Part III. 



GAZETTEER OF VERMONT. 



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HAZEN S NOTCH. 



HIGHGATE. 



HINESBUKGH. 



2,786 ; sheep, 10,323 ; swine, 1,583 ; wheat 

 bus. 4,403; oats, 38,063; rye, 4,637; 

 buck-wheiit, 3,664; Indian corn, 9,127; 

 potatoes, 79,3;i.5 ; hay, tons, 7,21 1 ; sugar, 

 lbs. 25,280 ; wool, 48,575. Population, 

 2,341. 



Harwich. — Name altered to Mount 

 Tabor. See Mount Tahor. 



Hazen's Roao. — Sec Pcacliavi. 

 Hazen's Notch, a remarkable notcli in 

 the mountain between. Lowell and Mont- 

 gomery through which Hazen's Road 

 passed. 



Hertford. — This name was altered 

 to Hartland, June 15, 1782. Sec Hurt- 

 land. 



Higiigate, a township in the north- 

 west corner of Franklin county, is in lat. 

 44° 58', and long. 3*^ 59', and is boun- 

 ded nortli by Dun's Patent in Canada, 

 east l)y Franklin, south by Swanton and 

 Sheldon, and west by Missisco bay, whicji 

 separates it from the township of Alburgh. 

 It lies 33 miles nortli from Burlington, 

 and 54 nortliwesterly from Montpelier, 

 and was chartered August 17, 1763. The 

 first settlement of this township was, by 

 Germans, mostly soldiers who had 

 served in the British army daring the rev- 

 olution. John Hilliker, and John Wag- 

 goner were the first settlers. John Sax 

 built the first saw mill and the first grist 

 mill. The township was first regularly 

 surveyed in 1805 by John Johnson, Esq. 

 The religious denominations are Episcopa- 

 lians, Methodists and Congregalionalists. 

 The Episcopal church, called .S'^ Johns 

 Church, has been successively under the 

 charge of the Rev. Anson B. Hard, the 

 Rev. John T Sabine, and the Rev. Charles 

 Fay. This church has 62 communicants 

 and a very neat house of worship. The 

 Congregational cJiurch was organized, 

 October 2b, 1811. It now consists of 

 50 members. Their house of worship, 

 erected in 1812, was finished in 1824. 

 The Rev. Phinehas Kingsley was settled 

 Oct. 20,1819, and dismissed Sept. 22, 1829, 

 but now preaches here a part of the time. 

 The Missisco river enters this township 

 from Sheldon, and, after running some 

 distance in the south part of it, passes in- 

 to Swanton, and, then taking a circuitous 

 course of several miles, returns into High- 

 gate, and pursuing a northwesterly course 

 falls into Missisco bay. About six miles 

 above Swanton falls, is a fall in the river 

 of about 40 feet, affording some excellent 

 mill privileges. Rock river is in the 

 north part of the township, and has on it 

 one saw mill. The soil is mostly sandy, 

 and covered with pine, except along the 

 course of the Missisco river, where the 

 timber is hemlock, ash, &c., and in the 

 Ft. mi. 12 



southwest corner, which constitutes a 

 part of what is called Hog Jslund, and is 

 marshy. Bog iron ore is found in this 

 town in great abundance, and has been 

 worked to some extent. There are liere 

 6 school districts and schoolhouscs, two 

 grist, and 8 saw mills, 1 woolen factory, 

 and 5 stores. Statistics of 1840. — Horses, 

 386 ; cattle, 2,074 ; sheep, 8,182 ; swine, 

 857 ; wheat, bus. 5,032 ; barley, 114 ; oats, 

 11,.559; rye, 1,458; buckwheat, 1,119; 

 Indian corn, 6,762 ; potatoes, 39,845 ; 

 hay, tons, 4,347 ; sugar, lbs. 12,1 08 ; wool, 

 18,874. Population, 2,292. 



HiiN'ESBURGn, a post township in tlie 

 south part of Chittenden County, con- 

 taining 36 square miles, the lines run- 

 ning due north nnd south, and east and 

 west, in hit. 44° 19' and long. 3^" 57', and 

 is bounded north by Shelburne, St, George 

 and Riclimond, east by Huntington and 

 Starksborough, south by Starksborough 

 and Monkton, and west by Charlotte. It 

 lies 12 miles soutiicast from Burlington, 

 and 26 west from Montpelier. This town- 

 ship was chartered June 21, 1762, to Abel 

 Hine and his associates The first inhab- 

 itants were a Jdr. Isaac Lawrence, and 

 family from Canaan, Connecticut, whose 

 wife said tiiat she lived ten months with- 

 out seeing the face of any other woman, 

 and that, at one time, the family lived for 

 some time on dried pumpkins, without 

 any other food whatever. This family 

 came here before the revolutionary war, 

 and also Mr. Daniel Chafi'y, who was 

 here for a short time ; they both left when 

 the war commenced. Mr. Lawrence re- 

 turned in 1783. Messrs. Jacob Moacham, 

 Amos Andrews and Hezekiali Tuttle 

 came in 1784. In 1785, Mr. George 

 McEwen with his family, Mr. Eliphaz 

 and George Steele came without families 

 and spent the summer. The first child 

 born in town was a son of Jacob Meach- 

 aui on the first day of April, 1785; he 

 was " named Hine, in reference to the 

 name of the town. All the hardships 

 and privations were suffered which usual- 

 ly occur in the commencement of new 

 settlements. Tlie first town meeting was 

 warned by Isaac Tichenor, Esq., of Ben- 

 nington, and holden on the 3d Tuesday 

 of Marcli, 1787. Josiah Steele was mod- 

 erator, and Elisha Berben first town 

 clerk. Elisha Barber, George McEwen 

 and Elisha Steele, selectmen ; Jacob 

 Meacham, first constable ; Lemuel Bost- 

 wick was the first representative ; Wm. 

 B, Marsh, the first physician. The Con- 

 gregational church was formed in the 

 year 1789, with 12 members ; tiie Rev. 

 Reuben Parmelee was ordained as pastor 

 in 1791, and dismissed in 1795. From 



