News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1918-07-24
Hl5T1RY nf M1RRI5T1uJN
WRITTEN BY ELISHA BRIGHAM
REVISED BY CHARLES S. GLEED
(Continued)


The orstoUn were Comfort Odds and wife tho
winter following 1892 To of today incredible
and his wife should attempt long such utter solitude
and SO far from neigho but Justify saying that
such is not the
BY the recording of deeds Moristown elected Town
1870 and by tradition full set of
that from this time there vacancy office of Town Clerk it
nat March meetings annually held
s0nng adopted because there vesge of town meet
ngs until March, 1906 We know elected Town Clerk
l9o and tradition Comfort Cspus Nathaniel Good
ale We're elected seectmen same time
1t probable the following living in town at this date:
"ia walker Comfort ods James Little, Gooda Cyril
ooda Mcajah Dunham Stafford Boardman Csp Shaw
s nned' Adam Sumner Aaron Hmd Samuel Hill,
~ mn ana John Sumner There doubt that all persons
named have at residents of Morrtown but
possible that the town March 1896 and
equally possible that other be added to the list
1t is thought worthy conditions these early
settlers had contend with buildings must have been built of
osS' Oe roofs covered with bark, their
nbe moohed according the ability builder their Chin
neS lad stone clay mortar high enough
the with sticks clay hard imagine what was used
Tor doors and windows To keep the cold every
Granny stuffed with The dependence of
neSe settlers to start fire was first flint lock
flint and finder box third nghbors borrow some
The utensils of these few in number and primitive in
construction The farmer axe shovel hoe ye rake
SICKLE pillow and team of oxen he was at the head of bi @
fessn; while for the house five KETTLE pot dish kettle
tea Kettle an iron KETTLE arranged with
the kettle with Goals the with spider made
comfortable outfit for the house table and
tea tined plates known
takes but small imagination wife
say be escorted meeting with
will be introduced here such extracts from the narrative of Seth
be applicable country language being
his where infringement changes necessary
Mr. Hubbe an the February out from
the town OF Norwok Conn., journey for Woo
my family consisting of my wife and five children all girls the
eng nine OF ten years Old arrived at Esq McDanels Hyde
Park about the goth of March, the deep
wife Oldest eight snow shoes
by marked trees road being
itS th bf T hd h Eos ee mad Two 1amne
ant and road but marked the south about
north
my journey mouthu grain
family lived three without bread though had bought
an Indian bringing the meat home back five miles, which answered
subsist until carried sable skin fifty miles and exchanged
for which
provision be had the LamOe River had to into New Hamp
shire the little had and this pace that under
three remaining children that left Hyde Park carried ms
o shoes, also the whole of goods
T sa take a Sd to the on e a 1n 9 NJ
practice year get a potato
the fortunate
thirteen bushels the fall digging and the
my by early frost twenty
miles from home bushels of wheat This grain
potatoes
years
ueieney for family had miles to mill back
moose hide which was Obliged to carry thirty miles on my back sold
for bushsl of and brought home the way
Some may look on this statement eggeaon but Mr. Hubbels
in NIOrristO The of March 1902 says:
obliged
st chiefly un until the harvest of 1877 and that
the spring and father paid half dollars
bushel fer and bread his family till harvest"
The between those and does
the O. HubbeI then heard
the
wool being converted into rolls the hum of the busy
wheel drawing the threads which in would start the ak
ac shuttle thrown hand few back and forth
adding the few of cloth the industrious mother
preparngf en whin the
of be taken the clothing be finished for family and
proud indeed the children when they could lay off their clothing
for mill dressed flannel cloth, which the father and the mother had
willingly provided How of today hear the busy click of the
Uniting needless the stocking mten the garment whatever be-
which its candle stick
shorter and shorter, the minutes by
The the house greater than that outside Those
who have only the of today rOugng hardly realize that
the e has when hed the wooden pows
and