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 A lepresentative of the Blandin Family; — Lamach Blandin,,lDeiiig the 
 first, or one of the first settlers in Brookline. 
 
BROOKLINE, 
 
 BY oniKm p. BTICKNEY 
 
 DEDICATED 
 
 To The Treading Families of Brookliae, 
 
 "WHO GAVE AN ORDER FOE EACH INHABITED HOUSE IN TOWN. 
 
 BEOOKLINE, 
 
 "the grassy brook REGION." 
 
 The town of Brookline comprises a 
 valley six miles long, by two to three 
 "wide ; and originallj' formed jparts of 
 Putney, Athens and Newf ane, and con- 
 tains nearly 17 square miles. Nearly 
 three miles in length belonged to Athens 
 on the northern part ; the southern part, 
 to Putney, and the south-western part, 
 on West River to Newfane. 
 
 GRASSY BROOK, 
 
 which has one source at LUy Pond and 
 one on Hedge-hog Hill in Athens, flows 
 through the length of the town and falls 
 into West Eiver. It derived its name 
 from the open meadows in the northern 
 part, producing a large growth of grass 
 where the pioneers of the region went 
 to cut their hay. 
 
 The town is geographically, a little to 
 the east and to the north of the centre of 
 Windham County and 7 miles west of 
 Connecticut River, about equal distance 
 from Bellows Falls, north and Brattle- 
 fooro, south, and the township seems to 
 
 have been seperated from others by nat- 
 ural divisional lines ; a range of hills, 
 east and west ; the highest pomt in the 
 eastern range 1100 feet from the valley, 
 below. It is a picturesque valley with 
 its fertUe meadows, verdant hillsides, 
 and primeval forsets, so alluring to the 
 early settlers ; and settlements were 
 made, it is supposed, prior to i777. 
 
 THE FIRSTBORN. 
 
 The record of the first births are as 
 follows : 
 
 Martha Whitcomb, April 29, 1777: 
 Jonas Negus, Dec. 12, 1777; 
 Cyrus Whitcomb the 3d. March 17, 
 1779. 
 
 It is a matter of conjecture who was 
 the first settler. 
 
 CYRUS WHITCOMB, 
 
 a few years before 1777, settled upon 
 the lands now owned bj^ John B. Steb- 
 bins, on the southern boundary, origi- 
 nally, of the town of Athens. 
 
 Other early settlers were : Ebenezer 
 Wellmari on land of Stebbins ; ApoUos 
 Austin upon land of Charles P. Stick- 
 ney, Ebenezer Harwood ujDon the farm 
 of Elbridge Mason, Jotham Stebbins 
 on the Eufus Stebbins' farm and John 
 
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 Blandm upon the farm now owned by 
 AUen 0. WeUman. 
 
 LAMACH BLANDIN 
 
 who came here from Attleboro, Mass., 
 is thought by some to have been the 
 first settler. It is said he had his choice 
 of aU the land for 20 cents an acre, and 
 he made his selection upon the rise in 
 the ro£fd a little south of Daniel E. 
 Whitney's house. The wall of his cellar 
 is to be seen at the present time. 
 
 Others who located early in this vi- 
 cinity were : Timothy Welhnan upon 
 land now owned by Hiram Whitney ; 
 Jonathan Boynton and William Skin- 
 ner on land of Andrew S. Rist ; to the 
 south of this farm. Daniel Bixby and 
 Richard Whitney, and Rosebrook 
 Crawford, on what is called Whitney 
 hill ; Francis Drake on Bemis hiU. 
 
 Those who settled early in the south 
 part of the town were : Abijah Moore 
 on the farm of Wm. P. Stebbins ; Wm. 
 Robbins on land of Everett P. WeU- 
 man, Daniel Benson south of this farm ; 
 Peter Benson upon the farm of Jacob 
 Bush. Those who settled on the borders 
 of West River were : Benjamin Flint, 
 on the farm of Oscar C. Merrifleld, the 
 beautiful meadows in the forks of Gras- 
 sy Brook and West River; Ebenezer 
 Ober on the meadows of Timothy M. 
 AJbee ; Christopher Osgood on land of 
 Luther Osgood, north-east of his mead- 
 ow ; Luke B. Osgood on land of .George 
 E. Ware, and James Walden upon the 
 farm of Charles A. Cutler ; all whom 
 are supposed to have come to this val- 
 ley prior to 1780. 
 
 1780 to 1790, settlers came in fast. 
 The population during this decade was 
 larger than at any other period in the 
 history of the town. It is safe to say, 
 there was one family or more to every 
 50 acres. It may be a conjecture to the 
 
 young to-day how did these large fam- 
 ilies live ? 
 
 The wood was cut and burned in a 
 kiln and from the ashes salts of lye were 
 made, packed in wooden troughs taken 
 on their backs over the hill to Putney, 
 where there was a settlement on the 
 Connecticut River and exchanged for 
 the little necessaries of life. 
 
 MOVE TOWAED TOWN ORGANIZATION. 
 
 Prior to 1794, the settlers gi-ew dis- 
 satisfied with the lack of political rights; 
 as townsmen, inconvenient to the town 
 meetings in the neighboring towns and 
 none of their own; unnecessarily op- 
 pressed they sought relief through the 
 legislature, and through an act of the 
 session of Oct. 30, 1794, the south part 
 of Athens and aU that part of Putney, 
 lying west of an abrupt elevation of 
 land, gave to the inhabitants residing 
 therein, "all of the privUiges and im- 
 munities" which the inhabitants of 
 other towns have and enjoy, excepting 
 electing and sending a representative to 
 the legislature and conventions ; receiv- 
 ing to the freemen of said parts of Ath- 
 ens and Putney the light of meeting 
 with and voting with the freemen of the 
 towns from which they had been re- 
 spectively severed in all freemens meet- 
 ings for choosing a representative to the 
 General Assembly and other purposes. 
 
 THE FIEST TOWN MEETING. 
 
 Peter Benson was moderator ; John 
 Waters was chosen town clerk ; Peter 
 Benson, Lamah Blandin, Jotham Steb- 
 bins, selectmen; Abijah Moore, town 
 treasurer; Thomas Walker, constable 
 and collector ; Ebenezer Bugbee, Will- 
 iam HiUs, John Blandin, listers ; Ben- 
 jamin Farmer, leather-sealer; Ebene- 
 zer WeUman, grand-juror, Benjamin 
 Farmer, Ebenezer Bugbee, tithing- 
 men, Ebenezer Harwood, pound-keep- 
 
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 er, Samuel Blandin, haj'ward; Jona- 
 than Ellenwood, Benjamin Farmer, 
 Cyrus Wbitcomb, Ebenezer Bugbee, 
 highway-siirveyors ; Delvis Briggs, 
 Jonathan Ellenwood, Joseph Root, 
 fence-viewers ; and William HUls, seal- 
 er of weights and measui'es. 
 
 SCaoOLS THE SABBATH. 
 
 To the organization of the town, 1794, 
 there were no school-houses, or public 
 place for' worship. Schools were kept 
 in dwelling-houses and such places as 
 would best convene. The Sabbath was 
 observed by groups gathered together 
 with due solemnity, when the one most 
 gifted would be appointed to conduct 
 their worship. 
 
 PEODUCTIVENESS. 
 
 From the organization 169 4, to about 
 1824, the land had become cleared, the 
 rich soil yielded bountiful crops, the 
 light loamy knolls and plateaus would 
 produce 70 bushels of com per acre 
 without the fertillizers. White clover 
 upon the hillside was in abundance. It 
 was a period of general prosperity. 
 
 Roads were laid out and more busi- 
 ness carried on than at any other period 
 of the town's history. At the junction 
 of the roads, leading through the vaUey 
 and over the hill to Putney, and west- 
 ward to Townshend, winch was the 
 seat of" her commercial business. 
 
 The road leading eastward and west- 
 ward was the thoroughfare for towns 
 westward to Putney, Westminster and 
 Boston. 
 
 Within this period the town contain- 
 ed 3 stores, 2 hotels, 2 blacksmith shops, 
 3 saw-miUs, 2 gTist-miUs, 2 tamiery, 1 
 potashry, 1 doctor, and one councillor 
 at law. 
 
 THE PIEST STOEE. 
 
 Samuel Wheat, who lived in Putney, 
 is supposed to have put in the first store. 
 
 which was last occupied by Ephraim 
 H. Mason. Mr. Wheat did not move 
 here, but employed Daniel Sabin to do 
 his business here ; he also run a pot- 
 ashry, located just east of his store. 
 
 Anthony Jones followed Mr. Wheat 
 in the mercantile business, and Isaac 
 Palmer, Mr. Jones Palmer ; failed about ; 
 1817. He was ai-rested and put in jail, 
 but broke the jail, and never was seen 
 here afterwai-ds. 
 
 HOTELS. 
 
 The house of Walter S. Bennett is 
 one of the oldest houses in town, it was 
 built for a hotel. At this place there 
 was a pubHc house from the earliest 
 date to about 1853. Isaac Taft is sup- 
 posed to have kept the first tavern, 
 and also a store, which was a little to 
 the east of his house. 
 
 Luke Atherton followed Mr. Taft, 
 and Samuel Churchill, Mr. Atherton, 
 and Oats Haven, Mr. ChurchUl. 
 
 FIRES. 
 
 In 1823, Mr. Haven's store was 
 burned together with the barn of Benj. 
 Ormsbee. Wm. C. Lee was arrested, 
 convicted of the larceny, and sentenced 
 to the state prison. 
 
 John Waters built a large house that 
 was burned in 1886, owned when burnt 
 by Elbridge G. Mason, being the sec- 
 ond and last occupied house, burned. 
 
 Mr. Waters had a push for business, 
 he kept a hotel and a store, but he be- 
 came involved and failed. Cyrus Whit- 
 comb, who was bound with him, also 
 failed. By this misfortune two of the 
 first settlers were lost to the town ; both 
 removed. And Lamah Blandin, also, 
 removed in 1815. 
 
 THE OLD TANNEEY 
 
 was between the houses of Rufus and 
 Samuel Stebbins. and managed by 
 John Bixby. 
 
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 SAW AND GEIST MILLS. 
 
 A saw and grist-mill were early put 
 in below the bridge, by E. R. Bush's 
 house, and occupied by John Benson. 
 
 A grist-mill was buUt on the mead- 
 ows of Wm. P. Stebbins, owned by 
 William Moore. 
 
 A saw-mill was built upon the 
 Blandin brook, by Jotham Stebbins, 
 at an early date. 
 
 Elijah Davis of Athens built a saw- 
 mill and a grist-mill in the north part 
 of the town, who was followed in pos- 
 session by David Cotwell, Ben. Walker, 
 D. E. Whitnej'-, E. H. Mason, and 
 Winchester Smith. In 1868, Lorenzo 
 W. Bush, bought the mill and moved it 
 where it now stands. Tlu:ee times the 
 torrent of the freshet m G-rassy Brook 
 swept out his dam ; but being a man of 
 pluck and energy, he has rebuilt. 
 
 HOTELS CONTINUED. 
 
 Those who followed Taft in the ho- 
 tel were : Samuel ChurchiU, Benjamin 
 Ormsbee, Edson Higgins, Franklin 
 Walker, Thomas Gordon, and Joe 
 Codding, who took down his sign 
 about 1852. 
 
 THE FIRST DOCTOE 
 
 in town was Dr. William Perrj^, who 
 came from Putney, and settled here a 
 few years before 1815. He first lived 
 where Loren Rannej^'s house stands, 
 but afterwards moved to the south part 
 of the town. He was a successful prac- 
 tioner and did much toward building up 
 the business and prosperity of the town, 
 and raised up a family of children, who 
 became useful citizens. He moved to 
 Newfane in 1839, but is represented in 
 to^Ti by his youngest daughter, the wife 
 of Leverett K. AYilliams. 
 
 HOLBROOK BENSON, ESQ. 
 
 practiced in town, to some extent. He 
 lived on the hill west of H. N. Wliit- 
 
 ney's. He was frozen to death, about 
 1828, his house became unoccupied 
 and was burned. 
 
 ANNEXATION. 
 
 Sept. 20, 1819, a town meeting for 
 
 that purpose, was held : 
 
 "Voted to receive that part of the 
 town of Newfane, lying on the east side 
 of Wantastiquet, or West River, to be 
 annext to the town of Brooldine, as a 
 part of said town of Brookline." 
 
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 This augmentation added much to the 
 wealth and prosperity of the town, and 
 the agitation which brought it on, was 
 on account of crossing the river for town 
 business. There was no bridge over 
 the river in this vicinity at this time, 
 and when the river was high it was im- 
 possible to pass over by fording. In 
 attending a town meeting in March, 
 the men passed over in the morning on 
 the ice ; before night the river broke 
 up, and there was no way of return, 
 and their wives and children were 
 doomed to a night of wretched fears. 
 
 On the 7th of October, it was : 
 
 "Voted to receive the following per- 
 sons now residing in Newfane, to be an- 
 nexed to and became a part of said 
 Brooldine, viz : Luke B. Osgood. Jona- 
 than Cutler, Lot Holland, Wm. Bently, 
 Elisha Flint, Harve_y Osgood, Anthony 
 Moron and Christopher Osgood." 
 
 THE GRASSHOPPER PLAGUE: 
 
 Not equal to the plague of Egypt, 
 quite, but it nearly destroj^ed all crops 
 of that 3'ear. A few fields of grain 
 were saved by drawing ropes acrost the 
 fields, two and three times a Aay. To 
 reiDresent what hay and grass was de- 
 stroyed in the town on the fertile mead- 
 ows of John B. Stebbins, only about 3 
 tons of haj^ could be gathered. Trees 
 and all green vegetation were stripped 
 of their foliage. Nor yet did adversity 
 in these j'ears come singly : 
 
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 BROOKLINE. 
 
 June 20, 1821, marte the day the most 
 memorable for adversity in Brooldine : 
 
 THE JUNE FRESHET. 
 
 In the morning the heavens were clear 
 and sunshmy, a little past noon, around 
 the summit of Lily Pond hill, the sky 
 became dark and heavj'', and soon ter- 
 rific peals of thunder vibrated the air, 
 and the rain came down in such torrents 
 as to cover tlie ground with a complete 
 sheet of water. To use the words of 
 BarziUai Sticlniey, who witnessed it : — 
 " It seemed as though the heavens met 
 the earth, and instantly, a mighty, bil- 
 lowy sea came rushing down, carrying 
 rocks, stones and trees to the vaUe}^ be- 
 low." About one half the deluge came 
 down through Grassy Brook, the other 
 north wai'd through Athens intoSaxtou's 
 River. Every bridge was swept away. 
 The Valley road in many places was 
 completely destroyed, and many acres 
 of the rich,, loamy meadows made beds 
 of stones and gravel . Hugh stones were 
 lifted up and carried like pebbles ; near- 
 ly all growing crops in the Valley were 
 destroyed. 
 
 The scholars in District No. 2, hear- 
 ing the tumult, came out on the bridge 
 just north of the school-house to see 
 how rapid the water came, not appre- 
 hending danger ; Dr. Wm. Peny living 
 near seeing the impending danger, rush- 
 ed out and drove the scholars back. As 
 he stepped from the bridge, a huge 
 swell of water carried it off and Mr. 
 Perry was seperated from his family for 
 the night ; but the lives of several of the 
 scholars were undoubtedly saved. 
 
 So destitute were several families 
 after his visitation that aid was sent to 
 them by the people of Putney. 
 
 So large and rapid was the torrent of 
 the water, at Saxton's River, a distance 
 of 9 miles, it was with gi-eat effort, that 
 
 the help in the factory there were res- 
 cued. Sarah Perham, the mother of the 
 writer, was carried on the shoulders of 
 men who waded waist-deep in water. 
 
 The brick had been left for the Round 
 school house, upon the north side, but 
 so powerful was the deluge they were* 
 taken up and carried to the south side, 
 upon a higher ground, where the house 
 now stands. To give a vivid conception 
 of the deluge, large logs floated past C. 
 P. Stickney's house in the road. 
 
 The people felt the ^Dressure of the 
 damage done : the thoroughfare acrost 
 the hills ceased, the stores were closed, 
 small farms were sold, and the hillsides 
 being deserted the population decreas- 
 ed. The building of roads up West 
 River, helped also to bring about this 
 result. 
 
 FIRST REPRESENTATIVE. 
 
 The town had now been organized ' 
 30 years without the right to elect a 
 representative. In 1823, this right was 
 granted; and in 1824, Benj. Ormsbee 
 was elected as the first representative. 
 At this freeman's meeting, the number 
 of votes for representatives to Con- 
 gTess, were Phineas White, 74; Wm. 
 C. Bradlej^ C, showing a poll of 80. 
 
 THE FIRST TOWN OFFICERS. 
 
 William Perry, moderator; Benj. 
 Ormsbee, town clerk; Thomas Crane, 
 Benj. Ormsbee, Lot Holland, select- 
 men ; Israel Whitney, to'vvn treasurer ; 
 Thomas Crane, Anthony Mason, 
 Daniel Bixbj^ listers ; Anthony Mason, 
 constable; Asa Flint, John Blandm, 
 grand jurors; John Blandin, Israel 
 Whitnej'. Elisha Flin; fence viewers; 
 Alvin Boyden, the pound-keeper, Isaac 
 Welhnan, Saml. Stebbius, Thos. Wells, 
 Christopher Osgood, Daniel Bixby,' 
 Isaac Whitney, Zephaniah Perry, high- 
 way surveyor, Rufus Stebbius, sealer 
 of leather, Samuel Stebbius, dealer of 
 
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 weights and measures ; Christ. Osgood, 
 Ehsha Fau-banks, tything men ; Eben. 
 Pool, Willard Philhps, Joel C. Lee, 
 Lewis Cady. Bradley Fan-banks, Ira 
 Cutler, hay wards; Eben. Whitnej', 
 Jacob Burditt, grand jurors to court; 
 .Elisha Flint, Asa Flint, Amos Haile, 
 Israel Whitney, John PhiUips, Samuel 
 Stebbins, petit jurors; Benj. Perry, 
 Amos Haile, sextons. 
 
 A UNION MEETING HOUSE. 
 
 r For a few yeai-s prior to 1836, the 
 subject of building a house for public 
 worship was discussed, but an endeavor 
 to unite did not succeed, On March 
 18, 1836, a meeting was held for that 
 purpose, Ephm. H. Mason was elected 
 chairman, Asaph Coy, clerk. 
 
 "Voted that it is the minds of this 
 meetiug to buUd a union meeting-house 
 in this town. ' 
 
 "Voted to choose a committee to 
 confer with the Baptist Chosen: 
 Asaph Coy. Sam'l Adams, Sam'l Rist, 
 such committee. At a meeting, held 
 March 24, 1836 : "Voted to choose a 
 committe to draw a plan of a Union 
 meeting house, and a constitution and 
 by-laws to govern the same." 
 
 Chose: Barzillai Stickney, Rufus 
 Stebbins, Asaph Coy. Benj. Ormsbee, 
 Benj. Walker. Dan'l E. Whitney, to 
 compose said committee. Chose: — 
 Rufus Stebbins, Ephm. H, Mason, a 
 committe to try to form a union with 
 the Baptist society." 
 
 "At a meeting, held, April 12. 
 BarzUlai Stickney. Daniel E. Whitney, 
 Benj. Walker were chosen, buUding 
 committee. 
 
 At a meeting held April 25, Samuel 
 Rist, Rufus Stebbins, Barzillai Stickney, 
 Joel Harwood, Wm. B, Root, Eph. H. 
 Mason, Dr, Wm. Perry were chosen 
 locating committee, 
 
 At a meeting held June 6, voted to 
 add Wm. Perry, and Joel Harwood to 
 the building committee. 
 
 " Voted that the building committee 
 procure a deed for the building as soon 
 as may be. 
 
 Dm-iug the season the Union Church 
 was built by Methodists and Universal- 
 ists. The names of those who signed 
 the covenant of the society were: 
 Timothy WaUter, Israel Whitney, 
 Sam'l Rist, Rufus Stebbins, Eph'm 
 Mason, BarziUai Stickney, Hiram 
 Whitney. Asaph Coy, Benj, Walker, 
 Franklin Walker, Dan'l E. Whitney, 
 Joel Ranney, Luke Rist, David Walker, 
 Liberty Hai'wood, Sullivan Pollard. 
 Joel Barwood, Eben, Harwood, Colton 
 Evans, Charles Evans, Amos L. Rist, 
 Eben. Whitney, William East. Timothy 
 H. Whitney, David Skinner, William 
 Ranney, Jr., Benj. Ormsbee, David 
 Kidder, J. L. Blandin, Philip Bemis, 
 .Jr., J. S. Osgood, WUliam B. Root, Jr., 
 Cliristopher Osgood, Wm. Perry, Wm. 
 B. Root, William Hulett, John B. 
 Turner, Jacob Burditt, Sam'l Butter- 
 field, Geo. Harvey, Norman C. Marsh. 
 Asa Flint, Otis Harwood, Joel A. Har- 
 wood, A. A. Flint. Rev. Wm. Hodges 
 preached the dedication sermon for the 
 Methodists, and Rev. Mr. HemphiU, for 
 the Universalists, and both were pastors 
 of the church for many years. 
 
 For the first 25 yeai-s the church was 
 prosperous. 
 
