 175 acres.

Thornton Harriet J., (Hartland Four Corners) widow of Charles C., farm 13.

Tinkham Melinda, (Windsor) r 65, widow of Squire, farm 155.

Tracy Charles O., (Taftsville) r 7, taxidermist and naturalist, dealer in and collector of minerals, Indian relics, fossils, coins, etc.

TRACY JAMES H., (Taftsville) r 1, dairy 6 cows, farmer 155.

Trask Eben S., (North Hartland) wool grower 33 sheep, farmer 180.

Trask Samuel, (North Hartland) retired farmer 170, aged 80 years.

Turner Wallace A. J., (Hartland) r 36, wool grower 75 sheep, dairy 7 cows, farmer 150.

Tuttle Arsula T., (Hartland) off r 54, (Mrs. George,) farm 100.

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Vaughan Daniel K., (Quechee) r 6, carriage maker, blacksmithing and farmer.

Vaughan John, (Hartland) resident.

Vaughan Lewis, (Quechee) r 6, farmer 65.

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WALDO OWEN W., (Hartland) r 58, constable and collector, house, sign and carriage painter, paper hanger, and glazier.

WALDRON JOHN H., (Quechee) r 3, dairy 8 cows, and farmer 100.

Walker Ido J., (South Woodstock) r 72, farmer, with C. H. French.

Walker Ira. E., (Hartland Four Corners) r 76, farmer, works for G. R. Crosby.

WALKER J. & S. S., (Harland Four Corners) r 58, (James and Simon S.) breeders of pure Devon cattle and Cotswold sheep, wool growers 200 sheep, cider mill, and farmers 228.

WALKER JAMES, (Hartland Four Corners) r 58, (J. & S. S.)

WALKER SIMON S., (Hartland Four Corners) r 58, (J. & S. S.)

Walker Zina, (Hartland Four Corners) r 67, farmer 7.

Warner Morris, (Hartland) r 45, farmer 45

WASHBURN JEROME A., (Hartland Four Corners) r 77, wool grower 20 sheep, farmer 50, and in Bridgewater 125.

Waters Paschal P., (Hartland Four Corners) house painter and farmer.

WATRISS HENRY B., (Hartland Four Corners) retired blacksmith, and farmer 50.

Weed A. & E. A., (Hartland Four Corners) r 49, (Asa and Evaline A.) farmers 260.

Weed Asa, (Hartland Four Corners) r 49, (A. & E. A.) live stock dealer, and farmer 250.

Weed Asa J., (Hartland Four Corners) live stock dealer, and farmer.

Weed Evaline A., (Hartland Four Corners) r 49, widow of Nathaniel, (A. & E. A.)

Weed Nathaniel, (Hartland Four Corners) live stock dealer and farmer.

Weeden William, (Hartland Four Corners) r 69, works West Windsor poor farm, and farmer 35.

Webster Daniel C., (Hartland) r 20, with J. P., 15 head cattle, wool grower 125 sheep, and farmer, works for Mary R. 215.

Webster John P., (Hartland) r 20, with Daniel C., 15 head cattle, wool grower 125 sheep, and farmer, works for Mary R. 215.

Webster Mary R., (Hartland) r 20, widow of Azro N., farm 215.

Whitcomb Marvin E., (Hartland) r 59, carriage and house painter.

Whitney Hiram, (Taftsville) r 2, farmer 120.

Whittaker Sidney A., (North Hartland) r 16, dealer in horses, and farmer, leases of Mary Marble 15.

Wilder Levi, (South Woodstock) r 75, works for M. J. Holt.

Wilder Silas D., (Hartland Four Corners) r 56, wool grower 75 sheep, and farmer 100.

*WILLARD DANIEL S., (North Hartland) r 15, inventor and manuf. of Eureka milk pail, wool grower 30 sheep, dairy 9 cows, and farmer 240. [Card on page 560.]

Willard James N., (North Hartland) r 16, carpenter and farmer 3 1/2.

Willard John S., (Hartland) r 45, laborer.

Willard Phineas h., (North Hartland) farmer 170.

WILLIAMS GEORGE, (Hartland) r 24, (L. D. & Son,) agent for Averill’s chemical paint.

WILLIAMS L. D. & SON, (Hartland) r 24, dairy 7 cows, farmers 170.

