I finally received some information from a kindly town clerk in VT. Unfortunately I doo not know which one as there was no cover letter included with the information. I have two pages of death/burial records starting with the name: RANDALL, Lydia and ending with the name: ROBERTS, Leo P. These all appear to be for the Williston, VT area for the Chittenden cemetery, East cemetery and Morse Cemetery. If any on the list have a name that falls between this alphabetical listing, write me and I will let you know if it is on my list. I also hope to eventually post this information. Nancy Vogt

I just read your post. I just received some information via snail mail regarding burial and death records* and the following statement was included under the * Excluding only deaths at Vermont Respite House. Could this have been the "poor house"? Does anybody have information on this? Nancy Vogt

At the following URL http://www.bbchannel.com/bbc/p600991.asp there is an advertisement for a bed & breakfast called Poor Farm Inn in Colchester, VT. I understand that Colchester is in Chitenden County. On my website called The POORHOUSE STORY at http://www.poorhousestory.com we have a little bit of information about this poorhouse (including an old postcard photo). I am going to get in touch with the innkeepers tomorrow, but I wonder if someone who lives in that community might be interested in helping us put together a story about the preservation/conversion of this old poorhouse? (It seems there is a real national trend to convert old poorhouses into bed & breakfast facilities!) Thanks, Linda Crannell (aka=The Poorhouse Lady)

Mal: I enjoyed reading the story of the moose hunt from Abby Hemenway's Gazetteer. I know that you are the volunteer "host" for the Chittenden Co. list. Could we hope that you will post other information to the list which might benefit those of us searching for any information about our VT families? Nancy Vogt

Why limit it to Mal? John Folsom Orlando, FL

Hi Bill I can't tell you much about the Stinson Home in Bolton, but I can tell you quite a bit about the area. Abby Maria Hemenway writes in Volume 1, Vermont Historical Gazetteer, 1868, Page 848, Line 9, " A Hunter's Story--In the early day, one Isaiah Preston and one Stinson, two of the early settlers of this vicinity, went out on a moose hunt. They were not fortunate until they got several miles from home. It was in the winter time, and they, on account of the depth of the snow, were obliged to travel on snow shoes. Just at night, they found and shot a large moose in a hollown near the south-west end of Mansfield Mountain. The shades of night were coming on, they built a fire, dressed their moose, cooked their supper of moose meat, made a bed of evergreen boughs and laid down to pleasant dreams. After they had made preparation for a night's lodging in the woods, it being very cold, Preston said to Stinson that he would take the moose hide and wrap himself up in that, which he did, giving Stinson both of the blankets. They slept soundly and well, and were unmolested and undisturbed, excepting by the distant howl of the wolves. Morning dawned and Preston thought he would unrobe himself and help Stinson build the fire and cook their breakfast; but he found his hands and legs tied so tightly by the frozen hide that he must inevitably have perished had it not been for the assistance of his companion (Stinson). After being restored to liberty, they hung upon a tree the portion of the moose they could not carry and packed the rest eight or ten miles on their backs to their hungry families. In this way the early settlers supplied themselves with game, it being their only meat. Many are their stories of hardships and hair-breadth escapes of these iron-sinewed pioneeers. On page 482, Col 2, line 14, Hemenway notes: "Soon after the Revolution Robert Stinson, John Preston and 11 others (named) settled in Bolton. . The first Federal Census of Bolton was taken in 1791--the year Vermont was admitted to the Union. On page 23, Robert Stinson was listed as heading a family composed of one male age 16+, three males under 16, and three females. The 1800 Federal Census shows no one by the name "Stinson", but in Duxbury VT (adjacent to Bolton at that time) listed Abijah Stimson and his wife, both age 45+ (may be no relation, but could be the source of the mountain "Stimson Mt" . Now, a look at the 20th century. In 1965, my partner and I bought 200 acres of land on the Bolton Notch Road (about 100 acres east and 100 acres west of the Notch Road). The far easterly boundary was on Stimson Mt. I took many hikes up the steep hill leading to the airline beacon on the mountain top. I saw the remnants of only one dwelling on this trail. Local residents told me it was inhabited by a person called the "bear lady" (a woman who had no interest in living in the "civilized world". I never saw this woman, but perhaps she saw me. Her dwelling was make-shift and would not be from the 19th Century. Beers Gazetteer 1869 Page 27 lists all lot owners on a map 11 X 17. I can find no one with the surname Stinson on the map. Undoubtedly, your eyes are much better than mine and perhaps you will be more fortunate. This map will be on its way to you by priority mail tomorrow. This has been a long way of saying "I don't know if Robert Stinson's home is still standing", but I thought you might enjoy the detour. Mal Bevins, VTCHITTE-L list manager Stingoez3@aol.com wrote: > Hi, > > My GGGrandfather, Robert Stinson, was one of the original settlers of > Bolton about 1795. He served as the Town Tax Collector and Constable for > several years -- until 1806. > I wonder if it is possible that his original old house might still be > standing? > Someone has mentioned that a very old house is still located near the current > Tax Collection office. I wonder! > Does anyone know if any really old houses still remain in Bolton? The > original legal description of the property was: Bounded on Onion river (now > Winooski river) on the North and John Preston, Jr. on the west and on land of > Francis Joyner, Esquire on the east. > It is believed that "Stimson" Mountain was located on the property and > named for my GGGrandfather -- although misspelled. The USGS office provides > the following information for Stimson Mountain: > Summit Elevation - 2,000 ft. > Located in Chittenden County, VT > Shown on USGS 7.5 x 7.5 Map of Richmond, VT > Latitude - 442329N > Longitude - 0725325W > If anyone can be of assistance in clariying the property location and > whether the old house still exists, it would be much appreciated. > > Sincerely, > > Bill Stinson

