Welcome. Am so tickled to have found the missing file (Part 4) after all this time. Was like I lost a million dollars. Some days are diamonds!

I agree. Thank you. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 8:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [VTWINDSO] Green Mountain Boys - Part 2 Thank you Janice. ==== VTWINDSO Mailing List ==== Windsor County, Vermont Before Silicon Valley: Precision Valley! -- List admin. [email protected] ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Part 4 was the missing part with the rest of the rosters!

Thank you Janice.

In 1998 I transcribed a 4 - part report on the complete rosters of Officers and Enlisted men of the famous Green Mountain Boys. I lost the 4th part - names H to Z. I just found it all - posted in 1998 to a mailing listed. I incorporated the 4 parts into one WordPad text file of 46 kbs. It is freely shared, on request. Janice Farnsworth

From: <[email protected]> Subject: [NHSULLIV] Enlisted Men Part 4 of 4 Green Mountain Boys Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 22:08:56 EST Part 4 of 4 - Enlisted Men Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War 1775 to 1783 Published by Authority of the Legislature Compiled and Edited by John E. Goodrich A Member of the Vermont Historical Society Rutland, Vermont The Tuttle Company 1904 Heart, John Heath, Benjamin Henderson, David Heniman, Leonard Heniman, Moses Holmes, Orsamus House, Jonathan Hulburt, William Huntington, Jery Huntley, Benjamin Hutchins, Asa Jewet, Jedediah Johnson, Jehial Jonston, Edin Jonston, John Jurdon, Jonathan Kelley, Abraham Kelley, John Kellog, Joseph Kellom, Samuel Kentfield, George King, Reuben King, Thomas Klein, Adonijah Lapish, John Lee, Jonathan Libbey, Joseph Lighthall, William Locheron, John London ______ Luttington, John Luttington, Moses McConnel, Jonathan Magee, William Magrager, Duncan Malery, David Mallarce, Nathaniel Matthewson, A. Meloy, J. Messer, Abiel Michel, Samuel Millege, John Miller, Robert Milroy, John Moores, Ezra Morris, John Mose, Timothy Nayson, Benjamin Nayson, Edward Nolda, E. Olcott, William Olford, Alexander Ovita, James Owen, Daniel Owen, Silvanus Pain, Francis Park, J. Parker, Amasa Pasavile, John Patee, Zephniah Patterson, George Paul, Robert Philbrook, Eliphalet Piper, Thomas Powers, Nicholas Prindle, Joel Prose, Benjamin Putnam, Asaph Putnam, Ephron Quackenbush, Gerardus Quackenbush, Jacobus Quin, Michel Reyolds, John Richards, Edward Richardson, Jonathan Ripney, John Robertson, John Robinson, Peter Rowe, Abner Rowley, Samuel Rush, George Sanborn, John Saxston, George Serjeant, Samuel Shavalee, Joseph Shepherd, David Simpson, William Smith, Abraham Smith, Benjamin Young Smith, Eliphelet Smith, John Sopers, William Spencer, Jesse Spring, Thomas Squires, James Stannard, Libeus Sterling, Archibald Steven, Isaac Stevens, John Stewart, John Stickney, Ezekiel Stockwell, Jacob Stow, Seth Stuart, Samuel Sturges, David Styles, Eli Sullingham, Henry Thomas, John Thurstininlis, Ward Trouax, John Trowbridge, Stephen Turner, Nicholas Umpsted, Israel Van De Bogart, Charles Van Gelder, John Van Gelder, Jonathan Van Vorst, Jelles D. Van Wagenen, Evert Vine, Ebenezer Vine, Robert Vine, Solomon Wakley, Stephen Walker, Jonathan Wallis, Samuel Waters, John Watkins, Daniel Welch, David Wells, James Whiston, John Wiley, David Willen, Amos Williams, Nehemiah Young, John Young, Joseph (From "New York in the Revolution" pp.61, 62) Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth

From: <[email protected]> Subject: [NHSULLIV] Green Mountain Men Part 3 of 4 - Enlisted Men Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 21:30:42 EST Part 3 of 4 Enlisted Men Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War 1775 to 1783 Published by Authority of the Legislature Compiled and Edited by John E. Goodrich A Member of the Vermont Historical Society Rutland, Vermont The Tuttle Company 1904 p.832 Enlisted Men Abbot, William Alden, Felix Allen, Abraham Allen, Amos Allen, Samuel Ames, David Andress, Jeremiah Andrews, Moses Averil, Ebenezer Averill, Robert Bamur, J. Barker, Alexander Barkley, Robert Barlow, Samuel Beach, Samuel Beaman, Jery Beder, John Begar, Alexander Beltheh, Stephen Bennet, Isaac Bennet, Nathan Bheartwick, John Bishop, Enos Black, Primas Blackmon, Epheram Blanchard, Abner Blanchard, Azriel Blodget, Elijah Boeron, M. Boggess, Thomas Borow, Matthew Brown, John Buck, Isaac Burk, Jonathan Burris, Matthew Burroughs, Matthew Cannada, John Capee, George Capern, Thomas Capron, Jonathan Carley, Abraham Caswell, Eliphalet Chadock, Jonas Chamberlin, Joseph Chambers, Henry Chesley, James Chipman, Jessey Church, John Clark, Isaac Clark, Jessey Clarke, James Cobb, John Cochran, Samuel Collins, William Colter, Joseph Comstock, Aaron Connely, John Corbit, Eldad Cross, John Cross, Uriah Cummins, Benjamin Curtis, David Curtis, Timothy David, Abel Davis, Abel Dernim, Asa Dernim, Reubin Dickey, Elias Doud, Jesse Dressen, Jonathan Drew, Samuel Dunlap, Samuel Dunn, Duncan Eastman, Nathaniel Eives, Jonah Erwine, David Fellows, William Fitch, Jonathan Fletcher, John Flood, Moses Flood, Timothy Fone, Timothy Foot, Jennor Force, Timothy Freeman, Elias Freeman, John Freeman, Moody Freeman, Richard French, John Fuller, Elijah Fuller, William Gamble, James Garvin, Epheram Gibson, James Gilbert, Elisha Goodcourage, John Gordon, Alexander Grant, Benoni Grapes, Philipo Gray, John Griswell, Benjamin Halet, John Hand, Ira Hand, Oliver Hardy, James Haselton, John Hastens, Jonathan Hawley, Ichabod Haws, Edward Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth To be continued - Part 3