WILLIAMS LEWIS D., (Hartland) r 24, (L. D. & Son.)

Williamson Alonzo N., (Hartland) r 43, farmer 100.

Wood Joseph, (North Hartland) r 14, laborer.

Wood Lorenzo, (Hartland Four Corners) resident.

Wood Melvin, (North Hartland) r 14, laborer.

Wood Seth W., (Taftsville) r 2, R. R. jobber, and farmer 75.

Woodward Lauriston F., (Hartland Four Corners) r 70, farmer 20.

Woodward Oliver H., (Hartland Four Corners) r 69, farmer 235.

WRIGHT DANIEL E., (Quechee) r 25, carpenter, and farmer 90.

Wright Eva. (Hartland) widow of Otis A., resident. 26

Gazetteer and Business Directory of
Windsor County, Vt. For 1883-84
Compiled and Published by Hamilton Child
Printed At The Journal Office, Syracuse, N. Y, 1884.
Pages 379-393.

Transcribed by Karima Allison ~ 2006

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Lucia Hazen Webster letter to her late husband, 1943

Lucia Hazen Webster wrote a series of letters to her late husband, Dan after his death in 1943. In these letters she brought him up date on family matters and reminisced about their life together. This was written on Nov 25, 1943.

Dear Dan, There were fourteen of us to sit down to a Thanksgiving dinner at our house this noon. The girls did most of the work and cleared up the dishes after wards. It did not seem like the days when we were younger and you and I did it all. How early we were up so I could make a chicken pie from the fowls you had dressed and cleaned so carefully. How you staid close by to taste the rice pudding before I put it in the oven and told me how much more salt or cream or sugar it needed. How you watched that the chicken pie should not burn on top. (This is the 2nd account that I have seen recently of serving chicken pie for Thanksgiving dinner. Was this a tradition in other Hartland homes? C.Y.M.) I can see you now sitting down before the oven door to attend to it, placing a paper over if the crust seemed to be baking too fast, turning it around as often as was necessary and keeping the fire just right.

Many times John’s family came here to have holiday dinner with us, but after Mary died when I was teaching school, they asked us to their house for Thanksgiving and came here for Christmas. Whenever the feast was at our house we had the traditional chicken pie and rice pudding. It did not so much matter about the incidentals – potatoes, squash, turnips, nuts pies and cranberry sauce. We could have them or not as long as we did not miss the big, big pie and the four quart rice pudding. I say we always had them but there was one exception. Mother and Helen had been here on a visit and when it came Thanksgiving week Sanford Shepard sent us a turkey. After wards he said he would not have done it if he did not think our company would stay over the holiday. He didn’t want mother to think we here in Vermont did not know that turkey was the thing to eat on Thanksgiving Day. I remember that you liked that turkey but the next year we had the old standby again.

There were some foods that you did not care for at all, and some you wanted often, but if only you had liked tomatoes I should not have thought you a difficult person to feed. And when I wanted oysters so much that I brought some home and made oyster stew you would, under some protest, eat a little of the broth.

I think johnny cake was as satisfying to you as anything I could make but you and I did not agree on the recipe. You wanted no sugar cooked in it and I wanted mine sweet, so half the batter was put in one small pan and half, with sugar added went into another. But did you eat yours unsweetened? Never. Onto your plate it went, was covered with cream and then with sugar. And you could never understand why I laughed at you.

We had salt pork and baked potatoes often and every little while you would look over a quart of beans for me to bake and you liked to superintend the seasoning yourself. I think you inherited that from your father. You used to tell about him making coffee, roasting the coffee beans himself with just the right amount of butter and constant stirring, then grinding them in the coffee mill. I never heard of his boiling the coffee so I presume Mother did that . You children were allowed a cup of the coffee on Sunday mornings as a real treat and I can picture you watching the roasting and grinding. I think it was such occasions that gave rise to the custom you had of superintending the cooking of particular favorite foods.

You were never one to try new dishes if old ones could be had and when we went west you asked me particularly not to order for you any “Chinese or other foreign foods.”

Reprinted from the Vermont Standard, 2012, “Historically Speaking” by Carol Mowry.

