Cambridge, Vermont, USA (Jeffersonville)
1849 - Cambridge

Lamoille Co. The river Lamoille enters this town on the east side one mile from the north-east corner, and after running a serpentine course of twelve miles, in which it receives North Branch from the north, and Brewster's River and Seymour's Brook from the south, passes the west line of the town, one mile from the south-west corner. These streams afford numerous mill privileges. The surface of the town is uneven, and, in some places rough. The land is, however, generally good, and on the river are about 5000 acres of valuable intervale. A branch of Dead Creek, which is a branch of Missisco River, rises in this town, and another branch of said creek issues from Metcalf Pond in Fletcher and runs across the north-west corner of the town. The town is well watered, and the timber of various kinds.

There are three small villages. The village called the Borough, is on the south side of the river Lamoille, in the south-west corner of the town, on the post road. The centre village is on the south side of the Lamoille near the centre of the town, west of Brewster's River.

Boundaries. North-easterly by VVaterville and a part of Fletcher, easterly by Sterling and a part of Johnson, south by Underbill, and westerly by Fletcher.

First Settlers. The first settler of this town was John Spafford. He came into town May 8, 1783, planted two acres of corn, which was overflowed with water in the fall, and nearly all destroyed. He moved his family, consisting of a wife and two children, into town from Piermont, N. H., in November. The town was surveyed, this year, by Amos Fasset. In 1784, Amos Fasset, Stephen Kinsley, John Fasset, Jr., and Samuel Montague moved their families here from Bennington, and Noah Chittenden his from Arlington.

First Ministers. The Rev. Elijah Woolage was settled over the Congregational Church in 1805, and dismissed in 1812.

Productions of the Soil. Wheat, 3,531 bushels; Indian com, 6,435 bushels; potatoes, 73,100 bushels; hay, 5,329 tons; maple sugar, 64,111 pounds; wool, 19,091 pounds.

Distances. Fifteen miles west from Hydepark, and forty north-west from Montpelier.

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

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