I am looking into the family of Nathan Robinson (said to have been born Bennington, VT 22 April 1764, died Russell, OH 2 December 1860). He married Sarah Clark (said to have been born Bennington, VT 4 April 1769, died Shaftsbury, VT 21 November 1801, daughter of Jeremiah Clark and Susanna [Clark] Clark) 28 July 1791 in Shaftsbury. Nathan is said to be the son of Joseph Robinson (born about 1734) and Joseph's wife Rosanna ______ or Elizabeth ______, who are described as of Floyd, Oneida Co., NY, which may describe their final residence. Although Joseph Robinson is said to have been the son of Capt. Nathan Robinson (1707-1767) of Cambridge and Hardwick, MA and Nathan's wife Mercy Leonard, all of Nathan's children seem to be accounted for and there isn't a Joseph among them, as far as I can tell. Mercy (Leonard) Robinson did die in Bennington and most of her children removed there, which may account for the conflation of the lines. Is anyone familiar with this family or does anyone have access to Shaftsbury records or history to see if their are any references to them? Cordially, David Robinson

Source,Rutland County (Vt) Independent--Mar. 30, 1867. BRANDON, Vt. DIED--In Brandon (Vt), March 27th, MRS. ELECTA BARNUM, wife of the late ZALMAR BARNUM, of Dorset (Vt), aged 72 yrs.

Source,Granville, N.Y. Sentinel--Oct.15,1920. NORTH RUPERT, Vt. James A. Leach left Saturday for Boston. Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Roberts were guests at H. E. Winchester's Sunday. Sheldon Peck of Nebraska, is visiting at the homes of James A. and C. L. Leach. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wooddell (sic) of Santa Monica, Cal., spent a few days last week at Charles Leach's. News was received Sunday of the death of Lyman Farrar which occurred Saturday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Laura Sheldon at Rupert. Mr. Farrar was past ninety years of age and was an uncle of Mrs.Helen Leach.

Source, Rutland, Vt.Daily Herald--Fri. Feb. 22, 1918. PART # 2. 100 MEN CALLED FOR DRAFT BOARD " EXAMS " The 50 men called for examination February 27 are as follows : William Walsh, 16 Ratton St., Springfield, Mass. Peter E. Companis, West St. ,Rutland, Vt. Julius Herk, Troy, N. H. Robt. Tottingham Drake, Pittsford, Vt. Albert Jay Dow, Pittsford, Vt. Sidney F. Butterfield, R.F.D. No. 1, Rutland, Vt. Arthur J. Gilbert, 36 Park St., Nashua, N.H. Harry Wm. Burke, 101 Brown St., Rutland, Vt. Thos. Clement, Proctor, Vt. Raymond Geo. Prior, Sherburne, Vt. Wilbur Minkler Perkins, 577 Page Blvd., Springfield, Mass. Harold Grant Locklin, Proctor, Vt. Pacifico Belfonte, Florence, Vt. Vincente Bruno, West Rutland, Vt. Frank Richard Gustatson , West Rutland, Vt. Geo. N. Humphrey, Fair Haven, Vt. John Joseph Burns, 33 Meadow St. ,Rutland, Vt. Neile Davis Braley, 82 Grove St., Rutland, Vt. Dana John Baker, 2 So. Main St., Rutland, Vt. Norman Guy Woodward, 148 Adams St. ,Rutland, Vt. Thos. Francis Kelley, West Rutland, Vt. John Henry Sawyer, Proctor, Vt. Geo. Cero, 36 1/2 Baxter St., Rutland, Vt. Reuben Lewis, Boutwell, Pittsfield, Vt. Willis Rowland Dunsmore, care of Y.M.C.A., Cape May, N.J. Eugene Edw. Shea, 173 Benton St., Hartford, Conn. Frank S. Reynolds, 111 State St. Rutland,Vt. Ralph Adolph Horner, 74 Harrison Ave., Rutland, Vt. William Patrick Brennan, 38 West St.,Proctor, Vt. William J. Moroney, 4 Emmet Ave., Rutland,Vt. Clayton H. Fifield, Chittenden, Vt. Wallace Erwin Remington, 17 Melrose Ave., Rutland, V. Edward Holcomb, care of Pavilion Hotel, Montpelier, Vt. Raymond Falloon, Pittsford, Vt. Henry Geo. Roth, 25 Elm St. Rutland, Vt. John Henry Casey, Danby, Vt. Paul Spooner, Brandon, Vt. Eame (sic) A. C. Smith, 62 Church St., Rutland, Vt. Frank T. Fitzsimmons, 96 Killington Ave., Rutland, Vt. Geo. E. Davis, 115 Robbins St. Rutland,Vt. Guido W. Rocchi, Proctor, Vt. Geo. Edw. St.Peter, 77 Williams St.,Rutland,Vt Louis Fast, 86 Strongs Ave., Rutland, Vt. Carroll Wilbur Sisco, Proctor, Vt. Raymond Henry Barnard, Pittsford, Vt. Burnis Fred Hulott, Manchester Center, Vt. Clark Nelson Whitcomb, 23 Lafayette St., Rutland, Vt. Chas. Cocklin Worden, 21 Jackson Ave., Rutland, Vt. Carl Alexander Backus, Brandon ,Vt. Orin Alexander, 238 So. Main St.,Rutland, Vt.

