Part III. 



GAZETTEER OF VERMONT. 



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HOLLAND. 



HOOSIC RIVER. 



HUBBARDTON. 



swine, 1,03.3; wheat, bus. 2,020; oats, 

 7,758; rye, 1,120; buckwheat, 393; In- 

 dian corn, 6,888 ; potatoes, 27,605 ; hay, 

 tons, 4,639; sugar, lbs. 14,170; wool, 

 16,-336. Popuhation, 1,682. e. b. 



Hinsdale. — Name altered to Vernon, 

 October 31, 1802. See Vernon. 



HoG-lsLAND, is partly in Swanton and 

 partly in Highgate, and lies between the 

 mouth of the Missisco river and a creek, 

 which makes out of the same, and unites 

 with McQuaiu bay in Swanton. It has 

 Missisco bay on the west, and contains 

 10 or 12 square miles. Much of the land 

 is low and marshy. 



Holland, a township in the northeast 

 corner of Orleans county, is in lat. 44° 

 58' and long. 4° 55', and is bounded 

 north by Barnston and Stanstead, Can., 

 east by Norton, south by Morgan, and 

 west by Derby. It lies 56 miles northeast 

 from Montpeiier, and 61 north from New- 

 bury. It was granted March 8, 1787, and 

 chartered to Timothy Andrus and associ- 

 ates, October 26, 1789, containing 36 square 

 miles. The settlement was commenced 

 in 1800 by Edmund Elliot and Joseph 

 Cowal. "The town was organized March 

 14, 1805, and Eber Robinson was first 

 town clerk. The surface is uneven but 

 not mountainous. Mount John in the 

 southeast corner, is the only elevation 

 which deserves the name of mountain. 

 The soil is excellent for grass, and produ- 

 ces good crops of wheat, oats, barley, po- 

 tatoes, &c. There is a large pond situa- 

 ted in the northeast part, and several small 

 ponds. The streams are small, part flow- 

 ing north into Canada, and part south into 

 Clyde river. The timber consists of ma- 

 ple, beech, birch spruce, hemlock, &c. 

 On the 2nd of July 1833, this town was 

 visited by a violent tornado. It commenced 

 on Salem pond in Salem, and passed over 

 this town in a northeasterly direction. It 

 was from half to three quarters of a mile 

 wide, and it prostrated and scattered near- 

 ly all the trees, fences and buildings in 

 its course. It crossed the outlet of Nor- 

 ton pond and passed into Canada, and its 

 course could be traced through the forests 

 nearly to Connecticut river. Statistics 

 o/ 1840.— Horses, 92; cattle, 602; sheep, 

 1,033; swine, 392; wheat, bus. 1,844; 

 barley, 829 ; oats, 4,180; buckwheat, 

 1,150; Ind. corn, 151; potatoes, 14,510 ; 

 hay, tons, 1,281; sugar, lbs. 20,685; 

 wool, 2,400. Population, 605. 



HopKiNsviLLE. — Name altered to Kir- 

 by in the fall of 1807. Sec Kirby. 



Hoosic River, is formed in Pownal, 

 and runs northwesterly into the township 

 of Hoosic, N. Y., where it receives the 

 river Walloomscoik from Shaftsbury and 



Bennington, and, taking a westerly course 

 falls into the Hudson near Stillwater. Its 

 whole length is about 40 miles, and it re- 

 ceives the waters from 182 square miles 

 in Vermont. 



Hosmer's Ponds. See Craftslury. 



Hubbardton, a post town in the north- 

 western part of Rutland county, is in lat. 

 43° 43' and long. 3-' 50', and is bounded 

 north by Sudbury, east by Pittsford, south 

 by Castleton, and west by Benson. It lies 

 50 miles southwest from Montpeiier, and 

 50 nortJi from Bennington. It was char- 

 tered June 15, 1764, to Isaac Searls, Esq. 

 and his associates, and now contains 

 about 18,000 acres. But in consequence 

 of prior charters and surveys some of the 

 north part was held by Sudbury and a 

 gore on the east by Pittsford.* It derived 

 its name from Thomas Hubbard, a large 

 proprietor in the town. The settlement 

 was commenced in the spring of 1774, by 

 Uriah Hickok and William Trowbirdge, 

 with their families from Norfolk, Connec- 

 ticut. Elizabeth, daughter of Mrs. Hick- 

 ok, was born August 1st of this year, and 

 died in September, 1776. This was the 

 first birth and the first death in town. In 

 1775, Samuel Churchill, William Spauld- 

 ing, Abdial Webster, Benjamin Hickok, 

 Jesse Churchill, Benajah Boardman and 

 John Seleck moved their families here. 

 These nine families constituted the whole 

 population when the American army, un- 

 der Gen. St. Clair, evacuated Ticondero- 

 ga, July 6, 1777. On the same day a par- 

 ty of Indians and tories, under a Captain 

 Sherwood, came upon the inhabitants of 

 this township, and made prisoners of Ben- 

 jamin and Uriali Hickok, with their fami- 

 lies, and two young men, by the names 

 of Keeler and Kellogg. Gen. St. Clair, 

 with his army, passed through this town 

 the same day, and left Cols. Warner, Hale 

 and Francis with their regiments as a 

 rear guard. The}'' encamped on the farm 

 of John Seleck, Esq. near the spot where 

 the Baptist meeting house now stands. 

 On tlie following night Benjamin Hickok, 

 witli his own and the family of Uriali 

 Hickok, left their homes, the women and 

 children on foot, in order to escape from 

 the danger. When they arrived at the 

 deserted farm of Justin Hickok, in 

 Castleton, they stopped for the remainder 

 of the night, expecting to pursue their 

 journey in the morning in company with 



*The towns in the south part of the slate being 

 surveyed first, anJ most of them being surveyed lar- 

 ger than the charter limits, several of the towns' ia 

 this vicinity were consequently contracted to less 

 than what their charters allowed, and one whole 

 town, chartered by the name of Dunbar, was entirely 

 tun out, there being no place left to locate it. 



