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The History of Windsor County Vermont
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF SHARON

Source: History of Windsor County, Vermont by Lewis C. Aldrich and Frank R Holmes, 1891
Transcribed by Ruth Anne Wilke

CHAPTER XXXVI
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF SHARON

The town called Sharon is one of the northern tier of towns of Windsor county, and is bounded on the north by Strafford in Orange county; east by Norwich; south by Pomfret; and west by Royalton. And Sharon is among the mountainous towns of the county, more so than some of the adjoining towns, as if nature had made an extraordinary and highly successful effort at grouping high and almost inaccessible peaks within the single town. Unlike many others in the county's towns these high elevations are not susceptible of any cultivation, which, aside from their very rocky character, are exceeding this unfavorable physical formation Sharon has numerous fine farming lands and fertile valleys, than which there are none better or more productive in this county.
Sharon, too, is an exceedingly well drained town, the streams all tending from the borders of the town toward the central portion and discharge their waters into the White River, the latter being in this locality a stream of considerable magnitude. It enters the town from Royalton on the west, and courses through the valley generally southeast to a point about a mile west from Sharon village, where it turns suddenly to the east and northeast, and at the village and beyond it forms a complete ox-bow; thence it continues south and southeast, leaving the town near the southeast corner.
The hamlet called Sharon village is the only trading center of any consequence in the town, and is situate on the White River, very near the geographical center of the town. Its location here was a wise measure on the part of the proprietors, for the valley at this point is as broad, perhaps, as anywhere in the town, and the lands as well adapted for village occupancy as could be selected near the center. The village, although in the valley, is nevertheless considerable elevated above the bed of the river, the rise from the surface of the water to the highway, at a point near the post-office, being variously estimated from eighty to one hundred feet. And this is a fortunate elevation, for there have been occasions, within the memory of middle-aged residents, upon which the waters of White River have reached extraordinary heights, sweeping away ever movable thing in its path.
The town of Sharon was brought into existence by virtue of a charter granted by Governor Benning Wentworth, of the province of New Hampshire, on the 17th of August, 1761, to John Taylor and his associates, sixty-two in all, with the customary reservations--one right for a glebe for the Church of England, one for the society for the propagation of the gospel in foreign parts, one for the first settled minister in the town, one for the benefit of a school, and 500 acres in the northwest corner of the town for the emolument of the worthy benefactor himself--Benning Wentworth. The town, according to the charter, contained 22,000 acres of land, the equivalent in square miles being thirty-four and three-eighths.
Among other things the charter provided that the first meeting of the proprietors should be held on the first Monday of September, 1761, for the purpose of choosing town officers, and appointed Benjamin Spalding moderator to govern said meeting. But it is quite doubtful whether the proprietor met in accordance with the terms of the charter, and if they did they left no record of their doings for the use of succeeding generations. The first proprietors' meeting of which there appears any record was held on the 30th of November, 1761, at Plainfield, 'in the province of New Hampshire,' at which Captain Timothy Wheeler was chosen moderator 'for the work of the day,' no other officers being chosen.
So far as the old proprietors' records disclose the first meeting at which town officers were chosen was held March 9, 1762, at Plainfield, where these were elected; Moderator, 'for the work of the day,' Captain Timothy Wheeler; town clerk, for the ensuing year, Benjamin Spalding; selectmen, Captain Timothy Wheeler, Captain James How and Daniel McKee; town treasurer, Captain Timothy Wheeler; collector, Jonathan Parkhurst. During this year as well as that next succeeding the attention of the proprietors was mainly directed to concerting such measures as would result in the speedy settlement and improvement of the lands of the town. To this end, at a meeting held on the 28th of March, 1763, it was voted, as an inducement to settlement, to give any ten or more proprietors that would settle, or any five or more that would clear and soe three acres with English grane, by the first of November next, (1763,) each of them, 'and each five of them that shall build a house sixteen feet square, by the 1st of November next, shall have the choice of lots in said town,' in the first division.
But it is not probable that any settlement was made under the first offer of lots, for it is not understood that the survey and division had then been made. The first record upon this point appears as a part of the proceedings of a meeting held November, 1763, when David Spaulding and Josiah Russell were chosen a committee to complete the laying out of lots under the first survey and division, from which it is presumable that the survey was not made until the spring or summer of 1763, although some efforts in this direction may have been made in 1762. The survey, whenever it was made, was the work of Joshua Dunlap. At a meeting held April 12, 1764, the proprietors renewed their offer, and enlarged it to the extent of allowing them to make choice of the hundred-acre lots, to any or all of five persons, who would 'clear and soe three acres of English grane,' meaning that such persons should clear three acres of land and sow it to English grain, and build the house, sixteen feet square, before the first of November thereafter.