 Rev. O. R. Edwards, for the last 20 
 years, has occasionally supplied the pul- 
 pit for this church. 
 
 BUILDING OF A BAPTIST CHUECH. 
 
 A Baptist church was buUt the same 
 year ; Samuel Stebbins, Samuel Cutler, 
 and Ira Cutler contributed largely for 
 its erection. 
 
 At the raising of the belfry, the wall 
 being brick, the west bent of the belfry 
 was raised and stayed and as the men 
 commenced to lift the second bent, the 
 supporters of the work gave way and 
 precipitated 40 men a distance of nearly 
 20 feet below among fallen timbers 
 
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 and boards. The jar of the falling 
 timbers lessened the stay of the bent 
 that was raised and that started down- 
 wards, too ; but seemingly by the hand 
 of Providence it was stopped by a pro- 
 jecting brick : had this fallen u]D0n the 
 men below, many would have been 
 killed, Those who received injuries 
 were Delais Welhnan, Samuel Bennett, 
 leg broken ; Joseph Mvirdock, shoulder 
 dislocated ; Everett Wellman, struck in 
 the back by a spike, and Ira Cutler and 
 Benj. Deny, who received internal in- 
 juries. Although this accident seemed 
 like a fatal blow, at first, in one week 
 after, the belfry was successfully raised. 
 
 From the advent of the two new 
 churches to 1860, were years of general 
 thrift and prosperity. Good schools 
 and good society were sustained ; Sam'l 
 Stebbins and Francis Merrifleld, took 
 the lead in accumulating wealth. 
 
 When the Vermont and Massachu- 
 setts ' "Western Railroad was being 
 agitated, these men took an interest in 
 the big enterprise for then, and con- 
 tributed to its building. 
 
 At the survey of the Vermont Valley 
 Railroad, a rout was contemplated up 
 West River through the Valley of 
 Grassy Brook and on to Chester. Had 
 this been carried out as hoped, on this 
 easy grade and less cost of construction 
 more than equal fo that of the Con- 
 necticut Valley, Brookline would have 
 been the equal of her sister towns for 
 business, and a village wonld have 
 sprung up as a depot for the upjDcr 
 towns of the West River Valley. 
 
 IN THE LATE WAR 
 
 the patriotism of her sons was second to 
 none ; when the Union's call for volun- 
 teers was given, many young men of 
 promise were in her bo.iders, and they 
 promptly responded. So free and large 
 
 were the early enlistment that near the 
 close of the war, her quota was nearly 
 fiUed. and it lessened the trouble many 
 towns had to furnish men. 
 
 Of her noble sons, two were killed in 
 battle, Hemy Bush at Fredericksburg, 
 and Marshall Wellman at, or near- New 
 Orleans. 
 
 Two died in camp, Alvan Higgins at 
 New Orleans, Alonzo P. Bush at New 
 Orleans. 
 
 John Barrett died of disease con- 
 tracted while in the camp. 
 
 Hibbard Holden was so severly in- 
 jured by a minne ball at Fredericksburg, 
 which passed through his body, as to 
 remain infii'm for life. 
 
 William W. Perry was wounded in 
 the head by a missile from a shell and 
 disabled for life. 
 
 Of these brave and noble sons who 
 have honored themselves abroad, J. W. 
 Stebbins, is now a Methodist clergy- 
 man in Minnesota. 
 
 Albert Merrifield, is a successful 
 business man in Mendota, lU. 
 
 Hibbard Holden, is a raihoad agent 
 al Salem, N. Y. 
 
 W. B. Stickney, A. B., is a raikoad 
 agent at ^.nn Arbor, Mich. 
 
 E. A. Stebbins, is a successful dentist 
 at Shelbume Falls, Mass. 
 
 At the close of the war, the town, in- 
 stead of being impoverished, her 
 treasury empty, and a huge war debt 
 left for a future burden, had her treas- 
 ury full and the expenses of the war aU 
 paid. But few towns have managed 
 their financial business with greater 
 success. 
 
 EAILEOAD BEJfEFITS. 
 
 What had long been felt a necessity 
 to bring her farmers to an equal position 
 in the transaction of business was bet- 
 
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 ter communication to the outer world 
 and the advent of the Narrow Gauge 
 Railroad ujd West River and across her 
 borders has secured her this position, 
 
 Though hotly contested to give aid 
 through the capacity of the town, she 
 had refused by a small vote ; hut two 
 of her enterprising citizens, Luther 
 Osgood, and Oscar C. Merrifield, came 
 to the rescue and furnished the sum of 
 $1,000 more needed to complete the 
 subscription before the world could be 
 said — " Go." 
 
 BROOKLINE OP TO-DAY. 
 
 For the last half century, the inhab- 
 itants of the town have been gradually 
 going out and farms consolidated ; the 
 meadows retained for tillage and the 
 Other lands for pasturage, much of 
 which has grown to timber. The val- 
 ley of Grassy Brook inclines gently to 
 the south and is so protected by nature's 
 barriers that violent winds seldom oc- 
 cur; and the soil is quicli and warm 
 and yeilds good crops to the faithful 
 husbandman; the roads are pleasant, 
 drawing travelers ; the people are fru- 
 gal and industrious, und in the valley 
 of Grassy Brook are the homes of many 
 good farmers; and Brookline has its 
 
 MINERAL SPUING 
 
 upon the hillside in the south part of the 
 town, about a mile from the Valley 
 road. It has strong properties of iron, 
 and is much resorted to in the warm 
 weather of the summer, and if proper- 
 ly developed would, doubtless, become 
 a popular summer resort, as the scene- 
 ry around is fine ; just beyond from an 
 easy carriage-road to reach, is a point 
 of land unsurpassed by any in the state 
 for beautj' of scenery ; looking south, at 
 the west is the valley of the Wantasi- 
 quet, deep and narrow, and at the east, 
 the valley of the Connecticut with her 
 
 broad, fertile meadows ; at the west the 
 high lands of the Green Mountains 
 from Florida in Massachusetts, to Mt. 
 Holly, with towering peata at the north 
 in this state. From this spot we sur- 
 vey Shatterack, Manickmung, Hay- 
 stack and Saddle-back, At the east is 
 seen the Connecticut valley from Holj'- 
 oke to Ascutney and extending east- 
 ward over hill and valley, forest and 
 meadow until the majestic summit of 
 the Monadnock closes the view in that 
 direction ; thence to the north is seen 
 the line of the blue Highlands and on- 
 ward toward the White Mountains. — 
 The scenery to allure, the soil quick 
 and productive, the Vallej^ of Grassy 
 Brook is one of nature's secluded spots 
 wherein man can enjoy the fruits of his 
 own labor. [Rather of a farmer's little 
 paradise.] 
 
 EDUCATIONAL. 
 
 Schools were taught here at dwel- 
 ling-houses in 1795. The first school- 
 teacher in town is said to have been 
 Lucy Skinner, daughter of Samuel 
 Skiimer, one of the first settlers. 
 
 Cyrus Whitcomb's house was as well 
 adapted for school purposes as anj^ in 
 the district or town, and its location de- 
 cided the selection of a school-room 
 there. It was a little north of John B. 
 Stebbins' house of to-day. 
 
 Timothy H. Whitney, an early settler 
 and a young man of good education, 
 was employed to teach. 
 
 The house not being verj^ well en- 
 closed, one day a weasel came in and 
 sought the pantry and while he was 
 nibbling for his meal one of Mr. 
 Whitcomb's boys saw the intruder and 
 asked leave to drive him out. 
 
 It appears that schools were taught 
 here for several years. 
 
BROOKLINE. 
 
 13 
 
 The first division of the town into 
 districts was April 21, 1796, at a legal 
 meeting warned and holden in Brook- 
 line, Peter Benson, moderator. 
 
 "Voted to divide the town into three 
 school districts." 
 
 ••Voted to choose a committee to 
 divide the same." 
 
 ••Voted that Peter Benson, Richard 
 Whitney, John Waters, Jotham Steb- 
 bins and Benjamin Farmer, be a com- 
 mittee for that purpose. 
 
 "Voted to choose three trustees of 
 schools (Viz. I. Eben. Bugbee, Isaac 
 Welhnan, and Eben. Harwood.") 
 
 "Voted to adjourn the meeting to 
 the 25th day of August. At the ad- 
 joui-ned meeting voted to accept of the 
 transaction of the tr'ustess and the com- 
 mittee's division of the town into school 
 districts." 
 
 The school house built in No. 1, 
 was located very near the foot of 
 Whitney hill. 
 
 THE FIRST SCHOOL HOUSES: 
 
 In District No. 2, a little south of 
 the Round school-house. In District 
 No. 3. near the house of Samuel B. 
 Higgins. 
 
 The first record that appears of the 
 number of scholars between the years 
 of 4 and 18, is March 1808. 
 
 "In the north school district, 64 
 schools. Attest: Archelaus Bixby, 
 clerk." 
 
 "In the Middle School district, 57, 
 Attest : Peter M. Benson, clerk." 
 
 THE BOUND SCHOOL-HOUSE. 
 
 The Round school-house was built in 
 1822. '• Old Thunderbolt "* or Dr. 
 Wilson, submitted the plan to the build- 
 ing committee. Dr. Wm. Perry and 
 Samuel Stebbins ; and it is the oldest 
 school-house now standing and is never 
 
 *See History of Brattlelsoro, page 63, sup- 
 posed to have been an accomplice of the rob- 
 ber Ligbtfoot, -vrbo was bung. 
 
 forgotten by those who live in or pass 
 through the town for its grotesqueness ; 
 yet many gifted sons and daughters 
 have passed from this to other places to 
 win distinction as moral and intellect- 
 ual educators. 
 
 scholae's list. 
 
 A list of scholars and parents as re- 
 tained by district clerks in 1824: 
 District No. 1 : — Samuel Rist, 6 
 scholars ; Eliphalet Skinner 2 ; Samuel 
 Frost, 5 ; Abiah Fuller, 5 ; James 
 Johnson, 3; Tyler Derry, 3; Peter 
 Derry, 1; Zephaniah Derry, 3; Orrin 
 Simpson, 2; Simeon Perry, 2; Israel 
 Whitney, 1 ; Solomon Whitney, 2 ; 
 David Kidder, 2; Joel Harwood, 5; 
 Ebenezer Whitney, 4 ; John Gates, 3 ; 
 John Phillips, 5 ; Edmon Rhodes, 1 ; 
 John Cady, 1. Total 56 scholars. 
 Daniel Bixby, District clerk. 
 
 District No. 2 : — Cheney Flint, 2 
 scholars; Jacob Burditt, 2; Lemuel 
 Stebbins, 3; Rufus Stebbins, 3; Eben- 
 ezer Bugbee, 2; Isaac Wellman, 3; 
 Timothy Wellman, 2; Elisha Fair- 
 banks, 4 ; Daniel Cole, 1 ; Alvin Boy- 
 den, 3 ; Peter Benson, 1 ; Wm. Perry, 
 3 ; Ebenezer Wellman, 2 ; Lyman Lee, 
 2 ; Samuel Adams, 4 ; Benjamin Orms- 
 bee, 6 : Elder Isaac Wellman, 3 ; Eben- 
 ezer Pool, 3 ; John Blandin, 1 ; Jonas 
 Blandin, 1 ; total 51 scholars. — Jacob 
 Burditt, District clerk. 
 District No. 3: — Daniel Benson, 3 
 scholars; Rufus M. Benson, 2; Isaac 
 Wellman, 2 ; Hiram Wilder, 1 ; Josiah 
 Leonard, 2 ; John Benson, 1 ; Job Big- 
 elow, 4; EHsha Flmt, 5; PoUy Tarble, 
 1; Jesse Walker, 1; Asa Flint, 4; 
 Simeon Cole, 5 ; Amasa Haile, 6 ; Ben- 
 jamin Bigelow, 4; Thomas Wells, 3; 
 Daniel Benson, Jr., 2 ; Harry Carey. 1 ; 
 Thomas Crane, 4; total 51 scholars.— 
 Thomas Crane, District Clerk. 
 
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 District No. 4 : — Jonathan Cutler, 
 1 scholar ; Anthony Moron, 5 ; Lot" 
 Holland 5 ; Nathaniel Holland, 2 : 
 Luke B. Osgood, 5 ; Christopher Os- 
 good, 4; Joseph Joy, 2; Timothy 
 Fleming, 1; Charlotty Whitcomb, 1; 
 total 26 : Anthony Moran, District 
 clerk. 
 
 In 1865, after a long contest, the 
 town was re-districted and redueed to 
 three districts. 
 
 The sentiment for good schools has 
 been the ruling idea. No town watches 
 over her schools with greater vigilence. 
 
 POST-OFFICE. 
 
 From the first settlement to 1837, 
 there was no post-office in town, and 
 our people were troubled sometimes, to 
 find their mail at Athens, Putney, and 
 Newfane. 
 
 Barzillai Stickney and Alvin Boyden 
 became strongly impressed better facil- 
 ities might be had, and applied to Gen- 
 eral Martin Field of Newfane, then one 
 of the prominent men of Windham 
 county, in their behalf, and in 1837, the 
 following route was established : ' 'From 
 Bellows Falls, by Saxton's River, 
 Cambridgeport, Westminster, West 
 Brookline, Fayettville, Williams ville, 
 to Dover, Monday's, Wednesday's and 
 Friday's 8 a. m. and 5 p. m., going, 
 Thuesday's, Thursday's, and Satur- 
 days, 8 A. M., and 5 p. m., returning. 
 Otis Bardwell, contractor, and the 
 route started, Aug. 29, 1837. 
 
 Nov. 27th, 1841, is was ordered to 
 commence the route at Cambridgeport, 
 Athens, Brookline and Dover to Wil- 
 mington. This route continued till 1850 
 when it was discontinued, and Brook- 
 line given a side mail from Fayetteville. 
 
 POST-MASTEES 
 
 for Brookline with date of appointment : 
 Solomon-Harvey, Aug. 9, 1837 : Eph- 
 raim H. Mason, Apr. 27, 1839 ; Joel 
 
 Codding, Dec. 24, 1840; Barzillai 
 Stickney, June 1846; Joel Codding, 
 Dec. 18, 1849 ; Barzillai Stickney, June 
 23, 1855; Walter S. Bennett, March 3, 
 1863 ;— Discontinued Sept. 14, 1868; 
 Virgil W. Ranney, Feb. 27, 1880. 
 
 MILITARY RECORD. 
 
 A COMPANT OF MILITIA 
 
 was formed 'in 1801, — ii commission 
 at hand shows the appointment : by his 
 Excellency Isaac Skinner, Esq. of John 
 Blandin, Captain in the seventh compa- 
 ny, the third Regiment, First brigade, 
 and First division of the melitia of this 
 state." Mr. Blandin was discharged 
 in 1803. 
 
 This is the first company of which 
 there is any account and may have been 
 the one of which Francis Drake tells 
 the story : "where the officers had all 
 been chosen and himself the only pri- 
 vate left." 
 
 In times earlier than t)iis it is said :- 
 "this was not a law and order abiding 
 community, that the collecting of dues 
 and the standard of justice were some- 
 times equivocated from." 
 
 In such instances the inhabitants re- 
 sorted to the arm of "Billy Black," a 
 strong arm that for a small consideration 
 dealt out such a one a good drubbing, 
 which, usually, brought him to easy 
 terms. 
 REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS. 
 
 Our settlers that were soldiers in the 
 war of the Revolution were : — John 
 Stebbins, Timothy Wellman, Jonathan 
 Wooley, Richard Whitney, Daniel 
 Benson, Ebenezer Harwood and Sam- 
 uel Rist. Harwood and Rist witnessed 
 the surrender of Cornwallis at York- 
 town. 
 
 SOLDIERS OP TAE WAR OF 1812. 
 
 Our Soldiers in the last war with 
 Great Britain were Maj. Timothy H. 
 
857 
 
 BEOOKLINE. 
 
 15 
 
 Whitney, John Holden, Lemuel Tyler 
 Derry. 
 
 SOLDIERS OF THE CIVIL WAR, 
 
 1861 — 1865, 
 
 FOTJETH EEGIMENT, CO. F. 
 
 Hibbard G. Holden, Henry J. Bush, 
 Samuel A. Fairbanks, Ira A. Higgins. 
 
 5th eeg., CO. E. 
 Joshua A. Shattuck. 
 
 8th. eeg., CO. H. 
 Warren B. Stickney, Alvin G. Higgins, 
 Alvin H. Merrifield, Charles A. Cutler, 
 Alonzo P. Bush, Mr-rshall W. Wellman, 
 William W. Perry. 
 
 8th. eeg. CO. I. 
 Albro V. B. Ford. 
 
 9th. eeg. CO. K. 
 Denny. E. Mason, Thomas S. Crane, 
 John S. Barrett, Orlin N. Whitney, 
 Lorenzo W. Bush, Everett G. Smith, 
 Warren Allen. 
 
 11th. eeg. CO. G. 
 Edwin A. Stebbins, Henry Cutler. 
 
 12ta. eeg. CO. G. 
 Albert Haywood, Lorenzo Rist, 
 Winchester Smith, Everett W. Smith. 
 
 11th. eeg., CO. I. 
 Herbert Mason, John Lamphear, 
 
 piEST battalion, v. s. a. 
 Samuel B. Higgins. 
 
 BLACKSMITHS AND SHOPS. 
 
 The first blacksmith in the town is 
 supposed to have been Delvis Wellman, 
 one of the first settlers. His shop was 
 a little north of where the school-house 
 in District No. 1, now stands. 
 
 A blacksmith's shop was, also, built 
 at an early day, west of the road a lit- 
 tle south of John B. Stebbins' house ; 
 by Ebenezer Wellman, and occupied tiU 
 washed away by the June freshet, 1821 ; 
 and his son, Isaac, was a blacksmith in 
 the north part of the town on the coun- 
 
 ty road; and Jonas Blandin, also, did 
 work in a shop near the house of Allen 
 O. Wellman. 
 
 In 1820, Jacob Burditt came from 
 Putney and built a shop, near the house 
 where Mrs. V. R. Ford lives ; and af- 
 terwards had his shop a little east of the 
 Union meeting-house. He became a 
 prominent citizen ; devoted a part of his 
 time to teaching singing-school ; was 
 well-liked, but moved to Newfane about 
 1845. 
 
 Norman C. March, from Greenfield, 
 Mass., in 1840 ; married Augusta Per- 
 ham of Athens in 1843, and devoted 
 the most of his time to blacksmithing, 
 and has proved a very useful citizen, 
 holding the prominent offices of the 
 town ; representing it in the legislature 
 in 1862 and '63. 
 
 EARLY EEMINISCENCES. 
 
 The settlers of Brookline endured the 
 numerous hardships, and vicissitudes 
 of life that accompany the lot of those 
 who first penetrated these unbroken for- 
 ests ; though the Indian's stealthy steps 
 were no longer heard, there were the few 
 cattle and the little flock to protect from 
 the ravishing wolves, that on one of the 
 prominent knoUs in the south-western 
 part of the town, there favorite resort 
 — used to collect, "and make night 
 hideous with their howls,'" and the oc- 
 casional meeting with and dispatching 
 of bruin is related ; but no serious ren- 
 countre. 
 
 A black snake, about 8 feet long was 
 killed by Alvin Boy den, on his farm in 
 1829 ; and was preserved in the zoolo- 
 gy cabinet of General Martin Field, of 
 Nawfane, — the only one of his kind 
 ever seen in the parts. 
 
 It is held in tradition that near the 
 top of the hill east of the Baptist meet- 
 ing house, a little child was burned to 
 
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 ashes by following into a coalpit, and 
 those most superstitions, belived, that 
 they could see afterwards a bright light, 
 at times, at the location of the coal-pit. 
 
 About 1800, a boy by the name of 
 Erye, in the employ of Josiah Taft, in 
 attempting to ford TVest River horse- 
 back with bags of corn, was swardped 
 and drowned. 
 
 About 1823, Halbrook Benson, son 
 of Peter Benson, one of the first set- 
 tlers, was frozen to death on the Wind- 
 mill hill road ; about 2 miles from the 
 foot of the hill, he was found. 
 
 In 1856, Elmore Fairbanks, a young 
 lad, of rather weak mind, while returu- 
 ing home from one of the near neigh- 
 bors fell upon an open jack-knife that 
 he carried for self-defense ; the knife en- 
 tered his chest and ended his life. 
 
 In 1863, David Walker, a man of not 
 ordinary intillgence, started for a trip 
 to Dummerston; was frozen, and found 
 dead: as the song goes, "he took a 
 little brown jug under his arm." 
 
 In 1866, Andrew Blood, in employ, 
 at the time, of Timothy M. Albee in 
 building a barn, was drowned while 
 bathing in West River. 
 
 EOADS 
 
 were little known to the early pioneer: 
 marked trees were his guide-posts. The 
 first passways, or roads lead acrost the 
 valley east and west; three of which 
 have long ceased to be. The earliest 
 business transactions took the people 
 to Putney, as merchandise could be 
 boated up and dovrn Connecticut River ; 
 therefore these roads were sought first 
 for. The first valley road that was 
 built followed close under the hill upon 
 the east side, and has been re-built at 
 different times, and makes the pleasant 
 passway which it now occupies. 
 
 The Windmill hill road was survey- 
 ed in 1818, and the road that now leads 
 
 westward from this point to Townshend, 
 in 1819, and the county road, so called 
 was built in 1828. 
 
