Part III. 



GAZETTEER OF VERMONT. 



71 



FAYSTON. 



FERDINAND. 



FERRISBURGH. 



ler, Samuel Bentley, and William and 

 David Thompson, Noah Dewey and Joel 

 White, were settled here. About the year 

 1775, Samuel Smith was chosen town 

 clerk, and held that office till his decease 

 in March, 1820. Feb. 25, 1797, the wes- 

 tern half of this township was set off and 

 constituted a separate town by the name 

 of West-Fairlee. The division line was 

 run from north to south througii the cen- 

 tre of the original township. The greater 

 part of the inhabitants of this town are 

 Congregationalists. In 1806, they erec- 

 ted a meetinghouse, and the Rev. Dan 

 Blodgett is their present minister. Pre- 

 vious to the year 1815, the inhabitants of 

 Fairlee and West-Fairlee constituted but 

 one militia company. In that year the 

 militia of Fairlee were organized into a 

 separate company. Fairlee is in general 

 mountainous and broken, and much of it 

 unfit for cultivation. The mountains in 

 some places approach very near Connec- 

 ticut river, and form almost perpendicu- 

 lar precipices several hundred feet in 

 height, particularly a little north of Fair- 

 lee meetinghouse, 

 pine and hemlock 



a mile west of Connecticut river, and is 

 two miles long and three fourths of a 

 mile wide'. In 1809 Samuel Morey, pro- 

 cured a number of pickerel from a j)ond 

 in Rumney, N. H., and put them into 

 Fairlee pond. In Oct. following the Le- 

 gislature of Vermont passed an act for 

 the preservation of the fish in this pond 

 for two years. Since that time they have 

 increased very rapidly and are found to 

 be of an excellent quality. A bridge con- 

 nects this town with Orford, N. H. There 

 are in this town, one grist, and 4 saw 

 mills and 2 stores. Statistics of 1840 — 

 Horses. 141 ; cattle, 580 ; sheep, 2,815 ; 

 .swine, 465; wheat, bush. 1,055; barley, 

 40; oats, 7,515 ; rye, 970 ; buck wheat, 

 880; Indian corn, 3, f^i>0 1 potatoes, 18,100 

 hay, tons, 1,690 ; sugar lbs. 1,845; wool, 

 5,655. Population, 644. 



Fairlee Lake. See Fairlee. 



Fayette viLLE, the name of the village 

 in Newfane in which the county build- 

 ings in Windham county are situated. 

 (See JVeicfane.) 



Fayston, a township six miles square, 

 in the southwest corner of Washington 

 county, is in lat. 44*^ 13' and long. 4° 9', 

 and is bounded north by Duxbury, east 

 by Waitsfield, south by a part of Warren 

 and Lincoln, and west by Huntington. 

 It is situated 27 miles southeast from Bur- 

 lington, and 17 southwest from Montpe- 

 lier. It was granted February 25, and 



tlement was commenced in the year 1798 

 by Lynde Wait, Esq. In 1800 there 

 were 18 persons in town. The land is el- 

 evated, lying in large swells. It is prin- 

 cipally timbered with hard wood, and the 

 soil is fertile, producing good crops of 

 grain and grass. Two streams, head 

 branches of Mad river, pass through the 

 town, which are sufficient for mills, and 

 four saw mills have been erected. Sta- 

 tistics O/1840 : Horses, 118 ; cattle, 677; 

 sheep, 1,986 ; swine, 405; wheat, bushels, 

 1,651 ; barley, 25 ; oats, 3,509 ; rye, 162 ; 

 buckwheat, 618; Ind. corn, 1,189; pota- 

 toes, 22,593; hay, tons, 1,905; sugar, lbs. 

 24,134, wool, 3,833. Population" 635. 



Farrand's River, heads in Avery's 

 and Warner's Gores, runs nearly south, 

 through the corners of Morgan and Wen- 

 lock, and unites with Clyde river, in 

 Brighton. 



Ferdinand, an uninhabited township 

 in Essex county, chartered October 13, 

 1761, and containing 23 square miles. It 

 is bounded northerly by "VVenlock, easter- 

 ly by Maidstone, southerly by Granby 

 The timber is mostly I and East Haven, and westerly "by Brigh- 

 Fairlee lake is about I ton. This township is watered bj^ the 

 principal branch of Paul's stream. The 

 surface of the township generally is eith- 

 er mountainous or swampy. 



Ferrisburgh, a post town in the north- 

 west corner of Addison county, is in lat. 

 44° 12' and long. .3" 48', and is bounded 

 north by Charlotte, east by Monkton and 

 New Haven, south by Waltham, Ver- 

 gennes and Paiiton, and west by lake 

 Champlain, which separates it from the 

 state of New York. It lies 19 miles south 

 from Burlington and 34 west from Mont- 

 pelier. It was chartered June 24, 1762, 

 to several persons by the name of Ferris, 

 and others. More than half of Vero-ennes 

 was taken from tliis township. The first 

 permanent settlement was made in 1784 

 and 1785, by Mr. Ward, Abel Thompson, 

 Gideon Hawley, Timothy Rogers, Joseph 

 Chilson, Jona. Saxton, and Zuriel and 

 Absalom Tupper, emigrants from Ben- 

 nington, in this state, and from Connect- 

 icut. The town was organized in 1786. 

 J. Saxton was the first town clerk, and 

 Abel Thompson the first representative. 

 The religious denominations are Bap- 

 tists, Methodists, Congregationalists and 

 Friends ; each of which have been formed 

 into a society. The Friends have a meet- 

 inghouse in the easterly part, the Metho- 

 dists in the northerly part, and there is a 

 union house near the centre ; the two 

 latter were built in 1S39. Neither of these 

 denominations has a settled minister. 



chartered February 27, 1782, to Ebenezer The Methodists are supplied by circuit 

 Walbridge and his associates. The set- j preachers. The township has always been 



