The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1907-12-28

INTERESTING BOOK
Contains Names of Many Old Resi-
dents of the Town.


j. w. Bowen of Salisbury is the
owner OF book which is over one
hundred years old. The title of this
book Is Memoirs and Adventures OF
Captain Matthew Phelps" II was com
piled from the original journal and
minutes kept by Mr.. Phelps, during his
voyages and revised and corrected ac
cording to his recollection by Anthony
Haswell at Bennington Center in
1917. Mr.. Haswell it will be remem.
bered was for many years the proprie-
tor OF the Vermont Gazette, the first
successful paper to be printed In this
state The book deals particularly
with Captain Phelps voyages from the
Connecticut river to the Mississippi,
lspelled Miffiffippi in the book from
December 1913 to October 1880. Both
voyages were made by sea from Say
brook to New Orleans. Capt. Phelps
was native of Harrington, Conn. but
resided In New Haven, VT, at the time
the book was printed. In the last few
pages OF the book is list of subscrib-
ers alphabetically arranged according
to the town of their residence. The
following are the names of the people
from the towns in this county and one
or two other nearby towns.
Bennington
Thomas Abel, Robert Austin, Zeph'-
nah Armstrong, Roger Booth, Samuel
Blackmer, Abraham Burial, WILDER
Blackmer, Samuel Buck, Thomas Bum.
ford. Wheeler Branch, Luther Bliss,
Nathaniel Brush, Calvin Bingham,
Amos Bingham, Jonas Fay Billings,
Reuben Battles, Joseph Beeman, Thorn
as Crawford, Samuel Crafts, Wait
Church, James Clark, Horatio Clark,
Simeon Chandler, p. and s. Dewey.
Daniel Diver, Eldad Dewey, Uriah Ed.
gerton, Jesse Field, David Fay. Jonas
Fay, Reuben Foster, Heman A. Fay,
Charles Follett. John Farnsworth, Asa
Fisk. Ethan A. Fay. Joseph Hmsdill.
Ezekiel Harmon, Abraham Hathaway.
Homer Hull. Joseph HARDWOOD, Eleazer
Hawks. John Hixon, Joseph Hmsdill,
simeon Hathaway, William Hawks,
lsiah Hendryx, Aaron Hubbell. Elias
Hull, Cyrus Hill, Joseph Houfe. John
Henry. Moses Hurd, Ebenezer Harris.
Elnathan Hubbel, Jonas Harwood. Ira
haynes. John Hull, Loan Jewett. Thos.
A. Keys, Welcome Luther, Pit Law
renee, Henry Lyman, Micah J. Lyman.
simeon Lyon, Jesse Loomis, Solomon
Morse. Ebenezer Martin, Nathan Mill.
ings Roswell Moseley, Richard Mulhe-
ran. Silas Matteson, Charles Marin
robert Naper. Robert Nichols, James
Nichols, Martin Norton. John Neuland.
James Patten, Honeyman Potter. Dav.
Id Robinson, Silas Rice, Stafford Robin
son, Samuel Robinson I'd, Alden Rip
ley, Charles Rice. iona Il. Robinson.
benjamin Rice. Nathan Robinson.
Samuel Robinson, Syl's. Ruttenburg
Elijah Robinson, William Richards
Moses Robinson, Aaron Robinson. Jon.
athan Robinson, Israel Rice, Stephen
Rice. Eleazer Ripley, Isaac Rice. Jos.
eph Rudd, Gaius Smith, Samuel SAT-
ford, Andrew Selden, Joseph Stafford
Samuel Scott, William G. Sickels. Pet
er A. Story, Phineas Scott, Daniel
Spooner, Noah Smith, Isaac Sage, Dan
lei H. Storey. Levi Smith, Henry
smith, Austin Stiles, Solomon Stafford
Simeon Thayer, Jesse Tinney. Isaac
Tichenor, Joel Thomas, Job Vaughn,
Thomas Wilder, Ebez'r Walbridge.
Joseph Wadsworth, Oliver Waters.
iona, Wentworth, Isaac Webber. Ben.
lamin Webb, Andrew Wood. David
weeks. Thomas G. Wait. Job Wood, AL,
1olph Walbridge. Henry Wakelee, Sam.
nel b. Young. Heman Robinson.
Arlington.
Constant Barney, Jonathan Baker.
Robert Buck, Tyrus Hurd. Eli Hawley,
Belus Hard. Andrew Hurd, Adm Hines,
Wait Hollibert. Elisha Hawley. .Josepb
linus, james Lockwood Simeon Little.
Held, John Marble. Richard Smith.
Samuel Wilmot. Philip Washbourn.
Dorset.
Jonathan Armstrong, Jonathan BLACK
mer. Francis Barto, Aaron Barras
lhomas Barney, Benjamin Baldwin,
lachariah Boothe, James Brinton.
samuel Collins, Benjamin Deming
John Gray. Joseph Hunt, Luther Hills,
Collins Hecock. Justus Holly, John
Kelly, Martin Kent, John Lamfere
Peter Iangdon, David M'Cullock. vii.
lam Manley, Stephen Martindale. Eos.
Ter Paddock, Humphr. Richardson.
Joshua Raymond. James I. Stewart.
William Soper, Titus Sykes. John
Shumway, Isaac Sykes. Abraham I'm.
lerhill. James Underhill. Isaac Hinder.
1ill Paoli Wells.
Hoosick.
Moses Armstrong. James Rreese.
Henry Breese. Samuel Crary. Daniel
iolienbach, BENJAMIN Heartt. Aaron
haynes, Jesse Potter. John Potter.
John Scott, Ulpiannus Snyder. Garrett
jun.
Manchester.
Abel Allis, Isaac Burton, Eli Brown
son, Sylvester Cheesbrow. Jonathan
Gilbert, Gideon Ormsby, Robert Pier.
ooint, christopher Roberts, Andrew
John W. Robinson, Andr.
jun. Serenus Swift, Rich
ira Skinner. Truman Squier, John
hopkins. Shubael Hendee, Gideon
ormsby, Samuel Strait.
PownaI.
Jedediah Aylesworth, James Ayles.
Worth. Wanton Aylesworth, Richard
5rown, Jared Blood, Joseph Barber,
t'rancis Bates, Jun, James Curtis.
obadiah Durham, Nathan Eldridge,
Daniel Eldred, Caleb Gibbs, Joshua
jun, Lewis Marquissee,
Murray, John Noble, Roger
Noble, William Oviatt, William Phelps,
chabod Paddock. Benoni Thompson,
iideon Towsley, Silas Watson, Josiah
Wright, Moses Warren, Samuel
Moses Wright, Elijah WEIGH,
Abel Dimmock.
Rupert.
TIMOTHY Clark, Samuel Danforth,
Jesse Elwell, Levi Johnson, Joseph
Leverett Seth p Sheldon Ashhal