Echoes in the Forest

While hiking through an ancient wood, we came upon a heap of stone and there beyond - a fading shape swallowed by the mossy loam.

Here, we paused upon our journey to contemplate and rest, when the whispers of a haunting wind seemed to answer our inquest.

There was a time – a distant time field and farm spread out before us, while a song of life and love and strife was sung in human chorus --

a song of children playing, of farmers in the field, of women in the kitchen -- a song thought not to yield.

But t’ was a melody in passing now no children left to play and field returned to forest once the farmer went away.

The winds of time blow ever softly as they carry off the chorus, leaving remnants of that distant time like Echoes in the Forest.

DK Young

Stratton Families

Preface Like the farm in the verse, so went most of Stratton’s homesteads – abandoned to the forest – destined to fade away beneath the mossy loam. Of course, nature has not yet reconquered all of Stratton. While no true farms remain in this town and only a scant few landowners have held back forest from field, the population of the town has rebounded, but to the tune of another lifestyle – another time. The following pages address the majority of Stratton’s inhabitants from its beginnings to the early part of the twentieth century; also many of the more recent resident families are detailed, if they wished to be included here. This supplement was compiled from: Stratton’s vital records, land records, its censuses from 1791 to 1920, data from Stratton’s cemeteries, Somerset’s vital records and land records, also data from Vermont’s and Massachusetts’s vital records, family histories, published genealogies, and Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War - A Compilation from the Archives - Boston, 1896. As well, I have denoted any additional sources (other than those listed above) following the specific family description. Space restrictions prevent more detailed source information This supplement is an important aspect of Stratton’s History in that a true town history can be defined only by the cumulative life stories of its citizens. Furthermore, this work represents an in-depth study of the migration patterns into and out of this area. While this supplement is an accurate account of Stratton’s families and transients who left some record of their existence within the town, mistakes are inevitable when compiling extensive amounts of information such as this from various sources. This document, therefore, should not be used as an official source for genealogical data, but instead as a guide. This volume uses the following format: Family names are grouped alphabetically, while individuals follow more of a chronological sequence. Each individual family begins with a brief biography of the patriarch or matriarch of the earliest member of that family to arrive in Stratton (husband and wife are nearly always discussed together under the husband’s surname). The family line is then carried through to the last family or individual who lived in Stratton. When families of siblings remained in town for multiple generations, the family of the oldest sibling is addressed first, followed by their children, then grandchildren, etc., following this rule through each line. When a particular line has been covered completely, then the next sibling’s family is addressed, etc. Names of parents are associated with each individual, when known, to clarify family relationships. Children within a household are listed at the end of their parents’ biographies with a summary of birth, death and marriage data for each child. This information may appear again if that child warrants having a detailed biography. This work contains numerous references to the Lot / Range designations of respective individual’s homes, farms or property. These parcels can be found on Stratton’s grid map.

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entire 200 acres to John Hill of A Palmer on September 23, 1795. Andrew then purchased the east Abbott half of 6L7R in March, 1796. They may have settled on the farm Samuel Abbott, Jr. may have first occupied by Clark Stone, come to Stratton between 1860 located just below Little Stratton and 1864. During the Civil War, Mountain on the south side. In Samuel enlisted into the Navy in September, Andrew sold this lot October, 1864, and served aboard to Samuel Blodgett of Palmer, and the “Don,” (probably the USS then evidently returned to Palmer Macedonia). He may have been to live. someone from out of town Their children were: recruited by Stratton’s Selectmen 1) Amos, born February 12, 1790, to fill a position for Stratton at Palmer, Massachusetts. during the war. Samuel evidently 2) Lucy, born October 18, 1791, deserted on May 29, 1866. at Palmer, Massachusetts. Subsequently, he did not return to 3) Andrew, born in 1795 at Stratton to live. Palmer, Massachusetts. 4) Sally Swift, born January 11, Adams 1798, at Palmer, Andrew Adams, Jr., was Massachusetts. probably the same born March 24, 1767, at Milton, Massachusetts, John Adams was probably the son of Andrew and Ruth same born July 23, 1761, at (Wadsworth) Adams. Milton, Massachusetts, son of Andrew moved to Stratton Andrew and Ruth (Wadsworth) about 1793, from Palmer, Adams. John was living in Massachusetts. Andrew married Barnard, Vermont, when he Rebecca Putnam, daughter of purchased the west half of 6L7R Amos and Sarah (Swift) Putnam, in Stratton from Clark Stone in on September 13, 1789, at Ward, April, 1796. John may have Massachusetts. Sarah was born settled on this lot. The remains of on February 18, 1767. a farm can still be seen along the Amos Putnam, one of Appalachian Trail, west of its Stratton’s early proprietors, sold intersection with the IP Road. Rebecca 12L1R in Stratton in Two months later, he purchased October, 1793. The Adamses the west half of 4L8R. were the first to build on this lot John sold his farm to Thomas and settled there soon after. In Hill in November, 1796, and 1795, a 50-acre parcel of the removed to Palmer, Adam’s lot was auctioned off by Massachusetts. Following the the town at a tax-sale to pay back- move, he continued to purchase taxes; however, Andrew bought other properties in Stratton but the parcel back and then sold the never resettled there. John had

Stratton Families 2 many dealings with Clark Stone 2) Martin Elbridge, born April and may have been related to 20, 1838, at Northfield, Stone in some way. John later Massachusetts; married sold one of his lots to Benjamin Lucinda Hall on November 26, Adams of Palmer. Benjamin may 1860, at Somerset, Vermont. have been John’s brother, born 3) Betsey M., born January 21, March 25, 1771, at Milton. 1842, at Somerset, Vermont; died April 24, 1900; married Akeley Nelson E. Willis on April 7, (Ackley, Akely) 1868. Newell Henry Akeley, son of Thomas Jr. and Betsey Newell Henry Akeley, Jr., son of (Whitcomb) Akeley, was born on Newell and Betsey Akeley, was March 11, 1810, at Guilford, born January 22, 1836, at Vermont. He married Betsey Northfield, Massachusetts. He Caroline Jones on April 13, 1835, married Eliza M. Knight on at Brattleboro, Vermont. Betsey March 6, 1859, at Stratton. She was born about 1812. The was born on November 15, 1840. Akeleys lived awhile in Guilford, In 1860, they were living in Vermont, before settling in Stratton with Newell’s Aunt Jane Somerset. They lived in the Akeley who was born in 1812/3. northeastern part of the town that Newell died on June 24, was annexed to Stratton in 1858. 1863, and was buried in Mountain Their farm was off of the old road View Cemetery in West Dover, that paralleled the course of Rt. Vermont. 100. It was located on the A child of Newell and Lucinda: Somerset border (see McClellan’s 1) Amarette, born about 1862. Map of 1856) and on the west side of the old road. Martin Elbridge Akeley, son of Newell made spruce shingles Newell and Betsey Akeley, was that had to be made by hand, born in 1838, at Brattleboro, individually. In 1860, the Vermont. He married Lucinda Akeleys had their son Martin and Hall on November 26, 1860, at his wife, Betsey, living with them. Somerset, Vermont. Lucinda was They lived in Stratton for the born November 26, 1839 - most remainder of their lives. Newell likely the daughter of Milo and passed away on November 15, Laura Hall of Somerset and 1892, while visiting his brother, Statton. Martin, in Guilford, Vermont. In 1860, they were living Children of Newell and Becky: with Martin’s parents. They lived 1) Newell Henry, born January in Stratton at least until 1880, as 22, 1836; died on June 24, they are listed in that year’s 1863; married Eliza M. Knight census. Lucinda died on May 10, on March 6, 1859, at Stratton, 1915. Newell died on November Vermont. 2, 1920, at Brattleboro, Vermont,

Stratton Families 3 from diabetes and gangrene of the Albert left leg. He was buried in Clark John Albert, a farmer, was born Warren Cemetery at Marlboro, in Canada. He married Rosella Vermont. (possibly Howe). John was Their children were: probably employed in one of 1) Myron John, born November Stratton’s lumber camps during 15, 1862; died October 4, the late 1880s. 1902, at Marlboro, Vermont A child of John and Rosella was: (took the Freeman’s oath in 1) Victoria, born September 18, Stratton on September 2, 1888, at Stratton, Vermont. 1884). 2) Gilbert Carlton, born November 10, 1864, at Alden Stratton, Vermont; died March Phineas Alden, son of John and 24, 1954, at Brattleboro, Hannah Alden, was born on May Vermont. 27, 1791, at Petersham, 3) Delos Elbridge, born July 8, Massachusetts. He married Persis 1869, at Stratton, Vermont; Boutell, daughter of Samuel and died April 3, 1939, at Elizabeth Boutell, on December Brattleboro, Vermont; married 21, 1815, at Stratton. Persis was Alice (Tenney) Akeley (widow born at Stratton on June 11, 1795. of his brother, Newell). The Aldens first settled in 4) Newell Clayton, born January Dover, Vermont, and had several 15, 1871, at Stratton, children there. Later, Phineas Vermont; died February 6, purchased half of his father-in- 1898, at Marlboro, Vermont; law, Samuel Boutell’s, farm (half married Alice Elizabeth of the west half of 5L7R) on June Tenney on October 30, 1893. 2, 1819, and lived in Stratton at 5) (a daughter), born July 19, the time of the 1820 census. The 1872, at Stratton, Vermont; 1820 census indicated that died the same day. Phineas and Persis had a son and 6) Clifford Martin, born February two daughters under the age of ten 8, 1874, at Stratton, Vermont; that year. The Boutell farm later died June 27, 1952. became Torrey’s Tavern, once the 7) LeRoy Luman, born July 8, Aldens had moved away. 1876, at Stratton, Vermont; Phineas also had a brother, died March 7, 1924, at John A. Alden, who purchased the Marlboro, Vermont; married other half of this same lot from Minnie Esther Ryder on Mr. Boutell on August 18, 1820. November 20, 1910. Phineas bought out his brother then sold the entire west half of Additional Sources: 5L7R to Paul Wheeler of The Akeley Family Record (1750 - 1985) by Barbara Akeley Wardsboro, Vermont, on July 24, 1821. The Aldens evidently returned to Dover following the sale. Witnesses for these various

Stratton Families 4 transactions include another John 2) William Adams, born August Alden (perhaps their father) and 3, 1820 (baptized in Stratton also Lyman Alden. on September 10, 1820); died The history of Dover, March 18, 1827. Vermont by Kull (1961) notes that 3) Samuel Lee, born December 9, -- “the Phineas Alden family lived 1822; died December 12, on a hill farm between the Handle 1872. Road and present Route 100. 4) Elvira Tuberculosis was the family’s 5) Sally scourge, several members having 6) Elizabeth died of it. After the burial of one 7) Mary E., born about 1826, at member in the family graveyard, Dover, Vermont; died the others in the family decided to February 9, 1873; married 1) take drastic measures. Opening Chester Warren Adams on the grave, they removed the heart November 1, 1854, at from the body, and burned it upon Newfane, Vermont 2) Thomas a large flat stone near by, that no Parker Morse on March 31, more of the family might die of 1869, at Brattleboro, Vermont. the dread disease. The burned 8) Marcia, born April 24, 1828, spot on the stone is still to be at Dover, Vermont; died seen, say some old-timers in January 20, 1881, at Newfane, Dover. As recounted by Mrs. Vermont; married Mason Blanche Holland Snow (about Ingram on January 7, 1868, at 1935) -- Mother Snow saw the fire Newfane, Vermont. from up the road. I presume we’d see a dark stain on that stone to Allen this day. They say it’s there. No Jacob Allen was born about 1757. one ever lived in that house He resided in Fitchburg, again. They say it’s haunted....” Massachusetts, where he was By 1834, the Aldens had prominent in town affairs during settled in Newfane, Vermont. the 1780s and early 1790s. His Persis passed away there on July name appears many times over in 25, 1834, aged 39 years, and was the Fitchburg town records. buried in the Williamsville Jacob married Sarah Boutell, Cemetery. Apparently, the family daughter of William and Persis curse had not been lifted. Phineas Boutell, on November 3, 1784. lived many more years as did at Sarah was born on February 22, least one of their children, namely 1765, at Leominster, Samuel. Phineas died on Massachusetts. December 13, 1869, and he was In May of 1794, Jacob buried beside Persis. purchased the south half of 3L7R Children of Phineas and Persis: in Stratton from Hezekiah Gibbs, 1) Persis, born about 1819; died who had a homestead thereon. on December 12, 1885; 3L7R contains much of what is married (?) Hubbard. now called Grout Pond. The first

Stratton Families 5 road through Stratton also crossed was buried in the Newfane Village through this lot heading to Cemetery. Sarah died on April Somerset. The dwelling was 28, 1850, aged 85, and she was located at the top of the road that also buried there. currently descends to what is now Children of Jacob and Sarah the parking lot for the pond. possibly included: Hudson Grout later occupied this 1) Jacob, born in 1788; died July house. 3, 1853; married 1) Nancy Jacob purchased all of 2L7R Rawson 2) Mary (?) (Jacob and the east half of 2L8R in 1795. Allen, Jr. was admitted to the In 1798, Jacob purchased the rest Church of Christ in of 3L7R except for 5 acres on the Townshend, Vermont, in north side of the pond. In this 1823) area, the Allens were surrounded 2) Cornelius by family and friends who had 3) Amos resettled in Stratton from the 4) Abiel Leominster, Massachusetts 5) Henry vicinity. Sarah’s two brothers, Samuel and William Boutell, Amos Allen may have been a son lived on nearby farms. The Hales of Jacob and Sarah Allen. At the and Ramors who owned March Meeting of 1797, Amos neighboring farms were related was selected a committeeman to through Sarah’s brother, Samuel ask neighboring preachers to Boutell, by marriage. preach in Stratton. In 1800, Jacob was head of a household with Sarah and their Abiel Allen may have been a son children - three sons under ten of Jacob and Sarah Allen. He and and one son 10 to 16, two his wife were born during the daughters under 10 and one 1790s, and settled in Stratton daughter between 10 and 16. On during the 1820s. In 1830, they November 22, 1800, Jacob sold had three sons and two daughters. the southwest corner of 2L7R The Allens moved away before (roughly half way between Grout 1840. Pond and Somerset Reservoir) to Solomon Goodale. He also sold Samuel Allen, son of Seth and property to Cornelius Allen of Elizabeth (Guild) Allen, was born Townshend, Vermont. Cornelius at Holliston, Massachusetts, on was probably Jacob’s son. April 17, 1755. His first wife was In May, 1802, Jacob sold Mary Harwood, whom he married 3L7R, except for the five acres on July 30, 1772. Mary evidently that he did not own, and removed died soon after the marriage and to Townshend. Later, the Allens so Samuel married again. His evidently resettled in Newfane, second wife was Bethana White, Vermont. Jacob passed away on daughter of Benjamin and Naomi January 30, 1842, aged 84 and (Cook) White, whom he married

Stratton Families 6 on April 26, 1785, at Milford, purchased 4L2R in Stratton on Massachusetts. The Allens June 27, 1826. Soon after the eventually came to Vermont, purchase, Samuel settled his settling in Newfane. Bethana died family there. Samuel bid to care on April 12, 1830. Following her for the widow Betsey Grant, wife death, Samuel probably went to of Joshua Grant, in 1837. But it live with one of his children in seems as though the Allens may Stratton. He died there on April have settled into the Grant 24, 1846. Both were buried in the homestead before that time. The Wardsboro Rd. Cemetery in Allen farm was located on the Newfane, Vermont. north side of what is now the Children of Samuel and Bethana: Canedy Rd. - West Jamaica Rd. 1) Seth, born May 31, 1786, at intersection. In 1849, Samuel Uxbridge, Massachusetts; deeded an undivided half of the married Susan Pierce. lot to his son, Henry. In 1853, he 2) Polly, born December 18, sold the northeast corner of 4L2R 1788, at Uxbridge, to Henry Fowler with the right to Massachusetts; died in 1832 block flow in the brook for a mill. (buried in Wardsboro Rd. The Allens remained in Cemetery). Stratton for the rest of their lives. 3) Samuel, born July 19, 1791, at In 1867, Capitola Johnson was Uxbridge, Massachusetts; died living with them and attending February 23, 1870, at Stratton, school. She may have been their Vermont; married Elizabeth granddaughter. Hill on October 31, 1812, at By 1869, the Allens Newfane, Vermont. apparently resettled into the house 4) Ebenezer, born July 5, 1795, at on the southwest corner of the Uxbridge, Massachusetts; died intersection of the Stratton- February 17, 1854, at Stratton, Arlington Rd. and Old Forrester Vermont; married Lucy Pierce Rd.. Samuel died at Stratton on on May 7, 1817, at Newfane, February 23, 1870, and Elizabeth Vermont. died on November 18, 1881. They were buried in Ball Samuel Allen Jr., son of Samuel Cemetery. and Bethana (White) Allen, was Their children were: born July 19, 1792, at Uxbridge, 1) William D., born August 28, Massachusetts. He married 1814; married Clymena Scott Elizabeth Hill on October 31, (intent published on May 1, 1812, at Newfane, Vermont. 1842, at Stratton, Vermont). Elizabeth was born on December 2) Bethany, born February 16, 10, 1792, and may have been a 1815. sister or daughter of Thomas Hill 3) Bethana W., born June 11, of Stratton. Samuel and Elizabeth 1817. were living in Wardsboro, 4) Henry C., born April 24, 1820. Vermont at the time Samuel

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5) Charles F., born June 30, Whitecreek, Washington County, 1822. New York. That month, William 6) Leander L., born December 15, sold the farm to Phineas White of 1824; died June 29, 1902; Putney, Vermont. Sometime married Lovisa W. Wing. before 1877, the Allens settled in 7) Martin F., born July 4, 1827, Osborne, Kansas. In 1877, died September 3, 1842. William’s sister, Jane Knapp, and 8) Sylvia, born December 24, her husband, Carlos Knapp, also 1830, died January 12, 1835. settled in Osborne. 9) Jon, born September 4, 1834; died October 16, 1835. Henry C. Allen, son of Samuel 10) Jane, born October 9, 1836; and Elizabeth Allen, was born on died January 21, 1901, at April 24, 1820. On March 15, Edmonds, Washington; 1849, Henry’s father deeded him married Carlos Boardman an undivided half of the family Sanford Knapp about 1855 in farm. Stratton, Vermont. 11) Mary E., born June 19, 1839; Leander L. Allen, son of Samuel died November 1, 1863. and Elizabeth Allen, was born on December 15, 1824, at William D. Allen, son of Samuel Wardsboro, Vermont. Leander and Elizabeth Allen, was born on married Lovisa W. Wing, August 28, 1814. He came to daughter of Samuel and Lucinda Stratton with his parents. Wing. Lovisa was born on April William purchased his father’s 3, 1828, in West Livermore, mortgage of 4L2R in 1836. Maine. The Allens lived out their William sold 90 acres of the lot lives in Stratton. In 1846, back to his father in 1839. Leander purchased the north part William also purchased the Ira of 5L2R and evidently settled on Scott farm - 94 acres of 5L2R in that lot. He sold this lot to his 1837. He mortgaged this lot and father-in-law in 1848, but the settled there. Allens and the Wings probably William married Clymena G. continued to share the dwelling Scott, daughter of Ira and Sophie there. In September of 1847, Scott, (intent published at Stratton Leander qualified as a Freeman of on May 1, 1842). Clymena was Stratton. In 1867, Leander born on May 7, 1815, at Stratton. purchased a farm from George William apparently became and Mary Eager (previously the entangled in a civil suit with the Hudson farm) on 7L1R on what is State of Vermont. In October, now Forrester/Half Mile Rd., 1843, the town voted to pass over located on the Jamaica border and an article to pay costs accrued in on the same location where this suit. Walter and Jennie Forrester now Before April, 1844, the live. The farmhouse remained Allens settled in North

Stratton Families 8 standing until the 1970s, when the Dana P. Allen, son of Leander Forresters tore it down. and Lovisa Allen, was born Lovisa died at Stratton on March 27, 1862, at Stratton. July 24, 1901, and Leander died Dana took the Freeman’s oath in there on June 29, 1902. Both Stratton on September 2, 1884. were buried in Ball Cemetery. Dana married Ida Bush, Children of Leander and Lovisa: daughter of Charles and Betsy 1) Martin J., born April 20, 1848; Bush, on June 6, 1885, at died May 2, 1868, at Stratton, Stratton. Ida was born in Vermont (of typhoid fever). Winhall, Vermont and was just 14 2) Sylvia A., born March 20, at the time of their marriage. 1849, at Stratton, Vermont; Dana owned a farm along died May 20, 1849, at Stratton, Mountain Rd., located on the east Vermont. side of the road a few rods south 3) Dwight, born February 7, of what is now Forrester/Half 1857, at Stratton, Vermont; Mile Rd.. died November 6, 1865, at Ida died on June 17, 1888, at Stratton, Vermont (of typhoid Stratton, and Dana then married fever). Angie E. Starr, daughter of 4) Mary J., born December 1, Nelson A. and Laura B. Starr, on 1859, at Stratton, Vermont; September 1, 1893, at Stratton. died September 21, 1863, at Angie was born in 1867 at Stratton, Vermont (of Ludlow, Vermont. diphtheria). Angie died of pneumonia on 5) Dana P., born March 27, 1862, January 25, 1900, shortly after at Stratton, Vermont; died giving birth to a stillborn child. October 1, 1940, at Jamaica, She was buried in Ball Cemetery. Vermont; married 1) Ida Bush After her death, Dana put his on June 6, 1885, at Stratton, children under the care of his Vermont 2) Angie E. Starr on parents. Dana’s parents both died September 1, 1893, at Stratton, within two years and then the two Vermont. boys were put up for adoption. 6) Sylvester, born March 29, Dana lived on his own until his 1866, at Stratton, Vermont; death. He evidently was living on married Eva Hartwell. the old Ithamer Allen farm in 7) Elias Dwight, born August 10, West Wardsboro when it burned 1867, at Stratton, Vermont; in 1924. C. S. Streeter owned this died March 21, 1893, at farm at that time and Dana shared Stratton, Vermont (of Bright’s the house with Mark Tudor. They disease); married (?). apparently were working for 8) Melvina Jerusha, born April Streeter. 22, 1869, at Stratton, After 1924, Dana returned to Vermont. his old farmhouse in Stratton 9) Flora Ella, born March 3, where he reportedly allowed the 1872, at Stratton, Vermont. farm animals to share the house

Stratton Families 9 with him. He died on October 1, 1817, at Newfane, Vermont. She 1940, at Jamaica, Vermont, and was born in April, 1798. was buried in Ball Cemetery. Ebenezer and his family may A child of Dana and Ida was: have settled in Stratton in 1830 in 1) Martin D., born in December, the Inn previously operated by 1887. Hudson Grout. That year, Ebenezer was given a license to Children of Dana and Angie were: keep an Inn. This may have been 2) Ida May, born February 14, within the house on the east half 1895, at Stratton, Vermont; of 5L7R. This house was located married (?) Aldrich. along the Stratton-Arlington Rd, 3) (stillborn son), born August on the west side of where that 14, 1896, at Stratton, Vermont road intersects with the IP Rd.. (from a stroke of lightning 2 Ebenezer did not renew his weeks before birth). Innkeeper’s license after 1830. 4) Elias (twin), born May 18, Ebenezer was not listed in the 1898, at Stratton, Vermont. census of 1830, therefore, he and 5) Darius (twin), born May 18, his wife may have been the other 1898, at Stratton, Vermont. adult couple listed in the home of 6) (stillborn son), born January Hudson Grout that year. 24, 1900, at Stratton, Ebenezer purchased the east Vermont. side of 5L5R in Stratton at a tax- sale in 1832, and it was deeded to Sylvester Allen, son of Leander him in 1833. The Allens may and Lovisa Allen, was born on have settled there, although it March 29, 1866, at Stratton. seems likely that he lived on the Sylvester married Eva Hartwell. east half of 5L7R all those years. A child of Sylvester and Eva was: On February 29, 1844, Ebenezer 1) Westley Lewis Hawley, born purchased this lot along with the January 23, 1897, at Stratton, west 50 acres of 5L6R. The Vermont. Allens were living there at that time. Elias Dwight Allen, son of On September 10, 1844, Leander and Lovisa Allen, was Ebenezer and his sons, Chester born on August 10, 1867, at and Cheselton agreed to Stratton. He was married at the “superintend, manage and carry time of his death. He died at on the business of lumbering” at Stratton on March 21, 1893, of N. J. Shaw’s sawmill located on Bright’s disease. 3L8R and 3L9R for a term of five years. They agreed to cut for Mr. Ebenezer Allen, son of Samuel Shaw a total of “375,000 feet of and Bethana (White) Allen, was good merchantable lumber” over born on July 5, 1795, at Uxbridge, that time (75,000 feet each year). Massachusetts. He married Lucy They also agreed “to stick up in a Pierce of Wardsboro, on May 7, good workmanlike manner 50,000

Stratton Families 10 feet of good merchantable Fowler, were in business together floorboards and clapboards of operating the mill. each an equal quantity by mid- Ebenezer passed away on June, 1845, and the same kind February 17, 1854, and he was quality and quantity to be stuck buried in Ball Cemetery. Lucy up in good condition for and the younger children then seasoning by the middle of June lived with Ebenezer, Jr. and his each successive year the other wife, Martha. Lucy died on annual 25,000 to be a good January 27, 1892, at the age of 93. saleable lot of common boards to She was buried next to Ebenezer. be sawed in the course of each Some of Ebenezer and Lucy’s year as they may be wanted. The twelve children were: said Allens likewise agreed to 1) Chester, born November 9, draw to the said Shaw’s mill 150 1817, at Marlboro, Vermont; logs annually of their own and died on August 29, 1877, at whatever logs they cut on said Stratton, Vermont; married Shaw’s land they agree to cut and Arathusa “Miranda” Hagar on take all as far as they go that are April 11, 1841, at Stratton, profitable to saw.” The Allens Vermont furthermore agree to clear three 2) Cheselton, born in 1822; died acres each year for the term of five on October 20, 1899; married years on the land now owned and Sarah Parsons on September 3, occupied by Mr. Shaw as near the 1851, at Stratton, Vermont. mill as possible. They also agreed 3) Ebenezer, Jr., born May 16, to pay all taxes, which may be 1827; died January 9, 1892; assessed on the betterment of said married Martha Willis. land during their term of hire, 4) Lucy Ann, born January 11, whether they be State, Town or 1831, at Stratton, Vermont; Highway. The Allens also agreed married (?) Dean. “to be at every expense necessary 5) Ormando, born March 25, to the keeping of the mill in first 1833, at Stratton, Vermont; rate repair and agree to leave the married Mary A. Smith. mill at the expiration of the five 6) Susan B., born October 17, years in as good condition as they 1835, at Stratton, Vermont; found it, except the natural wear married Henry C. Plimpton on of the mill. The Allens have the October 6, 1857, at Stratton, privilege of use of the above said Vermont. land and cutting and sawing all 7) Frances, born June 26, 1838, they can for themselves above the at Stratton, Vermont. quota.” They, however, did not 8) LeRoy, born October 7, 1840, follow through with the at Stratton, Vermont; died agreement. The following year, February 27, 1926, at Jamaica, Ebenezer’s son Chester and Vermont; married 1) Myra another gentleman, George Elmeda Thomas in 1862/3 2)

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Mira E. Pierce on July 2, 1873, In 1844, Chester, his father at Stratton, Vermont. and his brother, Cheselton, signed 9) Virginia Helen, born May 15, an agreement to work the Shaw 1843, at Stratton, Vermont; Sawmill, located on 3L8R and married William P. Buck. 3L9R, public rights which were 10) Polly, married (?) Lee. leased from the town (see details of agreement under Ebenezer Lucy Ann Allen, daughter of Allen). This agreement was Ebenezer and Lucy Allen, was abandoned the following year. born on January 11, 1831, at Afterward, Chester and another Stratton. She evidently married gentleman, George Fowler, (?) Dean, and had two children. purchased the Shaw Sawmill on In 1862, she was called Lucy March 8, 1845. On January 29, Dean and her son, William Allen, 1846, Fowler bought out Chester’s attended school in district #3. In share of the mill. In December 1867, Lucy was head of a 1848, Stratton’s Selectmen agreed household as Lucy Allen, with to farm-let 40-acre lot #57 to George Dean who was attending Chester as long as wood grows school #2. Lucy was accepted as a and water runs. This agreement member of the Church of Christ also did not last long. in Stratton on May 26, 1867. In Sometime after 1851, and 1870, her son George was living prior to 1856, the Allen’s settled with her brother, LeRoy. Lucy on the east half of 5L6R, was living in Arlington in 1907. apparently on the farm that had Lucy’s children were: been first occupied by the 1) William W. Allen, born Richardson family. Their home February 12, 1856; died was located on the Stratton- October 6, 1862, at Stratton, Arlington Rd., just east of the Vermont. home of Chester’s father Ebenezer 2) George Dean, born about Allen, and on land that Ebenezer 1861. owned. The site of the house is visible along the Stratton- Chester Allen, son of Ebenezer Arlington Rd., about a third of a and Lucy Allen, was born about mile east of the IP Rd.. on an old November 9, 1817, at Marlboro, route of the Long Trail. Vermont. He married Arathusa Chester died on August 29, “Miranda” Hagar, daughter of 1877, from the effects of a wound. Aaron and Sarah (Holt) Hagar, on He also had suffered from April 11, 1841, at Stratton. consumption. Following his Miranda was born at New Salem, death, Miranda married Massachusetts, on September 1, Alexander “Hamilton” Pike in 1820. The Allens probably lived 1888. Alexander was 78 and with Chester’s parents for many Miranda was 47 at the time of the years. marriage. Hamilton died July 9, 1902. Miranda died on October

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26, 1907, and was buried next to 1847. Chessie married Elcina M. Chester in Ball Cemetery. Arenavilla Knapp, called “Villa,” Children of Chester and Miranda: daughter of Hiram and Elvira 1) Sarah Jane Miranda, born Knapp. Villa was born on June April 13, 1842, at Stratton, 25, 1846. Following their Vermont; married John marriage, the Allens lived with Dunlap. Chessie’s parents. Eventually, 2) Ellen Abigail Elisa, born July they settled in the Alexander 14, 1844, at Stratton, Hamilton Pike farmhouse on Pike Vermont. Hollow Rd., after AH Pike, 3) Cheselton J. “Chessie,” born Chessie’s stepfather, had died in February 10, 1847; died July 1902. The Allens lived there 10, 1926; married Elcina M. through 1920. Chessie died on Arenavilla Knapp. July 10, 1926, and Villa died at 4) Lucy M., born in 1850; Whitingham, Vermont, on married Selonius Taylor on January 29, 1933. May 4, 1871, at Stratton, Children of Chessie and Villa: Vermont. 1) Jennie Lena, born June 23, 5) Cassandra Betsy “Cassie,” 1871, at Stratton, Vermont; born August 17, 1856, at died June 20, 1934, at Stratton, Vermont; died May Jamaica, Vermont. 12, 1908 (buried in 2) Lula B., born in 1873; died in Williamsville Cemetery); 1874. married Charles F. Reed. 3) Lorra E., born in 1877; 6) Charlie Chester, born February married Forrest Vose. 11, 1864, at Stratton, 4) Andy Marcien, born August Vermont; died December, 24, 17, 1882, at Stratton, 1867. Vermont; died July 5, 1885, at Stratton, Vermont. Cassandra “Cassie” Allen, daughter of Chester and Miranda Cheselton Allen, son of Ebenezer Allen, was born on August 17, and Lucy Allen, was born in 1856. She apparently did not 1822. On September 6, 1842, marry but had two children. Her Cheselton qualified as a Freeman first child was Frankie H. Wood of Stratton and in 1848, he agreed Allen, born June 29, 1878, at to lease 40-acre lot #62 and 8L5R Stratton. A second child, fathered from Stratton’s Selectmen. He by Henry Jones, was Claude attempted to farm these parcels, Clinton Jones, born April 10, but did not remain there long. In 1883, at Stratton. Cassie moved 1850, Cheselton was living with away from Stratton before 1890. Freeman and Lorena Wyman. Cheselton married Sarah Cheselton J. “Chessie” Allen, Parsons, daughter of Amos and son of Chester and Miranda Rhoda Parsons, on September 3, Allen, was born on February 10, 1851, at Stratton. They were

Stratton Families 13 married by David Eddy, Justice of diphtheria); buried in Ball the Peace. Sarah was born at Cemetery. Greenfield, Massachusetts, on 3) Amos Ebenezer, born in May, October 31, 1826. 1865, at Stratton, Vermont; Cheselton evidently resided at died in October, 1865. Wyman’s Inn, located west of the corner of the Stratton-Arlington Ebenezer Allen, Jr., son of Rd. and the West Jamaica Rd.. Ebenezer and Lucy Allen, was This was probably the Wyman’s born on May 16, 1827, at home through to that time. The Jamaica, Vermont. He married Wymans soon built a home Martha J. Willis. Martha was directly east of the Inn and on the born on July 20, 1829, at Stratton. corner of the roads mentioned . In 1848, Stratton’s Selectmen above, leaving Cheselton in leased 40-acre lot #29 to Ebenezer charge of the Inn. On June 27, for five years. He evidently did 1853, the town allowed Cheselton not follow through with this lease. to keep a tavern. Town meetings On April 21, 1851, the town and Freemen’s meetings were issued Ebenezer a license to sell held at Cheselton Allen’s Inn liquor. Following his father’s from 1852 to 1858. A warning of death, Ebenezer, Jr. became head a town meeting dated July 31, of the household on his father’s 1858, recorded the following to farm, while his mother and act on: “to see where the town will younger siblings remained on the hold the Town and Freemen’s family farm with him (see Meetings in said town the usual Ebenezer Allen, Sr.). On place of holding Town and February 12, 1868, Ebenezer Freemen’s Meetings being purchased a 75-acre farm on Pike destroyed.” Apparently Cheselton Hollow Rd. from AH Pike (see E. lost his home and Inn to fire that Allen on Beer’s Atlas of 1869 – summer. By 1869, Cheselton was this map shows that he owned living further up the West both properties at that time). The Jamaica Rd. in 3L4R. farmhouse was located where DR Sarah passed away at Stratton Holton’s cabin currently stands. on February 22, 1897, and The farm included the area of AH Cheselton died October 20, 1899; Pike’s mill yard and millpond and both were buried in Ball continued south to include the Cemetery. orchard; all of which Pike Children of Cheselton and Sarah: reserved for himself. The Allens 1) Flora, born in 1854; married sold this farm to Daniel Willis in Herbert F. Willis on March 28, 1871. 1872, at Stratton, Vermont. Ebenezer also owned what 2) Amos Ebenezer, born May 1, was known as the Phineas Eddy 1859, at Stratton, Vermont; place on the corner of what is now died August 25, 1863, at Willis Cemetery Rd. and the Stratton, Vermont (of Stratton-Arlington Rd.. He may

Stratton Families 14 have lived there with his son, Elmer, sold him this property. Orville, after selling the Pike Orville served the town in several Hollow property. Following offices and was elected a Ebenezer’s death, his son Elmer, Selectman in 1902. The Allens sold the Eddy property, with the apparently left Stratton in 1904 exception of the cemetery, to and settled in Wardsboro, Orville. Vermont. Orville died on June 1, Ebenezer died on January 9, 1926, and Mary died on June 1, 1892, and Martha died on August 1946. They were buried in the 4, 1899. They were buried in the West Wardsboro Cemetery. West Wardsboro Cemetery. A child of Orville and Mary was: Children of Ebenezer and Martha: 1) Ethel, born May 18, 1889, at 1) Orville E., born September 12, Stratton, Vermont. 1859, at Stratton, Vermont; died June 1, 1926; married Ormando Adams Allen, the son Mary L. Morse on February 1, of Ebenezer and Lucy Allen, was 1887, at Stratton, Vermont. born on March 25, 1833 (also 2) (a daughter), born October 31, seen as Adams O. Allen). He 1863, at Stratton, Vermont; married Mary A. Smith. She was died soon thereafter. born on September 27, 1837. 3) Elmer E., born October 27, During the 1850s, the Allens 1867, at Stratton, Vermont. settled in the house built by 4) Frank L., born March 28, Phineas Ward Eddy at the 1870, at Stratton, Vermont. intersection of the Stratton- 5) Isabell May, born March 2, Arlington Rd. and Willis 1877, at Stratton, Vermont. Cemetery Rd. Mary died on February 19, 1888, Orville E. Allen, son of Ebenezer and was buried in Ball Cemetery. Jr. and Martha Allen, was born in Ormando evidently left Stratton Stratton on September 12, 1859. after Mary’s death. Apparently, He married Mary L. Morse, their son Norman lived at the daughter of Abial and Julia Allen house until about 1901. Morse, on February 1, 1887, at Children of Ormando and Mary: Stratton. Mary was born in 1) Leslie E., born March 22, Wardsboro on September 13, 1857, at Stratton, Vermont; 1868. The Allens lived in died May 25, 1869, at Stratton, Stratton after the marriage. Vermont (of typhoid fever). Orville’s father evidently 2) Norman Densmore, born July purchased the Phineas Eddy farm 29, 1858, at Stratton, on the corner of what are now Vermont; died in 1950; Willis Cemetery Rd. and the married 1) Etta E. Temple on Stratton-Arlington Rd.. They May 6, 1882, at Stratton, probably resided there with Vermont 2) Sophia S. Jones. Orville’s parents. Following his father’s death, Orville’s brother,

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3) Arthur F., born in 1860; 1901 to the Wheeler family and married Abbie E. (Parsons) settled in Wardsboro, Vermont. Wyman on October 22, 1880. Norman died in 1950 and Sophia 4) Lillian Eliza, born June 11, died in 1937. They were buried in 1861, at Stratton, Vermont; the West Wardsboro Cemetery. died in 1954; married Lyman A child of Norman and Etta was: Huntley Sprague on September 1) Irene M., born in October, 2, 1882. 1885; married Hugh Carter 5) Wesley Elmore, born August Fitts on April 4, 1906. 15, 1870, at Stratton, Vermont; died in 1954; Arthur F. Allen, son of Ormando married 1) Josephine (Lowe) and Mary Allen, was born about Smith on June 1, 1897, at 1860. He married Abbie E. Stratton, Vermont 2) Ada (Parsons) Wyman on October 22, Wilder. 1880. Abbie, the daughter of 6) Charles C., born January 1, Orrin and Rebecca Parsons, was 1873, at Stratton, Vermont; born at Stratton on April 25, married Jerusha Styles. 1860. She had first married Frederick F. Wyman, son of Norman Densmore Allen, son of Freeman and Lorena Wyman, on Ormando and Mary Allen, was November 24, 1857, however, born on July 29, 1858, at Stratton. Frederick died on January 9, In 1880, he had taken his late 1879, at Stratton. father’s place as head of the The Allens evidently resided household. He married Etta E. near the remains of Batchellor’s Temple, daughter of Jerome and Mill, across from the intersection Matilda Temple, on May 6, 1882. of Mountain Rd. and the West Etta was born on April 14, 1864, Jamaica Rd. Their son, Ernest, at Stratton. claimed that he was born there Etta died in 1888 and by and that later, Robert Penn 1900, Norman had married Warren built a new house over the Sophia S. Jones, daughter of Jesse old cellar hole. In 1890, the and Sarah Jones, and widow of Allens resettled in Jamaica, Franklin C. Hall. Sophia was Vermont. born in March, 1860. In 1900, Children of Arthur and Abbie: Norman and Sophia had no 1) Wayne Arthur, born children and Norman’s daughter September 8, 1882, at Stratton, was living with her grandparents, Vermont; died October 16, the Temples. That year, the 1882 (of cholera), at Stratton, Allens had a boarder, Irving Bills, Vermont; buried in Ball living with them. They Cemetery. apparently were living in the 2) Ernest O., born August 30, home that had belonged to 1884, at Stratton, Vermont; Norman’s parents. They married Florence Muzzy on evidently sold the house about

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October 9, 1907, at Jamaica, Josephine died in 1910 and Vermont. Wesley died in 1954. They were buried in the West Wardsboro Ernest O. Allen, son of Arthur Cemetery. and Abbie Allen, was born at Stratton on August 30, 1884. He Charles C. Allen, son of lived with his family above the Ormando and Mary Allen, was site of the old Batchellor Mill and born January 1, 1873, at Stratton. attended school in Jamaica’s He married Jerusha V. Styles, district #12. In 1890, the family daughter of Jeremiah and resettled in Jamaica. Ernest Melantha Styles. Jerusha was attended four terms at Leland and born March 3, 1874, at Stratton. Gray Seminary in Townshend, They lived a while in Stratton, but then took the teacher’s moved away before 1900. examination and briefly taught Their children were: school in Stratton. In 1900, he 1) Rena Leone, born April 27, began work in Townshend, then 1893, at Stratton, Vermont. removed to Jamaica in 1902 to 2) Una Mary, born January 16, work for James Muzzy. On 1895, at Stratton, Vermont. October 9, 1907, he married Florence Muzzy, daughter of LeRoy Allen, son of Ebenezer James and Elnora Muzzy. Ernest and Lucy Allen, was born on eventually took over Muzzy’s October 7, 1840, at Stratton. He Store there. He lived out his life took the Freeman’s oath in in Jamaica as one of its most Stratton on September 6, 1864. outstanding citizens. Photographs LeRoy married Myra of Ernest Allen can be found in “Elmeda” (or Almedia) Thomas, Hometown Jamaica, A Pictorial daughter of Ebenezer and Mariah History of a Vermont Village by Thomas, in 1862 or 1863. Mark Worthen. Elmeda was born in February, A child of Ernest and Florence: 1845, at Fayston, Vermont. She 1) Eleanor, married Arlo P. died of typhus at Stratton on Monroe. August 26, 1870. LeRoy then married Mira E. Wesley Elmore Allen, son of Pierce, daughter of Waldo and Ormando and Mary Allen, was Asa Pierce of Jamaica, Vermont, born August 15, 1870, at Stratton. on July 2, 1873, at Stratton. In He married Josephine (Lowe) 1870, their nephew, George Smith, daughter of William and Deane, aged 9, a son of LeRoy’s Mary (Crosby) Lowe of Somerset, sister, Lucy, was also living with Vermont, on June 1, 1897, at them. Stratton. Josephine was born in Children of LeRoy and Almedia: September, 1850, at Somerset. 1) Nettie Marie, born June 3, Wesley was voted a petit juror for 1864, at Stratton, Vermont. Stratton in 1902.

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2) Ebenezer L., born in 1867 at Wardsboro, Vermont. She was Stratton, Vermont. born there on November 8, 1912. 3) Willis O., born March 13, Charles was a foreman in the 1869, at Stratton, Vermont; construction business in Norwich, died July 17, 1939, at Jamaica, Connecticut, until he moved to Vermont. Stratton, in 1972. He was a 4) Alpha R., born in 1875. Selectman and a fire warden in 5) Bessie B., born in 1877. Stratton over several years. Violet died on December 15, 1987, and Samantha Allen married George he died on February 12, 1988. Fowler on May 25, 1845, at They were buried in Fairview Stratton. She may have been a Cemetery in Wardsboro, Vermont. daughter of Ebenezer and Lucy Allen. Their son, Chester Allen, Milton E. Allen, son of Albert F. was a business partner of George and Catherine (Pierce) Allen, was Fowler in 1845. born on October 3, 1847. He married Betsy Amanda Pike, Additional Sources: Notes of Ora Knapp of Wardsboro, Vermont. daughter of Isaac and Jane Pike, on July 13, 1867, and they settled Other Allen families with no in Jamaica, Vermont. Betsey was known relation to the above are born on May 26, 1844, at as follows: Somerset, Vermont. Milton died on November 5, 1903, and Betsey Charles L. Allen was born in died on October 30, 1923. December, 1888, in Children of Milton and Betsey: Massachusetts. In 1900, he was 1) Katie Jane, born March 16, listed as a boarder in the home of 1870; married Andrew P. Orrin and Melissa Johnson along Abbott on April 30, 1898. with several lumbermen. He was 2) Lillian May, born April 30, just 11 at that time. He may have 1882. been there on his own working in a lumber camp, but it is more Ames likely that he was a son or a Jacob Ames came to Stratton relative of one of the other from Hubbardston, Massachusetts. workers there. He purchased the west half of 5L5R on June 21, 1794, and Charles Louis Allen, may have apparently settled thereon. Jacob been a son of Charles L. Allen remained in Stratton until 1796. above. He was born in 1908/9, On October 8 of that year he sold and married Violet A. Clark on his land to Nathan Smith of October 25, 1930, in West Princeton, Massachusetts, but Hartford, Connecticut. Violet was repurchased it on December 5, the daughter of William A. and 1796, then resold it the same day Annie (Putnam) Clark of South to Nathan Patch.

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Hiram Ames was born about settled in Massachusetts, then 1820 and his wife, Dorothy, was came to Stratton during the late born about 1818. The Ames were 1890s. Charles probably worked residents of Somerset in 1844. in one of Stratton’s lumber camps. That year, Hiram signed an In 1900, they had a boarder in indenture with Warren Higley, their home, Hilan Dean, aged 64. agreeing to farm the Higley farm The Armstrongs were no longer in Stratton Gore for five years for living in Stratton in 1910. half of the farm’s output. This Children of Charles and Alma: farm was located north of Pike 1) Ellen, born in June, 1893, in Hollow Brook, across from the Massachusetts. Penny Ave. – Pike Hollow Rd. 2) Charles, born in May, 1897, in intersection (the Luz Williams Vermont. property). Hiram purchased the Rider farm - 100 acres of 2L3R - Attridge in Stratton from Joseph Smith. Daniel Attridge was born about On March 6, 1849, Hiram made 1794 at Brattleboro, Vermont. an agreement with his neighbor, Daniel married Lucinda Hadley, David Eddy, to build the north daughter of Benjamin and Abigail part of a fence along their (Spaulding) Hadley of Brattleboro. property line, while Eddy agreed Lucinda was born there on April to build the southern section. 21, 1798. Hiram and Dorothy sold their Daniel wasalready living in farm to Aaron Lowe on April 6, Stratton when he purchased the 1853, and apparently moved east half of 12L1R (81 acres) in away. Stratton from Noah Hill on June Children of Hiram and Dorothy: 5, 1821. He apparently occupied 1) Charles Oscar, born about this property for about a year, then 1831. sold it to his father-in-law, 2) Samuel A., born about 1835. Benjamin Hadley of Dummerston, 3) John H., born about 1847. Vermont, on April 18, 1822. Daniel evidently left Stratton soon Anderson after the sale. He was probably Herman Anderson was born closely related to Noah Hill. about 1880 in Sweden. In 1920, Lucinda died in 1859. he was a lumberman in Stratton, living in the boarding house at the Atwood Grout Job. John A. Atwood was born in 1799. He married Anna Copeland Armstrong at Somerset, Vermont, on Charles Armstrong was born in February 24, 1822. The Atwoods Sweden in May, 1849. His wife, were living in Somerset when Alma, was also born there in John purchased the west half of March, 1859. After immigrating 4L5R in Stratton on September 2, to America, the Armstrongs 1823. They settled on this lot and

Stratton Families 19 their home was located on the Town, Maine. She married Frank north side of the old road that ran on December 2, 1900, at Stratton past the meetinghouse toward (see the Gonyer family). Sunderland. Evidently the Frank was son of Joseph and Atwoods did not remain in Etta (Buscha) Gonyer and a Stratton long. They removed to brother of Hattie’s daughter Dover, Vermont, where Anna Clara’s husband, George Gonyer, died on June 6, 1833. She was to whom she married in 1902. buried in Mountain View Hattie moved away from Cemetery there. John married a Stratton and died in 1933 at second time to Lucretia W. Hinsdale, New Hampshire. Orlin Holden. Lucretia was born in died at Northampton, 1793. She died in 1877 and John Massachusetts, at the state died in 1881. They were also hospital there on October 18, buried in Mountain View 1926. Cemetery. Children of Orlin and Hattie: Children of John and Anna were: 1) Clara May, born September 1, 1) Harriet Welch, born March 15, 1884, at Stratton, Vermont; 1822. died September 1, 1884; 2) John, born December 26, married George Gonyer on 1824, at Stratton, Vermont. March 16, 1902 (George was 3) Moses A., born in June or July, born in Old Town, Maine in 1829. 1872, to Joseph and Ida 4) James K. Polk (possibly), born Gonyer). in 1845; died in 1929; married 2) Ora John, born April 13, 1888, Mary. at Stratton, Vermont; died November 11, 1973; married Orlin G. Atwood, son of Martin Elsie S. Norcross on November S. and Jane M. (Nye) Atwood, 29, 1920, at Westmoreland, was born in Bennington, New Hampshire. Vermont, on June 21, 1853. Orlin 3) Jesse Spruce, born in July, learned the trade of a mason. He 1894, at Stratton, Vermont; married Hattie Bell Jones, married Florence Powers. daughter of Jesse and Sarah Jones, 4) George Brigg, born July 28, on May 26, 1883, at Dover, 1897, at Stratton, Vermont; Vermont. She was born in died in 1940 at Dover, December, 1867. The Atwoods Vermont. ran the boarding house in Stratton that housed many of the Ora John Atwood, son of Orlin lumbermen that were coming into and Hattie Belle Atwood, was Stratton for work. By 1900, Orlin born on April 13, 1888, at had left Hattie living alone with Stratton, at his grandfather, Jesse her children. Hattie had also Jones’, house. Ora attended taken in a boarder, Frank Gonyer, school in Stratton but did not born in September, 1862, in Old finish the fifth grade. Instead, he

Stratton Families 20 went to work in the lumber camps rework the exterior making the in the area. While a young man, back of his house the new front. Ora had a common law wife, Mattie Stone Allen. They had three boys; however, Mattie went her own way and took the boys with her. During WWI, Ora enlisted in Brattleboro, Vermont, and he was indoctrinated on May 3, 1918. He was placed into the 25th Recruit Co. at Ft. Slocum, New York, where he remained until November 25, 1918. He then reported to Co. C of the 116th Infantry, 29th Division, known as the Blue and Gray. This unit was sent over seas on June 14, 1918, Ora John and Elsie Atwood and remained there until May 20, Photo courtesy of Ora Mae (Atwood) Knapp 1919. Ora was discharged on June 3, 1919. He was one of nine In 1938, the Atwoods moved of the entire original regiment to back to New Hampshire to return with the regiment. Sullivan, as they were in poor Following the war, Ora health and needed to be closer to a started a garage and repair service doctor, and so that the children in Westmoreland, New could be closer to school. Ora Hampshire. Ora married Elsie found property with a cellar hole, Selena Norcross, daughter of bought it and commenced Charles H. and Gertrude A. building a home with lumber from (Crouch) Norcross, on November his mill in Pikes Falls. 29, 1919, at Westmoreland. She Ora died on November 11, was born on April 15, 1898. 1973, at East Sullivan, New After the marriage, the Atwoods Hampshire. He was buried in the kept house over the garage where East Sullivan Cemetery, beside his Ora was working. home. Later, Ora decided to return Ora’s children by Mattie Allen: to the Stratton area, where he 1) Roy bought a farm near Pikes Falls in 2) Carl 1926. There he operated his own 3) (?) mill. In 1927, the Atwoods nearly lost all they owned to a flood. Children of Ora and Elsie were: Interestingly, the new road that 4) Ora Mae, born May 18, 1921, replaced the old road destroyed by at Westmoreland, New the flood, was located behind the Hampshire; married Ira house; therefore, Ora had to Andrew Knapp on December 17, 1938.

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5) Agnes Adeline, born July 8, was living there in August, 1859, 1924, at Westmoreland, New at the age of 104 years. At that Hampshire; married Freeman time, he attempted to get a Ellis. pension for his Revolutionary War 6) Paul Charles, married Merleen service. He, nor the Joneses, was (Lee) Gomez. living in Stratton in 1860, but 7) Joyce Elaine, married Walter they apparently returned to Roberts. Stratton before 1863. Robert 8) Arlie Glenn, born March 10, supposedly died in 1863, aged 1936, at Jamaica, Vermont; 108, while residing with the died March 13, 1936, at Joneses. Jamaica, Vermont. Children of Robert and Sarah: 1) Jonathan M., born in March, Additional Sources: Notes of Ora Mae (Atwood) Knapp 1811, at Newfane, Vermont; History of Westmoreland, New Hampshire died October 28, 1905, at Stratton, Vermont; married 1) Olive H. Fuller on September B 7, 1835, at Stratton, Vermont 2) Rhoda (May) Edwards on September 25, 1886, at Babcock Stratton, Vermont 3) Julia Robert Babcock was born about (Maynard) Underwood on 1754/5 in South Kingston, Rhode October 2, 1887, at Jamaica, Island. He enlisted during the Vermont. Revolutionary War and served in 2) Sarah S., born September 6, Captain Potter’s Company. He 1804, at either Cambridge, fought in the battle of the burning Massachusetts, or Shushan, of New London, Connecticut, in New York; died May 5, 1896, 1781, where a gun wound to the at Stratton, Vermont; married left leg broke the bone. His leg Nathaniel Jones. never healed properly and so he was lame throughout the Jonathan M. Babcock, son of remainder of his life. Robert Robert and Sarah Babcock, was returned to his father’s home in born in Newfane, Vermont, in 1783. He married Sarah Peters at March, 1811. He was a resident Adams, Massachusetts. The Rev. of Jackson, Washington County, Peter Worden performed the New York, when he married Olive ceremony. H. Fuller, daughter of James and During the years that Sally Fuller, on September 7, followed, the Babcocks lived at 1835, at Stratton. Olive was born Tuftenboro, New Hampshire, at Stratton on November 4, 1812. Dummerston, Vermont, Newfane, A Stratton land deed of October, Vermont, and Dover, Vermont. 1845, mentioned that Jonathan In his latter years Robert lived was living on land owned by with his daughter, Sarah, wife of Phineas White. This was Nathaniel Jones, at Stratton. He

Stratton Families 22 evidently in 3L2R, somewhere In 1930, EA Eddy, Stratton’s between what is now Canedy Rd. town clerk, later wrote to and the Stratton-Arlington Rd. Jonathan’s granddaughter, Alice On May 26, 1846, Jonathan Stiles: “Your Grandfather was a purchased 46 acres in the soldier in the Civil War, I knew northwest corner of 1L1R. The him well. I will tell you a little Babcock house was located on the story of him which I presume you north side of the Stratton- never heard and was told to me by Arlington Rd. half way between a Mr. Grout, who was in the war Pike Hollow Rd. and Willis with him. It seems that when he Cemetery Rd. It still stands today first went south that they had a as one of the few old homes battle and there was not arms remaining in Stratton. enough for everyone so he was detailed with a few others to take care of the dead and the wounded - which did not seem to suit him very well and he went up in front where the fighting was. The captain saw him and told him to go back. He went back and soon found a soldier that was killed and his gun lay there and he took up the gun and went up in front where the fighting was. The Captain saw him and said, “I thought I told you to go back and now I tell you to go back and stay there!” Uncle John said, “I came Jonathan Babcock down here to fight and I’m going (1811 - 1905) to fight.” The Captain said no

Photo courtesy of Arleen Huesman more to him. This probably occurred at the In 1853, Jesse Jones was Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, living with the Babcocks and on October 19, 1864, since this attending school in district #5 in was the first engagement that Stratton. By 1860 their niece, regiment took part in following Florentine Rosella Brown who Jonathan’s enlistment. The last was born about 1856, was living and only other engagement fought with them, and remained with by this regiment before the war them through 1880. ended was at Newtown, Virginia, Jonathan enlisted during the on November 12, 1864. Jonathan Civil War in Wardsboro, mustered out of the service on Vermont, on October 1, 1864, and June 1, 1865. served in Company I of the 8th Olive died on October 20, Vermont Volunteers. 1885, at Stratton, and was buried

Stratton Families 23 in Ball Cemetery. Jonathan then Stratton in 1870. George moved remarried to Rhoda (May) away from town before 1880. Edwards, daughter of Lyman and Patty May of Edinburg, New Bacon York, and widow of Henry Burt Bacon was born in Vermont Willard Edwards. They were in October, 1874. In 1900, he was married on September 25, 1886, living in Stratton and boarding in at Stratton. Rhoda died soon after the home of Orrin and Melissa on November 30, 1886. He Johnson. He probably worked for married a third time to Julia Mr. Johnson who operated a (Maynard) Underwood, daughter sawmill. He no longer was living of Oliver and Anna (Allen) in Stratton in 1910. Maynard, on October 2, 1887, at Jamaica, Vermont. Julia was born Frank Bacon worked as the head in July, 1813, at Jamaica, and first sawyer at the Grout Job in married Joseph Shepard in 1830 Stratton in 1902. He probably and second, William Underwood worked there for many years. in 1860. In 1900, Jonathan and Frank was not listed in Stratton’s Julia were living in Jonathan’s census; therefore he may have home with John and Flora been the same as Burt Bacon Underwood. John was no relation above. to William Underwood; however,

Flora was Julia’s daughter. John Underwood was listed as head of Bailey that household in the 1900 census. Barney N. Bailey was born about Jonathan fractured his hip 1884 in Vermont. In 1920, he and died on October 28, 1905. He was a lumberman in Stratton and was buried in Ball Cemetery. lived in the boarding house at the Children of Jonathan and Olive: Grout Job. 1) Caroline Sophia, born May 12, 1835, in Salem, New York; Baker died September 29, 1915, at Sherebiah Baker, son of Stratton, Vermont; married Marshall and Thankful (Ward) Harvey Dwight Stiles on Baker, was born on March 18, March 26, 1856, in West 1747, and lived at Upton, Townshend, Vermont. Massachusetts. He married 2) Harriet Ann, born June 25, Clotilda Daniels, daughter of 1839, in Jackson, New York; David and Huldah (Taft) Daniels, died February 4, 1844, at on June 25, 1772. Clotilda was Stratton, Vermont. born on September 19, 1755.

Additional Sources: During the American Notes of Ora Knapp and Arleen Huesman Revolution, Sherebiah gained the rank of sergeant. He served in George Babcock was born about Captain Stephen Sadler’s 1835 and was living alone in company in Colonel Wheelock’s

Stratton Families 24 regiment that marched to September 18, 1784. He resided Roxbury, Massachusetts, on April in Orange at the time that he 20, 1775, in response to the alarm purchased the east half of 4L4R in of April 19, serving eight days at Stratton from Thomas Lathrop on that time. He later served in August 4, 1807. After the Captain David Batchellor’s purchase, Jedidiah came to company of Colonel Joseph Stratton and was duly warned out Read’s regiment for 3 months and of town on January 4, 1808, but 12 days beginning on April 27, he stayed and qualified as a 1775. Freeman of Stratton on September After the war, Sherebiah 6, 1808. settled at North Orange, Jedediah married Polly Massachusetts, and resided in the Phillips, daughter of Asa and southeast corner of Orange in the Polly Phillips on February 11, 4th school district. Sherebiah 1808, at Stratton. The Bakers later purchased part of his son, resided in the house on 4L4R, Jedidiah’s, lot in Stratton. located on the north side of the Sherebiah may not have come to road leading to the old town Stratton; however, Clotilda did common. This was one of the come about the same time as their more prominent homes in son, Jedidiah. Stratton’s Stratton. It was a tavern when Selectmen warned Clotilda out of Joseph Patch owned it and it was Stratton on May 31, 1809. The large enough for town meetings Bakers were apparently not in and vendues to be held there. In Stratton in 1810. Sherebiah died March, 1808, a vendue, held to in May, 1823. sell lands of delinquent taxpayers, Children of Sherebiah and was held in the Baker home. One Clotilda included: of Jedidiah’s many purchases in 1) Phila, born on July 10, 1773, Stratton interestingly included at Upton, Massachusetts. rights to pew #3 on the lower floor 2) Marshall, born November 8, of the meetinghouse. Also, on 1774, at Upton, Massachusetts; April 5, 1808, he sold half of a died October 20, 1848, at potash house which stood ten rods Plainsfield, New York (resided northeast of the house and 16 rods in Somerset, Vermont and from the road to Henry Allen of purchased land in Stratton). Newfane, Vermont,. Jedidiah 3) Jedidiah, born September 18, later repurchased the potash 1784, at Orange, house. He also bought and sold Massachusetts; married Polly 4L7R - the Harvey lot on what is Phillips on February 11, 1808, now Grout Pond. at Stratton, Vermont. In May of 1808, Jedidiah sold his land and buildings to his Jedidiah Baker, son of Sherebiah father, Sherebiah Baker of and Clotilda Baker, was born at Orange, Massachusetts. He Orange Massachusetts, on repurchased this lot, then sold it

Stratton Families 25 back to Thomas Lathrop in Massachusetts. Sarah was born January, 1810. At that point, the there on December 23, 1777. house on 4L4R must have been The Balcoms settled in empty or occupied by others. Stratton by 1800. That year, the Jedidiah and Polly were not Balcoms had two children under named in the 1810 census of 10. Isaac was elected a highway Stratton and they were very likely surveyor for Stratton in March, living in the Phillips’ house at 1802. He apparently resettled that time. briefly in Somerset about this Jedidiah and Polly had same time since Isaac was said to resettled in Watervliet, New York, be of that town when he by 1816, where Jedidiah was purchased 40 acres in the north named an executor of his mother- part of 4L5R from Jacob Hale on in-law, Polly (Phillips) January 18, 1803. This lot was Sigourney’s will that year. located west of the town common beyond Joshua Robbin’s lot and Additional Sources: History of North Orange, Massachusetts along the road. Within a few months, the Balcoms sold this lot George F. Baker was living in to Sampson Wetherbee. Stratton in the home of (?) Baker The Somerset Annex of and attending school in 1866. Stratton contains a lot near the Another child, M. Baker, was also Town Forest. This lot is still living there and attending school. referred to as the Balcom lot. George Baker later married Inez This area became part of Stratton Theodocia Pike. George either in 1858. It may be that Isaac passed away or he and Inez were settled there after leaving Stratton, divorced. Inez then married but it is more likely that this was Elmer Albert Eddy on June 5, his father’s lot and that Isaac 1880, at Sushan, New York (see moved his family from the area. Elmer Albert Eddy family). At some time the Balcoms were living in Hague, New York. Isaac died on December 26, 1826, Balcom and Sarah died on April 22, 1869, (Balchim) at Hague. Isaac Balcom, son of Micah and Their children were: Katherine (Harrington) Balcom, 1) John, born July 7, 1797, at born on August 26, 1776, at Hubbarton, Massachusetts; Sudbury, Massachusetts. Micah died March 18, 1849. Balcom was a resident of 2) Hannah, born March 4, 1800, Somerset in 1804, at the time in Vermont. Stratton first considered to annex 3) Stephen, born January 23, part of that town. 1802. Isaac married Sarah Green, 4) Curtis, born January 12, 1804; daughter of Joseph and Hepzibah died November 1, 1885. (Heald) Green, of Hubbardston,

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5) Caleb, born March 12, 1806; Baldwins probably lived on this died March 11, 1862. farm. The farmhouse was located 6) Uriah, born April 8, 1808; opposite the Webster Memorial. died June 27, 1864. Hiram was accepted as a 7) Matilda, born February 2, member of the Church of Christ 1810. in Stratton in 1840. He was 8) Roxanna, born December 2, received by letter from the 1813. Methodist Church probably of 9) Sally, born November 18, Dover. The Baldwins had moved 1815. back to Dover by October, 1849. 10) Chauncy M., born June 13, Hiram sold the last of his property 1818; died February 18, 1903, in Stratton on October 15, 1849. at Rosendale, Wisconsin. In 1847, a child, M. J. Baldwin 11) Betsey (twin), born June 11, was living with them and 1820. attending school in district #2 in 12) Joseph G. (twin), born June Stratton. 11, 1820; died September 10, 1) Ira Baldwin was born January 27, 1791, at Chesterfield, New Hampshire. He was 1891, at Gardner, a son of Daniel and Susannah Baldwin of Massachusetts. Chesterfield. Daniel evidently settled in 13) Mary, born September 9, 1823; Wardsboro South District before 1800. died March 29, 1904. John Baldwin, son of Levi and Baldwin Abassah Baldwin, was born March 17, 1801, at Jamaica, Hiram Baldwin, son of Elijah Vermont. John married Ruth and Polly (Evans) Baldwin, was Willis, daughter of Samuel and born on August 14, 1807. His Lydia Willis on March 18, 1841. wife was born between 1800 and She was born January 6, 1807, at 1810. They came from Dover, Mendon, Massachusetts. The Vermont to Stratton about 1839 Baldwins lived on the farm of after Hiram had purchased six Ruth’s father, Samuel Willis, in acres in the northeast corner of the early 1840s. This farm was 6L6R on February 25,1839, from evidently located west of Willis Ira Baldwin1 of Dover. Ira may Cemetery and the Daniel Willis have been Hiram’s brother. farm (see D. Willis on Beer’s The Baldwins were living Atlas of 1869) and south of where alone in 1840. On March 14 of the Somerset Rd. and the Gore that year Hiram purchased 6L7R, Rd. crossed. In 1845, John except for 55 acres on the east bought 100 acres on the north part side of the lot, from George Pond. of 5L1R; however, it appears that This included the Hill farm - its the Baldwins continued to live in ruins can still be seen along the the same house they had shared Appalachian Trail, west of the with Samuel Willis. In 1845, trail’s intersection with the IP Samuel moved out of his old Road. In 1841, Hiram purchased farmhouse and in with his son, the east half of 5L8R. The Daniel, leaving the Baldwins on

Stratton Families 27 the old farm. In 1846, Ezra B. Ball Willis was living with the Edward A. Ball, son of Abram Baldwins and attending school in and Hannah Ball, was born at the Stratton Somerset United Athens, Vermont, about 1812. He School District. The Baldwins married Marena R. (Moon) Jones, built a new house on 5L1R and it daughter of Benjamin and Betsey was mentioned in a road Moon and widow of Silas Jones description on March 12, 1846. (see the Jones Family) on They may have settled there December 25, 1871. Marena was briefly before John sold 5L1R to born March 10, 1830, at Stratton. Samuel Wing in 1849. At that time, the Baldwins moved to Jamaica. In 1853, John bought 90 acres of 7L2R from Ephraim Rice; however, at that time, they settled back on the north part of 5L1R on the Jamaica border (see McClellan’s Map of 1856). In 1850, Ezra Willis had purchased the north part of 5L1R, and apparently allowed the Baldwins to live there. In 1854, John was head of a household in Stratton with Elizabeth C. Converse living there and attending school in district #4 in Stratton. In 1856 Nathan Johnson was living with Edward and Marena Ball the Baldwins and attending Photo courtesy of Carl Ball school. The Baldwins were living alone in Stratton in 1860. John After the marriage, Edward died on September 14, 1862, at moved into Marena’s home which Stratton. Ruth remained on this was located at the corner of Ball lot for several years (Beer’s Atlas Farm Rd. and the West Jamaica of 1869 shows a Mrs. Baldwin on Rd. Edward is the gentleman both the north part of 5L1R and from whom the farm, road, and also on 7L2R). In 1870, she was cemetery took their names. He living alone, and in 1880, she was died at Stratton on October 10, living with her sister, Sylvia 1890. Following Edward’s death, Willis, and her nephew, Ezra Marena moved away from Willis. Ruth died at Stratton on Stratton and settled in October 27, 1889. Cambridgeport, Vermont.

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A child of Edward and Marena: Massachusetts. He served four 1) Arthur, born December 12, days at that time. Later, he was a 1872, at Athens, Vermont; Private in Mellen’s Company, married Harriet Eliza Allen.. Colonel Abner Perry’s Regiment. He enlisted July 28, 1780, and John C. Ball was born about served for two weeks during an 1839. He lived in Ashfield, alarm in Rhode Island. Massachusetts and united with the Sylvanus was living in church there. He began preaching Stratton at the time that he in 1862, within the Free-Will purchased half of 4L3R (100 Baptist Church and he was acres) from John Blood on ordained at the Rensselaer September 25, 1784. On May 31, Quarterly Meeting in 1867. He 1786, Sylvanus sold his property preached in several towns and in in Stratton. Before the sale, he 1868, he was appointed as the had settled in Dummerston, pastor of the Free-Will Baptist Vermont. He soon settled in Church in Stratton. He also Chesterfield, New Hamphsire. preached for the West Jamaica Sylvanus married Dorcas Cressey, Church. daughter of Jonathan and Anna The Rev. Ball apparently had (Davis) Cressey in 1787 in left Stratton by 1870 and he died Chesterfield. Dorcas was born on on February 4, 1872, aged 33 in July 15, 1766. Lock’s Village, Massachusetts. Notes: He keeping vigil over his sick 1) It is possible that Sylvanus Ballard, Sr. daughter, when he fell asleep and purchased this property and that knocked over a lamp. The lamp Sylvanus, Jr. later sold it. 2) His mother, Judith (Boyden) Ballard, was oil saturated his clothes and born in 1731 and died in Chesterfield, ignited. He succumbed to his New Hampshire, on July 4, 1806, and burns. was buried in the West Burying Ground in Chesterfield.) Additional Sources: Free Baptist Cyclopedia Additional Sources: by Burgess and Ward 1889 Ballard Genealogy by Charles F. Farlow 1911 Ballard Stephen Ballard, son of Joshua Sylvanus Ballard, son of and Anna (Raymond) Ballard, Sylvanus and Judith (Boyden) was born on April 21, 1791, at Ballard, was born on August 10, Athol, Massachusetts. Stephen 1758. During the American married Sarah Thayer on July 5, Revolution, Sylvanus was called 1812, at Newton, Massachusetts. of Framingham, Massachusetts, Sarah was born on July 14, 1792, when he served as a Private in at Brookline, Massachusetts. Captain Simon Edgell’s The Ballards first lived in Company, which marched on the Athol, and then Orange, alarm of April 19, 1775, to Massachusetts, coming to Stratton Concord and Cambridge, about 1821. In 1813, James

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Ballard purchased most of the Stephen passed away on west half of 2L4R from Joshua September 11, 1863, at Stratton, Newell. This James was probably and Sarah followed on September a close relative, since Stephen 5, 1871. They were buried in later settled on this same lot. Willis Cemetery. Stephen purchased 2L4R at a tax- Children of Stephen and Sarah: sale in 1822. The lot was deeded 1) Charles, born April 8, 1813, at to Stephen on April 25, 1823. Athol, Massachusetts; died The Ballards settled on this lot, September 6, 1834, at Athol, located south-southwest of where Massachusetts. the West Jamaica Rd. intersects 2) Abigail, born April 26, 1814, the Stratton-Arlington Rd.. The at Orange, Massachusetts; died house was located well off of the April 18, 1900; married Daniel road and up on the ridge. They Willis in September, 1836, at apparently remained there Wardsboro, Vermont. through Stephen’s death. 3) Joshua, born on April 28, Stephen qualified as a 1816, at Orange, Freeman of Stratton on September Massachusetts; died at Liberty, 5, 1826. In 1830, the Ballards Mississippi. had eleven children living with 4) Sarah Ann, born January 2, them, and in 1840, there were still 1818, at Orange, nine children living with them. Massachusetts (became a In 1844, Edwin Sprague stayed member of the Church of with them and attended school. Christ in Stratton on March 4, Stephen also owned what was 1838 and was baptized by later called the Daniel Willis farm immersion. In 1840 she was as well as many other properties given a letter of of which he either held the recommendation to the Union mortgage or had purchased at tax- Congregational Church). sales. In 1841, he sold 3L8R and 5) James, born October 25, 1819, 3L9R to his son, Stephen, Jr.. On at Orange, Massachusetts; died April 1, 1846, he sold the Daniel in July 11, 1847, in Louisiana. Willis farm (as it was later 6) Stephen, born May 24, 1821, called), noting an exception of the at Orange, Massachusetts; died cemetery there (Willis Cemetery), in Wisconsin. to Samuel Willis. At that time, 7) Maria, born November 11, Daniel Willis (Stephen’s son-in- 1822, at Stratton, Vermont; law) occupied the farm. died November 11, 1860, at In 1850, Bernard Sprague, Oxford, Wisconsin; married aged 13, lived with them as well Jotham Pike Jr. on December as their son, William. In 1860, 29, 1847 (intent published Jane Lincoln, daughter of Obed December 6, 1847, at Stratton, and Alanatha Lincoln, lived with Vermont). them. 8) William, born November 9, 1824, at Stratton, Vermont

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(qualified as Freeman of Joshua Ballard, son of Stephen Stratton on September 12, and Sarah Ballard, was born on 1846). April 28, 1816, at Orange, 9) Elizabeth Mary, born April 18, Massachusetts. He came to 1826, at Stratton, Vermont; Stratton with his parents. Joshua died August 8, 1877, at worked as a carpenter. He Stratton, Vermont; married evidently was given an undivided Alexander Hamilton Pike on half of 9L5R by his father, who July 4, 1844, at Somerset, had purchased this lot at a tax- Vermont. sale in 1832. Joshua sold it to 10) Richard O., born April 22, Wilson Wheeler of Orange on 1828, at Stratton, Vermont; September 11, 1837. He probably died May 11, 1839. lived with his parents on 2L4R 11) Lyman F., born October 9, while residing in Stratton, and left 1829, at Stratton, Vermont town soon after the above (enrolled in the militia in 1867 transaction. He died at Liberty, - occupation gum picker). Mississippi. 12) Caroline J., born October 12, 1831; died May 8, 1902, in Lyman F. Ballard, son of New York; married Martin Stephen and Sarah Ballard, was Leonard on September 19, born on October 9, 1829, at 1848, at Townshend, Vermont. Stratton, Vermont. He was listed 13) Frederick, born December 13, as head of a household in School 1833, at Stratton, Vermont; District #5 in 1867. died at Springfield, Lyman’s children were: Massachusetts. 1) Virginia 14) Edward N., born August 11, 2) Eugene 1836; died August 9, 1837, at Stratton, Vermont. Barnes

Jason Barnes and his wife, Nelly, Stephen Ballard, Jr., son of settled in Stratton about 1813. Stephen and Sarah Ballard, was They were warned out of town by born May 24, 1821, at Orange, Stratton’s Selectmen on March 7, Massachusetts. In 1840, Stephen 1814, and served notice by the had the second largest flock of constable on March 11, 1814. sheep in Stratton, numbering 33. Jason took the Freeman’s oath on He purchased 3L8R and 3L9R September 5, 1815. A town from his father on June 15, 1841. record mentions a road running These lots, however, were public between his house and Asa rights and the town required a Phillips’ house; therefore, it lease. Therefore, the next year the appears that he resided near the Selectmen of Stratton leased these old town common. The Barneses lots to N. J. Shaw. Stephen were no longer in Stratton in Ballard, Jr. was not mentioned 1820. again in Stratton’s records.

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Barnett James Greenwood’s Company, Michael Barnett was born in Colonel Ebenezer Learned’s Ireland about 1870. He came to Regiment, which marched April Stratton about 1920, where he 20, 1775, to Roxbury, worked as a lumberman. In 1920, Massachusetts, in response to the he was living in the boarding alarm of April 19. This was only house at the Grout Job. a two-day service. He also joined under Captain Isaac Bolster’s Company, Colonel Learned’s Barrett Regiment on May 1, 1775, and Elmer J. Barrett, son of Burton served for three months and eight A. and Minnie (Hulet) Barrett, days. was born on January 6, 1892, at On March 31, 1796, Richard Shaftsbury, Vermont. He married purchased the west half of 4L5R. Katheryn Delaney and he served Soon after this purchase, Richard during WWI. and his wife settled on this lot. In Elmer was a resident of 1800, he and his wife were Arlington, Vermont, who between 26 and 45 years of age apparently suffered from and they had an older woman emphysema. He came to Stratton living with them that year. On during the 1930s supposedly November 7, 1800, Richard sold because the mountain air was his land to Asahel Kimball of better for his condition. Elmer Newfane, Vermont, and moved was considered a squatter on away from Stratton. Grout Pond, not owning the land where he maintained a camp. He Henry Bartlett was born about was said to be responsible for 1855. In 1900, he was living in putting in many of the logs along Stratton and boarding in the home the Kelly Stand Rd. in a corduroy of Orrin and Melissa Johnson. fashion in order to keep it Henry probably worked for Mr. passable. Some of this work may Johnson in his sawmill. He was have been confused as some of the no longer in Stratton in 1910. original corduroy of the Stratton Turnpike. Elmer died of a heart attack Bassett at Stratton on July 14, 1961. He Elias Bassett and his wife, Amy, was buried in Grandview came to Stratton about 1831 from Cemetery in Shaftsbury. Dover, Vermont. He purchased the east half of 4L4R from Asa Phillips on March 28, 1831, and Bartlett lived thereon. Elias was rd Richard Bartlett, 3 , son of Stratton’s town clerk from 1832 to Richard Bartlett, lived at Sutton, 1834 and was also a surveyor for Massachusetts. During the Windham County. Elias sold his American Revolution, Richard Stratton property to Benjamin served as a Private in Captain

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Thatcher on March 28, 1833, and was built along the brook that apparently left town at that time. runs along the south side of this Children of Elias and Amy: property. After purchasing the 1) Roena Sophia, born July 13, property, Jacob continued its 1825, at Dover, Vermont. operation. 2) Jacob Henry, born August 6, In 1802, Jacob and his son, 1830, at Dover, Vermont. Calvin, built a gristmill and a sawmill on 5L1R, located on what Batchellor is now called Ball Mountain Jacob Batchellor, son of Brook near where Mountain Rd. Benjamin and Hannah (Hale) and the West Jamaica Rd. Batchellor, was born at intersect. Jacob and his son Brookfield, Massachusetts, on operated this mill for many years. Calvin sold his share of the water February 8, 1752. He first 1 married Candace Blair, who rights ( /5) to Samuel Marble, Jr. evidently died soon after the in 1803. Records do not indicate marriage. Jacob then married just how active Jacob was in Lois Rice, daughter of Oliver and operating the mill. It is far more Lucy Rice, on September 13, likely that he hired others to work 1773, at Brookfield. Lois was there. born at Brookfield on October 12, The Batchellors apparently 1753. belonged to the Baptist Church. Jacob was a very large man, The Wardsboro Baptist Church almost a giant. He was a records indicate that before that blacksmith and a farmer. He church was built in 1795, on served during the American occasion services were held at Revolution as a private from “Brother Batchellor’s” in Stratton. Brookfield in Captain Ezekiel In 1807, Jacob and Lois Knowlton’s Company of Colonel removed to Arlington, Vermont, Dyke’s Regiment during 1776. however; Jacob remained an After the war, the Batchellors active proprietor of Stratton. The remained in Brookfield through family farm was given over to his 1790. sons, Oliver and Jacob, in In 1791, the Batchellors December, 1808, and they resettled in Stratton. That year, promptly leased it to Jonas Jacob bought the east half of 5L4R Woodward. It appears that Jacob from Nathan Patch. The and Lois returned to Stratton in foundations of the house and barn early 1810, and settled again back are still visible on what is now on the farm. In 1818, Jacob sold called Shepardson Rd.. At that the mill to David Newman. time, this was the main road Before 1820, the Batchellors running through Stratton. Deacon again moved to Arlington and Edwin Grout last owned this farm probably lived with their son, before its abandonment. This Jacob, Jr.. Jacob repurchased the parcel also had a corn mill that mill in 1821, then resold it to

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Jonathan M. Bissell on March 6, Jacob had became involved in the 1823. Many years latter in a letter Stratton Turnpike Company, that survived the years, Jacob’s however, the turnpike was not son, Sewell asked his sister, Lucy completed in his lifetime. Grout, wife of Joel Grout, if her Jacob died on December 10, family still operated the old mill. 1827, at Arlington. Lois died there on January 5, 1831. They were buried there in St. James Cemetery. Jacob and Lois's children were: 1) Lucy, born January 11, 1777, at Brookfield, Massachusetts; died July 8, 1778 at Brookfield, Massachusetts. 2) Calvin, born February 7, 1779, at Brookfield, Massachusetts; died in 1856 at Port Huron, Michigan; married Samantha French on December 4, 1800, Gravestones of Jacob and Lois at Stratton, Vermont. Batchellor located in St. James 3) Ebenezer, born August 12, Cemetery, Arlington 1780, at Brookfield, Massachusetts (went to Jacob held several town Natchez, Mississippi about offices over the years. In 1792, he 1806). was elected Stratton’s Grand 4) Ambrose, born June 13, 1782, Jurorman, and a surveyor. He was at Brookfield, Massachusetts; also voted a trustee to take care of died in January, 1843, at Town securities (treasurer). In Edinburgh, New York; 1793, Jacob was voted one of five married 1) Sally Garfield on petit jurors. He was voted a June 4, 1804, at Stratton, member of a committee to lay out Vermont 2) (?? - widow of school money and was the trustee John Graves). for the school money. Jacob 5) Sewell, born July 19, 1784, at hosted several town meetings at Brookfield, Massachusetts; his home and filled several other died in January, 1866, at positions of the town government Lowville, New York; married over the years. The Town’s Delilah Barney on April 29, record of sheep and cattle 1805, at Halifax, Vermont. indicates that Mr. Jacob 6) Oliver, born December 31, Batchellor’s mark for sheep was 1786, at Brookfield, the letter “B” under the eyes. Massachusetts; died May 14, Over the years, Jacob bought 1879, at Woodville, New and sold many parcels of land in York; married 1) Polly Wood Stratton, purchasing large amounts at tax-sales. In 1808,

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2) Elizabeth Doyle 3) Patty gristmill on Ball Mountain Brook Clark. on 5L1R of which he was part 7) Jacob, born in 1790 at owner. In January, 1803, he sold 1 Stratton, Vermont; died /5 of the water rights to Samuel February 12, 1843, at Marble, Jr.. In December of that Arlington, Vermont; married year, he sold another fifth back to 1) Elsa Knapp 2) Sally H. his father. Barney. The Batchellors eventually 8) Theodocia, born February 14, resettled at Port Huron, St. Clare 1791, at Stratton, Vermont; County, Michigan, by 1847; there, died February 28, 1868, at Calvin died in 1856 and Stratton, Vermont; married Samantha died in 1857. Abel Grout on December 2, Children of Calvin and Samantha: 1810, at Stratton, Vermont. 1) Ebenezer, born August 5, 9) Lucy, born February 21, 1793, 1802, at Stratton, Vermont; at Stratton, Vermont; died on died May 6, 1880, at April 5, 1878, at Manchester, Galesville, Wisconsin; married Vermont; married Joel Grout Lucy Comstock on June 16, on April 23, 1812, at Stratton, 1830, at West Parrish, New Vermont. York. 10) Lyman, born March 20, 1795, 2) Simon Richerson, born March at Stratton, Vermont; died 3, 1805, at Stratton, Vermont. February 5, 1858, at 3) Sophronia, born July 1, 1808, Wallingford, Vermont; at Stratton, Vermont (lived in married Anna Gale on April Detroit, Michigan); married 11, 1816, at Stratton, (?) Allen about 1830. Vermont. 4) Jacob F., born July 5, 1811; died January 3, 1892, at Calvin Batchellor, son of Jacob Saginaw, Michigan. and Lois Batchellor, was born February 7, 1779, at Brookfield, Ambrose Batchellor, son of Massachusetts. He came to Jacob and Lois Batchellor, was Stratton as a boy and there born on June 13, 1782, at married Samantha French, Brookfield, Massachusetts. He daughter of Jacob and Sarah grew up in Stratton and there French, on December 4, 1800. married Sally Garfield, daughter Samantha was born about 1782. of Nathaniel and Eunice Garfield, Calvin was listed as head of on June 4, 1804. Sally was born his own household on the 1800 at Greenwich, Massachusetts, on census of Stratton that included a May 15, 1788. female 10 - 16 years of age. This Ambrose took the Freeman’s was probably Samantha although oath at Stratton on September 6, the census was taken prior to the 1808. The Batchellors resettled in marriage. In 1802, Calvin helped Edinburgh, New York, before his father build a sawmill and 1814 and probably soon after their

Stratton Families 35 marriage. In February, 1814, York, at Three Mile Bay, in Eliakim Garfield of Edinburgh Jefferson County, before 1847. sold 10 acres of 4L2R to Ambrose, Following his wife’s death about who was also of Edinburgh at that 1854, Sewell moved to Lowville, time. In July, 1815, Ambrose sold New York, about 40 miles away this lot to Joseph Garfield of from Three Mile Bay to live with Stratton. The Batchellors were his son, Sewell. He sent a letter apparently instrumental in home to his sister, Lucy, dated establishing the town of December 24, 1854. He died at Batchellorville, New York. Lowville in January, 1866. Sally evidently died several Children of Sewell and his wife: years before Ambrose. Following 1) Sewell Barney, born in 1815; Sally’s death, Ambrose married died in January, 1879, at the widow of John Graves. Lowville, New York; married Ambrose died in January, 1843, at 1) Mary Lamphee 2) Sophia D. Edinburgh. Stevens. Children of Ambrose and Sally: 1) Sherman, born about 1805; Oliver Batchellor, son of Jacob died in 1862; married Mary B. and Lois Batchellor, was born on Noyes. December 31, 1786, at Brookfield, 2) Samuel, born September 18, Massachusetts. He grew up in 1806; died April 20, 1888, at Stratton, but moved away as a Waterloo, New York; married young man. Oliver took the Charlotte DeGolia. Freeman’s oath in Stratton on 3) Sally, born about 1808. September 6, 1808. On December 4) Lucy, born about 1813. 26, 1808, Oliver’s father deeded 5) Ambrose, born October 13, over the family farm to Oliver and 1817, at Batchellorville, New his brother, Jacob, Jr.. They, in York; died February 23, 1889. turn, leased the farm to Jonas 6) Franklin, born about 1819 at Woodward, with “use of above Batchellorville, New York. mentioned farm and farming tools for 2 years with exception of half Sewell Batchellor, son of Jacob the house and 1 acre of land and and Lois Batchellor, was born July not cutting fire wood on said 19, 1784, at Brookfield, premises - at 45 dollars per year Massachusetts. He grew up in provided Woodward pays the rent Stratton and in 1807 purchased by building stone walls at 75 cents part of 2L4R from his father, per rod to be 4 and a half feet tall which he immediately sold. and thickness in proportion. Also Sewell married Delilah Barney, to put down a thrashing floor in daughter of James and Thankful the barn.” Oliver owned other Barney, on April 29, 1805, at parcels in Stratton, but evidently Halifax, Vermont. lived on his parents’ farm in the The Batchellors eventually unleased half of the house. In settled near Watertown, New January, 1811, Oliver appointed

Stratton Families 36 his father his legal agent to sell Arlington, he was warned out on his part of the family farm. Oliver May 17, 1817. apparently left Stratton at that Jacob died on February 12, time. 1843, at Arlington and was buried Oliver’s first wife was Polly in St. James Cemetery there. Wood. Following Polly’s death, Children of Jacob and Elsa were: he married Elizabeth Doyle. 1) Lucien Bonaparte, born April Oliver’s last wife was Patty Clark. 1, 1818, at East Arlington, Oliver lived at Woodville, Vermont; died September 7, Massachusetts. He was still living 1903. there and in good health in 1871 2) Mary Ann, born in 1820; died as reflected in a letter he had December 20, 1836, at written to his sister, Lucy Grout. Arlington, Vermont. In that letter, he tells of visiting 3) Norman Hinsdale, born his brother, Lyman. Oliver died January 13, 1822; died January at Woodville on May 14, 1879. 18, 1892, at Arlington, Vermont; married Lucy Jacob Batchellor, Jr., son of Babcock. Jacob and Lois Batchellor, was 4) Job Orleans, died in Salinas, born in 1790 at Stratton. On California. December 26, 1808, Jacob’s father 5) Fannie Elizabeth, born about deeded over the family farm to 1831. Jacob and his brother, Oliver. They, in turn, leased the farm to Lyman Batchellor, son of Jacob Jonas Woodward (see Oliver and Lois Batchellor, was born at Batchellor above). Stratton on March 20, 1795. He Jacob enlisted during the war married Anna Gale, daughter of of 1812 and was taken prisoner by Isaac and Susannah Gale, on the British while aboard ship on April 11, 1816, at Stratton. Anna the Atlantic. He was kept was born in 1791. In 1810, she prisoner at Dartmoor Prison in was evidently living with her England, and returned home after mother, Susannah Gale and John the war. Upon his return, Jacob Coes, Jr. in Stratton. Anna was first married Elsa Knapp about warned out of town on January 17, 1817. Elsa was born in 1788. 1811, as were Susannah and John. She died on March 25, 1824. He The Batchellors lived at then married Sally H. Barney (she Stratton until after the birth of may have been a daughter of their first son, then removed to Reuben Barney). Arlington, Vermont, about 1817, Jacob was a machinist and where Lyman set up a forge and manufactured chairs. He resettled began to work at his trade. He in Arlington, Vermont, where he was warned out of Arlington on built a house on Warm Brook Rd. May 17, 1817. When he first arrived in While living in Arlington all their remaining children were

Stratton Families 37 born. In 1823, Lyman purchased 2) Susan Coes, born April 12, the west half of 5L4R in Stratton 1819, at Arlington, Vermont; from his mother-in-law, however, died October 12, 1872. the Batchellors remained in 3) John C., born June 2, 1821, at Arlington. In 1835, they moved Arlington, Vermont. to Wallingford, Vermont, where 4) Laura A., born September 11, Lyman purchased a water right 1823, at Arlington, Vermont; and with his sons built a business died in 1895. making forks. In 1847, the shop 5) Lyman, Jr., born October 20, burned, but the Batchellors rebuilt 1824, at Arlington, Vermont. what is now called “the old stone 6) Justin, born March 20, 1828, shop” in Wallingford. Lyman at Arlington, Vermont. along with his sons, Isaac, John Additional Sources: and Lyman, Jr., formed the firm History of Wallingford, Vermont of Batcheller & Sons, whose forks Arlington VR (hay and manure forks) were used Genealogical History of the Rice Family by Ward all over this country and in Great Britain. Lyman was a staunch Baybrook abolitionist and allowed his home H. George Baybrook was born in to be used by the underground February, 1838, at Whitehall, railroad. He died at Wallingford New York. He came to Stratton on February 5, 1858, and was during the 1860s with his first buried in Green Hill Cemetery. wife, Sylvia, who was born in Anna died on May 27, 1868, and Dover, Vermont. she was buried next to Lyman. After Sylvia’s death, George Their son, Justin and Justin’s apparently moved away and was brother-in law, John Scribner, not present when the 1870 census who had been in the mercantile was taken. He returned to business, dissolved the old Stratton where he married Martha business in 1868 and became part A. Kent on March 11, 1878. of Messrs. Batcheller & Sons. Martha was born in July, 1857, Lyman, Jr. and his family and she was probably the daughter evidently resettled in Iowa and of William P. Kent of Stratton. were living there in 1871. The The Baybrooks operated two business continued in the family farms in Stratton during 1898, until it was bought out by The and they had done so for several American Fork and Hoe Company years. The first was located on in 1902. It later became True the Stratton-Arlington Rd. east of Temper Tools, which continues the meetinghouse and the second making tools to the present. was located two miles from the Children of Lyman and Anna: meetinghouse on the West 1) Isaac Gale, born on February Jamaica Rd. The Baybrooks were 14, 1817, at Stratton, no longer in Stratton by 1920. Vermont. A child of George and Sylvia was:

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1) Nellie Ann, born May 25, the last the officers saw of him 1864, at Stratton, Vermont. that day. He had opened the window and escaped from the Children of George and Martha: speeding train. Several days 2) Albert Henry, born May 1, later, back in Stratton, Irving 1879, at Stratton, Vermont; Grout started up the mountain died in January, 1973; married between Stratton and Arlington to Clara Bell Magoon on August meet his brother who was drawing 13, 1900, in New York. lumber. He rode his bicycle up 3) (a son), born December 12, the mountain as far as possible 1883, at Stratton, Vermont; then walked the remainder of the died December 15, 1883, at way. Irving met Baybrook coming Stratton, Vermont. down the mountain. Albert had 4) Martha Idell, born February apparently stole a horse in 23, 1885, at Stratton, Bennington, rode it up the Vermont. mountain to Stratton and set it free. He was on foot when he met Albert Henry Baybrook, son of Mr. Grout. When Grout returned George and Martha Baybrook, down the mountain, his bicycle was born at Stratton on May 1, was missing. Grout proceeded to 1879. He took the Freeman’s oath Brown and Ryder’s store to in Stratton on September 2, 1902. inform them that Albert was back Articles published in the in town. The storeowners called Vermont Phoenix in late 1898 Constable Benson of Wardsboro. called him the burglar of Stratton. Benson and others met and The account of his ordeal, taken devised a plan of capture. They from the Vermont Phoenix guessed that Albert would be at proceeded as follows: one of the two lots that his parents At the age of 19, Albert farmed in Stratton. It was allegedly broke into the Brown reported that Albert was at his and Ryder Store in West father’s farm on the West Jamaica Wardsboro and stole $112.00 of Rd. Benson arrived there and postal money, $38.00 from the found Bert Perry, a resident of store, a gold watch and several Stratton, and another man silver watches. He left the area already there. When Baybrook and was later seen in Hoosick, appeared, someone fired a shot New York. He was persuaded to and Albert returned a shot. go to Bennington, where he was Several more shots were fired. locked up. Post-Office inspector One shot from Baybrook was at Willis was summoned and he and such close range that Perry’s coat other officers went with the sleeve caught fire. Albert was prisoner to New York state on the overpowered and arrested. He train. Albert was allowed to go eventually plea-bargained and into the water closet near Eagle pleaded guilty to an assault Bridge, New York, and that was charge. He was sentenced to

Stratton Families 39 eight months in the correctional Bennett facility. Allyne Otis Bennett, son of John Albert married Clara Bell and Lucretia Bennett, was born Magoon on August 13, 1900, in between at Dummerston, New York. Clara died May 30, Vermont, on September 14, 1793. 1919. Albert may have spent He married Olive Perham, more time in Stratton in the daughter of Leonard and Lucy 1920s, occupying the abandoned (Streeter) Perham on January 7, parsonage across from Stratton’s 1816, at Hinsdale, New meetinghouse. Albert died in Hampshire. Olive was born about January, 1973. 1790. Allen did not own property in Stratton; however, he was Bayley living in Stratton alone in 1820. Benjamin Bayley and his wife He moved out of town before were living in Stratton in 1800. 1830. At that time they were between the ages of 26 and 45, and had Bills five children less than 10 years of (Bill) age and two between the ages of Ebenezer Bill, the first of that 10 and 16. The Bayleys did not name to settle in Stratton, was own property in Stratton and had born on March 25, 1759, in moved out of town before 1810. Dedham, Massachusetts – the son of Samuel and Mary (Davis) Bill. Beach During the American Revolution, Stephen Beach was born about Ebenezer first served in Captain 1829. He was a lumberman that Ebenezer Battle’s Company, settled in Stratton after the Civil Colonel William McIntosh’s War. He was enrolled in the Regiment, then in Captain militia in Stratton in 1867, but Benjamin Frothingham’s had left town before 1870. Company, Colonel John Crane’s Regiment. He also served in Beauregard Captain Moses Bullard’s Henry Beauregard was born Company, Colonel Ebenezer about 1897 in Canada. In 1920, Thayer’s Regiment of Suffolk he was a lumberman in Stratton, County from July 27, 1780, to living in the boarding house on October 27, 1780, serving in the Grout Job. Rhode Island. After the war, Ebenezer married Hannah Bullard on May Becker 13, 1784. Hannah was from Andy Becker was born about Roxbury, Massachusetts, born 1899 in Switzerland. In 1920, he about 1763, a daughter of was a lumberman in Stratton, Jonathan and Anna (Harrington) living in the boarding house at the Bullard. Grout Job.

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Ebenezer was most likely the related in some way to Ebenezer same who appeared on the Bills (above), although they Freeman’s roll of Wardsboro, apparently were not brothers. Vermont, in 1786. Ebenezer and Gardner died on June 30, 1844, Hannah settled in Stratton Gore, and Arpatia died on August 7, where Ebenezer signed a petition 1846. They were buried in the requesting that the gore be West Jamaica Cemetery. annexed to Stratton. In 1800, the A child of Gardner and Arpatia: Bills were listed in the census of 1) Lewis, born in May 1808; died Stratton as both being between 26 July 16, 1869; married Sally and 45 years of age. At that time, Sage. they had two sons under ten, three daughters under ten and two Lewis Bills, son of Gardner and daughters between ten and Arpatia Bills, was born in May, sixteen. By 1809, the Bills had 1808. Lewis married Sally Sage resettled in Amherst, New who was born on October 13, Hampshire. That year, in a legal 1809. Lewis and Sally lived in suit, Ebenezer recovered judgment Jamaica, Vermont, and never of Jacob Goodell and he was settled in Stratton; but two lines of awarded some of Goodell’s lands their descendants eventually in Stratton Gore (53 acres). settled there. Sally died on Ebenezer sold this land the November 20, 1844, and Lewis following year to Aaron Draper. passed away on July 16, 1869. Ebenezer died at Amherst, New They were buried in the West Hampshire, on March 13, 1822. Jamaica Cemetery. A son of Ebenezer and Hannah: Children of Lewis and Sally were: 1) Luke Hamilton, born in 1808; 1) Lewis Gardner, born about married Marinda Dodge. 1838 in Jamaica, Vermont; died November 9, 1897, at Gardner Bills, son of Richard Newfane, Vermont; married and Abigail (Kenny) Bills, was Melvina Mandana Pike on born on September 19, 1773, in December 22, 1861, at Roxbury, Massachusetts. He was Stratton, Vermont. a nephew of Ebenezer Bill (named 2) Emery Alphonso, born April 5, above). Gardner married Arpatia 1841; died October 13, 1892; Church who was born about 1774 married 1) Anna C. Magoon 2) and had lived at Guilford, Sally Richardson. Vermont. They never settled in 3) Catherine M., married Stratton; but two lines of their Augustus Bogle. descendants eventually settled 4) Clarina, married Sylvester there. Cushman. The Bills first lived in Chesterfield, New Hampshire, Lewis Gardner Bills, son of then Newfane and Jamaica, Lewis and Sally Bills, was born Vermont. Gardner may have been about 1838 in Jamaica. He

Stratton Families 41 married Melvina Mandana Pike, buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in daughter of Moses and Dorcas Newfane. Pike, on December 22, 1861, at Children of Lyman and Nora: Stratton. Melvina was born in 1) Helen F., born in November, Somerset, Vermont, on April 11, 1893; married Lawrence 1841. They lived in Wardsboro Butterfield. before moving to Newfane, 2) Melvina A., born in December, Vermont, in 1895. Lewis died on 1894; married Floyd Clark. November 9, 1897, at Newfane, 3) Lewis C., born in October, Vermont. Mandana died there on 1896; died June 5, 1958. December 25, 1920. They were 4) Violet Edith, born October 1, buried in Woodlawn Cemetery. 1900, at Stratton, Vermont, Children of Lewis and Mandana: married Edward Beaudry. 1) Fidelia M., born August 17, 5) Lyman, born October 22, 1864, at Jamaica, Vermont; 1904. died March 6, 1949, at 6) Onnie Laurie Newfane, Vermont; married 7) Kathleen, married (?) Perry. Eugene Thompson. 8) Margaret May, died in infancy. 2) Lyman, born November 19, 1866, at Jamaica, Vermont; Emery Alfonso Bills, son of died December 29, 1928, at Lewis and Sally Bills, was born Newfane, Vermont; married on April 5, 1841. He married Nora Cunningham in 1892 in Betsy “Anna” Magoon, daughter New York. of John Edward and Hulda 3) Leslie M., born May 10, 1874, Magoon. Betsey was born on May at Wardsboro, Vermont; died 25, 1856, and came to this area April 26, 1932, at Springfield, from Schroon Lake, New York. Massachusetts; married Nellie The Bills lived in Jamaica, Spaulding on September 4, Vermont, never settling in 1918. Stratton; however, Emery acquired large amounts of land in Lyman O. Bills, son of Lewis and Stratton during his lifetime, much Mandana Bills, was born on of which was passed down to his November 19, 1866, at Jamaica, son, Leon. Vermont. He married Nora Emery died on October 13, Cunningham, daughter of Patrick 1892, at the age of 51 and was and Ellen Cunningham in 1892 in buried in the West Jamaica New York. Nora was born in Cemetery. Anna passed away in Moate, Ireland, on September 27, 1938. 1871. The Bills settled in Stratton about 1900, then moved to Newfane in 1905. Lyman died at Newfane on December 29, 1928. Nora passed away in Brattleboro on January 16, 1945. They were

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Lewis Gardner Bills Melvina Mandana (Pike) Bills (1838-1897) (1841 – 1920)

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Lyman and Leslie Bills Fidelia Bills Photo courtesy of the Ethel Eddy Collection Photo courtesy of the Ethel Eddy Collection

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Children of Emery and Anna: camps in Stratton. He married 1) Irvin E., born November 24, Sarah Ella Underwood, daughter 1877, in Jamaica, Vermont; of John and Flora Underwood on died December 12, 1957. February 17, 1901. Sarah, or 2) Leon Bruce, born May 19, “Sadie” as she was called, was 1880, in Jamaica, Vermont; born in Jamaica on November 20, died February 22, 1945; 1882. Leon and his father bought married Sarah Ella Underwood up several lots in Stratton. on February 17, 1901. Eventually, some of this land went 3) Merle Sylvester, born March to Leon’s son, Melbourne. 10, 1887; died February 6, Although Leon owned a 1937; married Irene Taylor. considerable amount of land in 4) Emery Alphonso, born Stratton, he settled in Jamaica December 20, 1892; died instead. The Bills may have October 11, 1955; married briefly lived in Stratton since their Gertie Howard. first child was born in Stratton, probably at the home of Flora’s Irvin E. Bills, son of Emery and parents. Leon died on February Anna Bills, was born on 22, 1945. Sadie died on March November 24, 1877, in Jamaica, 19, 1968. Vermont. Irvin was a lumberman Children of Leon and Sadie were: that came and settled in Stratton. 1) Christy L., born February 11, He first married Gustie Allen. 1901, at Stratton, Vermont; Irvin’s second marriage was to died November 16, 1968; Amanda E. Putnam, daughter of married Guy Bacon. Cornelius H. and Cornelia 2) Madeline Elenore, born (Myers) Putnam, on September February 18, 1902; died March 14, 1901. Amanda was born in 16, 1931; married Harry Moores, New York, about 1884. Magoon on October 2, 1926. Children of Irvin and Gustie were: 3) Melbourne Leon, born April 1, 1) Roberta 1904; died July 19, 1994; 2) Rita married Mabel Mary Fitzpatrick. Children of Irvin and Amanda: 4) Cecil Alphonso, born May 22, 3) Violet 1905; married Lydia Johnson. 4) Annie 5) Isla Flora, born June 7, 1908; 5) Shirley, married Dexter died June 11, 1954; married Greenwood Robert Reynolds. 6) Stanley 6) Eva May, born June 21, 1910; died November 4, 1958; Leon Bruce Bills, son of Emery married Stan Stocker. and Anna Bills, was born on May 7) Leonard Merle, born May 22, 19, 1880, at West Jamaica, 1912; died March 1, 1981; Vermont. He was a teamster and married 1) Ruby Waldron 2) probably worked at the lumber Mildred Hescock.

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8) Ilene Cola (twin), born 1) Melbourne Lee, born July 30, December 23, 1913; married 1927; died May 2, 1999; Herbert Brooks. married Inez Alice Streeter on 9) Irene Clara (twin), born October 18, 1952. December 23, 1913; died April 2) Burdette Bruce, married 2, 1981; married Archibald Rosalee Mabel Connelly. Bernard Fitzpatrick. 3) Beverly Mabel, married 10) Loena Elnora, born April 28, Francis Harlan Capen. 1918; married John Fuller. 4) Milton David, married Annette 11) Leon Bruce, Jr., born March Catto. 25, 1923, married 1) Ethel 5) Everett Albyn, married Grindley 2) Marlene Weston. Katherine Susan Lawrence. 12) Doris Sadie, born June 19, 6) Alan, married Janet Lynn 1925; married Kenneth Fuller. Eddy. 7) Kathleen Ann, married Melbourne Leon Bills, son of Jonathan Everett Meeks. Leon and Sadie Bills, was born April 1, 1904, in Jamaica, Melbourne Lee Bills, son of Vermont. Melbourne married Melbourne and Mabel Bills, was Mabel Mary Fitzpatrick, who was born on July 30, 1927, at born on October 10, 1905. Wardsboro, Vermont. Lee Melbourne briefly lived in married Inez Alice Streeter, Stratton about 1925. He daughter of Clarence S. and Edith eventually bought the Moses Pike (Putnam) Streeter on October 18, farm, where his son, M. Lee Bills 1952. Inez was born on August lived. The Bills settled in Stratton 26, 1927. for just a brief time, then settled in Lee and Inez settled in Wardsboro, Vermont, where they Stratton on a farm, located at the remained for the remainder of end of Pike Hollow Rd. in 1952. their years. This was the old Moses Pike farm Melbourne operated the mill that Lee’s father had purchased in Wardsboro (currently owned from the Quillinans. and operated by some of his sons). Lee served in the army during It is located just off of Rt. 100 WWII. After the war, he was a near the center of the township. self-employed heavy equipment Melbourne also acquired a large operator for many years and a amount of land in Stratton (nearly lumberman. 3000 acres) most of which he sold Once the Bills had settled in to the National Forest before his Stratton, Lee served the town in death. Mabel died on February 9, many official positions including 1991. Melbourne died on July 19, Justice of the Peace, Road 1994. They were buried in the Commissioner, Planning West Wardsboro Cemetery. Commissioner, Lister, Zoning Children of Melbourne and Mabel Administrator and Health Officer. were:

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Annie (Magoon) Bills Emery Bills

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Leon and Sarah (Underwood) Melbourne and Mabel Bills (Fitzpatrick) Bills

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Inez served for many years as Bissell a Town Auditor. She passed away Austin Bissell, son of Ozias, Jr. on February 4, 1998, in and Elizabeth (Kilborn) Bissell, Brattleboro, Vermont. Lee died at was born in September, 1787. Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Austin married Clarissa Stacy in Center in Lebanon, New 1810. She was born about 1793. Hampshire, on May 2, 1999. Lee The Bissells settled in Wardsboro and Inez were buried in Pike probably soon after their Hollow Cemetery in Stratton. marriage, however, they also lived Children of Lee and Inez are: for a time in Stratton. 1) Lawrence Scott, married In 1823, Austin signed an Karen Kemnitzer. agreement to lease the west part of 2) Jacqueline Edith, married Paul 5L4R from Susannah Coes. Upon Bedard. this lot, Austin built a furnace- 3) Terri Lee, married Rusty probably used to process iron ore. Garland. He purchased one acre

Additional Sources: surrounding the furnace in Genealogy of the Bills family compiled by September, 1827, then sold it to Darcy Meeks, Terri Garland and others. several gentlemen from Wardsboro, Vermont, ten days later. Austin owned other parcels in Stratton. The Bissells were apparently living on the west half of 5L4R and paid taxes on that lot in 1827. This lot was where Oliver Morsman, one of Stratton’s first settlers, built his home. The foundation can still be seen next to the trail several hundred yards

west of the gate at the end of M. Lee Bills with siblings, Burdette, Shepardson Rd.. It is unclear Beverly, Alan, Everett and Milton. when the Bissells resided in Photo courtesy of the Bills Family Stratton. They were living in town in 1827, but were not listed Birch in Stratton’s 1830 census, C. Birch purchased the sawmill although they were members of of Jesse Sage, located between the church in Stratton from 1827 Black Brook and the east branch to 1832. They probably had of the Deerfield River prior to moved away just before 1830. 1869. He apparently resided on On June 17, 1827, the Church this property at that time. He Clerk of the Church of Christ in apparently left Stratton before the Stratton recorded, “Mr. Austin 1870 census was taken. Bissell and Clarissa his wife and Emily their daughter having been previous to this examination and

Stratton Families 47 propounded, were received into 7) Edward full communion with the 8) George Martin, died on Congregation Church in this November 8, 1876, at town. Mrs. Bissell and daughter Wardsboro, Vermont; married were baptized by Reverend Mr. 1) Eunice Ann Grover 2) Riddle.” At this same time their Lucretia Knowlton on October eight children were baptized. On 5, 1865. June 17, 1832, Clarissa and their 9) Justin, died in 1831 (age 1 daughter, Emerlia were given a year 5 months). letter of dismission from this 10) Clarissa Jane, died September church to the church in 9, 1896, at Brattleboro, Wardsboro. And, on January 12, Vermont; married Emerson B. 1834, the church voted to give Barrett on October 8, 1849. Austin a letter of dismission also. 11) Lucius On November 14, 1836, Sister 12) Emery Bissell was dismissed from the Additional sources: Stratton Church. This may have Return to Yesterday by CS Streeter been another of the Bissell’s daughters, if not Clarissa. Jonathan Marsh Bissell, son of In 1850, the Bissells bought Jabez and Dorcas (Marsh) Bissell, the Samuel Kidder farm in was born on March 31, 176(7), at Wardsboro, and in 1854, sold this Windsor, Connecticut. During his place and bought a home near the early years, he was called Marsh. Raymond Read place in Marsh served during the Wardsboro. Here, Austin set up a American Revolution as a Private little laboratory and manufactured in the Massachusetts Militia in liniments and various other Captain Ephraim Chapins’ remedies. He peddled these Company, Colonel Ruggles products around the area. Woodbridge’s1 Regiment from Clarissa died on August 12, 1862, August 12, 1777, to September and was buried in Smead 30, 1777. Marsh then served in Cemetery in Wardsboro. Captain John Carpenter’s The Bissells’ children were: Company of the guards at 1) Emerlia Carrel, married Springfield, Massachusetts, from Farnum White on October 6, June 29, 1779, to September 29, 1834. 1779. He later served from July 2) Horace, born in April, 1813; 21, 1780, to October 10, 1780, in died December 26, 1892; Captain Joseph Browning’s married Fanny Newell on Company, Colonel Seth Murray’s February 15, 1837. Hampshire County Regiment. 3) Elijah Austin Marsh also served for three 4) Lewis months in a Company raised to 5) Caroline reinforce the Continental Army. 6) Elbridge M., married Rowena Jonathan first married Submit White. Cushman, daughter of Consider

Stratton Families 48 and Submit (Newcomb) Cushman. sold several parcels in She was born in 1765 in Stafford, Stratton). Connecticut. The Bissells settled 2) Jabez Fitch, born in 1790; in Springfield, Massachusetts. married Elizabeth Bascom Submit evidently passed away (lived at Gill, Massachusetts -- before Jonathan’s move to bought and sold several parcels Vermont. He settled in Stratton in Stratton). just after 1820 and purchased six 3) Jonathan Marsh, born in 1797. acres that included a sawmill and Notes: gristmill from Jacob Batchellor on 1) Ruggles Woodbridge was an Original March 6, 1823. The house was Proprietor of Stratton, but it is not probably located on the north side certain that he was Bissell’s connection with this town. of the dam between the mill and what is now the West Jamaica Rd.. It probably stood where Bixby Robert Penn Warren later built his Sampson Bixby, son of Samuel house, since apparently the and Lydia (Bond) Bixby, was born Warren’s house was built over an at Sutton, Massachusetts, on May old cellar hole. 23, 1759. During the American Jonathan married Olive Revolution, Sampson was drafted Worthington, on May 12, 1830, at for two months beginning his Stratton. Olive was also born service in August, 1776, and during the 1760s. In 1830, there serving in Captain Sibley’s was another gentleman aged 70 to Company, of Colonel Converse’s 80 living with them. Jonathan Regiment. This regiment sold the mill site to his son on marched to Horse-Neck, then to September 17, 1838, but Tarrytown, New York, where they continued to operate the mill remained until November. himself. In 1840, the census Sampson enlisted a second time showed Jonathan and Olive living and served in Captain Elliot’s alone in Stratton and it also Company, Jonathan Holman’s indicated that Jonathan was a Regiment. This regiment Revolutionary War pensioner. marched to Providence, Rhode Jonathan was still living in 1847 Island, on the alarm of December and operating the mill; however, 10, 1776. Sampson served with he evidently died just before 1850. them for 43 days. He again Children of Jonathan and Submit enlisted on August 13, 1777, in included: Captain Woodbury’s Company, 1) John Winthrop, born Colonel Cushing’s Regiment from September 23, 1794; died Worcester County, Massachusetts, February 8, 1876, at which marched to Bennington, Springfield, Massachusetts; Vermont, arriving a few days after married Sophia Shepardson the battle. This regiment then (lived at Gill and Montague, marched to Skeensboro, then to Massachusetts -- bought and Stillwater, and was in Saratoga when Burgoyne surrendered. The

Stratton Families 49 regiment next went to White the first deacon of the Church on Plains and remained there until June 25, 1802. He was also the end of its term of enlistment referred to as Lieutenant Bixby in on November 29, 1777. Sampson town records in 1797, implying enlisted for another term of six that he was a member of months in July, 1778, in Captain Stratton’s militia. In 1798, he Hammond’s Company, Colonel was called Captain Bixby and Waid’s Regiment, and was therefore may have been transferred after two months into Stratton’s senior officer. Captain Lamb’s Company. This In 1812, after living in regiment marched to Providence, Stratton for about 25 years, the then accompanied General Bixbys moved to Painted Post Sullivan in his campaign through (now Campbell), New York, Rhode Island. Sampson’s where Sampson and his sons company was ordered, and went, began several new settlements. to Greenwich, and subsequently Sampson was listed as a deacon of marched to Warwick Neck. the church there also. He Sampson was discharged there. evidently returned to Stratton or Sampson was a farmer and had not officially left Stratton settled in Stratton, about 1788. until after May 25, 1814. On that He and Isaac Chase purchased day he was still called Deacon 5L3R in 1785; however, Sampson Bixby and served as a moderator remained in Sutton and there for the church meeting. This is married Sarah Richardson, the last mention of him in the daughter of Ralph and Sarah church record and he was not (Bartlett) Richardson, on April replaced by another deacon 27, 1786. Their first child was following his departure. born in Sutton in April, 1787. On February 21, 1818, Sampson had already settled in Sampson sold the farm to David Stratton when he purchased the Holmes of Woodstock, east half of 3L1R on November Connecticut. Perhaps his son, 20, 1788. This lot was where Lyman, resided there prior to the Sampson built his farm, located sale, since Sampson was called of on the Wardsboro line and along Painted Post at that time and had the road now referred to as been for several years. Sarah died Canedy Rd.. The following year, at Painted Post on September 15, he purchased the west half of this 1819. Sampson applied for and lot. received a pension as a soldier of Sampson and Sarah were the Revolution in 1832. In 1840, charter members of the Church of Sampson was living at Campbell, Christ in Stratton, which was New York, with Samuel Bixby. founded on August 17, 1801, and He died on February 11, 1847. on October 17, 1801, their Children of Sampson and Sarah: children were baptized into this 1) Rufus, born April 2, 1787, at church. Sampson was voted to be Sutton, Massachusetts; died

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August 16, 1866, at Hornsby, Blashfield of Wardsboro, New York. Vermont, on January 10, 1815. 2) Amasa, born November 6, They evidently settled on the lot 1788, at Stratton, Vermont; Amasa had purchased. On May married Sophia Blashfield on 2, 1816, Amasa sold his land in January 10, 1815. Stratton and probably went to 3) Salmon, born March 29, 1792, Painted Post, New York, where at Stratton, Vermont; married his parents had resettled. Lucy French. 4) Lyman, born March 3, 1794, Lyman Bixby, son of Sampson at Stratton, Vermont; married and Sarah Bixby, was born at Anna Woodward. Stratton on March 3, 1794. He 5) Sally, born December 24, grew up in Stratton and took the 1795, at Stratton, Vermont; Freeman’s oath on September 15, married Chester Knowlton. 1815. He may have remained on 6) Samuel, born September 7, his father’s farm when his parents 1801, at Stratton, Vermont; left for New York about 1814. married Lucretia Sanders. Lyman probably left Stratton in 7) Mary “Polly,” born October 1817 or 1818, since his father sold 26, 1804, at Stratton, Vermont the farm in February, 1818. (baptized in Stratton on April Lyman married Anna Woodward 16, 1805) (possibly Mary probably after he had moved away Bixby of Guilford, Vermont, from Stratton. who sold land in Stratton - Additional Sources: previously Sampson Bixby’s - Descendants of Joseph Bixby in 1819). 8) Simeon, born November 27, 1807, at Stratton, Vermont Blodgett (baptized in Stratton on Stratton was occupied by at least September 20, 1807); died three separate families of October 10, 1808, at Stratton, Blodgetts evidently with no close Vermont. relationship existing between these families, nor apparently Amasa Bixby, son of Sampson with the Blodgetts who were and Sarah Bixby, was born on Original Grantees of the town. November 6, 1788, at Stratton. On December 7, 1812, Amasa Samuel Blodgett, son of Joseph purchased 100 acres on the east and Sarah (Ingersoll) Blodgett, side of 2L1R from his father and was born on May 17, 1739, at John Greenwood. This lot was Brimfield, Massachusetts. He located west of what is now Leon married Elizabeth Haynes on Stocker Drive in Snow Mountain April 5, 1763, at Brimfield. Farms West. Amasa married Elizabeth was born on April 8, Sophia Blashfield, daughter of 1735. The Blodgetts were living James and Sally (Arnold) in Palmer, Massachusetts, at the time Samuel purchased the east

Stratton Families 51 half of 6L7R on September 29, 7) Sally, born June 30, 1780; 1796, from Andrew Adams. married (?) Daniels. Samuel brought his family to 8) Seneca, born January 17, 1783. Stratton from Palmer shortly 9) Joseph, born February 27, thereafter. This homestead was 1787. located on the southern base of Little Stratton Mountain and later Samuel Blodgett Jr., son of occupied by Abel Grout. Samuel and Betty Blodgett, was The census of 1800 recorded born on June 18, 1767. He that Samuel and Betty had two married Mary Gilbert in Palmer, sons and a daughter living at Massachusetts, on March 20, home between the ages of 10 and 1796 (Palmer vital records show 16. On September 12, 1800, her name as Massa). They settled Samuel sold 30 acres of his farm in Stratton probably at the same to his son, Samuel, Jr. “with a 30 time Samuel’s father had settled foot barn on said lot.” At the time there. On September 12, 1800, of the sale, Samuel and Betty had Samuel, Jr. purchased a part of his already resettled in Wardsboro, father’s farm. In November of Vermont. A few days later on that year he purchased 25 acres September 20, 1800, Samuel sold more of this lot from his brother- the remaining 70 acres to his son- in-law, Ebenezer Vinton. The in-law, Ebenezer Vinton of Blodgett farm was located at the Wardsboro, with the privilege of southern base of Little Stratton using the barn thereon. Mountain and later occupied by Samuel died on September the Abel Grout family. 30, 1800, at Wardsboro. Betty The 1800 census shows that passed away there on September Samuel and Mary had two sons 1, 1807. and two daughters under the age Children of Samuel and Betty of ten. included: Samuel and Mary were 1) David, born August 15, 1764. among the charter members of the 2) Samuel, born June 18, 1767; Church of Christ in Stratton, married Mary Gilbert on which was formed on August 17, March 20, 1796, at Palmer, 1801, and their three children Massachusetts. were baptized into the church on 3) Parsimus, born August 29, August 30, 1801. On April 13, 1769. 1803, Samuel sold his 55-acre 4) Azubah, born September 1, farm to Ebenezer Vinton and left 1771; married Ebenezer Stratton soon thereafter. Vinton at Wardsboro, Children of Samuel and Mary: Vermont. 1) Ellehia 5) Abner, born January 14, 1774. 2) Rosa 6) Betsey, born May 1, 1776; 3) Samuel married (?) Huldreth of 4) Russell (baptized in Stratton Chesterfield, New Hampshire. on May 29, 1802).

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5) Silvanus (baptized in Stratton Jonas Prescott Blodgett, son of on July 17, 1803). Jonas and Polly Blodgett, was born about 1811. Jonas married Jonas Blodgett, son of Isaac and Lucinda Albee who was born at Persis (Whitcomb) Blodgett, was Chesterfield, New Hampshire, on born in 1792 at Westminster, December 18, 1810. They came Massachusetts. He married Polly to Stratton in the 1830’s and lived Blair of Ware, Massachusetts, and in the northeast corner of town. they first settled in Fitzwilliam, The Grand List of 1847 shows New Hampshire. that they were renting 11L1R - the During the 1830s, the Wheeler farm. By 1860, Jonas Blodgetts settled in Stratton. It had married a second time to appears that their home was Abby (?). She was born in 1819. located in an 11-acre lot on the Jonas evidently settled in northeast corner of 9L1R, owned Wardsboro, where he had by Abraham Wheeler. purchased the Stephen Corbin McClellan’s Map of 1856 does farm. Jonas passed away on not indicate that a house existed August 2, 1870, and was buried in there, however, Beer’s Atlas of the West Wardsboro Cemetery. 1869, shows the Blodgetss living Children of Jonas and Lucinda: on this lot. 1) Lucy Ann, born March 21, Charlotte Blodgett, born in 1838; died April 12, 1864, at 1841, probably their Wardsboro, Vermont; married granddaughter, was living with Henry Albert Waite on them in 1850. By 1860, Jonas September 1, 1858, at Stratton, was living alone and by 1870, he Vermont. was the only Blodgett living in 2) Ziba A., born July 6, 1839; Stratton. Jonas was named the died on August 29, 1864 only surviving heir of his (buried in the West Wardsboro grandson, Ziba Blodgett, in a Cemetery). court record dated April 29, 1871. 3) William A., born in The Church Clerk of the November, 1843, at Stratton, Church of Christ in Stratton Vermont; died February 15, recorded “Mr. Jonas Blodgett was 1845, at Stratton, Vermont. baptized and admitted into the 4) Rosette M., born December 23, church in Stratton August 9, 1844; died February 18, 1864. 1871.” Jonas died there on 5) Elbridge A., born June 3, December 12, 1873. 1849; married Rose I. Vaile on Children of Jonas and Polly were: November 29, 1871. 1) Jonas Prescott, born in 1811; 6) Horace A., born September 24, died August 2, 1870; married 1850, at Stratton, Vermont; Lucina. died January 20, 1858, at 2) James, born January 5, 1812; Stratton, Vermont. married Mary Blodgett on 7) Emma A., born March 18, February 24, 1834. 1852; died April 10, 1930.

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Joseph Blodgett, son of Levi and Henrietta M. Waite on January Keziah (Puffer) Blodgett, was 1, 1874, at Putney, Vermont. born at Deerfield, Massachusetts, 3) Cirene, born September 18, on May 2, 1800. Joseph married 1840; died March 18, 1841, at Irene P. Scott, daughter of Stratton, Vermont. Shepard and Eunice Scott of 4) Royall Tyler, born April 18, Townshend, Vermont. Irene was 1842, at Stratton, Vermont; born on February 23, 1812. After died April 17, 1897, at the marriage, the Blodgetts settled Brattleboro, Vermont; married in Townshend. Harriet Ella Johnson in On January 13, 1837, Joseph January, 1878. purchased the west half of 12L1R 5) Hannah Luthera, born April in Stratton and they settled upon 28, 1845; married Leslie D. this lot soon after. The Blodgett Lowe. farm was located at what is now 6) Walter Elliot, born November the corner of Pike’s Falls Rd., and 15, 1848; married Lucia North Rd.. Blodgett Cemetery, Charlotte Barrett on July 17, the family’s private plot, was 1870 (she was a daughter of located on their farm. On May Shubel and Lucy Barrett). 23, 1845, Joseph purchased the 7) Llewellyn Shepard, born east half of 12L1R, doubling the March 2, 1851, at Stratton, size of his farm to 160 acres. Vermont; died August 5, 1859, Their house can be seen on at Stratton, Vermont. McClellan’s Map of 1856, in the A child of Joseph and his second northeast corner of Stratton. wife was: Apparently, it was sold to Calvin 8) Albert Joseph, born May 26, Newton Pike who was living there 1861; died March 12, 1863. in 1869 (see Beer’s Atlas). Notes: Joseph was a farmer and also 1) The Blodgett Genealogy stated that Irene a baker. Irene passed away on died in 1834 and in 1835 he married March 10, 1858, and was buried Mary T. Benson. This was obviously not correct, since Irene’s gravestone in the family cemetery. Joseph recorded the correct death in 1858 and apparently returned to Townshend some of the children born after this time after her death. He may have that died young have stones that call married a second time to Mary T. them children of J. and I. Blodgett. 1 Therefore, if Joseph married Mary, it Benson . Mary died on February was after Irene’s death in 1858. 12, 1899. Children of Joseph and Irene: Oscar B. Blodgett, son of Joseph 1) Cornelia, born August 15, and Irene Blodgett, was born on 1833; died February 21, 1854, September 30, 1836, at at Stratton, Vermont. Townshend, Vermont. Oscar 2) Oscar B., born September 30, married Eleanor Benson, daughter 1836, at Townshend, Vermont; of John Benson, and they settled married 1) Ellen Benson 2) in Stratton after the marriage. Eleanor was born about 1839.

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In 1862, Oscar’s brother, Stratton. Their father was Ensign Royal, was living with them and Isaiah Blood of Charlton and attending school in district #1 in South Brimfield, Massachusetts, Stratton. It appears that the born January 19, 1720/1. Their Blodgetts removed to Stanstead, mother was Martha Thompson, Canada, by 1865. By 1873, they daughter of John Jr. and Abigail had returned to Vermont and (Thayer) Thompson of Oxford, settled in Putney. Ellen died on Massachusetts. Isaiah and Martha March 4, 1873, apparently from were married on January 19, complications during childbirth. 1743/4. Martha may have been She gave birth to a stillborn baby related to Elijah Thompson of the day before her death. Charlton, Massachusetts, who was Oscar then married Henrietta active among Stratton’s early M. Waite, daughter of Luther and Propriety. Martha passed away on Asenath Waite of Stratton, on October 23, 1767, and Isaiah January 1, 1874, at Putney. remarried to Thamazin (Ellis) Henrietta was born in 1831. Hudson. Isaiah apparently bought Children of Oscar and Ellen were: land in Stratton in 1782/3, and he 1) Clarence A., born February 11, was still living in June, 1804. 1862, at Stratton, Vermont; married Ottilie Boedekin on John Blood, son of Isaiah and November 11, 1896, at Martha Blood, was born on Suffield, Connecticut. November 19, 1744. He married 2) Grace Irene, born August 18, Mary (Green) Chamberlain, at 1866, at Stanstead, Canada; Dudley, Massachusetts, on May married Emerson E. Pratt on 12, 1773. Mary was born on July 26, 1893, at Brattleboro, August 9, 1750, and was the Vermont. widow of Samuel Chamberlain 3) Ernest C., born September 8, who had died on June 12, 1771. 1867, in East Canada. She had lived at Voluntown, 4) Nellie Jane, born March 3, Connecticut, at the time of her 1871, in East Canada; married first marriage. Herbert A. Blood on May 4, John and Mary resided in 1899, at Putney, Vermont. Dudley, where John was 5) (a child), stillborn March 3, appointed to the school committee 1873, at Putney, Vermont. in 1775. During the American Revolution, John was a trumpeter Additional Sources: Ten Generations of Blodgetts in America in Captain Ebenezer Craft’s by Edwin A. Blodgett 1969 Company, Colonel Learned’s (There appears to be many errors in this Regiment, which marched on work - therefore, some information above may be incorrect.) April 20, 1775, in response to the alarm of the previous day. At that time, he served fifteen days. He Blood may also have been the John John and Jared Blood were among Blood who served at Fort the proprietors that first settled

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Ticonderoga in 1776 and he may 5) Isaiah, born April 9, 1784, at also have served at other times Pownal, Vermont. throughout the war. 6) John, born June 23, 1786, at John was the gentleman put Pownal, Vermont. in charge of establishing the first 7) Mary, born April 27, 1789, at settlement in Stratton and of Pownal, Vermont. cutting the first road into the 8) Joseph, born October 18, 1791, center of town. In his dealings in at Pownal, Vermont. Stratton in 1781 to 1784, he is referred to as John Blood of Jared Blood, son of Isaiah and Charlton, Massachusetts, and later Martha Blood, was born on of Pownal, Vermont. He lived in January 6, 1764. He married Pownal and was Town Clerk, Esther (Upham) Lamb, daughter Surveyor and Treasurer of that of Jonathan Upham and widow of town in 1790. Samuel Lamb, Jr., on May 5, In 1791, the Bloods moved to 1785, at Sturbridge, Saratoga, New York, and they Massachusetts. Esther was born were in Greenfield, New York in about 1762. Jared was one of the 1794. In 1802, John appeared in three brothers in this family to the church records of Ballston marry three sisters in the Upham Spa, New York. In 1810, he was family. living in New Lisbon, Otsego During the American County, New York. In 1814, John Revolution, Jared served as a sold his lands in Saratoga County Private in Captain Reuben Davis’s and was then a citizen of Laurens, Company, Colonel Luke Frury’s New York. Regiment. This Company was John died at Laurens, New detached on July 17, 1781, and York, on April 27, 1828. Mary marched to join the Regiment on survived until April 15, 1835. July 25, arriving at West Point on John’s will mentioned eight August 1, 1781. Jared was children living at the time of his discharged on November 1, 1781 death. and had served three months and Children of John and Mary were: 21 days. 1) Rachel, born May 2, 1774, at Jared was among the earliest Dudley, Massachusetts. settlers of Stratton, first buying 2) Margaret, born October 4, land there on February 8, 1783, 1775, at Dudley, from his brother, John. Following Massachusetts. the marriage, the Bloods settled in 3) Amos, born December 19, Stratton. Jared was Proprietor’s 1777, at Dudley, Clerk from October 6, 1787, to Massachusetts. May 27, 1789, and apparently 4) Phebe, born February 16, moved to Pownal, Vermont, 1782, at Charlton, following that time. He was listed Massachusetts. in the censuses of 1791 and 1800 in Pownal. He is last heard of in

Stratton Families 56 a petition of Jared Blood et al of Civil War. Daniel apparently had the Society of Methodists that was served during the war, probably in read before the Governor and a New York regiment, and he was Council on October 12, 1805. enrolled in the militia in Stratton During his time in Stratton, in 1867. The Bounds had moved Jared bought and sold many away before 1880. parcels of land, as did his brother, Children of Daniel and Charlotte: John and father, Isaiah. It has 1) George, born in 1863. been difficult determining where 2) James, born May 28, 1866, at he may have lived; however, the Stratton, Vermont. most likely location for his 3) Burton Allen, born April 23, homestead was 4L5R. 1868, at Stratton, Vermont. Children of Jared and Esther 4) Grace, born March 25, 1870, were: at Stratton, Vermont. 1) Nancy, born November 18, 1787, at Stratton Vermont (in Bourn Pownal VRs); married Thomas Abraham Bourn, son of Bushnell. Abraham and Lydia (Cass) Bourn, 2) Polly, born January 8, 1789, at was born about 1812 in New Stratton, Vermont (in Pownal Hampshire. Abraham married VRs). Catherine Sage, daughter of Jared

Additional Sources: and Betsy Sage. Catherine was The Story of the Bloods by Roger Dean born in Jamaica about 1805. The Harris, 1960 Bourns resided in Jamaica, Pownal, Vermont, VRs. Vermont. Abraham donated some of his land for the Seventh Day Botsford Adventist Church in Pikes Falls Jesse H. Botsford was born in and Catherine was one of its Manchester, Vermont. He was a organizers. She died at Stratton salesman and settled in Stratton on January 15, 1899. before 1898. He married Ina May Children of Abram and Catherine: White, daughter of Lester and 1) Sarah C., born about 1836 at Sarah (Holmes) White. Ina was Jamaica, Vermont; died born at Stratton on June 28, 1875. October 2, 1904, at Stratton, A child of Jesse and Ina was: Vermont; married 1) Henry 1) Bula Bussell, born January 13, Kimball Pike 2) Calvin 1898, at Stratton, Vermont. Newton Pike on September 20, 1900. Bounds 2) Leander, married Marietta Daniel Bounds, a lumberman, Tolman. was born in Troy, New York, about 1843. His wife, Charlotte George Frank Bourne, son of Wilkinson was born in Rupert, Leander and Marietta (Tolman) Vermont, about 1845. They Bourn, was born on January 17, settled in Stratton just after the 1869, at Jamaica, Vermont. In

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1900, he was boarding in Stratton Children of Nelson and Lucinda in the home of his Aunt Sarah C. were: Pike, widow of Henry Pike and 1) Harriette E., born July 3, 1854, daughter of Abram and Catherine in Maine; died October 24, Bourn. Frank, as he was called, 1862, at Stratton, Vermont. married Susie E. Cowdry on June 2) Ella Flora, born in 1858. 25, 1891, at Jamaica. He took the 3) Sada, born June 2, 1863, at Freeman’s oath in Stratton in Stratton, Vermont. November, 1908. Frank Additional sources: apparently married a second time Notes of Melvin and Sherrill Bourn of to Lizzie (?). He died on April 9, Jacksonville, Florida. 1926, at Jamaica, Vermont. A child of Frank and Susie was: Boutell 1) Esther Aurrella, born April 6, The Boutell family of Leominster, 1892; died October 8, 1893, at Massachusetts, was the keystone Jamaica, Vermont of a group of families from that

area that settled the western part Nelson D. Bourn, son of Daniel of Stratton beginning in 1790. and Olive Bourn, was born on William and Persis Boutell were December 10, 1827, at Richmond, parents of at least three children New Hampshire. He married who later settled in Stratton. The Lucinda A. Mathers who was born Boutells, the Hales, the Jacob on October 10, 1830, at Pittsford, Allen family, the Phineas Alden Vermont. Apparently, the Bourns family, the John Ramor family were living in Maine when their and later, the Carter family were first daughter was born. They all interrelated and had purchased settled in Stratton soon after that adjacent farms within Stratton. time. In 1863, the town of Although William and Persis Stratton paid Nelson to care for Boutell were never residents of Mrs. Abigail Mason, widow of Stratton, their immediate family Royal Mason. should be included here, since Lucinda died at Stratton on several later resided in Stratton. October 6, 1864. Nelson married William Boutell was born a second time to Georgianna about 1727. His wife, Persis Hudson, daughter of James and Hubbard was born about 1735. Mary Hudson, on June 3, 1865, at William served during the Dover, Vermont, but they were American Revolution as a Private divorced in June of 1870, in in Captain John Joslin’s Cheshire County, New Company, Colonel Job Cushing’s Hampshire. Georgianna was born Worcester County Regiment that in 1849. marched from Leominster during Nelson died of consumption the last of July, 1777, to join on February 5, 1871, at Colonel Seth Warner at Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire. Bennington. He served for one month and seven days. He later

Stratton Families 58 joined Lieutenant Samuel Grace Parker 2) Betsey Stickney’s Regiment and marched Adams. October 9, 1777, under command 9) David (twin), born December of Major Ebenezer Bridge to assist 25, 1769, at Leominster, General Gates at Saratoga. This Massachusetts. service lasted only 17 days. 10) Oliver, born June 22, 1772, at William died on April 8, Leominster, Massachusetts. 1797, and Persis died on April 12, 11) Caty, born February 27, 1775, 1807, both in Leominster. at Leominster, Massachusetts. Children of William and Persis: 1) Judith, born August 4, 1758, at Samuel Boutell, son of William Leominster, Massachusetts. and Persis Boutell, was born on 2) Persis, born March 29, 1760, November 20, 1761, at at Leominster, Massachusetts; Leominster, Massachusetts. died May 31, 1836, at Putney, There, he married Elizabeth Hale, Vermont; married Asa daughter of Samuel and Eleanor Washburn (intent published (Smith) Hale, on November 25, September 8, 1805). 1790. Elizabeth was born there 3) Samuel, born November 20, on April 11, 1770. 1761, at Leominster, Samuel served Massachusetts Massachusetts; died January during the American Revolution. 18, 1822, at Stratton, He appears on a muster in Vermont; married Elizabeth Worcester County serving in Hale on November 25, 1790, at Capt. Timothy Butell’s Co. Col. Leominster, Massachusetts. Rand’s Regiment. He enlisted for 4) John, born July 24, 1763, at nine months, mustering July 6, Leominster, Massachusetts. 1779, to serve in Rhode Island 5) Sarah, born February 22, 1765, until Jan. 1, 1780. His name at Leominster, Massachusetts; appeared in a list to reinforce the died April 28, 1850, at Continental army for a term of six Newfane, Vermont; married months in June, 1780. A Jacob Allen on November 3, description had him listed at 1784, at Leominster, 5’10” tall, with a dark Massachusetts. complexion, and 18 years of age. 6) William, born October 19, He marched to camp on July 12, 1766, at Leominster, 1780, under command of Ensign Massachusetts; died October Gilbert. His name appeared 16, 1843; married Tabitha among a list of men raised for the White on August 22, 1787, at six month service by Brigadier Leominster, Massachusetts. General Paterson and he passed 7) Dolly, born May 12, 1768, at muster in a return dated Camp Leominster, Massachusetts. Totoway Oct. 25, 1780. Samuel 8) Daniel (twin), born December was discharged on December 25, 25, 1769, at Leominster, 1780. Massachusetts; married 1)

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On June 27, 1785, Samuel senior. They were married at and John Boutell, both of Stratton on December 28, 1809. Leominster at that time, On May 24, 1814, Samuel purchased the west half of 5L7R. was appointed Deacon of the John was Samuel’s younger Church and in September, 1814, brother. Over the years, Samuel Jane was taken into the Church. purchased and sold large amounts In 1820, Samuel sold his farm and of land in Stratton as well as ten house and he and Jane evidently Proprietor’s rights of the town’s moved into the home of Jonathan undivided lands. and Eber Hill, Jane’s children, Samuel and Elizabeth who still lived on the Hill evidently came to Stratton just homestead located north of after their marriage in 1790. Samuel’s homestead. The Boutell Samuel was called “of Stratton” in homestead became Torrey’s a deed dated June 13, 1791, and tavern within the next few years about that time, he built a farm on and was distinguished as being 5L7R. Samuel and Elizabeth’s the place Daniel Webster slept daughter, Elizabeth, died May 24, following his speech at Stratton in 1796. This was the first death 1840. noted in Stratton’s records, Samuel passed away at although it may not have been the Stratton on January 18, 1822. first death to occur in Stratton. Jane remained with her children Samuel was elected Stratton’s and fell into poverty following first Representative to the General Samuel’s death. They became Assembly of Vermont in 1799 charges of the town and so the during Stratton’s first Freeman’s Selectmen bid off the care of Jane meeting. He served as Stratton’s and her children to the lowest Representative for 17 of the next bidder in exchange for the Hill’s 18 years. Samuel was also property (the west half of 6L7R). appointed Justice of the Peace and Luther Torrey bid off the Hill lot served in that capacity for 22 in 1828, agreeing to care for Jane years. He also served as a and her family in exchange. In Selectman and in other capacities September, 1831, the town agreed for the town during his lifetime. to add a new roof and re-sill her The Boutells were taken into home. On October 30, 1834, the Church of Christ in Stratton in Luther Purrington of Winhall, May, 1802. Elizabeth passed Vermont was deeded the Hill farm away at Stratton between 1807 by the Selectmen. Purrington and 1809, and Samuel then mortgaged it back to the married Jane Hill, widow of Selectmen for $1000.00 with an Thomas Hill who had passed agreement that Mr. Purrington away in 1807. Thomas had would care for Jane and her owned a neighboring farm. children for the remainder of their Jane was born about 1750, lives. Jane died on December 20, making her ten years Samuel’s 1835, and her three children

Stratton Families 60 followed within the next year. October 19, 1766, at Leominster, Mr. Purrington claimed the farm Massachusetts. During the for himself following their deaths. American Revolution, William Children of Samuel and served as a Private in Captain Elizabeth: Joshua Wood’s Company that 1) Elizabeth, born October 14, marched on the alarm of April 19, 1791, at Stratton, Vermont; 1775, to Cambridge, died May 24, 1796, at Stratton, Massachusetts. He served for Vermont. seven days. 2) Sally, born June 5, 1793, at William married Tabitha Stratton, Vermont (admitted to White, daughter of Josiah and the Church of Christ in Tabitha (Carter) White, at Stratton on February 12, Leominster on August 22, 1787. 1812); married Woodbridge Not long after the marriage, the Daniels on December 3, 1818, Boutells settled in Stratton, at Stratton, Vermont. probably residing in the home of 3) Persis, born June 11, 1795, at William’s brother, Samuel. Stratton, Vermont; married William was recorded as Phineas Alden (of Dover, being “of Stratton” when he Vermont) on December 21, purchased the east half of 4L7R 1815, at Stratton, Vermont. and 5 acres of 3L7R on January 4) Elinor, born March 17, 1797, 22, 1790. This was the Isaiah at Stratton, Vermont (admitted Harvey lot located north of what is to the Church of Christ in now called Grout Pond. William Stratton on August 31, 1817). was not, however, recorded in 5) Samuel, born June 2, 1799, at Stratton’s Census of 1791, Stratton, Vermont; died although it is probable that October 29, 1875. William Boutell was mistakenly 6) Betsey, born about 1801, at transcribed as “Warren Burch,” a Stratton, Vermont (baptized in name that does not exist Stratton on July 17, 1803); elsewhere in Stratton’s records. died March 15, 1879; married William and Tabitha had Nathaniel Russell on settled near the pond, evidently November 12, 1820, at remaining there for about 15 Stratton, Vermont. years. The 1800 census lists 7) Dolly, (baptized in Stratton on William as head of a household December 27, 1803). with his wife, three boys under 8) Lydia, born December 20, ten, one girl under ten and two 1806 (admitted to the Church girls ten to sixteen. The Boutells of Christ in Stratton on March were taken into the Church of 6, 1825); died December 30, Christ in Stratton in May, 1802. 1889. William also served as a Lister and a Highway Surveyor for the William Boutell, son of William town. and Persis Boutell, was born on

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On November 16, 1805, admitted to the Church of William sold his farm to John Christ in Townshend in 1823). Franklin of Townshend, Vermont, and on December 25, 1806, the Bowker Boutells were warned out of Edgar W. Bowker, son of S. Townshend. On April 27, 1808, Wright and Henrietta A. the Church Clerk recorded, (Halladay) Bowker, was born in “Voted Brother William Boutell 1858. He came to Stratton during and his wife dismission from this the late 1870s and bought out the church and recommended to the Hubbard and Metcalf sawmill on church in Townshend.” The the east branch of the Deerfield Townshend church recorded River. In 1880, at age 21, Mr. William as a member that same Bowker was head of a household year. The move to Townshend that included four other men all of from Stratton was also made by whom probably worked at his William’s sister and her husband, sawmill. These gentlemen were: Sarah and Jacob Allen - neighbors Michael Morissy, Marshall of the Boutells. William died on Garvey, John Williams and John October 16, 1843. Connell. John’s wife, Ella J. Children of William and Tabitha: Connell, was also residing in this 1) Polly (or Sally), born house. Mr. Bowker sold the December 14, 1787, at sawmill to Joel F. Grout that same Leominster, Massachusetts. year. Since then, the site has been 2) Lucinda, born February 22, known as the Grout Job. Edgar 1789, at Leominster, died on December 1, 1887, age Massachusetts. 29, and was buried in the 3) Susanna (Susa or Sukey), born Williamsville Cemetery in February 4, 1792, at Newfane, Vermont, in the family Leominster, Massachusetts. plot. 4) William, Jr. 5) Artemas, born January 8, 1797; married Susan Ranson. Boyd 6) Josephas, baptized January 26, Lorezo Boyd was born in 1800. Vermont in September, 1824. He 7) James settled in Stratton about 1900 and 8) Larra (baptized in Stratton on was listed as a widower in that December 27, 1803). year’s census. He was no longer 9) Nancy (baptized in Stratton on in Stratton in 1910. April 16, 1805). and possibly: Boyden 10) Oraton, married Mary Taft on Nathaniel Boyden had already January 1, 1834, at Putney, settled in Stratton before his Vermont (both of Townshend, purchase of 3L1R on February 26, Vermont. Oraton Boutell was 1838. This was the old Bixby farm. He apparently did not stay

Stratton Families 62 long in Stratton. Nathaniel sold Brazer this lot to Amos Parsons on Paul E. Brazer was born on September 25, 1838, and March 31, 1911. His wife, H. evidently left town at that time. Madeline Adams, was born on He was not listed in the 1840 September 3, 1917. Paul served census of Stratton. in the Navy during WWII. The Brazers first lived at Boynouske Ogdensburg, New York, then Stanley Boynouske was born settled in Stratton in April, 1946, about 1882 in Russia. In 1920, he in the northeast corner of town on was a lumberman in Stratton, land on and around the area of living in the boarding house at the Pikes Falls Road, Brazers Way Grout Job. and County Rd., land which they had purchased from Raymond and Bragg Irene Styles in April, 1946 – Alexander Bragg married Mary apparently located in 11L1R. The Man on June 2, 1802. The Brazers were very active in town Braggs came to Stratton about affairs. Paul was chairman of the 1816. They were warned out of Selectboard for several years and town by Stratton’s Selectmen on he built Stratton’s Town Hall on March 10, 1817, and served the site of the old Wyman Hotel, notice by the constable on March across from the church. 12, 1817. Alexander evidently Paul died on August 18, died soon after. The Church 1989, and he was buried in North Clerk of the Church of Christ in Cemetery. Madeline died on Stratton recorded “Voted not to November 22, 1997 and she was receive Widow Bragg into the buried beside Paul. church without better A child of Paul and Madeline: satisfaction” on May 4, 1818. 1) Carolyn, married Stewart John Mrs. Bragg apparently left Underwood. Stratton before 1820. Briggs Bramin Thomas Briggs was living in Ezra Bramin, son of (?) Bramin Stratton in 1855 and his children and Chloe Willis, was born in were attending school in district 1830 at Somerset, Vermont. Ezra #5 that year. He was placed in took his mother’s maiden name, school district #6 in March, 1859. Willis (See Ezra Willis below). He lived on the Stratton-Arlington However, Stratton’s town records Rd., near the Wardsboro border. show his birth and the birth of This house was later owned by some of his children as surnamed Ralph Pike (see McClellan’s Map Bramin. of 1856). His children were: 1) Roselana 2) Alma

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Bert Briggs was born in New (or Mercy), settled in Stratton, York in February, 1876. He came after buying the east half of 4L4R to Stratton by 1900 and worked as on April 4, 1817. Moses removed a lumberman at the Grout Job. In his relation from the Church of 1900, he was listed as a boarder in Christ in Ware, Massachusetts, to the Grout boarding house, located the Church of Christ in Stratton at the site. Bert moved away from on October 14, 1817. He was Stratton before 1910. elected Constable and Collector for Stratton at the March meeting Brooks of 1818; however, the Browns moved away from town on Rufus Brooks, son of Samuel and December 29 of that same year. Chloe Brooks, was born at

Vernon, Vermont, in January, 1808. His wife, Hannah M., was George Brown was born about born about 1815. The Brooks 1845 in Danby, Vermont. He settled in Stratton during the married Estella M. Boutwell, 1860s and Rufus was elected a daughter of Milo and Abigail highway surveyor in 1871. They (Johnson) Boutwell on February 4, lived on the old Glazier 1875. Stella was born in Jamaica, homestead on 8L1R, located just Vermont, on May 15, 1859. off Mountain Rd. on a farm later George was a peddler and referred to as the Brown farm. settled in Stratton during the Rufus died at Stratton on May 1870s, apparently settling on the 11, 1880. Hannah had either old Glazier farm on the north half passed away before Rufus or she of 8L1R. He died there in 1899 left Stratton soon after his death. and was buried in Ball Cemetery. Stella died on February 5, 1938, at Orange, Massachusetts, and was George Brooks apparently lived buried in Ball Cemetery. in Stratton in the late 1890s. A Children of George and Stella: map of Stratton drawn just prior 1) George H., born February 24, to 1900 shows him occupying a 1876, at Stratton, Vermont; farm in 12L2R on Pikes Falls Rd. died October 3, 1876, at on the Winhall border (see FA Stratton, Vermont. White on Beer’s Atlas of 1869). 2) William James, born

September 6, 1877, at Stratton, H. M. Brooks was born about Vermont; died in 1901. 1812. He settled in Stratton 3) Frank A., born August 20, during the 1870s and he was 1882, at Stratton, Vermont. living there alone in 1880. He 4) Bert Cleveland, born July 5, probably died, or he had moved 1885, at Stratton, Vermont. away from Stratton before 1900. 5) Edwin M., born May 15, 1888,

at Stratton, Vermont. Brown 6) Abbie Florence, born June 20, Moses Brown of Ware, 1894, at Stratton, Vermont. Massachusetts, and his wife, Mary

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7) Mary J., born November 6, Limekiln Farm Rd. on December 1892, at Stratton, Vermont. 2, 1935. There, they built the 8) George, Jr., born in 1897; died cabin now occupied by DR Holton in 1919 - during WWI. (2000).

George Brown, Jr., son of George and Stella M. Brown, was born about 1897 in Stratton. George enlisted during WWI. He apparently died in the service in 1919 and was buried in Ball Cemetery.

Katie R. Brown was born about 1875. In 1880, she was living in Stratton with her uncle and aunt, Lewis and Phoebe Wilder. She no longer lived in Stratton in 1900.

Florencia Brown attended school in Stratton’s district #5 in 1863. Frank Brownell Brownell Photo courtesy of the Ethel Eddy Collection (Bunnell) John Brownell (or Bunnell) was Buck born about 1838 at New Haven, William P. Buck, son of Philo Connecticut. His wife, Eliza and Sally Buck, was born about Wilkinson was born about 1854. 1836 and apparently grew up in She was originally from Sandgate, Sunderland. He married Virginia Vermont, and she was probably a “Helen” Allen, daughter of sister of Charlotte Wilkinson, wife Ebenezer and Lucy Allen. Helen of Daniel Bounds. was born on May 15, 1843, at The Brownells had settled in Stratton. Stratton by 1870, but had moved The Bucks first settled in out of town by 1880. Sunderland, Vermont, then settled Their child was: in Stratton by 1869. William’s 1) Warren Augustus, born father, Philo, purchased lands in September 18, 1870, at the western part of Stratton in Stratton, Vermont. 1841 and was apparently involved in a logging operation there. Frank W. Brownell and his wife, William and Helen’s home Margueritte P., of Braintree, was located on the north side of Massachusetts, purchased one the Stratton-Arlington Rd., just acre at the corner of Pike Hollow west of Knowlton Farm Rd. and Rd. and the old road called the on the northwest corner of 1L2R.

