History
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Vermont Genealogical
Gazetteer - Windham County. There
is some information here from The Vermont
Historical Gazetteer relative to specific Windham
County
towns. Sponsored by Vermont-L mailing list and Rootsweb.
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Fort Dummer
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The "Great River" of New England - The Connecticut River -
Connecticut River Museum Homepage
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History of the Connecticut River
http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/conn.river/
The Green Mountain Boys: a historical tale of the early settlement of Vermont.
By
the author of... By
Daniel Pierce Thompson
2nd Link --
The Green Mountain boys: a historical tale of the early
settlement of Vermont, by the author of "May Martin, or The
money diggers."
By Daniel P. (Daniel Pierce) Thompson, 1795-1868
Historical Societies
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Vermont
Historical Society Library
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Windham County Historical
Societies
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Brattleboro
Historical Society
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Vermont Historical
Societies
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Connecticut Valley Historical Museum, with Genealogy and Local History Library,
Springfield
MA.
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NEHGS
-- New England Historical &
Genealogical Society.
New England Ancestors.org
-- New site of the NEHGS
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Genealogical
Society of Vermont
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New
Hampshire Historical Society
http://www.nhhistory.org/
Libraries
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Brooks Memorial
Library - Brattleboro, Vermont
--- has an excellent collection of history and genealogy for Vermont
and New England.
Mailing Lists
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Mailing
Lists Relative to Windham County
Maps & Places
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Map
of Windham County - 1895 (Large
file - it takes a long time to load) **Broken
Link**
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Map of
Windham County Townships
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A Gazetteer of
Vermont Places Real and Imagined
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National Register
Properties
Military
Soldiers, Sailors, and Patriots of the
Revolutionary War, Vermont, compiled by Carleton E. Fisher and Sue G.
Fisher (Picton Press, 1992).
Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary
War Pension Files, abstracted by Virgil D. White.
Vermont
in the Civil War by Tom Ledoux
List of Windham
County Men Drafted in Brattleboro July 17, 1863
Windham County, The
War of the Union
More Books
& Links
Roster of New Hampshire Soldiers in the Battle of Bunker's Hill -
National
Park Service-Boston
Vermont in the War of
1812 - A
List of Pensioniers of the War of 1812, William G. Shaw,
1904
1840 Census of Pensioners Revolutionary or Military Services,
Typed and reformatted by: Kathy Leigh, March 11, 2001
Newpapers
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Brattleboro
Reformer
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The Vermont Chronicle
Index to transcribed abstracts of the marriage and death
notices from the VERMONT CHRONICLE. The CHRONICLE was published weekly in
Bellows Falls, VT from April, 1826 to October, 1828,
then in Windsor, VT from Oct, 1828 to April 1898.
(However, marriage and death notices seemed to have stopped sometime in the
early 1880's) http://www.middlebury.edu/~swilson/introvc.html
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Vermont Newpaper Project
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Articles from Windham County
Newpapers 1781-1884 (VT GenWeb Project)
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Marriage
and Death Notices from the Vermont Chronicle
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Spooner's Vermont Journal - Old Newspaper Notices and Gleanings from
the early editions (printed in Windsor, Vermont).
Petitions
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1746
Petition for the Protection of Township No. 4
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See also Westminster
Website
Photographs
Postcards
Penny Postcards from
Vermont
See Vermont as it was 200
Years Ago - A digital archive of historic &
current photo pairs.
Type in "Windham County" and/or the name of a village to do an image search.
Probate Courts
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Marlboro District Probate
Court
West River Road,
P.O.
Box 523, Brattleboro
VT
05302
802-257-2898
Contains
towns of Brattleboro, Dover, Dummerston, Guilford, Halifax, Marlboro, Newfane,
Somerset, Stratton, Vermon, Wardsboro, Whitingham, and Wilmington.
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Westminster
District Probate Court
39 Square, P.O. Box 47,
Bellow
Falls VT
05101
802-463-3019
Contains towns of Athens,
Brookline,
Grafton, Jamaica, Londonderry, Putney, Rockingham,
Townshend, Westminster and
Windham.
Queries
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Windham
County, Vermont Queries - Rootsweb
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Windham
County Queries Board of the Vermont
Local History Network
See more Windham County Queries - Please do NOT post here.
Resources
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Windham
County Resources
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Insolvent
Papers 1814-1860, Warren County, New York ... "Insolvent
papers contain petitions for insolvency, list of creditors and in most cases
the town of residence of creditors, an inventory of both real and personal
property, a list of moneys owed to the insolvent, a notice of publication and a
final assignment of properties. These can provide a vast amount of information.