From: [email protected] Subject: [NHSULLIV] GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS PART 2 Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 14:29:52 EST A List of the Field Officers, Captains and part of the Lieutenants of the Regiment of Green Mountain Boys, con- sisting of seven companies. July 4, 1775 Colonel Allen's royal list of loyal Officers. Ethan Allen, Field Officer Seth Warner, Field Officer Captains Remember Baker Robert Cochran Michael Veal (Vail) Peleg Sutherling Gideon Warren Wait Hopkins Heman Allen Levi Allen, Adjutant Elijah Babcock, Comissary Jonas Fay, Doctor & Surgeon Ordered that in consequence of a recommendation from the Continental Congress a Body of Troops not exceeding five hundred men, officers included, be forthwith raised of those called Green Mountain Boys, that they elect all their own officers >except< Field Officers. That Major General Schuyler be requested to forward this order to them & receive from them a list of such officers as they shall elect to be communicated to this Congress and that General Schuyler be further requested, without de- lay to procure the sense of thos troops concerning the persons who will be most agreeable to them for Field Officers, and to make other inquiry & upon the whole advise this Congress, what persons will be most proper to be appointed as Field Officers to lead to Command these troops. That the said troops, when raised, be considered as an Independent Body, their Field Officers taking rank after the Field Officers of the other Troops to be raised by this Colony for the Continental Service. That their Corps of Officers consist of one Lieutenant Colonel, one Major, seven Captains and fourteen lieuten- ants and that the General be furnished with Blank Warr- ants to be filled up by him, agreeable to such election as above mentioned. Die Martis, 9 ho. A.M. 15th Augt. 1775. A letter from General Schuyler of the 31st of July last was read and filed and is in the words following: "Ticonderoga, July 31, 1775 Gentlemen: I do myself the honor to enclose you a copy of a letter and paper I have received from the people called Green Mountain Boys, together with a copy of my letter in answer. I am apprehensive that the controversy, that has arisen amongst them, relative to Field Officers, will cause delay in the levies. Whilst at New York and even after my arrival here, on convening with Allen and Warner, I did not conceive there would have been any contest between them, or that a third person would have been recommended by the People as a Field Officer; on that supposition and believing the people unanimous in their favor I should not have hesi- tated to have recommended them." The several papers referred to in the proceeding letter from General Schuyler were respectively read and filed and are in the words following: "May it please your Honour. In compliance with the Orders of Congress as well as your recommendation, I enclose the proceedings of our Committee on the New Hampshire Grants, upon due notice to the Towns in General - all which is humbly submitted to your wisdom, not doubting but the warrants will issue agreeable to our wishes. We are, etc etc Nathan Clark, Chairman Dorset, July 28th 1775 To the Hon'ble Gen'l Schuyler." At a Meeting of the Committees of the several Townships on the New Hampshire Grants. West of the Range of Green Mountains, convened at the house of Mr. Cephas Kents in the Township of Dorset, July 27th, 1775 - Voted as foll- ows, to wit: 1st Chose Mr. Nathan Clark, Chairman 2d Chose John Fasset, Clerk 3d The motion being made and seconded Whether this Convention shall prose- cute in choosing Field and other Offi- cers, according to the Provincial Con- gress and your Honour's directions. Passed in the affirmative: Then proceeded as follows: 4th Chose Mr. Seth Warner Lieutenant Colon- el for the Regiment of Green Mountain Boys, by a majority of forty-one to five. 5th Chose Mr. Samuel Spafford Major for said Regiment by a majority of twenty to seventeen Then proceeded and chose seven Captains and fourteen Lieutenants by a great majority, viz: Captains Weight Hopkins Oliver Potter John Grant William Fitch Gideon Brownson Micah Vail Heman Allen First Lieutenants John Fassett Eben'r Allen Barnebas Barnam David Galusha Jille Bleaksley Ira Allen Gideon Warren Second Lieutenants Johan Noble James Claghorn John Chipman Philo Hard Nathan Smith Jesse Sawyer Joshua Stanton Nathan Clark, Chairman Hd Qtrs Ticonderoga July 31, 1775 Sir: Your letter dated July 28th has been delivered me by Captain Fitch, together with all the votes, that were enclosed. The choice of the Captains and Lieutenants being left unconditional to the people, those chosen will receive their Warrants as soon as they come to my hands. And that the levying of the men may not be retarded, you will signify to them that I hereby empower them immediat- ly to proceed to that business without waiting for the Warrants. The votes I shall immediately transmit to Congress, that they may approve of the Field Officers or appoint others out of your Body as they may think proper. I am, Sir, etc etc Ph. Schuyler" To Mr. Nathan Clark Ordered, that Blank Warrants be sent to General Schuyler for the seven Captains & fourteen Lieutenants of the Troops to be raised by this Colony from among those called Green Mountain Boys, when such a number are raised as (in his opinion) shall make it necessary. Resolved, that when the Green Mountain Boys are raised each of them shall be furnished with a Coat and that Mr. Peter T. Curtenius be requested to purchase coarse green Cloth for that purpose and red Cloth suffi- cient to face those Coats and to have two hundred and twenty-five coats of a large size made of the said Cloth. To be continued Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth