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Drowning at Sumner’s Falls 1895 (2) – Charles A. Barber

Six miles above Windsor, at Hartland, Vermont, is a part of the Connecticut known as Sumner’s Falls. A rough cart track goes down through the woods to the river from the main road to the falls, and here the curious will perceive a mound of earth, six feet long, covered with flat stones.

On June 21, 1895, one of Van Dyke’s rivermen, a nineteen-year-old Charles A. Barber, From Cherryfield, Maine, lost his life there. He fell off the log he was riding into the swift water of the falls and was drowned. The drivers recovered the body, took it up into the woods, and covered it with a blanket. The paymaster who accompanied the drive sent a telegram to the boy’s father, who came through from Cherryfield with a pair of driving horses.

The dead youth had about three hundred dollars coming to him. When the father received the money he put it into his pocket, jumped into the buggy, and took off for Cherryfield as fast as he could go. He left the body right there. The drivers then took it and buried it beside the woods road. Then those rough and mostly uncouth men took time to pick a slab of stone and scratch on it the boy’s name, age, and hometown, and put it on the grave. I visited it on April 9, 1966. The headstone is still on the mound, but the inscription is getting faint.

Reprinted from “Tall Trees, Tough Men”, By Robert Everding Pike, 1967, Page 236, Google Books

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Hartland News, Vermont Journal, June 14, 1884

The Martinsville skating club has been organized by the choice of A. A. MARTIN, president; John STRONG, secretary and treasurer; business committee, Lucian SMALL, George SPAULDING and A. E. HILL.

Sheepman W. W. BAGLEY is putting a 42 feet “lean to’ on his barn to keep his merinos warm and dry.

Judging by the number of young canary birds of Mrs. D. M. BADGER, there will soon be music in Foundryville.

The handsomest garden pansy bed we have seen is that of Mrs. KINGSLEY in Hartland village.

Fred W. CLARK plants seven acres of corn this year with a horse planter. The scarcity of help makes machinery on the farm indispensable.

Silas D. WILDER shows a curiosity in the news room not often seen. It is a section of a whale’s rib 2 feet long and 2 inches wide, taken from a whale in the North Pacific ocean by Capt. DUNHAM, of Woodstock, 50 years ago.

There was a “potato race” at Billings skating rink one night last week. Prizes were $1.00 for first, 75 cents for second and 50 cents for third. The first prize was taken by A. E. HILL, second Earnest KEENE and third W. O. SPAULDING. Your correspondent and T. A. KINGSLEY took each a lesson on the rollers, a few morning since, of chief BILLINGS.

J. H. BOWERS planted nine varieties of potatoes, or rather potatoes with nine different names, last year. Out of that number he has only planted three this year, Burbank Seedlings, Beauty of Hebron and Early Rose. These did the best with him.

Waldo & Dickinson’s block is undergoing important repairs which includes painting, new outside doors and partitions. Jesse V. JOHNSON does the ornamental work.

Carpenter LITCH is making quite extensive repairs on GILBERT’s foundry.

“Among the most industrious and successful of the young lawyers at the Chicago bar is J. M. H. BURGETT. He was born at Hartland, Windsor county, Vt., in 1850. His father, a manufacturer and railroad contractor, was a prominent man there and highly respected in the community as a business man and a citizen.” The foregoing is from a Western paper and will recall a name formerly well known here. Mrs. Pliny B.SMITH is a sister of the above named person. The family removed to the West in 1854.

As Geo. R. GUERNSEY of Windsor was driving through our village one day last wee, doubtless absorbed in the natural beauties of the place, and perhaps watching the many improvements being made, he lost control of his horse, who being frightened from some cause, reared into the air and upset his carriage in dangerously near proximity to Mrs. W. R. STURTEVANT and her child which she was drawing on the sidewalk. In the fear and confusion of the moment, she tried to get the baby into a garden through a picket fence, but the spaces between teh pickets didn’t fit that sized baby, and she sought refuge in her husband’s store, not far off. beyond the fright, no damage was done.

The most violent rain and wind storm for many years occurred here Monday last. One end of the new covered bridge across the lower end of Lull brook has settled 12 inches by the action of water on the stone abutment.

R. E. FRENCH still goes off to market with some of the farmer’s fattest stock. We noticed one yoke of oxen in his this week’s load that weighed 3500 pounds. He bought them of Albourne LULL.

