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Town of Winhall


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Winhall lies in the northeastern part of Bennington County and is roughly bounded by Dorset on the northwest, Peru on the north, Landgrove on the northeast, Londonderry and Jamaica on the east, Stratton on the south (the preceding three towns in Windham County), Sunderland on the the southwest, Manchester on the west. Winhall was chartered September 15, 1761, settled in the late 1770s, and organized about 1796. The town of Winhall includes the locale of Bondville.

In 1853, Zadock Thompson described the town of Winhall as follows:
WINHALL, a post town in the eastern part of Bennington county, is in lat. 43° 10' and long. 4° 7', and is bounded north by Peru, east by Jamaica and a part of Londonderry, south by Stratton, and west by Manchester. It lies 25 miles northeast from Bennington, 33 southwest from Windsor, and was chartered September 15,1761, containing by charter 23,040 acres. Mr. Nathaniel Brown, from Massachusetts, commenced the settlement of this township, during the revolutionary war. The town was organized about the year 1796. Asa Beebe jr. was first town clerk, and Asa Beebe was first representative. The religious denominations are Congregationalists, Methodists, and Baptists. The Rev. B. Barrett was settled over the Congregational church about the time the town was organized, who died about two years after. There has been no settled minister since. There is a small union meeting house situated near the centre of the township, and another in the eastern part, belonging to the Congregationalists and Baptists. The Congregationalists are supplied by the preceptor of Burr Seminary, and the Methodists by circuit preachers. The town is watered by Winhall river which affords a great number of good mill privileges. There are in town five school districts, and four school houses, one grist and seven saw mills, one store, three taverns, and one tannery. Statistics of 1840.--Horses, 172; cattle, 693; sheep, 815; swine, 279; wheat, bu. 579; oats, 2,775; rye, 366; buckwheat, 647; Ind. corn, 564; potatoes, 17,388; hay, tons, 1,466; sugar, lbs. 11,000; wool, 1,590. Population, 576.
(Source: Thompson, Zadock, 1796-1856. History of Vermont : natural, civil, and statistical ... / by Zadock Thompson. -- Burlington : Z. Thompson, 1853. -- pt. 3, p. 196-197)

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