Source, Rutland, Vt.Daily Herald--Fri.Feb.22, 1918. PART # 1. RUTLAND, VT. 100 MEN CALLED FOR DRAFT BOARD " EXAMS " Fifty Will Report Daily at City Hall Next Tuesday and Wednesday. The local drat board is to continue physical examinations next Tuesday, February 26, at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. Calls were sent yesterday for appearance at the time to 50 men, as follows ; Frank Edw.Bouley, East Wallingford, Vt. Frederick Delevan Colvin, R. F. D. Wallingford, Vt. Clifford Henry Sheridan, Willetts Ave. New London, Conn. (Transfer requested. ) Fred Miles Higgins, Fair Haven, Vt. Theodore Maher, Mechanicville, N. Y. Will Thomas Butler, Healdville, Vt. Eugene Horace Raymond, 939 Barnum Ave. , Bridgeport, Conn. Joseph Sinnia Perron, Pittsfield, Vt. Harold R. Harvey, North Clarendon, Vt. Clement Joseph Richard, 119 Maple St. Rutland, Vt. Edw. Andrew Pease, 232 State St.Rutland, Vt. Frank R. Barlow, North Clarendon ,Vt. Edw. Arthur Rice, care of National Acme Co. Windsor, Vt. Chas. Roksanyi, 2 Williams St. Proctor, Vt. Pollegreno Mandoni, 234 Columbian Ave. Rutland, Vt. Thos. P. McDermott, 38 Cleveland Ave. Rutland, Vt. Abel Clinton Brown,Florence, Vt. Albert Eugene Frochette, 113 Library Ave., Rutland, Vt. Edwin Merritt Phelps, Forestdale, Vt. Leonard Francis McMolty, The Berwick (Hotel) Rutland, Vt. Rueben Adelbert Norton, Rupert, Vt. Hugh Henry Hanrahan, 78 No. Main street, Rutland, Vt. Allan Hitchcock, Kendall Ave. Rutland, Vt. John Joseph Watako, 54 Mills street, Bristol, Conn. Verny Roy Pitts, R. F. D., No. 2, Rutland, Vt. Paul Bernard Higgins, 322 West St. Rutland,Vt. William H. Dimick, Castleton, Vt. Frank Arthur Tuggey, Whitehall, N.Y. John William Traynor, Rouses Point, N. Y. Stephen Bardwell, 142 Strongs Ave. Rutland, Vt. Robt. Harold Griffith, 37 Mason Place, Springfield, Mass. Huber G. Dudley, Gen. Del. Miami, Fla. William Jas. Porter, 31 Church St. Rutland, Vt. Norris W. Leffingwell, North Bennington, Vt. Luigi Bugliani, 1009 Lombard St,.Baltimore,Md. Edw. Matthew Holleran, 11 Clover St.,Rutland, Vt. Wilfred Douglas, Danby, Vt. Park J. Blanchard, Stratton Rd., Rutland, Vt. Frank Norman White, West Arlington, Vt. Jas. Arthur Collins, 3 Chapel St. Hartford, Conn. Glovanni Lenoci, 36 Strongs Ave. Rutland, Vt. Benjamin H. Dodge, Chittenden,Vt. Claud Edw. Temple, Northfield, Vt. Louis Joseph Bartlett, Ludlow, Vt. Thad Henry Spooner, Brandon, Vt. Albert J. Barker, Horton St., Rutland, Vt. David Chas.Collins, 10 E. Washington St. Rutland, Vt. Clarence Eliss Bishop, Brandon, Vt. Jas. Edw. Fleming, 27 Lafayette St. Hartford, Conn. Victor J. Bronult, 19 Randolph Place, Northampton, Mass. END OF PART # 1.

