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Gazetteer of Vermont
by John Hayward
pub: Tappan, Whittemore, and Mason 
     114 Washington Street, Boston - 1849
source: Library of Congress


        Pg 27
        
        BENSON
        
        Rutland Co. This town, on Lake Champlain, was first settled
      in 1783. The lake at this place is about a mile in width. The
      town has some streams affording mill sites, but none of great
      importance. The waters are generally brackish and unpleasant.
      A stream issues from a swamp in this town, and after running
      a short distance, passes through the base of a high hill, a
      distnace of more than half a mile. Benson has a good pine,
      maple, walnut, oak, and beach timber, and a bog of marl re-
      sembling fuller's earth. A part of this town was annexed to
      Orwell in 1847.
      
        Boundaries. North by Orwell, east by Hubbardtown, and a 
      small part of Sudbury and Castleton, south by Fair Haven and
      West Haven, and west by Lake Champlain.
      
        First Settlers. The settlement of the town was commenced
      1783, by BARBER, DURFEE, and NOBLE. MR. DURFEE came into town
      and made some improvements before the Revolution, but was
      driven off. The town was organized about the year 1786, and
      ALLEN GOODRICH was the first town clerk.
      
        First Minister. A Congregational Church was organized here
      in 1790, over which the REV. DAN KENT was ordained in 1792.
      
        Productions of the Soil. Wheat, 2,578 bushels; Indian corn,
      5,353 bushels; potatoes, 15,700 bushels; hay, 5,592 tons;
      maple sugar, 6,285 pounds; wool, 49,048 pounds.
      
        Distances. Seventy-five miles south-west from Montpelier,
      and twenty-five miles north-west from Rutland.
      
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