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The Bucks left Stratton before Arlington Rd. - West Jamaica Rd. 1880. In 1907, Helen was living intersection on the ridge, and it in Arlington, Vermont. was later occupied by Stephen Children of William and Helen: Ballard (see McClellan’s map of 1) Martha, born about 1865. 1856). Asahel and Charlotte 2) Cora Irene, born February 23, settled in Stratton at that time. 1876, at Stratton, Vermont. On December 12, 1808, Asahel took the Freeman’s oath and about Bugby that same time he purchased a 26- Cyrus F. Bugby was born acre lot located west of, and between 1810 and 1820. He adjacent to, the meetinghouse lot moved to Stratton before 1839 and in 4L4R and 4L5R. This was married Sarah Ann Potter, there during the time that the on October 6, 1839. Sarah was meetinghouse was being built and born between 1820 and 1825. so Asahel, whose occupation was The Bugbys had left Stratton by a painter, undoubtedly was hired 1850. to paint the new structure. The remains of the farmhouse in which they lived still exist just a Burk few yards west of the town McColon Burk and his wife, common. Anna, were of French descent. As was the custom for They apparently settled in Stratton newcomers, the Burts were in the Fall of 1865, coming from warned out of town within a year Camden, New York. They had of their arrival on February 25, removed from town by 1870. 1809, and served notice by A child of McColon and Anna: Stratton’s constable on March 3, 1) Laura, born August 18, 1865, 1809. Asahel sold 50 acres of at Camden, New York; died 2L4R on March 7, 1809. Within October 12, 1865, at Stratton, the next year, the Burts removed Vermont to Scaghtikak, Rensalear County, New York. Asahel sold the lot by Burt the meetinghouse that included a Asahel Burt, son of Captain dwelling house and barn to Joseph and Mary (Burt) Burt, was Augustus Burt (possibly his born on August 29, 1774, at brother) on September 14, 1810. Westmoreland, New Hampshire. The Burts were not included in Asahel married Charlotte Stratton’s 1810 census. McBride at Athol, Massachusetts, on November 14, 1802. Butler On January 9, 1808, Asahel Fitzalen H. Butler and his wife, purchased the northeast corner of Angie, came to Stratton from 2L4R, and apparently settled Plymouth, Vermont, about 1876. thereon. The house was located Fitzalen was Stratton’s Free-Will south-southwest of the Stratton- Baptist minister from that time

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May 25, 1879. He and his family then removed to Franklin, New Cannon York. George Cannon was born Their children were: between 1790 and 1800. He 1) Alice M., born February 25, married Abigail Wellman, 1877, at Stratton, Vermont; daughter of Ebenezer and Eunice died June 18, 1877, at Stratton, Wellman before 1824. Abigail Vermont (of pneumonia). was born on October 22, 1798, at 2) (a daughter), born October 3, Mansfield, Massachusetts, and 1878, at Stratton, Vermont. came to Stratton with her parents in 1813. Following the marriage, Byclura the Cannons evidently settled in with Abigail’s family and were Charles Byclura was born about living there in 1824. The 1890 in Lithuania. In 1920, Wellman farm was located on Charles was a lumberman 2L2R - east of what is now working in Stratton and living in Knowlton Farm Rd.. They may the boarding house at the Grout have settled elsewhere, but Job. apparently returned to live with

the Wellmans by 1830. They had C a son John, born in 1824 in Stratton. The 1840 census indicated that besides John, the Canedy Cannons also had three sons and a Clarence Truman Canedy, son daughter born between 1825 and of Israel and Elmira (Sanders) 1830, and a daughter born Canedy, was born on December 2, between 1830 and 1835. Abigail 1873 at Halifax, Vermont. He died at Wardsboro, Vermont, on came to Stratton sometime before November 29, 1875. 1919 and lived for a time on the Their children were: Orrin Johnson farm1. This farm 1) Joseph Howard was located on what is now Penny 2) John Howard, born February 5, Avenue on the site currently 1824, at Stratton, Vermont. occupied by the Pickerings. At 3) Franklin some point, he resided on the road 4) Frances named for him - Canedy Rd. in 5) Jane 3L1R. He apparently was in the sugaring business and he owned a Joseph Howard Cannon, son of row of maples along this road in George and Abigail Cannon, was the early 1920s. living with Hartford Wellman in Clarence died on January 30, 1844 and attending school in the 1959 at Brattleboro, Vermont. He Stratton Somerset United district. was buried in Ball Cemetery.

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Carroll was known as Holman Pond. Henry L. Carroll was born about Once the Carters had settled there, 1847. He may not have resided in it was called Carter Pond (as seen Stratton; however, during the on McClellan’s map of 1856). Civil War, Henry enlisted for Ephraim paid taxes on 2L7R in Stratton - a one-year enlistment, 1820, along with Abel Phelps who beginning on March 28, 1865. was probably Patty’s father. This Henry was assigned to Company lot was located southwest of the G of the Vermont 17th Regiment, Pond and was previously occupied mustering in on March 1, 1865. by Russell Haynes. Ephraim He mustered out just four and a probably settled into the Haynes half months later on July 14. If farm. Later, his son, Leander Henry settled in Stratton after the purchased large amounts of land war, he had left town before the in this area including 3L7R to the 1870 census was taken. north of his father’s lot. On March 6, 1825, Ephraim and Patty, along with their Carter children, Abigail, Leander and Ephraim Carter, son of Deacon Martha were accepted as members Ephraim and Joanna (Wheelock) of the Church of Christ in Carter, was born on March 17, Stratton. 1772, at Leominster, By 1830, a woman aged 70 to Massachusetts. He married Polly 80 was living with the Carters. “Patty” Phelps there on September This woman was likely Patty’s 1 28, 1794. Patty was born in 1768 mother (Eunice). The Carters and may have been the daughter remained in Stratton through of Abel and Eunice Phelps. The 1832, then evidently went west to Carters were members of the Ohio with their son, Leander, and church in Leominster and had his family that year. Patty died in their four oldest children all 1836. baptized there on December 26, Children of Ephraim and Patty: 1803. They remained in 1) (a child), born in March, 1795; Leominster at least through 1817. died May 7, 1795, at This was the year that Ephraim’s Leominster, Massachusetts. father died and also the year their 2) Lucy, born October 1, 1796; daughter, Abigail, was baptized at baptized December 26, 1803, Leominster. at Leominster, Massachusetts; The Carters settled in died December 25, 1874. Stratton before 1820. At that 3) Henry, born in 1800; baptized time, Ephraim was called Captain December 26, 1803, at Carter and he took the Freeman’s Leominster, Massachusetts; oath in Stratton on March 29, died March 20, 1882. 1820. Ephraim was given credit 4) Louisa, born in 1802; baptized for clearing the farm on Grout December 26, 1803, at Pond, as it is now called. Before the arrival of the Carters, the pond

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Leominster, Massachusetts; Nancy was born in Franklin, died September 30, 1870. Massachusetts, on December 15, 5) Wilder, baptized December 26, 1808. 1803, at Leominster, On April 7, 1828, Leander Massachusetts; died May 16, purchased 3L7R, the lot north of 1877; married Dolly Sawyer. his father’s lot. He apparently 6) Leander, born April 14, 1806; settled in the house on that lot, baptized April 20, 1806, at which was located at the top of the Leominster, Massachusetts; hill where the road currently died September 19, 1878, at descends to the parking area for Ashland, Ohio; married Nancy the pond. Leander also purchased Mann Richardson on April 14, many other parcels of land in 1831, at Stratton, Vermont. Stratton, including part of his 7) Thirza, baptized May 8, 1808, father-in-law’s farm (the at Leominster, Massachusetts. Richardson farm) on 5L6R. 8) Martha, baptized September In 1832, soon after Leander 17, 1810, at Leominster, and Nancy were marriage, the Massachusetts; married Carters went west and settled in Ephraim Slocum on August the Western Reserve, Ashland 21, 1856. County, Ohio. Leander allowed 9) Abigail, born in 1814; Bezaliel Lawrence of Leominster, baptized December 20, 1817, who held a mortgage on the farm at Leominster, Massachusetts; by the pond, to foreclose. Many married Thomas Jones (intent years later, a descendant of the published on May 15, 1836, at Carters sent back a trunk that they Stratton, Vermont). had used to carry their belongings west in. The trunk is kept as part Notes: 1) Polly may have been a daughter of Abel of the Russell Collection in East and Eunice Phelps who owned 2L7R. Arlington. Abel died about 1827. Others who were Leander died at Ashland, involved in the sale of his lands on 1/1/1828 were his widow, Eunice; Ohio, on September 19, 1878. Sumner Phelps and wife, Dolly; David Children of Leander and Nancy: Phelps and wife Rhoda, all of Leominster 1) Hiland Mann, born August 10, and Abel Phelps (Jr.) of Boston. 1832, at Stratton, Vermont (baptized in Stratton on Leander Carter, son of Ephraim December 2, 1832). and Patty Carter, was born in 2) Martha A., born February 16, Leominster, Massachusetts, on 1835. April 14, 1806. He was baptized 3) Eliza L., born March 27, 1837; there on April 20, 1806, and came died February 2, 1875. to Stratton with his parents, where 4) Vermelia, born October 11, he gained the title of “lieutenant.” 1838. Leander married Nancy Mann 5) Mary, born April 8, 1841. Richardson, a daughter of 6) Caroline, born March 2, 1843. Timothy and Nancy Richardson, on April 14, 1831, at Stratton.

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7) William H., born December 3, about 1875 and that Martin was born 1847. about 1877.

8) Augustus E., born October 15, Hiram J. Center, possibly a son 1849. of John and Hannah Centor, was

accepted into the Church of Christ Casey in Stratton on October 18, 1874. J. Henry Casey, son of James He was not fully accepted into the and Elizabeth (McCourt) Casey, church at that time because he was born in New Brunswick, wanted to be baptized by Canada, about 1866. He came to immersion and preparations for Stratton and worked as a laborer such a baptism had not been at one of the lumber camps there. made. This marked the end of the He married Augusta S. Allen, Church records and the Church daughter of John and Sarah ceased to exist about this time. (VanTassell) Allen, on December So, Mr. Center may never have 1, 1902. Augusta was born at been baptized into Stratton’s Northampton, New York, about Church. Hiram took the 1883. Freeman’s oath in Stratton in 1876. Centor (Center) Chamberlain John Centor, a Canadian, was Charlie Chamberlain, son of born about 1815. He married Rodney and Helen Chamberlain, Hannah Burke of Salem, New was born in June, 1863. He came York. Hannah was born about to Stratton with his widowed 1829. The Centors settled in mother who married Calvin Stratton about 1876 and moved Shepardson there in 1876. At that away before 1900. time, his sister Lettie (born in Children of John and Ann were: 1866) was with them. Charlie 1) Hiram J. (possible) resided in Stratton well into his 2) George, born about 1859. middle age. In 1900, he was still 3) Maria Fanny, died in Rupert, living with his widowed mother, Vermont; married Riley but by 1910, he had moved away. Davidson. 4) Frank, born about 1864. Chase 5) Charles, born about 1870. The Chase family had a large 6) Laura, born about 1873. representation within Stratton at 7) Emma Etta1, born July 19, an early time - most as wives 1877, at Stratton, Vermont. using their husbands’ surnames. 8) Martin1, born about 1877. Deacon Abel Chase of Sutton, 9) Blanche, born about 1880. Massachusetts, and his wife, Notes: Sarah Holman, daughter of 1) Stratton’s vital records gives Emma’s Solomon Holman (related to the birth as July 19, 1877; however, the 1880 census shows that she was born Holmans of Stratton), had two

Stratton Families 70 daughters that came to Stratton - Superintendent of Worcester Mary, wife of Francis Kidder, and County, as serving with Captain Ruth, wife of Anthony Sigourney. Elliot’s Company, Colonel A grandson, Isaac Chase, son of Davis’s Regiment, age 18, stature their son, Abel Chase and his wife 5’1” (or 5’7”) with a light Judith Gale1, daughter of Isaac complexion. This Regiment and Judith Gale, also settled in marched to Springfield, Stratton (Isaac is profiled below). Massachusetts, on July 8, 1779. Others of this family that came to This was a nine-month enlistment Stratton were the children of beginning June 29, 1779. Hannah Chase, wife of Eliakim Following the war, Isaac Garfield and also Dorcas Chase, married Sarah Bond, daughter of wife of Abel Grout and daughter Josiah and Sarah (Melendy) Bond, of Henry and Abigail Chase of on January 8, 1789, at Sutton. Sutton. Dorcas was distantly Sarah was born there on related to Deacon Abel Chase’s September 21, 1769. line. Isaac and Sarah moved to Stratton, where Isaac had Note: 1) Judith’s brother, Nehemiah Gale, owned purchased the east half of 5L3R much land in Stratton and several of his on December 29, 1785. This was children settled in Stratton. the lot upon which the Chases settled and the remains of their Isaac Chase, son of Abel and home can still be found north and Judith (Gale) Chase, was born in east of the Shepardson Rd. / West Sutton, Massachusetts, on Jamaica Rd. intersection. Isaac September 12, 1761. During the also had purchased other lots such American Revolution, Isaac as 10L1R (200 acres) on May 17, served in Captain Andrew Elliot’s 1785, but he sold this land before Company, Colonel Jonathan moving to Stratton. Holman’s Regiment, which The Chases were among a marched September 26, 1777, to large group of early Stratton reinforce the Northern Army at settlers from Sutton, many of the taking of General Burgoyne. whom were related. The Chases This service lasted 30 days. Isaac probably settled in Stratton in also served in Captain John 1787. On June 3, 1787, Isaac was Putnam’s Company, Colonel elected temporary Proprietor’s Wade’s Regiment, which marched Clerk of Stratton for a meeting from Worcester on June 20, 1778, held that day in Stratton. On May to join General Sullivan’s Army at 28, 1788, he was a member of a Providence. This was a 26-day committee to transfer papers to service. The Company then the Proprietor’s new treasurer, detached from Colonel John and on May 27, 1789, he was Holman’s Regiment for 21 days of elected Proprietor’s Treasurer. service. Isaac was also named on Isaac was listed as head of a a descriptive list of men returned household in Stratton in 1791. by Seth Washburn,

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On September 25, 1793, Isaac was 4) Isaac, born November 3, 1798, a member of a committee at Westford, Vermont; married representing the inhabitants of Elitha Naranda Ballard. Stratton at a proprietor’s meeting 5) Sarah, born August 5, 1810, at concerning a petition to the Westford, Vermont; died Vermont General Assembly about September 13, 1871, at Elgin, an acreage problem within the Illinois; married John Morse survey of Stratton. on September 7, 1828. The Chases evidently resettled in Newfane, Vermont, in Truman Chase, son of Isaac and 1794, and Isaac sold his farm on Sarah Chase, was born at Stratton, February 10, 1795, to Clark on January 17, 1790. As a boy, he Stone. lived in Newfane, Vermont, In 1797, the Chase family before settling in Westford, moved from Newfane to Westford, Vermont, with his parents in Vermont, where Isaac was listed 1797. Truman married Laura among the original members of Ballard, daughter of Joseph and the Westford Baptist Church on Mary (Loomis) Ballard on December 23, 1798. Isaac became January 2, 1816, at Georgia, a deacon of that church. He Vermont. Laura was born on served Westford in various town November 11, 1794, at Georgia. offices for many years, including The Chases settled in Westford. Selectman. Isaac died there on Truman passed away there on January 9, 1833, and Sarah April 26, 1871, and Laura died followed on July 7, 1841. They there on March 28, 1872. Laura were buried in Pleasant View was buried at Westford in Cemetery, in Westford. Pleasant View Cemetery. Children of Isaac and Sarah were: Children of Truman and Laura: 1) Truman, born January 17, 1) Royal Ballard, born December 1790, at Stratton, Vermont; 15, 1816, at Westford, died April 28, 1871; married Vermont. Laura Ballard on January 2, 2) Mariette, born March 17, 1816. 1820, at Westford, Vermont. 2) Irah, born October 5, 1793, at 3) Laura Marie, born November Stratton, Vermont; died on 24, 1822, at Westford, November 1, 1864, at Newton, Vermont. Massachusetts; married 1) 4) Julia Ann, born July 6, 1824, Harriet Savage on March 15, at Westford, Vermont. 1821 2) Martha Raymond on 5) Henry Loomis, born September October 13, 1835. 9, 1832, at Westford, Vermont. 3) Peter, born May 2, 1796, at Newfane, Vermont; died May Irah Chase, son of Isaac and 10, 1866, at Enosburg, Sarah Chase, was born in Vermont; married Martha Stratton, on October 5, 1793. Stewart on August 28, 1821. When Irah was young, his father

Stratton Families 72 moved the family to Westford, 3) Henry Savage, born June 17, Vermont. Irah graduated from 1825, at Washington, DC; Middlebury College in 1814, and married Sarah Grano Leverett from Andover Theological on December 25, 1857. Seminary in 1817. He was 4) Irah ordained a Baptist minister at 5) Heman Lincoln Danvers on September 17, 1817, 6) Thomas Small and was associated with Dr. 7) Harriet Emma, died May 15, William Staughton in establishing 1835, at Newton, the first Baptist Theological Massachusetts. School in this country in Philadelphia in 1822. Irah was Children of Irah and Martha: professor of biblical literature 8) Martha there. The school moved to 9) Sarah Emma Washington and became part of Additional Sources: Columbian College. In 1825, Irah Chase Family History taken from Vermont removed to Newton, Families in 1791, Volume 1 pg 30, 31. Massachusetts, and took part in establishing Newton Theological Cheney Institute. Irah was a professor of John F. Cheney was born about Biblical Theology there until 1898 in Massachusetts. In 1920, 1836, then taught Ecclesiastical John was a lumberman working in History until 1845. He published Stratton and living in the Remarks on the Book of Daniel in boarding house at the Grout Job. 1844, Life of John Bunyan, The

Design of Baptism in 1851; The Work Claiming to be the Cigler Constitution of the Holy Apostles, Dino Cigler and his wife Mina and Infant Baptism an Invention Pasquelin came to America from of Man. Italy. Dino probably worked at Irah married Harriet Savage, one of Stratton’s sawmills. daughter of Timothy Savage of A child of Dino and Mina was: Wilmington, North Carolina, 1) Mary E., born June 23, 1904, there on March 15, 1821. She at Stratton, Vermont. died on May 2, 1834, at Newton, Massachusetts. Irah married Clark secondly, Martha Raymond, Olive H. Clark was a teacher in daughter of Jonathan and Patty Stratton in 1835. (Downs) Raymond, on October 13, 1835, at Middlebury, John Clark was born in England Massachusetts. Irah died at about 1815. In 1860, he was Newton on November 1, 1864. living in Stratton in the home of Children of Irah and Harriet were: Leander and Mary Fuller. At that 1) Harriet time, Esther Clark, aged 60, and 2) William Stoughton Augusta Clark, aged 4, were there

Stratton Families 73 also. Although Esther would have 2) Leola V., born about 1906 in been only 15 or 16 when John was Pennsylvania. born, she may have been John’s mother. Augusta was likely his John A. Clayton, son of Almon daughter and Mary Fuller, who and Betsey (Landman) Clayton, was born about 1831, was was born March 19, 1854, at probably his sister. John died at Jamaica, Vermont (evidently a Stratton on December 31, 1860. twin of Royal above). John married Adah M. Richmond, Clayton daughter of Otis A. and Laura Royal M. Clayton, son of Almon (Ware) Richmond. Adah was and Betsey (Landman) Clayton, born on December 1, 1853, in was born in March, 1854, in Massachusetts. The Claytons Vermont (evidently a twin brother were married about 1881 and of John below). He married Sarah settled in Stratton between 1900 M. Pike, daughter of Henry and and 1910. They lived where the Sarah Pike in 1892. Sarah, or Stratton Golf School is now Sadie as she was called, was born located, on the farm later owned in March 1874, at Jamaica, by Floyd Hurd. In 1910, they had Vermont. The Claytons were a foster-son, Gilbert W. Wood, living in the home of Sarah’s who was born about 1898 in mother, Sarah Pike, in 1900. In Vermont. By 1920, the Claytons 1902, Royal purchased his were living alone in Stratton. mother-in-law’s farm – 11L1R John died at Stratton on April 4, and remained on this farm. In the 1928, and Adah followed on 1910 census, Sarah claimed to February 28, 1930. During have no children, but they had two Adah’s last years, she lived with young girls living with them. the Hurd family who had Apparently, they were foster purchased the Clayton farm after children. John’s death. The Claytons were The Claytons remained in buried in Pike’s Falls Cemetery, Stratton possibly until 1926, when in Jamaica. they sold their farm to Mason Jones. Clemons Royal passed away in 1941. Alexander Clemons was born in Sarah died on April 20, 1957, at May 1822. He came to Stratton Brattleboro, Vermont. They were about 1900, and he was living in buried in the Pike’s Falls the home of Franklin and Albina Cemetery in Jamaica, Vermont. Fish that year. He may have been The foster-children cared for by Albina’s father. Alexander was Royal and Sarah were: no longer in Stratton by 1910. 1) Linda V., born in February, 1897, in Vermont; married Cloaky Charles Herbert Linscott. Archy Cloaky was born in Canada. He married Minnie (?)

Stratton Families 74 who was born in Weston, 3) Mariette, born October 30, Vermont. Archy was a 1860, at Stratton, Vermont. lumberman who came to Stratton about 1899. A child born to Minerva (George A child of Archy and Minnie was: was not the father) 1) Mary Jane, born October 30, 4) Clara E., born January 5, 1899, at Stratton, Vermont. 1863, at Stratton, Vermont.

Closson Another child of George and Joseph Closson, a resident of Minerva was: Easton, New York, purchased the 5) Henry P., born April 11, 1866, east half of 5L8R from Joel Hale at Stratton, Vermont. on March 27, 1801. Hale had lived in Stratton, then resettled in Clow Easton. Joseph settled in Stratton (also see Clough) shortly after buying the lot and Hannah Clow, wife of Peter remained in Stratton through the Clow, became a member of the end of 1804. He sold his land in Church of Christ in Stratton on Stratton to Mishal Bradlee of March 6, 1825. She was not Easton on November 18, 1804, mentioned in any other Stratton and left town soon thereafter. record. She was probably born Hannah Palmer, daughter of Isaac Clough and Johanna (Mott) Palmer, on (also see Clow) December 22, 1790. She married George Clough was born about Peter Clow, son of Henry and 1835. He married Minerva Rebecca (Deforest) Clow and they Parsons, who was born about resided for a time in Seaforth, 1839. The Cloughs settled in Ontario, Canada. Hannah died at Stratton and were listed in the Nodine, Minnesota, on April 6, 1860 census there. 1876. During the Civil War, George A child of Peter and Hannah was: enlisted on January 13, 1862, and 1) Johanna, born July 26, 1818, mustered into Company H, of the at Seaforth, Ontario, Canada; Vermont 8th Regiment on died February 23, 1905, at February 12, 1862. When his first Nodine, Minnesota. enlistment expired, he reenlisted on March 5, 1864, and finally Coates mustered out of service on June Ezekiel Bradford Coates, son of 28, 1865. Following the war, Hezekiah and Eleanor (Porter) George returned home to Stratton; Coates, was born on September however, he and his family moved 30, 1829, at Heath, away before 1870. Massachusetts. About 1849, Children of George and Minerva: Ezekiel settled in West 1) Charles, born in 1856. Townshend, Vermont, and opened 2) Elizabeth, born in 1858. a shoemaker’s shop. He married

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Eliza Goodell of Readsboro, He then became janitor for the Vermont, on March 12, 1851. high school. Ezekiel died in late Eliza was born in Rowe, 1905. Massachusetts. The Coates family Children of Ezekiel and Eliza: settled in Stratton about 1857, but 1) Abel C., born in July, 1853; moved away before 1860. died May 10, 1858, at Stratton, Vermont. 2) Elnora B., born March 10, 1858, at Stratton, Vermont. 3) Albert O. 4) Adelbert A. 5) (a daughter), married C. N. Boynton.

Children of Ezekiel and Charlotte: 6) Leon B. 7) Harvey 8) (a daughter), married Luther L. Maynard.

Ezekiel Bradford Coates Cobb (1829 – 1905) William Cobb was accepted as a

Photo from the Vermont Phoenix member of the Church of Christ in Stratton on October 17, 1874. During the Civil War, His wife’s name may have been Ezekiel was a corporal in Sylvia K.. William may have Company D of the Vermont 16th been the Samuel W(illiam) Cobb, Regiment. He enlisted on August who had lived in Randolph, 29, 1862, and fought at Vermont, in 1821. Gettysburg. He mustered out on A child of Samuel W. and Sylvia: August 10, 1863. The next year, 1) Elias, born September 20, 1864, Eliza passed away. 1821, at Randolph, Vermont; After the war, Ezekiel worked married Abbie A. (?). in Jamaica, Vermont, then again took up shoemaking in Elias Cobb, son of Samuel W. Wardsboro, Vermont. He married and Sylvia Cobb, was born on Charlotte R. Moran there on September 20, 1821. Elias’ wife, October 5, 1867. In 1871, they Abbie A., was born about 1822. removed to Brattleboro, Vermont, The Cobbs came to Stratton about and in 1876 they bought a farm in 1874 and settled in the Newfane, Vermont. The Coates northeastern part of town. In family returned to Brattleboro in 1876, Elias was elected a 1881, where Ezekiel worked as a Selectman of Stratton. In 1880, a carpenter and casemaker for the woman who was very likely Estey Organ Company until 1887. Elias’s mother, Sylvia K. Cobb,

Stratton Families 76 aged 84, was living with them. On January 17, 1811, and The Cobbs moved away from within a year of their move back Stratton in 1883. to Stratton, John, Susannah and A child of Elias and Abbie was: Anna were all warned out of town 1) Edwin R., born about 1864. again. Although warnings out were more of a formality to Coes protect the town, in this case John Coes Jr. was living in Stratton’s Selectmen may have Stratton in 1806. At that time, been more serious about them John was evidently living with leaving Stratton. This is Susannah and Anna Gale. speculation based on the fact that Susannah was the widow of Isaac after many years of living together Gale and Anna was her daughter. unmarried, John and Susannah On June 28, 1806, the Selectmen filed an intent to marry on May separately warned John Coes and 26, 1811, not too long after the Susannah Gale out of Stratton, as warning. They were married on was the custom for newcomers. June 13, 1811, at Stratton and In January, 1808, John John took the Freeman’s oath in purchased the west half of 4L4R Stratton on September 3, 1811. with the exception of the town Susannah was admitted into common. In December, 1808, he the Church of Christ in Stratton sold this lot and purchased the on December 13, 1812, and she west half of the school lot, 8L2R, was baptized at that same time. but immediately sold it. It is By 1820, the Coes had moved out unclear where they were living of town evidently to Arlington, during those years, possibly on the Vermont. John apparently passed east half of 10L2R; however, after away before 1823. Following selling these lots, John, Susannah John’s death, Susannah published and Anna must have settled away an intent to marry Ira Scott in from Stratton. early 1824 and they were soon On April 17, 1810, Susannah married. In a deed dated purchased the west half of 5L4R. September 14, 1827, Susannah All three settled upon this lot. was called Susannah Scott. Ira The dwelling house was probably and Susannah were evidently on the site of Oliver Morsman’s divorced after a short marriage home, built in 1783. Remains of and Susannah returned to the house can still be seen several Arlington. By 1838, she was hundred yards west of the gate at living with her daughter and son- the end of Shepardson Rd. The in-law, Anna and Lyman census of 1810 shows John as Batchellor in Wallingford, head of the household with two Vermont. females, one aged 16 to 26 (Anna) and the other aged 26 to 45 Conant (Susannah). Samuel G. Conant was born about 1839. He may have lived in

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Stratton at the outbreak of the Revolution, this David Cook Civil War. He enlisted for served as a Sergeant and a fifer Stratton on August 30, 1862, and from that State. mustered into Company A of the Regardless of the above, the Vermont 2nd Regiment. Samuel David Cook who settled in was wounded on May 5, 1864, Stratton had a wife, Elizabeth. during the Battle of the Stratton’s censuses reflect that Wilderness, and was discharged they were born between 1755 and on December 29, 1864, for his 1774. Although this conflicts wounds. If he returned to Stratton slightly with the age of David following his discharge, he did Cook of Rhode Island, mistakes not stay long. He was no longer such as this were not uncommon. in Stratton in 1870. David was living in Franklin, Massachusetts, when he Connell purchased the west half of 7L3R John Connell was born about (100 acres) in Stratton on October 1848. His wife, Ella J., was born 30, 1787. The Cooks settled in about 1853. The Connells came Stratton shortly after purchasing to Stratton during the 1870s. this farm. Their first house was John was a lumberman and located in the southwest corner of worked for E.W. Bowker in the 7L3R. Over the years, David sawmill. In 1880, John and Ella acquired several parcels of land were residing with Mr. Bowker surrounding his farm and sold off and other lumbermen at that site. much of it to family members. That same year Mr. Bowker sold The Cooks were listed in out to Joel F. Grout. John may Stratton’s census of 1791, where have worked for the Grouts David was listed as head of a afterward, however, the Connells household with one son and two had moved away from Stratton by daughters. In 1794, Cook 1900. purchased the part of the north half of 6L3R. He apparently settled into a house on this lot, Cook along the road and opposite a David Cook of Stratton may have house on 6L4R. In 1800, their been the same David Cook born in household consisted of David seen Rhode Island on March 17, 1753. as aged 26 to 45, a male aged 10 This David Cook married to 16, a male aged 16 to 26 a Elizabeth Arnold and died in female under 10, and two females 1844. This possibility seems very between the ages of 16 and 26. likely, since one of their children David became a member of was named Arnold. Arnold later the Church of Christ in Stratton settled in Chesterfield, New on April 16, 1805. He was Hampshire, and the history of that mentioned in a land dispute with town states that David Cook Jonas Woodward in both town and apparently was from Rhode church records. David sold his Island. During the American

Stratton Families 78 farm to his son, Arnold, in 1806, half of 6L4R across the road from but several months later David his parents; however, by 1809 repurchased the farm. He finally Arnold had moved to Jamaica, sold the farm to John Shepardson Vermont, where he married Suzy on October 13, 1812; however, the Livermore of Jamaica. Suzy was Cooks evidently remained in probably the same born May 2, Stratton for a few more years. 1787, to Elisha and Rebeckah They evidently moved away from (Hammond) Livermore, at Stratton after 1816 (the year Spencer, Massachusetts. without a summer), probably Arnold and Suzy settled in settling in Chesterfield, New Chesterfield, New Hampshire, Hampshire. about 1820. Arnold was still Children of David and Elizabeth buying and selling land in probably were: Stratton as late as 1823. 1) Wealthy, born about 1784; Suzy died at Chesterfield on died September 20, 1864, at April 2, 1825, and she was buried Wardsboro, Vermont; married in the West Burying Ground in Archibald Pratt (intent Chesterfield. Arnold then published April 5, 1801, at married Thirza Day, daughter of Stratton). John Day. 2) Arnold, born about 1782; died On February 11, 1833, March 5, 1833, at Chesterfield, Arnold sold the last of his New Hampshire; married Suzy property in Stratton to his son, Livermore. Mark. This included 10L4R and 3) David, born August 12, 1791, the west half of 2L5R. Arnold’s at Stratton, Vermont (took the younger brother, David Cook, Jr, Freeman’s oath on September witnessed this transaction.. 1, 1812). Arnold passed away on March 5, 4) Prudence, born about 1779; 1833, and was buried beside Suzy. married Daniel Shepardson on Thirza died in February, 1867. September 9, 1801, at Stratton, Children of Arnold and Suzy: Vermont. 1) Madison (settled in Michigan). 2) Mark, born September 9, Arnold Cook, son of David and 1807; married Mille T. Elizabeth Cook, was born about Stoddard on April 27, 1829, at 1782. He came to Stratton with Chesterfield, New Hampshire his parents about 1787. Once he (they lived in Chesterfield). was of age, he purchased several 3) Arnold, born about 1821; pieces of property in Stratton, married Fanny (?). beginning in 1803. These lots included the east half of 6L4R in Children of Arnold and Thirza: 1803 and his father’s farm in the 4) Susan E., married Hezekiah F. west half of 6L3R and 7L3R, Horton, Jr. of Hinsdale, New purchased in 1806. Arnold may Hampshire. have settled briefly on the east

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5) Selina, married William A. year, a boy named William (?) Newton of Vernon, Vermont. was living with them and attending school. The Cooks were Arnold Cook, probably a son of not in Stratton in 1860; however, Arnold and Suzy Cook, was born they returned in 1867 and Francis about 1821. He and his wife, was enrolled in the militia in Fanny, moved to Stratton Stratton that year. The Cooks sometime between 1840 and 1850. lived on the west half of 7L1R in Fanny was born about 1827. In 1869 (see McClellan’s Map of 1850, the Cooks also had Martha 1869). In 1870, Edmund Streeter, Hudson, daughter of Benjamin probably a nephew, was living and Sarah Hudson (aged 11), with them. The Cooks had moved living with them. The Cooks had away from Stratton by 1880. moved away from Stratton in Children of Francis and Emma: 1859 or 1860. 1) Walter C. Children of Arnold and Fanny: 2) Christina 1) Angeline, born about 1846. 3) Fred W., born about 1862. 2) Semantha, born about 1847. 4) Rosa, born about 1864. 3) Alice, born about 1849. 5) Sarah, born about 1867. 4) Meribah (from Stratton school 6) Waland E., born June 1, 1870, records of 1857 and probably the at Stratton, Vermont. Meribah J. Cook who lived with the JW Copeland family and attended school #4 in Stratton in 1864.) Amanda Cook, aged 8, was 5) Ida R., born September 26, living at the home of Freeman 1853; died March 12, 1855. Wyman in 1860. 6) Mary E., born August 25, 1857, at Stratton, Vermont. Lucy Cook, aged 40 was boarding 7) Edith O., born December 25, with the Edwin Grout family in 1859, at Stratton, Vermont. 1880.

Jabez Cook was living in Stratton John S. Cook, aged 36 in 1920, in 1859. His children attended was a lumberman boarding at the school in district #3. Grout Job that year in Stratton. Jabez’s children were: 1) Lydia Copeland 2) Manda James Copeland, son of Ebenezer 3) Oscar and Lucy (Fassett) Copeland, was born on June 9, 1811. He married Frederick “Francis” Cook of Meribah “Mary” Cook on Guilford, Vermont, was born February 21, 1833. Mary was about 1832. He married Emogene born about 1812. The Copelands “Emma” Streeter of Brattleboro. were living in Wardsboro, Emma was born about 1834. The Vermont, when James signed a Cooks settled in Stratton about lease from Rollin M. Witt of 1859 in school district #3. That Stratton to farm-let 6L1R in

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Stratton with the dwelling house of the Stratton Church through and other buildings for six years 1871 and was listed as a non- beginning on April 1, 1848 (see J. resident member that year. He Copeland on McClellan’s Map of died in September, 1893. The 1856 and NE Hart on Beer’s Atlas Copelands were buried in Ball of 1869). In 1860, Mrs. Abigail Cemetery. Mason, widow of Royal Mason, Their child was: was living with the Copelands. 1) Lula B., born December 16, She was born about 1780. 1859, at Stratton., Vermont; No other lease was made; died March 21, 1863, at however, James retained the farm. Stratton, Vermont (of In March, 1859, they deeded over diphtheria). the farm to their son, Andrew. James died at Stratton of Andrew J(ackson). Copeland, typhoid fever on September 7, son of James and Meribah 1867. Mary evidently moved Copeland, was born about 1836 away after his death. and came to Stratton with his Children of James and Meribah: parents while he was still quite 1) James William, born in 1834; young. He took the Freeman’s died in September, 1893; oath in Stratton in September, married Mariette M. 1857. His father deeded over the Estabrook. family farm in 6L1R on March 2) Andrew J(ackson)., born in 31, 1859, in agreement that 1836; died January 1, 1865, at Andrew would care for his parents Danville, Virginia. for the remainder of their lives. 3) Jane L. Lee, born in 1838. In 1863, Frank Hudson and J. M. Cook were living with Andrew Additional Sources: Copeland Genealogy by George Lindsey and attending school in district #4 in Stratton. James William Copeland, son of During the Civil War, James and Meribah Copeland, Andrew was drafted and entered was born in 1834. He married the service on July 31, 1863. He Mariette M. Estabrook, daughter was assigned to Company A, of of Ezekiel and Betsey Estabrook. the 6th Vermont Regiment. Mariette was born about 1838. Andrew was captured during the The Copelands settled in Stratton Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, during the 1850s and James took on October 19, 1864, and died the Freeman’s oath in Stratton on January 1, 1865, in a Confederate September 4, 1855. On June 6, prison at Danville, Virginia. He 1858, James and Mariette became was later interred in the National members of the Church of Christ Cemetery in Danville. in Stratton and were baptized that same day. Lucy J. Copeland, daughter of Mariette died on August 30, Daniel and Mary M. Copeland, 1867. James remained a member was born about 1840. She

Stratton Families 81 married Densil Streeter of born in 1837 in Townshend, Dummerston, Vermont, on April Vermont. 15, 1866, at Stratton. This was a A child of Nelson and Esther was: second marriage for both. The 1) Sarah Streeters sold the southwest corner of 6L1R on August 4, Crowningshield 1866. Lucy was buried in West Richard Crowningshield, son of Wardsboro, Vermont. Richard and Elizabeth (Day) Crowningshield, was born at Covey Attleboro, Massachusetts, on John B. Covey lived on the east August 4, 1739. Richard married half of 4L8R – the Hale farm Zilpha Robinson, daughter of along what is now the Grout Pond George and Abigail (Everett) Access Rd. in 1869. He owned Robinson, on March 16, 1786, at half of a sawmill of which George Cumberland, Rhode Island. Wilkinson owned the other half. Zilpha was born on March 17, 1757. Crisco In 1786, the Crowningshields Raffaele Crisco, son of Giuseppi apparently resettled in Wardsboro, and Luizi Crisco, was born in Vermont, as Richard was listed on Italy. He came to Stratton and Wardsboro’s Freeman’s roll that worked as a lumberman in the year. lumber camps there. Raffaele Richard spent many years in married Maddalena Cillo, Wardsboro, and then evidently daughter of Pasquale and Maria resettled in Arlington, Vermont, Cillo, on May 9, 1903, at St. before 1833. Paul’s Church in Manchester, On March 29, 1833, Richard Vermont. Maddalena was also and his son, William, purchased born in Italy. the Charles Morse farm in Raffaele was a resident of Stratton Gore (see D. Willis place Stratton at the time of the on Beer’s Atlas of 1869). Richard marriage. He may have brought probably resided there with his Maddalena back to Stratton at that son. time, but they were not living in Children of Richard and Zilpha: Stratton when the census of 1910 1) Nabby E., born July 8, 1787, at was taken. Wardsboro, Vermont. 2) Elizabeth, born October 1, 1788, at Wardsboro, Vermont. Crouch 3) Jesse, born December 16, Nelson E. Crouch, son of Nelson 1789, at Wardsboro, Vermont; and Maria Crouch, was born at died August 9, 1790, at Vernon, Vermont, in 1840. He Wardsboro, Vermont. married Esther M. Hall on July 4, 4) William, born April 2, 1791, 1858, at Stratton. Esther was at Wardsboro, Vermont; died February 4, 1846, at

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Wardsboro, Vermont; married and Stratton Baptist Church Tirzah McDaniels on February Society, William was elected its 27, 1817, at Dover, Vermont. president. 5) Nancy, born April 18, 1793, at On May 3, 1838, William Wardsboro, Vermont; married sold his farm to Daniel Willis and Lemuel Toby on January 6, moved into Pike Hollow in 1813, at Wardsboro, Vermont. Somerset. Their home was 6) Rebecka Allen, born February apparently located on the site later 23, 1796, at Wardsboro, occupied by A.H. Pike (see Beer’s Vermont. Atlas of 1869) and currently occupied by the Marcucci family. William Crowningshield, son of This 80 acre farm was laid out in Richard and Zilpha an “L” shape, surrounding Wm. Crowningshield, was born on Pike’s lot in the northeast corner April 2, 1791. He lived at of Somerset (the Lyman farm and Wardsboro, Vermont, before mill). settling in Stratton. Apparently, In 1840, William sold this William was married twice. His farm to Artemas Crowningshield first wife was named Sally. of Cumberland, Rhode Island and Perhaps she passed away about Eben L. Crowningshield of 1816, since William married Hinsdale, New Hampshire. They Tirzah McDaniels on February were probably William’s brothers 27, 1817, at Dover, Vermont. (or older sons). William died on Tirzah may have been a daughter February 4, 1846, and he was of Thomas McDaniels of Dover – buried in Fairview Cemetery in a British deserter who settled Wardsboro. In 1845, the above there after the Revolutionary War. named gentlemen sold the farm to William was a deacon of the Tirzah, who remained there for Baptist Church of Wardsboro, as several years. The Stratton- early as 1825 and remained a Somerset United School District deacon for many years. On records show Widow March 29, 1833, William and his Crowningshield with several father purchased - the Charles children attending school in that Morse farm - located at the end of district. what is now called Willis A child of William and Sally was: Cemetery Rd.; this farm was later 1) Timothy, born August 31, occupied by Daniel Willis (see D. 1815, at Wardsboro, Vermont. Willis on Beer’s Atlas of 1869). William served as one of the Children of William and Tirzah: town’s sextons for the cemetery 2) Susan Jane, born March 1, on his farm (Willis Cemetery) 1824, at Wardsboro, Vermont; from 1834 through 1838. He was died October 11, 1880, at also elected a highway surveyor in Stratton, Vermont; married 1834. On February 14, 1834, at Pliny Fisk Grout on February the first meeting of the Wardsboro 7, 1843, at Somerset, Vermont.

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3) Sarah E., born April 5, 1830; Wardsboro for many years. died November 15, 1892, at Miriam moved from Wardsboro to Stratton, Vermont; married Putney, Vermont, and was Jesse C. Jones on February 25, accepted into the church in Putney 1857, at Stratton, Vermont. on September 1, 1836. 4) C. R. Children of David and Meriam: 5) Frances L. 1) Betsey, born October 20, 1793, 6) T. at Petersham, Massachusetts; married Joshua Sprague Sarah Crowningshield, daughter (intent published on December of William and Thirza 11, 1814, at Wardsboro, Crowningshield, was head of a Vermont). household in Stratton in 1855 2) Reuben, born August 20, 1795, with a child, C.R. Crowningshield at Petersham, Massachusetts. (probably a sibling), living with 3) David, born March 19, 1797, her. She married Jesse C. Jones at Petersham, Massachusetts. on February 25, 1857. (See Jesse 4) Gilbert, born October 18, C. Jones). 1798, at Petersham, Massachusetts. Cummings 5) Lyman, born October 11, David Cummings of Petersham, 1800, at Petersham, Massachusetts, married Meriam Massachusetts. Wheeler of Gerry, Massachusetts, 6) Almira (twin), born April 26, on February 23, 1793. Meriam, 1803, at Petersham, the daughter of James and Sarah Massachusetts. Wheeler, was born at Petersham 7) Alvira (twin), born April 26, on December 8, 1768. 1803, at Petersham, David purchased a 60-acre Massachusetts. parcel of land on the north end of 8) Sumner, born May 9, 1804, at 1L4R in Stratton on October 18, Petersham, Massachusetts. 1810, from Richard Harris. David and his wife, Merriam, then Another Cummings clan that settled in Stratton, probably in settled in Stratton was that of early 1811. They were warned William and Hannah (Wyman) out of town by Stratton’s Cummings of Walpole, New Selectmen on February 10, 1812, Hampshire. Among their children and served notice by the constable were William, Jr., John (who later on February 17, 1812. David sold lived at Washington, New his land back to Richard Harris on Hampshire), and Rebecca, wife of October 15, 1812. The William Knight of Stratton. Cummings evidently left Stratton John Cummings of at that time and settled in Washington, New Hampshire, Wardsboro, Vermont, where they purchased half of the west part of were warned out on March 9, 5L4R (60 acres) from his brother- 1813. They remained in in-law, William Knight of

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Plymouth, Vermont, on William Knight and half to his September 12, 1840. son, Horace Cummings. It was between July, 1838, and William Cummings, Jr., son of September, 1839, that the William and Hannah (Wyman) Cummings finally settled in Cummings, was born at Walpole, Stratton. In 1839, William also New Hampshire, on September sold land - the Scranton lot in 19, 1792. His parents resettled in 5L3R - to his daughter Lorena Chester, Vermont, by 1795 and Cummings of Holden and the west there, William Jr. spent his early half of 5L4R to his son-in-law life. William Jr.’s wife, Betsey, Obed Coombs of Holden. The was born between 1790 and 1800. location of the Cummings’ first Following the marriage, the home in Stratton is unclear; Cummings settled in Cavendish, however, they probably resided on Vermont, and on February 21, 5L3R, living there with their 1815, they were warned out of daughter Lorena. This lot was that town as was the custom in located around what is now called Vermont. On October 4, 1815, the Shepardson Rd. - West they were warned out of Jamaica, Jamaica Rd. intersection. The Vermont. It also appears that house was probably the Marble William was warned out of farm - the same farm later Putney, Vermont, in 1816, and at occupied by W.G. Howard (see that same time (March 15, 1816) McClellan’s Map of 1856) and Betsey and the children were then by I. Shepardson (see Beer’s again warned out of Jamaica. In Atlas of 1869). 1817, Betsey was warned out of On May 1,1843, William Putney and on April 17, 1817, bought the farm at the junction of they were warned out of Jamaica the Stratton-Arlington Rd. and the again. William and his family West Jamaica Rd. from Luther were warned out of Jamaica one Holbrook along with the farm final time on January 1, 1818. buildings and 109 acres. They This was a bad time for many evidently moved to this location, Vermonters, since 1816 was “the where William operated an Inn year without a summer.” No from his home, as Mr. Holbrook doubt, the Cummings family was had previously done. By early affected by that financially 1844, William had turned over the devastating time. Inn’s operation to his son-in-law, William and Betsey Freeman Wyman (who later eventually moved to Stratton, purchased the farm from William where William had purchased the Grant Pike - the mortgage holder). west part of 5L4R on August 21, William and Betsey then 1837. At the time of the sale, the settled in Benton, New Cummings were living in Holden, Hampshire, about 1844, where Massachusetts. That same year, they remained at least through William sold half of this lot to 1850. By 1860, they had settled

Stratton Families 85 in LaPrairie, Wisconsin, where married Lucena Wyman, daughter other members of the Cummings of Robert and Lydia Wyman, on family had settled. Betsey may March 3, 1833. Lucena was born have returned to Vermont and about 1810. lived at Putney. If so, then she Horace was called a resident died at Putney on March 24, 1873, of Rockingham, Vermont, on age 84 years 8 months. This October 18, 1837, when he would have placed her birth in purchased half of the west half of July, 1792. 5L4R from his father. In 1838, Children of William and Betsey: Horace was living in Chester, 1) Horace, born about 1814; Vermont, then, after 1840, Horace married 1) Lucena Wyman 2) and Lucena settled in Stratton. Minerva A. Scott. Their home was probably located 2) Elizabeth, born about 1815; beyond what is now Shepardson married Richard Perry on Rd., several hundred yards past October 13, 1831, at Chester, the gate and along the road (see Vermont. Draper on Beer’s Atlas of 1869). 3) Eunice Lucena died on May 27, 4) Lorena, born October 10, 1846, and was buried in 1818, in Chester, Vermont; Cambridgeport, Vermont. In died October 12, 1887; 1847, Horace and Minerva (Scott) married 1) Freeman Wyman Purrington were living together about 1840 2) Willard Shepard and Horace’s son Jasher was there on February 2, 1875. attending school in Stratton’s 5) Lucinda B., born about 1821; district #2. Before 1850, Horace married Samuel Orrison married Minerva. She was the Howard on March 30, 1842, at daughter of Ira and Sophie Scott. Stratton, Vermont Minerva was born on December 6) Stephen W., born in 1825; 12, 1813, at Stratton. She had died February 18, 1849, at first married Luther Purrington on Stratton, Vermont; married March 7, 1839, at Stratton. Elsa Shepardson on June 6, Apparently Luther and Minerva 1843. were divorced before 1847. 7) Philena A., married James S. Horace and Minerva were living Bassett on February 28, 1839, with Minerva’s parents in 1850 at Holden, Massachusetts. (see I. Scott on McClellan’s map 8) Sarah T., married Obed of 1856). Nelson Coombs (intent Sometime during the next published February 2, 1839, at decade, Horace evidently passed Holden, Massachusetts). away. Following Horace’s death, Minerva remained at the home of Horace Cummings, son of her parents and was living there William and Betsey Cummings, in 1860. She then married Aaron was born about 1814, probably in B. Howard on May 6, 1863, at Athens, Vermont. There, he

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Stratton. Minerva passed away at Vermont; died October 7, Stratton on March 14, 1894. 1890, at Norton, Kansas; Children of Horace and Lucena: married Squire Henry Elliot 1) Alonzo, born about 1835; Knapp on March 1, 1855. married Ellen (?) (in 1847 he was living with John Children of Stephen and Elsa: Underwood in Stratton and 1) John Henry, born June 9, attending school). 1845, at Stratton, Vermont; 2) Achsa married Mary A. (?). 3) Jasher1 R., born about 1838; 2) Joseph married Mary Jane Case on November 19, 1864, at John Henry Cummings, son of Rockingham, Vermont. Stephen and Elsa Cummings, was born on June 9, 1845. His wife’s 1) Sometimes seen as Jacia or Joshua. name was Mary A.. The

Cummings lived in Stratton Stephen W. Cummings, son of during the 1860s, and John was William and Betsey Cummings, enrolled in the militia there in was born in 1825. He married 1867. They moved away before Elsa Shepardson, daughter of 1870, settling in Jamaica and Isaac and Mary Shepardson, on Winhall, Vermont. In 1865, June 6, 1843, at Stratton. Elsa Hubbard H. Howe lived with them was born in 1813. Apparently, and attended Stratton’s 2nd school Elsa had been married previously district. and had a daughter, Eleanor Fox Their children were: Hall. 1) Willie O., born March 22, The Cummings evidently 1867, at Jamaica, Vermont; lived near the intersection of what died May 3, 1867, at Stratton, are now Shepardson Rd. and the Vermont. West Jamaica Rd. Stephen took 2) Hattie, born about 1868. the Freeman’s oath on September 3) Joseph S., born about 1873; 12, 1846, in Stratton. In 1848, died about 1908; married his farm was mentioned in the Alma L. town records in reference to the 4) Emma L., born about 1875. road there. 5) Hellen M., born about 1877. Stephen died on February 18,

1849, at Stratton and was buried Edwin Cummings married Carry in Ball Cemetery. Elsa and her (?). They came to Stratton from son then went to live with her Wallingford, Vermont, about brother and mother. Elsa died on 1890. Edwin was a lumberman March 23, 1881, and was buried and probably worked in one of the beside Stephen. lumber camps in Stratton. They A child of Elsa and her first had moved away from town by husband (?) Hall was: 1910. 1) Eleanor Fox, born September 30, 1835, at Stratton,

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Their child was: A. and Katherine H. (McCabe) 1) Emogene, born March 6, 1890, Law, there on December 8, 1938. at Stratton, Vermont. Virginia was born in 1922 in Jackson, Michigan. A note from her mother gave permission for D the marriage.

Daniels Davidson Woodbridge Daniels was Riley Davidson of Jamaica, probably a son of Joshua and Vermont, married Maria Centar Hannah Daniels of Mendon, of Rupert, Vermont. They settled Vermont, who later settled in in Stratton about 1882. Jamaica, Vermont. Joshua and A child of Riley and Maria was: Hannah may have settled briefly 1) Martha Elizabeth, born in Stratton. The Daniels of September 30, 1882, at Mendon were related to a group of Stratton, Vermont. families from Mendon that owned property or settled in Somerset, Lyman Erle Davidson was born Vermont. This group included about 1861 in Vermont. He the Baker, Goss, Davenport and married Nancy A. Symmister, Willis families. daughter of Frank Symmister. Woodbridge married Sally Nancy was born about 1862. The Boutell, daughter of Samuel and Davidsons settled in Stratton Elizabeth Boutell, on December 3, between 1910 and 1920, where 1818, at Stratton. Sally was born Lyman put his hand to farming. on June 5, 1793, at Stratton. They They apparently resided on the settled in Jamaica, Vermont. Powers lot on 3L1R that Lyman Sally was a member of the Church purchased from John Davidson – of Christ in Stratton. The Church probably a brother – in 1919. Clerk recorded on March 10, Nancy’s father also resided with 1822, “At the request of Sally them for a time and passed away Daniels, wife of Woodbridge in Stratton in 1915. Daniels of Jamaica, voted to give A child of Lyman and Nancy was: her a letter of recommendation 1) Henry W., born about 1904. and admission to the Church of Christ in Jamaica.” John E. Davidson married Nettie F. Wheaton on July 12, 1890, at Abel Edward Daniels, son of Houston, Minnesota. John and Abel and Louise (Deveneau) Nettie were both born about 1856 Daniels was born at West in Vermont. Springfield, Massachusetts, in The Davidsons were farmers 1901. who evidently traveled west to Abel was a farmer in Stratton Minnesota, then returned to in 1938. He married Virginia Vermont and settled in Woodford. Lucille Law, daughter of William They settled in Stratton between

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1910 and 1920. In 1920, they 29, 1802. Simon was not were living in Stratton with their mentioned as the father, probably son-in-law, Edward E. Elmer, because he did not join the aged 38. Elmer worked the farm church. It is also possible that he for them. The Davidson may have been dead by 1802. The apparently settled on 3L1R, on the Davises evidently had left town by south side of the old Parsons farm, 1810. probably on the lot previously Children of Simon and Mary: occupied by Fred Willis. John 1) Polly sold a lot on the north side of the 2) Hannah road to Lyman Davidson (possibly 3) Nehemiah his brother) in 1919. A child of John and Nettie was: Francis Davis, a close relative of 1) Minnie, born at Woodford, Simon and Mary Davis above, and Vermont; married Edward E. possibly their son, purchased 30 Elmer. acres at the south end of the west half of 2L4R in Stratton on Davis September 8, 1800, from James Simon Davis married Mary Fuller Thurston. In this deed, he is on December 26, 1793, at referred to as late of Stratton and Fitchburg, Massachusetts. They therefore may have resided briefly were living in Oakham, with Simon in Stratton before that Massachusetts, when Simon time. Their home was located purchased 124 acres of the east southwest of the current locations half of 3L5R in Stratton on of the church and town hall, and January 2, 1798. Simon and on the ridge there (see Ballard on Mary settled there before 1800. McClellan’s map of 1856). At that time, they were between Francis sold his Stratton property the ages of 26 and 45 and had a on March 20, 1801. This son and two daughters less than transaction was witnessed by ten years of age. Their lot was Simon and Mary Davis. located west of what is now called Plimpton Rd, along both sides of Zephaniah Davis, son of Jonas the current route of the Stratton- Davis, was born on April 5, 1764, Arlington Rd. for about a quarter- and he married Submit Haven, mile. daughter of Elkanah Haven. Simon sold his land in Submit was born in Framingham, Stratton on August 8, 1801. He Massachusetts, on June 28, 1767. then purchased a small five-acre The Davises were residents of lot in 4L5R and apparently settled Chesterfield, New Hampshire, there for a brief time. Mary was when Zephaniah purchased 100 taken into the Church of Christ in acres of the east half of 2L1R in Stratton on October 17, 1801. Stratton on January 30, 1807. Her son and two daughters were Shortly following this date, the baptized into the Church on May Davises settled in Stratton. The

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Davis’s lot was located west of Davison what is now called Leon Stocker Joseph Davison was born at Drive in Snow Mountain Farms Ludlow, Vermont, on August 13, West. 1805. He attended Middlebury The Davises were warned out College, then studied to become a of town by Stratton’s Selectmen minister of the Congregational on January 4, 1808, and served Church under the Reverend J. notice by the constable on January Parsons. Joseph was Stratton’s 30, 1808. Zephaniah took the Congregational minister from Freeman’s oath on September 6, September, 1836, to September, 1808, and they remained in 1838; however, he was not Stratton through 1810, evidently officially ordained until January returning to Chesterfield about 13, 1842. He apparently resided 1812. The census of 1810 in Stratton only during the time of recorded that just one of their his ministry. He died at Hartland, children was living in their home Wisconsin, on February 8, 1892. at that time. In December of 1810, Zephaniah sold his Stratton land Day to Sampson Bixby and John Moses Day of Chesterfield, New Greenwood. A note in the land Hampshire, married Sarah W. records stated that Zephaniah Johnson, daughter of Moses and received $450.00 in full of all that Lydia (Wheeler) Johnson. Sarah the farm sold for on February 14, was born on July 5, 1796, at 1813. They may have settled for a Chesterfield, New Hampshire. time in Wardsboro. Zephaniah’s Moses purchased the east half father had settled there in 1805. of 1L1R on September 28, 1820, Children of Zephaniah and from John Wheeler (John was a Submit were: brother of Lydia Johnson, Sarah’s 1) Orrie, born April 16, 1790. mother). That same day, Moses 2) Lucinda, born April 24, 1792; also leased the west half of this possibly married Jackton same lot (which included a Green Haven (intent published dwelling house and other July 8, 1810, at Stratton (she buildings) from Mr. Wheeler for a was of Wardsboro at that period of three years. Later, Elias time). and Persis Gates occupied this lot 3) Rachel, born in 1794; died in (see McClellan’s map of 1856. 1795. Moses evidently spent the 4) Betsey, born May 8, 1796; died winter in Stratton, since he was in 1798. said to be “of Stratton” when he 5) John, born June 5, 1800. sold the east half of the lot back to 6) Roswell, born September 14, Mr. Wheeler on January 5, 1821. 1802. He may have finished the lease of 7) Mooney, born in 1805. the west half; however, Moses was not mentioned in Stratton records after January of 1821. They may

Stratton Families 90 have resettled in Jamaica, 8) Henry Franklin (twin), born Vermont. After Moses passed April 30, 1858; died August 1, away, Sarah married Erastus 1880. Downey. Additional sources: Children of Moses and Sarah: Notes of Melvin and Sherrill Bourn of 1) Nathan, born April 4, 1816. Jacksonville, Florida. 2) John W., born March 12, 1820, at Chesterfield, New Dean Hampshire; died January 1, Hilan M. Dean was born in 1884, at Jamaica, Vermont; Vermont in July, 1835. He was married Sarah Johnson on single when he settled in Stratton April 17, 1841, at Jamaica, about 1900 and was living in the Vermont. home of Charles and Alma 3) Sarah Armstrong that year. He probably

worked in one of Stratton’s John W. Day, son of Moses and lumber camps for a while, but was Sarah Day, was born on March no longer in Stratton in 1910. 12, 1820, at Chesterfield, New

Hampshire. John lived in Robert H. Dean, son of Lucius Jamaica, Vermont, where he and Sylvia J. (Prouty) Dean, was married Sarah Johnson, daughter born at Boston, Massachusetts, in of Elisha and Olive Johnson, on 1875. He came to Stratton and April 17, 1841. Sarah was born was a teamster for one of the on February 3, 1817, at Putney, lumber camps by 1900. He Vermont. The Days continued to married Alice M. Kidder, reside in Jamaica after the daughter of H. E. and Mary E. marriage. John died there on Kidder, on October 3, 1900, at January 1, 1884. Sarah died at Stratton. Alice was born at South Stratton on August 13, 1885. Wardsboro, in December, 1885. Children of John and Sarah Day:

1) Ellen L., married Dwight Bourn. DeCell 2) George E., married Adda L. Walter W. DeCell, son of Joseph Mundell. and Mary (Longe) DeCell, was 3) Lucinda Sophia, died July 14, born in Mount Holly, Vermont, 1888; married Lewis Johnson. about 1870. He lived at Stratton 4) Willard O., died March 6, and was a teamster, probably 1892. working at the lumber camps. He 5) John, born about 1849. married Ida E. Boyd, daughter of 6) Lucius Charles H. and Hellen E. 7) Laura Frances (twin), born (Thomas) Boyd, on December 30, April 30, 1858; married 1898, at Stratton. Ida was born in Dwight Bourn (her sister’s 1883 at Wilmington, Vermont. widower).

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Denker Hartford, Connecticut, on John Denker was born in Sweden December 9, 1936. Anna died at on January 6, 1857. The story Brattleboro, Vermont, on April goes that he was an orphan and 22, 1942. They were buried in the had no surname known to him as West Wardsboro Cemetery. he grew up. The name “Denker” Children of John and Anna were: was later given him at the time he 1) Lawrence Albin, born April 2, had joined the German Army. 1901, at Waterbury, John married Anna Sophia Connecticut; died October 27, Anderson. Anna was born in 1975, at Brattleboro, Vermont; Sweden on September 16, 1865. married Margaret Elizabeth The Denkers came to America (Laughton) Eddy on August 4, and settled first in Waterbury, 1947. Connecticut, before settling in 2) Arthur, married Mae (?). Stratton sometime after 1920. 3) Almeda, married Haven Wormwood (lived in Kennebunkport, Maine) 4) Selma, married (?) Gellander.

Lawrence Albin Denker, son of John and Anna Denker, was born on April 2, 1901, at Waterbury, Connecticut. He came to Stratton as a young man with his parents. He built a home for himself on the Stratton-Arlington Rd. on a hill opposite Bills Rd.. Lawrence sold this house in the summer of 1946 to Margaret Pepon. Lawrence married Margaret Elizabeth (Laughton) Eddy, daughter of Arthur and Maude Anna Sophia Denker Laughton, on August 4, 1947. (1865 - 1942) Margaret had previously married and divorced Elmer Hermon Eddy Photo courtesy of Milton Denker of Stratton (see the Eddy Family).

Peg, as she was called, was born They resided along the on July 3, 1911, at Dummerston, Stratton-Arlington Rd., in a house Vermont. After the marriage, that once belonged to Jonathan Lawrence and Peg lived in Breezy Babcock. The house still stands Knoll, Hinsdale, New Hampshire, today and it is located on the just across the river from northeast side of the road between Brattleboro, Vermont. Peg and Willis Cemetery Rd. and Pike Lawrence had a son, Milton, and Hollow Rd. John farmed this property until 1933. He died at

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Peg's daughter, Elizabeth, also Derby lived with them. Levi Derby, son of Nathan and Abigail (Pierce) Derby, was born at Concord, Massachusetts, in 1786. Levi came to this area from Athol, Massachusetts, when he purchased land in Stratton Gore and Somerset in 1809. He married Sally Stratton on January 14, 1810, at Athol, Massachusetts. Sally was born in August, 1790. The Derbys apparently settled in Stratton about 1819. Their daughter, Elizabeth, was baptized within the Church of Christ in Lawrence Denker Stratton that year. On June 15, (1901 - 1975) 1823, the Church Clerk recorded “Mrs. Derby, wife of Levi Derby, Photo courtesy of Milton Denker removed her relation from the Church of Christ in Stratton to Lawrence worked for the that in Wardsboro by letter by paper mill there. He died on vote of the church at her October 27, 1975, at the Memorial request.” About that same time, Hospital in Brattleboro, Vermont, Levi had purchased the Fay farm, and was buried in the West adjacent to the West Wardsboro Wardsboro Cemetery. Peg Cemetery and they apparently eventually moved to Brattleboro settled there. Within a few years, and lived there for several years. Levi sold this farm to his son, In 1988, she moved to Orlando, Philander, although, they may Florida, to be with her son, Milt's have continued to live there with family. She died there on March him. In 1836 and 1837, Levi sold 9, 1998, and was buried beside two parcel in Stratton. He resided Lawrence in West Wardsboro. in Wardsboro at that time and can A child of Lawrence and Peg was: be found associated with the 1) Milton Earl, married Patricia North Wardsboro Congregational Anne Elliott. church in 1842. Sally died on

May 11, 1843, and Levi died on DePray September 12, 1873. They were John C. DePray was born about buried in the West Wardsboro 1898 in Connecticut. In 1920, he Cemetery. was a lumberman working in Children of the Derbys were: Stratton and living in the 1) Philander boarding house at the Grout Job. 2) Elizabeth Maria, born in 1819 (baptized in Stratton on June

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6, 1819); died July 31, 1909; worked for George Tudor in the married Alanson Ramsdell. Upper Tudor Mill in Stratton. At 3) Harriet, born in 1824; died on that time, he was a widower and April 27, 1844. was boarding with the Tudors. 4) Mary F., born in June, 1831; After the Tudors sold out in 1902, died on December 4, 1838. George evidently moved away 5) Adeline, married Drury from Stratton at that time. Fairbanks. Draper Dickinson Hiram H. Draper of Fair Haven, Maurice Dickinson was born at Vermont, purchased the west half French Mountain, New York. He of 5L4R and 30 acres of 5L5R married Gertrude Dwinell, who from Henry Knapp. Following was born at Walpole, New York. the purchase, Hiram settled on The Dickinsons came to Stratton this property. He was listed there about 1895, where Maurice was a on Beer’s Atlas of Stratton in laborer, probably in the lumber 1869. This was often referred to camps. The had left town before as the Joseph Adams lot that the census of 1900 was taken. Oliver Morsman had owned. A child of Maurice and Gertrude: 1) Ella Bertha, born November 1, Drury 1895, at Stratton, Vermont. Warren Drury was born in June 1865, in Massachusetts. His wife, Diekamper Elda E., was born in New York in Ed Diekamper, was probably the January, 1860. The Drurys were same E. C. Diekamper born in married about 1887 and had August, 1886, in Missouri, who settled in Stratton by 1900. They was a boarder in the Phineas O. had move away from town by Eddy home in Stratton in 1900. 1910. In his latter years, Ed became Children of Warren and Elda: involved in maintaining the 1) Arthur B., born in December, Stratton Meetinghouse and for a 1890, in Vermont. time he was president of the Stratton Old Church Association. Duly He apparently passed away in John F. Duly was born in Canada 1955 or 1956 during his term as about 1872. In 1920, he was a president, since he was mentioned lumber camp laborer, living in the in memoriam in the association’s boarding house at the Grout Job in report of 1956. Stratton.

Dority Dunlap George Dority was born in John Dunlap, a farmer from Canada in May, 1873. He came Arlington, Vermont, was born to Stratton before 1900 and about 1835. He married Sarah

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Jane Miranda Allen, daughter of married Mary (Wing) Hudson, Chester and Miranda Allen. She who was widowed by James B. was born on April 13, 1842, at Hudson. Mary was born about Stratton. 1824 and she came into the The Dunlaps settled in marriage with two children, Stratton during the 1860s and Georgianna and James Ralph they lived on the west side of Hudson. In 1866, a child under Mountain Rd., across from the their care with initials J. F. B. intersection of Forrester / Half attended school #4 in Stratton. Mile Rd.. John left town before George enlisted into 1880 and he was never heard of Company K of the 9th Vermont again. That year, just Sarah and Regiment on June 28, 1862, her children were living in mustering into service on July 9, Stratton. They too had moved 1862. He served through the from town by 1900. remainder of the war and Children of John and Jane were: mustered out on June 13, 1865. 1) Gratia, born February 6, 1868, George was buried in the Athens at Stratton, Vermont; married Valley Cemetery, Athens, Arthur Harmon Grout on May Vermont. His grave is marked 14, 1885. with a standard Civil War 2) Frank, born June 19, 1872, at Veterans’ marker. Stratton, Vermont. 3) Henry, born about 1876. George N. Eager married Mary Etta Jones, daughter of Sidney Dupell and Mariah Jones. Mary was Albert Dupell and his wife, born on July 12, 1878, at Stratton. Mildred, settled in Stratton on the She died on December 3, 1958. south end of Penny Ave., near Rt. 100. Al has been a Selectman for Eddy many years. He is currently Phineas Ward Eddy, son of Abel Stratton’s Chairman of the Select and Abigail Eddy, was born at Board. Warwick, Massachusetts, on May A son of Al and Mildred: 13, 1790. He married Lois 1) Jason J. Goddard, daughter of Asa and Lucy Goddard, on April 18, 1812. Lois was born on April 4, 1790, at E Orange, Massachusetts. Soon after their marriage, the Eager Eddys left Warwick and settled at Orange, Massachusetts, for a short George E. Eager, son of time, then according to family Benjamin and Sally Ball tradition, the Eddys settled at (Brigham) Eager, was born on Stratton, in the summer of 1817. November 8, 1829, at Bangor, The Eddys settled on the east New York. By 1860, George had half of 1L2R that was owned by

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John and Lydia Sanderson of August 20, 1844, Justus deeded Petersham, Massachusetts, at that the land to his father (83 acres of time. Lydia may have been Lois’s the east half of 1L2R). Justus had aunt. The Sandersons had resettled at Warwick, purchased land in Stratton from Massachusetts, before the sale. John Goddard of Orange. This Lois died on March 20, 1836, John was apparently a brother of at Stratton, and was buried near Lydia (Goddard) Sanderson and their home. She was the first Lucy (Goddard) Goddard, Lois’s burial within the family plot, mother. Upon this lot, Phineas located behind the Eddy home. It cleared a farm and built a later became known as the Eddy sawmill. The site of their home Cemetery. was located on the southwest Phineas then married Lois' corner of the Stratton-Arlington half-sister, Amanda, on Rd. and Willis Cemetery Rd. The September 18, 1837, at Stratton. remains of the sawmill’s dam can Amanda, daughter of Asa and be seen just a few yards up the Mary Goddard, was born on April brook from the road, and the old 28, 1807, at Orange, millpond is still obvious beyond Massachusetts. the dam. In 1850, Phineas’ sons, Henry The Eddys home burned to and Erastus, along with a 12-year- the ground one cold winter night, old girl, Lucy Rider, daughter of with the snow six feet deep. Samuel and Ama Rider, were Phineas began at once and rebuilt. living with Phineas and Amanda. This house still stands, and is On February 3, 1853, Phineas and often referred to as the Wheeler Amanda sold the 83-acre lot to house after a more recent Phineas’s sons, Albert and occupant. William Henry, for $1000.00 with The town records, however, an agreement that the boys would do not mention the Eddys until take care of them for the 1825, when the Eddy family was remainder of their lives. placed in the third school district. Just after 1850, Amanda’s They also were not shown in the mother, Mary Goddard, came to 1820 census of Stratton. Phineas live with them. Mary died on was first noted in the land records May 19, 1855, aged 89, and was as paying taxes on part of 1L2R in buried in the Eddy Cemetery. 1829. Then, in 1832, he Phineas and Amanda lived on purchased this land, (80 acres) at the farm for several more years. a tax-sale. In 1837, Justus Eddy In 1855 Lucy Rider and Silas Pike purchased this same lot from the were living with them and original owners, the Sandersons, attending school in district #5. By although legally, they no longer 1860, the Eddys were living owned it. This implies that the alone. They resettled in South Sandersons were relatives - and it Londonderry, Vermont, before appears that they were. On

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1869, with their son, David’s 7) Asa Goddard, born August 14, family. 1824, at Stratton, Vermont; Phineas died on August 2, died October 15, 1894, at 1878, and Amanda died on June Wardsboro, Vermont; married 11, 1883. Both were buried in Mary Maranda Barrett on Rest Haven Cemetery in September 17, 1848, at Londonderry. Wardsboro, Vermont (Asa Phineas and Lois's children were: qualified as a Freeman of 1) Sophronia, born September 28, Stratton on August 16, 1845). 1812, at Orange, 8) Albert, born December 9, Massachusetts; died December 1826, at Stratton, Vermont; 14, 1812, at Orange, died May 19, 1899, at West Massachusetts. Brattleboro, Vermont; married 2) Justus, born April 7, 1814, at Chloe Ann Rice on October Orange, Massachusetts; died 20, 1851, at Somerset, May 9, 1880, at Millbury, Vermont. Massachusetts; married Lucy 9) William Henry, born February Maria Smith on June 8, 1842, 4, 1829, at Stratton, Vermont; at Grafton, Massachusetts. died February 24, 1908, at 3) Orrin, born May 22, 1816, at Townshend, Vermont; married Orange, Massachusetts; died Sarah Ann Hartwell on December 26, 1893, at October 8, 1854, at Stratton, Vermont; married Wardsboro, Vermont. Mary Jane Moran on May 12, 10) Phineas Emery, born May 15, 1850, at Putney, Vermont. 1830, at Stratton, Vermont; 4) David Goddard, born died February 29, 1880, at November 15, 1817, at Townshend, Vermont; married Stratton, Vermont; died Francena M. Haynes (Phineas November 27, 1878, at qualified as a Freeman of Londonderry, Vermont; Stratton on September 2, married Rosina Lovina Rice on 1851). November 19, 1845. 11) Erastus Alcetus, born June 12, 5) Lucy E., born January 22, 1832, at Stratton, Vermont; 1820, at Stratton, Vermont; died May 28, 1911, in died March 28, 1851, at Minnesota; married Henrietta Londonderry, Vermont. Althoff on March 23, 1866, in 6) Francis W., born March 30, Minnesota (Erastus qualified 1822, at Stratton, Vermont; as a Freeman of Stratton in died January 16, 1905, at September, 1853). Townshend, Vermont; married Susan T. Bartlett on June 6, Orrin Eddy, son of Phineas and 1849 (Francis qualified as a Lois Eddy, was born May 22, Freeman of Stratton in 1816, at Orange, Massachusetts. September, 1843). Orrin qualified as a Freeman of Stratton on September 4, 1838.

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He purchased the south half of Children of Orrin and Mary were: 6L3R in 1840. This lot was 1) Phineas Orrin, born in July, located northeast of Shepardson 1854, married Alma Rd. (see N. W. Mason on Beer’s (Chipman) Wilcox (of Atlas of 1869). He evidently lived Waitsfield, Vermont) on there until selling this lot in 1845. December 28, 1911, at In 1848, Orrin purchased land in Stratton, Vermont. 2L3R south of the road that runs 2) Edgar James, born August 24, between Sunderland and 1856, at Stratton, Vermont; Wardsboro. His home was located died May 11, 1914, at on the West Jamaica Rd., Proctorsville, Vermont; northeast of the meetinghouse. married Emma M. Heald on Orrin married Mary Jane March 22, 1892, at Claremont, Moran, daughter of James and Vermont (took the Freeman’s Emma Moran on May 12, 1850, oath in Stratton in 1880). at Putney, Vermont. They 3) Clarissa A., born November returned to Stratton after the 19, 1861, at Stratton, marriage and settled in a home of Vermont; died February 7, their own. 1864, at Stratton, Vermont (of They resided in the house diphtheria). located at the corner of the 4) Newton Warren, born October Stratton-Arlington Rd. and Old 23, 1864, at Stratton, Forrester Rd. as indicated on Vermont; died January 18, McClellan’s Map of 1856. The 1902, at Stratton, Vermont; house burned in 1940 and another married 1) Minnie Forrester 2) was built in its place. In 1853, Jennie (Shattuck) Dannett on Mary’s brother, Newton Moran February 25, 1891 3) Nellie S. was living with them and (Page) Wilson (of Buffalo, attending school. By 1869, the NY) on May 26, 1900, at Eddys had moved away from Stratton, Vermont (lived at Stratton, but returned before 1880. Claremont, NH). At that time, Mary’s parents were living with them as well as a Phineas Orrin Eddy, son of cousin, Julia A. Johnson, aged Orrin and Mary Eddy, was born in nine. They probably settled on the July, 1854, at Stratton. He was a west side of the West Jamaica Rd. farmer and had remained in about half way between the church Stratton after many of the and Ball Farm Rd. This was the residents had moved on. Phineas home of their son, Phineas, in took the Freeman’s oath in 1900 and they lived with Phineas Stratton in 1876. during their latter years. A map of Stratton that dates Orrin died on December 26, about 1900, shows the Eddy home 1893, at Stratton and Mary died on the west side of the West on March 10, 1911. They were Jamaica Rd. about half way buried in the Eddy Cemetery. between the church and Ball Farm

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Rd. (the foundation can still be David Goddard Eddy, son of seen there). This was likely the Phineas and Lois Eddy, was born home of Phineas’s parents, whom November 15, 1817, at Stratton. he cared for in their old age. In He married Rosina Lovina Rice, 1900, Phineas resided there with daughter of Perez and Emily Rice, his mother, Mary, his brother on November 19, 1845. Rosina Newton’s daughter, Arlie J. Eddy was born on January 18, 1828. and a boarder, E.C. DieKamper, David was Justice of the aged nine, who was born in Peace in Stratton for a time and Missouri in August, 1886. In he was also the first deacon of the 1910, the DieKamper boy had Free-Will Baptist Church there. moved away and another boarder In June of 1844, David purchased had taken his place - Emil A. 70 acres of the southwest corner Selfors, aged 35 of Sweden. of 2L3R in Stratton, and in 1848, After his mother’s death in he purchased an additional 55 March, 1911, Phineas married acres of this lot’s northwest Alma E. (Chipman) Wilcox, corner. This farm was formerly daughter of Henry H. and Martha owned by Matthew Randall and M. (Brown) Chipman, on was situated along the old road December 28, 1911, at Stratton. between Winhall and Somerset. Alma was born at Waitsfield The house was located on the about 1873. northeast side of the Stratton- Arlington Rd., about midway Newton Warren Eddy, son of between the intersections of Old Orrin and Mary Jane Eddy, was Forrester Rd. and the West born on October 23, 1864, at Jamaica Rd.. Stratton. He first married Minnie In 1850, David’s sister, Lucy, Forrester, daughter of Henry P. resided with them. Lucy died the and Lucy (Sprague) Forrester. following year. The Eddys Minnie was born on June 7, 1859, remained in Stratton through and she died on July 11, 1885, at 1860, then resettled in South Stratton. Newton then married Londonderry, Vermont. Jennie (Shattuck) Dannett, David died on November 27, daughter of George W. and 1878, at Londonderry after he was Fannie J. Shattuck on February thrown from a horse. Rosina 25, 1891. His third marriage was remarried to Thomas Mackie on to Nellie S. (Page) Wilson, October 24, 1880. She died on daughter of Clarence C. and Mary May 11, 1894. (Goss) Page on May 26, 1900, at Adopted son of David and Rosina: Stratton. Nellie was born about 1) Sidney Henry Eddy (his name 1863 at Isle au Haut, Maine. was changed from Packard), A child of Newton and Jennie: born about 1849; married 1) Arlie Jane Dannett, born May Lydia L. Roberts on December 22, 1894, in New Hampshire; 24, 1868, at Wardsboro, married Thomas F. Moakley. Vermont.

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Phineas Ward Eddy Amanda (Goddard) Eddy (1790 – 1878) (1807 – 1883)

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David Goddard Eddy Rosina (Rice) Eddy (1817 – 1878) (1828 – 1894)

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Albert Eddy Chloe (Rice) Eddy (1826 – 1899) (1830 – 1907)

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William Henry Eddy Sarah (Hartwell) Eddy (1829 – 1908)

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Phineas Emery Eddy Newton Warren Eddy (1830 – 1880) (1864 – 1902)

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Sidney Henry Eddy, adopted son of David and Rosina Eddy, was born Sidney Henry Packard, a son of James Packard, about 1848. His name was changed to Eddy on September 3, 1850.

Sidney was enrolled in the militia in Stratton in 1867 and he married Lydia Luthera Roberts on December 24, 1868, at Wardsboro, Vermont. Lydia, daughter of Ebenezer and Sarah A. Roberts, was born in Pine Grove, Pennsylvania, on October 8, 1851. The Eddys lived in Londonderry, Vermont, but they had been in Stratton in 1876, when their daughter, Idella, was born. The town records of 1883 report that Lewis Wilder and Edwin Grout were paid to care for Lydia (Roberts) Eddy Sidney at that time. Perhaps he Photo courtesy of the Eddy Family died about that same time.

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Although, little else is known Rice, on October 20, 1851, at of Sidney, it is known that Lydia Somerset, Vermont. Chloe Ann remarried to Joseph Packard and was born at Somerset on August then she married a third time to 8, 1830. (?) Morse. Albert and his brother, Children of Sidney and Lydia: William Henry, bought their 1) William Henry, born June 15, father, Phineas’ farm and 1872, at Londonderry, sawmill, in Stratton, on February Vermont. 3, 1852, for $1000.00. The sale 2) Alveretha Minnie, born included an agreement that Albert September 18, 1874, at and Henry would take care of Londonderry, Vermont; Phineas and his wife, Amanda, for married 1) (?) Frederick 2) the rest of their lives. But, by Herbert Ainsworth on 1855, Albert and Chloe removed September 17, 1899. to Athol, Massachusetts, for a 3) Idella Minnie, born December time, then to Wardsboro, 15, 1876, at Stratton, Vermont. Albert’s parents were Vermont; died in 1905 at cared for by Albert’s brother, Buchanan, Michigan; married David, in their latter years. William Vetter about 1892.. By 1862, Albert and Chloe 4) Lydia Louise, born October 11, were living in Stratton again. In 1879, at Londonderry, March of that year Albert was Vermont. elected a highway surveyor for the 5) Flora Luthera, married Edgar town. About 1867, the Eddys Poe Walker on August 6, resettled in Manchester, Vermont. 1899, at Brattleboro, Vermont. On April 8, 1870, Albert and Chloe were deeded 258 acres in Additional Sources: Descendants of Giles Roberts of Pike Hollow, in Stratton, by the Scarborough, Maine heirs of Perez Rice, Chloe’s by Joann Nichols father. And so, in 1870, they were back in Stratton and living Albert Eddy, son of Phineas and with Chloe’s mother, Emily Rice, Lois Eddy, was born at Stratton, on the farm there. They then on December 9, 1826. Albert deeded this land to their son, qualified as a Freeman of Stratton Elmer Albert, on May 4, 1876, on September 5, 1848. He and moved to West Brattleboro, purchased land in 3L4R in Vermont, where they lived on Stratton in March, 1849, from Meadow Brook Rd.. Freeman Wyman. This lot was Albert died on May 19, 1899, located beside the meetinghouse and Chloe followed on July 30, on the Stratton-Arlington Rd.. He 1907. Chloe had been an invalid probably settled there briefly, but for many years before her death. sold it back to Mr. Wyman in The Eddys were buried in October, 1849. Meetinghouse Hill Cemetery in Albert married Chloe Ann Brattleboro. Rice, daughter of Perez and Emily

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The children of Albert and Chloe: father moved the family to 1) Elmer Albert, born March 4, Stratton to live with their 1855, at Athol, Massachusetts; grandmother, Emily Rice. As a died July 2, 1936, at young man, Elmer went west to Brattleboro, Vermont; married Minnesota probably to work in the Inez Theodosia (Pike) Baker lumber business with an uncle on June 5, 1880, at Shushan, that had also traveled there. He New York. was living in Hollywood, Carver 2) Alner Perez, born August 11, County, Minnesota, when his 1860, at Wardsboro, Vermont; parents deeded him 258 acres in died February 17, 1923, at Pike Hollow in Stratton, on May West Brattleboro, Vermont; 4, 1876. Elmer returned to married Minnie Ellen Vermont soon afterward and lived Laughton on October 12, 1904, on the farm he had inherited. at Shelburne Falls, Elmer married Inez Massachusetts. Theodosia (Pike) Baker, the 3) Lura Ann, born May 20, 1862, daughter of Moses and Dorcas at Stratton, Vermont; died in Chase (Grout) Pike, on June 5, 1930; married Charles Edwin 1880, at Shushan, New York. Benson on June 4, 1913, at Inez was born on September 12, Brattleboro, Massachusetts 1855, at Somerset, Vermont, and (they were living at Belmont, had grown up in Pike Hollow, Vermont, in 1919). which was named for her family. 4) Burt Henry, born January 3, She had become a member of the 1867, at Manchester, Vermont; Church of Christ in Stratton on died in January, 1967, at October 17, 1874. Inez first Endicott, New York; married married George F. Baker, but by Helen Magdalene Davis on 1880 she was living back at home February 27, 1907, at Laurel with her brother, Abel, and father, Springs, New Jersey. Moses, on the farm where she had 5) Emery Justus, born February 8, grown up. Elmer took the 1871, at Stratton, Vermont; Freeman’s oath in Stratton in died in 1944 at Bradenton, 1880. Florida; married 1) Ella Lucy Elmer and Inez lived at Adams on January 30, 1893 2) Stratton and probably first Bernice P. Howard. occupied the farm Elmer had inherited. Elmer bought the house Elmer Albert Eddy, son of and farm of Alexander Hamilton Albert and Chloe Eddy, was born Pike on May 30, 1884, for at Athol, Massachusetts, on $850.00. This house, located on March 4, 1855. He lived with his the brook in Pike Hollow was just family in Manchester and above A. H. Pike’s mill. Wardsboro, Vermont, as a boy. In Elmer evidently rented out 1869, following the death of his the old farm at the top of the hill grandfather, Perez Rice, Elmer’s to his Aunt and Uncle, Orrin and

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Melissa Johnson. Later, Elmer made an agreement with A. H. Pike on January 29, 1891, to rent the Pike sawmill and 75 acres. This must have been a continuation of the agreement, since Elmer was listed as renting the 75 acres from Mr. Pike in the 1881 Gazetteer as well. Elmer agreed to work the mill, while A. H. Pike agreed to pay for any needed repairs. All profits were split in half between the two gentlemen. In 1894, Elmer bought the sawmill and continued its operation. Elmer and his uncle, Orrin Johnson were Alner Perez Eddy and Phineas partners in a logging operation for Orrin Eddy cousins several years. The remains of its Photo courtesy of the Ethel Eddy Collection dam can still be seen just to the right of the driveway that leads up to the farmhouse. This property is currently owned by the Steiner family. At some point, Elmer and Orrin discontinued use of the watermill and started a steam driven mill, where the millpond of the old mill had been. Inez taught school in Stratton and Wardsboro as early as 1877. She later served as assistant town clerk and treasurer of Stratton. She was a member of the West Wardsboro Baptist Church and was active in the restoration of the old Stratton Church. Inez was also the Stratton correspondent for Burt Henry Eddy the Brattleboro Reformer, a (1867 – 1967) newspaper. Photo courtesy of the Ethel Eddy Collection

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Elmer was a Republican. He Hermon Elmer Eddy, son of was Stratton’s town clerk Elmer and Inez Eddy, was born at beginning in 1904, an office he Stratton, on June 13, 1881. He held for many years. He also was educated at Colgate Academy served as a Selectman of Stratton and the University of Vermont. for various terms, and he was the During his school years, Hermon town’s Representative to the State played football and belonged to Legislature in 1915/6. At that Kappa Sigma. He took the time, he was a member of the Freeman’s oath in Stratton on Committee of Temperance. The September 2, 1902. Eddys also kept the town’s library While at the University in within their home for a time. 1902, he was elected to Vermont’s In 1900, the Eddys took in House of Representatives, Elmer’s uncle William “Henry” representing the town of Stratton. Eddy. Henry moved away within Hermon married Bernice a few years. Once, their daughter, Adell Waite, daughter of Henry Ethel had moved out sometime Albert and Avis Euphershia before 1920, the Eddys took in Waite, on December 25, 1902, at Joel Wheeler as a boarder. Joel West Wardsboro, Vermont. was living there in 1920. Bernice was born February 10, Inez died at home at 5:30 1883, at West Wardsboro, PM, Thursday, November 1, Vermont. They apparently 1928. She had been in failing resided at the Eddy farm in Pike health for a long while, and had Hollow with Hermon’s parents for been confined to her bed for two about a year. In January, 1903, weeks from the effects of a goiter. Hermon was appointed Stratton’s Elmer died at Brattleboro on July Town Clerk, replacing OH Palmer 2, 1936. The Eddys were buried who had resigned. in Pike Hollow Cemetery. In 1904, Hermon moved to Children of Elmer and Inez were: Brattleboro, Vermont, to study 1) Hermon Elmer, born June 13, law. In December, 1904, he 1881, at Stratton, Vermont; resigned his position as Stratton’s died February 23, 1917, at Town Clerk. Hermon was Montpelier, Vermont; married admitted to the bar in October of Bernice Adell Waite on 1907, and practiced law with December 25, 1902, at West Clarke C. Fitts, the State Attorney Wardsboro, Vermont. General. At first, the Eddys lived 2) Mabel Inez, born September 6, at 29 Western Avenue, in 1885, at Stratton, Vermont; Brattleboro. In 1907, they died February 16, 1886, at purchased Judge Hoyt Wheeler's Stratton, Vermont. home at 45 Western Avenue 3) Ethel Ann, born January 16, (referred to as the Crosby House), 1887, at Stratton, Vermont; where Hermon remained until his died May 13, 1969, at death. Bernice occupied this Brattleboro, Vermont. house until about 1950.

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Hermon was very active in returned to the State Capital. the community. He along with Apparently during the commute to nine others started the Stratton Montpelier, Hermon contracted Mountain Club at Stratton in scarlet fever and he became 1912. He was instrumental in deathly ill upon his arrival. He procuring a fire tower on Stratton died in a hotel room at Montpelier Mountain in 1914. Also, he was on February 23, 1917, after a ten- the acting attorney for the New day illness. Hermon was buried England Power Company, when in Pike Hollow Cemetery. an agreement was made between Following Hermon's death, that company and Stratton’s his father provided an estate for Selectmen concerning Bernice and the children and they construction of the Somerset remained at 45 Western Avenue, Reservoir dam. Other positions in Brattleboro for many years. that Hermon held included junior They were also given a small warden of the Columbian Lodge hunting cottage, located on the of Masons, a member of the Eddy land in Pike Hollow. Wantastiquet Lodge of Odd Hermon had built a hunting Fellows, the Vermont Wheel cottage on this site about 1914. Club, the Exchange Club, the Bernice made it her home during Board of Trade, a director and her latter years. vice president of the Connecticut Bernice had married Carl E. River Power Company of New Hollender about 1923. Carl was Hampshire, a director of the born in New York on May 25, Vermont National Bank, a trustee 1883. Bernice and Carl were of the Brattleboro Free Library, eventually divorced and rumor has and Deputy Clerk of Windham it that the children never liked County. He was a member of the him and so he never moved into Vermont Bar Association and one their home. Carl passed away at of its officers. Hermon and his Rutland, Vermont, in October, family attended the Baptist 1968. During those years, Church of West Wardsboro. Bernice was a nurse and ran a In 1916, Hermon was elected home for the elderly for a time. to the Vermont State Senate, She also ran a bed and breakfast representing the Marlboro District from her home in Brattleboro. of Windham County. When Bernice then married LeRoy Clarke Fitts died in December, H. Wagner, the son of Laban and 1916, Hermon and his associate, Katey Wagner, on February 8, H.E. Whitney became joint 1950, at Brattleboro. LeRoy was partners in charge of the Fitts law born in Nova Scotia, Canada, on firm. However, Hermon had January 25, 1883. He had first attended the first sessions of the married Mamie Holman on Vermont Legislature in mid- August 10, 1906, at Riversdale, February of 1917, he spent a Nova Scotia, and they had a son, weekend in Brattleboro, then Harold. The Wagners had moved

Stratton Families 107 to Brattleboro, Vermont, where there on June 12, 1973. She was LeRoy operated a shoe store. buried in Pike Hollow Cemetery Mamie passed away at Brattleboro beside Hermon. on January 28, 1947. LeRoy and Children of Hermon and Bernice: Bernice started seeing each other 1) Doris Mayona, born July 23, later that same year. 1902, at Stratton, Vermont; Bernice and LeRoy lived in died July 20, 1966, at Pike Hollow in the cottage that Brattleboro, Vermont; married had been given to her by the Millard Oscar Johnson on Eddys (the Eddy/Young place). October 30, 1923. Ethel Eddy added a section of 2) Marjorie Adell, born May 20, land with a spring, so that they 1907, at Brattleboro, Vermont; had a gravity fed water supply. died February 18, 1969, in Bernice’s son, Elmer Eddy, and Dryden, Maine; married son-in-law, Rich Holman, also Richard L. Holman on January added a dormer in 1948 or 1949, 22, 1938, at Stratton, which allowed room for two Vermont. bedrooms upstairs. A bathroom 3) Elmer Hermon, born October with a spring filled reservoir 15, 1911, at Brattleboro, above it completed the project. Vermont; died October 27, The Wagners lived there for many 1998, at Round Rock, Texas; years. They sometimes stayed in married 1) Margaret Elizabeth Massachusetts or traveled to Laughton on September 28, Florida or Texas during the winter 1935, at Stratton, Vermont months. (divorced) 2) Isabel Hromada LeRoy had a heart attack and on January 9, 1948, at Port died at his home in Stratton on Jervis, New York 3) Dieliew April 22, 1964. He was buried in Williams on October 10, 1968, Morningside Cemetery at at Pleasanton, Texas. Brattleboro, beside his first wife, Mamie, and their son, Harold, who had passed away a few years earlier. Following LeRoy's death, Bernice continued to live in Stratton for several years, and she spent the winters with a friend in Jamaica, Vermont. During this time, her granddaughter, Lissa Holman lived with her. Bernice spent a year in Texas with her son, then returned to Vermont and spent the last few months of her life in a Nursing Home at Brattleboro. Bernice passed away

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The Albert and Chloe Eddy family [l-r] Alner, Chloe, Lura, Burt, Albert and Elmer

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Emery Justus Eddy Ella (Adams) Eddy (1871 - 1944) (born in 1872)

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Elmer Albert Eddy Inez Theodocia (Pike) Eddy (1855 - 1936) (1855 - 1928)

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Hermon Elmer Eddy Bernice Adell (Waite) Eddy (1881 - 1917) (1883 - 1973)

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Elmer Hermon Eddy Margaret Elizabeth (Laughton) (1911 - 1998) Eddy (1911 – 1998)

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Elmer Hermon Eddy, son of Hermon and Bernice Eddy, was born at Brattleboro, Vermont, on October 15, 1911. His father died while he was still very young, and Elmer, known to his childhood friends as Lank, continued to live with his mother. Elmer graduated from high school, then attended Northeastern University in Boston, majoring in civil engineering. Elmer, known in his adult years as Bud, worked as a surveyor for the New England Power Company. He also served as road commissioner for Stratton On September 28, 1935, Bud married Margaret Elizabeth Ethel Eddy Laughton, daughter of Arthur (1886 - 1969) Wheeler and Maude Edith Laughton, at Stratton. Peg, as she Photo courtesy of the Ethel Eddy Collection was known, was born in

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Dummerston, Vermont, on July 3, manager of a beauty salon chain 1911. Bud and Peg were married out of New York. at the old church in Stratton. A Soon after the marriage, Bud cousin of both Bud and Peg, and Isabel and Bud’s son, Herm, Robert Eddy, was the best man. moved to San Antonio, Texas, When the time came for Robert to then to Pleasanton, Texas, where hand over the ring, he jokingly they bought and operated the Irby produced a bull ring from his Courts, a motel, which they pocket, causing the bride and renamed "Eddy's Motel," located groom to laugh a bit. on Highway 281 south of Bud and Peg lived in Stratton Pleasanton. While in Pleasanton, in Pike Hollow, following their Bud served on the City Council marriage, then bought a house and once served as Mayor pro-tem located next to the Green to serve out an unfinished term. Mountain House in West In December, 1966, Isabel Wardsboro. suffered an aneurysm. She died During WWII, Bud served in two weeks later on December 21, the U. S. Army Combat 1966. Following her death, Bud Engineers, Persian Gulf gave up the motel and attempted Command. He was involved in to retire. He briefly returned to building runways in Persia for New England and took a job with much of that time. While Bud the International Paper Company was away, Peg ran the Post Office but returned to Pleasanton. in West Wardsboro. On October 10, 1968, Bud Bud and Peg divorced married Dieliew “Dee” (Neill) following Bud’s return from Williams at Pleasanton. Dee was Persia in March, 1946. Bud had born at Leming, Texas, on custody of their son, Hermon, September 1, 1917. Dee, while Peg retained custody of previously a teacher, operated their daughter, Bess. After the Williams Insurance Company, a divorce, Bud and Herm lived for a business established by her first time in West Wardsboro, then husband in Pleasanton, Texas. moved in with Rich and Marge Together, Bud and Dee continued Holman, Bud's sister and brother- to run this business for many in-law, in Pike Hollow. years, until they decided to retire Bud then married Isabel in 1978. Hromada on January 9, 1948, at Bud and Dee purchased a Port Jervis, New York. Isabel was summer home in Alpine, Arizona, born on April 9, 1909, at and continued to spend the winter Westminster, Massachusetts. She months in Pleasanton. Bud was a sister of Bob Hromada. Bob developed emphysema which and his wife, Mirth (Pike), lived discouraged them from keeping on the old Moses Pike farm in the summer home in Alpine, since Pike Hollow. Isabel was the the elevation was too high. In 1987, Bud and Dee moved to

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Abilene, Texas, where they lived eventually moved to Brattleboro with Dee’s son, Jim. In 1994, Jim and lived there for several years moved to Missouri. However, with her aunt, Elsie Saderman. In Bud and Dee decided to stay in 1989, she moved to Orlando, Texas and moved to the town of Florida, to be with her son, Milt's Round Rock, which was close to family. She died there on March another of Dee’s children, John. 9, 1998. Bud passed away at a nursing Children of Bud and Peg were: home in Round Rock, Texas, on 1) Hermon Arthur, married Helen October 27, 1998. He was buried Fuller. in Brite Cemetery in Pleasanton. 2) Elizabeth Ann, married Wayne Bud also had inherited much Adrian Lund. of the estate of his father and grandfather in Pike Hollow. He Hermon Arthur Eddy, son of signed over most of the land to his Elmer and Margaret Eddy, lived son, Hermon. The rest of the in West Wardsboro and Stratton land, with the exception of a few with his parents, then went to acres, had been sold off over the Texas with his father. Herm years or it had been transferred to joined the U. S. Air Force and he relatives still living in the area. was stationed at various places in The farmhouse and a large the United States, Europe and portion of the farm belonged to Turkey. Bud's Aunt, Ethel Eddy. While stationed in England, Following Bud and Peg's Herm married Helen Fuller, divorce, Peg lived in West daughter of James and Edna Wardsboro, Vermont. She Fuller, at Bedford, England. The married Lawrence Albin Denker Eddys eventually settled in of Stratton on August 4, 1947 (see Maryland. the Denker family). Lawrence Herm inherited much of the was born on April 2, 1901, at Eddy property in Pike Hollow in Waterbury, Connecticut. He was Stratton and currently maintains a the son of John and Anna Sophia tree farm on this property. He (Anderson) Denker. also acquired his grandfather’s Peg and Lawrence lived in hunting camp located on Pike Breezy Knoll, Hinsdale, New Hollow Rd.. - this is currently the Hampshire, just across the river home of his daughter, Siobhan from Brattleboro, Vermont. and her husband Kent. Lawrence worked for the paper Children of Herm and Helen are: mill there. Peg and Lawrence had 1) Shaun, married Patricia Joan a son, Milton., and Peg's Vill. daughter, Elizabeth, also lived 2) Siobhan, married David Kent with them for a few years. Young. Lawrence died on October 27, 1975, at the Memorial Hospital in Ethel Ann Eddy, daughter of Brattleboro, Vermont. Peg Elmer and Inez Eddy, was born

Stratton Families 113 on January 16, 1887, at Stratton. served as Stratton’s She graduated from LeLand and Representative from 1957 to 1963. Gray Seminary in 1904, then During the early 1960’s, attended Oneonta Normal School, Ethel sold the farm to the Steiner graduating in 1909. She returned family, since no family member home and was living with her remained in the area to take it parents in 1910. over. She suffered from Ethel became involved in the Rheumatism and she eventually Stratton Mountain Club in 1912 became bedridden. Ethel died on and she was president of that club May 13, 1969, at Brattleboro. She from 1915 to at least 1919 was buried in the Eddy family plot (possibly to 1922 when the club in Pike Hollow Cemetery in disbanded). Ethel moved to Stratton. Brattleboro about 1919 where she taught school. Later, she was Emery Justus Eddy, son of superintendent of Windham South Albert and Chloe Eddy, was born District Schools in Brattleboro for February 8, 1871, at Stratton. many years. In October, 1946, she Emery first married Ella Lucy was elected president of the Adams, daughter of Augustus and Vermont Education Association. Sarah (Thomas) Adams, on Ethel was a member of the January 30, 1893. Ella was born Daughters of the American on January 30, 1872, at Stamford, Revolution and she was Regent of Vermont. Emery was an the Brattleboro Chapter of the insurance salesman and sold DAR from 1931 to 1933. She Travelers Insurance. also served as President of the Old Ella passed away and so Stratton Church Assoc. from 1928 Emery married Bernice P. to 1966. The church bought an Howard. Emery died in 1944 at Estey organ in 1901 and it was Bradenton, Florida kept in the Eddy home during the winter months for many years. William “Henry” Eddy, son of In her latter years, Ethel Phineas and Lois Eddy, was born returned to Stratton and became on February 4, 1829, at Stratton. active in Stratton’s town affairs. Henry qualified as a Freeman of She had inherited her parent’s Stratton on September 3, 1850. In farm in Pike Hollow and lived December, 1852, he and his there until she was too old to care brother, Albert, were deeded their for herself. Ethel called her home father’s farm and sawmill, "Manicknung Farm" for the provided that they both would mountain. There, Ethel provided take care of Phineas and his wife, room and board for tourists and Amanda, in their old age. This gave horseback tours of the area. task later fell to their brother, Ethel was instrumental in David. forming Stratton’s Daniel Webster Henry married Sarah Ann Association in the 1950’s and she Hartwell on October 8, 1854, at

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Wardsboro, Vermont. Sarah was Sarah evidently passed away at the daughter of Halloway and the farm, but the date has not been Nancy Hartwell. She was also a determined. Henry was living member of the West Wardsboro there alone in 1880 and by 1900, Baptist Church. Henry was residing with his Henry purchased his father- nephew, Elmer Albert Eddy, who 1 in-law’s farm of 125 /2 acres on was living on Pike Hollow Rd.. the Gore Rd. (Willis Cemetery Henry later went to Townshend, Rd) on May 5, 1855, with Vermont, where he died on conditions attached to provide February 24, 1908. Henry was care for Halloway and Nancy buried in the Eddy Cemetery in Hartwell in their old age and also Stratton. to care for Kezia Lincoln Children of Henry and Sarah: (Nancy’s mother). On May 29, 1) Herbert Othello, born August 1855, Henry also bought two 1, 1858, at Stratton, Vermont; parcels of property from his married Mary Slawson. brother-in-law, George Hartwell - 2) Florence A., born January 11, one contained 108 acres and the 1860, at Stratton, Vermont; other contained 26 acres of the old married Henry Neill. Higley farm. This last purchase 3) William Joseph, born June 20, was sold to Josiah Davison on 1866, at Stratton, Vermont; June 1, 1860. Henry also married Retta Matilda Roll on purchased Halloway Hartwell’s June 11, 1899, at Victor, farm in Somerset on June 15, Montana. 1858. This lot was located along Somerset’s border with Stratton, Erastus Alcetus Eddy, son of west of Pike Hollow Rd. and west Phineas and Lois Eddy, was born of Moses and Joseph Pike’s land. June 12, 1832, at Stratton. He The Stratton farm that Henry evidently left Vermont just after purchased was the old Pike 1860, he served in the army for homestead. Currently, the house three years during the Civil War, is owned by the Harlow family. and then he went west to The sugarhouse that was located Minnesota where he married on this property is now owned by Henrietta Althoff, daughter of the Gagner family and it once was William Althoff, on March 23, owned by actor, E.G. Marshall. 1866. Henrietta was born in In 1860, Henry and his family Belleville, Illinois, on October 12, were living on the farm with 1850. Sarah’s parents and also with Erastus died May 28, 1911, in David and William Lincoln, Minnesota and Henrietta followed Sarah’s relatives. In 1870, in 1935. Sarah’s mother was still living there, aged 67. Henry and Sarah may have been divorced at some point.

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The following Eddy family was 5) Ethel Grace, born October 11, not closely related to the above 1884, at Newfane, Vermont Eddy family: (she taught school in Stratton).

Jonathan Eddy and his wife, Herman Lewis Eddy, son of Arvilla (Gale) Eddy, never lived Jonathan and Arvilla (Gale) Eddy, in Stratton, however, several of was born on May 3, 1876, at their children eventually settled Newfane, Vermont. He came to there. Stratton where he was a farmer Jonathan was born on and a lumberman. December 19, 1819, at Newfane, Herman married Edith J. Vermont. He married Arvilla White, daughter of Frank and Janet Gale, daughter of Ivory and Nettie (Howe) White, on August Phoebe Gale on November 10, 12, 1901, at Stratton. Edith was 1862, at Windham, Vermont. born on May 25, 1881, at Arvilla was born at Londonderry, Newfane. Vermont, on November 29, 1842. The Eddys lived at Brookline The Eddys settled at Newfane, and Newfane after the marriage. where Jonathan died on February Edith died at Londonderry, 21, 1907. Arvilla died there on Vermont, on September 2, 1913. June 25, 1914. They were buried Herman then married Rosa in Woodlawn Cemetery in Emaline (Wilder) Kennon, widow Newfane. of Charles Henry Kennon and Children of Jonathan and Arvilla: daughter of Lewis and Phoebe 1) Ida Sophia, born March 31, Wilder. Rosa was born on 1869, at Newfane, Vermont; February 7, 1867, at Jamaica, died January 12, 1939; married Vermont. She died on February William H. Hescock. 24, 1935, at Newfane. 2) Flora Marcia, born September Their children were: 22, 1871, at Newfane, 1) Mildred Janette, born January Vermont; died April 21, 1960, 20, 1905, at Brookline, at Townshend, Vermont; Vermont. married Charles Hudson Grout 2) Margaret Jennie, born June 4, on June 6, 1894, at Newfane, 1912, at Newfane, Vermont. Vermont. 3) Herman Lewis, born May 3, Flora Celestia Eddy, daughter of 1876, at Newfane, Vermont; David and Lydia Eddy of Jamaica, married Edith J. White on Vermont, was born on January 4, August 12, 1901, at Stratton, 1848, and lived with the family of Vermont. Henry and Rhoda Edwards in 4) Lena May, born October 17, Stratton in 1870. She resettled in 1879, at Newfane, Vermont; Jamaica and married James Oscar married George Adrill Lamphear there on June 1, 1875. Williams on October 10, 1899, at Stratton, Vermont.

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George Eddy married Mary Willard evidently had a child Benson. They apparently resided from a previous marriage and in Townshend, Vermont. Rhoda also came into this A child of George and Mary was: marriage with a child. 1) Edgar, born June, 1867, at The Edwards had lived at East Townshend, Vermont; Dover, Vermont, before they died February 3, 1879, at settled in Stratton during the late Stratton, Vermont. 1850s. In 1870, Flora Eddy, aged 23, was living with them and in Additional Sources for all the above Eddy families: 1880, their daughter and son-in- The Eddy Family in America law, Emma and Franklin Mundell 1930, 1968 and 1980 editions and their children resided in the Edwards’ home. Edson Willard died on July 7, 1886, Emerson Edson married Delia at Stratton and he was buried in Catrell. The Edsons may have Ball Cemetery. Rhoda remarried resided in Stratton in the late to Jonathan Babcock, at Stratton, 1870s, but they were not in on September 25, 1886. She died Stratton in 1880. shortly after the marriage on Their son was: November 30, 1886. She was 1) Alfred E., born December 20, buried in Ball Cemetery. 1873, at Jamaica, Vermont; In 1901, Mrs. Clark Mundell died August 7, 1877, at of Wardsboro and L. H. May of Stratton, Vermont. Greenfield, Massachusetts, put a proper stone on Willard’s grave. Edwards A child of Willard was: Joseph Edwards was born about 1) Henry, born about 1849. 1781. In 1870, he was living in the home of Melvin and A child of Rhoda was: Marcelina Knowlton. Joseph 1) Lyman W. May, born in 1849; either died or had moved away married Alida E. Perry on from Stratton before 1880. By March 18, 1871, at Stratton, that time, the Knowltons had Vermont. moved to Illinois. Children of Willard and Rhoda: Henry Willard Edwards, son of 1) Ellen M., born about 1852; Rodolphus and Chloe Edwards, died November 10, 1919, at was born on August 16, 1810, at West Townshend, Vermont; Newfane, Vermont. Willard was married Daniel Clark Mundell a shoemaker. He married Rhoda in September, 1869. May, daughter of Lyman and 2) George W., born about 1854. Patty May. Rhoda was born on 3) Emma Lucy, born in 1857 at May 23, 1831, at Edinburg, New Dover, Vermont; married York. Franklin Squire Mundell on

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July 3, 1875, at Jamaica, Emery, was born about 1872 at Vermont. Shrewsbury, Vermont. He moved 4) Charles Aaron, born June 18, to Stratton where he worked as a 1860, at Stratton, Vermont teamster. (took the Freeman’s oath in On September 11, 1897, he Stratton on September 5, married Mabel Williams, 1882). daughter of Charles and Rosa (Hadden) Williams, at Stratton. Efron Mabel was born about 1877 at Vera Efron came to America Jamaica, Vermont. from Russia and settled in Stratton in her latter years. Vera Emmons was a mathematician and she had Amzi Babbitt Emmons was born several books on mathematics at Chester, New York, on published. She lived on Pike November 9, 1846. Amzi Hollow Rd. in the log cabin attended Amherst College in currently owned by DR Holton. Massachusetts, graduating in Vera died in her home at 1869. In 1870, Amzi was living Stratton in 1993 and a wake was in Stratton with Lucinda held for her at the Stratton Emmons, aged 31, and a boy, Meetinghouse. Myron Emmons, aged 9. This may have been his sister or sister- Elmer in-law and her son, since the boy Edward E. Elmer of Jamaica, was definitely too old to be Vermont, married Minnie Amzi’s son. Soon after that time, Davidson, daughter of John and Amzi attended Union Seminary in Nettie Davidson of Woodford, New York and graduated in 1873. Vermont. The Elmers settled in He was ordained a Congregational Stratton about 1908, where Minister on October 28, 1873. Edward worked as a laborer, Amzi married Melva Sophia probably in one of the lumber Topping, daughter of James and camps in Stratton. Mary (Skinner) Topping, on May Minnie evidently passed away 28, 1873, at Chester. Sophie, as before 1920. That year, Edward she was called, was born on was living with John and Nettie September 3, 1845, at Chester. Davidson in Stratton and he was Following the marriage, the working on their farm. Emmonses returned to live in A child of Edward and Minnie: Stratton. Amzi was Stratton’s 1) Ruth A., born July 20, 1908, at Congregational minister from Stratton, Vermont. May, 1873, to November, 1874. He also served as the minister for neighboring Jamaica and probably Emery moved to that town in 1875. Chester N. Emery, son of Amzi later became minister of the Norman and Melissa (Akely) First Congregational Church in

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Oxford, Massachusetts, in 1878. Rd./Half Mile Rd. (it later became He passed away at Morristown, the Forrester farmhouse). New Jersey, on January 18, 1882. On April 8, 1819, the Sophie remained in Oxford until Glaziers and the Estabrooks 1901, then removed to Worcester, officially divided the farm by Massachusetts, where she died on deeding one another their share of March 25, 1925. the other’s half. Their children were: In 1800, the Estabrooks had 1) Mary Forrester, born June 16, three children below the age of 1874, at Stratton, Vermont; ten. In November, 1813, Ezra married Charles S. Putnam. and Eunice, along with Ezra’s 2) Esther C. brother, Joel, were admitted to the 3) Moses S. Church of Christ in Stratton. Five of their children were baptized Additional Sources: The Congregational Churches of Vermont that same day (with the exception and Their Ministers 1762 - 1914 of Melinda). Ezra was very active in Church affairs. He was elected Estabrook Church Clerk in 1824 and served in that position until July 28, Ezra Estabrook, son of Samuel 1837, at which time his son and Sarah (Robinson) Estabrook, Ezekiel was chosen Church Clerk was born on April 14, 1770. In and his brother Joel was turned 1778, Ezra went to live with a Mr. out of the church. Ezra was also a Lovell in Holden, Massachusetts, captain in Stratton’s company of but he was of Worcester, militia. Massachusetts, when he published Eunice died on April 4, 1831, an intent to marry Eunice Goodale and she was buried in North on May 17, 1795. Eunice was a Cemetery. Ezra then married daughter of Deacon David Sarah Gleason on June 19, 1832. Goodale and Dorothy, his wife, of Sarah was a widow from Jamaica, Oakham, Massachusetts. She was Vermont. She was born at New born in March, 1774. Salem, Massachusetts, on June 10, On October 19, 1797, Ezra 1785. and his brother-in-law, John Following the marriage, the Glazier, purchased 8L1R in Estabrooks lived with Ezra’s son, Stratton from Clark Stone. The Ezekiel. Sarah joined the church Estabrooks settled on the south on December 11, 1836, at the half of this lot while the Glaziers same time as her stepson, Ezekiel. settled on the north half (later In 1847, the Estabrooks had Sarah called the Brown farm). Ezra Jane M. Allen living with them brought his family to Stratton and attending school in district #4 soon thereafter and built a in Stratton. farmhouse there. The farmhouse Ezra also paid taxes on 7L1R, was located on what is now the lot between his land and his Mountain Rd., across from the brother, Joel’s land. This was intersection with Forrester

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4) Orrilla, born February 27, and Mary Kidder, (intent 1822, at Stratton, Vermont published on December 2, 1827, (baptized in Stratton on May at Stratton). She was born there 12, 1822); married John on August 18, 1807. The Godby on January 1, 1839. following year, Ezekiel and Betsey 5) Ezra Robinson, born agreed to care for Betsey’s sister, September 6, 1824 (baptized in Emma, who was subject to having Stratton on March 6, 1825); fits (probably epilepsy). married Lucy Taylor. On September 13, 1833, 6) Sarah Susanna, born January Ezekiel purchased the west half of 26, 1827 (baptized in Stratton 7L1R from his brother-in-law, on August 5, 1827); married David Rice. He later sold part of Charles Edward Peters on this lot to Benjamin Hudson. October 11, 1848. Ezekiel became a member of 7) Jedadiah Brainard, born the Church of Christ in Stratton February 11, 1829 (baptized in on December 11, 1836. On July Stratton on December 6, 28, 1837, he was voted in as 1829); died August 20, 1831. Church Clerk, replacing his 8) Alanson Corydon, born father. About 1846, Ezekiel was January 18, 1831; married made a Deacon. He held both of Mary E. Crawford. those positions until his death. 9) Alfred H., born March 27, Ezekiel died at Stratton on 1834, at Bennington, August 19, 1852, and Betsey died Vermont; died August 31, there on August 5, 1867, of 1870; married Lucy Rice. typhoid fever. Both were buried 10) Willie Austin, born January in Ball Cemetery. 18, 1837, at Bennington, Children of Ezekiel and Betsey: Vermont; died December 13, 1) Lyman William, born July 2, 1838. 1829, at Stratton, Vermont 11) James Edwin, born December (baptized in Stratton on 17, 1839, at Hoosick Falls, October 18, 1829); died New York; married Hariett September 8, 1831, at Stratton, Welsh. Vermont. 2) Abel Kidder, born August 3, Ezekiel Estabrook, son of Ezra 1831 (baptized in Stratton on and Eunice Estabrook, was born November 13, 1831); died May September 8, 1804, at Stratton. 21, 1867, at Stratton, Ezekiel took the Freeman’s oath Vermont; married Adelia in Stratton on December 4, 1826. Salome Pike. He purchased his father’s farm on 3) Amelia Ann, born August 4, September 20, 1827, and 1833 (baptized in Stratton on evidently remained there for the September 14, 1834, and rest of his life. admitted as a member of the Ezekiel married Betsey church on June 6, 1858); Bancroft Kidder, daughter of Abel married Benjamin Payne on

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July 3, 1864, at Stratton, Abel’s life was short. He died Vermont. on May 21, 1867, at Stratton, of 4) Henry William, born January typhoid fever. 16, 1836, at Stratton, After Abel’s death, Adelia Vermont; died June 11, 1919, joined the Church of Christ in at Brimfield, Massachusetts; Stratton on June 21, 1868. In married 1) Rosetta Hannah April 1871, the church gave Pike on February 7, 1859 2) Adelia a letter of dismission and Adelia Salome (Pike) recommendation to the Estabrook. Congregational Church in West 5) Mariette M., born March 23, Dover, Vermont. She married 1838; died August 31, 1867, at Abel’s brother, Henry sometime Stratton, Vermont; married after 1891. Adelia died on James William Copeland. February 5, 1913, in Amherst, 6) Angela M., born September Massachusetts. Abel and Adelia 13, 1843; died June 1, 1846, at were buried in Ball Cemetery. Stratton, Vermont. Children of Abel and Adelia were: 7) Adelbert E., born September 7, 1) Rosetta A. born January 25, 1847; died May 13, 1848, at 1858, at Stratton, Vermont; Stratton, Vermont. died in 1912 at East Amherst, 8) Ella A., born February 21, Massachusetts. 1850; married James F. Smith 2) William E., born February 6, on July 9, 1869. 1860, at Stratton, Vermont; died July 17, 1862, at Stratton, Abel Kidder Estabrook, son of Vermont. Ezekiel and Betsey Estabrook, 3) Jotham Pike, born July 9, was born on August 3, 1831, at 1864, at Stratton, Vermont; Stratton. Abel took the Freeman’s died July 21, 1865, at Stratton, oath in Stratton in September, Vermont. 1852. 4) Adelbert A. (twin), born Abel married Adelia Salome December 25, 1866, at Pike, daughter of Joseph and Stratton, Vermont (became an Salome (Hale) Pike on November ME Pastor in the northern part 20, 1856, at Somerset, Vermont. of Vermont). Adelia was born on September 25, 5) Aella (twin), born December 1833, at Somerset, Vermont. 25, 1866, at Stratton, Abel inherited the farm that Vermont. his grandfather had started in Stratton. In 1860, Abel and Henry William Estabrook, son Adelia were living with their two of Ezekiel and Betsey Estabrook, children, Abel’s widowed mother was born on January 16, 1836, at and widowed grandmother, his Stratton. He married Rosetta sister, Ella, and another child, Hannah Pike, daughter of Joseph Samuel Gordon, aged 12. and Salome Pike, on February 7,

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1859. Rosetta was born on July 1) Joseph Henry, born November 15, 1837, in Somerset, Vermont. 18, 1859, at Stratton, Vermont Henry was accepted into the (baptized in Stratton on Church of Christ in Stratton on September 9, 1860); died June 5, 1853, and he was baptized September 24, 1918, at at that time. That same day, Brimfield, Massachusetts. Henry was voted to be the Church 2) Arthur A., born March 8, Clerk, replacing his father. On 1861, at Stratton, Vermont February 12, 1859, Henry was (baptized in Stratton on July made a Deacon of the church. He 27, 1867); died June 14, 1915, took the Freeman’s oath in at Amherst, Massachusetts. Stratton in September, 1857. 3) William Alexander, born June The Estabrooks settled on the 4, 1863, at Stratton, Vermont farm of his father-in-law, Joseph (baptized in Stratton on July Pike, located beyond what is now 27, 1867). the end of Pike Hollow Rd.. 4) Fidelia Marilla, born Henry purchased this farm on December 3, 1870, at Stratton, March 13, 1859, with an Vermont (baptized in Stratton agreement that Henry and Rosetta on October 18, 1874). would care for the Pikes for the 5) Ralph Emmons (twin), born rest of their lives. The deed August 13, 1873, at Stratton, mentions that the Pike’s were Vermont; died October 14, living on that farm at that time. 1873, at Stratton, Vermont. The remains of the farm are still 6) Rosco Topping (twin), born visible. Currently an old August 13, 1873, at Stratton, abandoned trailer marks the site. Vermont (baptized in Stratton The Estabrooks moved away on October 18, 1874); died from Stratton before 1880, but April 12, 1910, at Dover, they eventually returned and Vermont. Rosetta died there on August 19, 1891. William Alexander Estabrook, Following Rosetta’s death, son of Henry and Rosetta Henry remarried to his brother, Estabrook, was born at Stratton on Abel’s widow, Adelia, who June 4, 1863. William studied to consequently was also Rosetta’s become a minister at Hartford sister. Adelia passed away on Seminary in Connecticut, February 5, 1913, and Henry died graduating in 1893. He was on June 11, 1919, at Brimfield, ordained a minister of the Massachusetts. Rosetta and Congregational Church on August Henry were buried in Pike Hollow 1, 1893. William was pastor of Cemetery in Stratton. Adelia was the Congregational churches of buried in Ball Cemetery next to Wilmington and Dover, Vermont. her first husband, Abel. By 1903, William had settled in Children of Henry and Rosetta: Amherst, Massachusetts. He was still living in 1914.

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Joseph Henry Estabrook Arthur A. Estabrook (1859 - 1918) (1861 - 1915)

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Fidelia Marilla Estabrook William Alexander Estabrook (born in 1870) (born in 1863)

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Enoch Estabrook, son of Ezra Jamaica, Vermont, on September and Eunice Estabrook, was born 3, 1862. He served in Company D on February 15, 1811, at Stratton. of the Vermont 16th Regiment He married Silvia Thayer, and he mustered out of service on daughter of Levi H. and Sally August 10, 1863. Thayer, of Jamaica, Vermont After the war, Nelson married (intent published February 16, Sarah S. White, daughter of 1834). Erastus and Sarah White, on June Children of Enoch and Silvia: 3, 1866, at Stratton. Sarah was 1) Rodney L., born March 25, born in Jamaica in 1848. The 1837; married Caroline Lyon Estabrooks resettled at Dexter, on April 16, 1865. Michigan. 2) Edwin J., born November 13, 1839, at Jamaica, Vermont; Joel Estabrook, son of Samuel married 1) Lucy J. Holton on and Sarah (Robinson) Estabrook, August 18, 1859 2) Lucia A. was born on January 4, 1768. In Irish on October 8, 1864. his early years, Joel was a resident 3) Nelson F., born about 1845 in of Rutland, Massachusetts. Jamaica, Vermont; married Joel married Amy Rice, Sarah S. White on June 3, daughter of Edward and Mary 1866, at Stratton, Vermont. (Stone) Rice, at Boylston, 4) Ezra L., born June 25, 1849; Massachusetts, on October 17, died October 8, 1880, at 1792. Amy was born at Albion, Michigan; married Hubbardston, Massachusetts, on Mary E. Rossignal on June 25, September 4, 1767. After the 1870. marriage, they lived in Leicester, Worcester and Oakham, Rodney L. Estabrook, son of Massachusetts, before settling in Enoch and Sylvia Estabrook, was Ashburnham, Massachusetts. Joel born on March 25, 1837. During lived there in 1802 when he the Civil War, Rodney took the purchased 6L1R. Freeman’s oath in Stratton in The Estabrooks had a child September, 1862, but then born in Stratton in 1805, but they enlisted for Jamaica, Vermont, on were not listed on a census of September 3, 1862. He served in Stratton until 1820. In 1808, Joel Company D of the Vermont 16th was called “of Stratton” when he Regiment until he was mustered repurchased his lands at a tax- out of service on August 10, 1863. sale. In November, 1813, Joel Rodney married Caroline Lyon on was admitted as a member of the April 16, 1865. Church of Christ in Stratton, along with his brother Ezra and Nelson F. Estabrook, son of Ezra’s wife. It appears that Amy Enoch and Sylvia Estabrook, was had passed away prior to that born in 1845 in Jamaica. During time. the Civil War, Nelson enlisted for

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Joel then married Lucy and Amy for the rest of their (Williams) Brainard of Winhall, natural lives. Joel discharged this Vermont - a widow of David agreement on March 27, 1840, Brainard (intention of marriage and Warner sold the farm that published February 20, 1814, at same month. Joel and Amy Stratton). Lucy was born on probably moved to Jamaica to live December 15, 1768, at Haddam, with the Thayers following the Connecticut. In September, 1814, sale. Joel died in Jamaica. she removed her church relation Children of Joel and Amy were: from Jamaica to Stratton. 1) Stephen, born July 20, 1793, at In 1820, Joel was head of a Leicester, Massachusetts; died household with Lucy, one of Joel’s March 29, 1855, at Jamaica, sons (evidently Stephen), and Vermont. Joel’s daughter Susanna, living 2) Lewis, born March 23, 1795, with them. at Worcester, Massachusetts; In 1837, the church became died July 17, 1864, at Jamaica, involved in a dispute between Joel Vermont. and his son Stephen, who had 3) Lyman, born November 21, been working on Joel’s farm for 1797, at Oakham, many years. Joel had failed to pay Massachusetts; died in his son for his work and had Ledgewick, Maine. treated him in an “unchristian- 4) Susanna, born April 22, 1805, like manner.” Joel had also at Stratton, Vermont (baptized “expressed unkindly feelings in Stratton in November, toward his brethren who are 1813); married Warner Thayer engaged in the temperance on April 24, 1838, at Stratton, reformation and in other Vermont. benevolent efforts.” Joel was found guilty of the charges. His Stephen Estabrook, son of Joel son, Stephen was also found guilty and Amy Estabrook, was born at of unchristian-like conduct toward Leicester, Massachusetts, on July his father. On July 28, 1837, the 20, 1793, and came to Stratton church “Voted to withdraw our with his parents. On February 2, fellowship from Brother Joel 1812, he was admitted to the Estabrook until he appears of a Church of Christ in Stratton and different spirit and gives baptized that same day. Stephen Christian satisfaction.” On the apparently remained on his other hand, Stephen mad a father’s farm. He took the confession to the church and the Freeman’s oath in Stratton on members voted to accept it. September 6, 1814. On December 10, 1838, Joel In 1837, Stephen was sold his farm to his son-in-law, admonished by the church for his Warner Thayer of Jamaica, poor relationship with his father Vermont, with an agreement that (see Joel Estabrook above) for the Thayers would care for Joel which his confession was accepted

Stratton Families 126 by the church. Stephen resettled Westborough, Massachusetts, on in Jamaica, Vermont, where he April 13, 1780, at Shrewsbury, died unmarried on March 29, Massachusetts. 1855. The Fays apparently settled in Wardsboro, Vermont, soon after Huldah Estabrook, daughter of the marriage. They were among Samuel and Sarah (Robinson) the earliest members of the Estabrook, was born on June 11, Wardsboro Baptist Church, 1772. Huldah died at Stratton on attending services there by 1797. March 8, 1810. Asa bought 110 acres of land in Wardsboro on January 9, 1801. Additional Sources: History of the Estabrook Family This lot surrounded the original by William Booth Estabrook 1891 half-acre of the West Wardsboro Cemetery and later, some of this Evans farm was sold to the town to James H. Evans was born at enlarge the cemetery. Arlington, Vermont. He came to Their children probably were: Stratton and worked as a laborer 1) Asa, born July 10, 1784, at probably at Grout’s Mills. James Wardsboro, Vermont; married married Abbie “May” Parsons, Betsey (?). daughter of William H. and Sarah 2) Mary “Polly,” born November Parson. May was born in 1875 in 16, 1783, at Wardsboro, Wardsboro, Vermont. The Vermont; died September 21, Evanses were living at Grout’s 1863, at Stratton, Vermont. Mills in 1895, at the time their 3) Elizabeth “Betsey,” born May son, Harold, was born. 20, 1793; died July 12, 1862; Their children were: married Benjamin Moon. 1) Lena, born in 1893 at 4) Charles, born February 6, Wardsboro, Vermont. 1798; died October 4, 1875, at 2) Harold James, born August 12, Stratton, Vermont; married 1895, at Stratton, Vermont; Asenath Wood. died January 1, 1954 (WWI 5) Eunice, probably married Eliab veteran). Stone.

Asa Fay, son of Asa and Mary F Fay, was born at Wardsboro, Vermont, on July 10, 1784. Asa and his wife, Betsey, settled in Fay Stratton about 1805 and they were Asa Fay of Grafton, duly warned out on June 28, 1806. Massachusetts, may have been the The Fays left town before the same Asa Fay, son of Jeduthan census of 1810 was taken. and Sarah (Shattuck) Fay of Westborough, Massachusetts, who Polly Fay, daughter of Asa and was born on June 22, 1753. Asa Mary Fay, was born at Wardsboro, married Mary Robbins of

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Vermont, on November 16, 1783. apparently not carried out for the In 1850, she was living with her full 20-year period. brother Charles’s, family in Asenath died at Stratton on Stratton and in 1860, she lived September 3, 1854. In 1860, with her sister and brother-in-law, Charles was living with his sons, Benjamin and Betsey Moon in James and Paul on the Fay farm. Stratton. She died there on In 1862, Charles was head of the September 21, 1863. household that included a girl, Rosannah Holton, who was Charles Fay, son of Asa and attending school in district #2. By Mary Fay, was born on February 1864, both of their sons were 6, 1798. He married Asenath dead, and Edwin Grout, husband Wood who was born on March 23, of Charles’ daughter, Charlotte, 1799. was head of the household. On September 15, 1823, Charles died at Stratton on Charles purchased part of 3L3R October 4, 1875. The Fays were and 4L3R in Stratton (75 acres) buried in Ball Cemetery. from Asa Phillips. Charles was Children of Charles and Asenath: called a resident of Stratton at the 1) Aurilla G., born May 16, 1821, time of this purchase, but they at Jamaica, Vermont; died apparently had lived in Jamaica, December 11, 1897, at Vermont, before that time. The Stratton, Vermont; married Fays resided on this lot until Oliver P. Hescock on 1838; although, for some reason, September 3, 1851, at Stratton, they were not in Stratton at the Vermont. time of the census of 1830. In 2) Otis R., born May 21, 1823, at 1839, the Fays settled on the east Stratton, Vermont; died half of 5L4R - the Batchellor farm January 30, 1848 (He took the - located on Shepardson Rd. (see Freeman’s oath in Stratton on C. Fay on McClellan’s map of September 2, 1845). 1856 and E. Grout on Beer’s 3) Caroline Cynthia, born Atlas of 1869). The Fays September 22, 1825, at remained on this farm for the Stratton, Vermont. remainder of their lives. 4) James T., born October 11, In 1846, their daughter 1828, at Stratton, Vermont; Caroline purchased part of 6L4R - died August 30, 1864, at an adjacent lot on the north. That Brattleboro, Vermont. same year, Charles made an 5) Charlotte A., born February agreement with the Selectmen of 23, 1833; died January 16, Stratton to lease 6L5R for 20 1895, at Stratton, Vermont; years, provided that Charles married Edwin L. Grout on would clear ¾ of an acre each year July 1, 1851. and seed it with grass for 20 6) Paul H., born August 21, 1836, years. This agreement was at Stratton, Vermont; died on

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December 19, 1862, at 6) Osmyn S., born December 28, Stratton, Vermont. 1850. 7) William D., born March 13, James T. Fay, son of Charles and 1853; died on August 12, Asenath Fay, was born on October 1856. 11, 1828. He took the Freeman’s Notes: oath in Stratton on September 3, Stratton records list Eunis M., born 1850, and apparently had to take 2/1843; Rice History lists Thirza A., born it again in September, 1858. By 2/1843 (may be the same child or twins)

1860, he was living with his Additional Sources: father and his brother, Paul. Return to Yesterday by CS Streeter James served as a justice of the A Genealogical History of The Rice Family, peace in Stratton for a short while. Ward 1858 During the Civil War, James enlisted on December 10, 1863, Fish and mustered into Company D of Franklin Fish was born in May, the Vermont 8th Regiment on 1857, in New York. His wife, December 24, 1863. He died on Albina N., was born in Vermont August 30, 1864, at a hospital in in November, 1850. Franklin and Brattleboro, Vermont, of Albina had lived in Massachusetts consumption (tuberculosis) while before settling in Stratton about still serving in the military. He 1900. That year, they had two was buried in Ball Cemetery boarders in their home - Charles Parker, aged 16, and Alexander Felt Clemons, aged 78. Both of these George E. P. Felt was a native of men were probably relatives. Rockingham, Vermont. He Alexander may have been married Mary M. Rice, daughter Albina’s father. of David and Melinda Rice, on Franklin probably worked in March 24, 1839, at Stratton. The one of Stratton’s lumber camps. Felts settled in Stratton after the They were no longer in town in marriage, but they had moved 1910. from town evidently before 1845, A child of Franklin and Albina: settling in Wardsboro. 1) Frank, born in May, 1894, in Children of George and Mary: Massachusetts. 1) Sarah M., born February 6, 1840, at Stratton, Vermont. Fletcher 2) Eunis M.1 (twin?), born Wendell Morton Fletcher, son of February 12, 1843, at Stratton, Lee D. and Bertha H. (Marshall) Vermont. Fletcher, was born on August 16, 3) Thirza A.1 (twin?) 1914, at Craftsbury, Vermont. 4) David, born October 13, 1845. Red, as he was called, married 5) William F. H., born April 15, Wilma Isabel Hromada, daughter 1848; died June 19, 1849. of Robert and Mirth Hromada, on August 25, 1940, at Stratton.

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Wilma was born on February 2, 2) Keturah Emma (twin), born 1922. May 22, 1848, at Wrentham, Red served as a private in the Massachusetts. army during WWII from May 8, 3) Sarah Calista, born June 6, 1945, to October 19, 1945. After 1850, at Wrentham, the war, he worked in the Massachusetts. construction industry. Red and 4) Angie P., born November 8, Wilma spent several years living 1852. with Wilma’s parents in the 5) Lizzie Tower, born April 21, converted schoolhouse at the end 1855. of Pike Hollow Rd.. Red died on June 24, 1974, Foote while in a Veterans Hospital near Ezra Lewis S. Foote, son of Hartford, Vermont. Wilma Solan and Mary Foote, was born survived for many years, living in in Fairfield, Vermont, in 1851. the schoolhouse until her mother He married Catherine (Wyldie) died. She spent her last years in a Bradley, daughter of William and nursing home in Scituate, Catherine Wyldie, on July 15, Massachusetts, and died there on 1869. Catherine was born in July 14, 1994. Red and Wilma 1841 and she was previously were buried in the new section of married to (?) Bradley. Pike Hollow Cemetery, beside In 1869, the Footes were their home. living beside North Cemetery on the west half of 10L2R. In 1870, Follett Lewis and Catherine were living Benjamin Follett, son of with Lewis’s mother, Mary, who Benjamin and Ketura (Haydon) was born in 1828. Catherine’s Follett, was born at Wrentham, children from her previous Massachusetts, on March 2, 1810. marriage were also living with Benjamin married Calista Tower them. This family had moved on October 2, 1844, at Wrentham. away from Stratton by 1880. Calista was born on September Children of Catherine by her first 25, 1814. marriage to (?) Bradley were: The Folletts were living in 1) Lewis Bradley, born about Stratton in 1853 and their 1861. children attended school in 2) Willie Bradley, born about district #3 that year. It appears 1863. that the Folletts returned to 3) Merton Bradley, born about Wrentham in 1854. 1865. Children of Benjamin and Calista: 1) Frank Fidel (twin), born May Ford 22, 1848, at Wrentham, Zerah Ford and his wife were Massachusetts. born in the 1760s. The Fords were living in Springfield, Vermont, when Zerah purchased

Stratton Families 130 the east half of 6L6R in Stratton Hannah Johnson (intent published on August 11, 1827. They settled at Orange, Massachusetts, on there soon after. This lot was August 2, 1808). Patty was born located just east of the Abel Grout on February 23, 1784, at Mendon, farm. Massachusetts. She was Zerah became a Freeman of apparently also referred to as Stratton on September 7, 1828. In Eliza. The Forresters were living 1830, the Fords also had a in Brookline, Massachusetts, in gentleman aged 50 to 60 living 1808, then settled in Athol, with them. By May 12, 1836, the Massachusetts. Fords had resettled in Dover, Moses purchased 1L4R and Vermont, and on that day Zerah the southeast corner of 1L5R in sold six acres in the northeast Stratton on March 10, 1810. The corner of 6L6R to Ira Baldwin of Forresters may have had some Dover. He later sold the relationship with the Olivers and remainder of his lot to Liberty Youngs that had settled in Howe of Dover on September 8, Stratton at an earlier time. In 1841. 1814, Moses purchased the west half of 1L3R and an additional 60 Harden Ford was born about acres of 1L3R. It appears as 1807 and he was probably a son of though the Forresters finally Zerah Ford. He qualified as a settled in Stratton in 1815, since Freeman in Stratton on November on September 3, 1816, Moses 11, 1828, not long after Zerah became a Freeman of Stratton. took the oath. This is the only The Forrester farm was mention of him in Stratton’s town located on what is now called Old records. In 1831, Harden married Forrester Rd.. It was later owned Prusha Wheeler in New by his son Roderick. The cellar Hampshire. hole can still be seen beyond the A son of Harden and Prusha was: end of the current road there. The 1) James H., born about 1834 at 1820 census shows that, besides Westmoreland, New their children, there was also a Hampshire. female about their age living with them. On March 6, 1825, Moses Leno Ford was probably a son of and Eliza, his wife, became Zerah Ford. He qualified as a members of the Church of Christ Freeman of Stratton on September in Stratton. 7, 1828. This is the only mention Moses went on to purchase of him in Stratton’s town records. large amounts of land in Stratton, including about 500 acres in the Forrester western part of town. He practiced law in Stratton and Moses Forrester was born on acted as agent in several land February 3, 1779, at Orange, transactions. Often he was Massachusetts. He married Patty Johnson, daughter of Stephen and

Stratton Families 131 referred to as Moses Forrester, Patty died on May 6, 1864, at Esquire. Stratton, and Moses followed on In 1846 Horace Rider, son of October 25, 1868. Both were Samuel and Ama Rider, was buried in Willis Cemetery. living with the Forresters and Children of Moses and Patty were: attended school in the Stratton- 1) Stephen Jonson, born Somerset United School District. December 6, 1809, at Athol. Previously, in 1843, Moses Massachusetts; died June 14, purchased Ama Rider’s dowerage 1863, at Stratton, Vermont; that consisted of thirteen acres of married Elizabeth P. Hescock her late husband’s farm in 2L3R. (intent published in October Therefore, the Forresters may 1833, at Stratton). have been related to the Riders. 2) Elisa F., born December 5, On February 27, 1849, Moses 1811, at Athol, Massachusetts; signed over the farm to his son, died November 9, 1850, at Roderick, with the stipulation that Stratton, Vermont; married 1) Roderick “shall take care of Isaac M. Lincoln on November Moses and Patty for the 11, 1835, at Stratton, Vermont remainder of their natural lives. 2) Oliver P. Hescock. He also must supply his sister, 3) Austin, born February 24, Harriet, with a home until she 1817, at Stratton, Vermont; marries. Roderick shall keep five died March 28, 1844. cows (summer and winter) on the 4) Roderick Bissell, born farm allowing Moses the use of December 18, 1820, at three of them. He shall keep Stratton, Vermont; died July three calves the first year, three 30, 1889, at Stratton, yearlings and three calves the Vermont; married Caroline A. second year, and three two year Adams. olds, three yearlings and three 5) Harriet M., born August 13, calves the third year, maintaining 1822, at Stratton, Vermont; the same amount of stock each died May 7, 1863; married year thereafter. Roderick also Washington Wyman at shall allow his brother, Stephen, Stratton, Vermont (lived in the privilege of occupying the Cambridgeport, Vermont). house and guarding where he now 6) Catherine S., born November occupies, as long as he has a 5, 1826; died December 20, mind to, without rent and also 1891; married 1) Calvin that his sister shall have the Torrey (intent published on household furniture and beds and February 20, 1848, at Stratton, bedding and their mother’s Vermont) 2) Washington wearing apparel. And that their Wyman (her sister’s widower). father’s wearing apparel is to be divided between Roderick and Stephen Jonson Forrester, son of Stephen.” Moses and Patty Forrester, was born at Athol, Massachusetts, on

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December 6, 1809, and came to Their children were: Stratton as a young boy with his 1) Henry Porter, born September parents. In 1832, Stephen 4, 1834, at Stratton, Vermont; purchased 40 acres of 5L2R died August 23, 1916, at (Graves’ Meadows). He married Westmoreland, New Elizabeth P. Hescock, daughter of Hampshire; married Lucy David and Surlindy (Simpson) Angeline Sprague on June 23, Hescock (intent published in 1858. October 1833, at Stratton). 2) Stephen B. J., born November Elizabeth was born in March, 15, 1838; died March 28, 1809, and her father may have 1844. been the same David Hescock 3) Mariette Estel, born January warned out of Dover on June 10, 22, 1848, at Stratton, 1813. Vermont; died June 21, 1863, After the marriage, Stephen at Stratton, Vermont (of purchased the west half of 4L3R - diphtheria). the Phillips’ farm - the house was located on the northeast corner of Henry Porter Forrester, son of the intersection of what is now the Stephen and Elizabeth Forrester, West Jamaica Rd. and Ball Farm was born on September 4, 1834, at Rd.. They apparently resided Stratton. He grew up in Stratton there through August, 1835. It and took the Freeman’s oath there appears that Stephen then built a on September 4, 1855. Henry second dwelling on his father’s married Lucy Angeline Sprague, farm along Old Forrester Rd., daughter of James and Lucy half way between the old Sprague, on June 23, 1858. She farmhouse and the Stratton- was also born on September 4, Arlington Rd.. In 1840, they also 1834, at Stratton. had a gentleman aged 50 to 60 After their marriage, the living with them. This was most Forresters settled in Stratton. likely Elizabeth’s father, David Later, Henry bought the Estabrook Hescock. In 1849, Stephen’s farm, following the death of Abel father, Moses, signed over the Estabrook (see J. Dunlap on farm to his son, Roderick. The Beer’s Atlas of 1869). This farm deed mentioned that Stephen had was located opposite where a right to occupy his dwelling Mountain Rd. and Forrester Rd. / located on the family farm. Half-Mile Rd. intersect -- property Stephen died on June 14, which remained in the Forrester 1863. Elizabeth then married family until recently. Abner Perry on July 22, 1866. In 1900, the Forresters also She died on September 28, 1894. had their divorced son, Douglas, Stephen and Elizabeth were and their grandson, Walter living buried in Willis Cemetery. with them. Lucy died at Stratton on November 12, 1905. In 1910, Henry was living with his son,

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Douglas. Henry died on August actually was still living there at 23, 1916, at Westmoreland, New that time. Hampshire. Henry and Lucy were In 1934, Douglas loaned the buried in Ball Cemetery. town of Stratton $2000.00 to Children of Henry and Lucy were: cover a deficit in the treasury. He 1) Minnie E., born June 7, 1859, died while visiting family in at Stratton, Vermont; died July Worcester, Massachusetts, on 11, 1885; married Newton November 7, 1945. He was buried Warren Eddy (Minnie was a in Stratton in Ball Cemetery. school teacher). Children of Douglas and Cora: 2) Douglas H., born July 16, 1) Walter Edward, born April 14, 1861, at Stratton, Vermont; 1885, at Stratton, Vermont; died November 7, 1945, at died December 13, 1936, at Worcester, Massachusetts; Ashuelot, New Hampshire; married Cora Ella Johnson. married Emily Price. 3) Walter Edward, born 2) Gratia May, born August 2, September 28, 1865, at 1886, at Stratton, Vermont; Stratton, Vermont; died on married Rowan Horton. March 7, 1883, at Stratton, 3) Reynold T., born in 1892, at Vermont. Stratton, Vermont; died young. 4) Alene L., born in 1895, at Douglas H. Forrester, son of Stratton, Vermont; died in Henry and Lucy Forrester, was 1896, at Stratton, Vermont. born on July 16, 1861, at Stratton. 5) Eula, married William He married Cora Ella Johnson, Whitehead. daughter of Moses and Adda 6) Perlis Johnson of Jamaica, Vermont. Douglas took the Freeman’s oath Walter Edward Forrester, son in Stratton on September 5, 1882. of Douglas and Cora Forrester, During the marriage, the was born on April 14, 1885, at Forresters did not live in Stratton. Stratton. He lived with his father They eventually divorced and following his parent’s divorce, Douglas and his son, Walter, then married Emily Price before returned to Stratton in 1899, and 1910. Emily was born in 1885 lived on Douglas’ father’s farm, (her gravestone was wrongly located where Mountain Rd. and inscribed 1884). Forrester Rd. intersect. Walter’s occupation was a Douglas was a lumberman. millworker. He died on December In 1908/9, he was elected 13, 1936, at Ashuelot, New Stratton’s Representative to Hampshire. Emily lived until Montpelier. He also had served as 1970. The Forresters were buried a lister and school director from at Stratton in Ball Cemetery. 1906 to 1908. Although the 1920 census shows Douglas living alone in Stratton, his family

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The Forrester Family about 1890 [l-r] Douglas, Henry, Walter and Lucy (Sprague) Forrester with Elizabeth (Hescock Forrester) Perry

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The Forresters [l-r] Marion, Emily, Walter, Douglas, Florence, Henry and Lucy

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Children of Walter and Emily: 1) Marion, married (?) Palmer. 2) Florence E., married James Irving Barney. 3) Irene H., married Patrick Mogan. 4) Douglas H., married Elinor L. Whalen. 5) Walter, married Jennie Nesbit.

Douglas H. Forrester, son of Walter and Emily Forrester, married Elinor L. Whalen. The Forresters moved to Stratton about 1981. They live in Stratton off of Pleasant Valley Rd. on land that was once owned by Doug’s great grandfather. Currently, Doug is a member of Stratton’s Planning Commission. Douglas H. Forrester

(1861 - 1945) Walter Forrester, son of Walter Photo courtesy of the Forrester Family and Emily Forrester, was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He lived in Stratton as a boy, but his father moved away to find work during the depression years. Walter married Jennie Nesbit. . They had lived in Abington, Massachusetts, remaining there until Walter’s retirement. The Forresters moved to Stratton in 1986 and built on the site of the Leander Allen farm located on Forrester Rd. on the Jamaica town line. Children of Walter and Jennie are: 1) Susan 2) Sharon.

Walter Forrester Roderick Bissell Forrester, son (1885 - 1936) of Moses and Patty Forrester was born on December 18, 1820, at Photo courtesy of the Forrester Family Stratton. Roderick grew up in Stratton and took the Freeman’s

Stratton Families 136 oath there in September, 1843. July 22, 1907. The Forresters Roderick married Caroline A. were buried in Willis Cemetery. Adams, daughter of William and Their children were: Betsey (Haskins) Adams of 1) Laura Ann, born in May, Wardsboro, Vermont. Caroline 1851, at Stratton, Vermont was born on January 31, 1830. (became a member of the In 1849, Roderick was deeded Church of Christ in Stratton the family farm, located at the far on May 26, 1867); died August end of what is now called Old 24, 1867, at Stratton, Vermont Forrester Rd. Part of this deed (of typhoid fever). was an agreement that Roderick 2) (infant son), died young. would care for his parents for the 3) Hiland H., born June 19, 1859, rest of their natural lives. And so, at Stratton, Vermont; died in the 1850 census shows Roderick 1927; married Ella J. Barr on and Caroline living there with January 1, 1884, at Athens, Roderick’s parents. Vermont. By 1856, Roderick was head of the household and in 1860, his Hiland H. Forrester, son of family, his parents and the family Roderick and Caroline Forrester, of his widowed sister, Catherine, was born at Stratton on June 19, were living under his roof - a total 1859. He was probably named for of nine people. Ten years later, Hiland Hall, a famous political just Roderick, Caroline and their figure in Vermont. Hiland took son, Hiland occupied the farm. the Freeman’s oath in Stratton in Caroline became a member of 1880. the Church of Christ in Stratton Hiland married Ella J. Barr, on August 7, 1870. In 1871, she daughter of Horace and Betsey J. was listed among the members of (Wilder)1 Barr of Jamaica, that church and, in 1903, she was Vermont, on January 1, 1884, at called the last surviving member Athens, Vermont. Ella was born of the church, although others in October, 1864. who had left the church prior to Hiland and Ella lived on the 1871 were still living. Forrester farm located at the end In 1880, the Forresters had of what is now Old Forrester Rd.. taken in Robert Courier, aged In 1901, Hiland sold this farm to eight. The child’s parents remain Lucien Read and moved to a mystery. Wardsboro. Over the years, Roderick Hiland was still a member of bought and sold large amounts of the Stratton Mountain Club and land in Stratton; but, he remained participated in building the first on the old family farm all his life. hiking trail up Stratton in 1912. Roderick died at Stratton on July Hiland died in 1927 and Ella died 30, 1889, of stomach cancer. in 1962. They were buried in Caroline died in Wardsboro on Fairview Cemetery in Wardsboro.

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Roderick Forrester Hiland H. and Ella (Barr) (1820 - 1889) Forrester

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Leola (Forrester) Waite (1886 - Leon and Leola (Forrester) 1971) Waite

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A child of Hiland and Ella was: the Canedy Rd. – West Jamaica 1) Leola, born November 22, Rd. intersection. Allen also gave 1886, at Jamaica, Vermont; Henry flow-rights on the brook died September 1, 1971 should he wish to build a mill. (buried in Fairview Cemetery); The Fowlers settled on this lot. In married Leon Waite 1854, they had two children (divorced). (Leola worked as a enrolled in Stratton’s district #4 nurse at Grace Cottage school that year. By 1857, he had Hospital) a third child in school. Henry left Stratton by 1860. Notes: 1) Horace Barr was apparently African- Henry’s children were: American. Betsey J. (Wilder) Barr was 1) Francis H. a sister of David and Henry Wilder of 2) Josephine W. Stratton and also Emeline (Wilder) Pike of Stratton. 3) S. Additional Source for all Forrester families: Genealogical notes of Walter and Jennie Forrester and Douglas and Elinor Forrester. Fox Charles Fox and his wife were born in the 1790s. Charles may Fowler have been a son of John and George Fowler married Priscilla Fox of Woodstock, Samantha Allen on May 25, 1845, Connecticut. If so, then Charles at Stratton. Samantha may have and his wife probably settled on been an unidentified sister of land owned by John Fox. Charles Chester Allen. and his wife settled in Stratton George and Chester Allen between 1820 and 1830. In 1830, purchased the sawmill of NJ Shaw they had two sons and two on March 8, 1845. This mill was daughters and a female aged 20 to located on Black Brook in 3L8R 30 living with them. By 1840, the and 3L9R, public rights that were Foxes had moved away from leased from the town. On January Stratton. 29, 1846, George bought out Chester’s share of the mill. On Nehemiah Fox, son of John and March 17, 1846, George sold the Priscilla Fox, was born on May mill back to NJ Shaw and 25, 1789, at Woodstock, apparently left Stratton. Connecticut. There, Nehemiah A child of George Fowler was: married Polly Morse, daughter of 1) George, born about 1841 (In Jonathan and Azubah Morse on 1850, he was living in Stratton in the home of Pardon and Betsey Wellman. September 3, 1812, at Woodstock. By 1860, he was no longer in Stratton). Polly was born on July 21, 1792. Polly’s sister, Sally Morse, Henry Fowler purchased the married Nehemiah’s brother, northeast corner of 2L4R and a Perley Fox. small part in the adjacent 5th lot The Foxes purchased 3L1R in from Samuel Allen in 1853. This Stratton from Nehemiah’s father lot was on the southeast side of on May 31, 1830, and settled

Stratton Families 139 there in time to be included in the 8) Nancy, born September 26, 1830 census. In 1830, four sons 1825, at Woodstock, and three daughters were living Connecticut. with them, along with a female, 9) Eleanor, born December 16, aged 40 to 50. 1833, at Woodstock, The Foxes were among a Connecticut. large group of people from Woodstock that had settled in Franklin Stratton, including the Morse, John Franklin, a cordwainer of Mascraft, and Holmes families. Townshend, Vermont, purchased They settled on the lot previously the farm on the east half of 4L7R occupied by Samuel Mascraft. and 5 acres of 3L7R from William This farm was first built by Boutell on November 16, 1805. Sampson Bixby in the 1780s. The John was very likely born in 1775, house was probably located on the a son of Philip Franklin, Jr. and north side of what is now Canedy his wife, Bethania (Rounds) Rd., possibly the same spot now Franklin. Another of their occupied by Ronald Bills. children, Joel Franklin, married In 1833, Polly gave birth to a Fanny Grout of Stratton. If this daughter back in Woodstock, but was the same John (and I believe in 1834, Nehemiah was paid it was), then he married his $20.00 by the town for caring for second cousin, Abigail Franklin, Jonathan Morse and his wife. daughter of Jabez and Sarah In April, 1836, Nehemiah (Starr) Franklin. Sarah was born sold this farm to Stillman Smith on February 2, 1783. of Jamaica, Vermont. The Foxes The Franklins settled in moved away from Stratton at that Stratton on their newly acquired time. farm that overlooked what is now Children of Nehemiah and Polly: called Grout Pond. John sold this 1) John, born August 8, 1813, at property on January 11, 1808, to Woodstock, Connecticut. Jedidiah Baker. At that time, 2) Marshal, born March 11, John also purchased a 20-acre lot 1816, at Woodstock, in 4L4R from Jedidiah Baker and Connecticut. probably built a house and settled 3) Finley, born March 22, 1818, thereon. This lot was located at Woodstock, Connecticut. where the recreational area stands 4) Luther, born June 12, 1819, at today - the old foundation is Woodstock, Connecticut. currently surrounded by a wooden 5) Mary Maria, born October 4, fence. 1820, at Woodstock, John moved away from Connecticut. Stratton before the 1810 census 6) Dolly, born January 7, 1823, at was taken. He was living in Woodstock, Connecticut. Vernon, Vermont, when he 7) Abiel, born April 17, 1824, at purchased the east half of 2L2R in Woodstock, Connecticut. Stratton on September 18, 1810.