In the absence of definite information on the subject it appears that settlement must have been under this last offer, and during the year 1764, for, at a meeting held on the 3d of November of that year, the proprietors voted 'to give privileges to select pitches to five persons if they would do the duty on each of their rights, by the 1st of November next, 1765, as those proprietors were obliged to do who went there the summer last past.' It may readily be inferred from this that the town was settled during the summer of 1764, but the number of persons or families that then took up their homes in the locality cannot now be accurately determined, nor can the names of a single one be given. It is generally conceded, and past authorities have started, that Robert Havens and his family were the first actual settlers, but none pretend to fix the year of his coming. The tenor of the last stated offer of the proprietors would appear to indicate that more than one improvement was made during 1764. A quite recent authority states that the first settlers were 'Isaac Marsh, Willard Shepard, Robert Havens and a Mr. Parkhurst,' probably Ebenezer or Joseph, and that their coming was during the year 1764; and further that they settled in the town just in time to prevent the forfeiture of the charter; that the four made clearings, sowed grain, and built the 'regulation' houses; and that to one of their number, Isaac Marsh, fell the duty of remaining in the town during the following winter, while the others returned to their former homes. Elias Marsh, the son of Isaac, was the first white male child born in the town, the date of birth, according to Deming, being March 25, 1768. At all events, in 1787 or 1788, the proprietors voted to give Elias Marsh the right to pitch one hundred acres of land 'in consideration of his being the first male child born in the town.' (The old record books are so torn and mutilated that it is difficult to determine either dates or names with any degree of accuracy.)
The exact date of the organization of the town of Sharon by its inhabitants, independent of the prelim organization and meetings held by the proprietors, cannot be determined from existing records, from the fact that the first leaves of the town book are so mutilated and worn as to be unreliable for the purposes of accurate statement, but enough can be deciphered to learn that the organization meeting was held during 1768. Thompson says the town was organized March 8th of that year, while at least two later authorities say that the first meeting holden for the election of town officers was of date March 12, 1776. In this matter Mr. Thompson was undoubtedly correct, for the old book is still in existence, though much worn and dilapidated. And while this unfortunate condition of the records prevents us from giving here the officers for either 1768 or 1769, those for the year 1770 are reasonable free from mutilation, though much dimmed by being written with poor ink, and the exposures of one hundred and twenty years.
At the town meeting of 1770, held on the 12th of March, the following officers were elected: Moderator, William Hunter; clerk, William Hunter; supervisor, Joel Marsh; assessors, William Hunter, Benjamin Spalding and Robert Havens; treasurer, William Hunter; collector, Simeon Howe; overseers of highways, Isaac Wheeler, Ebenezer Parkhurst and Robert Havens; overseer of poor, Joseph Parkhurst; constable, Joel Marsh; fence viewer, Benjamin Spaulding; commissioners to lay out highways, William Hunter, Benjamin Spalding and Ebenezer Parkhurst.
On an occasion of such great importance as this must have been to the people of the town it is quite probable that nearly every townsman of full age was present; and it is also probable that there would be an entire willingness on all sides that the offices should be distributed among the voters as far as they would go; but the fact that there were not enough men to fill the several positions without frequently duplicating names would indicate that the voting population comprised only a handful of men, or else there was an undue contralization of power in the hands of a few, which latter theory is quite improbable. What number of people the town contained during this year would be entirely a matter of speculation, but it must, of course, have been less than that of the next year, 1771, when the New York authorities caused an enumeration of the inhabitants to be made. That gave the town, in that year, a population of but sixty-eight, and as there was only about one voter to every five inhabitants, there could not have been to exceed a dozen persons of full age in the town in 1770. But during the next score of years of growth of population was much more rapid, the enumeration of 1791 showing the town to have five hundred and sixty-nine souls.
But it must have been exceedingly difficult for these poor struggling inhabitants to determine with accuracy to what jurisdiction they really belonged, so frequent were the changes during the first thirty years of the town's history and peopled existence. In 1761 their town was chartered as one of the New Hampshire Grants; in 1764 the jurisdiction passed to the province of New York, and the town was erected into a part of Cumberland county of that province; in 1772 the county was divided, and all north of the north line of Sharon was made a part of Gloucester county. But in some manner the people of Sharon obtained the idea that they were in Gloucester county, if the records are evidence of that fact, for the annual town meeting held March 12, 1776, the minutes read thus: 'At a meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Sharon in the county of Gloucester, province of New York,' etc.
Again, in 1777, the independence of the new State of Vermont was declared, and soon thereafter followed the formation of the counties of Bennington and Cumberland, alias Unity, under the new jurisdiction of the latter of which Sharon formed part. Still further on, in 1781, Cumberland county, under Vermont, was divided and Windsor and others erected, and thenceforth to this present Sharon has been one of Windsor county's integral parts. From the time that Vermont declared her independence until her admission to the Union, in 1791, Sharon, as well as all the other towns of this State, enjoyed the novel situation of having a double existence, being during that period a part of two counties and under two States, Cumberland in New York, and Cumberland and subsequently Windsor in Vermont; but to the credit of the town be it said that Sharon acknowledged and paid allegiance to the State of Vermont, after the declaration of her separate independence, except during the brief period following the dissolution of the first union with the New Hampshire towns.
At a freemen's meeting held on the 3d of March, 1778, the constitution of the State of Vermont was read in open presence, following which the freeman's oath was taken by these persons: Joseph Barrett, Daniel Gilbert, Benjamin Spalding, John Crery, William Hunter, Joseph Parkhurst, Stephen Powel, Elias Stevens, Ebenezer Parkhurst, Joel March, Joseph Parkhurst, James Marsh and Reuben Parkhurst. These qualified electors then chose Daniel Gilbert as the first representative in the General Assembly. In July of the same year the freeman's oath was taken by William Lovejoy, Moses Shepard, Isaac Wheeler, Jonathan Howe, Simeon Howe, Josiah Wheeler and John Parkhurst; and then the freemen chose Joel Marsh the first justice of the peace.
