Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-10-31


of 1852, and besides this there was no clear
ing between Fort Dummer meadow and
Armss. When Cumberland county was
established by the province of New York
Wells was made Judge of the first court,
and Arms the first sheriff Judge Wells
colonel, and Sheriff Arms major of the
first regiment Of militia Major Arms
died March 8, 1870, from the kick of a
horse His tombstone says, probably by
Rev. Bunker Gay,
mo more his liberal hand shall help the poor.
Relieve Distress and scatter JOY no more.
Samuel Knight was born at Woburn.
Mass, Feb. 10, 1870, married Mary Covell
of Kllingly, Conn, born September 10,
l73i, and had two children, Abigail, born
April %, 15S, and Mary, October %, 1860,
at Killingly. lie removed to Brattle
borough and settled west of Wells's,
probably in 1903 His daughter Rhoda
was born there October 1S, 1863. In the
same year Abel Stockwel came from
Springfield, Mass, through Bratteborough
and settled on top of Ames hill in Marl-
borough. His passage began path which
led from Armss through the woods over
the top of the hill north Of Centreville to
his settlement Charles Phelps, a lawyer
from Hadley, Mass, settled about two
miles northwest of Stockwel in March Of
the next year His passage improved the
path, and new settlers in Brattleborough
followed in that direction. Oliver Harris
bought the south half of lot No 4, and the
southwest quarter Of lot No in the fifth
range, east Of Mrs. Moors lot and south
east Of where the Gilbert Smith house
stands. DR.. Henry Wells came from New
| York with his wife and two children, and
bought June =, 1861 lot No. > the remain
| ing three fourths of No. ;, and half Of No
1 in the same range, and settled there His
| farm was that now owned and occupied by
James II. Capen.
Nathaniel Church. sen lived on the west
side of the road where the asy lam is, and
owned the land on that side between the
road and the first mountain, as it was call
ed. to Governor Wentworth : land. Eben-
ezer Fisher came when only fourteen set.
tiers were here, and at first took the next
lot but one north Of Dr. Wells's, but finally
settled on the next one Abner Scovel
settled at the Smith place and also bought
a part of lot No. g. lying next west. 4
part Of that seems to have been kept for a
common, a meeting house. and cemetery
from the beginning. Benjamin Butteriield
bought 100 acres next south of the Ser
geants' February ,, l1G1. A meeting houst
was built on No 6 in 1868 just southwest oi
where the southwest corner Of the GENE
terry now is At that time besides thos,
named, Elias Wilder, Elias Wilder, ir., lsaa,
Earheart, joel Atcherson, Joseph Herrck
Jonathan Herrick, William Nichols Ephra
i'm Knapp, Jonathan Church, William Ellis
Thomas Ellis, John Baldwin, Jonathan
Hobbs, Isaac Robinson, John Alexander
Daniel Baldwin, Timothy Church, Nathan
iel Church, David Church, William Gran
ny, Israel Field, Richard Prouty, Samue
Pike, Jacob Pike, Jasper Partridge, Alex
ander Young, John Campton, Jacob Ball
Shadrach Ball, William McKune aud lsaa
McKune lived about and beyond it Reu
ben Bump, another man named Bump
Nathaniel Church, Eber Church, Jabez Da
Wis, Edward King, Samuel Bennet, Thorn
as Cook, Oliver Cook, James Knapp, iona
Knapp, Sawyer Wright and Malachi Churc
/ further north towards Newfane Josia
White, John White, Abijah White, Till
Wilder, Tilly Wilder, jr., Wilder Willard
Benjamin Nourse and Samuel Brown abou
Fort Dummer meadow and westward
t William King south of Milestone brook
l where Lorenzo Thayer now lives; an
Ben njamin Butterield, ir., Jesse Frost, Js
/ cob Spaulding, Joshua Wilder, Lemu,
4 Kendrick, Benjamin Gold, Nathan Col
!, and Levi Baldwin north of West river.
, In the charter of Brattleboro, and tho,
e of other towns all pine trees fit for Mas
n ing our Royal Navy were reserved. Joh
d Wentworth of Portsmouth was surveyC
# of the kings woods and Judge Jones
It Hinsdale deputy surveyor The court
;, vice admiralty in the city of Ne
IS York had jurisdiction over cutting sue
h timber on account of its relation to sh
n ping. Benz. Whiting, deputy marshal
Is that court, on August 30, 1869, brougI
/ VIM. Dean and Willard Dean, whom he ht
;, arrested on writs for cutting such timbe
=, from Windsor, and went to Dr. Wells 5 al
h. arrested Ebenezer Fisher on a similar WI
to take them to New York for trial. judi
as Wells informed the marshal that Fish
a had brought no such timber to his saw m
le which stood on Milestone brook 'by {
as high road, and they went to Judge Jon
W and represented the matter to him, and
I'd directed Fishers release. They then we
ed to Major Arms's Judge Wells went to
to house and brought some rum and they h
es refreshments Then Whiting, riding
e, horse with pistol in hand, proceeded vi
Is his prisoners on foot to Abel Stock wells
as Ames hill in Marlboro, where they stay
er all night to be piloted by him through I
ed woods towards Albany the next day
IL report came back that Whiting abused
of prisoners by making them walk too ia
MS on hearing which many of the men of Br
to- tleboro went up to Stockwell's S in the mig
of aroused the men and inquired into ii
63 matter. The prisoners stated that tt
he had not been made to walk too fast,
I'm misused, and they were left to be tai
rk along. Major Arms, who was sheriff
m the county, and Judge Wells rode up
I'm Stockwell's in the morning to quell the RI
ay they learned that the men had left quie
III, aud returned.
'as The central parts of the town increa
ert for while in population much faster Il
those on the river. Esquire Stephen Gre
nd leaf bought Governor Wentworth's ri
ON of Judge Wells August l3, III.
the north line of this tract was wrongly gi
m in former paper. 1t runs from the ri
tn, below Harris place, through that plf
lch westward just south of the High sci
hey house through Prospect park, just no
se, of Stewart Pratts woods, Whitaker's he
for at the head of Brattle street, and the VIC
lne west across the road north from Cen
re- vile Just below the watering trough to
} in woods beyond. The northwest corner
ley at the east side of these woods the sol
ter west corner in the corner of the fe
cen southwest of o. l.. Miners the south
runs north of Lorenzo Thayer's and
ere Pine street, south of the cemetery to
'er, river at the upper end of the mead
y is Samuel Knight was farmer with c