Part III. 



GAZETTEER OF VERMONT. 



BAKKRSFIELD. 



BALTIMORE. 



BARNARD. 



wheat, 20 ; In. corn, 75 ; potatoes, ] ,300 ; 

 hay, tons, 60; sugar, lbs. 7,00; wool 75. 

 The other Gores of this name, are now 

 anne.xed to townships. 



Bakf.rskield, a post town, in the east- 

 ern part of Franklin county, in latitude 

 44'^ 47' and long. 4*^ 13', is bounded nortii 

 by Enosburgh, east by Avery's Gore and 

 Waterville, south by Waterville and 

 Fletcher, and west by Fairfield. It is 

 30 miles northeast from Burlington, was 

 granted Feb. 27, 1787, and chartered to 

 Luke Knowlton, Jan. 25, 1791, and origi- 

 nally contained but 10,000 acres. Addi- 

 tions have since been made, and it now 

 contains about 26,000. Tiie settlement 

 of this town was commenced in 1780, by 

 Joseph Baker, from whom the town de- 

 rives its name. He emigrated from West- 

 borough, Mass. Joel Brigham and Abi- 

 jah Pratt settled in Bakerstield about the 

 same time. From October 17'J0 to Oct. 

 1812, there were only 68 deaths in this 

 town. During the two ne.xt years there 

 were 60 deaths, mostly by the spotted 

 and lung fevers. The religious denomi- 

 nations are Congregationalists, Method- 

 ists, Baptists and Universalists. The 

 public buildings are a town house, built 

 in 1827, a brick meeting house in 1831, a 

 brick chapel in 1839, and an academy in 

 1839. The professional men are three 

 clergymen, one attorney and two physi- 

 cians. This township is somewhat brok- 

 en, but not mountainous. It is timbered 

 principally with hard wood, and the soil 

 is in general warm and productive. It is 

 watered by Black creek, which crosses 

 the southwest corner, and several other 

 branches of the Missisco river. The 

 streams are, however, small and the mill 

 privileges not numerous. Statistics of 

 1840.— Horses, 260; cattle, 2000 ; sheep, 

 4,733; swine, 400; wheat, bu. 3000 ; bar- 

 ley, 110 ; oats, 7,728 ; rye, 176 ; b. wheat, 

 4.50; Ind. corn, 2,450 ; potatoes, 62,000; 

 hay, tons, 3,570; sugar, lbs. 33,305; 

 wool, 10,876. Population, 1,258. 



Baltimore, a small township of a tri- 

 angular form, lying in the south eastern 

 part of Windsor county, in lat. 43°2]', 

 and bounded east by Weathersfield and 

 Springfield, south by Chester, and north- 

 west by Cavendish. It is eleven miles 

 northwest from Windsor, and 64 south 

 from Montpelier. It was set otF from 

 Cavendish by an act of the Legislature, 

 Oct. 19, 1793, and constituted a separate 

 township. The town was organized March 

 12, 1794, and Joseph Atherton was first 

 town cl'k. It has seldom been represent- 

 ed in the General Assembly. The reli- 

 gious denominations are Congrcgational- 

 jste, Baptists and Universalists. There 



are two establishments for the manufac- 

 ture of starch. The town is well water- 

 ed with springs and brooks, but has no 

 good mill privileges or streams of much 

 consequence. Hawks mountain, which 

 lies between the town and Cavendish, 

 renders the communication between the 

 two towns difficult, and was the occasion 

 of the division. The summit of this 

 mountain is, for the greater part of the 

 distance, the boundary line. The rocks 

 are almost wholly Gneiss and Granite ; 

 the soil warm but stoney. The town has 

 always been healthy. There was not a 

 case of the spotted fever at the time it waa 

 epidemic in other parts of the state. 

 There are two school districts with school 

 houses in each. No mills in town. Sta- 

 tistics of 1840. — Horses, 40; cattle, 242; 

 sheep, 971 ; swine, 99; wheat, bu. 292; 

 barley, 17; oats, 1,664; rye, 225; buck 

 wheat, 49; Ind. corn, 905; potatoes, 

 6,566; hay, tons, 519 ; sugar, lbs. 1,650; 

 Vfc'ool, 2,855. Population, 155. 



Barnard, a post town in Windsor 

 county, 21 miles northwest from Wind- 

 sor, and 37 south from Montpelier, is in 

 lat. 43° 44', and long. 4° 24'. It is boun- 

 ded northerly by Royalton and Bethel, 

 east by Pomfret, south by Bridgewater, 

 and west by Stockbridge. The town 

 was chartered July 17, 1761, to William 

 Story, Francis Barnard and their associ- 

 ates. James Call chopped the first 

 timber here in 1774, but left in the fall. 

 The settlement was commenced in March, 

 1775, by Thomas Freeman, liis son Wm. 

 and Jcdin Newton. The same season 

 Lot Whitconib, Nathaniel Paige, Wm. 

 Cheedle and Asa Whitcomb moved their 

 families into town. Thomas Freeman, jr.. 

 came into town June 7, 1775. He is now 

 living and is the only survivor of those 

 who spent the first winter here. At the 

 time of the battle of Bunker's hill,, ('prop- 

 erly Breed's hill,) which took place on. 

 the 17th of June, J 77.3, the firing was dis- 

 tinctly heard in this town by Thomas- 

 Freeman and others, a distance of more 

 than 100 miles. On the 9th of August,, 

 1760, this town was visited by a party of 

 21 Indians, who made prisoners of Thos. 

 M. Wright, Prince Haskell and JohrL 

 Newton, and carried them to Canada. 

 Newton and Wright made their escape 

 the s])ring following, and Haskell was 

 e.xchanged in the fall. They suffered 

 many hardships while prisoners and on 

 tlieir return,but they arrived safely at Bar- 

 nard, and were all living in 1824, upon the 

 farms from which they were taken. They 

 were all prisoners in Canada at the time 

 Royalton was burnt, and were not therii- ■ 

 taken, as has beea stated in the narrative 