Hi All I am looking for more info on the parents of this marriage. They may be from the Underhill, VT area and may have moved to Burlington at times. This is all the info I have been able to find so far, and am hoping someone on the list ties to them. Here is what I have Louis Lavallee and Marie Lavigne married 29 May 1861 St. Joseph Church Burlingtom Vt. Louis's parents are Antoine Lavallee and Maruerite Lajeunesse Marie's parents are B. Lavigne and Marie Labonte Thanks for any help Steve Bean Georgia, Vermont Looking for Gates \ Guyette Colchester, Vermont Have info on Bean, Berger, Davino of Colchester, Vermont Quevillon of Burlington, Vt

Thank you to Gail and all others who wrote about obtaining newspapers locally. AWWWWWW you mean I have to stay home to do research. We just returned from 5 days in Vermont meeting with relatives that I discovered through this list. It has been a wonderful experience and I would encourage everyone of you to continue chipping away at the process. We discovered two wonderful cousins, both direct descendents of our Patrick and Bridge Kehoe who settled in Charlotte VT by 1850. I was beautiful there and the leaves are Just beginning to change. I brought home enough Maple syrup to eat pancakes each day for 6 months. Thanks again to the kind souls on this list. Pam Kehoe Wisconsin www.geocities.com/drk4779

Hi, My GGGrandfather, Robert Stinson, was one of the original settlers of Bolton about 1795. He served as the Town Tax Collector and Constable for several years -- until 1806. I wonder if it is possible that his original old house might still be standing? Someone has mentioned that a very old house is still located near the current Tax Collection office. I wonder! Does anyone know if any really old houses still remain in Bolton? The original legal description of the property was: Bounded on Onion river (now Winooski river) on the North and John Preston, Jr. on the west and on land of Francis Joyner, Esquire on the east. It is believed that "Stimson" Mountain was located on the property and named for my GGGrandfather -- although misspelled. The USGS office provides the following information for Stimson Mountain: Summit Elevation - 2,000 ft. Located in Chittenden County, VT Shown on USGS 7.5 x 7.5 Map of Richmond, VT Latitude - 442329N Longitude - 0725325W If anyone can be of assistance in clariying the property location and whether the old house still exists, it would be much appreciated. Sincerely, Bill Stinson

To Pam and everyone who is interested in newspapers. The State Historical Society in Madison, Wisconsin as well as other libraries throughout the US can order microfilm on interlibrary loan. You must have the exact title and years you want. Some of the libraries where these films come from do charge a small fee. At the state historical society in Madison, they do have in their collection some early Burlington, Vermont newspapers. Here is the web site to the historical society's on line catalogue. This catalogue is not 100% of the society's holdings. http://madcat.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SA1=burlington&BOOL1=as+a+phrase&FLD1=Keywords+Anywhere+%28GKEY%29&GRP1=AND+with+next+set&SA2=vermont&BOOL2=as+a+phrase&FLD2=Keywords+Anywhere+%28GKEY%29&GRP2=AND+with+next+set&SA3=newspapers&BOOL3=as+a+phrase&FLD3=Keywords+Anywhere+%28GKEY%29&CNT=25+records+per+page&PID=3888&SEQ=20000919182756&HIST=1 Happy Hunting, Gail