In 1780 the town was invaded by a detached party of Canadian Indians, and two citizens were captured and taken to Montreal. This was the occasion of the famous attack upon Royalton, which resulted in the capture of a number of that town's residents, the destruction of buildings by fire, the killing of cattle and the despoilation of growing crops. Royalton was the objective point of attack and plunder, and the raid into Sharon was made by a small detachment from the main body, and its results were less disastrous.
Thus, the main and by far more interesting part of the history of Sharon was made during the first twenty-five years of its existence. During the Way of 1812-15 the town had the customary militia organizations, and from the whole number was drafted the contingent necessary to be contributed for the service. No hostile foot was set upon the soil of the town, unless the political party then known as Federals could be considered hostile, and the part taken by Sharon in that struggle was one of minor importance. This cannot be said, however, of the part taken by this town during the war of the Rebellion--the war of 1861-65. The roll of volunteers from Sharon, together with an account of the services of the regiments to which they respectively belonged, will be found in one of the earlier chapters of this volume; and all that need be said here may properly be included in a brief summary of the strength of the town in the service.
During the course of the war, and exclusive of the men who enlisted for three months, the town of Sharon stands credited with having furnished an aggregate of one hundred and four men, elisted for the terms following: For the three years' service, fifty-five; for one year, eleven; for nine months, eighteen; in the navy, ten; entered service, two; miscellaneous credits, not named, five; volunteers, re-enlisted, three. Added to this, ten were furnished under draft and paid commutation, and three others procured and sent substitutes in their places.
The town of Sharon is now divided into eleven school districts, making no account of the fractional districts annexed to adjoining towns. In these eleven schools are employed eleven teachers, one for each district. All the schools are supported on the district plan; that is, each district maintains its own school and pays the salary of its teacher. The first division of the town into school districts was made in 1784, and Joel Marsh, James Carpenter and John Walbridge comprised the committee that made the division.
The town also four present church societies, but only two church buildings. The societies are the Congressional, Baptist, Adventist, and Universalist. The society of the Congregational church was the first organized in the town, dating back to September 11, 1782, and its first settled minister was Rev. Lathrop Thompson, ordained September 3, 1778, dismissed March 26, 1793; second minister, Samuel Bascom, settled March 12, 1806. The present pastor of this society is Rev. Edward B. Chamberlain. The church house of the society is at Sharon village, and is a substantial building, with an extensive addition in the rear, known as the Steele Memorial Chapel, the voluntary gift of Samuel Steele.
The Baptist church building is also a commodious structure, and situate in the same village. This society has no settled pastor. The other societies, the Advent and the Universalist, have no church home, but hold their meeting in Smith's hall and the town hall.
But long before the organization of the Congregational Society in Sharon religious services, preaching it was called, were held in the town. As early as February, 1777, the towns of Royalton and Sharon joined in hiring a preacher, he to be paid by the towns in proportion to the grand lists of the towns, and plans were designated for holding services, that in Sharon 'on the road between Mr. Russell Morgan's grist-mill and the dwelling house of Joseph Parkhurst, near the second bridge on the Quallion (Quation) Creek, about twenty rods below said bridge.'
Town Representatives in General Assembly.--March, 1778, Daniel Gilbert; October, 1778, Benjamin Spalding; 1779, none; 1780, Ebenezer Parkhurst; 1781, Joel Marsh; 1782-83, Daniel Gilbert; 1784, Anthony Morse (possibly an error, records uncertain); 1785, Daniel Gilbert; 1786-87, James Carpenter; 1788, Joel Marsh; 1789-90, Anthony Morse; 1791, Daniel Gilbert; 1792, Joel Marsh; 1793, Ebenezer Parkhurst; 1794, Reuben Spalding; 1795, James Parker; 1796, Ebenezer Parkhurst; 1797, Reuben Spalding; 1798, Anthony Morse; 1799, Joel Marsh; 1800, Reuben Spalding; 1801, Anthony Morse; 1802, George Dana; 1803, Joel Marsh; 1804-05, Paul W. Brigham (probably an error); 1806-07, Reuben Spalding; 1808-09, James Parker; 1810, Oliver Lathrop; 1811, James Parker; 1812 to 1814, Reuben Spalding; 1815, Samuel Steele; 1816, none; 1817 to 1821, James Parker; 1822, William Steele; 1823-25, James Parker; 1826-30, William Steele; 1831-34, none reported; 1835-37, John Baldwin; 1838-39, A. F. Dean; 1840, Freeman Holt; 1841-42, Lyman Tyler; 1843-45, Roderick D. Lathrop; 1846-47, John C. Baldwin; 1848-50, Hiram Moore; 1851, Colcord Quinby; 1852, Chester Baxter; 1853-54, Eleazer B. Baldwin; 1855, none; 1856, T. S. Hubbard; 1857-58, Eleazer Baldwin; 1859-60, Colcord Quinby; 1861-63, Samuel Steele; 1864-65, Albert B. Mosher; 1866-67, Guy S. Nutt; 1868-69, James Parker; 1870-71, William H. H. Walbridge; 1872-73, Joel H. Morse; 1874-75, Mariot G. Howe; 1876-77; Edward B. Chamberlain; 1878-79, Levi B. Steele; 1880-81, Ami Follett; 1882-83, Albert B. Preston; 1884-85, A. C. Sherwin; 1886-87, E. K. Baxter; 1888-89, Amos Emery.