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He was still living in Vernon member on April 16, 1805. The when he sold this lot in 1818. church meeting held that day was within the French’s home, and French their four youngest children were Jacob French, son of Jacob and baptized at that time. Wealthy (Richmond) French, was Jacob made a will on August born on August 22, 1764, at 7, 1810. He died in the Fall of Berkeley, Massachusetts. Jacob 1810, and Sarah sold their and his wife, Sarah, were in property to John Greenwood on Stratton before 1800. Sarah was February 18, 1814, then born between 1755 and 1765. repurchased at a lower price with Jacob resided at Orange, a mortgage on the remainder so Massachusetts, before settling at she could pay off some debts. Stratton. This evidently resulted in a The History of North Orange, conflict of ownership between Massachusetts, mentioned that in John Greenwood and Sarah as 1770, Jacob French and sons, reflected in the land records. Joseph, Jacob, Jr. and others - all Sarah apparently moved away from Milford, Massachusetts - after Jacob’s death, settling in purchased land at Erving’s Grant, Lowville, New York, before June, Massachusetts, and called the 1816. settlement Goshen. Jacob was the Jacob and Sarah’s children were: above named - Jacob, Jr.. 1) Samantha, born about 1782; Jacob purchased 9L2R from died about 1857 at Huron, Solomon Gale on June 21, 1799, Michigan; married Calvin and settled there. The Gales had Batchellor on December 4, built a sawmill on this land -- 1800. Jacob continued its operation. 2) Lucy, married Salmon Bixby The sawmill’s dam redirected (she was not mentioned in her Kidder brook away from the father’s will) adjacent lot (9L3R) to power the 3) Sally, married Charles mill. Jacob also purchased half an Sigourney on March 16, 1806, acre of 9L3R as part of a mill yard at Stratton, Vermont. for this project. 4) Hannah Besides the mill, this lot also 5) Cyrus had a mining privilege 6) Jacob (twin), born in 1802. accompanying it. No mention 7) Joanna (twin), born in 1802; was made of the type of ore that died in 1802 (buried in North was mined thereon; although it Cemetery). was probably an iron mine. In 1800, Jacob and Sarah had Sabinus French, son of Jacob and four children living with them. In Wealthy (Richmond) French, was November, 1804, Sarah was taken born on September 2, 1761, at into the Church of Christ in Berkeley, Massachusetts. Sabinus Stratton and became a full was mentioned in the will of Jacob

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French - written August 7, 1810. living in Perkinsville, Vermont. At that time, Sabinus was living He joined the service at that time in Stratton, apparently in Jacob’s and was indoctrinated on October home. No other mention of 2, 1917, at White River Junction, Sabinus has been found in Vermont. He was placed into Stratton’s records. Battery “D” of the 307th Artillery, remaining with this unit until his Jotham French was a resident of discharge on July 5, 1919. Stratton in 1802. He was listed on Herbert was overseas from July a petition dated May 31, 1802, 15, 1918 to June 25, 1919. requesting a tax to pay the town’s Herbert married Irene road expenses. Jacob French Ramsdell, daughter of Herbert and (above) was also listed on that Celia (Cummings) Ramsdell. petition. That same year, the Irene was born on March 6, 1897. town records mention that Jotham At one time, the Frenches French was to build a fence on the lived across from Brown’s Store road by his house and along the in West Wardsboro, then they open side of the Rugg place purchased the old Dr. Parsons’ (possibly the east half of 5L5R). place in Stratton on the north side He may have been the same of the Stratton-Arlington Rd., just Jotham French born May 21, east of Stratton Church. The 1768, at Milford, Massachusetts – house still stands today (2000). a son of Samuel and Ruth French. Irene was Stratton’s Town Clerk from 1945 to 1963. She was Nelson W. French was born in active in the Women’s Relief Aral, New Hampshire. He Corp. Auxiliary to the GAR married Lydia E. Styles, daughter (Grand Army of the Republic). of Jeremiah and Melantha Styles. Eventually, the Frenches resettled Lydia was born in Stratton on in South Londonderry, Vermont. January 1, 1868. They resided in Irene died on March 10, 1974. Stratton during the 1880s and 1890s. Frost Their children were: Joseph Frost and his wife settled 1) Elmer E., born January 16, in Stratton apparently just before 1887, at Stratton, Vermont. 1820. The census of 1820, shows 2) Hattie Bell, born April 11, that they were both between the 1891, at Stratton, Vermont. ages of 16 and 26 with no 3) Herbert L., born April 18, children. They were not listed in 1892, at Stratton, Vermont; any other town record, nor did married Irene Ramsdell. they purchase any land in Stratton. Their stay in Stratton Herbert L. French, son of was probably very brief -- they Nelson and Lydia French, was had left town by 1830. born at Stratton on April 18, 1892. Before WWI, Herbert was

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Ransel Frost and his wife, daughter of Samuel and Huldah Joanna, of Rupert, Vermont, had (Thurston) Heaton. Huldah was a settled in Stratton by 1885. sister of both James Thurston of Ransel may have been the same Stratton and Molly (Thurston) born on January 12, 1831, at Mt. Mann, wife of Bille Mann of Holly, Vermont - son of Jeptha Stratton. Frost. James had also lived at One of their children was: Dover, Vermont. The Fullers 1) Effie B., born November 2, moved to Stratton and were duly 1864, at Rupert, Vermont; died warned out of town in December, December 31, 1885, at 1812. That year they were Stratton, Vermont. evidently living on the southwest part of 4L5R, which was located Fuller west of the town common and James Fuller was born on along the south side of the old November 19, 1786. He may have road that ran past the town been a son of Thomas and Hannah common. James purchased a total Fuller who were warned out of of 50 acres in this lot in Wilmington, Vermont, on October November, 1812, and in May, 15, 1787. James also may have 1813, from Pratt and Greenleaf. been the same James M. Fuller He also purchased 10L5R at that who was a Methodist preacher, same time. 10L5R covered most preaching for the Methodist’s of what are now Stratton Newfane Circuit (Jamaica, Mountain’s main ski trails. Windham, Fayetteville, The Fullers moved from Wardsboro and Stratton) between Stratton to Dover, Vermont, in 1825 and 1831. For much of that 1816, after selling their home time, the Fullers resided in (James, however, paid taxes on Wardsboro, and in 1831, James this property in 1819). By 1827 M. Fuller helped organize the and through 1829, the Fullers Methodist Church there along lived in Wardsboro, Vermont. with the Rev. Guy Beckley. That They returned to Stratton about year the Newfane circuit was 1834. That year, their son, renamed the Wardsboro circuit. William had repurchased the It seems likely that the above family homestead, however, he named James M. Fuller is the sold it again in 1838 to Travis same as James Fuller of Stratton; Smith who apparently settled however, only the following there. In 1840, the Smiths were information is known to apply to apparently still there at least Stratton’s Mr. Fuller. through March; therefore, the James married Sarah “Sally” Fullers may have lived elsewhere Heaton on August 25, 1811, at in Stratton. James was listed as Providence, Rhode Island. Sally head of the household, but he and was born on December 31, 1785, Sally were evidently living with at Franklin, Massachusetts, a their son William Mann Fuller’s

Stratton Families 143 family, since there was a couple probably in the unmarked aged 20 to 30 living with them graves beside the Fuller lots). with two daughters under the age of five. There was also a girl aged William Mann Fuller, son of 15 to 20 living with them. This James and Sarah Fuller, was born was probably their daughter, on June 25, 1814, at Stratton. In Sarah Maria Fuller. 1834, William purchased his Over the following years, parents’ old homestead - 50 acres James and Sarah purchased other in 5L4R south of the old road. lots in Stratton. In 1842, Sarah His parents evidently settled there bought 6L6R and James bought at that time. By 1836, William 7L6R and 2L7R. In February, had settled in Troy, New York, 1849, James had evidently fallen but returned to Stratton by 1838 into some financial trouble and and took another mortgage on his was forced to forfeit 13 acres of parent’s homestead. William and his farm. He was apparently in his family apparently briefly poor health by that time. He died moved to Bennington, Vermont, at Stratton on December 18, 1849. then returned to Stratton just Sally died there on June 18, 1867. before the census of 1840 was They were buried in Ball taken. The Fullers evidently Cemetery. settled back on the family Children of James and Sarah: homestead. 1) Olive Heaton, born November The 1840 census shows his 5, 1812, at Stratton, Vermont; father, James, as head of the died on October 20, 1885, at household. This census also Stratton, Vermont; married shows that William and his family Jonathan Babcock on were living there. William’s wife September 7, 1835, at Stratton, was born between 1810 and 1820 Vermont. and their two daughters were born 2) William Mann, born June 25, between 1835 and 1840. 1814, at Stratton, Vermont. By 1846, William and his 3) Albert F., died July 20, 1838, family had again moved to at Onondaga, New York (His Bennington. William served as a death was caused by an soldier in the Mexican American accidental blast of powder on War in 1848 and was detailed to the 4th of July). go to California. After the war, 4) Leander, born about 1820; William settled in Sonoma, married Mary (Clark?). District of Sonoma, Upper 5) Sarah Maria (named as California, and remained there at witness in a deed) died in least through the end of 1849. 1856; married Davis Brown (later called the Hermit of Leander Fuller, possibly a son of Newfane) about 1852 (Sarah James and Sally Fuller, was born and Davis were evidently about 1820. His wife, Mary, was buried in Ball Cemetery, born about 1831. It is possible

Stratton Families 144 that Mary’s maiden name was proprietors had lived. They never Clark, since in 1860, the Fullers lived at Stratton, but some of their also had Esther Clark, aged 60, children eventually settled there. John Clark, aged 44, and Augusta Nehemiah passed away at Clark, aged 4, living in their Bennington, Vermont, in 1820. home. Esther was probably John Nehemiah’s sister, Judith Gale, and Mary’s mother, while John born April 12, 1734, married Abel was probably Augusta’s father. Chase. Several members of that Mrs. Clark was called head of the family also settled in Stratton. household in the school records of Children of Nehemiah and Ruth: 1861, with Augusta attending 1) Benjamin, born April 18, school in district #4. Therefore, 1761, at Sutton, at that time, the Clarks may have Massachusetts; died in 1785, occupied another home, separate at Sutton, Massachusetts. from the Fullers. 2) Solomon, born September 12, A child of Leander and Mary was: 1763, at Sutton, 1) George W. (attended school in Massachusetts; married 1) district #4 in Stratton in 1861) Rachel Woodward on

Additional Sources for all Fuller families: December 2, 1787, at Sutton, Return to Yesterday by CS Streeter Massachusetts 2) Phoebe Hays. Notes of Thomas St. John 3) Elizabeth, born December 9, 1764, at Sutton, G Massachusetts; died in 1806. 4) Jonas, born March 6, 1766, at Sutton, Massachusetts. Gale 5) Ruth, born October 12, 1767, Nehemiah Gale, a son of Isaac at Sutton, Massachusetts; died and Judith Gale, was among April 5, 1856, at Dummerston, Stratton’s Proprietors from Vermont; married John Worcester County, Massachusetts, Greenwood on December 17, that had purchased land there 1788, at Sutton, during the early 1780s. Massachusetts. Nehemiah was born on February 6) Anna, born July 3, 1769, at 12, 1736/7 at Millbury, Sutton, Massachusetts; died in Massachusetts. He married Ruth 1797. Marsh, daughter of Benjamin and 7) Tamer, born February 27, Mehetable (King) Marsh, on 1771; married 1) Henry January 24, 1760. Ruth was born Dwinnel, Jr. on June 17, 1790, on March 1, 1740. at Sutton, Massachusetts 2) During the American Levi Page. Revolution, Nehemiah had served 8) Rufus, born July 5, 1773, at in Captain Buckman’s Company Sutton, Massachusetts; in 1775. Nehemiah and Ruth married 1) Louisa Livermore resided in Sutton, Massachusetts, (intent published on August 2, where many of Stratton’s 1795 2) Mrs. Leah (?) Knox.

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9) Nehemiah, born January 4, called #17) that he sold to 1775, at Sutton, Timothy Morsman on July 9, Massachusetts; died young. 1788. The Gales’ farm on the 10) Isaac, born September 1, 1777, east half of 10L2R was located at Sutton, Massachusetts; approximately where Stone married 1) Persis Stiles 2) Chimney Rd. and Mountain Rd. Susannah (?) (see Susannah now intersect. below). About 1795, Solomon 11) Andrew, born April 8, 1780, at evidently built a home on 9L2R, Sutton, Massachusetts; died in while his brother, Rufus, settled 1797. into the house on 10L2R. 12) Hitty, born September 9, 1782, Solomon also built a sawmill in at Sutton, Massachusetts; Stratton on the border of 9L3R married David Chase on May and 9L2R, before March 7, 1796. 25, 1800. The Gales remained in town for only a few years, selling their Solomon Gale, son of Nehemiah property to Jacob French on June and Ruth Gale, was born 21, 1799. At the time of this sale, September 12, 1763, at Sutton, the Gales had already removed to Massachusetts. Solomon Hoosick, New York. purchased 9L2R from his father Rachel died on December 27, on August 6, 1785, and also 1799, and Solomon remarried to evidently had obtained the east Phoebe Hays on July 6, 1800. half of 10L2R from his father. Phoebe was born on February 13, Solomon married Rachel 1779, (she may have been the Woodward, daughter of Jonas and daughter of Ansel Hayes). The Rachel (Holmes) Woodward, on Gales had settled in Bennington, December 2, 1787, at Sutton. Vermont, by 1801. Rachel was born on March 19, Solomon was a very devoted 1766. member of the Baptist Church and Following the marriage, the for several years he was a deacon Gales moved to Stratton, probably of the church. He died at coming with a group from Sutton Bennington on August 13, 1845, that included Rachel’s brother, and Phoebe followed on October Jonas Woodward. The Gales 10, 1847. probably first settled on the east Children of Solomon and Rachel: half of 10L2R in Stratton. They 1) (a daughter), born at Stratton, were distinguished as being Vermont. parents of the first child of 2) Nehemiah, born August 24, European descent born in 1788; died June 9, 1844; Stratton. Solomon purchased married Lucy Parker on 9L3R from Jared Blood on October 10, 1810. September 19, 1788. He 3) Esther, born July 15, 1795; apparently was also granted some married Ira Wood on January of Stratton Gore (lot #4 later 23, 1815.

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4) Betsey, born December 29, had built, located near what is 1798; died June 20, 1820. now the intersection of County Rd. and Mountain Rd.. Children of Solomon and Phoebe: Rufus married Louisa 5) Isaac, born June 17, 1801, at Livermore (intent published on Bennington, Vermont; married August 2, 1795, at Leicester, Lydia Gardner in January, Massachusetts) and the intention 1824. calls him “of Stratton.” He later 6) Solomon, born January 10, married Mrs. Leah (?) Knox. 1803, at Bennington, On June 22, 1799, Rufus sold Vermont; died October 25, his lot and dwelling house to John 1805, at Bennington, Vermont. Gleason. Before this sale, the 7) Sabrina, born January 2, 1806, Gales had removed to Hoosick, at Bennington, Vermont; New York; however, Rufus married Elijah Harrington on continued to buy and sell property April 1, 1831. in Stratton. By 1808, the Gales 8) Laura, born January 28, 1808, were in Augusta, New York, and at Bennington, Vermont; in 1809, they were living in married Elias Johnson on May Middlesex, New York. 3, 1829. 9) Solomon, born October 10, Susannah Gale, widow of Isaac 1810, at Bennington, Gale (son of Nehemiah and Ruth Vermont; married Emily Stone Gale), was born between 1765 and on December 28, 1835. 1784. She had moved to Stratton 10) Harriet D., born September 14, before 1806. At that time, 1814, at Bennington, Susannah was evidently living Vermont; married Austin with John Coes, Jr.. On June 28, Jones in September, 1848. 1806, John Coes and Susannah 11) Ansel Hays, born February 16, Gale were warned out of Stratton 1817; married Amanda E. separately by the Selectmen, as Spencer on January 8, 1850. was the customary greeting for 12) Marra, born May 10, 1819; newcomers at that time. married James Wagner on In January, 1808, John November 20, 1836. purchased the west half of 4L4R with the exception of the town Additional Sources: Genealogy of the Descendants of David Gale common. In December, 1808, he of Sutton, Massachusetts by Linn AE Gale sold this lot and purchased the west half of the school lot, 8L2R, Rufus Gale, son of Nehemiah and but immediately sold it. It is Ruth Gale, was born July 5, 1773, unclear where they were living at at Sutton, Massachusetts. He that time – possibly on the east purchased his brother, Solomon’s half of 10L2R, however, after lot - 10L2R from their father on selling these lots, John, Susannah March 2, 1795, and apparently and Anna must have settled away settled in the home his brother from Stratton.

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On April 17, 1810, Susannah dated September 14, 1827, purchased the west half of 5L4R, Susannah was called Susannah and all three settled upon this lot. Scott. Ira and Susannah were The dwelling house may have evidently divorce after a short been upon the same site that marriage and Susannah returned Oliver Morsman had built the first to Arlington. By 1838, she was dwelling in Stratton in 1783. An living with her daughter and son- old foundation several hundred in-law, Anna and Lyman yards west of the gate at the end of Batchellor in Wallingford, Shepardson Rd. apparently marks Vermont. the site. Their daughter was: The census of 1810 shows 1) Anna; born in 1791; died on John as head of the household May 27, 1868, at Wallingford, with two females, one aged 16 to Vermont; married Lyman 26 (Anna) and the other aged 26 Batchellor on April 11, 1816, to 45 (Susannah). at Stratton, Vermont. On January 17, 1811, and within a year of their move back Lucy M. Gale, daughter of David to Stratton as the law stated, John, and Mary Gale, was born in Susannah and Anna all were Jamaica, Vermont, about 1827. warned out of town again. She first married (?) Hurlbert and Although warnings out were more her second marriage was to of a formality to protect the town, George F. Wilder, son of Ephraim in this case Stratton’s Selectmen and Lucindy (Rice) Wilder, on may have been more serious about October 1, 1865, at Stratton, them leaving Stratton. This is Vermont. George was born in speculation based on the fact that 1820 at Jamaica. after many years of living together unmarried, John and Susannah William Henry Gale resided in filed an intent to marry on May Stratton in 1888 and resided on 26, 1811, not too long after the 12L2R, apparently in a house warning. They were married on shared with Newton Howard. June 13, 1811, at Stratton. Susannah was admitted into Garfield the Church of Christ in Stratton (Gaffield) on December 13, 1812, and Eliakim Garfield, son of Samuel baptized at that same time. By and Mary (Bowman) Garfield, 1820, the Coes had moved out of was born on October 3, 1732, at town evidently to Arlington, Westminster, Massachusetts. Vermont. John apparently passed Eliakim married Hannah Chase, away before 1823. daughter of Daniel and Hannah Following John’s death, (Tuttle) Chase, in Sutton, Susannah published an intent to Massachusetts, on July 3, 1759. marry Ira Scott in early 1824 and Hannah was born on January 11, they were soon married. In a deed 1736/7, at Sutton. Hannah

Stratton Families 148 apparently passed away in 1767 or In 1800, the Garfields were 1768. Eliakim then remarried to living in Stratton, with two males Sarah Sherman on February 6, and a female aged 16 to 26 and a 1769. female aged 10 to 16 (probably Eliakim was originally from their granddaughter, Sally Leicester, Massachusetts. He Garfield who married Ambrose served Massachusetts during the Batchellor). Two of the other American Revolution as a Private three were probably their sons, in Captain Joseph Warrin’s Joseph and Eliakim, Jr.. Company from August 21, 1777, By 1810, the Garfields were to August 26, 1777 (five days), evidently living within the under command of Lieutenant household of their son Joseph, Colonel Wheelock. This who probably had taken over his Company marched to Bennington father’s household on the east half on the alarm. of 4L3R in Stratton, since the Eliakim returned to Sutton 1810 census shows that two older following his service. By 1793, individuals were living in the Garfields had settled in Joseph’s household. Eliakim died Stratton and were living in the in December, 1813. house previously occupied by Children of Eliakim and Hannah: Joseph Patch. This house had 1) Nathaniel born on October 29, also been a tavern. Proprietor’s 1760; died February 9, 1839; meetings held in June of 1793, married Eunice Woodward on took place within the Garfield’s January 6, 1788, at Greenwich, home, most likely because the Massachusetts. tavern had room enough for such 2) Anne, baptized January 3, a meeting and it had been the 1762, in Covenant of usual place for town meetings Leicester, Massachusetts; prior to that time. That same married Phineas Lamb before year, though, Joseph Patch sold 1783. this property to his father, Nathan 3) Mary, baptized in February, Patch. The lease Joseph Patch 1764, in Covenant of made to the Garfields was Leicester, Massachusetts. mentioned in the deed as one 4) Moses, baptized May 10, 1767, extending to May 1, 1794. The at Sutton, Massachusetts; Garfields apparently remained in married Abigail Mason on this house until 1798. September 12, 1790. In June, 1798, Eliakim’s son, 5) Hannah, baptized in Joseph, purchased the east half of September, 1770. 4L3R, and the Garfields 6) Joseph, born April 17, 1780, at apparently resettled on that lot. Rutland, Massachusetts; died The house was probably located December 9, 1862, at just east of what is now Ball Jamestown, New York; Cemetery. married Lydia Stearns on

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September 7, 1803, at Stratton, married Ambrose Batchellor Vermont. on June 4, 1804. 7) Eliakim, born between 1774 and 1784. Moses Garfield, son of Eliakim and Hannah Garfield, was Nathaniel Garfield, a son of baptized on May 10, 1767, at Eliakim and Hannah Garfield, Sutton, Massachusetts. Moses was born on October 29, 1760. married Abigail Mason on Nathaniel married Eunice September 12, 1790, at Princeton, Woodward of Sutton on January Massachusetts. 6, 1788, at Greenwich, On February 26, 1791, Massachusetts. Eunice may have Moses, who was living in been the daughter of John and Worcester, Massachusetts, Jane (Torrey) Woodward, born purchased 50 acres of 7L4R in about 1765. Stratton from his brother-in-law, During the American Phineas Lamb. In September, Revolution, Nathaniel was 1793, Moses purchased another apparently living in Rutland, 100 acres from Phineas Lamb. At Massachusetts. He served as a that time, Moses was a resident of Private from that town, enlisting Princetown, Massachusetts. In for six months and recorded as 1794, Moses sold the 50-acre lot passing muster at Camp Totoway (this deed was also signed by on October 25, 1780. Abigail). On January 6, 1795, Moses and Abigail moved to Nathaniel purchased the southeast Stratton in 1794 or 1795, corner of 7L4R from Elkanah apparently settling on 7L4R, Miller. At the time of that sale, where Phineas Lamb had Nathaniel was living in previously lived. This lot was Princetown, Massachusetts. He located well up the mountain apparently settled in Stratton on about a mile west of what is now this lot soon after the purchase. Mountain Rd. and a mile north of In Stratton’s 1800 census, what is now Shepardson Rd.. On Nathaniel was listed as head of a March 10, 1796, Moses sold part household with his wife (aged 26 of his lot to Marshal Newton of to 45) and three children - a boy Newfane, Vermont. The and girl under ten and a girl aged Garfields may have left Stratton at 10 to 16. Nathaniel sold his lot in that time. Stratton on January 9, 1801, and probably moved away at that time. Joseph Garfield, was either a son Nathaniel passed away on or grandson of Eliakim Garfield. February 9, 1839. He was born at Rutland, A child of Nathaniel and Eunice: Massachusetts, on April 17, 1780. 1) Sally, born May 15, 1788, at He apparently came to Stratton Greenwich, Massachusetts; with this family in 1793. At a vendue held in June, 1798, Joseph

Stratton Families 150 purchased the east half of 4L3R. for Mr. Garfield in 1835 and He gained full title in 1800 and married Lydia Garfield in 1837. settled thereon. The house was In another letter to his mother apparently located just east of about that same time, Martin what is now Ball Cemetery. Grout wrote, “ Mr. Garfield has In Stratton’s 1800 census, got to be sick. He lives in a great Joseph, was probably listed in the two-story house as fine as the home of Eliakim Garfield. Joseph finest in Wardsboro. Three of his married Lydia Stearns, daughter children are married, Eliacum of William and Joanna (Duncan) and two girls younger married Stearns, at Stratton on September merchants in Jamestown.” This 7, 1803. The groom’s last name appears to have been written prior was illegible on the record, but it to Martin’s marriage, therefore, appears that Joseph Garfield was his wife-to-be, Lydia, may very likely that man. well have been a daughter of this Joseph took the Freeman’s Mr. Garfield. oath on September 6, 1808. Children of Joseph and Lydia: Stratton’s 1810 census shows 1) Lydia Stearns, born February Joseph as head of a household. At 7, 1815; died November 1, that time, he and his wife were 1894, at Poland, New York; aged 26 to 45, with four children married Martin Chittenden under the age of ten and a couple Groutin in November, 1837. over 45 (evidently Joseph’s 2) Hannah, born in 1805; died in parents or grandparents). 1869. In September, 1813, Joseph 3) Eliakim, born in 1806; died in sold half of his land to his brother, 1888. Eliakim and in July, 1814, Joseph 4) Harriet Anna, born in 1808. purchased a 10-acre lot in the 5) Samuel, born in 1810. northwest corner of 4L2R from 6) Joseph, born in 1817. Ambrose Batchellor. On January 7) Sally, born in 1819. 26, 1816, Joseph sold his home in Stratton and resettled in western Eliakim Garfield, was probably a New York. By 1835, several son of Eliakim or Nathaniel family members were living in Garfield. He apparently lived in Carroll, New York. That year, Stratton for several years before Martin Grout, another native of removing to western New York. Stratton (see Grout family) who In 1812, he purchased 10 acres of was living in western New York, the northwest corner of 4L2R, and wrote home to his mother and in 1813, he purchased half of the mentioned that Mr. Samuel and east half of 4L3R from Joseph Joseph Garfield were living in Garfield. Eliakim sold the 10- Carroll, New York, near acre lot to Ambrose Batchellor in Jamestown, where Martin had February, 1814. At the time of settled. Martin married Joseph’s this sale, Eliakim had already daughter, Lydia. Martin worked resettled in Edinburgh, New York.

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Garvey Mrs. Persis Gates and Louisa her Marshall Garvey was born about daughter 1862. He came to Stratton in the died Nov 16, 1868, ages 86 and late 1870s and worked in the 56. sawmill of E.W. Bowker. In Sustained by an unfailing trust in 1880, he was boarding with Mr. God which was never disputed, Bowker and several other mill this mother endured pain and workers. Mr. Bowker sold the extreme poverty for several years mill that year to Joel F. Grout. without complaint for her Marshall may have worked for the daughter’s sake. For the story of Grouts after that time, however, her life, though she did not know he was no longer living in it, many all over the land have Stratton by 1900. learned a lesson of faith of submission and of love to God and man. According to her Gates frequent prayer, mother and 1 Elias Gates was born in March, daughter entered into life 1780, in Massachusetts and together. eventually settled at Shaftsbury, Blessed is he who considereth the Vermont. He married Persis poor. Newton on September 23, 1849, at Stratton. Persis, twice widowed, Evidently, once Elias had was previously married to John passed away, Persis and Louisa Wheeler. After John’s death, were left impoverished, struggling Persis inherited the west half of to survive as wards of the town 1L1R in Stratton. during the last years of their lives. Persis had a mentally The story goes that on disabled daughter, Mary Louisa November 16, 1868, Louisa Newton, whom she cared for all wandered off to a nearby farm. her life. Elias settled in Stratton Persis had taught Louisa to always in the 1840s upon the homestead carry a pail partially filled with Persis had been left by her late pebbles. The continuous rattling husband. The house was located of the pebbles kept Persis alert to on the south side of the Stratton- the whereabouts of her mentally Arlington Rd., about half way disabled daughter. Therefore, between Pike Hollow Rd. and when Persis could no longer hear Willis Cemetery Rd. the rattling of the pebbles in the Elias slipped on the ice and pail, she became alarmed and died on May 29, 1865. The story ventured out on her own to find of the deaths of Persis and Louisa Louisa. is a rather remarkable tale, Persis evidently found Louisa recorded upon their tombstone as lying in a field. Louisa had been follows: attacked and killed by an angry buck sheep. Persis tried to get to her injured daughter, but the

Stratton Families 152 angry buck attacked the old October 1 to 18, 1777, and woman also. marched to reinforce General Later that day, the farmer2 Gates at Saratoga. noticed that one of his buck sheep The Hezekiah Gibbs was covered in blood. Anxious to described above was probably the discover what had happened, he same who was called a yeoman of headed out to the field where the Barling (Berlin), Massachusetts, buck had spent the day. There, he in Stratton’s records. Hezekiah, found the bodies of Louisa and Jr. and Hezekiah, Sr. were both Persis. The town’s record of their listed in the 1790 census of deaths reports that they were both Berlin. Hezekiah may have been killed by a cross buck. As the a brother of Elijah and Samuel inscription reads, Persis’s prayer Gibbs, both of Dummerston, had been answered. Vermont, and therefore an uncle of Edmund Gibbs of Stratton. Notes: 1) Elias may have been the same who On August 8, 1791, Hezekiah married Susanna Pulsipher (intent purchased the south half of 3L7R published June 27, 1802, at Putney, in Stratton and apparently settled Vermont. 2) The farm was said to be that of Daniel on this property. This lot was on Willis according to the story as told by the western side of what is now Leola Forrester to Jennie Forrester. This called Grout Pond. Hezekiah then farm was some distance from the Gates’ sold this lot to Jacob Allen on home - about a mile. Therefore, more logical nearby locations may be the Henry May 1,1794, and left Stratton. Eddy farm located between the Gates’ A son of Hezekiah and Meriam: house and the Willis farm or the Babcock 1) Jonathan, born December 18, farm on the opposite side of the road from the Gates’ home. 1775 at Bolton, Massachusetts.

Gibbs Edmund Gibbs, son of Elijah and Abigail Gibbs, was born on Hezekiah Gibbs was probably a September 28, 1761, at son of Hezekiah and Elizabeth Westminster, Massachusetts. (Pratt) Gibbs of Bolton, Edmund (or Edman) lived in Massachusetts, born there on Dummerston, Vermont, during August 18, 1752. This Hezekiah the 1780s. He may have been the married Meriam Powers at Bolton same Edmund Gibbs who served on May 4, 1775. during the American Revolution Hezekiah served during the in Captain William Thurlo’s American Revolution as a private Company, Colonel Josiah from Bolton in Captain Benjamin Whitney’s Regiment, from July 30 Hastings’ Company, Colonel John to September 13, 1778. This was Whitcomb’s Regiment, which a Worcester County, marched to Cambridge on the Massachusetts, regiment that alarm of April 19, 1775. He also served in Rhode Island. served in Captain James Mirick’s Sometime after the war, Company, Colonel Josiah Edmund married Phoebe Preston Whitney’s Regiment, from

Stratton Families 153 and they may have settled first in some of his property to Levi Westminster, Vermont, before Robbins. Previously, he had sold removing to Stratton. Phoebe was pieces of his land to Zerah probably the same born May 4, Greenleaf and Sampson 1763, at Athol, Massachusetts – Wetherbee in 1801, and some to daughter of Benjamin and Abigail Joshua Newhall in 1802. The Preston. Gibbs apparently left Stratton in Edmund purchased the west 1802. half of 1L4R on November 5, Children of Edmund and Phoebe: 1784, from Timothy Morsman. 1) Betsey, born February 3, 1792; On January 15, 1789, he died August 14, 1884; married purchased the east half of lot #2 in Jethro Coombs in 1811 at Stratton Gore, while his father, Jamaica, Vermont. Elijah Gibbs of Dummerston 2) Polly purchased the west half of that 3) Susanna, born October 13, same lot. After several 1796; died December 17, transactions, Edmund held all of 1880; married Otis Shepardson lot #2 in Stratton Gore and had on March 23, 1817, at sold the west half of 1L4R to Windham, Vermont. Hasey Sprague. 4) Sally Sometime after January 27, 1796, Edmund and Phoebe settled Gillett in Stratton. The Gibbs’ farm was Austin Gillett, son of Benjamin evidently located west of Willis and Mary H. (Packard) Gillett, Cemetery and the Daniel Willis was living with Joseph and Persis farm (see D. Willis on Beer’s Packard in 1847 and attending Atlas of 1869) and south of where school in district #2. the intersection of the Winhall to Somerset Rd. and the Gore Rd.. Hasey Sprague later resided there, Glazier as did Samuel Willis. (Glasier) In 1800, the census showed John Glazier (sometimes seen as Edmund and Phoebe with a son Jonathan), son of Jonathan and and three daughters all under the Azubah (Nye) Glazier, was born age of ten that year. on July 21, 1774, in New The Gibbs were among the Braintree, Massachusetts. John original members of the Church of married Dorothy Goodale (an Christ in Stratton, established in intent of marriage was published August, 1801, and their three on October 8, 1797, at Oakham, daughters were baptized into this Massachusetts). Dorothy was church on August 30, 1801. born September 10, 1774, in West The Gibbs did not stay long Boylston, Massachusetts, a in Stratton and had moved to daughter of Deacon David Wardsboro, Vermont, by March, Goodale and Dorothy (Newton), 1809. That month, Edmund sold his wife, of Oakham.

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On October 19, 1797, John however, it is unclear whether and his brother-in-law, Ezra John and Dorothy remained there Estabrook, purchased 8L1R in with them. Stratton from Clark Stone. The On March 27, 1839, John Glaziers settled on the north half sold the Batchellor farm to Tyler of this lot while the Estabrooks Waite and returned to his old settled on the south half (later farm, living under the care of his called the Forrester farm). The son, John’s family. Dorothy Glazier farm was located just off passed away on October 26, 1849. of what is now referred to as John then sold the last of his Mountain Rd. (and the farm is holdings in Stratton to his son, sometimes referred to as the John N., on August 7, 1852. Brown farm). It was not until just These holdings included the lease after 1800 that the Glaziers settled he held on the school lot, 8L2R, in Stratton. On April 8, 1819, the and 25 acres of the southwest half Glaziers and Estabrooks officially of 9L1R. A stipulation was divided the farm by deeding one attached to the sale that John N. another their share in the other’s would agree to care for his father half. John also leased 8L2R (the for the remainder of his natural school lot), from the town in life. 1829, agreeing to clear and farm John died on August 6, 1856. it. He and Dorothy were buried in John was “a man of iron Ball Cemetery. constitution, well fitted for the Children of John and Dorothy: hardships of pioneer life, had a 1) Franklin, born April 7, 1799; vigorous mind which naturally died June 9, 1863. constituted him a leader, and he 2) Lyman, born March 8, 1801; was frequently honored by being died April 24, 1825; married called to fill positions of (?) on March 7, 1820. responsibility and trust1.” He was 3) John Newton, born July 29, a deacon in the Baptist church in 1805, in Vermont; died Stratton for many years. October 21, 1888, at Stratton, On March 14, 1827, John Vermont; married 1) Phoebe purchased the old Batchellor farm Cass Bourn on March 7, 1827 on the east half of 5L4R, allowing 2) Mary Priscilla Boyle. his daughter and son-in-law, Lucy 4) Lucy H., born December 14, and Nelson B. Jones to live there. 1808; died September 27, In 1830, John and Dorothy had a 1894, at West Wilton, New boy and girl, both aged 15 to 20 Hampshire; married Nelson living with them. On February Bishop Jones of Wardsboro, 23, 1830, John had sold his farm Vermont, on January 17, 1827, on 8L1R to his son, John N. at Stratton, Vermont. Glazier. Over the next several 5) Hannah, born about 1811; years it appears that John N. and married 1) Adams Maynard of Moses Rand resided on this farm; Jamaica, Vermont, (intent

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published on August 1, 1830, as Selectman and Constable for at Stratton, Vermont 2) several years, as well as in other Leonard Glazier on November official positions. By 1840, 2, 1876, at Stratton, Vermont. John’s parents had moved back 6) Ephraim Goodale, born June into his home, where they 21, 1814; died October 19, remained until their deaths. 1900; married (?) on July 12, John and Phoebe were 1836. members of the Baptist Church in Stratton until it disbanded in Additional Sources: Records of John H. Comstock of Kansas 1847. Phoebe was then accepted City, Missouri as a member of the West Notes: Wardsboro Baptist Church in 1) From Lyman Knapp’s history of Stratton in Hemenway’s history of Windham 1852. She died at Stratton on County. September 11, 1856. In 1860, John was head of a Lyman Glazier, son of John and household with some of his Dorothy Glazier, was born on children and also Rosella Howe, March 8, 1801. Lyman; married aged 14. In 1861, Adeline Howe on March 7, 1820, but the name was also living there. Later, he of his wife is not known. He remarried to Mary Priscilla Boyle. entered the ministry and was On December 10, 1867, John ordained and settled over the purchased the West Wardsboro Baptist Church in Ira, Vermont. Hotel (the Green Mountain He died at the early age of 24 on House) for $1,000.00. The April 24, 1825. Glaziers apparently moved to West Wardsboro at that time. John Newton Glazier, son of John kept the hotel until May 27, John and Dorothy Glazier, was 1873, at which time he sold it to born on July 29, 1805, in Henry Waite. John died on Vermont. He married Phoebe October 21, 1888. The Glaziers Cass Bourn, daughter of Abraham were both buried in Ball and Lydia (Cass) Bourn of Cemetery. Jamaica, Vermont, on March 7, Children of John and Phoebe: 1827. Phoebe was born in New 1) John Franklin, born February York on November 28, 1809. 5, 1829, in Vermont; died on John purchased his father’s March 21, 1854. farm in Stratton, located on the 2) Czarina Abigail, born August north side of 8L1R on February 16, 1830, at Stratton, 23, 1830. At that time, his Vermont; died April 20, 1923, parents went to live with their at Ashland, Nebraska; married daughter Lucy. John Sumner Williams on John was listed as head of the December 7, 1848, at Stratton, household in the 1830 census. He Vermont. remained in Stratton and became prominent in town affairs, serving

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3) Phebe M., born in 1831; died August 12, 1835, in Vermont (buried in Pleasant Valley Cemetery). 4) Julia Amelia, born July 20, 1832, in Vermont; died February 23, 1856, at Stratton, Vermont; married Nathaniel Jarvis Shaw on February 23, 1850. 5) Anna Marion, born December 31, 1834, at Stratton, Vermont; died December 14, 1866, at Stratton, Vermont; married Alonzo K. Smith on May 14, 1856. (she was accepted as a member of the

West Wardsboro Baptist John N. Glazier Church in 1852). 6) Nelson Newton, born December 12, 1838, at Stratton, Vermont; died in 1922 at Ashland, Nebraska. 7) Frederick Francis, born September 17, 1842, in Vermont; died March 1, 1886, at West Wardsboro, Vermont; married Belle C. Holden (1846 - 1917) on December 20, 1864 (Frederick took the Freeman’s oath in Stratton on September 6, 1864).

John Franklin Glazier, (sometimes seen as Frank John) son of John N. and Phoebe Glazier, was born in 1829. He Phebe (Bourn) Glazier became a Freeman of Stratton on September 3, 1850. Frank began his preparations for the ministry; but died at the age of 25 before Photos courtesy of John H. Comstock finishing his courses at Madison University. His gravestone reads, “Go preach the gospell” “A member of the sophomore class of

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Madison University, N.Y. highly was called to supplement the army esteem’d for his uniformly of the Potomac initially as an consistent Christian character infantry division. On May 18, died while preparing for the work 1864, at Spotsylvania, Virginia -- of the Gospel Ministry Mar 21, the regiment’s first engagement -- 1854 age 25y” “Pray ye therefore Newton was hit in the left arm the Lord of the harvest that he with shrapnel. Later that same will send forth laborers into his day, back at the hospital, the arm harvest.” Frank was buried in was amputated. He suffered for Ball Cemetery in Stratton. many months as the arm healed, then was discharged on September Nelson Newton Glazier, son of 3, 1864, for his wounds, and he John N. and Phoebe Glazier, was returned home. born on December 12, 1838, at After the war, Newton Stratton. Newton, as he was attended Brown University in called, spent his early years in Providence, Rhode Island, from Stratton, and was accepted as a 1864 to 1866 and then attended member of the Baptist Church in Newton Theological Institution, West Wardsboro, Vermont, in Newton Center, Massachusetts, 1852. He later went on to be from 1866 to 1869. In 1865, educated at Leland Seminary and while a senior at Brown then Amherst College between University, Newton was elected 1858 and 1861. Stratton’s Representative to the During the Civil War, General Assembly. He was Newton enlisted as a private into elected a second time in 1867 and Company G of the Vermont 11th served on the committee of Regiment on August 11, 1862. elections. He was promoted to corporal on On September 9, 1866, the November 23, 1862, and for a West Wardsboro Baptist Church time he was the acting ordnance clerk recorded, “Church voted to sergeant at Fort Slocum. For Brother Newton Glazier a license several months he was on to preach the Gospel as recruiting duty in Vermont. Providence may afford him an Newton transferred to Company A opportunity.” and was promoted to 2nd Newton was ordained a lieutenant on November 2, 1863. Baptist Minister at Central Falls, His last promotion to 1st Rhode Island, and briefly served lieutenant occurred on January 21, that community. He then became 1864. The Vermont 11th pastor of the Baptist Church in Regiment was originally an Montpelier, Vermont, and infantry division, stationed to resettled in that town. From 1872 defend Washington, DC. It then to 1875, he was superintendent of became a heavy artillery division; common schools in Montpelier. however, following the Battle of He also served as Chaplin of the the Wilderness, the Vermont 11th Vermont State Senate from 1872

Stratton Families 158 to 1878. He later served as pastor Massachusetts, where he was a to South Arlington, New shoemaker. Daniel purchased land Whitman, Massachusetts, in Stratton on May 9, 1783, but Westboro, Massachusetts, then apparently never settled in Greenfield, Boston, Stratton. He died on December 8, Massachusetts. 1794, and Martha died on Newton retired and lived with December 7, 1809, aged 81. They his blind sister, Czarina (Glazier) may have been related to the Williams in Beatrice, Nebraska, following Gleasons. Muscotah, Kansas, and Ashland, Nebraska. Samuel Gleason was evidently a On February 3, 1904, Newton brother of John Gleason of had joined the military order of Stratton. He also may have been the Loyal Legion of the United the same who resided in States, Commandery of the State Framingham, Massachusetts, and of Massachusetts. In June, 1920, served during the American he became a member of the Revolution as a Private in Nathan Rawlins Post No. 35, Department Drury’s 6th Company of Colonel of Nebraska, G.A.R., Beatrice, Abner Perry’s Regiment, enlisting Nebraska. July 23, 1780, and serving for Newton died in the fall of seven days. At that time, this 1922 at Ashland, Nebraska, and company marched to Rhode was buried in Willow Creek Island on an alarm. Cemetery north of Prague, Samuel Gleason had settled Nebraska. in Stratton, living alone at the time of the census in 1791, Leonard Glazier, son of although he was married before Benjamin and Anna Glazier, was that time. He married Anna born in Massachusetts in 1811. Holman on April 1, 1790, at He married Hannah (Glazier) Sutton, Massachusetts. Anna, Maynard, daughter of John and daughter of Thomas and Sarah Dorothy Glazier of Stratton, on Holman, was born on January 25, November 2, 1876, at Stratton. 1765. Hannah was born on May 3, 1811, In March 1796, the town of and had first married Adams Stratton leased Samuel the school Maynard. The Glaziers evidently lot (8L2R) for interest on 100 did not settle in Stratton after the pounds. He did not meet the marriage. requirements of the lease and the next year he was ordered to clear Gleason one acre of land there before (Glezen) returning the lot. He also was Daniel Gleason, son of Thomas ordered to give up the house, but Gleason, married Martha Bartlett on March 4, 1799, the town leased on April 26, 1753. The Gleasons Samuel the west half of the school lived in the east part of Oxford, lot and he apparently remained in

Stratton Families 159 the house there. By 1800, John Gleason was said to be Samuel’s wife had joined him in of Stratton on June 22, 1799. On Stratton and they had six children that day, he purchased 10L2R as indicated by the census of that with a dwelling house in Stratton year. On February 21, 1803, from Rufus Gale. This was Samuel sold his rights for the apparently located on the school lot to Nathan Patch and left northwest corner of the Stratton soon thereafter. He may intersection of what are now Stone have been the same Samuel Chimney Rd. and Mountain Rd.. Gleason who was warned out of In 1800, John and his wife Wardsboro, Vermont, on February were between the ages of 26 and 12, 1818. 45 and had six children. John evidently built another house on John Gleason was evidently a the west side of this lot, located brother of Samuel Gleason beside what later became North (above). He also may be the same Cemetery. Evidence of its who resided in Framingham, stonework still remains. John Massachusetts, during the settled into this house and then he American Revolution as a split 10L2R, selling the east half Sergeant in Micajah Gleason’s to William Holmes of Woodstock, Company of Minutemen that Connecticut, on November 2, marched to Concord on the alarm 1801. John mortgaged the west of April 19, 1775, serving nine half on that same day through days. Later this John Gleason Rufus Gale. Finally, on served as a Lieutenant in Captain November 1, 1803, John sold his Simon Edgell’s Framingham Stratton land back to Gale and left Company, Colonel Wyllys’s town. Regiment. He was commissioned Captain on May 2, 1777, and took Goddard command of a company in Joseph Batchelder Goddard, son Colonel Josiah Whitney’s of Joel and Anna Goddard, was Regiment. This Company was born at Petersham, Massachusetts, made up of men from towns on August 17, 1793. He including Holliston, Hopkinton graduated from Williams College and Sudbury. On June 11, 1779, in Massachusetts in 1816 and he was commissioned 2nd Major became a minister of the for Colonel Abner Perry’s 5th Congregational Church. His first Middlesex County Regiment, and ministry was at Sandgate, on February 19, 1781, he was Vermont. While a resident of appointed Muster Master for Sandgate, Joseph married Lucy Middlesex County, by the House Lincoln of Petersham, on of Representatives. Again, I am September 19, 1827. He then only suggesting that this John came to Stratton and ministered to Gleason may have been the same the Church of Christ in Stratton to settle in Stratton. from 1834 to 1835. Reverend

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Goddard was evidently Stratton’s Children of George and Clara: first full-time Congregational 1) Essie Clara, born May 1, 1902, Minister. He had a ministry in at Stratton, Vermont. Winhall, Vermont, apparently Additional Sources for all Gonyer families: after leaving Stratton. Joseph Genealogical notes of Ora Knapp passed away at Pitcairn, New York, on June 15, 1842.

Gonyer Frank Gonyer, son of Joseph and Etta (Buscha) Gonyer, was born in September 1862. He married Hattie Bell (Jones) Atwood, daughter of Jesse and Sarah Jones, on December 2, 1900. She was born in December 1867. Hattie had first married Orlin Atwood, George Gonyer (see the Atwood Family) but by Photo courtesy of Ora Mae (Atwood) Knapp 1900, Hattie was living alone with her children and had taken Frank in as a boarder. Frank worked in Goodell the lumber camps in Stratton. (Goodale, Goodail) Hattie died in Hinsdale, New Jacob Goodell of Stratton was Hampshire, in 1933. probably the same Jacob Goodell Children of Frank and Hattie: who was a private from 5) Floyd Frank, born March 16, Massachusetts during the 1901, at Stratton, Vermont. Revolutionary War. He was a 6) Bessie, married James member of Captain John Joslin’s Thurston Company of Colonel Job 7) Alfred, married Louise Cushing’s Regiment. He served Robbins. for one month and seven days, marching from Leominster, George Gonyer, son of Joseph Massachusetts, to Bennington and Ida (Buscha) Gonyer, was during the last of July, 1777. This born at Old Town, Maine, about regiment joined forces with 1868. He came to Stratton and Colonel Seth Warner’s army. worked as a lumberman. He Jacob Goodell and his wife married Clara M. Atwood, were both born before 1755, daughter of Orlin and Hattie according to Stratton’s 1800 (Jones) Atwood on March 16, census, and Jacob was mentioned 1902, at Stratton. Clara was born as already owning property there on September 1, 1884, at Stratton in a deed between Nathaniel and was the daughter of George’s Moulton and William Pike on brother’s wife, Hattie. April 23, 1800. This deed was not recorded in Stratton’s Town

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Records, probably because 2) Jacob, Jr. (active in his father’s Stratton Gore was not part of affairs concerning land in Stratton until 1799. The original Stratton). Goodell lot was located south of 3) Hannah, born July 13, 1781; what is now Willis Cemetery Rd., died September 22, 1836, at east of Willis Cemetery and south Somerset, Vermont; married of the road. Jacob purchased Jotham Pike on December 3, additional land (or had to 1801, at Somerset, Vermont. repurchase his land in Stratton 4) William B., born April 17, from Nevinson Grant on June 7, 1785; died May 10, 1857; 1801. This parcel was the east married Tirzah (?). end of the first lot in Stratton Gore (100 acres), located east of Jacob Goodell, Jr., son of Jacob Nathaniel Moulton’s line. Goodale, bought land in Stratton The Goodells may have with his father, and he evidently resettled on this 100 acres and spent some time as a resident of their home may have been located Stratton. On September 2, 1802, on the north side of the Jacob, Sr. sold him part of the intersection of what are now family farm. Jacob, Jr. was living called Pike Hollow Rd. and Penny in Orwell, Vermont, at that time. Avenue – it probably was located In 1807, Jacob, Jr. was living in on what later was called the Sudbury, Vermont, and apparently Higley farm. received judgment against his Descendants of the Goodells, father for debts owed him by his through their daughter Hannah, father. Evidently, Jacob, Sr. also claimed to be descended from went to Sudbury to live with his native Americans. Hannah’s son. ancestry seems to be the most likely prospect for this distinction William B. Goodell, probably a within the bloodline, therefore, son of Jacob Goodell, was born on Jacob or his wife may have had April 17, 1785. He came to some native American ancestry. Stratton with his father and he Jacob was elected Stratton’s was probably the son living at Grand Jurorman in 1802 and a home with his parents and sister, fenceviewer in 1804. He fell into Hannah, in 1800. The Goodells debt in late 1804 and by 1809 he had moved away by 1810. had lost all his property in William married Tirzah (?) who Stratton and he had settled in was born on October 20, 1785. Sudbury, Vermont. Jacob was William passed away on May 10, warned out of Sudbury on January 1857, and Tirzah followed on 9, 1807. June 24, 1858. He is very likely the father of: Their children were: 1) Eunice, married Rufus Little of 1) Louisa J., born May 17, 1807; Sudbury, Vermont, on died April 5, 1830. February 14, 1797.

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2) Joseph P., born February 18, LaFountaine. Jim moved away 1809; died September 22, from Stratton before 1910. 1871. 3) Selina E., born February 27, Goss 1812; died March 21, 1853. Jason E. Goss, son of Henry and 4) William B., Jr., born in March, Betsey (Kendall) Goss of 1814; died August 25, 1834. Dummerston, was born about 5) Abijah L., born March 28, 1837 in Boston, Massachusetts. 1816; evidently died young. In 1860, he was living with the 6) Abijah P., born August 13, Freeman Wyman family and he 1817. was probably employed at the 7) Sarah Miranda, born January Wyman’s hotel. 12, 1820; died July 19, 1883; During the Civil War, Jason married Samuel Pike on enlisted on June 13, 1862, and September 27, 1843. mustered into Company K of the 8) Sybil S., born October 10, Vermont 9th Regiment on July 9, 1822. 1862. He was mentioned in a 9) Jacob T., born February 21, letter James Grout had written to 1826; died January 11, 1872. his mother. The 9th was stationed 10) Nancy Ann, born September at Camp Siegel, Winchester, 28, 1828; died June 11, 1855. Virginia, in August, 1862. In the

Additional Sources: letter, James tells that he and The Goodell family Bible Jason were treated to a meal in Notes of Ethel Eddy one of the Virginia homes at that time. In September, 1862, the 9th Harvey Goodell had settled in was on picket duty at Harpers Stratton by 1854. In 1855 he Ferry, Virginia. There, they received 16 votes for Justice of the surrendered to the Confederate Peace. There is no mention of Army, but were fortunate enough him living in Stratton after that to be paroled and so they time. immediately marched to Annapolis, Maryland. The 9th Goodhue was then sent to Camp Douglas in William Goodhue was born about Chicago, Illinois, and remained 1860. In 1920, he was a there into the early months of lumberman, working in Stratton 1863. In 1865, at the end of the and living in the boarding house war, the 9th was in Richmond, at the Grout Job. Virginia. Jason mustered out of the service on June 13, 1865. He Goodson evidently did not settle in Stratton following the war. Jim Goodson was born in April,

1870, in Massachusetts. He settled in Stratton about 1900. Gould That year, he was living with Josiah P. Gould was born in cousins, Adolphus and Alice Newfane, Vermont, about 1814.

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He settled in Stratton about 1846, Grout/Grant in other town where he and his family evidently documents. The Grout/Grant rented the old Phillip’s farm, mistake is understandable since located in 4L3R at the corner of the Grouts were a noted Stratton the West Jamaica Rd. and what is family in later years. now called Ball Farm Rd.. Joshua and Nevinson were In 1847, the Gould’s children sons of Robert and Anna Grant, attended school in Stratton’s originally of Medway, school district #2. At that time Massachusetts. By 1791, these another child, Henry Rider, son of two brothers had moved to Samuel and Ama Rider, was also Stratton and they had bought land living with the Goulds. This lot in the southern part of the town, was sold in March, 1848, and the including a large amount of land Goulds evidently removed from in Stratton Gore. Timothy Stratton at that time. Josiah died Morsman had petitioned for a at Andover, Vermont, on May 4, grant of all of Stratton Gore in 1868, of an abscess on the brain. 1785, but this land was not He was buried in Middletown annexed to Stratton until 1799. Cemetery. The Grant’s mother, Anna, Josiah’s children were: had remarried in 1777 to Samuel 1) Limon N., born about 1839. Pike. Samuel and Anna had four 2) Ashbel K., born about 1841. children from that marriage. In November, 1795, Anna and two of Carlton O. Gould was born at the Grant’s half-brothers, William Randolph, Vermont. He married Grant Pike and Jotham Pike, Hattie Richmond who was born at moved to Stratton and apparently South Falls, Massachusetts. built a cabin on land owned by Carlton was a farmer and had Joshua Grant. The Pikes were settled in Stratton before 1886. joined by their father, Samuel, the He moved away from town before next year. Joshua and Nevinson’s 1900. sister, Betsey, and her husband, Their child was: Nathaniel Moulton had also 1) Fannie Rosella, born settled in Stratton Gore before December 17, 1886, at 1795. Stratton. Joshua Grant, son of Robert and Grant Anna (Grant) Grant, was born on Two brothers, Joshua and April 2, 1763, at Medway, Nevinson Grant, had settled in Massachusetts. During the Stratton before 1791. They were American Revolution, Joshua mistakenly referred to as Denison served as a private in Captain and Joshua Grout in the typed Moses Adam’s Company, Colonel transcription of the 1791 census of Brook’s Regiment of guards. He Vermont. Nevinson has also been had joined this company on interpreted as Haverson November 3, 1777, for one month

Stratton Families 164 and 23 days at Cambridge, Canedy Rd. intersection with the Massachusetts; however, he was West Jamaica Rd. (see S. Allen on reported as a deserter on McClellan’s Map of 1856). December 26, 1777. Joshua Joshua took the Freeman’s apparently returned and served at oath in Stratton on September 2, Cambridge to April 3, 1778. He 1817, and he remained in Stratton may have served in other units for the remainder of his years. In between that time and the end of 1820, he was head of a household the war. with Betsey and a young girl, aged Joshua married Eunice 10 to 16 (This may have been Hayward, daughter of Daniel and Eleanor Grant, who was possibly Ellen Hayward, on July 14, 1785, Joshua’s daughter). Joshua at Milford, Massachusetts. At purchased some additional land in that time, Joshua was from Stratton on June 30, 1824; Partridgefield, Massachusetts. however, he apparently died at The Grants lived in Stratton in Stratton before the end of that 1791 and were recorded on the year. census of that year. They Betsey remained in Stratton apparently resided in Stratton and lived alone in 1830. She Gore. Their home probably was resided under the care of others located at the sharp bend of what into the mid-1840s. On occasion, is now Willis Cemetery Rd.. They Stratton’s records mention her as returned to Massachusetts, Widow Grant. Samuel Allen bid probably before 1795. to care for her in 1837 and the Ellen passed away on July 17, Allens may have settled into her 1808, at Montague, home. Massachusetts. Joshua then Children of Joshua and Eunice: married Elizabeth “Betsey” 1) Lorena (or Sirena), married Mitchell of Greenfield, Elisha Harrington on January Massachusetts on June 22, 1809. 2, 1809, at Colrain, Betsey was born during the 1760s. Massachusetts. Joshua returned to Stratton in 2) Daniel Hayward, born August 1816 and was duly “warned out of 5, 1800, at Stratton, Vermont; town” by the Selectmen on died April 1, 1844, at North November 4th of that year. That Egremont, Massachusetts; same day, he purchased 4L2R in married Lucy Sprague at Stratton from Seth Hammond of Stratton, Vermont. Wardsboro. This was about a 3) Eleanor Davis (possibly), born 200-acre lot that surrounded what November 12, 1807, at is now the intersection of Canedy Wrentham, Massachusetts. Rd. and the West Jamaica Rd.. Over the next several years, Eleanor Grant may have been Joshua sold off bits and pieces of the same Eleanor Davis Grant, this lot. The Grants apparently born at Wrentham, Massachusetts, settled into a home opposite the on November, 12, 1807 –

Stratton Families 165 daughter of Joshua Grant. She Massachusetts. Lucy died on June became a member of the Church 4, 1869, at Springfield, of Christ in Stratton on March 6, Massachusetts. 1825, and was baptized that same Children of Daniel and Lucy day. were: 1) Mary Selinda, married Warren Daniel Hayward Grant, son of Wood on August 21, 1836, at Joshua and Eunice Grant, was Shutesbury, Massachusetts. born on August 5, 1800, at 2) Eunice Lorensa, married Stratton. There, he married Lucy Sheford Williams. Sprague, daughter of Hasey and 3) Lorena Maria, married John Mary (Newhall) Sprague, on Henry Lawton on April 26, November 15, 1818, at Stratton. 1846. Lucy was born in Athol, 4) Lucy Sophia, married Joseph Massachusetts, on November 5, Ball. 1795. 5) Julia Ann, married Daniel Daniel was a minister and he Berry. moved often, living in Stratton 6) Betsey Ann Drucila, died in with his parents from 1816 to 1912; married Egbert Pixley about 1820. He also lived in on November 4, 1849. Somerset, Vermont, and later 7) Martha Ann Suvilla married 1) lived in Newfane, Vermont, and Timothy Lewis on November Stephentown, New York, before 25, 1852, at Newfane, he settled in North Egremont, Vermont 2) John Wright. Massachusetts. Daniel was called 8) Willard Newhall, born “of Somerset” when he purchased December 22, 1834, at the southwest quarter of 1L2R in Newfane, Vermont; died Stratton on April 1, 1829. He August 16, 1914; married settled there for a short time, but Abbie Jane Chapin. moved away in 1832. This lot was 9) Eliza Ellinor, born June 10, located somewhere between the 1838, at Stratton, Vermont; end of what are now Bills Rd. and died in May, 1860. north of Willis Cemetery Rd.. 10) Daniel Seaver, born April 30, In 1831, Daniel also had paid 1840, at Stephentown, New taxes on the west side of 3L4R, York; died March 10, 1914, at and this lot became property of Baxter, Iowa; married Frances Thomas Sprague who was Sophia Adams on September probably Lucy’s brother. 2, 1858. From 1832 to 1835, Daniel preached at the Pondville Baptist Nevinson Grant, son of Robert Church, formerly called Marlboro and Anna (Grant) Grant, was and Newfane. The church was born on January 1, 1765, at located in Marlboro, Vermont. Medway, Massachusetts. He was Daniel passed away on April christened on January 20, 1765, at 1, 1844, at North Egremont, Holliston, Massachusetts.

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Nevinson served during the Nevinson resettled in American Revolution as a Private Arlington, Vermont, and he was from Massachusetts in Philip warned out of that town on Ammidon’s Company of Colonel December 12, 1807. He remained Deane’s Regiment. He enlisted in Arlington through 1810, then March 4, 1781, and was apparently returned to Stratton, discharged shortly afterward on where he and Experience were March 18, spending that time on “warned out of town” on February duty in Rhode Island. Following 10, 1812. It appears that they the war, Nevinson briefly settled settled on the northwest corner of in Boston, Massachusetts. 1L2R (near what is now the Nevinson married Sarah intersection of Bills Rd. and the Moulton, daughter of Nathaniel Stratton-Arlington Rd. Nevinson and Anna (Kimball) Moulton, on and Experience remained in July 20, 1786, at Hopkinton, Stratton through at least 1817 as Massachusetts. Sarah was born indicated by the land records. By on February 17, 1769, at Ipswich, March, 1820, the Grants had Massachusetts. again settled in Arlington and at The Grants settled in Stratton that time Nevinson sold off the about 1789. They lived in last of his property in Stratton. Stratton Gore. They may have Apparently, Nevinson passed lived on the site west of what is away soon thereafter since now Willis Cemetery. It also Experience had been widowed and seems possible that Nevinson had was living alone in Arlington by settled on a farm located east of the time the 1820 census was the intersection of what are now taken. called Pike Hollow Rd. and Penny Children of Nevinson and Sarah: Avenue. If they lived on this lot, 1) Anna Moulton2, died in 1795. then their home was located on 2) Chloe, born November 30, what later was called the Lyman 1786, at Hopkinton, farm and sawmill (currently Massachusetts; married Peter owned by the Jepson family). Newton. Sarah passed away sometime 3) Sally, born October 1, 1788, at before 1794. Nevinson then Holliston, Massachusetts married Experience (?)1 and they (warned out of Shaftsbury, moved to Shaftsbury, Vermont, by Vermont, on February 3, 1800. That year’s census shows 1809). Nevinson as head of a household 4) John F. with three males under 10, one male 16 - 26, two females under 10, one female 16 - 26, and one female 26 - 45. In 1801, he sold the farm in Stratton Gore to Jacob Goodell.

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Children of Nevinson and northeast corner). James Experience were: apparently abandoned his Stratton 5) Benjamin, born January 22, lands and moved to Winhall. He 1794, at Stratton, Vermont. was warned out of that town on 6) Anne, born May 28, 1796 March 13, 1810. James’s Stratton lots were later sold by the town for Notes: 1) Experience may have been a daughter of back-taxes. Isaac and Experience Lincoln of James married Elizabeth Somerset, neighbors of Nevinson Grant. Wyman of Peru, Vermont, a This assumption makes a great deal of sense, noting the neighborhood in which descendant of the Wyman family Nevinson Grant lived and the fact that of Woburn, Massachusetts. James this assumption ties together the families apparently mortgaged his farm in that later occupied that part of Stratton 1816. He supposedly lived for Gore. 2) There exists a stone in Willis Cemetery over 30 years on one farm in marking the grave of Anna Moulton Winhall and brought up a fairly Grant who died in 1795. She was large family there. probably a daughter of Nevinson and Sarah, named fore her grandmother, Their youngest child was: Anna Moulton. 1) Lewis Addison, born January 17, 1829, at Winhall, James Grant, son of Joseph and Vermont; married S. August Mary Grant, was born on July 23, Hartwell on March 11, 1857 2) 1772, at Wrentham, M. Helen Pierce on September Massachusetts. James purchased 9, 1863 (He became a Brigadier- 12L3R in Stratton on February 14, General during the Civil War, and he 1798, and had settled on this lot was appointed Assistant Secretary of War - he later lived in Minneapolis, soon thereafter. His farm Minnesota). contained much of what is now called the Styles Brook Mary Grant was probably the Development. In 1800, James wife of Joseph Grant and mother was living there alone. of James Grant above. She was James was elected Stratton’s called a widow when she was tythingman in 1800 and then taken into the Church of Christ in constable and fenceviewer in Stratton on August 14, 1814. 1803. On April 8, 1803, James sold his lot to Silas Herrick. He Additional Sources for the above families: then purchased at a vendue in History of Rockingham, Vermont Winhall Land Records 1803, 89 acres of 9L4R, and two 40-acre lots. He probably settled on 9L4R and remained there until Graves 1807. Abner Graves, son of Abraham On September 18, 1807, and Thankful Graves, was born James was said to be “of Stratton” about 1734 and married Dorcas when he purchased a farm in Belding before 1765. Abner was Winhall (the first lot in the second a farmer from Swansey, New range, located in Winhall’s Hampshire, when he purchased land in Stratton - the original

Stratton Families 168 right of William Blount (2L5R) peeler” and evidently worked out on April 18, 1787, from Elisha of one of Stratton’s lumber camps. Whitcomb, Jr. of Swansey. Hemlock bark was often peeled Abner came to Stratton about from the trees to be used in that time and took up the task of tanneries. He was also a farmer. building the first gristmill (or Lyman lived in the old sawmill) in Stratton. Abner built parsonage across from the church. a homestead and a mill on 2L5R In 1920, Adda M. Leno was living along Meadow Brook in what was in his home as his housekeeper. called Graves Meadows, located Lyman had a brother, Arthur, who east of Grout Pond. Abner and evidently owned property in the mill were mentioned in a Stratton. description in a deed dated December 1, 1788, when Timothy Morsman sold land in Stratton Gore to Zachariah Harvey. In some accounts, Abner was named as the builder of Stratton’s first gristmill. The gristmill was first mention as ready to be inspected by Stratton’s Proprietors on May 29, 1788. If that was the case, then the mill on Graves’ Meadow was a gristmill and it was completed prior to the corn mill on 5L4R. Abner sold 50 acres of 2L5R to Peter Wheelock, also of Swansey, on September 16, 1789. Lyman Green (1875 - 1951) He apparently left Stratton at that time, since he was not mentioned Photo from the Vermont Government in the census of 1791. Yearbook 1933/4

(The Blake and Torrey Genealogy Lyman represented Stratton by Gendrot claimed that this in the state legislature as a Abner died in Stratton on Republican in the 1933/4 session February 2, 1787. This date is and he was a member of the obviously wrong and no record of committee on minor courts. his death exists in Stratton.) Lyman was also a Baptist. He

died in 1951 and was buried in Green Ball Cemetery. Lyman M. Green, son of Seymour and Henrietta Green, Greenleaf was born on March 11, 1875, and Zerah Greenleaf married came to Stratton in 1918. In Priscilla Lowis of Barre, 1920, he was listed as a “bark Massachusetts, on August 30,

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1801, at Athol, Massachusetts. was a resident of Arlington, Zerah, along with Sampson Vermont. Wetherbee, purchased 50 acres of lot #2 in Stratton Gore on May 12, Greenwood 1801, from Edmund Gibbs. Zerah John Greenwood, son of James and Sampson were called “of and Lydia (King) Greenwood, was Athol” at that time. Following born at Sutton, Massachusetts, on the Greenleafs’ marriage, they September 1, 1762. He married settled in Stratton, probably Ruth Gale, daughter of Nehemiah sharing a house with the and Ruth (Marsh) Gale, on Wetherbees in Stratton Gore. It is December 17, 1788, at Sutton. likely that their home was Ruth was born there on October evidently located west of Willis 12, 1767. The Greenwoods first Cemetery, beyond the Daniel settled in Milbury, Massachusetts. Willis farm (see D. Willis on John (sometimes seen as Beer’s Atlas of 1869) and south of Jonathan) purchased the west half where the Somerset Rd. and the of 7L2R in Stratton on October Gore Rd. crossed (later occupied 16, 1786. This lot later became by Hasey Sprague). They sold this the Greenwood farm and was property in 1803. located higher up the mountain Zerah then purchased 35 and west of the path Mountain Rd. acres of the northwest corner of currently follows. 4L5R on November 11, 1804. He About 1788, the Greenwoods evidently had settled in had settled in Stratton, and were Wardsboro, Vermont, and was listed in the census of 1791, living warned out of that town on March there alone. The 1800 census 6, 1807, then apparently returned indicated that they had a daughter to Stratton afterward. Zerah had living with them at that time; kept the above-mentioned 35 acres however, the 1810 census and and mortgaged this lot in 1808. Stratton’s vital records indicate He took the Freeman’s oath in that this child was probably a son. Stratton on September 6, 1808. It They also had a second son living appears that they lived with the at that time, not indicated on the Weatherbees again after their census. In 1810, another male, return to Stratton. too old to be their child, was The Greenleafs left Stratton living with them and in 1820, sometime before the census of they had three children living 1810 was taken. Zerah sold the with them. last of his holdings, 15 acres of John purchased the east half 5L4R to James Fuller on May 4, of 10L2R in 1809. He may have 1813. At that time, Zerah was a settled on this lot at that time, but resident of Salem, New York. In he kept the farm on 7L2R until October 1813, Zerah sold the last 1823. of his property in Stratton – 10 John was one of Stratton’s acres of 4L5R. At that time, he most prominent citizens, holding

Stratton Families 170 many town offices including Moses Kinney Shepardson on Selectman. He bought and sold March 29, 1819, at Stratton, large amounts of land in Stratton Vermont. and he was one of the first two 6) Nancy Jean, born August 3, deacons of the Baptist Church 1802, at Stratton, Vermont; organized at Stratton in 1817. died April 21, 1897. On February 18, 1814, John 7) Ruth, born June 23, 1805, at (called Lieutenant) purchased Stratton, Vermont; died July land from widow Sarah French - 10, 1847, at Dummerston, 9L2R - 200 acres with a sawmill. Vermont; married 1) Asa This lot was adjacent to land he Belnap 2) Rufus Brown, Esq.. had already owned. John sold 8) John, born November 25, their farm on October 29, 1823, 1807; died November 24, and then moved to Dummerston, 1897, at Dummerston, Vermont, along with their Vermont; married Betsey B. daughter and son-in-law, Moses Belnap (born August 18, 1805; K. and Laura Shepardson. He died December 5, 1891). was called “of Dummerston” in a 9) Harvey, born about 1810; died deed dated October 16, 1826. April 1, 1870; married 1) John died there on January Orrilla Rowel 2) Beulah 29, 1843, and Ruth followed on French. April 5, 1856. They were buried in the West Dummerston James Greenwood, son of John Cemetery. and Ruth Greenwood, was born Children of John and Ruth were: on February 28, 1793, at Stratton. 1) Ruth, born January 27, 1792, There, James married Lucinda at Stratton, Vermont; died Daniels of Stratton on March 27, August 19, 1796, at Stratton, 1813. Lucinda was apparently the Vermont. daughter of Joshua and Hannah 2) James, born February 28, Daniels who had lived at Mendon, 1793, at Stratton, Vermont; Vermont, and later settled in died September 18, 1872; Jamaica, Vermont. married Lucinda Daniels on James took the Freeman’s March 27, 1813. oath in Stratton on September 6, 3) Nancy, born September 13, 1814. He purchased the west half 1796, at Stratton, Vermont; of 10L2R in 1815 and resided on died May 21, 1797, at Stratton, this lot. His occupation was a Vermont. teamster. He was head of a 4) Elijah Marble, born June 1, household in Stratton in 1820 1797, at Stratton, Vermont; with a boy under ten and two girls married 1) (?) 2) Nancy 10 to 16. These children were Holden Glover. probably his siblings, since he and 5) Laura, born December 28, Lucinda had only one child born 1800, at Stratton, Vermont; in 1822. died March 21, 1889; married

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James sold their home in witnessed an agreement signed Stratton on September 20, 1823, by James in 1836). and then removed his family to Northbridge, Massachusetts. Griswald Lucinda died on April 8, 1865, George Griswald married the and James died on September 18, widow, Addie J. (Durfey) (Martin) 1872. Leno – daughter of Timothy and A child of James and Lucinda: Eliza (Fisher) Durfey (see Leno). 1) Leander Willard, born They lived at the corner of the February 4, 1822, at Stratton; Stratton-Arlington Rd. and Old died January 8, 1895; married Forrester Rd.. Addie was called Cimena Lackey on May 30, Addie Martin when she purchased 1844. this house on October 23, 1924

Additional Sources for the above Greenwood from Ray and Mary Lyman. The families: house burned about 1940. A new The Greenwood Genealogy structure was rebuilt there and purchased by Joy Lewis in the Grimes 1960s. James Grimes, son of Andrew and Elizabeth (Hagar) Grimes, Grout was born on February 12, 1779, at Joel Grout was never a resident of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. He Stratton, however, after his death, was of Newfane, Vermont, when his wife, Sarah, lived at Stratton he purchased the west half of with her son, Abel’s family. She 4L3R from Stephen Forrester on died there and was probably August 3, 1835. This was the old buried in the Old Town cemetery. Phillips farm, located on the Joel was born at Lunenburg, northeast corner of Ball Farm Rd. Massachusetts, on March 6, 1734, and the West Jamaica Rd.. James a son of John and Joanna and his wife, Hannah, settled in (Boynton) Grout. He originally Stratton on this farm. James was settled at Petersham, elected sexton in 1836 and 1837 Massachusetts, and reared a large for Center Cemetery (Ball family there. Joel later resided at Cemetery), which was located on Templeton, Massachusetts, and the farm. Also during those two also in Gerry. years, Town and Freemen’s Joel married Sarah Hudson, Meetings were held in the daughter of William Hudson, on Grimes’s home. October 9, 1756. Sarah was born James evidently failed to pay on May 15, 1739. a mortgage and was force to give During the American up the farm in April of 1837. Revolution, Joel served as a A child of James and Hannah: private in his brother-in-law, 1) James Alexander Hamilton, Captain Ephraim Stockwell's born March 23, 1819, at Company. He enlisted on July 28, Newfane, Vermont (he 1777, and served during the Battle

Stratton Families 172 of Bennington, Vermont. He was 7) Nahum, born February 12, discharged on August 29, 1777. 1769, at Petersham, In 1779, he was a member of the Massachusetts; died May 10, convention that framed the 1851, at Warwick, constitution of Massachusetts. Massachusetts; married Sybil Joel had subsequently served as a Barrus on July 7, 1805, at member of the Massachusetts Richmond, New Hampshire General Court. (They witnessed a deed in The Grouts moved to Stratton in 1811). Richmond, New Hampshire, 8) Eli, born October 16, 1772, in where Joel died in 1797. Sarah Worcester County, moved to Stratton before 1820, Massachusetts; died June 6, where she lived at the home of 1804, at Richmond, New her son, Abel. She was living Hampshire. there during the time that the 9) Stephen, born April 15, 1774, census of 1820 was taken, but in Worcester County, passed away before the end of that Massachusetts; died May 28, year. 1774. Children of Joel and Sarah were: 10) Rhoda, born January 1, 1778, 1) Sarah, born February 12, 1757, at Templeton, Massachusetts; at Petersham, Massachusetts; married William Gould on married Richard Sawtell. January 15, 1797. 2) Abel, born February 19, 1758, 11) Sabra, born June 1, 1779, at at Petersham, Massachusetts; Templeton, Massachusetts; died January 18, 1841, at died July 20, 1854; married Stratton, Vermont; married Samuel Dwight in 1804. Dorcas Chase on February 15, 12) Polly, born November 2, 1780, 1779, at Petersham, at Templeton, Massachusetts; Massachusetts. died in New York; married 3) Unity, born August 14, 1760, Moses Gurnsey. at Petersham, Massachusetts; died December 13, 1843, at Abel Grout, son of Joel and Bellville, New York; married Sarah (Hudson) Grout, was born Samuel Mixer. in Petersham, Massachusetts, on 4) Annis, born October 25, 1763, February 19, 1758. He spent at Petersham, Massachusetts; much of his early life in married Jesse Stockwell (of Petersham and then Templeton, Athol, Massachusetts) on April Massachusetts. 3, 1782. During the American 5) Joel, born February 22, 1765, Revolution, Abel entered the at Petersham, Massachusetts; Massachusetts Militia on August married Asenath Wilder. 15, 1775, at Templeton. He 6) Elijah, born May 26, 1767, at joined with Captain Fletcher's Petersham, Massachusetts; Company in Colonel Doolittle's married Betsey Loomis. Regiment, and served with them

Stratton Families 173 for four months. He again joined, previously had occupied this same and served in Colonel Davisson's farm. Regiment for two months in New The farm was located beneath York State. On December 13, the peak of Little Stratton 1776, he enlisted a third time as a Mountain, located more than half substitute for his father, Joel. He a mile north of what is now the served for four months in New Stratton-Arlington Road. It can Jersey under Captain Morrisson be seen on McClellan’s Map of and was discharged March 18, Windham County (1856) as A. 1777. Once again, Abel enlisted, Grout (Abel Grout, Jr.) and it can doing so in September of 1777 be seen on Beer’s Atlas of under Captain Owen. He was at Windham County in 1869 as the the surrender of Britain's General farm of JB Grout (Jacob B. Grout, Burgoyne at Saratoga, New York, son of Abel, Jr.). on October 17, 1777, and was Abel Sr. sold the property to dismissed the following day. his sons Abel and Joel on March Abel's father again was drafted, so 27, 1809, and continued living Abel went as a substitute, in July with his sons. Eventually, Joel of 1778. Abel served with sold his share to his brother and General Sullivan's army, which moved to the eastern part of town. battled the British, then retreated Abel, Jr. continued to run the to Providence, Rhode Island. He family farm. He purchased large was discharged three months amounts of land in Stratton, later. In the summer of 1780, eventually making the Grout farm Abel enlisted one last time for a the largest in town. period of three months. He was Dorcas passed away at stationed at Westpoint, New York, Stratton on September 26, 1839. and then was sent farther up the Her place of burial is unknown, Hudson River, where he was although it is very likely that Abel discharged upon the completion of was later buried beside her. In his enlistment. 1840, Abel was named on that Abel married Dorcas Chase, year’s census as a Revolutionary the daughter of Henry and Abigail War pensioner. He died on Chase, on February 15, 1779, at January 18, 1841, and he was Templeton, Massachusetts. They buried in Ball Cemetery. lived at Templeton until 1789, at which time, they moved to Brattleboro, Vermont. In 1802, the Grouts moved to Newfane, Vermont, and in 1806, they moved to Stratton. Abel purchased 55 acres of 6L7R, just north and east of the Hill farm, on March 18, 1807. Samuel Blodgett

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July 8, 1872, at Stratton, Vermont; married Ira Scott on December 6, 1810, at Stratton, Vermont. 7) Harry, born February 10, 1792, at Brattleboro, Vermont; died December 24, 1878, at Warwick, Massachusetts; married 1) Lavina (Haskels) Grout (widow of his brother, George) 2) Elizabeth Abel Grout's grave (Manning) Warden on July 13, 1844, at Brattleboro, Vermont Abel and Dorcas' children were: 3) Bethia (?). 1) George, born in 1781 at 8) Dorcas, born in 1794 at Templeton, Massachusetts; Brattleboro, Vermont. married Lavina Haskels on 9) James, born in 1796 at July 9, 1801, at New Salem, Brattleboro, Vermont. Massachusetts. 10) Hudson, born April 27, 1800, 2) Stephen, born November 21, at Brattleboro, Vermont; died 1782, at Templeton, May 18, 1878; married Silence Massachusetts; died May 2, Babcock on June 11, 1823, at 1842; married Dorea (?). Stratton, Vermont. 3) Fanny, born about 1784; died June 30, 1868; married Joel Abel Grout, Jr., son of Abel and Franklin on January 4, 1808, Dorcas (Chase) Grout, was born at at Stratton, Vermont (Joel Templeton, Massachusetts, on [8/6/1784 - 1/26/1829] was a October 10, 1786. Abel came to son of Philip and Bethania Stratton with his parents in 1806. (Round) Franklin and lived at He took the Freeman’s oath on Guilford, Vermont). September 6, 1808, and purchased 4) Abel, born October 10, 1786, his father’s farm along with his at Templeton, Massachusetts; brother, Joel, on March 27, 1809. died November 4, 1875, at The Grout family’s 55-acre farm Stratton, Vermont; married was located at the foot of Little Theodocia Batchellor on Stratton Mountain (see Abel December 2, 1810, at Stratton, Grout above). Abel then married Vermont. Theodocia Batchellor, daughter of 5) Joel, born in 1788 at Jacob and Lois Batchellor, on Templeton, Massachusetts; December 2, 1810, at Stratton. died February 24, 1839, at Theodocia was born at Brookfield, Stratton, Vermont; married Massachusetts, on February 14, Lucy Batchellor on April 23, 1791. 1812, at Stratton, Vermont. On July 10, 1820, Abel 6) Sophia, born April 13, 1790, at purchased Joel’s share of the Brattleboro, Vermont; died

Stratton Families 175 farm, while Joel had settled in the met with a great misfortune, that eastern part of town several years of having his property taken from before. Abel maintained the farm him.” He evidently lost some and took care of his parents. He property, probably due to eventually built up the farm to be delinquent taxes; however, it the largest in Stratton. At one appears that he managed to keep time, he owned 1200 acres in most of it, probably with the help Stratton’s West Gore alone. of their youngest son, Jacob. The Grouts were accepted as There was an apparent problem full members of the Church of possibly caused by Adams Allen Christ in Stratton on November 9, Grout, Abel’s son, who had 1817, and Theodocia was baptized mortgaged part of the farm and that same day. Abel was made a could not pay the mortgage. On Deacon of the church on May 4, March 13, 1847, Abel signed an 1818. indenture with Waitstill Ranney A ledger kept by Abel of Townshend, Vermont, who beginning in 1815 and continuing held this mortgage. The to about 1855 still exists and indenture allowed Abel to use and describes Abel’s income from occupy “Ranney’s farm” for 16 town business to shoe repair, coat years. This was the Grout’s making, grave digging, farm family farm. work, transportation and In 1860, Abel’s son, Jacob, lumbering. was head of the Grout household In 1826, Abel was named and Abel and Theodosia lived guardian of the Hill family - a there with Jacob and his wife, neighboring family of four adults Emeline. Jacob had evidently that were charges of the town, in reacquired the farm for the family. an agreement that Abel would get Abel and Theodocia remained on their farm if he provided for them the old farm for the remainder of for the remainder of their years. their lives. Abel reneged on the deal the Theodocia died on February following year. 28, 1868, at Stratton. Abel died Over the years, Abel took an there on November 4, 1875. active role in town affairs. He Theodocia was buried in Pike was a Selectman for many years Hollow Cemetery and Abel was and served the town in other most likely buried beside her. If official positions. they had proper stones, the stones By 1850, all of the Grout have since disappeared; however, children had moved away except the marker of their daughter, for their son Jacob, whom Dorcas Chase Pike, reads "Buried eventually bought the old beside one of the best of Mothers, homestead. An undated letter Theodocia, wife of Deacon Abel from Abel’s niece, Dorothy Grout, Grout." Dorcas's grave lies beside to her mother, Lucy Grout, stated two unmarked graves, which most “I have heard that Uncle Abel has

Stratton Families 176 likely, belong to Abel and Crowningshield on February 7, Theodocia. 1843, at Somerset, Vermont. Abel and Theodocia's children: 6) Lestina Maria, born April 15, 1) Dorcas Chase, born January 1822, at Stratton, Vermont 20, 1812, at Stratton, Vermont (baptized in Stratton on (baptized in Stratton on July 3, February 23, 1823, and 1814); died September 27, became a member of the 1881, at Stratton, Vermont; church on March 4, 1838); married Moses Pike on died November 6, 1897, at November 23, 1831, at Clinton, Massachusetts; Stratton, Vermont. married Jesse E. Sage on 2) Adams Allen, born May 29, March 4, 1841, at Stratton, 1814, at Stratton, Vermont Vermont. (baptized in Stratton on July 3, 7) William Goodell, born August 1814); died October 23, 1869, 15, 1826, at Stratton, Vermont at Arlington, Vermont; (baptized in Stratton in married Martha A. C. Kelley October, 1826); died in June, on May 28, 1844, at 1892, at Bloomington, Sunderland, Vermont. Nebraska; married Hannah 3) Lyman Batchellor, born April Carter on December 31, 1846, 14, 1816, at Stratton, Vermont at Millbury, Massachusetts. (baptized in Stratton on June 8) Jacob Batchellor, born May 26, 9, 1816); died January 7, 1817, 1828, at Stratton, Vermont at Stratton, Vermont. (baptized in Stratton on 4) Samuel Newell, born July 5, August 24, 1828); died May 1818, at Stratton, Vermont 13, 1874, at Stratton, (baptized July 26, 1818); died Vermont; married Diana L. April 20, 1904, at Franklin, Follett on October 10, 1854, at Nebraska; married 1) M. E. P. Cumberland, Rhode Island 2) Shedd on October 31, 1849, at Emeline Carter on April 20, Andover, Massachusetts 2) 1858, at Bellows Falls, Martha A. Jones on July 22, Vermont. 1852, at Louisville, Kentucky 9) Caroline Amelia, born August 3) Matilda Coburn on April 18, 1831, at Stratton, Vermont 20, 1855, at Rock Island, (baptized in Stratton on Illinois 4) Susan S. November 13, 1831); died July McCandless on May 16, 1893, 22, 1833, at Stratton, at Franklin, Nebraska. Vermont. 5) Pliny Fisk, born July 5, 1820, at Stratton, Vermont (baptized Adams Allen Grout, son of Abel in Stratton on September 10, and Theodocia Grout, was born 1820); died February 17, 1863, May 29, 1814, at Stratton. He at Chicago, Illinois, while married Martha A. C. Kelley on serving during the Civil War; May 28, 1844, at Sunderland, married Susan Jane Vermont. That same year on

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February 26, he purchased the April 8, 1864, at Arlington, family farm on 6L7R in Stratton Vermont. from his brother, Samuel, and 4) Willie H., born in August, mortgaged it through Waitstill 1857, at Stratton, Vermont; Ranney of Townshend, Vermont. died March 30, 1859, at He apparently lost the farm to Arlington, Vermont. Ranney, who then leased it back to Abel Grout, Jr. in 1847. In Samuel Newell Grout, son of 1852, Adams deeded over the Abel and Theodocia Grout, was farm to Ranney. During that born July 5, 1818, at Stratton. On time, the Grouts lived in March 4, 1838, Samuel became a Sunderland. member of the Church of Christ On April 24, 1848, the Grouts in Stratton. At some point, purchased 45 acres from Jonas Samuel gained ownership of his Allen in Somerset, the farmhouse father’s farm. On February 26, was located half way between Pike 1844, he sold the farm and Hollow Rd. and Willis Cemetery another lot to his brother, Adams Rd. (see A. Grout on McClellan’s Allen Grout. On November 1, Map of 1856). This farm was 1845, Samuel also purchased built by Samuel Willis and it 3L7R in Stratton from Leander extended down into Pike Hollow Carter who had moved to Ohio to the brook and at one time (all except for a five acre parcel included Pike Hollow Cemetery on the north side of the pond, split and the area where the off to Isaiah Harvey in 1784). schoolhouse was later built, Samuel apparently did not pay extending east to the old Winhall- taxes on this lot and it was later Somerset Rd., which ran along the sold for back-taxes by the town. east side of this farm. Samuel fitted for college at Burr The Grouts sold this lot to Seminary and graduated from Joseph Pike on October 20, 1858, Middlebury College in 1846, and and resettled in Arlington, at Andover Theological Seminary Vermont. Adams died at in 1849. He was ordained a Arlington on October 23, 1869, minister of the Congregational and he was buried in St. James’ Church. Cemetery there. Samuel married M. E. P. Children of Adams and Martha Shedd on October 31, 1849, at were: Andover, Massachusetts. The 1) Fred A., born April 29, 1845, Grouts went to Missouri shortly at Stratton, Vermont; died after their marriage and Samuel April 6, 1864, at Arlington, commenced his life work under Vermont. the direction of the Home 2) Charles H., born November 5, Missionary Society. 1850, at Stratton, Vermont. 3) Hattie H., born May 28, 1856, at Stratton, Vermont; died

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Abel Grout, Jr. Theodocia (Batchellor) Grout (1786 – 1875) (1791 – 1868)

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Jacob Batchellor Grout Emeline (Carter) Grout (1829 – 1874)

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Samuel Newell Grout Mrs. Samuel N. Grout (1818 – 1904)

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William Goodell Grout Hannah (Carter) Grout (1826 – 1892)

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Samuel married a second During the Civil War, Fisk time to Martha A. Jones on July joined the service, enlisting on 22, 1852, at Louisville, Kentucky. June 15, 1862, and he mustered His third marriage was to Matilda into Company K of the Vermont Coburn on April 20, 1855, at 9th Regiment on July 9, 1862. He Rock Island, Illinois. The Church died in the service on February of Christ in Stratton voted to give 11, 1863. Fisk was later buried in Samuel a letter of dismission from the National Cemetery in this church and recommendation Chicago, Illinois. to the Church of Christ in Iowa on After Fisk’s death, Jane October 4, 1857. He was settled in a house near the apparently affiliated with intersection of the Stratton- Stratton’s church until that time. Arlington Rd. and The Grout Samuel’s last marriage was to Pond Access Rd., just south of Susan S. McCandless on May 16, where the Webster Memorial now 1893, at Franklin, Nebraska. stands. Her home was indicated Samuel died at Franklin on April as “Mrs. Grout” on the Beer’s 20, 1904. Atlas of 1869 and she was living there alone in 1870. Jane died of Pliny Fisk Grout, son of Abel consumption on October 11, 1880, and Theodocia Grout, was born on at Stratton. July 5, 1820, at Stratton. He Children of Fisk and Jane were: married Susan “Jane” 1) Lestina Melvina, born Crowningshield on February 7, November 18, 1843, at 1843, at Somerset, Vermont. She Somerset, Vermont; married was born on March 1, 1824, at George A. Williams on Wardsboro, Vermont. Fisk and January 17, 1864, at Stratton, Jane settled in Stratton after their Vermont. marriage on a farm located south 2) William E., born April 25, of where the Webster Memorial is 1845, at Somerset, Vermont; located (a deed dated September died October 29, 1845. 4, 1846, implies that they were 3) Estela F., born February 1, living on 3L8R or 3L9R; however, 1847, at Somerset, Vermont; they may have been living in the died February 15, 1847. old Joel Hale homestead on 5L8R, 4) Henri H., born October 11, where Jane later resided as a 1848, at Somerset, Vermont; widow after the war). In 1844, married Deema Campbell on Jane was still attending school in March 18, 1871, at Stratton. Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1851, Fisk and his cousin, 5) Clifford Eugene, born June 29, Darius Grout, obtained 8L7R and 1852, at Stratton, Vermont; mortgaged this property in 1853. died in 1911; married Ella F. They probably were logging this Magoon. lot together.

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6) Ella A., born April 12, 1855, 2) Emma L., born May 30, 1853. at Stratton, Vermont; died July 3) Clara A., born March 17, 8, 1879. 1856. 7) (a child), born June 4, 1860, at Stratton, Vermont; died Jacob Batchellor Grout, son of August 13, 1860. Abel and Theodocia Grout, was born on May 26, 1829, at Stratton. Henri H. Grout, son of Fisk and He first married Diana L. Follett Jane Grout, was born on October on October 10, 1854, at 11, 1848. He was listed in Cumberland, Rhode Island. Stratton’s school records, Diana apparently passed away attending school in District #3 in within the next few years. 1862. Henri was a painter and Jacob’s second marriage was married Deema Campbell on to Emeline Carter on April 20, March 18, 1871, at Springfield, 1858, at Bellows Falls, Vermont. Massachusetts. They returned to Jacob returned to Stratton and Stratton, where one child was took over his father’s farm under born to them. Apparently, they Little Stratton Mountain and there moved away soon after, but Henri he remained the rest of his life. returned and he was named Jacob was superintendent of among the town paupers in 1888, schools for Stratton in 1862. under the care of Dr. Bliss. The Emeline was admitted to the town also paid CB Williams for Church of Christ in Stratton by furnishings for Henri that year. letter from the 1st Congregational There is no mention of Henri Church in Worcester, Grout in Stratton’s records after Massachusetts, on June 21, 1868. that time. Jacob was baptized and admitted A child of Henri and Deema was: into the church on June 23, 1872. 1) (a daughter), born November Jacob died of consumption on 16, 1872, at Stratton, May 13, 1874, at Stratton. The Vermont; died same day. old farm that his grandfather had owned, at one time Stratton’s William Goodell Grout, son of largest, was abandoned following Abel and Theodocia Grout, was his death. born on August 15, 1826, at Stratton. William married Joel Grout, son of Abel and Hannah Carter on December 31, Dorcas Grout, was born in 1788 at 1846, at Millbury, Massachusetts. Templeton, Massachusetts. He William died in June, 1892, at came to Stratton with his parents Bloomington, Nebraska. in 1806, and was deeded half of Children of William and Hannah: his father’s farm on March 27, 1) Henry Francis, born June 16, 1809. 1849; died November 24, Joel married Lucy Batchellor, 1920; married Elizabeth Ann daughter of Jacob and Lois Grout. Batchellor, at Stratton, on April

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23, 1812. She was born at 2) Martin Chittenden, born Stratton on February 21, 1793. February 3, 1815, at Stratton, Joel bought 87 acres of 5L1R Vermont (baptized in Stratton from his father-in-law, Jacob on August 3, 1818); married Batchellor, in 1812 and built a Lydia Garfield in September, farm there. This lot was located 1837 (lived at Jamestown, New at the corner of what is now the York). West Jamaica Rd. and Mountain 3) Mariah Louisa, born December Rd. Over the next several years, 12, 1816, at Stratton, Vermont Joel added to the farm by (baptized in Stratton on purchasing various surrounding August 3, 1818); died on lots. In 1820, he sold his half of March 25, 1840, at Three the family farm on 6L7R to his Rivers, Massachusetts. brother, Abel. 4) Dorothy Estabrook, born On November 9, 1817, Joel October 19, 1818, at Stratton, and Lucy were accepted as full Vermont (baptized in Stratton members of the Church of Christ on July 25, 1819, and became in Stratton. Lucy was baptized a member on November 9, that same day and she remained a 1831); died March 21, 1907; member of this church for about married Daniel Bigelow in 50 years. 1868 (lived at Warwick, Joel died on February 24, Massachusetts). 1839, and was buried in Ball 5) Mary Ann, born May 17, Cemetery in Stratton. Lucy was 1820, at Stratton, Vermont left a widow at age 45, she never (baptized in Stratton on June remarried and remained at the 3, 1821); died March 22, 1891, farm with her son, Darius and his at Manchester, New family. She sometimes stayed Hampshire; married Patrick with her daughters in Bennington Henry Kelley. or Manchester, Vermont, and she 6) Lucy, born August 10, 1823, at lived out her last years with her Stratton, Vermont (baptized in daughter, Lucy Kelley at Stratton on August 29, 1824); Manchester. Lucy died there on died April 14, 1906; married April 5, 1878. She was buried in John William Kelley (of Ball Cemetery in Stratton. Sunderland, Vt.) on December Children of Joel and Lucy were: 25, 1841, at Stratton, Vermont 1) Pamelia, born November 25, (He was the proprietor of the 1812, at Stratton, Vermont Kelley Stand). (baptized in Stratton on 7) Joel Franklin, born December August 3, 1818); died March 10, 1825, at Stratton, Vermont 5, 1899; married Abner (baptized in Stratton on June Griswald on April 25, 1845 4, 1826) ; died May 9, 1905; (lived at Bennington, married Amanda Melvina Vermont). Wilder on December 31, 1850.

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8) Jacob B., born January 21, he worked for Mr. Garfield as a 1828, at Stratton, Vermont; farm laborer, and when the season died February 11, 1828, at was over, he made shingles for Stratton, Vermont. Mr. Holt - both were apparently 9) Darius A., born May 15, 1829, from the Stratton area. at Stratton, Vermont (baptized Martin married Lydia at Stratton on January 9, Garfield, daughter of Joseph and 1832); died August 27, 1908, Lydia (Stearns) Garfield, in at Jamaica, Vermont; married September, 1837. Lydia was born Louisa Wing on April 11, on February 7, 1815. 1858. Martin did not buy a farm of 10) James, born September 29, his own until after his father’s 1831, at Stratton, Vermont death. He thought perhaps that he (baptized at Stratton on would come back to Stratton and January 9, 1832); died in run the family farm, but he February or March, 1863; decided to stay near Jamestown, married Caroline Pike. while his brother, Darius, took 11) John, born September 29, over the farm in Stratton. 1831, at Stratton, Vermont Martin didn’t think much of (baptized at Stratton on his hometown. He wrote to his January 9, 1832); died in mother, “You cannot be in a August, 1833, at Stratton, worse place to get a living than in Vermont. Stratton, if you go the whole 12) John, born October 23, 1833, country through.” In another at Stratton, Vermont; died letter, he wrote, “...it is a bad March 22, 1836, at Stratton, place where she is (his mother), Vermont. especially in the winter season. 13) Lyman Batchellor, born The snow falls to such a depth October 29, 1837, at Stratton, that makes it bad for her and the Vermont (baptized in Stratton boys getting alone to what it on June 24, 1838); died May would be here...... Snow fell to a 24, 1901; married Theresa depth of four feet last winter, and Ellen Brown. it has not been known to be half so deep before.” Martin ‘s wife, Martin Chittenden Grout, son of Lydia wrote to her mother-in-law, Joel and Lucy Grout, was born at “Stratton appears to us like a cold Stratton, on February 3, 1815. By unfruitful and lonesome place. It 1834, Martin had moved to the has no charms for me except the Jamestown, New York, area in the dear friends that inhabit it.” In extreme southwest corner of that this letter, she also mentioned that state. He was there along with she had never met some of several other individuals from Martin’s family (1848). Stratton and the surrounding area. In 1840, Martin bought a 1 Martin first worked as a bartender farm about 2 /2 miles from at a tavern stand there. In 1835, Jamestown in the town of Carroll,

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New York. They did well with Stratton in September, 1847, and this farm, raising spring wheat, by 1850 he was working for his corn and vegetables, keeping three brother-in-law, JW Kelley, as a milk cows and thirty sheep and a lumberman. That year, Joel was yoke of oxen. living in Sunderland within the Martin died at Poland Kelley Stand - JW Kelley’s home. Township, New York on October Joel built his own sawmill in 16, 1870, and Lydia followed on Sunderland on Roaring branch, November 1, 1894. downstream of Ward’s shingle Children of Martin and Lydia: mill. Joel had Dewey Phillips 1) Joseph B., born July 26, 1838, install a circular saw in this mill, at Jamestown, New York; died but the cost of installation was in May, 1839. more than the mill was worth, so 2) William H. S., born September Joel signed over the mill to 16, 1842, at Carroll, New Phillips. York; died August 10, 1913. On June 5, 1850, Joel and his 3) Jedediah, born July 21, 1844, brother, Darius, purchased the at Carroll, New York; died west half of 4L1R, which was August 25, 1844, at Carroll, adjacent to the family farm. New York. Joel married Amanda 4) James, born July 21, 1846, at Melvina Wilder on December 31, Carroll, New York; died 1850. Melvina, as she was called, November 10, 1920; married was born about 1832. After the Laura Seekin on January 29, marriage, Joel and Amanda 1868. settled in western Sunderland, 5) Martin Chittenden, Jr., born Vermont, along the Stratton July 12, 1851, at Kiantone, Turnpike. There they had five New York; died February 23, children before Amanda’s death 1934, at Frewsburg, New on December 31, 1868. York; married Minnie Emery Joel purchased a logging on December 15, 1885. operation in 1880 from E.W. 6) Lucy Ann, born October 13, Bowker. This mill was built about 1853; died August 3, 1906; 1870 by Osmer Fitch, upon the married Guy Barber. site of a mill erected in 1838 by 7) Lydia M., born June 24, 1857; Phineas White of Putney, died November 21, 1914. Vermont. The Grout Job, as it was called, was officially known Joel Franklin Grout, son of Joel as Joel F. Grout & Sons’ saw and and Lucy Grout, was born at shingle-mill and chair-stock Stratton, on December 10, 1825. factory. It was located in the He lived with his parents on the western part of Stratton (on 5L8R) family farm, located at what is on the east branch of the Deerfield now the corner of Mountain Rd. River. Joel operated this mill for and the West Jamaica Rd. He five years before selling out to his took the Freeman’s oath in sons. Joel then retired and lived

Stratton Families 185 with his son, Arthur, at 1900, they had three boarders: Sunderland. Joel died there on Edward and Marion Sinclair and May 9, 1905. Maud Landman. These people Children of Joel and Amanda: probably worked for the Grouts. 1) Joel Franklin, born June 18, Joel and Irving operated as 1853, at Sunderland, Vermont; Grout Bros. until 1902, when they died January 26, 1914; married sold out and moved to East Ella Augusta Buck on Arlington and Sunderland. They February 28, 1882. had Grout Bros. Lumber in 2) Lillian Isabel, born June 8, Sunderland until Joel died on 1856, at Sunderland, Vermont; January 26, 1914. The business died August 19, 1882. name then changed to Irving E. 3) Edgar Irving, born September Grout. Ella died on September 8, 1860, at Sunderland, 27, 1942. Vermont; died October 28, Children of Joel and Ella were: 1941; married Mary Maria 1) Lillian M., born November 17, Austin on September 16, 1884. 1882; married William M. 4) Nellie Maria, born August 9, Webb on June 28, 1906. 1862, at Sunderland, Vermont; 2) Edith Nellie, born July 13, died March 17, 1939; married 1888, at Stratton, Vermont; Elwin Hart on February 5, died in 1968. 1887, at Stratton, Vermont. 3) Winifred Mary, born 5) Arthur Harmon, born September 11, 1890, at September 8, 1865, at Stratton, Vermont; married Sunderland, Vermont; died Douglas Clayton Montgomery February 11, 1937; married on September 9, 1914. Gratia “Grace” Dunlap on 4) Era Grace, born April 13, May 14, 1885. 1892, at Stratton, Vermont; married Edward Howard on Joel Franklin Grout, Jr., son of September 9, 1918. Joel and Amanda Grout, was born in Sunderland, Vermont, on June Edgar “Irving” Grout, son of 18, 1853. He apparently lived Joel and Amanda Grout, was born with Benjamin and Betsey Moon at Sunderland, Vermont, on in 1859, attending school in September 8, 1860. He married district #2 in Stratton. Mary Maria Austin, daughter of Joel married Ella Buck of Riley and Hannah Austin, on Arlington, Vermont, on February September 16, 1884. Mary was 28, 1882. Joel, or Frank as he born September 3, 1862, at was called, was a lumberman. He Townshend, Vermont. and his brother, Edgar Irving Irving and his brother, Joel Grout bought the Grout Job from Franklin Grout, Jr. bought the their father, Joel Franklin Grout, Grout Job from their father, Joel in 1885. They lived near the mill Franklin Grout, Sr., in 1885. in Stratton in the large complex They lived near the mill in that developed there at the site. In Stratton in the large complex

Stratton Families 186 there at the site. In 1900, the Stratton, on October 2, 1885. He Grouts also had a boarder, Etta graduated from Burr and Burton Chamberlain, who was born in Seminary in 1906 and from UVM June, 1884. in 1910. Leo married Helen Edgar and Joel operated as Louise Russell on September 4, Grout Bros. until 1902, when they 1913. Leo and Helen lived in sold out and moved to East Arlington, Vermont. Arlington and Sunderland. They Leo was Arlington’s had Grout Bros. Lumber in representative to the state Sunderland until Joel died on legislature for the 1922/3 session. January 26, 1914. The business He was a Civil Engineer and name then changed to Irving E. practiced that profession until his Grout. death. Leo died on March 14, Mary died July 29 (or 30), 1946. Helen had died a few 1935. Irving died on October 28, months earlier, on September 3, 1941. 1945. Children of Irving and Mary: Children of Leo and Helen: 1) Leo Irving, born October 2, 1) Jeannette Simmons, married 1885, at Stratton, Vermont; Eugene Victor Nuss. died March 14, 1926; married 2) Ina Mae Helen Louise Russell on September 4, 1913. Roy Joel Grout, son of Irving and 2) Ina Mae, born August 2, 1888, Mary Grout, was born at Stratton, at Stratton, Vermont; married on January 9, 1890. He graduated James Gordon Button on from Burr and Burton Seminary September 16, 1914, in New in 1910. York. Roy served during WWI. He 3) Roy Joel, born January 9, was in France for six months in 1890, at Stratton, Vermont; Company C., of the 312 died December 16, 1975; Ammunitions. He married married Marilla Howard on Marilla Howard on July 14, 1927. July 14, 1927. Roy died December 16, 1975 and 4) Max Arthur, born December 8, Marilla died on February 25, 1896, at Stratton, Vermont; 1982. died July 16, 1966; married 1) Children of Roy and Marilla were: Carolyn P. Hard on November 1) Irving Howard, married Jean 24, 1920 2) Ruth Hawkins on Retha Wallace. November 17, 1928. 2) Freeman Stratton, married 1) 5) Amy Lillian, born January 3, Ellen Hill 2) Jean Perrone 1902, at Stratton, Vermont; Bacon. married Walter Keough on Max Arthur Grout, son of Irving October 8, 1918. and Mary Grout, was born on

December 8, 1896, at Stratton. Leo Irving Grout, son of Irving He married Carolyn P. Hard, and Mary Grout, was born at daughter of William and Sarah

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Hard, on November 24, 1920. live in Sunderland. In 1870, Carolyn died on March 29, 1926, Louisa’s father had moved in with at East Arlington, Vermont. Max them and by 1880, the Grouts had then married Ruth Hawkins on moved away from Stratton, November 17, 1928. He passed settling in Wardsboro, Vermont. away on July 16, 1966 and she Louise died in 1902 and died on August 29, 1968. Darius died in 1908. They were A child of Max and Carolyn was: buried in the West Wardsboro 1) Mary Elizabeth, married Cemetery. Edward Joseph Saunders. Children of Darius and Louisa: 1) Reuben B., born November 8, Children of Max and Ruth were: 1858, at Stratton, Vermont; 2) Joyce Marion, married died January 24, 1939, in William Bennett. Jamaica, Vermont. 3) Dorothy Ruth, married Donald 2) Lucy L., born November 22, Decker Dusha. 1859, at Stratton, Vermont; 4) Alden Max, married Margaret died in January, 1898; married Orchitt. Frank Chase. 3) Charles D., born November 4, Darius A. Grout, son of Joel and 1860, at Stratton, Vermont; Lucy Grout, was born on May 15, died October 22, 1863, at 1829, at Stratton. He grew up on Stratton, Vermont (of the family farm, located at the diphtheria). corner of Mountain Rd. and the 4) Mary Louise, born January 26, West Jamaica Rd.. 1862, at Stratton, Vermont; In 1850, Darius and his died in 1933; married Fay Ellis brother, Joel, purchased part of in August, 1881. 4L1R which was adjacent to the 5) Martha J., born March 25, family farm. Darius took the 1863, at Stratton, Vermont; Freeman’s oath in Stratton on married William Sutton in September 3, 1850. In 1851, April, 1883. Darius and his cousin, Pliney Fisk 6) Emily A., born July 16, 1865, Grout, together purchased 8L7R at Stratton, Vermont; died and they apparently logged that August 19, 1868, at Stratton, lot. Vermont. Darius married Louisa Wing, daughter of Samuel and Lucinda James Grout, son of Joel and Wing, on April 11, 1858, at Lucy Grout, was born September Stratton. Louisa was born in 1832 29, 1831, at Stratton. James at Livermore, New York. married Caroline Amelia Pike, Darius eventually took over daughter of Moses and Dorcas the family farm. He and Louisa Pike, at Somerset, Vermont. She lived there with Darius’s mother, was born on July 24, 1833, at Lucy, for many years. Lucy Somerset. James and Caroline moved out in 1866 and went to were ‘first cousins once removed.’

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Lucy (Batchellor) Grout James Grout (1793 – 1878) (1831 – 1863)

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Joel Franklin Grout Amanda “Melvina” (Wilder) (1825 – 1905) Grout (1832 – 1868)

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In 1854, Thomas Converse a scout. James volunteered to go. was living with the Grouts in He advanced along the edge until Stratton and attending school in he had learned the truth and was district #4. In 1856, the Grouts returning. It appeared that he were living in western had flanked a squad of 12 or 15 Sunderland, Vermont, near rebels. They allowed him to pass James’s brother Joel, along the unmolested, but as he returned, Stratton Turnpike. they suddenly sprang up out of the At the outbreak of the Civil grass and commanded him to halt, War, James decided to enlist, but he kept right on. Again and doing so in October, 1861. again, the order was repeated, but Evidently, his family became he heeded it not. Then they upset with him for enlisting, and opened upon him and the bullets on that very night Caroline was rattled all about him, before and badly burned when a lamp she behind, but he kept hurriedly on was lighting exploded on her. and to the surprise of our men, She suffered quietly for thirteen returned unscathed to his post. days with James at her side. He was asked why he did not James’s sister, Pamelia, was there surrender. His reply, ‘I might when the accident happened. She have perished, but surrender, I escaped with only minor burns, would not in sight of my then rushed back to help Caroline. comrades.’ As a soldier, he was Pamelia managed to put out the brave almost to rashness. As a flames, but Caroline was badly companion and friend, he was burned and blistered from the honest and trustworthy.” This waist up. She died on October 23, company was among the Union 1861. Army at Harpers Ferry that After Caroline’s death, James surrendered. Fortunately, this went off to war, leaving behind group was paroled and his three children. He served with immediately marched to Company K of the 9th Vermont Annapolis, Maryland. The 9th Volunteers. was then sent to Camp Douglas in In August, 1862, the 9th was Chicago, Illinois, where James stationed at Camp Siegel in spent much of his time working as Winchester, Virginia, and in a carpenter. He became sick and September, 1862, his company apparently suffered from was on picket duty. They were consumption (tuberculosis) He among the Union defenders at died there in the camp’s hospital Harpers Ferry, Virginia. The in February or March, 1863. His company wanted to make James body was sent home to his father- first corporal, but his reply was in-law, Moses Pike, and James that he was not born to command. was buried next to Caroline in Yet James “was second to none Pike Hollow Cemetery at Stratton, for bravery.” During that time, under a military headstone. “the company wanted to send out

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Following the death of home to help his brother, Darius Caroline, the children were run the family farm. This he did evidently placed in the care of not do, instead he enlisted on James’ sister, Dorothy (or perhaps February 8, 1865, at Boston, just the boy was placed in her Massachusetts, for a three-year care). term in the US Engineer Corps. James and Caroline’s children: At the time of enlistment he gave 1) Ella, born December 28, 1853; his occupation as a blacksmith. died March 27, 1903; married Lyman was first stationed at George Brooks in 1880. Bedloe’s Island, New York 2) Leon Moses, died in July, Harbor, where he was sick with 1900, and was buried in the measles and missed a hard Arlington Cemetery in campaign that the Engineer Corps Washington, D. C. under the participated in. In February, name of A. L. Carson, a name 1865, Lyman was stationed at Fort adopted by him in the army. Independence, at Boston Harbor, 3) Helena, born in 1857; died in waiting to return to Bedloe’s May 1929; married Tom Island. In May, 1865, his unit Johnson in 1873. was sent to Washington, DC and then Arlington Heights, near Note: The above was copied from a letter sent headquarters of the Army of the by Lt. Leavenworth upon James’ death. I Potomac. By November, they copied this from a letter sent to me by were stationed in Willet’s Point, Frances Grout Brown. New York, where Theresa was

able to join him and they set up a Lyman Batchellor Grout, son of home. They remained there to the Joel and Lucy Grout, was born on end of Lyman’s enlistment. October 29, 1837, at Stratton. He Lyman was discharged on left home about 1853 while still February 8, 1868. He passed quite young and was working in away on May 24, 1901. Mansville (possibly Mansfield, Children of Lyman and Theresa: Massachusetts). By 1861, he had 1) Edith M., born June 5, 1868; acquired a job at McLean Asylum married Fred Stauffer in 1889. in East Cambridge, 2) Cora Pauline, born August 18 Massachusetts. 187?; married D.S. Saunders Lyman married Theresa Ellen on March 17, 1903. Brown in June, 1863, at East 3) Irving Elmer, born January 27, Cambridge. They were married 1875; died in 1972; married the day that Lyman quit work at Adeline Mills in September, the asylum. They settled at Lynn, 1901. Massachusetts, where Lyman 4) Leland Roy, born October 29, went to work for Ellen’s brother, 1878; married Julia M. Olsen who was drafted soon thereafter. on November 6, 1901. Lyman was left without work 5) Ellena Francina, born August for a time, and discussed with his 15, 1880; married 1) John mother, the option of returning

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Vulgamont 2) T.W. Heaslop in in 1832. That year, the road from 1905. there to Sunderland was discontinued by the town and Hudson Grout, son of Abel and replaced by the Stratton Turnpike, Dorcas Grout, was born on April which followed approximately the 27, 1800, at Brattleboro, Vermont. same route. He married Silence Babcock, daughter of David and Sarah Babcock, on June 11, 1823, at Stratton, by Abel Grout, Justice of the Peace. Silence was born on May 6, 1799. The Grouts moved around, settling in various places. On January 15, 1824, Hudson purchased 50 acres of the northeast corner of 5L6R in Stratton from Phineas White of Putney, Vermont. The Grouts probably lived there for a time. A map of 1921 indicates that an old foundation exists on this parcel. Silence became a member of the Church of Christ in Stratton Hudson Grout on March 6, 1825, and she was (1800 – 1878) baptized the same day. By 1829, it appears that the Photo courtesy of Frances Grout Brown Grouts settled along the road to In 1835, Hudson sold his Sunderland on the east half of Stratton property. He and his 5L7R (see E. Allen on McClellans family were living in Sunderland, Map of 1856). He had also Vermont, at that time. purchased the east half of the west About 1836, the Grouts half of 5L6R. settled on a farm in 3L7R in In 1829, Hudson was granted Stratton - land that Hudson’s a license to operate an Inn in brother, Abel, had purchased on Stratton. This probably was May 18, 1836. This was the farm operated out of the house on the which Ephraim and Leander east half of 5L7R. The 1830 Carter had cleared on the west census shows that another couple side of the Pond which now bears resided in this same house. This the Grout name. Initially, the may have been Ebenezer Allen pond was known as Dr. Harvey’s and his wife. Allen received a Pond and then Holman Pond and license to operate an Inn in 1830. as late as 1856 it was called Town records indicate that this Carter Pond. By 1869, the pond was still the Hudson Grout house was known as Grout Pond,

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Henrietta A. Fuller of East for many years. Later, this farm Arlington, Vermont. was owned by Charlotte’s father, Stephen was a minister of the Charles Fay. Their farm also Congregational Church, holding marked the beginning of the services when no minister was Stratton Mountain Club’s trail to available. He was well-educated the top of the mountain. and enjoyed studying Greek and Currently, the remains of the Latin. He was an avid botanist cellar hole and the large and maintained a large collection foundation of the old barn are all of plants and flowers. that mark the spot of this farm. In their later years, the Grouts Edwin and Charlotte also moved to Riverside, California, reared Gertrude Tracy, daughter where Stephen became president of a cousin. She attended of the local Botany Club. While Stratton’s 2nd school district in there, he also took up the study of 1865. Edwin’s father, Hudson Spanish. Stephen died at Grout and Charlotte’s father, Riverside on February 4, 1906. Charles Fay, both old and A child of Stephen and Melendy: widowed, spent their last years in 1) Mable Edwin and Charlotte’s home. In 1880, the Grouts also had a Children of Stephen and boarder, Lucy Cook, aged 40 Henrietta: living with them. 2) Harry, married Veeda Billings Edwin was a charter member in 1897. of Stratton’s Free-Will Baptist 3) Edith Church, and he became a deacon of that church. Edwin also served Edwin Leroy Grout, son of as Justice of the Peace. Hudson and Silence Grout, was Charlotte passed away at born on May 20, 1829. When Stratton on January 16, 1895. Edwin was a child, his feet were Edwin remained on the farm and malformed, making him his son, Charles, had taken over handicapped. He first walked its operation. When Charles’s when he was three years old. family moved to Townshend, When Edwin was six, his Vermont, about 1902, Edwin went father settled on the farm near with them. Apparently, the old Grout Pond. Edwin took the farm was abandoned at that time. Freeman’s oath in Stratton on Edwin died on February 2, September 3, 1850, and he 1913, at Townshend. He and married Charlotte Fay, daughter Charlotte were buried in Ball of Charles and Asenath Fay, on Cemetery. July 1, 1851. Charlotte was born Children of Edwin and Charlotte: at Stratton on February 23, 1833. 1) Celia A., born October 24, The Grouts lived in Stratton 1852, at Stratton, Vermont; on a farm on Shepardson Rd.. died December 21, 1911; This had been the Batchellor farm

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married William J. Smith (of Townshend’s Representative in Athol, MA). the State legislature in 1910/1. 2) Silence Caroline (Carrie), born He served again in 1929/30. July 27, 1859, at Stratton, Charles also was elected State Vermont; died November 14, Senator of Windham County, 1884, at Stratton, Vermont. serving in 1931/2. 3) Charles Hudson, born May 26, 1869, at Stratton, Vermont; died February 12, 1934, at Townshend, Vermont; married Flora M. Eddy on June 6, 1894, at Stratton, Vermont.

Charles Hudson Grout, son of Edwin and Charlotte Grout, was born May 26, 1869, at Stratton. Charles married Flora Marcia Eddy, daughter of Jonathan and Arvilla (Gale) Eddy of Newfane, on June 6, 1894, at Newfane, Vermont. Flora was born there on September 22, 1871. Charles finished schooling at LeLand and Gray Seminary at Townshend, Vermont, then he Charles Hudson Grout was employed as a teacher for (1869 – 1934) several years. The Grouts lived at Stratton Photo from on the farm of Charles’ father Vermont Government Yearbook 1931/2. from the time of their marriage Charles died February 12, until about 1902. In 1900, 1934, at Townshend, Vermont. Charles’s father, Edwin Grout, Flora survived until April 21, was living with them. While in 1960. Stratton and probably for the Children of Charles and Flora: remainder of his life, Charles was 1) Paul Harold, born April 9, a member of the Free-Will Baptist 1895, at Stratton, Vermont; Church. In 1894/5, he served as died June 20, 1964, at Bay Stratton’s Representative in the Pines, Florida; married state legislature. Catherine Starr on August 15, In 1902, Charles bought the 1925. Mercantile business of Barber 2) Gerald Edwin, born August Brothers at Townshend, which he 14, 1896, at Stratton, conducted until his death. He Vermont; died November 9, served as jail commissioner in 1896, at Stratton, Vermont (of Townshend and he was measles).

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3) Ethelyn Charlotte, born in following his marriage. The June, 1904, at West Grouts then lived first at Warwick Townshend, Vermont; married and then Athol, Massachusetts. Leslie Rhoades on July 1, In 1908, they settled at 1922. Townshend, Vermont, and 4) Earl Richard Eddy, born remained there for the remainder February 15, 1910; died March of their lives. 10, 1910. Adelaide died on December 23, 1921, and John followed on John A. Grout, son of Hudson March 11, 1923, both at and Silence Grout, was born on Townshend. October 30, 1837, on his father’s A child of John and Adelaide was: farm, near Grout Pond, in 1) Della Florence (adopted), Stratton. married Moses Pike Grout on While still young and June 11, 1907 (divorced). probably following his mother’s death, John lived with his sister Joel Grout, son of Hudson and Lucy Tracy and remained with her Silence Grout, was born on May until the beginning of the Civil 17, 1842, on his father’s farm, War. John enlisted on September near Grout Pond, in Stratton. 6, 1861, aged 25, and mustered Joel served during the Civil into Company F of the Vermont War, mustering into service on 4th Regiment on September 26, July 9, 1862, into Company I of 1861. He reenlisted on December the 9th Vermont Regiment. He 15, 1863, he was transferred to nearly died of the measles, early Company A and he was promoted in his enlistment. He was shot to corporal. John mustered out through the ankle during the with his company and regiment Battle of Seven Pines on October on July 13, 1865. During his 27, 1864. As a result of this enlistment, he had participated in wound he had a slight limp for the the battles of Bull Run, Antietam, remainder of his life. Gettysburg, both battles of the Joel returned home and married Wilderness, and Cedar Creek. Martha Jane Pike, daughter of Following the war, John Moses and Dorcas Pike, on married Phoebe Smith in 1866. January 1, 1866, at Stratton. His second marriage was to Martha was born in Somerset, Adelaide Raynor, daughter of Vermont, on March 29, 1843. Jacob and Sabrina Raynor, on After the marriage, Joel and May 1, 1872, at Warwick, Martha purchased the Lyman Massachusetts. Adelaide was farm on Newfane Hill, in born on June 27, 1842, at Athol, Newfane, Vermont. They added Massachusetts. quite a bit of land to the original John was a farmer and he farm and remained thereon for the kept a farm in Northfield, remainder of their lives. Joel was Massachusetts, for nine years a deacon of the Newfane

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Congregational Church. He died May 26, 1964, at farmed all his life and he also kept Newfane, Vermont; married bees. Fannie Marilla Flynn on Martha died on August 14, December 25, 1902, at West 1911, at Newfane, and Joel died Townshend, Vermont. in 1921. 9) John Stanley, born August 31, Children of Joel and Martha were: 1882, at Newfane, Vermont; 1) Abel Joel, born March 24, died in infancy. 1867, at Newfane, Vermont; 10) Raymond S., born February died March 27, 1947, at 28, 1886, at Newfane, Bradenton, Florida; married Vermont; died July 3, 1911; Grace Preston on July 21, married M. Eliza Temple on 1893. February 6, 1909 (Eliza was 2) Edward John, born February born on February 6, 1889; died 17, 1870, at Newfane, May 14, 1981 - they were Vermont; married 1) Mary A. buried in Newfane). (Bates) Hescock 2) Eva (?). 3) Edwin J., stillborn February Abel Joel Grout, son of Joel and 17, 1870, at Newfane, Martha Grout, was born on March Vermont. 24, 1867, at Newfane, Vermont. 4) Grace M., born July 18, 1872, Although Abel was never a citizen at Newfane, Vermont; died of Stratton, he played an November 16, 1873, at important role in the area and so Newfane, Vermont. he has been included here. Abel 5) Moses Pike, born August 26, graduated from UVM, Burlington, 1874, at Newfane, Vermont; Vermont, in 1890, then continued died October 11, 1961, at Cape his education at Columbia Nadick, Maine; married 1) University in New York, Della Florence Grout (his obtaining a Ph.D. in 1897. Abel adopted cousin) on June 11, married Grace Preston on July 21, 1907 (divorced) 2) Maude 1893. Grace was born in 1864. Emmeline (Butler) Grout Abel taught in normal and (widow of his brother, Leon). high schools in Vermont and New 6) Leon Everett, born September Hampshire. In 1899, he became 14, 1877, at Newfane, instructor of botany at Bays High Vermont; died in March, 1926, School in New Brighton, Staten at Jamaica, Vermont; married Island, New York, where he Maude Emmeline Butler on taught until retirement. He was a April 29, 1903. fellow of the American 7) Arthur A., born January 24, Association of the Advancement 1880, at Newfane, Vermont; of Science and wrote several died July 31, 1882, at books on mosses. Newfane, Vermont. 8) Guy Elmer, born August 31, 1882, at Newfane, Vermont;

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Joel Grout Martha Jane (Pike) Grout (1842 – 1921) (1843 – 1911)

Photo courtesy of the Ethel Eddy Collection Photo courtesy of the Ethel Eddy Collection

Edwin LeRoy Grout Charlotte (Fay) Grout (1829 – 1913) (1833 – 1895)

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Family of Joel and Martha Grout [back l-r] sons, Edd, Leon, Guy, Raymond and Abel [center] Mrs. Edd Grout, Joel, Martha and Moses [front] two more of the Grout boys’ wives and an unknown girl on the right.

Photo courtesy of the Ethel Eddy Collection

Edwin, John and Joel Grout sons of Hudson and Silence Grout

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Abel built a log cabin he was a lumberman and had settled called Moss Rock Cabin on in Stratton prior to the marriage. Newfane Hill that overlooked the Eventually, they were also pond and the farm where he was divorced and Edward remarried to born. He spent his summers at Eva (?). The Grouts resettled in the cabin and traveled around the Dover, Vermont. country collecting botanical Additional Sources for the above Grout specimens. After retirement, he families: spent his winters in Florida. Vermont Families in 1791, Vol. 2 VGS At one point, Abel expressed 1997 his dissatisfaction with the Grout Family History by Abel Grout hospitals of this area to his doctor, Dr. Otis. This led to a Guild partnership, and Abel financed an Lewis Guild, son of Samuel and independent clinic for Dr. Otis in Ruth (Morse) Guild, was born on Townshend, Vermont, naming it April 28, 1783, at Franklin, for Mrs. Grout. Since that time, Massachusetts. Lewis purchased Grace Cottage has provided 126 acres in Stratton - the east medical services for this area. part of 3L4R -on February 24, Several of Stratton’s citizens were 1808, from Benjamin Ware, Jr. of born there and some have died Wrentham, Massachusetts. there. The books on mosses that Lewis settled upon his new Abel had written are still used in farm and married Sally Waite, a Universities across the country. daughter of John Waite, at The proceeds all go to Grace Stratton on May 3, 1809. They Cottage. were married by George Oliver, Abel died at Bradenton, Justice of the Peace. Sally was Florida, on March 27, 1947, born between 1780 and 1784. Grace also died that year at The Guilds’ farm was located Brattleboro. They were buried in where the town hall, town offices Woodlawn Cemetery in Newfane. and the Stratton church are today. A child of Abel and Grace was: In 1810, the census had 1) Preston Joel, born May 24, Lewis listed as “Lewis Gould.” 1898; died in January, 1903. The census also stated that the Guilds had a boy under 10 living Edward John Grout, son of Joel with them. This may have been a and Martha Grout, was born in mistake, since it appears that the 1870 at Newfane, Vermont. He child was actually their daughter, married Mary A. (Bates) Hescock, Sally. The 1820 and 1830 daughter of E.W. and Estella censuses also show the name as (Colburn) Bates, on December 21, Gould. 1895, at Stratton. Mary was born On February 2, 1812, the in 1869 at Manchester, Vermont, Guilds were take into the Church and divorced her first husband. of Christ in Stratton and they Edward or E. J. as he was called, were both baptized at that time.

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In the days that followed, their born July 1, 1787, a daughter of two children were also baptized. Giles and Hulda Webster of In 1830, Lewis sold 17 acres Wilmington, Vermont. Moses on the northeast corner of his Guillow and Dolly Webster were farm to Benjamin Moon. The married at Gill, Massachusetts, on Guilds remained in Stratton until November 14, 1807. 1834. On January 12, 1834, the In 1818, Moses purchased the Guilds, along with their east half of 4L3R, where they daughters, Sally and Ruth, were apparently settled into the old given letters of dismission from Garfield farm east of what is now the Church. These letters were Ball Cemetery. In 1820, there used for admission into another was another man over 45 living in church. Their new church was their home as well as two boys probably in Franklin, under 16. Eunice was probably Massachusetts, since they the female listed as aged 16 to 26. evidently had relocated there. Moses and Eunice were Lewis sold his farm to accepted into the Church of Christ William G. Pike on November 17, in Stratton on March 6, 1825, and 1835. they were baptized at that time, Children of Lewis and Sally were: along with their children. 1) Sally, born March 13, 1810, at The Guillows moved away Stratton, Vermont. from Stratton before 1830. Moses 2) Harvey Pond, born July 22, never sold the land, therefore, it 1811, at Stratton, Vermont. became the property of Paul 3) Ruth Morse, born May 16, Wheeler of Wardsboro, Vermont, 1813, at Stratton, Vermont who held a mortgage on it. (baptized in Stratton in June, The Guillows may have been 1814). related to Rufus and Sarah 4) Daniel Bond, born February Guillow who were warned out of 22, 1817, at Stratton, Vermont Wardsboro on March 6, 1807, and (baptized in Stratton in July, again on September 21, 1811. 1817). This Rufus Guillow was most 5) Betsey Thatcher, born October likely born March 26, 1773, at 31, 1819, at Stratton, Vermont Norton, Massachusetts, - a son of (baptized in Stratton on June Francis and Molly (Derby) 11, 1820). Guillow. Therefore, it is possible 6) Philenia Case, born June 25, that Moses was also a son of 1822, at Stratton, Vermont. Francis and Molly Guillow. Children of Moses and Eunice: Guillow 1) Jonathan Smead Moses Guillow was born before 2) Harrietta 1775. He and his wife, Eunice, 3) Lodica settled in Stratton about 1818. It 4) Lanson appears that Moses previously had 5) George Webster been married to Dolly Webster,

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Gurney Eleanor, was born in 1722. Four Abner Gurney, a son of Joseph of their children settled in Jr. and Olive (Torrey) Gurney, Stratton. Eleanor passed away at was born on January 16, 1812, at Leominster on March 7, 1794, Abington, Massachusetts. Abner aged 67 years, and Samuel died and his wife, Armelia, settled in there on July 5, 1805, aged 86 Stratton just after 1850. On years. January 24, 1853, Abner and Four of Samuel and Eleanor’s Armelia, along with Abner’s children: Joel, Levi, Sarah and brother and sister-in-law, Gridley Elizabeth, later settled in Stratton and Esther Gurney all of Stratton, in the southwest part of town near sold property that included the Grout Pond. Their son, mill on 3L8R and 3L9R to Allen Benjamin, also owned land in and Joseph Parkhurst. In 1855, Stratton. A. Gurney had two children Children of Samuel and Eleanor: attending school in district #3. 1) Benjamin, born April 13, The Gurneys were no longer in 1751, at Leominster, Stratton in 1860. Massachusetts. 2) John, born June 28, 1753, at Leominster, Massachusetts. Gridley Gurney, son of Joseph 3) David, born February 7, 1756, Jr. and Olive (Torrey) Gurney, at Leominster, Massachusetts. was born on February 27, 1817, at 4) Israel, born February 16, 1758, Abington, Massachusetts. Gridley at Leominster, Massachusetts. and his wife, Esther, settled in 5) Silas, born May 28, 1760, at Stratton just after 1850. On Leominster, Massachusetts. January 24, 1853, Gridley and 6) Joel, born July 8, 1762, at Esther, along with Gridley’s Leominster, Massachusetts; brother and sister-in-law, Abner married Jana Ramor on April and Armelia Gurney, all of 26, 1785, at Westminster, Stratton, sold property that Massachusetts. included the mill on 3L8R and 7) Levi, born December 9, 1765, 3L9R to Allen and Joseph at Leominster, Massachusetts; Parkhurst. The Gurneys were no died July 15, 1842, at Stratton; longer in Stratton in 1860. married Mercy (?).

8) Sarah, married John Ramor on H February 17, 1789, at Westminster, Massachusetts. 9) Elizabeth, born April 11, Hale 1770, at Leominster, The Hale family of Stratton Massachusetts; died about originated from Leominster, 1808; married Samuel Boutell Massachusetts. The progenitor of on November 25, 1790. this family was Samuel Hale who was born in 1719. His wife,

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Joel Hale, son of Samuel and Children of Joel and Jenny were: Eleanor Hale, was born at 1) Joel, baptized February 11, Leominster, Massachusetts, on 1787, at Leominster, July 8, 1762. He was living in Massachusetts. Fitchburg, Massachusetts, at the 2) Eleanor, baptized February 15, beginning of the American 1789, at Leominster, Revolution. Joel was a Private in Massachusetts (she was of Captain Benjamin Edgell’s Stratton at that time). Company, Colonel John Jacobs’s 3) Levi, baptized February 16, Regiment. He enlisted on July 1, 1794, at Leominster, 1778, and served until January 1, Massachusetts. 1779. He was also recorded in a 4) Polly, baptized February 16, list of men from Leominster at 1794, at Leominster, Camp Totoway, who served for Massachusetts. six months in the Continental Army from July 8, 1780, to Levi Hale, son of Samuel and January 12, 1781. Eleanor Hale, was born on Joel purchased the east half of December 9, 1765, at Leominster, 5L8R in Stratton on September Massachusetts. Levi’s wife, 17, 1784, from Paul Thurston for Mercy, was born in 1774. 30 pounds. He married Jana Levi purchased the east half “Jenny” Ramor on April 26, 1785, of 4L8R in Stratton, from Jared at Westminster, Massachusetts, Blood on May 28, 1788, and the then moved to Stratton about Hales settled there about 1791. 1788, settling on his property The Hale farm was located north there. His lot was located near the and west of what is now called present site of the Webster Grout Pond. The remains of the Memorial. His home may have house can still be found along the existed south of the road where an Grout Pond Access Rd.. The old foundation can still be seen. 1869 Beer’s Atlas shows that J C. In 1791, Joel was head of a Covey was living there. household that included a son Levi purchased extensive over 16, a son under 16, his wife amounts of land in Stratton, and two daughters. He purchased including 35 of the original rights several additional land parcels in to Stratton’s undivided lands in Stratton over the next few years the western part of town at a tax- and the Hales were living in sale in 1798. Stratton as late as 1795. They had In 1800, Levi, his wife and moved to Easton, New York, by two sons under ten were living in June 14, 1798. In 1800, Joel Stratton. Levi and Mercy joined leased his farm to Joseph Closson the Church of Christ in Stratton of Easton. on February 2, 1812, and their eight children were baptized within the next two days.

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In 1820, there were seven August 28, 1824, at Stratton, males and three females living Vermont. under his roof. In 1830, Levi and 3) Bezaleel (twin), born Mercy had three sons living at November 11, 1801, at home, all aged 20 to 30 - two were Stratton, Vermont (he took the evidently married and Freeman’s oath in Stratton on accompanied by their spouses. September 6, 1825). Their son, Eliab, was evidently 4) Joanna (twin), born November the unmarried member of that 11, 1801, at Stratton, group. There were also two Vermont. children under five living in their 5) Jonas, born March 23, 1803, at home at that time. Stratton, Vermont; married On July 16, 1830, Levi signed Marena Kidder on April 12, over his farm to his sons Eli and 1827, at Stratton, Vermont. Elias for their promise to care for 6) Salome, born August 8, 1804, their father and mother. The at Stratton, Vermont; died agreement stated that each would February 22, 1884, at Stratton, get an undivided third of Levi’s Vermont; married Joseph Pike stock of cattle, horses, sheep and on May 14, 1828, at Stratton, swine. Their daughter, Joanna, Vermont. was to receive 100 dollars and all 7) Eli (twin), born August 17, the household furniture and that 1806, at Stratton, Vermont; Eli and Elias shall provide a home married Clarissa (?). for her as long as she remains 8) Elias (twin), born August 17, single. 1806, at Stratton, Vermont; In March, 1834, Eli and Elias married 1) Nancy Morse on sold the farm back to their father, April 15, 1832, at Stratton, who in turn sold it to his son-in- Vermont 2) Marietta (?). law, Joseph Pike. The Hales probably spent their last years Levi Hale, Jr., son of Levi and living with the Pikes. Mercy Hale, was born on Levi died on July 15, 1842, at December 12, 1799, at Stratton. Stratton and was buried in Willis He married Cynthia Scott, Cemetery. Mercy died on October daughter of Ira and Submit Scott, 19, 1853, and she was buried there on August 28, 1824. beside Levi. Levi purchased a 60-acre lot Children of Levi and Mercy were: in the northeast corner of Stratton 1) Israel, born September 22, Gore on March 7, 1825, from 1797, at Stratton, Vermont (he William G. Pike. This was a lot took the Freeman’s oath in that originally belonged to Jacob Stratton on March 29, 1820). Goodell. The house was evidently 2) Levi Jr., born December 12, located on the opposite side of the 1799, at Stratton, Vermont; junction of the roads now called married Cynthia Scott on Pike Hollow Rd. and Penny Avenue (the Luz Williams lot).

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On September 26, 1827, Levi Eli Hale, son of Levi and Mercy purchased one acre of Levi Hale, was born on August 17, Knight’s sawmill lot. It appears 1806, at Stratton, and grew up on he did not purchase the mill itself, the family farm located on the east since William G. Pike purchased half of 4L8R, northwest of what is the mill on this same day from now Grout Pond. In 1830, Eli Knight. The mill was later known and his twin brother, Elias, as the Lyman sawmill. purchased the family farm from Levi was listed as head of a their father with an agreement household in Stratton in 1830. that they would care for their On February 5, 1830, he sold the parents for the remainder of their northeast corner of his land, with lives; however, they sold the farm exception of the mill and mill back to their father in 1834, and yard, to William Howe of moved away, apparently to Stratton, but he bought it back in Wardsboro, Vermont. In 1831, October of the same year. Eli purchased the east half of On October 16, 1834, Levi 5L8R. In 1834, Eli and Elias also was received as a full member of sold the east half of 5L8R to the Church of Christ in Stratton. Phineas White. Six years later, On March 29, 1837, Levi sold his the great Whig Convention met land in Stratton Gore to Warren on this lot and 15,000 people Higley. The Hales then moved gathered there to hear Daniel away from Stratton after the sale; Webster speak. however, Levi either returned or Stratton’s church records had not moved far away, since the indicate that Eli and his brothers, church records indicate that he Elias and Levi, were accepted as and his brothers Elias and Eli members of the Church of Christ were accepted as members of the in Stratton, sometime between Church sometime between 1840 1840 and 1846. Eli had married and 1846. Elias and Eli were Clarissa (?) by 1845. Clarissa was living in Sunderland, Vermont, in born about 1820. The Hales had 1850. settled in Sunderland, Vermont, Children of Levi and Cynthia: by 1850, and they were listed in 1) Israel, born on October 2, Sunderland’s census of that year. 1825, at Stratton, Vermont; Children of Eli and Clarrissa: died October 20, 1825. 1) Emma, born about 1845. 2) Sarah M., born in 1826; died 2) George, born in 1850. February 2, 1836. 3) Malvina M., born January 14, Elias Hale, son of Levi and 1837, at Stratton, Vermont; Mercy Hale, was born on August married Jared Newton Scott on 17, 1806, at Stratton. There, he June 20, 1864. married Nancy Morse, daughter of 4) Lucien, died October 21, 1831. Jonathan and Azubah Morse, on April 5, 1832. Nancy was born on September 16, 1803. Nancy

Stratton Families 205 bought land from her father on Jonas married Marena March 22, 1829. The Hales may Kidder, daughter of Abel and have lived on on 4L8R or 5L8R Mary Kidder, on April 12, 1827, after the marriage. Elias also at Stratton. Jonas purchased the owned part interest in his father’s east half of 6L8R from his father farm. on October 29, 1828. They may Elias was appointed by the have settled on this lot, located Church of Christ in Stratton to about half a mile north of where collect the church tax that was the Webster Monument stands created to pay a full-time minister today. Jonas sold this lot on on May 24, 1831. January 18, 1834, and the Hales The Hales sold their lot to apparently left Stratton later that Harvey Lyon on February 4, 1834, year. and evidently left Stratton at that A child of Jonas and Marena was: time. In 1839, they were living in 1) Mercy Guild (baptized in Wardsboro, Vermont. In 1834, Stratton on July 6, 1834). Elias and Eli also sold the east half of 5L8R to Phineas White. Joel Hale was born about 1798. Six years later, the great Whig He was very likely a member of Convention met on this lot and the above Hale family, but his 15,000 people gathered there to relationship has not been hear Daniel Webster speak. determined. Stratton’s church records Joel apparently was living in indicate that Elias and his Wardsboro, Vermont, when he brothers Eli and Levi were purchased 6L4R and part of 7L4R accepted as members of the in 1830. Church of Christ in Stratton Joel married Chloe Willis, sometime between 1840 and 1846. daughter of Samuel and Lydia By 1850, Elias had resettled in Willis, on March 28, 1844, at Sunderland, Vermont, and he was Somerset, Vermont. Chloe was listed in that town’s 1850 census born on July 24, 1811, at with his second wife, Marietta, Somerset. Before the marriage, and their two children. Marietta Chloe had a son, Ezra, whose was born about 1816. father’s last name was Bramin. Children of Elias included: The Hales were living in Stratton 1) Sarah Morse, born August 24, in 1850, probably in Stratton 1833, at Stratton, Vermont. Gore, near Chloe’s parents. By 2) Melvin, born about 1837. 1860, Joel and Chloe were living 3) Abbey J., born in 1849. alone and by 1870, Chloe was alone. She was called a pauper of Jonas Hale, son of Levi and the town in 1872. Mercy Hale, was born March 23, A child of Joel and Chloe was: 1803, at Stratton. He took the 1) Francena, born about 1849. Freeman’s oath in Stratton on September 7, 1824.

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The following families were remained in Stratton into 1802 apparently unrelated to the above and he signed a petition as a Hale family: resident dated May 31 of that year. He was no longer in Jacob Hale of Winchedon, Stratton in 1810 and probably had Massachusetts, purchased 40 acres moved away several years earlier. in Stratton on the north part of 4L5R on March 28, 1800. This Hezekiah Hall, a blacksmith, was was the second 40-acre parcel to born on June 12, 1766. His wife, the west of the town common. Lucinda, was born on September Jacob settled in Stratton in 12, 1770. They evidently settled time to be counted on the 1800 in the area of Somerset, Vermont, census. At that time, he was over that was annexed to Stratton in 26, his wife was under 26 and 1858. Hezekiah died at Stratton they had a daughter under 10. on March 21, 1860, and Lucinda Jacob purchased an additional lot followed on October 31, 1861. on January 9, 1801, described as Children of Hezekiah and beginning at the southwest corner Lucinda: of his original parcel, then 1) Lucinda, born May 28, 1801. running straight south to the 2) Alanson (or Lanson), born brook and from the middle of the October 5, 1804; married Jane road ( “the road that runs past A. (?). Jacob Hale’s house running south 3) Armenia, born July 4, 1807. to the gore.” On January 18, 4) Milo, born February 13, 1811, 1803, Jacob sold his farm to Isaac at Somerset, Vermont; died Balcom of Somerset, Vermont, September 13, 1861, at and left Stratton. Stratton, Vermont; married Laura (?). John Hale, possibly a brother or son of Jacob above, was “of Milo Hall, son of Hezekiah and Stratton” when he purchased 25 Lucinda Hall, was born in acres of the northwest corner of Somerset, Vermont, on February 4L5R on January 27, 1803, from 8, 1811. His wife, Laura, was Joshua Robbins. This was just a born about 1809. The Halls lived few days after Jacob Hale sold his in the northeast corner of land in this same lot and left Somerset, Vermont, which was Stratton. John purchased an annexed to Stratton in 1858. The additional 20 acres in March. house was located east of the intersection of the Upper Handle Hall Rd. and the old road to Atherton Hall apparently settled Wardsboro. The Halls were listed in Stratton after 1800. He owned in the 1860 census of Stratton. 5L8R, but sold it to Benjamin That year, Milo’s mother, Hawkes and Daniel Wetherbee on Lucinda, was living with them. August 22, 1801. Atherton

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Milo died at Stratton on 1880. They had moved away September 18, 1861, and Laura before 1900. died on June 4, 1870. A child of Franklin and Sophia: Children of Milo and Laura were: 1) Orrin Merril, born June 28, 1) Hannah, born November 10, 1881, at Stratton, Vermont. 1833, at Somerset, Vermont; died November 27, 1835. Alanson Hall, son of Hezekiah 2) Mary Malvine, born July 16, and Lucinda Hall, was born on 1836, at Somerset, Vermont. October 5, 1804. Alanson and his 3) Martin, born about 1838. wife, Jane A., lived in Stratton 4) Lucinda (probably), born between 1861 and 1863. They November 26, 1839; died May had a son, Everett, attending 10, 1915; married Martin school in District #16 in Elbridge Akeley on November Wilmington, Vermont. 26, 1860. A child of Alanson was: 4) Semore, born about 1842. 1) Everett 5) George, born about 1845. 6) Asa, born about 1847. Hand 7) Smith, born about 1851. Lawrence Hand was born about 8) Franklin C., born in 1854; 1885 in New York. In 1920, he married Sarah Sophia Jones. was a lumberman working in

Stratton and living in the Martin Hall, son of Milo and boarding house at the Grout Job. Laura Hall, was born about 1838. His wife, Lydia, was born about 1843. In 1860, Martin and Lydia Hanley were already married and they William Hanley was born about lived with Martin’s family in the 1898 in Massachusetts. In 1920, Somerset Annex of Stratton. he was a lumberman working in They had moved away before Stratton and living in the 1870. boarding house at the Grout Job. A child of Martin and Lydia was: 1) Hattie Melvina, born May 11, Harrington 1860, at Stratton, Vermont; Elisha Harrington married died May 28, 1860, at Stratton, Lorena (or Sirena) Grant, Vermont. daughter of Joshua and Eunice Grant, on January 2, 1809, at Franklin C. Hall, son of Milo Colrain, Massachusetts. and Laura Hall, was born in 1854. Apparently, Elisha never He married Sarah Sophia Jones, resided in Stratton and passed daughter of Jesse and Sarah Jones. away before March 6, 1825. On Sarah was born in March, 1860. that date Lorena, a widow, joined The Halls settled in Stratton and the Church of Christ in Stratton were listed in Stratton’s census of and at that same time, her three children were baptized.

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Children of Elisha and Lorena: wife were between the ages of 26 1) Eunice Mercia, married and 45 and they had three Charles Allen (they lived in children under the age of ten. In Wardsboro, Vermont). 1810, Richard sold a strip of land 2) Sarah Elizabeth to David Cummings of Petersham, 3) Daniel Grant Massachusetts, but bought it back in October, 1811. Richard took Bertie Harrington was born in the Freeman’s oath in Stratton on 1863. In 1880, he was living with September 3, 1811. On May 2, Alexander Hamilton Pike, listed 1814, Daniel sold his Stratton as a servant in the census. He holdings to Moses Forrester. The probably worked in Pike’s Harrises moved away from sawmill. Bertie moved away from Stratton soon after the sale. Stratton before 1900. Daniel Harris, Jr., son of Daniel Harris Harris1, was born about 1798. Richard Harris of Athol, Daniel’s wife, Julia died at the age Massachusetts, married Celia of 30 on July 13, 1844, and she Sprague of Petersham, was buried in Fairview Cemetery Massachusetts, on November 16, in Wardsboro. Their infant son, 1806, at Petersham. Richard may Newton was also buried there. have been a son of Nathaniel and Daniel acquired a part of the Abigail Harris, born September east half of 1L1R in a lawsuit 27, 1781, at Petersham. Celia against Ephraim Wheeler. The may have been a daughter of lot was deeded to Daniel on Joseph and Mary Sprague, born at August 29, 1848. At that time, Worcester, Massachusetts, on May Daniel was a resident of 7, 1780. Wardsboro, Vermont. He was the Richard purchased a part of proprietor of a store in West 1L4R on September 21, 1807, Wardsboro, near where the Green from Asaph Oliver of Athol, and Mountain House barn later stood. he settled in Stratton soon after. Daniel sold the store to Osmer The Harrises were among a group Fitts and moved to Stratton during of apparent relatives and friends the 1860s. He evidently built a from Athol that included the house at the northwest corner of Eddys, Forresters, Newhalls, the intersection of the Stratton- Olivers, Spragues, Youngs and Arlington Rd. and Pike Hollow others that settled in Stratton. Rd.. In 1870, he was living there The Selectmen of Stratton with Laura Carey, age 38 warned the Harrises out of town (possibly a widowed daughter). on January 4, 1808, and Stratton’s By 1880, he was boarding at the constable served them notice on home of Willard and Lorena March 7, 1808. The Harrises Shepard. remained in Stratton through Eventually, Eugene and 1810. That year, Richard and his Hattie Thomas lived in the first

Stratton Families 209 mentioned house. Hattie’s married Dana Putnam on June 30, maiden name was Harris and she 1858, at Stratton. may have been Daniel’s The Harts settled in Stratton granddaughter. about 1869 apparently on 5L2R, A child of Daniel and Julia was: west of Mountain Rd. (see NE 1) Newton, born March 22, 1843; Hart on Beer’s Atlas of 1869). In died October 29, 1843. 1870, the Harts also had a gentleman living with them who Notes: Daniel Harris, Sr. born about 1761 - was probably Nathaniel’s brother, served during the Revolutionary War and George Hart, aged 40. Also at was a pensioner from Wardsboro, that time there was another boy Vermont, who died in 1845. His wife, Abigail, was born about 1764 and died in living there, William Hart, aged 1844. Their children included: Daniel, 19, who may have been George’s Jr., b. 1798; Patty b. 1802; Noah (1804 - son or perhaps another of 1866); Mary E. (1810 - 1859). All Nathaniel’s brothers. The Harts except Patty were buried in Fairview Cemetery in Wardsboro. removed from Stratton in 1871. Children of Nathaniel and Edmond S. Harris was born in Melvina were: November, 1874. In 1900, he was 1) Carrie, born about 1857. living with his brother and sister- 2) Alice, born about 1859. in-law, Mason and Mattie Jones. 3) Lila E., born April 11, 1870, at He was no longer in Stratton in Stratton, Vermont. 1910. George Hart was born about Frederick D. Harris was born 1830. He was probably Nathaniel about 1872 in Massachusetts. In Hart’s brother (see above). 1920, he was a lumberman living George came to Stratton about in the boarding house at the Grout 1870 and was living with Job in Stratton. Nathaniel Hart. William Hart, a boy aged 19, was also living in Hart this household and may have been Nathaniel E. Hart, son of Luther George’s son. He was no longer and Martha Hart, of Wallingford, in Stratton by 1880. Vermont, was born about 1837. Nathaniel married Harriet A. William Hart was born about Kingsbury on August 27, 1861. 1851. He came to Stratton about They lived at Hubbardton, 1870 and was living in the home Vermont, following the marriage. of Nathaniel Hart. George Hart Apparently Harriet passed away was also living in this house and and Nathaniel married Melvina B. may have been William’s father. Robinson of Jamaica, Vermont. He was no longer in Stratton by Melvina, the daughter of Reuben 1880. and Emeline Robinson, was born Charles N. Hart, son of Charles about 1841. She had previously and Mary L. (Harris) Hart, was a farmer who came to Stratton from

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Wallingford, Vermont. Charles Hartwell married Mary Ann McCormick at (Hartnell) Pittsford, Vermont, on April 5, Halloway Hartwell, was born on 1869. Mary was born at February 19, 1800, at Readsboro, Castleton, Vermont. Vermont. Halloway was probably The Harts settled in Stratton a descendant of Joseph and around 1890, but they had moved Elizabeth (Pierce) Hartwell1 of away from town before 1900. Readsboro and Wilmington, A child of Charles and Mary was: Vermont, whose family came to 1) Lucy Ann, born October 4, Readsboro from Littleton, 1892, at Stratton, Vermont. Massachusetts, settling in the section of Readsboro, later known Orvis Luman Hart, son of Willis as Heartwellville. I. and Avis (Johnson) Hart, was Halloway married Nancy born on April 2, 1869, at Lincoln, daughter of Isaac, Jr. and Wallingford, Vermont. Orvis Kezia (Haynes) Lincoln. Nancy married Mary Stephens, daughter was born on September 20, 1803, of Albert and Teresa Stephens, on at Sudbury, Massachusetts. They February 3, 1893, at Stratton. briefly lived in Stratton in 1830. Mary was born in Baltimore, At that time, there was also an Maryland, about 1875. older couple, both born in the If the Harts had settled in 1760s, living with them. This Stratton after their marriage, they couple was probably Nancy’s had moved away before 1900. parents. Orvis was a brother of Fanny Halloway and Nancy settled (Hart) Wilder, wife of David in Somerset along the Somerset - Wilder of Stratton. Stratton border, west of Moses and Joseph Pike’s farms (west of Frank Hart was born in 1862. In Pike Hollow Rd.) and on the road 1870, he was living with the that extended from what is now family of Herbert and Elsie Smith. Old Forrester Rd. down into He was no longer living in Somerset. They were living there Stratton in 1880. when they bought the southwest corner of 1L2R on November 24, Elwin Hart married Nellie Maria 1831, from Daniel H. Grant; Grout, daughter of Joel and however, Hartwell sold this lot to Amanda Grout, on February 5, Rosanna Pike on June 13, 1832, 1887, at Stratton. Nellie was born holding a mortgage on it. That on August 9, 1862, at Sunderland, same year, he purchased 26 acres Vermont, and she died on March of the south end of lot #2 in 17, 1939. Stratton Gore and it was deeded to him in 1834. Halloway purchased the farm of Amos Knights within Stratton Gore in 1852, and they settled

Stratton Families 211 there. This lot included the site of was brought up in Somerset, the old Pike homestead, located at Vermont. In 1853, he was deeded the bend in what is now Willis his parents’ farm in Stratton and Cemetery Rd.. The house settled there with his parents. currently belongs to the Harlow This farm was located on the bend family. in what is now Willis Cemetery In 1853, Hartwell sold his Rd, currently owned by the Stratton lands to his son George. Harlow family. Halloway and Nancy lived with In September, 1853, George George, who had taken up took the Freeman’s oath in residence in the house on Willis Stratton. George was listed as Cemetery Rd.. George apparently head of the household in 1854 lived there through 1856, as head with Jesse Jones living in his of that household, although he home and attending school in had sold this lot to his brother-in- Stratton. In 1855, George sold law, William Henry Eddy, in some of this property to William 1855. The Eddys settled into this Henry Eddy, his brother-in-law. house soon after and Halloway During the Civil War, George and Nancy continued to live there enlisted into the navy in October, with them. In 1858, Halloway 1864, and served aboard the USS also sold his Somerset farm to Monadnock. He was discharged Henry Eddy. on June 30, 1866. After the war, Halloway died on November he settled in Somerset, Vermont, 25, 1866, at Stratton and he was where he and Clark Harris built a buried in Willis Cemetery. His mill on the east branch of the gravestone reads “Hartnell.” Deerfield River. This mill had Following Halloway’s death, about 50 horsepower of Nancy continued to live with the waterpower and it eventually Eddys. She was still alive in produced about 250,000 feet of 1870, but had either passed away lumber each year. It was later or settled elsewhere by 1880. owned by S. T. Davenport of Children of the Hartwells were: Wilmington, who leased it to the 1) George W. Tudors in 1881. It was then 2) Sarah Ann N., married known as the Lower Tudor Mill. William Henry Eddy on October 8, 1854, at Harvey Wardsboro, Vermont. Zachariah Harvey, son of 3) J. L. Thomas and Sarah Harvey, was

Notes: born at Norton, Massachusetts, on Joseph Hartwell Jr. and Elizabeth Pierce May 21, 1711. Zachariah married were married on March 19, 1767. They Anne Adams, daughter of John, lived at Montague, Massachusetts, before settling in Readsboro. Jr. and Esther (Cady) Adams, on August 27, 1735. Anne was born George Hartwell, son of on August 24, 1714, at Pomfret, Halloway and Nancy Hartwell, Connecticut.