--WebTV-Mail-20162-1871 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Thanks to Debbie. This is the site. Enjoy See message below. Nancy --WebTV-Mail-20162-1871 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from smtpin-101-4.bryant.webtv.net (209.240.198.29) by storefull-117.iap.bryant.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 19:17:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by smtpin-101-4.bryant.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix) id 1E6E6218; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 19:17:54 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: nrvogt@webtv.net Received: from garnet.sover.net (garnet.sover.net [209.198.87.53]) by smtpin-101-4.bryant.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A8CD269 for <nrvogt@webtv.net>; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 19:17:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pavilion (pm2a9.ben.sover.net [207.136.200.73]) by garnet.sover.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA25818 for <nrvogt@webtv.net>; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 22:17:51 -0400 (EDT) Comments: SoVerNet Verification (on garnet.sover.net) pavilion from pm2a9.ben.sover.net [207.136.200.73] 207.136.200.73 Mon, 18 Sep 2000 22:17:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <029501c021df$c0150300$ad27fea9@pavilion> Reply-To: "DA Whitman" <debbiew@sover.net> From: "DA Whitman" <debbiew@sover.net> To: "Nancy Vogt" <nrvogt@webtv.net> References: <27521-39C6CB2B-5037@storefull-114.iap.bryant.webtv.net> Subject: Re: VT Newspaper Listings Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 22:17:23 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Is this the address you're looking for, Nancy? http://www.middlebury.edu/~swilson/introvc.html My best, Debbie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nancy Vogt" <nrvogt@webtv.net> To: <VTCHITTE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 10:10 PM Subject: VT Newspaper Listings > I found a site which has a complete online listing of all names listed > in the VT Chronicle from 1826-1847 (at present and will continue to > future dates. I saved it in my "favorites" and don't have the URL > listing, however,if anyone is interested, the person who is undertaking > this project is Silvia R. Wilson who lives in VT. > > Here-mail address is: > > SRW7655@aol.com > > Please JUST ask for the URL for the web site when you e-mail her. She > has instructions for sending for a copy of birth, marriage, death, if > you find a name that you believe relates to your family. There is a > code number beside each listing which you need to request information. > There is a form to print out and the fee is $5.00 to receive a > digitalized copy of the newspaper listing. > > I found two listing that relate to persons I am researching. > > Good luck. > > Nancy Vogt --WebTV-Mail-20162-1871--

I found a site which has a complete online listing of all names listed in the VT Chronicle from 1826-1847 (at present and will continue to future dates. I saved it in my "favorites" and don't have the URL listing, however,if anyone is interested, the person who is undertaking this project is Silvia R. Wilson who lives in VT. Here-mail address is: SRW7655@aol.com Please JUST ask for the URL for the web site when you e-mail her. She has instructions for sending for a copy of birth, marriage, death, if you find a name that you believe relates to your family. There is a code number beside each listing which you need to request information. There is a form to print out and the fee is $5.00 to receive a digitalized copy of the newspaper listing. I found two listing that relate to persons I am researching. Good luck. Nancy Vogt

Can I really get Burlington's early newspapers on microfilm sent to Wisconsin? How does this work? I would love to be able to read what my relatives lives were like in the 1850's in Vermont. Just returned from two days in Charlotte and a visit to Boston relatives. I would love to spend more time there soon. Pam Kehoe Wisconsin

To all on the Chittenden list and to Betty and Jane: I do not have this Gazetteer. It is 5 volumes plus the Index of all names in the 6th. It does cover all the counties in VT and probably most all of the towns within the counties. It is in some VT libraries and historical societies and I am sure in some other states as well. I have photocopies of only 6 pages pertaining to Richmond. These were sent to me from VT. (for a $5.00 contribution to the library) I am sorry that I cannot help further but all I have, I have typed out in prior messages. If anyone else on the list has access to these volumes perhaps they would be able to do lookups. Nancy