OLD FAMILIES.
It would be impossible within the compass of this work to give a genealogical sketch of each family that has been connected with the town. The remainder of this chapter is devoted to those who feel and have manifested an interest in preserving the records of their ancestors. For sketches received too late for insertion in this chapter please refer to a later chapter of this work.
Baldwin--The Baldwins of Sharon are descended from Henry Baldwin, who was a freeman in Woburn, Mass., in 1652, but was a resident of that town in 1640, and held the position of selectman in 1681. He married November 1, 1649, Phebe, eldest daughter of Ezekiel Richardson. He died February 4, 1697. Of his eleven children Benjamin, the youngest, was born in Woburn, Mass., January 20, 1672, and removed to Canterbury, Conn., about 1700, where he died in 1759. He married Hannah-----and had eight children. Benjamin, his second son, was born in 1700, and married April 24, 1724, Elizabeth Longbottom. He was a resident of Norwich, Conn., where he died at an advanced age. He was a man of great physical strength, and being at one time a prisoner of the Indians, proved more than a match for them in wrestling. Of his five children, Ebenezer, the youngest, was born in Hebron, Conn., February 5, 1736, married Abigail Blackman, born in 1743. He removed to Oxford, N. H., about 1762, and died at Fairlee, Vt., in 1818. He had eight children: Abigail, married Nathaniel Marsh; Ebenezer removed to Ohio; Martha, married Thomas Truesdale; Irene, married Stephen Lumbard; Betsy, married Rufus Carpenter; Eleazer; William, died in Ohio; and John, Eleazer, above, was born in Oxford, N. H., January 27, 1778, and married November, 1803, Polly Ladd, born April 11, 1785. Their children were Pamelia (deceased), married Dr. Isaac D. Carpenter; Alphes L., born April 18, 1808, died in Strafford, in 1880; twin daughters died in infancy; Emily (deceased), married Willard Hayward; Emeline, died single; Eleazer Blackman; William A., born June 12, 1820, died in Strafford; Marietta, died young; Deo Datus, died aged nineteen; Abigail D., wife of Lavinius H. Chandler, of Barton Landing, Vt.; and Polly G., wife of Edward Dutton, of Barton, Vt. Eleazer was a physician, and died December 20, 1857, his wife August 2, 1870, Eleazer Blackman was born in Strafford, April 30, 1818, came to Sharon in 1842 and engaged in farming. He has been prominently identified in State and town affairs. He has been selectman, lister, member of the House in 1853-58, and nominee on the Democratic ticket for lieutenant-governor in 1877. He married January 31, 1842, Lucia H. Brown, born in Strafford, February 18, 1821. They had eleven children: Willard H., born May 14, 1843, married Lucinda Martyn, born May 14, 1843; he is a railroad bridge builder, and resides now at West Lebanon, N. H.; Marcella L., died young; Francelia E., resides in South Dakota; George W., born August 3, 1845, unmarried, engaged in railroad bridge building, and resides in Rutland, Vt.; Eleazer, born June 26, 1849, married Eveline Vaughan; they have two children; Parker, and Emily resides at Manchester, Vt.; E. Henry, born March 31, 1851, railroad engineer, resides in Londonderry, Vt.; Adelia L., school teacher in Boston; Emma, wife of E. L. Wells, of Lyndonville; Deo Datus, born February 16, 1857, married first, Josie Dewey, and had one child, Josie D.; he married, second, Jennie Eaton, and is now a farmer and banker in South Dakota; William A., born October 16, 1858, married Emma Wheeler, and has one child, Charley; he is a farmer of Carthage, S. D.; Rufus C., born March 22, 1862, married May Bickford. They had on child, Ralph, resides, at Huntington, Vt. John, son of Ebenezer, was born in Oxford, N. H., and married Lucinda Clark. He settled in Sharon, March, 1818, where he died February 3, 1870. His children were Almira (deceased), married Moses Preston; Phebe (deceased), married Abijah Felton; John C., a Universalist minister, died at Sharon; Albert, resides in Kansas; and Lucinda, widow of David Felton, lives in Illinois.
Chillson, William Howard, was born in Barnston, Canada, December 5, 1854, and was third in a family of four children of George Washington and Sophia (Moser) Chillson. His father was a native of West Hartley, Canada, and died at Barnston in 1867. His brothers and sisters are Edna Z., wife of Don Blake, of S Albans, Vt.; Edgar, farmer, living in Sharon; and Albert G., living at Lowell, Mass. William H resided in Canada till he was twelve years old, when his mother after the death of her husband removed with her children to Sharon, where she died in 1884. He was three years in the Stark cotton-mills of Manchester, N. H., and for twelve years was employed as fireman and engineer on the Vermont Central Railroad, during which time he resided at St. Albans. In December, 1889, he purchased a farm in Sharon, upon which he now lives. He married, first, Jennie McDonald, of Sharon. They had one child, Edith A. He married, second, Flora Bullard, of Swanton Vt. They have no children.
