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Woodbury Firsts

The first settler in the town was Gideon Sabin, who located in the east part, in the year 1795, or '96, and was followed the same year by Joseph Carr, and soon after by William West, all locating in the easterly part of the town; and according to the best information to be obtained, the next who located in town was in the year 1801, when Benjamin Ainsworth and John Bettis located in the south part of the town.

The first 12 settlers

Gideon Sabin
Joseph Carr
Wm. West
Benjamin Ainsworth
John Bettis
Ephraim Ainsworth
Thomas Ainsworth
Ezekiel Ball
Daniel Rugg
Ferdinand Perry
Daniel Smith
Samuel Mackres

 The first town meeting on record was March 4, 1806

Moderator, Samuel Mackres
Grand Juror, Joshua Kenaston
Constable, Benjamin Ainsworth
Grand Juror, Joshua Kenaston
Town Clerk and Treasurer, Wm. West
Listers, David Rugg, Joshua Kenaston and Smith Ainsworth
Selectmen, Samuel Mackres, Joshua Kenaston, and Smith Ainsworth

At a subsequent meeting, there was a committee appointed to look up the early records of the town; but their labors were unavailing, and they were discharged. The oldest deed now on our records is dated Oct. 10, 1804, attested by Wm. West, town clerk.

Woodbury Postmasters

Daniel Poor
Elias S. Drew
John B. Bliss
Asa Preston
William B. McGregor
Abner P. Town
A. W. Nelson
Ethan N. Ainsworth
Albert P. Town
South Woodbury
Joel W. Celley Orwell D. Town

The first birth in Woodbury was Polly Sabin; the second, Timothy Thomas; the third, Peter Sabin. The first death, that of an infant child of Gideon Sabin. The first grown person dying in town was the wife of Ezekiel Ball. The first marriage was John Thomas to Ruamy Ainsworth, married by William West, Esq., justice of the peace.

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Source: History of Washington County Vermont, Collated and Published by Abby Maria Hemenway, 1882.

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