The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-09

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knew, was one of the first settlers
of Barton. His farm embraced lands
through which part of Church and
Water streets are located, also a part
ness of the scene. June %, 1910, nine
teen days after it occurred. he wrote
his sisterN in Connecticut from which
letter | quote the following: The wat
er cleared all the timber on my low
lands and on that part of Mr.. KIM
balls on the west side of the river
which he bought last fall of General
Barton. (The man from whom the
town was named) The water floated
up acres of cedar timber and carried
them off standing upright as the tim
Der grew. 1t let the sand and mud
from two to six feet deep and jams
of timber fifteen or twenty feet high
over many acres. The water came up
to the caves of the old house but did
that is left appears to be all quick
sand as fine as flour. The mud is
yet so full of water that one would
sink up to his knees. except on the
hillside where it has dried and be-
come white and solid. baked by the
sun. 1t carried off two stacks of hay
for me which stood on the intervale
west of David Blodgett's. 1t also car
ried off his sawmill and came into
his house four feet deep.
1.-The flood reached the Lake about
one-half hour after sunset. having
started at the pond, at full head about
two o'clock so that it travelled the
whole distance of twenty miles in
four hours; two-thirds of the way it
was flat intervale, but when it came
down through Glover it was all of so
feet deep in some places deeper; OF
my intervale it was about 90 feet deep
in the lowest land.
The water in the Lake, (Memphre-
magog) was raised about foot, and
rolled so that the fish have all gone
up Black river. They have caught
| it is said, near the falls on that riv-
er (supposed to be at Coventry Falls)
stream from the pond to the Lake
are dead or have run up the small
streams. There were only two settle
ments on the river save Mr.. Cobb's
and mine, but there were good MANY
beginnings If the stuff that is
brought down to my land is not good
for anything, it has done $500 dam
ages at the least calculation. as it
covered over fifty acres of the best
land | had with four to six feet of
sand. | still hope it will be good for
something sometime. Mr.. Owens
Judgment in this matter proved to be
good. as the land today is among the
best in the State.
AT the August term A. u. 1910, of
the Orleans County Court. held at
Bloomington. David Blodgett, of Bar
ton commenced suit in trespass
ITwombly. Samuel Bean, Archelaus
Miles, Jr., and Benjamin Hawkins o!
Sheffield. Robert Brown of WheelOck
Silas Clark and Richard Goodwin OF
IGlover, of those who were present al
the letting out of Long pond to re-
cover damages in the sum of one thou
sand dollars, for the loss of his mill
logs, trees and land. j. Mattocks an6
Griswold attorneys for plaintiff, and
w. Mattocks and Baxter attorneys fol
defendants On the 22nd day of Aug
ust, 1910, John Kimball, Justice O
the Peace, issued subpoena, sum
moning David Flint. Spencer Cham
berlin, and Nathaniel French of Glov
er, and Samuel Lord of Barton to an
> pear as witnesses at the County cour
in Bloomington, on the 4th Wednes
5 day of August, 1910, The docket fol
that term shows the following entry
Con on motion of DTS. The March
: term 1911 was held at Craftsbury
(Craftsbury and Bloomington eacl
: being half shires of the County of Or
| leans at that timeO Samuel C, Crate
t was the presiding judge, Timoth,
/, Stanley of Greensboro and Georg
t Nye assistant judges. The docke
' shows the following entry in sal,
| case: Committee to Jury-papers ia
ken back by agreement of parties, con
S tinued The jury was drawn and We"
i as follows: Benjamin Mason, Ephrain
| Morse, Arba Nelson, Daniel Davidson
: Thomas Kingsbury, Siba Stimson
S Jonathan Huntington, Asah Washburr
e Amos Blanchard. Levi Stevens an
}, Macijah Durham, Talesmsn. Their
d were summoned as witnesse
o for the plaintiff at that term, Samue
a Lord, James Daniels, Nathanie
d French. John Merriam and iona
u Allyn.
Il "The August term, 1911. was hel
at Bloomington, the docket has tn
y following entry; 1t is agreed by tn
II nartias that this action be continue