Age at Death: 59
Hij is getrouwd met Phoebe Brockway.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 8 mei 1812, hij was toen 59 jaar oud.
1. Vermont Historical Gazetteer; A Local History of ALL THE TOWNS IN THE STATE
Volume V
THE TOWNS OF WINDHAM COUNTY, WITH HISTORIES OF SUTTON IN CALEDONIA COUNTY, AND BENNINGTON IN BENNINGTON COUNTY. COLLATED BY ABBY MARIA HEMENWAY. Published by
MRS. CARRIE E. H. PAGE, BRANDON, VT. 1891
CHAPTER III.
JAIL AND COURT HOUSE AT CHESTER. -
ATTEMPTS TO REMOVE THE COUNTY SEAT.
One strong reason for the selection o Chester as the county seat-and a reason that had silenced the opposition of many -was the assurance of Judge Chandler that he would " At his own expense build a good and sufficient court house o jail," at that place. Judge Chandler war a large land owner in Chester, and tin pecuniary benefits which he expected to derive from the increase in value of his real estate, induced this offer. Prior to the summer of 1770, the place used as jail in Chester is thus described : Ii "Was a place made in the corner of dwelling-house or hut, the walls of which house were made of small hackmatack poles, locked together at the corners h3 cutting notches into the poles, and laying them notch into notch, so as to bring the poles as near together as conveniently might be. The cracks or vacancies between pole and pole, were filled with tow, moss or clay. The chamber floor ( was) laid with loose single boards. Such was the house, a corner of which then had the name of a jail, which corner may be justly described as followeth, viz: small palisades or poles of the diameter of about six inches each, ( were) set up, one end of them on the lower floor, and the other end reaching one of the joists on which rested the upper floor. These poles resting against the joist, hindered them from falling inward to the jail part, and on the other pole at some inches distant, ( was) pegged up with wood pegs, which pole was fixed about parallel with the joist, and prevented the palisades from falling outwards from the jail apartment, and as many of the palisades were not fastened at the top or bottom, nor the chamber floor nailed, it was always in the power of any man who might be put into the jail apartment to push away the loose upper floor boards, and move away the palisades, and be at liberty."
In this apology for a jail, however, one prisoner had been confined. In the year 1770, an order was issued for the imprisonment of Atherton Chaffee, and Chaffee was confined in this jail for four months, under the direction of Daniel Whipple, then sheriff of Cumberland county. The disposition of the prisoner had more to do with the imprisonment than the strength of the jail, for it is related that Chaffee remarked to John Grout, Esq., " That he knew it was out of Whipple's power to confine him against his will, but that Whipple had always used him with great tenderness, and that he should not be hurt ; for, nays Chaffee, I will tarry in the jail be it never so slender, rather than Whipple should be hurt."
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Phoebe Brockway |
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