Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-01-11
Vermont ! iioneers
and Their Families
Address All Communications and Queries TO
VERMONT PIONEERS
Care of The Monitor, Barton, VT
Church Records.


that time the records of births, mar
riages and deaths on town records
are very incomplete. The town clerk
was expected to keep carefully the
record of the ear marks Of sheep and
cattle but the records Of families were
generally entrusted to the family Bi
bic. In some towns twenty-five or
thirty years after their settlement
the heads of families sent in their
record Of that period to the town
clerk. There would of course in such
cases arise errors from a failure to
remember dates with eXactness. For
these reasons any help that comes
from church records is very valuable
The Monitor would welcome any Eeht
concerning the pioneers which clerks
Of churches or others may be able to
give Lists of early admissions and
baptisms are especially helpful.
We will print next week some early
opportunity of printing similar rec
county.
Orleans County Probate Records.
Continued from last week.
will of Hezekiah Whitney Of VOL
colt, concluded:) Mentions daugh-
tiers Sarah the wife of John Parsell,
Hannah the wife of John G. Hyler,
daughter Thankful Whitney under Is
to be adm'x. Signed Nov. 2z, 1897.
Tomas Taylor, Ezekiel Gilman, Jabez
Fitch: wits. Sarah Whitney, app.
adm'x by court April 6.1SO1. (2O) Div.
of land of said Hezekiah Whitney to
be made by John Mcdaniel, Aaron
Keller and Micaiah Durham. Or
dered, July IS, 1901. (z1) On same day
Josiah Whitney of Wolcott presented
certificate by John Mcdaniel, ESQ.,.
stating that Ira Whitney. son Of Hez-
ekiah Whitney late of Wolcott had
made choice Of Thomas Taylor as his
guardian. Letter of guard. granted
to said Thomas Taylor same day:
1.-THE Sd day of September in the year
1904 your guardianship will cease"
(2) Amos Porter, administrator of
estate of Peter Porter. late Of
Bloomington deed, was discharged
Feb. 7, 1901, as having performed
his duty to acceptance of court.
Extension of time of seven months
was allowed to comm'rs app to divide
lands Of late heZekiah Whitney, Nov.
g, 1901.
On Dec. 5, 1901, Elliet Powell of
Hyde Park was appointed guardian to
Constant Morgan and Don Carlos Nor
gan, "sons and heirs for Don Cyprian
Morgan, late of Concord in the coun-
ty of Essex" "the former between
Il and - years Of age, the other
about 8" until they arrive at age OF
"A years. Thomas Taylor, Esq surety.
(23) On May !, 1902, Enos Bartlett Of
Duncansborough { land Sarah
Bartlett of Missisquoi (Troy) with
Archelaus Woodman Of Duncansbor-
ugh as surety gave bond as admins
traitors Of estate of Gideon Bartlett,
late Of Missisquoi deceased. ga
Archolaus Woodman and Sargent Nor
rill Of Coventry were appointed ap-
and Luther Chaplin. Calendar Adams
and Amos Sayer, all of Duncansbor-
ough were appointed commissioners.
(25-26) blank
(2O Benjamin Bowley of Bellemead,
Caledonia county; with the consent of
Judge of Probate of Orle ans county:
apps. Amos Conant, ESD, of Iras-
burg, administrator Of estate Of my
brothel Oglander Bowley late of
Irasburg. Wits, Zendia Thomas,
Samuel Conant, Nov. 26, 1902. (28)
Letter Of administration on said estate
Dec. .25, 1902. (29) Amos Conant of
lrasburg, principal, and Royal Corbin
Of Craftsbury surety on bond for adj
ministration of above estate (30)
Wits, Matilda Corbin, Harriet Hicks,
Dec. q, 1902 Jonathan Allen. ESQ.,,
and Jonathan Robinson Of Barton and
Levi Sylvester Of Irasburg app. ap.
praisers of above estate Dec q, 1902.
(31-32) blank.
(33) Will of cher honored hus-
band" Jonathan Warner, Esq, present
ed by ExecutriX, his widow (Hannah)
Warner. Royal Corbin. J James Paddock
and Eunice Crafts, all of lawful age
swore as witnesses to testator's sigma
ture January 10, 1903.
Jonathan Warner of Hardwick,
Worcester county, Mass, at present
in Craftsbury, County of Orleans,
etc. "labofing at present under some
| indisposition of body but being Of
sound disposing mind, memory and I'M
derstanding. -. (34) To wife Hannah
Warner one-third of farm buildings etc
which at her decease are to go to son
Jonathan Warner. Also all household
/ furniture--et1r-- which at her decease is
i to be distributed at her discretion
dJllUHS- tdt<-'~0TfICT CltiIOI DCQuGoGS
to (married daughters) Bathsheba
Brown, Hannah Hitchcock, Frances
Parker, also to unmarried daugh-
ters) Harriet Warner, Alma Warner
and Eloisa Warner, the last two under
10 years of age. To William Angus
tus Warner a sum in care of trustees
to be boarded and educated until Fl
years of age and expense deducted,
he to 90 to college at the age of IS
years if deemed best. etc. To sor
Jonathan Warner all my nome farm
+ etc, in Hardwick, Mass, except part
given to his mother. Also all my
land in Craftsbury, shares, pews, etc
in Hardwick meeting house, book &C.
counts etc. {36) Wife Hannah War
ner, Elk. Signed at Craftsbury
; Dec. 9, 1902.
Royal Corbin ESQ, and Doctor
James Paddock were appointed ap
praisers January II. 1903. go Re
turn made same day. (38) At Pro
; bate court at Craftsbury, Feb 15