Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-04-13
CHAPTER Xxx.
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF GREENSBORO.


associates Au
20 1881 The given honor Mr. Colt however soon became
It was not until eight after the town was granted that the first
through township which, different points along its entire
of located
the western shore of the Caspian In 1881 Captain oveand of
sent scouting party OF TOUR men over TINS r0aq IS proceeded as
far as this bockhou where they surprised by party OF Indians
of their Th Moses Sleeper of Newbu
military
white by by the of Toman
ra ~ the ec location Of some Of which said can be pointed out
Tlman and Wood
three days In December of the following 1788 meeting of the pp
Stanley his
limbs: of of his feet became
The operation performed the want of proper ns
maet chie Uncouh the instruments 1T SAID
that the operation was quite successful
During spring following propetors
settlement commenced Ahbe and Aaron Shepard with their families
Newbuy Both families consisted of five Ashbe and
had make the foot furniture for both
families being sds occupied the bockhouse
of
his brother and his isteraw the only
inhabitants the winter Their neghbos Ben
jan Webster Cabot Cutler Cratsbuy
with his family only inhabitants the both families forming
for the entire population of the territory included within the limits
of the county.
During that winter Mr. Shepard brought all his grain Nw
than fifty miles, sixteen miles of which he drew andsed the
drew the of his
COW from beaver meadow three miles distant
visit Mrs Marsh during
that visit the first child the county born William Scott Shepard March
and with + Horace Senrd and his family and also THEN sister Miss Susan
Shepard
wife Col year Timothy Stanley
Joseph
shop During the following 1891 John
Hill
probably others About this time Timothy Stanley erected
a gristmll
On the 25h july 1893
the road about half from the mills the meeting house
performed wedding uniting
h @ td nd is believed thew Uere all rnt with the m
cepton children. This
In 1885,
families and O8 In 1896
Amos Blanchard In 1898
towards the northern of the February
Elks
town to have had a population of 28O
In Strong Ashbel Hall
selves here merchants trade IN large bedroom Timothy
1900 however they built the
Store Thew did here for two or three then their
completed little below the
following Asahel Wahbun established himself
49, 1798
together with the and extensive stock of
Stors Langdon August $780, it impossible tell
the holding
years.
first elected There was another large fire December
Rabbit and Gleason
e' was Ne I1d ~ A shd,S b 7ot t IN ROAD Inc
Sddad taught school, She
wife of Col Ekns of Peach The third teacher EMPLOYED was lane
son. who occupied upon emnence the old road
leading from Greensboro village Hardwick This
years after, was destroyed by fire.
Scotch settlers though they
mention settlers their
pioneer northwestern
Simpson the from Glasgow They followed
Gb Ayrshire and 1885, by David
1S43 James Simpson and Bruce H.
Glasgow followed
later Findlay and others.
Aeboro
farm died 1884, Mr. Toll
soldier rank in
his
clergyman and always less connected with State affairs
father reside
age family children
He represented the
andL ldrnoStn Of the town ruSt