Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-04-26
Burial Grounds of Orleans County.
Deaths Previous to and including
Year 1870.

TROY
Continued from Monitor March 22.)
Died = Alvan Davis, 81 Aug. 1851,
49 years.
Paul, son of Elder N. H. and Harriet
Downs, March 1887, 5 months. N.
Hanson. son of the above. - Aug.
1889, l year, months. Their daugh-
ter Harriette, 9 April 1897, years
and a mon tbs. their son James, 20 Feb.
1874, Is years and 1G months.
Abigail Downs, 10 July 1916. 81
years, 5 months.
Abigail, sister of Elder N. H.
Downs, l Sept. 1912. Sc years.
Betsey, wife of Elder N. H. Downs,
9 April 1927, IS years.
Parker Dodge, 3 Jan. 1851, rs years,
5 months, % days. His wife Mehita-
BILE Kicker, % Sept. 1852, II years, 6
months, Is days.
Betsey. wife of James Kicker. 10
Oct. 1912, "a years.
Lucretia, daughter of James and
Betsey Kicker, 20 January 1843, 2
years. and 10 months.
Anna H., second wife of Silas
Sears, ESQ.,, at Underhill. Chittenden
County, II April 1867, &c years, l
month. and % days.
Mary. wife of ]. Kelley, Is Nov.
1851, age 81 years.
Silas, son of T. and M. Kelley, IA
January 1858, age IS years.
Helen NJ, daughter of c. B. and B.
M. Allbee, % January 1853.
a Betsey M. Kennedy, wife of C. B.
: Allbee, 20 Nov. 1879, Sc years.
t Charles, son of Eli and Mary Hunt.
June 1851, 16 years, a months,
# days.
e Warner, son of Eli and Mary Hunt,
3 Dec. 1853, 10 years, months. Their
: son, John l., ID June 1912, 10 years,
, months. 10 days.
d Mary, wife of Eli Hunt, % Apri
IA 1864, 60 years and 10 months. Gel
- Hunt died 18 January 1880, aged 8;
years and months.)
Harriet, daughter of John and Har
riet James, Dec. 1848, 7 months
An infant of ]. and H. James, q
June 1845.
Sarah Ann, daughter of John AM
II. M. James, % May 1854, 10 years
ID months, 10 days.
e John James. IL April 1854, 81 years
j Jonathan James, March 1873, z
e. years and months. His wife, Sarah
ct 20 Sept. 1874, 81 years, 5 months.
; Ie Mary Pratt. Oct. 1916. 81 years,
tn months.
n, at Allen, 27 Nov. 1850, 5 years, 2
A. days, Elnora. rs Nov. 1850, 2 years,
or months, days, children, of Samue
Us S. and Mary A. Townsend.
I'll Mrs. Lydia Townsend, wife of San
uel S. Townsend. Fl July 1843. (Bor
IL July 1889
George B. Kay, Is Dec. 1870, z
years. (Robert Kay died 10 Aus
1874, aged SO years, and his wit
Roxana F.. died 20 March 1898, age
SO years.)
= Cyrus Allen, % March 1851,
- years. His wife, Eleanor, II Sep. Is!
y aged 70 years.
y Alice A. Aiken, Is Aug. 1854,
| years.
| Early History Of Craftsbury.
Historical address delivered
D | Craftsbury Common by Horace F. Or
ham at the 100th anniversary of tt
settlement of the town of Craftsbur
July -4th, 1889.
Il Continued from last issue.)
In 1895, Crafts, Cutler, and Samu
G. Crafts were appointed commit
l to take charge of the Common a.
e | contrive some means for clearing
Il and were given power to lease t
sane. They seem to have done tt
for between that time and 1906. it
been cleared. At the meeting
I March, 1907, a committee of four "
appointed to lease it for three yea
on C. nditjon that it be feveled,
ed down to grass. At the meeting
March 18th, 1886, Augustus Your
James A. Paddock and N. S. Il
were appointed Trustees to deed tht
portions of the Common now occup
e. by the Hotel and Store; before t
~ the North end had been disposed of
: like manner.
n During the first years Of the hist
he of the town the staple products W
yh | ashes and salts of ashes. lal
GO per cent of the taxes were paid
grain and this was almost wholly
IN medium of exchange. The farmer
ed those days did business on the Gre
system and in the fall turned over
products of the farm to the merchs
IN | who in turn sent them to market.
Among the early merchants W
Thos. Kingsburv. Dan1 Chamber
Benjamin Clark, George II. Co
Hollis Allen. Thomas Tolman and
II onel Paddock Daniel Dawson
R Doctor Scott fed the traveller and
- to be supposed warmed the cookies
nrke his heart with good old New Engl
field rum. Tradition has it that Jesse
over kept the first store and that it ST
rton on the southeast corner of the
Line common on what was afterward KIN
ntry as the ''Store lot.
rton In those early times large fam
,+o, 1yore the order of the day and