 TOWN OFEICERS. 
 
 MODERATORS AT MARCH MEETING. 
 
 Peter Benson, 1795, to 1801, inclusive. 
 
 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 
 18,21: 
 
 Thomas Walker, 1802 : 
 Daniel Bixby, 1801-16,-20,-23: 
 Thaddeus Chamberlain, 1814: 
 Benjamin Oi-msbee, 1819, 34, 36, 38: 
 William Perry, 1822, 24, 25, 26, 27, 
 
 28, 30,31, 37: 
 Thomas Crane, 1827, 35: 
 Alvin Boyden, 1832 : 
 Isaac Wellman. 1835, 46, 47, 49, 50: 
 Ephralm Park, 37, 40, 41, 43: 
 William, Adams, 1848, 51, 53 to 57: 
 Ephraim H. Mason, 1844, 45 : 
 Warren Bennet, 1857 : 
 Luther Osgood, 1858, to-72, 80, 84: 
 Oscar C. Merrifield, 1863, 64, 66 : 
 
 Chas. P. Stickney, 1865, 67, 68. 72, 
 73,-74: 
 Colmer W. Stebbins, 1875, to 80: 
 
 TOWN CLERKS. 
 
 John Waters, first town clerk, 1795 96, 
 
 97, 99 to 1806, 09, 10, 11: 
 Delias Riggs, 1798: 
 Timothy H. Whitney, 1806, 7, 8: 
 Samuel Fairbanks, 1812, 13, 14: 
 Thomas Crane, 1815 to 20, 22 : 
 Benjamin Ormsbee, 1820, 21, 24 to 28 : 
 Alvin Boyden, 1828 : 
 Jacob Burdett, 1829, to 35, 38 to 41 : 
 Asaph Coy, 1835, 36, 37: 
 
 TOWN TREASURES. 
 
 Abijah Moore, 1795 to 1806 : 
 Jotham Stebbins, 1806 to 1811 : 
 Samuel Stebbins, 1811, 17, 18, 19, 28 : 
 
859 
 
 BEOOKLINE. 
 
 17 
 
 Daniel Bixby, 1812 to 17, 20, 21 : 
 
 Israel Whitney, 22 to 28^29, 30 : 
 
 Kdson Higgins, 1831, 32, 33 :s 
 
 Amos Hale, 1834 : 
 
 Isaac Walker, 1835 : 
 
 Ephraim Parks, 1836, 7, 8, 9, 40 : 
 
 Samuel Cutler, 1841, 42: 
 
 Hiram Whitney, 1843 to 49, 51 to 67 
 
 Isaac Wellman, 1850: 
 
 Everett P. Wellman, 1867 to 84. 
 
 CONSTABLES. 
 
 Thomas Walker, 1795, 96 : 
 
 Timothy H. Whitney, 1797, 99 : 
 
 Micah French, 1798 : 
 
 JosiahTaff, 1800, 1, 2, 3: 
 
 Peter Benson, 1804 : 
 
 Asa Flint, 1805 : 
 
 Daniel Benson, 1806 : 
 
 Benjamin Ormsbee, 1807, 8 : 
 
 Samuel Fairbanks, 1809 : 
 
 Ebenezer Wellman, 1810, 14 : 
 
 Samuel W. Benson, 1811, 12: 
 
 John Blandin, 1813 : 
 
 Archelaus Bixby, 1814 : 
 
 Samuel Bobbins, 1816, 17: 
 
 Jonas Blandin, 1818, 19, 
 
 Samuel Frost, 1820, 
 
 Jonas Wellman, 1821, 30 to 33 : 
 
 Anthony Mason, 1822 to 29 : 
 
 Harry Gary, 1829 : 
 
 Ephraim H. Masou, 1833, to 39, and 
 
 44, 45-: , 
 , Joel Ranney, 1835, 
 Daniel E. Whitney, 1839, 40 : 
 Willard Linsley, 1841, 42, 43 : 
 Harvey Morse, 1846, 47 . 
 Wm. B. Root, 1848, 49 : 
 Chas. W. Blandin, 1851 to 55 : 
 Norman C. Marsh, 1855 to 1863 : 
 
 Chas. P. Stickney, 1864, 65, 82, 83 : > 
 Luther Osgood, 1865 to 1874 ; 
 Samuel B. Higgins. 1975 to 1882 : 
 
 SUPERINTENDENTS OF, SCHOOLS. 
 
 John B. Stebbiiis, first superintendent, 
 
 1850 to 1857: 
 Ephraim H. Mason, 1857 : 
 Oscar C. Merriiield, 1858, 59, 60, 62, 
 
 63, 94, 65 : 
 Warren B. Stickney, 1861 : 
 Charles Farrar, 1866 to 71 : 
 Charles P. Stickney, 1871 to 86: 
 
 SELECTMEN. 
 
 Peter Benson. 1995, 97, 1806, 1, 2, 3, 
 
 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 
 
 22: 
 Lamah Blandin, 1795 : 
 Jotham Stebbias, 1795, 1805, 15: 
 Eiehard Whitney, 1796, 98, 99, 1800, 
 
 3, 6, 13, 15, 16: 
 Abijah Moove, 1796, 98 : 
 John Waters, 1796, 98, 99, 1800, 1, 
 
 2, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11 : 
 Micah French, 1797 : 
 Wm. Bobbins, 1797, 1807, 8, 9 : 
 Timothy H. Whitney, 1801, 8 ; 
 Samuel Ballard, 1804 : 
 Josiah Taft, 1802 : 
 John Blandin, 1804, 7, 8, 9 : 
 Daniel Bixby, 1809, 10, 11, 12, 14, 
 
 22: 
 James Campbell, 1807 : 
 Thomas Craine, 1812, 15, 16, 17, 19, 
 
 20, 21, 23 to 33, 35 : 
 Thaddeus Chamberlain, 1813, 14 : 
 Jesse Walker, 1816, 17: 
 Ebenezer Whitney, 1817, 30, 31, 32, 
 
 37, 
 Wm. Perry, 1818, 37, 38 : 
 Benjamin Ormsbee, 1818, 23 to 28 : 
 
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 Ora Flint, 1818 : 
 
 Samuel Stebb^ns, 1819, 20, 33, 34, 
 
 42: 
 Elisha Flint, 1822 : 
 Lot Hammond, 1824, 25, 26 ; 
 JacobJBurditt, 1827, 28: 
 Antliony Mason, 1829, 36, 40, 43, 44, 
 Isra-el Whitney, 1828 : 
 Alvin Boyden, 1829, 30: 
 Edson Higgins, 1833, 34, 43 : 
 Samuel Adams, 1832 to 37, 38, 39 : 
 Isaac "Wellman, 35,'.36, 41, 42 : 
 Benjamin Walker, 1837: 
 Hiram Whitney, 1838 to 42, 50 : 
 Joel HarwoocJ, 1839 to 43, 44 : 
 Daniel E. Whitney, ,1842, 62 : 
 John S. Osgood, 1844:, 
 Wm. Adams, 1844 to 60, 61 to 57 : 
 William Lindsley, 1845 to 49 : 
 Wm. B. Boot, 4846 to 48 : 
 Luther Osgood, 1850^ to 53, 58 to 61, 
 
 70, 71, 72: ' 
 Norman C. Marsh, 1849, 70 to 72 in : 
 Everett P. Wellman, 1849, 60, 73, 74 : 
 Ira Cutler, 1851, 57 to 60: 
 Erastus Whitney, 1853 to 66 : 
 Samuel Cutler, 1863, 44, 55, 66 : 
 Grout Holden, 1858 : 
 Hiram. M. Whitney, 1860, 70 to 84 : 
 Colmer W. Stebbins, 1861 to 70, and 
 
 73 to 84: 
 Andrew S. Rist, 1861,62 : 
 John B. Stebbins, 1863 to 70 : 
 Oscar C. Merrifleld, 1866, 67 : 
 Samuel B. Higgins, 1868, 69 : 
 Timothy M. Albee, 1875 to 69 : 
 Wm. W. Perry, 1879, 80, 81 : 
 George E. Ware, 1882, 83 : 
 
 LISTERS. 
 
 Ebenezer Bugbee 1795, 1801 ; 
 Wm. H.lls, 1795, 96; 
 
 John, Blandin, 1795, 1812, 13 ; 
 Israel Whitney, 1796, 1811, 21 ; 
 Ebenezer Wellman, 1796, 1811 ; 
 Wm. Robbins, 1796. 1807 8, 9, 11 ; 
 Delais Briggs, 1797 ; 
 Jonathan Elenwood, 1797 ; 
 Daniel Bonson. 1797, 1800, 2, 5, 15 ;^ 
 Lemich Blandin, 1798, 180^ ; 
 John Blandin, 1798, 1806 to 10 ; 
 Peter Benson, 1798,1803 ; 
 Josiah Taft, 1799 ; 
 Joshper Pool, 1799 ; 
 
 Timothy H. Whitney, 1799, 1802, 3. 
 
 3,8,13,15; 
 Jotham Stebbins, 1800 ; 
 John Wellman, 1700; 
 John Waters, 1701, 3, 9, 10 ; 
 Amos Mansfield, 1802 ; 
 Samuel Ballou, 1804, 5 ; ' 
 Timothy Wellman, 1804 ; 
 Abijah IJHorse, 1804? 
 Daniel Bixby, 1806, 10 ; 
 Phineas Alden, 1806; 
 Thomas Crane,' 1806, 13, 18 to 26 ; 
 James Campbell, ,1807, 8 ; 
 Jesse Walker, 1812, 36 ; ' 
 Archelaus Bixby, 1812, 16, 18 ; 
 Joshua Fuller, 1816, 17 ; 
 Asa Flint, 1816, 20, 23, 26 to 30 ; 
 Samuel Stebbins, 1819 ; 
 James Johnson, 1812, 19, 20, 22, 23 ; 
 Samuel Robbins, 1817, 19 ; 
 Ebenezer Pool, 1818 : 
 Zephaniah Dyer, 1819 ; 
 Benjamin Orinsbee, 1820, 21 ;, 
 Samuel Adams, 1822, 29 ; 
 Lot Holland, 1821 ; 
 Anthony Mason, 1824, 25, 27, 33,35 ; 
 Da-^iel Bixby, 1824 ; 
 Jacob Burditt, 1826, 26 ; 
 
861 
 
 BROOKLINE. 
 
 19 
 
 Alvin Bbyden, 1825. 29, 27 ; 
 
 Wm. Perry, 1828 ; 
 
 Ebenezer Whitney, 1818, 29, 34, 38 ; 
 
 Edson Higgins, 1830, 32, 42 ; 
 
 Hiram Whitney, 1830, to 32, 37, 44, 
 
 50 to 53 ; 
 Harry Carey, 1830, 33. 34, 35 ; 
 Samuel Stebbins, 1831, 32, 35, 36, 47 ; 
 Isaac Wellman, 1831 to 35, 47 ; 
 Benjamin Walker, 1835 ; 
 Everett P. Welhnan, 36, 63, 64, 74, 
 Ephraim Parks, 1837 ; 
 Amos Haile, 1837 ; 
 WUliam Adams, 1838, 39, 65, 66, 78, 
 
 79, 80 to 84 ; , 
 William Lindsley, 1838, 39 to 42, 44, 
 
 48, 49, 51, 52, 61, 62; 
 Erastus Whituey, 1839, 40 to 44, 81 ; 
 Ephraim H. Mason, 1840 ; 
 John S. Osgood. 1840, 45 ; 
 Samuel Bennett, 1841, 42; 
 Joel Codding, 1842, 46; 
 William B. Root, 1843 ; 
 Barzillai Stickney, 1843 ; 
 Asa Flint Jr., 1844 to 47, 50, 56 ; 
 Joel Harwood, 1845, 47, 58 ; 
 Daniel Whitney, 1846, 50, 53, 59, 60 ; 
 Grant Holden, 1848, 49. 50, 53, 65, 
 
 66, 67, 68;' 
 Francis Merrifield, 1848, 49 ; 
 Russell Mason, 1851, 53 ; 
 Ira Cutler, 1852, 62; 
 John B. Stebbins, 1854, 55, 56 ; 
 Andrew S. Rist, ,1854, 55 ; 
 Walters. Bennett,1854, 55 ; 
 Hiram M. Whitney, 1859, 57, 63, 64 ; 
 Warren Bennett, 1857 ; 
 Calmer W. Stebbins, 1857, 58 ; 
 Henry Kidder, 1756, 59 ; 
 Oscar C. Merrifield, 1859, 60. 63. 61 ; 
 
 William P. Stebbins, 1861, 62, 65, 66, 
 
 ,67, 79, 83 ; 
 Allen O. Wellman, 1867 to 70, 73, to 77 
 Wm. W. Perry, 1868, 69, 70 to 73 ; 
 Charles A. Cutler, 1869, 70 to 73 ; 
 Warren E. Albee, 1872 ; 
 Timothy M, Allen, 1873, 74 ; 
 Ephraim P, Osgood, 1873, 80 to 84 ; 
 
 TOWN KEPEESENTATIVES. 
 
 Benjamin Ormsbee, 1824, the first rep- 
 resentative and representative in 26,27 ; 
 William Perry, J 825, 28 ; 
 Jacob Burditt, 1829, 30 ; 
 Samuel Stebbins, 1831, 32, 54; 
 Edson Higgins, 1833 ; 
 Thomas Crane, 1834 ; 
 Ephraim H. Mason, 1835, 36 ; 
 William Adams, 37, 38, 40, 51 ; 
 Ephraim Park, 1839 ; 
 Hiram Whitney; 1841, 42 ; 
 Hubbard Eastman, 1843 ; 
 John H. Osgood, 1844 ; 
 Asa Flint, 18'47 ; 57, 58 ^ 
 .Joel Codding, 1849 ; 
 Isaac Wellman, 1859 ; 
 Daniel E. Whitney, 1852, 53 ;, 
 Samuel Cutler, 1855, 56 ;, 
 John B. Ftebbins, 1859, 60 ; 
 Norman C. Marsh, 1861, -62 ;: 
 Colmer W. Stebbins, 1863-, 64;-. 
 Oscar C. Merrifield, 1865, 66 ; 
 Everett P. Wellman, 1867,68; 
 Erastus Whitney, 1869, 70^ 71', 80 81 ;. 
 .Hiram M. Whitney, 1872, 73 ; 
 William P. Stebbins, 1874, 75 ; 
 William W. Perry, 1876, 77 ; 
 Samuel B. Higgins, 1878, 79 ; 
 Charles P. Stickney, 1882, 83. 
 
 [Tbe manuscript of this history was sent to ■ 
 us In tlie spring of 1S83, since whloh the town 
 of Brookline has added to her lists of officers : ; 
 
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 TOWN OFFICERS CONCLUDED. 
 
 TOWN CLERKS,. — 1837 to 1886. V 
 Jacob Burditt 1838 to 41 : 
 Calvin T. Barrett 1841 : 
 Joel Codding 1842 to 46, 47 to 60 : 
 Edson Higgins 1846 : 
 William Adams 1860 to 67 : 
 Charles Farrar 1867 : 
 William Adams 1868 to 1886 and in., 
 
 MODEEATOES. — 1878 to 1886 : 
 C. W. Stebbins 1878te 80: 
 L. Osgood 1880 to 85 : 
 N. C. Marsh 1886 : 
 
 SELECTMEN. — 1883 to 86 : '•: 
 
 H. M. Whitney 1883 to 86 : ' 
 
 C. W. Stebbins 1883 : 
 George E. Ware 1883 to 85 : 
 Wm. M. Ware 1885 to 86 : 
 T. M. Albee 1885 to and 86. 
 
 LiSTEEs. — 1883 to 86. , 
 "William Adams 1883: 
 E. P. Osgood/1883 and 84: 
 William P. Stebbins 1883, 8^: 
 R, E. Marsh 1884 to and 86 
 L. K. Wellmanl885, 86:,. 
 E. W. Bush 1886 : 
 J. A. S. Shattuck 1886 : 
 
 CONSTABLES. — 1883 to 86. 
 C. p. Stickney 1883 to 85. 
 
 SUPEEINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS 
 
 C. P. Stickney 1883 to 85 : 
 Isabelle Shattuck 1886 ; 
 
 TREASUEER. 
 
 E. P. Wellman 1883: 
 
 N. W. Ranney 1884 to and 86. 
 
 BROO KLINE LONGEVITY. 
 
 1857, Nathaniel Hill died, aged 90 yrs. 
 
 1859, Joel Codding d., aged 74 years. 
 
 ,, Anna Woolley d,, aged 77 ,, 
 
 1860, Wm. B. Root d., aged 75 ,, 
 ,, Fanny Cutler d., aged 73 ,, 
 
 1861, Ephraim Park d., aged 80 ,, 
 ,, Daniel Benson d., aged 98 ,, 
 ,, Samuel Adams d., aged 80 ,, 
 
 1862 Calvin Barrett d., aged 92 ,, 
 
 1863 Eph'm H.Mason, aged 69 ,, 
 ,, Rufus Stebbins d., aged 73 ,, 
 ,, Wm. Ranney d., aged 89 ., 
 
 1864, Betsey Whitney d., aged 67 ,, 
 1868, Lydia FoUett d., aged 80 ,, 
 
 1871 , Anson Codding, aged 78 ,, 
 
 1872, Rebecca Crane, aged 92 ,, 
 
 1873, Sarah Stebbins, aged 76 ,, 
 ,, Edith Root died, aged 91 ,, 
 ,, Sarah B. Harwood, aged.85 ,, 
 
 1874, Edson Higgins d. aged 79 ,, 
 ,, Elisaljeth Ranney, aged 86 ,, 
 
 1875, Wm. W. Perry aged 69 ,, 
 1877, Mary B. Higgins ag'd 78 ,, 
 
 1880, Mary Perry d., aged 83 ,, 
 
 1881, Daniel H olden, aged 82 ,, 
 ,, Joel Rist died, aged 72 ,, 
 
 1882, Barzillai Stickney, aged 82 ,, 
 
 1883, John Turner d., aged 84 „ 
 
 1865, Huldali Benson d., aged 77 ,, 
 1866 Samuel Stebbins d., aged 83 ,, 
 
 ,, Dorcas Adams d., aged 84 ,, 
 ,, Isaac Wellman d., aged 76 ,, 
 ,, Sarah P. Stickney. aged 66 ,, 
 ,, MaryBurrett d., aged 86 ,. 
 1867, Samuel Follettd., aged 89 ,, 
 ,. Ira Cutler, died aged 68 ,, 
 ,, Samuel Butterfield aged 80 ,, 
 ,, Keziah Wellman d. aged 75, ,, 
 ,, Patty Park, died aged 83 ,, 
 
 1883 John B. Turner, aged 84 ,, 
 
 1884 Sullivan Pollard, „ 87 „ 
 
 1884, Deliverance B. Wellman, 77 
 
863 
 
 BEOOKLIFE 
 
 21 
 
 ,, Faany S. Whitney, aged 78 
 
 1885, Daniel Wellman, aged 88 
 ,, Temperance Pierce, aged 87 
 ,, Mary E. Stebbins aged 58 
 
 1886, Hiram Whitney, aged 82 
 ,, Wm. P. Stebbins, aged 54: 
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 
 
 ■ " Vermont is a good state to be born 
 in ; but one should emigrant young," as 
 Stephen A. Douglass said, so it seems 
 to be with the sons of Brookline ; but 
 her morals are of the first rank, and the 
 home impressions that have been given 
 are safe guides to honorable positions a- 
 broad. 
 
 Many of those who felled the first 
 trees, and sowed the first seed have left 
 no other traces behind them. Among 
 those who added largely to the prosper- 
 ity of the early days were Daniel Bix- 
 by, Lemich Blandin, Rev. Isaac Well- 
 man, Cyrus, Whiteomb, Abijah Moore, 
 John Waters and Peter Benson. 
 
 PETER BENSON 
 
 was justice of the peace for many years 
 and moderator for town meetings and 
 selectman. His opinions were often 
 sought and his descisions were weighed 
 with equal justice. 
 
 JOHN WATERS , 
 
 was au active business man, and un- 
 doubtedly the best educated of any of 
 the early settlers ; he taught school and 
 was very ready with the pen. He was 
 the first town clerk and held the office 
 many years ; was many years a justice 
 of the priace and selectman ; and was 
 identified with the business of the town 
 more than any other man. 
 
 Of those who settled here about 1780 
 and left descendants still living in town 
 are : 
 
 EBENEZER HAUWOOD, 
 
 represented by his son, Joel Harwood, 
 and grand-son; Otis Harwood, a wor- 
 thy and respected citizen now 66 years 
 of age, without children : 
 
 TIMOTHY WELLMAN, 
 
 represented by his son, Daniel Wellman 
 who is now living at the age of 80 and 
 and grandsons, Leverett K. and Allen 
 O. Wellman, and great-grand-sons by 
 Leverett : Arthur C. and George Well- 
 man, and great-grand-daughter by Al- 
 len, Helen B. Wellman. 
 
 DANIEL BENSON, 
 
 represented by his son Daniel and grand 
 daughters, Hannah Adams and Lucin- 
 da Flint, and great-gr.and-sons, by Han- 
 nah, Ozro Adams ; by Lucinda, John 
 Flint : 
 
 BENJAMIN FLINT, 
 
 represented by his son, Asa Flint aiid 
 giand-son, Anson Flint and great-grand 
 son, John Flint. 
 