From: [email protected] Subject: [NHSULLIV] Green Mountain Boys Part 1 Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 20:40:36 EST The information following is stamped "New Hampshire State Library 993.344 V527 The State of Vermont Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War 1775 to 1783 Published by Authority of the Legislature Compiled and Edited by John E. Goodrich A Member of the Vermont Historical Society Rutland, Vermont The Tuttle Company 1904 Index to Special Persons and Subjects (excerpt following pertinent subject) Green Mountain Boys pp 813, 814, 815, 816, 827, 831 and 836. p.814 A List of the Field Officers, Captains and part of the Lieutenants of the Regiment of Green Mountain Boys, con- sisting of seven companies. July 4, 1775 Colonel Allen's royal list of loyal Officers. Ethan Allen, Field Officer Seth Warner, Field Officer Captains Remember Baker Robert Cochran Michael Veal Peleg Sutherling Gideon Warren Wait Hopkins Herman Allen Levi Allen, Adjutant Elijah Babcock, Comissay Jonas Fay, Doctor & Surgeon Ordered that in consequence of a recommendation from the Continental Congress a Body of Troops not exceeding five hundred men, officers included, be forthwith raised of those called Green Mountain Boys, that they elect all their own officers >except< Field Officers. That Major General Schuyler be requested to forward this order to them & receive from them a list of such officers as they shall elect to be communicated to this Congress and that General Schuyler be further requested, without de- lay to procure the sense of thos troops concerning the persons who will be most agreeable to them for Field Officers, and to make other inquiry & upon the whole advise this Congress, what persons will be most proper to be appointed as Field Officers to lead to Command these troops. That the said troops, when raised, be considered as an Independent Body, their Field Officers taking rank after the Field Officers of the other Troops to be raised by this Colony for the Continental Service. That their Corps of Officers consist of one Lieutenant Colonel, one Major, seven Captains and fourteen lieuten- ants and that the General be furnished with Blank Warr- ants to be filled up by him, agreeable to such election as above mentioned. Die Martis, 9 ho. A.M. 15th Augt. 1775. A letter from General Schuyler of the 31st of July last was read and filed and is in the words following: "Ticonderoga, July 31, 1775 Gentlemen: I do myself the honor to enclose you a copy of a letter and paper I have received from the people called Green Mountain Boys, together with a copy of my letter in answer. I am apprehensive that the controversy, that has arisen amongst them, relative to Field Officers, will cause delay in the levies. Whilst at New York and even after my arrival here, on convening with Allen and Warner, I did not conceive there would have been any contest between them, or that a third person would have been recommended by the People as a Field Officer; on that supposition and believing the people unanimous in their favor I should not have hesi- tated to have recommended them." p.815 The several papers referred to in the proceeding letter from General Schuyler were respectively read and filed and are in the words following: "May it please your Honour. In compliance with the Orders of Congress as well as your recommendation, I enclose the proceedings of our Committee on the New Hampshire Grants, upon due notice to the Towns in General - all which is humbly submitted to your wisdom, not doubting but the warrants will issue agreeable to our wishes. We are, etc etc Nathan Clark, Chairman Dorset, July 28th 1775 To the Hon'ble Gen'l Schuyler." At a Meeting of the Committees of the several Townships on the New Hampshire Grants. West of the Range of Green Mountains, convened at the house of Mr. Cephas Kents in the Township of Dorset, July 27th, 1775 - Voted as foll- ows, to wit: 1st Chose Mr. Nathan Clark, Chairman 2d Chose John Fasset, Clerk 3d The motion being made and seconded Whether this Convention shall prose- cute in choosing Field and other Offi- cers, according to the Provincial Con- gress and your Honour's directions. Passed in the affirmative: Then proceeded as follows: 4th Chose Mr. Seth Warner Lieutenant Colon- el for the Regiment of Green Mountain Boys, by a majority of forty-one to five. 5th Chose Mr. Samuel Spafford Major for said Regiment by a majority of twenty to seventeen Then proceeded and chose seven Captains and fourteen Lieutenants by a great majority, viz: Captains Weight Hopkins Oliver Potter John Grant William Fitch Gideon Brownson Micah Vail Heman? Allen First Lieutenants John Fassett Eben'r Allen Barnebas Barnum David Galusha Bleaksley Ira Allen Gideon Warren Second Lieutenants Johan Noble James Claghors John Chipman Philo Herd Nathan Smith Jesse Sawyer Joshua Stanton Nathan Clark, Chairman Hd Qtrs Ticonderoga July 31, 1775 Sir: Your letter dated July 28th has been delivered me by Captain Fitch, together with all the votes, that were enclosed. The choice of the Captains and Lieutenants being left unconditional to the people, those chosen will receive their Warrants as soon as they come to my hands. And that the levying of the men may not be retarded, you will signify to them that I hereby empower them immediat- ly to proceed to that business without waiting for the Warrants. The votes I shall immediately transmit to Congress, that they may approve of the Field Officers or appoint others out of your Body as they