Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-01-25
That Old Desk in the Attic or Woodshed

That Old Desk in the Attic or Woodshed.
It has been neglected for a great
many years. The brass knobs are all
gone and drawers and sides perhaps
are warped and stained by long ex-
posture to heat and cold. For the fifty
years perhaps the small drawers have
held nails and screws and the larger
ones have overlooked with mixed
lot of rusty hardware.
Nevertheless some of the contents
of that old desk might surprise you.
Slowed away in some crevice for aught
YOU know may be your great grand
fathers commission as an officer of
the Continental army. Such things
have often happened.
Perhaps instead of desk you have
in the attic one of those old fashioned
cedar chests in which our great grand
mothers stored their finery. Have
YOU ever looked in it for the old
papers which very likely may be
there. They were not of much impor
lance when written. records of the
passing day. but often they are of
great Importance now when all the
people of whom they speak have been
gone from earth for three-quarters of
a century. They are often our only
possible link with the past. The
Monitor will welcome copies of
material of this kind.
Here for example is copy of
paper that has been lying in an old
bureau drawer for perhaps fifty
years. The writer came as a girl to
Orleans county about 1920. married
here and spent the remainder of her
life here. This list written in her girl
hood gives the additions made in part
in the years 1867 to the member
: shin of the Congregati onal church at
Westminster West. Several names
, in the list are those of persons who
also came to Orleans county among
the second generation of its settlers.
..These are the Persons names that
| ware taken into Rev. Mr.. Fields
Church. Nov. 8, 1916. (Rev. Timothy
Field was for many years pastor at
Westminster West. Windham County,
VIZ
Ichabod Ide and wife
Ebenezer Wilson and wife
Rarnabas Clark the first
Rarnabas Clark 2 and wife
Amos Hitchcock and wife
Prissila Beemus
Cvnthy Bailey the wife Of |. b.
t Dorcas Gorum the wife Of Capt. G.
M2rV Miller Tic Wi1C vi H. NliISI
v Chariot Write the wife of VIM.
! Betsey Witherell
d Sylvester Parker
' Simon Goodell
r David Griggs
;, Joseph Nicerson
= John Homes
Alven Hall
Joshua Hall
Edward Hall
Edmund Hallett
Athernton Hallett
E willard CroWell
Il Caleb Hendee
E Oren Carpenter
d Robert Miller
Lot Pain Powers
Abram Hall Chandler
r Mathews Gorum
Hiram Rily Perry
. Kelly Hitchcock
Polly Powers
Sally P.
Rocksey P.
, Lydia ?.
Acenath -1de
, Sophia Miller
! Philena M.
Hitty Perry
i, Thankful Clark
Lucy Moultrup
4 Kitty Clark
Elisabeth Eanny
Fanny r.
Rhoda Goodhue
Electy G.
Seviah Berry
Polly 5.
u Mercy B.
e Rocksey Harlow
8 Achsah II.
:. Ruth Prentiss
), Belinda P.
It Betsey Hambiin
n Mercy H.
h Orpah Goodell
Sophia Carpenter
y Salley Gigecon
,r Ruth Haliet
is Sally Gorum
" Lucy Homes
Cynthia Hitchcock
Patty Hitchcock
Polly Far
= These persons are the ones tina
joined the Rev. Mr.. Field Isl Churcl
Jan. the S, 1877
Jabes Perry
Robert Miller
o. Abigail Eaton
Hannah Carpenter
OF JOhn Ferry
g. Alfred Ranney
az Eleaser Harlow
ng Amos Parker ~:
81 Elisha Berry
ui March the 1917
b thare was two joined this Churc
G';ss Luman Wilcox and wife
to May the 1917
n thare was three
IN George Skinner and wife
sr Melinda Hitchcock
i'd July the 1917
fie. thare was but one
: Mrs. Right the wife of Doct. Rigf
id September the 1877
-. Thare was three