C. P. BURK returned from his trip to market last week without feeling any injurious effects. He wishes it stated that his recovery from a dangerous illness is due to the skill of Dr. RUGG and the careful nursing of his wife.

Mrs. N. F. ENGLISH says, in regard to the seven feet begonia mentioned in East Barnard correspondence last wee, and owned by Mrs. Edward ALLEN, “tell her to nip it back, as it hurts begonias to grow any higher after they get to be seven feet.” We may mention that Mrs. ENGLISH and Mrs. ALLEN are relatives.

Arrangements have been made by which the mail of Martinsville is delivered twice a day at the tin shop of F. PL BILLINGS.

Mrs. J. F. LYMAN, while at work in her garden, near the mouth of Lull brook, one day last week, dug up an Indian arrow head made of flint, perfect in form, which may have been there hundreds or thousands of years.

Directly across the street from the newsroom, may be seen a large and handsomely cultivated garden with one of the largest and best asparagus bed in town. Long before the snow was all gone we noticed the owner at work, beginning earlier in the morning than most people go to their work, and continuing through the day. The garden is a large one and he does all the work of planting, weeding and hoeing, not from necessity but from early formed habits of industry. The person referred to is Mr. Cullen F. STURTEVANT, well on towards 90 years of age.

Mr. Joseph LIVERMORE, ninety-five years of age, was out in his fields planting corn, as was noticed by people passing by his farm last week.

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Hartland News, Vermont Journal, July 19, 1884

Elisha BARRELL deeded to L. A. SHEDD a small piece of land, about an acre, for $85 including crops. The land formerly belonged to the SHEDD farm.

One of the rarest sights to be found in Windsor county, probably, can be seen in Mrs. B. F. LABAREE’S sitting room. This room is just fifteen feet square, and an English ivy, starting from near one corner, has made the circuit of the room, less only a few yards, eight times. it is worth going distance to see. The slip from which has been produced this enormous growth, was given to Mrs. LABAREE by Mrs. Harriet PIERCE, sister of Mrs. M. K. PAINE, in Windsor, fourteen years ago.

Eli SHEPARD is an old and well-known citizen living alone in a small house near the Methodist church. Passing by the other day, we noticed quite a little drove of birds, of the wren specie, which he was feeding on his door-step. They seemed perfectly tame, and appeared to greatly enjoy their breakfast of cracker crumbs. Inquiry elicited the following: “Yes, these birds are very tame, they come regularly three times a day for their food, lighting all around me as you see them now, and often fly into the window when I am eating, light on the table and eat with me. I talk much to them; they seem to understand what I say, and are a great deal of company for me.” Miss Abby B. BATES is home from the Methodist Seminary and female college at Montpelier. her father, James G. BATES, attended the recent graduating exercises and speaks of the institution as in a very flourishing condition.

Miss Grace KETCHUM has returned to her home after an absence of several months in Boston and Salem, Mass., where she has been engaged in perfecting her musical education. Miss Gertie WOODCOCK of Chicago is visiting with her.

The silver wedding anniversary of Mr. and Ms. George A. MORSE was celebrated July 5, in Medford, Mass., where they have resided since their marriage. Mrs. O.W. WALDO, Mrs. J. G. MORGAN and Mrs. G. THAYER, of this town, sisters of Mrs. MORSE, sent presents, as did also W. H. H., James and Simon S. WALKER, her brothers.

Mr. and Mrs. W. P. PAUL of Lebanon, N. H., will known both here and in Windsor, have recently been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jason DARLING of this town.

Mr. George M. HOYT, druggist, of Boston formerly with Col. M. K. PAINE, Windsor, and his wife, formerly Allie HARLOW of this town, have been up to breath the mountain air and drink from the cooling springs of Hartland. There were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. HARLOW. Mr. HOYT returned to Boston, Monday. Mrs. HOYT is to remain sometime longer.

Mattie KEYES of Claremont, N.H., is visiting with her aunt, Mrs. Lorenzo WOOD, at Four Corners.

“What you has here, one horse show?” That was the Frenchman’s question on seeing the horses round DICKINSON’s shop waiting for shoes.

Stephen M. PINGREE was in town last week.

