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Gazetteer of Vermont
by John Hayward
pub: Tappan, Whittemore, and Mason 
     114 Washington Street, Boston - 1849
     
        pg 35
        
        BRIGHTON
        
        Essex Co., This town was named Random by the HON. 
        JOSEPH BROWN, it being a random purchase from an
        agent sent to Providence, from Vermont. The name 
        was altered to Brighton, November 3, 1832. The 
        settlement was commenced in 1823, by ENOS BISHOP; 
        and JOHN STEVENS moved his family into the town 
        in 1825. The settlement is mostly in the westerly
        part of the town. The town was organized in March, 
        1832. 
        
        The township is watered chiefly by Ferren's 
        River, and other head branches of Clyde River, but 
        some of the head branches of the Passumpsic and
        Nulhegan Rivers originate here. Pitkin's Pond and 
        Knowlton Lake discharge their waters through Clyde
        River. This is considered a very good township of 
        land, and contains much excellent white pine timber, 
        with several fine saw mills.
        
        Boundaries: Northerly by Wenlock, easterly by
        Ferdinand, southerly by Newark, and a part of
        Westmore and East Haven, and westerly by Charles-
        ton.
        
        Productions of the Soil. Wheat, 358 bushels, Indian
        corn, 54 bushels; potatoes, 4,700 bushels; hay, 246
        tons; maple sugar, 6.050 pounds; wool, 348 pounds.
        
        Distances. Thirty-two miles north-west from Guild-
        hall, and seventy north-east from Montpelier.
        
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