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From: Rebecca Tucker< >
Subject: [VT-L] Old St Johnsbury Records Found
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 07:49:46 -0500 (EST)

In the Associated Press article I found in the Rutland Herald today December
31, 1999, the town mentioned was not Danbury, but DANVILLE. I quote the
article in its entirety:

ST.JOHNSBURY - Historians say old records found during the construction of a
new county courthouse date from the year 1800, before the county seat moved
to St. Johnsbury.
"The majority of them were written well before the courthouse was
built. My guess is that they came from when the courthouse was in Danville.
How they got inside the walls of the courthouse I don't know," said Jay
Swainbank, engineering consultant for the Vermont Department of Buildings
and General Services.
Workers found the documants in the bowels of a previously
undiscovered vault in the Caledonia County Courthouse while they were
working on the courthouse expansion in October.
"They were all tied with an old-fashioned ribbon," said Larry
Ruggles, who was working on the site. "Some of them dated back to the 1800s
and there was one dated 1799."
The documents - including attachments of property, court vouchers
and divorce papers - are records from the time when the county court was
located in Danville, said retired Assistant Judge Don Mullally, who did some
research on the papers. - end of article
Becky Tucker in Ludlow and Weathersfield Vermont

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