Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-05-17
Vermont Pioneers
and Their Famiies.
by "SFAWSEIIN"
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Edited by "SHAWSHIN"

On the 9th of September, TAO,
there was born in Oxford, N. H., Sus-
anna Chamberlin. She first married
the father of Aaron, Ashbel and Hor-
ace Shepard las near as I can learn,
his second wife) and then married the
father of Col. Levi Stevens, and after
his death she married James Corlis:
and few days since I read the name
of Susanna Corlis, wife of James Cor
lis, died October 4th, 1910, aged 100
years and rs days." on a marble slab
in what is called the Lincoln grave
yard in Greensboro. She has one
granddaughter (the widow of Joseph
Scott now living in North Crafts
bury. we'll remember her as
"Grandma am Corlis." Ny wife
had two sisters named for her, one
named Susan Chamberlain and the
other Olive Corlis. Susan died in
Nashua, N. H., and Olive in Mount
Pleasant, Iowa.
first settlement of the towns of
bury, Col. Ebenezer Crafts and
Timothy Newell bought the town
of Mindon, afterwards named Crafts
bury in honor of Col Crafts; and in
the spring of 1889 there came into
town six men and one woman, to
make their beginnings. Nathan Gut
Ter and his wife, Prudence Scott Cut
)er, with their three boys, Josiah, Sc
we'll and Joseph, commenced in the
| wilderness on the Hazen road on the
East hill, on the farm afterwards
known as the Hartman farm. Col.
! Crafts commenced on the stream
called the Trout Brook, and built
log dam for sawmill, and log
house.
Joseph Scott made his beginning on
the place afterwards known as the Job
Hoyt farm; DR.. VIM. Scott mace no
pitch there then, John Babcock and
Robert Trumbull on the east hill near
Mr.. Cutters. In the fall they all
went back to Sturbridge, Mass. !;
Robert Trumbull to Ryegate, VT, to
his family; Aaron Shepard to New
bury, VT. That left the Cutler fami-
ly in Mindon and Ashbel Shepard and
wife in Greensboro, six miles apart,
the only white settlers in Orleans
county. In 1871 these men all came
back again, and many mere with
which | will name: Dea. Nehemiah
Lyon, Mills Merrifeld, Mr.. Osmore
(Mr. Osmore settled between the two
ponds and hence the names of Big and
Little Osmore ponds,) John Corey,
father of John and Amasa Corey,
John Jenness, John Hill, Daniel Ma
son. In 1894 another company came
and among them | find the names of
French, Hoyt, Wareham and Hiram
Mason, A. Nelson, Daniel Davidson,
Abijah and VIM. Allen. In 1896
others came, and among them | find
the names of Shaw, Seaver, Morse,
| Roswell Chamberlin, and others. And
more came in 1898 and 1900, but as l
fail to find any connection between
any of them and the Shepards, it is
useless to trace them further. But
there is one wish to mention in par
ticular, and that is Dea. Morse who.
for many years since my remem-
brance, ran potato distillery on the
East Hill. and in my boyhood days
saw one Or more drunk almost every
day, and sometimes five or six or
more in day There were two broth
ers that would go past my fathers
house on their way to the distillery
almost every day, and on their return
one or the other was always drunk.
sometimes one and sometimes the
| oSICI oIIC al w oS SODCI oo oo W hCip
the other up. I presume I have seen
one of them fall as many as ten times
after coming in sight before he got
out of sight in the other direction.
These sights all passed away in 1854,
when the Maine law was passed in
Vermont. But I am wandering.
In March, 1870, the Cutler family
got reduced in the provision line to
one quart of Indian meal, and the
snow was four feet deep, and they
were making up their minds that
they must starve to death, when Ash
bel Shepard, their nearest neighbor.
six miles distant providen TALLY killed
moose, dress d it, and the next
morning he took quarter of the
meat on his shoulder and carried it on
snowshoes six miles to the Cutler
family. Mrs. Cutler met him at the
door and said "Well | never will give
up hope again." That showed what
she was thinking about at the time.
In my researches | have come across
many incidents as thrilling as the
above hut as they are not directly
connected with the history Of the
Shepa I'd family will not take the
time and space to relate them here.
(To be continued.)
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