Women and their work–Under this head we notice some uncommonly fine rag carpet and rag work by Mrs. George STURTEVANT, which we recently examined. One unfamiliar with the science of combining colors would hardly believe that a lot of old rags could be worked into articles of such real beauty and use. We are always pleased to notice the products of the farm, and we are no less pleased to notice the products of the busy fingers of our wives, sisters and daughters, that do so much to beautify our homes.

The school in district No. 6 under the charge of Miss May L. SLAYTON, closed July 5. Whole number of pupils 7. names of those not absent or tardy. Mary GREEN, Rena BROWN, Walter EASTMAN, and Clayton HACKETT. Absent but not tardy, Hattie HACKETT, Emma BROWN, and Minnie BATES.

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Poem: Written for the P.O. at a Fair in Windsor, by E. B. Cutts

[This would be Elizabeth Bartlett Cutts b. 1837 d. 1863]

I sat one day by a gurgling brook,

In a shady dell, a right pleasant nook,

From the sun I was sheltered by tall spreading trees,

And was fanned by a gentle Southern breeze,

I was watching the foam of the dashing spray,

When in a bubble so light and gay,

I saw a little water sprite,

It was very fair and of colors bright,

It’s hair was of the finest gold,

And it’s body was shaped in a tiny mould,

It sprang from it’s chariot of air

And stopped before me that being fair,

It looked like a sparkling drop of dew,

From thence to my side it quickly flew,

“Now listen” said he “to all I say”

And all my instructions most strictly obey

If you do, all will be well

But if not beware of my magic spell

You must quickly repair said the little sprite,

To Windsor, upon next Wednesday night,

For in that village there is going to be,

In the Odd Fellows Hall a grande levee,

And in the crowd you there will find,

A lovely youth of a giant mind,

His features are of the Grecian mould,

In peace he’s gentle, in war he’s bold,

You’ll know him by his sparkling eye,

By his marble brow, so full and high,

But shrink not thou from cupids dart,

For you must yield to this youth your heart

I have found, dear Liz that this tale is true,

My heart I have lost, it is given to you,

I have watched you through the crowd so gay

And my heart will follow wherever you stray. July 1853

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Joseph Call, the “Paul Bunyan of the East”

Joseph Call also known as “The Modern Hercules”, “The Lewis Giant”, “Big Joe”, “Stout Joe” and “The Paul Bunyan of the East”.

Joe Call was one of the fabulous strong men and wrestlers around whom a whole saga of myths and legends have grown. He has often been referred to as the Paul Bunyan of the East, but, unlike Paul who was created by the advertising department of a lumber company, Joe was an actual person and a highly respected citizen of Lewis, Essex, NY. Essex County mythology is enriched by many a story about the strength of Joe Call.

There have been many articles and a book written about our ancestor Joseph Call. Joe Call was born on the old Cushing farm two miles north of Woodstock, Vermont on March 31, 1781. His fathers name was James Call and was called “The Prince of Wanderers” because he apparently moved seven or eight times before settling in Woodstock. At the age of fifty, the father married for the third time and this wife was 15 year-old Anne Powers. Joe was the second son of this marriage and one of seventeen Call children from all marriages.

Joe was reportedly 6′ 3″ tall, thick set and stronger than he looked. Some conservative estimates credit him with the strength of 3 men. He was also described as “above medium height, large without being excessively fat, compactly built, as spry as a cat and of jovial disposition.(Hall) One other description says “Joe was characterized as being tall, straight and broad shouldered, principally bone and muscle, a gentle man at all times, there being none of the bravado about him and a man who used but little liquor in his career.”

Within his family, Joe was the largest and strongest of his generation, but his uncle Nathan was also ‘immense and powerfully built.’ Joe’s older brother Jesse, known as Tip, was also said to be very strong. There is even a story about a powerful Call sister who would wrestle with challengers when Joe was away.(Hall)

We don’t know much about Joe Call as a youth other than that he was a ‘leader and champion’ of the local youth. One story from his school days says that Joe, being guilty of some infraction of rules or misconduct, was called to the front of the class to be punished. Joe strode to the teacher, ‘took hold and tossed him out the window, to the delight of his companions.’ (Hall)

As he grew older, his sense of humor was apparent as he displayed his physical superiority. ‘At one get together he hefted a barrel of cider to his mouth and, after slacking his own thirst, gravely offered to pass it around the rest of the company.’ (De Sormo) As a youth Joe matched his strength against anybody who claimed any strength of their own. Joe’s fame as a wrestler spread locally. Joe traveled abroad and won a wrestling match in Scotland spreading his fame overseas.