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Zachariah, a doctor who had 3) Amy, born January 14, 1740/1, lived previously in Princeton, at Worcester, Massachusetts; Shrewsbury and Worcester, married Warren Snow on Massachusetts, resided in October 25, 1759, at Chesterfield, New Hampshire, Lancaster, Massachusetts. when he purchased 3L7R from 4) Zachariah, born March 7, Doctor John Campbell of Putney, 1743/4, at Worcester, Vermont, on June 19, 1786. Massachusetts; married Mary Zachariah and Anne apparently Norcross on November 15, settled in Stratton at that time. 1764. 3L7R surrounds and includes 5) Solomon (a doctor), born much of what is now called Grout January 9, 1745/6, at Pond; therefore at that time, this Worcester, Massachusetts; pond was known as Dr. Harvey’s married Mary Woodward on Pond. Dr. Harvey also purchased February 5, 1768, at lot #4 in Stratton Gore from Westminster, Massachusetts Timothy Morsman in December, (Mary was an Aunt of Jonas 1788. Part of this lot was Woodward of Stratton). described as “beginning on 6) Daniel, born October 4, 1747, Stratton line at a fir tree south of at Worcester, Massachusetts; the brook that leads to Abner died January 13, 1748/9, at Graves’ Mill and meadow.” The Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. Harveys may have lived on the 7) Rachel, born May 31, 1750, at main farm site of this lot, later Shrewsbury, Massachusetts; occupied by Hudson Grout, but it died September 28, 1811; seems more likely that they married Samuel Norcross on resided in the home of their son, May 2, 1766. Isaiah, who built a house north of 8) Daniel, born September 14, the pond. In 1787, Dr. Harvey 1752, at Shrewsbury, was a member of one of the Massachusetts. Proprietary Committees that dealt 9) Darius, born December 7, with town roads. 1754, at Shrewsbury, By 1789, the Harveys had Massachusetts; married Dolly resettled in Putney. Zachariah Brooks on June 3, 1783. died on February 15, 1801, at 10) Isaiah, born May 8, 1758, at Chesterfield, New Hampshire. Princeton, Massachusetts; Anne died there on December 6, married Mary Jenkins on 1802. January 23, 1776, at Children of Zachariah and Anne: Chesterfield, New Hampshire. 1) John, born April 18, 1736, at Worcester, Massachusetts. Isaiah Harvey, son of Zachariah 2) Sarah, born September 23, and Anne (Adams) Harvey, was 1738, at Worcester, born on May 8, 1758, at Massachusetts; married John Princeton, Massachusetts. Before Coborn in April, 1759. settling in Stratton, Isaiah lived at

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Chesterfield, New Hampshire, 3) Solomon, born January 27, where he married Mary Jenkins 1781, at Westminster, on January 23, 1776. Mary was Massachusetts; died September born about 1760 at Fullum 9, 1862, at West Brattleboro, (Dummerston), New Hampshire Vermont; married Sally Mason (Vermont). in 1799. On June 5, 1784, Isaiah 4) Polly, born July 19, 1783, at purchased 4L7R in Stratton along Chesterfield, New Hampshire. with a five-acre parcel of 3L7R, 5) Lucy, born March 20, 1786, at located between the first Chesterfield, New Hampshire. mentioned lot and the pond (later 6) John, born January 1, 1788, at called Grout Pond). Chesterfield, New Hampshire; In 1787, Isaiah sold the west died at Island Pond, Vermont; half of 4L7R to Daniel Harvey of married Susannah Spaulding. Winchester, New Hampshire. 7) Lydia, married Willard Witt in Isaiah and Mary settled in 1808 at Chesterfield, New Stratton before 1788. Their home Hampshire. was located on the above named Additional Sources: lot, on the north side of the pond, History of Chesterfield, Cheshire Co., New where remains of the old Hampshire by Randall foundation can still be seen. Isaiah was named a petit juror Lyman H. Harvey was born of the town during the town about 1844. During the Civil meeting of March 31, 1788. He War, he enlisted for Stratton on was called a husbandman in his January 10, 1862, and he property deeds. mustered into Company H of the The Harveys moved away Vermont 8th Regiment on from Stratton and they were living February 12. Lyman mustered out in Westmoreland, New of the service on June 22, 1864. Hampshire, when Isaiah sold his Lyman was not mentioned in any farm on the pond to William other Stratton record; therefore, Boutell on January 22, 1790. he may have been a resident of Children of Isaiah and Mary were: another town who only enlisted 1) Isaiah, born October 23, 1776, for Stratton, but never lived there. at Westminster, Massachusetts; died in Potter, Haskins Quebec, Canada; married Polly William Haskins was born about (?). 1793. He was probably a son of 2) Joel, born April 7, 1779, at William Haskins of Dover, Westminster, Massachusetts; Vermont, an early settler of that died in Concord, Vermont; town. In 1860, he was living in married 1) Susanna Farr at the home of Richard and Elisa Chesterfield, New Hampshire Perry. in 1797 2) Betsey Bowen.

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Fayette Haskins, son of Marshall rods from the road which leads and Caroline Haskins of from Samuel Boutell’s over the Wardsboro, Vermont, came to mountain (the Stratton-Arlington Stratton about 1905 with his wife, Rd.), beginning 6 rods west of the Dora. Fayette probably worked at bridge (across the east branch of one of the lumber camps in the Deerfield River) running Stratton. The Haskins evidently westerly on the road about 12 rods returned to Wardsboro before then north to the north line of this 1910. Fayette died there in 1949. lot then east 12 rods then back Children of Fayette and Dora: south to the road. Hall sold them 1) May Ella, born August 15, this lot on the condition that they 1902, at Wardsboro, Vermont; build a sawmill on the land within died February 21, 1907, at one year and keep it in repair for Stratton, Vermont. two years. They apparently did 2) Carrie just that and built the first sawmill on the site of the future Grout Job. Haven Benjamin may have brought his wife, Mary, to Stratton at that Jackton Green Haven was born time. Benjamin returned to between 1784 and 1794. He Leominster and sold his half of settled in Stratton between 1800 the rights to Daniel Newhall on and 1810. In 1810, he was September 17, 1802. Mary passed evidently a widower with a away at Leominster on April 9, daughter under ten years of age. 1820. An intent of marriage between Children of Benjamin and Mary: him and Lucinda Davis, daughter 1) Polly, born April 30, 1787, at of Samuel V. and Deborah Leominster, Massachusetts. (Chapin) Davis of Wardsboro, 2) Mary, born August 18, 1789, was published on July 8, 1810, at at Leominster, Massachusetts. Stratton. They apparently were 3) Lydia, born May 17, 1791, at never married, since Lucinda later Leominster, Massachusetts. married Davis Read. 4) Achsah, born February 20,

1794, at Leominster, Hawkes Massachusetts. Benjamin Hawkes of 5) Seve, born June 4, 1795, at Leominster, Massachusetts, Leominster, Massachusetts; married Mary Boutell, daughter of married Calvin Austin on June Kendall Boutell, (intent published 21, 1815, at Leominster, November 23, 1782). Mary was Massachusetts. born at Leominster, on March 20, 6) Dolly, born September 4, 1763. 1796, at Leominster, Benjamin Hawkes and Daniel Massachusetts; died September Wetherbee, both of Leominster, 17, 1796, at Leominster, Massachusetts, purchased part of Massachusetts. 5L8R from Atherton Hall on August 22, 1801. This lot was 12

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7) Dolly, born January 16, 1798, and Orpha Collie. Orpha sold it at Leominster, Massachusetts. to Frieda Cohen in 1956 who 8) Sally, born June 12, 1799, at owned it until the Hawksleys Leominster, Massachusetts.; purchased it. died October 22, 1799, at A child of Ray and Laura is: Leominster, Massachusetts. 1) Sarah Ellen, born August 25, 9) Benjamin, born March 10, 1994. 1801, at Leominster, Massachusetts. Haynes 10) Sally, born August 1, 1802, at Russell Haynes, son of Peter and Leominster, Massachusetts; Anne Haynes, was born on died December 18, 1802, at September 25, 1778, at Sudbury, Leominster, Massachusetts. Massachusetts. He married Philena Haynes, daughter of Jason Hawksley and Lydia (Conant) Haynes, on Raymond Gary Hawksley, son January 26, 1803, at Sudbury. of Lewis Raymind and Aileen Philena was born in 1782 at (Burke) Hawksley, was born on Sudbury, Massachusetts. The November 15, 1956, at Perth, Haynes resided in Sudbury prior New Brunswick, Canada. He to moving to Stratton. Russell married Laura Ellis, daughter of purchased the east half of 2L7R Homer B., Jr. and Margaret on November 18, 1808, and the (Donnelly) Ellis on July 13, 1992, Haynes family moved to Stratton at Stowe, Vermont. Laura was the following year. Their farm born on April 25, 1957, at was probably located on the Brattleboro, Vermont. western side of the ridge along Ray and Laura both moved to what is now Grout Pond’s western Stratton in 1986 where Ray works edge. as a General Contractor. He In January, 1810, Russell and served as a Selectman of Stratton Philena were warned out of from 1993 to 1997. He is Stratton Stratton. That same year, they Health Officer and he also served were listed in Stratton’s census, on the Windham Regional with a son and three daughters all Commission from 1996 to 1997. under the age of ten. Russell was Laura served as Stratton’s probably a brother of Elizabeth Treasurer to 1999. (Haynes) Howe, wife of Peter The Hawksley’s home is Howe. The Howes had arrived in located on the northwest corner of Stratton at the same time as the Pikes Falls Rd. / North Rd. Russell and Philena. Russell was intersection. This house was built included in a purchase of 3360 by Harold A. Field in 1949 for acres in the north half of the gore Orpha J. Collie. Mr. Field and his between Sunderland and Stratton, wife, Natalie, owned the farm along with Peter Howe and two next door that had included this others. lot. They sold the lot to Ralph

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Russell and Philena were probably died soon after the admitted into the Church of Christ marriage and so Elisa then in Stratton on February 2, 1812, married Oliver. She died soon and their daughter was baptized after this marriage, on November the following day. They had 9, 1850, and she was buried in already returned to Sudbury when Willis Cemetery. Russell sold his farm on February After Elisa’s death, Oliver 6, 1819. He died at Sudbury on married Aurilla G. Fay, daughter October 21, 1832. of Charles and Asenath Fay, on 1) Anna September 3, 1851, at Stratton. Aurilla was born at Jamaica, Maranda Haynes was united Vermont, on May 16, 1821. On with the Church of Christ in March 31, 1848, Oliver purchased Stratton on December 11, 1836. the east half of 4L3R in Stratton She may have been the daughter (the old Phillips farm). At that of Benjamin and Betsey (Burt) time, he was still living in Haynes, born in June, 1811, at Wardsboro. Oliver sold this lot in Wilmington, Vermont. 1849. In March of 1851, Oliver was said to be of Newfane, Herrick Vermont, when he purchased additional land in Stratton (the George W. Herrick was born in west half of 2L5R). June, 1838, in Massachusetts, and Following his marriage to he came to Stratton before 1900. Aurilla, the Hescocks returned to That year, he had a servant, Ellen Newfane to live. However, by Strubell, and three boarders, 1860, Oliver had purchased the Thomas Strubell, David east half of 4L4R in Stratton and Merchant, and Arthur Milligan, resided thereon. The farmhouse living with him. George was no was located where the recreational longer living in Stratton by 1910. area stands today (the old

foundation is currently surrounded Hescock by a fence). Oliver evidently Oliver Plimpton Hescock, son of bought this place from Lucy David and Surlindy (Simpson) Sprague, widow of James Hescock, was born on July 11, Sprague. 1812, at Wardsboro, Vermont. In 1864, Celia Grout was The following year, on June 10, living with the Hescocks and 1813, David Hescock was warned attending school district #2 in out of Dover, Vermont. This was Stratton. In 1880, the Hescocks very likely Oliver’s father. had taken in two boarders, Oliver first married Elisa Charles Reid, aged 54, and Forrester, daughter of Moses and Benjamin Reid, aged 72. Both of Patty Forrester. Elisa was born on these gentlemen had passed away December 5, 1811, and she had by 1884 at the Hescock home. married Isaac M. Lincoln on November 11, 1835. Isaac

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Oliver died at Stratton on Norman J. Hescock, son of April 2, 1896, and he was buried Oliver and Aurilla Hescock, was in Ball Cemetery. Aurilla died born on May 25, 1864, at Stratton. there on December 11, 1897, and Norman never married and she was buried beside Oliver. remained in Stratton all his years. Children of Oliver and Aurilla: In 1900, he lived alone, but by 1) Eliza C., born June 1, 1852, at 1910, he was head of a rather Newfane, Vermont; died large household that included his August 23, 1863, at Stratton, brother, Frank, and the family of Vermont (of diphtheria). the widow, Addie Leno. Norman 2) David P., born August 21, died at Stratton on December 31, 1855, at Newfane, Vermont; 1913. died August 14, 1878, at Stratton, Vermont. Higley 3) Otis W., born June 8, 1856, at Warren Higley, son of Judah and Newfane, Vermont; died Relief (Stearns) Higley, was born September 11, 1863, at on June 6, 1813, on the Higley Stratton, Vermont (of farm on Higley Hill, in Marlboro, diphtheria). Vermont. Warren grew up on this 4) Frank E., born June 21, 1859, farm and eventually inherited it. at Stratton, Vermont; died Before he came into this November 1, 1940, at inheritance, Warren married Wardsboro, Vermont. Roxellana Yeaw about 1835. She 5) Charles Amos, born March 18, was born about 1814. After the 1861, at Stratton, Vermont; marriage, the Higleys first lived in married Lettie Chamberlain. Dover, Vermont. 6) Norman J., born May 25, On March 29, 1837, Warren 1864, at Stratton, Vermont; purchased an 87-acre lot from died December 31, 1913, at Levi Hale, Jr., located in Stratton Stratton, Vermont. Gore, north of what is now called Pike Hollow Rd., and opposite of Charles Amos Hescock, son of Penny Avenue. To this day, this Oliver and Aurilla Hescock, was area is sometimes referred to as born on March 18, 1861, at the Higley lot. The old barn on Stratton. He married Lettie this lot has since been refurbished Chamberlain, daughter of Rodney and is now the home of the and Helen Chamberlain. She was Williams family. born on May 16, 1866, at Several years after the Jamaica, Vermont. Lettie died of Higleys had moved away, the consumption on August 27, 1894, house was moved across the at Stratton. After her death, brook. It is now owned by the Charles apparently moved away Jepson family. from Stratton. Warren lived in Stratton through 1840. Their son, Otis was born and died there and he

Stratton Families 218 was buried in Pike Hollow Hill Cemetery. In 1842, Warren was The Hill family of Stratton came elected a Selectman of Stratton. from Palmer, Massachusetts. Two Roxellana died on April 2, brothers, John and Thomas Hill, 1845. Apparently, Warren settled in Stratton before 1800. returned to Marlboro about that They were sons of Thomas and time. Warren sold his Stratton Mary Hill and they had a sister, lands on March 25, 1850, to Jean, born May 26, 1737, who Rufus Lyman. Warren was living married William Mann on April in Marlboro at the time of this 15, 1780. Jean died on September sale.. He married Lydia Hakes on 14, 1806, at Palmer. Apparently November 3, 1850, at Marlboro. only the two boys, John and Lydia was born on December 23, Thomas, came to Stratton. This 1822. Warren resided on the family should not be confused family farm in Marlboro for the with the Abner Hill family that rest of his days and died of settled in Sunderland. pneumonia there on May 22, 1892. John Hill, son of Thomas and Children of Warren and Mary Hill, was born at Palmer, Roxellana were: Massachusetts, on April 14, 1735. 1) Mary Ann, born December 29, John married Martha Lamberton 1836; died May 20, 1877; on May 31, 1764, at Palmer. On married Martin Van Buren September 3, 1795, John Powers in 1858. purchased 12L1R in Stratton from 2) Olive Marilla, born November Andrew Adams, Jr. - located in 3, 1839; died May 22, 1861. the northeast corner of town. The 3) Otis Warren born December 3, Hills soon settled on this lot. 1841; died February 5, 1843. In 1800, the Hills had two sons between the ages of 10 and Children of Warren and Lydia: 16 and a son and daughter 4) Flora Ella, born October 8, between the ages of 16 and 26 1853, at Marlboro, Vermont. living in their home.. In 1809, 5) Eva Adell, born July 17, 1858, John sold the east half of the lot to at Marlboro, Vermont; died his son, Daniel, and the west half May 12, 1876; married J. L. to his son, Noah. Boyard on December 20, 1875. In 1810, John and Martha 6) Lillian Deetta, born June 14, apparently were living with their 1862, at Marlboro, Vermont. two sons, both listed as head of 7) Ida L., born April 15, 1864, at the household. The Hills’ deaths Marlboro, Vermont; died April were not recorded in Stratton; 20, 1886. however, they apparently were no

Additional Sources: longer living in Stratton in 1820. The Higleys and Their Ancestors Children of John and Martha by M. Coffin Johnson 1892 were:

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1) Mary, born May 13, 1765, at household. At that time, he lived Palmer, Massachusetts. there with his wife, two sons and 2) Reuben, born May 26, 1767, at three daughters - two children Palmer, Massachusetts. were under ten and three children 3) Hannah, born January 30, were 10 to 16. 1770, at Palmer, The Hills remained in Massachusetts; married David Stratton through 1830. At that Row on May 31, 1792, at time, Noah was head of a Palmer, Massachusetts. household with three apparent 4) John, Jr., born April 24, 1773, couples and a single male aged 15 at Palmer, Massachusetts; to 20. The couples were aged 60 married Betsey Olds on March to 70, 50 to 60 and 20 to 30 6, 1794, at Palmer, respectively. They all may not Massachusetts. have been couples, but the age 5) Phineas, born July 25, 1775, at groupings make it seem so. It is Palmer, Massachusetts. likely that Noah and his wife were 6) Jane, born January 8, 1779, at the couple aged 50 to 60, which Palmer, Massachusetts. corresponds to the 1820 census, 7) Noah, born July 26, 1781, at although Noah was a year or so Palmer, Massachusetts; short of this age bracket. married Lucretia Dunbar. Noah sold the east half of 8) Abner, born March 7, 1784, at 12L1R to Daniel Attridge on June Palmer, Massachusetts. 5, 1821, and in 1822, he sold the 9) Daniel, born April 22, 1787, at west half to Thomas Bogne of Palmer, Massachusetts; Winhall, Vermont. However, in married Sarah (?). 1824, Noah leased the west half of 12L1R from Pardon Kimball for Noah Hill, son of John and one year, and in 1829, Noah had Martha Hill, was born on July 26, repurchased the lot (apparently 1781, at Palmer, Massachusetts. just the east half) at a vendue. He came to Stratton with his Noah sold off the east half in parents about 1795 and settled on November, 1830. He apparently 12L1R. maintained a lease with Kimball On May 19, 1809, his father on the west half to 1837. That had sold the west half of this lot to year, the west half of 12L1R was Noah and the east half of this lot sold to Joseph Blodgett. Noah to his brother, Daniel. They all and Lucretia evidently moved evidently remained within the away from Stratton at that time. same farmhouse, since that year, Children of Noah and Lucretia Noah was listed as sharing the possibly included: responsibility of head of the 1) Noah W. household with Daniel. Noah married Lucretia Noah W. Hill, was probably a son Dunbar, before 1810, and by of Noah and Lucretia Hill. He 1820, Noah was head of his own evidently lived in Stratton with

Stratton Families 220 his parents as a boy. On July 25, May 19, 1809, Daniel’s father 1835, Noah purchased 12L2R in sold the east half of this lot to Stratton. He may have settled Daniel and he sold the west half briefly upon this lot; however, on of this lot to his brother, Noah. November 18, 1835, he was living They all evidently remained in Winhall, Vermont, when he within the same farmhouse, since sold his Stratton land to Amaziah that year, Daniel was listed as Robinson. sharing responsibility of head of the household with Noah. Abner Hill, son of John and Daniel’s wife, Sarah, or Sally Martha Hill, was born March 7, as she was called, was born 1784, at Palmer, Massachusetts. between 1775 and 1794, and they He came to Stratton with his were married prior to 1810. By parents about 1795 and settled on 1820, Daniel was head of his own 12L1R with them. He was not household with two sons and a named in any deed found in daughter, all under ten years of Stratton’s records, however, at a age. town meeting in 1810, his state Sally became a member of the and local taxes for 1808 were Church of Christ in Stratton on abated. Perhaps these were taxes March 6, 1825, and she was on his father’s property. It is baptized at that same time. She possible that he had lived in was called wife of Captain Daniel Stratton until 1810, possibly Hill in the record. Therefore, moving away about that time. Daniel was apparently a high- Abner probably married and had a ranking member of Stratton’s daughter while in Stratton, militia. although no record of these events Daniel sold his Stratton lands exist in the town records. to his brother, Noah in 1821 and A daughter of Abner was possibly: Daniel and his family left Stratton 1) Hannah1, born March 5, 1805; before 1830. died in 1886 at Downers Children of Daniel and Sarah: Grove, Illinois; married Medad 1) Phineas L., born November 20, Parsons Gilbert of Manchester, 1811, at Stratton, Vermont. Vermont (settled in Castile, 2) John W., born February 21, New York). 1814, at Stratton, Vermont. 3) Bethany J., born March 28, 1) Hannah may have been a descendant of Abner Hill of Sunderland, Vermont - 1818, at Stratton, Vermont. apparently unrelated to the Hill family in Stratton. Thomas Hill, son of Thomas and Mary Hill, was born on August Daniel Hill, son of John and 26, 1741, at Palmer, Martha Hill, was born on April Massachusetts. He married Jane 22, 1787, at Palmer, Lamberton on October 31, 1771, Massachusetts. He came to at Palmer. Thomas purchased Stratton with his parents about 6L7R in Stratton on October 7, 1795 and settled on 12L1R. On

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1796, and he brought his family to poor, then to sell the person’s Stratton soon after. The remains property to the highest bidder. of their farm can still be seen Many times, the agreement along the Appalachian Trail, west included that the highest bidder of the trail’s intersection with the agreed to care for the poor person IP Road. for the remainder of their natural In 1797 and again in 1803, lives. In such an agreement made Thomas was elected as one of in 1826 between the town and Stratton’s surveyors. The 1800 Abel Grout, Jr., Jane’s children census shows that the Hills had were said to be “noncompos two sons and a daughter aged 16 mentus.” Alcoholism may have to 26 and one son aged 10 to 16. been part of the problem. A later Thomas sold some of their account of the Blake Tragedy of homestead to his sons in 1802 -- Stratton in 1821 mentions that the Thomas, Jr. bought the east half Grouts first ignored the yells for of the lot, and Jonathan and Eber help, believing it to be a man who bought the west half of the lot. often got drunk and yelled. An Thomas died at Stratton on March analysis of the situation points to 17, 1807. one of the Hill brothers, Eber or Following Thomas’s death, Jonathan, as that person. Mr. Jane married the widower, Samuel Grout soon declined to continue Boutell on December 28, 1809. the agreement. Therefore, in Samuel was a neighbor who lived 1828, Luther Torrey was granted on the farm located south of the the west half of 6L7R, where Jane Hills. Jane went to Samuel’s and her family lived, and he home to live until Samuel sold his agreed to the terms of the town. home in 1820. At that time, they On August 19, 1830, Torrey went back to Jane’s old home to backed out of the agreement. live with her children, Jonathan The census of 1830, referred and Eber Hill. Samuel died on to this household as the “Jannie or January 18, 1822. Jennis Hill” home. It had therein After Samuel’s death, the two gentlemen aged 40 to 50, a town became responsible for the woman that age, another woman care of “the widow Jane Boutell aged 50 to 60 and an old woman and family.” Towns were charged aged 80 to 90. Jane was evidently with taking care of their poor at the old woman, Eber, Jonathan that time and the records show and Margeret Hill were three that Stratton paid to re-shingle more, while one remains and re-sill the widow Jane unidentified. Boutell’s house in 1831. The The Hills remained under the Hills were charges of the town for care of the Selectmen and the the rest of their lives. The custom Overseer of the Poor for the next for supporting the town’s poor few years. Then in 1834, a non- was for the Selectmen to practicing physician, Luther confiscate any property of the Purrington, originally of Heath,

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Massachusetts, came to Stratton Thomas Hill, Jr., son of Thomas via Winhall, Vermont. Mr. and Jane Hill, was probably born Purrington agreed to care for the at Palmer, Massachusetts, during Hills in exchange of their the 1770s. He came to Stratton property. The agreement was with his parents in 1796. In 1802, signed on October 30, 1834. The Thomas purchased, the family Hill property was deeded to Mr. farm - the east half of 6L7R - Purrington, then he mortgaged it from his father. In 1804, he also back to the Selectmen for purchased 13 proprietor’s rights $1000.00, with the above to the undivided lands in Stratton agreement written into the (rights to 130 acres). Thomas did mortgage. Additionally, in April, not remain in Stratton long and 1835, the town agreed to pay his lands were forfeited due to Purrington $25.00 to care for the back-taxes. He was no longer in Hills, collectable at the end of the Stratton in 1810. year. The town then voted to give him $2.00 in advance. The events Jonathan Hill, son of Thomas that followed seem rather and Jane Hill purchased part of suspicious. Within two weeks of 6L7R in Stratton from his father the meeting, Jane’s son, Eber, on October 1, 1802. In 1810, he died (on May 1, 1835). Jane was and his wife (or sister), Margaret, the next to died on December 20, were living there, each about 26 1835, followed closely by years of age that year, with Margaret, who died on January Margaret being the older of the 22, 1836. Finally, Jonathan died two. on April 22, 1836 and The Hills remained in Purrington’s own wife died about Stratton for many years and this same time. Within less than became paupers of the town. Abel a year all four of the Hills had Grout was legally involved in conveniently died and Mr. obtaining a letter of guardianship Purrington claimed the property in 1821 and they were cared for as his own. by several town’s people over the Children of Thomas and Jane: following years (see Thomas Hill 1) Thomas, Jr. above). Margaret died at Stratton 2) Jonathan, died April 22, 1836, on January 22, 1836, and at Newfane, Vermont; possibly Jonathan died at Newfane, married Margaret1. Vermont, on April 22, 1836. 3) Eber, born about 1784; died May 1, 1835, at Stratton, Eber Hill, son of Thomas and Vermont; married Dysa Jane Hill, was born about 1784 Thomas (intent published and came to Stratton with his September 17, 1802). parents about 1795. On October 1, 1802, Thomas sold the west Notes: 1) Margaret may not have been Jonathan’s half of the family homestead, wife, but his sister instead.

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6L7R, to Eber and his brother, 2) Eber H., born January 13, Jonathan. 1805, at Stratton, Vermont; Eber married Dysa Thomas of married Rhoda Temple Sunderland, Vermont, (intent (daughter of Palmer C. and published September 17, 1802). Rhoda (King) Temple) on Dysa was born on January 10, March 17, 1830. (Rhoda was 1783. Eber had his Stratton taxes born on 2/28/1806 and died on abated for 1809. He and Dysa 5/25/1853). were living in their own home in 3) Patty Jane, born July 12, 1809, 1810. at Stratton, Vermont. Dysa died on December 3, 4) Jane Martha, born on July 12, 1814, and she was buried in the 1809, at Stratton, Vermont; Old Town Cemetery in Stratton. died December 29, 1893, at Her stone is one of only two that Pittsfield, Illinois; married still exist there. Samuel Willard Temple on Eber apparently did not fare March 5, 1829, (Samuel was a son well after Dysa’s death and he of Palmer C. and Rhoda (King) may have been an alcoholic. He Temple. He was born April 27, 1808; died in 1890. They lived in Sunderland or his brother, Jonathan, was in 1850 and eventually settled in likely the drunken man mentioned Pittsfield, Illinois). in the story of the Blake tragedy of 1821. At that time, Eber lived Betsey S. Hill of Stratton married with Jonathan and Margaret Hill Aaron W. Cressey (intent (mentioned above). Abel Grout published December 2, 1827, at was legally involved in obtaining Stratton) and they were married a letter of guardianship for these on December 20, 1827. Aaron three individuals in 1821. Later, was a son of Henry and Olive Jane Boutell, their mother, settled (Holton) Cressey. in with the Hills, after the death of her second husband, Samuel Hobbs Boutell, in 1822. Benjamin Hobbs of Stratton may Eber is mentioned as a pauper have been the same Benjamin of the town in 1825, being under Hobbs who had lived in Worcester the care of Henry Grovier. The County, Massachusetts, and town voted to raise $60.00 to pay served as a Private during the Grovier for supporting Eber. He American Revolution in Abijah remained one of Stratton’s poor Lamb’s Company, Colonel for the remainder of his life (see Cushing’s Regiment of the Thomas Hill above). Eber died at Northern Army, from August 15, Stratton on May 1, 1835. 1777, to October 21, 1777. Children of Eber and Dysa Benjamin was living in probably were: Stratton in 1791 as head of a 1) Benjamin, born June 16, 1803, household with his wife and two at Stratton, Vermont. children. Benjamin was already living in Stratton when he sold

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3L5R to Elkannah Miller on Holbrook. Therefore, he evidently March 12, 1791. There is no began his business sometime record of how Benjamin obtained between those dates. the lot, nor of him owning any Luther was very active in other lot in Stratton; however, the town affairs between 1838 and following June, a vendue was held 1843. In 1840, he served as the in Stratton at Benjamin’s home. town’s Overseer of the Poor, a The Hobbs had moved away from Highway Surveyor, a Trustee of Stratton by 1800. Surplus Funds, and the Sealer of Weights and Measures. He was Hodges also the town’s pound keeper and Joseph M. Hodges was born his barn served as the pound. In about 1887 in Canada. In 1920, 1841 and 1842, he was appointed Joseph was a lumberman, working assistant Town Clerk and he in Stratton and living in the continued to serve in some of the boarding house at the Grout Job. above named offices. In March 1843, Luther took out several mortgages on his Holbrook property, then on May 1, 1843, he Luther Holbrook, the tenth child sold the Inn to William of William and Elizabeth (Rich) Cummings. The Holbrooks Holbrook, was born on November evidently moved out of Stratton 10, 1801, at Ashburnham, on, or just before, August 28, Massachusetts. His parent settled 1843. On that day, Stratton was in Westmoreland, New officially without a postmaster. Hampshire, about 1807. Soon after that time, Abigail gave Luther and his wife, Abigail, birth to their ninth child, Mary J., came to Stratton from Surrey, somewhere in Vermont and Cheshire County, New perhaps in Stratton, but the birth Hampshire. Luther purchased the was not recorded in Stratton’s east half of 3L4R – 108 acres town records. They returned to known as the Guild farm on June Stratton on or before July 23, 9, 1837, and settled there by June 1844, and on that day, Luther was 15, 1838. This was the day he officially Stratton’s Postmaster became Stratton’s Postmaster. once again. Luther’s farm was located in the While the Holbrooks were area where the town hall, town away from Stratton, the town’s office and meetinghouse now Post Office was on record as stand. Luther operated an Inn discontinued. After their return, from his home beginning in late Luther reassumed the Postmaster 1838. The location of the Inn was position through to October 4, where the town hall now stands. 1850. The Holbrooks were not A Town Meeting was held at his recorded in Stratton’s 1850 home in September, 1838, then in census. Apparently, they had January, 1839, a meeting was moved to Newton Township, called to meet at the Inn of Luther

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Muskigum County, Ohio, where Gearhart on March 23, 1850, they were enumerated in that in Union County, Ohio. town’s census on October 12, 5) Joseph Rich, born November 1850. It appears that they had 30, 1831, at Westmoreland, ventured to Ohio between 1845 New Hampshire. and 1850 since they had a tenth 6) Sarah Dorinda, born July 6, child, Augusta, born in 1846 in 1834, at Westmoreland, New Ohio. Their transition to Ohio Hampshire. seems a bit confusing. Perhaps 7) George Henry, born February one of their older children had 24, 1838, at Westmoreland, settled there first and Luther and New Hampshire. Abigail were visiting when 8) James Edwin, born September Abigail had her last child or 10, 1840, at Stratton, perhaps it was their son William Vermont; married Louisa. Luther Holbrook that remained 9) Mary J., born about 1844 in behind and assumed the duties of Vermont; married John Postmaster. Cramer Mace on November 5, The Holbrooks remained in 1865, in Lucas County, Iowa. Ohio only a few years at most, 10) August A., born in 1846 in resettling in Lucas County, Iowa, Ohio; married Alonzo W. before 1860 and they remained Warrington on January 28, there through 1870. In 1880, they 1866, in Lucas County, Iowa. were living with their daughter, Additional Sources: Augusta, and her family, in History of Ashburnham, Massachusetts Hamilton County, Iowa. 1734 – 1886, Stearns Luther died on September 25, Shirley Cook of Gardnerville, Nevada. 1882, and Abigail followed on Mendenhall Family Bible

January 18, 1885. Children of Luther and Abigail: Holden 1) Elizabeth Abigail, born Lyman Holden, son of Josiah and February 27, 1824, at Mary (Forbes) Holden, was born Westmoreland, New on January 10, 1791, at Newfane, Hampshire. Vermont. He married Dulcina 2) William Luther, born Jackson. Dulcina was born on September 10, 1825, at July 24, 1797. Lyman served Westmoreland, New during the War of 1812. Hampshire. During the 1850s, the 3) Harriet Marie, born September Holdens came to Stratton with the 10, 1825, at Westmoreland, family of their son, Chester. In New Hampshire. 1856, Lyman was head of the 4) Calvin Britton, born August household with two girls – 27, 1829, at Westmoreland, evidently his granddaughters, New Hampshire; died May 9, Sophia and Caroline, who were 1924, in Gooding County, attending school in Stratton. Idaho; married Mary Ann

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The Holdens were no longer Children of Chester and Phoebe: in Stratton by 1870. Evidently 1) Sarah Sophia, born April 30, they had settled in Wardsboro, 1857, at Stratton, Vermont. Vermont. Dulcina died on April 2) Adda Dulcina, born May 1, 7, 1875, and Lyman died on May 1859, at Stratton, Vermont. 17, 1875. They were buried in 3) Erie A., born March 23, 1861, Fairview Cemetery in Wardsboro. at Stratton, Vermont. Children of Lyman and Dulcina 4) Cora Louisa, born March 17, were: 1863, at Stratton, Vermont; 1) Luna, born in 1824; died died December 7, 1864, at November 1, 1843. Stratton, Vermont (of 2) Chester O., born about 1826; diphtheria). married Phoebe Eufrasha Vail 5) Lora M., born July 29, 1865, at on June 17, 1856. Stratton, Vermont. 3) Justus Culwell, born July 17, 6) Lizzie E., born July 5, 1868, at 1820; died September 19, Stratton, Vermont. 1864, married Philena Satira Rice. Harris Holden was born about 1847. He resided in Stratton after Chester O. Holden, son of the Civil War, where he was Lyman and Dulcina Holden, was enrolled in the militia in 1867. born in Newfane, Vermont, about He was called a farmer on the 1826. He married Phoebe enrollment form and he had Eufrasha Vail, daughter of Hosea already removed from town at the and Sarah (Benson) Vail of time the form was completed by Winhall on June 17, 1856. the Selectmen. Phoebe was born on November 26, 1835. Holland The Holdens settled in Abigail Holland was born in Stratton, during the 1850s, and in 1832. In 1880, she was living in 1860, Chester’s parents were Stratton, boarding in the home of living with them. The Holdens William and Melissa White. lived on County Rd., at the sharp bend – the old Kidder homestead (see McClellan’s Map of 1856). Hollingsworth Beer’s Atlas also shows C. Holden William Hollingsworth was born at the location of the Webster site in England in May, 1875. He on the Stratton-Arlington Rd.. came to Stratton about 1900 and This was a shanty apparently evidently worked as a lumberman owned by Chester at that time. It at the Grout Job. Apparently, he had been occupied by S. Orrison was also put in charge of the Howard in 1856. boarding house there at the site. The Holdens moved away William moved away from from Stratton by 1870. Phoebe Stratton before 1910. died on January 4, 1912.

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Holman settled there. John sold this lot to The Holmans of Sutton, Clark Stone on August 23, 1800. Massachusetts, were among the He was listed in Stratton in the early proprietors of Stratton. census of that year, but probably They were related to the left town before the year was out. Thurstons who had purchased Children of John and Sally were: large amounts of Stratton in the 1) Leonard, born in August, ???, early 1780s. in Sutton, Massachusetts. 2) Sally, born August 9, ???, in John Holman, son of David and Stratton, Vermont. Lucy (Thurston) Holman, was born at Sutton, Massachusetts, on Thurston Holman, son of David December 26, 1761. He married and Lucy (Thurston) Holman, was Sally Stone on May 9, 1786, at born on April 27, 1775, at Sutton, Worcester, Massachusetts. Sally, Massachusetts. Thurston probably the daughter of John purchased the west half of 5L2R Stone, was born on August 24, in Stratton on November 11, 1766. 1795. This was a lot adjacent to By 1791, John had brought his brother, John. Although, his wife and two children to Thurston was not listed in Stratton. It is unclear where they Stratton’s census of 1800, he was first settled, although they may called a resident of Stratton at the have lived on the same land John time that he sold this property to later purchased. Ira Scott of Montague, On October 30, 1792, John Massachusetts, on January 14, purchased all of the north half of 1801. Thurston evidently left 3L7R except 5 acres. This lot town after the sale. included much of what is now called Grout Pond, but was then The following Holman family, referred to as Dr. Harvey’s Pond. completely unrelated to the above By 1796, it was called Holman Holmans, settled in Stratton in the Pond. It seems that John may 1930s. have settled into the home of Dr. Zachariah Harvey. Charles Ephraim Holman, son John sold 3L7R to Clark of Joseph G. and Catherine Stone on March 4, 1795, and on (Weekley) Holman, was born on that same day purchased the east October 21, 1878, in West half of 5L3R from Clark. This lot Manchester, Ohio. There, he had been the homestead of Isaac married Jennie E. Welch, Chase and it was located around daughter of Nathaniel M. and the intersection of what is now the Lauretta (Druillard) Welsh, on West Jamaica Rd. and June 10, 1904. Jennie was born Shepardson Rd. A few months on December 19, 1880. later, John’s brother, Thurston, The Holmans settled in purchased the adjacent lot and Stratton on February 14, 1933, in

Stratton Families 228 the Pike’s Falls area on County served on the Committee of Rd., where the road makes a sharp Corporations and Franchises turn. It appears that the while in Montpelier. Charles was Holmans’s son-in-law, Clinton Stratton’s treasurer in 1935 and Swift, purchased the house from he was also a Justice of the Peace. George Hurd. Several years later, Charles died on July 23, probably at the time that Clinton 1941, and Jennie followed on May Swift and their daughter, 21, 1962. They were buried in Lauretta, were getting divorced, Pike Hollow Cemetery. the Holmans move to a place on Children of Charles and Jennie: the Stratton-Arlington Rd.. 1) Kenneth B., born January 27, 1908, in Ohio; died March 22, 1996, in Florida; married Mildred Cannon on February 20, 1940. 2) Lauretta Catherine, born April 18, 1905, at Dayton, Ohio; died February 5, 1967; married 1) Clinton Swift (divorced) 2) Stanley Charles “Stub” Samson on January 19, 1940, at East Arlington, Vermont (divorced). 3) Richard LaRue, born August 1, 1912, in Ohio; died May 11, 1997, in Florida; married 1) Charles E. Holman Marjorie Adell Eddy on Stratton’s Representative in January 22, 1938, at Stratton, 1938/9 Vermont 2) Margaret Patterson. Photo from Vermont’s Government Yearbook - 1938/9. Kenneth B. Holman, son of Charles and Jennie Holman, was Jennie’s mother, Lauretta, born on January 27, 1908, in also came to Stratton with the Ohio. Kenneth came to Stratton Holmans and died there on with his parents in 1833. October 3, 1936. Lauretta was Kenneth married Mildred born at Lebanon, Ohio, on Cannon on February 20, 1940. September 14, 1852. Her body They settled in Massachusetts and was sent to West Alexandria, later lived in Florida. Kenneth Ohio, for burial. died in Florida on March 22, Charles was a farmer and 1996. He was buried in Pike carpenter. He was elected to Hollow Cemetery in Stratton. represent Stratton in the State Legislature during the 1937/8 session as a Republican and

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Richard LaRue Holman, son of Charles and Jennie Holman, was born on August 1, 1912, in Dayton, Ohio. As a boy, he came to Stratton with his parents. Rich married Marjorie Adell Eddy, daughter of Hermon and Bernice Eddy, on January 22, The Holmans 1938, at Stratton. Marjorie was Richard, Jennie, Marge, born on May 20, 1907, at Kenneth, and Lauretta. Brattleboro, Vermont. Rich worked for International Photo courtesy of the Ethel Eddy collection Paper and Marge had graduated from Pratt Institute in New York. She had a career as a fashion designer and commercial artist for Macy’s Department Store in New York City. Marge was living on Elton St. in Brooklyn, New York, at the time of the marriage. The 1928 fire-spotter’s cabin at the top of Stratton Mountain was refurbished and Rich and Marjorie were the first to spend a summer on the mountain as fire watches. Rich served during WWII in the US Army Air Force. He enlisted on May 16, 1942. He served in Europe and was Rich and Marge (Eddy) Holman discharged on January 28, 1946. Photo courtesy of the Ethel Eddy collection Before the war, the Holmans bought the Alexander Hamilton After Rich retired, the Pike house, probably from Millard Holmans moved to Florida. Rich and Doris Johnson, Marge’s sister died there on May 11, 1997. and brother-in-law. The Holmans Following Marge’s death, lived in this house until Rich’s job their daughter, Lissa, moved to took them to Maine. Stratton to stay with her Marge died at Dryden, grandmother, Bernice Wagner, Maine, on February 18, 1969, and who was living in Pike Hollow. she was buried in Pike Hollow She later married and moved to Cemetery in Stratton. Rich then Wardsboro. married Margaret Patterson. The adopted child of Rich and Marge was: 1) Marjorie Elizabeth “Lissa,” married James Hescock.

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Holmes Collector on March 12, 1804. On William Holmes of Woodstock, March 11, 1805, he was chosen as Connecticut, was probably the Stratton’s Grand Jurorman and same born on April 27, 1740 - a later he also performed at least son of Thomas and Abigail one survey for the town. He and Holmes. his family left Stratton in 1808, William purchased the east following the sale of his father’s half of 10L2R in Stratton on property. They settled in Jamaica, November 2, 1801, from John Ver5mont, where they were Gleason. He apparently settled warned out on August 29, 1808. upon this lot along with his son, William, Jr.. Their home was Sanford Holmes, son of David evidently the old Solomon Gale and Temperance (Bishop) homestead, located at what is now Holmes, was born on December the intersection of Stone Chimney 11, 1765, at Woodstock, Rd., and Mountain Rd.. William Connecticut. An interesting note and his son witnessed two of in the Woodstock Vital Records Stratton’s early deeds. states that Solomon Westcot, an William sold his lot to Rufus Indian, was killed instantly by the Gale on March 12, 1808, and sudden discharge of Captain apparently left Stratton at that Sanford Holmes’s gun on time, moving to Jamaica. He and November 4, 1799. his family were warned out of Sanford married Rhoda Clark Jamaica on August 29, 1808. At of Hopkinton, Rhode Island, on that same time his son, William, May 21, 1806, at Woodstock and Jr. and family were also warned they came to Stratton from out of Jamaica as was Celina Woodstock about 1816. Sanford Holmes and her family. Celina and his nephew, David Holmes, may have been William’s purchased 2L1R on May 2, 1816, daughter or daughter-in-law. and Sanford evidently settled on William was the first of a this lot soon after. This lot was group that came to Stratton from located west of what is now Leon Woodstock. Sanford and David Stocker Drive in Snow Mountain Holmes below were apparently Farms West. The Holmes family related to William. came to Stratton from Woodstock A child of William was: with other families, including the 1) William, Jr. Morse, Fox and Mascraft families. Major Sanford Holmes was William Holmes, Jr., son of appointed to advertise for a land William Holmes, apparently came tax by the town on August 4, to Stratton from Woodstock, 1818. In 1820, Sanford and his Connecticut, with his father about wife were listed in Stratton’s 1801. William was first recorded census and they were apparently in the town records when he was living with one of their children voted Stratton’s Constable and

Stratton Families 231 who was probably married with marriage was published at two children of their own. Stratton on October 22, 1820, and On September 22, 1822, they were married soon after. Sanford purchased the east half of Elizabeth was born on March 31, 5L4R - the farm built by Jacob 1800, at Putney, Vermont. Batchellor, located on Shepardson On March 3, 1823, the town Rd. The Holmes family settled meeting held that day was there at that time. Over the years, adjourned from the meetinghouse Sanford bought and sold several and reconvened at David’s home, additional parcels of land in implying that his home was fairly Stratton, including 6L3R and near the town common – possibly 10L2R. Between March and May, the Millet house located on the 1824, Sanford and his wife west side of the meetinghouse. removed to Dummerston, David apparently resettled in Vermont. Wardsboro, Vermont, where he During Stratton’s March, had purchased the Stephen Corbin 1829, Town Meeting, Major farm. He passed away in 1829 Sanford Holmes donated an acre and Elizabeth died in 1880. of ground to the town for a A child of David and Elizabeth: burying yard. Sanford died at 1) Lucinda Kitteredge, born in Dummerston in 1830 and Moses 1829; died in 1899; married K. Shepardson, formerly of David A. McElwain in 1852. Stratton, was named as executor Notes: of his will. 1) David Holmes, son of David and Temperance (Bishop) Holmes, born on David Holmes, son of Hartwell August 17, 1762; died on June 30, 1832; married Hannah Lyon on January 1, and Lois (Pellett) Holmes, was 1789. born on March 1, 1798, at Additional Sources for the above Holmes Woodstock, Connecticut. He families: apparently came to Stratton DAR records The Descendants of George Holmes of between 1816 and 1820. On Roxbury 1594 - 1908 by George Arthur several occasions within Gray (1908) Stratton’s land records, there was Woodstock, Connecticut VR reference to General David Holmes of Woodstock, Holton Connecticut. I believe that this Reuben Holton, son of Arad and was David’s uncle, David1. Anna (Haven) Holton, was born The 1820 census recorded on November 9, 1778, at that David was living alone in Dummerston, Vermont. His Stratton. He probably resided on father was among the original 7L3R – the Woodward farm – grantees of Jamaica, Vermont, until 1821. being listed upon that town’s David married Elizabeth Taft charter of November 7, 1780. Millet, daughter of Thomas W. Reuben later gained the title and Susanna Millett. An intent of of Captain in the local militia. He married Patty Amsden on

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November 15, 1800, at 2) Fanny L., born October 8, Dummerston. 1837, at Stratton, Vermont; Reuben purchased 150 acres (probably married George of 9L3R in Stratton at a tax-sale Franklin Wilder and died on and this land was deeded to him June 15, 1862). on April 12, 1834. Reuben 3) Lorra A., born November 16, brought his family to Stratton at 1839. that time. Their house may have been along the old road that went Wranslow Holton, son of Arad west and south of North and Rebecca (Houghton) Holton Cemetery. It was probably located was born on January 11, 1788, at just prior to Upper Kidder Brook Dummerston, Vermont. where a foundation can still be Wranslow married Polly seen. Spaulding on December 31, 1810, Patty died about the time that at Dummerston. He was a half- the Holtons removed to Stratton, brother of Reuben Holton above and so Reuben remarried to and purchased Reuben’s lot - Lorena Spaulding on March 29, 9L3R - in Stratton on October 8, 1835, at Dummerston. She was 1835. The house may have been born between 1810 and 1820. along the old road that went west Reuben sold 9L3R to his half- of North Cemetery and just prior brother, Wranslow Holton of to Upper Kidder Brook where a Dummerston, (except six acres foundation can still be seen. called the mill site owned by Wranslow apparently lived on this Nahor Howard) on October 8, lot until about 1839, then returned 1835. On August 27, 1835, to Dummerston and settled on his Reuben purchased an undivided father’s farm. He was already half of 80 acres of 2L3R and 20 back in Dummerston when he acres of 3L3R from Samuel Rider, sold 9L3R to Bradford Moultrip. and he settled there. This house He evidently reacquired the lot was located in the vicinity of the and sold it a second time in 1847 Old Forrester Rd. intersection to William S. Stiles. with the Stratton-Arlington Rd.. Wranslow was considered On October 8, 1837, Reuben sold Dummerston’s oldest resident this lot to Calvin Taylor of when he passed away on Wardsboro, but remained in December 10, 1882. Stratton at least through Children of Wranslow and Polly: November, 1837. Reuben died 1) Lavilla, born November 27, circa 1872, at the age of 94. 1809, at Dummerston, Children of Reuben and Lorena: Vermont. 1) Cornelia, born December 15, 2) Wesson, born October 1, 1811, 1835, at Stratton, Vermont at Dummerston, Vermont. (received a certificate for 3) Mary, born May 16, 1825, at school in Stratton in 1852/3.). Dummerston, Vermont.

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4) Ophelia Henrietta, born July log cabin previously owned by 26, 1827, at Dummerston, Vera Efron. Vermont. 5) John Wranslow, born February Horrigan 17, 1831, at Dummerston, Brian Horrigan, his wife, Penny Vermont. and their sons, Michael, Patrick

Additional Sources for the above Holton and Sean, lived at the top of families: Johnson Hill Rd. – a road that has History of Dummerston, Vermont, by since taken Penny’s name – Penny Mansfield Avenue. The Horrigans removed William Holton was living in from Stratton in the 1980s. Stratton in 1853. At that time, Silas Pike was living with him Houghton and attending school in district George E. Houghton and his #5. wife, Bernice D., settled into the Babcock house on the Stratton- Frederick L. Holton and his Arlington Rd. and resided there in wife, Hazel Russell, lived in the 1960s and early 1970s. Mr. Stratton in 1960. Fred was the Houghton served as President of caretaker of the boy scout camp at the Old Stratton Meeting House Grout Pond. The Holtons stayed Assoc. from 1966 to 1973. at the camp during the summer Bernice was that organization’s and they also had a home on secretary. South Hill in Jamaica, Vermont. Their children were: Howard 1) Frederick (Haward, Hayward) 2) Phillis, married Louis Coli. Nahor Howard, son of Seth and 3) Lewis C., married Dorothy Nancy (Whitman) Howard, was Wright. born on January 10, 1771. Nahor 4) Russell, married Marion married Eunice Dawson, who was Wetzel. born about 1775. The Howards settled in Lewis C. Holton , son of Stratton about 1819, coming from Frederick and Hazel Holton, lived Jamaica, Vermont. That year, in Stratton in 1960. He resided on Nahor purchased 9L2R from his Pike Hollow Rd. in the first house brother, Jared Howard of Jamaica. on the east side of the road. This lot - called the Jacob French farm - had a sawmill on Upper Dennis Rae Holton, son of Kidder Brook and also a mine. Russell and Marion Holton, spent Their home was evidently located time as a child around Grout Pond beside North Cemetery. In 1820, - his grandfather, Frederick they were living in Stratton with Holton, was the caretaker of the three sons between the ages of 10 Boy Scout camp there. DR now and 26, and five daughters - one lives on Pike Hollow Rd. in the

Stratton Families 234 under 10 and the rest between 10 Stratton on April 12, 1827. and 26. Azubah was born there on In 1830, the Howards December 18, 1806. Warner evidently had a teenage daughter came to Stratton with his parents and a younger couple with a in 1819. young child living in their home. On February 28, 1827, In 1837, Nahor sold his Stratton Warner purchased the east half of property to his son, Warner, and 10L2R from Moses K. they apparently removed from Shepardson. His home evidently Stratton at that time, probably stood at the intersection of what resettling in Jamaica, Vermont. are now County Rd. and Mountain Nahor died at Jamaica on May 14, Rd.. 1846, and he was buried in the The 1830 census shows that Village Yard Cemetery. the Howards also had a young Children of Nahor and his wife: boy, aged 10 to 15, living with 1) Nahor, married Anna Pike on them. In 1840, they had a son 5 October 3, 1836. to 10 and two daughters under 5. 2) Warner, married Azubah Warner was listed as a sexton Estabrook on April 12, 1827, (apparently for North Cemetery) at Stratton, Vermont. for the town in 1836. In 1837, Warner bought his father’s farm, Nahor Howard, Jr., son of Nahor located next to North Cemetery; and Eunice Howard, was probably however, they probably remained born in Jamaica, Vermont, on in their own home. On January December 29, 1805. He took the 21, 1841, Warner sold the east Freeman’s oath in Stratton on half of 10L2R and all of 9L2R to September 7, 1828 and in 1833, Jared Howard of Jamaica. At that 1835 and 1836, he was elected a time, Warner and Azubah hayward for the town. evidently went west and Nahor evidently resettled in eventually settled in Alamahee Jamaica in mid-1836, since he County, Iowa, where Warner built was called a resident of that town the second house erected in that when he married Anna Pike of area. He was called a man of Somerset on October 3, 1836. unusual energy and force of Nahor died of diphtheria on character and a successful farmer. January 23, 1863. He was buried Warner died at Postville, Iowa, in in South Hill Cemetery in 1880. Azubah died in 1884. Jamaica. Children of Warner and Azubah: 1) Clark, married Marion Oliver Warner Howard, son of Nahor 2) Sarah, married Henry S. Davis and Eunice Howard, carried the 3) Marion. titled “Ensign” at the time of his marriage to Azubah Estabrook, Aaron B. Howard, son of Elisha daughter of Ezra and Eunice and Azubah Howard, was born in Estabrook. They were married at 1798. His fourth marriage was to

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Minerva (Scott) Cummings, 1) William Goddard, born daughter of Ira and Sophie Scott. December 10, 1804, at Minerva had been married twice Reading, Vermont; died before. Aaron and Minerva were September 14, 1863, at married on May 6, 1863, at Springfield, Vermont; married Stratton. Rhoda A. Wyman in Minerva was born on Rockingham, Vermont. December 12, 1813, at Stratton. 2) Mary (lived in Royalston, She first married Luther Vermont). Purrington on March 7, 1839, at 3) Rhoda, died in 1839 at Fair Stratton. They were apparently Haven, Vermont. divorced. She later married, 4) Betsey Maria (resided in Horace Cummings. Minerva Royalston, Vermont). passed away on March 14, 1894, 5) Laura, married Richard W. at Stratton. Sutliff. 6) Adeline H. (lived in Royalton, Emmons Howard, son of Vermont). William and Mary Howard, was 7) Hollis E., (lived in Royalton, born on October 14, 1777, at Vermont). Pomfret, Connecticut. As a boy, he went with his family to William Goddard Howard, son Reading, Vermont. Emmons of Emmons and Betsey Howard, married Betsey Goddard of was born on December 10, 1804, Reading, Vermont, on November in Reading, Vermont. In 1823, 7, 1802. Betsey was born about his family settled in Fair Haven, 1784. Vermont. William married The Howards remained in Rhoda A. Wyman, daughter of Reading to about 1811, then Uzziah and Lydia (Nutting) settled in Sharon, Vermont, living Wyman, in Rockingham, there about twelve years. In Vermont. Rhoda was born on September, 1823, the family March 31, 1811. She was a sister settled in Fair Haven, Vermont. of Robert Wyman, who had Emmons and Betsey lived with several descendants residing in their son, William, beginning in Stratton, including Freeman 1837 and in 1842, the family Wyman, Amasa Wyman, and the moved to Stratton. Shelley family. In 1846, the Church of Christ In 1842, the Howards settled in Stratton voted to receive Mrs. in Stratton. On March 28, 1846, Emmons Howard into the William purchased the west half congregation. By 1850, Emmons of 5L3R. Rhoda’s brother, was living with James and Lucy Amasa, had lived there previously Sprague’s family in Stratton. (McClellan’s Map of 1856 shows Emmons died in August, 1851. their home along what is now Children of Emmons and Betsey: Shepardson Rd. Later, Isaac Shepardson owned this dwelling).

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In 1850, William and Rhoda were Orrison evidently moved living there with William’s away from Stratton following her mother, Betsey. In 1860, death. He died on July 12, 1907, Matthias Lincoln lived with the and he was buried beside Lucinda. Howards. Four of their children died young William and Rhoda left and were also buried in Ball Stratton soon after 1860 and Cemetery. settled in Springfield, Vermont. Children of Orrison and Lucinda: William died at Springfield on 1) (an infant son), born on September 14, 1863, and he was January 29, 1845; died on buried in Cambridgeport, April 23, 1845. Vermont. Rhoda married 2) (a son), died January 9, 1847. secondly, Philemon Holden. 3) (a daughter), died January 6, 1848. Samuel “Orrison” Howard, 4) (a daughter) died March 2, possibly a son of William G. 1849. Howard, was born on October 8, 1824. He probably lived in Isaiah Howard was living in Stratton in the home of parents or Stratton in 1844. At that time, relatives (unidentified at this Edward Van Buren was living point). He was very likely related with him and attending school in to William G. Howard, above. district #1 in Stratton. Orrison married Lucinda B. Cummings, daughter of William Newton Howard resided on Cummings, on March 30, 1842, at 12L2R in Stratton in 1888 and he Stratton. Lucinda was born about apparently shared a house with 1821. William Henry Gale. Orrison took the Freeman’s oath in September, 1847, and he Howe and his family remained in (How) Stratton at least through June 14, Francis How briefly resided in 1848, since Orrison was named on Stratton, where he was elected a a petition to the town’s Selectmen fenceviewer on March 12, 1804. that day. The Howards apparently Francis apparently moved away had moved away from Stratton from Stratton soon after that time. just before the 1850 census was taken. They returned sometime Peter Howe, son of Buckley and between 1860 and 1870 and Elizabeth (Moore) Howe, was remained in Stratton until born on September 13, 1785, at Lucinda’s death on December 28, Hubbardston, Massachusetts. On 1882. She was buried in Ball September 17, 1808, Peter and his Cemetery. McClellan’s Map of brother-in-law, William Wheeler, 1856 shows their home located both of Sudbury, Massachusetts, slightly east of the Deerfiled River purchased 3L7R in Stratton from on the Stratton-Arlington Rd.. Josiah Lyon. This lot included the

Stratton Families 237 west half of what is now called William Wheeler’s half of the Grout Pond and the house was farm and the Wheelers moved out probably located at the top of the at that time. hill where the road currently Peter and Elizabeth were descends down to the parking accepted into the Church of Christ area. in Stratton on February 2, 1812, Peter married Elizabeth and their oldest two children were Haynes on January 2, 1809. She baptized into the church the was probably a sister of Russell following day. On October 6, Haynes of Stratton, who had 1814, they removed their church arrived in town about the same relations to the Church of Christ time as the Howes (They may in Rindge and on November 1, have been children of Elbridge 1815, Peter sold the farm to Haynes). The Howes were warned Bezaliel Lawrence of Leominster, out of Stratton on January 25, Massachusetts. 1810, as was the customary Elizabeth passed away on welcome to newcomers at the September 13, 1828. Peter then time. A household in Stratton married Sarah Whitney, daughter was given as How and Wheeler in of John and Priscilla Whitney, on the 1810 census which apparently September 3, 1829 or 1830. included two young couples Sarah was born in 1782. She died between the ages of 16 and 26 and on December 25, 1834. a girl under ten. One couple was Evidently, just prior to that time, evidently Peter and Elizabeth, the Howes had settled in Concord, since they were not listed Massachusetts. separately in the census of that On September 17, 1835, Peter year. Peter was a brother of Persis married Dorcas C. Death of How originally of Framingham, Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, wife of William they settled in Westfield, Wheeler, who lived in Stratton. Massachusetts. Peter died at William Wheeler was listed Fitzwilliam on September 16, separately in the census, therefore, 1860. the second couple of How and Children of Peter and Elizabeth: Wheeler may have been a brother 1) Emeline, born May 10, 1810; of William Wheeler and his wife died in 1869; married Luman or perhaps William was listed Colburn on April 26, 1836. twice. 2) Emerson, born April 29, 1811. In 1810, Peter Howe, William 3) Elbridge Haynes, born Wheeler, Russell Haynes and December 27, 1813. Thomas Millet purchased 3360 4) Edward, born May 14, 1816, at acres of the gore between Rindge, New Hampshire. Sunderland and Stratton, located 5) Elizabeth Ann, born May 30, north of the road that passed 1819; married Henry J. Bush. between Stratton and Sunderland. In April, 1811, Peter bought out

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6) Eveline Maria, born October from Mr. Hale (the Higley lot). 24, 1822; married Liverus Hall William sold this lot back to Hale on June 22, 1845. in October, 1830. They may have 7) Susan, born September 19, lived there with the Hales. 1826; married Henry Atkins. On September 8, 1831, Children of Peter and Dorcas William purchases an additional were: 10 acres of 2L3R from Joseph 8) Sarah Helen, born April 28, Patch of Worcester, and on April 1837, at Concord, 24, 1832, William sold off 70 Massachusetts; married Alfred acres of the west part of 2L3R and F. Dewey on April 2, 1861. 53 acres of the north part of 3L5R 9) Albert Norton, born December that fell to the heirs of Phineas 24, 1840; married Bessie A. Howe (apparently part of the Northrup on April 16, 1862. above inheritance). William also 10) Claribel, born November 30, purchased the east half of 2L3R, 1843; died January 30, 1845. and the west half of 2L2R in 1832. In 1834, he bought 50 William Howe1, son of Phineas acres of the east end of 1L1R, and Eunice (Patch) Howe, was then sold this lot to Isaac N. Pike born on May 19, 1808, at on February 7, 1835. Worcester, Massachusetts. The Howes could have lived William settled in Millbury, on any or all of these lots during Massachusetts, and he was living the years that they resided in there when he and his siblings Stratton. 1835 was the last year inherited land from their William was listed in any of grandfather, Henry Patch2, son of Stratton’s records; therefore, the Nathan Patch - one of Stratton’s Howes apparently left Stratton at early proprietors. In 1827, that time. The Howes eventually William bought out his siblings - settled in Otisville, Franklin Henry P. Howe (born January 31, County, Iowa. 1803), Leonard Howe (born A child of William and Rhoda: September 8, 1805) and his wife, 1) Eunice Adelia, born October 8, Mary, of Worcester, and Louisa 1831, at Stratton, Vermont. Howe (born September 8, 1805) of Notes: Worcester. About this same time, 1) Stratton’s land records list a transaction in William settled in Stratton. 1826 and another in 1829 between Levi William married Rhoda Pike, Hale and William Howe, 2nd. This confuses the situation, since there daughter of William G. and apparently was not an older William in Myranda Pike, on October 8, Stratton. It seems likely that the “2nd” 1829. Rhoda was born on title should have been attached to Levi December 21, 1810. William also Hale who was a “Jr.”. The 1826 date may also be wrong, since this deed was purchased 1L6R in Stratton from copied in with deeds of 1829, and also Levi Hale, Jr. on August 28, 1829, William was called of Millbury, MA in and on February 5, 1830, he 1827. If the contrary is true, then there may have been two William Howes in purchased a farm in Stratton Gore Stratton; one associated with the Patch family and the other who married Rhoda

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Pike. Another clue that indicates that Wendell “Red” Fletcher lived there was likely only one William is that William and Rhoda Pike’s daughter was there also. named Eunice - a common name used in the Patch family. 2) Henry Patch and his wife, Hannah (Moore) Patch had a daughter, Eunice who married Phineas Howe. Additional Sources for the above Howe families: The Howe Genealogies - John - by Daniel Wait Howe 1929

Hromada Robert Hromada, son of Anton and Elizabeth Hromada, was born Bob and Mirth Hromada in Massachusetts on November with Ethel Eddy 10, 1896. Bob married Mirth

Edith Pike, daughter of Edgar and Emogene Pike. Mirth was born on December 12, 1896, at Stratton. The Hromadas lived in Massachusetts, until they had a chance to buy the farm of Mirth’s uncle, Ernest Pike. They bought the farm, located at the end of Pike Hollow Rd. in Stratton and settled there about 1939. The Hromadas traveled to Texas and spent time with Bob’s sister Isabel and her husband,

Elmer H. Eddy (see Eddy family), who had moved there from Wilma (Hromada) Fletcher Stratton. In 1943, 1945 and 1947, (1922 - 1994) Mirth represented Stratton in the state legislature and was also Photos courtesy of the Ethel Eddy collection chairman of Stratton’s school Bob died of cancer on board in 1947. December 9, 1977, and Mirth The Hromadas sold the farm followed on April 10, 1983. Their to the Quillinan family and moved ashes were buried in the new into the schoolhouse across the section of Pike Hollow Cemetery, road from the farm. Bob and located beside their house. Mirth lived out the remainder of Children of Bob and Mirth were: their lives there. During some of 1) Irma May, born in 1917; died that time, their daughter Wilma May 4, 1998, in “Willie” and her husband Massachusetts; married 1)

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Pasquale Lattanzi on June 26, Stratton, and he was not among 1945, at Stratton, Vermont 2) those listed in the first town Earl Alexander. census in 1791. 2) Wilma, born February 2, Aaron was named as a 1922; died July 14, 1994; grantee of Jamaica, Vermont, on married Wendell M. Fletcher. that town’s charter dated November 7, 1780 (as Aaron Hubbard Hutson). This charter also John F. Hubbard, a lumberman included a Charles Hutson - from Spencer, Vermont, was born perhaps a close relative of Aaron. about 1841. His wife, Eunice, was Later, Aaron may have resided in born in Holden, Vermont, about Wardsboro, Vermont. 1844. The Hubbards settled in Stratton just after the Civil War. Benjamin Hudson may have been In 1870, they had a boarder, the same Benjamin Hudson, son Albert Metcalf, aged 21, living of Benjamin Hudson, who was with them. born on April 13, 1785, at Together, John and Albert Springfield, Vermont. Benjamin operated the Hubbard and Metcalf married Sarah Powers on January sawmill on the East Branch of the 8, 1816, at Athens, Vermont. Deerfield River along the Sarah was born between 1790 and Stratton-Arlington Rd. They sold 1800. the mill to EW Bowker in the late In 1838, when the Hudsons 1870s and it later became known first settled in Stratton, Benjamin as the Grout Job. was apparently sick and aware Children of John and Eunice: that he would not live long. In 1) Raymond, born about 1864. 1838, Sarah purchased the east 2) William D, born January 17, half of 7L1R in her name only. 1867, at Stratton, Vermont. The subsequent mortgage was, 3) (a daughter), born August 20, however, signed by Benjamin and 1870, at Stratton, Vermont. witnessed by Benjamin, Jr.. The Hudsons then settled on this lot. In the 1840 census, Benjamin Hudson was head of the household and Aaron Hudson, Esq. was elected they evidently had two sons aged Moderator at Stratton’s first town 15 to 20, a son and daughter aged meeting held on March 31, 1788. 10 to 15, a son aged 10 to 15 and He apparently owned no land in a son and two daughters aged Stratton. It seems likely that he under 5. resided in Stratton, since he was Benjamin apparently died an elected official in Town between 1840 and 1844. In 1844, Meeting. It may also be possible Sarah was head of the household that he was a non-resident and called a widow. In 1846, she brought in to moderate Stratton’s deeded the north half of the lot to first Town Meeting. He was not her son, Nathaniel, and the south listed in any other record in

Stratton Families 241 half to her son, James, with the and Lyman, attending school in provisions that Nathaniel would district #4 during those years. take care of his mother and his Children of Benjamin and Sarah: siblings, Martha and Lyman, 1) Benjamin (resided in while James would take care of Templeton, Massachusetts). John and Mary Ann. Nathaniel 2) James B., born March 23, was not able to fulfill his half of 1825; died February 4, 1855; the bargain and his share went married Mary Wing on back to his mother. October 1, 1848, at Stratton, In 1848, Sarah and James Vermont. mortgaged the entire lot together 3) Nathaniel P., born about 1827; and, in 1849, Sarah sold the north married Catherine H. half to James. That same year, as Robinson strange as it sounds, James then 4) John M. agreed to lease the lot back to 5) Mary Ann., married Alford Sarah for 6 yrs, except for the Moultrip on June 17, 1846, at north half of the chamber room Stratton, Vermont. provided she would take good care 6) Martha Mandana, born in of the buildings and not cut more 1839. wood than it would take to make 7) Lyman Nye 60,000 shingles. James sold the north half of Benjamin Hudson, Jr., son of the lot to his brother, Benjamin, Benjamin and Sarah, may have in 1850. Following the sale, settle in Stratton with his parents Benjamin leased his share of the in 1838 and lived there through lot to his mother, providing that 1840. she agreed to keep the buildings Benjamin witnessed his in repair and that she would not mother’s mortgage of the east half cut more wood than what was of 7L1R in 1838; however, he was required to make 60,000 shingles. not mentioned in the division of Sarah relinquished all her claims land that his mother made to the said premises to Benjamin subsequent to that time. In 1849, on April 18, 1853. Benjamin was called “of Stratton” In 1850, Sarah was not listed when he purchased seven acres in that year’s census, nor was her adjacent to his mother’s lot. son, Lyman. Her daughter, However, in 1850, at the time he Martha was living with Arnold purchased the north half of the Cook’s family. Therefore, Sarah family farm from his brother, was probably living with her son, James, he was living in Benjamin at that time in Templeton, Massachusetts. Templeton, Massachusetts. Sarah Following this purchase, was back in Stratton and head of Benjamin leased his share of the the household in 1854 and 1855 lot to his mother, providing that with her younger children, Martha she agreed to keep the buildings in repair and that she would not

Stratton Families 242 cut more wood than what was Maine between 1853 and 1861, required to make 60,000 shingles. but they returned to Stratton. Sarah relinquished all her claims Catherine died on November to the said premises to Benjamin 6, 1863, at Stratton of diphtheria Hudson on April 18, 1853. and typhoid fever. Their children were: James B. Hudson, son of 1) Martha M., born about 1847. Benjamin and Sarah Hudson, was 2) Frank, born March 2, 1853, at born on March 23, 1825. He took Stratton, Vermont; died the Freeman’s oath in Stratton in January 8, 1863, at Stratton, September, 1847, and married Vermont (of diphtheria). Mary Wing, daughter of Samuel 3) Priscilla (attended school in and Lucinda Wing, there on Stratton in 1861). October 1, 1848. Mary was born 4) Etta L, born June 30, 1860, in about 1824. Maine; died October 17, 1862, In 1850, James and Mary at Stratton, Vermont. were living in the same household as Daniel and Catherine Hudson. Hulett James died on February 4, 1855, Henry M. Hulett, son of Philetus and he was buried in Ball M. and Sarah D. (Mason) Hulett, Cemetery. By 1860, Mary had was born at Pawlet, Vermont, remarried to George Eager. about 1860. Henry had been George was born about 1834. married and divorced by the time Children of James and Mary were: he came to Stratton in the late 1) Georgianna, born in 1849; 1890s. married Nelson D. Bourn on Henry married Lizzy T. June 3, 1865, at Dover, Sweeney, daughter of Peter and Vermont. Ellen (Borden) Sweeney, on 2) James Ralph, born June 2, October 4, 1896, at Stratton. 1853, at Stratton, Vermont; Lizzy was born about 1878 at died February 5, 1863, at Grafton, Massachusetts, and she Stratton, Vermont. (of had an illegitimate child born diphtheria). prematurely on December 27, 1895. The child died two days Nathaniel P. Hudson, son of later. Benjamin and Sarah Hudson, was Henry was probably employed born about 1827. He married in one of Stratton’s lumber camps. Catherine H. Robinson, daughter By 1910, the Huletts had moved of Hiram and Priscilla Robinson. out of town. Catherine was born on July 8, A child of Henry by his first wife: 1827, at Jamaica, Vermont. 1) Frederick D., born in March, In 1850, Nathaniel and 1891. Catherine were living in the same household as James and Mary Hudson. Apparently, they went to

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Children of Henry and Lizzy: 2) Edith L., born in May, 1898, in Vermont. 3) Mildred Eva, born June 28, 1899, at Stratton, Vermont. 4) Gerald Henry, born March 24, 1902, at Stratton, Vermont. 5) Phyletus M., born July 22, 1903, at Stratton, Vermont.

Fred C. Hulett was probably a brother of Henry Hulett. He and his wife, Emma D., were in Stratton in 1890, at which time Fred was elected as a highway George Hurd surveyor for Stratton. The Huletts (1865 - 1926) apparently resided on 11L1R until 1892.

Hungerford William Hungerford probably resided within the home of some resident of Stratton while he attended school in Stratton’s district #5 in 1863. He apparently did not remain in Stratton he and was not mentioned again in any town record. William was probably related to David Hungerford of Jamaica, Vermont. Lettie (Densmore) Hurd

Photos courtesy of Hurd Elizabeth (Hurd) Greene George Merritt Hurd, son of George and Lucinda (Grout) The Hurds settled in Stratton Hurd, was born on June 13, 1865, in 1905 and lived in the northeast at North Hadley, Massachusetts. part of town on the sharp bend of George married Lettie May County Rd., in the old Kidder Densmore, daughter of Charles homestead. In 1910, Lettie’s M. and Clara E. Densmore, about mother, Clara, and another boy, 1895. Lettie was born in Vermont Carroll E. Hurd - age 4 (said to be in 1876. a step-son), were living with them. The Hurds removed to Dummerston, Vermont, by 1920.

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George died at West and designed it to resemble the Brattleboro, Vermont, on May 5, old house. 1926, and was buried in Pikes The Hurds were members of Falls Cemetery in Jamaica. Lettie the Seventh Day Adventist was buried beside him. Church in Jamaica. Floyd worked A child of George and Lettie was: with Scott and Helen Nearing 1) Floyd Charles, born April 14, doing farm work and operating a 1898, in Jamaica, Vermont. 3000 tap sugaring business in Winhall. The local school closed Floyd Charles Hurd, son of in March so the children could George and Lettie Hurd, was born help with the sugaring. Floyd was in Jamaica, Vermont, on April 14, a trapper and liked to fish. It was 1898, and he came to Stratton hard work feeding such a large with his parents in 1905. family as his. He also killed a 480 Floyd married Zoe A. lb. bear one year. Linscott, daughter of Sidney and Floyd was the youngest Anna (Haynes) Linscott, on member of the State House of November 26, 1914. Zoe was Representatives when he born about 1900 in Brownsfield, represented Stratton there during Maine. Charles Linscott, who the 1921/2 session. He was also also had settled in Stratton, was Stratton’s road commissioner at her brother. that time. He also was elected a The Hurds settled in Stratton Selectman of Stratton in 1940. after the marriage. Evidently, Floyd buried two of the Hurd they first lived with Floyd’s children that did not survive parents. In 1928, the Hurds infancy, under an apple tree in moved into the farm where the Blodgett Cemetery, located on Stratton Golf School stands today. their farm. He also buried a The farm belonged to John and granddaughter, Harriet Janet Adah Clayton. After John’s death Hurd, daughter of Margaret Hurd in 1928, the Hurds moved into the in the cemetery (Harriet was born house and Adah lived with them. on October 19, 1938, at Jamaica, She died in 1930. Vermont, and died November 6, The farm also extended 1939, at Stratton). across the road and included The Hurds moved to Essex, Blodgett Cemetery. At that time Vermont, in 1941, however, they the lot around the cemetery was were not able to sell the farm at called the big pasture. There were that time and had to move back to a couple of large barns on the Stratton for a short time. They property at that time also. The finally sold the farm to the Day farmhouse burned during the family and then moved to Heath, 1970s, however, Stratton Massachusetts. Corporation built the current structure over the same foundation

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1936 Easter Party at Scott Nearings's [Front l-r] Mary Lightfoot, Marion Hurd, Howard Hurd, Elizabeth Hurd, Gladys (?) and Ralph Hurd [Back l-r] Margaret Hurd, Helen Knothe (later Nearing), Dorothy Hurd, Ruth Kuusela, Leonard Kuusela, Charles Hurd and Doris Hurd.

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Floyd C. Hurd Floyd and Zoe (Linscott) Hurd Wedding Portrait

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Floyd and Zoe were buried in 9) Ralph Sydney, born July 20, the Pike’s Falls Cemetery, where 1930, at Stratton, Vermont; a recently placed stone marks married Shirley Harris about their graves. 1952 (lives in Benson, Children of Floyd and Zoe were: Vermont). 1) Forrest E., born March 8, 10) Howard Charles, born 1916, at Stratton, Vermont; February 26, 1932, at Stratton, died in 1989; married Lucille Vermont; married Violet Dix Maloney (lived in Burlington, in July, 1955, in Heath, Connecticut). Massachusetts. 2) Carl E., born September 1, 11) Charles Herbert, born May 28, 1917, at Stratton, Vermont; 1934, at Stratton, Vermont; married Anna Hooper. married Grace (?) (lives in 3) Evelyn R., born December 4, West Paris, Maine). 1919, at Stratton, Vermont; 12) (unnamed boy), lived only 4 married 1) Julius A. hours. Whitehurst 2) Laurel Haynes 13) Floyd Charles, born March 26, in 1994 (lives in Caribou, 1937, at Stratton, Vermont; Maine). married Mary Belle (?) (lives 4) Margaret Helen, born in South Paris, Maine). September 29, 1921, at 14) (unnamed girl), stillborn Stratton, Vermont; married March 21, 1939, at Stratton, Charles Frederick Mallory, Jr. Vermont. in 1942 (lives in Jacksonville, 15) Mary Ann, born June 24, Vermont). 1940, at Stratton, Vermont; 5) Doris Clara, born July 11, died February 19 1978; 1923; married 1) Frederick married Thomas Peterson Leigh Richmond on August about 1958. 14, 1937, at Jamaica, Vermont Additional Sources: 2) Harvey Paquette. Notes of Elizabeth (Hurd) Greene 6) Dorothy Marion, born April 26, 1925, at Stratton, Vermont; married Edwin I Johnson in 1945 (lives in

Lancaster, Massachusetts). 7) Elizabeth May, born January Ingemanson 18, 1927, at Stratton, Albert Ingemanson, son of Vermont; married Donald Nelson and Ida (Nelson) Greene on March 23, 1947 Ingemanson, was born on August (lives in Shaftsbury, Vermont). 3, 1907, in Sweden. Albert 8) Marion Hazel, born October worked in Stratton’s lumber 16, 1928, at Stratton, camps. He died of meningitis on Vermont; married David May 13, 1935, at Bennington, Beaver about 1949 (lives in Vermont. He was a resident of Milton-Freewater, Oregon). Stratton at the time of his death.

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Ingram Smith, daughter of Jonas H. and John H. Ingram leased the Willis Anne Smith, about 1851. Almira farm from Orville Allen was born on May 16, 1829, at beginning on April 26, 1894. He Holden, Massachusetts. On May probably resided on this farm 24, 1846, before the marriage, during that time. John had moved Almira was certified to teach in away from Stratton by 1900. Stratton. James and his brother-in-law, George W. Smith, purchased J 3L6R in Stratton on October 9, 1852. Johnson may have settled

on this lot. Jelley In 1853, James purchased 10 Joseph Jelley resided in Stratton acres of the southwest corner of in the mid-1890s and apparently 2L3R from Nathaniel Smith and operated a sawmill along the he apparently resettled on that lot. Stratton-Arlington Rd., west of the 2L3R was centered around the meetinghouse. The hill there is Old Forrester Rd. intersection still referred to as Joe Jelly Hill. with the Stratton-Arlington Rd.. His children attended School #3 Their home was probably located in Stratton until 1895. The along the main road. Jelleys were no longer in Stratton During the Civil War, James in 1900. was drafted and entered the Joe’s children included: service on August 3, 1863, 1) Orvin L., born about 1881. mustering into Company D of the 2) Fred, born about 1883. Vermont 6th Regiment. He died 3) George, born about 1884. at a hospital in Brattleboro, 4) Bertha, born about 1887. Vermont, on September 14, 1864, while still serving in the military. Johnson He was buried in the West Orrin and Sophronia Johnson of Wardsboro Cemetery. Almira Jamaica, Vermont, never lived at was named in Stratton’s town Stratton; however, several of their records as caring for the widow descendants eventually settled Fuller in 1867. She was probably there. Orrin was born on January the same Mrs. Johnson seen on 18, 1799, and he married Beer’s Atlas of 1869, living on the Sophronia Armes. Sophronia was Stratton-Arlington Rd., just east born on January 30, 1802, and she of the Meetinghouse. Almira died died on May 1, 1865. Orrin died on April 4, 1886, and she was at Jamaica on October 1, 1889. buried beside James. James and Almira’s children: James H. Johnson, son of Orrin 1) Eldorus R., born in February, and Sophronia Johnson, was born 1852; died January 11, 1853. on July 29, 1828, at Jamaica, 2) Ellen, born in 1853 (possibly Vermont. He married Almira R. twin of Elwin).

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3) Elwin, born June 27, 1853, at of the road now called Penny Stratton, Vermont; died young. Avenue. While they lived there, 4) Effie F., born October 4, 1854, the road was called Johnson Hill at Stratton, Vermont. Rd. The farm they lived on had 5) George C., born December 10, been handed down to Melissa’s 1861, at Stratton, Vermont. nephew, Elmer A. Eddy, who lived there for several years. Orrin A. Johnson, son of Orrin When Elmer moved into the old and Sophronia Johnson, was born Pike farmhouse, located beside the in Jamaica, Vermont, on August A. H. Pike Mill, where he worked, 23, 1840. As a young man, he Orrin and Melissa moved into the assisted his father in carpentry. Rice farmhouse. Orrin Sr. was a skilled carpenter Orrin went into business as a who built many of the homes lumberman with Elmer, after along Main St. in Jamaica, Elmer bought out A. H. Pike. including the one known as the Orrin and Elmer operated that Telephone Exchange Building. mill, then later operated a steam- Orrin married Melissa driven mill, located further up the Mariah Rice, the daughter of brook from the old mill. About Perez and Emily Rice, on October 1900, Orrin was operating another 29, 1862. Melissa was born at mill in the southwest corner of Somerset, Vermont, on February Stratton’s Somerset annex. 18, 1843. Today, there is a beaver pond During the Civil War, Orrin located there, beyond Lee Bill’s substituted for John P. Fitch of property. Dover, and entered the service on In the census of 1900, Orrin July 27, 1863, serving in the 6th was head of the household on the Vermont Regiment, Company D. Rice farm, living with Melissa, He received minor wounded his son Mason’s family, and also during a skirmish at Charlestown, four boarders who probably (West) Virginia, on August 21, worked at the mill and on the 1864. Orrin returned to active farm. In 1896, Orrin was duty and transferred to Company I Stratton’s representative to the of the same regiment where he state legislature. He also served remained for the rest of the war. as Stratton’s road commissioner Orrin was discharged on June 26, and grand jurorman. While 1865, and returned home. residing in Stratton, the Johnsons Orrin came to Stratton about attended services at Stratton’s 1880 and ran the Rice farm on the Free Will Baptist Church. ridge overlooking Pike Hollow -- In their latter years, the 258 acres of farmland with a Johnsons moved to Jamaica and sugar orchard of 500 trees. A few lived to celebrate their 60th years after the death of Melissa’s wedding anniversary in 1922. mother, the Johnsons lived in the Rice farmhouse, located at the top

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Orrin A. Johnson Melissa Mariah (Rice) Johnson (1840 - 1926) (1844 – 1925)

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Mason O. 'Nate' Johnson Nate Johnson and his pet bear (1869 - 1943) at Searsburg, Vermont

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Melissa passed away on May Emma became ill and went to 15, 1925, age 81, and Orrin her parents’ home in Hinsdale, followed on September 8, 1926, New Hampshire. She died there age 86. on June 20, 1906. She was first Children of Orrin and Melissa: buried in Brattleboro, then later 1) Addie M., born October 26, moved to Park Lawn Cemetery in 1863, at Stratton, Vermont; Bennington. died August 3, 1865, at In 1909, Nate bought the Stratton, Vermont. homestead of his brother-in-law, 2) Adda A., born March 30, Charles Tudor, in Searsburg, 1866, at Stratton, Vermont. Vermont. He also married a 3) Mason O, born October 23, second time to Marjorie Temple. 1869, at Jamaica, Vermont; Part of the purchase he had made died April 14, 1943, at was a sawmill. The Johnson Mill Wilmington, Vermont; was a water-powered up and down married 1) Emma L. Tudor on mill, located in the Deerfield July, 16, 1894, at Stratton, River in Searsburg. Later, Nate Vermont 2) Marjorie Temple. built a steam-driven circular sawmill set on a spur of the Mason O. “Nate” Johnson, son Deerfield Railroad, also in of Orrin and Melissa Johnson, Searsburg. This location allowed was born on October, 23, 1869, at him to ship out a great deal of Jamaica, Vermont. He married lumber, and so his business grew. Emma L. Tudor, daughter of This railroad was a small, locally William and Parshia (Biddle) owned company with only 23 Tudor, on July 16, 1894, at miles of track, two locomotives, Stratton. Emma was born on May two flatcars and 50 log cars. It 5, 1876, at Searsburg, Vermont. was later used to build the Nate and Emma lived with Nate’s Somerset dam in 1912. parents until 1901/2, while Nate Nate opened a general store worked on the farm and in the in Searsburg, near the Searsburg sawmill there. The Johnsons then Post Office that had the moved to Somerset, Vermont, distinction of being the smallest where Nate helped with the Tudor post office in the entire country. lumber business. They lived in a One year, Nate found a bear cub house across the pasture from in the woods and brought it home Emma’s parents and near the as a pet. They kept it for several mill. After the Tudors sold out years, but had to destroy the bear and moved away in 1905, Nate after it attacked Marjorie one day and Emma remained in Somerset. while she was feeding it. Emma was a teacher there, a Marjorie was pregnant with their position that she held until her son, Leonard, at the time and they death. Nate worked at various were afraid she would loose the lumber operations during that baby, but she did not. time.

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About 1920, the Johnsons Hattie worked as a servant in the moved to Wilmington, where Nate neighboring household of Andrew died on April 14, 1943. Knight, where she lived with her Children of Nate and Emma were: son, Millard. 1) Marguerite L., born November Albert died at the age of 33 in 29, 1897; died September 8, Wilmington, Vermont, on April 4, 1967; married Earl M. Rafus 1907. Hattie lived until on February 19, 1917. November, 1952. She was living 2) Berle Ethylyn, born July 30, in Brattleboro, Vermont, at the 1900, at Stratton, Vermont; time of her death. died the next day. Children of Albert and Hattie: 1) Millard Oscar, born February Children of Nate and Marjorie: 23, 1897, at Dover, Vermont; 3) Alger, born in 1913. died July 21, 1979, at 4) Jeanette, born in 1914. Brattleboro, Vermont; married 5) Karl, born in 1916. Doris Mayona Eddy on 6) Robert, born in 1918. October 30, 1923, at Stratton, 7) Leonard “Pete,” married Mary Vermont. Howe. 2) Rosalina Jane, born August 4, 8) Virginia, married 1) Holland 1900, at Stratton, Vermont; Snow 2) Paul Derry. married Sam Whidden. 9) Donald 10) Arlene, married Robert Pike. Millard Oscar Johnson, son of Albert Oscar and Hattie Mae Albert Oscar Johnson, son of Johnson, was born February 23, Oscar Ghent Johnson and his 1897, at Dover, Vermont. wife, Melissa (Twitchell) Johnson, Millard worked for Orrin was born on January 1, 1874, at Johnson and Elmer Eddy at the Saxtons River, Vermont. Oscar sawmill when he was young. He Ghent Johnson was a son of Orrin married Doris Mayonna Eddy, and Sophronia Johnson of daughter of Hermon and Bernice Jamaica, Vermont, and a brother Eddy on October 30, 1923, and of Orrin and James Johnson (see they settled in Stratton after the above). marriage. The Johnsons moved Albert married Hattie May into the house built by Alexander Whidden, daughter of Will and Hamilton Pike, located across Mary (Whitman) Whidden on from Doris’s grandfather Eddy’s December 23, 1894, at Stratton. farm sometime soon after. Hattie was born at Bennington, Vermont, on July 6, 1877. Albert came to work for his uncle Orrin Johnson and Elmer Eddy at the lumber mill in Pike Hollow and he was living with Orrin in 1900. At that time,

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Children of Millard and Doris Johnson [l-r] Stuart, Betty, Barb and Herm

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Albert Oscar Johnson Millard Johnson (1874 - 1907) (1897 – 1979)

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Doris was Stratton’s treasurer from Winhall, Vermont. They for a time, while Millard worked came to Stratton before 1860, but at the Eddy sawmill beginning in had moved away before 1870. 1925. He was a Representative Their children were: for the town of Stratton in 1) Mira Ella, born August 7, 1929/30 and he was a member of 1860, at Stratton, Vermont. the Committee on Military Affairs 2) George H., born April 25, during that term. Eventually, the 1862, at Stratton, Vermont. Johnsons moved to Brattleboro, where Millard worked for a Elisha Johnson, son of Elisha and lumber company. Doris died on Matilda (Gale) Johnson, was born July 20, 1966, and Millard died on December 4, 1810. He married on July 21, 1979, both in Roxanna (?). Elisha died at Brattleboro. They were buried in Stratton on March 10, 1893. Pike Hollow Cemetery in Stratton. A child of Elisha and Roxanna: Children of Millard and Doris: 1) Rosanna M., born about 1833 1) (a son), born August 10, 1924, at Jamaica, Vermont; died at Stratton, Vermont; died the May 28, 1901, at Stratton, same day. Vermont; married John 2) Barbara Eddy, born September Lackey. 3, 1925, at West Wardsboro, Vermont; died June 6, 1979, at George Washington Johnson of Brattleboro, Vermont; married Londonderry, Vermont, was born Robert Dennis. about 1839. He may have been 3) Stuart Hermon, born January nephew of Elisha Johnson 19, 1928, at Stratton, (above). George married Caroline Vermont; died July 13, 1986; E. Lackey. Caroline was born married Beatrice Perkins. about 1842 in Hebron, New York 4) Marjorie Elizabeth, born and she was probably a daughter February 7, 1929, at Stratton, of John and Rosanna Lackey of Vermont; died July 4, 1997, at Stratton – and a granddaughter of Brattleboro, Vermont; married Elisha Johnson (above). 1) Daniel Sullivan in Mexico The Johnsons lived in 2) Guy Theriault in Maine. Winhall, Vermont, before settling 5) Hermon Elmer, born in Stratton. George purchased September 28, 1930, at 3L1R in Stratton – the Parson Jamaica, Vermont; died March farm - on September 17, 1875 and 6, 1987; married Sally Ann they settled there. The Johnsons Ross. had moved out of Stratton before 1900. Additional Sources: Notes of Betty (Johnson) Theriault Their children were: 1) Elizabeth Belle, born George H. Johnson was November 13, 1862, at originally from Dover, Vermont. Winhall, Vermont; died His wife, Martha, was originally

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September 21, 1955, at West Putney, Vermont, on December Brattleboro, Vermont. 23, 1798). Olive was born about 2) John H., born about 1866. 1775. 3) Charlie H., born about 1873. The Johnsons lived at Putney, 4) Hattie E., born about 1874. Vermont, into the 1830s, then 5) Ora E., born July 12, 1877, at resettled in Jamaica, Vermont. Stratton, Vermont. They may have settled in Stratton 6) Julius Alfred, born September for a time. If so, they returned to 19, 1880, at Stratton, Jamaica. Vermont. Olive died at Stratton on September 20, 1846, and she was George S. Johnson was born at buried in North Cemetery. Elisha Boston, Massachusetts. He married a second time to Lucinda married Etta Cora Chamberlain, (?). Elisha died at Jamaica on daughter of August Calvin and April 10, 1862. Ella Jane (Wilder) Chamberlain, Children of Elisha and Olive: on December 31, 1903. Etta was 1) Enoch born on June 8, 1884, at Jamaica, 2) Levi, born about 1800; died Vermont. February 21, 1887; married In 1900, Etta was boarding Polly Johnson. with the Irving Grout family in 3) Rebecca, married (?) Bigelow. Stratton. She was probably 4) Emma “Amy,” born April 26, working for the Grouts at that 1809; died July 22, 1896, at time - preparing meals, etc. for Stratton, Vermont; married the lumbermen that worked for James Moran. the Grouts. George was 5) Charles, born about 1811; died apparently one of the lumberman September 4, 1881, at Jamaica, who worked at the Grout Job. Vermont. The Johnsons were no longer in 6) Roxy Stratton in 1910. 7) Sarah, born February 3, 1817, A child of George and Etta was: at Putney, Vermont; died 1) Beatrice L., born September August 13, 1885, at Stratton, 29, 1907, at Stratton, Vermont; married John W. Vermont. Day on April 17, 1841, at Jamaica, Vermont. Myrtle Johnson was born at Additional sources: Winhall, Vermont. She had a Notes of Melvin and Sherrill Bourn of daughter, Edna Betsey Johnson, Jacksonville, Florida. born on September 21, 1892, at Stratton. Moses Johnson, son of Hiram and Susan (Clayton) Johnson, was Elisha Johnson, son of Elisha and born on July 24, 1832, in Priscilla (Jones) Johnson, was Windham, Vermont. He took the born about 1777. He married Freeman’s oath in Stratton in Olive Watson (intent published at September, 1853, but apparently

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Stratton shortly thereafter. Moses’ wife, Mary E., was Jones born on June 19, 1839. Mary died Many of the Jones families of on November 1, 1863. Nine days Stratton were descendants of John later, their two-year-old daughter Jones -- Wardsboro, Vermont’s passed away, while their newborn second settler. John was born on lived another two years. Between March 23, 1744, a son of Elder 1863 and 1867, Moses had lost Abraham Jones and his wife, his wife and three young children. Keziah Whitney, of Milford, Moses resettled in Jamaica, Massachusetts. John married Vermont, and remarried to Adda Abigail Cheney, daughter of Landers. He died there on William, Jr. and Joanna (Thayer) October 20, 1914, and he was Cheney, on December 9, 1762. buried in West Jamaica. Their son, Asa, of whom several Children of Moses and Mary: of Stratton’s Joneses were 1) Lizzie G., born January 6, descended, was born on November 1859, died October 20, 1867. 20, 1763, and married Hannah 2) Cora E., born in September, Nelson on February 13, 1783. 1861; died November 10, John and Abigail’s other sons 1863. were: John, Jr., Abraham, David 3) Willie, born March 1, 1863; Cheney, Joseph and Benjamin. died November 22, 1865. Additional Sources: Return to Yesterday, a History of A child of Moses and Adda was: Wardsboro, Vermont 4) Cora Ella, married Douglas H. by CS Streeter Forrester. William Sullivan Jones leased Julia A. Johnson was born about the west half of 8L2R in Stratton 1871. In 1880, at the age of 9, on August 23, 1830. He resided she was living in Stratton with in Stratton before that sale, but he Orrin and Mary Eddy and James was not recorded in the town’s and Emma Moran, who were all 1830 census. No other record of apparently Julia’s relatives. William exists in Stratton.

Anna Johnson was living in Nathaniel Jones, son of Asa and Stratton about 1930 and working Hannah (Nelson) Jones, was born at camp #4 a lumber operation on on February 4, 1787, at the County Rd. in Stratton, Wardsboro, Vermont. He married located west of North Cemetery. Sarah S. Babcock, daughter of She apparently had a fiancée that Robert and Sarah (Peters) died. Anna then became a recluse Babcock. She was born at either and took on “Man’s work” at the Cambridge, Massachusetts, or lumber camp. Shushan, New York, on September 6, 1804.

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The Jones family settled in 1834. In 1852, he was living with Dover, Vermont, by 1834, and Benjamin Moon and attending they were still called of Dover in school in Stratton in district #2. 1844. Nathaniel evidently never Silas married Marena Moon, lived in Stratton; however, he did daughter of Benjamin and Betsey purchase the west half of 4L3R in Moon on June 13, 1851, at October, 1844, then mortgaged it, Newfane, Vermont. Marena was but sold it back in March, 1845. born on March 10, 1830, at This was the old Phillips farm Stratton. located at the corner of what is Marena had purchased her now the West Jamaica Rd. and father’s lands in Stratton, Ball Farm Rd.. Sarah died at including the west half of 3L3R, Stratton on March 5, 1896. Her 17 acres of 4L3R, and the west funeral was held at the home of half of 7L4R in 1851. The her daughter, Sylvia Eager, where Joneses evidently resided on the she had died. Sarah was buried in 17-acre lot, where Marena’s Ball Cemetery. parents had previously lived. Children of Nathaniel and Sarah: Silas’s grandfather, Robert 1) Sylvia, married (?) Eager Babcock, was living there with (lived at Stratton). them in 1859, aged 104. 2) Silas L., born April 8, 1834; Silas took the Freeman’s oath died November 15, 1863, at in Stratton in September, 1856. Stratton, Vermont; married He died on November 15, 1863, of Marena Moon. typhoid fever. Melvin Knowlton, 3) Jesse C., born in 1836; died executor of the will, sold Silas’s June 4, 1918, at East Jamaica, land back to Benjamin Moon. Vermont; married Sarah E. Following Silas’s death, Marena Crowningshield on February lived in the old Phillip’s 25, 1857, at Stratton, farmhouse. This house was Vermont. located at the corner of what is 4) Emery S., born in 1847 at now the West Jamaica Rd. and Dover, Vermont; died in 1928 Ball Farm Rd.. Silas’s father had (buried in Cambridgeport, owned this farm in 1844. The Vermont); married Hattie A. 1869 Beer’s Atlas shows Marena Moran on December 24, 1868, (Mrs. Jones) living on this lot. at Wardsboro, Vermont On December 25, 1871, Marena (Emery served during the Civil married Edward A. Ball, and they War in Co. I of the 8th VT continued to live on this same Reg.). farm. Edward is the gentleman 5) Sidney H., married Mariah L. from whom the farm, road and Chase. cemetery took their names. Silas and Marena’s five children: Silas L. Jones, son of Nathaniel1 1) Walter Judson, born May 24, and Sarah Jones, was born at 1856, at Stratton, Vermont; Dover, Vermont, on April 8, died September 5, 1863, at

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Stratton, Vermont (of at first they apparently resided at diphtheria). the old Fuller place on 4L5R in 2) Lillia L., born February 25, 1869, not long after that time, 1863, at Stratton, Vermont; they settled into a new house died December 23, 1883, at probably on 3L5R on the south Stratton, Vermont; married side of the Stratton-Arlington Rd.. Edward N. Magoon. Sarah died at Stratton on 3) Christiana (attended Stratton’s November 15, 1892. Following school #4 in 1867). her death, Jesse boarded with 4) Frederick L.(attended Stratton Abigail Sheldon and Hannah school #2 in 1865 and took the Sprague, two widowed sisters. Freeman’s oath in Stratton in At some point probably after 1876). Sarah’s death, Jesse lived with his 5) Wills (attended Stratton school daughter, Sarah Allen. At that #2 in 1865). time, he managed Wardsboro Station - the West River Rail Notes: 1) Silas’s death record states that his parents Road station that was located in were Emery and Sarah Jones, however, East Jamaica, Vermont. additional evidence indicates that Jesse died on June 4, 1918. Nathaniel and Sarah (Babcock) Jones were his actual parents – perhaps he was Sarah and Jesse were buried in adopted by the other family. Ball Cemetery. Children of Jessie and Sarah: Jesse C. Jones, son of Nathaniel 1) Everette M., born in October, and Sarah Jones, was born in 1857, at Wardsboro, Vermont; 1836. In 1854, Jesse was living died November 13, 1875, at with George Hartwell on what is Stratton, Vermont. now Willis Cemetery Rd. and 2) Sarah Sophia, born in March, attending school in Stratton. 1860; married 1) Franklin C. Jesse married Sarah E. Hall 2) Norman Densmore Crowningshield, daughter of Allen. William and Tirzah 3) Willie C., born December 12, Crowningshield, on February 25, 1861, died May 21, 1862, at 1857, at Stratton. Sarah was born Stratton, Vermont. on April 5, 1830. 4) Hattie Bell, born September 7, During the Civil War, Jesse 1867, at Stratton, Vermont; enlisted on June 16, 1862, and he died in 1933; married 1) Orlin mustered into Company K of the Atwood on May 26, 1883, at Vermont 9th Regiment, on Dover, Vermont 2) Frank August 16, 1862. Jesse was Gonyer on December 2, 1900, reported as absent without leave at Stratton, Vermont. for a long time, but he was found to be in a hospital. He returned to Sidney H. Jones, son of his company and he mustered out Nathaniel and Sarah Jones, of of the service on June 13, 1865. Dover, Vermont, married Mariah The Joneses lived in Stratton L. Chase of Jamaica, Vermont. along the Stratton-Arlington Rd.,

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The Joneses first lived at Mason Henry Jones, son of Windham, Vermont, then settled Sidney and Mariah (Chase) Jones, in Stratton sometime before 1876. was born on November 6, 1863. They moved back to Windham by “Mate” Jones lived in Jamaica, in 1880. the Pike’s Falls area, where he Their children were: operated a fern export business. 1) Mason Henry, born in Mate hired people to collected November, 1863; died ferns. He then boxed these plants February 10, 1931, at Jamaica, and shipped them to distributors Vermont; married Mattie C. in Boston and New York. Harris about 1895. Mate married Mattie C. 2) Alanson, born in August, Harris about 1895. In 1900, 1864, at Windham, Vermont; Mattie’s brother, Edmond S. died December 14, 1885, at Harris (born Nov., 1874) was Stratton, Vermont (accidental boarding with the Jones family. shooting). Mate died on February 10, 3) Dennis, married Ella Chase. 1931, at Jamaica, Vermont. 4) Sidney, Jr., married Addie Children of Mate and Mattie: Densmore. 1) Chester H., born March 25, 5) Ellen 1896; married Florence 6) Welthy Ann, born in 1874, at (Chamberlain) Clough on Windham, Vermont; died in December 27, 1920, at 1964; married Harry Clough. Jamaica, Vermont. 7) Luthera Amanda, born July 31, 2) Irene M., born March 14, 1876; died September 5, 1879, 1898; married Raymond at Stratton, Vermont. Styles. 8) Mary Etta, born July 12, 1878, 3) Lester M., born February 18, at Stratton, Vermont; died 1901. December 3, 1958; married 4) Leonard E., born May 24, George N. Eager. 1904; died February 10, 1934, 9) Effee, born in 1884 at at Jamaica, Vermont. Windham, Vermont; died in 5) Ruth M., born August 3, 1912; 1957; married 1) Ernest married Charles Hamilton. Brazer 2) Merrick N. 6) Esther C., born May 24, 1915; Underwood. died in 1996; married Dwight Dodge. Alanson Jones, son of Sidney and 7) Leo A., born September 5, Mariah Jones, was born in 1917. August, 1864, at Windham, Vermont. While out hunting in Selina Jones was born in 1836. Stratton, Alanson accidentally She was living with the family of shot and killed himself on Melvin and Marcelina Knowlton December 14, 1885. in 1860.

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Nelson Bishop Jones of she was buried in the Newfane Rd. Wardsboro, Vermont, was very Cemetery in Wardsboro. likely a son or grandson of Asa Thomas apparently owned and Hannah (Nelson) Jones of property in Stratton in 1836 – Wardsboro. He married Lucy possibly the Guild farm on 3L4R, Glazier, daughter of John and but it appears that he resided in Dorothy Glazier, on January 17, Wardsboro until 1837, when he 1827, at Stratton. The Joneses lost everything during the settled in Stratton, living on John depression of that year. Glazier’s farm, located on Thomas married Abigail Shepardson Rd.. This farm was Carter, daughter of Ephraim and previously owned by Jacob Polly Carter (intent published on Batchellor (see E. Grout on Beer’s May 15, 1836, at Stratton). Atlas of 1869). Abigail was his third wife. Nelson took the Freeman’s Following the marriage, the oath in Stratton on September 7, Joneses settled in Stratton. Town 1828. In 1830, the Joneses had meetings were held in their home two sons under the age of five. At in 1837. that time, a gentleman aged 70 to Thomas was an ensign in the 80 was also living with them. 1st artillery company of the third This may have been Nelson’s regiment in the state militia. He father. was titled “captain” when he The Joneses had moved away married Abigail. In 1840, Abigail from Stratton before 1840. Lucy was admitted to the Church of died at West Wilton, New Christ in Stratton. The Joneses Hampshire, on September 27, then settled in Shaftsbury, 1894. Vermont, where Thomas died in 1878. Thomas Jones, son of Aaron and Children of Thomas and Huldah: Sybil (Taylor) Jones was born in 1) Margaret, married (?) Kimball. 1796 in Wardsboro. Thomas 2) Elizabeth, married (?) Dexter. resided in Wardsboro as a child, then moved to New York State for Children of Thomas and Hannah: three years, returning about 1816. 3) Edward Milton, born in 1832; Thomas’s first wife was Huldah died in 1905; married Adelia Dory, daughter of Ellis and Cranston. Huldah Dory. Huldah died on 4) Thomas, killed in the sinking June 2, 1826, aged 27 and was of his ship in the Civil War. buried in Fairview Cemetery in Wardsboro. Thomas’s second Children of Thomas and Abigail: wife was Hannah C. Cushing, 5) Horace, married Ruth Hastings. daughter of Warren and Abigail 6) Martha, married (?) Tinkham. Cushing. They were married on 7) Leander, married Frances August 16, 1831. Hannah died on Hotchkiss. December 19, 1834, age 38, and

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8) Helen, married Charles Stratton around 1883 and he also Redfield. lived in Sunderland, Vermont. Henry Jones and Cassandra Allen, Additional Sources: Return to Yesterday by CS Streeter. daughter of Chester and Miranda Allen, had a child: Jane Jones married Silas Crosby 1) Claude Clinton, born April 10, of Wardsboro, Vermont, on 1883, at Stratton, Vermont. September 3, 1830, at Stratton. Augustus F. Jones, son of George H. Jones, son of William Frederick and Susan Jones, was H. Jones, was born in 1816 at born on November 3, 1855. He Wardsboro, Vermont. George was a manufacturer of Middle died at Stratton on January 15, Falls, New York. 1862, of diphtheria. Augustus married Mary A. Sprague, daughter of Lyman and Erastus H. Jones was possibly a Laura Sprague, on June 19, 1886, son of Nathaniel and Sarah Jones. at Stratton. Mary was born on He and his wife, Emeryene, lived August 25, 1857. briefly at Stratton around 1857, Augustus died on September but they eventually settled in 3, 1921, and Mary followed in Wardsboro, Vermont. 1934. They were buried in Ball During the Civil War, Erastus Cemetery. enlisted on June 16, 1862, and he was placed into Company K of the Joslin 8th Vermont Regiment. He died Alexander Joslin apparently lived of disease on December 24, 1862, on 5L5R in Stratton in 1797. He at Chicago, Illinois, and he was may have been the same buried in the National Cemetery Alexander Joslin, born April 15, there. 1771, at Sudbury, Massachusetts, A child of Erastus and Emeryene: a son of Thomas and Mary 1) William H., born January 8, (Drummond) Joslin, who married 1857, at Stratton, Vermont. Sophia Hallett on August 19, 1792. J. Leslie Jones, son of John and Alexander did not own this Sophia Jones of Dover, Vermont, Stratton lot, but he was called out was born about 1854. He married as a resident of the town in the Carrie Ward, daughter of Amos minutes of the Town Meeting held and Philena Ward of Jamaica, in March, 1797. Alexander was Vermont, on March 6, 1875, at not mentioned in any other town Stratton. Carrie died at Stratton record, nor was he listed in the on March 7, 1884. 1800 census of Stratton.

Henry Jones was a teamster that worked at one of the lumber camps in this area. He lived in

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Joudry and probably had left town much Hugh Carlyle Joudry was born earlier. at Welland, Ontario, Canada and Royal married Abigail B. Jeanne Peck Joudry was born at Daby about 1845. Abigail was Buffalo, New York. born at Fitchburg, Massachusetts, The Joudrys came to Stratton in 1827. After the marriage, the in 1968 where they worked as the Joys settled in Ashburnham, New Fire Lookouts for the State of Hampshire, where Royal worked Vermont, stationed on the summit as a stonemason. In 1851, the of Stratton Mountain during the Joys had settled in Montgomery, summer months. They continued Vermont, and by August, 1853, in this capacity through to 1979. they were living in Jay, Essex During the winter months, the County, New York. Royal passed Joudrys lived in various places away at Jay in 1884. including New York, New York, Children of Royal and Abigail: and the Princeton, New Jersey 1) Charles Phillip, born July 18, areas. Hugh is a sculptor, a writer 1846, at Ashburnham, New and a math teacher. Jeanne has Hampshire; married 1) Mary worked as a book designer and Wilkins on April 25, 1869 2) she enjoys painting. Lydia Sheldrake on October 9, In 1996, the Joudrys returned 1879. to the summit of Stratton 2) Sarah C., born July 28, 1847; Mountain, where they have been married 1) Luther Wilkins on employed by the Green Mountain April 27, 1866 2) Moses Club and the U. S. Forest Service Bagshaw. as the summit caretakers during 3) Jane M., born August 18, 1849; the summer months. In 1997, married C. H. Bromley. they began spending their winters 4) Royal Waterman, born June 22, in Stratton also. 1851, at Montgomery, Vermont; married Eda Murray on June 20, 1870. Joy 5) Mary Angeline, born August Royal Dire Joy, son of Obadiah, 15, 1853, at Jay, New York; Jr. and Content (Hovey) Joy, was married William T. Smith on born at Putney, Vermont, in 1818. August 18, 1875. He came to Stratton between 1830 6) Rosilla, born November 16, and 1840. At the March meeting 1854, at Jay, New York; of 1840, Royal was voted in as a married Enos Saunders on fenceviewer. The census of that March 4, 1874. year showed a male and female 7) Willard Albert, born June 21, aged 20 to 30 also living with 1856, at Jay, New York; him. The other man was probably married Martha Jane Luddy on married to the woman and it December 21, 1882. seems likely that this other man was a Moultrip. Royal moved away from Stratton before 1850

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8) Daniel N., born May 2, 1855, she speculated that the Kelley at Jay, New York; married Stand was named for his Eliza Bushey. descendants. This, however, was 9) William G., born December 12, not the case. The Kelleys of 1859, at Jay, New York; Stratton – the same Kelleys who married Mabel Bowen on July established the Kelley Stand - 5, 1893. were descendants of Richard 10) John H., born April 25, 1861; Kelley of Hopkinton, killed December 24, 1883, in Massachusetts, through their son Kansas. William and his wife, Lucy 11) Frank H., born June 20, 1863. (Corruth) Kelley who had settled 12) Henry Sherman (twin), born in Dummerston, Vermont. January 1, 1865, at Jay, New William Kelley and Lucy Corruth York. were married at Shrewsbury, 13) Harriet Cecelia (twin), born Massachusetts, on October 14, January 1, 1865, at Jay, New 1772. York; married Fred P. Davis in Their children included: 1889. 1) William, born September 15, 14) U. S. Grant, born August 15, 1779, at Dummerston, 1871, at Jay, New York; Vermont; died April 2, 1861, married Fannie Smith on at Manchester, Vermont; March 31, 1892. married Hannah Hubbard on January 12, 1803, at Additional Sources: The Joy Genealogy by Helen Bourne and Wardsboro, Vermont. Joy Lee (1968) William Kelley, son of William and Lucy Kelley, was born on K September 15, 1779, at Dummerston, Vermont. William married Hannah Hubbard on Kelley January 12, 1803. Hannah was According to Esther Swift, author likely the same Hannah, daughter of Vermont Place Names, a man of Simeon and Lydia (Blodgett) named John Kelley was listed on Hubbard, born June 11, 1782, at fourteen of New York’s Brimfield, Massachusetts. This Confirmatory Patents between Hubbard family was related to the 1769 and 1775. He was named on Blodgett family of Wardsboro and Stratton’s New York Patent as a Stratton. grantee under Colonel Edmund William had settled in Fanning in 1775. Following the Sunderland, Vermont, about American Revolution, John 1840, where he was the Inn petitioned the Vermont legislature Keeper at the Kelley Stand – an for charters to cover nearly 70,000 Inn later kept by his son JW acres. According to Swift, this Kelley. William and Hannah same John had settled in lived next door to the Inn. Somerset, Vermont, by 1791 and

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Although the Kelleys may By 1850, the Kelleys had all have not settle in Stratton, their moved to Sunderland, Vermont. children did settled there for a JW’s parents apparently had brief time. William died on April settled there beforehand. The area 2, 1861, at Manchester, Vermont. settled by the Kelleys was a mid- William and Hannah’s children: point on the Stratton Turnpike as 1) John William “JW,” born it crossed Sunderland. There, JW September 29, 1820; died May started a lumbering operation and 21, 1890; married Lucy Grout also continued operation of an Inn on December 25, 1841, at - the Kelley Stand Hotel. His Stratton. father, William Kelley, was the 2) Patrick “Henry,” born Inn Keeper for many years until November 18, 1824, at his death in 1861. Wardsboro, Vermont; died The 1850 census shows that May 18, 1887, at Manchester, JW, Lucy and their children New Hampshire; married shared their home with Henry and Mary Ann Grout. Mary Ann Kelley and their sister, Their children possibly included: Louise Kelly, as well as several 3) Louise, born in 1823; married workers, including Lucy and Mary (?) Glazier. Ann’s brother, Joel Grout, and 4) Martha A. C., married Adams also Jeremiah Murphy and Allen Grout on May 28, 1844, Thatcher Sprague. at Sunderland, Vermont. In the late 1850s, the turnpike’s toll was abolished, due John William Kelley, son of to the effort of a group of citizens William and Hannah Kelley, was led by JW. JW stood to profit born on September 29, 1820, in from abolishment of the toll, Massachusetts. John, called JW provided traffic along that route or William, married Lucy Grout, increased without the toll. It also daughter of Joel and Lucy Grout saved him that extra expense for on December 25, 1841, at transporting his lumber out of the Stratton. Lucy was born there on area. Once the turnpike was August 10, 1823. JW was living abolished, the road became know in Sunderland at the time of their as the Kelley Stand Rd.. marriage. JW passed away on May 21, In 1847, the Kelleys lived in 1890, and Lucy followed on April Stratton with JW’s brother Henry, 14, 1906. probably on the northeast quarter Children of JW and Lucy were: of 1L7R. This was located on the 1) John Newton, born May 25, south-southwest side of Grout 1843; died November 28, Pond. They also owned the west 1916. half of 1L6R. These brothers 2) Maria, born January 29, 1846; were lumbermen and probably married RN Bragg. tried to operate a mill there. 3) Cornellia Elizabeth “Nellie,” born May 27, 1847; married

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Milton Warner on June 10, William (J.W. Kelley) was running it at 1866. the time; and that her grandfather Kelley lived there before Uncle William took charge); died January 23, Patrick “Henry” Kelley, son of 1936, at Center Sandwich, William and Hannah Kelley, was New Hampshire; married John born on November 18, 1824, at Titus Beach on May 29, 1876. Wardsboro, Vermont. Henry, as he was called, took the Freeman’s Additional Sources: oath in Stratton on November 12, Notes on the Kelley family - Martha Canfield Library - Arlington, Vermont. 1844, and he was living in Notes of Joan Beach Little Stratton in 1847, probably on the northeast quarter of 1L7R with his Samuel Kelley, son of William brother, John William Kelley. and Mary (Russell) Kelley of This lot was located south- Dummerston, Vermont, was born southwest of Grout Pond. in March, 1760. He was likely Henry Kelley was seen as H. related to the above Kelley family. Kelley in some records. He Samuel married Rebeccah married Mary Ann Grout, Choate, daughter of Stephen and daughter of Joel and Lucy Grout Bathsheba (Newton) Choate on about 1845. Mary Ann was born May 17, 1785. Rebeccah was on May 17, 1820, at Stratton - a born on November 20, 1763, at sister of Lucy (Grout) Kelley, wife Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, and of John William Kelley. she died on February 1, 1792, at Henry and Mary Ann moved Dummerston. Samuel then to Sunderland with the rest of the married her sister, Eunice, on Kelley family before 1850. That September 25, 1792. Eunice was year’s census shows them residing born at Winchedon, with JW Kelly’s family, and it Massachusetts, on April 13, 1768. calls Henry a stage driver. He The Kelleys never settled in evidently drove the stage across Stratton, but several of their the Stratton Turnpike, probably children eventually resided in carrying mail and passengers town. Samuel moved his family between West Wardsboro and to Wardsboro, Vermont soon after Arlington (as did Henry Waite in his second marriage. He died at later years). Wardsboro in June, 1814. The Kelleys eventually settled Children of Samuel and in Manchester, New Hampshire. Rebeccah: Henry died there on May 18, 1) Bela, born March 12, 1786, at 1887, and Mary Ann followed on Dummerston, Vermont; March 22, 1891. married Betsey Randall on Their children were: March 7, 1810, at Stratton. 1) Ethelbert Herman, born in 2) Richard, born November 5, 1854 1787, at Dummerston, 2) Edith Marion, born June 20, Vermont (he lived in Stratton 1856 (she wrote that she was born at in 1811). the Kelly Stand in 1856 and her Uncle

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Hannah and William Kelley

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John William Kelley and wife, Lucy (Grout) Kelley

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Patrick Henry Kelley Mary Ann (Grout) Kelley (1824 – 1887) (1820 – 1891)

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3) Eunice, born December 25, who settled in Stratton during the 1789, at Dummerston, 1870s. In 1880, he was living Vermont; married Matthew alone. William died at Stratton Randall on August 18, 1811, at on July 18, 1889. Stratton (They had a son, Richard One of William’s children may Kelley Randall). have been: 4) Francis “Fanny”, born 1) Martha A., born in July, 1857; December 29, 1791 (of married George Baybrook on Newton, Massachusetts) March 11, 1878, at Stratton. married (?) Pixley of Somerset (the Kelleys may have been related to Joel Kent was a resident of Daniel Kelley of Newton. Note that John Kelley named his son, John Stratton in the 1960s. The Kent “Newton” Kelley -- see below). family owned land in Stratton for many years in the northeast corner Children of Samuel and Eunice: of town. Joel resettled in Jamaica, 5) Harriet Ashley, born October Vermont. 30, 1794, at Wardsboro, Vermont; died February 8, Kidder 1861; married George Soule Francis Kidder, Jr., son of on February 23, 1823, at Francis and Elizabeth Kidder, was Wardsboro, Vermont. born at Sutton, Massachusetts, on 6) Austin, born July 28, 1796, at February 6, 1743. Francis Wardsboro, Vermont. married Mary Chase on April 21, 7) Uriah, Born September 15, 1763, at Sutton. 1799, at Wardsboro, Vermont. Francis served during the 8) Benjamin Franklin, born April American Revolution as a Private 1, 1806, at Wardsboro, in Captain Ebenezer Goodall’s Vermont; died January 30, Company of minutemen in 1896; married 1) Puah Colonel Woodbridge’s Regiment, Chamberlain on June 25, 1827 responding to the Lexington 2) Sarah S. Eager on June 25, alarm of April 19, 1775. 1845, at Wardsboro, Vermont. Several years after the war, Francis and Mary settled in Kenny Stratton. On November 1, 1786, Walter Kenny was born about Francis and Jonathan Trask, both 1886 in Rhode Island. In 1920, of Sutton, purchased 10L1R in he was a lumberman, working in Stratton and the following year, Stratton and living in the the lot was split between them; boarding house at the Grout Job. east to Kidder, west to Trask. On November 15, 1792, Francis sold Kent this lot and part of 9L1R to his son Abel. At that point, Abel William P. Kent, son of James became head of the household and Lucy Kent, was born at while Francis and Mary remained Pelham, New Hampshire, on June in their home. It appears that 5, 1816. William was a doctor

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Abel built a second dwelling on Miriam Taylor on September this lot for his own family. 10, 1797, at Southboro, Francis and Mary may have Massachusetts. resided with their son, Francis’ 4) Mary (Polly), born March 17, family for a time in Winhall, 1771, at Sutton, Vermont, since in 1797, Francis, Massachusetts; married Elihu Sr., called Captain Francis Ewers on February 11, 1798. Kidder, organized Winhall’s first 5) Elizabeth (Betsey), born militia company. By the time the February 17, 1773, at Sutton, census of 1800 was taken, Francis Massachusetts; died May 8, and Mary again were living in 1855, at Greenfield, Stratton, alone in their home. Massachusetts; married Levi On August 17, 1801, Francis Stone on January 14, 1796, at was among the charter members Sutton, Massachusetts. of the Church of Christ in 6) Emma (or Amy), baptized Stratton. He was appointed as one June 25, 1775, at Sutton, of the two first deacons of that Massachusetts; died October 6, Church. Mary was taken into the 1860, at Winhall, Vermont; church on October 17, 1801. In married Silas Wilder. 1810, they apparently were living 7) Enoch, baptized May 30, 1779, with their son, Abel. Mary died at Sutton, Massachusetts. there on September 18 (or 19), 8) Thomas, born November 13, 1813, and Francis died on 1780, at Sutton, February 4, 1814. Massachusetts. Children of Francis and Mary: 9) Nancy, baptized July 11, 1784, 1) Francis, born February 6, at Sutton, Massachusetts. 1764, at Sutton, Massachusetts; died July 25, Francis Kidder, son of Francis 1841, at Winhall, Vermont; and Mary Kidder, was born on married Sarah Holman on February 6, 1764, at Sutton, January 30, 1788, at Sutton, Massachusetts. He married Sarah Massachusetts. Holman, daughter of Elisha and 2) Abel, born April 29, 1766, at Jerusha (Snow) Holman, on Sutton, Massachusetts; died on January 30, 1788, at Sutton. November 19, 1831, at Sarah was born there on March 9, Stratton, Vermont; married 1) 1768. Mary Chase on January 23, Francis Kidder was a farmer 1793, at Sutton, Massachusetts who came to Vermont about the 2) Sarah Sprague on May 24, same time as his parents. The 1819, at Stratton, Vermont. Kidders may have settled in 3) Ashbel, baptized August 13, Stratton briefly, but eventually 1769, at Sutton, located in Wardsboro, then Massachusetts; died August Windham, Vermont, before 1800, 27, 1823, at Boston, and at some point resettled in Massachusetts; married Winhall, Vermont. They were

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recommended to the church at Abel Kidder, son of Francis and Windham, Vermont, on June 12, Mary Kidder, was born on April 1797. 29, 1766, at Sutton, Francis died in Winhall on Massachusetts. On November 15, July 25, 1841. Sarah evidently 1792, Abel purchased his parents’ moved to Stratton, following farm on 10L1R and part of 9L1R. Francis’s death, where she lived At that point, Abel became head with relatives. She died there on of the household while his parents February 29,1844, and she was continued to live there. By 1800, buried in North Cemetery. Abel had built a home on this lot, Children of Francis and Sarah: separate from his parents’ home. 1) Sally, born January 14, 1789, This house still exists at the sharp at Wardsboro, Vermont; died bend of County Rd. on the south September 22, 1841, at side of the road. Winhall, Vermont. Abel married his cousin, 2) Cynthia, born May 14, 1790, Mary Chase, daughter of Thomas at Wardsboro, Vermont; died and Deborah Chase, on January young. 23, 1793, at Sutton, and brought 3) Matilda, born September 14, her back to his farm in Stratton. 1792, at Wardsboro, Vermont. Mary was born on March 7, 1769, 4) Polly, born March 13, 1794, at at Warwick, Massachusetts. Wardsboro, Vermont; married The Kidders were charter Francis Burbank on October members of the Church of Christ 14, 1815, at Wardsboro, in Stratton, which was formed on Vermont. August 17, 1801. In October, 5) Fanny, born February 22, their three children were baptized 1798, at Wardsboro, Vermont; into the church. Church services died December 8, 1851, at and meetings were often held in Jamaica, Vermont; married their home. Samuel Martin in February, Mary died at Stratton on July 1827. 29, 1818. Abel then married the 6) Varanus, born August 12, widow Sarah Sprague on May 24, 1800; died January 31, 1847. 1819. Sarah was the widow of 7) Child, born July 31, 1801. Isaac Sprague and daughter of 8) Francis, born November 2, Rev. Eliphalet and Hannah 1803. (Marsh) Wright, and she was born 9) Abel, born May 15, 1806. on March 7, 1766, at Killingly, 10) Matilda, born July 22, 1808; Connecticut. Sarah had been a died April 20, 1854; married member of the Church in Hiram L. Porter on February 4, Winhall, then removed her church 1838. relation from Winhall to the 11) Elisha, born September 14, Church of Christ in Stratton and 1813; died April 28, 1815. she was received by the Church on June 3, 1821. On June 3, 1822,

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Abel was made a Deacon of the 1838; married Philena Church. Sprague. Abel acquired pieces of other 2) Ashbel, born December 28, lots in Stratton over the years. In 1795, at Stratton, Vermont; deeds made in 1826, Abel made married Mary Sprague (intent the following arrangements with published on December 22, his sons: In the first deed: Abel 1822, at Stratton, Vermont. signed over “to his beloved son 3) (a son), born March 10, 1798, Ashbel Kidder for the good cause at Stratton, Vermont; died of supporting and maintaining he August 23, 1798, at Stratton, and his wife,” Abel’s goods, Vermont. chattels, plate jewels, leases and 4) Maria, born September 26, personal estate, whatsoever, 1799, at Stratton, Vermont; except his library and half the married Jonathan Phillips on household furniture. In the December 3, 1818. second deed: his son, Ira, who 5) Marena, born July 23, 1802, at lived at Winhall signed an Stratton, Vermont (baptized in agreement with his father in Stratton on July 17, 1803); exchange for 100 dollars, two married Jonas Hale on April milking cows one bed and 12, 1827, at Stratton, bedding, Ira would support his Vermont. sister Emma Kidder, who was 6) Abel Chase, born February 12, evidently epileptic. Two years 1805, at Stratton, Vermont later, Ira reneged on his (baptized in Stratton on July commitment and so Abel made 20, 1805). arrangements with his son-in-law, 7) Betsey Bancroft, born August Ezekiel Estabrook, to care for 18, 1807, at Stratton, Vermont Emma. A third deed turned over (baptized in Stratton on all of the farm to Ashbel except October 23, 1807); died on for a two-acre lot located on the August 5, 1867; married road to Tyler Waite’s home Ezekiel Estabrook (intent (County Rd.). Abel’s home was published on December 2, located on this two-acre parcel. 1827, at Stratton, Vermont). Abel was listed in Stratton’s 8) Emma Wilder, born March 12, 1830 census as Abiel Kidder. He 1810, at Stratton, Vermont died at Stratton on November 19, (baptized in Stratton on March 1831. After Abel’s death, Sarah 30, 1810) (She apparently apparently lived with Abel’s son, suffered from epilepsy and had Ashbel Kidder. Sarah died on to be cared for by various February 29, 1844, and she was family members, including her buried in North Cemetery. brother Ira and later her sister, Children of Abel and Mary were: Betsey). 1) Ira, born October 5, 1793, at 9) Calvin William, born July 21, Stratton, Vermont; died in 1818, at Stratton, Vermont

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(baptized in Stratton on July Ashbel married Mary 26, 1818). Sprague, daughter of Isaac and Sarah Sprague, on December 24, Ira Kidder, son of Abel and Mary 1822, at Stratton. Mary was born Kidder, was born on October 5, on July 29, 1806, and she was 1793, at Stratton. He married accepted into the Church of Christ Philena Sprague, daughter of in Stratton, on March 6, 1825. Isaac and Sarah Sprague. Philena The Kidders apparently live with was born August 15, 1799, Ashbel’s parents on 10L1R. probably in Winhall, Vermont. In 1826, Ashbel made the Ira took the Freeman’s oath following arrangement with his in Stratton on September 2, 1817. father, Abel. Abel signed over “to He and his brother, Ashbel, his beloved son Ashbel Kidder for purchased the east half of 9L1R in the good cause of supporting and Stratton in 1819 and in 1822, Ira maintaining he and his wife,” sold his half to Ashbel. Abel’s goods, chattels, plate Ira and Philena were active jewels, leases and personal estate, members of the Church of Christ whatsoever, except his library and in Stratton. Ira was baptized into half the household furniture. this church in October, 1801, and In 1840, besides their admitted to the church on August immediate family, the Kidders 26, 1821. He was elected as the had Mary’s mother, Sarah Kidder, Church Clerk in 1822, serving (who was also Ashbel’s step- until 1824. While in Stratton, Ira mother) living with them. Also, cared for his sister, Emma, who Ashbel’s youngest brother, Calvin probably suffered from epilepsy. was living in their home. By The Kidders removed to Illinois 1850, Sarah had died and Calvin about 1825, where Philena passed had moved away. On June 4, away. Ira died in 1838. 1854, the Church agreed to give Children of Ira and Philena were: Mary a letter of dismission and 1) Nahum Gould, baptized in recommendation to the Church of Stratton on March 6, 1825. Christ in Granville, Illinois, and 2) Sidney, born in 1834; died in the Kidders subsequently resettled 1885; married Evelyn A. there. Robinson. Ashbel died in Illinois and Mary returned to Stratton. She Ashbel Kidder, son of Abel and remarried to Tyler Waite on Mary Kidder, was born on October 10, 1877, at Stratton. December 28, 1795, at Stratton Following Tyler Waite’s death in and grew up there. In 1819, he 1887, she returned to Illinois and and his brother, Ira, purchased the died on February 8, 1888. Two of east half of 9L1R in Stratton and the Kidder children that had died in 1822, Ira sold his half to at a young age were buried in Ashbel. North Cemetery.

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Children of Ashbel and Mary: weeks after the wedding. Frank 1) Perlina, born September 14, was living at Stratton before the 1823, at Stratton, Vermont. marriage and he was a foreman as 2) Vernela, born October 11, listed on the wedding certificate. 1824, at Stratton, Vermont. Frank later married Bertha E. 3) Ezra, born April 27, 1827, at Kidder on October 28, 1918, at Stratton, Vermont; died May Worcester, Massachusetts, and 20, 1842. they lived in Wardsboro. 4) Mary, born November 3, 1828, at Stratton, Vermont. H. E. Kidder Jr., son of Henry 5) Wright, born October 6, 1831, and Marietta Kidder of at Stratton, Vermont; died Wardsboro, was born in October, October 13, 1833, at Stratton, 1864. He married Mary E. Gould Vermont. in 1884/5 and apparently settled 6) Willard, born in 1833. in Stratton after the marriage. 7) Wright, born in 1835 Mary was born in August, 1864. 8) Baxter, born in 1837. In 1900, the Kidders had two 9) Philena, born in 1839. boarders in their home, Edward 10) Evalina, born in 1846. W. Starr (born in November, 1874) and R. N. Dean (born in Calvin William Kidder, son of August, 1875, in Massachusetts). Abel and Mary Kidder, was born Children of H.E. and Mary were: on July 21, 1818, at Stratton. He 1) Alice M., born in December, was baptized into the Church of 1885, at South Wardsboro; Christ in Stratton on July 26, married Robert H. Dean on 1818. Calvin was said to be of October 3, 1900, at Stratton, Stratton in April, 1845, when he Vermont. gave a mortgage to James and 2) Edwin H., born in April, 1887. Isaac Sprague. Kimball Frank Brooks Kidder, son of Asahel Kimball resided within Henry and Marietta Kidder of Stratton Gore in 1799. At that Wardsboro, Vermont, was born time, he signed a petition there on April 29, 1863. Frank requesting the annexation of married Edith A. Pike, daughter Stratton Gore by Stratton. In of Abel and Isabel Pike, on April 1800, Asahel had apparently 21, 1894, at Stratton. Edith was resettled in Newfane, Vermont. born there on December 3, 1870. He continued to purchase land in Edith had suffered an attack Stratton after that time, but of La Grippe (influenza) during apparently never returned to live the winter of 1893/4, of which she in Stratton. never quite recovered. Despite the fact that she was very ill, Edith and Frank were married. She King died on April 30, 1894, just three Henry King resided in Wilmington, Vermont, before

Stratton Families 272 settling in Somerset, Vermont. died January 14, 1893, at Henry’s wife, Sarah, purchased 75 Stratton, Vermont. acres and a house from Jotham Pike on November 21, 1853. The Knapp Kings settled on this lot at that Hiram J. Knapp, the son of time. This lot was located along Cyrus and Thankful Knapp, was the western end of Pike Hollow born on February 7, 1803, at Rd., in the Somerset Annex, Dover, Vermont. Hiram married which became part of Stratton in Elvira Stearns, daughter of Jonas 1858. The house stood where Stearns, on October 21, 1828, at D.R. Holton’s home is today. The Marlboro, Vermont. Elvira was old house burned at some point in born on September 10, 1804, at the 1930s or so, and a smaller Marlboro. cabin was built in its place. The Knapps first lived at In 1855, a child of Henry and Newfane, Vermont, then in Sarah (E. King) attended school Somerset, Vermont, before they in Stratton. The Kings sold their finally resettled in Stratton in land in Stratton and left town 1846. On March 27, 1846, Hiram before 1860. purchased the south half of 6L3R. The Knapp farm was located Andrew Willis King was born on northeast of Shepardson Rd.1. April 22, 1914. He settled in On December 26, 1848, Hiram Stratton and bought a house on and Elvira were received by letter Pike Hollow Rd., that was built by as members of the Church of A. H. Pike This house is currently Christ in Stratton from the owned by the Marcuccis. Congregational Church in Andy was Stratton’s Town Marlboro. Evidently, Hiram and Clerk from 1973 to 1991. He also Elvira had a falling out and owned Two Tannery Rd., a separated sometime around 1858. restaurant and lodge in Dover, The Church Clerk recorded “The Vermont. church met according to Andy passed away on March agreement to see what church 1, 1992, and he was buried in would do with Mr. Hyram Knapp Willis Cemetery. and wife, they having separated and do not live together as man Kingsbury and wife.” “Mr. and Mrs. Knapp William Kingsbury, a farmer and both asked for dismission from the musician, married Etta Sturvesant church.” “The Church voted to who was born in Athol, dismiss them from the church. Massachusetts. They settled in Therefore the church will be no Stratton about 1890. more accountable for their A child of William and Etta was: misconduct.” 1) George L., born October 4, Hiram died shortly after this 1892, at Stratton, Vermont; ordeal. His gravestone states that he died on September 18, 1858;

Stratton Families 273 although, he probably died in A. Severance on January 23, 1859. Hiram was buried in Ball 1865, at Washington, D.C.. Cemetery. 6) Asapha Steven Preston, born On June 21, 1868, Elvira was September 4, 1839, at accepted back into Stratton’s Somerset, Vermont; died Congregational Church. By 1869, March 2, 1908; married Emma Elvira had moved nearer to her Lee Perry on February 11, daughter, Phidora, wife of Isaac 1865, at Stratton, Vermont. Sprague. Elvira lived there alone. 7) Joseph Daniel Velasco, born She died on March 14, 1880, and January 5, 1842, at Somerset, she was buried beside Hiram in Vermont; died July 4, 1930, at Ball Cemetery. Anacortes, Washington; Their children were: married Caroline Medbury in 1) Polly Phidora Graves, born in Roscoe, Ohio, in 1871. 1831 at Somerset, Vermont; 8) Indiana Elvira Violet (Jennie), married Isaac Sprague on July born July 28, 1844, at 8, 1848, at Stratton, Vermont. Somerset, Vermont (became a 2) Carlos Boardman Sanford, member of the Church of born in 1832 at Somerset, Christ in Stratton on June 21, Vermont; died September 10, 1868). 1897, at Edmonds, 9) Elcina M. Arenavilla, born Washington; married Jane June 25, 1846 (became a Allen. member of the Church of 3) Cyrus Hiram Pitman, born Christ in Stratton on June 21, December 24, 1833, at 1868); died January 29, 1933, Somerset, Vermont; died at Whitingham, Vermont; October 22, 1863, at Stratton, married Cheselton J. Allen. Vermont; married 1) Mary

Adela Needham on October 27, 1858, at Stratton, Notes: Vermont. 1) In 1856, McClellan’s map shows a farm 4) Squire Henry Elliott, born occupied by S. Knapp just off of Shepardson Rd.. On the 1869 Beers October 29, 1835, at Newfane, Atlas, this farm was occupied by N. W. Vermont; died January 11, Mason. H. Knapp owned a farm nearby 1904, at Norton, Kansas; on the West Jamaica Rd... It is possible that both S. Knapp and H. Knapp were married 1) Eleanor Fox Hall the same person, Squire “Henry” Elliott on March 1, 1855, at Stratton, Knapp, Hiram and Elvira’s son, or it may Vermont 2) Mary Sardison be that S. Knapp was A. Stephen Preston Knapp who later owned this house or Pettis in 1892. perhaps his brother CBS Knapp, all sons 5) Enos Lyman Kimball, born on of Hiram and Elvira Knapp. November 5, 1837, at Somerset, Vermont; died October 9, 1904, at Seattle, Washington; married Martha

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Hiram J. Knapp Elvira (Stearns) Knapp (1803 - 1858) (1804 - 1880)

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Lyman Knapp Velasco Knapp (1837 - 1904) (1842 - 1930)

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Squire Henry Knapp Asaph Steven Preston Knapp (1835 - 1904)

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Carlos B. S. Knapp and Jane Cyrus Hiram Pitman Knapp (Allen) Knapp with daughter, (1833 - 1863) Clara

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Carlos Boardman Sanford Washington; married John Knapp, son of Hiram and Elvira Hull. Knapp, was born in 1832 at 2) Byron, born August 2, 1857, at Somerset, Vermont. He moved Mt. Palatine, Illinois; died with his family to Stratton in 1846 October 5, 1857. and there married Jane Allen, 3) Jessie, born September 8, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth 1858, at Granville, Illinois; (Hill) Allen. Jane was born on married Joy (?). October 9, 1836. Carlos 4) Frank Lewis, born July 27, purchased 39 acres of 1L7R from 1860, at Granville, Illinois; his future father-in-law on August died March 18, 1863. 5, 1852. 5) Charles Frederick, born March Carlos worked as a carpenter 9, 1862, at Granville, Illinois; and joiner while he lived in died March 26, 1933; married Stratton. He took the Freeman’s Eva Teressa Babcock in 1885. oath in September, 1853. 6) Mary Ella, born December 21, Carlos and Jane had their 1864, at Granville, Illinois; first child while they still lived in died June 20, 1950; married Stratton; however, in 1856, they Clarence Coates in Kansas. packed their belongings and 7) Walter Judson, born April 30, headed west. The Knapps first 1867, at Granville, Illinois; settled in Illinois and remained died June 24, 1952; married 1) there until about 1877. That year, Gertrude Craig on April 30, they moved to Kansas, making the 1890 2) Catherine Mae trip in a covered wagon. The Rochford. Knapps settled in Osborne, Kansas, where William Allen, Squire Henry Elliott Knapp, son Jane’s brother, lived. There, they of Hiram and Elvira Knapp, was built a sod house. Carlos was a born on October 29, 1835, at carpenter and helped to build the Newfane, Vermont. He went by Congregational Church in the name of Henry. Osborne, donating the bell tower Henry came to Stratton with as a gift. his parents in 1846 and married In 1890, The Knapps moved Eleanor Fox Hall there on March to Edmonds, Washington, and 1, 1855. Eleanor was born on built their home there. Carlos September 30, 1835, at Stratton, became the postmaster of and she was the daughter of Elsa Edmonds. He died there on Cummings. In 1850, Eleanor had September 10, 1897, and Jane been living in the home of Isaac died on January 21, 1901. Shepardson and his mother, Mary Children of Carlos and Jane were: Shepardson, along with Elsa 1) Clara, born February 7, 1856, Cummings. Henry and Elsa at Stratton, Vermont; died probably lived in the home of January 28, 1923, at Shelton, Henry’s parents. McClellan’s Map of 1856 shows S. Knapp as

Stratton Families 277 head of the household there. In Blackwell, Oklahoma; married 1857, Freeman Knapp was living Jessie Octavia Pettis on with them and attending school in January 1, 1897. district #2 in Stratton. 6) Edelbert, born April 25, 1869, During the Civil War, Henry at Stratton, Vermont; died enlisted on September 20, 1862. October 30, 1869, at Stratton, He mustered into Company I of Vermont. the Vermont 16th Regiment on 7) (a son), born August 17, 1870, October 23, 1862, served all of a at Stratton, Vermont. nine month enlistment and mustered out on August 10, 1863. Cyrus Hiram Pitman Knapp, Upon his return to Stratton, son of Hiram and Elvira Knapp, Henry purchased a farm on the was born on December 24, 1833, West Jamaica Rd., located just at Somerset, Vermont. He went east of Shepardson Rd.. The by the name of Pitman Knapp. Knapps lived there through the Pitman took the Freeman’s early 1870’s. Henry also owned oath in Stratton on September 4, the west half of 5L4R and 30 1855. There, he married Mary acres of 5L5R, which he sold to Adela Needham, daughter of Hyram H. Draper. William and Elmina Needham, on The Knapps then resettled in October 27, 1858. Mary was born Norton, Kansas. Eleanor died about 1836 at Dover, Vermont. there on October 7, 1890. After After the marriage, the Knapps Eleanor’s death, Henry married settled in Stratton. Mary Sardison Pettis in 1892. Following the outbreak of the Henry died at Norton on January Civil War, Pitman enlisted on 11, 1904. August 26, 1861, and mustered Children of Henry and Eleanor: into Company I of the Vermont 1) Evangeline Angelia, born July 4th Regiment on September 24. 21, 1856, at Stratton, Vermont During the Union Army’s siege of died July 26, 1856, at Stratton, Yorktown, Virginia, Pitman’s unit Vermont. participated in a skirmish at Lee’s 2) Elsie Rosella, born August 11, Mills on April 16, 1862. During 1857, at Stratton, Vermont; that fight, Pitman received a died May 10, 1868, at Stratton, severe gunshot wound to the hip. Vermont. He survived the battle but he was 3) Elliott Isaac, born May 8, discharged as a result of the 1859, at Stratton, Vermont; wound, against his wishes. died June 24, 1862, at Stratton, Hopelessly disabled by the injury, Vermont. Pitman returned to Stratton and 4) Elliot, born July 26, 1865, at died shortly thereafter on October Stratton, Vermont. 22, 1863. He was buried in Ball 5) Willie Elmer, born May 12, Cemetery. 1867, at Stratton, Vermont; died October 24, 1951, at

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Children of Pitman and Mary: recruit a company for the 1) Luella, born August 17, 1859, Vermont 17th Regiment, with at Stratton, Vermont; died headquarters at Townshend. August 7, 1862, at Stratton, Lyman was commissioned Vermont. Captain of Company F, of the 2) Cora Bella, born January 31, Vermont 17th Regiment on April 1861, at Stratton, Vermont. 9, 1864. This regiment saw severe action and it was left Enos Lyman Kimball Knapp, several times without field son of Hiram and Elvira Knapp, officers. Lyman was called to was born in Somerset, Vermont, command the regiment, and on on November 5, 1837, and in November 1, 1864, he was 1846, the Knapps moved to commissioned a Major. On Stratton. December 10, 1864, he was Lyman lived at Stratton until promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. he was eighteen years of age, He led his company in 13 battles, working on his father’s farm. He beginning with the Battle of the went by the name “Lyman” and so Wilderness and ending with Lee’s he later changed the order of his surrender at Appomattox. full name to Lyman Enos Knapp. Lyman was slightly wounded On June 5, 1853, Lyman was on three separate occasions, once accepted as a member of the at Gettysburg in July, 1863, once Congregational Church in at Spotsylvania on May 12, 1864, Stratton. As a young man, Lyman where he received a severe scalp prepared for a college education wound and was carried from the by attending Burr Seminary in field insensible, and once by a Manchester, Vermont, for three piece of shell at the taking of years. He then attended Petersburg on April 2, 1865. At Middlebury College in 1858 and Petersburg, he won a brevet graduated with honors in 1862. commission from President The Civil War had begun, and so, Lincoln for gallant and a week after his graduation, meritorious conduct. Lyman was Lyman enlisted into the service. promoted to Major of the regiment Lyman enlisted on October on November 1, 1864, and to 23, 1862, as a private for nine Lieutenant Colonel on December months in the Vermont 16th 10, 1864. Lyman mustered out of Regiment. On election by the service on July 14, 1865. company he was promoted to Just prior to leaving the Captain of Company I on service, Lyman married Martha September 20, 1862, and spent A. Severance, daughter of most of this time on guard duty in Ebenezer and Corcina (Jones) Washington D.C.. Lyman Severance on January 23, 1865, at mustered out of the service on Washington, D. C.. Martha was August 10, 1863, but he was born at Middlebury, Vermont, on commissioned by the governor to May 29, 1837. She was educated

Stratton Families 279 at Burr Seminary in Manchester, President Benjamin Harrison. Vermont, and she worked as a Lyman was swore in as Alaska’s schoolteacher in Middlebury, Governor on April 20, 1889, and while painting and teaching art. he served a full four-year term. After the war, Lyman settled During their time in Alaska, in Middlebury, Vermont. He was the Knapps lived in Sitka, an old dismissed from the church in Tlingit Indian village, which had Stratton to the church in become the Russian Colonial Middlebury on March 6, 1865. Capital of Alaska. During this There, he became editor and time period, Martha, an amateur publisher of the Middlebury painter, painted Alaskan Register on October 1, 1865, a landscapes and Indians. Some of position he held for thirteen years. her paintings are still kept in the During that time, Lyman studied Alaska Historical Library and the law. He was admitted as a Juneau Museum. member of the Addison County In 1892, Lyman received the Bar in 1876. In 1878, he resigned honorary degree of LL.D. from from the Middlebury Register, but Whitman College, and in 1893, he retained a financial interest in once his governorship was it until 1884. completed, Lyman and his family Lyman represented moved to Seattle, Washington, Middlebury in the Vermont where Lyman practiced law. Legislature and he was First During their years in Seattle, the Assistant Clerk of the House of Knapps lived at 1114 Ninth Representatives from 1872 to Avenue West, and Lyman 1874. Lyman was chairman of the maintained a law office -- Lyman Republican County Committee for E. Knapp, Attorney and several years and he served as Counselor at Law, at 10 Haller Trial Justice of the Peace in Building, Second Avenue and Middlebury and the county of Columbia St., Seattle, Addison. Washington. In the early 1880s, Mr. In his younger years, Lyman Knapp wrote a brief history of had been a member of the Stratton, for The Vermont Congregational churches at Historical Gazetteer, Vol. 5, Stratton and Middlebury and he compiled by Hemenway. He was was chairman of the prudential Register of Probate under Judge committee of the Middlebury Samuel E. Cook for many years Congregational Society. While in and he was appointed to succeed Seattle, the Knapps were members that gentleman as Judge of of the First Presbyterian Church Probate in 1879. Lyman held that where they had taken a great office for ten years and had been interest in the religious affairs of elected to another term in 1889, the community. Lyman was also but he resigned when he was state president of the Anti-Saloon appointed Governor of Alaska by League.

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In his later years, Lyman of the Stratton-Arlington Rd., underwent two severe surgical located just north of Forrester operations needed to treat the old Rd.. The 1870 census shows war wounds he had suffered. He Emma living there with their son, died shortly following the last Ernest. Preston was not listed operation on October 9, 1904, and with them and the list of members he was buried in Mount Pleasant of the Stratton Church shows him Cemetery in Seattle. Martha died as a non-resident member. at Portland, Oregon, on November Evidently, the Knapps 30, 1928. She was buried beside resettled in Wardsboro. Preston Lyman. died there on March 2, 1908, and Emma died on September 19, Asapha Steven Preston Knapp, 1939. They were buried in son of Hiram and Elvira Knapp, Fairview Cemetery in Wardsboro. was born on September 4, 1839, at Children of Preston and Emma: Somerset, Vermont. He went by 1) Ernest P., born May 27, 1864, the name, “Preston S. Knapp.” at Stratton, Vermont. Preston married Emma Lee 2) Malcolm Velasco Perry, daughter of Richard and 3) Mary, married (?) Bradford Eliza Perry, on February 11, 1865, and lived at Wardsboro, at Stratton. Emma was born Vermont. about 1848 at Rockingham, Vermont, and she was only fifteen Joseph Daniel Velasco Knapp, years old at the time of the son of Hiram and Elvira Knapp, marriage. was born in Somerset, Vermont, During the Civil War and on on January 5, 1842. He was January 1, 1864, Preston enlisted referred to as Velasco Knapp. In into Company F, of the Vermont 1846, the Knapp family moved to 17th Regiment - a company which Stratton. had been organized by his brother, Velasco enlisted during the Lyman. Preston was promoted to Civil War into Co. I of the 16th corporal on November 27, 1864, Vermont Infantry. His and served to the end of the war. commanding officer was his On September 2, 1866, brother, Lyman. Velasco was Preston was admitted as a member made a sergeant in 1863 and with of the Church of Christ in this company, he participated in Stratton. On July 29, 1867, the battle of Gettysburg. Preston repurchased his parents’ Following his discharge from old farm from David Eddy, the army on August 10, 1863, located northeast of Shepardson Velasco spent a few years in Rd.. This was the Mason farm as Baltimore, Maryland, then went to noted on Beer’s Atlas of 1869 of Kansas in 1869. Velasco stayed Stratton. In 1868, Preston sold there for nineteen years and he this farm to NW Mason. He also worked as both a real estate agent owned a house on the north side and as an insurance agent. He

Stratton Families 281 moved to Colfax, Washington, in people living in Vermont and 1889, where he was agent and adjacent states. I have succeeded inspector for the Deming in interesting Representative Investment Co.. In the following Gibson in this matter to such an year, he took a position as extent that he says he is going to assistant cashier for the First see the project through.” National Bank of Anacortes, Velasco did not live to see the Washington. He became creation of the Green Mountain postmaster of Anacortes, in 1898, National Forest in 1933. and served in that position until Although it is not the same as a 1915. In 1917, Mr. Knapp was National Park, the National Forest appointed Assistant Adjutant fulfills the idea of setting aside General and Assistant this area for nature’s sake. Quartermaster General of the Velasco married Caroline Grand Army of the Republic, Medbury in Roscoe, Ohio, in 1871 department of Washington and and they had three children. He Alaska. died on July 4, 1930, at Velasco returned to the east Anacortes, Washington. in 1919 and accepted guard duty Notes: on the Capitol police force, 1) Stratton’s population never exceeded Washington, D.C.. He continued much more than 360. in that service until a sunstroke Additional Sources for the above Knapp forced him to resign in 1923. families: Mr. Knapp was politically History of Addison County, Vermont active as a Republican for most of by H. P. Smith, 1886 his life. While in Anacortes, Notes of William Knapp of Washington Notes of Ora Knapp of Wardsboro, Vermont. Washington, he served on the state central committee from the Curtis Otis Knapp, son of Curtis time that town had become a city and Ruth Knapp, settled in to 1919. Stratton. Curtis was a descendant Mr. Knapp used his influence of Cyrus and Thankful Knapp to have the site of his boyhood through their son Cyrus Knapp, home made into a National Park. Jr. Cyrus Jr. had married Emily He pointed out that while there Streeter on January 18, 1816. A were eighteen National Parks west son of Cyrus and Emily was of the Mississippi, there was only Curtis Cyrus Knapp, who married one in the east. As published Ruth Ann Johnson, daughter of within an Anacortes paper, Otis and Laura Ann Johnson. Velasco said, “The former site of This Curtis Knapp lived in Somerset has been flooded, while Wardsboro, Vermont, and the population of Stratton has 1 purchased several lots in Stratton, dwindled from 580 to 37. The but apparently never lived there. surrounding country is in every Curtis and Ruth had a son, Curtis way suitable for a National Park, Otis Knapp, born on June 27, which would be a great boon to

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1862, in Rootville (within in Ball Cemetery); married 1) Winhall), Vermont. Esther Lund 2) Mildred Law. Curtis Otis Knapp traveled 2) Percival Robert, born August west with his father, leaving 28, 1893, in Sunderland, Vermont around 1874. His Vermont; married Emma parents were divorced soon Clark on October 5, 1914. afterward on July 17, 1875, and his mother died September 28, 1877, near Arlington, Vermont. The two Curtises, father and son, traveled to Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, and New Mexico. The older Curtis died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on July 10, 1883, and so the younger Curtis returned to Vermont, and first settled in Arlington. By the time of his return to Stratton, Curtis had become fascinated with steam-driven engines. He spent much of the rest of his life working on steam- driven mills in this area. Curtis married Fannie Mary McDermott, daughter of Andrew and Mary McDermott of Curtis Knapp with his son Ira Sunderland, Vermont, on Knapp, Ira’s wife, Ora Mae November 28, 1890, in New York (Atwood) and their three State. Fannie was born on children (about 1947) January 7, 1876. Photo courtesy of Ora Mae (Atwood) Knapp The Knapps settled in Stratton about 1904 and lived in 3) (a daughter), born June 12, the Ball farmhouse, located on the 1895; died the same day. northeast corner of the junction of 4) Essie Mary, born February 15, the West Jamaica Rd. and Ball 1897, at Arlington, Vermont; Farm Rd.. While in Stratton, died November 17, 1985, at Curtis worked at Grout’s Mills. Bellows Falls, Vermont; Later, the Knapps settled in South married Bela C. Lund on June Wardsboro, Vermont. Fannie 20, 1914, at Wardsboro, died on January 25, 1939, at Vermont. Wardsboro. 5) Florence Hazel, born March Children of Curtis and Fannie: 12, 1899, at Sunderland, 1) Cyrus Curtis born December 8, Vermont; married 1) (?) 1891, at Sunderland, Vermont; Greens 2) (?) Harvey 3) (?) died February 17, 1965 (buried Singleton.

