Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-04-02

to have been broken, IOr tIlc ncAl tiiic
he fired at a deer he failed to bring down
his game.
The deer were plentiful on the noun
tain until about 1897. They used to drive
them down with dogs and shoot them as
they passed by on the run ways. lu that
wear, when the snow was four feet deep
with Il crust. and the deer had 'yarded,
two Williams from Ripton killed on the
mountain over ninety deer for their skins,
leaving their carcasses to perish III the
woods. BY this act of vandalism the
deer were nearly eXterminated.
Nathan Case was also Il man of proml-
hence living on home lot II from l'92 until
his death, in 1914, at the advanced age OF
81. He was a great worker, always SUR
ring about and always in a hurry. Ana he
sometimes illustrated the proverb, "the
more haste, the less speed One morn
ing in the busy season of haying his VIE
informed him that they were out of Hour
He hurredly saddled his horse and drove
to the village. When he reached the mil
he found he had forgotten to bring the
grain that he had come to get ground.
HOME LOT l3.-Samuel Bridge was the
first to settle on home lot IL. He bought
one half in 1892 and the other half i'll
1896. His house was located about 10
rods west of the present dwelling of He
man Lovett He moved away, however,
in $500, selling the southwest quarter 10
Samuel Severance, the northwest quarter
to Nathan Case and the east half to War
rem Gibbs. The latter lived for thirty
eight years in a house three or four rods
north of Judson Mead's present dwelling
Mr.. Gibbs was highly esteemed by ms
neighbors; was deacon in the Baptist
church; was particularly fond of chill
dren, being Il frequent visitor to the
school near by. One incident i'll ms lie
illustrates the wonderful medical skill OF
the elder DR.. VIM. Bass. Mr.. Gibbs was
afflicted the greater part of his life with
epilepsy, being sometimes attacked when
out in the field. At the age of 60 he was
advised by Dr. Bass to learn to smoke as
remedy for his ailment. The patient
followed the prescription, and had no
serious trouble from his disease during
the remaining twelve years of his life.
HOME LOT lin 1895 Iephaniah
Buss purchased home lot II and soon
after settled upon it. The original house
was Il log cabin that burned, and he then
built the one still standing Il few rods
south of the School-house on the east
side of the road. He had the reputation
of being Il good manager" and Il man of
sterling principle, though he did not
make Il public profession of religion until
over sixty years of age. He died III 1897,
at the age of g.. His daughter was the
mother of the present Deacon Boyce and
of Elijah Boyce.
HOME LOT l5.-ln 1905 Bella Sawyer
purchased the half of home lot ID lying
east of the highway and about % acres
of the adjoining part of home lot IL. Al
ter living for five years in house, now
destroyed, he built 10 rods farther north
the larger structure now occupied by
Samuel ID. Austin. About 1924 he sold
his farm and lived for several years in
the village, where perhaps his fondness
for music and his skill rs carpenter and
joiner might find freer scope. But as
old age came on he returned to the scenes
of his early manhood. His daughter pur-
chased for him the old Stevens house just
north of the brook on home lot Il, where
he died, in 1850, at the ripe age of 81.
HOME LOIS l6 and LIN February,
1898. Roswell Stevens bought 30 acres,
the south half of ''pitched-lot'' lying
east of the home lots at the very foot of
the mountain. He lived with his father
on the lot for several years near a IA
nous cold spring that furnishes water
enough to supply a small city. The
spring is stilled called "Stevens spring;
and a lane running directly east from
the red school-house, as though contin-
uation of the road, is still known as "Stev-
ems lane" Traces are still to be seen of
the old road which led from the east end
of this lane south along the east end OF
the home lots to the Stevens house. In
1905 he purchased of Daniel Chapman l23
acres lying between his former lot and
the main highway and extending from
the north line of home lot II to within Ii
rods of the north line of home lot Is
= The north half of this purchase he sold
the same year to Bella Sawyer, as above
described: the south half he cleare anC
: occupied for many years as his home
farm. moving into new house on tn,
highway on the site where c. Landon
Jr., now lives. In 1922 Stevens sold hi'
| farm to Charles Hooker and moved tC
Huntington.