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