Joe worked variously as a logger/lumberer, teamster, farmer, sawmill operator, and mill wright. He served in the militia, ran a store and served as a postmaster, town assessor, auditor, and Justice of the Peace. While working as a teamster, ‘whenever he happened to bog down in a mud hole, he crawled under the wagon, made himself into a human jack and lifted it to dry land.’ (Hall) One noted event occurred while Joe was a teamster. At a tavern Joe overheard one of the crowd bragging how he had thrown Joe Call. (Joe’s reputation was already wide spread.) Joe had not seen this man before and was somewhat startled by the declaration. Joe responded that he too had wrassled Joe Call and knew all his holds and tricks, and challenged the man to a round or two. One version of the story has Joe lifting the stranger off the floor, holding him at arm’s length and saying “now wrassle!” When the victim asked “Who the devil are you?” Joe answered “The man you threw, Joe Call at your service.” (De Sormo)

One story has a ‘champion wrestler’ from overseas who came to American specifically to wrestle Call seeking Joe out on his Lewis farm, where Joe was in the field plowing. Not recognizing Joe, the stranger asked directions to Joe Call’s house. Guessing the purpose of this visit, Joe lifted his plow in one hand and silently pointed to the nearest farm house. The stranger then left without challenging Call. (De Sormo) Like all able bodied men of the time, Joe served in the militia for the war of 1812. Two notable events occurred during this time. The first event has Joe and another soldier, Abraham Chase, ‘celebrating’ a minor victory together in a tavern. After a few drinks Chase challenged Call to a match saying “I feel good enough to throw you.” and proceeded to do just that without very much effort. The story states that Joe had either been soldiering or celebrating too hard! In any case, Chase claimed from then on to be the only man to ever throw Joe Call, and in fact has that statement engraved on his tombstone in Memorial Cemetery, Willsboro, NY. (De Sormo)

Another wrestling match occurred while Joe Call was still in the militia. For some reason, “Joe went to the British camp on an errand where the British had their own champion, a mean brute who had never met his equal in a match. Several of the English officers, on learning that the celebrated American wrestler was in their midst, realized that the situation was a natural for a match, but Joe refused to fight. Finally, the English Bully made some slurring remark about the Yankees, which enraged Joe. At the first onset Joe was brought to his knees. Joe had often said he never could discover any difference in the strength of men, but that now he felt he must exert all his power. Seizing hold of his antagonist he bowed himself with all his strength and gradually squeezed the boaster to his breast. The Englishman gave one shriek,….and when Joe released him from his grasp, the bully fell…dead at his feet! As Joe later said, “It was either his life of mine!”- a fight to the death.” (De Sormo)

Joe Call continued to be popular at barn raisings where he could haul large foundation stones and timbers single handedly. Joe and his boys were involved in logging and sawmill operation on the Saranac River, near Loon Lake, however, in the summer of 1835, Joe developed a carbuncle on his neck and returned home to Westport. A doctor was sent for on August 23rd but he became progressively worse and died on the morning of September 20th, 1835. He is buried in the Westport Cemetery, Essex County, New York.

Bibliography:
Joe Call, The Lewis Giant: by Maitland De Sormo, 1981 New York Folklore Quarterly, Spring 1953
Eleanor Hall Besboro, A History of Westport
Newspaper clippings (unidentified)

Reprinted from the Hartland Historical Society Newsletter

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Dr. Joseph Adam Gallup

Reprinted from the Summer 2008 Hartland Historical Society Newsletter

The Gallup family is one of the most remarkable to be found anywhere. Hartland was most fortunate to have many of its members settle here. One branch settled in the Weed District and we have a Gallup cemetery in that area and, at one time, there was a Gallup School. Another branch settled on what is now Rte. 5, where the Whites Dairy Supply is now located. The cemetery on the west side of Rte 5 is also a Gallup Cemetery, sometimes referred to as the Dunbar or Wyman Cemetery. Dr. Gallup was raised in a house that stood on the White land. Quoting from May Roger’s work done in 1963 we learn the following.

