Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-04-01

j. NJ. FISHER, Esq. of Cabot contributes
to the JOURNAL a most interesting and
readable account of the early and later days
of mail carrying and staging in Cabot,
from which we make the following copious
extracts
rom this date until 1908 there was pubic
r e BY aRe It
Danville and this was procured by each subscriber
o & to the Grn 10 0e nf & brng1S the he
ould not distribute his way home left at the
grst mill then owned and run by Thomas Lyford, on
we're distributed the Subscribers sent to the
@ 5r 1 but hf he e m that di tf e
nelpt OF the paper was deemed matter of so much
ONE one Of their number M BY the light Of tailow cam
not only the news but the entire contents of the pa
he. town In this way the early settlers received
thfir ,n mails nail. for the first twenty three years
run IN ls3 and Henry Denny WAS the first carrier his
da line through Cabot Danviile Lyndon. Bar
n @ I'd his return WAS made by the of Craf &
Zen days About the year 1910 he commenced to bring
Montpelier. and when he came the house of sub
scrber he wQuld blow his tin horn Justify and await
nlauently the coming OF some member OF the family
to recelye the same;
& H n9 r6a9 Sn the road M nov @ eadn & to Walden Tho The G
-
rest t Ihe d Mai ce m The py eut tg
oI the town near the old pound, and by the farm now
CWn9d hy ; 7 LamT9n aud s. on hy Dexter heeds
70 DaI,vle Four Corners. Iir Warner, living so
n the farm now owned 10y J. P. Lamson, and occu-
lleq py Noses whitney, to keen the otice
ab1aI and What mail was Lot distributed dmiug the
al the II habltats the town. The ofice remained
4 m s @ la & I0r SIX years until ls4 When en- jeremiah T
ne iarm occupied by Har> ey Dow, aud this being
1T sh IT dlstan,e IRON the post road, he remoH ed
NJ: Cate u A.alsDneld now became mail carrier
~ Denny. IL ls20 Mr Bapcock resigned. aid his sou
: re lad been started at what is known as the Lower
Nj e, an Mr.. BabCoek put the Office III there Gap
he per. ormed some eight years, during
which time AIr Babcock resiened aid lett town; II.
lH-l Hector Nc can was APPOINTED postmaster proi
!" which time however, Captain CgYei hau died. ana
Al this peri the country had become more thicky
settled and the road 80 ra-.abe that Deaf9n A CON
first put II a team the ommodation OF pass IL
with the body firmly boted to the axle that passen
Eels N riding rough roads AID poor bridges got
Deacon Adams dying. Deacon Kel!oes became his
smoker. and having in the bottom his
Whole fsta6hsent tT So eiS say the old nhabtant9
Il! tins time quite element had grown up at what
1874 George Dana apIointed postmaster and he re-
muL the oifce 10 that Vae, where has since been
h1pt. Hlth the exception u one year This year was
When Jacob toilamer. uf this State, Postmaster
I'Stmaster HIS removal to the Lover Ntilage. as
matter of course. created 10 little feeling which
suited III long and bitter struggle between the two
villages Resulting at last IN the appointment Of DIR.
DOC as postmaster when the office again returned
L. s fVrHcr quarters in the store OF EhJah Perry,
ne pper lase II has SINCE remained IN that vii
IaEf- cnangius hands from time t. time, the rost
masters have died or moved away, or te adnunl-tra
non changed
After Deacon kellogg. different carriers transported
me mails tor short terms uutI about IS0. when cot
tr'l ald tidrk became OF the route and
good horses and good coaches from Montpelier to Dan
Fc tuere connecting With from Canada to Bos
ton; also 10 lttleton and the hIte Mountains. going
from MoutPtlIcr to DanVilie day. and
turning the This continued until
l>F' " hen daily mail obtained from Montpelier
tH Cabot the route cabot to Danville still being
trweekly until l~i2, when the daily service con-
tuueu through Danvlle After this contractors
We're numerous and changed 50 often. that II il I'M
possible to euumerate them.
IHe mails tins way until the spring of
lS2. when. on the starting of the Portland Oxdens
tr- railroad, the route the h to UauVllIe WAS
discontinue q. and " alden Depot estab-
ushed UneE We began to receive the Boston mail at
~eN Ell o'clock, and this made II though
We We're brought INTO the heart ot the business world
On the 18th the present month service 10y teams
from MoutlelIcr to MHrsnueid was discontinued, and
mails trasterred the the Mont peer
" els River haliruad, that receive our
daily 1nalis both by the Portland O(tensburg and
the NontlelIeT ellis River Railroad seven clock
IN the - c1IluE-