may think proper. I am, Sir, etc etc Ph. Schuyler" To Mr. Nathan Clark Ordered, that Blank Warrants be sent to General Schuyler for the seven Captains & fourteen Lieutenants of the Troops to be raised by this Colony from among those called Green Mountain Boys, when such a number are raised as (in his opinion) shall make it necessary. Resolved, that when the Green Mountain Boys are raised each of them shall be furnished with a Coat and that Mr. Peter T. Curtenius be requested to purchase coarse green Cloth for that purpose and red Cloth suffi- cient to face those Coats and to have two hundred and twenty-five coats of a large size made of the said Cloth. p. 816, 817 deal with letters concerning the Green Mountain Boys but not Rosters. p.827 "A return of Captain John Grant's Company in Colonel Warner's Regiment in the Servis of the United Colonies. March 31, 1776 Before Quebec This lists only the number of Commissioned Officers and Non-Commissioned Officer but no names. p.829 to p. 830 Gives the Roster of the Vermont Militia (and I will transcribe that list in a subsequent email. p.831 The Line - Additonal Corps (Green Mountain Boys) (These muster-rolls are recorded as "Major Brown's De- tachment," and that detachment is mentioned as in "Gen- eral Arnold's Regiment." (The only mention of General Arnold found in our records.) The fact that the "Green Mountain Boys" were at Quebec in 1776; that two of the officers on these rolls - Captain and Commissary Elijah Babcock and Capt. Robert Cochran - are identified in name and rank with those on a list handed to the Prov- incial Congress of New York by Ethan Allen and Seth Warner, on July 4, 1775, as officers of the Green Mount- ain Boys; and the further fact that none of the men are recorded in any other place, or with any other organi- zation, all confirm the belief that the soldiers on its rolls herewith were a part of that historic band.) Colonel Ethan Allen Colonel Seth Warner Major John Brown Adjutant William Satterlee Quartermaster Jonathan Capron Quartermaster Samuel McClund Capt. and Com. Elijah Babcock Capt. Gideon Brownson Capt. Goodrich Capt. Hopkins Capt. Charles Nelson Lieut. Palmerly Allen Lieut. Michael Dunning Lieut. James Gould Lietu. Ebenezer Hyde Lieut. William Lighthall Lieut. David Pixley Lieut. Walter Swite Lieut. Elishama Tozer Lieut. Ebenezer Walbridge Lieut. Seth Wheeler Ensign Benoni Grant Ensign William Lighthall Continued Part 2, Enlisted Men, p. 832 - 833 Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Keep in mind that the SSDI does not include people who never received social security checks, only those who did. Ann A. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joann H. Nichols" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 7:32 AM Subject: [VTWINDSO] Re: Who is Blanch Wheeler > > > I looked on the SSDI just putting in the first name Blanche and the date of birth. There were five people who came up (none spelled Blanch), and here is the one I think fits: > > > BLANCHE E PELLON [Search for this name at Ancestry.com] > Request Information (SS-5) > SSN 028-28-8463 > Residence: 05641 Barre, Washington, VT > Born 15 Nov 1914 > Last Benefit: > > Died 23 Nov 1997 > Issued: MA (1953 And 1955) > > Hope this helps, > > Joann Nichols > > > > > > Hello Windsor list, > > > > I am hoping someone here can help with a "mystery" - or suggest how I can > > find an answer. Recently, a person diving in the White River, near the bridge in > > Gaysville (Stockbridge) found a headstone, inscribed BLANCH WHEELER b. Nov > > 15, 1914 There is room to put a death date, but that last line is completely > > blank. So far, she doesnt seem to have been a Stockbridge resident and there is > > a question as to how the stone ended up in the river. > > > > Thoughts: > > Often pranksters steal headstones and eventually dispose of them, but.....stones > > in a cemetery would usually include a death date, unless a wife who was to be > > buried next to her husband, in which case it would usually be a double stone. > > > > The flood of 1927, which wiped out much of the village of Gaysville and which > > changed the course of the river, *might* have moved a stone which was in the > > process of being carved. > > > > Unless the stone had been (partially) carved after Blanch's death, it seems likely > > that Wheeler was her married name - a stone wouldnt have been carved > > assuming that she would never marry. > > > > Need any suggestions of how to find out who she was, have tried a few > > things, with no luck. > > > > SSDI - no Blanch (or Blanche) Wheeler with that birth date > > > > 1920 census - no Blanch Wheeler in this area > > no Blanch (anything) age 5 or 6 in Vermont > > > > Can search (by trip to Middlesex) any Wheelers and look for Blanch, but if > > it is a married name (even if she married in VT) might be hard to find. > > > > Any ideas????????? > > > > Barb Vellturo > > > > Our Stockbridge-Gaysville Website > > > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vtgenweb/vtwindsor/StockbridgeVT.htm > > > > > > > > > > > ==== VTWINDSO Mailing List ==== > I like newbies. Newbies are my friends. A newbie I haven't met yet > has the key to my elusive ancestor. Please don't insult or patronize > my friends on this list. -- List admin. [email protected] > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > ------------------------------------------- Introducing NetZero Long Distance Unlimited Long Distance only $29.95/ month! Sign Up Today! www.netzerolongdistance.com

