Hello list, I hope that the below will be of interest and help to you in your research. Gail FROM: Abby Hemenway's Vermont Gazeteer EARLY SETTLERS IN SHELBURNE: Prior to Revolutionary War: Isaac LAWRENCE, Canaan, Conn Abner CHAFFEE 1784: Jacob MEACHAM, Rutland Hezekiah TUTTLE, Williamstown. Mass Amos ANDREWS 1785 George MCEUEN, New Milford, Conn George PALMER, Stonington, Conn Elisha MEECH Eliphaz & George STEELE Thomas PLACE Thomas BUTLER Joseph WILCOX Thomas MCFRARLAND Elkanah BILLINGS 1786 Alfred SMALLEY Job SPAFFORD Azariah PALMER Elisha BARBER Zadok CLARK Andrew BURRITT Jonathan GREEN David GATES Nathan LEAVENWORTH Nathan LEAVENWORTH, JR James GATES Zalmon WHEELER Cornelius HURLBUT Encoh HOSKINS SUICIDES IN SHELBURNE DAVID BEARD, an individual of some literary attainments-engaged several years in teaching school-noted for his piety and exemplary habits-deacon of the Congregational church several years, lost his wife by death in 1810. He was the father of three sons; the eldest he was endeavoring to educate at Middlebury college. His means were limited; and his embarrassed circumstances with the loss of his wife and other difficulties, caused a partial derangement of his mind, which resulted in his committing suicide by hanging himself, in the fall of 1813 at the residence of Uzal Piersons. REMINGTON BITGOOD - one of the early settlers in the east part of the town- was the owner of a good farm and accumulated a comfortable estate. He reared up a family of children. He conducted himself strangely for sometime - showed symptoms of insanity before the evening of Nov 9, 1816, when he committed suicide by hanging himself in his cellar kitchen. HEZEKIAH FLETCHER - a man of singular habits and peculiar notions-living entirely by himself for many years, the derangement and wanderings of his mind led him to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a razor in the spring of 1817. He left one daughter.