Thank You Thank You Thank You Cherryl. I can't thank you enough for what you have provided to me. Sherrie From: Cherryl Ball <chaybay@home.com> Reply-To: CT-RIVER-VALLEY-L@rootsweb.com To: CT-RIVER-VALLEY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [CRV] Lookups, Hartford, VT Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 17:32:12 -0600 BARTLETT History of Hartford, Vermont Author: William Howard Tucker Call Number: F59.H3T89 This book contains the history of Hartford, Vermont from 1761 to 1889. Bibliographic Information: Tucker, William Howard. History of Hartford, Vermont. The Free Press Association. Vermont. 1889. Page 24 Among those people who lived in West Hartford fifty years ago, and were then in the prime of manhood, were Capt. Levi Hazen, Doctor David Ingraham, Reuben Hazen, Dr. Ira Tenney, David Hazen, Eliphaz Hunt, Abel Camp, Abel Howard, Baxter B. Newton, Zavan Hazen, Stephen Thurston, Reuben Wills, Stephen S. Downer, Lucius Hazen, Thomas and Dea. Solomon Crandall, Dea. Burpee Prouty, S. A. Ballard, Dea. Samuel Dutton, James Wade, David Wilson, Orange Bartlett and Alvin Tucker. Most of these men lived to a good old age. They have passed from life to death. Page 195 WEST HARTFORD CEMETERY. Year. Name of Decedent. Age. 1859 Bartlett, Mrs. Minerva 67 1867 Bartlett, Orange 78 Page 394 In 1831 he entered Dartmouth College in a class of seventy freshmen, of whom fifty-one graduated. It was a superior class, including such men as ex Gov. Washburn, of Vermont; Hon. Amos Tuck, of New Hampshire; Hon. John P. Healy, L. L. D., of Boston; Hon. T. C. Woodman, of Maine; Rev. Stephen S. N. Greeley, and others. Among his college mates were President S. C. Bartlett, Samuel H. Taylor, L. L. D., of Andover; Prof. E. A. Lawrence, D. D., of East Windsor; Profs. E. D. Sanborn, Noyes, Chase, and others. He graduated under the presidency of Dr. Lord in 1835. Page 397 1836. J. DE FORREST RICHARDS, L. L. D., son of Joel and Miriam (Smith) Richards, was born in Hartford, Dec. 28, 1809. He was tutor in Marietta College, Ohio; studied divinity in Union Theological Seminary in New York City, and in Andover Theological Seminary; graduating at the last in 1840; was ordained pastor of the Congregational church in Charlestown, N. H., May 28, 1841; dismissed Oct. 14, 1851; installed pastor in Chester, June, 1853; dismissed in 1857; removed to Weathersfield, and was stated supply there until 1862, when he went to Monroe, Mich; was principal of female seminary at College Hill, O., 186365; professor of astronomy and acting president of Alabama State University 1869-72. He married Hannah Bartlett, daughter of Hon. Wm. Jarvis of Weathersfield, Aug. 9, 1843. Page 431 3. ABIAH HAZEN, (dau. of Thomas Hazen (3), b. Sept. 5, 1747, m. Capt. John Hopson, b. 1742-3, a farmer in Norwich, Vt. He d. March 26, 1796. She d. Oct. 27, 1821. Their children, (3d gen.) were: Anna, b. Jan. 20, 1766, m. about 1801 Nathan Safford, of Royalton, Vt. Their children, (4th gen.) were: Charlotte, b. March 10, 1808, m. Feb. 24, 1835, Erastus P. Williams, of Royalton; Truman H., b. Feb. 19, 1810; Sarah, b. July 2, 1767, d. in 1786, unm.; John, b. May 24, 1769, m. 1794, Polly Noble, b. about 1771, (dau. of Shadrack and Lucy Noble), a farmer