Hi List, Some information from Hemenway's VERMONT HISTORICAL GAZETTEER, Vol I: Chittenden County was not permanently settled until after the Rev War in 1783. A few families had been there before the War but all left in the summer of 1776 after the retreat of the American Army from Canada. Stephen Lawrence was the first to return to Burlington in July 1783. Several families arrived in August 1783. The first recorded Town Meeting held in Burlington was on 19 Mar 1787. The first marriage recorded in Burlington was for Samuel Hitchcock and Lucy Allen on 26 May 1789. And the first birth recorded was Loraine Allen Hitchcock on 5 June 1790. Early families included: Stephen Lawrence, John Doxey, Frederick Saxton, John Collins, Samuel Lane, John Knickerbocker, Job Boyton, Gideon King, Stephen Keys, Jonathan Hart, Zachariah Hart, Philip Walker, Isaac French, Jeremiah French, John Downer, Timothy Titus, Isaac Webb, John Van Sicklin. The names of the early surveyors of the town are: Thomas Butterfield, William Coit, Caleb Henderson, Ira Allen, Nahum Baker, Nathaniel Allen, Able Waters and Edward Allen. Early Vital Records for Chittenden Co. are very sparse. It was not required to report death records and in 1920 Vermont ordered each town to record all gravestones. Some of the gravestones were unreadable by this time and some had disappeared completely. Family Bibles, Land Deeds, Probate Records, printed Town & County Histories, and Census Records are sometimes the only way to find information about early Chittenden County families. Bette