Genealogy in Bennington County, Vermont

Town of Glastenbury


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Glastenbury lies in the east central part of Bennington County and is roughly bounded by Arlington on the northwest, Sunderland on the north, Stratton on the northeast, Somerset on the east (the preceding two towns in Windham County), Searsburg on the southeast, Woodford on the south, Bennington on the southwest, and Shaftsbury on the west. Glastenbury was chartered August 20, 1761.

In 1853, Zadock Thompson described the town of Glastenbury as follows:
GLASTENBURY, a township in Bennington county, is in lat. 42° 58' and long. 4° 1', and is bounded north by Sunderland, east by Somerset, south by Woodford and west by Shaftsbury. It lies nine miles northeast from Bennington, and 25 northwest from Brattleborough, and was chartered August 20, 1761, containing about 40 square miles. A great part of this township is high, broken and incapable of ever being settled. Settlements were early commenced here, but the population has never yet amounted to 100 persons. The waters in the eastern part flow into Deerfield river. From the other parts, they pass off to the south and west into the Walloomscoik. The streams are small. Statistics of 1840.--Horses, 14; cattle, 16; sheep, 62; swine, 32; wheat, bus. 18; oats, 38; rye, 12; buckwheat, 6, Indian corn, 25; potatoes, 880; hay, tons, 162, sugar, lbs. 575; wool, 127. Population, 53.
(Source: Thompson, Zadock, 1796-1856. History of Vermont : natural, civil, and statistical ... / by Zadock Thompson. -- Burlington : Z. Thompson, 1853. -- pt. 3, p. 74)

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