in Norwich, Vt. He d. May 28, 1824. She d. Nov. 13, 1822. Their children (4th gen.) were: Amelia, b. July 31, 1795, d. July 31, 1823; John Deforest, b. Feb. 27, 1799, graduated at West Point about 1821, m. Ann Herron, of St. Louis, Mo. He d. in Louisville, Ky., Feb. 17, 1829. She d. in St. Louis in 1827. They had one child who d. young. Sarah, b. Sept. 11, 1801, d. April 18, 1803; Rebecca, b. Jan 21, 1771, m. Feb. 21, 1793, Reube! n Tenney, b. July 29, 1760, (son of James Tenney, of Hanover, N. H.,) a farmer in Hartford, Vt. He d. Feb. 26, 1827. She d. July 16, 1840. Their children (4th gen.) were: Ira, b. Jan. 28, 1794, m. Feb. 25, 1822, Sophia Hazen, (dau. of Thomas 4th); Harper, b. Aug. 31, 1796, m. Nov. 30, 1819, Cynthia Marsh. He d. Aug. 21, 1832. She m. 2d, Truman H. Savage. (See Savage family.) Ch. 3. Reuben, b. April 15, 1798, m. March 11, 1822, Polly Savage, (See Savage family.) Homer, b. June 5, 1803, m. Perces Perry, (dau. of Isaac Perry and Rebecca Newton.) He d. Aug. 12, 1828. She m. 2nd, a Lawton; Lucy, b. Aug. 28, 1811, m. Nov. 1, 1830, Samuel B. Dimmick, (son of Joel and Sarah W. (Wood) Dimmick), a farmer in Hartford, Vt. She d. June 24, 1866. Children (5th gen.): Laura, b. Feb. 4, 1835; Susan, b. Nov. 6, 1836; Ruth, b. March 14, 1833. William, son of John Hopson, b. April 13, 1773, m. Dec. 29, 1797, Sarah Smalley, b. Dec. 31, 1780 (dau. of Lieut. James and Sarah (Bartlett) Smalley of ! Norwich, Vt.); he d. Dec. 28, 1838, she d. Feb. 12, 1850. The children of William Hopson (4th gen.) were: Lemira, b. Nov. 3, 1800, m. March 20, 1825, Isaac N. Mosely, he d. Feb., 1827; she m. 2d, Oct. 1845, Thos. Poole, he d. Nov. 30, 1848; she d. Nov. 2, 1856. Silas N., b. July 29, 1802, d. Nov. 19, 1869, unm. William Hazen, b. April 29, 1810, m. Dec. 1833, Cordelia B. Houghton, she d. Oct. 10, 1845; he m. 2d, July, 1846, Mary Blood, b. Feb. 1821 (dau. of Levi Blood and Fannie Smith of Norwich), he d. May 22, 1860, she d. Oct 28, 1868. Mary, b. Nov. 23, 1815, m. May 10, 1835, Samuel Sproat, b. March 6, 1808 (son of Samuel and Sarah (Delano) Sproat of Windsor, Vt.), a mason by trade, at which he has worked sixty-two years, first in Windsor, then in Norwich, Vt.; Mrs. Sproat is a very intelligent woman, and she furnished many facts concerning the Hopson family--children, 10. The other children of John Hopson (4th gen.) were: Mary, b. Jan. 11, 1775, d. Sept. 23, 1775; Silas, b. July 26, 1776, d. Feb. 3, 1779; Mary, b. Jan. 13, 1779, d. March 29, ! 1783; Asenath, b. Dec. 31, 1781, d. unm. in Royalton, Vt., Feb., 1849; Truman, b. July 4, 1783; Lucy and Lucinda (twins), b. April 21, 1785, Lucy m. Dec. 12, 1805, John Savage, (See Savage family), Lucinda d. unm. in Royalton, Vt., about 1824; Daniel, b. July 26, 1787, d. in Norwich in 1849; Abiah, b. April 24, 1789, m. Levi Barker, he d. Feb. 26, 1835. Cherryl ==== CT-RIVER-VALLEY Mailing List ==== Conn.River Valley Genealogical Research Library: http://www.quadrangle.org (genealogical library for Conn River area) http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl http://www.nehgs.org New Eng.Hist.Genealogical Society Listowner: NewEnglander1620@mail.ccsinet.net ============================== Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com