Part 111. 



GAZETTEER OF VERMONT. 



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CORNWALL. 



year, Mr. John Aiken, of Wentworth, N. 

 H., erected the first grist mill, which 

 went into operation the year following. 

 Previous to this, the settlers had to go to 

 Newbury, 12 miles, for their grinding. 

 In 1780, several other families came in, 

 and the town was organized. George 

 Bondfield was first town clerk, David 

 McKeen first constable, and Nchemiah 

 Lovewell first representative. Sometime, 

 this year, Lieut. Elliot was stationed here 

 with 20 men to defend the inhabitants 

 against the Indians and tories, and built 

 a small fort. In 1781, Col. Wait and 

 Major Kingsbury, with two companies of 

 Boldiers, under Captains Sealy and Nel- 

 son, built a fort near the centre of the 

 town, on what is called Cook's hill, and 

 made this their head quarters. October 

 16, of this year, five men, from this fjrt, 

 viz : Moses Warner, John Barret, John 

 Sargeanc, Jonathan Luce and Daniel 

 Hovey, being on a scout, and proceeding 

 down Winooski river, were fired upon in 

 the township of Jericho by a party of 16 

 tories. Warner, Sargeant and Barret were 

 wounded, the latter mortally. He lived 

 about 40 hours and was buried near the 

 margin of Winooski river in Colchester. 

 The others were carried to Quebec, and 

 kept till the next spring when they were 

 suffered to return. In 17S2, a British 

 scouting party from Canada, about 20 in 

 number, under Major Breakenridge, after 

 annoying the settlers of Newbury, killing 

 one man and taking another prisoner, 

 proceeded to Corinth, where they com- 

 pelled the settlers to take the oath of al- 

 legiance to the British king. The reli- 

 gious denominations are Baptists, Congre- 

 gationalists, Methodists, Freewill Baptists 

 and Universalists. There are two Free- 

 will Baptist churches; that in the north- 

 west part was organized in 1S05, and that 

 in the south in 1807. The Congreora- 

 tional church was organized Oct. 10, 1820. 

 Jan. 2.J, 1821, they settled the Rev. Cal- 

 vin Y. Chase, who died here in 1831. 

 The Rev. Stilman Morgan, was settled in 

 1832, and continued till 1836. In 1838 

 the Rev. Solon Martin, their present 

 minister, was settled. The Conorega- 

 tional meeting house was built iiilSUO, as 

 was that of the Freewill Baptists, in the 

 northwest part of the town. The Free- 

 will Baptist house in the south part, was 

 built in 1837. The Methodist house in 

 the west part, was built in 1S38, and that 

 in the east in 1840. In 1804, the canker 

 and dysentery were fatal here to a great 

 number of persons, inostly children, and 

 many families lost from one to three of 

 their number. Mrs. Jane Brown, a native 

 of Ireland, and relict of Mr. S. Brown, 



died here, March 26, 1824, aged 101 

 years and seven months. Tiie sur- 

 face of this township is generally very 

 uneven and broken, and the elevations 

 abrupt, yet the land is, in almost every 

 part, susceptible of cultivation. The soil 

 consists of a dark loam, mi.xed with a 

 small portion of sand, is easily cultivated 

 and is very productive. The land was 

 originally timbered with hard wood ex- 

 cept on the streams, where there was a 

 mixture of hemlock, spruce and fir. There 

 is nothing peculiar in its mineralogy. 

 Small but handsome specimens of feld- 

 spar, garnet, serpentine, hornblend, mica 

 and rock crystal have been found. The 

 rocks are principally granite and mica 

 slate. This township is well watered by 

 Wait's river, which runs through the 

 northeast part, and by several of its 

 branches. On North branch, from Tops- 

 ham, in the northeast corner of the town, 

 is East village, containing 2 meetinor 

 houses, 2 stores, a post office, grist mill, 

 &c. Another branch rises in Washing- 

 ton, passes through the south part of this 

 town, and unites with Wait's river in the 

 western part of Bradford. There are some 

 other streams on which mills and other 

 machinery are erected. There are in 

 town 5 meetinghouses, 21 school districts, 

 .5 stores. &c. Statistics o/]840. — Horses, 

 .536; cattle, 3,401 ; sheep, i 1,886 ; swine, 

 1,673; wheat, bu. 6,745; barley, 285; 

 oats, 21,87'J ; rye, 313 ; buck wheat, 1,006; 

 Ind. corn, 10,506; potatoes, 71,845; hay, 

 tons, 6,240 ; sugar, lbs, 33,585 ; wool, 

 20,343. Population, 1,970. 



Coos, an Indian word, signifying at the 

 pines. This name was ap])lied by the 

 Indians to two sections of Connecticut 

 river, one below, and the other above the 

 15 mile falls. See part second, page 205. 



Cornwall, a township in the central 

 part of Addison county, is in lat. 43° 57' 

 and long. 3° 50', and is bounded north by 

 Weybridge, east by Middlebury and Salis- 

 bury, south by Whiting and west by Brid- 

 port and Shoreham. It was chartered 

 November 3, 1761, to Elias Read and his 

 associates. It is 75 miles north of Ben- 

 nington, and 36 south of Burlinn-ton. The 

 settlement was commenced in 1774, by 

 Asa Blodget, Eldad Andrus, Aaron Scott, 

 Nathan Foot, William Douglass, James 

 Bentley, James Bentley, junior, Ebenezer 

 Stebbins, Thomas Bentley, Samuel Blod- 

 get and Joseph Troup. When Ticonde- 

 roga was abandoned to the British in 1777 

 the settlers all fled to the south, and did 

 not return till after the war. In the v.in- 

 ter of 1784, about 30 families came into 

 the township from Connecticut. The 

 town was organized in March of this 