Source: Town Clerk's Office, Sharon,Windsor County, VT Sharon VT Deaths 1883 to 1897 Volume 2 Page 3 No. 16 Sylvanus NORTON died September 17, 1886 84 yrs 3 mos 12 days - male - widowed Cause of death Apoplexy Place of death Sharon - Occupation Laborer Place of birth Orange [no date of birth recorded] Name of Father -- Norton [no first name recorded] [no father's birthplace recorded] Maiden name of Mother Polly (Belknap) [no mother's birthplace recorded] ------------------------------------------------------- Am looking for the Norton and Belknap ancestry of a Mr. Norton who married a Polly Belknap, who had a son, Sylvanus (AKA Sylvester), born about June 5, 1802. The State of Vermont Vital Records P. 1427 lists the same information as provided them years later by L. E. Parkhurst, Town Clerk of Sharon, when all Town Clerks had to send the State copies of their vital records. Any help or clues would be deeply appreciated!!! Charles Anderson [email protected] _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com

I looked on the SSDI just putting in the first name Blanche and the date of birth. There were five people who came up (none spelled Blanch), and here is the one I think fits: BLANCHE E PELLON [Search for this name at Ancestry.com] Request Information (SS-5) SSN 028-28-8463 Residence: 05641 Barre, Washington, VT Born 15 Nov 1914 Last Benefit: Died 23 Nov 1997 Issued: MA (1953 And 1955) Hope this helps, Joann Nichols > > Hello Windsor list, > > I am hoping someone here can help with a "mystery" - or suggest how I can > find an answer. Recently, a person diving in the White River, near the bridge in > Gaysville (Stockbridge) found a headstone, inscribed BLANCH WHEELER b. Nov > 15, 1914 There is room to put a death date, but that last line is completely > blank. So far, she doesnt seem to have been a Stockbridge resident and there is > a question as to how the stone ended up in the river. > > Thoughts: > Often pranksters steal headstones and eventually dispose of them, but.....stones > in a cemetery would usually include a death date, unless a wife who was to be > buried next to her husband, in which case it would usually be a double stone. > > The flood of 1927, which wiped out much of the village of Gaysville and which > changed the course of the river, *might* have moved a stone which was in the > process of being carved. > > Unless the stone had been (partially) carved after Blanch's death, it seems likely > that Wheeler was her married name - a stone wouldnt have been carved > assuming that she would never marry. > > Need any suggestions of how to find out who she was, have tried a few > things, with no luck. > > SSDI - no Blanch (or Blanche) Wheeler with that birth date > > 1920 census - no Blanch Wheeler in this area > no Blanch (anything) age 5 or 6 in Vermont > > Can search (by trip to Middlesex) any Wheelers and look for Blanch, but if > it is a married name (even if she married in VT) might be hard to find. > > Any ideas????????? > > Barb Vellturo > > Our Stockbridge-Gaysville Website > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vtgenweb/vtwindsor/StockbridgeVT.htm > > >