Day, Edwin L., born in Sharon, January 4, 1838, descends in the eight generation from Robert Day, who came to Cambridge in 1634, and died in 1648. The line is as follows: first, Robert; second, Robert, born in 1604; third, Benjamin, of Gloucester, ancestors of the Days in Vermont. He had seven sons and three daughters; fourth, Caleb, born about 1680, and had children as follows: Caleb, Israel, John, Ebenezer, Daniel, Ichabod, Ruth, and Hannah; fifth, Ichabod above, married, married Elizabeth -----------, and had children as follows: Amos, Asa, John, Orin, David, Robert, Elizabeth, Hannah and Olive. He died November 3, 1769, aged forty-six. Elizabeth, his wife, died February 15, 1802, aged eighty-seven; sixth, Orin, fourth son above, born at Wrentham, Mass., August 5, 1792, married July 13, 1788, Joanna Everett. Their children were Warren, Pliney, Lucy, Amelia, Horace, Harvey, Orin, and Lucia. Orin died September 20, 1835, in Sharon, aged seventy-three; his wife Joanna September 17, 1853, aged eighty-six; seventh, Orin, seventh child above, born in Sharon, September 23, 1806. His wife was Esther Peck, married September 5, 1836. He died September 14, 1883; his wife August 15, 1879. Their children were Edwin L. and Colvin T. The latter died June 29, 1885; eight, Edwin L., married Mary, daughter of Eli and Roxanna (Harrington) Hayden, who was born in Sharon, October 6, 1837. The father of Eli was brought up by Larkin Hunter, of Sharon, who was a brother of Mrs. Hannah Hendee, the heroine on the occasion of the Indian invasion in 1780. Mr. and Mrs. Day had two children, viz Herbert E. and Addie M., died January 30, 1871. Both resided in Sharon.
Drown, Wheaton, a native of Connecticut, settled in Hartford, Vt., was born October 19, 1784, and died December 14, 1867. He married, first, Mary Ives. Of their children one died in infancy. The others were Walter, who died in Sharon, and Charles I. He married, second, Ann Porter, and their only child, John, was drowned in the White River at Hartford when nineteen years of age. Charles I., born in Hartland, died in Sharon, March 14, 1875. He married Diana Porter. They had five children: Porter, died young; Charles E., married Martha Ladd; Mary, died aged eighteen; Ella (deceased), married Charles Moray; and George B., born in Sharon, July 12, 1861, married Minnie Howe. They had one child, Mark G. George B. is engaged in farming and is one of the present selectmen of the town.
Emery, Amos, was born in Chester, N. H., March 27, 1829, the third in a family of six sons and two daughters, of Jonathan and Nancy (Eaton) Emery. His education was received in the local schools, and he has always been engaged in farming. His father removed to Washington, Vt., in 1830, where he died. He remained with his father till 1835, when he purchased his time and commenced work in Brookfield, Vt., where he remained till 1869, when he removed to Chelsea, Vt., and became a resident of Sharon in 1884. Mr. Emery has taken an active part in public affairs. At the age of twenty-one he was elected captain of a militia company at Brookfield. He has been town superintendent of schools, member of the text-book committee, lister, member of the House of 1888, and since December, 1887, has been justice of the peace at Sharon, and has held every office that a town could bestow. He married, first, Almira Hibbard, by whom he had two children; George A., engaged in trade and a resident of Boston, and Albert E., a hotel-keeper, of East Randolph, Vt. He married, second, Sarah M. Hibbard, a sister of his first wife, by whom he had two children: Curtis Stanton, a lawyer, but a present cashier of Orange County National Bank, at Chelsea, Vt., and Wilson Seward of Boston, assistant United States marshal for Massachusetts. Mr. Emery is a Republican in politics, has always taken a great interest in music, and has had charge of a choir for many years.
