By Margaret R. Jenks ©2005 Revised
xii + 140 Pages, 24 Cemeteries, 8500 Names, Illustrations, Maps, Indexed
Now available from Sleeper Books at www.sleeperco.com SUMMARY: Wallingford was chartered in 1761 by both New Hampshire and New York. The first proprietors meeting was held at Wallingford, Connecticut on September 12, 1772 and the town was organized on March 10, 1778. The town was surveyed in 1770 by Remember Baker. The first settlers were George Scott and Ephraim Seeley. Town records show there were sixteen freemen by 1778 and by 1791 there were 96 families in the town. Mount Holly is a gore of land between Ludlow and Wallingford, was granted by the General Assembly on 1780 to Abraham Jackson and others of Wallingford, Vermont, as a means of raising funds for the Revolutionary War. The town of Mount Holly was incorporated in October 1792. It was comprised of Jackson's Gore, the west edge of Ludlow, and the east side of Wallingford. The first settlement of the Gore was made in 1782 by Abraham Jackson and the Clark brothers, soon to be followed by others. The book includes three maps, Rutland County, Wallingford, and Mount Holly, showing the location of each cemetery. The Green Hill Cemetery and New Mechanicsville Cemetery were recorded in sections to facilitate locating a stone. Included are all extant stones in the following Wallingford cemeteries: GREEN HILL CEMETERY ST. PATRICK'S CATHOLIC CEMETERY SUGAR HILL CEMETERY JENNISS CEMETERY MAPLE GROVE CEMETERY DOTY CEMETERY HILL-ROBERTS CEMETERY SOUTHARD-MONSON CEMETERY STAFFORD CEMETERY WEST HILL CEMETERY PELSUE CEMETERY HAGAR-BOURN CEMETERY HAWKINS CEMETERY WEST HILL #2-ROGERS FARM CEMETERY Included are all extant stones in the following Mount Holly cemeteries: PACKER CEMETERY MOUNT HOLLY CEMETERY HORTONVILLE CEMETERY GREEN CEMETERY CROWLEY CEMETERY OLD MECHANICSVILLE CEMETERY NEW MECHANICSVILLE CEMETERY TARBELLVILLE CEMETERY CARLTON CEMETERY MARTIN-WILDER CEMETERY |