Part 111. 



GAZETTEER OF VERMONT. 



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LEMONFAIR RIVER. 



I.KWIS CREEK. LINCOLN. 



LONDOKDERRY. 



Lemonfair River, is a branch of Ot- 

 ter creek, wliich rises in Whiting and Or- 

 well, runs throuoli the eastern part of 

 Shoreham, across the southeast corner of 

 Bridport, and joins Otter creek in Wey- 

 bridge. There are sohie mill seats near 

 the head of this river, l)ut it is, in general, 

 a very sluggish, muddy stream. The fol- 

 lowing is the account given of tjie name 

 of this stream. As some of tJie early set- 

 tlers were coming into this part of the 

 country, they arrived at this mudd}' 

 stream, and seeing the difficulty of cross- 

 ing it, an old woman of the company e.\- 

 claimed, " It is a lam-cn-ta-hle tiffair," 

 and this exclamation, contracted into Le- 

 monfair, became ever afterwards the name 

 of the stream. 



Lewis, an uninhabited township six 

 miles square in the northern part of Essex 

 county, bounded northensterly by Averill, 

 southeasterly by Bloomfield, southwester- 

 ly by Wenlock, and northwesterly by 

 Avery's gore. It was chartered June 2'\ 

 ]762 It is mountainous, and has no 

 streams of consequence, excepting the 

 north branch of Nulhegan river which 

 crosses the northeast corner. 



Lewis Creek rises near the north line 

 of Bristol, runs north through the western 

 part of Starksborough and eastern part of 

 Rlonkton, into Hinesburgh, thence west- 

 erly through the soutli part of Hinesburgh 

 and the southeast corner of Charlotte, and 

 fulls into lake Champlain in Ferrisburgh, 

 a short distance north of the mouth of 

 Little Otter creek. The mill privileges 

 on this stream are numerous, and many 

 of them excellent. 



Lincoln, a post town in the northeast- 

 ern part of Addison county, is in lat. 44" 

 7' and long. 4° 5', and bounded north by 

 Starksborough and Fayston,east by War- 

 ren, south by Avery's gore, and west by 

 Bristol. It lies 21 miles southwest from 

 Montpelier, and 28 southeast from Bur- 

 lington ; was granted November 7, and 

 chartered November 0, 1780, to Benjamin 

 Simonds and associates, containing 23,040 

 acres. The settlement of this township 

 was commenced about the year 1790. 

 The first settlers were mostly of the de- 

 nomination called Friends, or Quakers. 

 There is, at present, a society of this or- 

 der who have a house for public worship. 

 The township is considerably uneven. 

 The western part is watered by New Ha- 

 ven river, which is formed here ; and sev- 

 eral small branches of JNIad river rise in 

 the eastern part. The timber is princi- 

 pally hard wood with some tracts of 

 spruce. The town is divided into 4 school 

 districts, and contains 1 store and 7 snw 

 mills. Statistics of 1840. — Horses, 155; 



cattle, 880; sheep, 3,094; swine, 382; 

 wheat, bu. 860; oats, 2150 ; rye, 120 ; buck- 

 wheat, 187 ; Indian corn, J ,080 ; potatoes, 

 20,400 ; hay, tons, 650 ; sugar, lbs. 29,510; 

 wool, 9,000. Population, "770. 



Little Otter Creek rises in Monk- 

 ton and New Haven, and falls into lake 

 Cham[)lain in Ferrisburgh, three miles 

 north of the mouth of Otter creek. This 

 stream towards its mouth is wide and 

 sluggish, and runs through a tract of low, 

 marshy ground. It affords but few mill 

 privileges. 



Littleton. Name altered to Water- 

 ford, March 9, 1797. See Wutcrford. 



Locust Creek is a small mill stream 

 which rises in Barnard, and falls into 

 White river in Bethel. It is, in general, 

 a rapid stream, and affords several good 

 mill seats. 



Londonderry, a post town in the 

 northwest corner of Windham county, is 

 in lat. 44^ 7' and long. 4" 19", and is 

 bounded north by Weston and a part of 

 Landgrove, east by Windham, south by 

 Jamaica, and west by Landgrove. It 

 lies 30 miles northeast from Bennington 

 and 27 southwest from Windsor. This 

 township was chartered Feb. 30, 1770, by 

 New-York, by the name of Kent. In 

 1778, the lands were confiscated on ac- 

 count of James Rogers, the principal pro- 

 prietor, becoming a tory, and leaving 

 the country. It was regranted by the 

 government of Vermont, March 16, 1780, 

 and chartered to Edward Aiken, April 20, 

 of the same year. In the years 1795 and 

 97, James Rogers, jr., petit-oned tlie Le- 

 gislature, and obtained all Ine confiscat- 

 ed land, which remained unsold. The 

 settlement of the township was commen-- 

 ced about the year 1774, by James Rogers', 

 S. Thompson and James Patterson, from 

 Londonderry, N. H. There are here a 

 Baptist, a C'ongregational and a Methodist 

 church, all of which are small. Elder Da- 

 vid Sweet was ordained over the Baptist 

 church in'June, 1820. The Congregation- 

 alists have a meeting-house, erected in 

 1813. The epidemic of 1812 and '13 was 

 very mortal. West river enters the town- 

 ship from Weston, and passes through it 

 in a southerly direction into Jamaica. 

 West river receives here Winhall river 

 and Utley brook from the west and a con- 

 siderable mill stream which originates 

 from a pond in Windham. Mill privileges 

 are numerous. In the south part is abed 

 of very fine clay There are here two 

 small villages. Statistics qf 1840. -Horses, 

 251 ; cattle, 2,081 ; sheep, 4,206 ; swine, 

 796 ; wheat, bus. ] ,066 ; barley, 971 ; oats, 

 9,753; rye, 1,103; buck-wheat, 1,039 

 Indian corn, 2,164 ; potatoes, 41,579 



