| History of Rutland County Vermont, Syracuse, N.Y., D. Mason, 1886, 1007 pgs. | |
| 1-5.009 | Extract from p.578 Thomas Rowley came to Danby from Hebron, Conn., in the same year [1768] with Captain Calkins and settled near the residence of the late A.C. Risdon, and was surveyor for the town and proprietors' clerk for a number of years. He was town clerk from 1769 to 1782 inclusive, was one of the town's committee of safety; was elected representative in 1887 and again in 1782. He opposed, with Chittenden, Allen and Warner, the pretensions of the New York land jobbers. He was the poet of the Green Mountain Boys. |
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Extract from p.590 Ecclesiastical. The Baptists formed a society here in 1781, and appointed Rev. Hezekiah Eastman as their first pastor. Thomas Rowley, Abraham Chase, William Bromley, sr., John Stafford, Nathan Rowley, Roger Williams, Joseph Fowler, Stephen Calkins and Abel Haskins were among the first members. Mr. Eastman left here about 1800 and the church discontinued. It was reorganized in 1826 under Elder Joseph Packer. The church went down about 1850. |
| 1-6.0047 | Extract from p.309-310 The children of Abner Mead, 2d, were Harriet, born 1808, married Jedediah Parmalee, a preacher; for her second husband she married Henry W. Porter, son of Dr. James Porter, and died in Rutland, Charity born 1810, married Benjamin Franklin Blanchard, a farmer of West Rutland; he is dead and his widow lives on the homestead. A. J. Mead, born 1815, lives on the old homestead at West Rutland. Roswell R., born 1818, was a merchant at West Rutland, where he died; his children are John A., lives in Rutland, where he is a successful physician; Mary L., wife of Professor Metzke, of Rutland; and R.R. Mead, chief of the Rutland police. The other child of Abner, 2d, was John W.H., bon 1820, and died in 1840 while attending Middlebury College. The mother of these children was Nancy Rowley, daughter of Roswell Rowley, who lived where Cyrus Johnson now resides, between Center Rutland and Sutherland Falls. Abner died in 1859. |
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