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I\u2019ve written about my Norton family<\/a> from Vermont several times on this blog.\u00a0 So instead of writing more about this mysterious family and what I don\u2019t know, I thought I\u2019d share something I found among the family papers in my possession.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The two images below were written by an unknown person.\u00a0 Since they were among my family papers, I suspect it was a family member, and there is one clue as to who it might have been.\u00a0 In the second image, we can see that the paper was from the Federal Reserve Bank in Chicago, and wouldn\u2019t you know, my great-granduncle Joseph Webster Garrison worked at that bank.\u00a0 Hmm\u2026could he have written this?\u00a0 He was the family historian in his day, it just might have been him!<\/p>\n And what is it exactly that is written?\u00a0 Well, it\u2019s a copy of the biography of Solomon Norton found in the book A History of the Town of Poultney, Vermont, From Its Settlement to the Year 1875<\/em>, published by J. Joslin, B. Frisbie, and F. Ruggles.\u00a0 It reads:<\/p>\n Solomon Norton was one of the early settlers.\u00a0 He built the first grist and saw mills at the Hampton bridge place; he also built the house now occupied by F. W. Moseley.\u00a0 He was an active well-to-do man, and was a prominent citizen in his time.\u00a0 His children were: Solomon, John, Hannah, James R., Joel, Aaron and Amos.\u00a0 They were a worthy family, but all long since ceased to be inhabitants of the town.\u00a0 Hannah was an excellent school teacher, and became the wife of Zimri Howe.\u00a0 An instance relating to James R. Norton may here be mentioned.\u00a0 Mr. Norton re-built his grist mill after the flood of 1811; and while raising the building, James R. fell forty-two feet onto solid rock.\u00a0 In his fall he struck a man on the way down, which to some extent broke the force of the fall.\u00a0 The next day he helped out the rafters on the same building.\u00a0 Soon after this, Ephraim Herrick, as before appears, had a fall from a wagon, which resulted in his death.\u00a0 Herrick\u2019s fall was perhaps not over two feet, and this contrast reminds us that \u201cAn earthquake may be made to spare The man that\u2019s strangled by a hair.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Genealogy By the States<\/a><\/em> is a theme created by Jim Sanders over at the <\/em>Hidden Genealogy Nuggets<\/a><\/em> blog.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve written about my Norton family from Vermont several times on this blog.\u00a0 So instead of writing more about this mysterious family and what I don\u2019t know, I thought I\u2019d share something I found among the family papers in my possession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,26],"tags":[327,396,351],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genblog","category-personal-research","tag-family-norton","tag-location-vermont","tag-genealogy-by-the-states","cat-25-id","cat-26-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-5r","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3142,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/3142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"NORTON](\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/-FcOTkorizxE\/UWObYXG4kYI\/AAAAAAAAIgk\/hfT2UwuwDds\/NORTON%252520Family%252520History%252520Notes%25252001%25255B7%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800\" "\\"NORTON")
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