Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-04-23

s'snss.-sli built Of log sod covered With
bark. Esqaire Fitch ''ooCrieJr rs wifs
laa es'iRsble girl in Csuabri1grl seven
ycun before he married. her. lie va
greatly respected BY Us all. aud his death
deeply regrvtied. Morton cold oUi 10
Nathaniel 4 Sarysr. aud ven, to Cana.
de. Sawyer continued to reside in the
Morton house I'LL 1907 when he built the
house nov Owned aud occupied BY J. 81.
It'll. The next year the house where I
nOw reside sss built.
There -ere also in town Capt. Jed.
Hyde, Mr. MrDansl l.'Equrv Msr" A.
he Wss oO'n'oonly culle.!) Nc Taylor. the
Martins. the 6ssv ms. AID IN inoi Dick,
. eoiored E.n. Dick a., /. very oil mau.
yet did not kDow his age; bot fun -orue
iB.iieuis which he relsied. connected With
his early life. it was judged that be rss
los years cd at ais death. which occurred
few year. later. He was q very strong
man aud did great deal Of work. He
owned 90 acres where the farm bsIonging
to q. q. Depio's estate por Is, and lived
near the little brook that runs between
that aud Finnesan's Finally becoming
enieebled, he lived with Mr.. Fitch. who
was 10 care for him aud have his property
at his death but being rather trouble
some, the arrangement was broken of,
and several other persons tried il with tn,
same result, till finally Flip Martin (velI
remembered by many now liviug) took
him. Dick was soon after taken sick, aud
Dr. Grow called TO see him. Dick clsinicd
that he was being poisoned hy the doctor,
aud died with that belief He was bur.
led at the foot OF some rocks between the
highway and Msr. ID MOS house. A short
time after. DR.. Grow was passing by there
in the night. when his horse.-and by the
way, quite a steady Uue,--suJdenly stop
ped in tbs road, apparently much flight.
ened, aud could not be induced to 20 on.
The DR. got out to see what the matter
was, when he claimed he distinctly saw
Dick, bent up like wheel Of fire roll past
him, which so frighien, d him that h He'd
loudly for help. The Martins came oul
to see what the matter was aud found the
DR.. nearly frightened to death. The sto,
ry Of the apparation spread through the
country. aud the people were convinced
that Dick was poisoned by Flip" sud III,
doctor. as Grow remained in town but .
short time after and il is not known whcr,
he went.
One Of the greatest priva,ions for tn,
carly settlers here, was occasioned BY The
great distance they had to take lhei
grain to be ground. Wien came here
the nearest mill was in Fairfox. Fa
Their would take his oxen and sled to 90 t,
mil twice a year aud be gone three day.
each trip. Sheds were used Snmmer and
Winter Some year. later, Il mill wa
built in Cambridge, south of the Boro'
which we pa!ronized scme time. Then :
Mr.. Whitney built mill in Wolco,
which much lightened our burdens in THU
respect. BY this time | was old enough
20 be sent TO mill' beng tthiltcen ant
one morning in the winter father loadet
up the sled for me to 90 to Wolcott will
u grist' and told me that if il was no
ground in time for me to get back before
dark, TO remain all night. While a
Wolcott 1t commenced snowing hard ant
was late before | was realty TO return, St
[ staid all night. In the morning TIVE
feet of new snow had fallen. so the mile
had his son take pair Of oxen and hell
me part of the way. He came as ia
as Hyde Park Plains, and came ,hrougl
the rest of the way alone. 1t was quit
dark when reached home, nearly ex
hausted. The oxen could not have gon
much farther, ard it is rather ron.arkabl
that they got through at all, through sue
depth Of snow. being the only team o
the road that day.
The next nearest mill was built i
johnson by Moses Mcconnell, wher
Buck mill now is-though there had bee
one previously built there for corn an
rrovender, that was not good one AM
soou run down. When the Waterman
came to johnson, they bought the McCor
nell mill and Gt,ed it up in good style
which received the patronage of the pee
pie hereabouts.
The fist mill built in this town was o
the mill Brook, south of Edg,
Noyes' house, by MIR. Noyes. who mad
use of beaver dam. This was first
saw.mil and furnished the Lumber 70
. Sawyer's and my fathers house, before a
ludcd to. Subsequently two "ruu q
, rtone" were put IN for grinding; but th