Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-07-08

the roads on the hill; the large house east
etteville was brought down from the hill
by Dr. Odds; and two small houses south
of it were also brought down. OF the
buildings moved down one was moved
back: that was Nathaniel Gould's black
smith shop, which the farmers of the hill
drew back with their oxen in the night af-
ter he had got it down. The top story of
the house on the south side of the road
about a mile from Fayetteville towards
Wardsboro was built out of the other tav-
ern on the hill which was where Parson
Taylor lived and the barn north of the
bridge west of the road in the south part
of Fayetteville was built out of Deacon
Misses Kennys house.
The view from the old hill is extensive
and grand. Monadnock in the east, and
StrattOn mountain, the Indian name of
which was Manicknung, in the west,
stand up in full size in sight, Wachusett
shows itself in the southeast, and whole
circle of hills round about. Chesterfield
and Windham church can be seen little
to the west of north. The road through
Parish, the valley of the South branch into
Marlboro, the Wickopee hill road and that
over Dummerston hill and Putney are in
sight nearer by. OF the old village not a
building remains.
From the list of collegiates in the his
torical notes of the centennial Benjamin
Laurston Knowlton, who graduated at
Colby university, Waterville, Ne, in the
class of 1851, was by oversight omitted
He was a son of Benjamin Knowlton, who
was born in Shrewsbury and came to New
fame with Nathan Knowlton, his father, in
1884. He lived on the old road from
Townshend in the west part of the town
just south of where it crosses the new
road to Wardsboro. Nathan Knowlton's
father, Joseph Knowton, who removed
from Shrewsbury to Wardsboro. was a
cousin, and his mother, who was Mary
knowlton, was a sister of Judge Luke
knowlton. Nathan Knowlton's wife was
Abigail, daughter of Deacon BENJAMIN
Maynard of Shrewsbury. and a sister of
Sarah, who was married TO Capt Philip
Rutter, the elder, father Of the late Philip
Rutter of Townshend; and of Lucy, who
was married to Asa Wheelock Of Wards
boro, father of Judge Henry Wheelock,
Mrs. DR.. Warren and Judge Emery Wheel
ock, all at times of Newfane Capt. John
Rice of Shrewsbury married Elizabeth
Wheelock, sister of Asa, and was the ia
ther of John and Henry Rice. twins, who
after DR.. Warren lived in the DR.. Odds
house where Mr.. Davidson now lives on
the south side of the common at Fayette-
vile. Benjamin Lauriston Knowlton was
a very learned lawyer at Jamaica, father of
John L. Knowlton and brother of the
mother of David Young of Brattleboro.
Rev. DR.. Morse came to Newfane in l713
or l714. and preached the first sermon in
which from that circumstance has ever
since been called the Parish; but he never
came TO reside. Two Of his sons came lat
er; one, Ebenezer, settled about 17SS
where the the tavern is, and built the first
grist mill about where the present grst
mill is in Williamsville; the other of the
two, Amherst, became a farmer on Timson
hill. Jacob, of another branch of the
Morse family, from Massachusetts, settled
in 1877 where the most southern house on
east side of the road through the Parish is
The lineage Of all these is thoroughly Civ
en- in the centennial book.