My ancestor's who lived in Windsor Co VT were Charles Killam and Aseneth Fuller. They had three children: John Killam born 21 Jun 1783 (my line), Nathan Killam born 16 Jul 1784 and Seth Killam born Oct 1785 - the same month John Killam died in the CT river. I am looking for the parent's of Aseneth Fuller. Does anyone know about this family or researching this line? John Killam (1783 @ died between 21 Mar 1815 and 18 Sep 1817 VT) was married 3 times. The first unknown wife produced a child by the name of William Killam born 12 Apr 1798. William married Charlotte E Killops 117 Nov 1825 in Williston, Crittenden Co, VT. They had 14 children. John Killam's 2nd unknown wife (this is my line) married before 1807. There were two children of this union: Amander Kellam born Feb 1807 VT and Orrin E. Killam born @ 1808. John married a 3rd time shortly before he died to Lucy Thomas 21 Mar 1815 Windsor Co. VT. I found the record in the Court records Volume 6 Year 1817 Pg 727 (Woodstock, Windsor Co., VT) State of Vermont, District of Heartford, L.L. ---Be it remembered that at a court of probate holder at Woodstock, county and for said district on the eighteenth day of September, 1817, for the Hon. Benjamin B. Tapp, Judge - Lucy Killam, of said Woodstock, now residing at Stowe, in the county of Washington and state aforsaid is appointed guardian unto the children, Amander Killam and Orrin E. Killam, both minor under the age of fourteen years and heirs to the estate of John Killam, late of said Woodstock, deceased, and the said guardian accepted said test and gives bonds as the law directs. X A Tree ?? Record - Alex Thomson - Rec Probate Any information about this family would be wonderful! RESOURCE: History of Woodstock VT 1761-1886 (Henry Swan Dana) (1980) Pg 82 - 83 "On the opposite side of the road, a little further up the hill, is the farm occupied and improved first by Charles Killam, Jr., who moved over into Woodstock from Hartland, about the year 1778. He was an extensive landholder in the town, and an enterprising man. Tradition does not speak of any log house set up here, but the barn on the premises was built in 1779, and the farm house a short time after. The sides of this house were constructed of hard-wood plank two and one half inches thick, fastened to the beams with heavy wrought nails. The planks were clapboarded on the outside, and lathed and plastered on the inside. The front of the house leaned out a little, and the planks were set up and lathed and plastered before this was discovered, and then all efforts to bring the side into perpendicular proved in vain. Some of the timbers about the roof were of pine, and were hewn as delicately as if the work had been done with a plane. The house was painted red, and stood close by the road as it now runs, and its site can still be recognized. It was taken down by Job Richmond, in 1868, who built the house on the premises. Killam's first wife was the Widow Millie Weston, sister of Edmund Harvey, and a well-taught woman for the times. It is a little remarkable that her two husbands, Weston and Killam, were both drowned in the Connecticut while engaged in rafting. She died in November 1781, and was buried at the corner of the Cusing cemetery where the roads meet. By her side, John Killam, brother to Charles, was buried not long after, but no headstones were ever set up for either. (Source: Miss Mary Harvey, 1870). Not many months after the death of his first wife, Killam married Asenath Fuller. He came to his death in October, 1785, in the following manner: In company with Solomon Emmons and a man by name of Doyle, he started a raft down the Connecticut, for Old Hartford. They reached Bellows Falls in safety. As yet neither dam nor locks had been built at this point, but rafts were accustomed to shoot the falls. In this case the men found they were going to be swept down the rapids with the raft. To save themselves, they leaped into the water - Killam and Doyle feet foremost, and Emmons head foremost, who thus escaped to tell the story, while the other two were drowned. (Source: Rev. George Daman, in Records Cong. Chu under 1785 " Some time in October Charles Killam was drowned." and Dr. Lewis Emmons). Killam's body was borne by the current down the river as far as Old Hartford, where it was washed ashore, picked up, and buried. (Killam, by his first wife, had three children, two of whom died as babes; the third, Charles, was born the 7th of November, 1781. He had three children, also by his second wife, viz: John, born June 21, 1783; Nathan, born July 16, 1784; Seth, born about the time of Killam's death. He subscribed five pounds to the building of the first court-house, and this sum was collected, afterwards, of his estate. After Killam's death, a portion of the farm was carried on by his widow, Asenath, who, at length, was married to Joseph Barrett, Jr., of Windsor, the evening of the 25th of November, 1790. She died in March, 1809, and the farm was then divided among the children, John and Nathan receiving each a half share in the house, and Mr. Barrett moving across the Branch, on lands he owned there. After these events, the farm passed into the possession of Amaziah Richmond, Sr., who settled in Barnard in the year 1784. About the year 1799, Mr. Richmond met with an accident, on which turned many changes in his life. This was the fracture of his left leg below the knee, while he was engaged in work at Lemuel Gibb's house, and made necessary the amputation of the limb. Not long after, he began the business of marketing meat in this village, doing his butchering in Barnard. For a short time he had the market wholly to himself, but presently Nathaniel Waldron drove a meat-cart from Hartland Hill, and began to peddle meat some about the village. However, the sympathies of people were with Mr. Richmond, on the account of his misfortune, and he received the most patronage. When the legislature met in Woodstock, in 1807, he opened a meat-shop in the village, and kept it running through the season. I those days the market was small which Mr. Richmond supplied, and he did not butcher more than one or two beeves each week; but the main trouble with the business was the distance from the market. To remedy this, under the advice of friends, he purchased the Killam farm, and took up his residence there in 1811. He died September 30, 1825, and in the notice of his death at the time, it was remarked of him that "he entered the Revolutionary army at the age of seventeen and through our glorious struggle for independence was an ardent supporter of the rights of freemen, and after the achievement of our rights he was a firm supporter of our republican institutions. He was many ears a beloved member of the Congregational Church, and to the great consolation and joy of his numerous Christian Brethren and Friends, he lived beloved and died "the death of the righteous." After Captain Richmond's death the farm descended to his son, Job Richmond, who was succeeded by Charles H. Blossom, the present owner." (In the summer of 1887 this farm and the old Pratt place opposite were purchased by Mr. Frederick Billings, and the houses on each place taken down). In 1789 the administrator of Charles Killam's estate sold to Elijah Bayley ninety acres from the easterly part of the original farm. Bayley at first built a log cabin back on the hill, where now are, or were till recently, the remnants of an old orchard. He afterwards put up a frame house, a few rods removed from the present brick house, and back of it. Bayley began, in 1783, with a large and splendid farm on Pleasant Street. This he sold to Captain Richardson, and moved over on the hillside. He retained the Killam farm till April, 1801, when he sold to Captain David Thomas. He then moved into a house of some sort that stood on the hill back of Benjamin Emmons' residence, and perhaps died there. The account-books at the stores throw some light on his history. The sons of Captain Thomas, some of them, occupied the farm with their father till 1814. They then sold out to Stephen Paddock, and moved to Stowe. Stephen Paddock built the brick house now standing on the premises, resided on the farm for several years, then sold to John Greenleaf, in the fall of 1836, and moved to Fort Covington, NY. Greenleaf conveyed the farm to his son Charles, in 1839, who, after two years, sold to Lyman Dutton, of Hartford. Dutton was an active, industrious farmer, but the West proved more attractive to him than a residence in Vermont, and in the spring of 1846 he disposed of his farm to Ira Moore, of Hartland, and took his departure for a better country, as he thought. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.8.15/848 - Release Date: 6/13/2007 12:50 PM