Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-06-18
HISTORY OF COUNTY
TAKEN FROM VERMONT GAZATEER
PUBLISHED In The
YEAR 1862
Continued from last week.

the early settlers persevered, being
men and women of Iron frame" and
determined will, for whom toll and
privation tended but to call forth
stronger effort and greater endur-
anee. Such were the men and women
to whom Vermont to day owes much
of her sterling integrity, careful in
dustry and prudent thrift, her man.
illness and intelligence-elements
which make her sons and daughters
respected both at home and abroad.
Concord lies in the southern part
! of Essex Co. Lat 440 25' north, and
Long. 80 8 east from Washington.
1t contained when granted about Al
square miles, bounded Northwestern
ly by Kirby. north-easterly by Lunen-
burgh, south-easterly by Connecticut
River, south-westerly by. Waterford
being larger than the average of
towns in the state; and has within a
few years been increased by the an
rexation of part of Brodley's Vale.
The town was granted Nov. 7, 1850,
and chartered Sept. Is, 1881, to
Reuben Jones and Ga others, with 5
other rights as usual: the governors,
the ministerial, the school, the college
and county grammar school right.
The first meeting of the proprie-
tors was holden at the inn of Jehial
Webb in Rockingham, Aug. 17th,
1884, at which a committee was
chosen.
ITO view ye lands in Concord, and
if they find convenient place for a
town plot, to lay out street or
streets five rods wide, and long
enough to lay out fifty acres to each
right, fronting fifty rods on one Of
said streets; said plot to be as nigh
ye middle of the said township, as
We land will permit"
In persuance of these instructions
the committee DID lay out lots of so
acres to each right. But instead of
it's being "as nigh ye middle of the
town, as ye land will permit" it
was located near the WEST part of
the town, though there was situa-
ton equally as good near the geo.
graphical center. No explanation of
this is now available.
At the third meeting Of the pro-
prietors it was
Voted, to give the first ten pro-
prietors that will settle in Concord,
provided they shall move into said
town on or before May 1867 liberty
to pitch 100 acres each in Form, with
We Town Lines, or so as not to leave
Cores at the next drauth of land in
said Town"
At subsequent meeting it was
Voted. to RESERVE the Meadow
Lands on the Passumpsic [Moose]
river, ESQ called]in ye town Of Concord
from We Privilege of such proprietors
as may pitch Lots in said Town"
At a meeting Of the probrietors,
Sept. 1886, it was voted to give
Joseph w. Morse a gore land con-
tanning forty acres, "in consideration
Of his EXTRAORDINARY services,
towards settling the town. What
the NATURE of those services" was
does not appear, though they seem
to have produced no immediate re-
suits, in the advancement of settle
ments in town; there being no settle
ments made till 1888 when JoEeph
Ball-who came with his family from
Westboro, Mass made permanent
settlement. He commenced upon
the farm now owned by Mr.. Alba
Caswell. His son John Ball, born in
1889, was the first child born in town
and received grant of lot of land
from the proprietors OF the town.
Sally Lewis, daughter of Mr.
Jonathan Lewis, born the same year,
was the first female child born in
town,
A Mr.. Noyes, who was killed by
the falling of a tree HAS BEEN SAID
to be the first person who died in
town. He was buried in what is
now known as the Pike Burying
Ground. This is however incorrect,
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