Lot Jenne

"The first house built in Jenneville was that of Lot Jenne" https://www.newspapers.com/image/490822976/?terms=%22Lot%20Jenne%22... Vermont Journal (Windsor, Vermont)23 Feb 1901, SatPage 4

Was in the census of 1790: See: https://www.newspapers.com/image/76553499/?terms=%22Lot%20Jenne%22&... Spirit of the Age (Woodstock, Vermont)01 Feb 1908, SatPage 2

Even though he died outside of Vermont, He was still living there in 1840. (census)

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112475412/lot-jenne

an item in the Vermont Journal placed by Lot Jenne

The Vermont Journal
07 Feb 1804, Tue · Page 4
https://www.newspapers.com/image/488993534/?terms=jenne&match=1

Notes:

1. The precise location of the first Jenne dwelling in Jenneville is not known. Clyde Jenne, the long-time town clerk of the late 20th-early 21st centuries, was consulted by me. He does not know. It is said to have been 1/4 mile from the existing stone house that Sebastian Jenne built in the 1870s. SEBASTIAN's house is said to have been the third Jenne house on the property.

My feeling based on excavations and over 20 years of living on part of the Jenne land is that the Lot Jenne house lay below (near) a free-flowing spring in the SE facing hill at what is now know as 39 Jenne Road. I found clay pipes leading from the wet meadow leading towards the brook and the old mill-house site. These were broken by grading during the creation of the driveway to the dwelling at 39 Jenne, built 2010-2011.
The last remains of the mill consists of stone work below the culvert of the driveway. Above the culvert some mill race timbers are still to be found. These are scarcely visible in the falls.
Over the last two years (2022-2023) I have restored the spring above (in the hill). I had covered up the remains of the original one in the spring of 2001, shortly after I acquired the surrounding 20 acres on the SW side of Jenne Road.
The spring had been relied upon for domestic water as late at the ownership of John Ballou and Nancy Staples who lived there from the 1970s to 2000.
Piping is buried for the current water supply shed by the driveway.
I shall henceforth call the spring Lot's Spring . Map reference: 43.538504, -72.492977
~• written by MMvB 9/3/2023