History of the Town of Shoreham, Vermont

By Rev. Josiah F. Goodhue

Middlebury: A. H. Copeland.

1861.

Preface
Chapter I. - Description and Charter of the Town
Chapter II. - Settlement of the Town under the Charter—Settlers previous to the Revolution
Chapter III. - The capture of Ticonderoga in 1775
Chapter IV. - Settlement subsequent to Revolution—Additional settlers previous to 1789
Chapter V. - Town organized—Improved condition—Progress of settlement from 1789 to 1800
Chapter VI. - Settlement at the Center and at Richville—Larrabee's Point—Watch Point
Chapter VII. - Relation of Ticonderoga to the settlement—Escape of Hall and Kellogg—Events of the War
Chapter VIII. - Civil History—Proceedings of Proprietors' and Towm Meetings
Chapter IX. - Town Officers—Population from time to time
Chapter X. - History of Agriculture—First Products—Wheat—Sheep—Horses—Cattle
Chapter XI. - Merchants—Character and amount of trade
Chapter XII. - Lawyers—Practitioners in Shoreham—Change in legal business
Chapter XIII. - Physicians and Deseases
Chapter XIV. - Political History—Town Representatives—County and State Officers—Party divisions
Chapter XV. - Progress of Education—Schools—Teachers—Newton Academy
Chapter XVI. - Economical History—Soil—Face of the Land—Timber—Crops—Value and quality of Lands—Census of Farm Products
Chapter XVII. - Roads—Streams—Mills—Minerals—Manufactnres
Chapter XVIII. - Mails—Post Offices—Postmasters
Chapter XIX. - Burying Grounds
Chapter XX. - War of 1812—Enlisted Soldiers—Volunteers—Plattsburgh
Chapter XXI. - Religious History—Meetings—Plan proposed—Congregational Church—Ministers—Meeting-Houses—Baptist Church—Methodist Church—Universalist Church—Ministers and statistics
Chapter XXII. - The Temperance Reform
Chapter XXIII. - Social and Miscallaneous—Trials—Traits—Localities—Facts—Incidents—Habits
Chapter XXIV. - Miscellaneous—Additional Facts and Anecdotes—Money Digging
Chapter XXV. - Statistical—Population—Property—Taxes—Wages—Registration Returns—Graduates
Chapter XXVI. - Biographical Sketches—Paul Moore—Col. Pond—James Moore
Chapter XXVII. - Biographical Sketches continued—Thomas Rowley, Esq., the Poet
Chapter XXVIII. - Biographical Sketches continued—Job Lane Howe—Ebenezer Turrill—Timothy F. Chipman—Elisha Bascom—Stephen Cooper—Nathan Hand
Chapter XXIX. - Biographical Sketches, concluded—Hon. Silas H. Jenison—Hon. Charles Rich—Conclusion of the Work
Index of Names