 EBENEZEK WELLMAN, 
 
 represented by his son, Isaac Wellman, 
 who was a deacon of the Baptist church 
 many years and a prominent business 
 man in town ; and his grandson, Ever- 
 ett P. Wellman, also a prominent man, 
 and his great-grand-daughters, Abbie 
 C. and Martha Wellman ; the former 
 was a very successful school-teacher, 
 and married Judge Andrew A. Wyman 
 of Athens. 
 
 RICHARD WHITNEY, 
 
 represented by his three sons, Israel, 
 Ebenezer and Timothy H. Whitney ;, 
 and grandson by Israel, who has held 
 the principal offices in town ; and by a 
 great-grand-daughter, Bertha Whitney, 
 and grand-son by Ebenezer ; Erastus 
 Whitney, a bachelor, 68 years of age : 
 chairman of the board of selectmen who 
 cared for the interests of the town, as- 
 
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 before said : there was not any debt on 
 the tpwn at the close of the war. 
 THREE OLD HOMESTEADS. 
 
 There are three farms in town that 
 with enlargements remain in the hands 
 of the descendants of the original own- 
 ers : the Rist farm ; — 
 
 THOMAS RIST , 
 
 came from Sutton, Mass. in 1788, and 
 bought of Jonathan Boyden th,e now, so 
 called, Rist farm. 
 
 SAMUEL EIST 
 
 a few years after the close of the war, 
 came and took possession of his broth- 
 «r's farm. He raised up a large fam^ 
 ily of children. His sou, Anbrew S. 
 Rist is a bachelor who is now 66 years 
 •of age, and as his only brother, Will- 
 iam, also living in town is a bachelor the 
 prpspect is that the Rist farm will soon 
 pass out of the family. 
 
 JONATHAN CUTLEE 
 
 came from Fitzwilliams, Mass. ju 1799 
 and bought of James Walden the now 
 Cutler farm. He was represented by 
 his son, Ira Cutler, who married a 
 daughter of lasiah Rounds, one of the 
 early settlers. Ira in his prime was a 
 strong, resolute man and spent much of 
 , his time in winter in hunting. [See far- 
 ther the geneology in sketch prepared 
 by the family ] The Cutler family were 
 prominent members of the Baptist per- 
 suasion, and added strength and wealth 
 to the town. 
 
 CHBISTOPHEE OSGOOD 
 
 settled on land now owned by his son 
 Luther, about 1790. Ltither married 
 a daughter of Ephraim Park, who lived 
 where Luther now resides. Luther 
 then moved to the western part of N. 
 Y. with the intention of making it his 
 home ; but the declining years of Mr.' 
 Parks brought him back to Vermont, 
 
 when he took possession of the Parks 
 farm, and of his father's farm and bent 
 his energies to build up a farm second to 
 none in the valley of ' "West River, and 
 his broad fields of grass and well-filled 
 ganery indicate a successful farmer. He 
 has taken an intei^est in the politics and 
 prosperity of the town, and has held the 
 .ihief offices of trust in the gift of the 
 town. His sons are Ephraim P. and 
 Fred L., and grandsons, Hermon and 
 George. 
 
 THOMAS" CEANE ESQ. 
 
 moved into Brookline, from Richmona, 
 N. H. about 1806, as the first genera- 
 tion of the settlers were passing away. 
 He entered largely into the interests of 
 the town ; spent his winters in teaching, 
 was town clerk 6 years ; represented the 
 town in the legislature ; was selectman 
 18 years : died in his 57th year, 1836. 
 
 BENJAMIN OEMSBEE 
 
 from 1802 to 1830 held a leading position 
 in the town : town clerk, selectman, 
 the first representative to the legislature 
 and at home a very obliging hotel keep- 
 er, and was a man cordially liked. 
 
 WILLIAM ADAMS 
 
 was. born in Dummerston, this county, 
 in 1810. His father removed to Brook- 
 line in 1719. At an early age, William 
 Adams entered into the politics of the 
 town, and for the past fifty years, has 
 been closely connected with its history. 
 He has been justice of the peace many 
 years and qualified to draft legal papers 
 which he has done for the people of the 
 town. He has represented the town at 
 the Capitol of the State and has now 
 been town clerk, many years. . 
 
 BAEZILLIA STICKNdlT 
 
 was born in JafFrey, N. H , Nov. 12, 
 1772. He passed his early life in New 
 Hampshire, Northern Vermont and 
 Western New York. He moved to 
 
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 BROOKLINE. 
 
 23 
 
 Brookline in 1827, married Sarah Per- 
 ham, the oldest daughter of Joiathan 
 Perham of Athens, one of the first set- 
 tlers of Athens. He was a carpenter 
 and mechanic and located here with the 
 view of improving the waters of Grassy 
 Brook, to prosecute his business ; but 
 the volume of water did not meet his 
 expectation during the summer season, 
 and he turned his attention to farming. 
 He interested himself in supporting the 
 best of schools, and held those who 
 hold office, strictly accountable, in ren- 
 dering their accounts. He died in 1882 
 a* the age of 89. 
 
 THOMAS MERKIFIELD 
 
 came to Brookline from Newfanein 1841 
 and bought the original Flint farm, and 
 at the time of his purchase he could 
 have bought a farm, comprising a part 
 of the meadows at the mouth of West 
 River for the same price ; but Brattle- 
 boro was then, a growing village, and 
 he remarked that near a village was no 
 place to bring up a family of children ; 
 and he raised up a large family, and 
 was a hard working man. 
 
 CHAS. p. STICKNEY 
 
 was bom Oct. ,10, 184.0. His parents 
 though in limited circumstances, gave 
 him time to attend school. He worked 
 on his father's farm ; taught school and 
 by industry fitted for college in 1861 ; 
 but the war then in progress and other 
 causes arrested him in his purpose. In 
 1866, he went West and was establish- 
 ing himself in business when he was 
 called to return to Vermont to care for 
 those who had cared for him. In 1879, 
 he married Frances A. Hastings ; a son 
 was born to them in 1882, Carrol W. 
 Mr. Stickney has held the office of con- 
 stable 4 years(1883) and town superin- 
 tendent of schools 13 years, and repre- 
 sented the town in the legislature, 1882 
 
 and 83. He is in the full vigor of life 
 and enters with earnestness into what- 
 ever he undertakes. 
 
 TIMOTHY H. WHITNEY 
 
 was born in Waltham N. H. in 1777. 
 His father, Eichard Whitney, moved to 
 Brookline soon after and settled upon 
 the farm now owned by Otis Harwood. 
 He made the first clearing upon the farm 
 and built the house now standing. — 
 Timothy was an active boy and gained 
 an education through the limited sources 
 of those days, so that, at eighteen, he 
 taught school, (page 12.) At twenty he 
 was elected constable and served sever- 
 al years, and has been town clerk and 
 lister; in 1798, married Abigail Blan- 
 chard of Waltham, N. H. and settled 
 upon the farm now owned by his son, 
 Hiram Whitney. He was prominent in 
 the business of the town, and rose from 
 a private to a major in the militia, and 
 enlisted in the war of 1812 ; was pro- 
 moted colonel- In 1815, he moved to 
 Athens where he represented the town 
 in the legislature several years ; was in 
 the legislature at the time Brookline was 
 granted the right to elect a representa- 
 tive. He was a judge of the county' 
 court. He died at the age of 82 years. 
 He is now represented in town by his 
 son, Capt. Hiram, a man of few words 
 but to the point, and a much esteemed 
 citizen. He was born in 1804, marrried 
 to Fanny Perham in 1828, has repre- 
 sented the town at Montpelier, and held 
 his share of its honorable offices wij;h 
 fidelity and honor. 
 
 HIRAM M. WHITNEY, 
 
 son of Capt. Hiram and grand-son of 
 Col. Timothy, was born in 1829 ; has 
 represented the town, and been one of 
 the selectmen 14 years. His daughter, 
 Fanny brings up the honors of the fam- 
 ily : few women are more capable in the 
 
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 performance of the duties of a household 
 or deft in cunning- work that graces the 
 wall of the hall of a county fair, or a- 
 adorns more pleasantly the rooms of 
 her home. 
 
 AETHUE B. STEBBINS. 
 
 son of John B. Stebbins, Esq. was born 
 in Brookline", Aug. 16, 1858. His mi- 
 nority was passed on the farm, gaining 
 from his father the apt of farming, and 
 from his mother the culture for a noble 
 manhood. He acquired a thorough aca- 
 demical education. In the spring of 1878 
 he was a clerk in the store of his bro- 
 ther-in-law in Rochester, Minn., and 
 . on account of the severe and prolonged 
 sickness of his father and his family , 
 he being the eldest son was called home. 
 -He at once returned and took charge ol 
 his father's business and in the spring 
 remoddled and constructed a new set 
 of barns and gave his father's business 
 a new .impetus. In the fall of 1880, he 
 returned to Minnesota as senior clerk 
 of the same firm. While here^ he as- 
 sisted one of the partners, unused to 
 farming, in selecting stock for a farm 
 he had bought, out of the city. Arthur 
 was often consTilted about this farm. ,It 
 gave him excellent opportunities for de- 
 veloping his genius in the Eden occupa-* 
 tion. He made the herd books a study ; 
 was sent to New England in the winter 
 of 1882, by some prominent herdsmen 
 of Minnesota to make a selection and 
 purchase of thorough breeds. His se- 
 lections met with such hearty success, 
 he decided to resign his pbsiton in the 
 store and devote himself to agriculture. 
 He married Hattie Bell, daughter of 
 Daniel Lyon, then of New York, Sept. 
 23. 1883. His father urged him to re- 
 main on the old farm, but ambitious to 
 gain an independence by his own efforts 
 he and his wife left Vermont, Oct. 11, 
 1883, and upon the aired, fertile plateau 
 of the Cumberland Mountains, Tenn., 
 
 he bought a tract of land, known in the 
 early hi.story of the country as a favor- 
 ite retreat of the red man, and in this 
 delightful climate he had commenced to 
 build up and beautify a home, and gain 
 for himself a laudable notoriety in the 
 agricultural world ; but in the bud of his 
 ambition was in an instant cut down. — 
 Jan. 19, 1886, he and his brother-in- 
 law, James Lyon, were at work in a, 
 wood near the house, when a tall, oak 
 shrub, standing some 30 feet distant feU 
 and struck Mr. Stebbins to the ground,, 
 breaking the spinal column at tne neck. 
 .So quick and sharp, yet light the bios?-, 
 the deadly deed was done without even 
 rupturing the skin. This sudden death, ■ 
 seemed strange to all who knew him, 
 he was a man of such moral and relig- 
 ious excfeUance, and the world has so 
 much need of such men. 
 
 His remains were brought home tO' 
 Brookline for interment. He rests in the 
 famijy^lot beside his mother and brother. 
 
 JOHN BLANDIN. 
 
 BY CHAS. W. BLANDIN, EDTLAND, ILL., 
 
 An early settler of the territory later 
 known as, the town of Brookline, was 
 John Blandin,born at Attleboro, Mass. 
 in 1764, of French descent. He early 
 identified himself with the general weal 
 of the new settlement in all of its vari- 
 ous efforts at advancement. Education- 
 al and religious interests received his es- 
 pecial' fostering care. He early became 
 a clerk of the Baptist church, and in 
 1802, was, with his brother, Lemick, 
 ordained as deacon, at the time Amos 
 Beckwith was ordained for the pastor, 
 which office he held as long as he lived, 
 until his death in 1835. In 1784, he 
 was married to Sarah Gray, at Brook^ 
 line and moved on to an unbroken for- 
 est tract of land that afterward became. 
 
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 BROOKLINPl 
 
 25 
 
 the "Blandin farm' on which he spent 
 the remainder of his life. There were 
 11 chiklren by this marriage, ten of 
 whom settled in life with families, all 
 leading and useful members of society. 
 Mr. Blandin huried his first wife in 1821 
 and in 1823 married Mrs. Sally Hub- 
 ' bell, nee Holden of West Westminster, 
 by whom he had three children, two of 
 whom are living and take active part in 
 life's duties. This wife, the widow of 
 Mr. Blandin, died in Winona, 111., in 
 1853. 
 
 Probably, bmt few families have ex- 
 erted a broader or more salutary influ- 
 ence in moulding the general welfare of 
 •of this community than that of John 
 Blandin. 
 
 CHAELES W. BLANDIN, 
 
 the subject of the pbrtrait-frontis-plate 
 of thisliistory, was the twelfth issue of 
 John Blandin, and the first child by 
 his second marriage, born in Brookline, 
 Feb. 18, 1824. His mother's maiden 
 name was Sally Holden, of Scotch En- 
 glish parentage. He has resided for the 
 vlast thirty years in Rutland, 111. He is 
 engaged in the retail drug and book 
 trade and is regarded as a reliable busi- 
 ness man. 
 
 He was married to Miss D. A. John- 
 son of Elmira N. Y. in 1850. They 
 have one child, a son, Fremont C. 
 Blandin who has received a liberal 
 education, and is a prominent lawyer 
 and editor at Streator, Illinois. 
 
 Rev. Denzel Mansfield Crane, 
 by mes. b. h. ceane. 
 
 Denzel Crane was born in Brookline, 
 Feb. 29, 1812, and died at his son-in- 
 law's, Rev. I. R. Haskins in West Ac- 
 ton, Mass., Sept. 4, 1879, age 67. He 
 was the third son of Thomas Crane Esq. 
 His parents though not Christian prof- 
 fessors, were remarkable for integrity. 
 
 and close observers of the Sabbath, and 
 their lessons of wisdom and teachings, 
 enforced by example did much to shape 
 his character as a man and Christian. 
 He early attended the district school, of 
 ten weeks in summer, and winter ; but 
 when old enough to labor was limited to 
 the winter term. Under the instruction 
 of his' father, an experienced teacher, 
 he acquired the elementary branphes of 
 an English education. Away from the 
 populous town and village, there was 
 little to break the monotony of life ; but 
 when his task was finished on the farm 
 he fished in the brook that came in its 
 silvery windings between high, mossy 
 banks through meadows, deep with the 
 greenest grass and shady woods, or he 
 strayed into the hollows and dells where 
 the birds sang, and built their nests in 
 the trees and hedges and enjoyed that 
 heart-strengthening, elevating beauty, 
 God has displayed in His works, giving, 
 him. a strong constitution, firm health, 
 and virtuous habits. His evenings were 
 spent at home in the family circle. Thus 
 was the period of his boyhood and ear- 
 ly youth passed. When fifteen, Brook- 
 line was visited by a remarkable religi- 
 ous awakening, and he became the sub- 
 ject of renewing grace. Rev. J. M. 
 Graves, so widely known, administered 
 the ordinauce of baptism and he united 
 with the Baptist church. At the age of 
 18, he was impressed with the impor- 
 tance of the gospel ministry. He com- 
 menced study with Rev. Phineas Howe, 
 a neighboring pastor, and subsequently ^ 
 studied at Franklin and Pierce acade- 
 mies and Brown University, preaching 
 and teaching to meet his expences. 
 
 He married Balhsheba H. Phillips of 
 Newfane, Mar. 1,1837, and was or- 
 dained in his native, town the following 
 June. He was pastor, successively, in 
 Brookline, Grafton and North Spring- 
 
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 field,, Vt., Northampton, Boston and 
 Dorchester, Dorchester, North Spring- 
 field, Vt. again, Winthrop, and Nor- 
 thampton. In nearly all of these, pas- 
 torates revivals were enjpyed, resulting 
 in the encouragement and rebuilding of 
 the churches. The most extensive re^ 
 vivals in connection with his labors 
 were during his firSt pastorate of three 
 years at North Springfield, when 54 
 were baptized into the church, and at 
 Boston in 6 years 189. His longest pas- 
 torate was 12 years, — it was his first in 
 Northampton — during which he was 
 elected ten times a member of the school 
 "committee and for 6 years he was su- 
 perintendent of the public schools, and 
 while thus engaged, the honorary de-' 
 gree of A. M. was conferied upon him 
 by Amherst college. There his remains 
 were tenderly laid away, with his three 
 sons, and only grand-son, awaiting his 
 coming to, share their bed of clay. 
 
 Mr. Crane was a self-made, self-reli- 
 ant man whose struggle with circum- 
 stances in acquiring an education, might 
 be a useful lesson to faint-hearted stu- 
 dents at the present day. Study, study 
 and work, work, work is the unveiled 
 secret of success. 
 
 As a preacher, he had a remarkably 
 clear, full, 'effective voice, was sound in 
 doctrine, gifted in oratory, and scholar- 
 ly in presentation ; as a pastor, emi- 
 nently judicious, abundant in labor, and 
 exemplary in walk, and as a citizen, in 
 whatever was good : as friend, belove^ 
 and trusted : as a Christian hiS' genial, 
 social nature matured by holy living 
 produced rich, mellow, ripeftuit. ''AH," 
 says one, " left the hallowed spot at his 
 burial feeling that Heaven had been 
 made richer and earth poorer by the 
 loss of so good a man. 
 
 We heard lilm in our girlhood, preach a ser- 
 mon the impression ot whose eloquence has 
 never died. —Ed. 
 
 BAi»TIST CHURCH HISTORY, 
 By John B. Stebbins, Esq. 
 
 the baptist church in brookline 
 was constituted in 1795, and belonged 
 to the Leyden Association of the Wind- 
 ham County, in 1835 and hat never 
 failed to make its annual report. For 
 several years the church had no ordain- 
 ed pastor. From time to time some bro- 
 ther was appointed to conduct public 
 worship and thus improve his gifts, 
 among these appointments, we notice 
 the names of Dea. William Thomas, 
 Isaac Wellman and Jotham Rtebbins. 
 
 AMOS BECKWITH 
 
 was ordained pastor, June 2, 1802, and 
 Bros. Lamach and John Blandin, dea- 
 cons. The church having no house of 
 worship, these ordaining services were 
 held in Josiah Taft's new barn ; and 
 the record says with decency, order and 
 great solemnity. There were present 
 and participating in these services Dea. 
 Jesse Manly, Samuel Wakefield Luke 
 Taylor, Turner and Wilson from Dum- 
 merston ; Rev. Edward Littlefield from 
 Coleraine, N. H. ; Rev- Eben Bemis, 
 Bros. J. Sinith, Wm. Hews and Wood ' 
 fro^l Halifax : Bro. Dyer from Jamai- 
 ca, Rev. Jeremiah Packer and Bros. 
 John Noyes and Matthew Bennett from 
 Guilford : Bros. Jona. Huntly, Gatjes, 
 Allen, Fisher and Blandin from Put- 
 ney. Bro. Beckwith's pastorate contin- 
 ued a year and a half when again the 
 church was destitute until Nov. 3, 1808, 
 when 
 
 BEV. ISAAC WELLMAN 
 
 was ordained pastor and Daniel Bixby, 
 deacon : Present, Rev. J. Huntly, Bros. 
 Luke Taylor, and James from Dum- 
 merston ; Rev. Thos. Purrington, Bros. 
 Simeon Blandin, and A. Pond, from 
 Colerain, N. H., Rev. J. Packer from 
 Guilford, Rev. George Witherell from 
 
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 BE.OOKLINE. 
 
 27 
 
 Heath, N. H. Elder Wellman was pas- 
 rt,or 12 years. His salary ranged from 
 $ 40 to $ 75, per annum. His other 
 .source of income was an 80-acre farm 
 which he owned and cultivated. 
 
 In 1810, tlie church enjoyed a revi- 
 ■val in which 40 members were added 
 by baptism, and in 1817, there was an- 
 other revival of about the same magni- 
 ■•tude. The church flourished under the 
 ■care of Elder Wellman until 1821, when 
 he embraced open communion, which 
 greatly aggrieved the church and they 
 -called an ecclesiastical council on this 
 .account, the result of which ■« as the 
 withdrawal of their fellowship from 
 Bro. Wellman as a Baptist minister, 
 .and the church withdrew their fellow- 
 ship as a member. This shows how 
 strong was the devotion of the church 
 to the teachings and ordinances of the 
 gospel, for they loved this pastor very 
 much. Three years later, Bro. Wellman 
 renounced his open communion senti- 
 ments, confessed his error, and was ful- 
 ly restored by the church. After the 
 •dismissal of Elder Wellman in 1821, 
 Elder Hibbard supplied the church 8 
 inonths. 
 
 ELDER BELA WILCOX 
 
 -was invited, Jan. 2, 1823, to improve 
 his gift as a preacher, , which he did with 
 great satisfaction to the church for 3 
 years. Mar. 17, 1826, the church voted 
 to settle Bro. Wilcox with us for 5 
 years. April 26, the church gave him a 
 call to be ordained, but he declined and 
 the church gave him a very cordial let- 
 ter of reccommendation. Aug., 25, 1826 
 the church called 
 
 BRO. DAVID CUTLER 
 
 to the gospel ministry and just one year 
 after ordained him as pastor, being 
 present : Eev. Joseph Eliot. Dea. Sam'l 
 Mason, Daniel Everett and Sam'l Tut- 
 
 hill from Rockingham, — Eev. Samuel 
 Kingsbury, Dea. Isaac Fisher, Samuel 
 Farwell and Sem Pierce from Wind- 
 ham, — Deacons : E. Eansom and Clm- 
 piu Howard from West Townshend, — 
 Rev. Phineas Howe, Bros. John Phil- 
 lips and Geo. Phillips from Marlboro 
 aad Newfane, — Rev. I. Wellman of 
 Bookline. During the next year the 
 churches in East and North Townshend 
 were organized, and to them about 70 
 members were dismissed from Brook- 
 line, by letter, reducing the Brookline 
 church about one half. 
 
