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Brattleboro History: Antiques & Fossils Archives
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Continue reading John Woodbury Cellos. Robert Pender's Indian Hatchet. Continue reading Robert Pender's Indian Hatchet. Sargeant Family Bible 1752. Continue reading Sargeant Family Bible 1752. Town Hall Antique Show 1857. Continue reading Town Hall Antique Show 1857. Fairbank Moore Powder Horn 1777. Continue reading Fairbank Moore Powder Horn 1777. Joshua Davis Powder Horn 1776. This powder horn has the carving, "Success to the Sons of Liberty," with "Joshua Davis his Horn" and "Brattelborough" in the ol...
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Dr. John Wilson, Wilder Knight - Brattleboro History
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Dr John Wilson, Wilder Knight. Dr John Wilson's Portmanteau Or Medicine Chest. Peculiar Document in Possession of Mrs. H. E. Bond. In Handwriting of Dr. John Wilson,. Mrs H E. Bond has in her possession an interesting souvenir of Dr. John Wilson, known in the early forties as "Thunderbolt," and supposed to have been the notorious highwayman of Ireland and Scotland. It is a prescription written probably about 1843 or 1844 for her father, Wilder Knight. Vermont Phoenix, September 29, 1911. Wilder Knight an...
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Dr. John Wilson's Stray Horse - Brattleboro History
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Dr John Wilson's Stray Horse. Dr John Wilson, the reformed Scottish highwayman known as Captain Thunderbolt, always kept his Ayrshire county accent. In this advertisement for his stray horse, the country doctor spells out "Cornal," the Scottish pronunciation for "colonel," in referring to Col. Erastus Hubbard of the Fort Bridgeman farm in Vernon, south of Brattleboro. Dr Cyrus Washburn of Vernon defended and praised his colleague- -. Sorrel" is from a very old word that indicated "the color of dried leav...
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Dr. John Wilson, Probate Records - Brattleboro History
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Dr John Wilson, Probate Records. Dr John Wilson's Estate Inventory. Dr Francis J. Higginson, Larkin G. Mead, Esq., Appraisers. Real estate on the Vernon road $1200.00. Steam engine and other machinery in saw mill on said road $700.00. 1 horse 40.00. 1 buggy 25.00. 1 yellow sleigh 12.00. 1 brown sleigh 10.00. 1 old black gig 5.00. 1 chaise top buggy 15.00. 1 old green gig without top 3.00. 1 old green gig with top 4.00. 1 old chaise 8.00. Willis Bemis, Clerk At The Auction. Lumber in saw mill 5.00. Purcha...
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Brattleboro History: Connecticut River & Wantastiquet Archives
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Connecticut River and Wantastiquet. Charles L. Gunzinger. Charles L. Gunzinger, Clay Sculpture, "The Dying Lion Of Luzerne" After The Lion Of Lucerne, Designed By Bertel Thorvaldsen Photograph By Lester C. Akeley In July 1915 The Lion Of Lucerne, Switzerland Helvetiorum Fidei ac Virtuti To the loyalty and bravery of the Swiss The monument commemorates the Swiss Guard that defended the Tuileries Palace in Paris, and the French King Louis XVI from the revolutionary mob during. Broughton D. Harris Names...
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Indian-Hating In The Wizard Of Oz - Brattleboro History
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Indian-Hating In The Wizard Of Oz. Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919) advocated the extermination of the American Indian in his 1899 fantasy, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Baum was an Irish nationalist newspaper editor, a former resident of Aberdeen in the old Dakota Indian territory. His sympathies with the village pioneers caused him to invent the Oz fantasy to justify extermination. The Wicked Witch of the West is illustrated in the 1900 first edition as a pickaninny, with beribboned, braided pigtails extende...
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Brattleboro History: Farms Archives
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The Levi Goodenough Farm 1783. Sale Of The Dwight Goodenough Farm. An important real estate transaction has taken place this week in the sale of the well-known Dwight Goodenough farm, two miles west of this village, to Robert R. Norton of Vernon. The farm comprises 250 acres of land under a high state of cultivation, and is one of the best for dairying and general stock raising in this vicinity. It has produced 90. Continue reading The Levi Goodenough Farm 1783. Continue reading Cold Spring. Rev William ...
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Jacob Cartledge - Brattleboro History
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September 5, 1908. Town's Ex-Slave In Need Of Funds. Efforts to Secure More Pension for "Jake" Cartlidge. Born in Slavery, Sold on the Block,. Beaten by Cruel Taskmasters-. Served in Pennsylvania Regiment. The auctioneer answered "Thirty years old." As that was shortly before Cartlidge enlisted in 1864 it places his age around 75 years, as he claims. Jake" never had had any experience with the soldiers and said, "What do I have to do? Vermont Phoenix, December 6, 1912. The present records give Jacob's mu...
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Brattleboro History: Churches, Sermons & Ministers Archives
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Churches, Sermons and Ministers. Rev Hosea Beckley's History. Publisher's Note. The Rev. Hosea Beckley, for many years a distinguished clergyman of this state, was the author of the following work, which he had nearly prepared for the press, some two years since, and had obtained a large list of subscribers for the book, when he was suddenly arrested by death- -leaving no other patrimony to his bereaved family but this work in manuscript, upon which he had bestowed. Church Loses The Common. Rev Charles W...
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Dr. John Wilson's House In Newfane - Brattleboro History
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Dr John Wilson's House In Newfane. Thunderbolt House In Williamsville. Also Called "The "Dunklee Place". Dr John Wilson purchased this house from David Read (Reed) on October 11, 1826. It stood on the north side of the road from Henry Wheelock's Tavern to the William H. Williams general store, nearly opposite the Charles H. Cune store, which building was in later years Oscar L. Sherman's general store. Daguerreotype About 1842 By T. Covil. Dr John Wilson's expense accounts, recorded by clerks in the Will...
