Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-02-24
HISTORICAL.
THE DOOLITTLE FAMILY.


hers and Descendants
The sketch OF the Doolittles OF Towns
bend, recently puolisheu' was very lilVer-
esing. Benjamin DoonCVle' i"'her Vi All
ii, who settled IN lo"nsnenu' was
physician ana hoVaoiy s"'seon' 90 "en
as the hrst seVIleu munster az 1'0i 'nioiu.
Some OF his churcn 'nous iU nc "'.enueu
to the physlcal lliore '""" W Uiio 'piiivu",
wants OF the people, anu 'onipi"iiieu Vi
"his practiceol uoc'oiiiis anu Cn'i ee'y,
but he "ouu nOT e''I no . 80 20
the hl'"'S'i9 , - eO'
Here 10 pow
blessed with good intellectual parts,
Wen skilled C III Two ',. Lllpo Veue alss'
poth 81 PREACHER and physician.
To cure mems scknesses and sins
He took unwearied care and pains
Ana s'ro,e W l,l''Me i 40 o,,, "i'0'o
Ills "'uo" ""' '"'',i l0u O1'COe, 90
I'o'' " 800 IT,',I e'
anu Oo'oOoi 80 90 - ~ 1851 80,
Wheh sue "'D oo 80 w, o%P-o'
Ch"P.n' 90 80 'o-,.O-' :,
horseoacA' "ivn01' o''' l'-o'' 10 ,I''
death' reo' o = 'o0' '''' " W. WI
nelu' "neLo 9 ~,
"Mauan Do0iiVVi'' anu i''ou Vnoi0 V'i
she dleu, June i'' i'VO' "sou 0N'
AMI DooiiVvi0 ""' wv, Wv ~, 1''''
and marrleu 'eiuon"' Vi Doe'
Samuel olllVh Vi Noi'nnoiu' De'' U, I'o',
and lived Ill "ar"icA' NC so' 'ne Iisn' vi
one OF 'he proPlie.ol9 Vi Ao"iolenu anu
took his snare ny loV WIN 'ne oVners' IL
fell where he settled the Doollttle nelgn-
borhood, which Is reached Dy the ROAD
leading to the northwest up the nil from
the river road at the lower west river
bridge. Part OF the nelghporhood Is IN
sight over over the nrst NIL from the river
road, John Baird and THOMAS bard had
settled on the river ABOVE thls Drluge; COL
John Hazeltine from Upton' Mass, on the
first bluff below west Iownshend, east OF
where Norman wood lives; samuel Fletch-
er, who married Col. Hazeltine's daugh-
tel Mehitable, on the same bluff in the cir
Gle of hills next above that; Or. John Haz-
elton, who was a son of Col. John Hazel
tine and married sister OF AMI Doolit-
tie on the hill above west Iownshend
towards Windham where John Sanderson
lives; and number OF others in that part
of the town, several years before AMI
DOolittle himself removed TO Iownshend
and settled upon his land in I177. lie
maj Hannah ". T..
his son AMI, Esther Barber, FEB. ~,
17SS. Squire ii. Fletcher, only son That
grew up OF then zen. samuel fletcher,
married his daughter Jerusha about l19o,
and they went to live with zen. Fletcher'
They there had 1Ve chlldren' one was al
forwards married to Dea. willard Tart oil
Putney, formerly OF Iownshend, ana tooK
her children with her. Amzl Doollttle was
constableo OF Iownshend from li99 10 loU'
AMI Dooittle, Jr., was lister IN lI94 ano
1872; justice from 1873 to 1924; repre-
sentative IN 1914 ana 1919; selectman IL
1919 ana 1910; and treasurer III 1870
OHgen, second son OF Ainzl' hau elgn
children born IN Iowhshehu, Ine olueS
March Il, l'9o' ana the youngest Aprll
1878. lhe children OF hosWell, the young
est son OF Amzl' were Eliza falhe' oorl
req Zo' lolz' married 10 hooeIt Aliell' Jr'
theh OF "alllngiord, OcC' 70, 1907; Osca
Burt born June 20 1915; Euwih sidney
porn May ~ 1915 married rnlllVCa' uausli
Ier vi benjamin Mu||y vi 'aiii"io"' Hii'
n'eu III 'alilaica village 'iii no ioni0'ou
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