Joseph Gallup, born in Stonington, Conn., March 20, 1759, was about six years old when his father brought his family to Hartland. The means of his early education is not known but it included a command of good English, some Latin and Greek and the ability to read French. In 1787, when he was 18, he began his study of medicine under a “preceptor”, the method of instruction in this profession prevailing at that time. This supplemented by the required number of lectures qualified him to begin practice when he reached his 21st birthday Mar. 30, 1790, the earliest age when such practice could be legal. This practice began in Hartland and the neighboring towns of Bethel and Woodstock. In 1791 he bought property in Bethel and was established there in 1793. In May of 1792, by an appointment dated and signed by his uncle, Col. George Dennison, he became surgeon of the militia. In Sept. of that year, he married Abigail Willard of the Hartland’s Willard families, and their first child was born there in May 1793. For better location and a wider field of activity, he moved to Woodstock in 1800. He received the degree of Bachelor of Medicine in 1798, the first to receive an earned medical degree from Dartmouth as distinguished from the honorary degree which he had received earlier. He received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1814. Middlebury College conferred the degree of Master of Arts in 1823.
In these years, medical societies were beginning to be formed and a charter was granted to the Vermont Medical Society of Castleton, Vt. In Oct, 1813 Dr. Gallup was elected it’s president for ten successful terms until he refused in 1829. He was already a teacher and lecturer of high repute and a writer on medical subjects, being deemed the most prominent man in the profession in New England.
Progressively welcoming all advances in medical practice, he was first in the use of the new vaccination for small pox, a great scourge in those days. Upon the discovery in 1796, by Edward Jenner, an Englishman, of the much greater effectiveness of cow pox in the inoculations for this dread disease, it was tried, tested and established by Dec 16, 1804. Already, Dr. Gallup had advertized in the Vermont Journal of Windsor, issue of Jan. 11, 1803, that he was prepared to vaccinate with cow pox. A book written by Dr. Gallup on the subject was current in 1798.
Dr. Gallup’s election to the presidency of the Vermont Medical Society of Castleton occurred on Dec. 10, 1820. He held all the official positions by Jan. 1821, continued teaching there for 3 years but resigned in Jan. 1824. Dr. Gallup had long had dreams of a school of medicine and these were brought to fruition by the founding of the Medical College in Woodstock which he achieved in 1826, and of which he was the sole owner and supporter during its difficult early years, at times at considerable financial loss. The first session of the Clinical School of Medicine (the name adopted) was from March to late May of 1827. Midway in this session Dr. Gallup bought of Abraham Stearns about 3/4 of an acre of land in the western part of the village of Woodstock. He paid $325 for this plot of land and here he erected a building, still at his own expense, for the purpose of holding lectures in 1828. This fine brick building of 7 rooms and basement story was the home of this medical school until1839, when the larger building was erected on College Hill. The original building was remodeled for residential purposes (still a home in 1969).
A difference of opinion arose between Dr. Gallup and two ambitious young medics, Drs Palmer and Parker. These men wanted to do outside teaching for the larger income. Dr. Gallup did not favor peripatetic professors as he felt it lessened allegiance to his College and also interfered with his cherished plan for continuous instruction throughout the calendar year. Bitterness mounted. The arrogant effrontery and caustic criticism of Dr. Gallup by these men who had been professors on his teaching staff and received of his beneficence evoked his decision to resign. This so stirred the people of Woodstock that a meeting was called. A large gathering on the stormy evening of Jan. 6 1834, unanimously passed resolutions commending Dr. Gallup and saying that it was generally known and admitted that the Clinical School of Medicine of this place was projected and carried into successful operation by the exertions of Dr. Joseph Gallup, – “Resolved, that it is the wish of this meeting that Dr. Gallup would continue his efforts and use such means as he may think proper to continue the school and in so doing we will give him our support and influence.” Dr. Palmer was not deterred by this. He usurped all prerogatives. Dr. Gallup resigned and severed all connection to the institution. Save for a few years in Boston, he continued to live in Woodstock, dying there on Oct. 12, 1849, concluding nearly 50 years of respected and highly esteemed citizenship. He and his wife are buried in the Wyman Cemetery in North Hartland.