Hello Windsor list, I am hoping someone here can help with a "mystery" - or suggest how I can find an answer. Recently, a person diving in the White River, near the bridge in Gaysville (Stockbridge) found a headstone, inscribed BLANCH WHEELER b. Nov 15, 1914 There is room to put a death date, but that last line is completely blank. So far, she doesnt seem to have been a Stockbridge resident and there is a question as to how the stone ended up in the river. Thoughts: Often pranksters steal headstones and eventually dispose of them, but.....stones in a cemetery would usually include a death date, unless a wife who was to be buried next to her husband, in which case it would usually be a double stone. The flood of 1927, which wiped out much of the village of Gaysville and which changed the course of the river, *might* have moved a stone which was in the process of being carved. Unless the stone had been (partially) carved after Blanch's death, it seems likely that Wheeler was her married name - a stone wouldnt have been carved assuming that she would never marry. Need any suggestions of how to find out who she was, have tried a few things, with no luck. SSDI - no Blanch (or Blanche) Wheeler with that birth date 1920 census - no Blanch Wheeler in this area no Blanch (anything) age 5 or 6 in Vermont Can search (by trip to Middlesex) any Wheelers and look for Blanch, but if it is a married name (even if she married in VT) might be hard to find. Any ideas????????? Barb Vellturo Our Stockbridge-Gaysville Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~vtgenweb/vtwindsor/StockbridgeVT.htm

Hi, Yes, I have the 2002 Town Clerk booklet with email and snail mail addresses here. The town clerk web site is for 2001. Email Weathersfield Town Clerk at [email protected] Also, the post office box has changed: Flo-Ann Dango, Clerk PO Box 550 Ascutney, VT 05030 Telephone 18026742626 Fax 18026742117 Hours M-F 9-4; TH 9-5 EST Good luck, Jan Jordan in Orleans County, VT researching Sumner, Call, Daly, Shedd, Mowry, Webster (Lydia), Crosier, Stacy <<"ancestors" <[email protected]> Can the Weathersfield's Town Clerk be reached through email?>>