I'm looking for information on my Great Grandfather David D. (Daniel?) Osborne and my Great Grandmother Maria Levanmay Osborne and her family the Levanways. David and Maria were married in Milton,Vt on 7/2/ 1887 by Rev. J.L. Sewell. They bought a home on the corner of River and Cherry Streets in Milton in 1913 which they had to turn into a boarding house when David became strickened with cancer. He died there in July of 1915. Although I have found the graves of two of his sons in the Old Milton Cemetery I've not been able to locate his grave and would appreciate anyone who might be able to help me find where he is buried. David was born in Liverpool, England in 1860 but I'm not sure when he came to the U.S. and or to Milton,Vt. I'm going to check the census records for the years 1870 and 1880 but I was wondering if there were any kinds of records kept in the town of Milton that may be an additional source of information that would assist me in my search. Maria Levanway Osborne was born in Milton,Vt on 9/30/1873 to Thomas and Susan (Gifford) Levanway. Maria had a brother named Judd. I had only 1 day to look through the old register books at the Milton Town Clerk's office so didn't have the time to go through all the entries there. However I did noticed several Levanways were listed there and I assumed that they were probably related. I'm interested in any information concerning the specific Levanways I'm searching for and or the rest of the Levanways living in Milton at the end of the 1800's and early 1900's. Maria was not buried in Milton but perhaps her parents,brother Judd and other related Levanways are buried there. Thanks in advance to all who might have some info for me. Noreen LaTour

I seem to remember someone putting in a query about Eaton family in Chittendon Co. In going over some papers in my files I found a photocopy of a page from Underhill records containing some of my Ormsby family. Lucy Eaton Daughter of Abner Eaton Born Dec 24 1781 Rebecah(?) Eaton daughter of Abner Eaton & Adeline Eaton Born Jany 2nd 1784 Sally Eaton Daughter of Abner Eaton was Born Dec 28 1785 Jonathan Eaton Son of Abner Eaton Born Feb 21st 1788 huldah Eaton Daughter of Abner Eaton Born Dec 1st 1789 cit pff prt of the page number but could be pg 360

Hi, all, from Mary S: I stay on the list because people are so nice and so interesting. My quest for a 1794 birth record in Hinesburg is as elusive as ever, but I did find some good material at Middlebury which I thought I'd pass on just in case you haven't used it. The site below has a huge list of resources. I'd like to share what I found, even though this is only about the father, not his son that I'm looking for. I have a lot of evidence that there's a mistake in the accepted version of Reuben's children, but once it's written in a book: CONCRETE. Jackhammers needed. Record 1: Haynes, Lemuel, 1753-1833. The character and work of a spiritual watchman described [sic]. [microform] : A sermon, delivered at Hinesburgh, February 23, 1791 at the ordination of the Rev. Reuben Parmerlee [i.e., Parmele]. / By Lemuel Haynes, Pastor of a church in Rutland. Litchfield, (Connecticut) : Printed by Collier and Buel., [1792] Location: Microforms Room Call number: EarlyAmImp I no. 23437 Volume: Material: Microfiche Status: Available http://www.middlebury.edu/library/genealogy.html#sectioncontents