 The church experienced a precious 
 revival while under Elder Cutler's care, 
 his labors being very useful. At length 
 however, a grievous trial came, grow- 
 ing out of the sale of a horse by a bro. 
 Jesse Gray to Elder Cutler, and for a 
 time it threatened the destruction of the 
 church. Feb. 3, 1829, an ecclesiastical 
 council was called ou this account ; but, 
 the disaffected parties became reconciled 
 and peace and harmony were restored. 
 
 DEA. CALVIN BARRETT 
 
 was received from Windham church, 
 July 7,1827. His letter says : " that he 
 has served as deacon of that church ov- 
 er 20 years, and his useful life and em- 
 inent services, under God, has rendered 
 him one of her main pillars." He was 
 constituted deacon of this church also, 
 which place he filled with great accept- 
 ance until his death in 1862, making 
 more than 55 years of service as deacon. 
 
 SUNDAY SCHOOL. 
 
 Feb. 25, 1828. The church voted 
 to organize a Sunday school in town. 
 Rev. David Cutler, Thos. Crane and 
 Alvin Boy den, superintending com- 
 mittee. This school has continued to 
 the present time, with but short vaca- 
 tions. 
 
 BRO. aKvao was invited to improve 
 his gift as preacher, Dec. 24, 1830, — 
 
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 VERMONT HISTORICAL MAGAZINE 
 
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 who commenced at ouce to study and to 
 preach. There was a goodreligous in- 
 terest at that time. 
 
 A Bro. Perry, from the Wardsboro 
 and Newfane church, was called and 
 preached about one year, and was suc- 
 ceeded by Bro. Geo. Phillips from the 
 same church, who preached here until 
 1834. During the latter part of his 
 labors, an important revival com- 
 menced ; 14 were baptized before he left. 
 
 ; BEO. DANY BEOWN 
 
 succeeded Bro. Phillips, and the revival 
 continued for several months, and 
 numerous additions were made to the 
 church. This pastor's wife was a very 
 useful woman, and liighly esteemed in 
 the church. Bro. Brown's pastorate 
 continued' to 1836, about two and a 
 half years. 
 
 BRO. DENCIL M. CRANE 
 
 was then called and was ordained by 
 this church, June 1, 1837. It being 
 the same day, the present house of 
 worship was dedicated. There were 
 present on this interesting occasion : 
 Rev. Zeba Howard, and Dea. O. 
 ' Carpenter, from Dummerston ; Rev. 
 P. Howe, Dea. J. Ingraham, J. Good- 
 now, and Geo. Phillips from Marlboro 
 and Newfane church; Deacons I^aniel 
 Mason, and Samuel Mason from 
 Rockingham; Rev. M. Ely, Dea. O. 
 Howard, Wm. Fisher, J. Blandin, and 
 Samuel Gray, from Townshend; Dea. 
 Allen and J. Cudworth, from Putney; 
 Rev. Mansfield Bruce, from Wilming^ 
 ton; Rev. Nathan Ames, from Jamaica. 
 Elder Crane, continued his labors 
 here till Sept. 23, 1838, in the midst 
 of a revival, he accepted a call from 
 the Baptist church in Grafton, and 
 Rev. John Baldwin, from Jamaica, 
 succeeded him here, till the spring of 
 1841, when ' 
 
 BRO. SAMDEL KINGt-BUEY, JR., 
 
 from Windham, was called to the 
 pastoral care of the church, and or- 
 dained on the 18th of November, fol- 
 lowing, present on this occasion : Rev. 
 M. Bruce, and Dea. Wm. Stearnea,'; 
 from Wilmington, Eev. P, Howe, Dea. 
 J. Ingraham, L. Sherman, and N, 
 Hills, from Marlboro and Newfane^ 
 Rev. M. Field, and Bro. P. Liscomb, 
 from Brattleboro, N. C. Joy, from 
 Putney: Rev. D. IJpliam, Samuel 
 Gray, and J. Blandin, from Towns- 
 hend, Rev. M. D. Miller, S. Barrett, 
 and J. Barton, from Windham, and"' 
 Deacons J. Wellman, and J. Cutler of 
 Brookline. 
 
 A revival followed in which Rev. , 
 M. D. Miller, assisted the pastc^- and 
 31 members were added by baptism. ; 
 The church prospered under Elder 
 Kingsbury's care till 1849. In the 
 autumn of this year, a fatal epidemi? 
 passed through this town, and this 
 devoted servant of God, his wife, and 
 tlii-ee children, the entire family, de- 
 ceased within the short space of two, 
 weeks, and the wife's father and 
 mother about the same time. 
 
 REV. EUFUS SMITH 
 
 accepted the. pastorate m the winter^ 
 of 1849-50, and was dismissed by 
 letter March 28, 1852. During this 
 time, 15 were added to tlie church. 
 The church had no pastor for the 
 next two years. Sept. 21, 1851, .Bros. 
 Calvin, I. Barrett', Francis Merrifield, 
 and C. W. Stebbins, were elected' 
 deacons. Dea. Merrifield has been' 
 dismissed to Denver church, the other' 
 two are still with us. Bros. Isaac 
 Wellman, Jonathan Cutler, and Brown 
 Osgood, served as deacons of this, 
 church, and were such at the time ot 
 their deaths. 
 
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 29 
 
 BEO. C. B. SMITH, 
 
 then Principal of Leland and Graj' 
 seminary, Townshend, this ecmnty, 
 was called to supply the desk in April 
 1854. and February 1855, he was or- 
 dained pastor and remained such t^iH 
 August 7, 1859, when he was dismissed 
 to Brandon chiirch, during his pas- 
 torate, 19 were added to the church, 
 ai^d the Sunday School was particular- 
 ly prosperous. 
 
 From 1859 to 1862, the desk was 
 supplied hj- Bros. Chas. Frost, "Wliite- 
 comb, TSTieeler, Burrows, and others. 
 In 1862, Rev. J. P. Huntington was 
 pastor 9 months, succeeded bj- Rev. 
 Sem - Pierce. Failing health obliged 
 the latter to retire in the spring of 
 1885 ; he was succeeded bj" 
 
 EEV. CHAS. FAKHAE 
 
 July 1, same j^ear, whose pastorate 
 continued to 1871, when he was dis- 
 missed to Warwick, Mass. During 
 this time, 22 were received to member- 
 ship, and the house of worship greatly 
 improved, largely through the effl- 
 ciencj' of the pastor's wife, Elizabeth 
 Farrar. 
 
 EEV. WM. A. A. MILLAED 
 
 was pastor from 1871 to 1873, and 10 
 members were added by baptism, and 
 6 by letter. 
 
 EEV. J. D. DOXAVON 
 
 was next pastor from 1873 to 1876. 
 Oct. 15, 1875, Miss, Fannie E. Towns- 
 ley, the evangelist, held meetings here 
 ten days. A very general awakning 
 upon the subject was experienced 
 through the town, and 12 to 15 hope- 
 ful conversions vere reported. 
 
 During Mr. Donavon's pastorate 8 
 were added ty baptism, and 10. by 
 letter. 
 
 May 1, 1881, Rev. Chas. Farrar 
 was recalled as pastor, and served as 
 
 such till June 1, 1884, when he retired 
 and moved to California with his 
 family, aged 85 years. 
 Siiice June 15, 1884, 
 
 EEV. J. D. BUKWELL 
 
 of Saxtons River, has supplied the 
 desk half the time, and been actuig 
 pastor. 
 
 Thus fat with few exceptions, we 
 have spoken only of the additions to 
 the church, but there has been a con- 
 stant drain upon our membership bj* 
 deaths, discipline and removals, mostly 
 by the latter cause, having always dis- 
 - missed far more than received b}' 
 letter. About 540 members have be- 
 longed to this church. It has or- 
 damed six ministers and licensed sever- 
 al others, among whom are Eliot P. 
 and Avistin A. Merrifield, who have 
 been ordained elsewhere. 
 
 This church has had two meeting- 
 houses. The first a temporary build- 
 ing, without flour or other finish, ex- 
 cept a small desk, attached to the 
 frame on one side. Slabs from the 
 saw-mill were used for seats. This 
 could only be occupied in warm 
 weather. 
 
 In 1836-7, by a great deal of per- 
 sonal effort, zeal, and self sacrifice the 
 present, substantial, brick edifice was 
 erected. 
 
 In raising the frame for the roof, 
 and belfry of this house, a fearful 
 accident occurred, in which about 30 
 men were precipitated, with a large 
 mass of timber and boards, from the 
 top of the walls, to the sleepers and 
 ground beneath, a highth of 20 feet, 
 16 men received very severe injurous, 
 but nothing daunted, the next morn- 
 mg, the forest swarmed with men, 
 cutting timber to supply the places of 
 those broken by the fall, and in just a 
 week, they completed the raising. 
 
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 VERMONT HISTORICAL MAGAZINE. 
 
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 The house was oompleted at the 
 nominal expense of $1,690.76, much 
 labor and material having been con- 
 tributed free. It was dedicated June, 
 1, 1837, and was subsequently slated 
 and painted, outside, by agency, of 
 Bro. Samuel Cutler, at an expense of 
 $167. -The first horse sheds, were 
 moved here from Newfane, by Dea. 
 F. Merrifield. The blinds were pro- 
 cured by the Ladies Industrial Society, 
 at an expense of $50 ; and a bell was 
 procured through the special efforts of 
 Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Stebbins, at a cost 
 
 of $100. 
 
 The house was remoddled inside and 
 painted inside and outside, in the year 
 1868, at an expense of about $600.00; 
 $215; by subscription, the balance, 
 raised by the Ladies Industria;l Society, 
 led by Mrs, C. Fa,rrar. 
 
 The Eeed Organ was procured by 
 the efforts of Mrs. J. B. Stebbins, and 
 Mrs. "iVm. Adams, at an exiDense of 
 ^77.00. 
 
 Dming the early history of the 
 church, a remarkable degree of devo- 
 tion, zeal, and christian love prevailed, 
 and it is interesting to see, with what 
 child-like simplicity the members asked 
 and received forgiveness of each other. 
 And the severity of the wound, when 
 any member stepped aside, from the 
 straight path, prpves how much they 
 loved each other, and the cause of 
 Christ. 
 
 Though, often without a pastor, the 
 church has always sustained decipline, 
 and the Christian ordinances. It has 
 dismissed many members, who have 
 become piUars of strength, to some of 
 the churches in the large cities, and in 
 the gi'owing West, and whose record 
 it is a joy to review. 
 
 We cannot close this sketch without 
 offering a tribute of love, and respect 
 
 for the faithful dead and absent, whose 
 names and doings are here recorded: 
 , - deacons: 
 
 WUhelm Thomas,, Lamach Blandin,. 
 John Blandin, Daniel Bixby, Isaac- 
 Wellman, Hariy Cary, Calvin Barret, 
 Jonathan .Cutler, Luke B. Osgood, 5 
 C. S. Boutwell, Francis MeiTifieldy 
 Calvin T. Bai-rett, and Chalmer W., 
 Stebbins. 
 
 CLEEKS OF THE CHURCHES. 
 
 Daniel Bixby, Archalas Bixby, Johm 
 Blandin, Thomas Crane, Anthony 
 Mason, C. W. Stebbins, and John 
 B. Stebbins. 
 
 From the National Baptist Register, 
 
 Hanover N. H., Apr. 20, 1796, ' 
 
 [We are indebted for this to one in 
 bis graivfe.; — The Rev. Bernice; D. 
 Ames, historian of Charlotte, who 
 showed to us the original "Minutes,"' 
 then in his possession, and let us 'take 
 a copy. "What," said he, "would I 
 uot give for as early, complete and 
 certain account of the Methodist, 
 churches in Vermont." — Ed.] 
 Meredith Association. 
 
 State of Vermont, Orange county : Bradforil 
 and Lanctoff (N. H.) Baptist clmrch, I'Ol tjaem- 
 bers, Joslah Stone, pastor. 
 
 Corinth anct Vershire Baptist ohuroli, 84 mem- 
 bers, Thomas West, pastor. (Very old and 
 decrepit, not able to preach.) Samuel Webster, . 
 candidate. 
 
 Danville Baptist church, Isaac Roots,, pastor, 
 41 members : Total members in that associa- 
 tion 714. 
 
 Woodstock Association. 
 Chittenden county, Alburgh Baptist chui-ch, 
 Tacant. 18 members. 
 
 Cambridge Baptist church, Eoswell Hears, 
 administrator, 4S members- 
 Fairfax Baptist church, .Joseph Call, admin- 
 istrator, 54 members. 
 
 County of Orange : Thetfortt Baptist chui'Oh, 
 vacant, 3 menabers.. 
 
873 
 
 BROOKLINE. 
 
 31 
 
 BAPTIST CHUKCHES IN VERMONT 1796. 
 
 County of Winaham, Jamaica Baptist church, 
 John Dyar, candidate, 39 memhers. 
 
 VVardshoi-o Baptist chuvoh, Simeon Comhs, 
 pastor, 29 members. 
 
 Westminster Baptist church, 32 members, 
 Olivei' Guarnsey, candidate. 
 
 Rockingham Baptist church, Artemas 
 Aldrlcb, Itinerant. 
 
 County of Windsor, Chester Baptist church, 
 Aai-on Leiand, pastor, 67 members. 
 
 Cavendish Baptist church, Jolm Lathrop, 
 candidate. 
 
 Hartford and Lebanon ^N. Y.) Baptist clmrch, 
 John Drew, administrator, 44 members, Laban 
 Hall, candidate- 
 Norwich Baptist church, Robert Law, ad- 
 ministrator, 43 members. Bernard Perkins, 
 in Lebanon and Thomas Wliipple, candidates. 
 Reading Baptist church, vacant, 34 members. 
 Royalton Baptist chirch, John Hibbard, 
 administrator, 5 members. Joseph Wheat, 
 candidate. 
 
 Sharon Baptist church, Ariel Kendrick, 
 living in Woodstock, administrator, 16 
 members. , 
 
 Windsor Baptist clmrch, Roswell Smith, ad- 
 ministi'ator, 57 members. 
 
 Woodstock Baptist church, Ellsha Ransom, 
 pastor, 144 members. Joseph Patterson; in 
 Coneiy, (Province, jUe.) and preacher to a 
 society, Jabez Cottle, John Cutter and Dodge, 
 candidates. 
 
 Woodstock and Bridgewater Baptist clmrch, 
 101 members. 
 
 Windham county, Dummerston Baptist 
 church, Rufus Freeman, administrator, 140 
 members, Nathan Worden, living in Chester- 
 field, N. H., and Samuel Wakefield, candidates. 
 
 West Guilford Baptist church. Whitman 
 Jacobs, pastor„33 members. Beriah Willis and 
 Benjamin Cole, candidates. 
 
 Whitingham and Guilford Baptist church, 
 106 members, Nathaniel and David Bennett, 
 members of Sutton church, residing in Whit- 
 ingham and present statedly, candidates. 
 
 Putney Baptist church, Asa Hibbard, pastoi-, 
 60 members. 
 
 Halifax Baptist church, Abner Bemis, (mem- 
 ber of Buokland church, Mass., but resident 
 
 and regularly present hei-e,) administrator, 17 
 members- 
 Somerset Baptist church, Joh^i Howton, 
 lives and preaches at Adams, Mass., candidate, 
 28 members. 
 
 RHODE ISLAND GENERAL MEETING. 
 
 Bennington county, Shaftsbury Baptist, 
 church, vacant, 20 members. 
 
 VERMOST ASSOCIATION. 
 
 Addison county, Brandon Baptist church, 
 Calvin Chamberlain, administrator, 63 mem- 
 bers. 
 
 Orwell Baptist church, Nathaniel Culver, 
 candidate, 92 members. 
 
 Shoreham Baptist church, Amos Woods, 
 pastor, 32 members. 
 
 Bennington county, Manchester Baptist 
 church, Beriah Kelley, a member of Stillwater 
 cluu'Ch, N. Y., itnerant, 30 members, Benjamin 
 Vaughn, candidate, living near Lake Cham- 
 plain. 
 
 Georgia Baptist church, vacant, 12 members. 
 
 Rutland county, Clarendon Baptist church, 
 Isaac Beal, pastor, 44 members. 
 
 Hubbardton Baptist church, vacant, 23 
 members. 
 
 Ira Baptist church, McClure, candidate, 44 
 members. 
 
 Middletown' Baptist Church, Sylvanus 
 Haynes, 47 members. 
 
 Pawlet Baptist church, vacant, 22 members, 
 
 Pitsford Baptist church, Elisha Rich, pastor 
 45 members;' Ebenzer Call, candidate. 
 
 Walliugford Baptist church, Henry Green, 
 ■pastor, 89 members. 
 
 SHAFTSBURY ASSOCIATION. 
 
 Nineteen churches in New York state, in 
 sevien counties; eleven churches in Massa- 
 chusetts, in Berkshire and Hampshire 
 counties, and Vermont churches : 
 
 Pownal First Baptist church, 165 members, 
 Francis Bennett, candidate. 
 
 .Shaftsbui-y First Baptist church, Cyprien 
 Downer, candidate, -24 members. 
 
 Shaftsbui-y Second Baptist church, vacant, 
 45 members. 
 
 Shaftsbuiy FourLl) Baptist church, Caleb 
 Blood, pastor, 160 members. 
 
 Total in the association, 3071 members : 
 
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 VERMONT HISTORICAL MAGAZINE. 
 
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 CALVIN-IST CLOSE COMMUXIOX FIRST DAY 
 
 SABBATH BAPTIST,— NOS ASSOCIATED 
 CHURCHES. 
 
 Addison oonnty, Bristol Baptist olira-cli, 
 vacant, 15 members. * 
 
 CqrnwaU Baptist cliuroh, tephram Sawyer, 
 candidate, 35 members. 
 
 Leicester Baptist church, vacant, 15 mem- 
 ber.?. 
 
 Monkton Baptist church, Thomas Tuttle, 
 candidate, 25 members. 
 
 Panton Baptist church, vacant, 15 members. 
 
 Salisbury Baptist church, vacant, 20 meni- 
 bers. 
 
 Bennington county, Pownal Second Baptist 
 church, vacant, 33 members. 
 
 Chittenden county, Bolton Baptist church, 
 vacant, 15 members. 
 
 Richmond Baptist church, WUworth, 
 [Wilmarthy,] administrator, 25 members. 
 
 Orange county, Chelsea Baptist chureh, 
 Bzeklel Hunt, candidate, 15 members. 
 
 "Windhaui county, Atl^ens Baptist chureh, 
 vacant, 52 members. 
 
 Marlborough Baptist church, Joslah Packard, 
 candidate, 50 members. 
 
 Guilford Baptist church, Peleg Hlx, pastor, 
 75 members, Jos. Carpenter and Samuel Allen, 
 candidates. 
 
 Guilford Baptist church, Benjamin Ballou, 
 candidate, 50 members. 
 
 Windsor couAty, Hartland Baptist church, 
 vacant, 50 members. 
 
 Addison Cotjnty: Bristol Corn-wall and 
 , Panton Baptist churches were constituted in 
 1795. 
 
 Alburgh Baptist church was constituted in 
 177i, and Bolton and Georgia Baptist churches 
 in 1775. Chelsea and Hardwick xhurches in 
 1775, Marlborough in 1774, and GuOford Baptist 
 church, and the T&ird Baptist cliuroh in 
 Windsor, In 1775. 
 
 THE INDIANS. , 
 
 BY JOHN B. STEBBINS. 
 
 Soon after the settlement of this 
 town, the mhabitants of the northern 
 part of the town, which lies in A deep 
 and narrow valley, were startled' one 
 
 day, by the report, that the Indian 
 war-whoop, had been heard in the 
 southern part of the town, and along 
 the hill sides. They all rush out aird 
 listen. 
 
 Yes, those horrid shouts could be 
 distinctly heard, as they pealed along 
 the thickly wooded slope on the east, 
 and repeated from the hills on the 
 west. The most incredulous are satis- 
 fled, that it is real. What shall be 
 done ? If we remain here, we are an 
 easy pray, to the red warrior. There 
 rises abruptly on the easterly side, of 
 this town, Athens and Newfane, 15 
 miles one unbroken line of hill, about 
 2,000 feet high above the main valley, 
 and a range nearly as high on the 
 west. They at once decide to do their 
 best to escape across the mountain, to 
 the settlement in Putney. 
 
 But one man is sick, and cannot 
 walk, shaU they leave him ? 
 
