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Marshfield, Washington County, Vermont
Marshfield was granted to the Stockbridge tribe of Indians, Oct. 16, 1782, and chartered to them June 22, 1790, by the General Assembly of Vermont, containing 23,040 acres; lat. 44° 19', long. 4° 30' on the upper waters of the Winooski; bounded north by Cabot, east by Peacham and Harris' Gore, south by east Montpelier, Plainfield and Goshen Gore, west by Calais and east Montpelier.
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In the charter it is stipulated the township shall be divided into 75 equal shares, etc., with the usual charter conditions. The charter is signed by Gov. Moses Robinson and Joseph Tracy, Sec. The township was purchased of the Indians by Capt. Isaac Marsh of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in honor of whom it is named, for £140 lawful money, and the deed was signed by 18 Indians, thus:
| Joseph
Shawguthguat Hendrick Aupanmat Jehosuhim Alokaim Peter Pohijhionurpjsut X Joseph Luonahant X John Pophmin X Solomon Quargariahont X Uhndrw Warmaeruph X Vendru Waumurmn |
X Hudrink
Ihchumhwmh X Moses Laupumnsapeat X Thomas Wind X John Thonhpol X David Nesonukausdahawauk X Cornelius Janmauch X David Nesonuhkeah Grum X Abraham Maummumthickhur X Isaac Unamprey |
(X Mark of person)
This deed was given July 29, 1789, and witnessed by David Pixley and John Sargeant, missionary.
These Indians, it is supposed, when they secured the grant of this land, intended to remove here, and make it their hunting-ground, but finding white settlements were beginning to cluster around it, they disposed of it as best they could, and sought the unbroken forests of New York and called the new home there, in honor of the old one in Massachusetts.
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Source: History of Washington County Vermont, Collated and Published by Abby Maria Hemenway, 1882.
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