Fay.--The family of this name in Sharon is descended from John Fay, a native of England, who was born about 1648. He embarked for America May 30, 1656, on board the Speedwell, arriving in Boston June 27th, of that year. Of the family of eight children Gresham died November 24, 1720. He had a son Gresham, born September 17, 1703, and who died April 7, 1784. He married Hannah, a daughter of Nathaniel Oaks, and emigrant from England. She was born December 27, 1707, and died March 3, 1806. Gresham lived at Northboro, which was then a part of Westboro, Mass., and had a family of eight children. Joseph, his fifth child, was born September 17, 178. He married Lucy Warren, who was born at Shrewsbury, Mass., about 1742. She was related to General Joseph Warren. Joseph settled for some time at Boston, but removed to Walpole, N. H., in the early part of 1776. He was married November 14. 1782, to Sarah Graves, who was born in Seabrook, Conn., July 15, 1762. Their children were Calvin, Artemas, Sally, Luther, Fanny, Rebecca, Robert, Betsey, Joseph, Lewis, Tirzah, and Allen Clark. Joseph died at Walpole, N. H., October 13, 1831; his wife April 25, 1847. Luther, the son of Joseph, was born in Walpole, October 3, 1788. He married Nancy Kibling, of Westmoreland, N. H. He became a resident of Vermont in 1812, settling in Vershire. After remaining there one year he removed to Strafford, and in 1825, located at Sharon, where he died December 30, 1864. He had six children: Joseph Lewis, died at Sharon; Calvin Kibling; Rollins Burke, died young; Jacob Luther, died in Sharon; Sarah Ann (deceased), married Azro Mosher; and Nancy Maria, died young. Calvin Kibling was born in Walpole, N. H., March 8, 1810, and married January 3, 1832, Betsey Northrop, who was born at Strafford, Vt., February 8, 1810. He is a stone mason and carpenter by trade, and has also been engaged in faring, having purchased his present farm in 1834. He had four children, all of whom were born in Sharon. They are Rollins Burke, born December 29, 1832, married Jane Shepard. He is a Congregational minister, and reside in Sheldon, Vt. He had two sons, viz; Alba Greenleaf, born in Sharon, June 12, 1857m and married Sophia Cynthia Harrington; he is a lawyer and resides in Reedsboro, Vt.; and Charles Myron, died June 23, 1886. George Edward, born September 28, 1836, married Mary Jane Tyler. He resides in Sharon, and is a carpenter and builder. He has three children: Fredwin Tyler, unmarried, a resident of Lowell, Mass.; Sarah Minnie, wife of Nahum Heath, of Lowell, Mass.; and Ellen Jane. Ellen Sarah (deceased) married Harry Parkhurst; and Luther Calvin, born September 4, 1842. The latter became a member of Company D, Sixteenth Vermont Infantry, and owing to sickness contracted in the army died March 4, 1872. He married Stephanie Eliza Fagan, who survives him. He had two children: Jennie Mary, wife of William Keyler, of Arlington, N. J. ; and George Calvin, a resident of the same place.
Follett, Martin D., was born in Enosburg, Vt., July 18, 1793. He came to Pomfret in 1833, and removed to Royalton twenty years later, where he died September 18, 1865. He married Lurana Winchell, and had six children: Sarah P., died single; Truman, died aged three years; Lucy F., married Harry B. Goff; Ammi; Norman, died April 18, 1890, at Cameron, Mo., and Calista, widow of Carlos Miller, resides in Royalton. Amun, son of Martin D., born in Enosburg, married April 4, 1848, Lydia Arvilla Dodge, who was born in Johnson, Vt., May 20, 1826. Mr. Follett became a resident of Sharon in 1867, and is engaged in farming. He had six children: Persis Hannah, now living in Sharon; Phineas Dodge, died in infancy; Fred Clarence, died aged two years, Ammi Ward, now living at Somerville, Mass.; he is a physician; Lucy Arvilla, wife of Alson C. Ralph, of Cambridge, Mass., and Marian Elizabeth, died aged sixteen.
Holt, Isaac, a native of Connecticut, moved shortly after his marriage and settled in the eastern part of Sharon. He had three children: Freeman; Caleb, died in Sharon; and Hannah, wife of Elisha Terry. Freeman married Lucy, daughter of Samuel Page, and died June 16, 1865, aged seventy-five. His wife died October 25, 1859, aged sixty-two. They had three children: Francis Freeman; Harlem Samuel, died in Hartford, October, 1874; Harmony P., married E. Williamson. Freeman Holt was selectman, lister, etc. Francis Freeman, born in Sharon, married Welthaney Williamson. They had no children. He lived at home until he was thirty-one years old. He opened a general store at West Hartford, December 1, 1856, and has carried on business there since. Harmony P. died in Sharon, January 26, 1890.
Marsh, Joel Henry, was born in Sharon, October 30, 1826, the eldest of the three children of Timothy and Philena (Burbank) Marsh. His great-grandfather, Isaac, in company with Willard Shepard, Parkhurst, and Havens, first settled in the town of Sharon. He, alone of the four, remained in Sharon the first winter. He came from Plainfield, Conn., and returned and died there. His son Joel was born in Plainfield, January 6, 1747, and married April 7, 1766, in Plainfield, Sarah Wheeler, born September 27, 1746. Their children were Elias, Eunice, Polly, Hannah, Wealthy, Joel, Timothy, Zebina. Joel Marsh died October 19, 1811. His wife, Sarah, died January 8, 1843. Timothy was twice married. He married first Fanny Durkee. They had four children, viz: Fanny, wife of Timothy Kittridge; Emeline, wife of Calvin Dimmick; George, died in Boston; and Charles died in Marlboro, Mass. Timothy married second Philena Burbank. Their children were Joel Henry and Mary Spring. Joel Henry married October 3, 1853, Sarah, daughter of Paul and Sarah (Smith) Howe. They had five children: Emma D., William C., Alice G., Celia H. and Timothy. Joel H. owns and occupies the homestead in Sharon. He was a member of the Legislature in 1872, chairman of the board of selectmen six years and is at present a member of the board, and was justice of the peace a number of years.
