Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-06-26

Ior Dali uhy. lto DhA Deen OUT OF uOOfH
every day Of his life since he WAS three years
old.
In 1893 Benjamin Pierce lived on the farm
nov owned by VIM. Robinson, which was
probably the home OF Daniel Sargent, whose
daughter Lucinda he married Oct. H. 1887.
He bought out the heirs of the "lata Daniel
Sargent" in 1895. Mr.. Pierce died at the
home OF his son. in-law, Loyal Smith, in 1912,
aged ~. His wife died in 1871, aged a.
Their children we're Joseph, who married
Kelley, Polly, Alice, Nancy, Hiram, and So
phia who married Bradford Kelley, the father
Of Sylvanus now living In town. Polly was
born Jan. l, 1880 and married Stephen
French, who bought and lived many years
on the old homestead Of her father. She IL
now living At the age Of %, is quite smart,
and says that she IL good for a hundred years.
Last summer she visited her daughter, Mrs.
Barna Sargent Of Brattleboro, aud frionds in
Dummerstou. Her home il in Templeton,
Mass. Alice, her sister, married Jesse Tyler
of Vernon, and WAS the mother Of Mrs Ru-
fus Scott OF this town. Nancy married 10y
al Smith, the father Of Col. Dwight II. Smith
OF Dubuque, Iowa.
Uriah Higgins came 10 this town from
Wendell Mass, in $780, aud bought G5 acres
OF land south Of the plain, owned by Capt.
Cornelius Jones, who lived near Rufus Sar-
gont. Mr.. Higgins bought land Of Mr.. Sar
| gent in 1894 ON which he probably built
house that stood near the one built by Caleb
Knapp in which the widow OF j. A. Sargent
| nov lives.
Levi Goddard probably lived in 1898 in one
of the two houses that used to stand on the
north side OF the road leading past Me-. how.
ards TO John Houghton's and not far from
his buildings. One of the old houses is nov
used for a shed and stands adjoining Mr..
Houghtons barn. Mr.. Goddard married Lydia
Whitney in 1892. She may have been rel
alive OF John Whitney whose daughter Es.
ther married Washington Burnhhm in 799
Mr. Burnham was drowned at the lower fer
| ~ about 1907, a. his name disappears from
the grand list after that date. His daughter
| Polly married LIST, James Sargent, who lived
many years ON the farm now owned by Lew
is IL. Lynde, in the old house which Mr
Lynde occupied before building the new
dwelling. Hor second husband WAS William
| Bemis She is now living at the age Of 81
| with George Taylor in West Enumeration.
Rufus Sargent bought lot No. l, containing
| 100 acres in the southeast corner Of the town
/ near the river 1t was decided TO him June
| 26, 1910. The farms now owned by Thom-
as and Eli Clark we're part Of this lot The
Clover ferry" across Connecticut river /,
near Mr.. Clarks. 1t was chartered by the
New Hampshire legislature June II, 1888, TO
/
half a century il was owned aud managed by
Benaiah NOrcross and was generally known
| AZ "Norcross ferry" The upper ferry,
now Gilson's, was chartered to Samuel Farr
and Ezekiel Hildrsth in 1900, though it was
called Hdrelh's ferry on the records in 1856.
Rufus Sargent probably lived somewhere
on lot No. till he bought lot No. in 1888
aud built the house where ne lived till his
death in 1926. Parker Morse now owns and
occupies the place. Sargent sold his first lot
to different persons. James johnson bought
35 acres of the meadow land including the
buildings thereon. Asa Pratt, said 10 be a
brother Of BarnA Pratt, the father OF Widow
Roxana Sargent now living in Brattleboro at
| the age OF Sc, purchased five acres, includ
ing the buildings, of johnson in 1907 and
sold the same to Thomas CLARK, Sr., in 1916
for $IIOO. Samuel Stoddard from Chester
field owned 20 acres west OF Pratt which he
bought OF Sargent in 1891. Mary Thomas,
the wife Of Mr.. StOddard, was the first Eng-
lsh child born in Chesterfield. The date OF
her birth Was 1902 Stoddard sold TO Asa
French in 1875, and French sold several years
afterwards to Thomas CLARK. On this farm
may be seen a remnant OF the old growth
pines that grew on the meadows and plains in
| early timeH, in the form Of a stump fence on
each side of the road passing through the farur
| TO the ferry. Portions Of the fence were made
by Thomas Clark some GO years ago, addi
tions having been made by him and his sons
Thomas and Eli since that time.
