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[Lawrence&Diana_Owen Jan 2 2002.GED]

See last sentence of the paragraph below. This is our Joseph Williams :) !
Here is the website this paragraph was taken from. I accessed it through rootsweb/Vermont/Rutland Co
http://www.iea.com/~psalisbu/family2.htm

  1. Abraham Salisbury #40 b. _--1730, Scituate, RI, m. 1760 or 1761, Eselpha (Zilpha or Sophie) Westcott #41, b. 1729, RI,
    (daughter of Ezekiel Westcott #55 and Mary Dyer #56). Captain went into Clarendon, Vermont at the time of its settlement by Rhode Island families in about the year 1768, before the American
    Revolution. Captain Salisbury bears the distinguished record of having raised a military company in 10/1777 to protect the frontier,
    and to have served as scout in 1781. He was commissioner of sequestration in 1777, and a selectman of the town in 1779. May have moved to NY late in life. Capt. Salisbury is noted as Methodist, but wife was Baptist like parents. Eselpha: The first land deed recorded in the records of the town clerk at Clarendon (Bk1,p1) is that of 4/9/1770 when Abraham Salisbury, then mentioned of Clarendon on Otter Creek, buys from JOSEPH WILLIAMS for 50 pounds, 100 acres of land which was in the original rights of Seth Chase from Col. Lydius.

P 555, History of Rutland Co.
"Many of the early settlers derived the title to the land they occupied from Col. John Henry Lydius, an Indian trader of Albany, who claimed to have purchased of the Mohawk Indians, in 1732, a tract of land extending sixty miles southerly from the mouth of Otter Creek, by 24 miles in width; which was confirmed to him by a grant of Gov. Shirley of Mass., in 1744. In 1760 Lydius divided the tract (on paper) into 35 townships of 36 sq. miles ech, or more, numbering and giving names to each township. No. 7, which is supposed to be nerly identical with the present town of Clarendon, he called "Durham". Sept. 29, 1961, he granted about 27 sq miles, covering a part of Rutland and Clarendon, to James Haven, who leased farm lots to the settlers for the rent of one pepper-corn a year for the first twenty years and 5s. a year thereafter, for each one hundred acres of improvable land."

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