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From: "Pauline Manosh" <>
Subject: [VT-L] Rutland, Vermont Rutland County " Polly Ford and family"
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 20:17:26 -0500


>From Hemenway's Vermont Historical Gazetteer
Rutland, Vermont Vol. 3 pg. 1042
In 1818, several families of Baptists moved from Centre Rutland to Mill
Village, now known as "Pooler District," and immediately commenced to hold
meetings at the house of Daniel Ford, and at the school house. These were
mostly meetings for prayer, praise and conference, with an occasional sermon
by some neighboring or itinerant minister. For 5 years these pious men and
women maintained the means of grace under adverse circumstances, and through
all kinds of weather; and there are a few still living who date their first
religious impressions from the instruction and admonishes they then and
there received.
In 1823 the above named little band of disciples organized themselves into a
Baptist church of 15 members, viz.:
Amos Weller, Joseph Barney, Benjamin Farmer, Daniel Ford, Adouijah Ford,
Allan Pooler, Campbell simpson, Dinnis Weller, Experience Barney, Salome
Ford, Susanna Ford, Polly Ford, Elizabeth Pooler, Anna Greno, Martha Fuller.
The church thus constituted completed their organization by the adoption of
"Articles of Faith " and "covenant," and the choice of Daniel Ford as
moderator, and Adonijah Ford as clerk.
Polly

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