Hi John, "[368] A payroll of Capt. Josiah Boyden's Company in Col. William Williams' Regiment of Militia in the service of the United States, on an expedition to Bennington, &c, in 1777. John Baker, Private Entered: Sept. 1, 1777 Discharged: Sept. 23, 1777 Days: 23 Per day: 1.8 Total: 1.18.4. [1 pound, 18 shillings, 4 pence] Received Putney, September 3rd 1778, of Ira Allen, Esq. ..., the contents of this payroll. Joseph Boyden, Capt." Source is "ROLLS OF VERMONT SOLDIERS IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR 1775-1783", prepared and published under the direction of Major General Martha T. Rainville, The Adjutant General, Vermont, Camp Johnson, Colchester, Vermont, 1998, Volume 1, pages 37 and 38. Sorry, John Baker is not listed in the list of GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS on page 831. Transcribed by Jan Jordan <<john baker served 4 2 -6 months tours of duty from 1775 to 1778, enlisting each time from halifax, vt. the third enlistment  in 1777 he served with the green mountain boys. the battle of hubbardton? john r baker 3rd, johnnyrb@rogers.com>>

Hi researchers, The following appears at _http://www.hhs.gov/familyhistory/_ (http://www.hhs.gov/familyhistory/) : U.S. Surgeon General's Family History Initiative Health care professionals have known for a long time that common diseases - heart disease, cancer, and diabetes - and even rare diseases - like hemophilia, cystic fibrosis, and sickle cell anemia - can run in families. If one generation of a family has high blood pressure, it is not unusual for the next generation to have similarly high blood pressure. Tracing the illnesses suffered by your parents, grandparents, and other blood relatives can help your doctor predict the disorders to which you may be at risk and take action to keep you and your family healthy. To help focus attention on the importance of family health history, U.S. Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., in cooperation with other agencies within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has launched a national public health campaign, called the U.S. Surgeon General's Family History Initiative, to encourage all American families to learn more about their family health history. In addition to the Office of the Surgeon General, other HHS agencies involved in this project include the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). National Family History Day Surgeon General Carmona has declared Thanksgiving 2004 to be the first annual National Family History Day. Thanksgiving is the traditional start of the holiday season for most Americans. Whenever families gather, the Surgeon General encourages them to talk about, and to write down, the health problems that seem to run in their family. Learning about their family's health history may help ensure a longer future together. My Family Health Portrait Americans know that family history is important to health. A recent survey found that 96 percent of Americans believe that knowing their family history is important. Yet, the same survey found that only one-third of Americans have ever tried to gather and write down their family's health history. Because family health history is such a powerful screening tool, the Surgeon General has created a new computerized tool to help make it fun and easy for anyone to create a sophisticated portrait of their family's health. This new tool, called "My Family Health Portrait" can be downloaded for free and installed on your own computer. The tool will help you organize your family tree and help you identify common diseases that may run in your family. When you are finished, the tool will create and print out a graphical representation of your family's generations and the health disorders that may have moved from one generation to the next. That is a powerful tool for predicting any illnesses for which you should be checked. For information on other activities of the Office of the Surgeon General, please visit _www.surgeongeneral.gov_ (http://www.surgeongeneral.gov). Have a blessed Thanksgiving, Jan Jordan

Source, Rutland, Vt.Daily Herald--Tues. Dec. 29, 1931. WEST PAWLET, VT. Dec.28-The death of Mrs. Marie Lewis Sheldon, 82, wife of Smith Sheldon, occurred yesterday morning at her home in this village, following several years of ill health. Mrs. Sheldon was born in Rupert, Vt.,daughter of the late Benjamin Lewis, and wife, and her entire life was spent in this town. After her marriage to Mr.Sheldon they engaged in farming on the place which they still own on the West Pawlet road.After their retirement from farming they built a home in this village. Mrs.Sheldon was a member of the Christian church for many years, a teacher in the Bible school and a worker in the Missionary society, and W. C. T. U. Besides her husband, she is survived by four children, Mrs. Hettie Ayers of Whitehall, N.Y., Miss Lillian Sheldon, who is attending Columbia university, Mrs. Minnie Cramer, West Pawlet, Vt. and Enos Sheldon of Nassau, N.Y. She is also survived by a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The funeral will be held at the house tomorrow (Tuesday) at 2 p.m.

