Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-05-09

(2) Thomas ruling elder in the church at
Plymouth, who married Mary Allerton,
who came to this country in the Mayfiow-
er and was the last survivor of the Ply
mouth Company, (3) Rev. Isaac, pastor of
the church at Plympton, (4) Ichabod, (5)
Experience Cushmsn, who married Jona-
than a. above stated: said Jonathan was a
soldier in the Revolution; Major Samuel
Smith, his son, was sergeant in Col. Ash
ley's n. H. Rsg't in the Ticonderoga cam
paign of 1777 and was afterwards Captain
and Major in the 10th Regiment of n. IL.
Militia. In 1877 Samuel came to the town
of Bloomington, and was one of the first
settlers thereof. His son, Isaac, married
Mercy Priest, daughter of Joel Priest.
Joel Priest was member of Major Rogers
company of Rangers and as such, partici-
pated in the French and English Wars,
and in the attack upon the Indian village
of St. Francis, and also served as Rev
olutionary soldier IN the defence of New
Hampshire and Vermont in 1776 and 1777
and in the Continental Line in 1779 and
1880 and afterward became one among the
original settlers of Bloomington. The
subject of this sketch in his earlier years,
participated in the privations and untiring
work of the pioneer and his educational
advantages were those of the common
schools and Bloomington Academy, but
at the latter institution at such times only
as the labors of the farm permitted and
necessarily infrequent in character. His
| boyhood and youth We're passed amidst
| the influences OF a new country where as
| yet, the influences and traditions of
Colonial New England were virtually un-
| changed; and where were the town
| meeting, the church the common
school, the training day, the gen
eral intelligence, the morality, the
| habit of self government and the universal
instinct of law and protection. Upon the
| attainment of manhood he became tiller
of the soil and so remained in after life
until burdened with the weight OF years
and the infirmities incident thereto, which
compelled cessation from manual labor.
His life was an active and beneficial one,
he was easily recognized and esteemed as
man OF character and ability in his native
town and county, and served we'll and
| faithfully in all the various public posi-
tions he was called upon to occupy. In
| 1910 he removed to the town of Salem and
sem bly, of this state for the years 1851 and
1853. In the year 1866 he removed from
Salem to Brownington and he represented
the last named town in the state legisla.
ture for the years 1868, 1854 and 1882. AS a
town officer he was generally esteemed as a
man of capacity and business tact. His
personal honor and honesty was unques-
toned and the influence of his character
was OF an elevatipg and refining kind. In
1886 he removed to the village of Barton
Landing, where he resided to the date oi
his decease. A life active and useful
throughout and upon it rests the benedic-
tion of duty well performed. This sketch
would be incomplete without reference
to Mr.. Smiths services as q soldier in the
late Civil War. He enlistedsat the age OF
fifty years and became member of Com
pany I, 18th Reg't OF vt. Vols, and par.
ticipated in that memorable charge of the
Vt. Brigade upon the flank of Pickett's
Div. at the Battle of Gettysburg. That 6
man fifty years of age should have voIun-
teered to aid in the restoration OF tht
Union may perhaps be best accounted 10
by consideration of an in herited patriot
ism and military spirit. The survival o
the fittest. 1t was one of the many exhib
itions of the old Puritan spirit, which IL
years long ago embalmed into history hat
''smitten kings and dynasties hip ant
thigh" and later had grasped ''new con
: tinent and wrought the amazing miracle o
America" His first wife was Zilpah Patel
and of this union there was no issue. Hi
second wife was Sarah Burnham of Beth
lehem, N. FL and the fruits of that marri
age we're three children, only one of whom
survives, Hen ~ B Smith of Barton Landing g
'Suffice it that he never brought
. His conscience to the public mart;
But lived himself the truth he taught
White souled, clean hauded, pure o
heart"
ALBANY.
Effie Miles is sick with tonsilitis.
Mrs. Mary Cowles is making EXTENSIVE
: repairs on her barn.
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