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6) Nellie Grace, born February and Elsie Atwood, on December 25, 1901, at Searsburg, 17, 1938. Ora was born on May Vermont; died August 6, 1903, 18, 1921, at Westmoreland, New at Stratton, Vermont. Hampshire. Ira died July 13, 7) (a son), born June 17, 1904; at 1982, in South Wardsboro and Stratton, Vermont; died soon was buried in Ball Cemetery in after. Stratton. 8) Fannie Ruth, born February 6, 1907, at Stratton, Vermont; Freeman Knapp resided with died November 30, 1988, at Henry and Eleanor Knapp in 1857 Westminster, Vermont; in Stratton. At that time, married William Trevarrow on Freeman attended school in March 15, 1925. Stratton’s district #2. 9) Ira Andrew, born January 7, 1913, at South Wardsboro, Knight Vermont; died on July 13, (Knights) 1982; married Ora Mae Levi Knight, son of Ebenezer, Jr. Atwood. and Esther (Sprague) Knight, was

born at Phillipston, Percival Robert Knapp, son of Massachusetts, on January 31, Curtis and Fannie Knapp, was 1800. born on August 28, 1893, at Levi’s older brother, Levi, Sunderland, Vermont. Percival purchased several lots in Stratton (Percy) married Emma M. Clark, before 1810. Levi purchased the daughter of William A. and Annie southeast corner of Stratton Gore (Putnam) Clark, on October 5, from his future father-in-law, 1914. Emma was born in South William G. Pike, in February, Wardsboro, Vermont, on 1821, and he started a sawmill on September 1, 1898. the brook there (later called Pike They lived on the Stratton- Hollow Brook). This sawmill was Arlington Rd., about a half-mile located east of what is now Penny west of the Stratton Church. Avenue and it was later known as Percy died on June 18, 1957. the Lyman Mill. Remains of a Emma still lived with her son, sawmill can still be seen there. William, in Stratton in 1960. This was the William Pike lot and Children of Percival and Emma: the dwelling was located where 1) Robert W. the house currently stands (now 2) William P. (lived in Stratton owned by the Jepson family). He through 1960). also owned part of 11L4R, located south and up the mountain from Ira Andrew Knapp, son of Curtis what is now the Ober Tal and Fannie Knapp, was born Development. January 7, 1913, at South Levi married Fanny Elmeda Wardsboro, Vermont. He married Pike, daughter of William and Ora Mae Atwood, daughter of Ora Myranda Pike, on December 4,

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1822, at Stratton. Fanny was born buying this lot. Their home was on September 25, 1804, and she located on the bend in what is became a member of the Church now Willis Cemetery Rd. - it once of Christ in Stratton on August had been the old Pike homestead. 31, 1817; however, Fanny and her It was later called the Henry Eddy parents were excommunicated house (now owned by the Harlow from this church in March, 1824, family). for not attending services. In 1846, the Knights also had On March 12, 1825, Levi sold Henry Rider, son of Samuel and the mill back to his father-in-law Ama Rider, living with them. (possibly just a mortgage), and in Henry was attending the Stratton 1827, he sold the last of his Somerset United School District property in Stratton, then at that time. apparently settled in South Amos was a Selectman of Wardsboro, Vermont. Levi died Stratton for some years. In 1846, there on July 9, 1880, and Fanny he purchased lot #17 in Stratton followed on July 31, 1887. They Gore (this was the old Gibbs lot) were buried in the South and in 1852, he added another 26 Wardsboro Cemetery. acres to the east side of his farm, Children of Levi and Fanny were: then sold his property with the 1) Israel, born July 20, 1821; died farmhouse to Halloway Hartwell August 1, 1839, at Wardsboro, that same year. The Knights left Vermont. Stratton at that time. 2) Philomela E., born September Children of Amos and Lovina 14, 1824, at Stratton, evidently included: Vermont; died August 16, 1) Jane P., born in 1833; died in 1825, at Stratton, Vermont. 1910; married Charles H. 3) Myranda E., born in January, Rider. 1831; died August 8, 1852, at 2) Luther, born about 1835. Wardsboro, Vermont. 3) Anselett, born about 1841. 4) Fannie (settled in Ohio). George W. Knight, son of Abel Amos Knights was born about and Elizabeth (Gould) Knight, 1802. He married Lovina (?) on was born on June 24, 1831, at November 24, 1833, at Dummerston, Vermont. George Sunderland, Vermont. Lovina evidently married Lucy P. Rider1, was born about 1805. Amos may daughter of Samuel and Ama have been a brother of Levi Rider. Lucy was born about 1838 Knight (see above). The Knights at Stratton. were living in Sunderland, George was a lawyer and Vermont, in 1840 and in 1842, settled in Stratton during the when Amos purchased 108 acres 1850s. The Knights moved away in Stratton Gore from William from Stratton before 1870. Pike on December 29, 1842. The Their children were: Knights settled in Stratton after

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1) Frank, born about 1857. 1840. At that time, the Knights 2) Lillian A., born July 10, 1859, were living in Plymouth, at Stratton, Vermont. Vermont. Eventually, they settled 3) Herman G., born March 30, in Wisconsin. 1862, at Stratton, Vermont; died May 4, 1863, at Stratton, Andrew Dexter Knight was born Vermont (of diphtheria). about 1840 at Marlboro, Vermont. He married Emma Annette Howe Notes: 1) Lucy, wife of George Knight, was born who was born about 1849 at about 1838 in Stratton. Lucy Rider was Dover, Vermont. Emma had born about 1838 in Stratton and lived passed away by 1900 and Andrew with the Phineas Eddy family. George and Lucy’s son, Herman, was buried in had hired Hattie Johnson, wife of the Eddy family Cemetery. Therefore, it Albert Johnson, as a domestic appears that George Knight’s wife was, in servant. Hattie and her son, fact, Lucy Rider. Millard, lived with the Knights that year, while Albert boarded William Knight of Sterling, with a neighbor, Orrin Johnson. Massachusetts, married Rebecca The Knights resided in the Cummings, daughter of William Somerset Annex of Stratton, near and Hannah (Wyman) Cummings, the Dover town line. of Chester, Vermont. Rebecca Children of Dexter and Annette: was a sister of William Cummings 1) Florence “Cottie,” born of Stratton who built the Hotel November 18, 1869, at where the Town Hall now stands. Stratton, Vermont; died in The Knights briefly settled in 1957; married (?) Carey. Stratton on 5L4R, which William 2) Emogene, born January 17, purchased on October 18, 1837. 1872, at Stratton, Vermont; The house on this lot was located died in 1957 at Chesterfield, several hundred yards beyond the New Hampshire; married gate at the end of what is now Edgar L. Pike on January 1, Shepardson Rd. (see Draper on 1893, at Stratton, Vermont. Beer’s Atlas of 1869). The 3) Lula Belle, born September 27, foundation can still be seen along 1877, at Stratton, Vermont; the trail there. married (?) Mann (she lived to William mortgaged part of be over 100 yrs old). this lot on September 28, 1839. At that time he was called “of Stratton.” That same year, Knowlton William agreed to care for the Justice Knowlton, son of Miles widow Betsey Grant for 98 cents and Tryphena (Sprague) per week. Knowlton, was born in The Knights removed from Templeton, Massachusetts, on Stratton before the census of 1840 July 3, 1791. He married Chloe was taken and William sold his Hammond, daughter of Hinsdale land in Stratton to John and Lucy Hammond, on Cummings on September 12, December 11, 1815. Chloe was

Stratton Families 286 born in February, 1796, at 3) Miles J., born February 28, Wardsboro, Vermont. 1825, at Wardsboro, Vermont; Soon after the marriage, died September 10, 1874, at Justice bought a 60-acre farm in Ning Po, China; married Julia Wardsboro from Abner Lewis and St. John on July 10, 1853. 90 acres adjoining the farm on the 4) Jason S., born July 8, 1827; south. He probably built the farm died in September, 1871; and barn there before selling the married Cornelia Thompson in property to Hiram Haskins for 1850. $1,200.00. This farm has since been known as the Edgar Pike Melvin A. Knowlton, son of place. The site of this farm is Justice and Chloe Knowlton, was located on Rt. 100, south of the born on August 7, 1818. He first Stratton-Arlington Rd. married Orinda Sabin and they intersection. resided in Wardsboro. Orinda In 1834, Justice was a was born on August 22, 1818. member of the prudential She died on September 25, 1845, committee of the Wardsboro and and she was buried in the West Stratton Baptist Church Society, Wardsboro Cemetery. Melvin newly formed on February 27, then married Marcelina Hunt, 1834. daughter of James and Judith In 1851, Justice and Chloe’s Hunt of Wardsboro. Marcelina son, Melvin, purchased the was born in November, 1819. Wellman farm on the east half of In 1851, Melvin purchased 2L2R and the west half of 2L1R the Wellman farm on the east half in Stratton. At that same time, of 2L2R and the west half of Melvin mortgaged this lot through 2L1R in Stratton. At that same his parents with an agreement that time, Melvin mortgaged this lot he would care for them for the through his parents with an remainder of their natural lives. agreement that he would care for This lot was east of what is now them for the remainder of their called Knowlton Farm Rd. (see M. natural lives. This lot was located Knowlton on Beer’s Atlas of east of what is now called 1869). Knowlton Farm Rd. (see M. Chloe died on March 24, Knowlton on Beer’s Atlas of 1866, at Stratton, and Justice 1869). Melvin may have settled followed on May 21, 1867. on this lot with his parents. Children of Justice and Chloe: Melvin was a deacon of the 1) Permelia, born November 21, West Wardsboro Baptist Church; 1816; married Joel Holton in and in 1853, the church voted to December, 1839. have him ordained. The 2) Melvin A., born August 7, following year, Melvin became 1818; married 1) Orinda Sabin involved in a controversy that very in December, 1841 2) nearly split the West Wardsboro Marcelina Hunt. congregation in half. He was one

Stratton Families 287 of a few that accused the pastor, Connecticut, and later lived at Rev. Crowley, of impropriety Woburn, Massachusetts. concerning Crowley’s relations During the American with the widow Julia Shaw of Revolution, James served as a Stratton. A church hearing Private in Captain Abijah Child’s proved Mr. Knowlton correct. Company, Colonel Thomas The Rev. Crowley was dismissed Gardner’s Regiment. He enlisted and the church did not split. on May 16, 1775. A descriptive In 1853, Edwin Merryfield stated that James was 5’8” tall. was living with the Knowltons He was stationed at Camp and attending school in district Prospect Hill through December #5. By 1860, Melvin was head of 20, 1775. Later, James served the household in Stratton. That from January 1, 1777, to year, Selina Jones, age 24, was December 13, 1779, as a Sergeant living with them, and in 1870, in Lieutenant Colonel W. Joseph Edwards, age 89, boarded Washington’s 3rd Regiment of at their farm. light dragoons of the Continental Marcelina died at Stratton on Army. Lt. Col. Washington later February 18, 1877, of deposed that Knox served three consumption, and she was buried years with entire credit to himself in the West Wardsboro Cemetery. and he was honorably discharged. By 1880, Melvin had moved James was a resident of west to Illinois. Woburn when he purchased the east half of 3L1R in Stratton on A child of Melvin and Orinda: September 19, 1782. He was 1) Sidney I., born April 28, 1843; among the early proprietors who died December 23, 1843. helped to organize and settle Stratton. He settled there at the Children of Melvin and end of 1784 and bought and sold Marcelina: several tracts of land in Stratton 2) Orinda, born July 26, 1850, at during the mid-1780s. West Wardsboro, Vermont; Where James settled once he died March 20, 1898, at arrived in Stratton is unclear, but Lincoln, Nebraska; married E. it appears that he resided on H. Cushman on November 4, 1L7R, south southwest of what is 1873. now Grout Pond. James was 3) Everette M., born about 1852. called “of Woburn, 4) Livia, born about 1859. Massachusetts,” on November 24, 5) Lizzie A., born April 14, 1860, 1784, when he sold the east half at Stratton, Vermont. of 3L1R to John Moffit. He came to Stratton soon thereafter and he Knox was said to be “of Stratton” on James Knox, son of Archibald January 31, 1785, when he sold and Margaret Knox, was born on 1L7R to Jonathan Hall. He also June 20, 1755, at Ashford, owned the west half of 4L5R, but

Stratton Families 288 he was already living in Stratton John was a carpenter who at the time of that purchase. He first lived in Winhall, Vermont, may have resettled there for a settling in Stratton about 1880. brief time. John died at Stratton on James was no longer in March 31, 1898, and Rosanna Stratton when the 1791 census followed on May 28, 1901. Both was taken and he probably had were buried in Willis Cemetery in left Stratton before his marriage. Stratton. John had a total of 17 James had married Lydia Stratton children. Ten were still living at in 1786. Lydia was born in 1764. the time of his death. James and Lydia eventually Some of John and Phebe’s settled in Windsor, New York. children were: James passed away there in 1839. 1) James H., born in September, Lydia died in 1848. 1840, in New York; married A child of James and Lydia was: Laura Stone. 1) Charles, born in 1786; died in 2) Franklin S., born in December, 1861; married Mellora Badger. 1842, in New York; married Martha A. Day on October 6, Kurimai 1868. Frank J. Kurimai and his wife, Edna W., were veterans of WWII. Some of the children of John and Frank died on May 18, 1995 and Rosanna were: he was buried in Ball Cemetery. 3) Fred H., born in September, Edna still resides in Stratton, 1871, at Winhall, Vermont; beside Ball Cemetery. married Jennie E. Aldrich on November 4, 1895, at Stratton, Vermont. L 4) Henry W., born about 1880 at Winhall, Vermont; married Emeline I. Pike on June 30, Lackey 1900, at Stratton, Vermont. John J. Lackey, son of Philander (Another child may have been Caroline E. and Mary Lackey, was born on who married George W. Johnson.) March 8, 1816, at Hebron, New York. John married Phebe James H. Lackey, son of John Andrews, daughter of Timothy and Phebe Lackey, was born in and Elizabeth Andrews, in 1840. September, 1840, in New York. Phebe died in 1869. He married Laura Stone about John’s second marriage was 1865. Laura was born in April, to Rosanna M. Johnson, daughter 1841. The Lackeys settled in of Elisha and Roxana Johnson. Stratton before 1900, but were no Rosanna was born at Jamaica, longer there in 1910. Vermont, about 1833. Children of James and Laura: 1) Edwin H., born in September, 1876 (elected a fenceviewer in 1905).

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2) Julia E., born in July, 1883; Massachusetts; married Mary married William H. Stiles on E. Parsons on December 30, July 29, 1901, at Stratton, 1898, at Stratton, Vermont. Vermont. Frank G. Lackey, son of Franklin S. Lackey, son of John Franklin and Martha Lackey, was and Phebe Lackey, was born in born in September, 1871, in New December, 1842, in New York. York. He married Myrtle M. He married Martha A. Day, Barr, daughter of Horace and daughter of John W. and Sally Betsey (Wilder) Barr, on January (Johnson) Day. Martha was born 1, 1895, at Stratton. Myrtle was on June 13, 1842 in Vermont. born in Winhall, Vermont, in The Lackeys first settled in July, 1879, and she was just Jamaica, Vermont, and probably fifteen at the time of the marriage. lived a while in New York State. The Lackeys resided in Stratton in In 1878, they were in Erving, 1900, but had moved away before Massachusetts, and then they 1910. moved to Stratton before 1880. Children of Frank and Myrtle: The Lackeys purchased the 1) Alfred Franklin, born January Knowlton farm from Evander 28, 1896, at Stratton, Willis in 1887 and apparently Vermont. resided on this farm. They 2) Mildred M., born August 28, remained in Stratton through 1898, at Stratton, Vermont. 1900, but had moved away by 1910. John E. Lackey, son of Franklin Children of Franklin and Martha: and Martha Lackey, was born in 1) Sarah Elizabeth, born July 16, December, 1878, at Erving, 1869, at Jamaica, Vermont; Massachusetts. He came to died September 26, 1893, at Stratton with his parents about Stratton, Vermont; married 1880. There, John married Mary Clarence A. Lowe on April 17, Elnora Parsons, daughter of 1891, at Stratton, Vermont. Emery and Ellen Parsons, on 2) Frank G., born in September, December 30, 1898. Mary was 1871, in New York; married born in May, 1883, at Wardsboro, Myrtle M. Barr on January 1, Vermont. 1895, at Stratton, Vermont. The Lackeys were living in 3) Minnie A., born about 1873, in Stratton in 1900. That year, John Vermont; married Willard took the Freeman’s oath in Harrington. Stratton. They had moved away 4) Julius D., born in June, 1877, before 1910. in Vermont (took the A child of John and Mary was; Freeman’s oath in Stratton in 1) Myrtle, born May 24, 1903, at September, 1900). Stratton, Vermont; married 5) John E., born in December, Alfred Harrison Thomas. 1878, in Erving,

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Fred H. Lackey, son of John and Rosanna Lackey, was born in September, 1871, in Vermont. He came to Stratton with his parents sometime after 1880. Fred married Jennie Aldrich, daughter of Albert and Lucy (Carpenter) Aldrich, on November 4, 1895, at Stratton. Jennie was born in August, 1877, at West Dover, Vermont. Alfred F. Lackey Fred was a laborer and he and daughter Bernice - 1917 probably worked on his brother, Frank’s farm. The Lackeys were Photo courtesy of the Ethel Eddy collection living in Stratton in 1900, but had moved away before 1910. Henry W. Lackey, son of John J. A child of Fred and Jennie was: and Rosanna Lackey, was born at 1) Elberta A., born in November, Winhall, Vermont, about 1880. 1898. He married Emeline Isabel Pike, daughter of Abel and Isabel Pike on June 30, 1900, at Stratton. Emeline was born on September 6, 1881. The Lackeys were not listed in any of Stratton’s censuses, however, they evidently settled in Stratton for a brief time following their marriage and they apparently never moved far away from Stratton. Henry took the Freeman’s oath in Stratton on Henry W. Lackey February 3, 1903. Emeline died on August 12, Photo courtesy of the Ethel Eddy collection 1912, and she was buried in Pike Hollow Cemetery in Stratton. Austin Lackey lived in Stratton Later, Henry lived in East in 1902 and he was voted a petit Wallingford, Vermont, as late as juror for the town that year. He June of 1946. was probably a close relative of A child of Henry and Emeline: the above Lackey family. 1) Edith Agnes, born November 5, 1902, at Stratton, Vermont; LaFountaine married Joel Wheeler. Adolph LaFountaine, son of 2) Irma, died at age 1 y, 7 m. Balaal and Agaitre (Lalailas)

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LaFountaine, was born in Clifton, Grout’s Regiment. A descriptive Canada, in February, 1858. from his enlistment stated that he Adolph came to Stratton from was 5’9” tall, with a dark Massachusetts about 1899 and complexion, and he was a worked as a lumberman. His cordwainer by trade. The date of wife, Alice M. Baker, was born at his discharge from service was not Clifton, Canada, in February, reported. 1862. She previously may have After the war, Phineas been married to Louis Sousies. married Anna Garfield, daughter In 1900, they had two sons, of Eliakim and Hannah (Chase) their daughter and son-in-law, Garfield. They lived in Leicester Exsilda and Charles Maison, and immediately following the a cousin, Jim Goodson living with marriage, then settled in them. The LaFountaine family Westchester, New York, by 1783. had moved away from Stratton by In 1786, the Lambs were in 1910. Rutland, Massachusetts, and Their children were: remained there into 1791. 1) Exsilda, born in May, 1884, at Phineas purchased 150 acres Clifton, Canada; died October of the east part of 7L4R on 22, 1900, at Stratton, September 9, 1790, but he sold Vermont; married Charlie this lot to Moses Garfield, his Maison on January 17, 1900, brother-in-law, in February, 1791. at Brattleboro, Vermont. At that time, the Lambs were still 2) Henry J., born in January, living in Rutland; however, they 1894, in Massachusetts. settled in Stratton on 7L4R before 3) Joseph F., born in December, the census was taken that year. 1899, in Massachusetts. Phineas repurchased this lot from Eliab Stone in June, 1792. Lamb In September, 1792, Phineas Phineas Lamb, son of Jonathan purchased the west half of 3L5R and Elizabeth (Richardson) Lamb, from Elkanah Miller, while was born on May 6, 1756, at selling Elkanah part of 7L4R. Leicester. Massachusetts. At the The Lambs may have resettled on beginning of the American 3L5R. Phineas then sold the Revolution, Phineas was living in remainder of 7L4R back to Moses Rutland, Massachusetts. He Garfield in September, 1793, and enlisted as a Private in Jonathan they probably moved away from Carriel’s Company, Colonel Stratton at that time. In January, Josiah Whitney’s Regiment and 1798, Phineas sold the east half of served from May 16, 1776, to 3L5R to Simon Davis. By that November 1, 1776. On March 6, date, the Lambs had already 1781, Phineas signed on for three resettled in Newfane, Vermont. years with the Continental Army Eventually, they settled in Wells, and he was assigned to Captain Vermont, where Phineas died in Cunningham’s Company, Colonel 1810.

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Children of Phineas and Anna: cooking for the lumbermen. She 1) Dolly, born December 1, 1781, had moved away from Stratton at Leicester, Massachusetts; before 1910. died November 20, 1860, at Ontario, New York; married Lathrop Nathan Palmer in 1803. (Lothrop) 2) Betsey, born February 26, Thomas Lathrop, a son of Seth 1783; married Ambrose Lewis. Lathrop, was born at Easton, 3) Susan, married John Wolcott. Massachusetts, on October 4, 4) George Washington, born in 1766. Thomas married Deborah 1789; died July 13, 1869, at Pope on February 20, 1792. Granville, New York. Deborah was born on February 10, 5) Nancy, born in November, 1767. The Lathrops settled in 1791, at Stratton, Vermont; Northfield, Massachusetts, and died May 25, 1865, at remained there through 1796. Ridgeway, Michigan. Thomas purchased 4L4R in 6) William, born May 12, 1793, Stratton from Nathan Patch on at Stratton, Vermont; died October 13, 1796 and they February 24, 1871, at Wells, evidently resettled there in early Vermont. or mid-1797. Their home had 7) Harriet, born June 20, 1797; previously been the home and died in 1848; married William tavern of Joseph Patch. Its Potter on February 5, 1818, at remains can still be seen on the Wells, Vermont. north side of Old Town Rd. as it 8) Lucy, born in 1798; died in progresses toward the old town 1866; married Cyrus Geer on common. October 14, 1818, at Wells, Thomas and Deborah joined Vermont. the Church of Christ in Stratton 9) Samuel, died in 1831. on October 17, 1801. They and 10) Clark, born in 1797, at Wells, their children were baptized that Vermont; died May 2, 1865, at same day. At that time, the town Poultney, Vermont. was interested in building a 11) Polly, died young. meetinghouse. A committee was 12) Hannah appointed and it was determined

Additional Sources: that a four-acre parcel on the Genealogical Sketch of the Lamb Family western end of Thomas’s farm by Fred W. Lamb (1903) was an ideal location for that purpose. Thomas deeded this Landman parcel to the town in December, Maud Landman was born in 1801. It was to be used as the Vermont in July, 1881. At the town common, where the age of 18, she was boarding with meetinghouse would later be built the Joel Grout family in Stratton and a cemetery (the Old Town at the Grout Job. There, she Cemetery) would also be probably worked cleaning and established. For many years, and

Stratton Families 293 up to the time he left Stratton, Children of Thomas and Deborah: Thomas served as Town Clerk, 1) Elizabeth, born March 14, holding town meetings at his 1793, at Northbridge, home. He also served as Church Massachusetts; married 1) Clerk from 1802 to 1808 and Reverend Caleb Burge on church services and meetings January 24, 1828 2) Ira Pond were also held in his home. Once in October 1846. the meetinghouse was built on 2) Maria, born October 31, 1794, 4L4R, Thomas then sold the west at Northbridge, Massachusetts; half of 4L4R to Nathan Patch. married Enoch Briggs on The Lathrops sold the rest of August 31, 1820. 4L4R to Jedidiah Baker in August 3) Daniel Brown, born December 1807, then moved away from 6, 1796, at Northbridge, Stratton in February, 1808, and Massachusetts; died in 1832 in resettled in Newfane, Vermont. Utica, New York. There, Thomas was elected a 4) Zebadiah, born September 27, lister. In 1810, he repurchased 1798, at Stratton, Vermont his Stratton farm, but did not (brought up by his Uncle return to live there. He sold it to Zebediah Lathrop); married Artemus Joslin of Ware, Elizabeth Terry on February 1, Massachusetts, in 1813. 1825, at Providence, Rhode Deborah passed away in Island. Newfane on March 20, 1814, age 5) Timothy, born January 23, 47 years and was buried in 1801, at Stratton, Vermont; Newfane Hill Cemetery. died in Rochester, New York, Following Deborah’s death, in May, 1839; married Thomas resettled in Leyden, Catherine Gilbert. Massachusetts, probably living 6) Hannah Pope, born December with his daughter, Maria. He died 28, 1802, at Stratton, Vermont there on June 4, 1820. His (baptized in Stratton on July obituary read: “The strict morality 17, 1803); married Lyman of his life, his zeal in rebuilding Cook on October 24, 1844. the waste places of Zion, the 7) Mercy, born April 9, 1805, at pleasure he seemed to take in the Stratton, Vermont (baptized in sanctuary, at the domestic alter, Stratton in 1805 mistakenly and, in short, wherever the God of recorded as Mary Lathrop); Jacob was worshiped, the married Orrin Smith on May integrity and benevolence of his 10, 1827. heart, the beneficence of his hand, 8) Jerusha Ellit, born April 28, and his undeviating affection as 1807, at Stratton, Vermont husband and father, altogether (baptized in Stratton on furnish his friends the consolation September 20, 1807); died in that their loss is his gain.” 1809.

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9) Thomas, born January 28, the northeast corner of Stratton. 1809, at Newfane, Vermont; At that time, Karl lived with died in August, 1814. Lillian Hendrickson. She was 10) Nye Adams, born January 6, born in Finland in 1892. Some of 1812, at Newfane, Vermont; the children that lived with them died in 1845 in Utica, New were surnamed Kuusela. York. Karl’s children were: 1) Ina M., born about 1905 in Additional Sources: Lathrop Genealogy by Rev. EBA Finland Huntington (1884) 2) Leo J., born about 1907 in Finland. Lattanzi Children of Karl and Lillian were Pasquale Lattanzi, son of (surnamed Kuusela): Dominic and Emelia (Tempany) 3) Ruth Mildred Lattanzi originally of Italy, was 4) Leonard Albert (lived in born at Bridgeport, Connecticut, Jamaica and served during in 1908. He married Irma May WWII). Hromada, daughter of Robert and 5) Helen Erika Mirth (Pike) Hromada, on June

26, 1945, at Stratton. Irma was born in 1917. Pasquale was a Lawrence butcher. He and Irma briefly Abram Lawrence and his wife resided in Stratton. They were born between 1780 and eventually divorced and Irma 1790. On March 19, 1840, remarried to Earl Alexander. Abram purchased the Joel Irma died on May 4, 1998, in Estabrook farm on 6L1R in Massachusetts. Stratton from Warner Thayer. At that time, the Lawrences were Lauan living in Jamaica, Vermont. This farm was located on what is now Peter Lauan was born about 1886 Forrester Rd. / Half-Mile Rd., on in Russia. In 1920, Peter was a the Jamaica border. A newer lumberman, working in Stratton home built on the site of the old and living in the boarding house farmhouse is currently owned and at the Grout Job. occupied by Walter and Jennie

Forrester. Laurens The Lawrences settled on this Karl A. Laurens was born about lot after the purchase, in time to 1874 in Finland. On April 23, be included in the 1840 census of 1919, Karl and Ida J. Kanen of Stratton. The census showed that Meminack, Massachusetts, they had two daughters aged 15 to purchased the CN Pike farm in 20 living with them. 12L1R. In 1920, Karl and two of On April 1, 1841, Abram his children were living there on agreed to lease this farm to Rollin what is now called North Rd. in M. Witt for three years, then he

Stratton Families 295 agreed to deed over this farm to Leno Witt, provided Witt paid the full Addie J. (Durfey) Leno, amount due before 1847. This daughter of Timothy and Eliza apparently did not occur and (Fisher) Durfey and widow of Abram sold this lot to Tyler Waite Lewis Leno, was born on March on September 24, 1844. At that 17, 1867. She and Lewis had time, the Lawrences were living lived in Middlebury, Vermont. in Alstead, New Hampshire. Following Lewis’s death, Addie brought the family to Stratton Leach about 1910. She had apparently Walter P. Leach was born about followed her son, Ernest there, 1895 in Vermont. In 1920, he who found work in one of the was a lumber camp laborer in lumber camps in Stratton. The Stratton, living in the boarding 1910 census stated that she was a house at the Grout Job. widow, while the 1920 census stated that she was divorced. It’s Leason possible that she was widowed by Ira Leason, son of Ira Eames Lewis, then remarried and Leason, was born on July 4, 1823, subsequently divorced between at Marlboro, Vermont. Ira settled 1910 and 1920. in Stratton early enough to take In 1910, Addie and her the Freeman’s oath there on children were living in the home August 14, 1844. In 1846, Ira of Norman Hescock. Addie was purchased the west half of 2L5R, apparently a servant for Mr. located west-southwest of the Hescock, but he died in 1913, and intersection of the Stratton- so Addie took a job as a Arlington Rd. and the West housekeeper for Lyman Green. In Jamaica Rd.. Ira apparently 1920, she was living with Mr. settled on this lot. Green. By that time, all of her In January, 1847, Ira, a children had moved away. She lawyer, was appointed to represent remarried to George Griswald. John Parker of Windsor, She died on May 13, 1952, and Massachusetts. Subsequently, Ira she was buried in Ball Cemetery. sold some land in Stratton that Children of Lewis and Addie: belonged to Mr. Parker. 1) Ernest A., born January 30, Ira married Rachel Cram at 1886, at Middlebury, Vermont; Nashville, New Hampshire, on died January 30, 1934; married November 10, 1848, and they Addie M. (Wheeler) Munsil on returned to Stratton after the March 2, 1909, at West marriage. Ira died at Stratton on Wardsboro, Vermont. August 14, 1886. 2) Harry H., born in July, 1894; died September 21, 1918, in France during WWI.

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3) Gardner Thane, born 1897, at East Middlebury, September 15, 1897; died Vermont. He served during WWI April 4, 1949. as a private in the 212 4) Nellie M., born about 1899. Engineering Corps, 12 Division. Gardner married Della Edith Ernest A. Leno, son of Lewis and Cobb, daughter of Ai and Carrie Addie J. (Dumfrey) Leno, was E. Cobb of Wardsboro, Vermont, born on January 30, 1886, at East on June 1, 1929, at Wilmington, Middlebury, Vermont. He settled Vermont. He died on April 4, in Stratton and worked as a 1949, and he was buried in Ball laborer in one of the lumber Cemetery in Stratton. camps. Ernest married Addie M. (Wheeler) Munsil of Northfield, Alton A. Leno was born about New Hampshire, a daughter of 1870 in Vermont. He had Charles and Eva Wheeler, on married, but was divorced by the March 2, 1909, at West time he moved to Stratton. In Wardsboro, Vermont. Addie was 1920, Alton was living in Stratton born about 1883 in Massachusetts, in the home of Florence Upton. and she was apparently widowed He was a laborer on the Upton’s before her marriage to Ernest. farm. She also had two children by the previous marriage, but they had Leonard either died young or they were Martin Leonard, son of Rev. living somewhere else. Daniel and Sally (Mann) Leonard, The Lenos were no longer in was born on October 28, 1818. Stratton in 1920. Ernest died on He was a resident of Dover, January 30, 1934, and he was Vermont, and in 1857 and 1858, buried in Ball Cemetery. he was a Selectman of that town. In 1858, records show that he Harry H. Leno, son of Lewis and owned pew #35 in the West Dover Addie J. (Dumfrey) Leno, was Meetinghouse. born in July, 1894. Harry lived in Martin married Caroline J. Jamaica, Vermont. Ballard, daughter of Stephen and During WWI, Harry enlisted Sarah Ballard, on September 19, and served as a private in the 1st 1848, at Townshend, Vermont. Company, 4th Motor Mechanic Caroline was born October 12, Regiment’s Signal Corp. He died 1831. during the war in France on The Leonards settled in September 21, 1918. Harry was Stratton in the Somerset Annex in buried in Ball Cemetery in the far south part of town along Stratton. the Upper Handle Rd. south of what is now Vt. Rt. 100 as it Gardner Thane Leno, son of enters Dover. His home is Lewis and Addie J. (Dumfrey) marked on Beer’s Atlas of 1869. Leno, was born on September 15,

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Martin and his brother, Eliot, qualified to teach in Stratton in ran the starch factory in Dover for 1846. about 10 years. This operation Additional Sources for the above Leonard accommodated the need for starch families: in Dover and exported most of its Return to Yesterday by CS Streeter production to other towns. History of Dover, Vermont by Nell Kull Martin’s father, Daniel, replaced his grandfather, the Rev. Lesjczenko James Mann, as pastor of the (Luschensky) Dover-Somerset Baptist Church in Adam Lesjczenko was born in 1832. 1891 in Poland. He came to Martin and Caroline America and settled in Stratton eventually settled in West about 1925. He died at Stratton Wardsboro on the farm now on November 30, 1940, and he occupied by the Newell family, was buried in Ball Cemetery. located on Newell Hill Rd. (which becomes Canedy Rd. as it enters Stratton). Martin died on October Lewis 30, 1893, and Caroline followed Andrew Lewis was born on on May 8, 1902 in New York. September 22, 1891. He was a They were buried in the West veteran of WWI. Andrew was Wardsboro Cemetery. active in Stratton town affairs and Children of Martin and Caroline: spent many happy days working 1) Ella, born in 1852; died March with George Houghton and others 11, 1880. restoring and painting the Old 2) Addie M., born in 1854; died Stratton Meetinghouse. He February 25, 1884. camped and fished in this area in 3) Carrie A., born December 30, the early 1930s. Little did he 1855; died March 1, 1863. realize his youngest daughter, Joy, 4) Nellie M., born September 3, would settle in the town of 1858; died February 21, 1863. Stratton 30 years later. 5) Cora, married Edward Newell Andrew settled in Stratton on September 4, 1892. later in his life, residing on the southwest corner of the Eliot Leonard, son of Rev. Daniel intersection of the Stratton- and Sally (Mann) Leonard, was Arlington Rd. and Old Forrester born on December 19, 1822, at Road. He spent his last years in a Dover, Vermont (see Martin veterans' home in Bennington, Leonard above). Eliot died at Vermont, and died there on May Stratton on February 3, 1906. 9, 1997, aged 105 years.

Mary Ann Leonard, probably a Liller daughter of Rev. Daniel and Sally Ray Liller, his wife, Joann, and (Mann) Leonard of Dover, was their chidren, Jack and Helen, fell in love with Stratton in 1957

Stratton Families 298 when they were guests of Ann and Lincoln George Banks in their home at the Isaac Lincoln, Jr., son of Isaac, corner of Pike Hollow Rd. and Jr. and Experience (Willis) Penny Avenue, now remodeled Lincoln, was born on November and owned by the Jepsons. 4, 1776, at Sudbury, Within a few years, they acquired Massachusetts. Isaac married property near the corner of Pike Kezia Haynes, daughter of Israel Hollow Rd. and the Stratton – and Sarah Haynes. Kezia was Arlington Rd. from Mr. Banks born on October 4, 1769, at and asked him to build a small Sudbury. vacation cottage on the site. The Lincolns settled in Completed in 1961, it became Somerset, Vermont, and they later their summer retreat from their lived with their daughter, Nancy’s home in Connecticut and it also family in Stratton about 1830. was utilized most weekends That year’s census shows an older during the winter months for couple (evidently the Lincolns) skiing and fun in the snow. living in Stratton with the By 1969, the family was Hartwells. On May 5, 1855, a outgrowing their Connecticut deed between Henry Eddy and his home and decided to move to father-in-law, Halloway Hartwell, Stratton permanently. The arrival had a condition that Mr. Eddy of two more children during the would provide care for Halloway 1960s – Joan and Christopher – and Nancy Hartwell in their old called for an addition to the age and also to care for Kezia original cottage. Like Topsy, the Lincoln (Nancy’s mother). family and the house had “just Some of Isaac and Kezia’s growed.” children were: Ray toured New England as 1) Nancy, born September 20, sales promotion manager for AC- 1803, at Sudbury, Delco Division of General Motors. Massachusetts; married In 1970, Joann was elected Halloway Hartwell. Stratton Town Treasurer. A year 2) Isaac M., married Elisa F. later, Ray joined the Stratton Forrester, on November 11, Board of Selectmen and became 1835, at Stratton, Vermont. its Chairman. 3) Obed, born about 1820; The 1970s became a time of married Alantha Thayer. rapid growth for the town as the Stratton Ski Area developed and Isaac M. Lincoln, son of Isaac expanded. The Liller family’s and Kezia Lincoln, married Elisa interest in town affairs also has F. Forrester, daughter of Moses grown over the years. Joann has and Patty Forrester, on November served as an auditor for many 11, 1835, at Stratton, Vermont. years and Christopher is a Elisa was born on December 5, member of the Select Board. 1811, at Athol, Massachusetts. Additional Source: This biography was written by Joann Liller.

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Isaac and Elisa apparently in 1860. Their son, Matthias, was first settled in Wilmington, with William and Rhoda Howard Vermont, living there through that year. Their daughter, Jane, 1836. After that time, they was living with Stephen and probably lived with the Forresters Sarah Ballard in 1860, and their in Stratton. Isaac purchased a lot daughter, Laura, was living with located west of Joseph Pike’s land Richard and Eliza Perry in 1870. in Somerset on November 22, Children of Obed and Alantha: 1836. He also purchased a second 1) Laura Jennette, born in 1837; lot in that same area. The died in 1915; married Lyman following year, he sold one of Wood Sprague on October 31, these lots to Halloway Hartwell. 1852. At the time of this sale, Isaac was 2) Henry H., born in 1840 at called “of Stratton.” Jamaica, Vermont; married Luanna Perry on October 28, Obed Lincoln was born about 1866, at Stratton, Vermont. 1820. He was possibly a son or 3) William N., born in 1841. grandson of Isaac, Jr. and Keziah 4) Matthias J., born in 1843; died Lincoln and a brother of Nancy January 9, 1862, at Algiers, (Lincoln) Hartwell. Obed married Louisiana. Alantha Thayer, daughter of Levi 5) Jane Sarah, born in July, 1846; and Sally Thayer. She was born died June 10, 1863, at Stratton, in Jamaica, Vermont, on July 3, Vermont (of diphtheria). 1811. 6) Laura E., born in 1849. The Lincolns lived in 7) Charles Jamaica, Vermont, during most of their married lives. Evidently, Henry H. Lincoln, son of Obed Alantha was not well by 1860, and Alantha Lincoln, was born in and she was probably in a hospital 1840 in Jamaica, Vermont. In by that time. Obed was living 1848, Henry was living with John with Henry Eddy in 1860 on Baldwin and attending school in Willis Cemetery Rd.. The census- Stratton. taker evidently misinterpreted his During the Civil War, Henry name as David Lincoln. He was enlisted on August 21, 1861. He listed as head of a household in mustered into Company I of the Stratton in 1861 with two of his Vermont 4th Regiment on children attending school district September 20, 1861, and he was # 5. discharged due to a disability on Alantha died of “luny fever” January 18, 1862. on October 8, 1863, at Stratton. Henry took the Freeman’s Before her death, the family had oath in Stratton in September, already been scattered about 1862. There, he married Luanna Stratton in various homes. Their Perry, daughter of Richard and son, William was with his father Eliza Perry, on October 28, 1866. at the William Henry Eddy place

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Luanna was born at Stratton in moved away from Stratton before 1851. 1870. The Lincolns briefly settled in Stratton, where Henry was enrolled in the militia in 1867. Henry evidently passed away soon thereafter or he and Luanna divorced. Luanna returned to Stratton, where she was living with her parents in 1870. She remarried there to Truman T. Wallace on September 28, 1873.

Matthias J. Lincoln, son of Obed and Alantha Lincoln, was born in William Lincoln 1843. In 1860, he was living with Photo courtesy of the Ethel Eddy collection William and Rhoda Howard.

During the Civil War, Emery Lincoln lived in Stratton Matthias enlisted on January 9, in the home of some resident of 1862, and mustered into Company Stratton (unknown). He attended H of the Vermont 8th Regiment school in district #5 in 1863 and on February 12, 1862. He was he was not mentioned again in discharged for a disability on July Stratton’s records. 11, 1863, but he reenlistment on

December 19, 1863, and died on April 6, 1864, at Algiers, Linscott Louisiana, from an illness. His Charles Herbert Linscott, son of body was returned home and he Sidney and Anna Linscott, was was buried in Ball Cemetery. born at Brownsfield, Maine, in 1892. He married Linda V. William N. Lincoln, son of Obed Clayton, a foster-daughter of and Alantha Lincoln, was born in Royal and Sarah Clayton of 1841. He was living in the home Stratton. Linda was born in of William Eddy in 1860, along February, 1897, in Vermont. with his father. The Linscotts settled in During the Civil War, Stratton about 1924 and remained William enlisted on July 23, 1862, there through 1928. Zoe and mustered into Company E of (Linscott) Hurd, wife of Floyd the Vermont 11th Regiment on Hurd was Charles’ sister. September 1, 1862. He mustered Children of Charles and Linda: out on June 24, 1865. 1) Beatrice Linda, born July 20, William briefly settled in 1924, at Stratton, Vermont. Stratton and he was enrolled in 2) Leona Evelyn, born January the militia there in 1867. He 24, 1926, at Stratton, Vermont.

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3) Burton Henry, born February Fred Longe was born in March, 11, 1928, at Stratton, 1860, in Vermont. His wife, Vermont. Lissie, was born in Canada in November, 1843. They were Additional Sources: Notes of Elizabeth (Hurd) Greene married about 1881. Fred was probably a relative of Oscar Longe of Stratton. Fred and Lissie came to Stratton about 1900. He probably worked in one of Stratton’s lumber camps. The Longes were no longer in Stratton in 1910. Children of Fred and Lissie were: 1) Gertie M., born in October, 1885, in Vermont. 2) Maude B., born in December, 1887, in Vermont. 3) Leonard G., born in April, 1891, in Vermont. 4) Josephine E., born in April, 1893, in Vermont. 5) Clarence R., born in July, 1895, in Vermont.

Charles and Linda Linscott Minnie Longe worked for OF Photo courtesy of Elizabeth (Hurd) Greene Prentiss at the boarding house at Grout’s Mill in 1898. She may have been the same Gertie M. Longe Longe, daughter of Fred and Oscar Longe was born in April, Lissie Longe (above). 1848, in Vermont. His wife, Lura, was born in Canada in Lord November, 1843. They were Ashley Lord came to Stratton married about 1860. Oscar was before 1900 and he worked at the probably a relative of Fred Longe Grout Job as a lumberman. In of Stratton. 1900, he was living in the The Longes came to Stratton boarding house located on the mill in 1898 and moved into the house site. Ashley had left Stratton by beside Taft’s Mill, located on the 1910. West Jamaica Rd.. They were living alone in 1900. Oscar probably worked at this mill for Loveland several years. The Longes were Charles Loveland married no longer in Stratton in 1910. Almira Smith on July 20, 1840, at Stratton. Almira may have been a sister of Jonas Smith of Stratton.

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Charles took the Freeman’s living in Stratton at the time of oath in Stratton in September, this purchase. 1843. In 1845, the Lovelands had Aaron married Elvina A. a child attending school in district Willis, daughter of Daniel and #3 in Stratton. The Lovelands Abigail Willis, about 1860. evidently left town about this Elvina was born on February 28, same time. 1841, at Stratton. The Lowes lived on the Stratton-Arlington Lowe Rd., across from the original William Lowe and his wife, Mary location of Schoolhouse #5. This Crosby, lived in Newfane and school was referred to as the Lowe Somerset, Vermont. Mary was school at one time. In 1870, born at Newfane, on February 15, Aaron’s brother, Charles, was 1809. living with them, but he had William was not recorded in moved out before 1880. any of Stratton’s censuses; The Vermont Phoenix however, Mary was living there reported on July 4, 1879, that a with her son, Charles in 1880. large bear came into Aaron Mary died at Stratton on April 23, Lowe’s calf pasture on the 1891. morning of June 17 and attacked a Children of William and Mary: calf and drew it some distance 1) Aaron, born December 24, into the woods, but was frightened 1823, at Newfane, Vermont; away before eating it. died January 19, 1898, at Aaron was stricken with Stratton, Vermont; married paralysis in June, 1893. He died Elvina A. Willis. at Stratton on January 19, 1898, 2) Charles, born about 1833. and he was buried in Willis 3) (a daughter), Born in 1842; Cemetery. Elvina followed on died July 24, 1844, at Stratton, May 20, 1900, and she was buried Vermont. beside him. 4) Roswell, born about 1844. Children of Aaron and Elvina: 5) Josephine, born in September, 1) Maurice C., born February 19, 1850, at Somerset, Vermont; 1861, at Stratton, Vermont; married 1) (?) Smith 2) Wesley died April 15, 1922, at Elmore Allen on June 1, 1897, Stratton, Vermont; married at Stratton, Vermont. Alice Stiles on September 3, 1884, at Stratton, Vermont. Aaron Lowe, son of William and 2) Clarence A., born February 12, Mary Lowe, was born on 1866, at Stratton, Vermont; December 24, 1823, at Newfane, married 1) Sarah Elizabeth Vermont. Aaron first purchased Lackey on April 17, 1891. 2) property in Stratton on April 6, Nettie B. J. Pike on August 1, 1853, when he bought the Rider 1895, at Stratton, Vermont. farm - 100 acres of 2L3R - from Hiram Ames. Aaron was already

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3) (a son), stillborn on November Lizzy died at Stratton on 27, 1877, at Stratton, September 26, 1893, of typhoid Vermont. fever, and she was buried in Willis Cemetery. Clarence and Maurice C. Lowe, son of Aaron his brother, Maurice, both lost and Elvina Lowe, was born on their wives this same year. February 19, 1861, at Stratton. Clarence then married Nettie Maurice took the Freeman’s oath Betsey J. Pike, daughter of Calvin there on September 5, 1882. and Emeline Pike, on August 1, Maurice married Alice Stiles, 1895, at Stratton. Nettie was born daughter of Harvey and Caroline at Stratton on July 21, 1875. The Stiles, at Wardsboro, Vermont, on Lowes then moved to Northfield, September 3, 1884. Alice was Massachusetts. born in 1867. She died on August 8, 1893, and she was buried in Charles Lowe, son of William Ball Cemetery. and Mary Lowe, was born about In 1900, Maurice was living 1833. He came to Stratton during in Stratton with two of his the 1860s and first lived in the daughters. In 1910, Maurice was home of his brother, Aaron. By head of a household that included 1880, Charles had settled in a two of his uncles, Charles and home of his own, where he lived Roswell Lowe, and his daughter with his widowed mother, aged and son-in-law, Abbie and 72. In 1900, he was living in Raymond Read. Maurice died on Stratton alone, and by 1910, he April 15, 1922, at Stratton and he had moved in with the family of was buried beside Alice. his nephew, Maurice Lowe. Children of Maurice and Alice: 1) Abbie E., born September 7, Roswell Lowe, son of William 1885, at Dover, Vermont; died and Mary Lowe, was born about September 13, 1951; married 1844. He moved to Stratton Raymond Read on November between 1900 and 1910. In 1910, 4, 1907, at Jamaica Vermont. he was living with his nephew, 2) Winnie, born in March, 1892; Maurice Lowe and family. married (?) Davis of Taft, Florida. Lyman

Rodolphus Lyman, son of James Clarence A. Lowe, son of Aaron and Abigail (Wright) Lyman, was and Elvina Lowe, was born on born on April 23, 1790, at February 12, 1866, at Stratton. Northfield, Massachusetts. He He married Sarah Elizabeth married Bethiah Robbins, “Lizzy” Lackey, daughter of daughter of John Robbins, in Franklin and Martha Lackey, on Northfield, Massachusetts, on April 17, 1891, at Stratton. Lizzy April 24, 1811. Bethiah was born was born on July 16, 1869, at on August 17, 1791. Stratton.

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Rodolphus was listed as a November 5, 1839, at Stratton, member of the Trinitarian Society Vermont (lived at Manchester, of Northfield on February 28, Vermont). 1829. The Lymans resettled at 5) Robert T., born May 6, 1819, Dover, Vermont, in 1835, then at Northfield, Massachusetts; moved again to Somerset, married Angeline Mear (lived Vermont, and finally to Stratton, at Waterloo, Indiana). in 1837. In 1839, Bethiah 6) Rodolphus, born April 23, removed her relation from the 1821, at Northfield, Unitarian Church in Northfield to Massachusetts; married Julia the Church of Christ in Stratton Galusha (lived at Sunderland, by letter and she was admitted as Vermont in 1850 and later in a regular member by vote of the Clayton, Michigan). church. 7) Lucia Ann (twin), born March The Lymans located upon the 31, 1823, at Northfield, William G. Pike farm. Rodolphus Massachusetts; married Oscar and Bethiah were listed in J. Northrup (lived at Stratton’s census of 1840, but they Bennington, Vermont). had moved away by 1850, never 8) Lucius (twin), born March 31, owning land in Stratton. 1823, at Northfield, Rodolphus died at Bennington, Massachusetts; died July 25, Vermont, on September 18, 1866. 1893, at Stratton, Vermont; Children of Rodolphus and married Laura Fitts on October Bethiah were: 15, 1855 (lived at West 1) Elbridge, born November 1, Wardsboro, Vermont). 1811, at Northfield, 9) Bethiah, born May 14, 1825, at Massachusetts; married Elvira Northfield, Massachusetts; Simonds (lived at Stratton, married Merritt Hawkins Vermont, and Rushville, New (lived at Sunderland, York). Vermont). 2) Maria, born February 10, 10) Ann Maria, born April 16, 1813, at Northfield, 1827, at Northfield, Massachusetts; died February Massachusetts; married Milton 19, 1821, at Northfield, Stevens (lived at Shushan, Massachusetts. New York). 3) Rufus, born September 3, 11) Elisha, born March 26, 1829, 1815, at Northfield, at Northfield, Massachusetts; Massachusetts; died February married Henrietta Ingram. 4, 1890, at Stratton, Vermont; 12) Eliza Jane, born March 26, married Tryphena Pike on 1833, at Northfield, October 15, 1839, at Stratton, Massachusetts; married Vermont. William Ferguson (lived at 4) Fanny W., born May 19, 1817, Rutland, Vermont). at Northfield, Massachusetts; married Edward M. Pratt on

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Rufus Lyman, son of Rodolphus it also included the old house site and Bethiah Lyman, was born on and the barn and lot that had September 3, 1815, at Northfield, belonged to Warren Higley (the Massachusetts. He came to refurbished barn is currently the Stratton with his parents and Williams’s home). Rufus also married Tryphena Pike, youngest purchased land in Somerset, child of William G. and Myranda eventually accumulating a total of Pike, on October 15, 1839. 570 acres. Tryphena was born at Stratton on During the Civil War, Rufus December 3, 1817. recruited soldiers for Stratton after Rufus bought the house and the draft was instated in 1865. sawmill of his father-in-law, Rufus passed away at Stratton William Grant Pike, on November on February 5, 1890, of Bright’s 4, 1844. On March 6, 1845, disease, and Tryphena died there William Pike gave Rufus a on March 9, 1899. They were mortgage on this property, which buried in the West Wardsboro was accompanied by an agreement Cemetery. that Rufus would care for William Children of Rufus and Tryphena: and his wife, Myranda, for the 1) Fidelia Lura, born October 20, remainder of their natural lives. 1840, at Somerset, Vermont; In 1850, Rufus purchased the died December 8, 1869, at Higley farm located on the north Stratton, Vermont (asthma - side of Pike Hollow Rd.. death certificate listed typhoid Apparently after 1869, the house pneumonia). east of the brook was torn down or 2) William Rufus, born May 25, destroyed and the house on the 1846, at Somerset, Vermont; west side of the brook and road died February 6, 1914, at was moved to sit on the Stratton, Vermont; married foundation of the other, at its Emma Oella Whitman on present location on the southeast October 22, 1874, at Stratton, corner of what is now the Vermont. intersection of Pike Hollow Rd. 3/4) (infant twins), date not know and Penny Avenue. This house is (buried beside the Lyman’s currently owned by the Jepson house in Pike Hollow). family. Rufus and his son, William, William Rufus Lyman, son of operated the mill for many years. Rufus and Tryphena Lyman, was It was known as R. Lyman and born on May 25, 1846. He Son and they manufactured married Emma Oella Whitman on lumber and eaves spouts. Its October 22, 1874, at Stratton. remains can still be seen below Emma, a schoolteacher, was the the Jepson house on Pike Hollow daughter of Ona and Lucinda L. Brook. The complex included a Whitman of Slatersville, Rhode limekiln, a barn and out buildings Island. She was born on January on the southeast side of the road; 20, 1847.

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As a young man, William William died of cancer on worked with his father at the February 6, 1914, at Stratton. sawmill, then apparently went to The cancer had started in a work in Arlington, Vermont, for a cheekbone. William was buried year. After his marriage, William in the West Wardsboro Cemetery. and his family moved into the Emma continued to live with their Lyman home and he continued son, Ray, who had become head of the family business with his the household and sawmill after father. William eventually his father’s death. About 1919, inherited the house and lived Emma moved in with her there for the rest of his life. widowed daughter, May, who His diaries and some letters lived in Wardsboro. Emma died depict a routine quiet life, on January 4, 1925, and she was describing each day’s work or buried beside William. schooling and the day’s weather. Children of William and Emma: He mentioned when the snow 1) Roy William, born July 22, finally had gone each year and 1875, at Stratton, Vermont; when the frogs started to peep. died June 23, 1957, at He noted when Harvey [Stiles] Townshend, Vermont; married tapped the sugar lot, and when he Jesse Adele Scott on June 15, [William] started sugaring. 1900, at Chester, Vermont. William liked to fish and he wrote 2) Ona Rufus, born May 7, 1879, on many occasions that he had at Stratton, Vermont; died in brought home thirty or forty brook 1938 at West Townshend, trout in a day’s catch. Vermont; married Lillie May During the Civil War, William Burbee on August 21, 1901, at wrote about his father’s recruiting South Windham, Vermont. of soldiers. His entry for April 15, 3) Ray Eugene, born March 31, 1865, read, “President Lincoln 1887, at Stratton, Vermont; was shot last night.” died February 17, 1966, at In 1912, he and his son, Ray South Londonderry, Vermont; were charter members of the married Mary Ellen Griffith on Stratton Mountain Club, a local June 25, 1913, at Castleton, hiking and trail building club. Vermont. Over the years, William served 4) May Miranda, born February Stratton as Selectman, auditor, 7, 1889, at Stratton, Vermont; school director and chairman, died May 26, 1963, at West town agent, ballot clerk, treasurer Wardsboro, Vermont; married and moderator. He was also a 1) James A. Dexter on deacon of the Baptist Church in November 15, 1910, at West Wardsboro. Stratton, Vermont 2) John W. Emma served as Stratton’s Allen on December 25, 1920. superintendent of schools and the Lymans boarded several teachers Roy William Lyman, son of in their home over the years. William and Emma Lyman, was

Stratton Families 307 born in Stratton on July 22, 1875. August 21, 1901, at South Roy took the Freeman’s oath in Windham, Vermont, by William Stratton on November 3, 1896, H. Thorne, pastor of the Baptist then he moved to Massachusetts. Church there. Lillian was born in Roy married Jesse Adele Winhall, Vermont, about 1877. Scott, daughter of Ransom and She graduated from Leland and Eunice Scott, on June 15, 1900, at Gray Seminary in Townshend, Chester, Vermont. Jesse was born Vermont, and went on to teach in Richford, Vermont, on April school in Wardsboro and 18, 1871. surrounding towns. Following the marriage, Roy At first, the Lymans lived in was employed in Ware and Wardsboro, then they moved to Greenfield, Massachusetts, as a Springfield, Massachusetts. They Stationary Engineer. The Lymans returned to Vermont in 1934 and later returned to this area and farmed in Townshend. In 1938, spent some time in Wardsboro Ona had been suffering from and Stratton. Roy was a member malaria and then died of uremic of the Christian Endeavor Society poisoning sometime after the of West Wardsboro and he held hurricane of that year. that organization’s office of After Ona’s death, Lillian secretary and treasurer. went to live with her son, Kenneth The Lymans moved to in Brattleboro, Vermont. She Townshend, Vermont, in 1954. died on December 2, 1952. Roy died there on June 23, 1957. Children of Ona and Lillian were: Jessie died there on December 15, 1) William Kenneth, born July 1959. 31, 1904, at Stratton, Children of Roy and Jessie were: Vermont; died August 10, 1) Pauline Emma, born May 6, 1981; married Elizabeth 1901, at Ware, Massachusetts; Davidson Stowell Boyden on died May 16, 1928. December 15, 1934, at 2) Burdette William Scott “Jack,” Townshend, Vermont. born June 1, 1903, at 2) Donald B., born in 1911 at Greenfield, Massachusetts; Springfield, Massachusetts; married Ruth Thompson on died in 1912 at Springfield, August 24, 1929, at Hartford, Massachusetts. Connecticut. Ray Eugene Lyman, son of Ona Rufus Lyman, son of William and Emma Lyman, was William and Emma Lyman, was born on March 31, 1887, at born on May 7, 1879, at Stratton. Stratton. There, he attended He took the Freeman’s oath there school. Later he took a short in September, 1900. business course in Brattleboro. Ona married Lillian M. He also learned to survey through Burbee, daughter of W.H.H. and a correspondence course. Susie (Robinson) Burbee, on

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Ray stayed in Stratton with Wardsboro. Mary was quite his parents and he assisted his young when she left home to teach father in the family business -- the in Jamaica. The school board had sawmill and farm. He also taught written here and told her she school at schoolhouse #5 - the would be teaching at the village Lowe School. Ray took the school. She traveled on the trains Freeman’s oath in Stratton in from Castleton to Brattleboro, November, 1908. then took the West River Railroad In 1910, Stratton elected Ray to Jamaica. Upon here arrival to represent them in Montpelier. after dark, some of the school He was the youngest member of board members met her at the the legislature that year. He was station, only to inform her that the also active in Stratton politics job had been given to someone over the years, filling the positions else, but she could take the of school director, Selectman position at the South Hill School. (1909 - 1922) and moderator at She was introduced to Archie various times. He also Knight whom she would be represented Stratton again in 1919 boarding with. He took her up the and the family went to live in road to the school, then on to his Montpelier during that term. Ray farm. Mary taught only one term also became a justice of the peace there, then took a teaching for Windham County in 1921. position in West Wardsboro. Ray met Mary Ellen Griffith, After her marriage to Ray, Mary daughter of Edmund W. and Mary also served as town treasurer for Catherine (Roberts) Griffith, of Stratton. Castleton, Vermont, while she In 1922, due to their concerns was teaching school in West about the remoteness of the house Wardsboro. She was born on and mill in Stratton and their January 26, 1887. Ray and Mary desire to get their children closer were married on June 25, 1913, in to school and its activities, the Castleton. Lymans decided to sell their home The Lymans lived in Stratton in Stratton and move into with Ray’s parents, where Ray Wardsboro. continued to work with his father Ray was elected a Selectman in the mill. He eventually took of Wardsboro and served in that over this business after his position from 1927 to 1931. In father’s death. Ray employed 1931, the Lymans moved to South Paul Stiles to assist at the mill. Londonderry, Vermont, where Before the marriage, Mary Ray worked at the West River had graduated from Castleton Creamery until it closed in 1937. Normal School, then taught Ray then worked as caretaker of school in Benson, Ira, Jamaica the Tams Farm in Winhall, and West Wardsboro. Two of Vermont, where they lived for a Mary’s sisters, Annie and year. After that, Ray worked for Catherine, also taught at West the Taylor Furniture Mill in South

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Londonderry and Woodward farm and watching him work in Lumber Company in Brattleboro, the mill. In 1922, the Lymans then Jones and Lamson Machine moved to Wardsboro, where Ellen Shop in Springfield and the Old spent most of her school years. Londonderry Shop. He also They moved to Londonderry in performed surveys extensively 1931 and also spent a year in during the summer months - Winhall. 1939/40 was an active year, since Ellen worked for several he was hired to survey several years at the Green Mountain Club square miles of Equinox House in Sherburne, Vermont. Mountain for Dr. J.G. Davidson, a She then worked for Treadway vice president of Union Carbide. Inn Corporation as a bookkeeper In 1941, the Lymans moved at various places from 1942 to into a house just down from the 1972. At that time, Ellen library in South Londonderry. returned to South Londonderry to Their daughter, Ellen, continues take care of her mother and Aunt to live in this house. Ray served Annie, while living in the home as a moderator in Londonderry in her parents had owned there. 1942 and several years afterward. Ellen is an active member of He was also elected a the Baptist Church in South representative of Londonderry in Londonderry, and active in the 1947. library association. She was The Lymans were active president of this association for members of the Baptist church in several years. West Wardsboro and then South Ellen has been a great help in Londonderry. In his latter years, producing this history of Stratton, Ray suffered from Parkinson’s by providing wonderful disease. He died at South information and old photographs Londonderry on February 17, relative to the town. 1966. Mary died at Townshend, Vermont, on January 4, 1981. William Ray Lyman, son of Ray The Lymans were buried in the and Mary Lyman, was born at West Wardsboro Cemetery. Stratton. He was probably the last Children of Ray and Mary were: person born within the Lyman 1) Ellen Mary farmhouse. William lived in 2) William Ray, married Vera Stratton for only his first two Rose Petersen. years. He went to school in 3) David Roy, married Bette June Wardsboro and South Roberts. Londonderry, then attended 4) Ona Rufus, Doris (?). Leland and Gray in Townshend, all in Vermont. Following high Ellen Mary Lyman, daughter of school, William attended the Ray and Mary Lyman, was born University of Vermont, then went in Stratton and spent her early to Graduate School at Columbia years there, living on her father’s University, attaining a degree in

Stratton Families 310 the field of Chemistry. He then married Jack Allen, a local went to work in 1944 on the carpenter, on December 25, 1920, Manhattan Project at Oakridge, and they continued to live in the Tennessee. home May had settled in. Before, taking the job in May served as Wardsboro’s Tennessee, William married Vera Town Clerk for many years. She Rose Petersen. Following the died there on May 26, 1963. Jack marriage, they immediately died on May 9, 1972. They were headed for Oakridge. both buried in the West After the job at Oakridge was Wardsboro Cemetery. complete, William finished A child of May and her first graduate school training at MIT. husband, James Dexter was: He took a job with the Rohm and 1) Evelyn Ruth, married Lloyd A. Haas Company in Philadelphia, Brown. Pennsylvania, where William remained until retiring in 1985. Children of May and her second husband, Jack Allen, were: May Miranda Lyman, daughter 1) Robert Lyman, married Joyce of William and Emma Lyman, Mabel Streeter. was born in Stratton on February 2) Ruth Emma, married Elmer 7, 1889. May graduated from Herbert Turner, Jr.. Leland and Gray Seminary in Townshend, Vermont, and went Lucius Lyman, son of Rodolphus on to teach school in Stratton. and Bethiah Lyman, was born on May married James Dexter on March 31, 1823, at Northfield, November 15, 1910, and they Massachusetts. He married Luana lived in Wardsboro, Vermont. Fitts on October 15, 1855, and James was active in town affairs they settled in West Wardsboro, at Wardsboro, where he taught Vermont. school. James was Wardsboro’s Following the birth of their town clerk for a time and went to daughter, the Lymans moved to represent Wardsboro in the state Ohio. Luana died on April 13, legislature in Montpelier in 1919. 1880, and their daughter died in That same year, May’s brother, 1887. They were buried in the Ray, was the Representative for West Wardsboro Cemetery. Stratton. James died that year, on Lucius returned to Stratton in March 23, 1919, as a result of the an extremely depressed state of flu epidemic that had swept the mind. He supposedly committed country at that time, leaving May suicide by drowning himself in and a daughter, Evelyn. the Lyman millpond on July 25, May and her daughter then 1893. Lucius also was buried in moved from their home in the West Wardsboro Cemetery. Wardsboro Center to West A child of Lucius and Luana was: Wardsboro. Her mother, Emma, 1) May L., born about 1870; died also lived with them. May then on September 6, 1887.

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Ray Lyman Mary (Griffith) Lyman (1887 – 1966) (1887 – 1981)

Photo courtesy of Ellen Lyman Photo courtesy of Ellen Lyman

The William Lyman family [Back l-r] Roy Lyman, James Dexter, May and Ray Lyman [Middle l-r] William and Emma Lyman [Front l-r] Pauline and Burdette Lyman

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the hill up from what is now the parking area. The Lyons were duly warned out of town by Stratton’s constable in March, 1808. On September 17, 1808, Josiah sold this lot to Peter Howe and William Wheeler. Josiah did not purchase any other lot in Stratton, but apparently went to live near the town common on 4L5R - property owned by Aaron Lyon. A road description made in October, 1809, states that his house was located along the road that ran northeast from the meetinghouse to the Batchellor house (located at The Lyman family the end of what is now Ona, Ray, May and Emma Shepardson Rd.. Josiah and his family were Photo courtesy of Ellen Lyman listed in the 1810 census of Stratton. They apparently Additional Sources for the Lyman families: removed from Stratton before Lyman Family genealogical notes Notes of Ellen Lyman 1820. History of the Town of Northfield, Massachusetts, by Temple Aaron Lyon may have been the

son of William and Deborah Lyon Lyon of Woodstock, Connecticut, born Josiah Lyon may have been the December 5, 1747. Aaron’s wife, son of William and Sarah Lyon of Betsey, was also born before 1765. Woodstock, Connecticut, born Aaron was apparently closely December 9, 1769. Josiah’s wife, related to Josiah Lyon (above) was Sarah, was born before 1765. apparently Aaron’s half-brother. Josiah was apparently closely Aaron purchased 40 acres of related to Aaron Lyon below. 4L5R in Stratton on May 10, Aaron may have been his half- 1806, from Sampson Wetherbee. brother. At that time, the Lyons were Josiah and Sarah were already living in Stratton. residing in Leominster, Aaron’s lot was adjacent to Massachusetts, when they the town common on the south . purchased 3L7R in Stratton on The Lyons were warned out of April 1, 1807, from Bezaliel town by Stratton’s Selectmen on Lawrence. The Lyons settled on June 28, 1806. On July 2, 1806, this lot - located on what is now the same day that Stratton’s called Grout Pond. The house constable, Levi Robbins, served was probably located at the top of

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Aaron the warning to depart February 2, 1812, and both were Stratton, Aaron was chosen as a baptized at that time. Within the committee member to supervise next two days four of their the building of Stratton’s children were also baptized. meetinghouse; no doubt because On March 24, 1812, Aaron his home was near the building mortgaged the lot near the site. Although the town rescinded common through Joseph Patch, the vote to build a meetinghouse then sold it to Polly (Phillips) and turned the project over to Sigourney. They apparently left some of the town’s people, it was Stratton at that time. possible that Aaron still Children of Aaron and Betsey: participated in the project. No 1) Charles records exist surrounding the 2) John Jarvis, born March 1, construction of the meetinghouse, 1806, at Northboro, however, it was apparently Massachusetts. completed in 1808. 3) Christopher Gore In March 1807, Aaron 4) Oliver purchased 2L6R, which contained the southern end of what is now Baxter Lyon, son of Benjamin, Grout Pond. In a deed dated Jr. and Sarah Lyon, was born on March 24, 1812 (see below), December 1, 1771, at Woodstock, Aaron was called a millwright, Connecticut. There, Baxter therefore, it is likely that the married Dolly Paine on April 3, Lyons settled on that lot and that 1798. Dolly died evidently from Aaron operated a sawmill there complications of childbirth on (This was a much better location July 7, 1801. for a mill than the lot near the Baxter remarried and he and town common). Apparently his wife, Mary, settled in Stratton Josiah Lyon settled into the house about 1829, along with Baxter’s by the common. sister Azuba Morse, wife of It appears that taxes were not Jonathan Morse. Baxter paid on 2L6R and it was soon sold purchased the east half of 7L3R off; however, Aaron sold 50 acres and the south half of 8L3R from of this lot in 1809, then a month John Fox on December 17, 1829. later bought back 4L5R - the lot The Lyons settled in Stratton on near the common (possibly buying this farm soon thereafter, and they back a mortgage). In 1810, the were included in Stratton’s census Lyons had two females and a male of 1830, which indicated that they living with them. One of the had two sons under the age of five females was apparently their as well as a male boarder, aged 30 daughter, the other two may have to 40, living with them. been another of their children and The Lyons apparently settled a spouse. The Lyons were on 7L3R (first built by Jonas admitted as members of the Woodward). At that time, Church of Christ in Stratton on Jonathan Morse still resided on

Stratton Families 314 this lot, probably in a separate per week. The Lyons were no dwelling. longer in Stratton in 1840. On June 8, 1831, Baxter purchased 50 acres of 2L6R, Lysall located on the south side of what 1 Victor Lysall was born about is now called Grout Pond . Over 1883 in Sweden. In 1920, Victor the next few years, Baxter bought was a lumberman in Stratton and and sold other lots in Stratton. lived in the boarding house at the On February 21, 1835, Baxter Grout Job. sold the farm on 7L3R to Phineas White of Putney, Vermont, then removed his family back to M Woodstock at that time. Baxter was living in Woodstock when he sold 2L6R in November, 1835. Machutt A child of Baxter and Dolly was: Royard Machutt was born about 1) Baxter, born July 4, 1801, at 1873 in Maine. In 1920, he was a Woodstock, Connecticut; died lumberman, working in Stratton July 13, 1801, at Woodstock, and living in the boarding house Connecticut. at the Grout Job.

Children of Baxter and Mary: Magoon 2) (a son) John Edward Magoon, son of 3) (a son) Joseph Magoon and an Abnaki 4) Dolly Reed, born April 8, woman, was born on May 2, 1828. 1831, at Stratton, Vermont John moved from Canada to (baptized in Stratton on Schroon Lake, New York, with November 13, 1831). his father and sister, Electa. 5) Marcia Josephine, born May There, he married Hulda Bruce. 11, 1833, at Stratton, During the Civil War, John Vermont. served in the 98th New York

Note: Infantry, Company I. John never 1) Although this lot had previously belonged settled in Stratton, although two to Aaron Lyon, apparently there was no of his children did so. connection between these two families. Two children of John and Hulda:

1) Edward Nelson, born; May 1, John Lyon was apparently related 1859; married 1) Lillia L. to Baxter Lyon. John married Jones 2) Cora J. Allen in 1885. Cynthia Wood on February 27, 2) Betsy Anna, married 1) Emery 1831, at Stratton. Although he Bills 2) (?) Torrey. owned no property in Stratton, he settled there. During the March Edward Nelson Magoon, son of meeting of 1832, John made the John and Hulda Magoon, was lowest bid to care for Nancy born on May 1, 1859, at Schroon Waite, a town pauper, at 50 cents Lake, New York. Edward’s first

Stratton Families 315 wife, Lillia L. Jones, daughter of A child of Edward and Lillia was: Silas and Marena Jones, was born 1) Walter E., born July 3, 1883, on February 25, 1863, at Stratton. at Jamaica, Vermont; died She died on December 23, 1883, October 18, 1936, at and she was buried in Ball Bondville, Vermont; married Cemetery. Inez Mina Wilder on March 4, Edward then married Cora J. 1908, at South Londonderry, Allen, daughter of Albert Marsh Vermont (took the Freeman’s and Margaret Ella (Downes) oath in Stratton on September Allen, in 1885. Cora was born on 6, 1904). April 5, 1867, in Londonderry, Vermont. Children of Edward and Cora: The Magoons settled in 2) Clara Bell, born August 4, Stratton about 1890, locating on 1887; died May 30, 1919; the farm previously occupied by married Albert Henry the Grout family. This farm was Baybrook on August 13, 1900, located at the junction of the West in New York. Jamaica Rd. and Mountain Rd.. 3) Albert Edwin, born February Edward was Stratton’s road 6, 1891, at Stratton, Vermont; commissioner in 1904. The died November 22, 1959; Magoons moved to South married Pearl Grace Knights Londonderry, Vermont, about that on July 4, 1911, at South same time. Londonderry, Vermont.

The Magoon Family about 1915 [Back l-r] Herbert, Fred, Mary, Pearl, Albert [Middle l-r] Harry, Walter, Inez, Clara [Front l-r] Grace, Cora and Edward Magoon

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4) Herbert Clifton, born February Dep. Brigade. Shortly after 2, 1893, at Stratton, Vermont; entering the service, Herbert died October 16, 1975, at the became very ill. He was left for Veteran’s Hospital in White dead in an army hospital, but he River Junction, Vermont eventually recovered. Herbert was (WWI veteran); married Cora discharged from the service on May Chamberlain on August December 4, 1918. 27, 1918, at South The Magoons lived out most Londonderry, Vermont. of their lives in South 5) Harry Ellsworth, born Londonderry, Vermont. Herbert February 8, 1895, at Stratton, died on October 16, 1975, at the Vermont; died October 1, Veteran’s Hospital in White River 1962; married Madeline Junction, Vermont. Elinore Bills on October 2, 1926 Harry Ellsworth Magoon, son of 6) Mary Ella, born August 24, Edward and Cora Magoon, was 1898, at Stratton, Vermont; born on February 8, 1895, at died March 14, 1980; married Stratton. He grew up on his Frederick Homer Smith on father’s farm, located at the September 29, 1914. corner of the West Jamaica Rd. 7) Grace Margaret Huldah, born and Mountain Rd. in Stratton. At August 2, 1901, at Stratton, that time, this area had become a Vermont; died September 2, very isolated place and the 1972; married Edward John wilderness had started to reclaim Bruso on August 30, 1924. the farms. After the family had removed Herbert Clifton Magoon, son of to South Londonderry, Vermont, Edward and Cora Magoon, was Harry joined the army during born at Stratton on February 2, WWI. He was indoctrinated in 1893. He grew up on his father’s Brattleboro, Vermont, on April 1, farm, located at the corner of the 1918. He was assigned to the West Jamaica Rd. and Mountain 151st Dep. Brigade until April 24, Rd. in Stratton. At that time, this 1918. Harry was then assigned to area had become a very isolated Co. L, of the 3rd Training place and the wilderness had Regiment Engineers as a corporal started to reclaim the farms. at Humphreys, Virginia, where he Herbert married Cora May remained until June, 1918. From Chamberlain on August 27, 1918, June, 1918, to July 27, 1918, at Londonderry, Vermont. The Harry was assigned to Co. C. of marriage took place just before the 116 Engineers, and then to Herbert entered the service during Co. A. of the 2nd Engineers. He WWI.Herbert joined the army. He remained with this company for was indoctrinated in Brattleboro, the remainder of his service. Vermont, on September 4, 1918, Harry was sent to Europe on June and he was assigned to the 151st 14, 1918, and he remained

Stratton Families 317 overseas until August 4, 1919. The Malacarnes were no longer in Harry returned to the states and he Stratton in 1910. was discharged on August 14, A child of Silvanus and Rita was: 1919. 1) Alcy Paolina, born June 20, Harry married Madeline 1902, at Stratton, Vermont. Elinore Bills, daughter of Leon and Sadie Bills, on October 2, Mann 1926. Madeline was born on Bille Mann, son of Elisha and February 18, 1902. She died on Susanna (Webb) Mann, was born March 16, 1931, and Harry died on October 17, 1756. He had on October 1, 1962. lived at Wrentham, Massachusetts, and he was called Maison “of Franklin, Massachusetts,” Charlie Maison, son of Adolph when he first purchased land in and Alphosine (Terrienn) Maison, Stratton. His parents and a sister, was born at Clifton, Canada, in Susanna, all died in Franklin. August, 1875. Charlie married Bille served in a Exsilda LaFountaine, daughter of Massachusetts unit during the Adolph and Alice Lafountaine, on American Revolution, enlisting in January 17, 1900, at a Catholic Captain Fairbanks’s militia, church in Brattleboro, Vermont. which marched on the alarm of Exsilda was born in May, 1884, at April 19, 1775. Bille served until Clifton, Canada. May 1, 1775. He then enlisted in Charlie came to Stratton, Captain Boyd’s Company, where he probably worked at one Colonel Greaton’s Regiment. of the lumber camps. In 1900, he Bille was a private in Captain and Exsilda were living with Fairbanks’s Company, Colonel Exsilda’s parents. Metcalf’s Regiment, from Exsilda died at Stratton, on December 8, 1776, to December October 22, 1900, shortly after 31, 1776. This unit marched from giving birth to a daughter. Wrentham to Providence and Charlie was no longer in Stratton Warwick, Rhode Island, on the in 1910. alarm of December 8. Bille then A child of Charlie and Exsilda: served with Captain Fairbanks 1) Alice, born; October 2, 1900, again in Haws’ Regiment, from at Stratton, Vermont. September 30, 1777, to October 31, 1777, in Rhode Island. Bille Malacarne served again as a corporal in Silvanus Malacarne and his wife, Ware’s Company of Colonel Rita, were born in Italy. They Wade’s Regiment, from June 20, came to America and settled in 1778, to July 14, 1778, in a Stratton by 1902. Silvanus was a detachment from the 4th Suffolk, laborer who probably worked in serving in Rhode Island. the lumber camps in Stratton. Bille married Mary “Molly” Thurston, daughter of James and

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Phebe (Perkins) Thurston, at Bille and Mary were buried in Franklin on February 6, 1783. Ball Cemetery. Molly was born on February 7, Children of Bille and Mary were: 1760, at Rehoboth, Massachusetts. 1) (a son) On October 8, 1787, Bille 2) Mary, born on March 26, purchased the east half of 3L5R in 178(4 or 9); died March 24, Stratton and he and Mary settled 1864, at Stratton, Vermont; there shortly afterward. This farm married Richard Scott on was located west of the August 18, 1811, at Stratton, intersection of the West Jamaica Vermont. Rd. and the Stratton-Arlington Rd., near the top of the ridge there Hosea Mann, son of James and (see R. Scott on McClellan’s map Anna Mann, was born at of 1856). Later, a main road from Dummerston, Vermont, on the Town Common to Stratton October 18, 1801. Gore passed his home. Hosea’s father, the Rev. Bille became very active in James Mann, moved to Dover, Stratton’s town affairs throughout Vermont, from Dummerston, in his life. In his later years, he was 1812, and became the pastor of called Bille Mann, Esquire, the little Dover-Somerset Baptist implying that he was a Justice of Church, a position he filled for 20 the Peace. In 1819, he was called years. James was replaced in General Mann – apparently his 1832 by his son-in-law, Daniel rank in the state militia. Over the Leonard, husband of James’ many years that he lived in daughter, Sally. James also Stratton, Bille bought and sold bought and operated the Gragg large amounts of property. Mill on the north branch of the In 1810, the Manns were Deerfield River about 1812. probably sharing their home with Hosea purchased several their son and his wife as well as parcels of land in Somerset and their own daughter. In 1820, they Stratton over the years. In 1837, had a young woman, possibly a Hosea and William Mann granddaughter living with them, purchased the Jotham Pike farm and in 1830, the Manns were in Somerset (currently the home living alone. of M. Lee Bills). They probably Mary was accepted into the didn’t live there and sold this Church of Christ in Stratton on farm to Jotham’s son, Moses, in February 2, 1812. She died at 1839. Hosea apparently remained Stratton on July 29, 1839, and so in Dover for many years, and in Bille lived out his last years with 1850, he was a Selectman of that his daughter and son-in-law, town. In 1858, records show that Mary and Richard Scott. On the he owned pew #8 in the West census of 1840, Bille was listed as Dover Meetinghouse. a Revolutionary Pensioner, aged Eventually, Hosea settled in 83. He died on July 19, 1852. Stratton in the Somerset Annex in

Stratton Families 319 the far south part of town, south of A child of Samuel and Patience: is now Rt. 100 near the border 1) Samuel, born August 25, 1745, where it enters Dover. His home at Sutton, Massachusetts; died is marked on Beer’s Atlas of July 14, 1836, at Stratton, 1869. Vermont; married Lucretia Richardson on November 16, Manning 1769, at Woburn, Mercy (Bailey) Manning, Massachusetts. daughter of Jeremiah and Mercy 1 (Burbank) Bailey, was the widow Samuel Marble , son of Samuel of John Manning, who died at and Patience (Gale) Marble, was Lancaster, Massachusetts, on born on August 25, 1745, at October 16, 1793. Mercy was Sutton, Massachusetts. He born on December 21, 1751. She married Lucretia Richardson, united with the First Church in daughter of Charles and Mary Lancaster in 1794. Richardson, on November 16, Mercy came to Stratton in 1769. Lucretia was born on April 1810 and lived in the home of her 29, 1752. son-in-law, Joshua Robbins. SAR (Sons of the American Mercy was warned out of Stratton Revolution) records show that by the Selectmen on January 17, Samuel served during the 1811, and she was served notice American Revolution. by the constable on February 1, The Marbles were living in 1811. Mercy probably left Ward, Massachusetts, when Stratton when the Robbins left Samuel bought 200 acres of land town in 1815. She died in in Stratton, 7L1R, from Paul Lancaster on November 7, 1827. Thurston on November 13, 1782. A daughter of Mercy Manning: Stephen Marble and Richard 1) Patty, born April 21, 1780, at Bartlett, 3rd, witnessed the sale. Lancaster, Massachusetts; died This was later the Leander Allen on December 9, 1819, at farm, and it was on this site that Newfane, Vermont; married Walter Forrester recently built a Joshua Robbins on February 1, home. 1801, at Athol, Massachusetts. Samuel and his wife, Lucretia, may have settled in Stratton on 7L1R between 1782 Marble and 1790, but they were living in The Marble family of Stratton Newfane before 1791. They were descendants of Freegrace settled in Stratton between June Marble and his wife, Mary 14, 1791, and December 23, 1793, (original settlers of the town of but returned to Newfane for a Sutton, Massachusetts), through brief time after the census of 1800 their son, Samuel, born April 27, was taken. In 1793, Samuel sold 1723. Samuel married Patience the east half of this lot to his son Gale at Sutton (intention Samuel and in 1794, he sold the published on July 23, 1743).

Stratton Families 320 west half to Sampson Bixby. The In May, 1831, Samuel Marbles were living in Newfane mortgaged his lands through Asa in late 1803. Phillips, with an agreement that Samuel and Lucretia were Asa would care for the Marbles apparently the couple warned out for the rest of their natural lives of Stratton on December 21, 1807 (the deed makes it sound as if the (served January 26, 1808). Marbles were living with Although the last name is Shepardson at that time). A illegible, the given names fit and similar bargain was made with the time appears to be right. If so, Benjamin Thatcher in 1834. then they returned to Stratton in Samuel passed away at 1807. The Marbles apparently Stratton on July 14, 1836. In settled into the home of their son January, 1837, Benjamin Samuel, Jr. on 5L3R. Thatcher signed over his farm - On February 2, 1812, the east half of 4L4R - to James Lucretia was accepted into the Sprague with an agreement that Church of Christ in Stratton by Sprague would care for Lucretia letter from the 2nd Church of Marble (the daughter). Lucretia Christ in Sutton, Massachusetts. died the next year. On September 1, 1812, Samuel Children of Samuel and Lucretia: took the Freeman’s oath in 1) Molly, born September 23, Stratton. 1770, at Sutton, In 1820, Samuel and Lucretia Massachusetts. and their daughter, Lucretia, 2) Samuel, Jr., born January 7, shared a home. Apparently, the 1772, at Sutton, older Lucretia died between 1820 Massachusetts; married 1) and 1830. In 1830, Samuel and Hitty Putnam on September his daughter, Lucretia, were living 12, 1799, at Sutton, alone in Stratton. Massachusetts 2) Bridget Reed Samuel had sold the farm in on November 17, 1801, at 1826 to Moses Stacy, then, after Stratton, Vermont. Isaac Shepardson had purchased 3) Lucretia, born in 1773; died it, Isaac mortgaged it back March 6, 1837, at Stratton, through Samuel Marble in 1828. Vermont. At that time, the Marbles 4) Elijah, born October 20, 1774, apparently shared that farm with at Sutton, Massachusetts. Isaac Shepardson. In 1828, Samuel purchased a lot, located Samuel Marble, Jr., son of on the southwest side of the town Samuel and Lucretia Marble, was common along with a half-share born on January 7, 1772, at of the farm on the northwest side Sutton, Massachusetts. He came of the common. This lot had been to Stratton with his parents in previously occupied by Jonathan 1793. That year, Samuel Phillips. purchased the east half of 7L1R

Stratton Families 321 from his father, but sold off this the two Marble families in Stratton were wrong, since both households seem to lot in 1797. mirror one another in 1800. Also, the On June 29, 1796, Samuel 1810 census does not show Samuel Sr. in purchased the west half of 5L3R the correct age group. from Sampson Bixby. This lot was located along the lower end of Marcucci what is now called Shepardson Gregory James Marcucci, son of Rd. and the dwelling was Warren and Irene Marcucci, and apparently located on the his wife Rayleen Ann Rawson, northeast side of the road beside daughter of Jerome and Purlys the Forrest Tuttle house. The Rawson, came to Stratton from remains of its foundation were West Dover in September, 1992, filled in in 1999. This is after buying a house on Pike apparently where Samuel settled. Hollow Rd. This house was Samuel married Hitty Putnam previously the residence of at Sutton, Massachusetts, on Andrew King – which was first September 12, 1799. She occupied by A. H. Pike. evidently soon died and so he Greg runs a plumbing married Bridget Reed at Stratton business from their home. He has on November 17, 1801. served on Stratton’s Zoning Board Samuel was active in since 1995, while Rayleen has Stratton’s town affairs over the been a member of the School years, and he served as Selectman Board since 1994. She is also an in 1801 and 1802. He also Auditor and a member of the purchased other lots in town over Recreation Committee. the next few years, including one- Children of Greg and Rayleen are: fifth of the water rights to 1) Christopher James Batchellor’s Mills in 1803. 2) Alyson Leah The Marbles moved away from Stratton sometime shortly Marshall after 1812. Roland Marshall was born about Children of Samuel and Bridget: 1901 in Connecticut. In 1920, he 1) Holland, born March 17, 1804, was a lumberman working in at Stratton, Vermont. Stratton and living in the 2) Parker, born August 15, 1805, boarding house at the Grout Job. at Stratton, Vermont; died January 13, 1807, at Stratton, Vermont. Martin 3) Ruth, born August 28, 1807, at A. J. Martin was Justice of the Stratton, Vermont. Peace in 1883. 4) Louisa, born May 19, 1809, at Stratton, Vermont. John H. Martin of Stratton owned a one and a quarter acre lot with a two-story house on Pike Note: 1) It appears that the data taken for the Hollow Rd. in Stratton. In 1893, censuses of 1800 and 1810 concerning he sold this lot to Hattie Styles,

Stratton Families 322 wife of Alva Styles. This house Mascraft was on the site where the Isaac Mascraft and his wife were Eddy/Young place stands today born before 1775. They settled in (2000). Stratton between 1810 and 1820, but they had moved away before Ira D. Martin was born in 1830. Brooklyn, New York. He married Children of Isaac and his wife: Emma Nichols, who was born at 1) Nancy, married George W. Salem, New York. Swan on May 6, 1823, at Ira was a laborer, who Stratton, Vermont (late of probably worked in one of the Bristol, Rhode Island). lumber camps in Stratton. In 2) Sarah, married Alden Axtell, 1905, he was elected surveyor of of Windsor, Massachusetts wood and inspector of lumber and (intent published on May 25, shingles. The Martins were no 1828, at Stratton, Vermont). longer in Stratton in 1910. A child of Ira and Emma was: Samuel Mascraft, son of Jacob 1) Henry William, born and Mary (Killingly) Mascraft, November 18, 1902, at was born at Woodstock, Stratton, Vermont; died Connecticut, on February 24, August 7, 1903, at Stratton, 1763. Samuel married Sarah Vermont. Peakes, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Allen) Peakes, there on Ernest Martin was the head February 11, 1790. Sarah was sawyer for Elmer Eddy’s sawmill born at Woodstock on February 5, in Pike Hollow. 1766.

Ernest Martin at EA Eddy's Sawmill

Photo Courtesy of the Ethel Eddy collection

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Samuel purchased 3L1R in In 1822, Joseph was still Stratton from David Holmes of living in Woodstock; however, on Woodstock, on September 15, September 14, 1829, when he sold 1818. He apparently settled in the farm to John Fox of Stratton upon this farm soon Woodstock, Joseph was said to be thereafter. This farm was residing in Stratton. He evidently originally the Bixby farm, located moved away after the sale. The on what is now called Canedy deed for this sale stated that it Rd.. The farmhouse may have included all the buildings, a pair stood on the site now owned by of three-year-old steers, six Ronald Bills. yearlings and all the hay that is on Samuel sold this lot to Joseph the above described premises. Mascraft in 1820. Samuel may have been the same Samuel Mason Mascraft, of New York, who Royal M. Mason, son of Noah witnessed a deed for Chester and Dorothy (Bugbee) Mason, Wellman of Stephentown, New was born on February 14, 1767, at York, who sold 2L1R in 1835. Woodstock, Connecticut. Royal Children of Samuel Mascraft: married Abigail M. Bracket who 1) Samuel was born in Connecticut in 2) Lucy, born May 22, 1802, at February 1780. Woodstock, Connecticut; The Masons settled in married Lyman Morse on June Stratton between 1810 and 1820. 5, 1817, at Woodstock, They lived on 2L1R, on the Connecticut. Wardsboro Town line (where 3) Nancy, born September 8, Leon Stocker Dr. is located 1805, at Woodstock, today). This was a 95-acre lot Connecticut. with a dwelling house and log barn thereon. In 1820, the Samuel Mascraft, Jr., son of Masons were living there alone. Samuel and Sarah Mascraft, On October 8, 1823, Royal evidently resided in Stratton and sold a half interest in the property paid taxes on 3L1R in 1819. to Zebina Pratt, which included an agreement that Zebina would care Joseph Mascraft, may have been for Royal and Abigail for the a son of Samuel and Sarah remainder of their natural lives. Mascraft. He was a resident of In 1830, they had taken in a Woodstock, Connecticut, at the gentleman aged 70 to 80, probably time that he purchased 3L1R in a father of Royal or Abigail. Stratton from Samuel Mascraft. The Masons moved away Others apparently owned part of from Stratton before 1840. this farm either as undivided However, in 1860, Abigail was shares or as a mortgage, since it living with James and Mariette was sold at various times over the Copeland, and she was cared for next few years. by Nelson Bourne in 1863. She

Stratton Families 324 died on August 2, 1864, at Mattick Stratton. Paul Mattick and his wife, Ilse, came to Stratton in 1945. The Nathaniel W. Mason of Hudson, Matticks both took the Freeman’s Massachusetts, purchased a 97- oath in 1955 and in 1956, the acre farm on 6L3R from Preston town built a road to their home – Knapp on May 9, 1868. The farm now known as Dini Lane - off of is shown along a road off of North Rd., in the northeast corner Shepardson Rd, and the old of Stratton. After becoming a foundation can still be seen there. resident of Stratton, Paul served It was listed as N. Mason on as Town Agent and he was Beer’s Atlas of 1869. involved in developing the plans Nathaniel and his wife, Mary for the Town Hall. He also was a A., settled there briefly, then strong advocate for upgrading moved to Bolton, Massachusetts. wages for town officers. Nathaniel sold the farm to Alfred Paul passed away on February Howe of Jamaica, Vermont, on 7, 1981, at Cambridge, June 26, 1869. Massachusetts. Ilse continues to reside in Stratton. Matthews Their son is: Samuel Matthews had settled in 1) Paul, Jr., (He attended school Stratton by June 10, 1795. On in Jamaica, Vermont). that date, Samuel purchased the southeast quarter of 6L4R and Maurer probably built a farm there on the Kenneth Edward Maurer, son of west side of the old road that Edward and Lucilla Maurer, and progressed past this lot’s southeast his wife Nancy Ellen Becker, corner. He may be the same as daughter of John and Hellen Samuel Matthews, son of Paul and Becker, settled in Stratton in 1984 Lucy Matthews, born in and lived on Shepardson Rd. in a Princeton, Massachusetts, on May house built by Paul Girard. 9, 1768. This Samuel married Ken is a sales and marketing Susanna Cowdin of Rutland, consultant. He was elected a Massachusetts, on November 30, Selectman of Stratton in March, 1790. 1994, for a four-year term. He Samuel remained in Stratton was one of Stratton’s Justices of at least through January 7, 1797. the Peace, a position held from On that date, Samuel sold his land November, 1992, to 1998. He to Abel Kinsley of Orange, also had served on Stratton’s Massachusetts, and apparently left Planning Commission from Stratton at that time. He may be March, 1993, to March, 1994. the same who was killed by a The Maurers removed to falling tree in Somerset in 1842. Pennsylvania in 1998.

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Ken’s son from a previous Maynard marriage: Stephen P. Maynard, son of 1) Eric David Henry and Alma Maynard, married Wendy Christie, daughter A son of Ken and Nancy: of Edwin and Margaret Christie. 2) Jason Richard The Maynards settled in Stratton on December 22, 1995, May after purchasing a house on the Lewis B. May briefly settled in south side of the Stratton- Stratton, taking the Freeman’s Arlington Rd, just east of the oath there on September 6, 1864. Town Hall. This house was built He had moved away from Stratton in the 1950s and an addition had before 1870. been made in 1984. Steve is a Recreational Lyman W. May, son of Rhoda Director and Wendy works as a May (Edwards) of Edinburgh, Hairstylist. Steve is a Selectman New York, was born in 1849 at and also served on Stratton’s Edinburgh. He married Alida E. Recreation Committee. Wendy is Perry, daughter of Oscar and Stratton’s Delinquent Tax Mary Perry, of Warrensburg, New Collector. York, on March 18, 1871, at Children of Stephen and Wendy: Stratton. Alida was born in 1856 1) Troy M. at Warrensburg. 2) Sarah Margaret A child of Lyman and Alida was: 3) Catherine 1) Arthur J., born July 22, 1890, at Stratton, Vermont. McFarland William McFarland, son of George May was born at Andrew and Rebecca (Gray) Jamaica, Vermont. He married McFarland was born on July 29, Sadie Prouty of Cambridgeport, 1722, at Marblehead, Ireland, and Vermont. he was christened at the 1st George was a teamster and he Congregational Church there. probably worked in one of the William came to America as a lumber camps in Stratton around young man and settled in 1900, although he was not listed Worcester, Massachusetts. in the 1900 census of Stratton, or William married Elizabeth any other of Stratton’s censuses, Browning, daughter of James and for that matter. Elizabeth A. (Davis) Browning, on November 7, 1745, at Rutland, A child of George and Sadie was: Massachusetts. She was born 1) Richard Arthur, born March 6, there on June 5, 1725. 1900, at Stratton, Vermont. William was among the 1780 proprietors of Stratton. Although the McFarlands never settled in Stratton at least one of their

Stratton Families 326 children did so. William owned a Andrew Davis McFarland in considerable amount of Stratton at 1835. That same year A. D., as an early time. He died on January he was called, sold all his Stratton 27, 1805. holdings to Phineas White of Their children were: Putney. William died on October 1) Andrew, born March 10, 9, 1839, at Worcester. 1751/2, at Worcester, One of their children was: Massachusetts. 1) Andrew Davis, born November 2) William, Jr., born January 5, 7, 1811; died June 23, 1836. 1758, at Worcester, Massachusetts; died October 9, James McFarland, son of 1839, at Worcester, William and Elizabeth Massachusetts; married Anna McFarland, was born on July 18, (?). 1766, at Worcester, Massachusetts 3) Mary, born April 16, 1760, at He married Sarah Davis on April Worcester, Massachusetts. 4, 1839, at Worcester. 4) Hannah, born June 9, 1762, at James’s father, William, and Worcester, Massachusetts. his brother, William, were early 5) Martha, born March 22, 1764, Proprietors of Stratton and they at Worcester, Massachusetts. owned a considerable amount of 6) James, born July 18, 1766, at land in Stratton from 1780 to Worcester, Massachusetts; 1835. It appears though that married Sarah Davis on April James was the only member of the 4, 1839, at Worcester, family to actually settle in Massachusetts. Stratton. James, a farmer, was 7) Samuel, born November 23, residing in Stratton when he 1770, at Worcester, purchased 2L2R from his father Massachusetts. on May 20, 1789. The South Road was built through his land William McFarland, Jr., son of that same year. James did not sell William and Elizabeth this property and he was no longer McFarland, was born on January in Stratton in 1791. 5, 1758, at Worcester, Massachusetts. William’s wife McGray was Anna and her maiden name Mike McGray was born about may have been Davis. 1841 in Canada. In 1920, at the William and his father were age of 79, he was working in the among the earliest proprietors of lumber camps and lived in the the town. William apparently did boarding house at the Grout Job in not settle in Stratton; although it Stratton. Mike was listed as a is possible that he did so in the widower. 1780s. William retained large amounts of land in Stratton, McMahon which he later deeded to his son, Michael McMahon lived in Stratton in 1896. That year, he

Stratton Families 327 was elected Inspector of Leather. Stratton before 1900 and worked He had left town by 1900. for George Tudor at the Upper Tudor Mill in Stratton. In 1900, Merchant Fran was boarding in the home of David Merchant was born in George Tudor. Once the Tudors New York in October, 1864. He sold out in 1902, Fran evidently came to Stratton before 1900, and moved away from Stratton. boarded in the home of George Herrick that year. David probably Miller worked in one of Stratton’s Elkanah Miller of Franklin, lumber camps. He was no longer Massachusetts, purchased half of in town by 1910. 8L3R, on November 5, 1787. Elkanah may have been the Merryfield Elkanah Millard born in 1766 at Edwin Merryfield was living Rehoboth, Massachusetts – son of with Melvin and Marcelina Joseph and Thankful (Gilmore) Knowlton in 1853, and attending Millard. This Elkanah married school in district #5 in Stratton. Olive Fails at Attleboro, Massachusetts, on November 29, 1788. Metcalf Elkanah brought his family to Albert Metcalf, a lumberman, Stratton soon thereafter and was born about 1849. He was settled on their farm. He also boarding with John F. Hubbard in purchased the west half of 3L5R 1870. Together, John and Albert in 1791 and sold it to Phineas operated the Hubbard and Metcalf Lamb in 1792. sawmill on the East Branch of the On January 6, 1795, Elkanah Deerfield River, along the sold the southeast corner of 7L4R. Stratton-Arlington Rd. They sold By that time, the Millers had the mill to EW Bowker in the late returned to Attleboro. Elkanah 1870s. It later became the Grout was called a cordwainer in the Job. Albert apparently left deed of sale. Stratton at that time. Millet William J. Metcalf was born Thomas Wheeler Millet, possibly about 1845. He resided in a son of Ebenezer and Mary Stratton after the Civil War, (Wheeler) Millet of Worcester, working as a lumberman. He was Massachusetts, was born in 1768. enrolled in the militia in Stratton Thomas married Susanna Rice, in 1867. William removed from daughter of Silas and Elizabeth Stratton before 1870. Rice. Sukey, as she was called,

was born on August 4, 1777, Millary probably in Worcester, Fran Millary was born in Canada Massachusetts. Her father was in March, 1865. He came to among Stratton’s early proprietors

Stratton Families 328 in 1780 and he was instrumental Winhall, Vermont, and in 1821, in establishing the first settlement he sold the other half to Reuben in town. Brooks. The Millets first lived in Thomas served as Stratton’s Worcester and they were probably town clerk from 1808 to 1814, married there in 1795. By 1799, also in 1816, and again from 1818 they had settled in Putney, to 1822. Vermont. The Millet’s youngest On November 1, 1803, daughter, Desdimona Rowena Thomas purchased the west half (DR Millet) was buried in the Old of 10L2R in Stratton from Rufus Town Cemetery in 1820. Her and Leah Gale. They apparently stone is one of the last two that settled on this lot, located beside remain therein. what is now North Cemetery. By 1823, Thomas had The Millets became members resettled in Sunderland, Vermont. of the Church of Christ in Stratton The Millets apparently made on April 16, 1805, and their five another move to Arlington, children were baptized at that Vermont, within a few years, time. Thomas was elected Church probably to live with their Clerk in 1808 and served in that daughter, Susanna Hawley. position until March 7, 1822. Thomas died at Arlington on Thomas bought 8L8R along September 11, 1828. Susanna with some smaller lots from his outlived him by almost 32 years. father-in-law, Silas Rice, in She died on May 8, 1860. Both March, 1808. In 1810, Thomas were buried in St. James Cemetery was one of four gentlemen to in Arlington. purchase the north part of the Children of Thomas and Susanna: West Gore that contained 3360 1) Sally Hinslow, born May 23, acres. That same year, Thomas 1796, at Worcester, was listed as head of a household Massachusetts; married in Stratton with two sons and five Barnard Holbrook on April 26, daughters. There was also a male 1820. over 45 living with them at that 2) Abraham Rice, born April 30, time. This may have been 1798, at Worcester, Susanna’s father, Silas Rice. By Massachusetts. 1820, the older gentleman was no 3) Elizabeth Taft, born March 31, longer living in their home. 1800, at Putney, Vermont; In 1815, Thomas sold his died in 1880; married David farm to James Greenwood, then Holmes (intent published on purchased a farm adjacent to the October 22, 1820, at Stratton). town common (26 acres of 4L4R 4) Nancy, born June 18, 1802, at and 5L4R). The Millets may have Putney, Vermont (became a settled on this lot even earlier. In member of the Church of 1818, he sold an undivided half of Christ in Stratton on this farm to John Brooks of November 9, 1817.

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5) Susanna, born February 15, Millins 1804, at Stratton, Vermont; Jonathan Millins of Newfane, married Nelson Hawley of Vermont, married Jennie Hill of Arlington, Vermont, on Stratton on May 19, 1802, at January 5, 1824. Stratton. Jonathan was probably a 6) Mary, born September 5, 1806, son of Joshua and Rebecca at Stratton, Vermont (baptized Millins, born September 6, 1773, in Stratton in September, at Westminster, Massachusetts. 1806). The Millins probably lived in 7) Thomas Wheeler, Jr., born Townshend, Vermont, then September 16, 1809, at returned to Stratton in 1806. Stratton, Vermont (baptized in They were warned out of town on Stratton on November 15, June 28, 1806, and evidently 1809, and lived in Sunderland, moved away between 1807 and Vermont, in 1840). 1810. 8) Samuel Austin, born Their children were: September 7, 1811, at Stratton, 1) Lyman, born August 18, 1802, Vermont (baptized in Stratton at Townshend, Vermont. on September 11, 1811). 2) Zachary, born December 10, 9) Emily Ann, born September 1803, at Townshend, Vermont. 13, 1814, at Stratton, Vermont 3) Robin Hill, born April 20, (baptized in Stratton on 1805, at Townshend, Vermont. October 24, 1814). 4) Olivia, born April 27, 1807, at 10) Silas Ebenezer, born May 2, Stratton, Vermont. 1817, at Stratton, Vermont (baptized in Stratton on May 13, 1817). Miner 11) Desdimona Rowena, born Joseph Miner was born in 1898 February 28, 1820, at Stratton, at Fair Haven, Vermont. He Vermont; died March 20, 1820 married Ruby Hoard who was (buried in Old Town born about 1903 at Winhall, Cemetery). Vermont. Joseph apparently was a laborer at one of the mills in Stratton in 1939 - probably Milligan Parsons Mill, located on the West Arthur Milligan was born in Jamaica Rd., across from the Canada in July, 1865. He came to Mountain Rd. intersection. Stratton before 1900 and took the Supposedly, Joseph was also a Freeman’s oath that year. That Baptist minister. The Miners year he was boarding in the home evidently resided in a cabin of George Herrick. Arthur opposite the West Jamaica Rd. – probably worked as a lumberman Mountain Rd. intersection. in one of Stratton’s lumber camps. A child of Joseph and Ruby was: He was no longer in town in 1910. 1) Gladys Marie

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Minners John was one of Stratton’s first Robert Minners, son of Walter listers -- elected in 1788. and Florence Minners, and his John sold his Stratton wife Maria Heinen, daughter of property to William Bond on Wilhelm and Marta Heinen, November 19, 1788, and left town settled in Stratton in 1968. Mr. at that time. He died in Minners built a house on West Oppenheim, New York, in 1810. Ridge Rd. in 1974. Robert was a Abigail died in 1840. Justice of the Peace during the Children of John and Abigail: 1980’s. He was Town Agent from 1) Calvin, baptized October 26, 1987 to 1998 and Grand Juror for 1783, at Northfield, several years beginning in 1987. Massachusetts. 2) Mehitable, baptized March 21, 1785, at Northfield, Mitchell Massachusetts. Howard Don Mitchell was born 3) Lot, born in 1803; died in in 1895 at Bradford, New 1870; married Sarah Hampshire, and he married Gretta McCreary. Palmer. Gretta was born at 4) Anna Maria, born in 1809. Sutton, New Hampshire, in 1911. Howard was a woodsman and he George A. Moffit, son of Albert and Gretta were living in Stratton and Mary Ann (Waite) Moffitt of in 1935. Rupert, Vermont, was born in A child of Howard and Gretta: Vermont on July 29, 1881. He 1) Elvis G. probably had lived in or near South Londonderry, Vermont, Moffett before coming to Stratton. (Moffitt) George worked as a John Moffett, son of John and lumberman at the Grout Job. In Mehitable (Miller) Moffett, was 1900, he was living in the Grout born on October 5, 1760, in boardinghouse located on the site. Northfield, Massachusetts. George had moved away from During the American Stratton by 1910. Revolution, John served as a private in Captain Dix Company Monico in the Massachusetts troops. Dominic J. Monico and his wife, After the war, John married Mercedes, purchased the old Abigail Swift in 1782. She was parsonage – a vacation home - in born in 1764. Stratton in 1953 from the estate of John and Abigail were Lyman Green. residing in Northfield at the time Dominic or “Birdie,” as he that John purchased the east half was called, had worked at New of 3L1R, on November 24, 1784, Departure in Bristol, Connecticut, from James Knox. The Moffetts with Stub Samson. Their settled in Stratton at that time and daughter, Lorraine currently owns

Stratton Families 331 this property and also uses it as a On March 11, 1846, vacation home. Benjamin purchased the west half of 3L3R from Philip Thomas, Jr.. The Moons apparently resettled back in their old home next to the brook. Town records indicate that Ben Moon’s earmark for his livestock was a slanting crop on the foreside of the right ear - recorded July 5, 1826.

Birdie Monico

Photo courtesy of Mercedes Monico

One of their children: 1) Lorraine, married 1) Lawrence Weeks (1947 – 1997 – buried in Ball Cemetery) 2) Brent Newell. Benjamin Moon and his brother, Joe Moon Moon Photo courtesy of Carl Ball Benjamin Moon was born in 1797. Family tradition claims At some point, the Moons that he was half Abnaki Indian. apparently went west to Ohio, He married Elizabeth E. Fay, moving their belongings with a daughter of Asa and Mary team of oxen. Their sons (not (Robins) Fay, on October 9, 1825, listed below) stayed in Ohio, but at Somerset, Vermont. Elizabeth Benjamin and Marena returned to was born on May 20, 1793. Stratton within three years. The Moons may have settled In 1859, Joel Grout was in Stratton about 1826. On June living with them and attending 21, 1830, Benjamin purchased the school in district #2 in Stratton. northeast corner of 3L4R in In 1860, Polly was still living with Stratton, down to the north bank them as well as a nine-year-old of the brook (17 acres). boy, George Taylor, who was In 1830, Elizabeth’s sister, perhaps a grandson. George Polly, was apparently living with remained with them through them. The Moons left Stratton 1862. and settled in Pownal, Vermont Elizabeth died on July 12, circa 1833. They returned to 1862, and she was buried in Ball Stratton sometime after 1840 and Cemetery. In 1864, Benjamin Benjamin was called “of Stratton” purchased land from the estate of when he purchased the west half Silas Jones, his son-in-law. of 7L4R on June 14, 1845. Benjamin had previously owned

Stratton Families 332 this land and he had sold it to his Moore daughter, Marena, in 1851, with Peter Moore, son of Abraham an agreement that she would care Moore, was born on March 10, for her parents for the rest of their 1804, at Wardsboro South District natural lives. Benjamin (Dover), Vermont. Peter married apparently died before 1869. He Sophronia Haskins on March 26, was not buried in the cemetery; 1829, at Dover. Sophronia was instead he was buried under a born about 1809 and was probably rock by the brook near his home. a daughter of William Haskins, an Some of Benjamin and early settler of Dover. Elizabeth’s children were: The Moores settled in 1) Mansfield, born August 24, Stratton between 1840 and 1850, 1826; died May 14, 1832, at but removed to Wardsboro before Stratton, Vermont. 1852. That year, the Moores 2) Marena R., born March 10, suffered a devastating tragedy. 1830, at Stratton, Vermont; On the night of September 8, married 1) Silas L. Jones on 1852, the Moore’s house burned, June 13, 1851, at Newfane, killing six of their children. Vermont 2) Edward A. Ball on Sophronia was home and in a December 25, 1871, at Athens, downstairs bedroom with two of Vermont. the children while the other four 3) Melvin L., born January 18, were in a bedroom above. Mrs. 1832; died March 26, 1832, at Moore escaped the fire unharmed Stratton, Vermont. and Peter arrived home about 4) Melantha E., born February midnight, just as the roof fell in. 14, 1834, at Pownal, Vermont; He saw the beds with the children married Jeremiah D. Styles. in them as they fell from the 5) Corinthia B. (possibly), born chamber to the cellar. A single about 1835 (She was living stone was placed in the West with Jonas and Anna Smith in Wardsboro Cemetery for the 1850). children. Sophronia died two

Additional Sources: years later on May 9, 1854, and Carl Ball, grandson of Marena (Moon) Ball Peter died on May 6, 1870. They were buried beside their children. Children of Peter and Sophronia: 1) Titus H., born about 1829. 2) Loren B., born about 1831. 3) Lovina A., born about 1839. 4) Wallace W., born about 1841; died September 8, 1852, at Wardsboro, Vermont. 5) Hendrick H., born about 1843; died September 8, 1852, at Marena Moon Wardsboro, Vermont. Photo courtesy of Carl Ball

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6) Holland N., born about 1844; daughter of Harvey and Caroline died September 8, 1852, at Stiles. Carrie was born on Wardsboro, Vermont. January 26, 1870 in 7) Lura A., born about 1846; died Massachusetts. September 8, 1852, at The Moores were married Wardsboro, Vermont. about 1895 and they settled in 8) Melissa E., born about 1847; Stratton about 1905 in the home died September 8, 1852, at of Carrie’s grandfather, Jonathan Wardsboro, Vermont Babcock. Evidently, Carrie was 9) Lebius E., born about 1848; married previously to (?) White. died September 8, 1852, at She had a son, Pheron L. White, Wardsboro, Vermont. born about 1892 in New 10) Oscar Ledoit, born October 12, Hampshire. Pheron was living 1850, at Wardsboro, Vermont. with George and Carrie in 1910. That year, George took the Additional Sources: Return to Yesterday by CS Streeter Freeman’s oath in Stratton. The Moores were no longer George W. Moore was born residents of Stratton in 1920. about 1847 in New Hampshire. Carrie died about 1930. He married Carrie Rosella Stiles,

George W. and Carrie (Stiles) Moore in front of their home on the Stratton-Arlington Rd. (The Babcock house).

Photo courtesy of Arleen Huesman

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Moran December 24, 1868, at James Moran was born on Wardsboro, Vermont. August 8, 1800, in Ireland He came to America and eventually Moraney settled in Putney, Vermont. Stanley Moraney, a lumberman James married Emma (or Amy) in Stratton, was born in Maine in Johnson, daughter of Elisha and 1905. He and Helen Phelps had a Olive (Watson) Johnson, on May child while they lived in Stratton. 3, 1830, at Putney. Emma was Helen was born about 1924 at born on April 26, 1809. Goshen, New Hampshire. In 1849, James was Their child was: apparently renting and living on 1) Rose Marie Phelps the old David Cook farm on the west side of 6L3R in Stratton. Morissy They apparently removed from Michael Morissy was born about Stratton at that time. 1861. He came to Stratton during The Morans returned to Stratton the late 1870s and worked for in the late 1870s, and lived at the E.W. Bowker at his sawmill. In home of their daughter and son- 1880, Michael was living with in-law, Mary Jane and Orrin Eddy Mr. Bowker and several other in Stratton. James died there on workers at the mill site. Mr. November 11, 1888, of Bright’s Bowker sold the mill to Joel F. disease, and Emma followed on Grout that year. Michael may July 22, 1896. have stayed and worked for Mr. Children of James and Emma: Grout, but he was no longer living 1) Mary Jane, born July 13, 1830, in Stratton by 1900. at Putney, Vermont; died March 10, 1911, at Stratton, Vermont; married Orrin Eddy Morse on May 12, 1850, at Putney, Jonathan Morse, son of Jedidiah Vermont. and Sarah (Child) Morse, was 2) Catherine E., married Thomas born in Woodstock, Connecticut, Lyman Williams on April 8, on April 30, 1750. Jonathan first 1847. settled at Woodstock, where he 3) Susan married Azubah Lyon, daughter 4) William H. (lived with of Benjamin, Jr. and Sarah Lyon, Thomas and Catherine on November 30, 1780. Azubah Williams in 1854 and attended was born on December 4, 1759. school in district #5 in Jonathan purchased the east Stratton). half of 7L3R (100 acres) and the 5) Newton M. south half of 8L3R (about 75 6) Denis acres) in Stratton on March 25, 7) Hattie A., born in 1845; 1824. This was the old Jonas married Emery S. Jones on Woodward farm, located more than a half mile west of what is

Stratton Families 335 now Mountain Rd. The Morses Children of Jonathan and Azubah: settled in Stratton at that time. 1) Chester, born May 12, 1781; On July 27, 1824, Jonathan also married Bridget Holwell in purchased the rights to the west 1806. half of the school lot (8L2R). 2) Charles, born February 28, Jonathan took the Freeman’s oath 1783, at Woodstock, in Stratton on November 11, Connecticut; married Sophia 1828. Gage on April 11, 1811. On April 28, 1827, Jonathan 3) Dolly, born November 12, deeded an undivided half of his 1784, at Woodstock, farm to his son, Jedidiah, then the Connecticut. following year, he mortgaged the 4) Sally, born November 24, farm through Harvey Lyon of 1786, at Woodstock, Woodstock. On March 22, 1829, Connecticut; married Perley Jonathan deeded his half of the Fox on March 22, 1808. farm to his daughters, Dolly and 5) Jedediah, born June 18, 1788, Nancy, with an agreement that at Woodstock, Connecticut; Dolly would care for her parents married Almira Kendall on for the remainder of their natural March 21, 1811. lives. Also in 1829, it appears 6) Lyman, born June 28, 1790, at that half of the farm was sold to Woodstock, Connecticut; John Fox, who then sold it to married Lucy Mascraft on June Baxter Lyon. The Lyons also 18, 1817. settled on this farm and 7) Polly, born July 21, 1792, at apparently lived in a separate Woodstock, Connecticut; house. married Nehemiah Fox on The 1830 census shows that September 3, 1812. Jonathan, Azubah, Dolly and 8) Walter, born October 24, 1794, Nancy were all living under the at Woodstock, Connecticut; same roof. That same year, there died January 19, 1844, at seemed to be some controversy in Wardsboro, Vermont; married the family. Jonathan’s son, Laura Taylor on May 3, 1827. Jedidiah, sued Jonathan for about 9) Nancy, born February 20, $200.00. Jedidiah won the suit 1797, at Woodstock, and he was awarded the rights to Connecticut; died July 7, 1802. the west half of 8L2R, which he 10) Abiel, born December 10, immediately sold. 1799, at Woodstock, Jonathan died on January 12, Connecticut; died in 1826 in 1835, and Azubah followed on Alabama (became a General). January 16, 1837. Following 11) Nancy, born September 16, Jonathan’s death, Dolly, Nancy 1803, at Woodstock, and Nancy’s husband, Elias Hale, Connecticut; married Elias sold the remainder of the farm to Hale on April 5, 1832, at Harvey Lyon. Stratton, Vermont.

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12) Lucy, born April 6, 1808, at 21, 1811. Almira was born on Woodstock, Connecticut; August 11, 1792, at Woodstock. married Walter Perrin on April Jedidiah probably came to 17, 1831. Stratton with his parents in 1824. 13) Henry Child, married Martha He took the Freeman’s oath in M. Child on November 18, Stratton on September 6, 1825. 1842. On April 28, 1827, Jedidiah purchased an undivided half of his Charles Morse, son of Jonathan father’s farm. He served as a and Azubah Morse, was born on Selectman of Stratton in 1829 and February 28, 1783, at Woodstock, 1830. Connecticut. Charles married In 1830, the Morse’s had a Sophia Gage, daughter of Moses boy aged 5 to 10 living with them. and Lucy Gage, on April 18, About that same time, Jedidiah 1811. They were not, however, sued his father over $200.00 and living in Stratton at the time of he was awarded the west half of the 1830 census1. Charles was 8L2R (the school lot). Jedidiah apparently a lawyer. If the sold this lot on August 23, 1830, Morses settled in Stratton, they and apparently left Stratton about didn’t stay long. that same time. Children of Charles and Sophia: Children of Jedidiah and Almira: 1) Joseph Jacobs, born April 27, 1) Sarah C., born January 4, 1812, at Woodstock, 1812, at Woodstock, Connecticut. Connecticut. 2) David Holmes, born January 2) Eliza E., born August 29, 2, 1815, at Woodstock, 1814, at Woodstock, Connecticut. Connecticut. 3) George, born February 2, 3) William, born December 22, 1817, at Woodstock, 1816, at Woodstock, Connecticut. Connecticut. 4) Lucy Ann, born September 8, 1821, at Woodstock, Walter Morse, son of Jonathan Connecticut. and Azubah Morse, was born on October 24, 1794, at Woodstock, Note: 1) The Charles Morse listed in the 1830 Connecticut. He came to Stratton census was apparently another with his parents about 1824 and gentleman who came to Stratton from took the Freeman’s oath on Somerset, Vermont - see below. September 6, 1825. Jedidiah Morse, son of Jonathan Walter married Laura Taylor, and Azubah Morse, was born on daughter of Ebenezer J. and Amy June 18, 1788, at Woodstock, Taylor of Wardsboro, Vermont, Connecticut. There, he married on May 2, 1827, at Stratton. Almira Kendall, daughter of Eli Laura was born on July 7, 1801, at and Tryphena Kendall, on March Wardsboro.

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The Morse’s settled in Their home evidently later Wardsboro, living in various became the Daniel Willis farm places near Wardsboro village. (see Beer’s Atlas of 1869). They also spent three years in In 1830, the Morses had three Jamaica, Vermont. sons and three daughters, all Walter died at his home in under ten, as well as a female Wardsboro on January 19, 1844, boarder, aged 20 to 30, living in and Laura died on June 26, 1848. their home. On March 29, 1833, They were buried in Fairview Charles sold this lot to the Cemetery in Wardsboro. Crowningshields and moved out Children of Walter and Laura: of Stratton. At this same time, the 1) Findley S., born March 9, Crowningshields mortgaged this 1829; married Abigail Rice on property through Eliot and Joseph May 11, 1855. Morse, who may have been 2) Abial T., born May 21, 1830; Charles’ sons or brothers. died January 23, 1885; married Children of Charles and Sally: Juliette Ramsdell on November 1) Mari, born March 3, 1828, at 1, 1856. Somerset, Vermont. 3) Edward S., born February 11, 2) George, born February 17, 1832; died May 28, 1904; 1830, at Stratton, Vermont. married 1) Philinda Haskins 2) Cola Johnson on November Morsman 28, 1889, at Wardsboro, (Morseman, Mossman, Mosman) Vermont. The Morsman name was a 4) Adeline corruption of the name 5) Hosea “Mossman” or “Mosman.” The 6) Sarah Morsmans of Stratton were 7) Mary children and grandchildren of

Additional Sources: Timothy Mosman of Sudbury, Return to Yesterday by CS Streeter Massachusetts, who married Martha Whitney on February 26, Charles Morse may have been a 1734/5. Martha was probably son of Elijah Morse (1758 - 1842) called Marcy or Mercy since this of Somerset, Vermont. He was was sometimes used on the birth apparently unrelated to Stratton’s records of her children. other Morse family. Children of Timothy and Martha Charles and his wife, Sally, included: were born during the 1790s. They 1) Anna, born November 8, 1735, came to Stratton from Somerset at Sudbury, Massachusetts. about 1829 and settled in Stratton 2) Samuel, born February 27, Gore at the end of what is now 1740, at Sudbury, Willis Cemetery Rd. Charles Massachusetts; married Anna purchased a 100-acre farm in Keyes on October 30, 1769, at Stratton Gore from Joshua Princeton, Massachusetts. Sprague on March 14, 1829.

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3) Martha, born May 19, 1742, at Next, Timothy served as a Sudbury, Massachusetts; lieutenant in Captain Guild’s married Reuben Parmenter on Company, Colonel Whitney’s April 5, 1768, at Princeton, Regiment, stationed at Camp Hull Massachusetts. from April 11 to November 1, 4) Timothy, born February 26, 1776, and he was commissioned a 1744/5, at Sudbury, 2nd lieutenant on September 7, Massachusetts; married Lucy 1776. He returned home briefly, Bond in 1765. then served again from January 1, 5) William, born March 20, 1777, to July 12, 1778, in Captain 1746/7, at Sudbury, Redding’s Company of Colonel Massachusetts; married Sarah Bradford’s Regiment. Timothy Nurse (intent published on was listed among the March 30, 1768) (They lived commissioned officers at White at Princeton, Massachusetts). Plains, New York, just prior to his 6) Abel, born February 15, discharge. Throughout the war, 1748/9, at Sudbury, he had served within the same Massachusetts. units as had his brother, Oliver. 7) Olive, born January 18, Following the war, Timothy 1751/2, at Sudbury, made his home in Worcester, Massachusetts. Massachusetts. On December 26, 8) Oliver, born January 19, 1760; 1781, Timothy bought 1L4R in married Dolly Trowbridge. the uninhabited town of Stratton, from David Thayer, a land Timothy Morsman, Jr., son of speculator. Timothy decided that Timothy and Martha Mosman, he would settle in Stratton, and was born on February 26, 1744, in so, he went into the wilderness Sudbury, Massachusetts. He with his brother, Oliver, and John married Lucy Bond on October Blood in the summer of 1783. 29, 1772, at Weston, Timothy had the honor of being Massachusetts. Stratton’s first settler. He pitched Timothy “was a rough and a tent near the south line of the ready, though kind hearted man.” town, not far from Grout Pond (as He lived at Bolton, Massachusetts, it is know today) and began to before the American Revolution. clear his land. This location was During the war, Timothy first apparently in 1L4R. On October served as a sergeant in Captain 8, 1783, Timothy sold the east Hastings’s Company, Colonel half of this lot to his brother, Whitcomb’s Regiment, which Oliver. In this deed he was called marched on the alarm of April 19, Timothy, Jr. and his parents, 1775, to Cambridge, Timothy and Martha were Massachusetts, serving eight days witnesses. at that time, then immediately re- On November 5, 1784, enlisting for three months. Timothy sold the west half of Timothy served until August. 1L4R to Edmund Gibbs.

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Although, it is not clear where he building dwellings on each parcel lived in Stratton after 1784, he did before selling them off for a profit. remain in Stratton and sold He may have lived this way in several lots in town over the next Stratton for those first few years. few years. Timothy was among the first In September, 1784, the Selectmen of Stratton - elected in Proprietors of Stratton rewarded 1788. He was called “of Stratton” Timothy and his brother, Oliver, when he sold his lands in Stratton for being Stratton’s first settlers Gore in 1798. He and Lucy left by giving them the lots originally town by 1800. set aside for the Church of Timothy, Lucy, and their England. Timothy received family were warned out of 6L5R. Sunderland, Vermont, on March On June 19, 1785, Timothy, 20, 1805, and again on March 16, along with his brother Oliver, and 1807. Jonathan Phillips, petitioned the The Morsman’s returned to General Court of Vermont to Stratton by 1809. Upon their grant them and the town of return, the town’s Selectmen Stratton a parcel of land known as warned them out and the warning Stratton Gore, (a strip of land was issued on March 3, 1809 (see along Stratton’s southern border). Stratton’s Warnings to Depart). This request was evidently They left Stratton once more and granted to the Morsmans and settled in Steuben County, New others in the town. It was York. Timothy died there in July, annexed to Stratton in 1799. 1826. Timothy evidently was granted Children of Timothy and Lucy: 800 acres of the western part of 1) Mary “Polly,” married Jonas Stratton Gore that he later sold in Woodward on September 15, 1798. 1791, at Stratton, Vermont On October 8, 1787, Timothy (the first marriage in Stratton). bought an additional 150 acres in 3L6R from Nathan Patch. In this The following may have been record, Grout Pond was referred their children: to as “Dr. Harvey’s Pond.” In 2) William 1788, Timothy purchased the 4th 3) Timothy, married Polly (?). lot in Stratton Gore and the 4) John, married Anna Parmenter following year, he sold the (intent published on April 2, westerly half of this lot and the 1798, at Princeton, easterly half of lot 5 (later seen as Massachusetts). #16) to Jacob Stevens of Newfane. This lot contained a log cabin and William Morsman was voted a it was probably Timothy’s home highway surveyor of Stratton in at that time. This may be an March, 1795. He was probably a indication that Timothy was busy son of Timothy and Lucy buying land, clearing it and Morsman.

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William purchased the east 1) Abraham, born October 27, half of 4L5R on December 13, 1770, at Princeton, 1797, from Jared Blood, then sold Massachusetts. this lot to Thomas Williams on 2) Samuel, born March 23, 1772, May 19, 1798. He apparently left at Princeton, Massachusetts. Stratton at that time. This lot was 3) Asaph, born January 12, 1774, located west of what later became at Princeton, Massachusetts. the Town Common. 4) Lucy, born December 6, 1775, at Princeton, Massachusetts. Timothy Morsman and Polly, his wife, were admitted into the Oliver Morsman, son of Timothy Church of Christ in Stratton on and Martha Mosman, was born on February 2, 1812. This Timothy January 19, 1760, probably at may have been a son of Timothy Sudbury, Massachusetts, and and Lucy Morsman. married Dolly Trowbridge, daughter of James and Mary John Morsman was probably a (Kelley) Trowbridge in 1783. son of Timothy and Lucy Oliver spent his early years in Morsman. He was listed in the Princeton, Massachusetts. Vital Records of Princeton, During the American Massachusetts. An intention of Revolution, Oliver was a private marriage was recorded there in Captain Sargent’s Company of between John Mosman (late of Militia, which marched on April Stratton) and Anna Parmenter on 20, 1775, to Cambridge, April 2, 1798. Anna, a daughter Massachusetts, serving 7 days. of Reuben and Martha (Mosman) He immediately enlisted on April Parmenter, was born on 27, 1775, into Captain Hastings’s September 16, 1779, at Princeton, Company, Colonel Whitcomb’s and she was evidently John’s Regiment and he served for 3 cousin. months and 13 days. Oliver later was in Captain Guild’s Company Samuel Morsman, son of of Colonel Whitney’s Regiment, Timothy and Martha Mosman, stationed at Camp Hull from June was born on February 27, 1740, at to November, 1776. Oliver then Sudbury, Massachusetts. Samuel joined the Continental Army, married Anna Keyes on October Captain Redding’s Company of 30, 1769, at Princeton, Colonel Bradford’s Regiment for Massachusetts. three years, beginning on The Morsmans were living in November 7, 1777. During most Westminster, Massachusetts, of his military services, Oliver when Samuel bought the east half belonged to the same company as of 5L5R from Oliver Morsman on did his older brother Timothy, October 25, 1784. Samuel who was among the officers. probably never lived in Stratton. After his discharge from the Children of Samuel and Anna: army, Oliver lived at Ward,

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Massachusetts, then bought 5L4R Stratton after that sale. Later, in in Stratton, from Paul Thurston, a 1790, a road was built between his land speculator, on September 21, home and the northeast corner of 1782. Oliver was among the first town. This road apparently came group of settlers brought into the out in the east half of 5L4R. town by John Blood in the Therefore, Oliver apparently had summer of 1783. built a second dwelling there and Oliver cleared his land and he may have lived there, briefly. built a home on the west half of It is also possible that he remained his lot. This was located at the in his old home after it was sold, end of what is now Shepardson since the buyer, Nathan Patch, did Rd. and it was along the first road not settle in Stratton at that time. cut into Stratton. Oliver sold this It seems more likely that Oliver lot to Nathan Patch on October 2, built the dwelling on the east half 1787. Although, Oliver had of 5L4R with the intention to sell settled in Stratton in 1783 and it and not to occupy it. The after that time he was said to be of following year, Oliver sold this lot Stratton, a deed dated February to Nathan Patch, then moved from 16, 1784, calls him Oliver town. This dwelling later was Morsman of Chesterfield, New owned and occupied by the Hampshire. It is possible that he Batchellor family. It was located wintered there after building in at the end of what is now the summer of 1783, or perhaps Shepardson Rd., beside the gate his home in Stratton was not that now exists there. finished that first year. Oliver The Proprietors’ meeting of was probably largely responsible 1786 and the first Town Meeting for recruiting the settlers that held on May 31, 1788, took place began to arrive in Stratton from in Oliver’s home. that area. Over the next few On May 8, 1789, Oliver sold years, Oliver bought and sold the last of his property in Stratton several parcels in Stratton. - the east half of the first lot in The Propriety awarded Oliver Stratton Gore and half of 3L9R. and his brother, Timothy, the lots At that time, he was living in that had been set aside for the Chesterfield, New Hampshire. Church of England, for being Oliver died on April 30, 1835. Stratton’s first settlers. This took place in September, 1784, and Moulton Oliver received 3L9R. Nathaniel Moulton, son of It appears that Oliver may Nathaniel and Anna (Kimball) have built a dwelling on the east Moulton of Hopkinton, half of 5L4R, before moving from Massachusetts, was born on Stratton. Oliver sold off the west October 10, 1765. Nathaniel half of this lot, which contained published an intent of marriage to his first home, in October, 1787; Betsey Grant, daughter of Robert however, he continued to reside in and Anna Grant, on December 18,

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1787, at Hopkinton and they were Dana Moulton was probably a married soon afterward. Betsey son of Nathaniel Moulton. Dana was born on June 16, 1767, at purchased a farm in Stratton Gore Medway, Massachusetts. She was from Nathaniel Moulton on a sister of Nevinson and Joshua November 23, 1810. Dana settled Grant and a half-sister of William in Worcester, New York, before G. Pike and Jotham Pike, all of October, 1813. At that time, he Stratton. Nathaniel’s sister, sold his land in Stratton to Sarah, had married Nevinson William G. Pike. Grant. The Moultons settled in Moultrip Stratton Gore between 1791 and Alford Moultrip and his first 1795. Their home was located on wife were born between 1810 and the west half of Lot #1 in Stratton 1820. They were living in Gore. There home most likely Stratton by 1840 and had a son was on the site west of the sharp born between 1835 and 1840. curve in what is now Willis Evidently, Alford’s first wife Cemetery Rd.. The land directly passed away and Alford then east of Willis Cemetery was called married Mary Ann Hudson, the Moulton farm. daughter of Benjamin and Sarah In 1800 and 1810, the Hudson, on June 17, 1846, at Moultons had four children living Stratton. Alford owned no land in at home. Nathaniel was Stratton’s Stratton. The Moultrips had constable from 1808 to 1811. moved away before 1850. The Moultons moved away from Stratton by 1812. That year Bradford Moultrip, Jr., son of William G. Pike purchased their Bradford Moultrip, was born in farm at a tax-sale. 1814 at Westminster, Vermont. Their children were probably: Bradford’s father apparently had 1) Betsey, born December 21, purchased 9L3R in Stratton back 1797, at Stratton, Vermont. in 1839, but he never settled in 2) Anna G., born March 14, Stratton. 1802, at Stratton, Vermont. Bradford, Jr. settled in 3) Dana Rockingham, Vermont, where he 4) Marshall (mentioned in land was a farmer. His second wife records in 1819) was Charlotte Gardens, whom he 5) Francis G., born May 19, married on November 8, 1859, at 1809, at Stratton, Vermont; Putney, Vermont. The Moultrips died August 27, 1881, at came to Stratton from Wardsboro, Vermont; married Westminster, Vermont, by 1862, Polly Gould on September 25, then removed to Putney by 1865. 1830, at Holliston, A child of Bradford by his first Massachusetts (His taxes were wife was: abated in Stratton on March 7, 1836). 1) Willard S., born about 1842; married Mary Ann Shelley on

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June 30, 1860, at Putney, The Mundells settled in Vermont. Stratton during the 1850s. In 1870, Addie Day, aged 20, was Children of Bradford and living with them. Addie was very Charlotte were: likely their oldest daughter, who 2) Ellen (attended school #5 in had been married but returned to Stratton in 1864). live with her parents. 3) William Bradford, born July 5, The Mundells had moved 1862, at Stratton, Vermont. away from Stratton by 1880. 4) Asahel (twin), born March 30, Children of Joseph and Laura: 1865, at Westminster, 1) Laura Addie, born in 1850; Vermont; died July 8, 1865, at married (?) Day. Westminster, Vermont. 2) Joseph (Warren?), born in 5) Ansel (twin), born March 31, 1851. 1865, at Westminster, 3) Martha, born in 1856; married Vermont; died July 28, 1865, (?) Cooley. at Putney, Vermont. 4) John, born in 1859. 5) Dwight, born December 22, Stephen M. Moultrip, son of 1861, at Stratton, Vermont; Stephen Moultrip, was born about died November 11, 1863, at 1812 at Westminster, Vermont. Stratton, Vermont (of He and NJ Shaw, together leased diphtheria). 3L8R and 3L9R on March 7, 6) Hattie, born in 1869, at 1842. They were in the logging Stratton, Vermont. business. Stephen settled in 7) Stella Nora, born September Stratton, but sold his share of the 15, 1871, at Stratton, logging operation to Shaw the Vermont; married (?) Groves. next year. Stephen evidently removed from Stratton at that Franklin Squire Mundell, son of time. Daniel and Mary Mundell, was Stephen married Mary M. Joy born about 1853 at Jamaica, on November 16, 1858, at Putney, Vermont. He married Emma Vermont. The marriage record Lucy Edwards, daughter of Henry states that he was a carpenter. W. and Rhoda Edwards, on July 3, 1875, at Jamaica, Vermont. Mundell Emma was born in 1857 at Dover, Joseph Mundell was born about Vermont. In 1880, they were 1827 at Warren, Massachusetts. living in the home of Emma’s He married Laura Bourn, parents. Franklin built a new daughter of Winslow and Almena home in Stratton about 1884 in (Ingram) Bourn, on June 24, the vicinity of the Canedy Rd. – 1849, at Jamaica, Vermont. West Jamaica Rd. intersection. Laura was born on February 13, The Mundells were no longer in 1834, at Jamaica. Stratton by 1900.

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They had a total of seven children. about 1917. This was the CN Those that are known were: Pike farm. The Neamenens were 1) Rosa Emma, born June 28, probably Finnish immigrants. 1876, at Stratton, Vermont. They settled in Stratton on this 2) Jennie A., born in 1879. property, but remained only a 3) Franklin Allie, born October short time. They sold this parcel 25, 1880, at Stratton, to Karl Lauren in 1919 and left Vermont; died November 14, Stratton. 1969. 4) George Delbert, born August Newhall 1, 1883, at Stratton, Vermont; (Newale or Newell) married Clara May Knapp on Hiram Newhall, Esq., son of May 15, 1912, at Newfane, Jonathan and Hannah (Converse) Vermont. Newhall, was born on February 21, 1738, at Leicester, William Mundell of Townshend, Massachusetts. He married Mary Vermont, married Mary A. Blair, Seaver, following an intent that daughter of Benjamin and Olive was published on October 21, Blair of Bennington, Vermont, on 1761, at Leicester, Massachusetts, September 23, 1850, at Stratton. and they were married on January Mary was born on February 23, 21, 1762. Mary passed away on 1832, at Brookfield, February 5, 1769, at Leicester, Massachusetts. William passed and Hiram then married Sarah away about 1860 and Mary died Hasey on October 19, 1769, at on May 29, 1910. Leicester. A child of William was: About 1771, the Newhalls 1) James R., born March 8, 1857, resettled in Athol, Massachusetts. at Putney, Vermont; died Sarah died there on June 24, December 2, 1918; married 1778. Hiram married a third time Grace Thomas. to Jerusha Hallay, following an

Additional Sources: intent published on November 1, Notes of George Lindsey in the Brooks 1779, at Athol. Jerusha was born Memorial Library, Brattleboro, Vermont about 1757. Hiram purchased most of N 1L4R in Stratton through three purchases in early 1802. He was probably living in Stratton Gore Neamenen with his son, Joshua at that time, Mauri Neamenen and his wife, since Hiram was called “of Annie, were residents of New Stratton” when he made those York, New York, when they purchases. The Newhalls came to purchased a parcel of land in Stratton from Athol among a Stratton in 12L1R on the group of relatives and friends that southwest corner of the North Rd. included the Spragues, Robbins, – Pikes Falls Rd. intersection Olivers, Youngs and possibly the

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Grants. Hiram sold 1L4R to 10) Lois, born September 28, George Oliver in November, 1787, at Athol, Massachusetts. 1802. The Newells may have 11) Olive, born November 18, settled into a house on 4L5R after 1789, at Athol, Massachusetts; that time. Hiram and Jerusha died June 13, 1795, at Athol, probably returned to Athol in Massachusetts. early 1806, along with their son, 12) Lucy, born March 3, 1792, at Joshua. Athol, Massachusetts; died Jerusha died at Athol on October 11, 1793. September 16, 1807, at the age of 13) Olive, born February 16, 1797, 50. Hiram died there on at Athol, Massachusetts. September 21, 1816, aged 78 14) Samuel, born November 26, years. 1800, at Athol, Massachusetts. Children of Hiram and Mary: 1) Hiram, born May 11, 1764, at Joshua Newhall, son of Hiram Leicester, Massachusetts; and Sarah Newhall, was born on evidently died young. July 3, 1770, at Leicester, 2) Mary, born June 28, 1768, at Massachusetts. He purchased 15 Leicester, Massachusetts; died acres of the west half of 1L4R in June 5, 1832; married Hasey Stratton in July, 1799, then in Floyd Sprague on May 8, March, 1800, he and Joshua 1788, at Athol, Massachusetts. Robbins together purchased the east half of 1L4R. Children of Hiram and Sarah: Joshua was not listed in 3) Joshua, born July 3, 1770, at Stratton’s 1800 census; however, Leicester, Massachusetts. by March, 1802, he and his wife, 4) Jonathan, born September 12, Polly, had settled in Stratton. At 1772, at Athol, Massachusetts. that time, Joshua purchased part 5) Sarah, born November 13, of lot #2 in Stratton Gore, located 1774, at Athol, Massachusetts. west of Willis Cemetery and 6) Jerusha, born July 5, 1776, at beyond what was later the Daniel Athol, Massachusetts. Willis farm (see D. Willis on Beer’s Atlas of 1869) and south of Children of Hiram and Jerusha: the convergence of the Somerset 7) Hiram, born September 16, Rd. and the Gore Rd.. Joshua 1780, at Athol, Massachusetts; evidently settled there. Joshua died June 4, 1795, at Athol, sold part of this lot to George Massachusetts. Oliver on July 12, 1803. Later, 8) William, born June 10, 1783, Hasey Sprague lived there. at Athol, Massachusetts; In December 1805, Joshua married Clarissa Phillips on sold the remainder of his farm in January 10, 1807, at Athol, the Gore to Hasey Sprague, then Massachusetts. purchased 30 acres from Sprague 9) Hannah, born August 29, in 2L4R. Shortly after that 1785, at Athol, Massachusetts. exchange, Joshua moved back to

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Athol. Joshua bought and sold had purchased from Joshua other lots in Stratton over the next Robbins in 1813. several years. He sold the last of On October 3, 1813, Clarissa his Stratton lands to James was accepted as a member of the Ballard in 1813. Church of Christ in Stratton. The A child of Joshua and Polly was: Church Clerk recorded “Clarissa 1) Chancey, born August 25, wife to William Newhall removed 1801, (Athol’s VRs indicates Stratton, her church relation from this Vermont). place to Athol by letter October 12, 1817”. It appears that the William Newhall, son of Hiram Newhalls left Stratton at that time. and Jerusha (Hasey) Newhall, was Their children were: born at Athol, Massachusetts, on 1) (a daughter) June 10, 1783. He was living in 2) Cyrus, born December 11, Athol in 1805, when he purchased 1810, at Stratton, Vermont. the west half of 1L3R in Stratton. 3) Mary, born September 3, 1812, William married Clarissa at Stratton, Vermont. Phillips on January 18, 1807, at 4) Thomas (baptized in Stratton Athol. At that time, William was on September 11, 1814). living in Vernon, Vermont. Clarissa was born about 1787. Daniel Newhall apparently settled The Newhalls were called “of in Stratton about 1802. He Vernon” in a deed in June, 1809. purchased half the rights to By June 2, 1810, William had Hawkes and Wetherbee’s sawmill settled in Stratton and that day on the Deerfield River on purchased 30 acres of 2L4R. The September 17, 1802. This mill Newhalls apparently settled on later became the site of the Grout this lot and their home was Job. Daniel also signed a petition probably located southwest of requesting a tax to pay for roads what is now the intersection of the in Stratton dated May 31, 1802. West Jamaica Rd. and the He was no longer in Stratton in Stratton-Arlington Rd.. The 1810 1810 and probably had moved census shows that they had a away several years earlier. daughter under the age of ten living with them. On January 17, Newman 1811, the Newhalls were warned David Newman of Marlboro, out of town by Stratton’s Vermont, and his wife came to Selectmen. Stratton about 1818. On William bought and sold September 10, 1818, David several lots while in Stratton. He purchased from Jacob Batchellor, was also Stratton’s Constable and five acres which included a Collector and, therefore, sold sawmill and gristmill, located in many lots at tax-sales for the 4L1R and 5L1R, along what is town. He probably settled on one now called Ball Mountain Brook. of the small lots in 4L5R that he They lived just above the mill, on

Stratton Families 347 the north side of the brook (The passed away or they were Warren house was built over the divorced. old foundation). David evidently Lestina married Charles operated the mills for the next few sometime between 1877 and 1880. years. When she married Charles, she In 1820, David was over 45 already had eight children (see and his wife was between 26 and George Williams). The census of 45. They had four sons and three 1880 shows Lestina as Charles’s daughters. On October 5, 1821, wife and the children were called David sold the mill back to Jacob his children. Charles and Lestina Batchellor, then evidently moved were no longer in Stratton in away from Stratton soon 1900. thereafter. One of Charles’s children by his first wife was: Newton 1) Charles M., born about 1839; William Newton resided in married Sarah A. Richmond. Stratton Gore in 1799. At that time, he signed a petition Charles M. Nichols, Jr., son of requesting that Stratton Gore be Charles Nichols, was born about annexed to Stratton. William 1839 at Vernon, Vermont. lived in Newfane when he Charles married Sarah A. purchased and mortgaged this Richmond of Ashfield, 100-acre lot, located on the west Massachusetts, daughter of Electa side of the East Branch of the Richmond. Sarah was born about Deerfield River. He apparently 1845. Her mother, Electa, born was not living there in 1800, since about 1801, was living with he was not listed in Stratton’s Charles and Sarah in 1880. census of that year. The mortgage The Nichols settled in was paid in 1807. Stratton during the 1870s, but they had moved away before 1900. Children of Charles and Sarah: Nichols 1) Nellie A., born about 1865. Charles M. Nichols was born in 2) Freddie M., born about 1873. 1815. He probably came from 3) Bertha Estelle, born August Vernon, Vermont, settling in 13, 1877, at Stratton, Stratton during the late 1870s. Vermont. His first wife evidently passed away sometime before 1865. Charles then married Lestina M. Nicholson (Grout) Williams, daughter of Elsworth Nicholson was born Pliny and Susan Grout. Lestina about 1908 at Winhall, Vermont. was born on November 18, 1843, He married Marion Ardery at Somerset, Vermont. She had Dreyden who was born about married George Williams on 1917 at Londonderry, Vermont. January 17, 1864. George either Elsworth was a lumberman living in Stratton in 1941.

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A child of Elsworth and Marion: renamed the child Rhoda, after 1) Janice Marie, born June 17, her deceased mother. 1941, at Brattleboro, Vermont. George purchased 110 acres of the western end of Stratton Nutt Gore in December, 1801. In (Nott) 1802, he purchased the west half Asahel Washburn Nutt was born of 1L3R and all of 1L4R. The on May 23, 1808, at Barnard, Olivers came to Stratton between Vermont. He studied to become a November, 1802, and June, 1803. minister of the Congregational They apparently settled in 1L4R. Church under the Reverend J. If that was the case, then their Parsons, and he was ordained on home was located along the old June 14, 1837. road that progressed across this During his career, Asahel lot from the Town Common to ministered to the Vermont towns Stratton Gore. Over the next of Winhall, Weston, several years, George bought and Brownington, Stratton, and sold several parcels surrounding Arlington. Asahel was Stratton’s his farm. Congregational Minister from George was referred to as 1846 to 1849. He evidently lived Esquire in some instances – this at Stratton only during that time. probably meant that he was a Asahel died at Rockingham, Justice of the Peace. A Somerset, Vermont, on May 30, 1864. Vermont, deed indicated that he resided in Dorchester, Additional Sources: Massachusetts, in 1805. If so, he The Congregational Churches of Vermont remained there only briefly before and Their Ministers 1762 - 1914 returning to Stratton. In 1810, the

census shows that the Olivers had O three sons and a daughter. The Olivers removed from Stratton between December 18, Oliver 1810, and February 1, 1811, George Oliver, son of Aaron and returning to Athol. Rhoda died Lucy (Smith) Oliver, was born at there on August 14, 1815, and Athol, Massachusetts, on April 2, George remarried there to 1776. He married Rhoda Young, Deborah White of Warrick, daughter of Samuel and Rhoda Massachusetts. They published (Haven) Young, there on an intent to marry on August 8, November 28, 1799. Rhoda was 1818. Deborah was born in 1779 born on February 7, 1777. She and died at Athol in 1830. was first named Lydia; however, George sold the last of his when her mother, Rhoda, passed Stratton holdings in 1820 to away on September 10, 1777, her Hasey Sprague. George died at father, Samuel, decided to Athol in 1842. Children of George and Rhoda:

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1) Hepsibah, born January 7, The Olivers sold their farm 1801, at Athol, Massachusetts. on March 13, 1807, but remained 2) Cornwell, born October 13, in Stratton briefly. Calvin took 1802, at Athol, Massachusetts; the Freeman’s oath on September died December 26, 1804. 6, 1808. Before 1810, the Olivers 3) Samuel Cornwell, born June 6, evidently had returned to Athol. 1806, at (Athol VRs indicate Calvin died there on January 29, Stratton, Vermont). 1824. 4) George, born September 4, Children of Calvin and Dolly: 1808, at Stratton, Vermont. 1) Moses Warren, born 5) Nathaniel Young, born June 8, September 21, 1805, at 1810, at Stratton, Vermont. Gardner, Massachusetts; 6) Charles, born November 29, married Betsey Fisher (intent 1812, at Athol, Massachusetts. published September 19, 1829, at Athol, Massachusetts). Caleb Oliver, son of Aaron and 2) Sally, born August 28, 1808, at Lucy (Smith) Oliver, was born at Stratton, Vermont. Athol, Massachusetts, on April 21, 1780. Caleb purchased 80 John Oliver was already a acres of the south part of the west resident of Stratton on December half of 1L3R from his brother, 19, 1802, when he purchased the George, on September 1, 1802. west half of 3L5R in Stratton. He Caleb apparently briefly settled on remained in Stratton through this lot before selling it back to November 5, 1804, then George on May 12, 1804. Caleb apparently removed from town. probably moved away from Stratton at that same time. Ostigney Leon A. Ostigney was born about Calvin Humphery Oliver, son of 1892 in Canada. In 1920, he was Moses and Lois (Wiswell) a lumberman, working in Stratton (Humphery) Oliver, was born on and living in the boarding house August 17, 1781. He was a cousin at the Grout Job. He was married of George Oliver, above. at the time, but his wife was not Calvin married Dolly Wood with him. on March 26, 1805, at Athol, Massachusetts. They were living in Gardner, Massachusetts, after P the marriage, when Calvin purchased 48 acres of the north end of 1L4R in Stratton on April Packard 2, 1805. The Olivers settled there Joseph Packard, son of Robert soon after and on June 28, 1806, and Elizabeth (Hudson) Packard, they were warned out of town by was born on March 25, 1790. Stratton’s Selectmen. Joseph married Persis Howe, daughter of Otis and Lucy

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(Goodale) Howe, on December 9, 3) Mary H., born December 15, 1815. Persis was born on May 4, 1820; married Benjamin F. 1793. At the time of this Gillett. marriage, Joseph was from 4) James A., born February 6, Stockbridge, Vermont. After the 1823. marriage, they lived at 5) Charles, born March 29, 1825. Westmoreland, New Hampshire. 6) Luther H., born June 22, 1827. On January 22, 1841, Joseph 7) Lucy A., born September 25, was called of Washington, New 1829. Hampshire, when he purchased 8) Charles Otis, born November half of the west half of 5L4R from 4, 1835. John Cummings of Washington. The Packards settled on this lot Joseph Packard, son of Joseph soon after the purchase. Their and Persis Packard, was born on home was located west of what is December 18, 1816. Joseph’s now the gate at the end of wife, Asenath Howe, was born Shepardson Rd., and may have about 1814. been the same house first occupied The Packards settled in by Oliver Morsman. Stratton about 1842, not long after In 1842, Joseph sold this lot Joseph’s parents had settled in to his daughter, Mary, however, Stratton. On July 14, 1842, Joseph and Persis continued to Joseph purchased 30 acres on the live there. Over the next few east side of 5L5R. This was years, this land was sold back and adjacent to Joseph Packard, Sr.’s forth among the Packards’ farm. The old foundation of their children, most of whom resided in home is still visible along the trail Lowell, Massachusetts. that leads west from the end of In 1847, Austin Gillett (their Shepardson Rd. and west of the grandson) was living with them remains of Joseph’s father’s farm. and attending school in district #2 In 1843, they kept their property in Stratton. In 1850, Joseph was in Stratton, but apparently moved head of a household in Stratton out of town. At that time, they with Nathaniel and Julia Shaw were living in Somerset, Vermont, and Carlos Knapp living with and in 1844, they were in him. Hillsborough, New Hampshire. Joseph was living in Jamaica, By 1844, the Packards had Vermont, by 1853, when he sold returned to Stratton. In 1849, the last of his property in Stratton. Joseph purchased the northwest Persis died on July 30, 1864, and part of 1L5R, selling their home Joseph died about 1871. on 5L5R to Ezra Willis. At that Children of Joseph and Persis: time, they moved into the old 1) Joseph, born December 18, Phillips’ farm, located on the west 1816; married Asenath Howe. half of 4L3R on the northeast 2) Emeline, born September 25, corner of what is now the 1818.