 They cannot; a litter is hastily pre- 
 paired ; the sick man laid upon it, and 
 placed upon the shoulders of the-most 
 athletic, and the mixed party of men, 
 women, and children move off) hastUj' 
 at first. The hill is steep, and the waj"^ 
 rough, but short were the pauses they 
 made to recuperate failing strength, — 
 a delay of one mmute might bring the 
 horrible tomahawk over the head of 
 anj- one of them. Closely the mother 
 clasped the hand of her trembling child 
 at her side, she thought of the Dustan 
 family, the massacre at bloody Brook — 
 scenes fresh in their minds — horror 
 thrilled the nerves of the weaker, as 
 they were startled by the crackling of 
 dead linibs, or the creaking and groan- 
 mg of some half fallen tree, in the 
 wild forest. On and up, — the sick man 
 is abandoned, — the summit is at last 
 reached. The frightful foe has not 
 j-et closed in upon them. Two miles 
 
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 33 
 
 of gpadual descent, favored between 
 them, and the residence of Captain 
 Jewett; this distance soon accomplish- 
 ed, the partj- hauled up before the 
 Captain's door. They quite took the 
 Captain and his family by surprise ; but 
 their story being heard, they were told, 
 their alarm must have been occasioned 
 by the shouts of a party of surveyors 
 that had passed over the mountain that 
 day. This explanation little by little, 
 allayed at length their fright, and as it 
 was near the night, the Captain's fami- 
 ly treated the whole company to mush 
 and milk for supper and stored them 
 away as best they could for the night. 
 The next day, the party returned to 
 Brookline, and found their homes just 
 as they left them ; but these mothers 
 felt almost as though their dear ones 
 had been reclaimed from a terrible fate. 
 [And what became of the sick man 
 who was abandoned in the woods. Ed.] 
 
 MUSICAL HISTORY 
 
 or THE BAPTIST CHDUCH IX BEOOKLINE.* 
 
 Choiristers from 1800 to 1885 : 
 Brown Osgood, Jacob Burditt, C. T. 
 Barrett, Van E. Ford, Wm. Stebbins. 
 
 Singing Books used from 1827 to 
 1882: 
 
 Bridgewater Collection, Handel and 
 Hayden, Boston Academy, Carmina 
 Sacra, American Vocalist, Rule of 
 Zion, Cythara, Jubelee by Bradbury, 
 Harp of Judah, Palm, by Wyman. 
 Coronation, by Wyman, Herald, by 
 Perkins. 
 
 Singing School Teachers from 1827 
 to 1885: 
 
 George Morse, Newfane ; Jacob Bur- 
 ditt, Brookline ; G-ale ; King ; 
 
 Abraham Marshal, Newfane; Van R. 
 Ford, Brookline ; Adelbert Gray, 
 
 *Copiea ft-oni a ms. prepaired by Dea. Calyln. 
 T Barrett, for tlie Centenial Services at BiooK- 
 line, Oct. 25, 1883. 
 
 Townshend : Tenney ; Lake, 
 
 Saxton's Rver; "\Vm. P. Stebbins, 
 Brookline. 
 
 Hymn Books: "Watts," Watts 
 and Suplement, Winchels and Watts, 
 (presented by Rufus Smith for the 
 desk, and choir, 1851, who used them 
 till 1873.) The Baptist Praise Book, 
 used till 1885 ; Gospel Hymn Book, by 
 Moody Sankey, 1885. 
 
 Sunday School Mnsic : 
 Sabbath School Music, by Bradby ; 
 Oriola ; Pure Gold ; The Trio ; The 
 Golden Rule ; used from 1873 to 1882; 
 Songs for Little Folks, (introduced by 
 Mrs. C. W. Stebbins, supt.) 
 
 Sunday School Superintendents : 
 Rev. David Cutler, ( Superintending 
 Thomas Crane, < Committee in 
 Alvin Boy den, ( 1828. 
 
 Dea. C. T. Barrett; C. W. Stebbins; 
 J. B. Stebbins; 0. C. Merrifield ; L. 
 W. Bush, Mrs. C. W. Stebbins. 
 
 Prior to 1827, the Osgood, Blandin, 
 Bixby Pool, Wellman, Lee and Flint 
 families, comprised the musical class. 
 
 The tunes most used were, North- 
 field ; China ; Russia ; Mear ; Green- 
 field : Dehght ; Windham, etc. 
 
 [Contributed.^ 
 Bt Mrs. E. C. Booth, 
 c. t. baeeett. 
 
 As an eccentric person few are so 
 generally known and remarked as our 
 Deacon and townsman, Calvin S. 
 Barrett. A part of his life has been 
 briUiant, and note-worthy, as a godly, 
 upiight man, acquainted almost to a 
 line with the constructions of the bible 
 and other religious doctri::.es, also, as a 
 lover and instructor of music. The 
 practice as a teacher of singing-schools, 
 having brought him to an almost intim- 
 ate acquintance with a large part of the 
 people in Windham county. His facul- 
 ty in this sphere was wholjy original, 
 
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 and many relate with mirth, incidents 
 when they attended Barrett's singing 
 school. 
 
 Succeptable himself to nearly all the 
 intuitions of human nature, and an 
 adaptability to different people, he had 
 wonderful ability for teaching others, 
 who had within them a root of musical 
 talent. 
 
 Some parts of his life have been a 
 bewilderment from insanity, at which 
 periods he wanders about, chart-draw- 
 ing, or giving concerts and other enter- 
 tainments, quite aimlessly, and very 
 unlike the man he is when the lamp of 
 reason burns. - 
 
 ETHAN AIXEN S RELATIVE. 
 
 Mrs. Edith Root, wife of Wm- 
 Brisco Root, who moved to this town 
 in the year 1827, claimed a relation-ship 
 to Ethan Allen, and as she had many 
 peculiar characteristics like him, we 
 have no reason to doubt it. She was 
 a large, resolute looking woman, pos- 
 sessing a decided and unyielding mind, 
 and would to almost the time of her 
 death carry a large kettle of soap, pota- 
 toes, etc., through the yard, or where 
 she wished to transport them, with a 
 firm and unstayed step. She died in 
 1873, at the age of 91 years. 
 
 E. C. B. 
 
 ^HE CUTLER FAMILY. 
 
 EEOM MRS. JANE BENNETT CtTTLEE. 
 
 SAMUEL CUTLER was bom in Fitzwill- 
 iam N. H., Aug. 13, 1796. 
 
 In early life, he came with his father 
 to Brookline. He learned the trade of 
 carpenter and builder, which he contin- 
 ued more or less during his life. 
 
 Feb, 17, 1817, he married Ruth 
 Phillips, daughter of John Phillips, 
 Esq., of Marlboro, this county, a very 
 estimable woman. She died Jan. 1833, 
 leaving three sons and one daughter. 
 
 • June 5, 1834, he married for his 
 second wife, Sally Phillips, a second 
 daughter of John Phillips, and had by 
 this union one son, John H. Cutler. 
 
 In 1828, he purchased a farm near 
 the centre of the town, owned by Dr. 
 William Perry, where he resided until 
 the last two years of his life. In 
 1836-37, he built for himself a good 
 substantial brick-house. 
 
 His boys, early in life, were very 
 useful on the farm, taking responsibili- 
 ties which few of their age were able to 
 do, a necessity caused by their father, 
 being absent from home, building 
 houses and barns for others. 
 
 In 1855-56, he was sent by his 
 townspef)ple to the Legislature, being 
 called the third time to an extra session 
 caused by the burning , of the State 
 House. 
 
 He was an active, consistent member 
 of the Baptist Church, and from his 
 youth, a generous hearted, and liberal 
 giver, both to the church, and those he 
 found in need. 
 
 in 1864, he sold his farm, and 
 moved to Brattleboro, to spend the re- 
 mainder of his days. He died Aug. 3,. 
 1866, aged 70 years. 
 
 Luther, his first son, died in infancy. 
 
 Jonathan, the second son, was a good 
 scholar, attending several terms at 
 Townshend academy, and teaching two 
 winter terms of school. At the age of 
 twenty, he went to Boston, where he 
 was successful in business. 
 
 In 1848, he married Loretta E. 
 Abbott, from Windham, daughter of 
 Dea. Hart B. Abbott. After some 
 years, he thought best to leave the sea- 
 coast for the benefit of his health, and 
 returned to Vermont and settled in 
 Brattleboro, 1851. Continuing in bu- 
 siness there, he was enabled to give 
 
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 35 
 
 liberally, which he did, mostly to the 
 Baptist Home Mission Society. 
 
 He died in Brattleboro in 1867, at 
 the age of 45 years, leaving a son and 
 daiighter. The son, Fred A. for sever- 
 al years has been in the office of A. I. 
 & L. E. KeUy, real estate agents in 
 Minneapolis, Minn. 
 
 Samuel, the third son, left Brookline 
 at the age of twenty, for Boston, where 
 he has been engaged in business till the 
 present time, residing in Boston the 
 first 10 years, since then, at Somerville, 
 Mass. 
 
 In 1851, he married Sarah Jane 
 Bennett, of Brookline. 
 
 They have four children, the oldest, 
 Samuel Newton, a graduate of Harvard 
 College, class of 1877. 
 
 Albert, the 4th son, in early life 
 went to Minnesota, spending the most 
 of his time in farming. He died Feb- 
 ruary 1883. 
 
 John H. Cutler, the youngest son, an 
 energetic, wide awake citizen, married 
 Martha A. Fisher, daughter of George 
 Fisher, Esq., and has since gone to 
 Trasy, Minn., where he is engaged in 
 extensive farming. He has one daugh- 
 ter, Laura J. born in Brookline, who 
 lives with him in his Western home. 
 
 THE STEBBINS FAMILY. 
 
 JOTHAM STEBBINS, 
 
 son of Benjamin and Jarucia Stebbins, 
 born at Brimfield, Mass., Apr. 21, 
 1761, married Phebe Ellenwood, who 
 left children : Samuel, Rufus and Phebe. 
 He was a soldier of the revolutionay 
 war. He moved into Brookline in 
 1787, and settled on a farm where he 
 Uved till his death in 1850, aged 89 
 years. He was of Puritan stock and 
 very tenacious of his religious prin- 
 cipals. 
 
 SAMUEL STEBBINS. 
 
 oldest son of Jotham, was 4 years old 
 when his parents moved to Vermont. 
 He married Sarah, the oldest daughter 
 of Dea. John Blandin, and settled on a 
 farm adjacent to his father's where he 
 lived to his death in 1866, aged 83. 
 He was an enterprising farmer and pro- 
 minent citizen of his town ; patriotic 
 and public spirited ; kept a close run of 
 the state and national politics ; thrice 
 elected to the Legislature, and holding 
 many of, the positions of trust. He had 
 four sons and one daughter, who lived 
 to maturity. 
 
 Eli M., the eldest son, died at Brown 
 University, at the close of his second 
 year, 1839, aged 25 ; 
 
 Elvira, the only daughter, a young 
 lady, very highly esteemed by an exten- 
 sive circle of acquaintance, also died in 
 1845, aged 25 years. ' 
 
 JOHN B. STEBBINS. 
 
 Third son of Samuel, born in 1824, 
 received a fair academic education at 
 Leland and Gray seminary, and is now 
 (1885) living on a farm near the centre 
 of the town, which he has reclaimed 
 from the rock of time and made it a 
 part on a new set of buildings and 
 made a very pleasant home. He has 
 ever been prominent among his towns- 
 men, as a reference to the list of town 
 •officers will show, one of the corpor- 
 ators of Windham Co. Savings Bank, 
 and for several years one of its direc- 
 tors. 
 
 In 1847, he married Mary E. Bar- 
 ber, eldest daughter of Dr. Geo. W. 
 Barber, formerly of Wardsboro, this 
 county. She died this year, 1885, 
 leaving two sons and one daughter. 
 
 [Mrs. Mary (Barber) Stebbins. wife 
 of John B. Stebbins, died June 21, 
 1885. J 
 
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 VERMONT HISTORICAL MAGAZINE. 
 
 Arthur, eldest son of John B. Steb- 
 bins, was accidently and instantly killed 
 at Skene, Tenn., Jan. 19, 1886. — See 
 previous notice by Mr. Stickney. 
 
 SAMUEL E. STEBBINS, 
 
 son of Samuel, born 1830, is now a 
 section farmer in Dakota, and a mem- 
 ber of the Territorial Legislature. He 
 was a Union soldier in the war of the 
 rebellion, and since the close of the war, 
 has spent several years at land survey- 
 ing in the North-west, for the U. S. 
 Government, and the Northern Pacific 
 R. R. Co. 
 
 Charles Q, the youngest son of Sam- 
 uel, resides in Townsheud, this county. 
 
 EUFUS STEBBINS, 
 
 second son of Jotham, resided on the 
 farm with his father- He was a 
 Methodist class-leader, and married 
 Clarrissa, daughter of Dea. John 
 Blandin, and raised a family of 11 
 children : Thomas, Clarissa, Chalmer, 
 Adin, Sarah, Jonas, Christana, Vashti, 
 William*, Edwin, Jotham. All of 
 good habits, highly respectable and use- 
 ful citizens. 
 
 Thomas is a retired carpenter and 
 farmer, Adin is an artist, Edwin .a 
 dentist, Jotham a Methodist clergyman, 
 and Chalmer and William are well to 
 do farmers in town ; they have both re- 
 presented the town in the Legislature, 
 and held many other honorable positions 
 of trust. 
 
 ClaiTissa and Vashti are also settled 
 in town ; Edwin at Shelburn Falls, 
 Mass., all the others are in Minnesota, 
 except Sarah and Christana, who are 
 deceased. 
 
 Phebe, only daughter of Jotham, 
 
 married Joab Holland, of Townshend, 
 
 and raised a large and respectable 
 
 family. 
 
 *Willlam P. Stebbins, of Brookline, died 
 March 12, 1886, aged 56 years. 
 
 EDWIN ALONZO STEBBINS, 
 
 son of Rufus and Clarrissa (Blandin) 
 Stebbins, born in Brooldine, July 10, 
 1837, passed his boyhood days on the 
 farm, attending public school in the 
 Round school-house, and the academies 
 in Townshend, Springfield and Brandon. 
 
 He studied dentistry with Dr. E. M. 
 Bissell, and began practice in the win- 
 ter of 1860-61, in So. Londonderry. 
 
 He enlisted in Co. G. 11 Reg. Vt 
 Vols., and was appointed corporal on 
 being mustered into U. S. service, 
 Sept. 1, 1862, and was promoted to 
 Sergeant, 27, 1863; Company Quarter 
 Master Sergeant, Dec. 28, 1863 ; First 
 Sergeant, Jan. 28, 1864: ist Lieuten- 
 ant, June 2, 1865. 
 
 The regiment was stationed in the 
 defences of Washington, D C, tiU 
 May 1864, when it was ordered to the 
 front and joined the 2d Brigade, (old 
 first Vt. Brigade,) 2d Div. 6th Army 
 Corps at Spottsylvania, Va., with 
 which it served till the end of the war. 
 
 When the regiment was discharged, a 
 few hundred of its recruits were kept 
 in service, to do garrison duty, with a 
 sufficient number of officers for com- 
 mand. This Batallion was stationed at 
 forts on the Potomac River, a few 
 miles below Washington. Lieutenant 
 Stebbins was Past Quarter Master at 
 Fort Foot, and Quarter Master of the 
 BattaUiob, till they were ordered to be 
 discharged Aug. 2i3, 1865. 
 
 On account ot ague contracted at 
 Fort Foot, he was unable to resume 
 active practice of dentistry for about 
 a year, but located at West Townshend 
 in the spring of 1866, where he re- 
 mained till 1870, when he succeeded 
 Dr. E. M. Bissell, dentist at Shelburne, 
 Falls, Mass. 
 
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 Dr. Stebbins -vvas elected President 
 of the "Connecticut Valley Dental 
 Society" Nov. 5, 1885. 
 
 He was one of the organizers of the 
 "Franklin County Sunday School 
 Teacher's Association'' (union) in 1876, 
 being elected its president in 1877, and 
 its secretary, eight successive years, 
 from 1879. 
 
 He was a delegate from Massachu- 
 setts to the International Sunday School 
 Convention at Atlanta, Ga.. in 1878. 
 
 He married Jane P. Xutting, of 
 G-roton, Mass., May 12, 1861, who 
 died at Shelburne Falls, Mass., Sept. 
 15, 1877. 
 
 He married A. Adella Smith, of 
 Holyoke, Mass., Nov. 28, 1878, to 
 whom was born, Qeorge Edwin, Jan. 
 27, 1882, and Lucy A., June 8, 1883. 
 
 The Doctor is also a treasurer of the 
 board of trustees of Shelburne Falls 
 Academy, and a trustee of Arms Aca- 
 demiy, completed" and dedicated in 1880, 
 a new and flourishing institution. 
 
 THE FRANCIS MERKIFIELD FAMILY. 
 FKANCIS E. MEEEIPIELD bought a 
 
 farm on West River in Brookline, and 
 moved on to it with his wife and 10 
 children in 1840. One son was born to 
 him in Brookline, making 11 children 
 in his family. At the time he came 
 to Brookline no member of the family 
 professed religion, but subsequently the 
 parents . and all the children, except 
 Leonard, became active members of the 
 Baptist church in Brookline, and Leon- 
 ard joined the church of the same de- 
 nomination in Dover. The father was 
 for a long time deacon of the church in 
 Brookline. They were all very regular 
 and constant in their places in the choir 
 (they all sang) in the Sunday school, 
 and wherever duty called. Mr. and 
 Mrs. M. brought up their family to 
 strict, orderly, moral and religious hab- 
 
 its, and most rigid industry and econ- 
 omy. Yet, they were, very generous 
 towards all religious purposes. 
 
 The children are all still living ; all 
 have married and have families. Two, 
 Sophia and 0. C, have buried their 
 companions, and 0. C. has a second 
 wife. They are all in good circum- 
 stances, and staunch members of socie- 
 ty wherever they are. 
 
 The father divided his estate among 
 them, which gave each one nearly 
 S2,000, and made some legacies to 
 religious societies. 
 
 The children all received a good com- 
 mon school and academic education. 
 
 ELLIOT p., took fuU collegiate and 
 theological courses, and is a Baptist 
 clergy nian. 
 
 ATJSTiN s., took a theological course. 
 I do not know whether he went through 
 college or not. He is a very successful 
 Baptist clergyman and has been for 
 several years a state missionary in 
 Kansas. 
 
 EiiEKY E., studied medicine. I can 
 not say as to his college course. He 
 was an army surgeon for some time in 
 a rebel prison, his health broke down 
 and he is now farming in Illinois. 
 
 EDWIN s. SHEKMAN, was a Very in- 
 telligent, well, educated farmer, an ac- 
 tive church member. He had a son, 
 who is a Baptist minister. 
 
 H. I. TURNER, is a well to do farmer, 
 and Baptist deacon in Dover. 
 
 s. J. GREENE, is a retired farmer. 
 
 CHAS. s. WHITE, is a very enterpriz- 
 ing farmer in Grafton. 
 
 LEONARD B. WHITE, WCnt tO Mcudota, 
 
 where he engaged in a drug and book- 
 store, and traded in real estate for sev- 
 eral years, and is now in an organ 
 manufactory. 
 
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 o. c. WHITE, i-emained on the home- 
 stead in Brookline till 1880, when he 
 joined his brothers, in the organ busi- 
 ness at Mendota, 111. He was a very- 
 active generous and useful citizen and 
 a Baptist deacon. 
 
 CHAS. BROOKS, is a wcU educated 
 Baj)tist minister. 
 
 ALBERT H, served in the Union Army 
 nearly ttoough the war. He carried 
 on a drug store at Amboy, 111., for sev- 
 eral years, but finally joined his 
 brothers in the organ business at 
 Mendota. 
 
 A printed Eegister of this family 
 was got up about six years since. 
 
 THE ADAMS FAMILY. 
 
 SAMUEL ADAMS, 
 
 born at Lancaster, Mass., July 10, 
 1781, came to Dummerston, Vt., when 
 a young man and learned the Slater's 
 business with Peter Willard, of that 
 town, and they two continued the busi- 
 ness together for many years. 
 
 Nov. 27, 1805, he married Dorcas 
 Hale, who was born at Oakham, Mass. 
 Jan. 13, 1782. She was a woman of 
 great physical endurance, and devoted 
 her life most assiduously to the cares 
 and interests of her family. She died 
 at Brookline, July 15, 1866, aged 8^ 
 years. 
 
 Children : three sons, born at Dum- 
 merston : 
 
 Samuel N., July 6. 1807; William, 
 July 15, 1810; Chauncy Nov. 9, 1814. 
 
 Feb. 1819, the family came to Brook- 
 line, and settled on a farm near the 
 centre of the town. 
 
 Samuel N., married Laura Ormsbee, 
 of Newfane, where he owned and kept 
 the principal hotel for several years, 
 after which he kept a provision store 
 at Boston, Mass. He died at New- 
 
 fane, Sept. 1, 1851; aged 44 years, 
 and his wife, Nov. 2, 1885. They 
 had a daughter, Mary, who married 
 F. W. Cobb, of Glencove, N. Y. 
 
 WILLIAM ADABIS, 
 
 son of Samuel, married Sarah E., a 
 daughter of Brown Osgood, of this 
 town, Oct. 2, 1834, and has resided 
 on his father's homestead in Brookline, 
 to the present time. 
 
 They had one daughter, Mary El- 
 vira, born Oct. 19, 1835, who still 
 lives with her parents, and three sons : 
 
 James Henry, born Aug. 8, 1837, 
 died Jan. 13, 1840; Charles H., born 
 Nov. 23, 1838, died Jan. 12, 1840; of 
 diptheria, and both buried in the same 
 coffln. 
 
 John C, born Nov. 25, 1842, died 
 Nov. 25, 1844, from a scald by falling 
 into a small kettle of hot water. 
 
