Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-10-20

son, and on June q, 1771 sold it to Elias
Wilder of Brattleboro, who, it appears,
did not become a resident of Dummerston
| till after the census was taken. He died
in 1903 aged SO and was buried in the Gem
etery, east of the common. The farm is
now owned by Stephen L. Dutton. Thorn
as Boyden 2S1 lived west from Ebenezer
Haven, whose daughter Abigail he mar
ried before I'LL. He died about 1777 and
his widow married Marshall Miller Nov.
II, 177S. Charles Hart 1901 was probably
relative of Mary Hart, the wife of Charles
Davenport, near whom he may have resd-
ed Cyrus Houghton 1907 settled on lot
No. 50 in the north part of the town. 1t
was the farm owned by the late Simeon
Reed many years. Shepard Gates 1911,
John Shepard Gates on the records, bought
lot No. 20 near Putney line. The late
Alanson Gates was his grandson and lived
many years on the ancestral farm.
John Killbury 1872 settled on lot No. %
east of Slab Hollow. The buildings in
which he lived are not standing William
Miller 33l, the youngest of Capt. Isaac
Miller's children, lived on the homestead
farm with his parents. Thomas Clark
"a settled on lot No 53 at Dummerston
Centre. 1t is now Edwin H. Miler's
Brook farm" Joseph Hildreth, jr. 1851,
son of Joseph and Lydia Hildreth, lived
with his parents on the home farm in that
neighborhood in III. Joseph, jr., and
Submit, his wife, had 10 children, one boy
and 10 girls. Aaron Brooks 1867, son of
Aaron Brooks, lived near Capt. Isaac Mil
ler's. Jonas Duncan 1871, eldest brother
of Judge Jason Duncan, who came into
town in the fall of 1915, was born Jan. 13,
1744, and died Aug. 3, 1878. He lived
near West river. Seth Dutton 1881, son of
Samuel, also lived in that locality. No
settlements had been made on the west
side of the river in III. Nathaniel
French 1897, son of Nathaniel French of
Brattleboro, settled near West river on lot
No. 113, in 176S, when he was II years of
age. He married Mrs. Betsey (Nourse)
Duncan, widow of Samuel Duncan. He
was living on his farm when the census
enumerator enrolled his name.
Benjamin Hall, in his history of east
ern Vermont, is mistaken in stating that
the name of Nathaniel French of Brat
tleboro was enrolled twice in taking the
census; once as citizen of Brattleboro,
and again in Dummerston, because he
lived so near the town line; and,
Of
was living in 1771. The fact is that Ma
thaniel French of Brattleboro did not live
near the Dummerston line in 177l. Eight
families were living north of West river, in
Brattleboro, in 176S, but that of French
was not among them. See in The Yer
mont Phoenix for Oct. 81, 1890. He was
living at or near Fort Drummer in 1869,
and the census enumerator found him in
1771 in that locality, near Nathan Willard
and Oliver Harris. In The Vermont Ph9-
thaniel French was living near Dummers-
ton line in school district No. l in 1882.
Joshua Walton [40l lived near West river.
He was resident of the town, Dec. ID,
1878, when he, with "a other citizens of
Dummerston, signed document as "The
true sons of Liberty"
Joseph Herrick AL, family connection
of the Herricks now living in Brattleboro
and Dummerston, lived near Walton. Ben
jamin Jones [42] settled on lot No. A,
near Ezra Robinson, who had "a bride
path" from his house to that of Jones.
The name of Slas Rogers [43l is not on
the town records. Cornelius Jones AT
settled IN lot No. nearly one mile east of
Benjamin Jones.
d. L. MANSFIELD.
Dummerston, September, 1893.