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Benoni Webster, Roxbury Vermont
Benoni Webster came, in 1798, I think, from Connecticut, and located on the place now occupied by James Steele. Mr. Webster came from Connecticut with an ox team, rather a slow mode of conveyance for the distance, but "patience and perseverance" were household words in those days. The "blue laws'' did not allow people to be moving on Sunday in the old state, and Mr. Webster was stopped in a small village to give an account of himself. He declared it was against his principles to be traveling on the Sabbath, but his wife had been exposed to the small pox, and he was in great haste to get to his journey's end. He was allowed to pass on. His oldest son, Charles, born in Connecticut, married Eleanor P. Ryder, and settled in the east part of this town, where his second son, Aaron, now resides, and is the only one of the family in the State.
Source: History of Washington County Vermont, Collated and Published by Abby Maria Hemenway, 1882.
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