Fart III. 



GAZETTEER OF VERMONT, 



87 



HARRIS GORE. 



HARTFORD. 



3 meeting houses ; tlie first built in 1820 

 by Samuel French.* This is called the 

 south meeting house. Tlie second was 

 built in 182.J, one and a h;ilf mile to the 

 northeast of this, by the Congregational- 

 ists, and is called the North meeting 

 house. The third house was erected by 

 the Baptists in 18-10, at a place called 

 Stevensviile. Tiie surface of the town- 

 ship is pleasantl}' diversified with large 

 swells and vales, but no part of it is 

 mountainous. The principal stream is the 

 river Lamoille, which enters the township 

 from Greensborough, and taking a circu- 

 itous course, passes through it in a west- 

 erly direction into Wolcott. This and 

 several of its tributaries furnish a number 

 of excellent mill privileges. The timber 

 is a mixture of maple, birch, hemlock, 

 spruce, &c. The rocks are granite, gray 

 limesone, slate and quartz, with fine spe- 

 cimens of rock crystals. The soil is good. 

 There are three small villages. The 

 oldest, called the Street, or Hazen's Road, 

 is situated on high land near the north 

 line of the town ; the second, called Ste- 

 vensviile, is on the river Lamoille, in tlie 

 eastern part ; and the third and largest, 

 called Lamoilleville, on the same river in 

 the southwest part of the town. Each of 

 these villages contains a number of me- 

 chanics' shops, stores, «fcc., and the two 

 latter possess excellent water privileges, 

 on which mills and otiier machinery are 

 erected. There is a mineral spring in the 

 south part of the town, which is a place 

 of considerable resort, and is found to be 

 very efficacious, particularly in cutaneous 

 affections. There are in town 11 school 

 districts, 4.56 scholars, 5 stores, 2 grist and 

 5 saw mills, »fcc. Statistics of 1S40. Hor- 

 ses, 338; cattle,2,236 ; sheep,8,309 ; swine 

 806 ; wheat, bush. 2,053 ; barley, 771 ; 

 oats, 21,608; Ind. corn, 1,803; potatoes, 

 67,265 ; hay, tons, 4,931 ; sugar, pounds, 

 60,843; wool, 17,714. Population, 1,354. 



Harris' Gore, a tract of land contain- 

 ing 6,020 acres, lying in the southwest 

 corner of Caledonia county, is bounded 

 northwest by Marshfield and Goshen 

 Gore, northeast by Groton, and south- 

 west by Orange. It was granted Febru- 

 ary 25, 178J, and chartered to Edward 

 Harris, October 30, 1801. It is mountain- 

 ous, and contained, in 1840, only 16 inhabi- 

 tants. Gunner's branch originates in 

 this gore, and unites with Stevens' branch 

 in Barre. 



Hartiokd, a post town in Windsor 

 county, is in hit. 43'= 40' and Ion. 4" 37', and 

 bounded north by Norwich, east by Con- 

 necticut river, which separates it from Leb- 



* For an account of the fanatics who for a while 

 occupied this house see part second, page 204. 



anon, N. H., south by Hartland, and west 

 by Pomfret. It lies 14 miles north from 

 Windsor, and 42 southeast from Montpe- 

 lier. It was chartered July 4, 1761, to 60 

 proprietors, and contains about 46 square 

 miles. The first settlers were Elijah, 

 Solomon, and Benajah Strong. Tliey em- 

 igrated from Lebanon, Ct.,and came into 

 this township with their families in 1764. 

 The next year they were joined in the set- 

 tlement by J 2 other families. The town 

 was organized March 8, 1768, and Elijah 

 Strong was the first town clerk. In 1775, 

 Amos Robinson was chosen to go to 

 Westminster, and Stephen Tilden was 

 delegate to the Convention holden at 

 Westminster, January 15, 1777, which 

 declared the independence of Vermont. 

 The religious denominations are Presby- 

 terians, Congregationalists, Methodists, 

 Baptists, Universalists, and Christians. 

 The three former have regular churches. 

 The Rev. Thomas Gross was the first set- 

 tled minister. He was settled over the 

 Congregational church June 7, 1786, and 

 dismissed in February, 1808. The Rev. 

 Austin Hazen was settled by the same 

 church May 28, 1812. The epidemic of 

 1812 and '13 was very mortal, and carried 

 off" about 60 persons. Joseph Marsh, Esq., 

 a very prominent man in the early histo- 

 ry of Vermont, was a resident of this 

 town. He was born at Lebanon, Conn., 

 in January, 1725, and removed to this 

 township in 1772. In 1775 he was cho- 

 sen a delegate from the county of Cum- 

 berland to the Convention of the province 

 of New York, on matters relating to the 

 revolution — much of the eastern part of 

 Vermont, at this period, acknowledging 

 the autliority of that province. He was 

 a member of the convention which formed 

 tlie first constitution of Vermont, in 1777; 

 the first Lieut. Governor of the state, 

 which office he held for several years in 

 succession, and was some years chief 

 judge of the county court for the county 

 of Windsor. He was many years a pro- 

 fessor of the Christian religion, and died 

 here in January, 1810, in the enjoyment 

 of its hopes and consolations, at the ad- 

 vanced age of 85 years. This town was 

 the birth place of the Rev. James Marsh, 

 grandson of the preceding and late Pres. 

 and Prof, in the University of Vermont. 

 This township is watered by White and 

 Quechee rivers, which are the only streams 

 of consequence. White river enters the 

 township near the northwest corner, and 

 falls into the Connecticut about the middle 

 of the eastern boundary, and Quechee riv- 

 er runs through the south part. They both 

 afibrd very valuable privileges for mills 

 and other machinery driven by water, 



