Vermont Books Available From Woodbury Books

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New Local Vermont History Books

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Cemetery Inscriptions in Ludlow Vermont $25. 

History of Ludlow, Vermont, Joseph N. Harris $25.

History of the Town of Baltimore VT with Separate Index $19.

The Sons of Caroline Brown & James Brown Tucker $16.

Hemenway’s Local History of Andover VT 1886 (Photocopy) $16. 

A History of Black River Academy $7.

Historical Markers on the Crown Point Road $21. 

Rev. Samuel McClintock’s Journal, 1760 new edition $10

Rambling Reminiscences, Springfield Vermont by Richard Whitcomb $19.

INDEX for 3rd Edition of Joseph N. Harris’ History of Ludlow Vermont $5.

INDEX for Annie M. Pollard’s History of Baltimore Vermont  $5.

 

Descriptions of books are below, and payment & shipping instructions are at bottom.

 

Cemetery Inscriptions in Ludlow Vermont - While researching the ancestry of James, William, & Frederick Tucker who came to Ludlow from Massachusetts and Nova Scotia in early 1900, I formed an interest in old cemeteries.  With encouragement from the Vermont Old Cemetery Association (VOCA), I began to copy the gravestone inscriptions in my own town in 1995 before time, the elements, and vandalism made it impossible.  

Genealogists and historians who are researching ancestors in the Ludlow area will find Cemetery Inscriptions In Ludlow Vermont a useful reference volume in conjunction with the usual town and state vital records.

This 492-page collection holds more than 8,000 names of persons who died and/or were buried in Ludlow.  In many cases, information is included about birthplaces, parents, and other family members of those who died in Ludlow 1795 through 1998.  There are two indexes, one for persons buried, the other for maiden names and family member mentioned on stones, but not necessarily buried here.  $25.

 

During my copying of the (sometimes hard to decipher) stones commemorating the lives and deaths of more than 8,000 persons, I was referring constantly to Joseph N. Harris’ History of Ludlow, Vermont.  An index to that book was a natural outcome from this use of the book as a reference.  Ludlow’s History is now available with that index bound inside.  $25.

 

I’ve also got Annie M. Pollard’s History of the Town of Baltimore VT  and an index to it that I prepared.  The 1954 history was reprinted by the Vermont Historical Society in 1994.  Vermont towns are, as a rule, a six-mile square on the map, but Baltimore was cut off from its original town of Cavendish (established 1761) by Hawks Mountain, so they formed their own town in 1793.  Many of the first settlers of the town came from Lunenburg MA.  This book has much local genealogy and photographs, with family names PIPER, LELAND, WOODBURY, FOSTER, LITCH, SHERWIN, many more.  Baltimore also borders on towns of Weathersfield, Chester and Springfield.  This book is   6” by 9”, paperback, dark blue cover, 208 pages.  Includes extra, separately published 2004 index of all names with 51 pages.  Both NEW.   $19.

 

The Sons of Caroline Brown & James Brown Tucker  is a small family history of the Ludlow Vermont Tuckers and some of their ancestors, including family names Doyle, Stromberg, Hill, Cole, Benson, Wyatt, Baker, Frost, Pierce and Warner.   $16.

 

A town history is made infinitely better if it has an index.  If you are looking for your family names in Ludlow or Baltimore, or if you already have the history.  $5.

  • INDEX for 3rd Edition of Joseph N. Harris’ History of Ludlow Vermont   
  • INDEX for Annie M. Pollard’s History of Baltimore Vermont 

 

I also have a few photocopies of Local History of Andover VT 1886, Abby Maria Hemenway, Ed.  This is a General History of the town by Hiland H. Gutterson, Town Clerk, with an autobiography of the Founder of the Adams Express, other biographical Sketches,  Abby Maria Hemenway, editor, 95 pages.  Miss Hemenway did not live long enough to publish her famous Historical Gazetteer for her home county – Windsor, and her manuscripts were burned in a fire.  But Andover was special, as members of her early family, the Bartons, settled there.  This photocopy of the original includes several lithographs of early settlers, including that of Miss Hemenway’s mother Abigail Barton.  Lots of genealogy.  Family names:  ADAMS, WARNER, BARTON, many others.   This information is not included in the CD of Miss Hemenway’s works put out by the Genealogical Society of Vermont.  It is used as a source in Carleton E. Fisher’s Soldiers, Sailors, and Patriots of the Revolutionary War Vermont.  New. Bound in a 3-ring binder.   $16.