Hi researchers, Check out http://www.vermontmarriages.novikgenealogy.com for Vermont Marriages from 1791 - late 1800s. Thanks to Melissa that this project is about 1/3 complete, and has about 900 records entered to date. Happy searching, Jan Jordan in VT

HISTORY OF STANSTEAD COUNTY by B. F. HUBBARD Page 334. SHADRACH NORTON, b. in Bennington, Vt., Nov. 20, 1781 - m. ABIGAIL PORTER, b. in Stockbridge Mass., 1781. They settled in Barnston, Quebec in 1803. He d. June 11, 1838. She d. Feb. 28, 1838. CHILDREN: AMELIA, b. Dec. 9, 1803 ARUNAH, b. Dec. 1, 1805 MARTIN, b. Feb. 17, 1808 LORANA, b. Aug. 21, 1810 PORTER, b. June 30, 1813 ARTHUR, b. Jan. 20, 1815 SARAH E., b. Dec. 14, 1819 JULIA, b. April 7, 1822 One child died young. JSR [posted with permission by Jan]

Interesting, the Kankakee folks spent time in Salem, New York for a while. They were in a sawmill business. Salem is in Washington Co, NY. Something must have attracted them into the midwest. My great uncle went to Indianapolis because he had an invention that would solve all the problems of scale in steam pipes. Indianapolis had the hardest water in the USA. So here I am. What strange stories

Hi, Good luck searching the links below for your Vermont ancestors. Jan Jordan 1) VERMONTWEBSITE Address:http://www.rootsweb.com/~vermont/MAINGATEWAY.html 2) Vermont Genealogy Forum Address:http://genforum.genealogy.com/vt/ 3) RootsWeb Mailing List Search: VERMONT Address:http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=VERMONT 4) RootsWeb Mailing List Search: VTDATA Address:http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=VTDATA 5) VT-OLD-NEWS Address:http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/?list=VT-OLD-NEWS

Hi, Good luck searching the links below for your Vermont ancestors. Jan Jordan 1) VERMONTWEBSITE Address:http://www.rootsweb.com/~vermont/MAINGATEWAY.html 2) Vermont Genealogy Forum Address:http://genforum.genealogy.com/vt/ 3) RootsWeb Mailing List Search: VERMONT Address:http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=VERMONT 4) RootsWeb Mailing List Search: VTDATA Address:http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=VTDATA 5) VT-OLD-NEWS Address:http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/?list=VT-OLD-NEWS

My gr-gr-gr-grandfather Henry Merchant Hall lived in the Arlington - Shaftsbury area from the 1790s until after 1830 when they moved a few miles over the border into Washington Co., NY. Three of his sons (Henry Schench Hall, Charles Duane Hall & Hilton Hall) moved to Kankakee Co., Illinois before 1860. Two of them migrated by way of Kentucky, and one later moved on to Oklahoma. In 1870 Hilton was living with Elon Curtis (who wasn't exactly a relative - but Hilton's aunt by marriage was the sister of Elon's mother), so it appears that your suspicion may be correct - that there were a number of people from the Bennington Co.-Washington Co. area who migrated to Kankakee Co., IL. Nancy Barnett Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 21:59:33 EST From: HCro181146@aol.com To: VTBENNIN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: VTBENNIN-D Digest V04 #121 Civil War soldiers were given land instead of money for their service. Many of my ancestors and neighbors settled in Indiana, MO, Ill. etc. You might be able to answer this question. Why would my great uncle live in Kankakee, Ill. prior to Indianapolis? I may have been a place when other VTers lived. Jane in Indy

Civil War soldiers were given land instead of money for their service. Many of my ancestors and neighbors settled in Indiana, MO, Ill. etc. You might be able to answer this question. Why would my great uncle live in Kankakee, Ill. prior to Indianapolis? I may have been a place when other VTers lived. Jane in Indy

Would anyone know if there are any prison records or newspaper articles of crimes committed that lead to prison sentences around 1950-51. It would have happned in the Manchester Depot area. Thanks Linda Canberra Australia

Samuel ROBINSON served in the Rev. War 1775+, and Samuel B. ROBINSON of Shoreham, Addison Co., VT, served in the War of 1812+ and has a military pension. Samuel ROBINSON was a substitute for Olin SCOTT of Bennington, Bennington Co., VT [page 709]. For this Civil War Union Soliders' military engagements, etc. check out http://www.vermontcivilwar.org

