Tart III. 



GAZETTEER OF VERMONT. 



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WEST RIVER. 



WESTON. WEYBRICGE. 



WHEELOCK. 



West River. See Wantasticook. 



Weston, a post town in the southwest 

 corner of Windsor county, is in lat. 43" 

 19' and lonor.4^ 14', and is bounded norlli 

 by Mount Holly and Ludlow, east by An- 

 dover. south by Londonderry, and west 

 by iVIount Tabor and Landgrove. It 

 lies 6G miles south from 31ontpelier, 

 and 2)1 southwest from Windsor. This 

 was formerly a part of Andover. It was 

 set oft' in in 1790, and organized March 

 3, 1800. Alvin Simons was the first town 

 clerk, and also the first representative. 

 The religious denouiinations are Congre- 

 gationalists, Bapti.sts, Methodists and Uni- 

 versalists. A meetinghouse, owned by 

 the several denominations, was comple- 

 ted here in 1817. Jeremiah Blancliard is 

 the most remarkable instance of lon- 

 gevity in this town. The epidemic of 

 1813 was very distressing here. West 

 river passes tlirough the township in a 

 southerly direction, affording several good 

 mill privileges. On the bank of this riv- 

 er are two small villages. The upper 

 village is near the centre, and contains 2 

 meetinghouses, 2 stores, 1 clotiiier's works, 

 1 carding machine, 1 tannery, and 1 black- 

 timith. The town is divided into 12 

 school districts, 2 grist, 8 saw and I ful- 

 ling mill, 2 stores, 2 taverns and 1 tannery. 

 StMtistks o/ 1840.— Horses, 120; cattle, 

 1,596; sheep, 3,111 ; swine, 432 ; wheat, 

 bush. 1,159; barley, 779; oats, 5,453; 

 rye, 302; buck-wheat, 1,025 ; Indian corn, 

 C31 ; potatoes ; 33,555 ; hay, tons, 2,776 ; 

 sugar, lbs. 13,455 ; wool, 6,858. Popula- 

 tion, 1,032. 



Weybridge, a post town in the central 

 part of Addison county, is in !at. 44° 2' 

 and long. 4° 50', and is bounded north 

 and east by Otter creek, which separates 

 it from New Haven and Middlebury, south 

 by Cornwall, and west by llridport and 

 Addison. It lies 80 miles north from 

 Bennington, and 30 south from Burling- 

 ton, and was chartered November 3, 17^1, 

 containing 8261 acres. The settlement 

 was commenced about the beginning of 

 the revolutionary war by David Stow and 

 John Sanford, but the settlers were soon 

 after dispersed or made prisoners by tlie 

 enemy. The settlement was recommen- 

 ced on the return of peace. The first 

 settlers were mostly from Massachusetts. 

 1'he religious denominations are Congre- 

 gationalists, Baptists, Methodists and a few 

 Friends. Tiie Congregational church 

 was ortranized June 20, 1794. I'he Rev. 

 Jonathan Hovey was settled over it Feb. 

 10, 1806 to Dec. 9, 1816; the Rev. Eli 

 Moody from Aug, 12, 1818 to Dec. 9, 

 1823 ; the Rev. Harvey Smith from March 

 y, 1825 to April 22, 1828 and the Rev. 



Jonathan Lee from July 2d 1834 to May 

 24, la37. This society erected a house 

 for worship about the year 1802. 

 Otter creek is the most important 

 stream, and in it are here several 

 falls vvhich furnish fine mill privileges. 

 Lemonfair river is a sluggish stream 

 which runs through the western part of 

 the township into Otter creek. Snake 

 mountain lies mostly in tjie western part 

 of the township. Near the paper mill is 

 found earthy asbestus between layers of 

 limestone which is the common rock in 

 this township. A few years since a con- 

 siderable body of land here slid into Otter 

 creek, which completely stopped the wa- 

 ter for some time, leaving the channel 

 bare below, and altering materially the 

 course of the stream, when it again com- 

 menced flowing. At one of the falls on 

 Otter creek is a small village containing 

 1 store, 1 tavern, a woolen factory. &c. 

 There are in town, 6 school districts, 

 3 saw mills, 1 grist mill, 1 paper mill 2 

 fulling mills, 1 woolen factory, 3 stores. 

 Statistics of 1840. — Horses, 154 ; cattle, 

 1,595; sheep, 10,021 ; swine, 492; wheat, 

 bush. 717; barley, 16; oats, 4,451; rye, 

 508; buck-wheat, 168; Indian corn, 4,- 

 808; potatoes, 14,215; hay, tons, 3,851 ; 

 sugar, lbs. 896 ; wool, 28,989. Popula- 

 tion, 797. 



WnEELocK, a post town in the north 

 part of Caledonia county, is in lat- 44" 

 33' and long. 4" 50', and is bounded north 

 by Sheffield, east by Lyndon, south by 

 Danville, and west by Greensborough. 

 It lies 30 miles northeast from Montpelier, 

 was granted and chartered to the president 

 and trustees of Dartmouth college and 

 Moore's charity school, June 14, 1785, 

 containing 23,040 acres. It was named 

 Wheelock in honor of Rev. John Wheo- 

 lock, who was at that time president of 

 Dartmouth college, A considerable part 

 of the lands are held by lease. Jos. Page 

 commenced the settlement of this town- 

 ship, in 1790. He was joined the next 

 year by Abraham Morrill, from Danville, 

 and also by Dudley Swasey. The town 

 was organized March 29, 1792. The Free- 

 will Baptist is the most numerous religious 

 sect. A meeting house was erected here 

 about the year 1798. The streams in this 

 township are all small, but they afford se- 

 veral good mill privileges. There are 

 two ponds. One, in the western part, 

 covers about 100 acres, and discharges its 

 waters into the Lamoille. On the outlet 

 is one saw mill. The other is in the east- 

 ern part, covers about 50 acres, and dis- 

 charges its waters into the Passumpsic. 

 The eastern range of the Green Moun- 

 tains passes through the western part of 