Stratton Families 351 intersection of the West Jamaica Rd. and Ball Farm Rd.. The Packards remained in Stratton until 1856, then resettled in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, where they remained at least until 1876. Children of Joseph and Asenath: 1) Mary Jane, born May 10, 1843, at Somerset, Vermont. 2) Melinda Ophelia, born September 22, 1844, at Hillsborough, New Hampshire. 3) Andrew Jackson, born May 10, 1847, at Stratton, Vermont. Stratton's last resident minister 4) Albert, born January 20, 1850, Orlando and Harriet Palmer at Stratton, Vermont. wedding portrait - 1886. Additional Sources: The Howe Genealogy - John - by Daniel The Palmers settled in Wait Howe 1929 Stratton in the summer of 1890. Orlando was the pastor of Page Stratton’s Free-Will Baptist John Page and his wife were born Church, the last person to fill that between 1765 and 1784. John position. The Palmers home was was said to be “of Stratton” when on the Stratton-Arlington Rd., in he purchased rights to farm the the house called the parsonage on west half of the school lot - 8L2R 3L4R, located directly across the - in Stratton on December 26, road from the West Jamaica Rd. 1808. On April 26, 1809, John intersection. sold these rights to Jonas Orlando held many of the Woodward; however, the Pages town’s offices while he lived in remained in Stratton and were Stratton. He was Stratton’s town recorded in Stratton’s 1810 clerk from 1893 - 1903, treasurer census. At that time, they had and superintendent of schools for three daughters all under the age several years, and also Stratton’s of ten. By 1820, the Pages had Postmaster from November 21, moved away from Stratton. 1898, to January 5, 1903. The Palmers left Stratton in 1903. The church no longer had a Palmer pastor once he left, and so local Orlando H. Palmer was born in weddings abruptly stopped after Stephentown, New York, on April 1903. The Palmers went to North 1, 1854. He married Harriet A. River, New York, where Orlando Saxby of Sand Lake, New York, was pastor of the local church. in 1886. Hattie, as she was called, was born on January 25, 1851.

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died in 1930; married (?) Dufty. 6) Charles Glendon, born February 19, 1899, at Stratton, Vermont; died June 19, 1939 (He was adopted by the Finch family following his father’s death).

Additional Sources: Notes of Frank P. Pelletier

Frank Morris Palmer, son of Morris and Clyde (Sibley) Palmer, was born in Patten, Maine, in Chloe, Mary, Lucy and Rachel 1916. He settled in Stratton and Palmer worked as a lumberman. Frank married Irene Minnie Photo courtesy of Frank Pelletier of Thomas, daughter of Irving and Allentown, Pennsylvania. Minnie Thomas, on July 11, 1940, Orlando died in July, 1904, at Brattleboro, Vermont. Irene and Hattie followed in January, was born on April 13, 1922, at 1907. They were buried in North Wilmington, Vermont. She died River Cemetery there. on March 13, 1996, at Children of Orlando and Hattie: Townshend, Vermont.

1) Mary E., born June 21, 1887, Additional Sources: in Stephentown, New York; Notes of Arleen (Thomas) Huesman died March 10, 1982; married Claude Richardson. Paine 2) Chloe R., born September 27, Joseph Paine and his wife, 1888, in Stephentown, New Rebecca, apparently settled in York; died December 8, 1967; Stratton just after 1820. It is also married David Johnson. possible that Rebecca came to 3) Rachel M., born March 31, Stratton alone and lived with 1890, in Stephentown, New relatives there before 1820. York; died February 2, 1984; Rebecca was born about 1750. married Marshall Zufelt on She died on May 1, 1825, and was November 23, 1909, at buried in Ball Cemetery. Her Minerva, New York. stone is the oldest existing stone 4) Robert Henry, born August 22, in the cemetery. 1891, at Stratton, Vermont;

died in 1926; married Dorothea (?). Parker 5) Lucy Elmina, born April 30, Charles L. Parker was born in 1893, at Stratton, Vermont; July, 1883, in Massachusetts. In 1900, he was living in Stratton in

Stratton Families 353 the home of Franklin and Albina recorded June 13, 1776, at Point Fish, who were probably related to Shirley. A second record from Charles in some way. Charles Oxford lists Amos as a private in was no longer in Stratton in 1910. Captain Jesse Stone’s Company, Colonel Job Cushing’s Regiment, Parmentor who marched to Bennington on Martha Parmentor1 was possibly June 27, 1777, and he was a daughter of Samuel Parmentor, discharged August 29, 1777, who had purchased half of 10L8R serving one month, nine days. A in 1794. Although, there was no third record had Amos mustering record that Samuel actually settle with Thomas Newhall - Muster in Stratton, Martha was called “of Master of Worcester County, on Stratton” when the town November 28, 1777, in Captain published an intention of marriage Brown’s Company, Colonel between her and Samuel Whitney Bigelow’s Regiment. The fourth of Jamaica, Vermont, on August record lists Amos among men 12, 1798, at Stratton. There were raised from Colonel Denny’s no Parmentors listed in Stratton’s Regiment for service at Rhode censuses in either 1791 nor 1800, Island, with Captain Starr’s so they must have moved in and Company, engaged for Ward, out of town during the 1790s, or it Massachusetts, on July 1 is possible that Martha was living (probably 1778). The last record in a household headed by someone was of a Private Amos Parsons in with a different surname. a detachment from Captain Daniel Grout’s Company, commanded by Notes: Lieutenant Thomas Parker, in 1) There may be a connection between Colonel John Rand’s Regiment, Martha and Anna Parmenter, who married John Morsman of Princeton, enlisting July 24, 1780. He Massachusetts (late of Stratton) intent marched to Claverack and he was published April 2, 1798. discharged on October 9, 1780, at

West Point, New York. Parsons Following his military (Persons) services, Amos married Abigail Amos Parsons was probably the Parker of Oxford on July 5, 1781, same born on August 24, 1759, at at Ward, Massachusetts. The Rowley, Massachusetts, a son of Parsons evidently settled in Ward Amos and Joanna (Hammond) (now called Auburn), then Parsons, who later lived at Sutton, resettled in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Massachusetts. Amos served Massachusetts In his latter years, Amos during the American Revolution. evidently came to Stratton, with He was probably the same Amos his son, Amos, Jr. and family. Parsons of Oxford, Massachusetts, Amos was listed as a who served in Captain Jonathan Revolutionary War pensioner on Carriel’s Company, Colonel Stratton’s census of 1840 at the Josiah Whitney’s Regiment -

Stratton Families 354 age of 81 and he was called Massachusetts; died July 25, Captain Parsons at the time of his 1887, at Stratton, Vermont. death. Amos made a will on May 2) Elisha, born February 14, 9, 1841, and died at Stratton on 1812, at Greenfield, June 7, 1847. Amos was buried in Massachusetts. Ball Cemetery. 3) Orrin, born October 10, 1816, Children of Amos and Abigail: at Greenfield, Massachusetts; 1) Bettie, born June 18, 1782, at died on June 17, 1888, at Ward, Massachusetts. Stratton, Vermont; married 2) Amos, born January 12, 1785, Rebecca (?). at Ward, Massachusetts; died 4) Alfred, born September 4, April 13, 1868, at Stratton, 1818 at Greenfield, Vermont; married Rhoda Massachusetts; died in 1896; Graves. married Mary Sprague on November 30, 1848. Amos Parsons, son of Amos and 5) Ralph, born November 21, Abigail Parsons, was born on 1823 at Greenfield, January 12, 1785, in Ward, Massachusetts (lived at Massachusetts. He married Deerfield, Massachusetts, and Rhoda Graves, daughter of Job Winhall, Vermont). and Abigail Graves. Rhoda was 6) Abigail, born March 29, 1825, born in Greenfield, at Greenfield, Massachusetts. Massachusetts, on April 30, 1785. 7) Sarah R., born on October 31, The Parsons first settled in 1826, at Greenfield, Greenfield, and they were living Massachusetts; died on there in September, 1838, when February 22, 1897, at Stratton, Amos purchased 3L1R in Stratton Vermont; married Cheselton - the old Bixby farm. The Parsons Allen on September 3, 1851, at settled in Stratton about that same Stratton, Vermont. time. Their home was located on the north side of what is now Otis P. Parsons, son of Amos and Canedy Road. It may be the same Rhoda Parsons, was born dwelling that remains there today February 28, 1809, in Greenfield, (see A Parson on McClellan’s Massachusetts. He purchased the Map of 1856). Amos took the east half of 4L1R on November 7, Freeman’s oath in Stratton on 1839, and he settled in Stratton September 1, 1840. about that same time. This lot Rhoda died at Stratton on was adjacent to Bissell’s Mills in August 12, 1865, and she was Stratton. On July 25, 1846, Otis buried in Ball Cemetery. Amos sold this lot to Bissell, but followed on April 13, 1868. repurchased it two months later. Their children were: Otis took the Freeman’s oath 1) Otis P., born February 28, in Stratton on August 14, 1844. 1809, at Greenfield, He apparently resided on his father’s farm with his parents,

Stratton Families 355 then, after their deaths, he shared June 17, 1888. He and Rebecca this home with his brother, were buried in Ball Cemetery. Alfred’s family (see Beer’s Atlas Children of Orrin and Rebecca: of 1869 - home of O & A 1) William H., born about 1845 Parsons). Otis never married and in Cleveland, Ohio; died in he died at Stratton on July 25, 1935 in Brattleboro, Vermont; 1887. married 1) Sarah Wilder Vernaton in September, 1866 Elisha Parsons, son of Amos and 2) Frances Spaulding. Rhoda Parsons, was born on 2) Abbie Ella, born April 25, February 14, 1812, at Greenfield, 1860, at Stratton, Vermont; Massachusetts. Elisha purchased married 1) Frederick Wyman 3L2R on January 27, 1842, and he 2) Arthur F. Allen on October took the Freeman’s oath in 22, 1881, at Stratton, Stratton on September 6, 1842. Vermont. On January 5, 1848, Elisha 3) Otis F., born November 14, mortgaged his lot and on 1863, at Stratton, Vermont; November 21, 1848, he sold it to died July 3, 1868, at Stratton, Ralph Parsons of Deerfield, Vermont. Massachusetts. Elisha apparently left Stratton at that time. A stepdaughter of Orrin was: 4) Emily L. Richards, born Orrin Parsons, son of Amos and August 8, 1842; died April 18, Rhoda Parsons, was born in 1816 1894; married M.H. Cullinan. at Greenfield, Massachusetts. He apparently came to Stratton with William H. Parsons, son of Orrin his parents about 1838. Orrin and Rebecca Parsons, was born in moved away from home and Cleveland, Ohio, in 1845. married Rebecca (?), who was William’s parents had lived in born on July 31, 1822, at Stratton before moving to Ohio, Newbury, Vermont. They were and they returned to Stratton living in Cleveland, Ohio, in before 1860. 1845. In 1863, William was living The Parsons returned to in Wardsboro. During the Civil Stratton before 18601. Henry War, and at the age of 17, Allen was living with them in William enlisted for a three-year 1862 and attending school in term. He was placed into Stratton’s district #2. Company H of the Vermont 8th Rebecca died at Stratton on Regiment on February 13, 1864. February 18, 1874. Orrin then He was promoted to corporal on married the widow Richards who June 2, 1865, and he was apparently died before 1880. That discharged on June 28, 1865. year, he was living with his William returned to daughter Abby and stepdaughter, Wardsboro after the war and Emily L. Richards. Orrin died on married Sarah Wilder Vernaton of

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Sandgate, Vermont. Sarah was Alfred Parsons, son of Amos and born on June 18, 1847. Her Rhoda Parsons, was born on mother was Jerusha Moffet who September 4, 1818 at Greenfield, later married Gilbert Thomas. Massachusetts. Alfred came to The Parsons settled in Stratton as a child and he took the Stratton in 1878 and rented the Freeman’s oath in Stratton on farmhouse and sawmill of September 1, 1840. Alexander Hamilton Pike in Pike Alfred married Mary Hollow, for two years (currently Sprague, daughter of James and the Steiner home). Once the lease Lucy Sprague, on November 30, was up, the Parsons moved back 1848. Lucy was born on March to Wardsboro. 25, 1827, at Winhall, Vermont. William purchased the The Parsons settled in Stephen Corbin farm in Winhall, then moved to Stratton Wardsboro on May 17, 1881. after Alfred had purchased 29 They remained on this farm for acres of 2L1R on March 27, 1850. many years. They were not yet in Stratton Sarah died on January 13, during the taking of the 1850 1924, in Wardsboro. William census. Soon after that time, the then married Mrs. Frances Parsons settled on Alfred’s Spaulding of Jamaica, Vermont. father’s farm and lived there with He died at the home of his Alfred’s brother, Otis. daughter, May, in Brattleboro, Mary died of consumption at Vermont, in 1935. William and Stratton on November 4, 1878, Sarah were buried in the West and Alfred died in 1896. They Wardsboro Cemetery. were buried in Ball Cemetery. Children of William and Sarah: Children of Alfred and Mary: 1) Anna L., born about 1866; 1) Emery James, born April 9, died in 1935; married Sefus 1854, at Winhall, Vermont; Brackett. married Ellen Thomas. 2) Bert C., born in 1869; died in 2) Ralph Alfred, born September 1961; married Ninette B. 3, 1861, at Stratton, Vermont; Hughes on October 18, 1891. died in 1891. 3) Birdie, married Harry Knight. 3) Aden O., born February 28, 4) Hallie, born in 1874; died in 1863, at Stratton, Vermont; infancy. died August 11, 1900, at 5) Abbie “May”, born in 1875; Stratton, Vermont. married 1) James Evans 2) 4) Silas E., born November 10, James Truell 1865, at Stratton, Vermont. 6) Harry L., born January 22, 5) Mary Elnora, born April 25, 1879, at Stratton, Vermont; 1869, at Stratton, Vermont. died on October 13, 1952, in New York. Emery James Parsons, son of Alfred and Mary Parsons, was born on April 9, 1854, at Winhall,

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Vermont. Emery married Ellen Herbert E. Parsons, son of E. Thomas, daughter of Gilbert Emery and Ellen Parsons, was and Jerusha Thomas, about 1876. born at Glastenbury, Vermont, Ellen was born in Manchester, about 1879. When of age, Herbert Vermont, on March 3, 1857. worked as a laborer in Stratton. The Parsons had lived at Herbert married Lettie M. Stratton, then they moved to Robbins, daughter of James B. Glastenbury, Vermont, about 1878 and Sarah E. (Clayton) Robbins, and later settled in Wardsboro, on February 18, 1898, at Winhall, Vermont. They returned to Vermont. Lettie was born in Stratton before 1900. That year, Jamaica, Vermont. Herbert took Frank W. Thomas was living with the Freeman’s oath in Stratton on them. Frank was born in September 2, 1902. February, 1869. A child of Herbert and Lettie was: Ellen died on April 21, 1921, 1) Earl James, born September at Wilmington, Vermont, and 20, 1902, at Stratton, Emery died on November 18, Vermont; died February 16, 1941, at Brattleboro, Vermont. 1942, at Wilmington, Their children were: Vermont; married Leola Isora 1) Leon E., born June 24, 1877, (or Elizabeth) Upton. at Stratton, Vermont. 2) Herbert E., born in 1879 at Earl James Parsons, son of Glastenbury, Vermont; Herbert and Lettie Parsons, was married Lettie M. Robbins on born at Stratton, on September 20, February 18, 1898, at Winhall, 1902. He settled in Wilmington, Vermont. Vermont, where he worked for the 3) Millie J., born in August, town. Earl married Leola Isora 1881; married (?) Jones. Upton, daughter of Florence 4) Mary Elnora, born in May, Upton. Leola was born at 1883, at Wardsboro, Vermont; Hartford, Connecticut, on August married John E. Lackey on 10, 1911. December 30, 1898, at Earl died of a heart attack Stratton, Vermont. while at work. Leola developed 5) Robert O., born in August, multiple sclerosis and died in a 1886. nursing home on December 25, 6) Ralph M., born in June, 1888. 1967. Earl and Leola were buried 7) Herman Jessie, born May 7, in Riverview Cemetery in 1896, at Stratton, Vermont; Wilmington. died November 4, 1969, at Children of Earl and Leola were: Wilmington, Vermont; 1) Earl James, born July 6, 1929; married Ruby Griswold on married Sally Foster. April 26, 1915 (They were the 2) Donald Ray, born November parents of Bernard Parsons of 17, 1930; married Arlene Wardsboro). Aldridge.

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Ralph Alfred Parsons, son of Dannie Pary, son of Peter and Alfred and Mary Parsons, was Ries (Moran) Pary, was born born on September 3, 1861, at about 1872 at Kinsie, ???. He Stratton. In 1875, Ralph sold the came to Stratton and worked at family farm on 3L1R to George one of the lumber camps. He W. Johnson. Ralph was living in married Minnie B. Longe, Jamaica, Vermont, at that time. daughter of Fred A. and Lizzie Ralph’s parents and Uncle (Little) Longe, on February 22, apparently continued to live on 1899, at Stratton. Minnie was the farm after that time. born about 1883 at Mount Holly, Ralph became a doctor. He Vermont. later returned to Stratton and ran his practice from his home in Patch Stratton. He resided on the Nathan Patch was the son of Stratton-Arlington Rd., in the John Patch of Ipswich, house later owned by the Herbert Massachusetts. As an adult, French family. This house still Nathan signed “the Tory Protest” stands today, located east of the in 1744 and so he was judged a Stratton Church. The sign that public enemy at that time. hung in front of his house is kept Nathan, however, recanted his in the museum of the Historical loyalties and he was restored to Society of Windham County. favor. Ralph died in 1891 and he was Nathan settled in Worcester, buried in Ball Cemetery. Massachusetts, and married

Additional Sources: Hannah Whipple there about Return to Yesterday by CS Streeter 1756. Hannah apparently died in 1760, possibly while giving birth Sally K. (Evans) Parsons, to their son Joseph. Following daughter of (?) and Dorcas Evans, Hannah’s death, Nathan married was born on August 12, 1822, at Eunice Adams, daughter of Fitchburg, Massachusetts. She Nathaniel and Eunice Adams of died at Stratton on February 18, Grafton, Massachusetts, on 1874. December 26, 1760. Eunice was born on October 7, 1739. Minerva Parsons married George The Patches resided in Clough. She was born about Worcester for about 12 years and 1839. were among those that petitioned to be set off from Worcester as a Pary part of the new town of Ward, Gregory Pary was born in Massachusetts, in 1773. Canada in 1822. He was a During the Revolution, carpenter, who probably came to Nathan became an active patriot, Stratton as an old man with raising supplies for the army. relatives (see Dannie below). He Although, when Nathan was died at Stratton on June 17, 1898. drafted into Captain Lovell’s

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Company, Colonel Denny’s 1806 read as though Nathan was a Regiment to march to Horse- resident of the town - referring to Neck, he failed to join the Nathan Patch’s house west of regiment. He was again drafted Jacob Batchellor on the west half into Chadwick’s Company and he of 5L4R. This was the house built marched to Bennington on the by Oliver Morsman, located alarm. He served for five days beyond the end of what is now and he was paid on September 23, Shepardson Rd.. 1777. Nathan was later tax Nathan was Stratton’s most collector and constable of active Proprietor, becoming Worcester, and was active in the involved in all that shaped the town’s business. new settlement in his lifetime. He According to the Patch retrieved the town’s copy of the Genealogy by John Robert Camp original charter by going to and Emily Patch, “He was a man Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1793 of enterprising spirit, but was self- (this copy still hangs in Stratton’s willed and reckless, and lacked Town Office). In 1797, he the clear judgment possessed by mentioned that he held a bond on his son, Nathaniel. In his a mill on Phillips’ land (evidently dealings with others, even with in the west half of 3L3R – those related to him by ties of probably Stratton’s first sawmill. blood, he was exacting, On July 2, 1806, Nathan offered uncompromising and severe, Stratton’s Selectmen the nails and evincing little consideration for glass needed to construct their feelings and necessities. He Stratton’s first meetinghouse. appears to have been somewhat Later, Nathan was listed as a eccentric and unstable, especially citizen of Fairfield, New York, in in his latter days; was Stratton’s land records. Nathan’s conscientious and involved will was dated May 22, 1808. He continually in litigation, in which died soon thereafter. Theophilus the results were not always Wheeler, Henry Patch and Joseph favorable to his interests. Patch were listed as executors of Evidently, Nathan was his will which was filed in fascinated with the land he Stratton that year. traveled through during the march Children of Nathan and Hannah: to Bennington. He first purchased 1) Henry, born December 11, 4L4R in Stratton on January 15, 1757; married Hannah Moore 1782, a year before the town was on February 8, 1781, at settled. Over the next 25 years, Worcester, Massachusetts. Nathan bought and sold a 2) Joseph, born in 1760; died considerable amount of land in April 8, 1836, at Worcester, Stratton - some from tax-sales. Massachusetts; married He apparently briefly settled in the Hannah Flagg on November 7, town after his son, Joseph, had 1782 at Worcester, moved away. The town records of Massachusetts.

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Children of Nathan and Eunice: in Stratton was next occupied by 3) Nathaniel the family of Eliakim Garfield, 4) Lucy who rented from the Patches. 5) Sarah, married Samuel Porter. Joseph bought and sold much land 6) Hannah, married Tappan in Stratton even after his move March on July 4, 1791, at back to Worcester and into the Worcester, Massachusetts. 1830s. 7) Joshua, married Rebecca Joseph died at Worcester on Bemis on April 21, 1794, at April 8, 1836. His heirs were Worcester, Massachusetts. named in a deed dated November 23, 1843. Joseph Patch, son of Nathan and Children of Joseph and Hannah: Hannah Patch, was born in 1760 1) Anna, born July 17, 1785, at at Worcester, Massachusetts. Worcester, Massachusetts; Joseph married Hannah Flagg. married Anson Braman. Soon after the marriage, 2) Benjamin, born February 25, Joseph’s father gave him 4L4R in 1788, at Worcester, Stratton for “the same goodwill Massachusetts. and affection which I have and do 3) William Whipple, born bear toward my son, Joseph Patch January 1, 1794, at Worcester, and for his settlement and Massachusetts. advancement in the world,” 4) Leonard, born March 25, deeded on April 24, 1786, and so, 1799, at Worcester, the Patches settled on that land. Massachusetts. Joseph evidently built the first 5) Lydia, born February 2, 1800, house on this lot, located on the at Worcester, Massachusetts. north side of the road that later 6) Hannah, born March 4, 1802, passed the town common. He was at Worcester, Massachusetts. owner of the first tavern in 7) Eunice, born December 30, Stratton and active in early town 1803, at Worcester, affairs. The tavern would have Massachusetts. been within his home. Many of 8) Joseph, born November 24, the town meetings from 1786 to 1805, at Worcester, 1793 were held in his home, Massachusetts. probably because the tavern had 9) Cynthia, born November 2, room enough for the meetings. 1807, at Worcester, Joseph was Proprietor’s Clerk Massachusetts; married Loring from May 27, 1789, to June 24, Lyon. 1793. Although he was living in Additional Sources: Stratton in 1788, his son, Four Families in America. Patch-Payne- Benjamin, was born in Worcester Camp-McNabb that year. by JR Camp and E. Patch 1979 The Patch family left Stratton in 1793 and returned to Worcester. Their dwelling house

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Payne daughter of Emery and Martha Benjamin Payne, son of Zebulon Sage, on July 4, 1866, at Stratton. and Anna (Bigelow) Payne, was born on January 31, 1833, at Henry L. Payne was born in Conway, Massachusetts. May, 1852, in Massachusetts. His Benjamin first married Melissa wife, Lucy S., was born in Ware, daughter of Leander and Vermont in August, 1852. The Huldah Ware, at Ashfield, Paynes were married in 1874 and Massachusetts. She was born in settled in Stratton before 1900, but Ashfield, Massachusetts, on they moved out of town before November 13, 1831. Melissa died 1910. Although he no longer of diphtheria in Stratton on lived in Stratton, Henry was active August 22, 1863, and she was in the Stratton Mountain Club buried in Ball Cemetery. She died during the 1910s. just 11 days after their daughter A child of Henry and Lucy was: Marilla had died of diphtheria. 1) Grace M., born December, Benjamin then married 187(2 or 8). Amelia A. Estabrook, daughter of Ezekiel and Betsy Estabrook, on Peck July 3, 1864, at Stratton. She was Joseph H. Peck was born about born at Stratton in 1834 and she 1834 and may have settled in had been certified to teach school Stratton briefly before the Civil in Stratton. The Paynes War. He enlisted on January 31, apparently lived on the east half of 1862, and mustered into Company 5L3R (see N. Willis on Beer’s H of the 8th Vermont Regiment Atlas of 1869). on February 12, 1862. Joseph Benjamin died on April 19, reenlisted on March 5, 1864, and 1871, and he was buried beside he was promoted to corporal on Melissa. July 1, 1864. On April 12, 1865, Children of Benjamin and he was promoted to sergeant, Melissa: before mustering out on June 28, 1) Marilla, born May 9, 1859, at 1865. Joseph evidently did not Ashfield, Massachusetts; died settle in Stratton following the August 11, 1863, at Stratton, war. Vermont (of diphtheria). 2) Esther W. W. Peck was a resident of Somerset. In 1902, he purchased A child of Benjamin and Amelia: the Upper Tudor Mill, located 3) (an infant), died on September near the north end of what is now 19, 1867. Somerset Reservoir, and on an old site known as the Lucius Smith Ormanzo Payne, son of Henry sawmill. He had also purchased and Harriet Payne, was born in the Chase Mills in Somerset, in an Plainsfield, Massachusetts, in attempt to gain control of the east 1846. He married Lusina Sage, branch of the Deerfield River.

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Penniman 2) Milon F., born in 1835, at Mary Penniman was living in Rupert, Vermont; died in Stratton in 1863 and had two 1912; married Philura Willis children, Fred and Charles A., about 1855. attending school in district #5. 3) Chauncey F., born in 1838. 4) Richard, born in March, 1839; died February 15, 1845. Perry 5) Richard F., born in February, Jeremiah Perry was born in 1845; died December 7, 1848. 1775. His wife, Mary, was also 6) Eusina Emma, born May 31, born in 1775. They moved to 1847, at Rockingham, Stratton during the 1840s, Vermont; died September 19, probably from Athens, Vermont. 1939; married Preston S. They were evidently friends or Knapp on February 11, 1865, relatives of the Cummings and at Stratton, Vermont. Wyman families who settled in 7) Luanna, born in 1850; married Stratton. The Perrys moved away 1) Henry Lincoln on October from Stratton or they had died 28, 1866, at Stratton, Vermont before 1860. 2) Truman T. Wallace on September 28, 1873, at Richard S. Perry was possibly Stratton, Vermont. the son of Jeremiah and Mary 8) Ellen born in 1851. Perry. He was born about 1812. 9) Morton, born in 1853. Richard was living in Chester, 10) Frank O., born February 10, Vermont, when he married 1854, at Stratton, Vermont; Elizabeth Cummings, who was died May 11, 1863, at Stratton, probably a daughter of William Vermont (of diphtheria). and Betsey Cummings, on 11) Joseph October 13, 1831. Elisa, as she 12) Julia was called, was born about 1815. The Perrys were living in Chauncey F. Perry, son of Rupert, Vermont, by 1836, then Richard and Elisa Perry, was born moved to Rockingham and finally about 1838. He served during the settled in Stratton before 1847. Civil War, but he was not living William Haskins, was living with in Vermont at the time of his them in 1860, aged 67. In 1870, enlistment. Laura Lincoln, daughter of Obed and Alantha Lincoln, was living Oscar F. Perry, son of Richard with them. In 1866, the town and Elisa Perry, was born in 1832. records refer to the Perrys as town In 1849, he was living with paupers. The Perrys had left Stephen W. Cummings and Stratton by 1870. attending school in district #2 in Children of Richard and Elisa: Stratton. In 1850, he was living 1) Oscar F., born in 1832, with Isaac Shepardson. married Mary (?).

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Oscar and his wife, Mary, the house once occupied by lived at Sunderland, Vermont, Chester Prescott. They were not and then Stratton for a short while listed as Stratton residents in around 1857. Oscar took the 1880; however, they evidently Freeman’s oath in Stratton in returned and Milon became September, 1857. Later, the Postmaster of Stratton from Perrys moved to Warrensburg, January 26, 1892, to November New York. 21, 1898. During the Civil War, Oscar By 1900, the Perrys were no enlisted and served - probably in a longer living in Stratton and they New York regiment. apparently had settled in Their children were: Wardsboro. Milon died in 1912 1) Alida, born in 1856; married and Philura died in 1914. They Lyman W. May on March 18, were buried in Fairview Cemetery 1871, at Stratton, Vermont. in Wardsboro. 2) Ella Mary, born August 24, Children of Milon and Philura: 1857, at Stratton, Vermont. 1) Lura, born in 1856. 2) Leon Albert, born February 27, Milon F. Perry, son of Richard 1870, at Stratton, Vermont; and Elisa Perry, was born in 1835 married Minnie Cowdry on at Rupert, Vermont. He lived October 14, 1894, at Stratton, with Richard Scott in 1847, Vermont. attending school in district #2 in 3) Archie Gerald, born July 8, Stratton. In 1850, he was living 1871, at Stratton, Vermont. with Freeman Wyman. Milon married Philura A. Leon Albert Perry, son of Milon Willis, daughter of Daniel and and Philura Perry, was born at Abigail Willis, about 1855. Stratton, on February 27, 1870. Philura was born about 1837. He went by the name Burt L. Milon took the Freeman’s Perry. Burt married Minnie E. oath in Stratton in September, Cowdry, daughter of Frank and 1856. He enlisted on September Sarah (Nichols) Cowdrey of 20, 1862, and mustered into Jamaica, on October 14, 1894, at Company I of the Vermont 16th Stratton. Minnie was born in Regiment on October 23, 1862. August, 1877, at Brimfield, He very likely fought at Massachusetts. Gettysburg with this company Following the marriage, the before he mustered out on August Perrys settled in Stratton. Burt 10, 1863. Next, Milon reenlisted was Stratton’s last Postmaster on December 15, 1863, into from January 5, 1903, until the Company D of the Vermont 8th post office closed down on July Regiment. His military service 15, 1910. Bert was involved in a ended on June 28, 1865. shoot out in Stratton with Albert After the war, the Perrys lived Baybrook, whom he was trying to on the Stratton-Arlington Rd., in arrest. Baybrook fired at such

Stratton Families 364 close range that Bert’s coat sleeve buried in Willis Cemetery, beside caught fire, but he was not hit (see Stephen. Albert Baybrook). The Perrys moved away from Pettee Stratton before the 1910 census (Petty) was taken. Their move may have Silas Pettee, Jr., son of Silas and been the reason that the Stratton Anna Pettee, was born on July 17, post office closed down when it 1803, at Wilmington, Vermont. did. They resettled in Jamaica, Silas married Arethuse Scott, Vermont, where Burt operated a daughter of Shepard and Eunice tennis racket factory on Ball Scott. Arethuse was born at Mountain Stream. Windham, Vermont, on Children of Burt and Minnie: September 17, 1805. The Pettees 1) Leon Merton, born June 28, were living in Stratton as early as 1895; married Mildred C. 1844. In that year and in 1845, Marden on March 22, 1924 Silas was voted a highway (he lived in Jamaica, Vermont, surveyor. In 1846, he was clerk and he was a WWI veteran). for school district #1 in Stratton, 2) Ruby G., born January 19, where he had four children 1898; married Martin H. attending school. The Pettees Gleason on December 16, moved away from Stratton before 1919. 1850 and eventually settled in West Dummerston, Vermont. Abner Perry, son of Calvin and Children of Silas were: Dolly Perry, was born in 1805 in 1) Hollis Boston, Massachusetts. He may 2) Aurelius be the same as, or a relative of, 3) Julia the Abner Perry who lived at 4) Corintha, born March 6, 1842; Plymouth, Massachusetts, and died February 6, 1868, at West purchased 2000 acres in the Dummerston, Vermont. western gore in Stratton in June, 1828. Abner’s third marriage was to Phelps Elizabeth P. (Hescock) Forrester Edgar L. Phelps was born about on July 22, 1866, at Stratton. 1863 in Vermont. His wife, Elizabeth was the widow of Melvina E. Plimpton, daughter of Stephen Jonson Forrester and a Henry and Susan (Allen) daughter of David and Surlindy Plimpton, was also born about (Simpson) Hescock. Elizabeth 1863. They lived in New was born on April 4, 1809, at Hampshire at the time of their Wardsboro, Vermont. Stephen son’s birth, and in 1907, they died on June 14, 1863, and so were living in Chester, Vermont. Elizabeth married Abner on July Edgar came to Stratton 22, 1866. She died at Stratton on between 1910 and 1920 and September 28, 1894, and was worked as a laborer, probably in one of Stratton’s lumber camps.

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In 1920, they were living with been the same Jonathan Phillips their son, George. who served in Captain David A child of Edgar and Melvina: Chadwick’s Company for five 1) George L., born about 1881 in days during the alarm at New Hampshire. Bennington. Jonathan moved his family to George L. Phelps, son of Edgar Stratton in the summer of 1784, and Melvina E. Phelps, was born after purchasing 1000 acres and in New Hampshire about 1881. several proprietary rights for 300 He came to Stratton with his pounds on July 1, 1784. In parents between 1910 and 1920 September, 1784, he purchased an and worked as a laborer, probably additional 300 acres. Jonathan in one of Stratton’s lumber camps. was elected Proprietor’s Clerk on The 1920 census shows that he September 16, 1784. He was married; however, his wife continued in this position until was not living with him at that October 5, 1787. time. Jonathan also was assigned to build the first sawmill in 1784, Phillips and may have completed that Jonathan Phillips, son of Joseph project in 1786 with his sons. and Ruth (Towne) Phillips, was This mill was located in the west born at Oxford, Massachusetts, on half of 3L3R on land he sold to August 12, 1732. Jonathan his son, Asa. He also was the apparently first married Rachel owner of the west half of 4L3R. Humphrey about 1755, She This may have been Jonathan’s apparently died in the last years of home when he first settled in the 1750s. Jonathan married Stratton. Jonathan sold this lot to secondly Sarah Parker (intent Asa on May 1, 1786. published on March 6, 1760) at Jonathan was not among the Worcester, Massachusetts. The residents of Stratton in 1791, but Oxford vital records call her he was still an active proprietor Sarah Gleason, but a note was through to 1796. In 1793, he was included stating that Parker was called a resident of Northampton, her correct name. Massachusetts. He died on June Jonathan and Sarah’s 6, 1798. children were born in Oxford. A child of Jonathan and Rachel: They were among those families 1) Ebenezer Humphery, born July set off to the new town of Ward, 17, 1756, at Sturbridge, Massachusetts, in 1773. Massachusetts; died December Jonathan, as well as several others 1, 1838. from this town, was very active in the organization and settlement of Jonathan and Sarah’s children: Stratton. 2) Asa, born April 3, 1761, at During the American Ward, Massachusetts; died on Revolution, Jonathan may have January 4, 1802, at Stratton,

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Vermont; married Mary to Oxford and married Dilla Pitts “Polly” White on April 5, there on May 5, 1796. 1784, at Ward, Massachusetts. 3) Reuben, born July 5, 1763, at Asa Phillips, son of Jonathan and Oxford, Massachusetts; Sarah Phillips, was born on April married Dilla Pitts on May 5, 3, 1761, at Oxford, 1796, at Oxford, Massachusetts. Asa married Mary Massachusetts. “Polly” White on April 5, 1784, at 4) Joseph, born about 1764. Ward, Massachusetts. Polly was 5) Sarah, born March 27, 1765, the daughter of Stephen and Mary at Oxford, Massachusetts; died (Calef) White, born about 1765. in 1766. The Phillipses were among 6) Jonathan, born in 1768; died the earliest settlers of Stratton, in 1768. settling on the west half of 4L3R, 7) Sarah, born in 1769; died in which Asa purchased from his 1771. father on May 1, 1786. He also purchased the west half of 3L3R Reuben Phillips, son of Jonathan and he apparently built Stratton’s and Sarah Phillips, was born on first sawmill with the help of his July 5, 1763, at Oxford, father. The house on 4L3R was Massachusetts. During the probably the dwelling house of his American Revolution, Reuben parents, and Asa and Polly most apparently was the same who likely lived there with Asa’s served under Lieutenant Thomas parents initially. The Phillipses’ Parker, as a Private in Captain son, Asa, Jr., was listed as the first Daniel Grout’s Company, Colonel male child of European ancestry John Rand’s Regiment. He to be born in Stratton. Asa, Jr. enlisted on July 24, 1780, and was born in this house on April marched to Claverack. He was 13, 1785. This occurred a year discharged at West Point, New before Asa purchased the property York, on October 9, 1780. from his father. Reuben was living in The remains of the Phillips Newfane, Vermont, in 1786 and house exist at the northeast corner bought the east half of 1L1R and of the intersection of Ball Farm the east half of 3L3R in Stratton Rd. and the West Jamaica Rd.. from his father that same year. Asa was Proprietor’s Clerk Reuben settled in Stratton, built from June 24, 1791, to September his home on the east half of 3L3R 7, 1795. He died at Stratton on and sold 1L1R to Timothy January 4, 1802. Robbins. Reuben may have The division of his estate helped establish Stratton’s first listed in Stratton’s land records on sawmill on his brother’s lot. In December 28, 1808, set to his October, 1787, Reuben sold his widow, Polly Sigourney, all house lot to Nathan Patch and property lying north of the road evidently left town. He returned that runs through 4L3R, except 15

Stratton Families 367 acres on the east line of said lot, 1812, using the name “Polly also half of the east half of 2L2R Sigourney,” she purchased part of and a ninth of the house. To Asa 4L4R and 4L5R, bounding the Phillips, Jr. - 61 acres which lies western side of the town common on the south side of the road and the road to Bille Mann’s (50 through 4L3R and part of 3L3R to acres) with an additional seven a line running across said lot with acres on the opposite side of the bounds and 15 acres on the north road to Bille Mann’s and also one side of the road next to Mr. acre on north side of Garfield’s line - also half the barn Meetinghouse Road. Polly died and a third of the house. To about 1815 at Watervliet, New Betsey Phillips - half of the east York. half of 2L2R and a ninth of the Children of Asa and Polly were: house. To Jonathan Phillips - the 1) Asa, Jr., born April 13, 1785, remainder of 3L3R south of Asa at Stratton, Vermont; died Phillips, except seven acres of the June 23, 1873, at Bust, New northeast corner set to the girls. York; married Submit Scott. After Asa’s death, Polly 2) Polly, born July 31, 1788, at married Anthony Sigourney on Stratton, Vermont; married September 17, 1803. Anthony Jedidiah Baker on February and Polly moved to Bennington, 11, 1808, at Stratton, Vermont, then settled in Vermont. Watervliet, New York, where 3) Betsey, born April 14, 1790, at Anthony died on July 10, 1825. Stratton, Vermont; died It is unclear what happened February 1, 1873, at between the Phillipses and the Sacramento, California; Sigourneys. At one point, Asa married Josiah Stamford on Phillips, Jr. sued Anthony October 23, 1813. Sigourney over land in Stratton in 4) Jonathan, born September 24, December, 1809 - “The sheriff of 1795, at Stratton, Vermont; Windham County is ordered to married Esther Maria Kidder confiscate property of Anthony on December 3, 1818, at Sigourney and to arrest Anthony Stratton, Vermont. Sigourney and deliver him to the 5) Andrew, born July 31, 1799, at jail keeper in Newfane until a Stratton, Vermont; died debt of $113.27 is paid to Asa September 26, 1801, at Phillips of Stratton.” Stratton, Vermont. For some reason, Polly returned to Stratton where “the A child of Anthony Sigourney and widow Polly Phillips” was taken Polly was: into the Church of Christ in 1) Daniel Phillips, born June 9, Stratton on February 2, 1812, and 1804; married E. Jane Cary on on the following day or so, her October 8, 1825, at children, Jonathan and Daniel Schenectady, New York. (It is were baptized. On March 24, unclear whether Daniel’s surname was Sigourney or Phillips - some

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documents seem to indicate that he 1818, but returned to his home in used the surname Phillips) Stratton, as he was listed in the

censuses of 1820 and 1830. Asa Phillips, Jr., son of Asa and In 1820, he may have been Polly Phillips, was born on April living in the house beside the 13, 1785, -- the first male born in common, which he had sold to his Stratton. He initially filed an brother in 1818. However, Asa intention of marriage to Fannie apparently reoccupied the old Grout, but they were not married; family dwelling on 4L3R. In instead, he married Submit Scott, 1830, there were eleven people daughter of Ira and Submit Scott living in his household. on September 12, 1813, at In 1831, Asa agreed to care Stratton, and the marriage was for Samuel Marble and his performed by the Rev. James daughter, Lucretia, for the Tufts. Submit was born on remainder of their natural lives in October 19, 1792. exchange for their farm on 4L4R After his father’s death in and 5L4R beside the common and 1803, Asa continued to live at his part of 5L3R, occupied by the parents’ home (at the intersection Shepardsons. of the West Jamaica Rd. and Ball Asa was Stratton’s Town Farm Rd.). It is unclear who were Clerk from 1825 - 1832. In 1833, living within his home in 1810. town meetings were voted to be This was prior to his marriage and held at his home, but the after his father’s death and his following year the meeting was mother’s second marriage, held in the meetinghouse. therefore, it was probably Asa’s Asa donated part of his farm sister and brother-in-law, Polly for use as a cemetery (currently and Jedidiah Baker who lived referred to as Ball Cemetery). He with him at that time. Asa was sold the farm in March, 1834, to also considered to be over 26 Stephen Forrester and he also years old in 1810, but that was not waived his claim of the Marble true. farm. The Phillips left Stratton at In the 1820 census, Asa and that time. Submit were shown between the Children of Asa and Submit were: ages of 26 and 45 with three small 1) Emaline, born March 18, children. 1814, at Stratton, Vermont; Asa owned large amounts of died May 2, 1896, at Concord, land in Stratton, much of which Pennsylvania; married Lucius he acquired from tax-sales. He Leroy Baldwin (of Jamaica) on purchased pew #3 on the lower April 15, 1833, at Stratton, floor of the meetinghouse in 1810 Vermont. from his brother-in-law, Jedidiah 2) Clarissa B., born October 21, Baker, then sold it back to Baker 1816, died April 9, 1841; on May 7, 1811. married Allen Barber at Asa moved to Watervliet, Stockton, New York. Albany County, New York, before

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3) Andrew, born August 28, several occasions in the mid- 1819, at Watervliet, New 1820s, meetings were adjourned York; died February 3, 1903, to his home. at Bust, New York; married Jonathan also ran an Inn and Emily Temple in 1848. held a license to do so in 1825, 4) Helen B., born January 2, 1826 and 1827. It seems likely 1821; married Francis Farr in that instead of turning his home 1844 at Stockton, New York. into an Inn, Jonathan may have 5) Elvira Stanford, born March kept the old Inn down the hill – 31, 1823; died July 7, 1897, at the old Patch Tavern – that his Minneapolis, Minnesota; brother, Asa purchased from married Lyman Harris in 1844 Luther Torrey in 1826. at Sugargrove, Pennsylvania. On November 24, 1824, 6) Lucy, born August 12, 1825; Jonathan and Maria were accepted died January 20, 1826. into the Church of Christ in 7) Jonathan Josiah, born April 8, Stratton and on September 6, 1833; married Almeda Bush 1825, Jonathan took the on June 10, 1857. Freeman’s oath in Stratton. In 8) Asa Kimball, born April 20, 1828, Jonathan settled in Jamaica, 1836; died October 19, 1900; Vermont, and sold the lot beside married Lucretia Steadman in the common. On May 13, 1831, 1859. Jonathan and Maria were given a letter of recommendation by the Jonathan Phillips, son of Asa and church in Stratton for acceptance Polly Phillips, was born on into another church - apparently September 24, 1795, at Stratton. the church in Jamaica, Vermont. He married Esther “Maria” Jonathan evidently died Kidder, daughter of Abel and sometime within the next three Mary Kidder, on December 3, years, since Maria married 1818. Maria was born at Stratton secondly, Captain Caleb Howe at on September 26, 1799. Jamaica on June 22, 1834. She Jonathan was never listed as died on August 31, 1865. head of a household in any of Children of Jonathan and Maria: Stratton’s censuses, although he 1) Maryann, born July 8, 1821, at and his family lived on the Stratton, Vermont (baptized in southwest side of the town Stratton on March 6, 1825). common. They resided in the 2) Reuben, born October 5, 1823, house his mother had purchased at Stratton, Vermont (baptized in 1812 from Aaron Lyon. in Stratton on March 6, 1825). Jonathan purchased this lot from 3) Henry Colph, born October 8, his brother, Asa, in 1818. 1827, at Stratton, Vermont Jonathan and his family were (baptized in Stratton on probably living there with August 24, 1828) Jonathan’s brother, Asa, during the time of the 1820 census. On

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Simon Phillips, son of Israel and In 1972, the Pickerings built a log Huldah (Towne) Phillips, was cabin approximately over the site born on January 6, 1766, at where the old farmhouse once Oxford, Massachusetts. He was a stood. In 1989, they made an cousin of Asa Phillips, Sr. above. addition to the cabin and became Simon was a resident of fulltime residents of Stratton that Stratton Gore in 1799. That year, year. Since that time, the he signed a petition requesting the Pickerings have been very active annexation of the gore by in town affairs. Earl has served as Stratton. He apparently settled Selectman in 1993 - 1995 and he elsewhere soon after that time, was again elected in 1997. Earl since he was not listed in served on the Planning Stratton’s census of 1800. Simon Commission in 1994 and Avis has owned land west of the East been a member of the Planning Branch of the Deerfield River and Commission since 1992. west of William Newton. Phillips Earl and Avis’ children are: lived at Newfane, Vermont, when 1) James Marsh. he sold his lot to George Oliver in 2) Edward Bartlett (twin). 1801. 3) Amy Kyle (twin).

Pickering Pike Earl Bartlett Pickering, Jr., son Samuel Pike1 married Abigail of Earl and Josephine Pickering, Morse, daughter of Aaron Morse, married Avis Dickinson, daughter and they settled in Hopkinton, of Dr. Porter Stephens Dickinson Massachusetts. Samuel sold his and his wife, Lillian. Hopkinton property in 1752 and During WWII, Earl enlisted then moved to Holliston, in the U.S. Navy at the age of 17 Massachusetts, where he and his and served aboard the USS Wasp, family lived until about 1768. an aircraft carrier. Earl was then About that same time, Abigail assigned to Admiral Nimitz’s died. Supposedly, the Indians staff. Following the war, Earl killed her and a baby, but this worked for the U.S. Postal Service seems unlikely at that time. in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, and Samuel then moved to continues working as a Freelance Milford, Massachusetts, and there Writer. Avis worked in Retail married Sarah Gould. Sarah died Sales. sometime in late 1775 or early The Pickerings purchased a 1776. He next moved to Medway, parcel of land that had once been Massachusetts, and married a part of the Orrin Johnson Farm. third time to the widow, Anna This farm was originally the (Grant) King, daughter of homestead of Perez and Emily William and Elizabeth Grant and Rice, located in the Somerset widow of Robert Grant and (?) Annex of Stratton at the top of King, on February 9, 1777 (also what is now called Penny Avenue. see Grant family). Anna was born

Stratton Families 371 at Holliston, Massachusetts, on she died on February 20, 1825. March 7, 1741. The Pikes were buried in Willis During the American Cemetery in Stratton. Revolution, Samuel served the Children of Anna Grant and her colonies in a Massachusetts first husband Robert Grant were: Company. In 1796, Samuel 1) Joshua, born April 2, 1763, at joined two of his children and his Medway, Massachusetts; died wife in Stratton, settling on land in 1824 at Stratton, Vermont; owned by Anna’s son, Joshua married 1) Eunice Hayward on Grant. A town record announcing July 14, 1785, at Milford, the intention of marriage between Massachusetts 2) Elizabeth the Pike’s daughter, Rhoda and Mitchell. Levi Robbins made in early 1799 2) Nevinson, born January 1, states that she lived in “the Gore,” 1765, at Medway, meaning Stratton Gore - a strip of Massachusetts; married 1) land located directly south of the Sarah Moulton 2) Experience old border - annexed to Stratton in (?). 1799. The old Pike homestead 3) Betsey, born June 16, 1767, at was located within Stratton Gore. Medway, Massachusetts; In 1800, that year’s census married Nathaniel Moulton on indicated that Samuel apparently December 18, 1787, at was not living with Anna. At that Hopkinton, Massachusetts. time, Anna was living with her son, William. William’s twin Children of Samuel and Abigail: sister, Anna, evidently resided 1) Elijah, born May 25, 1751, at there also. Samuel apparently Hopkinton, Massachusetts; was not living in Stratton at the married Mary Brown. time of the census. 2) Abigail, born May 24, 1752, at In August, 1801, Anna Holliston, Massachusetts. purchased 25 acres of lot #1 in 3) Mary, born June 24, 1755, at Stratton Gore from her son, Holliston, Massachusetts; Jotham. She then signed an married Boyce Kimball in agreement with her son-in-law, 1782. Levi Robbins that Levi would live 4) Rachael, born October 7, 1757, there with her. at Holliston, Massachusetts. Samuel may have settled in 5) Samuel, born October 27, Stratton about 1808, since on 1759, at Holliston, December 12, 1808, he took the Massachusetts. Freeman’s oath in Stratton. 6) Reuben, born February 9, By 1810, the Pikes had all 1762, at Holliston, settled in Somerset, in what is Massachusetts; died December now called Pike Hollow. Samuel 22, 1781. died on November 15, 1815. 7) Aaron, born May 20, 1764, at Anna evidently was living with Holliston, Massachusetts; her son, William, in 1820, and married Anna Goodell.

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8) Moses, born December 28, 17) Rhoda, born September 13, 1767, at Holliston, 1782, at Medway, Massachusetts; married Sarah Massachusetts; married Levi (?). Robbins on April 21, 1799, at Stratton, Vermont. Children of Samuel and Sarah: 9) Ruth, born at Milford, Notes: An account of Samuel’s son, William Massachusetts Grant Pike, states that Samuel was the 10) Oliver, born at Milford, son of Reuben Pike, but the official Pike Massachusetts genealogy and Pike Family Assoc. stated this to be wrong and pointed out town 11) Sarah, born at Milford, records and additional accounts by Massachusetts, married Levi Samuel’s descendants. The account of Edson. W.G. Pike also said his mother, Anna 12) Nathaniel, born at Milford, Grant was a daughter of William Grant, but in the same sentence says she married Massachusetts; married Nancy William Grant and had children from this Cutler. marriage: Joshua, Nevinson, and Betsy. 13) Elihu, born September 9, Her first husband was Robert Grant according to town records. 1775, at Milford, I believe the entire story was greatly Massachusetts; married Mercy confused and that the Pike genealogy Keeler. given here is correct. Another account stated that Samuel had 21 children. If Anna’s children by Children of Samuel and Anna: her previous marriage are taken into 14) William Grant (twin), born account as well as the baby killed at the time of his first wife’s death, then the sum November 27, 1777, at of all their children would be 21. Medway, Massachusetts; died September 9, 1865, at William Grant Pike, son of Somerset, Vermont; married Samuel and Anna Pike, was born Myranda Scott on May 4, November 27, 1777, at Medway, 1802, at Stratton, Vermont. Massachusetts. William came to 15) Anna Grant (twin), born Stratton with his mother, Anna, November 27, 1777, at and brother, Jotham, in November Medway, Massachusetts; 1795. They settled into a log married Joel Clark (of cabin above Pike Hollow just Worcester, New York) on within the old southern boundary February 20, 1814, at Stratton, of Stratton known as Stratton Vermont. Gore (the site of their cabin, 16) Jotham, born March 21, 1780, located on what is now Willis at Medway, Massachusetts; Cemetery Rd., was later called the died May 30, 1858, at Henry Eddy Place and it is now Somerset, Vermont; married 1) owned by the Harlow family). At Hannah Goodell, on December that time, this property was 3, 1801, at Somerset, Vermont apparently owned by their half- 2) Anna H. (Smith) Riand on brother, Joshua Grant. March 13, 1837, at Somerset, In 1796, the Pike brothers Vermont. were joined by their father,

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Samuel. By 1800, William had William and his family were settled into a house of his own. listed in Stratton’s census of 1820. Apparently, his mother and his In 1821, William sold a lot in the twin sister lived with him at that southeast corner of Stratton Gore time. William’s father evidently to his son-in-law, Levi Knight. was not in Stratton at that time. Levi built a sawmill there, located William married Myranda just across the road from Scott, daughter of Ira and Submit William’s dwelling. William Scott, on May 4, 1802, at Stratton. reacquired this site and he Myranda was born on October 1, apparently resettled there about 1781, at Montague, 1825. William built another Massachusetts. On June 22, 1803, sawmill on the location of William purchased 150 acres of Knight’s mill in 1835 (remains the northeast corner of Somerset, can still be seen below the Jepson Vermont, from Luke Knowlton house near Penny Avenue). At and had built a sawmill on the that time, William evidently brook there about 1805. By 1807, resettled back across the line in William had settled on this lot. Somerset, but exactly where his His house may have been on the home was located has not been site later occupied by AH Pike – determined. He may have built see Beer’s Atlas of 1869 (currently, and settled on the adjacent lot, owned by the Marcuccis). later owned and occupied by his William continued to buy and nephew AH Pike (currently the sell large amounts of land in home of the Marcuccis). If that Stratton during the years that was the case, he removed from followed. William was called “of that farm by 1838. In 1844, Stratton” in 1813, when he William sold at least some of his purchased additional acreage, property, including the mill, the called the Goodell lot. At that house, barn and a lime house all same time he also purchased more located above the mill, to Rufus of the old Moulton farm and some Lyman, another of his son-in- land from Nevinson Grant, his laws. half-brother. William probably Myranda became a member lived on the east lot. His house of the Church of Christ in Stratton was located opposite what is now on August 14, 1814, and on the intersection of Pike Hollow August 31, 1817, William was Rd. and Penny Ave.. baptized and taken into the In 1817, the town paid church. Church records indicate William for putting water bars in that they were active in church the road between his home and his affairs; however, on September 3, brother, Jotham’s home in 1823, William, Myranda, and Somerset (located opposite Pike their daughter Fanny were Hollow Cemetery near the end of accused of not attending services Pike Hollow Rd.). regularly. This resulted in their

Stratton Families 374 excommunication from the church 3) Elizabeth Arms, born July 22, the following year. 1807; married (Norman?) In 1889, his daughter, Taylor (moved to Iowa). Myranda Underwood, reminisced 4) Rhoda, born December 21, about William standing with the 1810; married William Howe family around the dinner table on October 8, 1829, at each night, with hands joined in Stratton, Vermont (moved to prayer. She remembered that he Iowa). always held his youngest 5) Myranda, born November 10, daughter, Mary’s hand, once she 1813, at Stratton, Vermont; was old enough to participate. died in August 1889, at Mary died just before her fourth Chrome, Colorado; married birthday. Myranda remembered Phineas Underwood (of that one evening after Mary’s Oswego, New York) on April death, William had to leave the 12, 1830, at Stratton, Vermont table, as he could not touch her (settled in Minnesota). hand. 6) Priscilla Elvira, born August 4, William was a prominent 1816; died September 16, citizen of Stratton and Somerset. 1816. He bought and sold numerous 7) Tryphena, born December 3, parcels within Stratton during his 1817, at Stratton, Vermont lifetime and he was a stockholder (baptized in Stratton on in the Stratton Turnpike August 2, 1818); died March Company. William and Myranda 9, 1899, at Stratton, Vermont; lived out their latter years with the married Rufus Lyman on Lyman family. Myranda passed October 15, 1839, at Stratton, away there on October 22, 1852. Vermont. William died there on September 8) Mary (or Mercy) Fairbank, 9, 1865, of typhoid fever. The born October 11, 1821, at Pikes were buried in Willis Stratton, Vermont (baptized in Cemetery. Stratton on June 2, 1822); died Their children were: October 4, 1825, at Stratton, 1) Isaac Newton, born February Vermont. 14, 1803; died May 5, 1884; married 1) Jane Holt Stiles on Isaac Newton Pike, son of April 12, 1830 2) Charlotte William and Myranda Pike, was Bewsey on April 2, 1874. born on February 14, 1803. He 2) Fanny Elmeda, born remained with his parents during September 25, 1804 (baptized his early life and he took the in Stratton on August 31, Freeman’s oath in Stratton on 1817); died July 31, 1887; September 7, 1828. Isaac married married Levi Knight on Jane Holt Stiles of Charlestown, December 4, 1822, at Stratton, New Hampshire, on April 12, Vermont. 1830. Apparently, she was a daughter of Moses and Mary

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(Holt) Stiles, and sister of William Stratton and attending school Holt Stiles of Stratton. there. The Pikes settled in Pike Jane died on April 7, 1872. Hollow on the Somerset side of Isaac then married Charlotte the town line, then in 1835, Isaac Bewsey on April 2, 1874. He died purchased 50 acres of the east half on May 5, 1884, and he was of 1L1R in Stratton, along the buried in the Pike’s Falls Wardsboro line (apparently this Cemetery, located on the Pike was the farm later owned by farm in Jamaica. Ralph Pike and now owned by Children of Isaac and Jane were: Charles Whitney). The Pikes 1) Olive Stiles, born March 29, settled thereon for several years. 1831, at Somerset, Vermont; In 1841, Isaac sold this land to died August 6, 1874; married Calvin Taylor. At that same time, 1) William Henry Moulton 2) Isaac purchased the Randall farm Oscar Knight. - 75 acres of the northwest corner 2) Norman Taylor, born of 2L3R (previously owned and September 13, 1832, at occupied by Pardon Wellman). Somerset, Vermont; died in This farm was located on the old Andersonville Prison, road that ran from Somerset to Andersonville, Georgia (a Winhall (the County Rd.). They Confederate prisoner of war lived there until June, 1847, when camp) on November 30, 1864. Isaac sold this farm and moved to 3) Rhoda Stiles, born September Jamaica, Vermont, in the Pike’s 1, 1834, at Somerset, Falls area, which was named for Vermont; died September 26, him. There, Isaac built a farm 1913; married 1) William and a sawmill. He operated this Howe 2) Elihu Bingham on mill for nearly thirty years. August 22, 1900. Isaac practiced law - a fact 4) Henry Kimball, born June 20, often reflected by Stratton’s land 1836, at Somerset, Vermont; records. He also was an died December 7, 1894, at apprentice-trained physician, Stratton, Vermont; married following the “Thompsonian Sarah C. Bourn. doctrine” In a letter written by 5) Calvin Newton, born February Isaac’s sister, Myranda 6, 1838, at Somerset, Underwood to another sister, Vermont; died June 21, 1923; Tryphena Lyman in 1860, married 1) Emeline R. Wilder Myranda refers to the fact that on January 2, 1862 2) Sarah C. Isaac is a Millerite – a religious (Bourn) Pike (widow of his affiliation from which the Seventh brother, Henry) on September Day Adventists began. 20, 1900 3) Lora G. In 1847, two of the Pikes’ Maranville on June 19, 1910. children, Rhoda and Henry, were 6) Daniel Webster, born July 13, living with William S. Stiles in 1840, at Somerset, Vermont;

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died October 9, 1840, at died on November 30, 1864. Stratton, Vermont. Norman was reinterred in the 7) Silas, born August 30, 1841, at National Cemetery there. Somerset, Vermont; died May 31, 1923, at Williamsville, Henry Kimball Pike, son of Isaac Vermont; married Lestina F. and Jane Pike, was born on June Bailey on January 1, 1865. 20, 1836, at Somerset, Vermont. 8) Betsy Amanda, born May 26, In 1847, he was living with 1844, at Somerset, Vermont; William S. Stiles. died October 30, 1923; Henry married Sarah C. married Milton E. Allen on Bourn, daughter of Abraham and July 13, 1867. Catherine (Sage) Bourn of 9) Oscar, born December 11, Jamaica, Vermont. Sarah was 1848, at Somerset, Vermont; born in April, 1836, at Jamaica. drowned June 30, 1850. The Pikes lived in Jamaica until 1892. That year, Henry purchased Norman Taylor Pike, son of 11L1R and settled on this lot. Isaac and Jane Pike, was born on They evidently lived in the house September 13, 1832, at Stratton. along Pikes Falls Rd. on the Jamaica border. Henry died on December 7, 1894, at Stratton. In 1900, Sarah was head of a household that included her daughter and son-in-law, Sarah and Royal Clayton, her granddaughter, Linda, aged three, her nephew, George F. Bourn, aged 31, and Harry White, aged seven. Within a few months of the census, Sarah married her widowed brother-in-law, Calvin Norman Taylor Pike N. Pike, on September 20, 1900, at Stratton. She sold 11L1R to Photo courtesy of the Ethel Eddy Collection. her son-in-law, Royal Clayton. Sarah died there on October 2, During the Civil War, 1904. Norman enlisted on September 2, Children of Henry and Sarah: 1861, and he was placed into the 1) Sarah M., born in March, Vermont 4th Regiment, Company 1874, at Jamaica, Vermont; I. Norman was taken prisoner on died on April 20, 1957, at June 23, 1864, during an Brattleboro, Vermont; married engagement at Weldon Railroad, Royal M. Clayton in 1892. Virginia. He was taken to the Confederate Prison of Andersonville, Georgia, where he

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Calvin Newton Pike, son of Isaac Sarah died on October 4, and Jane Pike, was born on 1904, and she was buried in February 6, 1838, at Somerset, Pike’s Falls Cemetery. Vermont. Calvin took the Calvin’s third wife was Lora Freeman’s oath in Stratton in G. Maranville, whom he married September, 1859, and he lived for on June 19, 1910. Calvin died on a time with A. H. Pike in Pike June 21, 1923, at the home of his Hollow. By 1869, Calvin had daughter, Viola Mehuron in South settled in the Pike’s Falls area, in Londonderry, Vermont. Calvin the far northeast corner of was buried in Pike’s Falls Stratton. Cemetery. Calvin was a farmer and a Children of Calvin and Emaline: surveyor. He was an active 1) Eugene N., born January 25, member of the Seventh Day 1863; died July 25, 1864. Adventist church in Jamaica, 2) Leon M. Sawyer (adopted), Vermont. It was said that his born August 5, 1865. initials CNP meant Careful - Nice 3) Nellie Emma, born February and Particular. 13, 1865, at Jamaica, Calvin first married Emeline Vermont; died September 13, Rosina Wilder, daughter of James 1867, at Stratton, Vermont. and Rosina Wilder, on January 2, 4) Gracie Maybelle, born October 1862. Emeline was born about 12, 1870, at Stratton, 1838. In 1880, the Pikes also had Vermont; died on February 14, a boy, Leon M. Sawyer, aged 14, 1935, at Rutland, Vermont living with them and listed as a (buried in Pike’s Falls servant. Evidently, they had Cemetery); married George W. adopted him or they were Harris on August 25, 1890. considered to be his foster- 5) Nettie Betsy J., born July 21, parents. 1875, at Stratton, Vermont; Emeline died on February 20, married Clarence A. Lowe on 1900. She was buried in the August 1, 1895, at Stratton, Pike’s Falls Cemetery in Jamaica. Vermont. That year, at the time of the 6) Viola Gertrude, born October census, Calvin was living with his 6, 1880; died in 1923 (buried sister, Rhoda. Within a few in Pike’s Falls Cemetery); months, though, Calvin married a married Ben H. Mehuron on second time to Sarah C. (Bourn) December 11, 1898. Pike, widow of his brother, Henry, and the daughter of Abraham and Silas Pike, son of Isaac and Jane Catherine (Sage) Bourn. They Pike, was born on August 30, were married on September 20, 1841, at Somerset, Vermont. In 1900. Sarah was born in April, his early life, Silas was a cooper, 1836. and then worked as a carpenter. He married Lestina F. Bailey of Winhall on January 1, 1865.

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They lived in Windham, half-brother, at the time the Pikes Vermont, and attended the settled in Stratton. Seventh Day Advent Church in In 1796, the Pike brothers Townshend. were joined by their father, Lestina died in June, 1907, Samuel. By 1800, Jotham had and Silas followed on May 31, built a place of his own within 1923, at Williamsville, Vermont, Stratton and he was living there at the home of his son, Royal. He alone that year. On June 29, had received an electrical shock at 1801, he purchased this lot, 25 the home of his daughter, Jessie, acres in lot #1 in Stratton Gore, in South Newfane, just before his from his half-brother, Nevinson death. Silas was buried in Pike’s Grant. In August, 1801, he sold Fall Cemetery. this lot to his mother who settled Children of Silas and Lestina: there. 1) Alta Jotham married Hannah 2) Albert E. Goodell, a daughter of Jacob 3) Royal I, born July 9, 1876, at Goodell, on December 3, 1801. Windham, Vermont; died June Hannah was born on July 13, 10, 1932, at South Newfane, 1781. Vermont; married Bertha Field Jotham apparently settled on November 25, 1920 (she within Pike Hollow on the died August 16, 1893). Somerset side of the border in 4) Jessie, born September 25, 1802. On January 14, 1805, 1887, at Windham, Vermont; Jotham purchased 97 acres from died September 3, 1976, at Zebulon Goss in Somerset, Vernon, Vermont; married described as south of Willis’s land Frank C. Smead. in Somerset. It is unclear if a farm existed on this site when Jotham Pike, son of Samuel and Goss owned it; but, Jotham Anna Pike, was born at Medway, probably built there. This farm Massachusetts, on March 21, was his home for the next 30+ 1780. He came to Stratton with years. It was located at the end of his mother and brother, William, what is now Pike Hollow Rd (see in November, 1795. They settled M. Pike on McClellan’s Map of into a log cabin in Pike Hollow 1856 and Beer’s Atlas of 1869) just within the old southern and it is currently owned by the boundary of Stratton known as Bills family. In 1807, Jotham Stratton Gore (the site of their added to his farm by purchasing cabin, located on what is now 50 acres from his brother and 57 Willis Cemetery Road, was later acres from John Holbrook. called the Henry Eddy Place and it Jotham’s farm surrounded the is now owned by the Harlow south and east side of the Willis family). This lot apparently was farm (apparently two lots with a owned by Joshua Grant, their common point in the brook at Willis’s southeast corner).

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Stratton’s Town Records describe Manchester, Vermont. He and a road between this place and the Anna were living in Grafton, home of William Pike to the Vermont, between 1846 and 1850. northeast in 1817. This was Pike On January 1, 1850, Jotham Hollow Rd.. purchased back the east end of his Jotham was elected to several old farm from his son AH Pike. positions within the Somerset This was a 75-acre section town government, including subdivided from AH Pike’s farm, Treasurer of Somerset from 1817 - located east of the Somerset to 1821, and Town Clerk in 1823. Winhall Rd., and north of what is On February 3, 1834, Jotham now Pike Hollow Rd. Jotham purchased 42 square rods - the settled into the house there southwest corner of Samuel (probably built by AH Pike). The Willis’s farm - to use as a house was located on the site cemetery, since some of his where D. R. Holton currently grandchildren were already buried lives. Jotham remained there there. On December 17, 1834, until 1853. That year, he sold the Jotham sold an undivided half of house and lot to Sarah King, wife the east end of his farm to his son, of Henry King, and he probably Alexander H. Pike, who settled on settled in with one of his sons. this lot. Jotham passed away on May 30, Hannah passed away on 1858. He was buried in Pike September 22, 1836, at Pike Hollow Cemetery. Hollow and she was buried in Pike Children of Jotham and Hannah: Hollow Cemetery. Jotham then 1) Joseph, born September 27, married Anna H. (Smith) Riand 1802, at Somerset, Vermont; (possibly Rand) on March 13, died September 11, 1877, at 1837, at Somerset. She was said Somerset, Vermont; married to be of Stratton at the time of the Salome Hale on May 4, 1828, marriage. at Stratton, Vermont. In 1837, Jotham sold his 2) Emily, born December 12, remaining interest in the east end 1803, at Somerset, Vermont; of the farm to his son, Alexander died January 24, 1886, at H. Pike, except that he reserved Stratton, Vermont; married half the orchard for his own use. Perez Rice on June 2, 1822, at That same year, Jotham sold the Somerset, Vermont. remainder of the farm, including 3) Eunice, born July 23, 1806, at his dwelling house, to Hosea and Somerset, Vermont; married William Mann of Dover. It Shadrach B. Rice on October appears though that his son, 24, 1830, at Somerset, Moses remained on this farm. Vermont (lived in New York). Moses purchased it back in 1839. 4) Moses, born May 18, 1808, at After selling his farm, Jotham Somerset, Vermont; died apparently left Stratton at that December 7, 1882, at Stratton, time and briefly settled in Vermont; married Dorcas

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Chase Grout on November 23, and Mercy Hale, on May 4, 1828, 1831, at Stratton, Vermont. at Stratton. Salome was born 5) Alexander Hamilton, born there on August 8, 1804. February 12, 1810, at Joseph purchased several Somerset, Vermont; died July tracts of land, located west and 9, 1902, at Stratton, Vermont; north of what is now Pike Hollow married 1) Elvira Rice on Rd.. In 1824, Joseph purchased December 12, 1834, at the west 50 acres of the Willis Somerset, Vermont 2) farm, which his father had Elizabeth Mary Ballard on July purchased from Samuel Willis. 4, 1844, at Somerset, Vermont The dividing line between Willis’s 3) Arathusa Miranda (Hagar) remaining farm and Joseph’s new Allen in 1888. farm began on Pike Hollow Rd. at 6) Louisa, born April 11, 1812, at the west line of what was later Somerset, Vermont; died on Pike Hollow Cemetery and November 29, 1866, at continued north to Somerset’s Somerset, Vermont; married north border. Joseph owned the Hollis Town on October 27, west side of this line and it was 1830, at Somerset. the lot that Joseph settled upon. 7) Anna, born July 27, 1814, at This site was later called the Somerset, Vermont; married Estabrook farm (see HW Nahor Howard Jr. (of Jamaica, Estabrook on Beer’s Atlas of Vt.) on October 3, 1836, at 1869), located north, beyond the Stratton, Vermont. farm of his brother, Moses Pike, 8) Samuel, born June 22, 1816, at in the Somerset Annex (Pike Somerset, Vermont; died Hollow). November 21, 1897; married Until 1858, the Pikes were Sarah Maranda Goodell on considered citizens of Somerset. September 27, 1843. On March 7, 1834, Joseph 9) Jotham, born April 30, 1821, purchased the farm of his father- at Somerset, Vermont; married in-law, Levi Hale - the east half of Mariah Ballard (intent 4L8R, located along what is now published on December 6, the Grout Pond Access Rd.. He 1847, at Stratton, Vermont - sold this lot to Othniel Temple in they lived at Worcester, 1851 (see O. Temple on Massachusetts). McClellan’s map of 1856. Joseph 10) Hannah Maria, born March 3, also purchased land adjacent to 1823, at Somerset, Vermont; this lot - the west half of 4L7R. married Franklin J. Prentiss. Joseph was listed in the 1860 and 1870 censuses of Stratton, Joseph Pike, son of Jotham and living near his brother, Moses, but Hannah Pike, was born on the McClellan map of 1856 does September 27, 1802, at Somerset, not show his farm and Beer’s Vermont. There, he married Atlas of 1869 shows it as the Salome Hale, daughter of Levi Estabrook farm.

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Salome was an active member on September 9, 1860); died of the Church of Christ in August 4, 1921; married Stratton. She had retained a copy Leicester Cushman. of the Church covenant that was 8) Morilla M., born May 9, 1841, later copied for record on August at Somerset, Vermont 15, 1868. Salome was a member (baptized in Stratton by of this church until it was immersion on August 6, dissolved about 1874. 1859); died November 22, Joseph died on September 11, 1861, at Stratton, Vermont. 1877, at Somerset and Salome 9) Emily A., born July 23, 1846, died on February 22, 1884. They at Somerset, Vermont; died were buried in Pike Hollow April 7, 1852, at Somerset, Cemetery. Vermont. Children of Joseph and Salome: 1) (infant) twin, died April 22, Moses Pike, son of Jotham and 1828, at Somerset, Vermont. Hannah Pike, was born in 2) (infant) twin, died January 8, Somerset, Vermont, on May 18, 1830, at Somerset, Vermont. 1808, evidently within the 3) Joseph Alexander, born farmhouse where he lived out October 12, 1831, at Somerset, most of his life. In 1829, Moses Vermont. and his brother-in-law, Hollis 4) Adelia Salome, born Town, purchased some of Jotham September 25, 1833, at Pike’s land. Hollis sold his share Somerset, Vermont; died on of the lot to Moses and so Moses February 5, 1913, in Amherst, may have settled there briefly. Massachusetts; married 1) Moses married Dorcas Chase Abel K. Estabrook on Grout, daughter of Abel and November 20, 1856 2) Henry Theodocia Grout, on November William Estabrook. 23, 1831, at Stratton. The 5) Joanna R., born December 27, ceremony was performed by 1835, at Somerset, Vermont; Richard Scott, Stratton’s Justice of died April 29, 1837, at the Peace. Dorcas was born on Somerset, Vermont. January 20, 1812 at Stratton. 6) Hannah Rosetta, born July 15, Moses and Dorcas may have 1837, in Somerset, Vermont first settled on Moses’ lot or (became a member of the perhaps they lived with Moses’ Church of Christ in Stratton parents after the marriage. After, on June 6, 1858); died August Moses’ mother’s death, his father, 19, 1891, at Stratton, Jotham, sold the farm to Hosea Vermont; married Henry W. and William Mann of Dover. Estabrook on February 7, Moses also sold his lot to the 1859. Manns at that same time. It 7) Joanna Marena, born February appears, though, that Moses 25, 1839, at Somerset, remained on his father’s farm. He Vermont (baptized in Stratton purchased it from the Manns in

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1839 and remained there Somerset, Vermont; married afterward (see M. Pike on James Grout at Somerset, McClellan’s Map of 1856 and Vermont. Beer’s Atlas of 1869). This 3) Samuel Ludovic, born January farmhouse currently belongs to 21, 1835, at Somerset, the Bills family. Vermont; died October 25, Moses was elected Constable 1908, at Warwick, of Somerset in 1830, 1831, 1838, Massachusetts; married Mary and 1839. He was Town Clerk of Fry on March 17, 1871, at Somerset from 1834 to 1836. Newfane, Vermont. Dorcas became a member of the 4) Lyman Batchellor, born Church of Christ in Stratton on January 15, 1837, at Somerset, November 4, 1838. Vermont; killed at the battle of In 1860, Moses and Dorcas Monocacy Junction, Maryland, were listed in Stratton’s census on July 9, 1864; married Delia with five of their children and Howe on August 15, 1860, at their son, Lyman’s wife Delia, Wardsboro, Vermont. living with them. In 1870, three 5) Melvin Fitts Allen, born of their children and their son March 18, 1839, at Somerset, Abel’s wife, Isabel, were living Vermont; died December 23, there. By 1880, Moses had turned 1882, at Wardsboro, Vermont; the farm over to his son Abel. married Sarah Allen on That year, Moses was listed as August 15, 1860, at still living with Abel on the farm, Wardsboro, Vermont. but Dorcas was not accounted for 6) Melvina Mandana, born April there. Evidently, Moses and 11, 1841, at Somerset, Dorcas had separated during their Vermont; died December 25, latter years, but they did not 1920, at Newfane, Vermont; divorce, instead, they occupied married Lewis Bills on separate parts of the house for a December 28, 1861, at time. Dorcas apparently moved Stratton, Vermont. out of the house and into the home 7) Martha Jane, born March 29, of AH Pike, Moses’ brother. 1843, at Somerset, Vermont; Dorcas died at Stratton, on died August 14, 1911, at September 27, 1881, and Moses Newfane, Vermont; married followed on December 7, 1882. Joel Grout on January 1, 1866, Both were buried in Pike Hollow at Stratton, Vermont. Cemetery. 8) Moses Wesley, born May 17, Children of Moses and Dorcas: 1844, at Somerset, Vermont; 1) (a son), born August 18, 1832, died March 19, 1852, at at Somerset, Vermont; died the Somerset, Vermont. same day. 9) Abel Jotham, born August 5, 2) Caroline Amelia, born July 24, 1846, at Somerset, Vermont; 1833, at Somerset, Vermont; died October 28, 1917; died October 23, 1861, at married Isabel R. Allen on

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January 1, 1868, at Newfane, Delia did housework for various Vermont. people until about 1863. 10) Joseph Grant, born December During the Civil War, Lyman 23, 1850, at Somerset, enlisted at Manchester, Vermont, Vermont; died May 27, 1853, on June 5, 1862, and mustered at Somerset, Vermont. into Company E of the Vermont 11) Inez Theodosia, born 10th Regiment on September 1, September 12, 1855, at 1862. In 1863, he wrote home Somerset, Vermont; died expressing his concerns about all November 1, 1928, at the deaths in Stratton that resulted Brattleboro, Vermont; married from the diphtheria epidemic of 1) George F. Baker 2) Elmer that year. He believed it to be Albert Eddy on June 5, 1880, “God’s wrath.” Lyman attained at Shushan, New York. the rank of sergeant before he was killed at the battle of Monocacy Samuel Ludovic Pike, son of Junction, Maryland, on July 9, Moses and Dorcas Pike, was born 1864. on January 21, 1835, at Somerset, After Lyman had enlisted, Vermont. Ludovic, as he was Delia continued to perform called, became a member of the housework in various homes, then Church of Christ in Stratton on she worked at a textile mill in August 7, 1859. Grafton, Vermont, while she lived Ludovic married Mary Fry, in a boarding house nearby. daughter of Calvin Fry, on March A child of Lyman and Delia was: 17, 1871, at Stratton. Mary was 1) B. Wesley, born January 6, born at Orange, Massachusetts, on 1861, at Stratton, Vermont. August 11, 1835. Samuel died October 25, 1908, at Warwick, Melvin Fitts Allen Pike, son of Massachusetts, and Mary followed Moses and Dorcas Pike, was born on January 3, 1923. on March 18, 1839, at Somerset, Vermont. Melvin married Sarah Lyman Batchellor Pike, son of Allen, daughter of Charles and Moses and Dorcas Pike, was born Eunice (Harrington) Allen, on on January 15, 1837, at Somerset, August 15, 1860, at Wardsboro, Vermont. He married Delia Howe Vermont. Melvin died on of Jamaica, Vermont, on August December 23, 1882, at 15, 1860, at Wardsboro, Vermont. Wardsboro. Delia was born about 1840. After the marriage, the Pikes first lived with Lyman’s parents and they were listed there on the 1860 census of Stratton. Eventually, they settled in Manchester, Vermont, where

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Moses Pike Dorcas Chase (Grout) Pike (1808 – 1882) (1812 – 1881)

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Samuel Pike Sarah Miranda (Goodell) Pike (1816 – 1897) (1820 – 1883)

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Louisa (Pike) Towne Hollis Towne (1812 – 1866)

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Samuel Ludovic Pike Lyman B. and Delia (Howe) (1835 – 1908) Pike

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Abel Jotham Pike Isabel (Allen) Pike (1846 – 1917) (1847 – 1933)

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Edgar and Emogene (Knight) Ernest Pike Pike (1876 – 1935)

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Abel J. Pike with his granddaughters

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Ralph and Rose Pike Family in 1943 [Front l-r]: Howard Whitney, Marcia Robinson, Charles Whitney, Jr. [Middle l-r]: Olive and Ivan Robinson, Pearl Lavoie, Arlene Whitney, Rose Pike [Back l-r]: Charles Whitney, Paul Lavoie, John Thomas, Ralph Pike

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Abel Jotham Pike, son of Moses 1899, at Stratton, Vermont and Dorcas Pike, was born on (divorced) 2) Wilma (?). August 5, 1846, at Somerset, 4) Emeline Isabel, born Vermont, and he married Isabel September 6, 1881, at Stratton, R. Allen on January 1, 1868, at Vermont; died August 12, Newfane, Vermont. Isabel, the 1912; married Henry W. daughter of Charles and Eunice Lackey on June 30, 1900, at (Harrington) Allen, was born at Stratton, Vermont. Wardsboro on August 30, 1847. Abel and “Bell” lived on the Edgar Leslie Pike, son of Abel family farm (see Moses Pike and Isabel Pike, was born on House) at the end of Pike Hollow March 23, 1873, at Stratton. He Rd., which he bought on March married Emogene Knight, 10, 1871. He was listed as head daughter of Andrew Dexter and E. of that household in 1880, with Annette Knight, on January 1, his family, his father and his 1893, there. Emogene was born sister, Inez, all living there. Isabel January 17, 1872, at Stratton. She became a member of the Church was disabled for most of her adult of Christ in Stratton on October life. 18, 1874. Edgar lived on a farm in Abel died on October 28, West Wardsboro, close to the 1917, at Somerset, Vermont, and Stratton line, located along what Belle continued to live at the is now Vt. Rt. 100 as it leaves house with their son, Ernest. Bell West Wardsboro Village and died on October 7, 1933, at heads toward the Stratton border. Stratton. Both were buried in He was a farmer and a teamster at Pike Hollow Cemetery. the time of his marriage. Edgar Children of Abel and Belle were: died in 1921. 1) Edith Ann, born December 3, Emogene spent some time 1870, at Stratton, Vermont; living with her son, Ralph, in died April 30, 1894, at Stratton. She died in 1957 at Stratton, Vermont; married Chesterfield, New Hampshire. Frank B. Kidder on April 21, They were both buried in the West 1894, at Stratton, Vermont. Wardsboro Cemetery. 2) Edgar Leslie, born March 23, Children of Edgar and Emogene: 1873, at Stratton, Vermont; 1) Ralph Edgar, born July 9, died in 1921; married 1895, at Stratton, Vermont; Emogene Knight on January 1, died March 27, 1975; married 1893, at Stratton, Vermont. Rosa Mae (Smith) Robinson 3) Ernest Charles, born June 24, on September 1, 1915, at 1876, at Stratton, Vermont; Brattleboro, Vermont. died November 30, 1935, at 2) Mirth Edith, born December Brattleboro, Vermont; married 12, 1896, at Stratton, 1) Alice M. Waite on June 3, Vermont; died April 10, 1983; married Robert Hromada.

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3) Corene, born December 26, Arlington Rd. on the Wardsboro 1903; died July 21, 1994; town line. The barn and well married Raymond Underwood were on the opposite side of the (lived at Chesterfield, New road. It had previously been the Hampshire). home of Caroline Stiles. This 4) Marjorie E., born May 13, house still exists and it is 1908; died March 2, 1992 currently owned by Charles C. (lived in Stockbridge, Whitney, Jr., a grandson of Ralph Massachusetts). and Rose. Following the death of Ralph’s father, his mother, Emogene, lived with Ralph and Rose. Ralph also took over his father’s farm in Wardsboro, which he maintained for the next several years. Ralph was Stratton’s Representative to the Vermont State Legislature for 4 years. He also served as a justice of the peace, town moderator, school director, constable, and road commissioner for many years. Ralph served as a Selectman of Stratton from several years. He also was instrumental in moving Mirth (Pike) Hromada schoolhouse #5 from its original (1896 - 1983) location to its current location, Ralph Edgar Pike, son of Edgar beside the meetinghouse. and Emogene Pike, was born on Rose was very active in town July 9, 1895, at Stratton. He and church activities. She also married Rosa Mae (Smith) loved to grow flowers and Robinson on September 1, 1915, provided flowers for many local at Brattleboro, Vermont, and they events. moved to Stratton soon after their Rose died on February 21, marriage. Rose was born on April 1974, and Ralph followed on 6, 1892, in Woodville, New March 27, 1975. They were Hampshire, daughter of Nathan buried in the West Wardsboro and Esther (Williams) Smith. She Cemetery. was widowed by Perle Robinson Children of Perle and Rose of Wardsboro, whom she had Robinson were: married on July 3, 1909 (see 1) Melvin H. Robinson, born May Robinson Family). 22, 1910; died in December, The Pikes’ home was located 1934. on the north side of the Stratton-

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Raymond and Corene Underwood and children

Photo courtesy of Charles Whitney, Jr. Ralph Pike (1895 – 1975) Ernest Charles Pike, son of Abel and Isabel Pike, was born on June Photo courtesy of Charles Whitney, Jr. 24, 1876, at Stratton. Ernest 2) Emmons W. Robinson, born married Alice M. Waite, daughter August 8 1912, at Stratton, of M.V.B. (Martin Van Buren), Vermont; died November 16, and Emeret J. (Edwell) Waite on 1974; married Ruby June 3, 1899, at Stratton. Winchester on December 22, Ernest settled on his father’s 1931. farm at the end of Pike Hollow 3) Ivan P. Robinson, born on Rd.. There, he farmed for most August 9, 1914; died May 5, all of his life. Ernest was also 1991; married Olive Knapp. very active in Stratton town affairs. He was elected Stratton’s Children of Ralph and Rose Pike: Representative - a Republican - 1) Mirth Arlene, born January 29, for the 1906/7 term. He was a 1916; died July 13, 1995; justice of the peace from 1904 to married Charles C. Whitney. 1906, school director from 1903 2) Marie Esther, born March 15, to 1906, a lister from 1904 to 1920, at Stratton, Vermont; 1906 and also a petit juror in married 1) John Henry 1905. Thomas on March 10, 1942 2) Ernest died at Stratton on Albert Hall on June 11, 1986 November 30, 1935, and he was (lives in Guilford, Vermont). buried in Pike Hollow Cemetery. Children of Ernest and Alice: 1) Wilma Hazel, born December 13, 1902, at Stratton, Vermont.

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2) Herbert E., born June 28, 1837, Hamilton’s father deeded 1908, at Stratton, Vermont; him the other half-interest in this died March 2, 1913, at lot. Stratton, Vermont (drank oil of Hamilton married Elvira cloves and died). Rice, daughter of Ephraim and Virtue (Johnson) Rice, on December 12, 1834, at Somerset. Elvira was born on May 18, 1816, at Brattleboro, Vermont. She bore four children before her death, which occurred on January 16, 1844. Hamilton next married Elizabeth “Mary” Ballard, daughter of Stephen and Sarah Ballard, on July 4, 1844, at Somerset. She was born on August 28, 1826, at Stratton. In 1844, Hamilton built a sawmill on his property. The sawmill dam can still be seen along Pike Hollow Brook, just Herbert Pike upstream of what is now the Steiner’s driveway. The mill site Photo courtesy of the Ethel Eddy Collection can be seen on the south side of Alexander Hamilton Pike, son of the brook and on the east side of Jotham and Hannah Pike, was the driveway. About that same born on February 12, 1810, at time, Hamilton built a home on Somerset, Vermont. He went by the south side of the mill and the name, “Hamilton.” brook (see A Pike on McClellan’s In 1834, Hamilton purchased Map of 1856. It is the farm now an undivided half of 135 acres of owned by the Steiner family. the east half of his father’s farm On January 1, 1850, in Somerset, located east and Hamilton sold his old dwelling south of the old Willis farm. At and the surrounding 75 acres to that time, Hamilton built a his father, Jotham, who had been dwelling on the northeast corner living in Grafton, Vermont. This of the intersection of Pike Hollow deed mentions that the old road Rd. and the Somerset to Winhall (Somerset to Winhall Rd.) ran Rd. (as it was called in Stratton) past the house Hamilton was (see H. King on McClellan’s Map living in, as well as the house he of 1856 and E. Allen on Beer’s was selling to his father. Atlas of 1869). This house was Hamilton and his family lived on the site where DR Holton’s by the mill into the 1860’s. cabin is currently located. In Between 1856 and 1869,

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Hamilton evidently purchased the Hamilton and Mary lost all Crowningshield lot. Since no five of their children to disease. dwelling was indicated on They lost a two-year-old boy in McClellan’s map in 1856, it 1854; two children died during appears that Hamilton built his the diphtheria epidemic of 1863; new home upon the same site in 1865 their daughter Sarah died where the Crowningshield home of typhoid fever; and in 1872 their had existed - perhaps the old son Edward died of bilious fever. house had burned or it was torn Mary died on August 8, 1877, down (see AH Pike located north aged 50 years, 11 months and 11 of the road on Beer’s Atlas of days. 1869). This farm is currently the After Mary’s death, home of the Marcuccis. Hamilton Hamilton’s daughter, Viola remained on this farm for the Willard, who had lost her remainder of his years. husband, moved into the Pike Beer’s Atlas also indicated house with her two children. that AH Pike still owned the They were living there in 1880 as house by the mill. In 1870, was Bertie Harrington, aged 17. Hamilton’s daughter and son-in- Bertie was called a servant in the law, Viola and Russell H. Willard census, but he probably worked in were living in the old house. In the sawmill. 1878, Hamilton rented the farm Hamilton married a third and sawmill to William H. time to Arathusa Miranda (Hagar) Parsons for two years. Then, in Allen, daughter of Aaron and 1881, Hamilton rented this Sarah (Holt) Hagar, and widow of property and 75 acres to Elmer Chester Allen. She was born in Albert Eddy, who agreed to run New Salem, Massachusetts, on the sawmill. Hamilton agreed to September 1, 1820, and she had pay for repairs and all profits from married Chester Allen in 1841. the milling operation were split in Chester died in 1877, and she half between Pike and Eddy. married Hamilton Pike in 1888. Eventually, Hamilton sold the Hamilton died at Stratton on property to Mr. Eddy. July 9, 1902. He and his first two In 1860, following the wives were buried in Pike Hollow annexation of the northeast corner Cemetery. Following AH Pike’s of Somerset to Stratton, death, his heirs deeded his Hamilton’s family was listed in property to Miranda. Miranda the Stratton census. That year, he died on October 26, 1907, and she had taken in his cousin, Calvin was buried in Stratton next to her Pike, aged 22, who probably first husband. worked for Hamilton at the Children of Hamilton and Elvira: sawmill. By 1870, Calvin had 1) Philetus Freeman, born moved away and Frederick Willis, October 29, 1835; died April aged 23, had moved in, probably 29, 1839. to help with the sawmill.

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2) Lomira Goodale, born February 6, 1837, at Somerset, Vermont; married 1) John W. Reid 2) Otis Ward. 3) Viola Augusta, born March 30, 1840, at Somerset, Vermont; married Russell H. Willard. 4) Brenda Elvira, born May 27, 1842, at Somerset, Vermont; married Calvin Welds.

Children of Hamilton and Mary: 5) Sarah Mariah, born August 1, 1847, at Somerset, Vermont; died November 1, 1865, at Stratton, Vermont (of typhoid Elizabeth Mary (Ballard) Pike fever). (1826 – 1877) 6) Mary Rosetta, born January 24, 1849, at Somerset, Photo courtesy of the Ethel Eddy Collection Vermont; died February 11, 1863, at Stratton, Vermont (of Samuel Pike, son of Jotham and diphtheria). Hannah Pike, was born on June 7) Philetus Hamilton, born July 22, 1816, at Somerset, Vermont. 18, 1852, at Somerset, He married Sarah Maranda Vermont; died November 22, Goodell, daughter of William B. 1854. and Tirzah Goodell, on September 8) Edward Freeman, born June 4, 27, 1843. Sarah was born on 1856, at Somerset, Vermont; January 12, 1820. died August 27, 1872, at The Pikes evidently lived in Stratton, Vermont (of bilious Manchester, Vermont. Sarah died fever). on July 19, 1883, and Samuel 9) Eugene P., born June 26, 1858, followed on November 21, 1897. at Somerset, Vermont; died Their children were: February 13, 1863, at Stratton, 1) Louisa Isabel, born November Vermont (of diphtheria). 30, 1844, at Manchester, Vermont; died March 24, (Alice Leonard, wife of Harry Leonard was 1863. named as a surviving heir of AH Pike. She was either his daughter or a granddaughter.) 2) Selina Alma, born July 18, 1846, at Manchester, Vermont; died May 3, 1879. 3) Samuel Edgar, born August 8, 1848, at Manchester, Vermont; married Mary A. (?). 4) Adelbert, born May 9, 1851, at Manchester, Vermont; died

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September 20, 1851, at Additional Sources for the above Pike families: Manchester, Vermont. Genealogical Notes of Ethel Eddy of Stratton Genealogical Notes of Charles Whitney, Jr. Oliver Pike may have been a Daughters of the American Revolution resident of Somerset, Vermont, Patriot’s Index whose wife was named Melinthy. They were apparently married Plimpton about 1837. Henry Clay Plimpton, son of Before that time, Oliver paid Erasmus and Charlotte taxes on the northeast quarter of (Chamberlain) Plimpton was born 7L4R in 1831, and he was deeded on May 27, 1827, at Wardsboro, this lot on February 4, 1834, from Vermont. Henry married Susan a tax-sale. Meanwhile, he had B. Allen, daughter of Ebenezer resided in Stratton and probably and Lucy Allen, on October 7, lived with Elijah and Roxanna 1857, at Stratton. Susan was born Pike. After receiving the deed for there on October 17, 1835. the above named lot, Oliver and The Plimptons settle in Elijah sold it to the Shepardsons Chester, Vermont, where Henry that same year. The Pikes left worked as a carpenter. By 1907, Stratton about that same time. the year of their 50th anniversary, they were still living in Chester. Roxanna Pike was apparently Some of Henry and Susan’s related in some way to Oliver Pike eleven children were: above. Roxanna was living in 1) Nora Ione, born June 23, 1858; Brookline, Vermont, when she married Eugene L. Phelps. purchased the southwest quarter 2) Charles (lived at Langdon, of 1L2R in Stratton on May 29, New Hampshire). 1832, and she apparently settled 3) Allen E. there soon after. The next year, 4) John H. (lived at Bellows she sold this lot to Elijah Pike. Falls, Vermont). She probably left Stratton along 5) Melvina E., born about 1863; with Oliver and Elijah in 1834. married Edgar L. Phelps. 6) (a daughter), married A. A. Elijah Pike1 was apparently French (lived at Saxtons River, related in some way to Oliver Pike Vermont). and Roxanna Pike above. He was 7) (a daughter), married A. L. called “of Stratton” in November, Hamilton (lived at Albany, 1833, when he purchased the New York). southwest quarter of 1L2R in 8) (a daughter), married Eugene Stratton from Roxanna Pike. He Sherman (lived at Acworth, also owned the northeast corner of New Hampshire). 7L4R with Oliver Pike. They sold this lot on March 17, 1834, and Pond apparently left Stratton at that George Pond was probably born time. just before 1810 and his wife,

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Lorinda Baldwin, was born just Company, Colonel Nixon’s after 1810. They settled in Regiment and also in Captain Stratton about 1839. Clayes’ Company of the 6th On December 3, 1839, Massachusetts Regiment. A George purchased 6L7R, the Hill descriptive taken at West Point, farm, which had been previously New York, stated that James was occupied by Luther Purrington. 5’6” tall and he was light The remains of their farm can still complexioned with blue eyes. be seen along the Appalachian James married Lucy Stearns Trail, west of the trail’s at Holden on January 15, 1786. intersection with the IP Road. The Potters came to Stratton in In 1840, their family 1811. On June 19, 1811, James consisted of a son, aged 10 to 15, purchased 50 acres of 5L4R and a daughter, aged 5 to 10 and two 5L5R. This lot was located north daughters under 5. The Ponds of the old town common. They evidently removed to Wardsboro, were warned out of town by the Vermont, about 1841. They were Selectmen on February 10, 1812, buried in the West Wardsboro and served notice by Stratton’s Cemetery. constable on February 27. James One of their five children was: took the Freeman’s oath in 1) Amanda M., born March 21, Stratton on December 7, 1812. 1848, at West Dummerston, The Potters settled in Vermont; died September 17, Arlington, Vermont, before July 1909; married 1) Albert 25, 1814. At that time, James Buonaparte Fitts on December sold their Stratton farm to Joseph 13, 1868 2) Martin Bogle. Austin. Children of James and Lucy Porter included: Abel Porter was born during the 1) James, married Mary (?). 1780s and his wife was born in 2) Samuel, born December 1, the 1790s. They settled in 1797, at Holden, Stratton during the 1830s, but Massachusetts. they had moved out of town before 3) Henry, born about 1801; died 1850. February 7, 1825, at Holden, Massachusetts.

Potter James Potter, Jr., son of James James Potter, son of Henry and and Lucy Potter, came to Stratton Jane Potter, was born at Holden, with his wife, Mary, about 1811, Massachusetts, on May 28, 1758. probably along with his parents. During the American Revolution, The Potters were warned out of James served at various times town by Stratton’s Selectmen on from 1777 to the end of the war. February 10, 1812, and served He served in the Continental notice by the constable on Army from January 1, 1780, February 27. They did not own through 1783 in Captain Holden’s

Stratton Families 396 property in Stratton and, lot on 3L1R on the north side of therefore, evidently lived with Canedy Rd. -- the lot east of the James’s parents, north of the town old Parsons farm. The Powers common. They probably moved family removed from Stratton to Arlington, Vermont in 1814, before 1920. along with James’s parents. Children of John and Anna were: 1) Goldy Anna Elizabeth, born Sarah Ann Potter married Cyrus June 24, 1900, at Stratton, F. Bugby at Stratton on October 6, Vermont. 1839. 2) (a son), stillborn June 2, 1909, at Stratton, Vermont. John Potter, son of John and 3) Truman John, born August 3, Mary (Brown) Potter, was born at 1910, at Stratton, Vermont. Sewell, Massachusetts, about 1864. He married Carrie Norton, Lucina Powers was qualified to daughter of Sidney and Betsey teach in Stratton on June 9, 1846. (Johnson) Norton on April 5, 1894, at Stratton. Carrie was Pratt born in Queensbury, New York, Stephen Pratt and his wife were about 1859, and she had lived at born prior to 1755. They had Glens Falls, New York, prior to moved to Stratton between 1791 the marriage. John was a laborer and 1800. At that time, they and probably worked in one of the probably had one of their children lumber camps at Stratton. and this child’s spouse living with them along with three Powers grandchildren, as evident from the John M. Powers, son of James age groupings given in the census. and Anna (Donnely) Powers, was Stephen did not own land in born in March 1867, at Smiths Stratton, but leased the east half of Basin, New York. He came to the school lot, 8L2R, from the Stratton in the 1890s and worked town, beginning in October, 1798. as a laborer probably in the The Pratts evidently moved to lumber camps. He married Anna Wardsboro South District about E. Thomas, daughter of Henry W. 1803. On March 26, 1804, and Elizabeth (Sage) Thomas, on Stephen Pratt and family were July 24, 1898, at Stratton. Anna warned out of that town. was born at Wilmington, Vermont, in March, 1875. Asa Pratt, probably a son of The Powers settled in Stratton Stephen Pratt, was in Stratton in after the marriage. In 1901, the 1800, living on his own. He local section of the Brattleboro married Betsey Bobbin (probably Reformer reported that John had Robbins) of Somerset (intent of just built a house opposite that of marriage was published at Fred Willis in Stratton. This Stratton on October 11, 1801). appears to have been a four-acre

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Pratt settled in Stratton before On May 5, 1808, Archibald November 1802. In January sold his property - the southeast 1803, Asa purchased 50 acres of corner of 6L4R was sold to the southwest corner of 4L5R, Arnold Cook and the southeast located west of the town common. corner of 7L4R and northeast He apparently had settled on this corner of 6L4R was sold to Isaac lot before he purchased it. The Shepardson. Pratts had moved from Stratton to The Pratts evidently moved Hayne, Washington County, New out of Stratton in 1808, as they York, by April 23, 1810. They were not listed in Stratton’s 1810 may have left Stratton as early as census. They apparently settled in 1805, when Asa sold this lot to Wardsboro, Vermont. Archibald Samuel Moses, Jr. of Dorset, was called of Wardsboro when he Vermont. He repurchased this lot purchased 2L5R in Stratton in in 1810 and resold it to James 1848. Fuller in November, 1812. Wealthy died on September 20, 1864, and Archibald followed Archibald Pratt, possibly a son on September 10, 1868. They of Stephen Pratt, was born in were buried in Fairview Cemetery 1781. He was a resident of in Wardsboro. Stratton at the time he published Their children were: an intent of marriage to Wealthy 1) Melinda Cook of Stratton on April 5, 1801. 2) Elia (probably Eli who was This is the first record of them born about 1804; died being in Stratton. Wealthy was December 31, 1848, and born about 1784 and she was very buried in Fairview Cemetery); likely a daughter of David Cook of married Betsey. Stratton. 3) Louisa (baptized in Stratton on Archibald, a carpenter, along July 18, 1808). with Arnold Cook, who was apparently Archibald’s brother-in- Jabez Pratt and his wife, Becka, law, purchased the east half of settled in Stratton about 1813. 6L4R, on August 18, 1803. They were warned out of town on Archibald also purchased the March 7, 1814, and served notice southeast corner of 7L4R and he on March 11, 1814. Jabez did not probably settled into the farm own land in Stratton and they there. removed from town before 1820. Archibald and Wealthy were taken into the Church of Christ in Zebina Pratt was born about Stratton on November 28, 1804, 1799. His wife, Lucy and they became full members on Goodenough, was born in April 16, 1805. That same day, Guilford, Vermont, in 1803. They their children, Melinda and Elia were married at Leyden, (probably Eli) were baptized. Massachusetts, on June 12, 1820. Zebina was already living in

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Stratton when he purchased the – originally the Samuel Willis east side of 2L1R in Stratton - 95 farm - had previously been acres with a dwelling house and occupied by Adams Grout as log barn - from Royal Mason, on indicated on McClellan’s map of October 8, 1823. An agreement 1856. The Prentisses probably also was made between these two moved there before 1860, renting gentlemen that Zebina would care it from Hannah’s brother, Joseph, for Royal and his wife, Abigail, who owned it at that time. for the remainder of their natural lives. Zebina mortgaged this lot the following month, after which no other mention of Zebina can be found in the town’s records. He apparently moved away from Stratton by 1830. Lucy died at Shutesbury, Massachusetts, on September 15, 1879.

Herbert Pratt was born in Vermont in August, 1875. About 1899, he married Sadie (?). They were not married in Stratton, but settled there within the year. Sadie was born in Vermont in Hannah (Pike) Prentiss April, 1876. (1823 - 1903) In 1900, they were residents of Stratton. Herbert probably Photo courtesy of the Ethel Eddy Collection worked in one of the logging camps in town. By 1910 they had The Prentisses were listed in removed from town. Stratton’s census of that year and Beer’s Atlas shows them still living there in 1869. The Prentiss foundations are all that remain of Franklin J. Prentiss was born at the house and the barn. Sometime Bangor, New York, on December after 1870, the Prentisses resettled 2, 1821. He married Hannah down the hill on Pike Hollow Rd. Maria Pike, daughter of Jotham in the house that once stood where and Hannah Pike. Hannah was DR Holton’s cabin stands today. born on March 3, 1823, at In the picture below, Hannah is Somerset, Vermont. standing beside this house. Franklin was a carpenter and The Prentisses remained in he lived on a farm just off of Pike Stratton for many years. In 1880, Hollow Rd., up the old Somerset their son, Orlean, had married, Winhall Rd., which was located and his wife, Nellie was living beside the house currently owned with them. by DR Holton (1999). This house

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Just before, 1900, the 1) Abbey A., born May 6, 1881, Prentisses apparently had at Stratton, Vermont. removed from Stratton, but they 2) Harold Orlean, born December were listed among the town poor 28, 1889; died July 14, 1967; in the 1902 Town Report. married Mary Rose Chappron. Hannah died on November 22, 1903. Harold Orlean Prentiss, son of Children of Franklin and Hannah: Orlando and Nellie Prentiss, was 1) Carrie A., born February 4, born at Stratton on May 6, 1881. 1858, at Somerset, Vermont; He married Mary Rose Chappron. died July 7, 1858, at Somerset, She was born on May 31, 1894. Vermont. Harold served during WWI. He 2) Orlando F., born July 13, died on July 14, 1967, and Mary 1859, at Stratton, Vermont; died on July 25, 1977. They were died March 9, 1860, at both buried in Stratton in Ball Stratton, Vermont. Cemetery. 3) Orlando F. (adopted), born on August 3, 1859, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, - changed name from Eddy Morse on October 11, 1861; married Nellie H. Sprague on January 29, 1880, at Stratton, Vermont.

Orlando F. Prentiss, adopted son of Franklin and Hannah Prentiss, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on August 3, 1859, his birth name was Eddy Morse. Orlando Prentiss Orlando grew up in Somerset (born 1859) and Stratton and he married Nellie Hannah Sprague, daughter Photo courtesy of the Ethel Eddy Collection of Lyman and Laura Sprague, on January 29, 1880. Nellie was Prescott born on November 21, 1861, at Chester M. Prescott, son of Stratton. Orlean took the Jeremiah and Betsey (Pomeroy) Freeman’s oath in Stratton in Prescott, was born on June 9, 1880. 1821, at Vershire, Vermont. In 1898, Orlando was Chester married Lucy Baldwin in running the boarding house at March, 1848. Lucy was born on Grout’s Mills in Stratton. July 25, 1821. Children of Orlando and Nellie: Chester was a graduate of Vermont University. He and Lucy

Stratton Families 400 came to Stratton possibly from Luther was associated with Corinth, Vermont, in 1857, where the Glass Box Shop in Winhall, Chester was the first minister of Vermont, and he was called a Stratton’s Free-Will Baptist resident of Winhall on October Church - a church he had helped 30, 1834. On that day, Luther organize on July 13, 1857. signed an agreement with The Prescotts lived on the Stratton’s Selectmen. He agreed Stratton-Arlington Rd., west of the to care for the Hill family in meetinghouse, in a house Chester exchange for their farm. Jane either built or had built about the (Hill) Boutell and her children, time of their arrival in Stratton – Eber, Jonathan and Margaret Hill apparently on 4L6R. Chester was were living on 6L7R and had elected Town Superintendent in become charges of the town. The 1860, but this position was remains of their farm can still be vacated in October. 1860; seen along the Appalachian Trail, therefore, it appears that the west of the trail’s intersection Prescotts left Stratton at that time. with the IP Road. They eventually resettled in Luther agreed to care for the Poestenkill, New York. Hills for the remainder of their Children of Chester and Lucy natural lives in exchange for were: 6L7R (except for 55 acres on the 1) Ellen Pamelia, born February east side). The Selectmen deeded 23, 1849, at Corinth, Vermont over this farm to Luther, then he (attended school in Stratton in mortgaged it back to the 1857). Selectmen for $1000.00 with the 2) Calvin Porter, born June 26, above agreement written into the 1858, at Stratton, Vermont; mortgage. married Myrtle L. Cobb on Strangely, Luther was never November 20, 1880, at referred to as a physician in any Lakeview, Pennsylvania. town record. On April 6, 1835, at a town meeting, a vote was passed Additional Sources: Binghamton and Brome County New York that Mr. Purrington would have Vol. 3 Pg 79 $25.00 at the end of the year, provided he support the Hill Purrington family and keep the town Luther Purrington, son of Joshua harmless of any expenses. They Purrington, was born on February then voted to pay Mr. Purrington 11, 1798, at Heath, two dollars. Soon after the Massachusetts. Luther was a meeting, Eber Hill died on May 1, physician while in Heath. There, 1835. Jane was the next to die on he married Eunice Barber, December 20, 1835, followed daughter of John and Eunice closely by Margaret, who died on (Pike) Barber, on March 6, 1822. January 22, 1836. Finally, Eunice was born on July 31, 1802. Jonathan died on April 22, 1836. Within less than a year all four

Stratton Families 401 had died and Dr. Purrington was town meeting on May 12, 1837, able to claim the property as his the town voted that the Selectmen own. It is unclear whether Luther conduct the affairs of the occupied the farm during the time Purrington claim in favor of the the Hills were living there. town. About that same time Luther mortgaged the farm again through the Newells of Wardsboro. Luther remained in Stratton and held the position of town hayward in 1838 and 1839. He married Minerva A. Scott, daughter of Ira and Sophia Scott, on March 7, 1839. In December of 1839, the Newells sold the farm to George Pond. Luther evidently left Stratton at that time and he and Minerva were apparently divorced soon after. Luther died of consumption on September 15, 1859, at Colrain, Massachusetts. After the divorce, Minerva Luther Purrington married Horace Cummings who evidently passed away before (1798 - 1859) 1860. Following Horace’s death, Photo courtesy of the Minerva remained at the home of Pur(r)in(g)ton Family Assoc. of the USA her parents. She was living there

On June 29, 1836, Luther’s in 1860. Minerva then married wife, Eunice also died, supposedly Aaron B. Howard on May 6, back in Heath, Massachusetts, but 1863, at Stratton. Minerva passed Abel Grout’s ledger states that he away at Stratton on March 14, charged Purrington a dollar for 1894. digging Mrs. Purrington’s grave – Children of Luther and Eunice: implying that she was buried in 1) Cynthia, born October 13, Stratton. 1828, at Heath, Massachusetts. By August 11, 1836, Luther 2) Eunice, born September 19, had settled on his newly acquired 1826, at Heath, Massachusetts. Stratton farm and taken a 3) Joshua, born November 18, mortgage with Peter Taft of 1824, at Heath, Massachusetts. Jamaica. He then mortgaged it 4) Luther, born June 29, 1823, at through Leonard Barber of Heath, Massachusetts. Winhall (probably a relative of his 5) John Barber, born September late wife). On February 15, 1837, 9, 1833; married Orinda.

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Additional Source: 1) George E., born about 1834; The Genealogy of Hezekiah Purrington 1715 – 1765 of the Fourth Generation by the married Eliza (?) (He took the Pur(r)in(g)ton Family Assoc. of the USA – Freeman’s oath in Stratton on Adams Press 1975. September 4, 1855). 2) Sarah Maria, born October 20, Putnam 1835, at Somerset, Vermont; Prentis B. Putnam, son of Levi died February 16, 1836, at and Hannah (Allen) Putnam, was Somerset, Vermont. born at Whitingham, Vermont, on 3) Merick G., born November 11, April 26, 1807. His wife, Jemima 1831; died August 30, 1872; C., was born about 1810 and they married Abbie D. (?). were married about 1830. In 4) Newell, born April 5, 1837, at 1842, the Putnams lived in Dover, Somerset, Vermont; died June Vermont, and by 1846, they had 1, 1837, at Somerset, Vermont. settled in Stratton – apparently on 5) Dana Prentis, born November the Waite farm in 10L1R, located 25, 1838, at Somerset, on the north side of what is now Vermont; married Melvina A. called County Rd., just east of its Robinson. intersection with Mountain Rd. 6) Henry Harrison, born August (see McClellan’s Map of 1856). 20, 1840, at Somerset, In 1851, Prentis purchased the Vermont; died on December west half of 10L1R from Tyler 18, 1911, at Boulder, Waite and an undivided fourth of Colorado. 10L4R from AD Thayer. 7) Sidney C., born about 1842. While in Stratton, Prentis and 8) Abner, born about 1844. Jemima’s children attended school 9) Luanna M., born April 1, in district #1 in Stratton. 1846, at Stratton, Vermont; In September, 1854, the died March 29, 1923; married Putnams bought the Sheldon place Alvin H. White on December in West Wardsboro, Vermont. 12, 1866. They were living in Stratton in 10) Henrietta Martha, born on 1860, however, before 1869, they April 16, 1848, at Stratton, had moved to Wardsboro. They Vermont; married Henry C. sold this place to their sons, Smead on July 4, 1870. George and Eliza, probably living 11) Irving B., born September 3, with their son George until about 1851, at Stratton, Vermont; 1881, when they bought the Gates died June 15, 1906, at Estabrook place in Bucketville Wardsboro, Vermont; married (Wardsboro Center). Hattie E. Batchellor in 1881. Jemima died on June 11, 1888, and Prentis died on June 18, Merick G. Putnam, son of 1888. They were buried in the Prentis B. and Jemima Putnam, West Wardsboro Cemetery. was born on November 11, 1831. Their children were: As a young man, Merrick probably had moved to

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Whitingham, Vermont, but he was born August 20, 1840, at returned and lived in the southeast Somerset, Vermont. corner of Wardsboro. He married During the Civil War, Henry Abbie D. (?), who was born at enlisted on February 3, 1862, as a Newfane, Vermont, on January resident of Stratton, and mustered 28, 1832. Merick died on August into Company H of the Vermont 30, 1872, and he was buried in 8th Regiment on February 12, East Hill Cemetery in Wardsboro. 1862. He suffered from a serious Abbie died on January 15, 1908, illness and he was discharged on and was buried beside Merick October 18, 1862. He took the Their children were: Freeman’s oath in Stratton on 1) Chester L., born July 29, 1868, September 6, 1864. at Stratton, Vermont. Following the war, Henry 2) Margaret went west to Illinois, where he 3) Ella J. married. Henry died at Boulder, 4) Etta T. Colorado, on December 18, 1911. 5) Mary 6) Warren Sidney C. Putnam, son of Prentis 7) Bert, died in Jacksonville, B. and Jemima Putnam, was born Vermont, in 1947; married Ida about 1842. Powers. During the Civil War, Sidney enlisted on December 12, 1861, as Dana Prentis Putnam, son of a resident of Stratton, and Prentis B. and Jemima Putnam, mustered into Company H of the was born on November 25, 1838, Vermont 8th Regiment on at Somerset, Vermont. Dana February 12, 1862. He was married Melvina A. Robinson, discharged on April 7, 1864. daughter of Reuben and Emeline Following his service, Sidney Robinson of Jamaica, Vermont, took the Freeman’s oath in on June 30, 1858, at Stratton. Stratton on September 6, 1864. Melvina was born in 1841. Later, he moved out west. During the Civil War, Dana enlisted on January 10, 1862, as a Irving B. Putnam, son of Prentis resident of Stratton, and mustered B. and Jemima Putnam, was born into Company H of the Vermont on September 3, 1851, at Stratton. 8th Regiment on February 12, He grew up in Stratton and 1862. He was discharged on Wardsboro, then married Hattie October 31, 1862. E. Batchellor of Elmore, Vermont, Following the war, Dana and in 1881. Hattie was born on July Melvina evidently divorced and 9, 1860. Dana went west. Melvina then Hattie was Postmaster in married David Hart. Wardsboro Center for 25 years. Irving died in Wardsboro on June Henry Harrison Putnam, son of 15, 1906, and Hattie died on June Prentis B. and Jemima Putnam,

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13, 1937. They were buried in the Birdie taught school in this West Wardsboro Cemetery. area for many years. They Children of Irving and Hattie: apparently settled in West 1) Essie, married Irving Frost. Wardsboro between 1912 and 2) Hugh, married Nora Kendall 1914 and remained there into 3) Lee their latter years. Merle died in 4) Lou 1971 and Birdie died in 1976. They were buried in the West Merle E. Putnam, son of Erwin Wardsboro Cemetery. and Abbey (Torrey) Putnam, was Children of Merle and Birdie: born on June 4, 1877. Merle 1) Marion, married Nathan married Beatrice B. Black, Dauchy. “Birdie,” on August 25, 1902. 2) Karma B., born June 11, 1905; Birdie came to this area from died July 20, 1994; married Missouri to teach school. Her Helen (?). mother was Addie Brown, a 3) William Arthur, born August native of Wardsboro. 11, 1907; died May 12, 1987. Merle and Birdie lived on 4) Verne Pike Hollow Rd., in a house that 5) Leo, born September 23, 1909; they shared with Perle and Rose drowned May 15, 1911, at Robinson sometime between 1910 Stratton, Vermont. and 1914. The Putnams lived downstairs while the Robinsons lived in the 2nd story of the house. Q This house must have burned sometime before 1914. It once Quillinan stood on the same spot where Ralph L. and Claton F. Quillinan Kent and Siobhan Young bought the farm at the end of Pike currently reside. Hollow Rd. from Robert and

Mirth Hromada in the 1940s and settled there in 1948. They then sold this property to Melbourne Bills (recently the home of M. Lee Bills).

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Ramor The Merle Putnam family John Ramor was born on September 2, 1764, at Princeton, Photo courtesy of the Ethel Eddy Collection Massachusetts. During the American Revolution, John served as a private from Princeton,

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Massachusetts, in Thomas Fish’s on August 7, 1803, and their six Company, Colonel Nathan Tyler’s children were baptized at that Regiment from July 1, 1779, to time. John sold part of his land December 17, 1779. He also on January 11, 1814, and the served for six months, beginning Ramors apparently moved away on July 15, 1780, and he mustered from Stratton at that time. at Camp Totoway on October 25, Children of John and Sarah: 1780. John again enlisted to serve 1) Betsey, born May 13, 1791, at in the Continental Army, in Princeton, Massachusetts. Captain Hastings’s Company, 2) Sally, born February 27, 1793, Colonel Whitney’s Regiment, for at Princeton, Massachusetts. three years, beginning on March 3) Polly, born March 16, 1795, at 3, 1781, but he would have served Princeton, Massachusetts. for only a fraction of this term. In 4) Phoebe, born March 14, 1797, a descriptive taken at that time, he at Stratton, Vermont. was 17 years old, 5”8” tall, light 5) Edward, born October 7, 1799, complexioned and called a farmer. at Stratton, Vermont. After the war, John married 6) John, born October 26, 1802, Sarah Hale, a daughter of Samuel at Stratton, Vermont. and Eleanor Hale, on February 17, 7) Cynthy, born October 7, 1804, 1789. She was born about 1767. at Stratton, Vermont (baptized The Ramors first resided in in Stratton in 1805). Westminster, Massachusetts. On 8) Rhoda, born August 27, 1806, February 13, 1790, John was at Stratton, Vermont (baptized called “of Stratton” when he at Stratton on September 28, purchased the northeast quarter of 1806). 1L7R, located south of what is now called Grout Pond. The Rand Ramors apparently returned to Thomas Davis Rand, a son of Massachusetts and lived at Richard and Relief (Sawyer) Princeton until about 1796. At Rand, was born on January 25, which time, they returned to 1772, at Lancaster, Stratton. Their home was Massachusetts. Thomas was a apparently located south- resident of Wardsboro when he southwest of the pond, around the purchased the east half of 2L1R in west side of the hill there. It was Stratton on July 11, 1803. located near the old road that ran Thomas apparently settled there from West Jamaica to Somerset. and was called “of Stratton” when John was listed in the 1800 he sold this lot to his brother, census of Stratton as Jonathan Richard Rand on March 11, 1805. Raymore; however, on the 1810 Thomas evidently moved away at census, as well as in most town that time. records, he is called John Ramor. He was probably the same The Ramors became members Thomas Rand warned out of of the Church of Christ in Stratton Jamaica, Vermont, on December

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30, 1813. Thomas died on May 6, the daughter of Asa Thatcher, and 1842. twice widowed, first by Calvin Waite of Stratton and second by Richard Rand, Jr., son of Silas Gleason of Winhall. The Richard and Relief (Sawyer) Rands evidently moved away from Rand, was born on April 20, Stratton before 1839. That year, 1778, at Royalston, John Glazier sold this lot to Tyler Massachusetts. He was living in Waite. Wardsboro, Vermont, when he purchased the east half of 2L1R Moses Rand was probably a from his brother, Thomas Rand brother of John Rand and they on March 11, 1805. Richard and may have resided in the same his wife, Sarah, settled on this lot. house in Stratton for a few years. The Rands became members Moses married Almira Lincoln of of the Church of Christ in Stratton Wilmington, Vermont, (intent in September, 1805, and two of published February 15, 1835, at their children were baptized that Stratton). Moses and Almira same day. Richard sold this lot on evidently lived with John and January 7, 1806, and they Betsey Rand in the old Jacob apparently moved out of Stratton Batchellor house on 5L4R. at that time. Moses was elected Sexton of On April 14, 1807, Richard “the cemetery by the J. Rand and his family were warned out of place” in 1836. This cemetery Jamaica, Vermont. In 1817, was located on that same farm and Sarah, a widow, moved her it is currently considered one of relations to the Church in Stratton’s lost cemeteries. Wardsboro. Children of Richard and Sarah: Randall 1) Richard James Randall, son of Robert and 2) Abner Sawyer Ann (Pratt) Randall, was born on March 26, 1755, at Easton, John Rand apparently settled in Massachusetts. James married Stratton in 1831. That year, John Rebecca Howard on June 24, paid taxes on a parcel of land in 1779. Rebecca was born on 4L4R and 5L4R in Stratton, December 18, 1759, at which was owned by John Glazier Bridgewater, Massachusetts. at that time. This was the old They apparently settled for a time Jacob Batchellor farm, located at at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the end of what is now called then Easton, Massachusetts. The Shepardson Rd. John evidently Randalls were living in Orange, settled on this lot with his brother, Massachusetts, prior to their move Moses Rand. to Stratton. John married Betsey On February 9, 1797, James (Thatcher) Gleason on December purchased 60 acres of land in the 23, 1834, at Stratton. Betsey was east half of 3L3R from Nathan

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Patch. He also bought Patch’s 3) Dulcena, born about 1783 at mill rights to Phillips Mill on the Easton, Massachusetts. west half of 3L3R – Stratton’s 4) Valentine, born January 16, first sawmill. The Randalls, 1784, at Easton, however, remained in Orange and Massachusetts; died April 18, on November 7, 1797, James 1860; married Rhoda Haven purchased all (or the remainder) on March 3, 1808, at Athol, of the east half of 3L3R from Massachusetts. Clark Stone. 5) Alonzo, born about 1786. The Randalls settled in 6) Sally, born in October 1796; Stratton after this purchase and married Silas Downes (of James evidently operated the Shaftsbury, Vermont) on sawmill there. The following February 1, 1816, at Stratton, year, James apparently mortgaged Vermont. the east half of 3L3R. 7) James, Jr., born about 1798. In 1800, the Randalls had 8) Eliab, married Lucy Cobbs five sons and two daughters living (intent published March 15, at home. In December, 1804, 1807 at Stratton). James had paid back the mortgage 9) Tilson, born about 1802. on his lot and took another through Asahel Kimball at that Matthew Randall, son of James time. and Rebecca (Howard) Randall, Evidently, Rebecca died was born on January 6, 1780, at before 1810, since he was living Easton, Massachusetts. He came there with four sons and a to Stratton with his parents and daughter. He evidently remarried purchased the east half of 2L3R in to Martha (?). James died before 1798 (he had to repurchase part of 1830. Martha may have gone to this lot in 1802 and all of it again live with James’s son, Matthew. in 1806 - apparently to clear his Once Matthew had moved away, title). Martha was head of the household Matthew was a lumberman, as seen in the 1830 census. like his father, and he went into Their children were: this business with his brothers, 1) Matthew, born January 6, Valentine and Eliab. They 1780, at Easton, probably worked at the mill on Massachusetts; died in March, 3L3R. In 1806, the Randall 1851; married Eunice Kelley brothers purchased the east half of on August 11, 1811, at 4L8R and in 1807, they purchased Stratton, Vermont. the west half of 2L2R. In 1811, 2) Betsey, born about 1782; died they sold their land in the western in July, 1852; married Bela part of town (called 5L8R in the Kelley (of Wardsborough, deed) to Benjamin Rider. Vermont) on March 7, 1810, Matthew established a farm at Stratton, Vermont. on 2L2R and 2L3R. The Randall home was located along the old

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Somerset to Winhall Rd., which Stratton). Rhoda was born on ran further north of the current September 24, 1790, at Easton. Stratton-Arlington Rd.. Valentine had lived in Matthew married Eunice Stratton before the marriage and Kelley, the daughter of Samuel he purchased several lots along and Rebeccah Kelley, on August with his brothers, Matthew and 18, 1811, at Stratton and they Eliab. Valentine took the settled on Matthew’s farm after Freeman’s oath in Stratton on the marriage. Eunice was born on December 12, 1808. December 25, 1789, at Following the marriage, Dummerston, Vermont. Valentine and Rhoda settle in In 1820, the Randalls had two Cambridge, New York. Rhoda sons and a daughter living with passed away on September 23, them as well as a boy aged 1833, and Valentine died on April between 10 and 16. On March 6, 18, 1860. 1825, Matthew and Eunice were Children of Valentine and Rhoda: accepted as members of the 1) Merrill A., born March 21, Church of Christ in Stratton and 1809; died April 21, 1856. they were baptized at that same 2) Elvira, born September 10, time, as were their four children. 1811, at Cambridge, New By 1830, the Randalls had York. four children living at home. The 3) Chauncey V., born December Randalls moved away from 7, 1813, at Cambridge, New Stratton in March, 1832, and York; died December 11, Matthew died in March, 1851. 1838. Children of Matthew and Eunice: 4) Job S., born March 14, 1816, 1) Samuel Elcit, born March 12, at Cambridge, New York; died 1812, at Stratton, Vermont. August 14, 1891. 2) Richard Kelley, born March 4, 5) Leroy Delos, born September 1814, at Stratton, Vermont. 25, 1818, at Cambridge, New 3) Cornelia Eunice, born July 7, York; died June 17, 1891. 1817, at Stratton, Vermont. 6) Fidelia, born August 24, 1820, 4) James Matthew, born June 30, at Cambridge, New York; died 1822, at Stratton, Vermont. December 8, 1888. 7) Rhoda, born June 22, 1824, at Valentine Randall, son of James Cambridge, New York; died and Rebecca Randall, was born on September 3, 1859. January 16, 1784, at Easton, Massachusetts. Valentine married Eliab Randall, a son of James Rhoda Haven, daughter of John and Rebecca Randall, was born Drury Haven and his wife Martha about 1800. Eliab purchased land (Death) Haven, on March 3, 1808, with his brothers, Valentine and at Athol, Massachusetts (intent Matthew. He married Lucy Cobbs published in October, 1807, at (intent published March 15, 1807, at Stratton).

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Following the marriage, Eliab Fred sold this lot to William P. and Lucy settled in Wardsboro, Styles in 1903 and moved away Vermont. from Stratton at that time.

Ebenezer Randall was probably a Ray son of one of the three brothers Nelson F. Ray and his wife, named above. He was mentioned Frances E., resided in Stratton in in Stratton’s records only once. 1888, apparently on 11L1R. He He took the Freeman’s oath on was listed in the town records on a September 6, 1825, but he petition of August 1, 1888, and apparently moved away from town again as having a sugarhouse near soon afterward. which the Selectmen decided to mount a guidepost in 1889 (on Rawson Pikes Falls Rd.). Andrew B. Rawson, son of Ellis and Irene Rawson, was born on Read January 6, 1848, at Dover, (Reed or Reid) Vermont. He became Stratton’s David Read qualified as a hotelkeeper in May, 1879; Freeman of Stratton on September unfortunately, he passed away 12, 1846. He apparently moved within a few short months on away from Stratton shortly after September 11, 1879. that time.

Leroy Rawson, a farmer in both Lucien E. Read, son of Hosea Stratton and Jamaica, Vermont, and Louisa Cady Read, was born and Jenny M. Shepardson, on September 1, 1857, at West daughter of Calvin and Helen Windsor, Vermont. He married Shepardson, were the parents of a Myra Buck on June 20, 1881. child born in Stratton in 1896. Myra was born in Illinois in Jenny was born on November 2, 1859/60. 1877, at Stratton. She later Lucien was a wheelwright married Edward Wheeler on and a musician. In his younger January 9, 1898, at Stratton. years he was in a band at Lake A child of Leroy and Jenny was: George for two seasons and 1) Shepardson Rawson, born May traveled for two years with the 3, 1896, at Stratton, Vermont. Whitmore and Clark Minstrel Company. Fred W. Rawson was born in The Reads moved from South June, 1860, in Vermont. On July Wardsboro, Vermont, to Stratton 29, 1898, Fred purchased the east on June 28, 1901. That year, part of 12L2R and settled there. Lucien had purchased the In 1900, he was living there with Forrester farm and settled about his divorced mother, Esther C. halfway down Old Forrester Rd. Rawson. Esther was born in on the east side of the road in Vermont in November, 1840. 2L3R. They moved to Stratton

Stratton Families 410 from the Elliot White place in was born at Dover, Vermont, on South Wardsboro. Lucien set up a September 7, 1885. steam-mill on his new farm and Raymond and Abbie lived operated it for several years. He with Abbie’s father in Stratton was listed in Stratton’s census of through 1910. Raymond took the 1910. Freeman’s oath in Stratton in While in Wardsboro and 1912. Stratton, Lucien played in the The Reads moved to Wardsboro Coronet Band, as did Wardsboro and Raymond set up a his sons, Clifford and Daniel. sawmill that he operated for a The Read’s last years were number of years. At that time, spent living with their children. Raymond built a new house on the Lucien received a severe electrical site where William and shock at the home of his son, Calphernia Waite’s home had Clifford, in Framingham, burned. Over the years, Raymond Massachusetts. He died five days built several houses in the area. later, on May 23, 1916. He was Abbie died on September 13, buried in the West Wardsboro 1951, and Raymond died on Cemetery. December 14, 1975. They were Their children were: buried in the West Wardsboro 1) Harry W., born in 1883 at Cemetery. Wardsboro, Vermont (took the A child of Raymond and Abbie: Freeman’s oath in Stratton in 1) Wales, born February 20, 1906). 1918; married Beatrice Cobb. 2) Clifford lived in Framingham, Additional Sources: Massachusetts (took the Remember Yesterday by CS Streeter Freeman’s oath in Stratton in 1906). 3) Alice, born in 1885 at Dover, Reel Vermont. William Reel was born about 4) Raymond, born November 4, 1885 in Ireland. In 1920, he was 1889, at Wardsboro, Vermont; a lumberman, working in Stratton married Abbie E. Lowe on and living in the boarding house November 4, 1907, at Jamaica at the Grout Job. Vermont. 5) Daniel C., born in 1893, at Reid Wardsboro, Vermont. (Read or Reid) Benjamin Reid had settled in Raymond Read, son of Lucien Stratton before September, 1803, and Myra Read, was born on since that month, the town records November 4, 1889, at Wardsboro, reflect that a road passed his Vermont. He married Abbie E. house to David Cook’s house in Lowe, daughter of Maurice and the southwest corner of 7L3R. Alice Lowe, on November 4, Benjamin then settled in 1907, at Jamaica Vermont. Abbie Somerset, Vermont, and he was

Stratton Families 411 warned out of that town on married and he lived with family January 19, 1808, with his wife, members all his life. Fanny, and their children, Betsey In 1880, Charles and his and Fanny. His wife, Fanny, was brother, Benjamin, were boarding born in Bennington, Vermont, in in the home of Oliver Hescock, May, 1784, and she died at which was located where the Stratton, “a pauper of the town,” recreational area stands today. on October 30, 1867. Charles died at Stratton on Their children were: December 25, 1880. 1) Betsey 2) Fanny Franklin Reid, son of Benjamin 3) Benjamin, born in September, and Fanny Reid, was born in 1841 1808, at Somerset, Vermont; at Somerset, Vermont. He died at died March 7, 1883, at Stratton, a widower and Stratton, Vermont. apparently a pauper on April 17, 4) Cyrus, born November 28, 1861. The town paid for his 1816, at Somerset, Vermont. burial. 5) Charles, born in October, 1825, at Somerset, Vermont; John W. Reid of Hebron, died December 25, 1880, at Vermont, married Lomira Stratton, Vermont (he was Goodale Pike, daughter of disabled from birth). Alexander H. and Elvira Pike. 6) Franklin, born in 1841 at Mira, as she was called, was born Somerset, Vermont; died April in Somerset, Vermont, on 17, 1861, at Stratton, February 6, 1837. Vermont. Mira was called a widow when she was accepted into the Benjamin Reid, son of Benjamin Church of Christ in Stratton on and Fanny Reid, was born in May 26, 1867. She later married September, 1808, at Somerset, Otis Ward. Mira was still living Vermont. He apparently never after the death of her father in married. 1902 and named on the deed of In 1880, Benjamin and his her father’s property. disabled brother, Charles, were A child of John and Lomira was: boarding in the home of Oliver 1) Minnie J., born in April, 1861; Hescock, which was located where died on January 19, 1863 the recreational area stands today. (buried in Pike Hollow Benjamin died at Stratton on Cemetery). March 7, 1883. 2) Mary J., born November 29, 1864, at Stratton, Vermont. Charles Reid, son of Benjamin and Fanny Reid, was born in Rice October, 1825, at Somerset, Silas Rice, son of Abraham and Vermont. He was disabled in Susannah (Wilder) Rice, was born some way at birth. He never in August 1749, at Bolton,

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Massachusetts. Silas married in 1824, remaining on this lot for Elizabeth Taft, who was born many years. David became a about 1750. member of the Church of Christ Silas, a goldsmith by trade, in Stratton on June 6, 1825. was among the group of Stratton’s David was a Selectman of Proprietors from Worcester Stratton in 1832, 1839 and 1840. County, Massachusetts. He first He was a Representative for purchased 8L8R and several 40- Stratton in Vermont’s General acre lots in Stratton on November Assembly from 1836 to 1838 and 14, 1782. He was Proprietor’s in 1840 and 1843. Clerk for Stratton before the first The Rice family moved to official proprietor’s meeting was Wardsboro, probably just after held, and he remained a property David sold the west half of 7L1R holder in Stratton until 1809. on May 5, 1843. He reacquired That year, he sold all of his this lot and sold it again in 1845 holdings in Stratton to his son-in- to John S. Williams. law, Thomas W. Millet. Melinda was still a member Elizabeth passed away on of the church in Stratton in September 4, 1797. It is possible October, 1871. David died on that Silas was living in Stratton in May 16, 1867, and Melinda died 1810 in the home of his son-in- on April 8, 1879. They were law, Thomas Millet. Silas died on buried in the West Wardsboro May 31, 1835, at Worcester. Cemetery. A child of Silas and Elizabeth: Children of David and Melinda: 1) Susanna, born August 4, 1777; 1) Mary Malinda, born December died May 8, 1860, at 27, 1819, at Stratton, Vermont Arlington, Vermont; married (baptized in Stratton on Thomas Wheeler Millet about February 27, 1820); married 1795. George E. P. Felt on March 24, 1839, at Stratton, David Rice, son of Ezra and Vermont. Rebecca Rice of Holden, 2) Ezra Leonard, born November Massachusetts, was born on April 21, 1822, at Stratton, Vermont 3, 1792, at Holden. David (baptized in Stratton on June married Melinda Estabrook, 15, 1823); married Sarah daughter of Ezra and Eunice Evaline Witt on November 19, Estabrook, on November 5, 1818, 1847. at Worcester, Massachusetts. 3) Osmyn Gardner, born June 13, Melinda was born about 1795. 1824, at Stratton, Vermont The Rice family resettled in (baptized June 29, 1824); died Stratton, soon after the marriage February 25, 1849, at and before 1820. David took the Shrewsbury, Massachusetts; Freeman’s oath in Stratton on married Catherine A. March 29, 1820, and he Knowlton on January 27, purchased the west half of 7L1R 1848.

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4) Abigail Azubah, born Andrew Haskell – land he had December 3, 1825, at Stratton, bought from Aaron Thomas. Vermont (baptized in Stratton Ephraim was among the in January, 1826, and admitted original 62 proprietors of as a Congregational Church Somerset, Vermont; however, he member in 1840); died April never came to claim his land. 27, 1902; married Finley S. Instead, he had traveled south, Morse. taking a heard of horses to South 5) Caroline Elizabeth, born June Carolina, and he was never heard 20, 1827, at Stratton, Vermont of again. It was assumed that he (baptized in Stratton on was murdered during that trip. August 5, 1827, and admitted Ephraim’s sons, Daniel, as a Congregational Church Simeon and Perez went to member in 1840); died April Somerset, Vermont, to claim 17, 1905; married Francis C. Ephraim’s lands there. His son, Sprague on November 22, John’s family, also moved there. 1850. Children of Ephraim were: 6) George Henry, born May 31, 1) Simeon, born about 1753, at 1830, at Stratton, Vermont Hardwick, Massachusetts. (baptized in Stratton that same 2) Daniel, born August 5, 1755, year); married Julia L. at Hardwick, Massachusetts; Burridge on October 6, 1852. died August 28, 1831, at 7) Harriet Viola, born November Somerset, Vermont; married 6, 1835, at Stratton, Vermont; Sally Ball on June 19, 1782, at died January 25, 1876; married Wilmington, Vermont. James B. Fitts 2) Henry Albert 3) Perez, born in 1757 at Waite on September 10, 1867. Hardwick, Massachusetts; died 8) Abner Harrison, born April 20, September 9, 1807, at 1838, at Stratton, Vermont Somerset, Vermont; married (killed during the Civil War). Chloe Lincoln on April 8, 1779, at Hardwick, Additional Sources: Return to Yesterday by CS Streeter Massachusetts. Genealogical History of the Rice Family by 4) John, born at Hardwick, AH Ward Massachusetts; died June 24, 1803; married Sally Cooper on Ephraim Rice was not a resident April 7, 1796, at Granby, of Stratton; however, to properly Connecticut. tell the story of his descendants 5) Susannah, married Stephen who later settled in Stratton, his Wadkins on March 6, 1789, at story first must be told. Hardwick, Massachusetts. Ephraim, son of Perez and Lydia Rice, was a soldier in the John Rice, son of Ephraim Rice, French and Indian War, in 1756. was probably born at Hardwick, On February 28, 1761, he sold Massachusetts. He married Sally 100 acres of land in Hardwick to Cooper on April 7, 1796, at West

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Springfield, Massachusetts. John Bennington. Daniel arrived in and Sally lived at Hardwick, time to participate in the battle of where John may have been a Bennington, on August 16, 1777. teacher. He spent three months with the John died on June 24, 1803. army before returning to His family was living at Somerset, Hardwick. Vermont, following his death; Daniel married Sally Ball on however, it is not known whether June 19, 1782, at Wilmington, they had moved there prior to or Vermont, and they settled in a log after John's passing. It is possible cabin in the Great Meadows. that his wife and children moved After 1800, Daniel resettled in the to Somerset after his death to be eastern part of town along “The cared for by John’s brother, Perez, Handle Road,” currently in the and his wife Chloe. town of West Dover. Daniel was Sally did not remarry, but she the town’s first Representative, had another child - Shadrach. holding that office from 1799 - Unfortunately, Shadrach’s father's 1802. He was Somerset’s Town name is unknown. Clerk in 1800, 1802 - 1804, and At this point, it is necessary 1813, and Treasurer in 1800 and to discuss John’s brothers, since 1802. Daniel died on August 28, they were responsible for John’s 1831. children, following his death. In 1778, Daniel’s brother, John’s brother, Daniel, settled in Perez (Percy) came with Daniel to Somerset in 1776 -- Somerset’s Somerset. Percy had married first settler. He staked out land in Chloe Lincoln on April 8, 1779, the Great Meadows section at Hardwick, Massachusetts. northwest of Mt. Pisgah. (Mt. Percy bought a large tract of land. Pisgah was later called Somerset Some of this was in the eastern Mountain and it is now called Mt. part of Somerset, along the Snow. The “Great Meadows” Wardsboro line, while the rest was area is covered almost entirely by on the Wardsboro side of that line Somerset Reservoir at the present (the current time.) Wardsboro/Dover/Stratton area For several years, Daniel known as Dover Mountain). wintered in Hardwick, Percy built a home on the Massachusetts, returning to Wardsboro side of his property. Somerset in the spring to tend his He probably owned much of the new lands, while living in a area southeast of what is now Pike shanty. He did this until 1781. Hollow Rd.. While picking up provisions Percy was Constable of in Wilmington one August day in Somerset in 1792 and the town’s 1777, Daniel learned that the treasurer in 1793, 1794 and 1796. British were advancing on Percy and Chloe were Bennington. He returned home, childless, and so when John Rice retrieved his rifle, and headed for died in 1803, it was natural for

Stratton Families 415 them to take in John’s family, Massachusetts, on March 17, including a nephew, who also was 1798, and he was baptized on named Perez. Percy mentioned October 29, 1799. Perez moved to his nephew, Perez, in his will, West Dover, Vermont, in his leaving him $200.00, provided the youth, where he was mentioned in younger Perez would stay with the will of his uncle, Perez Rice, Chloe until he reached the age of who had promised to leave young 21. Perez $200.00, providing he Percy died on September 9, would live with his Aunt Chloe 1807, when the well he was until he was 21 years of age. digging for his home caved in Apparently Perez fulfilled this upon him. request and lived there until 1824, The younger Perez stayed two years after his marriage. with his Aunt Chloe until he was Perez had married Emily 24 (two years after his marriage). Pike, daughter of Jotham and At that point, young Perez settled Hannah Pike, on June 2, 1822. on land in the northeast corner of Emily was born on December 12, Somerset, probably bought from 1803. his late uncle’s estate. For the first two years of their Children of John and Sally were: marriage, Perez and Emily lived 1) Perez, born March 17, 1798, at in the house where Perez had Hardwick, Massachusetts; died grown up. They then settled on December 29, 1863, at land that apparently had been a Stratton, Vermont; married part of Uncle Perez Rice’s farm in Emily Pike on June 2, 1822, at Somerset, Vermont, on the Somerset, Vermont. southeastern ridge of Pike Hollow. 2) Susannah, baptized on October Additional lands were added at a 29, 1799, at Hardwick, later date so that their farm Massachusetts. consisted of 258 acres with a 3) Willard, born April 30, 1802, sugar orchard of 500 trees. Perez at Hardwick, Massachusetts; also purchased the southwest died April 2, 1881, at West quarter of 1L2R in Stratton in Dover, Vermont; married 1825, then sold this lot to Daniel Bathsheba Kelley on Grant in 1829. November 8, 1825, at The area that included Somerset, Vermont. Perez’s farm was annexed by the town of Stratton in 1858. Perez Sally's last child was: died there on December 29, 1863. 4) Shadrach B., born August 19, Emily continued to live on the 1805, at West Dover, farm until about 1880. In 1870 Vermont; married Eunice her daughter, Chloe and son-in- Pike. law, Albert Eddy and their family were living in the house with her; Perez Rice, son of John and Sally however in 1880, her son-in-law, Rice, was born at Hardwick, Elmer A. Eddy was living there

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alone. Emily died on January 24, Vermont; died May 15, 1925, 1886. Perez and Emily were both at Jamaica, Vermont; married buried in Pike Hollow Cemetery Orrin Johnson on October 29, in Pike Hollow. 1862. Children of Perez and Emily: 11) John, born about 1849 at 1) Susannah Sophia, born April Somerset, Vermont. 1, 1823, at Somerset, Vermont; married Elisha Shadrach B. Rice, son of Sally Davidson. (Cooper) Rice, was born on 2) Eunice Ebsina, born January August 19, 1805, at West Dover, 14, 1826, at Somerset, Vermont. He married Eunice Vermont. Pike, daughter of Jotham and 3) Rosina Lovina, born January Hannah Pike, on October 24, 18, 1828, at Somerset, 1830, at Somerset, Vermont. Vermont; died May 11, 1894; Eunice was born on July 23, 1806, married 1) David Goddard at Somerset. Eddy on November 19, 1845 Shadrach and Eunice lived in 2) Thomas Mackie on October Somerset through 1830. They 24, 1880. were of Dover, Vermont, in 1831, 4) Chloe Ann, born August 8, then settled in Stratton between 1830, at Somerset, Vermont; 1831 and 1835. They returned to died July 30, 1907, at West Somerset for a while then were Brattleboro, Vermont; married living in Stratton in 1840. At that Albert Eddy on October 20, time, the Rices had a daughter 1851, at Somerset, Vermont. and two sons aged 5 to 10, and a 5) Jotham Pike, born October 11, son under 5. Shadrach moved 1832, at Somerset, Vermont; away from Stratton before 1850. died March 3, 1841, at Children of Shadrach and Eunice: Somerset, Vermont. 1) Sarah, born October 27, 1831, 6) Sydney, born April 15, 1835, at Dover, Vermont. at Somerset, Vermont; died 2) Ellis, born March 7, 1833, at October 5, 1836, at Somerset, Stratton, Vermont. Vermont. 3) Zeb, born November 17, 1835, 7) Cevinda Hannah, born June at Somerset, Vermont. 20, 1837, at Somerset, 4) Eri, born September 25, 1837, Vermont; died April 4, 1839, at Somerset, Vermont. at Somerset, Vermont. 8) Romano, born about 1839 at Myron Rice was born in Somerset, Vermont. November, 1855, in Vermont. He 9) Rienzi Perez, born September apparently was not closely related 26, 1839, at Somerset, to the Rice families listed above. Vermont; died February 17, About 1900, Myron was 1844, at Somerset, Vermont. living in the boarding house at the 10) Melissa Mariah, born February Grout Job, where he probably 26, 1844, at Somerset, worked as a lumberman. At that

Stratton Families 417 time, he had been married for It appears that their son, nineteen years, but his wife was Jonson, and his wife lived with not living with him in Stratton. them. The 1830 census shows the He was no longer in Stratton by four of them living together in 1910. this house. A deed dated May 23, 1827, between Austin Bissell and Richards Freeman Holbrook, stated that Elijah Richards settled in Bissell sold Holbrook the west Stratton between 1810 and 1820. half of 100 acres of 5L6R which He was probably the same born was deeded to him by Jonson August 14, 1791, at Dedham, Richardson, “except for half the Massachusetts - a son of Timothy house now occupied by Timothy and Sarah (Edson) Richards. At Richardson and Jonson E. one time he lived in Wardsboro, Richardson and a certain piece of Vermont. land beginning at the center of In 1820, a woman in his the house then north to a stump household was over 45. This may then east to the front road then have been his mother, but that south on the east line of said lot does not seem likely. Elijah left to the road that leads past the Stratton before 1830. meetinghouse, then west on said road to the center of the house”. Within a few months, this parcel Richardson was sold to Timothy’s son, Timothy Richardson, son of George. The Richardsons Timothy and Betty (Ellis) evidently left Stratton about 1835 Richardson, was born on April 16, and they may have gone west to 1777, at Wrentham, Ohio with the Carter family. Massachusetts. Timothy married Children of Timothy and Nancy: Nancy Mann on January 1, 1798, 1) Elona, born September 5, at Franklin, Massachusetts. 1800, at Franklin, Nancy was probably closely Massachusetts; died September related to Bille Mann of Stratton. 21, 1800, at Franklin, She was born during the 1780s. Massachusetts. The Richardsons first settled 2) Jonson Ellis, born August 23, in Franklin, Massachusetts. 1802, at Franklin, Timothy purchased 50 acres of the Massachusetts; married Mary east half of 5L6R in Stratton on Daniels (intent published September 19, 1821, and they September 14, 1823, at settled there at that time. They Stratton). were mentioned in the story of the 3) Eliza Ann, born February 27, Blake tragedy of December, 1821. 1804, at Franklin, On March 6, 1825, Nancy Massachusetts; married Israel became a member of the Church Pierce of Franklin, of Christ in Stratton and she was Massachusetts, on October 22, baptized at that time. 1822, at Stratton, Vermont.

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4) George Lowell, born November 20, 1806, at Franklin, November 20, 1806, at Massachusetts. George took the Franklin, Massachusetts Freeman’s oath in Stratton on (baptized in Stratton on March September 7, 1828. He purchased 6, 1825). half of his father’s lot (5L6R) and 5) Nancy Mann, born December he lived with this parents and his 15, 1808, at Franklin, brother, Jonson. George Massachusetts (became a apparently left Stratton with the member of the Church of rest of the family about 1835. He Christ in Stratton and was may have gone west to Ohio with baptized on March 6, 1825); the Carter family. married Leander Carter. George A. Richardson, son of Jonson Ellis Richardson, son of Flint and Betsey Richardson of Timothy and Nancy Richardson, Londonderry, was born in 1839. was born at Franklin, He married Sarah A, Bayly, Massachusetts, on August 23, daughter of Ira and Filinday Bayly 1802. He came to Stratton with of Winhall, Vermont, on his parents in 1821 and took the November 18, 1865, at Stratton. Freeman’s oath there on Sarah was also born in 1839. September 2, 1823. George was a mechanic. If the Jonson married Mary Daniels Richardsons lived in Stratton after of Jamaica, Vermont (intent the marriage, they had moved published on September 14, 1823, away from town before 1870. at Stratton). They lived with Jonson’s parents on the east half Hugh Richardson was born in of 5L6R and in January, 1824, January, 1841. His wife, Jennie Jonson purchased the west half of M., was born in August, 1845. the east half of this lot. Jonson They were married about 1888 was one of the gentlemen that and settled in Stratton before found Harrison Blake nearly 1900. The Richardsons left town frozen after crossing the road before 1910. from Arlington in December, 1821. The Richardsons left Richmond Stratton about 1835 and they may Frederick Leigh Richmond was have gone west to Ohio with the born in 1916 in Far Rockaway, Carter family. Long Island, New York. He was a A child of Jonson and Mary was: farm product salesman and he had 1) Alexander Metcalf Fisher, worked in a bank in New York born August 11, 1824, at before coming to Vermont. Stratton, Vermont. Frederick came to Stratton

and married Doris C. Hurd, George Lowell Richardson, son daughter of Floyd and Zoe Hurd, of Timothy and Nancy on August 14, 1937, at Jamaica, Richardson, was born on

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Vermont. Doris was born on July on November 6, 1816, and served 11, 1923. notice on November 11. Following the marriage, the Although Benjamin apparently Richmonds lived in the northeast purchased several parcels in corner of Stratton near Pike’s Stratton, it appears that he settled Falls Rd. in a log cabin that was on the east half of 5L8R (the Joel built by Scott Nearing. In 1939, Hale farm). they bought a farm in Strafford, The Riders left Stratton Vermont. The hurricane of 1938 before the census of 1820 was had toppled most of the trees on taken. Benjamin sold this lot on this farm. Frederick and Doris August 3, 1820. At that time, he were able to harvest all the was living in Chardon, Ohio. He downed trees and paid off the died at Painsville, Ohio, on March farm with the profit. Over the 20, 1854, and he was buried in years, the Richmonds purchased Rider Cemetery in Chardon. several farms, built them up, then Sarah died there on September 23, sold them for a profit. Doris 1860, and she was buried beside currently lives in Middlebury, Benjamin. Vermont, on a 250-acre farm. Children of Benjamin and Sarah: A child of Frederick and Doris: 1) Crosby, born March 19, 1789, 1) Marion, born January 21, at Greenwich, Massachusetts; 1938, at Stratton, Vermont; died September 20, 1845, at died at Strafford, Vermont, in Wellington, Ohio. 1940. 2) Benjamin, Jr., born March 28, 1791, in Massachusetts; died Rider June 1, 1878, at Chardon, (Ryder) Ohio; married 1) Chloe Benjamin Rider, son of Stebbins Warner 2) Chloe Benjamin and Achseh (Crosby) Robinson on September 15, Rider, was born on December 3, 1827, at Hardwick, 1761, at Provincetown, Massachusetts. Massachusetts. Benjamin married 3) Polly, born May 31, 1793, in Sarah Pratt, daughter of Rufus Massachusetts; died about and Hannah (Ball) Pratt, on April 1870. 10, 1788, at Worcester, 4) Rufus, born March 15, 1795, Massachusetts. in Massachusetts; died in Benjamin was called Deacon August, 1870. Rider and he was of Greenwich, 5) Nancy, born July 1, 1797, in Massachusetts, when he bought Massachusetts; died June 26, land in Stratton as early as 1811; 1818, in Ohio. although, it was not until about 6) Isaiah, born September 19, 1815 that Benjamin and Sarah 1799, in Massachusetts; died settled in Stratton. February 18, 1886, at The Riders were warned out Plainsville, Ohio. of town by Stratton’s Selectmen

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7) Samuel, born November 5, moved onto this lot – known as 1801, in Massachusetts; died the Randall farm. October 1, 1877. In 1835, Samuel sold a piece 8) Hannah, born March 31, 1804, of land to Reuben Holton, located in Massachusetts; died along the old Somerset to Winhall February 25, 1879, at Rd., which existed further north of Chardon, Ohio. the current Stratton-Arlington 9) Lucy, born April 19, 1809, at Rd.. Greenwich, Massachusetts; On March 8, 1837, Samuel died October 15, 1892, at sold the farm to Samuel Rider, Jr., Chardon, Ohio. a resident of Worcester, Massachusetts, at that time. In Rufus Rider, son of Benjamin 1840, the Riders had a son aged and Sarah Rider, was born on 15 to 20, a son and daughter 10 to March 15, 1795, in 15, two sons aged 5 to 10 and a Massachusetts. He evidently son and daughter under 5. That settled in Stratton about 1815. In same year, Samuel lost some of 1820, he was living alone in the farm in a judgment of debt Stratton. He probably moved against him to John Warner of away that same year. Wardsboro. Samuel passed away in 1842 Samuel Rider was born between or 1843. Solomon Newell was the 1780 and 1790. His wife, Ama administrator of Samuel’s estate. (or possibly Anna or Amy), was Samuel’s personal property could born during the 1790s. They not cover his debts; therefore, settled in Stratton in 1830 on a Newell requested that the district 50-acre lot in 1L1R. Samuel built court at Newfane allow him to sell a log cabin on the Wardsboro all of Rider’s property. The court border, approximately where the granted this request, with Ralph Pike house (as it is often exception of the widow’s dower, referred to) stands now. They had on July 21, 1843. already settled there when Samuel After Samuel’s death, Ama purchased this land on November remained head of the household 29, 1830. into 1844; however, on August The Riders arrived too late to 17, 1843, she had to sell her be included in Stratton’s 1830 dower (13 acres of the farm) to census. On September 20, 1834, William G. Pike. On May 3, Samuel sold their home to 1844, Mr. Newell, the William Howe and purchased the administrator of the estate, sold east half of 2L3R. On February the farm and house to Joseph 20, 1835, Samuel purchased an Smith of Wardsboro, Vermont undivided half of 84 acres of the (who sold it to Hiram Ames in west half of 2L3R and an 1848 who sold it to Aaron Lowe undivided half of 20 acres of in 1853 - see the Aaron Lowe 3L3R. At that time, the Riders

Stratton Families 421 home on McClellan’s Map of resided on a 75-acre lot in Pike 1856).. Hollow on the site where DR After the farm was sold, Holton now lives. The Ryders several of the Riders’ children moved away from Stratton before went to live in neighbors’ homes. 1860. In 1846, Horace Rider was living In 1863, they returned to with Moses Forrester and Henry Stratton and Alanso Knights was Rider was living with Amos living with them and attending Knights. Lucy was living with school in Stratton’s school district Phineas W. and Amanda Eddy #6. Alanso was probably Jane’s during that year, and did so for brother. several years. The Riders’ Charles and Jane evidently children who remained with their settled in Wardsboro, Vermont. mother through 1846 were Mary Charles died on September 19, S. and Frederick M. Ama moved 1901, and Jane died on March 30, away from Stratton before 1850. 1910. They were buried in the Children of Samuel and Ama: West Wardsboro Cemetery. 1) Samuel, Jr. (possibly the same 1) Myra J., married George Waite who married Sarah Robbins. (son of Martin Van Buren He lived at Worcester, Waite and Emeret J. Elwell Massachusetts). Waite). 2) James M. (took the Freeman’s oath in Stratton on September Henry L. Ryder (possibly the 5, 1848). same as Henry R. above) married 3) Horace P. Filinda (?) of Jamaica, Vermont. 4) Mary S. Henry was called a yeoman in 5) Henry R Stratton’s land records. 6) Lucy P., born in 1838; married A child of Henry and Filinda was: George Knight. 1) Hattie A., born August 5, 7) Frederick 1862, at Stratton, Vermont; 8) Charles H. (possibly), born on married (?) Twitchell. November 2, 1830; died March 19, 1901; married Jane P. Charles Rider married Eunice Knights. Hoyt on November 25, 1821, at Wardsboro, Vermont. The Riders Charles H. Ryder was born on were living in Stratton in 1844 November 2, 1830. He was and their children were enrolled probably a son of Samuel and into the Stratton-Somerset United Ama Rider. Charles’ wife, Jane School district. That same year, P. Knights, was born on March Mariah Russell was living with 23, 1833. She was probably a them and attending school along daughter of Amos Knights. with the other children. The Riders settled in Stratton, Charles and Eunice’s children: where Charles took the Freeman’s 1) Robert B. oath in September, 1852. They 2) Sarah M.

