The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-18
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THURSDAY. MAY Is. 1875.
INCIDENTS IN THE HISTORY OF WAL.
LINGFORD.
no III.
By J. Z. Hit
FACTS, RECORDS AND TRADITIONS.

| N'ehcV ~ aiIcht tneEl from the
homes, inclined them that way, as unde
The garb of that peaceful sect, they mief
escape some of the abuse and extortion O
land Jobbers on the one hand, and the evei
lasting bounding of Ethan Allen and tn
leaders Of the "Green Mountain boys"-wh
o'" ever nroino the settler to arm and RI
sist all claims wbatsoever-on the u,u.r.
To this state of things there were sey
eral notable exceptions, for as the wa
cloud burst upon the country We n-l oomt
half dozen or more residents of this tovr
enlisted in Col. Seth Warmers regiment
and fighting first at Hubbardton and Their
at Bennington and afterwards at SILVIA
ter, among whom were Capt. Stephen Clark
and lchabod Goodyear Clark, the grand
father and great uncle of p. G. Clark.
WIN. Fox the grandfather of DR.. VIM. Fox
OF this town and DR.. G.. II. Fox of Rut-
land, Jonathan Doty, Caleb Eddy, Joseph
Randall and perhaps others.
At the close IF the Revolution the town
had many more inhabitants and the DOM
inant religion was the Baptist denomina-
ton. Then was erected the first Baptist
church of Wallingford, large log house
that stood near where Eliakim Ballou now
lives. From this church road led east
to the ministers lot where the Rev. Hen
ry Green was settled as the first settled
minister of the town. The church and the
Elder Green house have long since disap-
peared, and even the memory of the church
remains only in the minds of the va
est inhabitants now. .liHi- this church was
The. Was the one once owned by Mat
thew Lyon, who bought the place OF Amos
Ives Aug. 9th, 1875, consideration one
hundred and forty pounds, thirteen shii-
lings and four pence. The deed says
81 Amos Ives of wallingford in Charlotte
county and province of New York and
"recelved of Matthew Lyon Of Walling-
ford in the county and province aforesaid"
So i. appears that Lyon was a resident o1
Wallingford at that time. lie probably
come here in IVA. AS he was one OF the
early settlers of Wallingford, and one OF
the thirty individuals to whom jackson
Gore" NOV the central part of Mt. Holley)
was granted. The act Of the assembly SAID :
10 oi.Viu.i. VaUnsv" $3.50. 49,"
and it was for their services as pioneers in
the early settlement of this country. Lyon
sold that place Christmas day l777 to Ella
kim Richmond. for three hundred and
twenty pounds and ten shilings. The deed
is acknowledged May 1st, 1878. before Jsr-
emiah Clark counselor" at Arlington.
He sold bis right in "Jackson's Gore" to
Jethro jackson for twelve pounds July 18th
1881. This deed says II Matthew Lyon OF
Arlington" and is acknowledged before
s.Thomas Chttendon Gov" He probably
resided most of the time from "A to 81
in Walingford. We find evidence that
he was here as late as 1884, probably only
temporary. At that time he made acknowl-
edgement to deed of ninety acres of land
that he had previously sold to Capt. Ste
phen Clark.
THE TORY KILLED on GREEN HILL.
That Tory was killed in Wallingford
just east from the Benjamin Bradley house
(now owned by Hon. d. L. Nicholson) ID
quite certain, yet as far as the writer is in.
formed the account of it was never in print.
The writer has had the relation of this
tragic event from several OF the older in
habitants of the town, as they received II
from the actors in the tragedy. The &C
count here related is that given by Capt.
Simon Cook, now living in town at the ad'
vanced age of eighty-fve.
The captain always had penchant fol
military life. he having been soldier OF
the war of 1919 and in his day been quito
prominent in the local militia; his mind
being fixed more especially on such mat
tiers it would be expected that his relation
would be the most accurate.
The writer would say here that he has
taken notes of this narration by the captain
at three different times, with an interval OF
ten years between the first and last time, and
the story as told by him is always the same,
1t is as follows
Soon after the battle OF Hubbardton
Col. Seth Warner come 10 Wallngford and
staid all night at the Bradley house and
went from there to Manchester, recruiting
his regiment, soon after this some tories
from Arlington came to Wallingford.
They were first discovered just at might
fall crossing the Bull bridge to the east
said bridge being where South Wallingford
village is now located.
Jededlah jackson who lived near where
p. G. Clark now lives, was at that time
captain. and he being informed that some
tories were coming down upon the east side
the Otter Creek, FASTENED on foot to Clar,
endon where there was collection or arms
and got a shack load of muskets and hav,
ing collected his company he proceeded to
intercept the tories, who had encamped
about forty rods east from the Bradley
house, their campfire being plainly visl,
BILE from said house jackson surrounded
the camp with mis- men and waited patiently
until day break and then as the Tories arose.
he called upon them to surrender. One
young man who had been acting as sentry
showed fight and drew up his gun to fire
but Capt. Jackson was too quick for hin
and shot him dead. The rest surrendered
and were sent under guard to Manchester
and delivered to Col. Warner who was there
stationed. The body Of the dead Tory wai
brought down to the Bradley house, and at
forwards buried in the soft sandy soil at thu
north line Of the farm, some twenty rodl
north of said house. Afterwards other bodies
were buried in the same location. Ter
years later Bradley gave half acre of hill
farm and Mr.. Miller gave half acre of
his adjoining it, and this acre was the orig
| inal of our present beautiful cemetery, ant
the slain Tory was the first body laid in tn,
yard.
This occurred only few days befor'
John Irish was killed In falmouth, ant
probably that event completely eclipsed thi