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My maternal great-grandfather, James MULLEN, is missing. Can anyone give me some ideas as to where to look next? > James left Scotland 6 months after his wife died and came to VT in 1914. He joined his older brother, Thomas MULLEN, and sister-in-law,Theresa McGUINNESS on their dairy farm in East Dorset. James is living there on the 1920 census. He is not there with Thomas & Theresa on the 1930 census. > I only know of one son James, Jr. who is in the U.S. Army stationed at Fort Reno, Oklahoma in the 1920s and 1930s. > So, James MULLEN leaves his brother`s East Dorset dairy farm in the 1920s. He would be in his 60s. James may have taken ill and died in a nearby hospital. He was Roman Catholic. > I live thousands of miles from Vermont in northern California. What can I do to find my missing great-grandfather? > Thanks in advance. > John Bohnert Grass Valley, CA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Maternal line: MULLEN, FARRELLY, CONNELLY, FAGAN, HANRATTY, MAGUIRE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

There were many reasons for the migration ... when Kansas was to determine if they were to be a free or slave state, many people (among them the New England Aid Society) went there so that they could vote against slavery; also in the late 1840's people knew that Iowa was getting ready to open up more land and many moved to Illinois and Iowa to be ready ... we found family moving along the east side of the Des Moines river ready for the opening of the land on the west side ... they appear on the west side by 1850 I would think by 1850 the land in many of the New England states had been gobbled up and there was not enough land to pass on to each child in a family ... one of our particular families was in Pownal and that was the case. Two of the children moved to Kansas as soon as they were old enough to go on their own. Of course, the pioneer spirit of the New Englanders probably was passed on to the descendants and they were just ready to move on. A good question! I hope this might help! Have you looked at county histories where your ancestors settled to determine who else might have come from the same area in New England? Good luck in your search Gayle in Kansas BENNINGTON COUNTY: Gardner, Carpenter, Niles, Noble, Wright, Brookins, Jewett, Slafter, Boltwood, Pitcher

Susie, It was the Homestead Movement, which was a mid-19th century drive for free land in the Midwest, Great Plains, and West. It began in the 1830s as laborers and reformers joined farmers in calling for public land in the Midwest, Great Plains and the West to be given free to settlers. The Pre-Emption Act of 1841 allowed the first settlers or squatters on public land the right to buy 160 acres of public land at $1.25 per acre provided they actually lived on the land a certain number of years and made certain timely improvements on the land. In 1848 the Free Soil Party advocated the homestead proposal. Before the Civil War, the southern states regularly voted against homestead legislation because they correctly foresaw that the law would hasten the settlement of the western territory, ultimately adding to the number and political influence of the free states. This opposition to the homestead bill, as well as to other internal improvements that could hasten western settlement, exacerbated sectional conflicts. A homestead bill passed the House in 1858 but was defeated by one vote in the Senate; the next year, a similar bill passed both houses but was vetoed by President James Buchanan. In 1860, the Republican platform included a plank advocating homestead legislation.After the southern states seceded, homestead legislation was high on the Republican agenda. The Homestead Act, passed May 2,1862, provided that any adult citizen (or person intending to become a citizen) who headed a family could qualify for a grant of 160 acres of public land by paying a small registration fee and living on the land continuously for five years. If the settler was willing to pay $1.25 an acre, he could obtain the land after only six months' residence. By the end of the Civil War, fifteen thousand homestead claims had been established, and more followed in the postwar years. By 1900, 600,000 homesteaders had claimed 80 million acres. This is how the West was settled. My 2nd great-grandparents pre-empted land in Nicollet County, Mn. in 1860 and I have a copy of their pre-emption papers, which list the improvements they made to the land. Nancy Downey ----- Original Message ----- From: <SusiCP@aol.com> To: <VTBENNIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 1:17 AM Subject: [VTBENNIN] Migration ?? > > Does anyone know why there was such an exodus to ILL /IA in the 1850 - 1860 > time frame? WAS it fear of war and they came west to hopefully escape it.? I > can not find any major event to cause such a move. These people served > bravely in the new states but I can for the life of me yet figure what created > such a move. > > Blessings and appreciate any thoughts on subject. > > > SusiCP > Family Historian > It's the Indian in me.....:>) > > > ==== VTBENNIN Mailing List ==== > VTBENNIN is a forum for the discussion of genealogical and historical > research in Bennington County, Vermont > > ============================== > Search our Immigration Records and view names from multiple ports > ranging from 1500s - 1900s. Over 23 million records to view. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13967/rd.ashx > >