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From: "Cynthia " <>
Subject: Re: [VT-L] Old St Johnsbury Records Found
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 17:56:41 -0500


Rebecca:
If you or anyone should find out what the state plans to do with the
records found in an old vault, please inform us.......hopefully they will be
put in the archives at Montpelier.
Cynthia
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----- Original Message -----
From: Rebecca Tucker <>


> 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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