--WebTV-Mail-21293-173 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Sorry, I apparently sent this to myself and not to the list. --WebTV-Mail-21293-173 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from mailsorter-103-1.bryant.webtv.net (209.240.198.104) by storefull-115.iap.bryant.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 20:33:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mailsorter-103-1.bryant.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix) id 012BD47; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 20:33:08 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: nrvogt@mailsorter-bryant.bryant.webtv.net Received: from storefull-116.iap.bryant.webtv.net (storefull-116.iap.bryant.webtv.net [209.240.198.86]) by mailsorter-103-1.bryant.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix) with ESMTP id E1F5012 for <nrvogt@mailsorter-bryant.bryant.webtv.net>; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 20:33:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from production@localhost) by storefull-116.iap.bryant.webtv.net (8.8.8-wtv-e/mt.gso.26Feb98) id UAA15544; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 20:33:07 -0700 (PDT) X-WebTV-Signature: 1 ETAsAhRr5ESJe7aAddj0I7hWRxbxr34HIwIUT95Rmij2GQWTqwzIMq2N1LlJ2PI= From: nrvogt@webtv.net (Nancy Vogt) Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 22:33:07 -0500 (CDT) To: nrvogt@webtv.net (Nancy Vogt) Subject: Milton; VT from Gazetteer Message-ID: <17440-39C43B73-2188@storefull-116.iap.bryant.webtv.net> In-Reply-To: nrvogt@webtv.net (Nancy Vogt)'s message of Wed, 13 Sep 2000 22:45:58 -0500 (CDT) Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit MIME-Version: 1.0 (WebTV) The following paragraph might be of some help to the French Canadians/Irish catholic researchers on the list. Milton, Chittenden Co., VT by Rev. H. Cardinal. "The Catholis in Milton" Up to the year 1859 the few Catholics of Milton Falls used to be visited occasionally by the priets of Burlington. In 1859 Mr. Joseph Clark granted the use of the town hall for a mission. At the end of the mission the Rt. Rev Bishop of Burlington proposed to build a church, towards which object Mr. Clark also contributed very liberally. Whilst the church was building, the Rt Rev Bishop attended to the spiritual wants of the congregation. The church was ready to use in the fall of 1859 when the Rev. F. Picart was appointed resident pastor. In the spring of 1860 the Rev Francis Clavier of St. Albans took charge of the congregation. Owning to his exertions, the church was finished in 1863. In February 1866, the Rev. M. Pigeon was appointed resident pastor. The Catholic population of Milton are composed of Franch Canadians and Irish and number about 100 families. Hope this might be of some help as perhaps the priests kept records of baptisms, marriages and deaths. Nancy Vogt --WebTV-Mail-21293-173--

First Settlements: Amos BROWNSON and John CHAMBERLAIN with their families in 1775 on what is called Richmond flats on the south side of the Winooski River in what then was the town of Williston. In the fall of that year they abandoned the township and did not return until the close of the Rev. War. In 1784 they returned to their farms where they had made beginnings, accompanied by Asa and Joel BROWNSON, Samuel and Joshua CHAMBERLAIN, James HOLLY , Joseph WILSON and Jesse MCFAIRLAIN. The first settlements begun in the south part of the town then included in the charter limits of Huntington were made by Ozem BREWSTER and Daniel ROBBINS about the year 1786. The first settlements along the south side of the Winooski River between the mouth of Huntington River at Jonesville and the village of Richmond, were made by Amos BROWNSON, Jr., Matthew COX, Jesse GREEN, William DOUGLAS, Barney and Comfort STARR, Clement HOYT, James and Peter CRANE, James HALL , Nathaniel and Asa ALGER. The first settlement made in the west part of the town were made by Asa BROWNSON, Nathan and Henry FAY. On the norh side of the river one of the first beginnings was made by Joseph HALL. The town was organized in March 1795 and Joseph CHAMBERLAIN was the first town clerk. Amos BROWNSON, Esq. was the first representative, closen the same year. Joel BROWNSON and James FARNSWORTH were the first justices of the peace. The town has since been represented by Dr. Matthew COLE, Joshua CHAMBERLAIN, Joel BROWNSON, Jacob SPAFFORD, Nathan FAY, Abel COOPER, James BUTLER, William RHODES, John FAY, Edward JONES, Amos B. COOPER, Eli BROWNSON, Sylvanus DOUGLAS, Nathan FAY, Jr. Ransom JONES, James HUMPHREY, Rufus STEPHENS, Iddo GREEN 2nd, Thomas BROWNING, Artemas FLAGG, Edwin D. MASON, Truman FAY,Rolla GLEASON , Ezra B. GREEN, Robert TOWERS, U. S. WHITCOMB, and Safford BROWNSON. Richmond is divided into 10 school districts. There is a hotel in each village. The lower village contains nearly 100 drelling houses and the population in Richmond in 1850 was 1,453. Hope this might help someone. Nancy Vogt

Good Afternoon, During the last week of September, I'll be visiting Shelburne for the first time. I hope to be able to spend sometime looking through the cemetery that is on the Shelburne Farm property. It was an early burying ground, late 1700's to mid 1800's, from what I have been told. Does anyone have any ancestor's headstones that you would like me to watch for? I understand a few of the names of the families buried there are Holabird, Comstock and Saxton and Seymour. Gail Woodland In cloudy Washington State