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From: "Pauline Manosh" <>
Subject: Re:Bolton, Vermont Chittenden County Jones/McGee
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 21:28:27 -0500


>From Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer
Bolton, Vermont
pg. 482
The first actual settlements were made immediately after the war of the
Revolution. The precise time does not appear upon the town records; yet as
near as can be ascertained from the oldest inhabitants, it is evident that
some of the first settlers came from the Connecticut river valley as soon as
the war closed. That there were no settlements in this vicinity at the time
when Capt. John Barnet was killed, is clear, for when he passed down the
river there was nothing but an Indian trail through the woods. In this trail
he went as far as Richmond where he was shot by a party of Tories, the
account of which may be found in the history of that town.
It was , therefore, soon after the Revolution, that John and Robert
Kennedy,
Peter Dilse, a noted trapper, Amos Palmer, Noah Dewey, Augustus Levaque,
JABEZ JONES, Daniel Pineo, James Craig, John Preston, Johmn Moore, Robert
Stinson and Samuel Barnet settled in Bolton. Robert Kennedy was the first
representative to the legislature, and JABEZ JONES was the first clerk>
Polly







> I am seeking information regarding the parents of John E. Jones and his
wife
> Anna McGee. John was born in Vermont on June 17, 1812 (I don't know what
> town) and died in West Bolton on February 2, 1868. Anna was born in
Vermont
> on October 28, 1825 (again, no town name) and died in West Bolton on
August
> 23, 1867. They were married and living in West Bolton at the time of the
1850
> Federal Census.
> Children born in West Bolton include; John M. (1843), Juliana (1845),
Byron
> (1847), my great grandmother Electa (1851), Charles (1853), Henry (1856),
> Ellen (1858), Olive (1860), Nial (1862), Frank (1864), and Perry (1866).
Any
> information on the family would be greatly appreciated.
> Adrienne Weible
>

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