THANKS again to those Special people who go out of their way to add bits and pieces to my ancestor's history puzzle. :) Do you have any connection to this family? I would love to hear from you. Jan Jordan in Vermont Please read: In source: "DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM SUMNER" of Dorchester, Mass.,1636. By William Sumner Appleton. Boston: David Clapp & Son, Printers. 187 8th generation My 3rd great grandmother Sophie Sumner listed below: Parents: Daniel Sumner, b. Grafton 27 March, (Desc. from Roger) 1764; m. Elizabeth Snow. Children, all born at Halifax, VT.: i. Sarah, b.7 June, 1791; m. ___ Rice. ii. Asenath, b. 24 September, 1792; m. ____ Bell. iii. Amasa, b. 24 August, 1794. 399 [next reference] iv. Thomas, b. 1 October, 1796. 400 ********************************************** v. Sophia, b. _____; m. 1st Moses Saunders of Halifax, who d., and she m. secondly Ebor Stacy of Halifax ( my note: born ABT 1805, not 1850). [This is on page 63.] [Additions and Corrections, p. 181 has: Sophia, b. 11 July, 1799; Moses Saunders d. 26 November, 1818; Ebor Stacy d. 23 September 1871.] ********************************************** vi. Cynthia, b._____; m. in 1823, David Chandler Seaver of Halifax, who d. 12 October 1865. vii. Lewis, b. 10 January, 1803. 401 viii. Elizabeth, b. ______; m. Richmond Worden of Halifax. His wife d. at Halifax, VT., 13 September 1822, and he m. secondly Sarah Brown; lived Halifax, VT.; d. 18 April 1854; she d. 29 October, 1845. _________________________ I am assuming that His wife means Daniel's and she means Sarah Brown. __________________________________-7th generation Daniel [1764]- father was Daniel, b.at Mendon in 1739; m. Lydia Fairbanks -6th generation Daniel [1739] -father was Daniel, b. at Mendon 24 June, 1709; m. Beriah ____. -5th generation Daniel [1709] -father was Ebenezer, b.at Milton 9 December 1673; m. at Mendon 18 January, 1706. Abigail Lovett. -4th generation Ebenezer [1673] -father was George, b. at Bicester, England, in 1634; m. at Northampton 7 November 1662, Mary, dau. of Edward Baker -3rd generation George [1634] -father was William, b. Bicester in 1605, m. there 22 October 1625, Mary West [****This has since been corrected to Mary Swift]. -2nd generation Willam [1605] -father was Roger, of Bicester, Oxfordshire, England; m. 2 November, 1601, Joane Franklin, and died there 3 December 1608; his widow m. 10 January, 1611, Marcus Brian of Merton, a neighboring parish, who died at Bicester in 1620. Roger Sumner had a brother William, who d. at Bicester in 1597. The only child of -1st generation Roger [I]and Joane Sumner was William [1605]. __________________ Another note: Burial Register of the Church of St. Edburg, Bicester, Eng. gives burial date for "Joane Byrane, widow" as December 13, 1655. [per Sumner Newsletter by Col. Robert Stanley Sumner of Tampa, FL. {Jan. 1991}] ___________________

Weathersfield Town Clerk: Flo-Ann Dango P. O. Box E - Ascutney, VT 05030 Phone: (802) 674-2626. There it is. All you have to do is go to the Windsor County Website and every town clerk is listed there. If there is no E-Mail address then you must write snail mail.

Thanks Marilyn but do you have the email address for Weathersfield? Michael

In a message dated 08/24/2002 8:23:26 AM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << an the Weathersfield's Town Clerk be reached through email? >> There is a list of Town Clerks on the website. Some have E-Mail and others don't. And I would like to say that I find the VT Town Clerks the best in the US. They have sent me things that I haven't even requested since they know the families I am researching. A real bonus was a picture of my grgrgrandfather Benjamin Cox. Another was a birth record. From Day 1 my family thought that Benjamin's daughter was Caroline Rosina Cox. Just recently they sent me another record which clearly shows the birth of "Caroline and Rosina Cox - Twins". Thank God for Vermont Town Clerks. Marilyn IL

Can the Weathersfield's Town Clerk be reached through email?

Alfred Eugene Bolster b. 14 Dec 1870 m. Beulah, daughter of Rodney and Melissa (Knight) Stewart. They had two sons Harold of East Wallingford and Floyd also of East Wallingford.