 

A HISTORY of BLACK RIVER ACADEMY (Ludlow Vermont) As Seen Through Various Publications.  Publisher William L. Bryant Foundation 1972 with preface by Milton G. Moore, President Black River Academy Historical Society.  BRA is the alma mater of President Calvin Coolidge, who graduated in 1890.  John Garibaldi Sargent, a U. S. Attorney General graduated in 1883.   The last class to graduate was that of 1938, when a new high school of the same name was built on lower Main Street.  Today the school is home of the Black River Academy Museum. 

This is a great book for researching graduates, principals and teachers as many lists of students and instructors from the 1870s on up are listed here, showing the years they attended and, in many instances, their home towns.  The light gray cover shows the first Black River Academy building engraved by Sarah E. Washburn in 1836, quite like it looks today.  This book is new, paperback, 8.5” by 5.5,” 150 pages, but the center staples have rusted.   $7.

 

RAMBLING REMINISCENCES Springfield Vermont Richard Whitcomb, self-published, A Wonderful Collection of One Man’s Memories.  This is a lively collection of 86 articles on living and farming in Springfield (Windsor County) Vermont from the date of Whitcomb’s birth in 1911 and before.  Some of these stories were published in the Springfield Reporter over the years.  Some titles are Crossing Ashley’s Ferry, Harvesting Ice, Lindbergh’s Visit, The 1938 Hurricane, Taverns of Old Springfield, Monument Hill, Harvesting Wood, Dispensers of Lacteal Fluids, The Russian Orphanage.  No genealogy, but many old Springfield family names remembered:  BARNARD, BUGBEE, GOULD, LaFOUNTAIN, ESTEY, KENTFIELD, CUTLER, WHITCOMB, GUTTERSON, BISHOP, many more.   86 pp 8.5 by 11” paper and plastic comb binding.  $19.

 

Also a few NEW 2004 Crown Point Road Markers book for $21.  Follow the old 1759 – 1760 Road from Charlestown NH through Windsor, Rutland, Addison counties across Lake Champlain to Crown Point NY.  Also available is Reverend Samuel McClintock’s Journal, 1760.  He was chaplain in Colonel John Goffe’s Regiment during their work on the Crown Point Road in 1760.  $10

 

A Few USED Books

Real Vermonters Don’t Milk Goats  Well, I don’t know about that, but this little paperback is an enjoyable ramble through the minds of Frank

Bryan and  Bill Mares on the subject of those “outer staters” who come up here and try to assimilate.  Illustrations are by Howard Johnson; it’s published by The New England Press, Shelburne VT 1983.   You can have it for $5.    rwctucker@comcast.net

 

I have an old, very yellowed paperback copy of Green Mountain Boys by Judge D. P. Thompson in 1839, published by the Mutual Book Company Boston.  It is called a “historical tale of the early settlement of Vermont,” and dedicated to Honorable Heman Allen, a son of one of “those illustrious Allen brothers …”  It was part of a set from the Bon-Ton Library No. 101, sold for 25 cents.   I’ll part with it for $10, 167 years later.

The 1976-77 Official VERMONT Bicentennial Guide, Edited by Peter S. Jennison, published by The Countryman Press, Taftsville VT 176 pages with a fold out on the back cover which reveals a state map.  This paperback book measures 8.5 by11 inches, is full of black and white and color photos of Vermont.  This is a good used book, packed full of new and old stories on Vermont, by Vermont writers, modern-day and long-gone.                                  

Some articles are:  The Bennington Affair, edited by Tyler Resch, The Case of Matthew Lyon by Cora Cheney, From Shelburne to Mt Independence: A Living History Tour, Grafton: Vermont's Camelot by Anne Stein, Life and Times of the Connecticut River Valley by Jane and Willis Curtis, On the Way To Mount Mansfield by Ira Allen, and The Lady From Vermont by Dorothy Canfield Fisher.    $8.50 ppd

Now and then I put books on eBay for sale, so check there, too, under History – Vermont and/or Everything Else – genealogy.

 

I must collect an additional 6% of the cost for Vermont Sales Tax if shipped to a Vermont address.  

 

Shipping will be via media mail (4th class) unless requested otherwise, and you add another few dollars to the check.

  (I also have a PayPal account.)
Make your check out to Rebecca W. Tucker and send to 1375 South Hill, Ludlow VT 05149-9637

Updated Monday, September 03, 2007 3:55:33 PM

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