 Naturally very fond of children it 
 was a severe affliction to these parents, 
 to bury all three of then- boys, thus 
 early in infancy. 
 
 Mr. Wm. Adams, although a vigilent 
 farmer all his life, has by his diligent 
 habits and early rising been a man of 
 extensive readmg; and being of a 
 legal turn of mind, has devoted much 
 of his attention to legal and political 
 subjects. This together with his great 
 force of character and unflinching 
 fidelity to what he believed to be right, 
 has made him a natural leader in poli- 
 tics, and a vigilent defender of his 
 adopted town. In short, he has been 
 Brookline's free lawyer ; and for many 
 years, he has drawn up most of the 
 legal papers for the town and its in- 
 habitants, has settled several estates, etc. 
 His official record will appear with his 
 townsmen. [See notice also of Will- 
 iam Adams, hy Mr. Stickney. 
 
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 BROOKLINE. 
 
 39 
 
 Chauncy, studied law; married 
 Catharine Bro^ATi, of Jamaica; settled 
 in' Indiana, where he carried on mer- 
 cantile business for a time. He got an 
 appointment under President Polk, in 
 the patent office at Washington, where 
 he died Sept. 28, 1862, and his wife, 
 Feb. 19, 1886. 
 
 Children: Geo. W., and John Q. 
 
 George, was for some time a news- 
 paper correspondent and reporter. Has 
 now for several j^ears been a journalist 
 of considerable note, and is president 
 of "The Star" Association at Washing- 
 ton, D. c; 
 
 GEORGE WILLIAM ADAMS, 
 
 son of Chauncy Adams, was born in 
 Lima, Indiana, in 1839 ; was educated 
 at the University of Michigan for the 
 law, but entered journalism in Wash- 
 ington, D. C, in 1860, which profes- 
 sion he has foUowed ever since. He 
 was the representative of The New 
 York World in Washington for 19-^ 
 years; of the Chicago Times 13 years; 
 the Boston Herald 14 years; the St. 
 Louis Kepublican 5 years, and at 
 briefer periods of the Kew York 
 Evening Post, Cincinnati Commercial, 
 Louisville Courier, Journal N. 0. 
 Piceyune, and Charleston News and 
 Courier, and St. Louis Globe, — Demo- 
 crat. He is one third owner of The 
 Evening Star newspaper in Washing- 
 ton, one of the largest properties of 
 its kind in the United States, and Pre- 
 sident of the company, which jjublishes 
 it. He served thi'ough the enthe war 
 as a correspondent, and was the wit- 
 ness of many eventful scenes in the 
 nation's history, being present in the 
 lobby of the theatre, when Booth 
 assassinated Lincoln, and in the room 
 at B. & P. station, when Giteau shot 
 Garfield. He has a ^nfe and three 
 
 daughters, and a fine residence in the 
 most deshable portion of Washington. 
 He holds from President Arthur a 
 commission as President of the Board 
 of Trustees of the Reform School of 
 the District of Columbia, — a United 
 States institution. Mr. Adams is the 
 last one of the male line of the Brook- 
 line family. 
 
 THE LUKE B. OSGOOD FAMILY. 
 
 LUKE B. OSGOOD, 
 
 born in Newfane, May 18, 1772, was 
 one of a family of seven children, left 
 orphans during the Revolutionary war, 
 and through the privations and hard 
 ships attending that early period, ar- 
 rived at the age of manhood. He 
 married Sally Thompson, of Hubbards- 
 ton Mass., who proved the efficient 
 helpmeet and wise, judicious com- 
 panion. They settled in the north-east 
 part of Newfane, which was subse- 
 quently annexed to the town of Brook- 
 Ime, where they reared then- family : 
 
 Wm. H. Osgood, married Artelissa 
 M. Rice, Mar. 1836. They both died 
 in the spring of 1853, leaving three 
 children : 
 
 Moses R., now a raih-oad engineer 
 in Connecticut. 
 
 Caroline M. wife of I. R. Warner, of 
 Saxtons River. 
 
 Gertrude P. wife of Rev. C. A. 
 Piddock, of Middletown, Conn. 
 
 Sarah E., wife of Wm. Adams, for 
 account of whom, see Adams family of 
 Brooldine, an inestimable woman, and 
 friend of the poor. 
 
 WILLAKD E. OSGOOD, 
 
 married Hannah Park, and moved to 
 Minnesota in 1864. He was a carpen- 
 ter by trade, but engaged in lumber 
 business and land speculation ; he died 
 suddenly at Minneapolis, Jan. 8, 1880. 
 
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 882 
 
 His widow and daughter, Frances H.. 
 now reside in Worcester, Mass., near 
 the eldest daughters, Marion, wife of 
 Geo., Fisher, and Martha E., wife of 
 Edwin R. Morse. 
 
 Mary Jane Osgood, wife of John A. 
 Earns worth, of Saxtons River, adopted 
 the two orphap daughters of Wm. H., 
 with whom they lived until their mar- 
 riage.. 
 
 LUKE B. OSGOOD, JB. 
 
 ■married Cyntha Jones. He moved to 
 Beloit, Wis. in 1846, and afterwards to 
 Minnesota. He traded in land, and 
 once made a journey to Pikes Peak, 
 on a trading excursion. He was an 
 extensive farmer, and had the reputa- 
 tion of being a kind neighbour, ready 
 to help the unfortunate. He died at 
 Garden City, Minn. Jan. 1, 1884. 
 
 HARRIET L. OSGOOD, 
 
 wife of Alonzo Damon, of Hubbards- 
 ton, Mass., was married Oct. 3, 1884. 
 She and her youngest child, (a boy 4 
 years old) were suddenly killed at a 
 raUroad crossing at Winehendon, Mass., 
 Feb. 5, 1858. They with Mr. D., 
 were crossing the traek when an engine 
 came upon them. When the train had 
 passed, and Mr. D, had recovered his 
 consciousness, he found the head of 
 his little boy lying at his feet. Its 
 body was picked up in nine parts. 
 The lifeless form of his wife was car- 
 ried farther on by the engine. She 
 left a son, Eugene A, who died in early 
 manhood, 1875, and one daughter, 
 Mary Jane, who resides at Hubbards- 
 ton, with her father. 
 
 ELISABETH L., wife J. E. Ells, waS 
 married Jan. 1, 1846, moved to Roch- 
 ester, Minn., where they lived 20 
 years ; thence to Kansas City, Mo., in 
 the vicinity of which place they stUl 
 reside near their daughter, Alice, wife 
 
 of J. Templer, grain-deaJer. Their 
 son, James E. Ells, a farmer, resides 
 at Lake City, Minn. 
 
 Mrs. Wm. Adams, and Mrs. J. A. 
 Farnsworth, having always resided in 
 Lhis vicinity, have been valuable mem- 
 bers of society, and special friends to 
 the poor. 
 
 Luke B. Osgood, senior, spent his- 
 days in Newfane and Brookline, and 
 died at the age of 74, his wife having 
 died 8 years previous; they became 
 firmly convinced of the truths of the 
 Christian religion in their early married 
 life, and were, with other believers 
 baptized in West River, by his brother, 
 Rev. Emory Osgood. (One of the 
 early Baptist ministers of Vermontj 
 and father of the late Rev. Sewell 
 M. Osgood, who labored 8 years in 
 Burmah, under the direction of Rev. 
 Adoniram Judson, and died at Chicago, 
 111., after several years service as dis- 
 trict secretary of the Western States 
 for foreign missions.) Mr. Osgood 
 was an industrious, successful farmer, 
 and a kind obliging neighbor. He 
 and his wife were exemplary Chris- 
 tians. Their house was a resort for 
 ministers, and the poor were never 
 turned from their door empty-handed. 
 
 He was chorister in the" church 
 choir, for more than a quarter of a 
 century. 
 
 The writer remembers with pleasure 
 the long winter evenings of more than 
 60 years ago, when unexpected, but 
 welcome neighbors, from miles away, 
 would gather there for an old fashion- 
 ed visit. When the chickens were 
 surprised, stripped hastely and made 
 ready for a stew, or the spare-rib was 
 hung before the blazing fire, for a sub- 
 stantial supper, while the house wag 
 made vocal with the songs of Zion, 
 
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 BROOKLINE. 
 
 41 
 
 without the aid of a musical instru- 
 ment of any kind. 
 
 BENNETT FAMILY. 
 
 BY DR. LEMON BENNETT. 
 
 The ancestors of the Bennett family 
 came early from England, and settled 
 in Rhode Island, and for several gen- 
 erations were mainly seafaring men. 
 
 Samuel Bennett, the grandfather of 
 the writer, with three of his brothers, 
 served as soldiers during the Revolu- 
 tionary war. He held the office of 
 drum-major. 
 
 Soon after the close of the war, he 
 with his wife, whose maiden name was 
 Rebecca Shaw, and several of his con- 
 nections came to Putney, Vt., and he 
 was one of the first settlers on Putney 
 West HiU. Here, he raised a family 
 of 5 sons and 7 daughters. His son, 
 
 SAMUEL BENNETT, 
 
 my father, married Sarah Read, daugh- 
 ter of J|)hn Read, of West Putney, a 
 woman of most excellent mind and 
 character. They lived on the home- 
 place, and took care of grandfather 
 and gi'andmother. He was a man of 
 great industrj^ and economy, and accu- 
 mulated considerable property. 
 
 He was one of the worst sufferers in 
 the accident that occurred at the rais- 
 ing of the Baptist church, at Brook- 
 line. The bones of his legs were very 
 badly broken and crushed, and ever 
 after, he was very lame, 
 
 About' 1S39, he bought the Dr. 
 Perry place in Brookline, to which he 
 moved his family, and where he lived 
 till his death in 1849. 
 
 He had a family of 4 sons and 5 
 daughters, one son died in infancy. 
 
 He and his wife were staunch Bap- 
 tists, and three of his daughters, Maria, 
 Louisa and Ellen, married Baptist min- 
 isters. 
 
 MAEIA BENNETT, the oldest, married 
 Rev. Nathaniel Cudworth, who was 
 educated mainly at Hamilton, N. Y., 
 and was a very successful pastor, and 
 eminently a good man. He died some 
 years since, and his widow, son, and 
 daughter, now live in Boston, Mass. 
 
 LOUISA BENNET, married Rev. Sam'l. 
 Kingsbmy, who was the pastor of the 
 Brookline Baptist Church at the time 
 of his death. 
 
 In the fall of 1849, a terrible ca- 
 lamity came upon the Bemiett family, 
 a most malignant type of typhus 
 dysentery (ship-fever) was brought 
 into the neighborhood from the sea- 
 board, and my father and mother and 
 brother and sister Kingsbury, and their 
 three beautiful children, the entire 
 family, seven in all, took it, and died 
 in the short space of six weeks. Other 
 members of my fathers family had it, 
 but recovered, though with broken 
 constitutions, and Mary only survived 
 a few years. 
 
 JANE BENNETT, married Sam'l. Cutler, 
 of Brookline, then a merchant of 
 Boston, Mass., where they have since 
 hved. He is a deacon in the Baptist 
 church, and a man of some wealth. 
 They have 2 sons and 2 daughters. 
 
 ELLEN BENNET, my youugest sister, 
 married Rev. Luman Keimey, who is 
 now pastor of the Baptist church, at 
 East Dover, Vt. They have no 
 children. 
 
 Of the three sons : 
 
 WALTER married Vashti E. Stebbins, 
 daughter of Rufus Stebbins, and he 
 still lives in this town. 
 
 WARREN BENNETT and family live in 
 Putney. 
 
 The writer of this, fitted for college, 
 at the Lealand & Gray Seminary, at 
 Townshend ; was at WaterviUe College, 
 
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 8 84 
 
 Me., now Colby University, three 
 years; graduated at Dartmouth, in 
 
 1848, and went to Tennesee, in 1849, 
 where he was engaged in teaching till 
 the Slavery War broke out, when his 
 teaching South ended. In 1861, he re- 
 moved to Iowa. 
 
 [_Continued bg Mrs. Jane B. Cutler.] 
 Samuel Bennett, died with his son, 
 Samuel Jr., Sept. 23, 1841, aged 83 
 years. 
 
 FAMILY RECORD. 
 
 SAMUEL BENNETT, JR., born in Put" 
 ney, Aug. 30, 1791, married Dec. 14' 
 1819, Sarah Reed, born in Putneyi 
 Nov. 23, 1794. Their children, al 
 bom in Putney, were : 
 
 Maria, born Oct. 9, 1820; married 
 Sept. 1, 1841. 
 
 Lemon, born Apr. 8, 1822; married 
 July 20, 1851. 
 
 "Walter S., born June 5, 1824. 
 
 Louisa, born Mar. 13, 1826, married 
 Dec. 13, 1843. 
 
 "Warren, born Apr. 11, 1828 ; married 
 May 13, 1851. 
 
 Simeon, born Mar. 2, 1830; died 
 May 8, 1831 ; aged 1 y. 5 mos. 
 
 Sarah, Jane, born May 6, 1832 ; mar" 
 ried Dec. 25, 1855. 
 
 Mary E., born Jan. 29, 1834; died 
 Oct. 27, 1854, aged 20 years. 
 
 Ellen C, born Oct. 14, 1836"; mar- 
 ried Dec. 17, 1856. 
 
 Samuel Bennett, Jr. ; died Sept. 25, 
 
 1849, aged 58 years. 
 
 Sarah Eeed Bennett; died Oct. 17, 
 1849, aged 55 years. 
 
 DE. LEMON BENNETT, 
 
 graduated at Dartmouth college, and 
 took a iDartial medical course. He was 
 an excellent scholar and a successful 
 teacher. He carried on an academy in 
 Eastern Tennesee for several years. 
 
 He was also for a few years in the 
 drug business in Chatanooga. 
 
 Being a thorough going abolitionist, 
 when the war of the Rebellion broke 
 out, he was compelled to flee to the 
 free states, and settled on 400 acres 
 of land he had previously bought, in 
 the town of Murray, la. He is now a 
 well-to-do farmer at that place. He 
 maiTied Elenor "Wright, and has three 
 sons and three daughters. 
 
 "Walter S. Bennett, who still lives in 
 Brookline, has four daughters. 
 
 Warren Bennett, married Frances 
 E. Morse. He resided on a farm in 
 Brattleboro 15 years, and then pur- 
 chased the "Winslow stock-farm in Put- 
 ney, where he now resides. He has 
 two sons and one daughter. 
 
 [This intelligent family, of a high 
 moral and religious character, were a 
 good acquisitioil to the society of 
 Brookline. Mi's. Maria, Benm^tt, Cud- 
 worth, whose husband was pastor of 
 the BaiDtist church in Ludlow, in our 
 school days, is one of the woman, whom 
 we have always remembered precious- 
 ly. Of whom we shall speak more in 
 the history of Ludlow.J 
 
 Jane, Mary and Ellen Bennet, in- 
 mates of Mrs. Cudworth's family, and 
 students at the old Black River Semi- 
 nary some years, were class-mates and 
 friends. Mary Bennett was a good 
 scholar, so esteemed at the old AcMe- 
 my, and we had excellent teachers 
 there in those days. Never has that 
 old school come up to so high a mark 
 before or since as then. Mary Bennett 
 was an estimable young lady. Even 
 to-day, we regret her death in the 
 fresh flower of young womanhood, — 
 and she stands in memory before us 
 as we write — as once, one exhibition 
 eve, — a young court-maid in the 
 
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 43 
 
 play, in her pretty dress, crowned with 
 flowers, so modest and so sweet, the 
 flowers slie wore so prettily, were 
 scarce as sweet. 
 
 And, a marriage date in this family 
 record above, attracts our eye, the last, 
 a pretty wedding in Mrs. Cudworth's 
 parlor. We were there, — sweet Nellie 
 Bennett, the bride, petite, golden 
 haired, delicate, — pinked cheeked that 
 night trembling just enough for pretty 
 effect. We are happy to day to open 
 the leaves of our history for these 
 friends, and put them in there to live 
 forever. Ed.] 
 
 George Mason. 
 
 was born in Putney, Dec. 31, 1831. 
 His parents removed to Brookline the 
 next year, and he passed his boyhood in 
 that town. In 1851 he began his collegi- 
 ate studies with Prof. Ward at Saxtons 
 River, and continued them at Westmin- 
 ster until 1854, when he entered the 
 University of ^'ermont and graduated 
 in 1858. He subsequently received the 
 degree of Master of Arts in course from 
 his Alma Mater. During his vacations 
 of study and subsequently most of his 
 time, he was engaged in teaching until 
 1863. 
 
 In 1862, he was married to Josephine 
 N. BufFum in Oxford Mass. and the fol- 
 lowing year removed to Washington D. 
 C. where he has since resided. 
 
 From 1863 to 1868, he was in Gov- 
 ernment employ in the office of the Pay 
 Master General of the Army. 
 
 In 1868, he graduated from the Law 
 Department of Columbia College and 
 was admitted to the Bar of the District. 
 He has successfully engaged in the prac- 
 tice of law and in real estate business. 
 
 In 1869, he srrved on the School 
 Board of Washington City ; to which 
 
 position he was elected by the City 
 Council. 
 
 Geo. Mason was a son of Ephr'm H. 
 Mason, who was a prominent man here 
 for more than thirty years, representing 
 the town in the legislature of 1835 and 
 1836 ; and grandson of Anthony Mason 
 who moved into town in 1796, and was 
 one of the most stirring business men 
 of the town. 
 
 BRIEF OF MEERIFIELD FAMILY EECOED- 
 
 Francis E. Merrifield, born in New- 
 fane, Dec. 4, 1793, married Sarah C. 
 Kimball, at Newfane, Apr. 2, 1823, 
 who was born there, Apr. 22, 1800. 
 He died in Grafton, aged nearly 90; 
 she died in Brookline, June 27, 1847. 
 Children, all but the youngest, born in 
 Newfane. 
 
 Elliott P., b. Feb. 8, 1824,!m., Newfane, 
 May 1856, Judith S. Huntington, of 
 Chester, b. Dec. 24, 1830; children: 
 Betsey F.,b. Oct. 28, 1859; d. Feb. 18, 
 1864. Flora L. 
 
 SophiaR.,b. Mar. 30, 1825; m., Brook- 
 line, Apr. 1849, Edwin F. Sherman, of 
 Dover, b.Mar. 1821; d. 1872 ; children : 
 C3^rus S. , Lillie E. , b. Ai)r. 1854, d. June 
 1873; Gertie S., b. Aug. 24, 1857. 
 Emery A., b. ,1826 ; m. 1855, IM.irtha E. 
 aiorgan, one child, Frankie. 
 Mary Jane, b. 1828,m., 1851, Henry I. 
 Turner, b.. Putney, 1824, chil : Eva J. 
 b.May, 1853, d. Sept. 1856 ; Emma S., 
 Chas. H. 
 
 Sarah K, b. 1829, m. 1855, S. Jefferson 
 Greene, b. Mass., chil : Willie A. Nellie . 
 Carrie R.b., 1851, m., 1860, to Chas. S. 
 White, Chil: Minnie C, Mattie, S., Al- 
 bert C. , Arthur F. 
 
 Leonard B., b., 1834, m. ,WLlmington, 
 1812, Mary Cushman, Chil: Albert, 
 Louisa W- ) Lilla. 
 
 Oscar C, b. 1835, m. Marcia M. Cud- 
 worth, chihHattie, J. Fred. 0., Annie 
 S., Frank, IdaM., Grace, d. an infant. 
 Austin S.,b. Apr. 1, 1837, m., Dover, 
 Aug. 1866, Lizzie Hills, b. in Brook- 
 line, 1843, chil: Irving, Alton, Cyrus, 
 Beulah H. 
 
44 
 
 VERMONT HISTORICAL MAGAZINE. 
 
 886 
 
 Christina E., born June 20, 182&; 
 married in Dover, Sept. 10, 1812, to 
 Clias. Brooks, born in Holden, Mass., 
 Feb. 8, 1830; children: IdeUa, born 
 Nov. 10, 1863 ; Albert L. born Oct. 
 22, 1867; Alice C, born Aug. 10, 
 1869; Mabel A, bom July 10, 1875. 
 
 Albert H., born in Brooldine, June 
 1, 1842; married in Amboy, 111., Aug. 
 25, 1867, to Lucia D. Tooker, born 
 there, Nov. 17, 1850; children : Albert 
 W. born Oct. 7, 1869; Carrie M. born 
 Jan. 9, 1872; Simeon A. bom Jan. 18, 
 1874; Clara, E. born July 18, 1876. 
 
