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Cabot, Washington County, Vermont
Cabot is situated in the north east part of Washington County; latitude 40°, 23'; longitude 4°, 42'; 6 miles square; bounded North by Walden and Danville, East by Danville and Peacham, South by Marshfield, and West by Woodbury, and lies 21 miles easterly from Montpelier. It was granted November 6, 1780; chartered by Vermont to Jesse Levenworth and 65 others, August 17, 1781; but not surveyed and lotted till 1786. The survey was made by Cabot, of Connecticut, and James Whitelaw. Thomas Lyford, whose father was one of the first settlers, being at that time a young man, 18 years of age, worked with them through the survey. In the extreme west part of the town Mr. Cabot broke the glass in his compass, and was obliged to go through the wilderness to the nearest house about 6 miles away, and take a square of glass out of the window to replace it.
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The township was lotted by James Whitelaw, and a field-book written out by him September, 1786, contains the number of each lot and full description of the same, measurement, etc., closing each with a statement of what in his judgment the land is adapted to, whether pasture or general farming. There were 12 lots in each division, and 6 divisions, making 72 lots in town.
Voted that Giles Chittenden and Truman Chittenden, being indifferent persons, be a committee to draw the lots, which being done by them in the presence of the meeting as the law directs, was as follows:
| Jesse Levenworth,
lot No. 5 Jesse Levenworth, 55 Mark Levenworth, 10 William Levenworth, 1 Evans Munson, 57 Isaac Doolittle, 64 Robert Fairchild, 19 Ebenezer Crafts, 14 Timothy Newel, 72 James Lane, 66 Elias Townsend, 28 William Holmes, 18 Richard Mansfield, 70 Nathan Levenworth, 15 Moses Baker, 20 Jas. Whitelaw, 7 Philander Harvey, 65 David Bryant, 51 Frederick Levenworth, 53 Jonathan Heath, 33 Eames Johnson, 45 Thomas Lyford, 21 Edmund Chapman, 50 |
Benjamin Webster,
40 David Blanchard, 56 Jonathan Elkins, 26 Jonathan Elkins, Jr., 42 William Chamberlin, 60 Ephraim Foster, 44 Abel Blanchard, 58 Benjamin Ambrose, 34 Minister, 62 Minister, 63 Grammar School, 69 College, 3 William Douglas, 49 Asa Douglas, 11 John Douglas, 22 Alson Douglas, 68 Beriah Palmer, 17 Martha Douglas, 13 Ebenezer Jones, 67 Jesse Gardner, 41 Mary Andrus, 47 William Douglas, 52 Content Douglas, 46 |
Asa Douglas, Jr.,
12 Zebulon Douglas, 48 Lyman Hitchcock, 54 Nathaniel Wales, 36 Saphiah Hitchcock, 2 John Batchelder, 32 Eliphalet Richards, 29 Jonathan Pettet, 30 Matthew Watson, 38 Ezekiel Tiffany, 43 Abel Blanchard, 39 Peter Blanchard, 27 Reuben Blanchard, 35 Jason Cross, 16 Solomon Johnson, 9 Robert Hains, 61 Samuel Russell, 23 David Waters, 6 Thomas Chittenden, Esq., 4 Paul Spooner, 25 Joseph Fay, Esq., 8 Abigail Gunn, 59 Barnabas Morse, 24 |
There was no public mail service in Cabot till 1808.
Letters were brought by travelers passing through the town. In this way the early settlers received their mails for the first 23 years.
The first regular mail service through Cabot was begun in 1808, and Henry Denny was the first carrier, his horseback route extending from Montpelier to the Canada line, passing through Cabot, Danville, Lyndon, Barton, etc., and his return.
Mr. Nickerson Warner was the first postmaster at Cabot. He then lived on the farm now owned by H. W. Powers, on the road now leading to Walden.
Source: History of Washington County Vermont, Collated and Published by Abby Maria Hemenway, 1882.
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