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GAZETTEER OF VERiMONT, 



Part III. 



NEAL S BUnoK. 



NEWARK. 



NEWBURY. 



grass. Otter creek rises here, and runs 

 Boulli into Peru, then vvtst into Dorset, 

 and tlien norlh tliroug'n the we.stern bor- 

 der of this townsiiip into Wallingford. 

 Statistics of 1840 — Horses, 42 ; cattle, 

 341 ; sheep, 883 ; swine, 10!) ; wheat, bus. 

 329 ; barley, 20 ; oats, 634 ; rye, 33 ; 

 buckwheat, 211 ; Indian corn, 390 ; pota- 

 toes, 6,000 ; hay, tons, 5-50 ; sugar, lbs. 

 3,5bo; wool, 1,760. Population, 226. 



iVIouNT 'i'oM, a considerable eminence 

 in Woodstock. 



MuuDY Brook divides Williston from 

 Burlington, and falls into Winooski river. 



Navy. Name altered to Cliarleston, 

 Nov. J 6, 1825. See Cliarleston. 



Neai.'s Brook rises near the north cor- 

 ner of Lunenburoh, in several branches, 

 and, running south, falls into a pond of 

 the same name, which is about a mile 

 long and half a mile wide, and lies near 

 the centre of Lunenburgli. It then con- 

 tinues its course south, meets a westerly 

 branch, and, after running about half a 

 mile further, falls into Connecticut river, 

 by a mouth nearly two rods wide. On 

 this stream are several mills and other 

 machinery. 



Neshoee. Name altered to Brandon, 

 Oct. 20, 1784. Sec Brandon. 



Newark, a post town in the northeast- 

 ern part of Caledonia county, is in lat. 44*^ 

 42' and long. 5" 8", and is bounded north- 

 easterly by Brighton, southeasterly by 

 Eas^t Haven, southwesterlj' i)}' IJurke and 

 Sutton, and northwesterly by Westmore. 

 It lies 44 miles northeast from Montpe- 

 licr; was granted November 6, 1780, and 

 chartered August 15, 1781, to VVm. Wall 

 and others, containing 23,040 acres. The 

 settlement of this township was com- 

 menced about the year 1800. It is water- 

 ed bj' a great number of small streams, 

 which are here collected together, and 

 form the Passumpsic river. But a small 

 part of this township is settled, although 

 the settlement has been e.xtending grad- 

 ually from its commencement. It con- 

 tains 2 saw mills and 4 school districts. 

 Statistics of 1840. — Horses, 77 ; cattle, 

 417; sheep, '.151 ; swine, 371 ; wheat, bus. 

 1,7-56; barley, 720; oats, 2,687; rye. Ill ; 

 buckwheat, 450 ; Indian corn, 315 ; pota- 

 toes, 18,260; hay, tons, 801 ; sugar, lbs. 

 21,813; v/ool, 1,671). Population, 360. 



Newbury, a post town in the northeast 

 corner of Orange county, is in lat. 44" 6' 

 and long. 4" 52', and is bounded north by 

 Rj'egate, east by Connecticut river, which 

 sepn rates it from Haverhill, N. H., south 

 by Bradford, and west by Topsliam. It 

 lies 27 miles easterly from Montpelier, 

 and 47 northeasterly from Windsor; and 

 was chartered to Gen. Jacob Bayley and 



others, March 18, 1763, containing 36,450 

 acres. The settlement of this township 

 was commenced in the spring of J 762. 

 Tiie first family was that of Sani'l Sleep- 

 er. The next were the families of Thom- 

 as and Richard Chamberlain. John Hazle- 

 ton also moved his family to Newbury in 



1762, and his daughter Betsey, born in 



1763, was the first child born in town. 

 Jacob Bailey Chamberlain, son of Thomas 

 C, born the same year, was the male 

 child. The parents of the latter received 

 a bounty of 100 acres of land, agreeably 

 to a promise of the proprietors of the 

 township. Among the first settlers, in 

 addition to the above, may be nientioned 

 Gen. Jacob Bayley, Col. Jacob Kent, Col. 

 Thomas Johnson, John Taplin, Noah and 

 Ebenezer White, Frye Bayley, and James 

 .\bbolt. The early inhabitants were most- 

 ly emigrants from the soutlieastern parts 

 of New Hampshire, and from Newbury, 

 Mass. They had peculiar hardships to 

 endure, there being no inhabitants on 

 Connecticut river, at this time, north of 

 No. 4, now Charlestown, N. H., or be- 

 tween this place and Concord. Nor were 

 there any roads through the wilderness, 

 or any thing, but marked trees, to facili- 

 tate the communication between this and 

 the civilized settlements. The nearest 

 mill was at Charlestov^•n, distant more 

 than 60 miles. To that they went for 

 their grinding, carrying their grain down 

 the river in canoes during the summer, 

 and drawing it upon the ice in the winter. 

 The crank, for the first saw mill built in 

 Newbur}'', was drawn from Concord, N. 

 H., distant nearly 80 miles, upon a hand- 

 sled. Gen. Bayley was very active in 

 forwarding the settlement of this part of 

 the country, and distinguished himself as 

 a general officer in the revolutionary war. 

 He, in 1776, commenced making the road 

 from Newbury to St. Johns, which was 

 opened by Gen. Hazen, in 1779, as far as 

 Hazen's Notch, in Westfield. Newbury 

 was garrisoned by one or more companies 

 of soldiers during the revolution, and was, 

 for many years after, tlie most important 

 town in this part of the state. The first 

 meeting of the proprietors of this town- 

 ship was held at Plastow, N. H., June 13, 

 1763. The town was organized immedi- 

 ately after the settlement was commen- 

 ced, and Col. Jacob Kent was chosen 

 town clerk, which office he held till 1798. 

 The Congregational church of this town 

 was formed at Hollis, Mass , in Septem- 

 ber, 1764. The Rev. Peter Powers, the 

 first minister of Newbury, was installed 

 over this church Feb. 27, 1765, and he 

 preached his own installation sermon. 

 He was dismissed in 1784, and died at 



