This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0AC.2ACI/2646.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: This was written in 1886: History of Rutland County. Just found it looking for something else. My aunt had at first thought that Pond Hill was named after the Pond family, but then someone told her it was simply named that because there was a Pond there. O'Rourkes had a stable called Pond Hill Ranch or something like that years ago. According to this, the name did come from the family Pond. Dan POND, the "patriarch," was born in 1726 at Branford, Conn., came from Stockbridge, Mass., to Poultney in 1782, settling, with a portion of his family, on "Pond Hill." He had fifteen children, thirteen sons and two daughters, all but one of whom lived to have families. Most of the sons were Revolutionary soldiers, and came to Poultney with their father. Abel POND, a few years after he came, settled on "Poultney Flats." He took an active part in the Revolutionary struggle. Of sixty members of this once prominent and numerous family, not one is left in Poultney bearing the name.