1830
January 5,1830
The first Baptist Society of Burlington formed.
Monday, March 1, 1830
The First Baptist church of Westport legally incorporated with the following trustees: Gideon Hammond, Platt R. Halstead, Ira Henderson, George B. Reynolds, Dr. Dan S. Wright, Horace Holcomb and John Kingsley.
Saturday, April 17, 1830
Ellenburgh, named in compliment to Ellen, daughter of John R. Murray of New York, the principal proprietor of Township, No. 5 of the Military Tract, was formed form Mooers. The first permanent settler was Abner Pomeroy about 1800 and an early pioneer was Joseph R. Emerson.
Sunday, June 6, 1830
At her home on Bellevue (now
Cumberland) avenue, Marianne Adelaide Grellier, widow of the late Hon. Peter
Sailly, died. She was a native of Alsace and mother of three children:
Eleanor Maria, Charlotte Theresa and Frederick Charles Sailly.
Saturday, July 24, 1830
Saturday afternoon rain began to fall and continued falling almost
incessantly until the following Thursday at noon. Mill streams became
raging torrents and swept everything before the rushing waters. This was
the time when Jacob Saxe lost his property at Salmon River, only the house
remaining. The whole surrounding country to the height of fifteen feet
above the ordinary level of streams was under water.
Tuesday, July 27, 1830
"The Winooski River was from four to twenty feel higher than ever
before known, according to the width of the channel," 3.85 inches of rain having
fallen in the vicinity in the preceding sixteen hours.
Trinity Episcopal church, the only church of that denomination on the western side of the lake, was incorporated. James Bailey and Frederick C. Sailley were the first wardens; St. John, B.L. Skinner, Samuel Beaumont, WIlliam F. Haile, William F. Halsey, Samuel Emery, George Marsh, John Palmer and John Lynde, the vestrymen. Few of the early pioneers now remained.
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