~• harkening back to the farming days of early Hartland, Windsor County, and environs...

add families who lived in Hartland, Windsor County, Vermont

Links

1. Map of VT in 1761
2. Lull's Brook in 1777
3. Historical Society Name Index
4. Historical Society Home Page
5. Business Directory 1883-1884
6. History of the Universalist Society of Hartland-Four-Corners (1902)
7. Hartland in the Revolutionary War
8. bear chase with dogs by Chauncey Richardson
9. Creek names in Windsor County (mostly Hartland and Woodstock) in the early 1900's = Vermont. State Fish and Game Commission (1918)
10. U.S., Indexed County Land Ownership Maps, 1860-1918 Vermont, Windsor, 1869
11. if you have access to ancestry dot com, the clearest 1869 landholder map of Hartland is at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1127/images/31617_... . Search the site for other towns at U.S., Indexed County Land Ownership Maps, 1860-1918 > suggestion: Cross link surname with http://hartlandhistory.org/?p=334
12. Windsor County Agricultural Society in 1848 Vermont Mercury (Woodstock, Vermont)21 Jan 1848, FriPage 2 see also teasel crop = "Best half-acre of teasels Edmund Pierce of Barnard"
13. The Fieldsville Spring and its curative powers = https://www.newspapers.com/clip/75902667/sad-fate-for-the-fieldsvil... . The clairvoyant dau. sounds to be Julia Field form the tone of the Vermont Journal (Windsor, Vermont)16 Apr 1892, Sat., Page 4
14. one memorial day in particular remembers Civil War soldiers form Hartland : see also the account at https://www.newspapers.com/image/491180796/?terms=%22roderick%20Bag... = Vermont Journal (Windsor, Vermont) 06 Jun 1924, Fri Page 4
15. Woodstock Historical Society

Organizations

• The Quechee Valley Pomona Grange ~• quite active in the 1880s see mult. instances in newspapers dot com
  • eg Vermont Journal , 11 sep 1880

Population Count

• 1790 counting distinct surnames in the 1st US Census, there are roughly 170 names (link below)
• 1843 (numbers of ballots cast in gubernatorial election = https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000198395729821 407 men, indicating a much larger population than in 1950 where we we see 465 people of all ages and genders
• 1950 census states 465 people in 165 dwellings (see page one of https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1852315:62308?tid... )
• 2000 (estimate) c. 3,000 peoiple

points of interest

• Oliver Willard at the 1st town meeting of Hartland held, March 11, 1767, he was elected moderator and Town Supervisor and an Overseer of the Poor.
• The name of the town of Hertford was changed in 1782 to Hartland.
• Nov 1794 Proprietors to meet to decide on allotment of settler land See timeline of Col. Oliver Willard
  • a list of Hartland families in 1790 (1st US Census)
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• 1795 Captain Lull's Tavern