Part III. 



GAZETTEER OF VERMONT. 



77 



GRAND ISLE COUNTY. 



GRANVILLE. 



tended to prevent its progress. Sickness, 

 with its conconiitant miseries, presented 

 the most formidable obstacle. Fever and 

 ague and bilious fevers, engendered by 

 the noxious vapours from the surroun- 

 ding waters and the low and marshy 

 grounds, were very prevalent, and were 

 fatal in their ravages. No age, or sex, 

 was exempt from their attack. In addi- 

 tion to this, the settlers often suffered 

 from extreme scarcity of provisions. Hunt- 

 ing and fishing w^ere, for some time, their 

 onlymeans of gaining a subsistence. These 

 obstacles cooled their ardor and damped 

 their ambition. Previous to the year 

 180!1, this township constituted a part of 

 South Hero. This year, it was erected 

 into a separate township by the name of 

 Middle Hero, and was organized. The 

 first town clerk was James Brown, and 

 the first representative Asa Lyon. No- 

 vember 5, 1810, the name was altered to 

 Grand Isle. The principal religious de- 

 nominations are Congregationalists and 

 Methodists. The Rev. Asa Lyon, a Con- 

 gregationalist, preached here many years 

 previous to his death, which occurred in 

 1840. The Methodist society is supplied 

 by itinerant preachers. The public buil- 

 dings are a meeting house and a town 

 house. There are several small streams 

 in this township. There are some con- 

 siderable hills, but nothing which de- 

 serves tiie name of a mountain. ' The soil 

 is rich, and is not surpassed in fertility 

 by any part of the state. It produces 

 corn and grain in abundance. Fifty 

 bushels of corn per acre, and 25 of rye 

 and wheat are ordinary crops. Aniono- 

 the minerals are marble, limestone, rock 

 crystals, and sulphuret of iron. The 

 township produces a great variety of 

 fruits, particularly apples, in abundance. 

 The timber is various, consisting of beech, 

 birch, maple, oak, ash, elm, pine, &c. 

 Stfitislics of 1840. — Horses, 216; cattle, 

 1,160 ; sheep, 6,451 ; swine, 726; wheat, 

 bush. 2,!t53; barley, 106; oafs, 10,148; 

 rye, 4,022; buck wheat, 1,146; Indian 

 corn, 2,187; potatoes, 19,968 ; hay, tons, 

 2,061; sugar, lbs. 9,893; wool, 12,504. 

 Population, 724. 



Grand Isle County, is bounded 

 north by Canada, on the north line of 

 Alburgh; the rest of the county consists 

 of islands, which are embosomed in the 

 waters of lake Champlain. It lies be- 

 tween 44° 35' and 45^ nortli lat. and be- 

 tween 3" 39' and 3'=' 47' east long., being 

 28 miles long from north to south, and 

 about 5 miles wide, and containing 82 

 square miles. It was incorporated No- 

 vember 9, 1802. No permanent settle- 

 ment was made in this county until after 



the close of the revolutionary war. The 

 streams here are all small, and there can 

 hardly be said to be a good mill privileo-e 

 in the county. There has, however been 

 one water grist mill, which did consider- 

 able business, and one or two windmills. 

 The surface of the county is generally 

 level, and the soil very rich and produc- 

 tive. The first settlers of this county 

 were subject to fevers and other diseases, 

 induced by the noxious exhalations from 

 the stagnant waters, but, since the lands 

 have become generally cleared and culti- 

 vated, the inhabitants have become more 

 healthy. North Hero is the shire town. 

 The supreme court sits here on the 3d 

 Tuesday in January, and the county court 

 on the ist after the 4th Tuesday in April, 

 and the 4th Tuesday in September. Sta- 

 tistics of 1840.— Hor.ses, 1,161; cattle, 

 5,463; sheep, 27,451; swine, 3,179; wheat, 

 bus. 21,430; barley, 1,655 ; oats, 43,430; 

 rye, 9,504 ; buckwheat, 9,216 ; Ind. corn, 

 13,816 ; potatoes, 76,408 ; hay, tons, 8,-593; 

 sugar, lbs. 34,478 ; wool, 57,546. Popu- 

 lation, 3,883. 



Granville, a post town in the eastern 

 part of Addison county, and is bounded 

 northerly by Warren and a part of Rox- 

 bury, easterly by Braintree, southerly by 

 Hancock and a part of Rochester and west 

 by Ripton. It lies 22 miles south west 

 from Montpelier, and 42 north west from 

 Windsor, in lat. 43'> 59' and long. 4'^ 10'. 

 It was granted November 7, 1780, and 

 chartered, to Reuben King, August 2, 

 1781, by the name of Kingston. The 

 name was altered to Granville, Nov. 6, 

 1834. The settlement of this township 

 was commenced soon after the close of the 

 revolution, by Reuben King and others. 

 In 20 years from the commencement of 

 the settlement there were but 17 deaths, 

 four of them men, two of whom were up- 

 wards of 80 years of age, and no estate 

 has been settled by law. Jos. Patrick was 

 the first town clerk, the first justice of the 

 peace, and the first representative. TJie 

 dysentery prevailed here in 1806, and was 

 very mortal. The religious denomina- 

 tions are Congregationalists and Baptists. 

 White river is formed here by the union 

 of several considerable branches. On one 

 of these is a fall of 100 feet. Fifty feet of 

 the lower part of it is perpendicular, and 

 at the bottom is a hole worn into the rock 

 ten feet deep. A considerable part of the 

 surface of the township is mountainous. 

 Statistics of 1840.— Horses, 123 ; cattle, 

 560; sheep, 2,100; swine, 440; wheat, 

 bu.sh. 1,006; oats, 5,300; rye, 60; buck 

 wheat, 205 ; Indian corn, 560; potatoes, 

 19,200 ; hay, tons, 1,390 ; sugar, lbs. 

 15,900; wool 5,900. Population, 545. 



