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Title: Gazetteer and business directory of Rutland county, Vt., for 1881-82
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Child, Hamilton, b. 1836
Subjects: Rutland County (Vt.) -- History Rutland County (Vt.) -- Directories Rutland County (Vt.) -- Biography
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y., Printed at the Journal office
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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, con-sisting of twelve members. In 1789 Mr. Isaac Webb was called to ordina-tion and settlement, the first pastor of the church and the first minister set-tled in the town. His pastorate was followed by that of twelve others succes-sively, the last of which has just terminated, the society being now without apastor. In its infancy the society held their meetings in dwelling houses, withonly occasional preaching. In 1790 a log house was constructed and occupiedas a place of worship until 1800, when a commodious frame house was erectedand occupied until 1832, when their present substantial brick edifice wascompleted and opened for use. The original cost of the structure, includingthe expense of its late reconstruction and improvement, may be estimated at$14,000, and the present value of church property, including buildings,$15,000. The seating capacity of the building will accomodate about fourhundred and fifty persons. The present membership of the society is onehundred and sixty-five
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TOWN OF CASTLETON. 97 ;BASTLET0N is located in the western part of the county, in lat. 43°■^^ 34 and long. 3° 56 east from Washington, and bounded north byw Hubbardton, east by Ira, south by Poultney, and west by Fairhaven,and a part of Benson ; the charter was granted to Samuel Brown, of Stock-bridge, Mass., by Gov. Wentvvorth, of New Hampshire, September 22,1761, and although granted to him there is no evidence that he ever actedwith the proprietors, or that he ever retained any interest in the township.The original proprietors were principally from Sahsbury, Conn., of whom one was named Castle, a heavy proprietor, and from whom the township probably takes its name. In 1767, Cols. Amos Bird and Noah Lee surveyedthe town and allotted the usual seventy shares, with five reserved for publicpurposes according to custom, and eleven years after this, March, 1777, itwas organized, with Jesse Belknap as first town clerk. The surface is diversified by hill, mountain, plain, lake, river a

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