Montgomery, Vermont, USA
1849 Montgomery

This town lies in a mountainous country, but it has a valuable tract of land on Trout River, and good mill stream, a branch of the Missisco.

Boundaries. North by Richford, east by Westfield, south by Lowell and Avery's Gore, and west by Enosburgh.

First Settlers. Montgomery was granted March 13, 1780, and chartered October 8, 1789 to Stephen R. Bradley and others. Capt. Joshua Clap, a respectable revolutionary officer, removed his family from Worcester County, Mass., into this town, in March 1793, and this was for two years the only family in town. Hon. Samuel Barnard, Reuben Clap and James Upham, Esq., all from Mass., were among the earliest settlers.

First Minister. A Congregational Church was organized in 1802, over which the Rev. Avery Ware was settled in 1825.

Productions of the Soil. Wheat, 1,110 bushels; Indian corn, 1,344 bushels; potatoes, 26.425 bushels; hay, 1,498 tons ; maple sugar, 23,875 pounds ; wool, 3,797 pounds.

Distances. Fifty miles north from Montpelier, and twenty-seven east north-east from St. Albans.

A gazetteer of Vermont... by John Hayward Boston - Tappan, Whittemore, and Mason 1849

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