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3) Selina A. there with his mother-in-law, Anna Pike. Rising Over the next few years, Levi William Rising was born about bought and sold several parcels in 1857. In 1880, he was living in Stratton Gore. He also acquired Stratton in the home of Herbert F. some of the land confiscated from Willis and he was called a Jacob Goodell. Levi was servant. Stratton’s Constable and Collector The Willises moved away from 1806 to 1808. About 1808, from Stratton in 1888; therefore, Levi acquired the east half of Lot William probably did not remain #2 in Stratton Gore and he settled in Stratton after that time and he into the house there (see D. Willis probably had left prior to the on Beer’s Atlas of 1869). Willises departure. William In December, 1809, the apparently was not listed in any Sheriff of Windham County was other town record in Stratton. ordered to confiscate the property of Levi Robbins of Stratton for judgment awarded to James Fitch, Robbins Jr. of Townshend, Vermont, and (Robins) to place Robbins in the jail in Levi Robbins, son of Luke and Newfane until his debt was paid. Mary (Hasey) Robbins, was born On August 5, 1811, Timothy on August 26, 1775, at Athol, Burton, Deputy Sheriff of Massachusetts. He was living in Windham County, confiscated Athol in 1798, when he purchased Levi Robbins’s land within the east half of 1L4R. Levi was a Stratton Gore. The Robbins first cousin of Hasey Floyd family had left Stratton in 1809. Sprague of Stratton. Children of Levi and Rhoda were: Levi settled in Stratton about 1) (a son) that same time and married Rhoda 2) Joseph Marble, born May 5, Pike, daughter of Samuel and 1801, at Stratton, Vermont. Anna Pike, on April 21, 1799, at 3) Polly, born July 3, 1802, at Stratton. Rhoda was born on Stratton, Vermont. September 13, 1782, at Medway, 4) Chloe, born July 24, 1805, at Massachusetts. Stratton, Vermont. Levi sold his land in 1L4R in March, 1800, and probably lived Joshua Robbins, son of Luke and with his in-laws. On March 26, Mary (Hasey) Robbins, was born 1802, he purchased 25 acres of lot on October 10, 1777, at Athol, #1 in Stratton Gore from his Massachusetts. Joshua married brother-in-law, Jotham Pike. This Patty Manning on February 1, lot was located south of the Gore 1801, at Athol. Patty, the Rd. (Willis Cemetery Rd.) and daughter of John and Mercy east of the Moulton farm. At that Manning, was born on April 21, same time Levi agreed to live

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1780, at Lancaster, Patty died at Newfane on Massachusetts. December 9, 1819, and Joshua Joshua purchased 50 acres of died on March 14, 1853. They the west half of 1L4R and all of were buried in Parrish Cemetery the east half of this lot on April 1, in Newfane. 1802, from Joshua Newhall. Children of Joshua and Patty: Joshua’s brother, Levi, had 1) Lucy, born June 11, 1801, at previously owned this lot. Joshua Stratton, Vermont; died and Patty apparently settled here August 29, 1879, at New first. Salem, Massachusetts; married Beginning in January, 1803, Josiah Baldwin. Joshua purchased lots near the 2) Patty Manning, born October town common in 4L5R and 4L4R. 3, 1804; died February 27, He was called a carpenter in one 1843, at Dover, Vermont; of these deeds and so he probably married Thomas Sparks. built several houses near the town 3) Joshua, died in September, common and he probably helped 1844, in Boston, to build the meetinghouse. One of Massachusetts; married Robbins’s lots consisted of 60 Margaret Ingraham. acres west of the Weatherbee lot. 4) Luke, born in 1811; died on This is where the Robbins resided August 30, 1832, at Newfane, in 1812. Another, east of the Vermont. Weatherbee lot and beside the 5) John Manning, born town common, consisted of 26 September 7, 1813, at Stratton, acres with a house and barn. The Vermont; died January 5, remains of this house can still be 1897; married 1) Tamar Dix seen, located just west of the old on June 11, 1837 2) Ellen town common. Elizabeth Atwood on June 11, Joshua took the Freeman’s 1856 3) Julia Bartlett Worseley oath in Stratton on September 6, in September, 1883. 1808. The 1810 census shows 6) Sarah, born in Newfane, that they had two daughters and a Vermont; died in 1849 in son at that time and an older Newfane, Vermont; married female, probably Polly’s mother, Samuel Rider (Jr.). Mercy Manning1, living with 7) Sylvester, born in 1819 in them. In 1811, Joshua was Newfane, Vermont. directed to keep Stratton’s burial Note: cloth at his home. 1) Mercy Manning was warned out of Joshua sold the 26-acre lot to Stratton in January, 1811, and had Thomas W. Millet on December probably been in Stratton for nearly a year at that time. Since it is most likely 9, 1815, and he removed to that she was recorded in the 1810 census Newfane, Vermont. He may have and since an older female who was likely been the same Joshua Robbins Patty (Manning) Robbins’ mother was who briefly owned the old Gragg living in the Robbins’ home that year, then that suggests that Mercy Manning Mill in Dover, Vermont. was indeed Patty’s mother.

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Additional Sources: Stratton golf course). Their son, Genealogical and Biographical History of the Manning Families of New England and Frederick was born in Stratton in Descendants by William H. Manning 1861. The Robinsons left Winhall Robie about 1871, when the brook James Robie was born about flooded. They escaped with the 1874 in Massachusetts. In 1920, possessions they could carry. he was a lumber camp laborer in Their oldest son, Fred, carried the Stratton, living in the boarding younger girls across the brook on house at the Grout Job. his back. They never returned to live in the flooded out cabin, instead, they moved to West Robinson Wardsboro, Vermont. Nahum Hial Robinson, son of For the next two years, Hial Hiram and Sally Robinson, was was the proprietor of the Green born at Jamaica, Vermont, on Mountain House, a hotel owned April 3, 1834. He was five when by John Glazier. The hotel was his father passed away. After his sold in 1873 to Henry Waite. father’s death, Hial supposedly Henry later married one of Hial's went to live with his uncle. Then, daughters, and one of Hial's sons once his mother had remarried, he married Henry's daughter by his went to North Bennington, first marriage. Vermont, with her. Hial spent 15 The Robinsons lived on a years there, then went to Wenona, small farm in the northeast part of Illinois, with several other family Wardsboro. They called it “the members. little place.” They then moved to Hial returned to Vermont, a larger farm nearby in 1873, that where he married Catherine Lois they would occupy for 34 years. Vaile on February 7, 1858, at This farm consisted of 300 acres. South Londonderry, Vermont. Apparently, Hial and another Hial listed Palatine, Illinois, as his farmer, Mr. Gurney, traded farms place of residence on the marriage for a while, each living on the license. Catherine, the daughter other’s farm. The story goes that of Hosea and Sarah Vaile, was Hial had a small house and born on June 1, 1838, at Winhall, Gurney had a large house – Vermont. She had been Hial's Gurney did not need all the room friend since childhood. in his farm while the Robinsons In April, 1858, Hial returned family was becoming large and in to Illinois, along with his wife, for need of more room, so Gurney a two-year period, then returned and Robinson worked out a deal to Vermont. Once back in and they traded. In the end, they Vermont, they lived at Winhall each ended up on their original with Catherine’s parents for a farm. while, then they settled into a log The Robinsons occasionally cabin in an area called Orcutt went to Illinois to visit Hial’s Meadows (now part of the

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on April 8, 1891, at Bellows Falls, Vermont. 6) Elden Oscar, born July 21, 1871, at West Wardsboro, Vermont; died December 24, 1956; married Katherine S. Adams on February 10, 1892.

7) Nora Evelin, born November 7, 1873, at West Wardsboro, Emmons Robinson, Vermont; died in July, 1949; Corene and Maria Pike, married 1) Lucius Bartlett Ivan and Melvin Robinson Kendall on January 5, 1892, at Photo courtesy of Charles Whitney, Jr. Wardsboro, Vermont 2) Hugh F. Putnam on September 1, About 1911, the Robinsons 1918. moved to Stratton and settled on 8) Albert Curtis, born October 14, Pike Hollow Rd., across from 1876, at West Wardsboro, Elmer Eddy’s steam-driven Vermont; died March 17, sawmill. They shared the house 1958, at Newfane, Vermont; with Merle and Birdie Putnam, married Margaret Therena who lived on the first floor of the Curran on December 31, 1899, house while the Robinsons lived at Poughkeepsie, New York. upstairs. Their son, Emmons was 9) Perle Eustace, born April 29, born there. This house evidently 1882, at West Wardsboro, burned and in 1915, Hermon Vermont; died February 13, Eddy built a hunting camp on the 1914, at West Wardsboro, site (currently the home of Kent Vermont; married Rosa May and Siobhan Young). Smith on July 3, 1909, at Perle died on February 13, Wardsboro, Vermont. 1914, and he was buried in the West Wardsboro Cemetery. Rose, Additional Sources: The Story of the Robinson Family, as she was called, married Ralph (kept at Brooks Memorial Library in Pike (see Pike Family). Brattleboro, Vermont). Children of Perle and Rose: 1) Melvin H. Robinson, born May Perle Eustace Robinson, son of 22, 1910; died in December, Hial and Catherine Robinson, was 1934. born on April 29, 1882, at West 2) Emmons W. Robinson, born Wardsboro, Vermont. He August 8 1912, at Stratton, remained in West Wardsboro until Vermont; died November 16, after his marriage to Rosa May 1974; married Ruby Smith on July 3, 1909. Rosa was Winchester on December 22, born in Springfield, Vermont. 1931. 3) Ivan Perle Robinson, born on August 9, 1914, at West Wardsboro, Vermont; died

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May 5, 1991; married Olive surrounding what is now North Augusta Knapp on June 20, Rd.. Hiram was living on this lot 1936, at Townshend, Vermont. with some of his children in 1850. His wife apparently had passed Another Robinson family also away by that time. lived in Stratton for a time. There Hiram purchased this same is no certain link between the two lot from James Robinson and John families, although, some given Robinson of Jamaica, Vermont, names are common between these and Rachel Tourtelot of two families. The Hiram Townshend, Vermont, on Robinson that follows was not the February 18, 1852. These father of Nahum Hial Robinson individuals may have been above. children of Amaziah. In 1855, Angeline Baldwin Amaziah Robinson, son of Elijah was living in the Robinson home, and Rachel Robinson, was born attending school in Stratton. She on January 1, 1785, at Athens, may have been their Vermont. He was living in granddaughter. Athens on November 18, 1835, Hiram either passed away or when he purchased 12L2R in he had moved away from Stratton Stratton. This 170-acre lot was before 1860. located around North Rd., in the Children of Hiram Robinson: northeast corner of Stratton. 1) Amasah W., born about 1826 Previously, the Hill family owned (took the Freeman’s oath in this farm. Hiram Robinson settled Stratton in 1848). on this lot in 1847. Hiram 2) Catherine H., born July 8, purchased this same lot from 1827, at Jamaica, Vermont; James Robinson and John died November 6, 1863, at Robinson of Jamaica, Vermont, Stratton, Vermont; married and Rachel Tourtelot of Nathaniel P. Hudson. Townshend, Vermont, on 3) Hannah, born about 1828. February 18, 1852. This may 4) Alonzo, born about 1832. imply that Amaziah had passed 5) Joel, born about 1835. away before that time. He may have never lived in Stratton. Amasah W. Robinson, son of Hiram Robinson, was born about Hiram Robinson, son of Elijah 1826. He took the Freeman’s oath and Rachel Robinson, was born in Stratton in 1848. He was living on August 6, 1789, at Athens, in his father’s home in Stratton in Vermont. 1850, and he apparently had Hiram settled in Stratton in moved away from Stratton by about 1847 on 12L2R, owned by 1860. his brother, Amaziah Robinson. This was the old Hill family farm Alonzo Robinson, son of Hiram and it encompassed the area Robinson, was born about 1832.

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He was living in Stratton in his 1880, in Vermont. The father’s home in 1850 and he Robinsons had settled in Stratton qualified as a Freeman in Stratton before 1900, but they had moved in September, 1853. away by 1910. Alonzo apparently moved away from Stratton, then returned Rosario and again took the Freeman’s Abraham Rosario, son of Ismael oath in September, 1856. and Teresa Rosario, and his wife McClellan’s map of 1856 shows Sandra, a daughter of Jean Stone, him living west of where the gate settled in Stratton in June, 1995. at the end of Shepardson Rd. is Later Sandra’s mother came to currently located. He was no live with them. longer in Stratton in 1860. The Rosarios, along with Jean Stone, had purchased the Deane Joel Robinson, son of Hiram homestead, located on the West Robinson, was born about 1835. Jamaica Rd.. This house was He was living in his father’s home built about 1874 and it was in Stratton in 1850, and he refurbished in 1985. qualified as a Freeman in Stratton Abraham served in the U. S. in September, 1857. He was no Army for 13 years, stationed at Ft. longer in Stratton in 1860. Bragg, North Carolina, and he is fluent in three languages. Sandra Dorian Robinson was born about works in the food service business 1901 in Wardsboro, Vermont. He and as a housekeeping supervisor. was a laborer probably in a Currently, Abraham works for lumbering camp in Pike Hollow. Stratton Corporation. He married Blanche E. Moore who was born about 1909. They had a daughter born in Pike Ross Hollow. William Elmer Ross was born at A child of Dorian and Blanche: Ft. Edward, New York, in 1) Blanche Eloise. November, 1874. His wife, Myrtle, of Sunderland, Vermont, William Henry Robinson, son of was born in February, 1876. The David N. and Bridget (Blake) Rosses settled in Stratton about Robinson, was born in 1900, but they moved away before Brattleboro, Vermont, on 1910. November 21, 1904. William William was a laborer, worked in Stratton as a probably for one of Stratton’s lumberman and died there on July lumber camps. 3, 1938. Children of William and Myrtle: 1) Hazel Maude, born in October, Edward Robinson was born in 1897, in Vermont. May, 1879, in Canada. His wife, 2) Milton I., born in January, Bertha A., was born in January, 1899, in Vermont.

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3) Mildred, born June 30, 1900, He was warned out of Shaftsbury, at Stratton, Vermont. Vermont, on December 22, 1802. Their children were: Rugg 1) Polly, born August 9, 1787, at Abraham Rugg, Jr., son of Stratton, Vermont. Abraham Rugg, was born about 2) Patty, born April 21, 1789, at 1762. He evidently lived in Stratton, Vermont. Greenfield, Massachusetts, before the American Revolution. Russell During the war, Abraham Nathaniel Russell, Jr. was a son served as a Private in the of Nathaniel Russell of Jamaica, Continental Army for nine Vermont. He married Betsey months, enlisting on August 11, Boutell, daughter of Samuel and 1779. He was sick in Bedford in Elizabeth Boutell, on November October, 1779. Abraham served 12, 1820, at Stratton. Betsey was in several companies, including born about 1801, at Stratton. Captain Arms’s Company, Nathaniel and Betsey Colonel Well’s Regiment, Major apparently lived in Stratton after Joseph Thomson’s Company, the marriage, evidently settling in Colonel Thomas Nixon’s with relatives. On September 20, Regiment and Major Peter 1823, Nathaniel purchased 40 Harwood’s Company, Colonel acres of the northwest quarter of Nixon’s 6th Regiment. Abraham 10L2R. This lot was in the area was discharged on May 11, 1780. of what is now the Sun Bowl in A descriptive given during the the ski area. Nathaniel mortgaged war stated that he was 5’6” tall this lot through Ira Russell in the with a dark complexion and following month. The Russells brown hair. probably lived in the house beside Abraham was living in North Cemetery. Nathaniel sold Whitingham, Vermont, when he this lot to Sanford Holmes in purchased 5L5R - 200 acres - on March, 1824. June 3, 1785, from Elijah Nathaniel and Betsey Thompson (witnessed by apparently moved away from Abraham, Sr. and John Rugg). Stratton at that time. Betsey died Abraham built a farm there, on March 15, 1879. apparently on the east 100 acres, then he and his wife, Hannah, Ira Russell was probably a son of settled thereon. They remained in Nathaniel Russell and a brother of Stratton until 1788. Abraham Nathaniel, Jr. (above). He was sold the lot to Nathan Patch on already living in Stratton when he May 31, 1788, and returned to purchased 40 acres of the Whitingham with his family. He northwest quarter of 10L2R from then sold the west half to Clark Nathaniel Russell, Jr. on October and Eliab Stone on May 29, 1794. 2, 1823. This was probably a mortgage, since Nathaniel sold

Stratton Families 430 this lot the next year. Ira Grout, on March 4, 1841, at purchased it again on May 10, Stratton. Lestina was born there 1824. The Russells probably lived on April 15, 1822. She in the house beside North apparently was a deeply religious Cemetery. Ira sold it to John person. From a letter to her Aunt Underwood on March 5, 1828, Lucy Grout in 1840 written prior and apparently moved away from to her marriage, Lestina writes as Stratton at that time. if she might have been a Millerite, living in Manchester, Vermont. Martha Russell was living in After the marriage, the Sages Stratton in 1814 with Abraham settled in Stratton. and Zeresh Wheeler. She may Jesse operated a sawmill have been Zeresh’s sister. Martha between Black Brook and the east was warned out of town along branch of the Deerfield River. with the Wheelers on March 7, The Sages were living there in 1814, and served notice on March 1860. In 1862, Jesse and Lestina 11. She was probably related to had three children attending Nathaniel and Ira Russell above, school in district #3. The Sages who apparently had close ties with had moved away by 1869 and they the Wheelers. had sold the house and mill to C. Martha may have stayed with Birch. Zeresh Wheeler in Stratton The Sages returned to through 1840. Stratton before 1880. They apparently settled in either the Julia M. Russell married Joseph Chester Prescott home on 4L6R or Smith of Rockingham, Vermont, the Chester Allen home, located on May 5, 1844, at Stratton. along the Stratton-Arlington Rd. (see Beer’s Atlas of 1869). Mariah Russell was living with In 1880, the Sages had two Charles and Eunice Rider in 1844 servants living in their home, and she was attending school in Henry S. and Maranda Wilder2. Stratton. (she may have been the Soon after that time, the Sages same person as Julia M. Russell probably went to live with one of above, since J. Smith settled on their children in Clinton, the Rider farm at that time). Massachusetts. A map of Stratton circa 1900 still shows their home. Lestina died at Clinton on S November 6, 1897. Children of Jesse and Lestina: 1) Lyman B., born February 18, Sage 1842. Jesse E. Sage was born about 2) Sarah J., born December 22, 1819. He may have been a son of 1844. Jared and Betsy Sage. Jesse 3) Franklin, born December 22, married Lestina Maria Grout, 1847. daughter of Abel and Theodocia

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4) Ellen, born July 4, 1852. died October 27, 1967, at Springfield, Vermont; married Notes: 1) Henry and Maranda Wilder had a Frances Ruth Morse on June daughter, Eveline who married Charles F. 21, 1920. Sage on January 2, 1877. Charles may 2) Florence have been another child of Jesse and Lestina. 3) Clarence

Additional Sources: An unidentified Sage family Return to Yesterday by CS Streeter briefly resided in Stratton. In 1862, Mrs. Sage was head of a St. Peters household in Stratton with her two The St. Peters family apparently children, Emma and Ruth, resided in Stratton in 1892. That attending school in district #2. year, the town paid for a doctor for Mrs. St. Peters and it also paid St. Mary Joe Jelly for caring for the St. Frank St. Mary, son of Edmund Peters family. and Adeline St. Mary, was born in August, 1874, in Canada. Frank Samson married Minnie E. Moffit, Charles E. Samson and Sadie M. daughter of Albert and Mary Ann (Wells) Samson settled in Stratton (Wait) Moffit, on April 17, 1895. sometime about 1930. Their Minnie was born on March 29, home was located on the corner of 1877, at West Rupert, Vermont. the West Jamaica Rd. and Frank was a lumberman who Shepardson Rd. Sadie was still worked at the Grout Job in the late living in June of 1946 and she 1890s. The St. Marys settled in briefly stayed with her son, West Wardsboro, Vermont, before Stanley, in Stratton. 1900, buying the Stephen Bills Children of Charles and Sadie: farm, located about a mile south 1) Wells Frank, born on June 4, of the village. They later resettled 1900, at Brattleboro, Vermont; in Wardsboro Center. married Marion Davis on June Frank died in 1947 at 2, 1928, at Windsor, Vermont. Wardsboro. Minnie stayed in 2) Stanley Charles, born February Wardsboro for many years, until 16, 1905; died April 17, 1991; her health required her to move married 1) Lauretta Catherine into the Stratton House at Grace Holman on January 19, 1940, Cottage Hospital, Townshend, at East Arlington, Vermont 2) Vermont. She died of a heart Ruth Caroline McElroy on attack while attending church June 21, 1945, at Paterson, services in the summer of 1956. New Jersey. The St. Marys were buried in Fairview Cemetery in Wardsboro. Wells Frank Samson, son of Children of Frank and Minnie: Charles E. and Sadie M. (Wells) 1) Ernest Francis, born January 3, Samson, was born on June 4, 1898, at Stratton, Vermont; 1900, at Brattleboro, Vermont.

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During WWI, Wells joined she married Wallace Horne. the army while living in Wallace died in 1943. Ruth and Springfield, Vermont. He was Stub were married on June 21, indoctrinated at White River 1945, at Paterson, New Jersey. Junction, Vermont, on October The Samsons lived in 23, 1918. Wells was sent to Stratton on the corner of the West SATC, at the University of Jamaica Rd. and Shepardson Rd. Vermont, in Burlington and he Their house no longer exists. The remained there until his discharge Samsons remained in Stratton for on December 11, 1918. many years and they were very Wells married Marion Davis, active in town affairs. They daughter of Bertha (Ashley) owned property near Ball Davis, on June 2, 1928, at St. Cemetery and eventually donated Paul’s Church in Windsor, some land to the town to enlarge Vermont. Marion was born at it. Windsor in December, 1897. At one time, Stub worked at Wells evidently owned property in New Departure in Bristol, Stratton and lived there for a time. Connecticut. Ruth worked as a seamstress at Mary Meyers Stanley Charles “Stub” Samson, Manufacturing in Townshend, son of Charles E. and Sadie M. Vermont. (Wells) Samson, was born on While in Stratton, the February 16, 1905, at Springfield, Samsons attended the Baptist Vermont. Stub came to Stratton Church in Brattleboro. with his parents and lived in their Stub died on April 17, 1991, home on the corner of the West and he was buried in Ball Jamaica Rd. and Shepardson Rd. Cemetery. Ruth passed away on Stub first married Lauretta November 8, 1997, at Brattleboro, Catherine Holman, daughter of Vermont, and she was buried Charles E. and Jennie (Welch) beside Stub. Holman, on January 19, 1940, at Ruth’s children by her first East Arlington, Vermont. marriage were: Lauretta was born at Dayton, 1) Ruth, married (?) Couchy Ohio, on April 18, 1905, and she 2) Wallace lived in Stratton with her parents. 3) Charles Later, she worked at Grace Cottage Hospital as a hospital A child of Stub and Ruth was: technician. Stub and Lauretta 1) Kathryn, married (?) Weston were later divorced. Stub then married Ruth Scott Caroline McElroy, daughter of Ira Scott, son of Lieutenant Albert and Caroline (Stucky) Reuben Scott and his wife, Anna Lawson. Ruth was born on (Cooley) Scott, was born at August 24, 1910, at Brooklyn, Montague, Massachusetts, on New York. On January 17, 1928, April 3, 1757. Ira married Submit

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Arms, daughter of William and In 1810, the Stratton census Elizabeth Arms. Submit was born indicated that they were both over on December 9, 1760. 45 years of age and they had Ira served during the seven children living in their American Revolution as a private home. In 1820, they had two in Robert Oliver’s Company of daughters and four sons still Minutemen, under Colonel living at home. The oldest son, Samuel Williams’s Regiment, Bela, was over 26 at that time. which marched on April 22, 1775, Bela evidently never married. in response to the alarm of April Submit died on March 6, 19. Ira served 11 days at that 1823. Ira then published an intent time. He may have served at to marry Susannah Coes in early other times during the war. After 1824, and they were soon married. the war, the Scotts lived at Susannah, twice a widow, was Montague, Massachusetts. living in Arlington, Vermont, at The Scotts apparently lived in that time. Her first husband was Wendell, Massachusetts, where Isaac Gale and her second Clark Stone, a former resident of husband was John Coes, who had Stratton had settled. On lived at Stratton. Ira and September 18, 1800, Ira Susannah were evidently divorce purchased the east half of 5L3R in after a brief marriage. Susannah Stratton from Clark Stone, and on was called Susannah Scott of January 14, 1801, he purchased Arlington on a deed of September the west half of 5L2R from 14, 1827. By 1838, she was living Thurston Holman of Stratton. with her daughter and son-in-law, After this last purchase, the Scotts Anna and Lyman Batchellor in settled in Stratton on this land. Wallingford, Vermont. Their home was located in the Ira then married Jemima (?). vicinity of the intersection of what Ira remained in Stratton for the is now the West Jamaica Rd. and remainder of his life. His farm on Shepardson Rd., probably in the 5L3R was apparently sold by his house first built by Isaac Chase on son Ira, Jr. in 1829. In 1830, Ira the northeast side of this had three women living in his intersection (see N. Willis on home, one in her 50s, one in her Beer’s Atlas of 1869). Over the 60s, and one in her 70s. Ira years, Ira bought and sold repurchased his farm at a tax-sale numerous parcels within Stratton. in 1832. It was deeded to him in In 1802, the Scotts were 1833, and his wife, Jemima, then taken into the Church of Christ in sold 40 acres with all the Stratton by letter of buildings to Ira, Jr. in October, recommendation, evidently from 1833. the church in Montague. Church On December 4, 1833, Ira records of Stratton indicate that sold all his property and some services were held in their belongings to his son Ira, Jr., home as early as 1803. including all the stock except two

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cows. Ira died on December 29, Richard Scott, son of Ira and 1833. Details of Jemima’s life Submit Scott, was born on April remain a mystery. 3, 1783. On February 24, 1808, Children of Ira and Submit were: Richard purchased 60 acres of 1) Myranda, born October 1, 3L4R and he settled there. He 1781, at Montague, took the Freeman’s oath in Massachusetts; married Stratton on September 6, 1808. William Grant Pike on May 4, Richard’s first home was 1802, at Stratton, Vermont. apparently located just off what is 2) Richard, born April 3, 1783; now the Stratton-Arlington Rd., died on April 9, 1855, at west of where that road intersects Stratton, Vermont; married with the West Jamaica Rd. (see Mary Mann on August 18, LF Sheldon on McClellan’s Map 1811, at Stratton, Vermont. of 1856). 3) Bela, born February 27, 1785. Richard married his 4) Ira, born December 9, 1787, at neighbor, Mary “Polly” Mann, Wendell, Massachusetts; died daughter of Bille and Mary Mann, April 4, 1863, at Stratton, on August 18, 1811, at Stratton. Vermont; married Sophronia Mary was born on March 26, Grout on December 6, 1810, at 178(4 or 9). Stratton, Vermont. The Scotts remained in 5) Cooley, born December 25, Stratton all of their lives. Richard 1789; married Helen Bilsen (of bought and sold several parcels in Watervliet, New York) on June Stratton over his lifetime, 6, 1821, at Stratton, Vermont. including a two-acre parcel, 6) Submit, born October 19, located on the east side of the 1792; married Asa Phillips, Town Common, in 1809. Richard Jr.. evidently was a member of the 7) Asenath, born August 9, 1795; militia and he was often referred married Luther Waite on to as Captain Scott. It is very March 3, 1823, at Stratton, likely that Richard settled on the Vermont. two-acre parcel beside the 8) Cynthia, born December 20, common. He was probably living 1799; married Levi Hale Jr. on on this lot while he served as August 28, 1824, at Stratton, Stratton’s Town Clerk. Vermont. Richard sold the lot beside 9) Eliab, born January 16, 1804, the common in 1837 and the 60- at Stratton, Vermont (baptized acre lot in 3L4R in 1841. The in Stratton in May, 1804); Scotts apparently settled on the married Hardassa Plimpton farm of Polly’s father, Bille Mann (intent published on April 19, after that time. The Mann farm 1825, at Stratton, Vermont). was located west-southwest of the 10) Nelson, born September 21, intersection of the West Jamaica 1806 (baptized in Stratton on Rd. and the Stratton-Arlington January 4, 1807). Rd., near the top of the ridge there

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(see R. Scott on McClellan’s map and he held that position until of 1856). This was evidently June 15, 1838. On June 7, 1838, along the road that ran by the William sold his 30-acre lot back Town Common heading south to to his father. He and his family Somerset. apparently left Stratton at that Richard was elected time. Stratton’s Constable in 1812. He Their children were: was Stratton’s Town Clerk from 1) Martha Ann, born October 19, 1823 to 1825 and 1835 to 1849. 1837, at Stratton, Vermont. He was a Selectman from 1824 to 2) Julia, born February 16, 1838, 1830 and in 1833, 1835 and 1836. at Stratton, Vermont. He was Justice of the Peace in 1831 and he served as Stratton’s Ira Scott, Jr., son of Ira and Representative from 1824 to 1826 Submit Scott, was born on and 1828 to 1829. December 9, 1787. He married In 1847, Milon Perry was Sophronia “Sophie” Grout, living with Richard and Mary and daughter of Abel and Dorcas attending school in district #2 in Grout, on December 6, 1810, at Stratton. Stratton. Sophie was born on Richard died on April 9, April 13, 1790, at Brattleboro, 1855, and Mary died on March Vermont. 24, 1864, both at Stratton. They After the marriage, the Scotts were buried in Ball Cemetery. settled in Stratton, evidently on Evidently, their home was the west half of 5L2R - Ira’s abandoned after their deaths. father’s farm. They remained A child of Richard and Mary was: there all their lives. Sophie was 1) William Mann, born baptized into the Church of Christ December 20, 1814, at in Stratton in February, 1812. Stratton, Vermont. In 1815, Ira purchased the north part of the east half of William Mann Scott, son of 5L2R. This deed references Ira’s Richard and Mary Scott, was born home as being on the west half of at Stratton on December 20, 1814. 5L2R. In 1819, Ira paid taxes on William owned 30 acres of his the west half of 5L2R and his father’s 60-acre farm on the west father deeded him this land in side of 3L4R (see I Sprague or L. 1822. The Scotts home was Sheldon on Beer’s Atlas of 1869). located along the West Jamaica William married Samantha Dun Rd., just northeast of the of Winhall, Vermont (intent Shepardson Rd. intersection, on published on March 29, 1835, at the left heading toward Jamaica. Stratton) and he took the By 1869, this dwelling was Freeman’s oath in Stratton on occupied by N. Willis. September 6, 1836. In 1850, their daughter, William became Stratton’s Minerva, and her husband, Pstmaster on January 20, 1836, Horace Cummings, lived with

Stratton Families 436 them. By 1860, Horace 6) Nelson Ormando, born April Cummings had died and their 29, 1830, at Stratton, daughter Lucy had returned to live Vermont; died August 7, 1849, with them. at Stratton, Vermont. Ira died on April 4, 1863, at 7) Fanny Jane Sophie, born Stratton and he was buried in Ball September 29, 1833, at Cemetery. Sophie died there on Stratton, Vermont; married July 8, 1872, and she was buried Allen Wilder. beside him. Children of Ira and Sophie were: Eliab Scott, son of Ira and Submit 1) Minerva A., born January 11, Scott, was born on January 16, 1813, at Stratton, Vermont; 1804, at Stratton. In 1825, Eliab died March 14, 1894, at purchased the east half of 5L3R Stratton, Vermont; married 1) and the west half of 5L2R, except Luther Purrington on March 7, for the 50 acres where his father 1839, at Stratton, Vermont lived. (divorced) 2) Horace Eliab married Hadassah Cummings 3) Aaron B. Plimpton, daughter of William Howard on May 6, 1863, at and Electa (Choate) Plimpton, of Stratton, Vermont. Wardsboro (intent published on 2) Clymena G., born May 7, April 19, 1825, at Stratton). 1815, at Stratton, Vermont; Hadassah was born on December married William D. Allen 9, 1803, at Wardsboro. Eliab took (intent published on May 1, the Freeman’s oath in Stratton on 1842, at Stratton, Vermont September 6, 1825. (lived in Kansas). Eliab sold back the east half 3) Luthera Ann, born January 5, of 5L3R to his father on March 1818, at Stratton, Vermont 14, 1826, and the Scotts settled in (baptized in Stratton on South Wardsboro, where Eliab August 2, 1818) (lived in was a farmer. He also became a Uxbridge, Massachusetts in deacon of the church there. 1843). Hadassah died on March 13, 4) Lucy (or Eliza) Simons, born 1847. Eliab married a second October 2, 1820, at Stratton, time to Martha W. (?). She was Vermont (baptized in Stratton born about 1806. Eliab passed on June 3, 1821) (lived in away on July 26, 1863, and Uxbridge, Massachusetts in Martha died on April 3, 1893. 1843). She may be the same as Eliab, Hadassah, and Martha were Eliza S. who married Seth Taft all buried in the South Wardsboro on July 6, 1848, at Uxbridge, Cemetery. Massachusetts. Children of Eliab and Hadassah: 5) Delia Sophia, born February 9, 1) Lucy Plimpton, born February 1824, at Stratton, Vermont 1, 1826, at Stratton, Vermont; (baptized in Stratton on died July 31, 1849, at August 30, 1824). Wardsboro, Vermont.

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2) Catherine Sophia, married November 1, 1836, Cyrel Alvin L. Morse. purchased the west half of 5L3R 3) Jared Newton, born in from Amos. At that time, Cyrel November, 1836; married was living in Stratton. This land Malvina M. Hale on June 20, was later confiscated from Amos 1864 (He was a Civil War Scranton in 1838. Cyrel evidently Veteran). left Stratton at that time. He 4) Fanny Angela, born December married Sarah Hunter on 30, 1840; married Joseph H. September 15, 1837, at Prescott, White on November 20, 1864. Massachusetts, and they may have 5) Bradford H., born January 12, settled there. 1844; died January 9, 1878; married Ella Hunt. Scully Stephen Scully, son of Vincent Scranton and Susannah (Keith) Scully, Amos Scranton purchased the married Rosanna Warren, west half of 5L3R from Benjamin daughter of Robert Penn and Thatcher on April 14, 1835 (the Eleanor (Clark) Warren. Marble lot), located in the vicinity The Scullys spend summers of what is now Shepardson Rd.. in Stratton in the home Rosanna’s At that time, he was living in parents had built in 1963. Stratton. On November 1, 1836, Steve’s son: Amos sold this lot to Cyrel 1) Benjamin Scranton of Stratton. On November 15, 1838, Children of Steve and Rosanna: Stephen Ballard recovered 2) Katherine judgment from Amos Scranton 3) Chiara and John N. Glazier. Stratton’s constable was ordered to Selfors confiscate Scranton’s property and Emil A. Selfors was born in 1875 to deliver Scranton to the jail in in Sweden. He was probably a Newfane until said debt was paid. son of Eric Augustus and Ingrid Ballard was awarded 67 acres of Christina Selfors, who had settled Scranton’s land. Another in Wardsboro. judgment against Scranton was Emil came to Stratton made in favor of Jackson and between 1900 and 1910, where he Solomon Newell the following probably worked in one of July. Stratton’s lumber camps. In Amos evidently left Stratton 1910, he boarded in the home of before June 26, 1836, since town Phineas Eddy. records report that his house was unoccupied at that time. Seley Cyrel L. Scranton was closely Tal Seley came to Stratton before related to Amos Scranton. On 1900 and he worked as a

Stratton Families 438 lumberman at the Grout Job. there soon after this lease was That year, he was living in the signed. On September 5, 1848, boardinghouse located on the mill the Selectmen agreed to lease site. He was no longer in Stratton 3L8R and 3L9R to N. J. Shaw and in 1910. Freeman Wyman for 30 years. They mortgaged this lot at that Shaw time and the following month, Nathaniel Jarvis Shaw was born Wyman sold his rights to N. J.. about 1823. N.J., as he was N. J. and Julia were living called, took the Freeman’s oath in with Joseph Packard and Carlos Stratton on September 6, 1842. Knapp in Stratton in 1850. That He married Julia Amelia Glazier, year, N.J. was Stratton’s daughter of John N. and Phoebe Constable and Collector. On Glazier, on February 23, 1850. October 4, 1850, a public auction Julia was born on July 20, 1832, of lands being sold by the town for in Vermont. back-taxes, was held at the N. J. was a lumberman. He Shaw’s home. N. J. served as a operated a mill on the East Selectman of Stratton in 1849. Branch of the Deerfield River in He died on November 6, Stratton in 3L8R and 3L9R (land 1850. His epitaph reads, “While owned by the town and leased in a carriage on my way from through the Selectmen). A road Fayetteville to my home, the to this mill, called the Shaw Rd. monster took my life away and still exists and is located on the placed me in a tomb.” south side of the Stratton After his death, the Gurneys Arlington Rd., just a quarter-mile acquired Shaw’s Mill. In 1856, or so west of the Deerfield River. Jesse Sage owned the mill and in N. J. first leased these lots on 1869, C. Birch operated the mill March 7, 1842, along with Steven there (see McClellan’s Map of W. Moultrip. Shaw bought out 1856 and Beer’s Atlas of 1869). Moultrip the following year. N. J. In 1852/3, Julia became a leased his mill to the Allens in member of the West Wardsboro 1844 and then in 1845, he sold Baptist Church. She became the mill to Allen and Fowler, but involved in a dispute in this he held the mortgage. At that church, when the Rev. Crowley time, N. J. moved to Westminster, was accused of misconduct with Vermont. In 1846, N. J. her. The Reverend was found repurchased the mill and in guilty and dismissed from the September, he leased it to Orrin P. church. Torrey. This agreement allowed Julia died on February 23, N. J. to occupy the dwelling there 1856, at the home of her parents which at that time was occupied in Stratton. The Shaws were by Pliny Fisk Grout. N. J. buried in Ball Cemetery. evidently returned to Stratton from Westminster and settled

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Shay The Sheldons evidently lived Frank Shay was born about 1871 briefly in Winhall before settling in New York. In 1920, he was a in Stratton. They lived along the lumber camp laborer living in the Stratton-Arlington Rd. several boarding house at the Grout Job in hundred yards west of that road’s Stratton. At that time, he was intersection with the West married, but his wife was not Jamaica Rd. on 60 acres of the living in Stratton. west half of 3L4R. LaFayette Sheldon of Stratton and Ruth P. Sheldon of Dorset, Vermont, Shea purchased this lot from James Henry Shea was born in Sprague on March 6, 1844. Ruth September, 1876, in New York. was either LaFayette’s sister or his He came to Stratton before 1900 mother. She remained in Dorset and worked for George Tudor at and in 1850 she sold her share of the Upper Tudor Mill in Stratton. this lot to LaFayette, but she held In 1900, Henry was living with a mortgage on it. This last deed the Tudors. After the Tudors sold was witnessed by Franklin W. out in 1902, Henry evidently Sheldon, who may have been moved away from Stratton. another brother of LaFayette. LaFayette was the town’s Sheldon blacksmith for several years. He Israel G. Sheldon was apparently also ran the post office in Stratton a son of Israel and Ruth Sheldon. from October 4, 1850, to June 8, Israel married Martha D. Wheeler 1886. He served as a Selectman of Grafton, Vermont (intent in 1872 and he was Stratton’s published on October 6, 1844, at Town Clerk in 1854, 1855, and Stratton). In 1845, there were two from 1857 to his death in 1891. children living with the Sheldons LaFayette was apparently disabled and attending school in district in someway. #2. They may have been In 1847, Elisha M. Torrey Martha’s children from a previous was living with the Sheldons and marriage or perhaps her siblings. attending school in Stratton’s They were Mary Jane Wheeler district #2. In 1860, Abigail’s and Daniel Wheeler. mother and her two younger sisters were living with the LaFayette Sheldon, son of Israel Sheldons. By 1870, the Spragues and Ruth Sheldon, was born about had moved out and they were June 24, 1817, in Connecticut. living next door. In 1880, He married Abigail Butterfield following Lucy Sprague’s death, Sprague, daughter of James and Abigail’s sister, Hannah had Lucy Sprague, on October 17, moved back in with the Sheldons. 1839, at Stratton. Abigail was LaFayette died at Stratton on born on August 18, 1821, at December 25, 1891. Abigail was Winhall, Vermont. appointed Town Clerk to serve out

Stratton Families 440 his term. In 1900, Abigail was in 1834 according to an account living with her sister Hannah of Rowena in the Vermont Sprague and Jesse C. Jones, a Phoenix. On February 26, 1838, widower, who had been the Oren purchased the west half of Sheldon’s neighbor for many 4L3R in Stratton. This was the years. Hannah died on October old Phillips family farm, located 14, 1901, at Stratton and Abigail at the corner of what is now the died there on April 13, 1903. The West Jamaica Rd. and Ball Farm Sheldons were buried in Ball Rd. The Shelleys settled on this Cemetery in Stratton. lot after the purchase. Their children were: In 1840, a man aged 60 to 70 1) Benjamin L., born August 6, (possibly Nathan Shelley), two 1840, at Winhall, Vermont; females aged 20 to 30, and two died November 23, 1843, at males aged 10 to 20 were living in Stratton, Vermont. the Shelley’s home. Oren was the 2) Isaac Sprague, born September male aged 40 to 50 and Rowena 16, 1842, at Stratton, was evidently mistakenly marked Vermont; died April 18, 1847, as aged 50 to 60. That same year, at Stratton, Vermont. Oren qualified as a Freeman of Stratton. Shelley On October 20, 1842, Oren Oren Shelley, son of Jonathan declared bankruptcy. At that and Molly (Cole) Shelley, was time, his property was sold to born on April 26, 1797, at Phineas White of Putney, Raynham, Massachusetts. He first Vermont. A deed dated 1845, settled in Westmoreland, New mentioned that Nathan and Sewell Hampshire, and he was a relative Shelley were still living on this of Nathan Shelley who also had lot. Oren moved his family to settled in Stratton from Keene, New Hampshire, in 1846. Westmoreland (see below). In March, 1848, this lot was still Oren married Rowena referred to as the Shelley lot, Ranstead, daughter of Rufus and when Oliver P. Hescock Annie (Aldrich) Ranstead about purchased part of it. The Shelleys 1820 at Westmoreland. Rowena settled into a brick home in Keene was born in March, 1796, at and remained there for the Springfield, Vermont. She later remainder of their lives. Oren lived in Weathersfield and other was over 90 when he passed away Vermont towns until the age of on May 21, 1889. Rowena died at fifteen, then moved to the age of 102 years, and nine Westmoreland to live with her months, on December 14, 1898, at grandparents. Keene. She had remained in The Shelleys remained in excellent health until the last few Westmoreland until 1826, then months of her life. moved to Surry, New Hampshire. They apparently settled in Stratton

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Children of Oren and Rowena: 1) Sophronia, born in 1806; 1) Mary E., born March 7, 1821, married Asa Wyman on at Westmoreland, New December 31, 1832. Hampshire; married Noyes E. 2) Sewell, born in 1813 at Starkey. Westmoreland, New 2) William O., born October 24, Hampshire; died January 3, 1822, at Westmoreland, New 1907; married Harriet E. Hampshire; died June 21, Powers. 1872. 3) Hollis, married 1) Belinda 3) Emily Jane, born June 6, 1825, Wyman on November 26, at Westmoreland, New 1839, at Westmoreland, New Hampshire; married Loren Hampshire 2) Fanny Wyman. Wyman on February 17, 1850 (later lived in Minnesota). Hollis Shelley, son of Nathan and 4) George Ranstead, born Mary (Britton) Shelley, February 20, 1828; died March mortgaged the east half of 4L4R 18, 1887; married Mary Ann for James Sprague on February Russell on November 2, 1852. 16, 1841, then sold this mortgage to Freeman Wyman of Additional Sources: History and Genealogy of Rockingham, Vermont, on August Westmoreland, New Hampshire 14, 1841. During that time, Vermont Phoenix - December, 16, 1898 Hollis moved from Westmoreland, New Hampshire, to Stratton; but Nathan Shelley, son of Abner and he did not stay in Stratton. Mary (Hartwell) Shelley, was born Hollis married Belinda Ann during the 1770s. He married Wyman, daughter of Robert and Mary Britton, daughter of David Lydia Wyman. Belinda passed and Lydia (Finney) Britton, and away and Hollis then married they evidently resided in Fanny Wyman, Belinda’s sister. Westmoreland, New Hampshire. Fanny was born on August 30, In 1840, Nathan apparently 1827, at Rockingham, Vermont. was living in Stratton in the home She had been married twice of a relative, Oren Shelley, on the before, first to William L. Aiken1 old Phillips family farm (4L3R). and second to Nathan Wyman. Mary was no longer with him at Hollis returned to Stratton that time. Nathan was elected a with his family about 1855, as did sexton for the cemetery there on Hollis’s brother Sewell and their March 6, 1843. He was still sister, Sophronia Wyman, wife of living on this farm as indicated in Asa Wyman. At that time, their a deed of 1845. He apparently home was located across from moved away from Stratton to Wyman’s Hotel near the junction Keene, New Hampshire, with of the Stratton-Arlington Rd. and Oren’s family in 1846. the West Jamaica Rd. on 3L4R - Children of Nathan and Mary: land apparently owned by Freeman Wyman.

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The Shelleys had two Children of Sewell and Harriet: children attending school in 1) Sewell F. (in school in Stratton Stratton’s school district #5 in in district #5 in 1855). 1856. The Shelleys resettled in 2) Vesta E., married Milan Grafton, Vermont, before 1860. Knight. Children of Hollis and Belinda: 3) John Henry 1) Mary Ann, married Willard S. 4) Abba D. (in school in Stratton Moultrip on June 30, 1860, at in district #5 in 1855). Putney, Vermont. 2) Demaris, married John Shepard Davidson. Reuben Shepard was born in 1772. He married Betsey Fisher, 1) William L. Aiken and Fanny Wyman were grandparents of George David who was born in 1784. Aiken, Governor of Vermont and a Reuben was warned out of subsequent U. S. Senator of Vermont Jamaica, Vermont, on January 23, elected in 1940. 1810. He and Betsey apparently settled in Stratton for a brief time, Sewell Shelley, son of Nathan but they were not there during a and Mary (Britton) Shelley, was census year, nor were they born in 1813 at Westmoreland, mentioned in any record in New Hampshire. He married Stratton. Reuben died in 1843 Harriet E. Powers. Harriet had and Betsey followed in 1850. been widowed twice. Her first Children of Reuben and Betsey: husband was Azilman Lincoln 1) Joseph, born in 1807. and her second husband was Ezra 2) Eliza Streeter. 3) Willard, born in 1820; married Sewell apparently lived in 1) Ann M. Fisher in 1839 2) Stratton briefly during the early (?) 3) Lorena (Cummings) 1840s, but he had moved away Wyman on February 2, 1875, about 1846. The Shelleys at Stratton, Vermont. returned to Stratton about 1855 as did Sewell’s brother, Hollis, and their sister, Sophronia Wyman, Willard Shepard, son of Rueben wife of Asa Wyman. The Shelleys and Betsey (Fisher) Shepard of were living in Stratton in school Jamaica, Vermont, was born in district #5 in 1855 and 1856. 1820. Willard was married three The Shelleys apparently times. He first married Ann M. resettled in Cambridgeport, Fisher in 1839. His third Vermont before 1860. They were marriage was to Lorena closely related to the Wymans of Cummings, daughter of William Stratton and Cambridgeport. and Betsey Cummings, and Harriet passed away and Sewell widow of Freeman Wyman. They married a second time to (?). were married on February 2, Sewell died January 3, 1907, and 1875, at Stratton. Lorena was he was buried in the born at Chester, Vermont, on Cambridgeport Cemetery. October 10, 1818.

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Willard was Justice of the Peace 7L3R and north part of 6L3R - the in Stratton and he was Stratton’s old David Cook farm. John and Representative, elected in 1882 Miriam evidently removed from and 1884. Royalston, Massachusetts, to Following the marriage, Stratton in 1813 or 1814 and Willard and Lorena continued resided with or near John’s running Wyman’s Inn at the brother, Isaac. The Selectmen of corner of the Stratton-Arlington Stratton subsequently warned Rd. and the West Jamaica Rd.. them out of town on January 13, They apparently had hired 1814. They remained in Stratton Andrew Rawson to be the and John took the Freeman’s oath hotelkeeper in May of 1879; on September 6, 1814. however, Andrew died the John purchased several other following September. lots in this area. On November 4, In 1880, the Shepards had 1816, John sold half of his farm to Daniel Harris, aged 82, boarding William Cobb of Warwick, with them. Massachusetts. John moved to Lorena died on October 12, Warwick about this same time. 1887. She was buried beside her Although John never resettled in first husband, Freeman Wyman. Stratton, he repurchase a lot in Willard was a Democrat. 1820, which he had sold to his When Grover Cleveland became nephew, Isaac Shepardson, Jr. president in 1889, Willard was several years earlier. He also sold subsequently appointed another lot in Stratton in 1830. Postmaster of Jamaica, Vermont, John was an uncle of Moses since at that time Postmaster was Kinney (son of Moses Kinney and often a politically appointed probably Miriam Shepardson position. Willard accepted the above). John adopted him and appointment and moved to Moses took Shepardson as his Jamaica. surname. A child of Willard was: An adopted son of John was: 1) Carrie, married (?) Ray. 1) Moses Kinney, born October 23, 1797, at Richmond, New Shepardson Hampshire; died July 9, 1885, John Shepardson and Miriam at North Oxford, Shepardson apparently were Massachusetts; married Laura brother and sister – children of Greenwood on March 22, Jonathan and Miriam (Follett) 1819, at Stratton, Vermont. Shepardson of Attleboro, Massachusetts. John (or Moses Kinney Shepardson, son Jonathan) was born on April 23, of Moses Kinney, was born on 1758, and Miriam was born on October 23, 1797, at Richmond, September 1, 1761. New Hampshire. He was adopted On October 10, 1812, John by his uncle, John Shepardson of purchased the southwest corner of Royalston, Massachusetts, and he

Stratton Families 444 took the Shepardson name for his became a deacon of the North own surname. Moses was Oxford Baptist Church. probably a son of Miriam Moses died on July 9, 1885, Shepardson, who was apparently and Laura followed on March 21, John’s sister. Miriam lived with 1889. John Shepardson. Their children were: Moses was a farmer in 1) Amanda, born December 17, Stratton, apparently on his 1819, at Stratton, Vermont; stepfather’s farm. He married died May 5, 1902; married Laura Greenwood, daughter of Otis Nelson Pond on John and Ruth Greenwood, on September 24, 1840. March 29, 1819, at Stratton. 2) Laurinda, born April 12, 1822, Laura was born there on at Stratton, Vermont; died December 28, 1800. October 3, 1906; married George Washington Hastings on April 25, 1841. 3) Philena, born July 11, 1827, at Dummerston, Vermont; died November 25, 1874; married Jonathan Harris Foster on November 1, 1852. 4) Henry, born April 6, 1830, at Dummerston, Vermont; died August 7, 1849. 5) Horace, born September 9, Laura (Greenwood) Shepardson 1832, at Dummerston, (1800 – 1889) Vermont; married Elizabeth Alice Young on May 21, 1857. Photo from The Greenwood Genealogy by 6) Francis Ellen, born April 25, Frederick Greenwood (1914). 1836, at Grafton,

The Shepardsons removed to Massachusetts; died November Dummerston, Vermont, sometime 18, 1891; married Edward between 1822 and 1826, along Everett Balcom on July 14, with Laura’ parents and the 1858. Sanford Holmes family. In 1830, 7) Marion E., born in 1837; died Moses was the administrator of July 21, 1839. Sanford Holmes will. 8) Asa Belnap, born March 22, Later, Moses and Laura 1841, at Grafton, settled in North Grafton, Massachusetts; married 1) Massachusetts. In 1843, they Amy Elizabeth Stockwell on moved to Oxford, Massachusetts, January 1, 1867 2) Viola Mary and Moses purchased a farm there Hobbs on March 10, 1881. in 1849, calling it the Greenwood 9) Ruth Angelia, born May 3, farm, in honor of his wife. Moses 1845; married John Dayton Hudson on July 3, 1866.

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Additional Sources: 8) David Cook, born October 2, The Greenwood Genealogy by Frederick Greenwood (1914) 1815, at Royalston, Massachusetts; married Emily Daniel Shepardson, possibly a Grout (intent published brother of John Shepardson, October 26, 1835, at married Prudence Cook, daughter Royalston, Massachusetts) (he of David and Elizabeth Cook, on took the Freeman’s oath in September 9, 1801, at Stratton. Stratton on September 2, Prudence was born about 1779. 1884). The Shepardsons resettled in 9) John, born April 12, 1820, at Royalston, Massachusetts, after Royalston, Massachusetts; their marriage. married Maria Chamberlin on Children of Daniel and Prudence: June 7, 1843, at Royalston, 1) Jonathan, born November 23, Massachusetts. 1802, at Royalston, 10) Eri, born September 10, 1821, Massachusetts; married Nancy at Royalston, Massachusetts; Joseph (intent published married Elvira S. Bemis on March 29, 1825, at Royalston, January 5, 1843, at Royalston, Massachusetts). Massachusetts. 2) Pruda, born August 12, 1804, at Royalston, Massachusetts; Isaac Shepardson, son of married William Moore (intent Jonathan and Miriam (Follett) published February 6, 1826, at Shepardson, was born on May 31, Royalston, Massachusetts). 1771, at Royalston, 3) Lity, born April 19, 1806, at Massachusetts. He married Mary Royalston, Massachusetts; died Paine following an intent that was June 5, 1820, at Royalston, published on April 28, 1793, at Massachusetts. Royalston. Mary was born on 4) Eliza, born April 4. 1808, at August 1, 1772. Royalston, Massachusetts; Isaac purchased the southeast married Charles Moore (intent corner of 7L4R and the northeast published March 9, 1829, at corner of 6L4R in Stratton on Royalston, Massachusetts). May 5, 1808, from Archibald 5) David Cook, born May 31, Pratt. They settled on 6L4R along 1810, at Royalston, the road and opposite the Cook Massachusetts; died September farm. Isaac took the Freeman’s 7, 1813, at Royalston, oath in Stratton on December 12, Massachusetts. 1808. 6) Milla, born March 25, 1812, at The Shepardsons were Royalston, Massachusetts. warned out of Stratton by the 7) Daniel, born July 27, 1813, at Selectmen on March 13, 1809. Royalston, Massachusetts; Isaac was not listed in the census married Harriet S. Wilcox of 1810; therefore, the (intent published February 13, Shepardsons may have left town 1841). or they may have lived in another

Stratton Families 446 household at that time. In Children of Isaac and Mary were: October, 1812, Isaac was called 1) Isaac, born October 25, 1796, “of Stratton” when he sold two at Royalston, Massachusetts; parcels - 52 acres of the north half died January 24, 1879. of 6L3R and 54 acres of the 2) Elsa, born January 22, 1811, at southeast corner of 6L4R to his Stratton, Vermont; died on brother, John. March 23, 1881, at Stratton, In 1828, Isaac purchased the Vermont; married 1) (?) Hall Marble farm on the west half of 2) Stephen W. Cummings on 5L3R and his son, Isaac, evidently June 6, 1843, at Stratton, settle on this lot for a brief time Vermont. along with the Marbles (at least into 1831). This farm was located Isaac Shepardson, Jr., son of approximately where Forrest Isaac and Mary Shepardson, was Tuttle’s home stands today on born on October 25, 1796. He Shepardson Rd.. The Marbles came to Stratton with his parents. reacquired this farm and it was Isaac apparently never married, or sold to the Scrantons in 1835. he was widowed at a young age. In 1840, The Shepardsons’ Isaac’s uncle, John two children, Isaac and Elsa, were Shepardson, deeded Isaac, Jr. living with them. Apparently, some land in Stratton in 1817 and Elsa had a daughter there at that his father, Isaac, Sr. also deeded time -- Eleanor Fox Hall. Eleanor him part of 7L4R in 1818. In was probably a daughter from an 1828, Isaac, Sr. purchased the earlier marriage (Eleanor later west half of 5L3R from Samuel married Henry Knapp).. Also at Marble and it appears that Isaac, that time, there was a boy living Jr. lived on that farm in 1831; there, aged 15 to 20. This may although he was living with his have been Isaac Shepardson, Jr.. parents in 1830. In 1834, Isaac Elsa married again in 1843 Jr. and his father purchased the and she probably moved away northeast quarter of 7L4R and with her daughter. Isaac, Jr. may have lived there for Isaac died there on July 31, a time. In 1849, a deed 1845. In 1850, Isaac, Jr. was mentioned that Isaac Shepardson head of the household. His (Jr.) again lived on the west half mother, Mary, was living there of 5L3R - the old Marble farm – and so again was his sister, Elsa, but he evidently resided there only who had been widowed by briefly and probably moved back Stephen Cummings. Elsa and in with his parents. Eleanor moved back in, this time In 1850, Isaaac’s sister, Elsa, with a son, John. twice a widow, and her two Mary died on March 1, 1852, children, moved in with Isaac and and she was buried in Ball his mother. McClellan’s Map of Cemetery. 1856 does not show that the Shepardsons resided in Stratton.

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Perhaps they had settled Children of Simon were: elsewhere for a few years; 1) Henry, born about 1856. however, in 1860, Isaac, Elsa and 2) Katie, born about 1857. her son, John, were living in 3) Annie, born about 1861. Stratton in the same house. In 1862, Freeman Knapp and Elsa’s Calvin D. Shepardson1, son of son, John Cummings, were living Jonathan and Hannah (Delvee) with them and attending school. Shepardson, was born in In 1865, two different children, Warwick, Massachusetts, on Etta and Elizabeth, were living March 28, 1823. with the Shepardsons and Calvin’s third marriage was attending school. to Hellen Darling on August 12, By 1869, Isaac had purchased 1876, at Stratton. She was the the west half of 3L5R and he was daughter of William and Elvira living there on the old Marble Darling, and the widow of Rodney farm, on what it now called Chamberlain. Hellen was born in Shepardson Rd. (evidently named Dorset, Vermont, on April 4, for him). In 1856, William G. 1842. Howard had owned this farm. In The Shepardsons settled in 1870, Simon Shepardson, possibly Stratton following the marriage Isaac’s son, moved in with Isaac and they resided there for the and Elsa. Simon was apparently a remainder of their lives. They widower and he had three may have lived on Shepardson children with him. Rd., in the house previously Isaac died on January 24, occupied by Isaac Shepardson. 1879, and he was buried in Ball Calvin died on June 18, 1895, Cemetery. His stone shows that at Stratton and Helen died there he was 75 years 2 months; on January 16, 1902. The however, he was actually 82 when Shepardsons were buried in Ball he died. Cemetery. Children of Calvin by a previous Simon P. Shepardson, probably a marriage were: grandson of Isaac and Mary 1) Charles C., born in 1854. Shepardson, was born about 1818. 2) Dan D., born in 1863 (cared Simon married and had children, for as a town pauper by George but he was apparently widowed by Brown in 1885). the time he came to Stratton. By 1870, he had moved in with Isaac Children of Helen by her first Shepardson, Jr. and Elsa husband, Rodney Chamberlain, Cummings. He was no longer in were: Stratton in 1880 and he may have 1) Charlie, born in June, 1863. been the same Simon P. 2) Lettie, born on May 16, 1866, Shepardson who married Ellen M. at Jamaica, Vermont; died Rassman on January 27, 1876, at August 27, 1894, at Stratton, Ingham, Michigan.

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Vermont; married Charles brother, Andrew, and a cousin, Amos Hescock. Jonathan Holman, in 1776, and they were nearly taken prisoner A child of Calvin and Helen was: during the retreat from New York 1) Jenny M., born November 2, in 1776. They were also at the 1877, at Stratton, Vermont; battle of White Plains, New York. married Edward Wheeler on Anthony was later a Private in January 9, 1898, at Stratton, Captain Jeremiah Kingsbury’s Vermont. Company, Colonel Jonathan Holman’s Regiment, serving 15 Note: 1) Calvin may have been from a Shepardson days when this company marched family that moved to Warwick from on September 27, 1777, to Stratton. Dorothy Grout, in a letter home reinforce the army of General to her mother, Lucy Grout, mentions that Emily Shepardson had a son in late Gates. February or early March, 1839. She also On January 2, 1796, Anthony mentioned Loren and Semantha ??, who purchased 12L4R in Stratton from were apparently familiar to the folks back Nathan Patch. The following in Stratton.) year, the Sigourneys moved to Jenny M. Shepardson, daughter Stratton. Ruth died at Stratton on of Calvin and Helen Shepardson, January 17, 1802. was born on November 2, 1877, at Anthony then married Mary Stratton. She had a son, “Polly” (White) Phillips, widow of Shepardson Rawson, by LeRoy Asa Phillips, on September 17, Rawson. Shepardson Rawson was 1803. They were residing on the born on May 3, 1896. Jenny then Phillipses’ farm (4L3R) in 1807, married Edward Wheeler on but they removed to Bennington, January 9, 1898, at Stratton. Vermont, before April, 1808. At Afterward, her son, Shepardson, that time, Anthony sold his farm was known as Earl S. Wheeler. to Samuel Lacey of Bennington. The Sigourneys next settled in Watervliet, New York, before Sigourney 1810. In December, 1809, the Anthony Sigourney, son of sheriff of Windham County was Anthony and Elizabeth Sigourney, ordered to confiscate the property was born on May 12, 1751. of Anthony Sigourney and to Anthony married Ruth Chase, arrest him and deliver him to the daughter of Abel and Sarah Chase jail keeper in Newfane until a debt of Sutton, Massachusetts, on June of $113.27 was paid to Asa 23, 1774. Phillips of Stratton. Sigourney’s During the American land on Winhall’s border was Revolution, Anthony served in then appraised in December, 1809 Captain John Town’s Company, (evidently disregarding the above which marched to Roxbury on the sale) and Asa Phillips was alarm of April 19, 1775. Anthony awarded 31.5 acres of this lot. served for ten days at that time. He also enlisted along with his

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Meanwhile, Anthony and A child of Anthony and Polly was: Polly evidently separated or 9) Daniel Phillips, born June 9, divorced and Polly returned to 1804; married E. Jane Cary on Stratton in 1812. About 1813, she October 8, 1825, at probably returned to Watervliet, Schenectady, New York. where she died about 1816. Her son-in-law, Jedidiah Baker, was Charles Sigourney, son of the executor of her will. Anthony and Ruth Sigourney, was Anthony died at Watervliet born on February 29, 1784. He on July 10, 1825. married Sally French, daughter of Children of Anthony and Ruth: Jacob and Sarah French of 1) Anthony, born October 29, Stratton, on March 16, 1806. 1775; died April 21, 1847, at The Sigourneys moved away Watertown, New York; from Stratton, probably when married Betsey Boyd on Charles’ parents moved before February 19, 1809, at 1810. Charles died on May 9, Lowville, New York. 1852, at Hammond, New York. 2) Ruth, born December 7, 1777; Additional Sources for the above Sigourney died on March 27, 1832, at families: Rochester, New York. Genealogy of the Sigourney Family 3) Andrew, born December 16, by Henry H. W. Sigourney (1857) 1779; died January 25, 1819, at Watertown, New York; Sinclair married Hannah Stevens on Edward Sinclair was born in February 3, 1810. Canada in August, 1863. His 4) Elizabeth, born December 22, wife, Marion, was born in 1781; died March 15, 1827, at Vermont in January, 1867. They Alexandria, New York. were married about 1886 and they 5) Charles, born February 29, came to Stratton about 1900. 1784; died May 9, 1852, at That year, they were boarding Hammond, New York; married with the Joel Grout family at the Sally French on March 16, Grout Job. Edward was probably 1806, at Stratton, Vermont. a laborer in the lumber mill, while 6) Peter, born May 14, 1786; died Marion helped cook for the May 9, 1832, at Fowler, New lumbermen. They were no longer York; married Wealthy Bates in Stratton in 1910. on August 19, 1812. 7) Sarah, born June 14, 1789; died March 5, 1834, at Skinner Watertown, New York. B. J. Skinner resided in Stratton 8) John, born May 9, 1792, in 1857. Two of his children, married Clarissa Caldwell on attending school in district #3 in September 29, 1819. Stratton at that time, were Wesley and Susan. (Verne Skinner Sprague may have been another daughter).

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Smith Stratton-Arlington Rd., about a Joseph Smith, Jr., was probably a half-mile west of what is now son of Joseph and Patty Smith of Plimpton Rd. (The remains of the Wardsboro, Vermont. Joseph was foundation are still visible). living in Wardsboro, Vermont, Travis sold this lot back to when he purchased Samuel William Mann Fuller on March Rider’s farm - 100 acres of 2L3R - 20, 1840, but he apparently from Samuel Newell, remained in Stratton long enough administrator of Rider’s estate, on to be included in that year’s May 3, 1844. census. Steven Smith, mentioned Joseph apparently settled on above, may have been their son, this lot at that time and he aged 15 to 20 noted in this census. remained there until 1848. He It also indicated that they had two took the Freeman’s oath in sons under the age of 5, a son and Stratton on November 12, 1844. two daughters aged 5 to 10, two On February 8, 1848, Joseph sons aged 10 to 15, and a son and sold this farm to Hiram Ames and daughter aged 15 to 20. he apparently returned to Wardsboro at that time. Leroy Smith married Cornelia (?). Leroy was a farmer. The James Smith and his wife, Smiths were living in Stratton in Betsey, settled in Stratton about 1856. 1805. They were warned out of Their child was: town on June 28, 1806, by 1) Emily, born February 27, Stratton’s Selectmen, and served 1856, at Stratton, Vermont. notice by the constable on July 2, 1806. Charles F. Smith, son of William James did not purchase any J. and Etta Amelia (Brown) land in Stratton and he evidently Smith, was born on October 5, moved away from Stratton before 1872, at Higate, Vermont. 1810. Charles married M. Alice Taylor, daughter of Jacob B. and Travis Smith was born between Emma (Watson) Taylor, on 1790 and 1800. His wife was February 3, 1894, at Jamaica, born between 1800 and 1810. Vermont. Alice was born about Travis and Steven I. Smith 1875 at Barre, Vermont. purchased 50 acres of the Charles was a machinist. He southwest corner of 4L5R from and Alice evidently resided in William Fuller on March 31, Stratton in 1895; however, they 1838. At the time of this had left town before 1900. purchase, the Smiths were living Their child was: in Rockingham, Vermont. Travis 1) Herbert Ronald, born January and his wife settled on this lot at 18, 1895, at Stratton, that time. Apparently, this was Vermont. the Fuller farm, located along the

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Nathaniel Smith, son of John1 same farm, located on the corner and Abigail Smith, was born of what are now Ball Farm Rd. about 1787. Nathaniel apparently and the West Jamaica Rd.. came to Wardsboro, Vermont, The Smiths were no longer in with his parents. Stratton in 1860. They evidently Nathaniel’s first wife died in had resettled in Wardsboro. Wardsboro on December 19, Nathaniel died on November 28, 1817, aged 31. He then married 1860. His will was written on Betsey Rugg, who was born about November 7, 1860, and it was 1795. They resided in Wardsboro probated on January 31, 1861, for many years. with Holland Plimpton as the Beginning in 1825, Nathaniel executor. Betsey died on August purchased several parcels within 21, 1874. They were buried in Stratton, including part of 2L3R Fairview Cemetery in Wardsboro. and part of 3L3R. On February A child of Nathaniel and Betsey: 10, 1849, Nathaniel purchased the 1) Moses, born in March, 1826; old Phillips farm, located on the married Esther French. west half of 4L3R. The Smiths Notes: apparently settled there at that 1) John Smith settled in Wardsboro, time. William Stiles was living Vermont, from Leverett, Massachusetts. there at the time he purchased this He died in 1807 aged 62. Abigail his wife died in 1801. Both were buried in farm. Nathaniel gave him until Fairview Cemetery in Wardsboro. April 1, 1850, to move out. The 1850 census shows the Jonas Hubbard Smith, son of Stiles and the Smiths as Levi and Lucy (Hubbard) Smith, neighbors. It also shows Caroline was born on May 13, 1805, at Babcock living with them and Holden, Massachusetts. Jonas attending school. married Anne Edmunds Rogers, In 1851, it appears that daughter of George and Betsey Nathaniel had sold this lot and (Howe) Rogers, on May 2, 1827, returned to Wardsboro, remaining at Holden, Massachusetts. Anne there until 1853. Meanwhile, was born at Holden on September Joseph Packard, Jr., then John 30, 1807. Thayer, lived on this farm. The Smiths settled in Stratton Nathaniel repurchased the farm during the 1840s, apparently on from Thayer in October, 1852, the northwest quarter of 1L2R. and he allowed the Thayers to McClellan’s map of 1856 shows remain in the house until them residing on the north side of December and they could use the the Stratton-Arlington Rd., about barn until the following June. midway between Willis Cemetery Therefore, the Smiths apparently Rd. and Old Forrester Rd.. In resettled in Stratton at the 1853, their son George purchased beginning of 1853. this lot. McClellan’s map of 1856 On March 16, 1846, Jonas shows the Smiths living on this was elected Church Clerk of the

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Baptist Church in West share. On September 10, 1853, Wardsboro. By 1853, Jonas had George purchased 48 acres of become a deacon of this church. 1L2R and in that same month he In the 1850 census, Corinthia took the Freeman’s oath. B. Moon was listed as a boarder in George may not have stayed their home. By 1860, Jonas and long in Stratton. McClellan’s Anna were living alone. 1856 map does not indicate that Jonas died at Stratton on George was in Stratton, and all of September 9, 1868, of typhoid his lots were abandoned farms at fever, and Anna died on March 7, that time. His purchases indicate 1896, at Stratton. that he may have operated a Their children were: sawmill for a short time in the 1) Almira R., born May 16, 1829 Grout Pond area. at Holden, Massachusetts; died April 4, 1886; married James Alonzo K. Smith, son of Jonas H. Johnson about 1851. and Anna Smith, was born on 2) George W., born December 27, October 4, 1833, at Holden, 1831, at Holden, Massachusetts. Alonzo came to Massachusetts. Stratton with his parents during 3) Alonso K., born October 4, the 1840s. He married Anna 1833, at Holden, Marian Glazier, daughter of John Massachusetts; died September N. and Phoebe Glazier, at 28, 1893; married Ann Marion Stratton. Anna was born on “Phoebe” Glazier at Stratton. December 31, 1834, at Stratton, 4) Elesa Ann, born October 27, and apparently she was called 1835; died October 29, 1854. Phoebe. 5) Mary M., born about 1838. The Smiths evidently settled 6) Ellen Matilda, born about in Stratton after the marriage, 1839; married Jerome B. living close to Alonzo’s parents. Temple on December 12, Alonzo took the Freeman’s oath 1857, at Stratton, Vermont. in Stratton on September 4, 1855, and the Smiths remained in George W. Smith, son of Jonas Stratton through 1860. and Anna Smith, was born on Phoebe died on December 14, December 27, 1831, at Holden, 1866, at Stratton from effects of a Massachusetts. tumor in her throat. Alonzo On July 12, 1852, George resettled in Wardsboro, Vermont, leased the south half of 1L7R (the before 1870 and died on Ramor lot) from William G. Pike. September 28, 1893. The Smiths In October, 1852, George, along were buried in the West with his brother-in-law, James Wardsboro Cemetery. Johnson, purchased 3L6R on the A child of Alonzo and Phoebe: east side of what is now Grout 1) Nellie L., born June 9, 1863, at Pond and on August 4, 1853, Stratton, Vermont; died July 3, George bought out Johnson’s 1881.

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Stillman Smith was a resident of “Manufacturer & Dealer in all Jamaica, Vermont, when he kinds of Building Lumber both purchased 3L1R on April 5, 1836. Plain and Dressed also Lath, Stillman settled on this lot, which Shingle & Chair Stock.” The had been the old Bixby farm, map shows a large group of located along what is now Canedy buildings within this operation. Rd.. The dwelling may have been An article to aid in the located where Ronald Bills home building of a road to Mr. Smith’s now stands. sawmill was passed over at the On October 29, 1836, March Meeting of 1868; although, Stillman sold this lot to Levi Fitts laying out this road was agreed and apparently moved away from upon at a special town meeting Stratton at that time. held in September, 1868, after Stillman was probably the which, the road was built. This same Stillman Smith, born in road was discontinued by the 1809, who settled in Wardsboro, Selectmen in 1889. The Lucius Vermont. Stillman’s first wife, Smith Sawmill later became the Hannah, was born in September, site of the Upper Tudor Mill 1814, and died at Wardsboro on owned by George Tudor. This site May 26, 1840. Stillman’s second was later covered by Somerset wife was Mary, born in October Reservoir. 1813, and died on June 30, 1865. He was probably the same Herbert A. Smith was born about Stillman Smith who was living in 1847. He was probably a son of Wardsboro when he enlisted Moses and Sarah Emily (Corbin) during the Civil War on Smith of Wardsboro. December 19, 1861. He was Herbert resided in Jamaica, discharged on February 24, 1863, Vermont, before moving to and he took a higher rank in the Stratton. Herbert’s wife, Elsie A. 2nd Louisiana Union Volunteers. was born about 1849 and she He died on September 18, 1863, came from Greenfield, and was buried in East Hill Massachusetts. Cemetery in Wardsboro. The Smiths settled in Stratton just before 1869 and remained Lucius Smith was a resident of there into 1873. Their home was Conway, Massachusetts, when he located opposite what is now the purchased 1200 acres in the Canedy Rd. intersection with the southwest corner of Stratton from West Jamaica Rd.. Herbert served William Underwood of Conway as highway surveyor and petit on May 15, 1867. Lucius juror in Stratton for several years. established and operated a chair In 1870, the Smiths had an shop and sawmill on 1L9R on the eight-year-old boy, Frank Hart, Deerfield River - as indicated on living with them. Frank may Beer’s Atlas of 1869. The Atlas have been a relative, and this may advertised his business as,

Stratton Families 454 mean that Elsie’s maiden name was elected the Town’s was Hart. Representative. George served as The Smiths resettled in Iowa. a Selectman through 1892. The Brattleboro newspaper reported that they revisited Malvina Smith was named Stratton in August, 1912, for the among the town’s poor in 1895, first time in over 35 years. when Thatcher Sprague was paid Their children were: by the town for keeping her that 1) Alice Maria, born August 20, year. Malvina was probably the 1869, at Stratton, Vermont. mother of Louisa Mariah Smith, 2) Charlie, born October 5, 1872, wife of Thatcher Sprague. Louisa at Stratton, Vermont. was born at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on November 14, Samuel Smith apparently lived in 1830. a house on the Canedy Rd. – West Jamaica Rd. intersection in William J. Smith came to Stratton in the early 1880s. He Stratton from Athol, may have been related to Herbert Massachusetts and married Celia Smith (above) since Samuel A. Grout, daughter of Edwin and apparently resided in the same Charlotte Grout. Celia was born dwelling previously occupied by on October 24, 1852. Herbert. The Smiths resided in Stratton in 1893, when William William Smith may have not was elected a fenceviewer. In lived in Stratton, but, during the 1897 and again in 1899, William Civil War, he re-enlisted for the was elected inspector of leather. town of Stratton and the town was The Smiths had moved away from held responsible for his pay. This Stratton prior to the census of was recognized in the minutes of 1900. Celia died on December the March 4, 1865, Town 21, 1911. Meeting. Julius Smith may have resided in Irving Smith may have resided in Stratton. In 1890, his taxes for Stratton. He was named in 1886 were abated. Stratton’s Town Records, assisting Henri Grout with his Charles Smith was born in New rent in 1887. Hampshire. He married Ellen Howe of White Hall, New York, George M. Smith had settled in and they settled in Stratton about Stratton by 1888. That year, 1908. George was elected Constable and Charles was a lumberman at Collector for the town. In 1890, one of the lumber camps in he was elected a Selectman, Town Stratton. The Smiths were no Agent and the Town’s Grand longer in Stratton in 1910. Juror. That same year, George

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A child of Charles and Ellen was: June 28, 1768, at Leicester, 1) (a son), born May 2, 1908, at Massachusetts. Stratton, Vermont; died the The Spragues seem to be the same day. first of a group from Athol that settled in Stratton. Mary’s family, Martin Smith, a native of the Newhalls, and also the Sweden, was born about 1873. He Olivers, Youngs, Forresters and came to Stratton and worked as a others followed the Spragues to lumberman there around 1920. Stratton and they settled in an At that time, he boarded at the area south and west of what is boarding house located on the now Old Forrester Rd.. Hasey Grout Job and he was not married was a cousin of Joshua and Levi at that time. Robbins also. Hasey purchased the west half Frank Smith, a native of Russia, of 1L4R in Stratton from Edmund was born about 1894. He came to Gibbs on January 27, 1796, and so Stratton and worked as a the Spragues settled in Stratton at lumberman there around 1920. that time upon this lot. In 1802, At that time, he boarded at the Hasey purchased 2L4R, except for boarding house located on the 30 acres on the north end and 30 Grout Job and he was not married. acres on the south end. He must have resettled on this lot, since he Spencer sold the west half of 1L4R to Hiram Newhall that same year. Ralph P. Spencer was born in In 1805, Hasey purchased Jamaica, Vermont. He married part of lot #2 in Stratton Gore Nellie L. Clark, who was born in from Joshua Newhall and settled Winchester, New Hampshire. there. This apparently had been Ralph was a laborer in Stratton, the homestead of Edmund Gibbs, probably in one of the lumber located about a half-mile west of camps. They were no longer in Willis Cemetery and beyond the Stratton in 1900. Daniel Willis farm (see D. Willis A child of Ralph and Nellie was: on Beer’s Atlas of 1869) and 1) Viola Irene, born July 27, south of where the Somerset Rd.1 1898, at Stratton, Vermont. and the Gore Rd. crossed..

Floyd deeded a six-square-rod Sprague lot to the 4th school district in Hasey Floyd Sprague, son of Stratton on April 4, 1806. This Israel and Phoebe (Hasey) was a piece of his farm, located Sprague, was born on November ten rods north of his house by the 1, 1765. He was “of Gerry, side of the road near the corner Massachusetts,” when he married where Somerset Rd.1 and the Gore Mary “Polly” Newhall, daughter Rd. met. This lot was subdivided of Hiram and Mary Newhall, on out for the purpose of building a May 8, 1788, at Athol, schoolhouse thereon. The school Massachusetts. Polly was born on

Stratton Families 456 was apparently not built on this In 1834, Hasey and Israel spot, since on August 25, 1810, sold their farm to Samuel Willis the 4th school district deeded this and purchased Willis’s farm in lot back to Sprague and Sprague Somerset. This farm was located deeded another six rod square of between Willis Cemetery Rd. and ground “where the new Pike Hollow Rd., just south of the schoolhouse now stands, situated Stratton town line (see A. Grout as best to accommodate said on McClellan’s Map of 1856 and schoolhouse.” F. J. Prentiss on Beer’s Atlas of In 1800, the Spragues had 1869). Hasey settled there with four children under the age of ten, Israel’s family. He died in 1844 and in 1810, they had six and he was buried in Willis children. Hasey was active in Cemetery with a rough-cut stone Stratton’s town affairs over the to mark his grave (H. F. S.). years and he was appointed to a Children of Hasey and Polly were: committee to see how the town’s 1) Joshua, married Betsey cemeteries faired in 1811. Cummings. In 1825, Hasey sold his 2) Lucy born November 5, 1795, homestead to his son, Israel. And at Athol, Massachusetts; died in 1830, Israel sold a half-interest on June 4, 1869, at in this lot to his brother, Hiram. Springfield, Massachusetts; At that time, Israel and Hiram married 1) Daniel Hayward agreed to care for Hasey and Polly Grant on November 15, 1818, for the remainder of their natural at Stratton. lives. 3) Jerusha, born December 5, In 1830, Hasey was head of 1798, at Stratton, Vermont; the household with two males 20 died November 24, 1851; to 30, a female 30 to 40 and a married Nahum Pike (of male under five. This was Westboro, Massachusetts) on probably his sons, Hiram and August 25, 1814. Israel, and Israel’s wife, Mary, 4) Israel, born November 12, and their son, Edwin. Polly was 1801, at Stratton, Vermont; not listed in this household in the married Mary Baldwin. 1830 census and may have resided 5) Abram, born September 17, with their son Joshua in Somerset. 1806, at Stratton, Vermont. Polly died at Somerset, 6) Hiram Newhall Vermont, on June 5, 1838. She Notes: was probably buried in Willis 1) The Somerset Rd. should not be confused Cemetery and her grave marked with the Somerset-Winhall Rd. located with a fieldstone. A stone east of Willis Cemetery. The Somerset inscribed MS WHS died 1838 Rd. was west of the cemetery and beyond the Willis farm. (Mary Sprague Wife of Hasey Sprague) is near Hasey’s grave. Joshua Sprague, son of Hasey This is apparently her stone. and Mary Sprague, was born between 1790 and 1794. Joshua

Stratton Families 457 married Betsey Cummings, 2) Maria Louisa, born November daughter of David and Meriam 21, 1817, at Stratton, Cummings. An intent of Vermont. marriage was published at 3) George Washington, born Wardsboro, Vermont, on March 11, 1820, at Stratton, December 11, 1814, and they Vermont. were married soon after. 4) Almira Jerusha, born February The Spragues apparently first 19, 1822, at Stratton, resided in Stratton with Joshua’s Vermont. parents. Joshua took the 5) Seaver Amendsen, born Freeman’s oath on September 3, October 27, 1823, at Stratton, 1816. In 1817, Joshua purchased Vermont. a lot adjacent to Willis Cemetery 6) Augustine Newhall, born and he and his family settled August 22, 1826, at Stratton, there. Later, the house on this lot Vermont. was owned by the Willis family 7) Elvira Betsey, born April 23, (see D. Willis on Beer’s Atlas of 1828, at Stratton, Vermont. 1869). In 1820, it appears that they Thomas Sprague, possibly a son had three children. Also, perhaps or grandson of Hasey and Polly one of Joshua’s brothers, Hiram or Sprague, settled in Stratton before Abram, was also living with them. 1834, on the east half of 3L4R In 1821, Joshua was appointed (the Guild farm). In 1831, Daniel sexton for South Cemetery (Willis H. Grant, husband of Lucy Cemetery) and served the town in Sprague (a daughter of Hasey and various official positions. On Polly Sprague) paid taxes on this November 21, 1824, Betsey was lot. No deed for Thomas’s accepted as a member of the purchase was recorded in Church of Christ in Stratton, and Stratton’s land records. Based on in 1827 six of their children were this information, I assume that he baptized. may have been Lucy’s brother (or The Spragues moved out of possibly the son of Joshua and Stratton sometime between March Betsey Sprague born in 1810). and June, 1829, and they probably Thomas became Stratton’s settled in Somerset, Vermont. At first Postmaster on February 11, that time, Joshua sold his farm to 1834. On June 15, 1835, Thomas Charles Morse of Somerset. On sold this lot to Horace Dean. June 17, 1832, the Stratton church Dean then sold the lot to Adin voted to give Betsey a letter of Thayer and Thomas also sold his dismission to the church in interest to Adin Thayer on Wardsboro. December 23, 1835 – these were The Spragues’ children were: evidently mortgages. Thomas 1) Lucy Almeda, born April 7, remained Postmaster for another 1816, at Stratton, Vermont. month, then quit on January 20, 1836. At the March Meeting of

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1836, the town voted to hold their Mary died there on June 11, meetings at his home. Thomas 1842. She was buried in Willis apparently removed from Stratton Cemetery and her grave was at that time and meetings were not marked with a rough-cut field held there. stone inscribed, “MS WIS died 1842.” Israel Sprague, son of Hasey and In 1844, the same year Hasey Mary Sprague, was born on Sprague died, Israel was said to be November 12, 1801, at Stratton. insane. Levi Knight who was Israel took the Freeman’s oath in called Israel Sprague’s guardian, Stratton on September 7, 1824. had to sell the Sprague’s farm to He married Mary Baldwin of pay Israel’s debts. Israel was Medway, Massachusetts (intent apparently sent to the Vermont published on May 22, 1825, at Asylum in Brattleboro, Vermont Stratton). (later called the Retreat). That That same year, Israel same year, 1844, Israel’s son, purchased his father’s homestead Edwin, was living with Stephen in Stratton Gore, located west of and Sarah Ballard and attending Willis Cemetery and west of the school in Stratton. From 1848 Daniel Willis farm (see D. Willis and through 1850, their son, on Beer’s Atlas of 1869) and Israel Baldwin Barnard Sprague, south of where the Somerset Rd.1 was living with the Ballards and and the Gore Rd. intersected. attending school. Israel spent Israel and Mary evidently settled nearly twenty years at the there, living with Israel’s father, Vermont Asylum. He died there Hasey, and brother, Hiram. on March 20, 1863, and he was On May 11, 1830, Israel sold probably buried there. an undivided half of his lot to his Their children were: brother, Hiram, and together, they 1) Edwin A., born November 6, agreed to care for their parents. 1827, at Stratton, Vermont. Israel and Mary apparently 2) Israel Baldwin Barnard, born remained in the Sprague house November 1, 1836, at through 1830, as evident of that Somerset, Vermont. year’s census, then in 1834, Israel 3) Mary Ann Nancy, born June and Hasey sold the farm to 30, 1838, at Somerset, Samuel Willis and purchased Vermont. Willis’s farm in Somerset on Note: February 4, 1834. Their new 1) The Somerset Rd. should not be confused home was located between what is with the Somerset Winhall Rd. located now Willis Cemetery Rd. and Pike east of Willis Cemetery. The Somerset Rd. was west of the cemetery and beyond Hollow Rd., just south of the Willis farm. Stratton’s town line (see A. Grout on McClellan’s Map of 1856 and Hiram Newhall Sprague, son of F. J. Prentiss on Beer’s Atlas of Hasey and Polly Sprague, lived in 1869). Stratton on his parents’ farm. On

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May 11, 1830, Hiram purchased 5) Philena, born August 15, half of this farm from his brother, 1799; died in Illinois; married Israel and together, they agreed to Ira Kidder. care for their parents. 6) Isaac, born June 12, 1801; died Hiram was probably listed in in 1847 in Illinois; married the 1830 census as one of the Nancy Jaquith. males living in the household of 7) John, born December 14, Hasey Sprague, aged 20 to 30. He 1803; died June 14, 1804. apparently left Stratton before 8) Mary, born July 29, 1806; died 1834, when the family farm was February 8, 1888; married 1) sold. Ashbel Kidder on December 24, 1822, at Stratton, Vermont Another Sprague family to settle 2) Tyler Waite on October 10, in Stratton was descended from 1877, at Stratton, Vermont. Isaac Sprague, son of John 9) Ezra, born August 24, 1809; Sprague, who was born at died about 1881 at Bath, New Killingly, Connecticut, in 1767. York. Isaac resettled in Winhall, Additional Sources: Vermont, along with his father The Sprague Genealogy compiled by Frank and brothers, Jonathan and J. Sprague (1915) Wyman about 1780. Isaac married Sarah Wright, James Sprague, son of Isaac and daughter of Rev. Eliphalet and Sarah (Wright) Sprague, was born Hannah (Marsh) Wright. Sarah on December 8, 1796. James was born on March 7, 1766, at married Lucy E. Wood on Killingly. Isaac was a farmer and November 13, 1820. Lucy was he was the first constable of born on November 13, 1798. The Winhall in 1796. He died at Spragues settled at Winhall, Winhall in 1813. Vermont, after their marriage, Although the Spragues never then, on January 16, 1837, James settled in Stratton, at least three of purchased a farm on the east half their children settled there. of 4L4R in Stratton from his Children of Isaac and Sarah were: brother-in-law, Benjamin 1) David, born November 18, Thatcher. This sale included an 1791; died September 7, 1794. agreement that James would care 2) Hannah, born June 30, ????; for Lucretia Marble for the died December 8, 1895; remainder of her life. Lucretia married Benjamin Thatcher. passed away on March 16, 1837. 3) James, born December 8, The Spragues’ house was 1796; died September 19, located where Stratton’s 1855; married Lucy E. Wood recreational area stands today and on November 30, 1820. the remains are surrounded by a 4) Lilly, born October 15, 1797; picket fence. In April 1841, died March 31, 1840; married James also purchased 60 acres of Amos Dewey. the west half of 3L4R from

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Richard Scott. Three years later, Phidora G. Knapp on July 8, James sold this lot to his son-in- 1848, at Stratton, Vermont. law, LaFayette Sheldon. Several 3) Benjamin Thatcher, born houses were built in this area over February 13, 1826, at Winhall, the years and the Sheldons and Vermont; died April 24, 1826, others of James’s family at Winhall, Vermont. eventually settled there (see Beer’s 4) Mary, born March 25, 1827, at Atlas of 1869). Winhall, Vermont; died James and his family November 4, 1878, at Stratton, remained on 4L4R for many Vermont; married Alfred years, while their son, Isaac, Parsons on November 30, became part owner of this lot. In 1848. 1850, Emmons Howard, age 72, 5) James Thatcher, born August was living with the Spragues. 13, 1829, at Winhall, In 1853, the Spragues went Vermont; died June 3, 1895, at west to Illinois. James died there Stratton, Vermont; married on September 19, 1855, and the Louisa Mariah Smith on house was later sold to Oliver P. September 9, 1855. Hescock. (McClellan’s Map of 6) Lyman Wood, born March 26, 1856 labeled this as Sprague’s 1832, at Winhall, Vermont; farm). Lucy returned to Stratton, died October 2, 1882, at and in 1860, she and her two Stratton, Vermont; married youngest girls lived with Laura Jeannette Lincoln on LaFayette and Abigail Sheldon. October 31, 1852. Abigail was James and Lucy’s 7) Lucy Angeline, born oldest daughter. In 1870, Lucy September 4, 1834, at Winhall, and her daughter, Hannah, were Vermont; died November 12, living in a house neighboring the 1905, at Stratton, Vermont; Sheldons. married Henry Porter Forrester Lucy died at Stratton on on June 23, 1858. December 17, 1878, of 8) Nelson, born June 4, 1837, at consumption, and she was buried Stratton, Vermont; died in Ball Cemetery. September 13, 1837, at Their children were: Stratton, Vermont. 1) Abigail Butterfield, born 9) Hannah, born October 6, 1838, August 18, 1821, at Winhall, at Stratton, Vermont; died Vermont; died April 13, 1903, October 14, 1901, at Stratton, at Stratton, Vermont; married Vermont. LaFayette Sheldon on October 10) Sarah, born August 5, 1841, at 17, 1839, at Stratton, Stratton, Vermont; died Vermont. September 15, 1869, at 2) Isaac, born April 14, 1822, at Stratton, Vermont. Winhall, Vermont; died April 30, 1902, at Northfield, Isaac Sprague, son of James and Massachusetts; married Polly Lucy Sprague, was born on April

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14, 1822, at Winhall, Vermont. 4) James, born August 21, 1857, He came to Stratton with his at Stratton, Vermont; died parents about 1837 and he August 23, 1863, at Stratton, acquired a part interest in his Vermont (of diphtheria). father’s farm from 1844 to 1854. 5) Eliza Elvira, born December 6, Isaac took the Freeman’s oath in 1861, at Stratton, Vermont; Stratton on September 2, 1845. married William Henry Isaac married Polly Phidora Symonds on October 17, 1889, Graves Knapp, daughter of Hiram at Hinsdale, New Hampshire. and Elvira Knapp, on July 8, 6) Elmer Lyman, born May 10, 1848, at Stratton. Phidora was 1864, at Stratton, Vermont; born at Somerset, Vermont, in died November 23, 1865, at 1831. They went west to Florida, Stratton, Vermont. Illinois, after their marriage, but 7) Bertha Sarah, born April 27, they soon returned to Stratton. 1867, at Stratton, Vermont; Isaac and Polly lived with Isaac’s married Lawrence H. Lazelle parents at first, then settled on the on September 4, 1888, at Stratton-Arlington Rd., west of the Hinsdale, New Hampshire. West Jamaica Rd. intersection and 8) James Thatcher, born October across from Lafayette Sheldon’s 24, 1871, at Stratton, blacksmith shop (see 1869 Beer’s Vermont; married Anna Maria Atlas). In 1857, Henry Lincoln Liscom on March 26, 1896, at was living with them and Hinsdale, New Hampshire. attending school in Stratton. It appears that by 1869, the Alfred Sprague, son of Isaac and Spragues were living on the old Phidora Sprague, was born in Fuller farm on 4L5R. 1853 at Stratton. He married Children of Isaac and Polly were: Elizabeth Johnson, daughter of 1) Evaline Phidora, born August George W. and Caroline E. 26, 1849; died June 19, 1919, Johnson, on June 30, 1878, at at Addison, Vermont; married Stratton. Elizabeth was born in Wallace J. Davidson on 1862 at Winhall, Vermont. February 14, 1871, at The Spragues lived in Townshend, Vermont. Stratton after the marriage and 2) Alfred Isaac, born August 4, they were there through 1880, but 1853, at Stratton, Vermont; they had removed from town by married Elizabeth B. Johnson 1900. on June 30, 1878, at Stratton, Vermont. James S. “Thatcher” Sprague, 3) Lafayette, born June 3, 1855, son of James and Lucy Sprague, at Florida, Illinois; died was born on August 13, 1829, at September 13, 1863, at Winhall, Vermont. In early 1850, Stratton, Vermont (of Thatcher worked as a lumberman diphtheria). for JW Kelley and he lived with the Kelleys at the Kelley Stand.

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He returned to Stratton and took Matthias), was evidently living the Freeman’s oath on September with them and attending school. 3 of that year. During the Civil War, Lyman Thatcher married Louisa enlisted on December 10, 1863, Mariah Smith on September 9, aged 31, and he mustered into 1855. Louisa was born at Company D, of the Vermont 8th Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on Regiment on December 24, 1864. November 14, 1830, and she died He was promoted to corporal on at Stratton on January 6, 1889. May 25, 1865, and he mustered James died at Stratton on June 3, out on June 28, 1865. 1895. Both were buried in Ball Lyman died at Stratton on Cemetery. October 2, 1882, of bilious fever. Their children were: Laura evidently resettled in South 1) (stillborn), born in 1858. Berwick, Maine, and she died 2) Benjamin Thatcher, born there on May 30, 1915. They August 13, 1861, at Stratton, were both buried in Ball Vermont. Cemetery. 3) Nora L., born October 16, Children of Lyman and Laura: 1863; died October 16, 1925; 1) Lucy A., born in 1853. married Hubert H. Howe. 2) Lyman Huntley, born in 1855 4) Isaac, born in 1872. in Illinois; died in 1927; 5) Henry F., born October 1, married Lillian E. Allen on 1874, at Stratton, Vermont. September 2, 1882, at Stratton, 6) Archie L., born December 14, Vermont. 1877, at Stratton, Vermont; 3) Mary A., born August 25, died September 16, 1887 (of 1857, at Stratton, Vermont; typhoid fever). died in 1934; married Augustus F. Jones on June 19, Lyman Wood Sprague, son of 1886, at Stratton, Vermont. James and Lucy Sprague, was 4) Walter E., born May 28, 1859, born on March 26, 1832, at at Stratton, Vermont; died Winhall, Vermont. He married August 28, 1859, at Stratton, Laura Jennette Lincoln, daughter Vermont. of Obed and Alantha Lincoln, on 5) Nellie Hannah, born October 31, 1852, at Stratton. November 21, 1861, at Laura was born in 1837 at Stratton, Vermont, married Jamaica, Vermont. Orlean Prentiss on January 29, The Spragues remained in 1880, at Stratton, Vermont. Stratton briefly after their 6) Luke W., born September 26, marriage and Lyman took the 1864, at Stratton, Vermont; Freeman’s oath in September, died December 27, 1867, at 1853. They briefly settled in Stratton, Vermont. Illinois, but returned to Stratton 7) LaFayette P., born January 21, by 1856. In 1862, Laura’s brother 1868, at Stratton, Vermont; or sister, M. Lincoln (possibly

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married Molly (?) (resided in The Staceys came to Stratton North Adams, Massachusetts). soon after their marriage. Moses 8) Guy Arthur, born September took the Freeman’s oath in 14, 1876, at Stratton, Stratton on September 6, 1825. Vermont. Moses purchased the west half of 5L3R on March 16, 1826, Lyman Huntley Sprague, son of from Samuel Marble. He also Lyman and Laura Sprague, was paid taxes on 3L7R, 10L7R and born in 1855 in Illinois. He came the south half of 6L3R in 1827. to Stratton with his parents upon Moses sold 5L3R to Isaac their return to town in 1857. Shepardson on March 8, 1828, Huntley, as he was called, took the and he apparently left Stratton at Freeman’s oath in Stratton in that time. They may have been 1876. related to the Phillips family of Huntley married Lillian E. Stratton and also Clarissa Stacy, Allen, daughter of Ormando A. wife of Austin Bissell. and Mary Allen, on September 2, A child of the Stacys was: 1882, at Stratton. Lillian was 1) Moses Kimball (baptized in born in 1862. Stratton on August 5, 1827). Huntley was Superintendent of schools in Stratton in 1881, but Thomas Stacey and his wife were he removed from town that same born during the 1790s. They were year. living in Surrey, Cheshire County, Huntley became a Free-Will New Hampshire, when Thomas Baptist minister. In 1903, he was purchased the south half of 8L3R pastor of the Free-Will Baptist and 71 acres of 7L2R in Stratton Church at Columbus Quarter, on March 13, 1837. New York. He apparently settled The Staceys settled in in Wardsboro, Vermont, before Stratton soon after this purchase. his death. Their lot was located up the Huntley died in 1927 and he mountain from what is now was buried in Fairview Cemetery Mountain Rd. on the old Jonas in Wardsboro. Lillian died in Woodward farm. 1954 and she was buried beside In 1840, the Staceys had a Huntley. son and two daughters under age 5, a daughter aged 5 to 10, Stacey another aged 10 to 15, and (Stacy) another aged 15 to 20. Thomas Moses Stacy married Joanna owned the largest flock of sheep Kimball on March 7, 1824, at in Stratton that year, numbering Ludlow, Massachusetts. Joanna 45. He sold this lot back to may have been a daughter of Phineas White on March 4, 1841, Peletiah and Naomi Kimball of and they apparently left Stratton Lunenburg, Massachusetts. at that time.

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Carroll A. Stacey, son of Charles Children of Harold and May were: and Lucy Stacey, was born at 1) Clarence Alfred, born October Halifax, Vermont. He married 30, 1903, at Hinsdale, New Mary Alice Wheeler, adopted Hampshire; died February 17, daughter of Emery Wheeler and 1993, at Hinsdale, New the natural daughter of his wife, Hampshire; married Marjorie Fidelia (Stiles) Wheeler, on Fairbanks. September 20, 1902, at 2) Margaret A., born September Brattleboro, Vermont. May, as 26, 1904, at Stratton, she was called, was born on Vermont; died in 1910 at August 3, 1885, at Stratton. The Springfield, Massachusetts. Staceys first lived at Hinsdale, 3) Ethel Iona, born June 26, New Hampshire, then resided in 1905, at Dummerston, Stratton for a short time. Caroll Vermont; died in December, was a laborer and he probably 1967, at Concord, New worked in the lumber camps in Hampshire; married 1) Pearl Stratton. Ashton Libby 2) Landon By 1904, the Staceys had Longe (divorced). settled in Dummerston, Vermont. 4) Pearla May, born July 13, They lived in several towns in 1908; married Bernard Massachusetts, then returned to Kasupski. Hinsdale by 1912. Mary died on 5) Alice Martha, born December February 9, 1964, at Brattleboro, 30, 1909, at Springfield, Vermont. Carroll died in 1967 at Massachusetts; married the Retreat in Brattleboro. May Andrew Kandrak. was buried in North Cemetery, 6) Gladys, Pauline, born March Vernon, Vermont, while Carroll 9, 1912, at Hinsdale, New was buried in Dummerston Hampshire; killed by a car on Center, Vermont. Easter Sunday, 1949, in California; married James Shippee. 7) Charlotte, born January 20, 1914, at Hinsdale, New Hampshire; married 1) James Kohler 2) James Paston. 8) Helen Woodburn (twin), born April 12, 1916, at Easthampton, Massachusetts; died January 29, 1986; married Carrie (Stiles) Moore (back) William Giersbach. May Stacey (right) and one of 9) (a twin of the above), died at her daughters (left) birth. Photo courtesy of Arleen Huesman 10) Harvey W., born December 7, 1919, at Brattleboro, Vermont;

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married 1) Marge 2) Gladys living with one of their children Casper. who was married and who had children of their own. Additional Sources: Genealogical notes of Harvey Stacey. The Stearns resettled in Winhall, Vermont, prior to May 10, 1816. On that day, William Stearns and Joanna mortgaged 11L3R (Stearnes) “with buildings thereon” through William Stearns, son of Ebenezer Joseph Patch of Worcester, and Mary (Spring) Stearns, was Massachusetts. Their son, born on August 5, 1754, at Simeon, purchased this lot the Northfield, Massachusetts. following year. William married Joanna Duncan The Stearns eventually settled on September 16, 1775. Joanna in the Jamestown, New York area was born on February 8, 1757. along with other families from the The Stearns resided in Orange, Stratton vicinity. William died at Massachusetts, prior to their move Jamestown on February 14, 1834, to Stratton. and Joanna followed on August On May 2, 1801, William 13, 1834. purchased land in Stratton - Children of William and Joanna: 11L3R from Nathan Patch. The 1) Simeon, born June 28, 1788; Stearns came to Stratton after married Irene Newcomb. William had purchased 7L3R 2) Ebenezer from Patch on February 4, 1804. 3) Dolly It appears that the Stearns settled 4) Allinor upon 11L3R. William was 5) Mary Sprague referred to as a Gentleman in 6) Joseph Haskins these transactions and he was 7) Lydia, born December 14, called Captain Stearns when he 1785, at Orange, was moderator of the 1815 March Massachusetts; died September Meeting. 15, 1851, at Jamestown, New Joanna was taken into the York; married Joseph Garfield Church of Christ in Stratton in on September 7, 1803, at November, 1804, becoming a full Stratton, Vermont. member on April 16, 1805. Six of 8) Amery, born April 6, 1797; the Stearn’s children were died February 15, 1875, at baptized that same day. Jamestown, New York. In 1810, the Stearns provided a home in Stratton for two males Simeon Stearns, son of William between 26 and 45, two male and Joanna Stearns, was born on between 16 and 26, one male 10 June 28, 1788. Simeon married to 16 and one male under 10. Irene Newcomb of Winhall (intent There were also two females 10 to published July 22, 1810, at 16 and one 16 to 26. They all Stratton). may have been their children, but it is more likely that they were

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The Stearns lived in Stratton Gregory L. Steiner, son of for a brief time following the Richard and Carol Steiner, marriage. In 1817, Simeon married Christine M. Mangiafico, purchased 11L3R, a lot that his daughter of Rosario and Victoria father previously had sold to Mangiafico. Greg is a builder and Joseph Patch. Simeon was called developer, while Christine is a “of Winhall” at that time. Simeon sales director. sold this lot to Calvin Waite Greg and Christine recently shortly afterward. In 1819, purchased 2 Old Forrester Rd., Simeon bought back the mortgage located on the corner of the from the heirs of Nathan Patch, Stratton-Arlington Rd. – Old leaving the property free of any Forrester Rd. intersection - a liens. The deed to Waite was still vacation home. Joy Lewis valid. previously owned this house. One of their children was: Children of Greg and Christine: 1) Orrilla, born December 1, 1) Olivia 1812, at Stratton, Vermont. 2) Samuel

Steiner Stevens Richard E. Steiner, son of Ernest Israel Stevens, a son of Jacob and and Frieda Steiner, married Carol Martha (Sherman) Stevens was Bronson, daughter of Herbert and born on August 26, 1760, at Catherine. Richard is a builder Grafton, Massachusetts. Israel’s and developer in Connecticut. father, Jacob Stevens, resettled at In November, 1965, the Ward, Massachusetts. Jacob was Steiners purchased the farm of an early Proprietor of Stratton, Ethel Eddy on Pike Hollow Rd. as who later settled in Newfane, a vacation home. Their house, Vermont. #171, sits on the south side of Israel was living in Ward Pike Hollow Brook, on the south when he purchased 4L2R on May side of the road. Previously, it 15, 1784. He apparently did not was the home of Elmer A. and settle there, but he did have a barn Inez Eddy, Ethel Eddy’s parents, built on his lot. Israel lived in and it was built by AH Pike about Newfane as early as 1791 and he 1860. The Steiners built an bought and sold property in addition and remodeled the old Stratton through 1805. structure in 1990. Israel became a member of Carol’s brother, Philip Stratton’s Propriety in 1784, and Bronson, owns property and a later he surveyed Stratton’s camp along Pike Hollow Rd.. undivided lands, including Richard and Carol’s children are: Stratton Gore in 1787. In 1789, 1) Gregory he was elected to a committee by 2) Heidi the town of Stratton, thus 3) Elizabeth implying that he resided within the town. He apparently resided

Stratton Families 467 in a log house on 1L5R before Hampshire, at the time of her 1790, but he was not a resident of marriage. Stratton when the census was In 1820, William was head of taken in 1791. Israel was elected a household in Stratton with a boy Proprietor’s Collector for and two girls under the age of ten. Stratton’s Propriety in 1793. He The Stiles moved away from was also a Collector for the town Stratton before 1830, apparently of Newfane at that time. Israel to Winhall, Vermont, then settled surveyed Stratton’s 40-acre lots in Jamaica, Vermont. William and the remainder of the purchased the east half of 3L3R undivided lands on June 11, 1793. on May 19, 1845. This lot was located northeast of the current Phineas Stevens, son of Jacob and route of the Stratton-Arlington Martha (Sherman) Stevens, was Rd., along the old Somerset to born on August 12, 1752, at Winhall Rd.. William’s sister Grafton, Massachusetts. Jane, wife of Isaac Pike was one of Phineas’s wife, Lois, was also the Stiles’ neighbors. mentioned in one of his land In 1847, William still lived in transactions in Stratton. Jamaica; however, by 1849, Therefore, he may be the same William was apparently residing Phineas Stevens who married Lois in Stratton at the old Phillips farm Goodnow on June 12, 1777, at on the west half of 4L3R. Marlboro, Massachusetts. Apparently, William’s son, Orrin, Phineas was one of Stratton’s occupied the house on 3L3R, Proprietors in the early 1780s. He following William’s purchase. resided in Ward, Massachusetts, Nathaniel Smith purchased the until about 1786, then removed to west half of 4L3R in 1849 where Sutton, Massachusetts. He was William was living. Smith called “of Oxford, Massachusetts” allowed William to reside there in 1787. until April 1, 1850. William apparently settled in on his farm Stiles on 3L3R at that time, since he was (Styles) listed as a neighbor of Nathaniel William Holt Stiles, son of Moses Smith in the census of 1850. and Mary (Holt) Stiles, was born By 1860, William was living on December 18, 1790, at alone in Stratton, although Lydia Lyndeborough, New Hampshire. did not die until 1865. William He married Lydia Story before died in 1870. 1819 and they came to Stratton Children of William and Lydia: soon after the marriage. Lydia 1) Orrin Parker, born October 24, was born about 1790. 1819; married Elizabeth William’s sister, Jane Holt Holland (Temple) Fish on Stiles, married Isaac N. Pike. She November 10, 1852, at was living in Charlestown, New Gardner, Massachusetts.

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2) William S., born about 1822; On August 14, 1844, William married Mary Underwood. took the Freeman’s oath in 3) Jeremiah, born about 1831; Stratton. In 1847, William married Melantha E. Moon. purchase 9L3R. That same year, Rhoda and Orrin Parker Stiles, son of Henry Pike, children of Isaac and William and Lydia Stiles, was Jane Holt (Stiles) Pike, were born on October 24, 1819. living with the Stiles and Parker, as he was called, was attending school, as was living in Wardsboro, in 1843, William’s brother, Jeremiah. when he purchased 50 acres of the Mary died on April 3, 1852, southeast quarter of 6L4R in and she was buried in North Stratton. Parker settled in Cemetery. William probably left Stratton on the west half of 3L3R Stratton after Mary’s death, while - a lot his father had purchased in the children stayed with their 1845. grandparents, the Underwoods, in In 1846, Orrin agreed to built Stratton. The Stiles’ oldest part of a wall between his father’s daughter, Mary, died on July 1, lot and Benjamin Moon’s land, 1858, and she was also buried in located on the west side of the North Cemetery. McClellan’s Stiles’ lot. Henry Waite, son of Map of 1856 indicates that no one Tyler Waite, was living with him lived in their house at that time. and attending school in Stratton Certainly, by 1860, William had in district #1 in 1848. left Stratton and he had placed Parker married Elizabeth their youngest daughter, Jerusha, Holland (Temple) Fish on in the care of John and Persis November 10, 1852, at Gardner, Underwood. Massachusetts. The Stiles Children of William and Mary: eventually settled in Montana. 1) Mary Selucia, born December 28, 1845; died July 1, 1858. William S. Stiles, son of William 2) Jerusha A., born about 1848. and Lydia Stiles, was born about 1822. He married Mary Jeremiah D. Styles, son of Underwood, daughter of John and William and Lydia Stiles, was Persis Underwood about 1844. born in 1831. In 1847, he was Mary, was born on January 25, living with his brother, William, 1828. in Stratton and in September, The Stiles settled in Stratton 1852, he took the Freeman’s oath. after the marriage, apparently on Jeremiah married Melantha land owned by Mary’s parents. E. Moon, daughter of Benjamin The Stiles probably settled into and Betsey Moon. Melantha was the house beside North Cemetery. born in 1834 at Stratton. During Mary remained in school through the following years, the Styles 1844. resided in Stratton, Jamaica and Sunderland, Vermont.

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During the Civil War, Hattie A. Brooks of Winhall, Jeremiah enlisted on December Vermont. 21, 1863, in Jamaica, and A child of Eliott and Hattie was: mustered into Company D of the 1) Nina May, born June 6, 1892, Vermont 8th Regiment. He was at Stratton, Vermont. wounded on October 19, 1864, and he mustered out on June 28, Alva R. Styles, son of Jeremiah 1865. After the war, Jeremiah and Melantha Styles, was born on worked in Stratton as a teamster. January 31, 1861, in Sunderland, A map of Stratton drawn Vermont. He married Hattie M. circa 1900 shows the Styles living Winslow, who was born on in a house east of the old town August 8, 1862, at Bennington, house on the west half of 3L4R. Vermont. Their children were: Alva was a laborer and he 1) Melvin P., born June 9, 1852, probably worked at one of the at Stratton, Vermont; died lumber camps in Stratton. He September 23, 1863, at took the Freeman’s oath in Stratton, Vermont. Stratton on September 2, 1884. 2) Mary Lovina, born December Alva owned a property beside his 5, 1855, at Stratton, Vermont; parents on the Stratton-Arlington died September 14, 1863, at Rd. in 3L4R. In 1898, this Stratton, Vermont (of property was purchased by the diphtheria). town and it became the location of 3) Eliott E., born in 1858 at the Town House. Stratton, Vermont; married In 1893, John H. Martin of Hattie A. Brooks. Stratton sold a one and a quarter 4) Alva R., born January 31, acre lot in Pike Hollow to Hattie, 1861, at Sunderland, Vermont; which included a two-story house. died August 5, 1920; married The Styles eventually moved into Hattie M. Winslow. this house. Their new home was 5) Vernon L., born June 4, 1865, located on Pike Hollow Rd., on at Stratton, Vermont. the site where the Eddy/Young 6) Lydia E., born January 1, place stands today. 1868, at Stratton, Vermont; In 1900, Lila Mae Burbee married Nelson French. (born in August, 1876) was a 7) William P., born May 20, boarder in their home in Stratton. 1870, at Stratton, Vermont. The Styles resettled in Jamaica, 8) Jerusha V., born March 3, Vermont, about 1906. On April 1874, at Stratton, Vermont; 7, 1906, the Styles sold their lot to married Charles C. Allen. Elmer A. Eddy, who owned the sawmill across the road. Eliott E. Styles, son of Jeremiah Alva died on August 5, 1920, and Melantha Styles, was born in and Hattie followed on February Stratton in 1858. He married 10, 1935. They were buried in Pike Hollow Cemetery.

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Children of Alva and Hattie were: Harvey left home at the age of 19 1) Harry A., born in March, and came to the Stratton area. 1887. Harvey married Caroline Sophia 2) John Clinton, born August 18, Babcock, daughter of Jonathan 1898, at Stratton, Vermont; and Olive Babcock, at died May 2, 1899, at Stratton, Townshend, Vermont, on March Vermont. 26, 1856. Caroline was born on May 12, 1835, in Salem, New William P. Styles, son of York. Jeremiah and Melantha Styles, The Stiles lived in Stratton, was born on May 20, 1870, at on the Stratton-Arlington Rd. at Stratton. William’s wife, Annie the Wardsboro border. Their L. Chatfield, was born in house was later owned by Ralph Michigan, Vermont, on August Pike and it is currently owned by 24, 1878. They were married Charles Whitney. about 1897 and first settled in Harvey worked at various Winhall. lumber operations in the area. In William and Annie purchased his last years, he and Caroline did the CN Pike farm located on not get along and so he went to 12L1R on the southwest corner of live in Hawley, Massachusetts, the North Rd. – Pikes Falls Rd. where his family was living. He intersection in 1909 and they died there on September 15, 1878, settled there at that time. They and he was buried in Hawley. also purchased the east part of Caroline remained in Stratton 12L2R. It appears that Styles with their children. Following Brook was named for them. Harvey’s death, Caroline and her The Styles remained in girls braided straw hats for a Stratton until about 1917. Townshend company, to earn William died in 1948 and Annie extra money. In 1900, she was died on June 12, 1973, at living with her sons, William and Brattleboro, Vermont. They were Charlie. both buried in Ball Cemetery. William planted potatoes A child of William and Annie: across the road and also kept the 1) Reva, born August 18, 1917; field behind the house hayed. died November 29, 1966; Evidently, the brook that currently married (?) McCullock. flows behind the house, was not there then. Also, the road has The following Stiles family since been changed and is appears to be unrelated to those currently between the house and above: the barn and old well, when at that time it was not. Harvey Dwight Stiles, son of In 1910, Caroline was living Garner and Malinda (Moore) with her daughter Dora who had Stiles, was born in West Torrey, not married. Dora died on May Massachusetts, on March 1, 1836. 23, 1915, and Caroline survived

Stratton Families 471 the summer, while her Emery Wheeler on June 12, granddaughter, Alice Stiles, spent 1886. some time with her. Delia Bryan 4) George James, born September was taking care of Caroline when 7, 1862, at Stratton, Vermont; she died. Caroline died there of died September 22, 1862, at dysentery on September 29, 1915. Stratton, Vermont. Caroline and Dora were buried in 5) Cornelia “Nellie” Melinda, Ball Cemetery. born September 1, 1864, at Stratton, Vermont; died March 30, 1865, at Stratton, Vermont. 6) Adelaide Cornelia, born July 12, 1865, at Stratton, Vermont; died in 1924; married Evander Smith. 7) Alice Myra, born December 9, 1866, at Stratton, Vermont; died August 8, 1893, at Stratton, Vermont; married Maurice Lowe on September 3, 1884, at Stratton, Vermont. 8) Frank Arthur, born December 31, 1868, at Stratton, Vermont; died February 22, Caroline (Babcock) Stiles 1869, at Stratton, Vermont. (1835 - 1915) 9) Caroline (Carrie) Rosella, born January 26, 1870, at Stratton, Photo courtesy of Arleen Huesman Vermont; died about 1930; Children of Harvey and Caroline: probably married 1) (?) White 1) Mary A., born August 30, 2) George W. Moore about 1857, at Stratton, Vermont; 1895. died in December, 1930, at 10) Dora Flora, born June 9, 1872, Wardsboro, Vermont; married at Stratton, Vermont; died Milton Harrington at Amherst, May 23, 1915, at Stratton, Massachusetts. Vermont. 2) William H., born December 11) Charlie Rowland, born March 28, 1858, at Stratton, 22, 1875, at Stratton, Vermont; died December 25, Vermont; died November 21, 1917, at West Wardsboro, 1921, at Williamsville, Vermont; married Julia E. Vermont; married 1) Daisy Lackey on July 29, 1901, at Guilder on July 29, 1901, at Stratton, Vermont. Stratton, Vermont 2) Anna S. 3) Fidelia Harriet, born July 20, Stillson on October 29, 1904, 1860, at Stratton, Vermont; at Weston, Vermont. died August 13, 1913; married

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William H. Stiles, son of Harvey died September 15, 1910, at and Caroline Stiles, was born on Stratton, Vermont. November 28, 1858, at Stratton, Additional Sources for the above Styles and he remained there until his families: marriage. He was called Willie. Genealogical Notes of Arleen Huesman Willie took the Freeman’s oath in Stratton in 1880. He Raymond Styles was a son of married Julia E. Lackey, daughter Viron L. and Minnie A. (Brooks) of James and Laura Lackey, there Styles. Raymond married Irene on July 29, 1901. Julia was born M. Jones, daughter of Mason and in July, 1883. Mattie Jones. Irene was born on Following the marriage, March 14, 1898. They lived on Willie purchased the Josiah 11L1R, in the house later Davidson farm in Wardsboro. occupied by Paul Brazer. William held public offices both Children of Raymond and Irene: in Stratton before his marriage 1) Gerald Raymond, married and in Wardsboro following the Goldie May Carruth. marriage. He died suddenly on 2) Ellwood Floyd (lives in Christmas day, 1917. Jamaica, Vermont). A child of William and Julia was: 1) Paul, born in 1903; died in Gerald Raymond Styles, son of 1927 (buried in West Raymond and Irene Styles, Wardsboro). married Goldie May Carruth. They resided in Stratton for a Charlie Rowland Stiles, son of time. Harvey and Caroline Stiles, was Children of Gerald and Goldie: born on March 22, 1875, at 1) Irene Mary Stratton. He took the Freeman’s 2) Helen Genie oath in Stratton on November 3, Additional Sources: 1896. Return to Yesterday by CS Streeter Charlie first married Daisy Guilder on July 29, 1901, at Stimson Stratton, and secondly, Annie S. Thomas Lawrence Stimson, son Stillson, on October 29, 1904. of Stephen and Meriah Annie was born in Rupert, (Lawrence) Stimpson, was born Vermont, about 1888. on January 1, 1779, at Shirley, The Stiles were living in Massachusetts. Thomas’s wife, Stratton through 1910, but they Sally, was born during the 1780s. had moved away before 1920. The Stimsons settled in Stratton Children of Charlie and Annie: between 1810 and 1820; however, 1) Alice E., born in 1907. Thomas did not purchase any land 2) Ethel D., born in 1908. in Stratton. 3) Claudia Gladys, born May 28, On March 6, 1825, the 1910, at Stratton, Vermont; Stimsons were accepted into the Church of Christ in Stratton and

Stratton Families 473 baptized at that same time. On on May 5, 1801, and he continued January 16, 1827, Thomas was in that position until January, voted Church Clerk Protemp. 1803. On January 10, 1803, Evidently, the Stimsons had a David sold the lot beside the town daughter born about 1810. They common. At that time, the moved away from Stratton before Stoddards moved away from 1840. Stratton and a special town meeting was called to fill the Stoddard vacant position of constable. David L. Stoddard, son of David Children of David and Susanna: and Sarah (French) Stoddard, was 1) Susanna, born on October 26, born on June 23, 1777, at 1801, at Wardsboro, Vermont. Chesterfield, New Hampshire. 2) Jonathan David was of Winchedon, 3) Gratia, born September 13, Massachusetts, when he settled in 1806. Stratton. He purchased 40 acres 4) Norman, born May 14, 1808. of 4L5R in Stratton on March 28, 5) Sarah, born April 30, 1810. 1800. He settled there at that time and he was listed in Stratton’s Children of David and Joanna: 1800 census, living there alone. 6) Lucius His house may have been the 7) Elvira same that once stood just 100 yards west of the town common. Stone David married Susanna Clark Stone, son of Levi and Davis, daughter of Jonathan and Mary (Lawrence) Stone, was born Rebecca (Peacock) Davis. at Sutton, Massachusetts, on May Susanna was born on February 20, 31, 1757. He lived at Sutton 1781. through the American Revolution. On January 29, 1801, David During the war, Clark served purchased an additional 12 acres in Captain Blanchard’s Company, in 4L5R. A description of the Colonel Wesson’s Regiment, property placed it adjacent to Bille enlisting on May 21, 1777, for Mann’s property and along the eight months. He also served road to Stratton Gore. from July 30 to August 11, 1780, David also purchased a two- in Captain Burbank’s Company, acre parcel adjacent to the east Colonel Davis’ Regiment, which side of the town common in marched to Rhode Island on an August, 1802, and possibly settled alarm. there, since he sold his other two Clark married Hannah parcels at this same time to Hazeltine on December 7, 1780. Nathan Patch. Clark sold his lands in Sutton to The Stoddards daughter, Ezra Putnam on May 2, 1785, and Suzy, was baptized in Stratton in he and his brother, Eliab 1802. David was elected purchased 6L7R in Stratton from Stratton’s constable and collector Paul Thurston on November 11,

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1786. Soon afterward, Clark and month, he sold the west half to Hannah moved to Stratton, John Adams. Clark sold several apparently with Eliab and other parcels to John Adams over the family members, since in 1791, next few years. Perhaps they were Clark was head of a household in related in some way. Stratton with two men over 16, The Stones resettled in one male under 16 and a female. Wendell, Massachusetts, in early Clark and Hannah also had 1797. Clark remained a major children who apparently died land speculator in Stratton for young. many years. On September 21, The Stones’ lot was located 1805, Clark was deeded a total of north and east of where the Daniel 5172 acres in Stratton. This was Webster Monument is located. over and above what land he This lot later apparently became already had owned in Stratton. the homes of the Grout family on Clark represented Wendell in the east side and the Hill family the General Assembly in 1811. on the west side. The remains of He passed away on July 6, 1825. the Hill farm can still be seen Children of Clark and Chloe: along the Appalachian Trail, west 1) Eliab, born January 27, 1792, of the trail’s intersection with the at Stratton, Vermont; married IP Road. The Grout farm was Eunice Fay (settled in situated just south of Little Somerset, then Amherst, Stratton Mountain. Massachusetts). Hannah must have passed 2) Clark, born about 1795; died away just after the census of 1791 March 3, 1804, at Wendell, was taken, since Clark remarried Massachusetts. to Chloe Kelley that year. Clark 3) Elvira, born May 18, 1798. purchased thousands of acres of 4) Clarissa, born May 7, 1805, at Stratton, mostly through tax-sales Wendell, Massachusetts; of land his brother, Eliab, had married James Abbott on confiscated as Stratton’s November 4, 1827, at Wendell, Constable and Collector. Massachusetts. Once Eliab passed away, 5) Lucinda, born September 9, Chloe was appointed 1808, at Wendell, administrator of Eliab’s will and Massachusetts. appointed by the State to handle 6) Climena, born December 28, the sales and subsequent deeds 1810, at Wendell, associated with these lands. It is Massachusetts. not apparent whether the Stones 7) Clark Lysander, born June 27, remained on 6L7R or if they had 1817, at Wendell, settled on another lot before Massachusetts; died October removing from Stratton. 12, 1859, at Athol, On March 14, 1796, Clark Massachusetts; married Amy sold the east half of 6L7R to E. Stone in 1836 Andrew Adams and the next

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8) Cordelia, born September 14, Stone. He was never mentioned 1819; married Lucian P. Stacy again in Stratton’s records. on February 20, 1841, at Greenfield, Massachusetts. George W. Stone, son of Lyman H. and Elnora D. Stone, was born Eliab Stone, son of Levi and at Winhall, Vermont, about 1868. Mary Stone, was born on May 27, George was a lumberman who 1762, at Sutton, Massachusetts. had settled in Stratton prior to his He settled in Stratton with his marriage. He married Mertie brother, Clark, and they Underwood, daughter of Salon E. apparently resided within the and May E. Underwood of South same home. Londonderry, on June 27, 1891, at Eliab was elected Constable South Londonderry. Mertie was of Stratton in March, 1792, and born there in 1873. he filled that position until his death. Delmar L. Stone was born at Eliab confiscated large Winhall, Vermont. He married amounts of Stratton due to Phoebe Lackey, who was also delinquent taxes. Eliab died in born at Winhall. Delmar was a 1794 and Clark Stone and his lumberman who had settled in wife, Chloe, were administrators Stratton about 1902. The Stones of Eliab’s will. Eliab’s death eventually settled in Jamaica, occurred before the expiration of Vermont. the time allowed by law for the Children of Delmar and Phoebe: redemption of land sold for 1) Delmar, born about 1902. payment of the tax. Therefore, no 2) Lyman Harvey, born legal title could be obtained by the November 20, 1904, at buyers. Clark and Chloe Stone Stratton, Vermont; married petitioned the General Court of Margaret Grazier on June 11, Vermont to allow a transfer of 1927. title in this instance and it was 3) William Henry filed on October 15, 1794. The petition was accepted and Delmar L. Stone. Jr., son of approved by the Council and Delmar and Phoebe Stone, was passed into law on October 21, born about 1902. As a child, he 1794. Chloe went on to deed came to Stratton with his parents. these lands over to the new As a young man, he worked as a owners. laborer, probably in one of the lumber camps in Stratton. He Jonathan Stone was called a evidently married Stella A. yeoman of Stratton when he Dwinnell. Stella was born at purchased several 40-acre lots Mansfield, Vermont, about 1905. from Clark Stone on December They lived at Stratton in 1929, but 11, 1795. He may have been a resettled in Jamaica, Vermont, brother, son or nephew of Clark

Stratton Families 476 sometime after the birth of their Ellen had previously been daughter. married and she had six children, A child of Delmar and Stella was: none of whom were living with 1) Thelma Aurilia, born at them. In 1900, Thomas and Ellen Stratton, Vermont. were living in Stratton in the home of George Herrick. Ellen Streeter worked as Mr. Herrick’s servant. Elihu Streeter of Somerset, Thomas was probably a Vermont, purchased the southwest lumberman working in one of corner of 4L5R from James Fuller Stratton’s lumber camps. on May 24, 1822. Elihu evidently The Strubells were no longer settled on this lot, located along in Stratton in 1910. what is now the Stratton- Arlington Rd.. This was the Stugger Fuller lot and it was bounded on Walter Stugger, son of Herman the north by the road that ran past and Maria Stugger, married Diana the town common. Elihu sold this Sprague, daughter of Robert C. back to James Fuller on and Dorothy W. Sprague. September 28, 1827, and he Walter owned and operated apparently left Stratton at that the Carinthia Ski Area in West time. His taxes for 1827 were Dover, Vermont, for 28 years, abated by the town. selling it to Mt. Snow Ski Resort in 1968. Walter retired at that Densil Streeter, was born in time. Diana is technically a Real Dummerston, Vermont, in 1828. Estate Broker and ideally an He first married Rebecca Jane (?), Actress and Stage Director. who was born at Vernon, The Stuggers moved to Vermont. Densil was a mechanic. Stratton in June, 1987, and live on Rebecca passed away and he North Brookwood Rd. The house then married Lucy J. Copeland, was designed by Bud Lench and daughter of Daniel and Mary M. built by “Wooden Indian” in Copeland, on April 15, 1866, at 1980. The original house had Stratton. Lucy was born in 1840. burned down. A child of Densil and Rebecca: Diana was a Selectman of 1) Esa Jane Marie, born August Stratton to 1998 and she has been 23, 1857, at Stratton, a member of Stratton’s Zoning Vermont. Board of Adjustment since 1989. Children of Walter Stugger from a Strubell previous marriage: 1) Michelle Thomas Strubell was born in 2) Susan May, 1848, in New York. His wife, Ellen, was born about 1866. The Strubells were married in Swan 1899. George Washington Swan came to Stratton from Bristol, Rhode

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Island. He married Nancy Symmister Mascraft, daughter of Isaac Frank Augustus Symmister was Mascraft, on May 6, 1823, at born in February, 1835. He was Stratton. living in Wardsboro, Vermont, The Swans settled in Stratton when he enlisted during the Civil after the marriage. George took War on December 7, 1863. He the Freeman’s oath in Stratton on was placed into Company G of the September 2, 1823. They moved Vermont 11th Regiment and he out of town before 1830. served with that company until George’s taxes were abated in full June 24, 1865. Frank briefly on March 5, 1827. transferred to Company C, then Children of George and Nancy: mustered out of service on August 1) William Bradford, born 25, 1865. January 18, 1824, at Stratton, After the war, Frank Vermont. apparently settled in Wardsboro. 2) Sarah Elizabeth, born January He came to Stratton after 1910, 4, 1825, at Stratton, Vermont. where he evidently lived with Lyman and Nancy Davidson. Swift Nancy was his daughter. Clinton Swift married Lauretta Frank died at Stratton on Catherine Holman, daughter of December 5, 1915, and he was Charles E. and Jennie (Welsh) probably buried in an unmarked Holman. Lauretta was born on grave in the northeast corner of April 18, 1905, at Dayton, Ohio. Ball Cemetery. His gravesite is In 1933, the Swifts bought a marked by a flag each Memorial home on County Rd. in the Day. northeast corner of Stratton and Children of Frank Symmister they settled there with Lauretta’s included: family and Clinton’s brother, 1) Nancy, married Lyman L. Rodney Swift. Before the move Davidson. Lauretta had been in an 2) Frank, (resided in Orange, automobile accident and she was Massachusetts, in 1915). badly hurt. 3) Lucie Elvira, died February 26, Eventually, Lauretta and 1914; married John Scranton Clinton were divorced and on September 16, 1883. Clinton moved from town. Lauretta then married Stanley Charles “Stub” Samson on T January 19, 1940, at East Arlington, Vermont. Taft Lauretta died on February 5, Seth Taft, son of Otis and Phila 1967, and she was buried in Pike (Wilson) Taft was born at Hollow Cemetery in Stratton.. Uxbridge, Massachusetts, on July

20, 1817. Seth married Eliza S.

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Scott, daughter of Ira and of Chester and Miranda Allen, on Sophronia Scott on July 6, 1848, May 4, 1869, at Stratton. Lucy at Uxbridge. Eliza was born was born in 1850. about 1818. The Tafts apparently The Taylors apparently did resided in Stratton about 1849. not settle in Stratton following the A daughter of Seth and Eliza was: marriage. 1) Lucy Scott, born July 8, 1849, at Stratton, Vermont (according Temple to Massachusetts VRs). Othniel T. Temple, son of Palmer Columbus and Rhoda Taylor (King) Temple, was born on Jacob B. Taylor, was born in March 30, 1804, at Sunderland, England. He came to America Vermont. He married Martha and settled in Barre, Vermont, Lyons on July 22, 1832. Martha where he married Emma Watson. was born about 1806. Emma was born in Barre on Shortly after the marriage, February 13, 1854. the Temples evidently settled in The Taylors moved to White Creek, New York, along Stratton before 1893, where Jacob with Othniel’s parents. They farmed. On December 21, 1893, returned to Sunderland before the Taylors had twins. One was 1850 and they were listed in strangled either during the birth Sunderland’s census of that year. or shortly thereafter. Emma died At that time, Othniel was called a of pneumonia two days later, on lumberman. December 23, and the other twin On May 3, 1851, Othniel died the next day. bought the east half of 4L8R (the Their children were: Hale farm) in Stratton from 1) M. Alice, born about 1875 at Joseph Pike and settled his family Barre, Vermont; married there. McClellan’s Map of 1856 Charles F. Smith on February shows that the Temples resided 3, 1894, at Jamaica, Vermont. along the Grout Pond Access Rd, 2) Daisy Ray (twin), born not far off of the Stratton- December 21, 1893, at Arlington Rd.. Stratton, Vermont; strangled at On April 4, 1860, Othniel birth. sold the farm to Jesse Sage 3) Ruth Hazel (twin), born (Othniel’s sons, Albert and December 21, 1893, at Robert, witnessed the deed) and, Stratton, Vermont; died by 1869, JB Covey was living on December 24, 1893. this lot (see Beer’s Atlas of 1869). Before Othniel had sold this Selonius W. Taylor, son of Henry lot, the Temples had removed to and Lorena Taylor, was born in Manchester, Vermont. Othniel Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1847. passed away on September 17, Selonius was a carpenter. He 1889. married Lucy M. Allen, daughter

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Children of Othniel and Martha: The Temples resided in 1) Jerome B., born on January 10, Stratton through 1900. That year, 1835, in North White Creek, they had a granddaughter, Irene New York; died February 1, M. Allen, aged 14, living with 1907, at Wardsboro, Vermont; them. Jerome died on February 1, married Ellen Matilda Smith 1907, and Matilda died on March on December 12, 1857. 4, 1914. They were buried in the 2) Ruby, born about 1837. West Wardsboro Cemetery. 3) Albert, born about 1840 (attended school in Stratton in 1856 and took the Freeman’s oath on November 6, 1860). 4) Robert, born about 1842 (attended school in Stratton in 1856). 5) Warren, born about 1846. 6) Martha, born about 1848 7) Jane 8) Ellen

Jerome B. Temple, son of Othniel and Martha Temple, was Ellen Matilda (Smith) Temple born in North White Creek, New (1839 - 1914) York, on January 10, 1835. He Photo courtesy of the Ethel Eddy Collection married Ellen “Matilda” Smith, daughter of Jonas H. Smith, on Children of Jerome and Matilda: December 12, 1857. Matilda was 1) Atalade E., born May 16, born on October 25, 1839. 1859, at Stratton, Vermont; Jerome was a resident of died August 8, 1861, at Sunderland, Vermont, at the time Stratton, Vermont. of the marriage, however, in 1867, 2) Walter E., born December 12, he purchased a house located at 1860, at Stratton, Vermont; the end of Knowlton Farm Rd. married Lura Flagg. from Melvin Knowlton (see 3) Etta E., born April 14, 1864, at Beer’s Atlas of 1869). Rumor has Stratton, Vermont; married it that this house had been used as Norman D. Allen on May 6, a stop on the underground 1882. railroad before and during the Civil War. It is currently Walter E. Temple, son of Jerome occupied by the Montemagnis. and Matilda Temple, was born at At the time of the marriage, Stratton, on December 12, 1860. Jerome’s occupation was a He married Lura Flagg, daughter lumberman, but later records of Hosea and Cordelia Flagg. referred to him as a peddler. Lura was born on September 17, 1862.

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The Temples apparently Arlington, Vermont. Benjamin settled in Stratton; where Lura was called “of Arlington” when died of consumption on July 24, he purchased the east half of 1884. Walter took the Freeman’s 4L4R from Elias Bassett in oath in Stratton on September 2, March, 1833. The Thatchers 1884. settled in Stratton at that time. Their home was probably Additional Sources: The Rise of the Temples located where the recreational by Albert Temple and Danny Smith area is today - the old foundation Temple pedigree charts by Levi Temple is currently surrounded by a picket fence; although, they may have Tennant resided in the older house located Dennis Tennant was already slightly west along and on the residing in Stratton when he north side of the road to the town purchased the east half of 5L6R common. and 26 acres of 4L6R, north of the Benjamin served as Stratton’s turnpike on December 1, 1851, Town Clerk - which seemed to be from Freeman and Lorena a customary position for the Wyman. This was the old occupant of this house to hold. Richardson farm, located on what On April 3, 1834, Benjamin is now the Stratton-Arlington Rd., signed an agreement to care for just west of the intersection of the Samuel and Lucretia Marble for IP Rd.. the remainder of their natural Dennis apparently left lives, in exchange for 5L3R. He Stratton before 1856. apparently already held a McClellan’s map of 1856 shows mortgage on this lot. In July, Chester Allen residing on this lot. 1836, Benjamin agreed to build part of a fence between his Thatcher property and the property of Benjamin Thatcher was James Grimes, who lived on the apparently a son of Asa Thatcher, old Phillips farm. Jr. of Winhall, Vermont. Benjamin carried out his Benjamin and Asa Thatcher, Jr. agreement with the Marbles and purchased the west half of 10L1R on April 14, 1835, he sold the in Stratton on May 22, 1822. On west half of 5L3R to Amos March 3, 1826, Benjamin, along Scranton. On January 16, 1837, with Martha Thatcher and Benjamin sold his home on the Nathaniel Mellen, Jr., all of east half of 4L4R to his brother- Winhall, were administrators of in-law, James Sprague of Winhall. the estate of Asa Thatcher, Jr. Part of this sale was an agreement deceased. that James would care for Lucretia Benjamin married Hannah Marble for the remainder of her Sprague, daughter of Isaac and life. The Thatchers removed from Sarah Sprague of Winhall and Stratton at that time. they eventually settled in

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Thayer Stocker Dr., in Snow Mountain Stephen Thayer, III, son of Farms West, along the Wardsboro Stephen and Rachel Thayer, was line. In 1791, Stephen purchased born on December 29, 1765, at the remainder of the lot, but sold Mendon, Massachusetts. it the following year. He also Stephen served during the owned 9L8R for a short while. American Revolution, in the Stephen served as a Continental Army, as a soldier Selectman in 1790, 1791 and from Hopkinton, Massachusetts, 1795 and also surveyed many of recruited on December 31, 1779, the town roads built at that time. by Captain Farley, at West Point. Stephen was elected Town Clerk Stephen first served under in 1793 and served for one year. Lieutenant J. Grace. He had The Thayers moved to apparently lied about his age, Sunderland, Vermont, in 1794, enlisting at the age of 14, while then settled in Fairfield, Vermont, claiming to be 16. A descriptive before 1798, according to the at that time stated that Stephen Thayer Genealogy. However, was 5’ tall, and light Stratton’s records call him “of complexioned. He next served as Stratton” from 1795 through 1798 a Private in Colonel James (another deed of 1805 was for a Wesson’s 9th Regiment, from transaction made in 1795). January 1, 1780, to December 31, Perhaps Stephen traveled back 1780. He also served in Captain and forth over the years, while Samuel Carr’s Company, Colonel establishing a new farm in each of Michael Jackson’s 8th Regiment. those areas. Another descriptive stated that In 1797, Stephen was referred Stephen was 5’2” tall, light to as Captain Thayer in the town complexioned and light haired. records, implying that he was a In 1803, Stephen was listed member (possibly the senior as entitled to gratuities for officer) of Stratton’s militia. actually serving three years in the The Thayers removed to Continental Army. At that time Rome, Oneida County, New York, he was reported as belonging to in 1810, where Stephen had a job Vermont. on the canal. He died on March After the war, Stephen was 3, 1819. Anna died on March 3, called “of Milford, 1851. Massachusetts,” when he Their children were: purchased 50 acres of the 1) Limon Elanson, born June 7, northeast corner of 2L1R in 1790, at Stratton, Vermont; Stratton on September 13, 1788. married Fanny Butler on Stephen married Anna December 8, 1810, at Fairfield, Twitchell on March 12, 1789, and Vermont. they settled in Stratton after the 2) Lucinda, born October 25, marriage. Their home was 1791, at Stratton, Vermont. located north of what is now Leon

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3) Anna, born July 30, 1793, at they could store their hay in the Stratton, Vermont. barn through to June 1, 1853. 4) Stephen, born October 30, The Thayers apparently 1794, at Sunderland, Vermont. removed from Stratton on or 5) Aaron, born June 25, 1798, at before December 1, 1852. Fairfield, Vermont. 6) Elerey, born April 1, 1797, at Joshua P. Thayer, son of Azahel Fairfield, Vermont. and Esther Thayer of Heath, 7) Olive, born November 25, Massachusetts, married Rachel 1800, at Fairfield, Vermont. Daniels of Stratton (intent 8) Nancy, born May 11, 1802, at published on January 7, 1810, at Fairfield, Vermont; died Stratton). Rachael, a daughter of young. Joshua and Hannah Daniels, was 9) Nathan, born May 23, 1804, at born on January 20, 1782, at Fairfield, Vermont. Mendon, Vermont. 10) Almira, born June 3, 1806, at The Thayers settled in Fairfield, Vermont. Mendon, Massachusetts, after the 11) Sophrona, born March 30, marriage. Joshua died on 1808, at Fairfield, Vermont. November 27, 1817, and Rachel 12) Charlotte, born in 1810. died on September 29, 1852. 13) Fanny, born January 20, 1812, Children of Joshua and Rachel: at Rome, New York. 1) Daniels, born December 24, 1810. Additional Sources: Thayer Genealogy by Bezaleel Thayer, 1874 2) Diana, born May 12, 1812. 3) Clara, born April 5, 1817. John R. Thayer of Jamaica, Vermont, purchased the west half Thomas of 4L3R on December 24, 1851. Philip Thomas, Jr., son of Philip This was the old Phillips farm, Thomas, was born between 1800 located on the northeast corner of and 1810. His wife was about the what is now the West Jamaica Rd. same age. The Thomases were and Ball Farm Rd.. John and his living in Surrey, New Hampshire, wife, Rebecca, mortgaged this lot when they purchased the through Nathaniel Smith on that northwest part of 3L3R and part same day. At that time, Joseph of 4L3R from Charles Fay in 1838 Packard, Jr. was living in the - 75 acres. The Thomases settled dwelling there. in Stratton at that time. They may The Thayers settled on this have been close relatives of the farm soon after the purchase, but Oren Shelley family, who also stayed there only briefly. They came to Stratton from Surrey. sold this farm to Nathaniel Smith In March, 1839, Philip was on October 29, 1852. The sale elected a Hayward at Town included an agreement that the Meeting. Philip sold his lot to Thayers could stay in the house Benjamin Moon on March 11, until December 1, 1852, and that 1846, and the Thomases

Stratton Families 483 apparently removed from Stratton A child of Jerusha and (?) at that time. Vernaton was: 1) Sarah Wilder, born June 18, Gilbert Thomas apparently never 1847; died January 13, 1824; lived in Stratton; however, during married William H. Parsons in the Civil War, his wife and September, 1866. children resided in town and, later, some of his children settled Children of Gilbert and Jerusha: there. 1) Mary Ann, born September 16, Gilbert, son of Amos 1849, at Manchester, Vermont; Thomas, was born about 1826. died June 12, 1943; married He married Jerusha Wilder Jared J. Sage (son of Levi and Moffet, daughter of Alvin and Polly [Wilder] Sage). Sarah (Wright) Moffet, on June 4, 2) William Clarence, (arrested for 1848, in Pawlet, Vermont. stealing horses and held in the Jerusha was born about 1825 and Manchester jail, but escaped she had at least one child before through the outhouse) this marriage. The child’s 3) Henry Wilson, born March 24, surname was Vernaton. 1854, in Dorset, Vermont; The Thomases were residents married Elizabeth Boyd Sage of Sandgate, Vermont, at the time on September 21, 1874, at of their marriage. By September, Whitingham, Vermont (he was 1849, they were living in called Dewey). Manchester, Vermont, and in 4) Helen E. (twin), born March 3, 1850, they were living with 1857, at Manchester, Vermont; Gilbert’s parents in Sunderland, died May 14, 1943; married Vermont. By 1863, the Thomases Charles Herbert Boyd on April had settled in Dorset, Vermont. 19, 1881, at Searsburg, During the Civil War, Gilbert Vermont. enlisted into the 11th Vermont 5) Ellen E. (twin), born March 3, Volunteers, Company G, on 1857, at Manchester, Vermont; December 2, 1863. He died while died April 21, 1921, at in the service from an illness on Wilmington, Vermont; December 22, 1864. married 1) Emery James After Gilbert’s death and Parsons 2) Frank W. Thomas before 1865, Jerusha had settled (she was called Nellie). in Stratton. At that time, she had 6) Milton Eugene, born April 20, six children attending Stratton’s 1859, at Manchester, Vermont; School district #2. died March 13, 1942, at Jerusha died on March 31, Keene, New Hampshire; 1896, and she was buried in the married Hattie M. Harris in West Wardsboro Cemetery, near 1891 at Hoosic, New York. her daughter, Sarah Parsons. 7) Fred, born July 4, ????.

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Henry Wilson Thomas, son of Manchester, Vermont. Gene, as Gilbert and Jerusha Thomas, was he was called, married Hattie M. born in Vermont in March, 1854. Harris, daughter of William and He married Elizabeth Boyd Sage Adelaide (Morgan) Harris in 1891 on September 21, 1874, at in Hoosic, New York. She was Whitingham, Vermont. Betsey born at Woodford, Vermont, in was born in July, 1842, and she March, 1874. They were married was eleven years his senior. about 1890. Betsey was probably the daughter Hattie was probably a of Levi and Polly (Wilder) Sage of granddaughter of Daniel Harris West Jamaica, Vermont. who had lived at the corner of the The Thomases first settled in Stratton-Arlington Rd. and Pike Wilmington, Vermont, then Hollow Rd. in 1869. The moved to Stratton by 1900. That Thomases came to Stratton about year, their son, Arthur W., aged 1900 and settled in this same 28, was living with them and in house, where they lived for many 1910, they were still living with years. Gene was a teamster and Arthur. They owned a four-acre probably worked at one of lot in 3L1R. Henry’s son-in-law, Stratton’s lumber mills. John Powers had built on this lot - located on the north side of the road – about 1901. The Thomases were no longer in Stratton in 1920. Children of Henry and Betsey: 1) Frank W., born in February, 1869. 2) Arthur W., born in April, 1872, in Vermont. 3) Anna E., born in March, 1875, at Wilmington, Vermont; married John M. Powers on Eugene Thomas July 24, 1898, at Stratton, (1859 – 1942) Vermont. Photo courtesy of the Ethel Eddy Collection Frank W. Thomas, son of Henry and Betsey Thomas, was born in The Thomases remained in February, 1869. He was living Stratton through 1920. Curiously with his aunt and uncle, Emery though, the census of 1920, shows and Ellen Parsons in 1900. Frank Hattie listed as “Hattie M. was no longer in Stratton in 1910. Minsor” a servant, therefore, they must have divorced. Hattie died Milton Eugene Thomas, son of on December 28, 1933, at Gilbert and Jerusha Thomas, was Franklin County Hospital in born on April 20, 1859, at Greenfield, Massachusetts. She

Stratton Families 485 was buried in Riverview Cemetery born on July 10, 1895, at South in Wilmington, Vermont. Gene Wardsboro, Vermont. died at Keene, New Hampshire, Irving was a sawyer in on March 13, 1942. He was southern Vermont, first settling in buried in the West Wardsboro Stratton, then in Wilmington Cemetery. about 1919. The Thomases then Children of Gene and Hattie were: settled in Grafton. Minnie passed 1) Alfred Harrison, born in April, away on February 14, 1949, in 1890, in Vermont (possibly Jamaica, Vermont, and he then from a previous marriage); married Cora (Harris) Mallory on married Myrtle Lackey. November 18, 1955. They settled 2) Irving Charles, born August in Bennington, Vermont. He died 10, 1893, at Stratton, there on December 17, 1981. The Vermont; died December 17, Thomases were buried in the West 1981, at Bennington, Wardsboro Cemetery. Vermont; married 1) Minnie Children of Irving and Minnie: Fidelia Wheeler on August 11, 1) Mildred Verla, born February 1912 2) Cora Mallory. 24, 1914, at Stratton, 3) Elmer Eugene, born in March, Vermont; died November 10, 1895, in Vermont; married 1997, at Jamaica, Vermont; Essie Roberts (He was a WWI married 1) Andre Giroux veteran). (divorced) 2) Phillip Elmer 4) Clarence Dewey, born April Smith. 26, 1897, in Vermont; married 2) Herbert Henry, born July 16, Gladys Woods. 1916, at Stratton, Vermont; 5) Truman Wilson “Skip,” born married Rosa Ann Harris. March 1, 1901, at Stratton, 3) Richard Melvin, born March Vermont (the 1910 census 25, 1918, at Stratton, shows him as Morris Thomas); Vermont; died February 19, died April 23, 1977, at 1988, at Vernon, Vermont; Brattleboro, Vermont; married married June Angeline Smith. Mary Jane Bourbeau on April 4) Hilda Harriet, born January 9, 19, 1956, at Brattleboro, 1920, at Wilmington, Vermont. Vermont; died January 14, 6) (a stillborn daughter), born 1978, at Townshend, Vermont; August 8, 1908, at Stratton, married Moses Lanpher Tifft. Vermont. 5) Irene Minnie, born April 13, 1922, at Wilmington, Irving Charles Thomas, son of Vermont; died March 13, Eugene and Hattie Thomas, was 1996, at Townshend, Vermont; born August 10, 1893, at Stratton. married Frank Morris Palmer. He married Minnie Fidelia 6) Kenneth Victor, born Wheeler, daughter of Emery and September 18, 1925, at Fidelia (Stiles) Wheeler, on Grafton, Vermont; died June August 11, 1912. Minnie was

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17, 1996, in Vernon, Vermont; Regiment, which marched on married Patricia Mary Palmer. April 20, 1775, in response to the alarm of the previous day. At that Wilkes Thomas was living in time he served for six days. Paul Stratton in 1905. That year, he then served in Captain William was elected a fenceviewer. He Campbell’s Company, Colonel may have been the same as Henry Ebenezer Learned’s Regiment, Wilson Thomas above. If he was after enlisting on April 26, 1775, not Henry Thomas, then he was and he remained with that unit no longer in Stratton in 1910. through October 7, 1775. Paul lived at Ward, Additional Sources for the above Thomas Massachusetts, and there he families: Notes on Thomas Genealogy by Arleen married Hannah Rawson, on July (Thomas) Huesman 14, 1781. Hannah, daughter of Reverend Grindal and Desire Thrall (Thatcher) Rawson, was born on May 25, 1761. John E. Thrall was born about Paul was an early proprietor 1894 in Connecticut. He was a of Stratton, buying several shares lumber camp laborer in 1920 in of land from Giles Alexander in Stratton and he lived at the 1780 and 1781. Paul was boarding house at the Grout Job. apparently present at the original John was probably a brother of purchase of Stratton made by Lewis Thrall who was also in Giles Alexander from Isaac Searl Stratton in 1920. in October, 1780. Isaac Searl

witnessed Paul’s purchase of Lewis V. Thrall was born about seven and a quarter original rights 1896 in Connecticut. He was a of Stratton from Giles Alexander lumberman in Stratton in 1920 on October 9, 1780. In 1782, Paul and he lived in the boarding house was among the organizers of the at the Grout Job. He was probably first settlement in town and he a brother of John Thrall who also was assigned the task of clearing lived and worked there. the first road into Stratton.