Mosher,---This family in Sharon are descended from Nicholas Mosher, who resided in Tyringham, Conn. He married Elizabeth Crandall, and had fourteen children: Gideon, Sarah, Lydia, Aaron, Freeman, Beer, Pardon, Mary, Thomas, Rodman, Silas, Elizabeth, Phebe and Godfrey. Pardon, of the above, was born March 3, 1765, and was one of the early settlers of Strafford, Vt. He married Sarah Garfield, who was born May 3,1772. His children were Alanson; Dan, died in Sharon; Thomas, died in Michigan; Christina (deceased), married first Ambrose Preston, second Levi Mosher; Margaret (deceased), married Amphias Patterson; Isaac, resides at Ferrysburgh, Vt.; Ephraim, died aged sixteen; Amanda, married and died in Massachusetts; Lucy, widow of Luke Bliss, resides in West Springfield, Mass., and Philo lives in Winconsin. Pardon died January 4, 1852, his wife January 6, 1852. Alanson, son of Pardon, born in Sharon, September 9, 1791, married Azubah Preston. They had seven children: Alanson, resident of Nebo, Ill., Emeline M. (deceased), wife of William Quinby; Amanda J. (deceased), wife of Lyman Wheeler; Luria Ann, widow of Jacob Fay, resides in Sharon; Sarah Sophia (deceased), wife of George Chilson; William Howard, died at Montpelier; and Niles Quimby, born in Sharon, April 22, 1836, resides in his native town. Alanson died March 22, 1879. Rodman, son of Nicholas above, removed from Connecticut after his marriage and settled on the farm now owned and occupied by Chandler Ladd. He had eight children: Abijah C.; Silas died in 1864, at Morristown, Vt.; Hannah, married Joel Hunter, and died at Janesville, Wis., in 1887; Levi, died in Hoosick, N. Y.; Harvey, died at Troy, N. Y., in 1889; Morris, died in Maine; Clarissa P., widow of John Becker, lives in Schoharie, N. Y.; and Dighton Z., died at Schoharie. Abijah C., the eldest above, born in Sharon, April 20, 1792, married Relief Booth. He had three children, and died December 28, 1874. His wife died in Sharon, August 27, 1844. Albert B., the eldest of his children, was born in Sharon, January 29, 1817, and married first Mary L. Eldredge, by whom he had two children, viz: George A., an attorney living in Troy, N. Y., and Charles A., who married first Lora Williamson. She died June 2, 1874. They had one child, a son, Loren A. Charles A. married Celia P. Howe for his second wife. He is a farmer residing in Sharon on the old homestead. Albert B., the above, married for his second wife, Maria A. (Bisbee) Ralph, who died March 6, 1887. He has always resided in Sharon with the exception of three years, when he lived in Schoharie county, N. Y., teaching school there. He taught five terms in Vermont, and has since followed farming. He has been lister, selectman, etc., several years, school district clerk forty-five years, justice of the peach over twenty years, and member of the Legislature two years, 1864 and 1865. Ruth D., the second of the above of Abijah C. Mosher's children, married George Dimick. They had two children, Ellen and Emma, who are living, the former in Ludlow, Vt., who married Charles Raymond; the latter, Emma who married Rufus Barton, M.D., lives in Altamont, Albany county, N. Y. The third child of Abijah C. Mosher, George W., died when five years old, July 23, 1826.
Parker, Lieutenant Joseph, was born September 15, 1725, and married November 20, 1746, Rachel Muran. He died March 8, 1792. He had children as follows: Eunice, Rachel, Elizabeth, Joseph, Solomon, Amos, Rachel, second, James, Johannah, David and Jonathan. James, above, was born in Coventry, Conn., April 9, 1763, settled in the fall of 1787 on the farm now occupied by his grandson, J. J. Parker. He was a Baptist minister and a Revolutionary soldier and for nine successive years represented the town in the Legislature. He married Kesiah Weatherby and his children were Harmony (deceased), married David Moore; Sabine; Luke, married Adacia Parker; Junia, married Ruth Poole; Sybil, died single; Clarissa (deceased), married Caleb Holt; Calm, died young; Almira (deceased), married Roswell Huntington; Betsey (deceased), married Elias Newton; and James. He died March 17, 1839. James, the youngest above, was born in Sharon, September 20, 1806, married Mary Merrill. Of his six children, one died in infancy. The others were Mary Josephine, wife of Sylvester F. Huckins of Bellows Falls; Sarah Almarine, died aged two months; Armantha C., wife of Henry Phillips of Bellows Falls; Ellen Georgianna, married first, Albert Ferguson, second, Elijah W. Brown, she resides in Bellows Falls; and James Judson. Mr. Parker resided in Sharon until 1887, when he removed to Bellows Falls. He was a member of the Legislature in 1868-69, and died June 7, 1890. James Judson, son of James, was born in Sharon, November 24, 1846, married Marcia Babcock and had three children: Arthur; Alice May, died in infancy; and Minnie May.
Parkhurst, Walter, son of Elias, was born in Royalton. At the age of two years his father moved to Barnstead. C. E., where he died. Walter returned from Canada and married Avaline Brownell. They had five children: Edwin C., a resident of California; Henry B., resides in Barnard; Ellis N., died in Barnard; Daniel E., and Jason A., lives in Pomfret. Walter died in Barnard, July 11, 1870. Daniel E. was born in Rochester, Vt., June 20, 1845. His father removed to Barnard in 1856, where Daniel E. resided until September, 1871, when he became a resident of Sharon. He is a shoemaker by trade, and since the spring of 1882 he has been town clerk and treasurer. He has been justice of the peace for six years. He is also a notary public. He married first Lenora B. Adams. They had one child, Lizzie A. He married second Lutheria, widow of Allen Barrett, and daughter of Leonard D. Cross.