David Bond lived north of this farm il
1898 on lot No. .. His wife WAS Marth,
(Patty) daughter of David Sargent, of whom
he bought the land in 1884 Not long Afte
that date Mr.. Sargent froze TO death in go
ing from his home to the gTist mill in SlAl
Hollow about two miles distant. He WAS no
living in 1898, and in 1875 Btnjamin Pierce
his son. in law, bought Mr.. SaTgents estat
of the heirs, who were his widow Dinah Sar
gent and children, Daniel, jr., and Caleb d.
} also grandchildren, William and Martha Les
! ter. Daniel Lester, the father Of these grand
children, was a doserter from the Britisl
army TO the American army in Revolutionar.
times After his deseTtion be changed hi
name to David Bond. Daniel Sargent mar
ried Dinah Jones in l75l. His children wer
Lucinda, the wife of Benjamin Pierce Mar
r tha, the wife Of Daniel Lester; Daniel, jr.
Caleb d., a "cordwainer :" and Justin, VIII
married and lived in Boston.
EIihus Sargent, whose wife was Mary, tn
: daughter OF Alexander KathAn, ED, proba
bly, lived in 1793 on the place now owned b
Charles Howard Thomas and William SaI
; gent afterward owned the same place. Jo
) seph Hildreth bought the place in 1928. II
had previously lived with his father an
= grandfather on the old homestead the Law
1 ton place, where they died. He lived in lSl
in the old house that was taken down som
' years ago on the SteATns place, and remove
8 from that house to the farm he bought i
- 1928.
Several families used 10 live on the oil
road leading from where Charles Reed no
lives farther west along the hillside over b
the place now owned by Michael Murphy
the home of John Bemis in 1898, who vi
the grandfather OF DIR. s. N. Beinis. Non
10 OF the buildings are now standing. HeI
d; lived VIM. Middleditch, who came froI
] Shrewsbury, Mass. about 1880. Jam'
Nichols was a near neighbor, whose ehildre
were Edward, Samuel and Dorothy. IL
wife was Jemima -, and his son Samuel ma
ried Dolly Blodget in 1887. South of Mel
: OILS lived Daniel Kathan, ID, on farm whic
! his father, Alexander KathAn, ESQ, bougl
: for him in 17St John Kueeland lived in III
: northwest corner Of the district in 1898, bl
soon after removed to Chesterfield, where
was selectman 10 years. Daniel I'd, had
/ brother Thomas Kathan, born in 1894, thi
Il married, lst Anna Burnham "a, Abiga
a Haven. This correets information wrong
d given on page 1s in the history of Dumme
Il ston. The second wife OF Mr.. Kathan su
o vived her husband and married BeDjami
l. StreeteT, aud after his death she marie
o Leonard Maxwell John Burnham, Rev
n lutionary soldier who wintered with Was
), ington's army at Valley Forge in l777-7
q lived somewhere near the place owned
J. Daniel Kathan, who died in 1904. The loo
RI tion is probably the old orchard pla'
y through which flows the little brook that su
l. plies the watering trough at the roadside ju
10 below Charles Reeds house. Mr.. Burnha
10 married for his first wife Rhoda Wilson
1882, and their children were John, jr., As
1t Amy and Beulah, the wife of Edward Mill
y aud mother Of Joel Miller Of this town. Mr
y Burnham died leaving quite young children
10 Beuah was brought up in the family OF Re
W Aaron Crosby. Mr.. Burnham married, ?
Id RoXanna Burnham, Aug. IL, 1900, and thu
Ia we're the parents OF Washington, Cromwe
3. Betsey and other children, making in all
}" both marriages % children. Washington
n living in Newfane. Cromwell was the faith
~ of Henry Burnham in Putney. Betsey mf
ID ried Asa Boydon of Guilford, the father
r. Mrs. WIN. Eels, now living on the place
w Gently owned by DIR. s. N. Bemis. Asa Be
~ den of Guilford was a cousin of Asa Boyd
's of DummeFston. Washington Burnha
Of drowned at the ferry, was brother of Re
II ana, Betsey, Roswell, and probably OiiN
d. who died 1917 aged 3S. Betsey marri
!. Lemuel Presson, aud Roswell was the fatt
nd OF the late Daniel Burnham Of Westmo
he land, N II. Isaac Bigelow, who married
or ey, a dau Shtsr OF Col. John Sargent, was
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