In September, 1784, Paul was Thurston among the proprietors present at Paul Thurston, son of Reverend the first town meeting within the David and Susannah Waters town itself. Once Stratton’s (Fairbanks) Thurston, was born, settlement was underway, he on August 25, 1761, at Medway, chose not to settle there. His wife, Massachusetts. Hannah, was named on a Paul was a resident of quitclaim deed (pg 120 of the Oxford, Massachusetts, at the Proprietors book of Stratton). beginning of the American The Thurstons resettled at Revolution. He served as a Harvard, Massachusetts. Paul Private in Captain Ebenezer died before November 21, 1797, at Craft’s Troop, Colonel Larned’s

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Milton, Massachusetts, and he James may have been the was brought back to Harvard for same James Thurston warned out burial. Hannah died on March of Dover, Vermont, on October 31, 1816, aged 55, and she was 15, 1810. buried at Ward. Children of James and Mary were: Children of Paul and Hannah: 1) Sally, born August 17, 1789, at 1) Jonathan Grindall, baptized Putney, Vermont. July 8, 1782, at Ward, 2) Huldah, born January 14, Massachusetts; died in infancy. 1796, at Putney, Vermont. 2) Elihu Cleverly, born February 3) Lydia, born September 12, 12, 1784, at Ward, 1800, at Stratton, Vermont. Massachusetts; died in 1809. 4) Mary, born August 31, 1802, 3) Dianthe Thatcher, born at Somerset, Vermont. December 23, 1790, at Ward, 5) Ebenezer, born December 31, Massachusetts; died March 15, 1805, at Somerset, Vermont. 1857; married Benjamin 6) John, born January 1, 1809, at Putnam on August 25, 1812. Somerset, Vermont.

Additional Sources: (This family was unidentified in the Thurston Genealogies 1635 - 1892 Thurston Genealogies)

James Thurston, son of James Tinney and Phebe (Perkins) Thurston, James Tinney may have served was born at Rehoboth, during the American Revolution. Massachusetts, on October 23, Although his place of origin was 1757. His wife, Mary, was born not recorded in Stratton’s records, there on July 2, 1768. he may have been the same James The Thurstons settled in Tinney of Palmer, Massachusetts, Putney, Vermont, by 1789. On a neighbor of several families of February 3, 1797, James Palmer that also settled in purchased the west half of 2L4R Stratton. from his brother-in-law, Bille This James Tinney published Mann. James was living in an intent of marriage to Sarah Putney at that time and he Moor at Palmer on June 4, 1789. apparently settled in Stratton James Tinney was called a shortly after this purchase. cordwainer of Stratton when he The 1800 Census of Stratton purchased 40-acre lot #33 on the shows that the Thurstons had four western side of Stratton on May 6, daughter and a son living at 1797. He apparently settled on home. In 1800, James sold a this lot at that time. On April 2, thirty-acre parcel off of each end 1799, James sold his land to of this lot, then in January, 1802, Samuel Boutell. At that time, he sold the remainder of the lot to James was living in Cambridge, Hasey Sprague. The Thurstons New York. removed to Somerset, Vermont, at that time.

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Torrey in 1850, they were living with Luther Torrey, son of Ezra and their son Orrin. Zilpha (Jennings) Torrey1, was Although their son, Calvin, born on July 21, 1786, probably at was baptized in the Church of Brookfield, Massachusetts. Christ in Stratton in 1820, it was Luther married Miss Eunice not until March 24, 1822, that “Emma” Hyde on February 5, they officially had removed their 1810, at Leominster, church relations from Ware, Massachusetts. Emma was born Massachusetts, to Stratton, by on July 5, 1790, a daughter of letter and they were admitted as Deacon Elisha Hyde and his wife, regular members by vote of the Hannah (Abell) Hyde. The church. Torrey’s resided in Ware, On September 20, 1823, Massachusetts, after the marriage. Luther filed a complaint with the On November 2, 1819, Luther church against William G. Pike, Torrey and Jeremiah Hyde bought his wife, and daughter, for not the east half of 4L4R from Abijah attending services regularly. The Hyde (Jeremiah and Abijah were complaint resulted in all three of evidently Emma’s brothers or the Pikes being expelled from the cousins.). The house upon this lot church. In January, 1824, Luther was located on the north side of was appointed Church Clerk the road that passed the town Protemp. He also served on two common - it was once owned by church committees. Joseph Patch, who ran a tavern Between 1823 and 1826, from this house. Luther established a farm upon Luther brought his family to the Stratton-Arlington Rd., just Stratton from Ware, north and east of the Grout Pond Massachusetts, in March, 1820. Access Rd.. On May 1, 1826, The Torrey’s evidently first lived Luther sold the east half of 4L4R in the above-mentioned house and to Asa Phillips and about that there, Luther may have operated a time, it appears that Torrey settled tavern as the house had once been on the west half of 5L7R. This lot used as a tavern by Joseph Patch. was owned by Paul Wheeler of This may be the case since during Wardsboro, Vermont, and it was the infamous Blake Tragedy in the old Samuel Boutell farm. 1821, Mrs. Blake was supposedly On July 4, 1826, the town brought to Torrey’s Tavern2. voted to pay for a road running In 1820, Luther was head of a from the Torrey’s land to household in Stratton with three Stratton’s west line, and so, in sons under 10, one 10 to 16, and a June, 1827, a road was built from daughter under 10. In 1830, they the Torrey’s west line, running had five sons and two daughters. westward to Sunderland - a road In 1840, they had three sons and a about 2.3 miles long. In 1827, daughter living at home. Finally, Luther was granted his first

Stratton Families 489 license to keep an Inn in Stratton - purchased the west half of 5L7R it was called Torrey’s Tavern. (the location of the tavern) from On September 28, 1828, Paul Wheeler and took a mortgage Luther agreed to care for Jane with Mr. Wheeler. (Hill) Boutell, Eber Hill, Jonathan It appears that Luther and his M. Hill and Margaret Hill in son, Orrin went into the exchange for the west side of lumbering business about 1845 6L7R - the Hill farm; however, and so it was probably at this this agreement fell through and point that Luther gave up his Luther reneged on the deal. tavern business. At that time, Knapp’s History of Stratton Luther rented out his farm to his in Hemenway’s History of son, Calvin. Windham County states that The Torrey’s son, Orrin, Luther “was a man of positive made an arrangement with N. J. opinions and strong prejudices Shaw, in September, 1846, to and was somewhat aristocratic in operate Shaw’s Mill on 3L8R and his notions. He was a 3L9R for two years. Orrin and Congregationalist and Whig and Luther were involved in buying was at one time a tavern-keeper and selling several of the western and a farmer; but when the use lots in town. and sale of intoxicating liquors When Paul Wheeler passed began to be preached against as away about 1847, the Torrey farm sinful, he laid aside his glass, took fell into foreclosure. It is unclear down his bar and sign and whether the Torreys lost the farm became, thenceforth, a farmer at that point; however, Stephen and lumberman”. Ballard held the farm in 1848 and “His house was near the mortgaged it through Asa grounds whereon the great Whig Wheelock. The Torrey’s may convention of 1840 was held; and have been living with their son, when the East and the West, the Orrin at that time. North and the South, to the Luther died on January 10, number of 15,000 men met 1851. Eunice evidently remarried together. Whereon was a well following his death. Church finished log cabin 50 feet wide records note -- “Agreed to give and 100 feet in length, where were Mrs. Eunice Stearns, who was exposed to view roasted pigs with widow of Luther Torrey, a letter knives and forks stuck in their of dismission and backs -- giving the poor man an recommendation to the Church of ocular indication of his bill of Christ in Wilmington. Stratton fare, when Harrison and Tyler June 28, [1854].” The Torreys should be in the chair. The orator moved out of Stratton in 1854, of the day was “The God-like” apparently leaving the house and Daniel Webster.” farm unoccupied as evident by On October 11, 1841, Luther McClellan’s Map that year. along with his son, Orrin, finally

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Emma died on March 14, Amos Ward of Jamaica, 1870. Luther and Emma were Vermont. buried in Ball Cemetery. The 7) Sirena, born December 5, 1824 family Bible, bearing this family’s (baptized in Stratton on March birth and death records, exists and 6, 1825); died April 15, 1825. it is kept in the museum of the 8) Elijah Marble, born January Historical Society of Windham 12, 1828, at Stratton, County. A note attached reads, Vermont; married Cornelia A. “Torrey Family Bible, pub. 1812, Buffum. from Torrey’s Tavern, Stratton, 9) Elisha Hyde, born July 4, Vermont. Webster stayed here 1831, at Stratton, Vermont after his famous speech. Given by (baptized in Stratton on LP Torrey of Brattleboro, November 13, 1831). Vermont.” Notes: Children of Luther and Emma: 1) Parents of Luther Torrey: Ezra Torrey, 1) Hiram, born February 21, son of James Torrey, was born July 27, 1811; died September 15, 1750, at Tolland, Connecticut; died March 9, 1822; Zilpha (Jennings) 1835, at East Douglas, Torrey, daughter of Ebenezer and Massachusetts. Hannah Jennings, was born July 29, 2) Permelia, born November 14, 1749, at Brookfield, Massachusetts; 1812 (became a member of the died May 8, 1820. (Dates as stated in the Family Bible) They were married at Church of Christ in Stratton Brookfield, Massachusetts, on January on March 6, 1825); married 9, 1777. Micah Twitchell of 2) Luther Torrey did not live on the site later called Torrey’s Tavern and located at the Wardsboro, Vermont. east side of the nine-mile wood, until 3) Dexter, born June 7, 1815; 1823 - at least two years after the Blake married Thankful Evans. Tragedy. Therefore, the Blakes were either carried to the Boutell house 4) Orrin Pearl, born on July 22, (referring to the place that later was called 1817, at Ware, Massachusetts; Torrey’s Tavern, or they were carried to died April 30, 1894; married the Torrey home (and tavern) east of the town common. (The Joseph Patch house) Lucy Maria Twitchell. The story states that she was carried more 5) Calvin Ezra, born February 8, than two miles, therefore the second 1820 (baptized in Stratton on choice is probably correct. September 10, 1820); died Orrin Pearl Torrey, son of October 1, 1851; married Luther and Emma Torrey, was Catherine S. Forrester (intent born on July 22, 1817. published on February 20, Orrin took the Freeman’s 1848, at Stratton, Vermont). oath in Stratton on September 4, 6) Philena Sprague, born August 1838, and he and his father, 17, 1822 (baptized in Stratton Luther, went into the lumbering on September 15, 1822, and business about 1845. On admitted as a member of the September 4, 1846, NJ Shaw Church of Christ in Stratton rented the Shaw sawmill in 3L8R on June 24, 1840); married and 3L9R to Orrin for two years.

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This may have been operated by 5) Elvira, born about 1859. his brother Calvin in 1847. 6) Frank Luther, born October 8, Orrin married Lucy Maria 1864. Twitchell, daughter of Hollis and Charlotte (Rugg) Twitchell, on Calvin Ezra Torrey, son of June 6, 1853, and they resided in Luther and Emma Torrey, was Plainfield, New Hampshire. born on February 8, 1820. Calvin Before 1860, Orrin lived at became a member of the Church Shaftsbury, Vermont, and when of Christ in Stratton on March 4, the Civil War broke out, he 1838. enlisted on September 9, 1862. On December 24, 1842, Orrin mustered into Company K Calvin purchased several 40-acre of the Vermont 14th Regiment on lots from his father. At that time, October 21, 1862, and he was Calvin was called “of Royalston, discharged on July 7, 1863. Massachusetts.” Calvin returned The Torreys’ last child was to Stratton and he signed an born in 1864. Sometime soon agreement with his father and his after, Orrin and Lucy were brother, Orrin, on March 13, apparently divorced. Orrin settled 1843, to farm-let the west half of in Stratton about this same time. 5L7R, which included “the use of And in 1870 he was living with a double wagon, grindstones and his son, Herbert. In 1872, Herbert farm tools and one yoke of brindle died and so Orrin lived alone as oxen which have been kept indicated in the census of 1880. thereon.” Lucy remarried to G.W. Beers on On June 19, 1845, Calvin February 6, 1881. purchased an undivided third of Orrin died on April 30, 1894, 5L8R and the east half of 5L9R and he was buried in Ball (100 acres total). He also Cemetery. purchased 20 acres near the Children of Orrin and Lucy were: Deerfield River, on the south side 1) Herbert Hollis, born July 31, of the 40-acre lots, from Phineas 1853, at Stratton, Vermont; White on March 17, 1847. This died September 11, 1873, at may have included White’s Mill Stratton, Vermont. (later the location of the Grout 2) Charles Twitchell, born July Job). And so, Calvin was 15, 1855, at Plainfield, New operating a sawmill in Stratton by Hampshire. 1847. 3) Luther Hammond, born July Calvin married Catherine S. 15, 1855, at Plainfield, New Forrester, daughter of Moses and Hampshire. Patty Forrester, (intent published 4) Charlotte Franklin “Lottie,” on February 20, 1848, at born May 9, 1858, at Stratton). Catherine was born Plainfield, New Hampshire about 1827. (attended school district #3 in Calvin mortgaged his lands 1865). through his brother-in-law,

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Stephen Forrester, but he was able prepare a Soldiers’ Record for the to pay off his mortgages in March, town, under an act of the 1851. He died a few months later Legislature of 1864. on October 1, 1851. In 1860, Elijah married Miss In 1860, Catherine and the Cornelia A. Buffum, and they had children were living at her two sons and four daughters. parents’ homestead, where her brother, Roderick, had become Elisha Hyde Torrey, son of head of the household. Catherine Luther and Emma Torrey, was apparently remarried to born in Stratton on July 4, 1831. Washington Wyman and they Elisha entered Middlebury resided in Cambridgeport, College in 1852. In the fall term Vermont. of his senior year, he became sick Children of Calvin and Catherine: and he was compelled to leave 1) Clark L., born about 1849. college, never to return. Having 2) Augustus, born about 1851. regained his health, he engaged in teaching, which he has made the Elijah Marble Torrey, son of business of his life. He was one Luther and Emma Torrey, was year a teacher in the drawing born in Stratton on January 12, school of Warring & Bisbee, 1828, and he spent much of his successors to Charles Bartlett, boyhood there. College Hill, in Poughkeepsie, Elijah prepared for college at New York, and subsequently for Burr & Leland Seminaries. He five years principal teacher of entered Middlebury College in Latin and Greek, and vice- 1850 and he graduated in 1854. principal in the military boarding Soon afterward graduation, school of Charles Warring, in Elijah became principal of the Poughkeepsie. Elisha married high school at Windsor. He and had a son. resigned this position and he accepted the position of “Master Towne of Order” in the large boarding George S. Towne was called “of school for boys of all ages, of Stratton” when he sold 1700 acres Charles Bartlett, College Hill, in of the southwest corner of Stratton Poughkeepsie, New York. In to John Tudor on July 25, 1892. 1858, Elijah was principal teacher He may have been a son of Hollis of Latin and mathematics in the and Louise (Pike) Towne. George boarding school for both sexes of had purchased the site of the Rev. E. Seymour, in Bloomfield, Lucius Smith sawmill on this land New Jersey. and apparently settled thereon In 1859, Elijah settled in (see Beer’s Atlas of 1869). Jamaica, Vermont, and he became George probably moved away a farmer. He was that town’s from Stratton after the sale. Representative in 1862, 1863, and 1864, and he was chosen to

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Tracy Tripp Nathan J. Tracy was born at Joseph Tripp, was born on Benson, Vermont, on January 26, February 25, 1822, at 1834. He married Lucy J. Grout, Chestertown, New York. He daughter of Hudson and Silence married Sarah A. Taylor at Grout, on September 3, 1854, at Chestertown in 1846. Sarah was Shaftsbury, Vermont. Lucy was born in England on March 23, born on May 25, 1835, at Stratton. 1829. The Tracys settled in Stratton Joseph was called a farmer of for a short time, then resettled in Warrensburg, New York, when he Westminster, Vermont. Lucy died settled in Stratton just after the there on November 7, 1860. Civil War. Joseph was Stratton’s During the Civil War, Nathan Free-Will Baptist minister for a enlisted on May 11, 1861, at short while in 1866, but they soon Sunderland, Vermont. He was moved away from Stratton. Sarah placed into Company A of the died on May 26, 1898 at Ruthven, Vermont 2nd Regiment, and he Iowa. Joseph died there on was promoted to sergeant on January 28, 1912. September 14, 1861. Nathan was Their children were: discharged for a disability on 1) Emily Josephine, born December 15, 1862. December 24, 1846, at Nathan died at Glens Falls, Warrensburg, New York; New York, on June 4, 1911. married Loren Richmond Their children were: Woodcock on March 5, 1873, 1) Emma Evangeline, born at Chestertown, New York. August 10, 1855; died January 2) Cyrus Joseph, born May 7, 11, 1911; married 1) Brainard 1848, at Warrensburg, New O. Smith 2) Willis Butler in York; married Mary A. 1894. Greensley. 2) Sarah Gertrude, born March 3) Mary Elizabeth, born October 31, 1857, at Stratton, 23, 1850, at Warrensburg, Vermont; died in December, New York; married Henry 1915; married Austin Tracy in Hennesy Hough. 1875. 4) Charles Melrose, born October 3) Alzona Edith, born July 20, 29, 1852, at Chestertown, New 1858, at Westminster, York; died June 12, 1913, at Vermont; died December 13, Ruthven, Iowa; married Anna 1943, at Glens Falls, New E. Floyd about 1880 at York; married Samuel Jacob Milbrook, New York. Stiles on August 21, 1876, in 5) Foster Byron, born August 7, Fort Miller, New York.. 1858 at Warrensburg, New 4) Mary Adeline, born July 20, York; married Cynthia 1860; died in 1886; married Givings. Hibert Hunt. 6) Flora Belle, born September 30, 1866, at Stratton,

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Vermont; died October 7, a 50 horsepower, water-powered 1920; married Edgar Marling. mill, and it produced about 250,000 feet of lumber each year. Tudor In 1889, William was able to buy William Tudor, son of Edward the mill from Mr. Davenport for and Sarah (Gaynor) Tudor, was $1225.00. This mill was known born on November 4, 1836, in as the lower Tudor Mill. Cowhill, Thornbury, England. The Tudors prospered, hence, William married Parsha Ellen during the next 23 years they Biddle on August 31, 1862. purchased thousands of acres in Parsha was born on February 27, Somerset, Stratton, and 1839. William worked in a Searsburg. In 1889, the Tudors brickyard during his early years. began operations in Stratton Parsha had relatives who around the site of the old Lucius lived in Vermont. Perhaps these Smith sawmill, located about relatives persuaded the Tudors to three miles south of the Grout Job come to America. William and on the Stratton-Arlington Rd. The Parsha crossed the Atlantic in Tudors erected a mill there and September and October, 1869, eventually expanded it. leaving from Cardiff, Wales, onboard the SS Brooklyn out of Liverpool. They arrived in New York on October 5, 1869. Upon their arrival in America, William was poor and probably illiterate. The Tudors made their way to Searsburg, Vermont, and they first lived with one of Parsha’s relatives. While in Searsburg, William found employment at the bedstead factory, at the border of Searsburg and Somerset. The Tudors leased a house from George Wheeler in William Tudor Searsburg. In 1874, they (1836 – 1911) purchased lot #24 from Mr. Wheeler. The Tudors had 138 Photo from the Vermont Government acres of Searsburg leaseland, Yearbook which they paid $2.63 yearly. William continued to live in In 1881, the Tudors moved to Somerset, but he made daily trips Somerset, Vermont, and leased a to the Stratton mill, known as the sawmill from S.T. Davenport of Upper Tudor Mill. His son John Wilmington. The mill was purchased the mill in 1892. A originally built by George younger son, George, was already Hartwell and Clark Harris. It was living in Stratton, while John

Stratton Families 495 lived at Stamford, Vermont. England; died January 22, William kept the lower mill, since 1937. it was more profitable, and more 3) George A., born January 3, reliable. It was operated by 1865, at Thornbury, waterpower nearly 100% of the Gloucestershire, England; died time, while the upper mill needed August 23, 1934; married a steam-driven backup. Lillie E. (Mundell) Clough on About 1895, William built a July 1, 1898, at Stratton, large new home near the lower Vermont. mill and they were able to enjoy it 4) Frederick William, born for several years. January 31, 1867, at In 1905, the Tudors sold their Thornbury, Gloucestershire, lands to the Deerfield River England; died August 19, Company. William then moved 1948, at Bennington, with their sons, Mark, Fred, and Vermont; married Minnie Herbert, to the Thomas farm, near Hescock on July 2, 1889, at Hinsdale, New Hampshire. They Marlboro, Vermont. lived there only two years, then 5) Ernest, born December 25, moved to Bennington, Vermont, 1868, at Cardiff, Wales; died where they had purchased the November 29, 1934, at John Robinson farm on the Bennington, Vermont; married Bennington-Pownal Rd.. Blanche Faulkner on May 7, William was not ready to quit 1898, at Readsboro, Vermont. the lumber business and so he 6) Herbert, born March 17, 1871, bought the Frank Adams sawmill at Searsburg, Vermont; died in Wardsboro on April 9, 1910. June 13, 1946, at Sandgate, The purchase included a gristmill, Vermont; married Cynthia a sawmill, a shop and all the Mae Morey on October 24, machinery. 1903, at Hoosick Falls, New William passed away on York. January 17, 1911, in front of his 7) Charles, born April 26, 1872, home in Bennington. Parsha died at Searsburg, Vermont; died on May 22, 1917, of Bright’s February 11, 1943, at disease, at her home in Bennington, Vermont; married Bennington. Emma Bratton on December Children of William and Parsha: 20, 1897, at Stratton, 1) John, born September 1, 1858, Vermont. at Thornbury, Gloucestershire, 8) (a son), born February 20, England; died February 23, 1875, at Searsburg, Vermont; 1909 (of accidental poisoning); died March 1, 1875, at married Sarah Tomlinson on Searsburg, Vermont. June 5, 1890, at Bennington, 9) Emma, born May 5, 1876, at Vermont. Searsburg, Vermont; died June 2) Mark, born April 1, 1863, at 20, 1906, at Hinsdale, New Thornbury, Gloucestershire, Hampshire; married Mason

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Johnson on July 16, 1894, at on this site was known as the Stratton, Vermont. Upper Tudor Mill. In 1900, 10) Milo, born October 26, 1879, George was living in Stratton, at Searsburg, Vermont; died near the mill site with his family January 24, 1908, at Troy, and three boarders. In 1902, New York (of cancer); married George and John sold the mill to Anna M. Young on July 30, W. W. Peck. After the sale, the 1904, at New York, New York. Tudors moved back to Somerset, and by 1905 they were living in Additional Sources: The Tudors of Somerset, Vt. Wardsboro. by William Charles Tudor. Lillie died on February 28, 1912. George then married George A. Tudor, son of William Martha D. Edwards on December and Parsha (Biddle) Tudor, was 19, 1915, at Wardsboro. Martha born at Thornbury, was born on October 3, 1876. Gloucestershire, England, on George and his brother, January 3, 1865. George came to Mark, operated a steam-driven America with his parents in 1869, mill in West Wardsboro for a and he was naturalized on March time, but the business failed after 16, 1886. a large amount of lumber was George was a lumberman, stolen before it could be delivered working at the mills his family to a customer in Wilmington. owned in Somerset. Besides They sold out in 1924. working in the lumber business, On June 21, 1925, George George had worked seven and his daughter, Emma, were summers, probably while still baptized in the brook at West quite young, for Barnum and Wardsboro. George died on Bailey Circus. August 23, 1934, and he was George married Lillie E. buried in the West Wardsboro (Mundell) Clough, daughter of Cemetery. Martha died on Clark D. and Ellen W. (Edwards) August 11, 1955. Mundell, on July 1, 1898, at A child of Lillie by her first Stratton. Lillie was born in husband (adopted by George) was: Jamaica, Vermont, on December 1) Ernest H., born July 24, 1887; 3, 1870. George probably adopted died August 22, 1965; married Lillie’s son, Ernest, at that time. Eva Ellis on November 24, George’s brother, John, 1907. bought the Lucius Smith millsite in Stratton in 1892 – an area of A child of George and Martha: about 1700 acres from George S. 1) Emma L., born February 24, Towne. Their father had been 1916; married Clarence H. operating a millsite there since Brown on April 18, 1936. 1889 and George had moved his family into the area about that same time. The mill they erected

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Tuthill and he was buried in the West Ernest J. Tuthill, son of William Wardsboro Cemetery. Jarvis and Sarah A. (Emerson) A child of Ernest and Edith was: Tuthill, was born on March 15, 1) Robert, born January 23, 1892; 1868, at Newfane, Vermont. died September, 1909. Ernest married Edith Whitney, daughter of Roswell and Submit Edgar H. Tuthill, son of William (Grout) Whitney, on February 10, Jarvis and Sarah A. (Emerson) 1890. She was born on November Tuthill, was born at Newfane, 23, 1869. She died May 10, 1899. Vermont, on November 12, 1869. Ernest bought the Lyman He married Minnie L. Brown, home on Pike Hollow Rd. about daughter of Andrew and Roalie C. 1922 and moved to Stratton at (Binnie) Brown, on March 6, that time. While living there, 1900, at Stratton. Minnie was Ernest also boarded Elmer and born about 1870 at Grand Rapids, Margaret Eddy for a time. Michigan. The Tuthills were farmers in Stratton between 1900 and 1910. Edgar died at Springfield, Massachusetts, on January 2, 1935.

Tuttle Elmer E. Tuttle, son of James Howard and Alma Alberta (Rolfe) Tuttle, was born March 6, 1907. Elmer married Vivian Gilman Able, daughter of John and Nora Able. Vivian was born on October 27, 1913, at Stanton, New Edith Tuthill Mexico. Photo courtesy of the Ethel Eddy collection The Tuttles purchased the Lowe farm in 1950 and settled in The Eddys were living there Stratton in 1952. Their home was in 1938, during the flood that located along the Stratton- washed out the bridge across the Arlington Rd. in 2L3R, just north brook (now Penny Avenue and west of what is now the Bills Bridge). Ernest and Margaret left Rd. intersection. This house the house during the storm and burned and so they built down on they were at the barn across the the road across from the original road when the bridge washed out. location of Schoolhouse #5. The barn is now home of the Vivian was active in town affairs William’s family. and she was Town Clerk from Ernest died on December 4, 1963 to 1973. She also served as 1945, at Brattleboro, Vermont,

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Stratton’s Representative from shipyard toolmaker, then settled 1963 to 1967. in Stratton on Shepardson Rd. in Elmer passed away in 1973. the 1940s, and remained there for Vivian died on June 14, 1978, in a most of the remainder of his life. nursing home in Brattleboro, Forrest stayed in Hartford, Vermont. They were buried in Connecticut, for a short while Ball Cemetery. Their son, before his death. He returned to Kenneth built his home on the site Stratton, where he died on of the old farmhouse that had January 6, 1998. He was buried burned. in Ball Cemetery in Stratton. A son of Elmer by a previous marriage: 1) Bruce Twing Walter C. Twing, son of Samuel A son of Elmer and Vivian was: and Julia S. Twing, married 2) Kenneth, married Elke (He Elizabeth Rice. He lived in currently lives in Stratton). Stratton near the Pikes Falls schoolhouse, just past Brazer’s house and on the left. Elizabeth worked as a visiting nurse. They removed to Jamaica, Vermont. A photograph of the Twing family can be found in Hometown Jamaica, A Pictorial History of a Vermont Village by Mark Worthen. The Twing’s children were: 1) Joseph Henry 2) William Samuel 3) James Arthur

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Underwood John Underwood, a son of (?) Vivian (Able) Tuttle and Mary Underwood, was born about 1799. John married Persis Photo from the Town of Stratton collection Wheeler, daughter of Abraham

and Zeresh Wheeler. Persis was Forrest Leroy Tuttle, son of born on January 24, 1807, at James Howard and Alma Alberta Bolton, Massachusetts. (Rolse) Tuttle, was born on May John was a resident of 24, 1910, at Haverhill, Jamaica, Vermont, when he Massachusetts. He worked as a purchased 40 acres of the north

Stratton Families 499 half of the west half of 10L2R in In 1860, the two older Stratton on March 5, 1828, from boarders had been replaced by Ira Russell. The Underwoods their granddaughter, Jerusha A. settled in Stratton at that time. Stiles, and James Whittle, aged Their lot was located 26. Lorenzo Underwood was approximately where the Sun living with them and attending Bowl is currently located. On school in 1863, and Elias April 20, 1829, John purchased Underwood was living with them the southwest quarter of 10L2R. and attending school in 1867. This included the area of North These boys were probably John Cemetery. They settled into the and Persis’s grandchildren. The house beside North Cemetery - the Underwoods were no longer in remains of the house can still be Stratton in 1869. seen there. A child of John and Persis was: John bought several of the 1) Mary, born January 25, 1828, surrounding lots over the years, at Stratton, Vermont; died including an undivided half of April 3, 1852, at Stratton, 155 acres of 11L3R in 1838 (he Vermont; married William S. purchased the remainder of this Stiles about 1844. lot in 1840), the east half of 10L2R and all of 9L2R in 1844, Ludowick Underwood was 110 acres of 11L1R in 1847 and probably a son or nephew of John all of 10L3R in 1849. After Underwood above. He was living purchasing the remainder of in Stratton at the outbreak of the 10L2R, they apparently settled Civil War and he enlisted on into the house on the east side of August 14, 1861. the lot, located at the northwest Ludowick mustered into the corner of the Stone Chimney Rd. – Vermont 4th Regiment, Company Mountain Rd. intersection. Their I. He was wounded at the battle of daughter and son-in-law, Mary Salem Heights, Virginia, on May and William S. Stiles evidently 4, 1863, and he apparently lived on some of John’s land from received an additional wound on 1844 to about 1852. They the following day. Ludowick apparently had settled into the reenlisted on December 15, 1863. house beside the cemetery. He was wounded again at the In 1847, Alonzo Cummings battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, was residing in the Underwoods’ on October 19, 1864. He home and attending school. In transferred to Company F on 1850, John and Persis had two February 25, 1865, and he was boarders in their home, Phoebe promoted to corporal on January Wheeler, aged 57, who was 19, 1865. Ludowick was Persis’s sister, and Mary wounded again at the Battle of Underwood, aged 80 (born in Petersburg, Virginia, on April 2, 1770). Mary was most likely 1865, and he was discharged “for John’s mother.

Stratton Families 500 wounds received” on April 4, Notes: 1) Julia was born in July, 1813, at Jamaica, 1865. and first married Joseph Shepard in 1830 and secondly to William Lorenzo D. Underwood was born Underwood in 1860. She then married Jonathan Babcock. In 1900, Jonathan about 1845. He was probably a and Julia Babcock were living with John son or nephew of John and Flora Underwood. John was no Underwood above. relation to William Underwood; During the Civil War, however, Flora was Julia’s daughter.

Lorenzo enlisted on June 1, 1863, Stewart John Underwood and and mustered into Company L, of his wife, Carolyn Brazer, daughter the Vermont 11th Regiment on of Paul and Madeline Brazer, June 10, 1863. He died in service settled in Stratton in January, on March 16, 1864, as a result of 1967. That year, they built a an illness. home, with the help of Carolyn’s father, on a piece of the Brazer John Underwood was born about property, located on what is now 1850. He was probably a son or called Acer Rd., off of Brazer’s nephew of John Underwood Way. Stewart was a veteran of the above. Vietnam War. Currently, he is a John married Flora Shepard, builder and Carolyn works at the daughter of Joseph and Julia Stratton Mountain Ski Area as a (Maynard) Shepard. Flora was Ticket Systems Administrator. born in November, 1855. The Stewart is a member of the Underwoods were married about Planning Commission. 1881. A child of Stewart and Carolyn: In 1900, the Underwoods 1) Mathew John, (he has worked for were living at the home of the US Army Corps of Engineers and is Jonathan Babcock, third husband now a Park Ranger. He is a member of of Flora’s mother, Julia1. Julia the Planning Commission and Stratton’s was a daughter of Oliver and second Constable). Anna (Allen) Maynard. John Underwood was listed as head of Upham that household in the 1900 census. Jonathan Upham, Jr., son of Children of John and Flora were: Jonathan and Martha (Corbin) 1) Ora John, born June 15, 1879. Upham, was born on February 7, 2) Sarah Ella, born November 20, 1759, apparently at Brimfield, 1882, at Jamaica, Vermont; Massachusetts. Jonathan settled died March 19, 1968; married at Sturbridge, Massachusetts, Leon Bruce Bills on February evidently while he was still a 17, 1901. young boy. 3) Frank H., born June 5, 1888. Jonathan served during the 4) Raymond, born in February, American Revolution , first in 1893; married Corene Pike. Colonel Jonathan Holman’s Regiment, Captain Abijah Lamb’s

Company, for 21 days, beginning

Stratton Families 501 on December 10, 1776. This Stratton only a year or two. He company marched to Providence, eventually settled in Worcester, Rhode Island. Jonathan was Massachusetts, and was named on probably the same who enlisted the pension roll there in 1831. again on August 16, 1777, serving Jonathan died on April 3, for three months in the Northern 1840, at Westminster, Army in Job Cushing’s Regiment, Massachusetts. Sarah died in Abel Mason’s Company. He next 1850. enlisting on May 13, 1778, and A child of Jonathan and Sarah: served in Colonel Waid’s 1) Sally, born in 1794; died in Regiment, Captain Lamb’s 1886; married Loring Webber Company. He served in other in 1813. companies and he was among Additional Sources: reinforcements for the Continental DAR Patriots Index and records Army until December 3, 1780. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors During some of that time, Jonathan was stationed at Camp Upton Totoway. A descriptive states that Florence E. Upton was born in he was 5’8” tall and light Vermont about 1887. She was complexioned. married, but she lived in Stratton Jonathan married Sarah on a farm without her husband in Upham, at Sturbridge on August 1920. That year, she had a 23, 1782. Sarah, the daughter of boarder, Alton A. Leno, aged 50, Ezekiel and Rebecca (Morse) living with her and apparently Upham, was born on September 6, working the farm. 1761, at Cambridge, Florence’s children were: Massachusetts. 1) Leola, born August 10, 1911, The Uphams were living in at Hartford, Connecticut; died Sturbridge when Jonathan December 25, 1967; married purchased the west half of 4L5R Earl James Parsons. in Stratton, from James Knox on 2) Earl Royal, born about 1919 in January 13, 1785. Jonathan was Vermont; married Frances also a brother-in-law of Jared Peters. Blood of Stratton.

Jonathan apparently settled Earl Royal Upton was born in on this lot, although no Vermont in 1919. He came to documentation states that he Stratton with his mother before indeed lived there. In June, 1786, the 1920 census was taken in he was chosen a Tax Assessor for Stratton. He grew up in Stratton Stratton. He did not sell his land, and worked as a laborer when he as it was later sold at a vendue in was of age. Earl married Frances 1791. Peters. They were living in Jonathan was not listed in Stratton in 1937. Stratton’s census taken in 1791. A child of Earl and Frances was: He probably had remained in

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1) Leola Elizabeth, born May 3, 1937, at Stratton, Vermont. W

V Wagner LeRoy H. Wagner, son of Laban and Katey Wagner, was born in Van Buren Nova Scotia, Canada, on January Edward Van Buren was living in 25, 1883. He married Mamie Stratton in 1844 with Isaiah Holman on August 10, 1906, at Howard. Edward attended school Riversdale, Nova Scotia. in district #1 in Stratton at that The Wagners had moved to time. Brattleboro, Vermont, where LeRoy operated a shoe store. Vose Mamie passed away there on Forrest L. Vose was born about January 28, 1947. 1875 in Vermont. He married LeRoy married Bernice Adell Lorra E. Allen, daughter of (Waite) Eddy on February 8, Chessie and Villa Allen. Lorra 1950, at Brattleboro. Bernice, was born about 1877 in Illinois. daughter of Henry and Avis The Voses came to Stratton Waite, was born on February 10, between 1910 and 1920, where 1883, at Wardsboro, Vermont. Forrest put his hand to farming. Bernice and LeRoy lived in They first settled at the corner of Pike Hollow in the cottage that Old Forrester Rd. and the had been given to Bernice by the Stratton-Arlington Rd.. They Eddys (the Eddy/Young place). later moved into the home of Ethel Eddy added a section of Lorra’s parents on Pike Hollow land with a spring, so that they Rd., known as the AH Pike house had a gravity fed water supply. and currently owned by the Bernice’s son, Elmer Eddy, and Marcucci family. In June, 1928, son-in-law, Rich Holman, also they sold this property and added a dormer in 1948 or 1949, apparently left Stratton at that which allowed room for two time. bedrooms upstairs. A bathroom Children of Forrest and Lora: with a reservoir for spring water 1) Ivan V., born about 1904 in above it completed the project. Vermont. The Wagners lived there for 2) Hazel M., born about 1908 in many years. Sometimes, they New York. stayed in Massachusetts or traveled to Florida or Texas during the winter months. LeRoy had a heart attack and died at his home in Stratton on April 22, 1964. He was buried in Morningside Cemetery at Brattleboro, beside his first wife,

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Mamie, and their son, Harold, from Jonathan Trask of Sutton on who had passed away a few years April 26, 1790. They settled there earlier. soon after. John’s homestead apparently was located on the north side of what is now called County Rd., just east of its intersection with Mountain Rd.. Before 1996, this section of County Rd. was called Stone Chimney Rd., named for the old stone chimney of this house that had remained standing there until about 1995. After 1996, the name LeRoy Wagner and his second was given to the road west of wife, Bernice Mountain Rd.. The census of 1791 indicates Photo coutesy of the Eddy Family collection that John, his wife, three sons

under 16 and two daughters were Following LeRoy's death, living in their home. Therefore, Bernice continued living in names of two sons are unknown. Stratton for several years; One of the two unidentified boys however, she spent the winters evidently left Stratton or passed with a friend in Jamaica, away before 1800, while the other Vermont. During that time, her remained in the Wait household granddaughter, Lissa Holman through 1810, as did John’s son, lived with her. Bernice spent a Calvin. His daughter, Nancy also year in Texas with her son, then had left home before 1800. returned to Vermont and spent the John was voted in as last few months of her life in a Stratton’s Grand Jurorman at the Nursing Home at Brattleboro. town meeting of March 3, 1794. Bernice passed away there on He was also voted a Selectman of June 12, 1973. She was buried in Stratton on March 7, 1796. Mary Pike Hollow Cemetery near her was admitted to the Church of first husband, Hermon Eddy. Christ in Stratton in 1804 and A child of LeRoy and Mamie was: four of the Waite’s younger 1) Harold children were baptized on July 20,

1805. Waite On April 11, 1806, John sold (Wait) his land to his son, Calvin. At John Waite was born before 1755 that time, an agreement was made and his wife, Mary, was born after that Calvin would “take care of 1755. John was also a veteran of John Waite and his wife in the American Revolution. The comfort for the rest of their lives Waites were living in Sutton, and John’s minor boys shall work Massachusetts, when John for Calvin until they are 18 and purchased the west half of 10L1R

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Calvin shall school them and fit 8) Tyler, born June 4, 1796, at them out for trades. Calvin shall Stratton, Vermont; died April also give Sally and Nancy 30 26, 1887, at Wardsboro, dollars each to be paid in stock Vermont; married Lucia when he can raise it as soon as Taylor on June 2, 1822, at they shall need it. If anything is Stratton, Vermont. left when Mr. Waite and wife shall 9) Alpheus, born August 21, die it is to go to Calvin.” 1798, at Stratton, Vermont. John was head of the household in 1810; however, in Calvin Waite, son of John Waite, 1820, he was living in the evidently came to Stratton with household of his son, Calvin, his father in 1790. In 1806, he possibly on 11L3R at that time. made an agreement with his John passed away at Stratton on father to care for the family, in September 19, 1822. After his exchange for the family farm on death, Mary evidently lived with the west half of 10L1R. He their son, Tyler, in Stratton. Mary apparently was living with his died there on October 14, 1833. parents through 1810. John’s children were: Calvin married Betsey 1) Nancy, born in 1783; died Thatcher of Manchester, Vermont September 15, 1856, at (intent published on November Stratton, Vermont. 10, 1816). Betsey was the 2) Calvin, died July 16, 1823, at daughter of Asa Thatcher and the Stratton, Vermont; married sister of Benjamin Thatcher of Betsey Thatcher. Winhall (later of Stratton). 3) (a son) Betsey removed her 4) (a son) relationship from the Church of 5) Sally, born between (1780 and Christ in Winhall to the Church 1784), married Lewis Guild of Christ in Stratton on August (sometimes seen as Gould) on 31, 1817. April 12, 1810, at Stratton, In 1817, Calvin purchased Vermont. 11L3R. He may have settled there briefly, but he apparently became John and Mary’s children were: head of his father’s household. 6) Luther, born December 15, The 1820 census shows that 1792, at Stratton, Vermont; Calvin was head of the household died in June, 1855, at Jamaica, in Stratton with two males 16 to Vermont; married Asenath 26 (Tyler and Alpheus), Calvin Scott on April 14, 1822, at and Luther were 26 to 45, and his Stratton, Vermont. father, John, evidently was the 7) Daniel, born December 22, gentleman over 45. There were 1794, at Stratton, Vermont; also two females 26 to 45 married Cynthia Reade on (Nancy), one 16 to 26 (Betsey) May 28, 1815, at Chester, and one over 45 (Mary). Vermont.

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In May, 1822, Calvin sold the the Overseers of the Poor before old homestead on 10L1R to the year was out. John Lyon Benjamin and Asa Thatcher, Jr. agreed to care for her in 1833, (apparently an undivided half). Ebenezer Allen took the job in That same year, he also sold his 1834 and Jonathan Bissell farm on 11L3R to his brothers, provided care for her in 1835. Luther and Tyler. Isaac Shepardson took care of her The Waites lived in Stratton in 1836 and 1837, then Samuel until Calvin’s death there on July Allen, Jr. in 1839 and James 16, 1823. Calvin was buried in Fuller in 1840. The town no North Cemetery. His gravestone longer provided her care after was recorded as existing therein, 1840. but has since disappeared within Nancy was living with the last few decades. Charles and Asenath Fay in her Following Calvin’s death, latter years (her brother, Tyler Betsey remarried to Silas Gleason. Waite sold the Fays the farm on Her third husband was John Rand. 5L4R, where they lived). She An adopted son of Calvin and died in Stratton on September 15, Betsey was: 1856. 1) Alonzo Capin (baptized in Luther Waite, son of John and Stratton on February 23, Mary Waite, was born on 1823). December 15, 1792, at Stratton. He lived with his parents on the Nancy Waite, daughter of John west half of 10L1R. Luther took Waite, was born in 1783. She the Freeman’s oath in Stratton on apparently settled in Stratton with September 3, 1816. He apparently her father and stepmother, in moved out of town briefly, but he 1790, but she had left home by returned and took the Freeman’s 1800. She returned to Stratton oath again on September 2, 1817. and on October 23, 1807, she was Luther married Asenath baptized and taken into the Scott, daughter of Ira and Submit Church of Christ in Stratton by Scott, on April 14, 1822, at the Reverend Mr. Tufts of Stratton. Asenath was born on Wardsboro. Nancy apparently August 9, 1795. resided with her father and then Luther and his brother, Tyler, with her brother, Calvin. purchased 11L3R from Calvin in By 1830, Nancy was May, 1822. Luther apparently considered among the town’s poor settled there. Over the years, and she was bid off at town Luther and Tyler bought and sold meetings to the person who several lots within Stratton. In offered to care for her for the least 1827, Luther paid taxes on his amount of money. Asa Phillips part of 11L3R and on 12L3R and cared for her in 1830. John 12L4R. Shepardson agreed to care for her in 1831, but handed her over to

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The 1830 census of Stratton Wardsboro, Vermont. Lucia was indicated that the Waites had born on July 7, 1801, at three children under ten. Wardsboro. On November 16, 1834, The Waites settled in Stratton Luther and Asenath were received following the marriage, as members of the Congregational apparently in the house previously Church of Christ in Stratton and occupied by Tyler’s parents, on November 14, 1836, Luther located on the north side of what was voted a Deacon of the is now called County Rd., just east Church. On March 8, 1839, of its intersection with Mountain Luther sold his farm on 11L3R Rd.. This lot is referred to as and his share of the west half of Tyler Waite’s home in 1826 and 10L1R to his brother, Tyler. At 1827. that time, Luther and his family On March 6, 1825, the settled in Jamaica. Luther died Waites joined the Church of there in June, 1855. Christ in Stratton and Lucia was After his death, the family baptized at that time. moved to Wardsboro, Vermont. In 1830, Tyler’s mother was Asenath died in 1887 at the age of apparently living with them and 92. she probably remained there until Some of the six children of Luther her death in 1833. In 1838, Tyler and Asenath were: sold his undivided half of 11L3R 1) Calphernia, born March 25, to John Underwood. In March, 1823, at Stratton, Vermont; 1839, Tyler bought his brother’s died October 13, 1915, at farm on 11L3R and also Luther’s Wardsboro, Vermont. share of the west half of 10L1R. 2) William A few days later, Tyler purchased 3) Lucina, born December 23, the east part of 5L4R (the old 1824, at Stratton, Vermont; Batchellor farm). Tyler later died in 1902. mortgaged this property and may 4) Henrietta M., born in 1831; have settled there briefly. Tyler married Oscar B. Blodgett on purchased several other properties January 1, 1874, at Putney, in Stratton over the years. Vermont. Besides their children, another female boarder, aged 30 Tyler Waite, son of John and to 40 lived with them in 1840. Mary Waite, was born at Stratton, This was probably Tyler’s sister, on June 4, 1796, and he grew up Nancy. Tyler and Lucia lived at on his father's farm there. Stratton until 1846, then bought a Tyler and his brother, Luther, farm in Wardsboro, Vermont, purchased 11L3R from their half- where they lived until late in life. brother, Calvin, in May, 1822. In 1847, the Church in On June 2, 1822, Tyler married Stratton voted to give them a Lucia Taylor, the daughter of letter of dismission and Ebenezer J. and Amy Taylor, at recommendation to the

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Congregational Church in North April 11, 1881, at Wardsboro, Wardsboro. It was not until 1851, Vermont. that Tyler sold the old Waite 6) Dexter, born February 7, 1838, homestead on 10L1R to Prentis B. at Stratton, Vermont; died Putnam who settled there. January 16, 1923, at The Waites later moved into Wardsboro, Vermont; married Wardsboro village. Lucia passed Orthalia M. Barrett on January away on October 8, 1871. Tyler 12, 1861, at Wardsboro, married a second time at the age Vermont (lived in Jamaica and of 81 to Mary (Sprague) Kidder served during the Civil War in on October 10, 1877, at Stratton. the Vermont 16th Regiment, Mary was the widow of Ashbel Company D.. Kidder of Stratton and the 7) Ruth, born March 20, 1841, at daughter of Isaac and Sarah Stratton, Vermont. Sprague. Tyler passed away on April 26, 1887, at the age of 90 George E. Waite, son of Tyler years, 10 months, 22 days. Lucia and Lucia Waite, was born on and Tyler were buried in Fairview December 22, 1827, at Stratton, Cemetery in Wardsboro. and there spent most of his The children of Tyler and Lucia: boyhood. He was a student in 1) Laura Ann, born January 12, Burr Seminary in 1847. He 1824, at Stratton, Vermont; prepared for college at Newbury, died in 1849; married Rollin entered Wesleyan University in Mallory Witt on February 4, 1850 and he graduated in 1854. 1843, at Wilmington, George settled in Geneseo, Vermont. Illinois, in 1855, he studied law 2) George E., born December 22, and was admitted to the bar in 1827, at Stratton, Vermont; 1857. He married Hattie N. Well married Hattie N. Well in in 1859 and they had three 1859; died at Geneseo, Illinois. daughters. 3) Lucia N., born March 18, George was elected County 1829, at Stratton, Vermont. Judge of Henry county in 1861, 4) Henry Albert, born February and held that office for six years. 23, 1833, at Stratton, He was commissioned a colonel Vermont; died September 13, by Governor Yates at the 1914, at Stratton, Vermont; commencement of the Civil War. married 1) Lucy Ann Blodgett George was mayor of Geneseo in on September 1, 1858, at 1866 and 1867. He was elected in Stratton, Vermont 2) Viola 1869 and served as a member of (Rice) Fitts on September 10, Illinois’s Constitutional 1867 3) Avis Euphershia Convention for the 46th Robinson on November 12, Representative District, which 1879, at Wardsboro, Vermont. included Henry County. That 5) Chastina, born April 24, 1836, convention was composed of the at Stratton, Vermont; died very best men of the state, and it

Stratton Families 508 was in session for five months. Henry Albert Waite was born at George was an active and Stratton, on February 23, 1833, influential member. He was and he grew up there. Henry chairman of the committee on moved to Wardsboro with his retrenchments and reform; and, as family when he was 13. However, such, exposed the enormous in 1848, he was living with Orrin frauds perpetrated on the people Parker Stiles and attending school by special legislation. He was the in Stratton in district #1. first to recommend to the At the age of 25, Henry convention a provision in the married Lucy Ann Blodgett, constitution prohibiting special daughter of Jonas and Lucina legislation - a provision that was Blodgett, on September 1, 1858, adopted. at Stratton. Lucy Ann was born Judge George Waite was a on March 21, 1838. Following member of the Republican State the birth of two children, Lucy Central Committee for the 21st Ann passed away. She died on Congressional District, and he April 12, 1864, at Wardsboro. enjoyed a good reputation as a Henry next married Viola lawyer and an enterprising (Rice) Fitts, widow of James B. businessman. George E. Wait Fitts, and daughter of David and died at Geneseo, Illinois. Melinda Rice, on September 10, 1867. They had no children; Additional Sources: History of Henry County, Illinois however, Viola had a son from her previous marriage to James Fitts. This child was Fred Fitts, born about 1857. James had died in 1865 at Northboro, Massachusetts. Viola had been a member of the Baptist Church in West Wardsboro since 1852. She died on January 25, 1876, at age 40, and she was buried in the West Wardsboro Cemetery. On May 27, 1873, Henry bought the Green Mountain House, at West Wardsboro, from John N. Glazier. Henry entirely remodeled and newly furnished this hotel. He operated this hotel George E. Waite until 1912. (born in 1827) Henry also had the contract to carry the mail over Stratton Photo courtesy of Mountain to Arlington, Vermont. the Geneseo, Illinois Public Library. Henry owned a stage that carried passengers and the mail along the

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Kelley Stand Road, from recovered from the fall and died Wardsboro to Arlington. Once on February 22, 1950. Henry and the West River Railroad was Avis were buried in the West completed on October 20, 1880, Wardsboro Cemetery. there was no need for the mail Their daughter, Hattie, who route to Arlington. He then had been living at Brattleboro, carried the mail to the train returned to Wardsboro in 1922 to station at East Jamaica, Vermont run the Green Mountain House. (known as Wardsboro Station at She then sold it to J. H. Struthers the time). in May, 1930. She returned to Following Viola's death, Brattleboro and resided at the Henry married Avis Euphershia Home for the Aged. Robinson, daughter of Nahum The children of Henry and his Hial and Catherine Lois first wife, Lucy Ann were: Robinson, on November 12, 1879. 1) Albert E., born June 16, 1859, Avis was born at Winhall, at Wardsboro, Vermont; died Vermont, on March 17, 1863, and October 12, 1861, at she was only 16 at the time of her Wardsboro, Vermont. marriage. Henry was 46 and he 2) Hattie Lucia, born September had a daughter older than Avis. 14, 1860, at Wardsboro, Henry sold the Green Vermont; died June 10, 1957, Mountain House, in 1912, to his at Brattleboro, Vermont. daughter, Hattie. He passed away 3) Anna Lucy, born April 1, at Grout Pond in Stratton on 1864, at Wardsboro, Vermont; September 13, 1914, during a died June 12, 1942, at family outing there. He was Yonkers, New York; married sitting under a tree and Frederick Elsworth Robinson commented about all the beautiful on March 28, 1880, at flowers, then suddenly died. Wardsboro, Vermont Avis outlived Henry by more (divorced) 2) Willis Fayette than 35 years. She managed the French on October 14, 1911, at Green Mountain House, following Brattleboro, Vermont. Henry’s death, then went to the Home for the Aged in Brattleboro Children of Henry and Avis were: where she was employed as a 4) Leon Henry, born May 2, nurse. She apparently lived very 1880, at Wardsboro, Vermont; near her daughter, Bernice, who died in 1939 at West resided at 45 Western Ave. Avis Wardsboro, Vermont; married later became a resident of the Leola Forrester in December of Home for the Aged, then 1914 (divorced). afterwards lived at the Hillcrest Rest Home at Brattleboro until her death. On May 23, 1949, Avis fell and broke her hip. She never

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Henry Albert Waite Avis (Robinson) Waite (1833 - 1914) (1863 - 1950)

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The Waite Family [l-r] Leon, Avis, Bernice, Henry, Sherman

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5) Bernice Adell, born February Wards apparently settled in 10, 1883, at Wardsboro, Stratton in the late 1840s, but they Vermont; died June 12, 1973, moved away before 1850. at Brattleboro, Vermont; Two of their children were married 1) Hermon Elmer buried in Ball Cemetery in Eddy on December 25, 1902, Stratton, within the Torrey family at West Wardsboro, Vermont lot. This was because their son, 2) Carl E. Hollender 3) LeRoy Amos had married Philena H. Wagner on February 8, Torrey, daughter of Luther and 1950, at Brattleboro, Vermont. Eunice Torrey. 6) Sherman Lincoln, born March In 1850, the Wards were 30, 1885, at Wardsboro, living in Sunderland, Vermont, Vermont; died in 1958; beside the Kelley Stand. The married Ida Frost at 1850 census of Sunderland lists Wardsboro, Vermont. Artemas as a lumberman. This 7) Robert T., born April 30, census also shows that the 1893, at Wardsboro, Vermont; adjacent dwelling was occupied by died December 5, 1893, at their sons, Amos, Bradley, and Wardsboro, Vermont. Otis, and Amos’s wife, Philena. Their children were: Wallace 1) Amos S., born November 8, Truman T. Wallace, son of 1818, at Arlington, Vermont; William and Polly Ann Wallace, married Philena Torrey. was born at Hartford, New York, 2) Artemas, born March 1, 1824; in 1846. Truman married Luana died January 26, 1848. A. Perry, daughter of Richard and 3) Lucy S., born May 2, 1827; Eliza Perry and widow of Henry died July 7, 1849. Lincoln, on September 28, 1873, 4) Bradley, born about 1832. at Stratton. She was born in 5) Otis, born about 1834; married 1851. The Wallaces apparently Lomira Goodale Ward (served did not settle in Stratton following during the Civil War in the their marriage. Vermont 16th Regiment Company D. for Wardsboro – lived at Brattleboro, Vermont). Ward Artemas Ward, son of Luther Amos S. Ward, son of Artemas and Anna (Tenney) Ward, was and Betsey Ward, was born on born on April 3, 1793, at November 8, 1818, at Arlington, Leicester, Massachusetts. Vermont. He married Philena Artemas married Betsey Smith on Sprague Torrey, daughter of August 4, 1811, at Leicester. Luther and Eunice Torrey. Betsey was born about 1792. Philena was born at Stratton on On June 24, 1843, Artemas August 17, 1822. was declared bankrupt at the Apparently, the Wards lived courthouse in Windsor. in Stratton for a short time in the Following this misfortune, the

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1840s. By 1850, they had Boston, Massachusetts, on resettled in Sunderland, living February 16, 1996. She was near the Kelley Stand. buried next to her husband. Eventually, they settled in Jamaica, Vermont. Watson Amos apparently passed away William Watson was born about before 1874, since Philena was 1890 in Ireland. In 1920, he was called a resident member of the a lumberman, working in Stratton Church of Christ in Stratton in and living in the boarding house 1874. at the Grout Job. He was A daughter of Amos and Philena: evidently in charge of the 1) Carrie, died March 7, 1884, at boarding house at that time. Stratton, Vermont; married J. Leslie Jones on March 6, 1875, at Stratton, Vermont. Weber Nancy Costello Weber, daughter Harry Ward was voted a of Paul and Adele Costello of fenceviewer for Stratton in 1896. Winhall, Vermont, moved to Stratton in 1978. She resides on the Stratton town line on Pikes Warren Falls Rd., where that road Robert Penn Warren was born becomes Taylor Hill Rd. as it in Guthrie, Kentucky on April 24, enters Winhall. She built a home 1905. He married Eleanor Clark, on property that her parents had who was born in Los Angeles, purchased from Scott and Helen California, on July 6, 1913. Nearing. During the 1980’s she Mr. Warren wrote several served on Stratton’s Planning well-known books, including, All Commission. She removed from the King’s Men. In 1976, town in 1999. President Carter appointed Mr. Her son: Warren as America’s first Poet 1) R. Nicholas. Laureate, a position he held through 1977. The Warrens purchased land Welch in Stratton, located at the corner Andy Welch was born in New of the West Jamaica Rd. and York in October, 1866. He came Mountain Rd., and they built a to Stratton before 1900 and he summer-home over an old cellar worked as a lumberman at the hole. The Warrens spent Grout Job. In 1900, he was living summers in Stratton, while at the boarding house on the mill maintaining their permanent site. Andy was no longer living in residence in Connecticut. Stratton in 1910. Robert passed away at Stratton on September 15, 1989. Welds He was buried in Stratton in Calvin Welds married Brenda Willis Cemetery. Eleanor died in Elvira Pike, daughter of

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Alexander H. and Elvira (Rice) 19. The Wellmans remained in Pike. Elvira, as she was called, Stratton for the rest of their lives. was born on May 27, 1842, at On December 13, 1817, Somerset, Vermont. Ebenezer purchased 40 acres of A child of Calvin and Elvira was: the east half of 2L2R from Josiah 1) (a son) born April 17, 1867; Stanford. He purchased an died April 22, 1867, at additional 40 acres of this lot from Stratton, Vermont. John Franklin on August 27, 1818, and on June 19, 1820, he sold the entire 80 acres to his son, Hartford. The original dwelling may have been north of Knowlton Farm Rd.. In 1820, Hartford (age 16 - 26), a female, probably their daughter, Abigail (age 16 - 26), along with their son, Pardon (under 10), a girl (under 10) and a boy (10 to 16) were living with Calvin and Elvira (Pike) Welds them. Photo courtesy of the Ethel Eddy Collection In 1830, a male and a female (both aged 30 to 40) were living Wellman with them, along with five boys and three girls. The Wellman’s Ebenezer Wellman, son of son, Pardon, was one of the boys Ebenezer and Priscilla (Day) there. The 30 to 40 year old Wellman, was born on May 4, couple was probably their 1772, at Mansfield, daughter Abigail and her husband Massachusetts. Ebenezer married George Cannon, who had three Eunice Howard, daughter of John boys and two girls. They were and Eunice (Stone) Howard, on married and living in Stratton as December 12, ????. Eunice was early as 1824. That leaves a boy born on February 25, 1772, at and girl unaccounted for. By Easton, Massachusetts. 1840, the Cannons had moved out The Wellmans first settled in of the Wellman home, as had Mansfield, Massachusetts. Pardon, leaving the Wellmans and Ebenezer may have been the same their son, Hartford alone in the Ebenezer Wellman warned out of household. Dover (Wardsboro South District) Ebenezer died on September on January 20, 1809. The 12, 1840, and Eunice died on Wellmans then came to Stratton December 4, 1863. They were about 1813. They were warned buried in Ball Cemetery. out of Stratton on January 13, Children of Ebenezer and Eunice: 1814, and served notice by 1) Hartford, born June 18, 1794, Stratton’s constable on January at Mansfield, Massachusetts;

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died December 12, 1846, at owned the latter lot, although no Stratton, Vermont. deed was found in Stratton’s land 2) Charlotte, born September 20, records. 1796, at Mansfield, Hartford may not have been Massachusetts. in Stratton in 1830. Instead, he 3) Abigail, born October 22, may have resided in Stephentown, 1798, at Mansfield, New York, at that time. If he did Massachusetts; died November leave town, he returned to Stratton 29, 1875, at Wardsboro, about 1835. Vermont; married George On September 3, 1835, Cannon. Chester Wellman of Stephentown 4) Eunice, born July 18, 1801, at signed over his part of 2L1R to Mansfield, Massachusetts. Hartford. On July 16, 1836, 5) Pardon, born about 1812; died Hartford purchased a part of 2L3R on May 10, 1892, at (the Randall farm). Hartford’s Wardsboro, Vermont; married brother, Pardon, also purchased 1) Betsey K. Jones on May 20, part of this lot. 1838, at Stratton, Vermont 2) Hartford evidently never Elizabeth Wells on July 21, married and settled back in with 1868 3) Lucy Barnes. his parents. Hartford’s nephew, 6) Chester (possibly) (he lived at Joseph Cannon, son of George Stephentown, New York, in and Abigail Cannon, was living 1835 and owned part of 2L1R with Hartford in 1844 and in Stratton along with attending school in the Stratton Ebenezer and Hartford). Somerset United School District. On July 7, 1845, Hartford Hartford Wellman, son of signed over all of his property in Ebenezer and Eunice Wellman, Stratton to his brother, Pardon, was born on June 18, 1794, at with the provision that Pardon Mansfield, Massachusetts. He care for Hartford for the came to Stratton with his parents remainder of his natural life. about 1813 and he took the Hartford died on December 12, Freeman’s oath on September 5, 1846, at Stratton, and he was 1815. buried in Ball Cemetery. Hartford apparently still lived with his parents in 1820. That Pardon Wellman, son of year, Hartford’s father signed over Ebenezer and Eunice Wellman, their 80-acre farm on 2L2R to was born about 1812, at a time him. Hartford may have built the when his parents were in a dwelling located east of Knowlton transition from Mansfield, Farm Rd. (see M. Knowlton on Massachusetts, to Stratton. He Beer’s Atlas of 1869). lived in Stratton with his parents In 1819, Hartford paid taxes until his marriage to Betsey K. on 12L3R and the west half of Jones on May 20, 1838, at 2L1R. It appears that Hartford Stratton. Betsey was born in

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August, 1795, - making her 17 Cemetery. Pardon died on May years Pardon’s senior. 10, 1892, and he was buried On November 24, 1838, beside his wives. Pardon purchased 75 acres of 2L3R in Stratton (the Randall Oliver Wellman was probably a farm). This farm was located on son of Ebenezer and Priscilla the old road that ran from (Day) Wellman, born October 18, Somerset to Winhall (beyond the 1761 – a brother of Ebenezer end of Knowlton Farm Rd). The Wellman (above). He was of Wellmans settled there until 1841, Wardsboro, Vermont, when he then apparently returned to live purchased 53 acres on the south with Pardon’s brother, Hartford, side of the Gore Rd. in Stratton back on 2L2R. This farm was Gore, from Aaron Draper on located east of Knowlton Farm Rd. April 23, 1811. This farm (see M. Knowlton on Beer’s Atlas apparently was the same that of 1869). stood opposite the Pike Hollow In July, 1845, Pardon Rd. – Penny Ave. intersection – acquired all of the Wellman lands later called the Higley farm. in Stratton from his brother, Oliver and his wife, Rhoda, Hartford, with a provision that apparently settled in Stratton Pardon care for Hartford and also before the end of 1811. Oliver their mother, Eunice, for the rest took the Freeman’s oath on of their natural lives. In 1849, September 1, 1812. Bradley Lord, was also living with The Wellmans were warned the Wellmans, and, in 1850, out of town by Stratton’s George Fowler aged 9, son of Selectmen on December 17, 1812, George Fowler, Sr., was living and served notice by the constable with the Wellmans and had lived on December 22. The Wellmans there for several years. evidently did not stay long in Pardon and Betsey sold the Stratton, leaving soon after they farm to Melvin Knowlton in 1851. were warned out of town. Perley At that time, the Wellmans Fairbanks bid off their farm apparently resettled in Wardsboro, during a tax-sale held in 1812. Vermont. Betsey died at Wardsboro on April 10, 1868, and Vinton Wellman was living with she was buried in the West Isaac and Mary Shepardson in Wardsboro Cemetery. 1847 and attending school in Pardon then married district #2. He was no longer in Elizabeth Wells on July 21, 1868. Stratton in 1850. She apparently soon passed away, and so, Pardon married a third Wetherbee time to Lucy Barnes. Lucy was Daniel Wetherbee, son of Paul born on January 23, 1820. She and Hannah (Pierce) Wetherbee, died on April 10, 1885, and she was christened on February 2, was buried in the West Wardsboro 1766. Daniel was of Fitchburg,

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Massachusetts, when he married 12, 1801, from Edmund Gibbs. Betsey Swan (intent published at Sampson and Zerah settled on this Leominster, Massachusetts, on lot. It is likely that their home June 2, 1786). was located west of the Daniel Daniel Wetherbee and Willis farm (see D. Willis on Benjamin Hawkes were both Beer’s Atlas of 1869) and south of called of Leominster, where the Somerset Rd. and the Massachusetts, when they Gore Rd. crossed (later occupied purchased part of 5L8R from by Hasey Sprague). They sold this Atherton Hall on August 22, property in 1803. 1801. This lot was “12 rods from Sampson married Phillis the road which leads from Samuel Knight (also seen as Phillery) at Boutell’s over the mountain (the Stratton on November 28, 1802. Stratton-Arlington Rd.), beginning On January 25, 1803, Sampson six rods west of the bridge (across sold his share of his property in the east branch of the Deerfield Stratton Gore and apparently River) running westerly on the settled in with the Greenleafs on road about 12 rods, then north to 4L5R. The following June, the north line of this lot then east Sampson purchased 40 acres of 12 rods then back south to the 4L5R on the east side of Joshua road.” Hall sold them this lot on Robbins – the second lot west of the condition that they build a the town common on the north sawmill on the land, within one side of the road. The Wetherbees year and keep it in repair for two apparently settled there. years. They apparently did just On May 10, 1806, Sampson that and built the first sawmill on sold this lot to Aaron Lyons. It is the site of the future Grout Job. unclear just what the Wetherbees Daniel sold his half of the did at that point. They may have rights to his land in Stratton to left Stratton at that time, returning Bezaliel Lawrence of Leominster, before 1812 or perhaps they lived on May 22, 1802, and resettled in with the Greenleafs. Lyon had Fitchburg, Massachusetts. purchased an adjacent lot in 1809 A son of Daniel and Betsey was: and Wetherbee bought back the 1) Daniel, born December 20, 40-acre lot and was living there in 1786, at Fitchburg, 1812. Massachusetts. The Wetherbees were admitted to the Church of Christ Sampson Wetherbee may have in Stratton on February 2, 1812, been the youngest son of Ephraim and they were living on their lot and Joanna (Bellows) Wetherbee, near the town common through born about 1746. Sampson was a and into 1816. In 1820, they were resident of Athol, Massachusetts, no longer in Stratton, or perhaps when he and Zerah Greenleaf, they were living within someone together, purchased 50 acres of else’s home. Lot #2 in Stratton Gore on May

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Sampson died about 1821 and Jonathan. However, in 1813, the on July 11, 1822, Ira Scott, entire lot had been sold for back- administrator of Sampson’s will, taxes. Therefore, John had to sold Wetherbee’s 40 acres to Paul purchase all of 1L1R from Wheeler of Wardsboro. Phillis Phineas White on September 7, and her daughter did not remain 1820, then he mortgaged it in Stratton after Sampson’s death. through Mr. White. John then A child of Sampson was: sold the east half of the lot to his 1) Adeline (admitted to the sister, Lydia’s son-in-law, Moses Church in Stratton on Day, and leased out the west half February 2, 1812). to Moses for three years. Salome passed away and John Wheeler married the widow Persis Newton John Wheeler, son of Peter and of Newfane. Persis was born Olive (Davis) Wheeler, was born about 1780. Persis had a in the late 1760s. He came to daughter, Louisa Newton, who Stratton from Chesterfield, New was born in 1812. The Wheelers Hampshire, in 1807, with his evidently returned to Stratton wife, Salome (Killicut) Wheeler. during the 1830s. In 1840, John had purchased the west half besides John, there were three of 1L1R in Stratton from adults and a young boy living in Hezekiah Fay on November 9, his home, which included a 1806, probably living in the house female aged 50 to 60, another built there by Elias Woodcock. aged 20 to 30 and a male aged 60 The Wheelers were warned to 70. The older man was out of town on January 4, 1808, as probably John’s brother, Ephraim. was the customary greeting to Over the next several years, newcomers at that time. The John subdivided the lot, selling to Wheelers remained in town various people. On November 15, through 1810. The census of that 1839, John sold the southwest year shows that John and Salome corner of 1L1R to his wife, Persis. were between the ages of 26 and Together, they mortgaged this 45 and they had a girl living with land on April 13, 1846. John died them aged 10 to 16. sometime within the next three In 1811, the west half of his years. land (90 acres) was confiscated to Persis then married Elias pay John’s debts to his brother, Gates on September 23, 1849, at Jonathan, and John was ordered to Stratton, and together, they lived be jailed until the debt was settled. on this lot along with Persis’s He left town at that time. daughter, Louisa. Elias died on By 1814, John was back in May 29, 1865. Three years later, Chesterfield, New Hampshire. Persis and her daughter, Louisa, That year, he repurchased 90 were killed by a buck sheep on acres of the west half of 1L1R in November 16, 1868. They were Stratton from his brother, buried in Willis Cemetery.

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Ephraim Wheeler, son of Peter On February 22, 1810, in and Olive (Davis) Wheeler, came Sudbury, William married Persis to Vermont from Chesterfield, How, daughter of Buckley and New Hampshire, and settled in Elizabeth Howe of Framingham, Wardsboro. There, Ephraim Massachusetts, and sister of Peter married Esther Converse, How. Persis was born on July 4, daughter of Elisha and Mary 1787. Following the marriage, (Bishop) Converse, on August 15, the Wheelers returned to Stratton. 1808. Esther was born on May They may have been listed twice 22, 1788. in the 1810 census. Once as part Ephraim was a merchant in of “How and Wheeler” and again West Townshend, Vermont, and under “William Wheeler.” On elsewhere. He came to Stratton in January 25, 1810, before his his latter years, probably living in marriage, William was warned the home of his brother, John, in out of town by Stratton’s 1840. He apparently inherited constable. Once William had some of his brother’s lot - part of returned to Stratton from Sudbury the east half of 1L1R in Stratton. with his bride, the town duly On August 29, 1848, warned her out the following Ephraim had to forfeit his January 17th. property in Stratton to Daniel William was among the men Harris of Wardsboro, Vermont, who were granted the west gore in for some debt he owed Harris. Stratton, 3360 acres total, on July Ephraim died at Stratton on 2, 1810. William sold his share of August 2, 1849, and he was 3L7R to Peter How on April 27, buried in the West Wardsboro 1811. The Wheelers moved away Cemetery. from Stratton before 1820. William died on March 15, 1872, William Wheeler, son of Elisha and Persis died on September 9, and Mary (Adams) Wheeler, was 1875. born at Sudbury, Massachusetts, Children of William and Persis: on October 25, 1786. William 1) William, born May 2, 1811. and Peter How, both of Sudbury, 2) Emily, born May 27, 1813; purchased 3L7R in Stratton on married Samuel F. Cook on September 17, 1808, from Josiah January 14, 1836. Lyon. This lot was located around 3) Susan, born March 1, 1816; the western part of what is now died October 6, 1840; married called Grout Pond. The house Seymour A. Baker on January they lived in was probably located 14, 1836. at the top of the hill, on the west side of the road that currently Abraham Wheeler, son of leads down to the pond. William Obadiah and Hannah (Baker) came to Stratton soon after the Wheeler, was born on November purchase. 8, 1750. Abraham’s wife, Naomi, was born on August 25, 1748.

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She died on March 5, 1791. Abraham died at Stratton on Abraham then married Zeresh July 5, 1824. Zeresh evidently Moore of Bolton, Massachusetts. remained in Stratton and Zeresh (sometimes seen as continued to live on the Wheeler Zearish) was born on November farm, where her son, James, was 22, 1768. The Wheelers may head of the household through the have been Quakers, since their time the 1830 census was taken. son, Obadiah, was specifically Later that year, James sold his identified as a Quaker in the interest in the farm to his sister Wheeler Genealogy. Lydia and apparently settled Abraham was a blacksmith. elsewhere. By 1840, Zeresh and He owned and operated a trip- Lydia still resided on the family hammer shop in Berlin, farm. Massachusetts, where he made By 1845, Lydia had married scythes. Abraham purchased David Hill and they sold the farm land in Stratton on February 24, to Zeresh’s son-in-law, Jared 1807, buying 9L5R, 11L1R and Howard. In 1847, Jared sold the half of 1L6R. At a tax-sale in farm to another of Zeresh’s son- 1809, Abraham also purchased in-laws, John Underwood, with 9L1R and he had to repurchase the understanding that Zeresh 11L1R at that same time. held a lien on the property for the Abraham brought his family remainder of her years. Zeresh to Stratton in 1813 and settled on was no longer in Stratton in 1850. 11L1R, located around the Children of Abraham and Naomi: intersection of what is now 1) Hannah, born February 9, County Rd. and Pike’s Falls Rd. 1779, at Bolton, in the northeast corner of Stratton. Massachusetts; died May 31, Abraham and Zeresh were 1846. warned out of town along with 2) Abraham, born June 24, 1781, Martha Russell on March 7, 1814, at Bolton, Massachusetts; died and served notice on March 11. September 8, 1829; married Martha may have been Zeresh’s Iza Warner on February 21, sister. Abraham took the 1802, at Lancaster, Freeman’s oath on September 6, Massachusetts. 1814. In 1820, the Wheelers were 3) Lydia, born September 6, both over 45 with a son and 1783, at Bolton, daughter aged 16 to 26, and three Massachusetts; died November daughters aged 10 to 16. 18, 1785. On March 30, 1824, 4) David, born August 18, 1786, Abraham deeded the farm to his at Bolton, Massachusetts; children, James and Lydia, with married Anna Baker on an agreement that they would take November 3, 1808, at Bolton, care of Abraham and Zeresh for Massachusetts. the remainder of their lives.

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Children of Abraham and Zeresh: 1816. The Wheelers settled in 5) Phoebe, born September 25, Stratton for a time, then removed 1792, at Bolton, to Urbana Township, Steuben Massachusetts. County, New York, about 1825, 6) Obadiah, born November 23, where Obadiah was a Justice of 1794, at Bolton, the Peace. Obadiah died on June Massachusetts; died June 20, 20, 1868. Olive died on May 30, 1868; married Olive 1881. Woodward in 1817. Children of Obadiah and Olive: 7) Triphena, born May 6, 1797, 1) Hiram, born February 13, at Bolton, Massachusetts; 1819; died June 26, 1829. married Jared Howard in 2) Abraham, born April 2, 1821; September, 1815 (intent died in September, 1904; published at Stratton on married Sarah Schofield. August 6, 1815) (lived in 3) Mary, born October 16, 1823; Jamaica, Vermont). died April 20, 1905; married 8) Lydia, born October 5, 1799, James R. Gleason on January at Bolton, Massachusetts; 17, 1849. married David Hill (lived at 4) Jonas, born February 22, 1826, Danby, Vermont). at Urbana, New York; married 9) James, born February 26, Mary Ann Wood on December 1802, at Bolton, Massachusetts 13, 1854, at North Urbana, married Liddy Daniels of New York. Jamaica, Vermont, (intent 5) Lucy, born September 14, published on May 4, 1828, at 1828; died July 2, 1830. Stratton, Vermont). 6) Malinda, born February 25, 10) Amy, born July 20, 1804, at 1831; married Benjamin Bolton, Massachusetts. Bennitt on February 8, 1854. 11) Persis, born January 24, 1807, 7) Oliver, born October 18, 1833. at Bolton, Massachusetts; 8) Obadiah, born November 9, married John Underwood. 1836. 9) Jacob, born April 16. 1839. Obadiah Wheeler, son of 10) George, born April 29, 1844. Abraham and Zeresh Wheeler, was born at Bolton, James Wheeler, son of Abraham Massachusetts, on November 23, and Zeresh Wheeler, was born on 1794. Obadiah was a Quaker who February 26, 1802. He took the married “out of meeting.” His Freeman’s oath on September 2, wife, Olive Woodward, was the 1823. On March 30, 1824, James daughter of Jonas and Polly and his sister, Lydia, agreed to (Morsman) Woodward of care for their parents for the Stratton. Olive was born at remainder of their natural lives in Stratton on March 17, 1796. exchange for the family farm. Obadiah took the Freeman’s James’s father passed away within oath in Stratton on September 3,

Stratton Families 521 a few months and James then Following the Civil War, became head of the household. Emery evidently married Annetta James married Liddy Daniels Hoges and they had at least one of Jamaica, Vermont, (intent child. Emery next married published on May 4, 1828, at Amelia Wyman who was born in Stratton). They remained in December, 1841. Amelia died on Stratton on the family farm after May 28, 1883. the marriage and into 1830. That Emery then married Fidelia year, the census showed that his H. Stiles, daughter of Harvey and household apparently contained Caroline Stiles on June 12, 1886. three couple, one aged 60 to 70, Fidelia was born on July 20, 1860. one aged 30 to 40, and one aged Following the marriage, the 20 to 30. James and Liddy were Wheelers lived on the Jonathan the younger couple and parents of Babcock farm, located on the a son born between 1825 and Stratton-Arlington Rd. Later, they 1830 (as indicated in the census). bought the farm of Asa Wheeler James sold his interest in the in South Wardsboro. Emery filed family farm to his sister, Lydia, in saws, made baskets and chair August, 1830, and apparently, seats and raised hens for a living. James and Liddy moved away Between 1901 and 1904, the from Stratton. Wheelers settled in Stratton, living with their son Fred Wheeler. Emery died at Stratton Additional Sources: History of the Wheeler Family in America on August 18, 1904, and Fidelia by the American College of Genealogy and continued to live with her stepson, Albert G Wheeler (1914) Fred, evidently until her death on August 13, 1913. Emery and both Melinda Wheeler currently his wives were buried in the South unidentified but probably a Wardsboro Cemetery. member of Abraham Wheeler’s A child of Emery and Annetta: family, married Joseph G. Pierce 1) Fred H., born in 1869; married (intent of marriage published Mary J. Jefts. April 23, 1820, at Stratton). A child of Fidelia Stiles was: Emery Wheeler, son of Horace 1) Mary Alice, born August 3, and Martha “Patty” (Wyman) 1885, at Stratton, Vermont; Wheeler, was born on January 9, died February 9, 1964, at 1834, at Dorset, Vermont. Brattleboro, Vermont; married He may have been the same Carroll Stacey on September Emery Wheeler of Sandgate, 20, 1902, at Brattleboro, Vermont, who enlisted during the Vermont. Civil War on August 30, 1864, and served with the Vermont 10th Regiment, Company E through to the end of the war. Emery was discharged on June 22, 1865.

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The Joel Wheeler Family [Front l-r] Joel and Edith (Lackey) Wheeler and Ruth (Wheeler) Thomas [Back l-r] Willie and Clarence Wheeler

Photo courtesy of Arlene Huesman

Children of Emery and Fidelia: on August 10, 1907, at Jaffery, 1) Lena Mabel, born February 18, New Hampshire. 1887, at South Wardsboro, 5) Harvey Dewite, born in 1894; Vermont; married Floyd died October 10, 1918, at Prouty on July 17, 1907, at Camp Devens, Massachusetts Brattleboro, Vermont; died (of influenza while serving April 26, 1939, at Brattleboro, during WWI - Supply Co. 74th Vermont. Infantry); married Ida Irene 2) Clarence W. (twin), born July Bevis on June 18, 1918. 26, 1889, at South Wardsboro, 6) Emery Harold, born August Vermont; died February 28, 15, 1896, at Wardsboro, 1921, in Wardsboro, Vermont Vermont; died in 1964, in (He was a WWI veteran). Bennington, Vermont; married 3) Clara E. (twin), born July 26, Ruth Stockwell on August 28, 1889, at South Wardsboro, 1920, at Bennington, Vermont. Vermont; died April 19, 1956, 7) Minnie Fidelia, born July 10, at Brattleboro, Vermont; 1895, at South Wardsboro, married Edgar W. Boyd in Vermont; died on February 13, 1910 in West Wardsboro, 1949, at Jamaica, Vermont; Vermont. married Irving Charles 4) Gertrude L., born July 22, Thomas on August 11, 1912. 1890, at South Wardsboro, 8) Fidelia Harriet, born December Vermont; died in 1952; 9, 1898, at South Wardsboro, married William W. Lounder Vermont; died February 21, 1958, at Westfield,

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Massachusetts; married 1) Joel Wheeler, son of Emery and Harold Burpee 2) Leon Bryan. Fidelia Wheeler, was born about 9) Joel, born August 27, 1901, at 1901. He was living in the home South Wardsboro, Vermont; of his half-brother, Fred Wheeler, died January 31, 1974; married in 1910, and in 1920, he was a 1) Edith Agnes Lackey on border in the home of Elmer and October 6, 1924, at Stratton, Inez Eddy. Joel married Edith Vermont 2) Edith Rist in Agnes Lackey, daughter of Henry October, 1954, at Wilmington, and Emeline Lackey. Edith was Vermont (divorced). born on November 5, 1902, at Stratton. Fred Harvey Wheeler, son of Joel went by the nickname, Emery and Annetta (Hoges) “Joker.” He was mentioned as a Wheeler, was born July 27, 1869, pallbearer at the funeral of Isabel at Dorset, Vermont. Fred Pike, Edith’s grandmother. Edith purchased a farm previously died on September 1, 1952, at owned by Orville Allen, located at Hinsdale, New Hampshire. Joel the corner of the Stratton- remarried to Edith Rist, but they Arlington Rd. and Willis were divorced. Joel passed away Cemetery Rd. This was the house on January 31, 1974. originally built by Phineas Ward Children of Joel and Edith were: Eddy on 1L2R. 1) Ruth Emmaline, married In 1910, Fred was head of a Everett Edward Thomas. household that included his 2) Clarence (He was a WWII stepmother, Fidelia H., and veteran). several of his half-brothers and Additional Sources for the above Wheeler half-sisters. Fred married Mary J. families: Jefts, daughter of Willard Jefts, Thomas/Wheeler Genealogy by Arleen sometime between 1910 and 1920, (Thomas) Huesman and they were living alone there in 1920. Mary was born in Alonzo Lovell Wheeler, son of September, 1868. Chauncy C. and Philadelphia Fred evidently was active in Wheeler, was born on July 3, Stratton’s fern business. Ferns, 1846, at Winhall, Vermont. His used for flower arrangements, wife, Fannie L. Leonard, was born were collected in Stratton and on November 13, 1859. They first neighboring towns and shipped to settled at Winhall, Vermont, and New York and Boston. Lyman’s they were living in Stratton by sawmill made shipping crates for 1880. Fred’s ferns in the 1910s. The Wheelers evidently Mary died on April 7, 1926, moved out of Stratton about 1884, at Stratton and Fred followed on and they apparently settled in December 26, 1948 at Brattleboro, Wardsboro, Vermont. Fannie Vermont. They were buried in the died on August 10, 1894, and West Wardsboro Cemetery. Alonzo died on December 14,

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1916. They were buried in Wheelock Fairview Cemetery in Wardsboro. Winslow Wheelock may have Children of Alonzo and Fannie: been the son of Caleb and Rachel 1) Agnes, born about 1879. (Green) Wheelock, born 2) John Alonzo, born November November 3, 1776, at Mendon, 30, 1882, at Stratton, Massachusetts. Winslow Vermont. apparently resided in Stratton. He resettled in Townshend, Vermont, Edward M. Wheeler, son of where he grew ill and became a Moses and Mary Jane Wheeler charge of that town in 1833. was born in May, 1859, at Pawlet, Townshend tried to recoup Vermont. He apparently married charges from Stratton, and so the and divorced before he settled in town voted to send $50.00 to Stratton. Townshend for that purpose. A Edward married Jenny M. lawyer was sent to Townshend to Shepardson, daughter of Calvin investigate this incident. D. and Helen (Darling) Apparently no additional funds Shepardson, at Stratton, on were sent. January 9, 1898. Jenny was born at Stratton on November 2, 1877. Before her marriage, she had a Whetmore child, Shepardson Rawson, born Lemuel Whetmore, son of May 3, 1896, at Stratton - a son of Beriah, Jr. and Abigail (Doud) Leroy Rawson. Shepardson Whetmore, was born on February Rawson was called Earl. 24, 1778, at Greenfield, In 1900, the Wheelers were Massachusetts. Lemuel married living in the home of Jennie’s Eunice Mitchell there on July 11, mother. They were no longer in 1800. Stratton in 1910. Following the marriage, the Whetmores settled in Pittsford, Vermont. Evidently, they settled in Stratton in the mid-1840s. In September, 1844, the town agreed to pay Mr. Whetmore to care for the widow Betsey Grant. The Whetmores cared for Mrs. Grant for several years. The treasurer’s ledger – a town record - indicates that Lemuel Whetmore, Ina Whetmore and Moses M. Whetmore were paid jointly for Mrs. Grant’s care in June, 1847. Ina may have been a nickname of Delia Wheeler Eunice or perhaps Lemuel’s

Photo courtesy of Arlene Huesman second wife. The Whetmores

Stratton Families 525 were no longer in Stratton in mustered out of service on June 1850. 22, 1864. A child of Lemuel and Eunice: After the war, Alvin married 1) Moses M., born May 17, 1807, Luanna M. Putnam, daughter of at Pittsford, Vermont. Prentis and Jemima Putnam, on December 12, 1866. Luanna was White born on April 1, 1846, at Stratton. Alvin White, son of Henry and They lived in Wardsboro and Nancy White, was born on Newfane. Alvin died on June 10, December 12, 1802, at 1905, and Luanna died on March Wardsboro, Vermont. He had 29, 1923. They were buried in the resettled in Jamaica, Vermont, West Wardsboro Cemetery. when he purchased the south part Their children included: of the east half of 4L5R and part 1) Lilla, born February 13, 1870, of the southwest corner of 4L4R at Wardsboro, Vermont; in Stratton, along with an married Frank Adams. undivided half of the Millet farm, 2) Henry P., born in December located beside the town common, 1871; died July 28, 1881. from Jonathan Phillips on April 3) Arthur, born about 1872, at 30, 1828. In June, 1828, Alvin Wardsboro, Vermont. also purchased 2000 acres of the 4) John, born about 1874 at Gore between Stratton and Wardsboro, Vermont. Sunderland. 5) George E., born in September, Sometime between this last 1879; died on August 16, purchase and February, 1829, 1888. Alvin settled in Stratton. Alvin 6) Elwin M., born in January, sold off some of his rights to the 1881; died September 18, gore lands in 1829 and he 1882. removed from Stratton before the Additional Sources: 1830 census was taken. He Return to Yesterday by CS Streeter evidently forfeited his land in 4L5R. William White, son of Isaac and Hannah White, was born on Alvin Henry White, son of January 13, 1811, at Windsor, Henry, Jr. and Roxanna M. Vermont. William married (Leach) White, was born on Melissa Leach who was born on October 31, 1840, at Dover, April 9, 1824. The Whites first Vermont. He later lived in lived in Fairfield, Vermont, before Wardsboro, Vermont. settling in Stratton during the During the Civil War, Alvin 1860s. They settled on the old enlisted for Wardsboro on Kidder farm, located at the bend December 17, 1861, and he was in County Rd., on 10L1R (see W. placed into Company H of the White on Beer’s Atlas of 1869). Vermont 8th Regiment. He By 1880, the Whites had a servant, Charles Wood, aged 15,

Stratton Families 526 and a boarder, Abigail Holland, Fultonville, New York, by aged 48, living with them. Casius’s sons. It later removed to William died on July 22, Canajoharie and is now a 1890, and Melissa followed on component of Electrolux. September 14, 1900. They were Additional Sources: buried in the Pike’s Falls Hometown Jamaica by Mark Worthen Cemetery in Jamaica, Vermont. Children of William and Melissa: Lester B. White, son of William 1) Casius, born about 1844; and Melissa White, was born married Louisa E. Twitchell about 1845. LB married Maryette on December 25, 1872, at Royce on December 30, 1868, at Stratton, Vermont. Highgate, Vermont. Soon after 2) Lester B., born about 1845; the marriage, the Whites settled in married Maryette Royce on Stratton into the John Underwood December 30, 1868, at house on the east half of 10L2R, Highgate, Vermont. located on the northwest corner of 3) Lester, born about 1848; the Mountain Rd. – Stone married Sarah Holmes on Chimney Rd. intersection (see December 24, 1868, at Beer’s Atlas of 1869). LB was Fairfield, Vermont. not listed in any of Stratton’s 4) Philinda (twin), born in 1856. censuses. Therefore, he 5) Flavius (twin), born in 1856. apparently settled in Stratton during the 1860s and he moved Casius A. White, son of William away from Stratton before the and Melissa White, was born 1870 census was taken. about 1844 in Fairfield, Vermont. (Oddly, the Vermont State He came to Stratton with his Archives list both Lester B. and parents and worked as a Lester (see below) as children of carpenter. William and Melissa White and Casius married Louisa E. their marriages to different Twitchell, daughter of David and women – said to be their first in Louisa (Wood) Twitchell, on both instances - occurred fairly December 25, 1872, at Stratton. close in time, but they do seem to Louisa was born on May 22, 1848, be different individuals.) in Jamaica, Vermont. The Whites apparently did Lester White, son of William and not settle in Stratton after the Melissa White, was born about marriage, but instead settled in 1848. Lester married Sarah Jamaica where Casius built a mill Holmes on December 24, 1868, at that produced butter-tubs and Fairfield, Vermont. The Whites shingles. Cassius invented a mop- settled in Stratton by 1875. wringer and built a factory to Their child was: produce them in. The business 1) Ina May, born June 28, 1875, prospered and was eventually at Stratton, Vermont; married moved to a better location in Jesse H. Botsford.

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Francis A. White of Phillipston, the Vermont 4th Regiment. He Massachusetts, was born on April died of an illness on March 2, 6, 1820. His wife, Lydia P., of 1862. Wardsboro, Vermont, was born on September 11, 1828. The Whites Harry White was born in settled in Stratton about 1858. February, 1893. He was living in Beer’s Atlas of 1869 showed the the home of Sarah Pike in 1900, Whites living on the west side of at the age of nine, and he was Pike’s Falls Rd., adjacent to the called a servant. Royal and Sarah Winhall border in 12L2R. Clayton were also living there and Francis took the Freeman’s may have been related in some oath in Stratton on September 6, way. 1864. He also received three tons of good hay from HW Edwards in Pheron L. White was born about August, 1865, for paying 1892. In 1910, he was living in Edwards’s taxes. Stratton with his mother, Carrie The Whites moved out of R. (Stiles) Moore and his Stratton before the census of 1870 stepfather, George W. Moore. He was taken and they settled in was no longer a resident of Wardsboro, Vermont. Lydia died Stratton in 1920. on May 22, 1884, and Francis died on May 20, 1907. They were John White was living in Stratton buried in the West Wardsboro in 1902. He took the Freeman’s Cemetery. oath in Stratton on September 2, Their children were: of that year. 1) Henry F., born about 1845; died on March 2, 1862. Whitehurst 2) Azuba, born about 1849. Julius A. Whitehurst came to 3) Armina, born about 1851. Stratton in the early 1940s and 4) Charles, born about 1853. married Evelyn R. Hurd, daughter 5) Berry (Augustine), born about of Floyd and Zoe Hurd. 1856. In 1943 they were staying 6) Lydia Emma (or Ermina), born with the Holmans in Stratton. in April 1857; died April 5, This was the same house that 1881. Evelyn’s grandparents had 7) Louis Stephen, born April 16, occupied previously, located on 1859, at Stratton, Vermont. County Rd. in Stratton. The 8) Frank, born April 2, 1862, at Whitehursts did not stay long in Stratton, Vermont. Stratton.

A child of Julius and Evelyn was: Henry F. White, son of Francis 1) Joyce Amelia, born at Stratton. A. and Lydia White, was born about 1845. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Henry enlisted and he was placed into Company I of

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Whitney inherited the Pike farm from their Charles Candee Whitney, son of parents and in 1977 they sold this Charles E. and Mabel (Candee) farmhouse to Arlene’s son, Whitney, married Mirth Arlene Charles. Pike, daughter of Ralph and Rose Arlene died on July 13, 1995, (Smith). "Arlene" was born on following a short illness with January 29, 1916, in West acute myelocyclic leukemia. She Wardsboro, Vermont. is buried in the West Wardsboro For a short time in the early Cemetery. 1940's, the Whitneys lived in a Children of Charles and Arlene: house located on the southwest 1) Charles Candee, Jr., married corner of the Pike farm in Stratton 1) Donna Ellen Chisholm 2) (currently the first house on the Alberta Rose (Cicatelli) Scott. east side of Pike Hollow Rd.). 2) Howard Ralph, married 1) The Whitneys also lived in Cheryl Seeley 2) Bobbie Brookline, Newfane, and Cooper 3) Mary Curry. Townshend, Vermont, in the 1940s. Charles Candee Whitney, Jr., Charles served in the Navy son of Charles C. and Mirth during WWII – discharged in Arlene (Pike) Whitney, married 1945. In 1947, the Whitneys Donna Ellen Chisholm, daughter moved to Springfield, Vermont, of Harry and Margaret (Spooner) where they resided until 1973. At Chisholm. that time, they bought a home in Chuck grew up in Ascutney, Vermont. He retired in Springfield, Vermont, and 1982 from the Fellows Gear attended Northeastern University Shaper in Springfield, Vermont, in Boston, Massachusetts. He after over 40 years of service. then went to Middlebury College Following his retirement, the and the University of California at Whitneys bought a home in Davis, where he received Masters Zephyrhills, Florida, where they and Doctorate degrees in spent their winters. Charles chemistry. He retired from the currently resides in Zephyrhills. DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Arlene grew up in West Company in 1994, following 26 Wardsboro and Stratton, years of combined service with Vermont. She graduated from DuPont and DuPont Merck in Leland and Gray Seminary and Wilmington, Delaware. He also then from Castleton Normal retired as a Colonel from the School in 1938. She taught Army Reserve in 1993 following school in Dover for a short time, 31 years of combined active and until the birth of her children. reserve duty. Chuck is currently For a time during the 1960s, President of Laboratory while residing in Springfield, she Management Systems, Inc., which worked outside the home. In he owns with John M. Read in 1975, she and her siblings Wilmington, Delaware.

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In 1977, Chuck bought the Westmoreland, New Hampshire. Pike Farm on the Stratton- He was called a resident of Arlington Rd. from the children of Sandgate, Vermont, when he Ralph and Rose Pike. He and his purchased the west half of 5L4R first wife divorced and he married on February 4, 1834. Jesse Alberta Rose (Cicatelli) Scott, the evidently settled in Stratton on daughter of Romeo and Carolina this lot at that time. His home (Voly) Cicatelli. was located west of the gate at the Chuck and "Ali" vacation end of what is now Shepardson frequently at the old Pike farm, Rd.. The remains of the house where they enjoy skiing, tennis, can still be seen along the path golf and the outdoors. there. Ali attended schools in In October, 1837, Jesse sold Wilmington and graduated from his lot to William Cummings. He Wilmington High School in 1958. then purchased the east half of She retired from the DuPont 4L3R and 30 acres of 4L2R at that Company in 1991 following 17 same time, and evidently settled years service. Ali currently there briefly. Jesse remained in manages real estate investment Stratton through March, 1838. At properties. She has two children that time, he sold this lot and by a previous marriage: Stephanie removed from Stratton. Nicole (Scott) Antenucci and Suzanne (Scott) Painter. Wilder Children of Charles and Donna: Allen Wilder married Fanny Jane 1) Charles Candee, III, married “Sophie” Scott, daughter of Ira Mary Beth Conover. and Sophie Scott. Sophie was 2) Susan Lee, married Matthew born on September 29, 1833, at Dutt. Stratton. Allen was a farmer.

Additional Sources for the above Whitney They apparently briefly resided in families: Stratton circa 1856 and they had Notes of Charles C. Whitney, Jr. moved from town before 1860. Their child was: Whittle 1) Frank Ira, born July 27, 1856, James Whittle was born about at Stratton, Vermont. 1834. He resided in the home of John and Persis Underwood in Nathaniel P. Wilder, son of Stratton in 1860. He probably Jonathan and Priscilla “Polly” remained there only a short time. (Johnson) Wilder, was born on He was no longer in Stratton in February 23, 1823, probably at 1870. Jamaica, Vermont. Nathaniel married Mary Jane Hale, daughter Wilbur of Ithamer and Malinda (Benson) Hale of Winhall, Vermont, about Jesse Wilbur, son of Joseph and 1844. Mary Jane was born in Sarah (West) Wilbur, was born on 1827 at Brookline, Vermont. August 9, 1802, possibly in

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The Wilders lived at Winhall, 7) Eveline Effie L., born then may have briefly resided in December 16, 1859, at Stratton around 1857, returning to Winhall, Vermont; married Winhall by 1859. They resettled Leroy J. Foster on January 1, in Wardsboro, Vermont about 1881, at Wardsboro, Vermont. 1878. Nathaniel passed away there on October 3, 1895, and George Franklin Wilder, son of Mary Jane followed on November Ephraim and Lucindy (Rice) 1, 1896. Wilder, was born in 1820 in Their children were: Jamaica, Vermont. He resided in 1) (unnamed infant), born West Jamaica where he produced September 8, 1846, at Winhall, barrels with the Clough family. Vermont; died same day. The Wilder home was located 2) Ellery Vernon, born November beside the West Jamaica 25, 184?, at Winhall, Cemetery. Vermont; died September 13, George’s first wife, Fanny, 1913, at Winhall, Vermont; was born on October 8, 1837. She married Lucy Amanda was probably a daughter of Wetherell on December 16, Reuben and Lorena Holton. 1867, at South Londonderry, Fanny died on June 15, 1862, Vermont. aged 24 years, 8 months, 7 days. 3) Ellis Chester, born June 10, She was buried in West Jamaica. 1850, at Winhall, Vermont; George and Fanny had three died September 10, 1921, at children, but their names are not Wardsboro, Vermont; married known. Emily A. (Marshall) Leach on George then married Lucy M. March 20, 1869, at (Gale) Hurlbert, daughter of Wallingford, Vermont. David and Mary Gale, on October 4) Ella J., born June 5, 1853, at 1, 1865, at Stratton. Lucy was Winhall, Vermont; died born in 1827 also in Jamaica and November 1, 1896, at she had been a widow before the Wardsboro, Vermont; married marriage with three children. August Calvin Chamberlain on George passed away on January October 8, 1868, at 13, 1902, and he was buried in Townshend, Vermont (parents West Jamaica. of Etta Cora Chamberlain). Children of George and Lucy: 5) Mary V. (twin), born May 7, 1) Bernice Franklin, born July 21, 1857, at Stratton, Vermont; 1866, at West Jamaica, died in 1890; married James Vermont; died November 14, G. Brewsey on April 18, 1880, 1939, at Jamaica, Vermont; at Wardsboro, Vermont. married Ellen E. Clark on 6) Martha Viola (twin), born May December 15, 1893, at 7, 1857, at Stratton, Vermont; Jamaica, Vermont. died November 15, 1864, at 2) Bert George, Born August 8, Winhall, Vermont. 1868, at West Jamaica,

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Vermont; died July 30, 1927, Phoebe was born on October 23, at Jamaica, Vermont; married 1844. Dora May Chamberlain on The Wilders were living in November 17, 1879, at Stratton by 1880 and at that time Winhall, Vermont (Dora was a they had two daughters and their daughter of Augustus and Ella niece, Katie R. Brown, aged five, (Wilder) Chamberlain). living with them. Lewis was also 3) Elmer C., born October 4, paid by the town for keeping 1873, at West Jamaica, Sidney Eddy in 1883. Vermont; died March 13, Lewis died of typhoid 1907, at West Jamaica, pneumonia at Stratton on January Vermont; married Ada 23, 1888. Phoebe then married Chamberlain in 1895 (Ada Lewis Atwood at Bridgewater, was a daughter of Augustus Vermont, on September 23, 1893. and Ella (Wilder) She died on April 9, 1909. James Chamberlain). and Phoebe were buried in the West Wardsboro Cemetery. Henry S. Wilder, son of Ephraim Their children were: and Lucindy (Rice) Wilder, was 1) Rosa Emaline, born February born about 1824. Henry married 7, 1867, at Jamaica, Vermont; Maranda Johnson on June 11, died February 24, 1935, at 1843, at Jamaica, Vermont. They Newfane, Vermont; married 1) apparently lived in Jamaica for Charles Henry Kennon at many years. Maranda was born Hoosick Falls, New York 2) about 1825. Herman Lewis Eddy. The Wilders were listed as 2) Harriett Ella, born August 20, servants, living in Stratton in the 1868, at Jamaica, Vermont; home of Jessie and Lestina Sage died October 3, 1884, at in 1880, but they were no longer Stratton, Vermont. in Stratton by 1900. 3) (a female unnamed), born at Children of Henry and Maranda: Jamaica, Vermont; died April 1) Charles H., died April 22, 7, 1870. 1862, at Jamaica, Vermont. 2) Eveline, married Charles F. David Franklin Wilder, son of Sage on January 2, 1877. James and Rosina (Sage) Wilder, was born on July 15, 1847, at Lewis James Wilder, son of Jamaica, Vermont. David James and Rosina (Sage) Wilder, married Fanny A. Hart, daughter was born at Jamaica, Vermont, on of Willis I. and Avis (Johnson) February 24, 1841. Lewis Hart of Wallingford, Vermont, on married Phoebe A. Bourn, September 16, 1866, at Winhall, daughter of Winslow and Almena Vermont. Fanny was born about (ingram) Bourn, on January 15, 1852 at Wallingford. 1865, at Townshend, Vermont. David purchased the east half of 5L3R in Stratton about 1881

Stratton Families 532 and settled thereon (see N. Willis above. He purchased the Knapp on Beer’s Atlas of 1869). In farm in Stratton in 1892 and may 1890, David leased part of the have resided there for a time. land to WH Taft who began a milling operation there. Emery L. (or S.) Wilder of The Wilders evidently moved Jamaica, Vermont, was born about away from Stratton about that 1843. During the Civil War, same time and resettled in Emery enlisted into the 9th Weston, Vermont. Fanny died Vermont Regiment, Company K, there on October 11, 1906. on June 28, 1862. He was taken Following her death, David prisoner on September 4, 1862, remarried to Mary Vilettie and paroled on September 15, (White) Graves on January 1, 1862. He continued to serve 1908, at Weston. He died there throughout the war and he was on January 28, 1920. discharged on June 13, 1865. David and Fanny’s children were: Emery married Ida Howard of 1) Mary N., born in 1868 in Stratton about 1868. Ida was born Jamaica, Vermont; married about 1853. They settled in John A. Willis on January 6, Stratton after the marriage, but 1883. they had moved from town before 2) (an infant girl), born July 6, 1880. 1869; died November 26, Children of Emery and Ida were: 1869, at Jamaica, Vermont. 1) Adelbert, born about 1869. 3) Fanny, born September 20, 2) Charlie, born November 24, 1870, at Jamaica, Vermont. 1871, at Stratton, Vermont. 4) Mattie May, born about 1871 in Jamaica, Vermont; married Jesse Wilder lived in Stratton in William Merrills Colt on 1896 and he was elected the September 11, 1887, at town’s pound keeper that year. Brattleboro, Vermont. Jesse was no longer in Stratton in 5) Carolyn “Carrie,” born about 1900. 1875; married 1) Alonzo Additional Sources for the above Wilder Fuller 2) Eddie E. Hodge. families: 6) Cora M., born July 20, 1882, The Book of the Wilders (Revised) by at Stratton, Vermont; died Edwin M. Wilder January 23, 1887, at Stratton, Vermont. Wilkes 7) Hattie Maude, born December John Wilkes lived in Stratton in 9, 1887, at Stratton, Vermont; 1876 and at that time, he was a died May 18, 1945; married charge of the town. The town Ervin Joseph DeCell on April paid bills accrued while John was 21, 1906, at Weston, Vermont. sick and being cared for by OA Allen and Dr. Bliss. Lewis M. Wilder may have been a son of Lewis and Phoebe Wilder

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Wilkinson Williams George Wilkinson was born Thomas Williams of Easton, about 1819. His wife, Jane, was Massachusetts, purchased the east born about 1817. They settled in half of 4L5R on May 19, 1798. Stratton during the 1860s. In Thomas settled on this lot, located 1870, they had a boarder, Jennie west of what later became the Knapp, daughter of Hiram and town common. He sold this lot on Elvira Knapp, living with them. September 22, 1798, and he The Wilkinsons had moved away apparently moved away from from Stratton by 1880. Stratton at that time. Their children were: 1) Sarah Priscilla Williams, a widow, 2) Eliza settled in Stratton about 1806. Her husband may have lived in Willard Stratton just before he died, Russell H. Willard was born however, the first record of this about 1839. He married Viola person in Stratton was a warning Pike, daughter of Alexander H. to depart the town, issued by the and Elvira (Rice) Pike. Viola was Selectmen on June 28, 1806, and born in Somerset, Vermont, in served by the Constable on July 2. 1840. Mrs. Williams was no longer in Russell and Viola settled in Stratton in 1810. Stratton before 1870 and lived in the house that Viola’s father had Daniel Williams was born on previously occupied. This house August 22, 1795, at Hadley, was later owned by the Eddy Massachusetts. There, he married family and it is currently owned Hannah Manning on June 1, by the Steiner family. 1820. Hannah, the daughter of Russell evidently died or he Phineas and Abigail (Alden) had left his family before 1880, Manning, was born on February since that year, Viola and the 4, 1794, at Goshen, children were living with A.H. Massachusetts. Pike, Viola’s father, across the Daniel settled in Stratton road in the farmhouse now owned prior to the time the census was by the Marcucci family. taken in 1840. The census Children of Russell and Viola: indicated that the Williams family 1) Nellie E., born about 1863 included two boys aged 10 to 15 (attended school in district #6 and a girl aged under five. in 1870/1. On April 3, 1840, Daniel sold 2) Eugene W., born July 17, five Marino sheep and a yearling 1865, at Stratton, Vermont. calf to Liberty Wilder of 3) Lula M., born October 31, Wardsboro for $18.00. 1871, at Stratton, Vermont. Daniel was killed in Stratton 4) Ethel Viola, born June 28, when a tree fell on him on July 1882, at Stratton, Vermont. 10, 1849. He was buried in Ball

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Cemetery. Hannah died at Phineas White of Putney, Marion Iowa on April 21, 1875. Vermont, deeded her 40-acre lot Children of Daniel and Hannah: #38. The deed stated that Phineas 1) Charlotte Deborah, born was rewarding Charlotte, who had March 13, 1821, at Goshen, lived and labored in his family for Massachusetts; died July 28, more than four years, wishing to 1847, at Jacksonville, Illinois. make some compensation for her 2) John Sumner, born May 30, faithfulness in addition to her 1823, at Goshen, stipulated wages. Massachusetts; died September Charlotte died in 13, 1898, at Rescue, Nebraska; Jacksonville, Illinois on July 28, married Czarina Abigail 1847. Glazier on December 7, 1848. 3) Abigail T., born November 27, John Sumner Williams, son of 1824, at Goshen, Daniel and Hannah Williams, was Massachusetts; married born on May 30, 1823, at Goshen, Edward Knowlton on February Massachusetts. John came to 18, 1845. Stratton with his parents before 4) Thomas Lyman, born March 1840. He took the Freeman’s oath 17, 1827; died August 2, 1878, in Stratton on August 14, 1844. at Monticello, Iowa; married John purchased the west half Catherine E. Moran on April of 7L1R from David Rice in 8, 1847. March, 1845. The mortgage on 5) George Washington, born July this land was foreclosed in 1847, 4, 1829, at Arlington, and so John apparently lost it. His Vermont; died November 11, brother, Thomas repurchased the 1861, at St. Louis, Missouri property. (took the Freeman’s oath in John married Czarina Abigail Stratton on September 3, Glazier, daughter of John N. and 1850). Phebe Glazier, on December 7, 6) Lydia Jeanette, born March 22, 1848, supposedly in Stratton. 1836, at Cambridge, New The Williams family began York; died November 19, their migration west before 1850. 1880, at Marion, Iowa; John died at Rescue, Nebraska, on married George Busby on September 13, 1898. December 21, 1851. Czarina was blind in her latter years and lived with her Additional Sources: Notes of John H. Comstock of Kansas City, brother N. Newton Glazier in Missouri Beatrice, Nebraska, Muscotah, Kansas, and Ashland, Nebraska. Charlotte Deborah Williams, She died at Ashland, Nebraska, on daughter of Daniel and Hannah April 20, 1923. Williams, was born on March 13, Children of John and Czarina: 1821, at Goshen, Massachusetts. 1) Jarvis Sumner, born January She was said to be “of Stratton” 15, 1851, in Vermont; died on October 5, 1845. That day,

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December 21, 1926, at Stratton and married Lestina Muskotah, Kansas; married Melvina Grout, daughter of Pliny Mary Ann Burbank on January and Susan Grout, on January 17, 21, 1878, at Wahoo, Nebraska 1864, just after enlisting into the (Mary Ann was born on army. Lestina was born on October 23, 1862, at Geneseo, November 18, 1843, at Somerset, Illinois). Vermont. 2) Arabelle C., (attended Stratton George enlisted on January 5, school district #4 in 1857). 1864, and mustered into Company 3) Adele Phebe H of the Vermont 8th Regiment 4) Vietta Julia on January 12, 1864. George was wounded on October 19, 1864, at Thomas L. Williams, son of the battle of Cedar Creek, Daniel and Hannah Williams, was Virginia. He mustered out on born about 1827. His wife, May 13, 1865. Catherine, was born about 1830. After the war, the Williamses She may have been the daughter lived at Stratton for several years. of James and Amy Moran. George either died or had Thomas was a resident of divorced Lestina between 1877 Putney, Vermont, on November and 1880. In 1880, Lestina and 13, 1848, when he purchased the the children were living with west half of 7L1R. Thomas Charles Nichols in Stratton. The apparently settled on this lot at census of 1880 indicates that that time and was listed in Lestina was Charles Nichols’s Stratton’s 1850 census. In 1854, wife, and the children were William Moran, son of James and incorrectly shown as Charles Amy Moran, was living with them Nichols’s children. Charles and and attending school in district Lestina were no longer in Stratton #5. This boy may have been in 1900. Catherine’s brother. The Children of George and Lestina: Williamses were no longer in 1) Pamelia Georgia, born October Stratton by 1856. 31, 1864, at Stratton, A child of Thomas and Catherine: Vermont. 1) John N., born in 1850. 2) Ernest, born about 1866. 3) Elton, born about 1868. Hiram Williams and his wife, 4) Mabel L., born about 1870. Ellen, were born about 1840. 5) Blanche Diantha, born June 7, They settled in Stratton before 1872, at Stratton, Vermont. 1870, but they had moved away 6) Henry E., born May 5, 1874, at before 1880. Stratton, Vermont. 7) George Merrill, born March 9, George A. Williams, son of 1876, at Stratton, Vermont. Lewis and Patty Williams, was 8) Isabell E., born October 24, born about 1840 and he lived at 1877, at Stratton, Vermont. Winhall, Vermont. He came to

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John Williams was born in 1833. 2) Fred, born in June, 1880. He came to Stratton during the 3) Lillian M., born in April, late 1870s and worked for E.W. 1884. Bowker at his sawmill. In 1880, 4) Herbert N., born in May, 1886. John was living with Mr. Bowker 5) Ruth L., born in August, 1894. and several other workers at the mill site. Mr. Bowker sold the George Adrill Williams, son of mill to Joel F. Grout that year. Adrill and Stella L. Williams, was John may have stayed and worked born at Londonderry, Vermont, in for Mr. Grout, but he was no July, 1876. He came to Stratton longer living in Stratton in 1900. and took the Freeman’s oath in September, 1900. Eli L. Williams was born in New George worked as a York State in April, 1849. Eli mechanic, probably for the lumber was probably a son of John camps. He married Lena M. Williams (above).His wife, Lizzie Eddy, daughter of Jonathan and O., was born in August, 1852. Arvilla J. (Gale) Eddy, on October The Williams settled in 10, 1899, at Stratton. Lena was Stratton before 1900, but they had born at Newfane, Vermont, on moved away before 1910. October 17, 1879. Children of Eli and Lizzie were: Their children were: 1) Annie B., born in December, 1) Rupert George, born December 1889. 22, 1903, at West Townshend, 2) Mabel E., born in August, Vermont; married Mabel 1892. Louise Davis on October 12, 1924, at Londonderry, Adrill Plummer Williams was Vermont. born in Vermont in March, 1854. 2) Maurice Keith, born December Adrill was probably a son of John 31, 1913, at Londonderry, Williams (above). He married Vermont. Stella Lydia Bowker about 1875. Stella was born in Vermont in Fred J. Williams was living in March, 1857. Stratton in 1902. That year, he The Williams settled in took the Freeman’s oath in Stratton around 1900 and they Stratton on September 2. He was were listed in Stratton’s census of no longer in Stratton in 1910. that year. They moved away before 1910. Willis Children of Adrill and Stella Samuel Willis was born about were: 1782. Samuel was probably a son 1) George Adrill, born in July, of Daniel Willis of Sudbury, 1876, at Londonderry, Massachusetts, and a nephew of Vermont; married Lena M. Experience (Willis) Lincoln who Eddy on October 10, 1899, at also lived in Somerset, Vermont. Stratton, Vermont.

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Samuel married Lydia to the Spragues. This was all the Gilson, daughter of Rufus and land he owned in Somerset. Ruth Gilson of Somerset, Samuel settled in Stratton on his Vermont. Lydia was born about newly acquired farm, located 1786. The Willises filed an intent south and west of Willis to marry on December 20, 1801. Cemetery, beyond what was later The Willises were living in the Daniel Willis farm (see D. Mendon, Massachusetts, when Willis on Beer’s Atlas of 1869). Samuel purchased 100 acres in Samuel’s new farm was located Somerset, Vermont, on April 11, south of where the Gore Rd. and 1801, from Seth Davenport of Somerset Rd. crossed (the Mendon. The Willises settled on Somerset Rd. apparently extended this lot in 1806. from the end of Old Forrester Rd. Their home was located half and connected with Pike Hollow way between what is now Willis Rd. and the Gore Rd.). In 1838, Cemetery Rd. and Pike Hollow Samuel sold this lot to his son, Rd. (see A. Grout on McClellan’s Daniel, but continued to live map of 1856 and F. J. Prentiss on there. Beer’s Atlas of 1869). The farm’s In 1840, Samuel and Lydia’s eastern boundary followed the household included a daughter Somerset to Winhall Rd., heading aged 30 to 40 (probably Sylvia), south from the Somerset - Stratton another aged 20 to 30 (probably border, down along the western Chloe) and a boy aged 10 to 15. side of what is now the The boy was most likely Chloe’s Eddy/Young place, then crossed son, Ezra. Sometime shortly after over Pike Hollow Rd. to the brook. 1840, Samuel’s daughter, Ruth, The south line continued from a and son-in-law, John Baldwin, point near the brook, west to Pike settled in with the Willises. In Hollow Cemetery and beyond. 1844, Ezra was living with Samuel sold half of this lot to Samuel and attending school in Jotham Pike, who sold it to his the Stratton Somerset United son, Joseph in 1824. The dividing School district. line between these two lots began In April, 1844, Samuel on Pike Hollow Rd. at the west mortgaged this farm with another line of what was later Pike Hollow son-in-law, James T. Perry of Cemetery and continued north to Wardsboro. The description was Somerset’s north border. The as follows, “all that part of the Willises occupied this farm for farm where he and John Baldwin almost 30 years. now live which lies east of the old On February 14, 1834, road leading south to the dwelling Samuel purchased 85 acres in the house of Halloway Hartwell in northwest corner of lot #2 in Somerset and by the buildings and Stratton Gore (#17 on the grid said farm to land occupied by map) from the Spragues and at the Moses and Roderick Forrester... same time, sold his Somerset farm and also the land in and enclosed

Stratton Families 538 with the orchard west of said 3) Ruth, born January 6, 1807, at road, reserving and excepting an Mendon, Massachusetts; died undivided half of the house and October 27, 1889, at Stratton, barn on the premises with the Vermont; married John land on which they stand, Baldwin on March 18, 1841. reserving also the sole use and 4) Roxanna, born February 17, occupancy of the trees in the 1808; died in 1874; married 1) orchard west of the road before David B. Lamson on described.” November 16, 1827. In 1845, Samuel purchased 5) Chloe, born July 24, 1811, at his son, Daniel’s farm, located Somerset, Vermont; died May beside the cemetery, from Stephen 22, 1876, at Stratton, Ballard. The Willises probably Vermont; married Joel T. Hale moved in with Daniel’s family at on March 28, 1844. that time, leaving the old farm to 6) Daniel, born on September 7, the Baldwins. Daniel had lived 1814, at Stratton, Vermont; on this new farm since 1838 and died December 24, 1897, at he had sold it to his father-in-law, Stratton, Vermont; married Stephen Ballard, in 1840, but Abigail Ballard (intent continued to live there after that published on September 18, time. On July 14, 1849, Samuel 1836, at Stratton). sold the farm beside the cemetery back to Daniel. Samuel and Lydia Sylvia Willis, daughter of Samuel may have settled in Jamaica that and Lydia Willis, was born in year, along with John and Ruth Mendon, Massachusetts, on Baldwin, since they were no November 12, 1802. She longer in Stratton in 1850. They apparently never married and apparently spent their last years returned to Stratton in 1880 and with their daughter, Roxanna lived with her sister, Ruth Lamson in South Newfane, Baldwin, and her nephew, Ezra Vermont. Samuel and Lydia were Willis. She died on July 27, 1887, apparently buried in South at Stratton. Newfane, but no stone exists in the South Newfane Cemetery for Chloe Willis, daughter of Samuel them. and Lydia Willis, was born at Samuel and Lydia’s children: Somerset, Vermont, in April, 1) Sylvia, born November 12, 1810. She had a son, Ezra, in 1802, at Mendon, 1830. Ezra’s father’s last name Massachusetts; died July 27, was Bramin. 1887, at Stratton, Vermont. In 1840, Chloe and Ezra were 2) Amy, born March 15, 1805; evidently living with Chloe’s died in February, 1873; parents in Stratton. By 1849, she married James Tufts Perry had married Joel T. Hale, and (lived at Wardsboro, they had a daughter, Francena Vermont). (see the Hale family).

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Ezra Willis, the son of (possibly Bright’s disease) (voted to be Lewis) Bramin and Chloe Willis, discharged from his guardian was born in Somerset, Vermont, at town meeting of 1875). about 1830. Ezra went by the last 2) John A., born March 4, 1860, name of Bramin for several years, at Stratton, Vermont; married then switched over to his mother’s Mary N. Wilder on January 6, surname. 1883 (his birth was listed in Ezra purchased 50 acres of Stratton’s vital records as John the northeast corner of 1L1R on Bramin). February 9, 1850, from Calvin Taylor, and settled thereon. On John A. Willis, son of Ezra and February 15, 1851, Ezra lost a Martha Willis, was born in 1861 court case with DA Hammond of at Stratton. Stratton’s vital Wardsboro, Vermont. Court was records show his surname as held at H. Rice’s Inn at Bramin. John took the Freeman’s Wardsboro and Hammond was oath in Stratton on September 5, awarded $50.00. Stratton’s Town 1882. Clerk was required to attach a John married Mary N. copy of all real estate land and Wilder, daughter of David and buildings owned by the defendant Fanny Wilder, on January 6, in Stratton and all the hay in his 1883. Mary was born in 1868 in barn. Jamaica, Vermont. She was just Ezra married Martha 15 when they were married. John Whipple, daughter of William and and Mary were no longer in Nancy Whipple, on September 16, Stratton in 1900. 1851, at Stratton. Martha was Children of John and Mary were: born on August 22, 1828. 1) Minnie May, born February On April 28, 1853, the 18, 1884, at Stratton, Willises were called “of Dover, Vermont. Vermont” when they sold their 2) Frank, born September 26, land in Stratton to Isaac Pike. 1885, at Stratton, Vermont. Martha died during childbirth 3) (a son), born December 4, on March 16, 1863. In 1880, 1887, at Stratton, Vermont. Ezra and his sons, Augustus and 4) Hattie, born March 5, 1892, at John, were living with two of their Stratton, Vermont. aunts, Sylvia Willis and Ruth Baldwin. Ezra died on June 5, Daniel Willis, son of Samuel and 1881, at Stratton. He and Martha Lydia Willis, was born on were buried in Ball Cemetery. September 7, 1814, at Stratton. Children of Ezra and Martha: He took the Freeman’s oath on 1) James Augustus (original September 6, 1838, and he surname was Bramin), born married Abigail Ballard, daughter April 26, 1853, at Dover, of Stephen and Sarah Ballard Vermont; died June 27, 1891, (intent published on September at Stratton, Vermont (of 18, 1836, at Stratton). Abigail

Stratton Families 540 was born on September 26, 1814, 3) Elvina, born February 28, at Orange, Massachusetts. 1841; at Stratton, Vermont; Daniel resided on his father’s died May 20, 1900, at Stratton, farm, located west and south of Vermont; married Aaron what later was called Willis Lowe. Cemetery, until 1838. That year, 4) Nelson E., born July 30, 1843; Daniel purchased his father’s died April 24, 1900; married farm and he also purchased the Betsey M. Akely on April 7, neighboring William 1868. Crowningshield farm. Daniel and 5) Evander Hilon, born about Abigail settled on the 1844; married Lucy A. Crowningshield farm. The Sprague on December 7, 1872, remains can still be seen west of at Stratton, Vermont. Willis Cemetery on the north side 6) Emmons Frederick, born in of the road. May, 1847, at Stratton, The following year, Daniel Vermont; died August 29, sold his father’s farm to his 1902, at Stratton, Vermont; brother-in-law, James T. Perry. married Mary E. Bost on June In 1840, Daniel sold his farm 27, 1892, at Stratton, beside the cemetery to his father- Vermont. in-law, Stephen Ballard; however, 7) Franklin S., born February 19, Daniel and Abigail remained on 1851, at Stratton, Vermont; that farm. died May 24, 1863, at Stratton, On April 1, 1846, Daniel’s Vermont (of diphtheria). father, Samuel, purchased the 8) Herbert F., born in 1852; farm from Abigail’s father. At married Flora L. Allen on that time, Samuel Willis moved in March 28, 1872, at Stratton, with them. Samuel sold the farm Vermont. back to Daniel in July, 1849, and 9) Emery A., born in 1853; apparently moved away. Daniel married Anna Conner on and Abigail apparently remained February 24, 1881, at Stratton, on this farm all their lives. Vermont. By 1870 and through 1880, 10) G. Clifford, born January 7, the Willises were living with their 1856, at Stratton, Vermont; son, Emery, who had remained on killed July 15, 1859, at the farm. Daniel died at Stratton Stratton, Vermont. on December 24, 1897, of 11) Edmund Alton, born May 18, pneumonia. Abigail died on April 1857, at Stratton, Vermont; 18, 1900. They were both buried died March 2, 1863, at in Willis Cemetery. Stratton, Vermont (of Children of Daniel and Abigail: diphtheria). 1) Philura A., born in 1837; died in 1914; married Milon Perry Herbert F. Willis, son of Daniel in 1855. and Abigail Willis, was born in 2) Mather, born about 1838. 1852. He married Flora L. Allen,

Stratton Families 541 daughter of Cheselton and Sarah Anna was born in February, Allen, on March 28, 1872, at 1858, in Charlestown, Stratton. Flora was born in 1853 Massachusetts. She died on at Stratton. September 10, 1881, at Stratton, The Willises resided on road of typhoid fever. 11 and reared three children. In Emery may have stayed on 1880, they also had a servant the farm as long as his parents living with them, William Rising, were still living. He was no age 23. longer in Stratton, however, by Herbert was a Selectman in the time the census was taken in 1886, and Superintendent of 1900. Stratton’s schools in 1888. The Willises moved away from Evander Hilon Willis, son of Stratton that same year. Daniel and Abigail Willis, was Children of Herbert and Flora: born in 1844. During the Civil 1) Almon Amos, born December War, Evander enlisted on 10, 1872, at Stratton, December 5, 1863, and mustered Vermont. into Company D, of the Vermont 2) Ella S., born August 15, 1874, 8th Regiment on December 24, at Stratton, Vermont. 1863. He served to the end of the 3) Morel H., born December 18, war and mustered out on June 28, 1881, at Stratton, Vermont. 1865. Following the war, Evander Emery A. Willis, son of Daniel married Lucy A. Sprague, and Abigail Willis, was born in daughter of Lyman and Jeanette 1853. By 1870 and through 1878, Sprague, on December 7, 1872, at Emery was the only son Stratton. They lived in Stratton remaining on his father’s farm, on Old Forrester Rd. (Road 16). next to Willis Cemetery. His They later purchasedthe Knowlton parents continued to live there Farm and may have resided there with him over those years. from 1880 to 1887. In 1887, they Emery took the Freeman’s sold this farm to Franklin Lackey. oath in Stratton in 1876. He was Evander was a Selectman of Superintendent of Stratton’s Stratton in 1874 and 1876. He schools in 1878, however, in also served as Stratton’s November, 1878, Emery evidently Representative in 1872 and 1876. left Stratton temporarily, and had Evander was Stratton’s to give up that position. He Postmaster from January 8, 1886, returned to again live at the Willis to January 26, 1892. The Willises farm by 1880. probably removed from town at Emery married Anna Conner, that time. They were no longer in daughter of Eugene and Ellen Stratton in 1900. Connor of Townshend, Vermont, Children of Evander and Lucy: on February 24, 1881, at Stratton. 1) Hugh E., born February 27, 1875, at Stratton, Vermont.

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2) Carl L., born August 11, 1877, July 30, 1843. He married Betsey at Stratton, Vermont. M. Akeley, daughter of Newell 3) Maude Nettie, born July 29, and Betsey Akeley, on April 7, 1878, at Stratton, Vermont; 1868. Betsey was born on January died October 14, 1886, at 21, 1842. In 1869, the Willises Stratton, Vermont. lived on the Ira Scott farm located on 5L3R, northeast of the West Emmons Frederick Willis, son Jamaica Rd. – Shepardson Rd. of Daniel and Abigail Willis, was intersection. Nelson and Betsey born in May, 1847, at Stratton. passed away on the same day, During the time of Stratton’s 1870 April 24, 1900. They were buried census, Frederick, as he was in the West Wardsboro Cemetery. known, was boarding in the home of Alexander H. Pike. Wing Frederick married Mary E. Samuel S. Wing was born in (Bost) Boyds, daughter of October, 1801. He married Benjamin and Fannie (or Hattie) Lucinda George on June 9, 1822, Bost of Wilmington, Vermont, on at Androscoggin, Maine. Lucinda July 2, 1892, at Wilmington. was born in Lurtz, Maine, on Mary or Tildy, as she was called, April 23, 1794. was born in 1856 in New York The Wings lived in State and she had previously been Livermore, Maine, and eventually married to Steven Hardin settled at Stratton, where Samuel Plimpton. After Stephen’s death took the Freeman’s oath on in 1880, Mary worked as a September 5, 1848. On housemaid, then married Henry November 26, 1847, Samuel Lake. Her third husband was purchased an undivided half of 40 Elon Boyd and finally her fourth acres of the east half of 5L2R husband was Frederick Willis. from his son-in-law, Leander Fred apparently lived in 3L1R Allen and they apparently settled on the south side of Canedy Rd., in with the Allen’s. The near the Wardsboro Boarder. He following year, Samuel purchased died at Stratton on August 29, the north part of the east half of 1902, and then Mary lived in 5L2R from Leander. Their home West Wardsboro. She also spent a was located on the west side of few months in the home of Mountain Rd. (see N. E. Hart on Eugene Thomas. Mary died on Beer’s Atlas of 1869). Samuel Sept. 16, 1909, (aged 90 also purchased the north half of according to the grave stone), at 5L1R from J. Baldwin in 1849. Stratton, and she was buried in The Wings probably remained Wardsboro Road Cemetery in with the Leander Allen family. Newfane. Lucinda died on December 25, 1858, at Stratton. In 1870, Nelson E. Willis, son of Daniel Samuel was living with his and Abigail Willis, was born on daughter and son-in-law, Louisa

Stratton Families 543 and Darius Grout. He died there Jonathan and Sally’s children: on January 11, 1872. The Wings 1) Rollin Mallory, born December were buried in Ball Cemetery. 4, 1820, at Wilmington, Their children were: Vermont; married Laura A. 1) Mary, born about 1824; Waite on February 4, 1843, at married 1) James B. Hudson Wilmington, Vermont. on October 1, 1848, at 2) Maria Angeline, born April 30, Stratton, Vermont 2) George 1822, at Wilmington, Vermont Eager. 3) Sarah Evaline, born February 2) Lucy M., born February 24, 20, 1824, at Wilmington, 1825; died December 24, Vermont; married Ezra 1879, at Westfield, Leonard Rice on November 19, Massachusetts; married 1847, at Doren, Vermont William E. Searle on 4) Catherine Augusta, born May November 27, 1845, at 19, 1826, at Wilmington, Southampton, Massachusetts. Vermont; married Hobart A. 3) Lovisa, born April 3, 1828, at Colburn on August 26, 1847, West Livermore, Maine; died at Marlboro, Vermont. July 24, 1901, at Stratton, 5) Mary A., born in 1828; died in Vermont; married Leander L. 1829. Allen. 6) Mary Ann, born August 19, 4) Louisa, born in 1833; married 1835, at Wilmington, Darius A. Grout on April 11, Vermont; married GN Burns 1858, at Stratton, Vermont. on May 23, 1858, at Halifax, Vermont. Witt Jonathan Witt, the son of Rollin Mallory Witt, son of Jonathan and Catherine Witt, was Jonathan and Sally Witt, was born born on August 7, 1791, at at Wilmington, Vermont, on Wilmington, Vermont. There, December 4, 1820. Rollin came Jonathan married Sarah M. to Stratton about 1841. On April Haskell on February 14, 1820. 1 of that year, he agreed to farm- Jonathan may have come to let 6L1R from Abram Lawrence Stratton with his son, Rollin, as for three years. Lawrence also early as 1841. He was head of a agreed to deed this lot to Witt, if household in Stratton in 1844 the full amount was paid by 1847. with his children attending school Rollin and probably his parents in district #4. and siblings evidently settled on The Witts apparently returned this property (see J. Copeland on to Wilmington before the census McClellan’s Map of 1856 and N. of 1850. There, Sally died on E. Hart on Beer’s Atlas of 1869). August 14, 1854. Jonathan then Rollin took the Freeman’s married Betsey Dexter on May 15, oath in Stratton on September 6, 1866, at Wilmington. 1842. He married Laura A. Waite, daughter of Tyler and

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Lucia Waite, on February 4, 1843. apparently resettled in Jamaica, Laura was born at Stratton on Vermont, where he enlisted January 12, 1824. during the Civil War. On October 3, 1844, Rollin purchased 7L7R, 9L7R and Cynthia Wood of Stratton 11L7R as well as some of the married John Lyon on February smaller western lots at a tax-sale 27, 1831, at Stratton. in Stratton. Over the following years, he sold these lots to various Caroline A. Wood, daughter of individuals. David and Caroline (Goodrich) On April 1, 1848, Rollin Wood?, was born on February 25, farm-let his farm on 6L1R to 1841, at Jackson, New York. She James Copeland of Wardsboro, married (?) and was divorced. Vermont. This included the She died November 14, 1893, at dwelling house and other Stratton. buildings thereon. The Witts left Stratton at that time and settled in Charles Wood was born about Wilmington, Vermont. On 1865. He was a servant, living November 17, 1848, Rollin sold with William and Melissa White this same lot to Dennis Parmelee. in 1880. He was no longer in Laura died in 1849 and was Stratton by 1900. buried in River View Cemetery in Wilmington. Rollin and his Frank H. Wood, son of second wife, Sophia M., were Cassandra Allen, was born on living in Wilmington, Vermont, June 29, 1878, at Stratton. In when Rollin sold some additional 1880, he and his mother were property in Stratton on April 11, living with his grandmother, 1853. Rollin and another wife, Miranda Arathusa Allen. Neither Maria A., were living in he nor his mother were living in Stevenson County, Illinois, when Stratton by 1900. they sold another parcel in Stratton on November 27, 1872. Frank E. Woods was born in A child of the Witts was: July, 1874, in Vermont. His wife, 1) Ellen V. Susie E., was born in July 1873, in Massachusetts. They were Wood evidently married in late 1899 and (Woods) lived in Stratton after their Arad T. Wood, son of John and marriage, but had moved away Lucy (Allen) Wood of Jamaica, before 1910. Frank was probably Vermont, was born on March 9, a lumberman, working in one of 1828. Arad briefly lived in Stratton’s lumber camps. Stratton. In March, 1859, he was elected a highway surveyor of Gilbert W. Wood was born about district #3; but he had moved out 1898 in Vermont. In 1910, he of Stratton by May, 1859. He was listed as a foster-child of John

Stratton Families 545 and Adah Clayton of Stratton. Pittsford, Vermont; married Gilbert was no longer living in John Dimick on February 24, Stratton in 1920. 1825, at Sudbury, Vermont. 3) Elkanah Woodcock 4) Elias, married Angelina Elias Woodcock, son of Elkanah Dimick on March 25, 1835, at and Susannah Woodcock, was Sudbury, Vermont. born in 1773, probably in New 5) Permelia, born May 6, 1807; Hampshire. Elias and his family died February 15/6, 1887; first lived at Wardsboro, Vermont, married 1) Gideon Dimick 2) then Elias purchased the west half Liberty Pratt. of 1L1R in Stratton on May 2, 6) Almon, born in 1814, at 1795, and settled on that lot soon Sudbury, Vermont; died May after. 25, 1865, at Salisbury, Sometime before 1798, Elias Vermont; married Susan married Malinda Hathaway, who Arnold. was born about 1772. They were 7) Sophia (probably), married not married in Stratton and, John F. Thompson on January therefore, may have been married 10, 1842, at Salisbury, prior to settling there. The Vermont.

Woodcocks remained in Stratton Additional Sources: through 1800. At that time, they In Search of the Elusive Woodcock, by had an only daughter, Clarissa. Joann H. Nichols : VGS Branches and Twigs V 23:4 and 21:1 She was apparently the female under the age of ten living in their James W. Woodcock was born home at that time. about 1819. James married Mary Elias sold his lot in Stratton T. Wade who was born in June, to Hezekiah Fay of Wardsboro, on 1823. March 29, 1804. Before that James was a farmer who time, the Woodcocks had removed settled in Stratton during the to Sudbury, Vermont, then later 1870s. In 1880, James and Mary settled at Salisbury, Vermont. were living alone in Stratton. Elias died on December 27, 1845, Mary died there on March 14, at Salisbury. Malinda died on 1882, and James followed on June 25, 186(1 or 2), and she was October 19, 1892. They were buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery buried in Ball Cemetery. in East Middlebury, Vermont. Following James’ death, the Children of Elias and Malinda: town assigned an agent to sell 1) Clarissa, born about 1798; died their farm. March 1, 1864, at Salisbury,

Vermont; married William Harrington on January 14, Woodward 1816. (Woodard) 2) Malinda, born about 1803; Jonas Woodward, son of Jonas died February 1, 1890, at and Rachel (Holmes) Woodward,

Stratton Families 546 was born on May 31, 1764, at two years (with exception of half Sutton, Massachusetts. During the house and one acre of land the American Revolution, Jonas and he was not allowed to cut fire served 17 days as a private in wood there) - from Jacob, Jr. and Captain Burbank’s Company of Oliver Batchellor at 45 dollars per Colonel Holman’s Regiment, year, provided Woodward pay the upon the alarm of December 10, rent by building stone walls at 75 1776, and marched from Sutton to cents per rod. The walls were to Providence, Rhode Island. be four and a half feet tall with the Jonas purchased the east half thickness proportional. He also of 7L3R on October 16, 1786, agreed to put down a thrashing from Jared Blood. He settled in floor in the barn. Stratton, along with his brother- Jonas seemed to farm a in-law and sister, Solomon and number of the lots in this area; Rachel (Woodward) Gale about however, he always kept the farm that same time. on 7L3R for himself. The Jonas bought and sold several Woodwards remained in Stratton large lots in the north part of for over twenty years, resettling in Stratton, including some of the Campbell, New York, about 1816. Governor’s lot. On June 13, On September 4, 1816, Jonas sold 1791, he had to repurchased the the east half of 7L3R and the east half of 7L3R at a vendue of south half of 8L3R to General lands confiscated for delinquent David Holmes of Woodstock, taxes. At that time, he also Connecticut. bought the south half of 8L3R. The Woodwards then settle in Jonas married Mary “Polly” the Campbell, New York, area, Morsman, daughter of Timothy where Sampson Bixby of Stratton and Lucy Morsman, on September had settled several years before. 15, 1791. This was the first The Woodwards were living in marriage recorded in Stratton. Campbell in 1832. Jonas died in After the marriage, the 1840. Woodwards remained on Jonas’s Children of Jonas and Polly were: farm on the east half of 7L3R, and 1) (?Daniel?), born April 29, in 1795, he finally obtained a deed 1792, at Stratton, Vermont. for the south half of 8L3R. Jonas 2) Jacob, born January 2, 1794, at bought and sold several parcels in Stratton, Vermont; married this same area over the years and Betsey Wilder (intent he leased part of the school lot published on September 1, (8L2R) for a time. Jonas also was 1816, at Stratton). involved in a dispute over 3) Olive, born March 17, 1796, at property lines with David Cook. Stratton, Vermont; died on On February 23, 1809, Jonas May 30, 1881; married agreed to lease the Batchellor Obadiah Wheeler (a Quaker) farm on the east half of 5L4R, in 1817. including the farming tools, for

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4) Cyrus, born December 15, such. She died at Stratton on June 1797, at Stratton, Vermont. 3, 1889. 5) Lucy, born April 9, 1800, at Stratton, Vermont. Woodwell 6) Mary, born February 4, 1803, Ernest S. Woodwell was born at Stratton, Vermont. about 1890 in Massachusetts. In 7) Frank Jonas, born February 22, 1920, Ernest was a lumberman, 1805, at Stratton, Vermont; working in Stratton and living in married Eliza S. Davis in the boarding house at the Grout 1830. Job. 8) Hyrum, born March 24, 1807, at Stratton, Vermont; died in 1884; married Luanna Abel. Worthington 9) Franklin, born March 22, Ansel Worthington, son of 1809, at Stratton, Vermont. Thomas and Olive Worthington, 10) Seline, born March 21, 1811, was named with his parents when at Stratton, Vermont. they were warned out of Somerset, Vermont, on January 23, 1810. Jacob Woodward, son of Jonas Ansel settled in Stratton, and Polly Woodward, was born at where he took the Freeman’s oath Stratton, on January 2, 1794. He on September 5, 1826. He was took the Freeman’s oath in elected a hayward at the March Stratton on September 5, 1815, Meeting of 1828, but he and he married Betsey Wilder of apparently moved away from Wardsboro, Vermont (intent Stratton not long after that time, published on September 1, 1816, since he was not listed in at Stratton). Stratton’s 1830 census. His The Woodwards probably left mother, Olive Worthington, Stratton for Campbell, New York, married Jonathan Marsh Bissell that same year. on May 12, 1830, at Stratton.

Jonas H. Woodard, son of Amos Wyman and Mary Woodard, was born at The Wyman family was the Townshend, Vermont, on keystone family of several families February 11, 1808. Jonas married to settle in Stratton. Amasa, Rachel Robinson, daughter of Washington and Freeman James and Abigail Robinson. Wyman, as well as Belinda Rachel was born at Jamaica, (Wyman) and Fanny (Wyman) Vermont, on July 2, 1818. Shelley, sequential wives of Hollis Jonas died at Stratton on June Shelley - all of whom settled in 2, 1875,of typhoid pneumonia. Stratton - were children of Robert Following Jonas’s death, Rachel and Lydia Wyman. Robert’s became a pauper of the town for sister, Rhoda, wife of William G. several years and she was Howard, was also a resident of mentioned in the town records as Stratton. Sophronia Shelley, wife

Stratton Families 548 of Amasa Wyman (mentioned Their children were: above), was a sister of Hollis 1) Elsa, married Richard Shelley (above). Richardson. This group came to Stratton 2) Hollis F., married Lucy from the area of Rockingham, Moultrip (Hollis lost an arm Vermont, and Surry, New during the Civil War). Hampshire during the 1840s. 3) Rose, married Eugene Clark They were also closely related to (lived at Westmoreland, New the Cummings family of Holden, Hampshire). Massachusetts, and Chester, Vermont, that also settled in Freeman Wyman, son of Robert Stratton. and Lydia Wyman, was born on April 20, 1815, at Rockingham, Amasa Wyman, son of Robert Vermont. He probably spent his and Lydia Wyman, was born on early life in Cambridgeport, May 24, 1813. He married Vermont, where his parents Sophronia Shelley, daughter of settled, died and were buried. Nathan and Mary (Britton) In August, 1841, Freeman Shelley, on December 31, 1832. purchased James Sprague’s Sophronia was born in 1806. mortgage on the east half of 4L4R They evidently lived awhile in in Stratton from Hollis Shelley. Westmoreland, New Hampshire, At that time, Freeman was living and settled in Stratton about 1842, in Rockingham, Vermont. probably residing with the Freeman married Lorena Shelleys. Cummings, daughter of William That year, Amasa was elected and Betsey Cummings (intent a highway surveyor for Stratton. published at Holden, On April 1, 1844, Asa purchased Massachusetts, on June 25, 1842). 67 acres of 5L3R (the Scranton Lorena was born on October 10, lot) from his brother, Freeman. 1818, at Chester, Vermont. Amasa and Sophronia apparently Following the marriage, the settled there. This lot was located Wymans probably lived on 3L5R in the vicinity of what is now the (the old Marble farm) with intersection of the West Jamaica Lorena’s parents. Rd. and Shepardson Rd. (see W. In 1843, Freeman acquired G. Howard on McClellan’s Map Cummings’ Inn owned by his of 1856 and I. Shepardson on father-in-law, William Beer’s Atlas of 1869). In 1846, Cummings, and he became its Amasa sold this lot to Freeman proprietor in 1844. The Inn was who then sold it to their uncle, located on the east half of 3L4R William G. Howard. west of what later became the Amasa and Sophronia intersection of the West Jamaica removed to Cambridgeport, Rd. and the Stratton-Arlington Vermont. Amasa died on August Rd. Freeman purchased this 20, 1863, at Grafton, Vermont.

Stratton Families 549 property on February 15, 1848, Goss, aged 23. Jason probably from William G. Pike. worked for the Wymans. It appears that beginning in Freeman died on November 1852, Freeman turned over the 14, 1870, evidently from a rupture Inn to Cheselton Allen and it was of the intestine. He was buried in referred to as the Cheselton Allen the Cambridgeport Cemetery in Inn in town records. Cheselton Cambridgeport, Vermont. Isaac operated the Inn until July, 1858, Wyman of Rockingham, Vermont, when it burned. Evidently, before was the executor of Freeman’s that time, Freeman built a home will. Many properties were sold beside the Inn on the site where following Freeman’s death. One the town hall now stands (another such transaction was an indenture house on the northwest side of the made October 22, 1872, between Inn may have been the old Lorena Wyman and Isaac farmhouse located on that lot). Wyman, Freeman’s executor, on This house, located on the the first part and the Selectmen of southwest side of the Stratton- the Town of Stratton on the Arlington Rd., later became the second part, which leased the area Parsonage for Stratton’s Free-Will around the Stratton Meetinghouse Baptist Church. Following the to the town for as long as a fire, the Inn was rebuilt on the site meetinghouse was maintained on where the town hall now stands, the premises. probably upon the same site of the Following Freeman’s death, old building. Cheselton Lorena married Willard Shepard apparently gave up on the hotel on February 2, 1875, at Stratton. business after the fire, and so the Lorena then purchased the new Inn was operated by Freeman Wyman homestead including the and Lorena. For many years, the Inn from Freeman’s estate on Inn was the location of Stratton’s October 30, 1875. Lorena and Town Meetings and Freemen’s Willard operated the Inn until Meetings. Lorena’s death on October 12, In 1847, the Wymans allowed 1887. She was buried beside the Stratton Meetinghouse to be Freeman in Cambridgeport. built on their property. That same Their son was: year, Freeman helped finance N. 1) Frederick F., born November J. Shaw’s mill, located on Black 24, 1857, at Stratton, Brook on 3L8R and 3L9R. Over Vermont; died January 9, the years, the Wymans bought and 1879, at Stratton, Vermont; sold many properties and married Abbie E. Parsons on mortgages in Stratton. Wyman September 19, 1878, at served Stratton in several official Stratton, Vermont. positions including Town Clerk. In 1860, the Wymans had a Frederick F. Wyman, son of young girl, Amanda Cook, aged 8, Freeman and Lorena Wyman, was living with them as well as Jason born at Stratton, on November 24,

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1857. He married Abbie E. been the daughter of Benjamin Parsons, daughter of Orrin and and Tamar (King) Marsh, born Rebecca Parsons, on September May 5, 1789, at Sutton, 19, 1878, at Stratton. Abbie was Massachusetts. born in Stratton on April 25, Reuben took the Freeman’s 1860. Frederick died on January oath in Stratton on September 6, 9, 1879, at Stratton and he was 1808, and he purchased the west buried in the family plot in the half of 1L3R from his father, Cambridgeport Cemetery, David Young of Athol, on Cambridgeport, Vermont. Abbie October 14, 1808. David had then married Arthur Allen, son of purchased this lot from Joshua Ormando and Mary Allen, on Newhall in 1806. The house may October 22, 1880. have been located on the same site that the Forresters later settled Washington Wyman, son of upon (see R. S. Forrester on Robert and Lydia Wyman, Beer’s Atlas of 1869). married Harriet Forrester at Reuben was a cousin of both Stratton. He evidently briefly Levi Young of Stratton and Rhoda resided in Stratton - probably in (Young) Oliver, wife of George the home of one of his brothers. Oliver, of Stratton. Reuben The Wymans later resided in removed from Stratton back to Cambridgeport, Vermont. Athol before the census of 1810 Following Harriet’s death, was taken. He sold his Stratton Washington married Catherine land back to his father on March Forrester. This Catherine was 31, 1813, who sold it to Moses evidently a daughter of Moses and Forrester the following year. The Patty Forrester and a widow of Youngs evidently settled for a Calvin Torrey (1820 - 1851). time in McDonough, New York. Catherine was born about 1827. Reuben died at Belchertown, Their children were: Massachusetts, on November 5, 1) Moses (died young). 1822. 2) Edmund, married Kate Their children were: Stevens. 1) Emeline 3) Henry 2) Isabelle, born in 1809. 3) Louisa 4) Hiram Reuben, born April 15, Y 1813; married Catharine Morse. 5) Caroline Young 6) Rosella Reuben Young, son of David and 7) Albert, born in 1819 at Hannah (Lumbard) Young, was McDonough, New York. born on September 24, 1786, at 8) Angeline, born in 1821 at Athol, Massachusetts. He married McDonough, New York. Mehitable Marsh there on April Additional Sources: 12, 1807. Mehitable may have Notes of Shiela Young Heap

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Levi Young, son of Samuel and David Kent Young, son of Jerry Lois (Cotting) Young, was born at and Peggy Young, grew up in Athol, Massachusetts, on Indiana, then moved to Tennessee December 27, 1783. Levi was a in 1976. He graduated from High half-brother of Rhoda (Young) School there and then attended Oliver, wife of George Oliver of the University of Tennessee at Stratton, and he was also a cousin Chattanooga. In 1980, Kent of Reuben Young of Stratton. moved to Alabama, where his Levi married Susanna Haven parents previously had resettled. on August 22, 1804. Levi had There, he joined the Navy in purchased 26 acres in Stratton 1981. Gore from George Oliver on April Kent spent two years in 17, 1804, and so the Youngs service schools, then served apparently settled there after their aboard the USS Henry L. Stimson, marriage. Levi’s house was a nuclear powered ballistic missile located on this lot (possibly the submarine stationed out of northwest corner of lot #16 in the Charleston, South Carolina, and Gore. A deed dated 1810 Kings Bay, Georgia, from 1983 to mentions the road leading from 1990. Kent was a member of the George Oliver’s house to Levi Reactor Controls Division, Young’s house, which passed qualified as a Reactor Operator along the southwest corner of and an Engineering Supervisor. 1L4R and also bordered Richard During that time, Kent Harris’s south line (Harris owned married Siobhan Eddy, daughter the northwest corner of 1L4R). of Hermon and Helen Eddy. She This road was probably the same was born in Texas, she also had that ran from the Town Common lived in Maryland and overseas in to Stratton Gore. England. Levi was called “of Athol” Following the Navy, Kent when he purchased an additional worked for General Physics 100 acres in Stratton Gore Corporation as a technical writer (Timothy Morsman’s old lot) in and instructor at the Savannah 1808. Levi may have only briefly River Site in Aiken, South left town, returning to take the Carolina, a nuclear facility. In Freeman’s oath on September 6, 1992, he transferred with General 1808. He was called of Stratton Physics to work on the Fusion when he purchased another 110 experiment at the Princeton acres of the Gore in April, 1809. Plasma Physics Laboratory at Levi sold this last lot and his Princeton, New Jersey, as a homestead on November 7, 1809. technician and technical writer, The Youngs left Stratton at that specializing in tritium handling. time and they were living in Athol Meanwhile, Siobhan acquired by April, 1810, when Levi sold her Masters degree in Health the last of his Stratton property. Sciences and a degree in Physical Therapy at the Medical University

Stratton Families 552 of South Carolina. She worked as had been in the Eddy family for a Physical Therapist at Princeton many years. They settled there in Medical Center, then transferred May, 1996. Currently, Kent is to Springfield Hospital, Stratton’s Town Clerk and he has Springfield, Vermont, in 1995. In served as a Lister, a Planning May, 1998, Siobhan began work Commissioner and a Justice of the at Grace Cottage Hospital in Peace for Stratton. Kent is the Townshend, Vermont. author of this book. Kent and Siobhan refurbished Kent and Siobhan’s daughter is: a house on Pike Hollow Rd. that 1) Wren

A birthday party in Stratton This photo was taken in the 1890s in the fields of the Johnson farm on the west side of what is now Penny Avenue.

My sincere appreciation goes out to the many people who contributed information and photographs for this project. Their names can be found after each family they contributed towards. Thank you again! Kent