 [jlTr. Stickney's papers resumed.^ 
 
 WAEKEN B. STICKNBY, 
 
 was born in Brookline, Dec. 3, 1837; 
 fitted for college at Power's Institute, 
 Bernardston, Mass.; entered Amherst 
 College, 1859; enlisted in 8 Reg. Vt. 
 Vols. Nov. 19, 1861 ; promoted to a 
 lieutenancy in 99 Reg. U. S., C. I. ; or- 
 ganized and was superintendent of 
 First Public Colored Schools in New 
 Orleans, 1863, 64, and of Freedman's 
 Bureau, in North Westem Louisiana, 
 in 1865 ; Principal of Greenfield and 
 Chicopee Mass. High Schools, 1867, 
 68, and 69; received the degi-ee of A. 
 M. from Amherst College in 1868; 
 elected Superintendent of City Schools 
 and Member of State Board of Educa- 
 tion, New Orleans, La., 1869 ; was 
 over 4 years in the army, participating 
 in the sieges of Port Hudson, and 
 Mobile; while organizing and superin-. 
 tending the colored schools in New 
 Orleans, maturerl a plan which resulted 
 in giving the freedmen of Louisiana, 
 the best system of public schools or- 
 ganized for them in an3' state ; and in 
 60 days after, appointed as Supt. of 
 Fi-eedman's Bureau, of N. W. Louis- 
 iana, he put 32,000 colored laborers 
 under contract, receiving for every 
 
 one of the recently emanicipated slaves 
 some compensation for his or her labor. 
 He married Sept. 28, 1865, Olive B., 
 daughter of U. S. Darling, of Leyden, 
 Mass., who graduated under Hiram 
 Orcutt, A. M., at Glenwood Ladies' 
 Seminary at West Brattleboro, class of 
 1864, to whom one son, Clement R. 
 Stickney, was bom Oct. 14, 1866. At 
 present, (1881) J Mr. Sticlmey, is pub- 
 lisher of Johnson's Natural History, in 
 2 large royal octavo volumes of over 
 1500 pages, and 1500 engravings, with 
 residence at Ann Arbor, Mich. 
 
 scholar's list. 
 
 The following is a continuation of 
 page 13, a list of families with the 
 number of scholars of 1841 : 
 District No. 1 : — "David Skinner, 6 
 scholars ; Samuel Rist, 1 ; Hiram Whit 
 ney, 2 ; Charles Evans, 3.; David Bemis, 
 3 ; Wm. Ranney, 1 ; Joel Howard, 2. 
 Total 18 scholars. Daniel E. Whitney, 
 District clerk. 
 
 District No. 2 : — Wm. and Samuel 
 Adams, 2 scholars ; Jacob Burditt, 1 ; 
 Sally Blandin, 3; John Blandin, 2; 
 Joel Codding, 1 ; Samuel Cutler, 4 ; 
 Grant Holden, 1 ; Ephram H. Mason, 
 Samuel Stebbins, 3 ; Ruf us Stebbins, 5 ; 
 Delvis Wellman, 6 ; Daniel WeUman 3 ; 
 James Ray, 1. Total 35. Ephram H. 
 Mason, District clerk. 
 
 District No. 3 : — • Asa Flint, 1 
 scholar ; Jonathan Woolley, 1 ; Sarnuel 
 Butterfleld, 1; Francis Merrifield, 8 
 Ora Osgood, 3; Walty Walker, 3 
 Edson Higgins 5; Jonathan Man, 1 
 Charles Haile, 1 ; Daniel Benson, Jr. 
 3; Hosea B. Crane, 1. Total 28 
 scholars. Everett P. Wellman, Dis- 
 trict clerk. 
 
 District No. 4 : — Lyman Lindsley, 2 
 scholars ; Willard Lindsley 2 ; Jonathan 
 Cutler, 2; Jon. S. Osgood, 1; Samuel 
 
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 45 
 
 Bennett, 6. Total 13. Ephi-aim Park, 
 District clerk. 
 
 District No. 1 : 1858 — Thomas Evans, 
 1 scholar ; Win. W. Periy , 4 ; Erastus 
 Whitney, none ; Joel A. Howard, 1 ; 
 John Lamphear, 2 ; Daniel Whitney, 
 1 ; Delais Welhnan, 4 ; Hiram Whit- 
 ney, none ; Hu-am M. Whitney, none ; 
 Liberty Howard. 7 ; Andrew S. Eist 
 none ; John B. Turner, none : Win- 
 chester Smith, 3. Total 23 scholars. 
 Erastus Whitney, District clerk. 
 District No. 2 :^Samuel Stebbms, no 
 scholars ; E. Pierce, 1 ; Rufus Stebbins, 
 1 ; Walter S. Bennett, 1 ; Elbridge G. 
 Mason, 5 ; Van E. Ford, 7 ; Barzilla, 
 Stickney, 2 ; Samuel Cutler, 1 ; John 
 B. Stebbins, 2 ; Wm. Adams, none ; 
 Ephraim H. Mason, 2 ; Joel Codding 
 none ; Wm. P. Stebbins, none ; Nor- 
 man C. Marsh, 2 ; Frederick Morgan, 
 1 ; Calvin T. Barrett, 3 , Willard 
 Lindsley, 5 ; Henry Kidder, none ; 
 Total 33. John B. Stebbins, District 
 clerk. 
 
 district No. 3 : — Jacob Bush, 4 schol- 
 ars ; Everett P. WeUman, 2 ; Hannah 
 Hills, 1 ; Francis Merrifield, 1 ; Calmer 
 W. Stebbins, 1 ; Daniel Wellman, 4 ; 
 Asa Flint, 3 ; Edwin Higgins, none. 
 Total 16 scholars. Everett P. Well- 
 man, District clerk. 
 District No. 4 : — Ira Cutler, 4 schol- 
 ars ; Warren Bennett, 1 ; Silas Fau-- 
 banks, 1 ; Russel Mason, 4 ; Luther 
 Osgood 2. Total 12 scholars. Luther 
 Osgood, District clerk. 
 
 VOTERS OF 1882. 
 
 Adams, Watkins. Adams, Ozro. 
 Albee, Timothy M. Adams, Wm. 
 
 Bemis, James. Barrett, Calvin T. 
 Bush, Jacob. Bush, Wright E. Bush, 
 Lorenzo' W. Bennett, Walter S. 
 
 Cutler, Charles A. Crane, Hosea B. 
 Coy, Harvey. 
 
 Ford, Wallace W. Ford, Albro V. B. 
 
 Harwood, Oats. Higgins, S. B. 
 
 Lawrence, Marshall, W. Lamphear, 
 Henry. Lamson, Leland. 
 Mason, Elbridge, G. Marsh, Norman 
 C. Marsh, Eoyal E. Marsh, Al- 
 mon N. 
 
 Osgood, Luther. Osgood, Ephraim 
 P. Osgood, Fred L. 
 
 Penfleld, John W. Perry, Wm. W. 
 Potuine, Frank. Pratt, Daniel. 
 
 Rist, Andrew. Rist, William. Rau- 
 ney, Virgil W. Eanney, Loren L. 
 
 Stebbins, John B. Stebbms, Calmer 
 W. Stebbins, Leaton C. Stebbins, 
 Wm. P. Stebbins, Joel C. Shattuck, 
 Joshua. Stickney, Chas. P. Smith, 
 Winchester. 
 
 Turner, John B. 
 
 Whitney, Erastus. Whitney, Hiram. 
 Whitney, Hiram M. Whitney, Dan'l 
 E. Wellman, Allen O. Wellman, 
 Daniel. WeUman, LeverettK. Well- 
 man, Everett P. WooUey, Jonathan, 
 Wares, George E. Wares, Walter 
 M. Wares, Wm. M. 
 
 Bkookline in the fire -wave. 
 
 May 25, 1868, 67 pages of the Wind- 
 ham County Vol. v., including 16 pp. 
 of Brookline with the type, stock paper 
 etc. were utterly consumed, and no insu- 
 rance ; to refurnish, begin and reset 67 
 pages once paid for the second time, all 
 new help, good, but to get acquainted 
 with the hardest of typographical work, 
 a local, and geneological history, stuff- 
 ed with names, not all plainly written, 
 and in order to preserve the histories of 
 Brookline and Wardsboro as best now 
 we might to the volume in hand, unable 
 in the distance, and Brookline having 
 but a semi-weekly mail to await return 
 proofs, with what, in the adverse cur- 
 rent must be done rapidly or not at all, 
 we have worked at disadvantage, but, 
 beleive, us, Vermont, hard for you this 
 time, so in the midst of otherwise de- 
 served criticism remember mercy. We 
 will give an errata for these towns in the 
 County and State volumes. 
 
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 VERMONT HISTORICAL MAGAZINE 
 
 888 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Adams, Chauneey, Geo. W., James 
 Henry, John C, John J., Ozro, 
 Sam'l. Wm., Mrs. Wm., 852, 55, 
 60, 61, 62, 80, 81, 82. 
 
 Albee, Timothy M., "Warren C, 860, 
 
 61, 62. 
 
 Alden, Phineas, 860. 
 Aldrich, Artemas, 873. 
 
 Allen, Sam'l and fam., Timothy M., 
 
 Wai-ren, 857, 61, 74. 
 
 Ames, Rev., B. D., 870, 72. 
 
 Austin, ApoUos, 847. 
 
 Baldwin, Eev. John, 870. 
 
 Ballard, Saml., 869. 
 
 Ballon, Benj., Sam'l. 863, 74. 
 
 Bardwell, Otis, 856. 
 
 Barrett, Calvin, Calvin J. John, John 
 S., 853, 57, 62, 69, 70 72. 
 
 Barton, J. 870. 
 
 Beal, Eev. Isaac, 873. 
 
 Beckwith, Eld. Amos, 866, 68. 
 
 Bemis, Abner, Rev., Edwin, Philip 
 852, 68, 70. 
 
 Bennett, David, Francis, Dr. Lemon 
 Matthew, Sam'l., Sam'l. Jr., Simeon, 
 Walter, Warren, 856, 58, 61, 83 
 84. 
 
 Bentley, Wm., 850. 
 
 Benson, Dan'L, Holbrook, John, Peter, 
 Peter M., Eufus, 849, 50, 51, 56, 
 58, 62, 63, 
 Bigelow, Benj. Job, 855. 
 Bixby, Archelaus, Dan'L John, 848, 49, 
 
 51, 55, 58, 63, 68, 72. 
 Blandin, Chas. W., FreemontC, John, 
 Jonas, Lamach, Lamah, Lemich 
 (found all these ways in the rec- 
 ords and family papers.) 845, 48, 
 
 49, 52, 55, 56, 57, 59 60, 63, 66. 67, 
 
 68, 70, 72, 86. 
 Blood, Caleb, 870. 
 Boyden, Alvin Jonathan, 851 to 58, 
 
 61,64,— Simeon, 868. 
 Boynton, Jona, 855,. 
 Boutwell, C. S., 872. 
 Briggs, D., Delais, 849, 860. 
 Brown, Eld., Dany, 870. 
 Bruce, Eld. Mansfield, 870. 
 Brush, Alonzo P., Lorenzo, Henry L, 
 
 857. 
 Bugbee, Ebnz., 847, 48, 55, 60. 
 Burditt, Jacob, 852,55, 57, 58, 60, 61, 
 
 62. 
 BurweU, Rev., J. D. 870. , 
 Burwood, Joel, 852. ^ 
 Bush, Alonzo, E. R., E. W., Henry, 
 
 Jacob, Lorenzo, 850, 53. 
 Burrows, Eld., 890. 
 Butterfield, Sam'l., 862. 
 Cady, John, 855. 
 CaU, Eld., Joseph, 872. 
 Campbell, James, 859, 60. 
 Carey, Harry, 855, 59, 60, 72. 
 Carpenter, Dea. O., Joseph, 870, 74. 
 Chamberlain, Calvin, Thaddeus, 858, 
 
 59, 78. 
 
 Churchm, Sam'l., 849, 50. 
 
 Coddington, Anson,''Joe, Joel, 855, 
 
 60, 61. 
 
 Cole, Ben., Dan'L, Simeon, 855, 73. 
 
 Combs, Eld., Simeon, 873. 
 
 Cotwell, David, 850. 
 
 Cottle, Jabez, 873. 
 
 Loy, Asaph, 852, 58. 
 
 Crane, Mrs. B. H., Rev. D. M., Thad- 
 deus, Thomas, Thomas S., 857, 58, 
 60, 64, 67, 69, 70, 72. 
 
 Cudworth, Allen, J., 870. 
 
 Culver, 873. 
 
 Cutler, Albert, Chas, A., Rev. David, 
 Henry, Ira, John, Samuel, 848, 50, 
 52, 57, 59, to 64, 72, 73, 76, 77. 
 
 Davis, Elijah, 850. 
 
 Derry, Benj., Peter, Samuel, Tyler, 
 Zephamah, 857, 60, 68. 
 
889 
 
 BROOKLINE. 
 
 47 
 
 Dodge, 873, Drew, John, 873. 
 
 Donovon, Eld. J. D., 871. 
 
 Dyer, John, Zephaniah, 860, 68, 73. 
 
 Eastman, Htibbard, 852. 
 
 Edwards, Rev., 0. R. 852. 
 
 Eliot, Rey., Joseph, 869. 
 
 Ely, Rev. M., 870. 
 
 EUenwood, Jona, 849. 
 
 Evans, Chas., Colton, 852. 
 
 Everett, Dan'l., 869. 
 
 Fairbanks, Asa, Bradley, Elisha, Saml. 
 
 851, 52, 55, 59. 
 Farmer, Benj. 849,' 56. 
 Farrar. Chas., Rev. C, 859, 62, 70,72, 
 Farwell, Sam'l., 860. 
 Field, Rev. M., Gen. Martin, 852, 70 
 Fisher, Israel, Wm., 869, 70. 
 Eleming, Timothy, 855. 
 Flint, Aaron, Anson, Asa, Cheney, 
 Elijah, EUsha, Ora, Sam'l., 849, 51, 52 
 
 57, 60, 61. 
 FoUett, Samuel, 859. 
 Ford, Arbro, V. R., 857. 
 Freeman, Eld., Joseph., 862. 
 French, Mieah, 859. 
 
 Frost, Rev. Chas., Samuel, 855, 59, 
 
 70, 71. 
 
 Fuller, Abiah, Joseph, Joshua, 840, 
 
 58, 60. 
 
 Gates, John, 855. 
 
 Goodnow, J., 870. 
 
 Gordon, Thos. 850. 
 
 Graves, Rev., J. M., 869. 
 
 Gray, Jesse Sam'l., 869, 70. 
 
 Greene, Chas. S., Henry, Leonard, 873, 
 
 79. 
 Guamsey, Oliver, 873. 
 Haile, Amos, 861. 
 Hall, Laban, 873. 
 
 Harwood, Ebenz., Joel, Otis, 860, 63. 
 Haynes, Eld,, Sylvanus, 873. 
 Hews, Wm., 868. 
 
 Habbard, Asa, Elder, John, 869, 73. 
 Higgins, Edson, Samuel, 861, 62. 
 HiU, Nathaniel, N., 862. 870. 
 Hix, Peleg, 874. 
 
 Holden, Daniel, Grant, 862. 
 Houghton, John, 873. 
 Howard, Dea., O., Rev. Zeba, 870. 
 Howe, Rev. Phineas, 869, 70. 
 Hunt, Ezekiel, 874. 
 Huntington, Rev. J., 870. 
 Hvmtly, Jona, Rev. J., 868. 
 IngTaham, Dea. John, 870, 73. 
 Jacobs, Whitman, 873. 
 Johnson, James, 855. 
 Joy, Joseph, N. C, 855. 70. 
 Kidder, David, 852. 
 Kingsbury, Rev. Samuel, 869. 
 Lamphear, John, 857. 
 Lathrop, Eld. John, 873. 
 
 Law, Robert, 873. 
 
 Leland, Eld. Aaron, 873. 
 
 Leland, Eld., Aaron. 873. 
 
 Lindsley, Willard, Wm., 859, 60, 61. 
 
 Liscomb, Bro. P., 859. 
 
 Littlefield, Rev. Edward, 868. 
 
 Lyon, Daniel, 866. 
 
 Lanly, Dea. Jesse, 868. 
 
 Mansfield, Amos, 860. 
 
 Marsh, E. E., Norman C, Thomas 
 852, 57, 59, 60, 62, 65. 
 
 Mason, Anthony, Daniel, Denney, E., 
 Elbridge, Ephraim H., Herbert E., 
 
 Russell, Dea. Samuel, 847, 50, 51, 59, 
 60,61, 62, 70, 71. 
 
 McClure, 873. 
 
 Mears, Eld., Roswell, 872. 
 
 Merrifield, Albert. Alviu H., Austin 
 S., Edwin S., Elliot P., Emery E. 
 Francis, Oscar C, J. Turner, 848, 
 
 53, 54, 57 to 62, 70, 71, 72, 76, 79. 
 
 MiUer, Rev. M. D., 870. 
 
 Millard, Rev. Wm. A. A., 871. 
 
 Moore, Abijah, Wm., 848, 50. 
 
 Morse, Abijah, Harvey, 851, 60, 63. 
 
 Ober, Ebenezer, 848. 
 
 Ormsbee, Benjamin, 849, to 52, 55, 
 58, 59 60. 
 
 Osgood, Brown, Christopher, Eph- 
 raim P., Fred. L., George, Harry, 
 Hermon, John S., LukeB., Luther, 
 
48 
 
 VERMONT HISTORICAL MAGAZINE. 
 
 890 
 
 851, 52, 54, 55, 58, 59, 60, 61, 
 
 64, 70, 81, 82. 
 Packard, Elder Jonah, 874. 
 Packer, Rev. Jeremiah, 868. 
 Palmer, Israel, 849. 
 Park, Ephraim, 859, 61, 62, 64. 
 Patterson, Joseph, 873. 
 Perham, Augusta, Jona., 859. 
 Perldns, Bernard, 873. 
 Perry, Benj., Dr. Wm., Rev. Simeon, 
 
 Zephaniah, Wm., Wm. W., 849, 51, 
 
 52, 53, 55, 58, 59, 60,61, 62, 70. 
 PhMps, Elder, George, John, 852, 55,' 
 
 69, 70. 
 Pierce, Sem, 869. 
 Pollard, SiiUivan, 855. 
 Pond, A., 868. 
 Pool, Eleazer, John, 855, 60. 
 Purrington, Thomas, 868. 
 Ranney, Joel, Loren, N. W., Samuel, 
 
 Virgil W., Wm., 840, 52, 55, 56, 
 
 59, 62. 
 Ransom, E., 869. 
 Rhodes, Emmon, 855. 
 Rich, Elisha, 873. 
 Riggs, Delias, 858, 
 
 Rist, Andrew, Amos L. . Joel, Lorenzo, 
 Luke, Samuel, Thomas, Wm., 848, 
 52, 60, 61, 63, 64. 
 
 Robbins, Wm., 848, 59. 
 
 Root, Joseph, Wm. B., 849, 52, 59, 
 
 60, 61, 62. 
 Rounds, lasiah, 861, 64. 
 Sabin, Daniel, 849. 
 Sawyer, Elder, Ephraim, 874. 
 Shattuck, Isabella, Joshua A., J. A. 
 
 S., 857, 62. 
 Sherman, L. 870. 
 Simpson, Orrin, 855. 
 Skinner, David, Eliphalet, Gov. Isaac, 
 
 Samuel, Wm., 848, 52, 
 Smith, Rev. C. B., Everett W., J. C, 
 
 Roswell, Winchester, 850,57, 68, 71. 
 Stebbin, Arthur B., Calmer W., E. A., 
 Dr. John B. Jotham, Rufus, Samuel, 
 Wm., Wm. P., 847, 48, 49, 50 to 59, 
 
 61 to 63, 67, 69, 70, 72, 73, 75, 
 76, 78. 
 Stickney, Barzillai, Carrol W., Chas. 
 P., C. W., Warren B., Wm. Wm. 
 W., 851, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 64, 65, 
 86, 87. 
 Stone, Rev. Josiah, 872. 
 Taft,. Israel, Josiah, 848, 58, 59, 68 : 
 Taylor, Luke, 868. 
 
 Thomas, Whilhem, Dea. Wm, 868, 72: 
 Turner, A. I. Jolm, John B., 852, 62, 
 
 68, 79 : 
 Tuthill, Samuel, Thomas, 869, 74. 
 Upham, Rev. D., 870 : 
 Walker, Benj. David, Delais, Franklin, 
 
 Isaac, Jesse, Thomas, 848, 50, 52, 
 
 55, 58, 59, 60, 61. 
 Walden, James, 848, 64. 
 Ware, Eev. E., Geo. E. , James, Wm. 
 
 M., 848, 60: 
 Wakefield family, 868, 73 : 
 Waters, John, 840, 42, 60, 62, 63 : 
 Wellman, AUen, 0..A. P., Arthur, 
 
 Daniel, Delvis, Ebenezer, Erastus, 
 
 Everett K., Everett P., Isaac, Rev. 
 
 Isaac, Dea. J., John, Jonas, L. H., 
 
 Marshall W., Timothy, 48, 53, 55, 
 
 to 63,'68, 67, 70 : 
 Webster, Elder, Samuel, 872 : 
 West, Elder, Thomas, 873. 
 Wheat, Jo-seph, 873. ■ 
 Wheeler, Elder, 870 : 
 Whipple, Thomas, 873 : 
 White, Allen H., Chas. B., O. C, 880: 
 Whitney, Allen O., Daniel E., Delvis, 
 
 Eben'z., Erastus, Hiram, Hiram M^, 
 
 Israel, Isaac, Orlan N., Solomon, 
 
 Richard, Solomon, Timothy, Timothy 
 
 H., 50, 52 to 64, 65, 66: 
 Wilcox, Elder, Bela, 869 : 
 Wilder, Hiram, 850 : 
 Williams, Everett K., 843. 
 Willis, Beriah, 873. 
 WUson, Dr., 855 : » 
 
 Witherell, Rev. George, 868 : 
 Wood, 866, Wooley, 856, 68 : 
 Worden, Nathan, 873. 
 
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