Northfield, Washington County, Vermont
By Rev. John Gregory
[Compiled from his History of Northfield, published in 1878.]
This town is situated in the southern
part of Washington County, 10 miles from Montpelier, latitude
44° 8', longitude 4° 25'; and very near the center of the town
is the geographical center of the State. The original town was
chartered August 10, 1781, to Major Joel Matthews and his
associates, and contained 18,518 acres. A tract of land from the
east part of Waitsfield, containing 6000 acres, was annexed to
Northfield November 7, 1822. Five equal shares or rights were
reserved to the use of the public, and the grants were
conditioned that each proprietor should, "within the term of
three years next after the circumstances of the war will admit
of it with safety," "plant and cultivate 5 acres of land, and
build a house at least 18 foot square on the floor, or have one
family settled on each right, on pain of forfeiture of his
share."
What's New in Northfield
Military of Northfield
Some of these Regiments small
The first proprietors' meeting was held
in Hartford, Vt., Nov. 11, 1783. The proprietors met at
different times at Windsor, Hartland and Pomfret, also, till
1794, when the town had sufficient settlers to take care of
itself at home.
The township appears to have been first
surveyed by Marston Cabot, from the vote at one of the
proprietors' meetings.
Proprietors
of Northfield
Charter, with the number of each
proprietor's lot, and the range it was in; the first figure
after the name for the lot, the second for the range; the lots
having been drawn by Mr. Cabot as the law directed, beginning
with the first in the charter:
James Andrews, 2,
6
William Andrews, 4, 4
Amos Bicknal, 6, 7
Benjamin Burtch, 2, 5
James Cady, 5, 2
Sbubal Child, 6, 2
Thomas Chittenden, 10, 2
Jacob Clark, 5, 5
Benjamin Cox, 2, 3
Zebina Curtis, 5, 1
John W. Dana, 6, 5
George Dennison, 2, 2
Abel Emmonds, 6, 6
Benjamin Emmons, 8, 5
Joel English, 1, 7
Michael Flinn, 7, 2
David Fuller, 6, 4
Oliver Gallup, 1, 4
Perias Gallup, 9, 5
William Gallup, Jr., 2, 3
Captain William Gallup, 1, 1
Daniel Gilbert, 7, 6 |
Barkus Green, 2, 7
Beriah Green, 1, 3
Timothy Grow, 7, 1
Willys Hall 4, 1
Edward Hazen, 8, 2
Edmund Hodges, 6, 3
Joseph Kimball, 3, 5
Moses Kimball, 8, 7
Thomas Lawton, 4, 2
Zebulon Lee, 8, 1
Zebulon Lyon, 1, 5
Major Joel Matthews, 10, 6
Samuel Matthews, 6, 1
Ebenezer Miller, 7, 7
Calvin Parkhurst, 3, 3
Ebenezer Parkhurst, 3, 1
Joseph Parkhurst, 7, 5
Samuel Patrick, 9, 4
Amasa Payne, 3, 4
Elijah Payne, 9, 2
Elisha Smith, B. A., 9, 1
John Payne of Pomfret, 8, 4 |
Jeremiah
Richardson, 2, 1
College Right, 3, 7
Amos Robinson, 9, 6
Jesse Safford, 4, 6
John Sergeants, 1, 8
Resolved Sessions, 8
Abida Smith, 4, 7
Ebenezer Smith, 9, 3
Elisha Smith, 1, 2
John Smith, 10, 1
Samuel Smith, 10, 5
Steel Smith, 3, 6
Sylvester Smith, 2, 4
Amasa Spooner, 10, 1
Paul Spooner, 8, 6
Barnabas Strong, 5, 3
Elias Taylor, 3, 2
Oliver Taylor, 5, 7
Elias Thomas, 5, 6
John Throop, 7, 3
Oliver Williams, 4, 5
Phineas Williams, 10, 4 |
Right for the County Grammar School, 7,
4
First settled Minister's Right, 1, 6
Right for the support of the Ministry, 2, 8
Town School right, 5, 4.
The first land cleared in town was by
Elijah Paine, sometime previous to the first settlement, which
was made in May, 1785, by Amos Robinson and others from
Westminster, Vermont.
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Source: History of Washington County Vermont, Collated and
Published by Abby Maria Hemenway, 1882.
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