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From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
Subject: Re: [VTWINDSO] an interesting note
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 04:46:16 -0500

Hi, cousins, lurkers, and others(?):

I am forwarding the following message because of the vignette about "Deacon Dutton." I have removed the quoted material marks, the header, and the footer, and made the correction to the original message that this message suggested. Except for that correction, what is between the double lines is a quotation. The original information is:

From: Brent Larson <>
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Subject: Re: [VTWINDSO] Correction KING-WALDO-MARCY Death and Marriage Records

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Matilda KING married Daniel WALDO in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. At some point in time they moved to Vermont where Daniel WALDO is supposed to have died. The following is taken from a footnote from the book "History of Woodstock, Vermont" by Henry Swan Dana:

"1 Waldo lived in his last days on Hartland Hill, not far from the old Doubleday farm. He died on a Saturday night, sadly in debt and miserably poor. Deacon Dutton, one of his neighbors, said he must be buried before Monday morning, to keep his creditors from attaching the body. That a creditor could and might take such a course as this was the common belief of the times. The deacon, therefore, to avoid such an evil, made a coffin with his own hands, and hurried up the poor man's funeral Sunday night."

Where is Hartland Hill? Is it in Woodstock or Hartland? I am looking for a record of his death. The Barbour Collection records of Pomfret, Connecticut states he died 2 Mar 1792 at Woodstock, Vermont.
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Darrell


Darrell A. Martin
no longer proud to have been a Vermonter
but still proud of my Vermont roots
currently in exile in Addison, Illinois

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