Archive Record
Metadata
Title |
Brief Biography of Jacob Burton (1715-1798) |
Object Name |
Memorandum |
Catalog Number |
2010.18.10 |
Year Range from |
1950 |
Year Range to |
1970 |
Scope & Content |
Biographical information about Jacob Burton written on "Ye Fireside Inn, Norwich, Vermont" stationery by the donor's grandmother, Jane O. Hutchinson, wife of Charles Martin Hutchinson, and daughter-in-law of Sarah Ellen Loveland Hutchinson. Note is about Jacob Burton, who may be a brother of Stephen Burton, who brought the Burton line into the Hutchinson/Loveland Family. Note gives Burton's birth and death dates and mentions his accomplishments: "A founder of this town, 1764-1765. One of the five framers of Vermont's Declaration of Independence Jan. 1777. Member of June, July & December conventions of 1777 which adopted the name Vermont and State Cont. of which he was a signer. Norwich's Representative in the first General Assembly of Vermont 1778. Judge of the Court of Newburyshire: Town supervisor and First Selectman. In his house (the first frame house erected in town) was held the meeting of the trustees of Dartmouth College 1770 at which the location of that institution was decided upon and to which he donated 67 acres of land." |
People |
Burton Family Burton, Jacob Taylor, Jane Grant |
Subjects |
Town History Vermont Schools |
Search Terms |
Dartmouth College Norwich, Town Government |
Credit line |
Gift of Janie Taylor |