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From: John Burbank <>
Subject: [VTADDISO] Burroughs
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 08:11:19 -0700

Posted on: Addison Co. Vt Query Forum
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H. P. Smith, ed., History of Addison County Vermont, (D. Mason & Co., Syracuse
NY, 1886)

bottom of p. 444: "Noah Porter lived toward the lake,"

(this sentence continues on p. 445) "in Porter's Borough. Joseph Burroughs
lived about half a mile southwest of Theophilus Middlebrook. His brother
Stephen lived in the same neighborhood."

>From this, of whom do we presume Stephen was the brother? Joseph Burroughs
or Theophilus Middlebrook? From what I discovered, this Stephen must be
the brother of Joseph Burroughs.

On p. viii and continuing on p. ix:

"Burroughs, Stephen M., Waltham, was born in Ferrisburgh, Vt., on September
5, 1812, and in 1838 he settled in Waltham, Vt., on the farm he now occupies.
He was married on March 20, 1837, to Submit W. Allen (a daughter of Solomon
and Catherine (Cross) Allen, who were natives of Panton, Vt.), and by whom
he had four children, George E., Solon, Judge S., and Mary J., who were
twins. The house Mr. Burroughs occupies was the first frame house which
was built in Waltham, Vt., and seven families have occupied the farm since
its original settlement; and but one death has occurred on the farm, that
of Mrs. Stephen M. Burroughs, which occurred on March 22, 1885. Stephen
M. Burroughs was a son of Ethan and Miranda (Finney) Burroughs. Ethan Burroughs
was born in Trumbull, Conn, on November 17, 1780, and died on August 9,
1850. His children were Ethan (deceased), Lodeska E. (deceased), Stephen
M., Ethan, Lucia A., Eden (deceased), Joseph (deceased), Solon (deceased),
and Sebah. Stephen M.'s paternal grandfather was a native of Trumbull,
Conn., who settled in Ferrisburgh, Vt., in 1787. His wife was Patience
Middlebrook (a daughter of Dr. Stephen Middlebrook, of Trumbull, Conn.),
and by whom he had two children, Patience (Mrs. William Walker) and Ethan.
Joseph Burroughs died on July 11, 1817, aged seventy years; his wife on
September 13, 1837. His maternal grandfather was Sackett Finney, of Monkton,
Vt., who lived to be ninety-three years of age, and at his death left over
three hundred descendants."

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