Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-09-10
HISTORY OF COUNTY
TAKEN FROM VERMONT GAZATEER PUBLISHED in
The YEAR 1862

Judd, Joseph Herrick and Benoni
Butler were appointed a committee
to make a draft of lots agreeably to
the laws of Vermont. A report was
made at the same meeting, which
was accepted, approved and recorded.
II was alleged at meeting of the
ploprietors of CRANKY, in the County
of Caledonia. held at the dwelling
house of Joseph Herrick, in said
CRANKY, that the draft of the town
and the survey of Messrs. Darling
and Buchanan were Incorrect and
unequal. Joseph Herrick and Eben
w. Judd were appointed a commit
tee to examine and measure several
of the lots and lines in said town as
heretofore run by Messrs. Darling
and Bucknam, and if, in the opinion
of said committee. they conceive it
,expedient to make new allotment,
they proceed at the expense of the
proprietors to complete three
divisions of lots in said town, of one
hundred acres to each right-to fol-
low the original design, and not dis
turb the settlers lots without their
consent. t.e'.
A proprietors' meeting was warn
ed to meet at Joseph Herrick' s, Gran
by, Jan. 20, 1901: "To accept of
and ratify the several divisions or
declare them void; to agree on the
mode of making divisions; the
number of acres to each right, and
appoint committee to make such
division.
A vote was taken at the meeting
and recorded, after a preamble, that
eve therefore declare the several
divisions and drafts of lots to be
void, and the lands in said town to
be in common, except lots voted to
the several settlers, and that we will
proceed to make a legal division of
the lands in said town."
The meeting was adjourned to May
25, 1901, when the vote taken JAN
20, 1901, was reconsidered, and the
proprietOrs then voted
ITO ratify and confirm the divisions
and drafts of lots in said town, and
that the proprietors will rectify any
mistake that has takell place in the
records at future meeting;"
which appears to have been done by
interlining the record of the draft,
and here the contest about the survey
seems to have ended, except petit
ton to the general assembly for a re-
survey about 1845 or 1916. Some of
the corners found near the openings
have the numbers marked upon the
bark of the trees by the side of the
spottings, and the spottings are not
as old as those back in the woods, and
the original corners have the num-
bers made on the spottings with a
marking iron. But as the range
lines only were run by Darling and
Bucknam, and the corners were
made by measuring on the range
lines through the forests and over
high and steep hills, they are of
course almost necessarily more or
less incorrect; and as the lines ap-
pear to have been run from alternate
sides Of the town, either singly or in
pairs. hence, when a corner rots
away, controversy naturally ensues
as there is no apparent rule estab
lished or agreed upon to fix the
locality of the missing corner.
FIRST SETTLEMENT OF THE TOWN.
The proprietors of CRANKY appoint
ed Lieut.. Timothy Andrews theil
agent, Sept. |, 1888,
''To transact all and every matter
whatsoever for and in behalf of said
proprietors as he shall think bene-
fetal to bring forward the settlement
of said township"
and a similar vote was taken Oct. /
1887. A committee was appointeC
Dec. 8, 1889, consisting of Nathanie
Herrick, William Amy, Joseph Her
rick and Sherman Hemberly, to lay
out and complete road through the
town, and Jonah Clark was appoint
ed agent to give leases of tracts 0.
land, not exceeding $50 acres, t
each of IL first settlers who will en-
gage to settle and improve unde
the proprietors.
"Guildhall, June Ia, 1890. TIL,
proprietors voted that Joseph Her
rick and Benjamin Cheney being thu
first settlers in CRANKY, that each 0
them have, as inducement for set
ting, two lots (ever); that is to say
the said Herrick lots No. 7 and 8 il
the range, and the said Cheney tn
lots No. and in the range 4;beinj
the lots on which they have begu
improvements, which is to includ
all grants heretofore made, provide
that each of them pursue and prose
cute their improvements as fast a
pon1d reasonably no aynected "