History of the Town of Middlebury in the County of Addison to WHICH IS PREFIXED A STATISTICAL AND HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE COUNTY, written AT THE REQUEST OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF Middlebury , by Samuel Swift. Middlebury: A.H. Copeland, 1859.
Excellent original early family and/or town genealogy, history, antique, collectible heirloom and/or ephemera.
CONTENTS.
(county of ADDISON.)
CHAPTER I.
Territory — Face of the Country — Soil — Original Fourts — Lime— Marble — Streams. 5
CHAPIER II.
County Seats — County Buildings— Courts— Changes of the Judiciary 19
CHAPTER III.
Indians — Indian Relics 29
CHAPTER IV.
French Fettlement in Addison County — Conquered by the British and their Retreat— Grants of Laud by the Freuch 44
CHAPTER V.
New Hampshire Charters — Controversy with New York
CHAPTER YI.
Opposition West of the Mountain — Negotiation with the Inhabitants of Bennington— Affairs at Walloomsic — Capture and trial of liough — Col. Reed's Claim — Captain Wooster's Grant — Dunmore's Grant 59
CHAPTER VIL
Effects of the War and the Declaration of Independence on the Controversy — Conclusion of the Controversy 70
CHAPTER VHI.
Incidents of the War in the County of Addison 80
CHAPTER IX,
Agriculture— Wheat — Transition from Grain to Stock— Sheep 94
CHAPTER X.
Cattle— Horses 106
CHAPTER XI.
Agricultural Society— Medical Society 113
CHAPTER XII.
Population — Character — Advantages — Dangers 121
APPENDIX.
No. I.— Chief Judges of the County Court— Assistant Judges of County Court — County Clerlis— StateV Attorneys— Slieritfs -High Bailiffs— Judges of Probate District of Addison,— District of New Haven 125
No. II.— Statement of Agriculture, Farms and Implements, Stocks, Products &c., taken from Census of 1850 130
No. III — A Table showing the population of the several towns in the County of Addison, us each United States Census, since Vermont was admitted into the Union 131
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