Preston, Colonel Moses, born in Strafford, Vt., August 27, 1798, was the son of Edward and Thankful (Bidwell) Preston. He was a blacksmith and gunsmith, and was engaged in the manufacture of guns in Sharon, of which town he was a resident for over fifty-five years, where he died November 27, 1870. He built the saw-mill in Sharon now owned and operated by his son. He married Almira Baldwin and had seven children: Hiram, Rozilla J., Lucinda B., Almira, Albert Baldwin, Moses F. and Chauncey E. Albert Baldwin was born in Sharon, October 16, 1837, married Mary Alzada Ladd. They had seven children: Alice P., Albert O., Homer F., Ira P., Lucy E., Lottie N. and Celia A. Albert B. is engaged in lumbering and farming and had been selectman, lister, justice of the peace, and was member of the House of Representatives in 1882.
Quimby, William, was born in Springfield, N. H., in 1789, and removed to Norwich, Vt., in 1828 and died there March 9, 1859. He married Mary Sanborn, who died December 6, 1855, aged sixty-two. They had ten children: Mary (deceased), married William Hopkins; Almira, widow of Gardner Davis, resides in Norwich, Vt., Sophia (deceased), married Abner Flanders; Hannah, married, first James Culver, second, William Taylor; she lives at Plano, Ill; Martha (deceased), married William Morrison; Amanda (deceased), married John T. Robinson; David, married Marcia Blanchard, lives at Elkhart, Ind.; Alma, resides at Manchester, N. H.; and Jane, wife of M. W. Foster of Haikley, Ill. William, son of William, was born in Springfield, N. H., July 10, 1820, married March 4, 1884, Mary M. Lull. The same year he removed to Sharon, where he engaged in lumbering and farming, and died February 20, 1867; he had four children; James S., who succeeded to his father's business in Sharon; Clara F., widow of William H. Halbridge, resides in Boston; Justin O., died aged twenty-three; and Alice A., died age eighteen.
Shirlock, Francis, born in Kildare county, Ireland, April 16, 1841, emigrated to America during Jackson's administration. He married Miss Mary McDonough of Burlington, February 10, 1844, and located at Sharon, Vt., on a farm which he owned previous to his marriage. Twelve children came to bless the union, ten of whom survive their father. Mr. Shirlock died in Sharon, March 3, 1880. His family are located as follows: Annie M., wife of P. S. McGinnis of Boston; Edward, who occupies the home farm in Sharon, and cares for his mother and unmarried sisters; John, a farmer residing in Royalton, Vt.; Maggie, Joseph, Katie and Sarah, all living at Sharon. Joseph occupies one of his father's farms and acts as foreman at the H. A. Clark stock farm in Sharon; Katie is a teacher in the public schools of Windsor county; William, a resident of Middlesex, Vt., is engaged in railroad business; Ellen, wife of David Daly of St. Albans, Vt., and George, a resident of St. Albans, in the employ of the railroad company. James and Charles died when quite young. Mrs. Shirlock was born in Ireland, September 26, 1826, and emigrated to America in 1831.
Smith, John Porter, was born in Hanover, N. H.; September 23, 1804, and married Harriet Bush. She was born February 8, 1807, He was a blacksmith by trade. He resided in Canada, Hanover and Boston up to the time of his marriage. He then moved to Lebanon, N. H., and in 1837 came to Sharon, locating on what is known as the Stoughton farm. After living on this farm four years he removed to the village of Sharon, where he carried on his trade about thirty years. He was town clerk, justice of the peace, and selectman. He died in Sharon in 1883, his wife January 3, 1874. Their only child, George D., was born in Lebanon, N. H., February 15, 1836. After attending the local schools he was fitted for college at the Newbury and Montpelier academies, but was obliged to forego a college education on account of ill-health. From his youth he has paid particular attention to the study of music a number of years. By trade he is a carpenter, a business which he has followed for twenty-six years. He was selectman two years. He married, first, Mary A., daughter of Cyrus and Thankful (Preston) Robinson. By this union he had one child, William Steele, born in Coldwater, Mich., January 25, 1860, and died in Sharon, January 15. 1863, Mrs., Smith was born in Sharon, Vt., October 27, 1835, was the daughter of Judge William Steele, who was born in Randolph, Vt., February 10, 1778, and married March 25, 1811, Lydia Gleason, born May 26, 1790, Bare, Mass.
Walbridge, Josiah, born in Sharon, Vt., May 1, 1803, married Mary Ladd, by whom he had two children: William Henry Harrison, born July 6, 1840, married Clara Quimby, and had one child, Arthur Henry; he died October 28, 1880; and Chester B., born in Sharon, December 22, 1842, married Ella Graves. They had no children. He resides in the village of Sharon and carries on a farm. Josiah Walbridge was the leading merchant in Sharon for many years, and died in Sharon, September 22, 1881.
Source: The History of Windsor County Vermont with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers by Lewis Cass Aldrich and Frank R. Holmes, 1891
Transcribed by: RuthAnne Wilke
April 26, 2013

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