A.B. Blood of Blood Hill

Known widely as A.B. Blood of the eponymous " Blood Hill" in West Windsor. The hill stretches into south Hartland as well.
The dirt road on which he lived is still known as Blood Hill Road.
His farm is mapped in the 1869 atlas of Windsor County
U.S., Indexed County Land Ownership Maps, 1860-1918
Vermont
Windsor, 1869
District number 4 , West Windsor
This map shows a road, now closed coming down from Hartland by the "Ginney and Willard" farm.
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Aretas Bailey Blood
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Birth: July 6 1830 - Windsor, Windsor, Vermont, United States
Death: Feb 11 1892 - Windsor, Windsor, Vermont, United States
Parents: Sylvester Blood, Emily Blood (born McNelly)
Wife: Nancy Delight Blood (born Oakes)
Children: Ellen Louisa Hammond (born Blood), Elvira Adaline Blood, Sylvester Aretas Blood, Martha Maria Blood, Marvin Howard Blood, Lester Ward Blood, Mary Sherman Hammond (born Blood), and names of 6 more children
Siblings: Emily Caldwell (born Blood), Marcia H Blood, Polly Eliza Sherman (born Blood), John Blood, Ormond D. Blood, Maria Anne Knight (born Blood), Marvin Sylvester Blood, and names of 2 more siblings

Aretus B. Blood

Residence West Windsor VT;
Enlisted on 8/19/1862 as a Private.
On 10/4/1862 he mustered into "A" Co. VT 12th Infantry
He was discharged on 1/31/1863

A number of men from Hartland were in the VT 12th.. including a Jaquith relative by marriage : Pvt. Edwin Marshall Jaquith, (USA)