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GAZETTEER OP VERMONT. 



Part III. 



GREEN MOUNTAINS. 



GREEN RIVER. — GREENSBORODGH. 



Grassy Brook. See Brookline. 



Green Moontains. (See part first, p. 

 3.) TJie principal summits of the Green 

 Mountains are Shrewsbury peak in 

 Shrewsbury, Killington peak in Sher- 

 burne, Camel's Hump in Huntington, 

 Mansfield mountains in Mansfield, Ster- 

 ling peak in Sterling, and Jay peak in Jay- 



Green River. There are two small 

 streams of this name. One rises in Eden, 

 passes through the corner of Hydepark, 

 and falls into the Lamoille in Wolcott. 

 The other originates in Marlborough, and 

 after running through a part of Halifax and 

 Guilford, passes off into Massachusetts. 



Greensborodgh, a post town, six miles 

 square, lying in the south part of Orleans 

 county, in lat. 44" 36' and long. 4° 41. 

 It is bounded nortlierly by Glover, east- 

 erly by Wheelock and Goshen gore, 

 southerly by Hardwick, and westerly by 

 Craftsbury and a small part of Wolcott. 

 It lies 27 miles northeasterly from Mont- 

 pelier, and 79 miles north from Windsor. 

 This township was granted November 6, 

 1780, and chartered August 20, 1781, to 

 Harris Colt and his associates. Messrs. 

 Tolman and Wood visited this town, and 

 spent three days here, in the spring of 

 1787. In December, 1788, the Hon. Tim- 

 othy Stanley lost his foot by frost, atten- 

 ding a meeting of the proprietors of this 

 township at Cabot. The first settlement 

 was begun in Greensborough, in the 

 spring of 178!), when Messrs. Ashbel and 

 Aaron Shepard removed, with their fami- 

 lies, from Newbury to this place. TJie 

 hardships which the first settlers of this 

 town had to endure, were very consider- 

 able. In coming into the town, the wo- 

 men had to proceed on foot, and all the 

 furniture, belonging to the two families, 

 was drawn upon three hand sleds, on the 

 crust. Both families consisted of five per- 

 sons, Mr. Ashbel Shepard and his wife, 

 and Mr. Aaron Shepard, his wife and one 

 child. Mr. Aaron Shepard removed his 

 family to Coos in August, and did not re- 

 turn till March, when his brother, Horace 

 Shepard and family, returned with him. 

 Thus were Mr. Ashbel Shepard and his 

 wife, left from August till March, with 

 no other human being in the town. Their 

 nearest neighbors were Mr. Cutler's fam- 

 ily, in Craftsbury, which had removed 

 there the preceding autumn, and Mr. Web- 

 ster's family, in Cabot. Mr. Shepard 

 brought all his grain from Newbury, a dis- 

 tance of more than 40 miles, of which he 

 drew it 16 miles upon a hand sled, with 

 the snow between four and five feet deep. 

 In the same manner, he drew hay for the 

 support of a cow, from a meadow of wild 

 grass, three miles distant On the 25th 



of March, Mrs. Shephard was delivered 

 of a son, William Scott, the first child 

 born in this town. The proprietors voted 

 him a present of 100 acres of land. Inl790, 

 Mr. Joseph Stanley removed his family 

 here, and the same year the Hon. Timo- 

 thy Stanley erected the first saw mill on 

 the outlet of Caspian Lake. In 1791, Mr. 

 Law and three Messrs. Hills, removed 

 their families here. This year Mr. T. 

 Stanley erected a house and grist mill, and 

 removed his family here in 1792. in 1795, 

 there were 23 families and 108 persons in 

 town. The town organized, March 29, 

 1792. The denominations of Christians 

 are. Baptists, Congregationalists and 

 Methodists. The Rev. Salmon King was 

 settled over the Congregational church 

 here about the year 1808, and continued 

 a iew years. The surface of this town is 

 uneven, but the elevations are not gener- 

 ally abrupt. The land is well timbered, 

 mostly with hard wood, except on the 

 river and about its head waters, where it 

 is almost entirely hemlock, spruce, cedar 

 and fir. The soil is of a middling quali- 

 ty, but on account of its being situated 

 about the heatl waters of several consider- 

 able rivers, much of the land is wet and 

 cold, and the crops are liable to suffer by 

 frost. The river LamoiUe is formed by 

 the union of several streams in this town. 

 Caspian Lake or Lake Beautiful, lies in 

 the soutli part of this town, and discharg- 

 es its waters to the east into the Lamoille, 

 affording a number of valuable mill priv- 

 ileges, around which has grown up a beau- 

 tiful little village, containing a meeting 

 house, store. Arc. This pond is about 3 

 miles long, and IJ broad. Elligo pond, 

 lying mostly in the western part of this 

 town, is about a mile long, and forms the 

 head waters of Black river. These ponds 

 produce abundance of fine trout. liuna- 

 loay Pond (see Glover) was partly in this 

 town, and was formerly the source of the 

 Lamoille. There are several other small 

 ponds in the north part of the town, 

 which, at present, form the head waters 

 of the Lamoille. One grist mill, three 

 saw mills, one fulling mill, and one card- 

 ing machine. Statistics of 1S40. — Horses, 

 198; cattle, 1,202 ; sheep, 4,524; swine, 

 561 ; wheat, bu. 2,074 ; barley, 1,656 ; oats, 

 9,907; rye, 64; b"k wheat, 478 ; Indian 

 corn, .557 ; potatoes, 42,423 ; hav, tons, 

 3,215; sugar, lbs. 43,920; wool,"' 11,820. 

 Population, 883. 



Groton, a township in the south part 

 of Caledonia county, is in lat. 44° 14' and 

 long. 4" 45', and is bounded north by 

 Peacham, east by Ryegate, south by 

 Topsham, and west by Harris' gore. It 

 lies 16 miles east from Montpelier, and 