... One creditors list started with a list of creditors in Hampshire county,
Mass, then continued with a list of creditors in Windham
county, Vermont............"
http://bfn.org/~ae487/insolv.html
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LinkVermont.com
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Vermont Prehistory
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Historical Societies
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Cyndi's
List
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USGenNet
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Rootsweb
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People
of Colour in Vermont & New England
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Founders
of Fort No. 4, Charlestown, NH -- from History of Charlestown, NH by
Rev. Henry H. Saunderson (1876)
ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nh/sullivan/charlestown/history/family/
Broken Link
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Abenaki
Indians
http://hmt.com/abenaki/
Broken Link
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Contacts
Town Meetings/Reports
Every March each town in Vermont
conducts an open town meeting to go over town business and vote on officers for
the town, the budget and any town issues that need to be discussed and/or decided
upon. Before this meeting is held, a printed copy of the town report is sent
out to every taxpayer in town. In this is included: the minutes of the past
year's Town Meeting; the agenda for the present year's meeting; a listing of
all town officers and paid and volunteer employees, including the school staff;
a report from all town organizations, committees and so forth as to what they
had accomplished in the past year and hope to accomplish in the year to come;
the town budget for the coming year; and at the end of each Town Report is
listed all births, deaths and marriages that occurred in town in the past year.
The information in these reports can be
valuable to genealogists because they include the vital records and the names
of many of the people living in town that year. The Town Report has been
published in Vermont
towns for many years and old copies are usually available to look at, at the
Town Clerk's Office and often at the local library. Often, groups of them for
various towns can be purchased at used book sellers.
Larger towns like Brattleboro
also had in the past, what could be called City Directories that listed the
people living in the city, on what street, and most often what their occupation
was. These are also printed by one year or two year intervals. The
Brattleboro
library, Brooks Memorial, has a set of these for Brattleboro
with the earliest being 1874. When telephone books became popular, the
directories, as such, were discontinued.
Vermont Today
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LinkVermont.com
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Covered
Bridges
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Virtual
Vermont -- Sometimes includes
some historical background with the town information. Be sure to check their
history pages too for some interesting reading on Vermont history.
Vital Records
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Town Clerks
--
Guide
to Vermont's Town Clerks, Treasurers and & County Clerks
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Town Reports
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Articles from Windham County
Newpapers 1781-1884 (VT GenWeb Project)
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International
Genealogical Index - This is an excellent "index" of
names and records, but is not to be considered a "primary" data
source.
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Vermont
Department of Public Records
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Old Style
Calendar Dating -- System used by the English in Early Colonial America
http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/conn.river/calendar.html
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Marriages from
the day book of
Thompson
Barron, Unitarian Minister 1838-1860,
Windsor County, VT, Cheshire and Merrimack Counties, NH Contributed and
transcribed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Nancy Ratay
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nh/state/vitals/marriages/marriagesbarron.txt
The New Hampshire GenWeb Project
New Hampshire Genealogy GenWeb Project - Cheshire County
US Genweb Archives Project - Windham County
Warnings Out
During the period of 1768 to 1818,
Vermont
towns had a policy of "Warning Out," and persons who might seem to
have no visible means of support and were judged to be a burden to the town,
were given notice. Some of these people left at the warning, while others
remained. The rules and enforcement of warnings varied by
town. Records of those "warned out" with names and date of
warning are included within the town records.
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Alden M. Rollins has researched these records
and has published two volumes of these warnings (published by Picton Press,
PO
Box 250, Rockport,
Maine
04856).
Vermont
Warnings Out - Northern Vermont.
Vermont Warnings Out - Southern Vermont.
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These warnings may also be found included
within published vital records of the towns, such as Putney and Rockingham.
Web Links
The Vermont Genealogy Web Project
(VTGenWeb)
The Vermont GenWeb
Archives
Vermont
Life Magazine
Cheshire
County New Hampshire, Gazetteers
Ray Brown's Place
for New England Genealogy
Ohio
Migration Trails
Eastern
Townships of Quebec
New England Lost Ski Areas Project
(NELSAP) - Vermont Ski Areas
Vermont Genealogy
Franklin County
Massachusetts Publication Archive Index
US Genweb
Archives Project - Windham County
Boston
Weekly Journal - extracts by Marilyn Labbe
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cemetery listings, photographs, contacts, resources, etc. are all welcome.
If you have anything to contribute or have any questions, please contact.
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