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From: Tucky Sancibrian <>
Subject: [VT-L] Bloomfield, Vermont
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 21:30:52 -0500

Will do a bit more this evening. One thing, Bloomfield is in Essex
County, Vermont up where the Nulhegan River meets the Connecticut River.

October 20, 1945 - John French of Bloomfield has died. He was born in
1764 the son of Nathaniel and Elixabeth (Frost) French. He came to the
town from Brattleboro, Vermont and married Patience Warner, daughter of
Martin Warner. She was a granddaughter of Captain Eleazer Warner who
served in the French and Indian War. He leaves 4 children, Patience,
John, Susanna and Martin.

November 25, 1847 - died in Bloomfield, Raymond Fuller, age 70. He was
born in 1777, married Mary Wright and died November 25, 1947. It is
thought that he came to the town with his brother, Ayres Fuller about
1800. He was the father of 10 children, Mary, Daniel, Henry, Caleb,
Hiram, Sarah, Asaph P., Raymond, Jr., Willard (only 9 listed).

June 20, 1849 - Died in Bloomfield on the 11th, Dolly, wife of Josiah
Smith, aged 74, 1 month, 15 days. (Lancaster Democrat)

1849 - The Baldwin Brothers, Elisha and William erected a mill on the
Nulhegan River in South Bloomfield. They were in their early 30's when
they built the mill and were the grandsons of Jabez Baldwin who built
the Baldwin Homestead in North Stratford, NH in 1843. In 1859 they sold
the mill Woodman and Richards and after one year they passed into the
possession of Enoch and Alfred Perkins.

1854 - On November 10, 1854 Samuel N. Silver was appointed postmaster of
Bloomfield.

September 9, 1855 Rolliin Alger Baldwin, the son of Elisha Alger Baldwin
and Eliza (Beach) Baldwin, was born. He later became a skilled
mechanician, inventor and manufacturer. He invented the electric switch
for electric railways. He later moved away to Manchester and then to
New Haven, Connecticut.

1859 - Nestor Willis Baldwin was born in Bloomfield to Elizha Alger
Baldwin and Eliza (Beach Baldwin.

Grand List for Bloomfield in 1850

School District 1

James B. Davis Daniel H. Shoff Collins C. Lounsbury
Joseph Stevens Alva Stevens Ichabod Stevens
William Stevens Thomas Allin Raymond Fuller
Henry Fuller & William Spencer Jason Fuller
Gratis Spencer Henry Cook Elisha Baldwin
Elisha A. Baldwin Hanes Shoff Orlando Shoff
John Dewey Walhez W. Stevens

School District 2

Soloman Bowker William Burbank Stephen Foss
Milton Cook Charles Cook Hiram Fuller
Lorinas C. Peck Prince Snow John Pulsifer
John Phelps Joseph C. Currier Edward Hurd
Sally Walling A. P. Fuller Ambrose Lervy
Jasper Walling Oreon Stevens Henry Nois (Noyes)
N. B. Bowker Jonathan Bowker S. N. Silver
W. N. French W. N. French J. W. Winter
Arad Silver Selden Burbank Jonathan Bowker, Jr.

School District 3

Charles B. Silver Hiram Clough Isaac Bartlett
B.F. & H.C. Davis James Walling E. A. Martin
Meaz Leavitt George Leavitt John P. Leavitt
J. J. & S. W. Holbrook Asael Silver William R. Silver
Samuel Healy Silas Wright Adin Bartlett
Norris W. Silver

1851 Haines Shoff died November 25, 1851. He was born in Franconia, NH
in 1780 and for many years lived in Brunswick. He married April 30,
1804 Lois Webster. Among their children was Orlando who settled in
Bloomfield in 1825.

That is it for tonight.

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