- Table of Contents
- Collection Summary
- Administrative Information
- Access:
- Publication Rights:
- Biographical/Background Note
- Scope and Content
- Related Collections
- Container List
- I. Town management records
- II. Tax records
- III. Civil War records
Town of St. Johnsbury records
Collection Inventory
I. Town management records 2 linear feet (3 boxes)Scope and ContentArrangementArranged alphabetically Primarily financial records relating to maintenance and development expenses incurred by the Town of St. Johnsbury. Includes bonds given by town officer’s for proper performances of duties; bills and correspondence relating to the village water works and sprinkler system; lamplighter’s bills; bills relating to the police department and its founding; materials relating to the courthouse, local cemeteries, and the hearse maintained by the Town; and general expense records. Also included are St. Johnsbury Trustees’ minutes regarding water and the police department, Infantryormation on South Congregational Church pew rents, liquor bills, and a ledger documenting entries to the Caledonia County Fair. |
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Bonds (21 folders) 1800-1868, n.d. |
Box 1 | Folder 1-21 | ||
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Caledonia County fair ledger 1913-1920 |
Box 1 | Folder 22 | ||
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Cemeteries 1806-1855 |
Box 1 | Folder 23 | ||
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Contract for force pump 12/31/1870 |
Box 3 | unfoldered | ||
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Contract with Vergennes Machine Co. for water pump 2/28/1876 |
Box 3 | unfoldered | ||
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Courthouse drawing (with notes) n.d. |
Box 1 | Folder 24 | ||
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General town expenses (2 folders) 1876-1877 |
Box 1 | Folder 25A-25B | ||
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Hearse bills 1859-1879 |
Box 1 | Folder 26 | ||
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Lamp advertisement 1876 |
Box 1 | Folder 27 | ||
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Lamplighter bills (5 folders) 1865-1879 |
Box 1 | Folder 28-32 | ||
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Letters and receipts re: registered bonds 1875-1878 |
Box 1 | Folder 33 | ||
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Liquor bills (with notes) 1853-1868 |
Box 1 | Folder 34 | ||
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List of residents and water bills (2 volumes) n.d. |
Box 3 | unfoldered | ||
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Payments to Luke Buzzell 4/11/1876 |
Box 3 | unfoldered | ||
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Payments to Luke Buzzell 10/16/1876 |
Box 3 | unfoldered | ||
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Pew rents, South Congregational Church 7/1/1863 |
Box 1 | Folder 35 | ||
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Police bills (5 folders) 1857-1879 |
Box 1 | Folder 36-40 | ||
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Receipts for management of town parks 1857-1873 |
Box 1 | Folder 41 | ||
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Residents names and addresses ca. 1890's |
Box 1 | Folder 42 | ||
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St. Johnsbury Trustees' minutes - Police department 1856-1859 |
Box 1 | Folder 43 | ||
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St. Johnsbury Trustees' minutes - Water 1876 |
Box 1 | Folder 44 | ||
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Selectmen's accounts 1790-1834 |
Box 2 | Folder 1 | ||
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Selectmen's accounts 1819-1849 |
Box 2 | Folder 2 | ||
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Street sprinkler memoranda (with notes) 1880 |
Box 1 | Folder 45 | ||
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Street sprinkler petition 1879 |
Box 1 | Folder 46 | ||
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Unidentified Town records ca. 1894 |
Box 3 | unfoldered | ||
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Water expenses, agreements 1871-1878 |
Box 1 | Folder 47 | ||
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Water rents 1/1/1885 |
Box 3 | unfoldered | ||
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Water works (9 folders) 1870-1880 |
Box 1 | Folder 48-56 | ||
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Water works and sewers (2 folders) 1873-1877 |
Box 1 | Folder 57-58 | ||
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Water works, correspondence 1875-1879 |
Box 1 | Folder 59 | ||
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Water works, ditching 1876 |
Box 1 | Folder 60 | ||
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Water works, expenses 1876 |
Box 1 | Folder 61 | ||
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Water works, piping 1876-1877 |
Box 1 | Folder 62-63 | ||
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Water works, pump house 1876-1877 |
Box 1 | Folder 64 | ||
II. Tax records 1 linear foot (1 box)Scope and ContentArrangementArranged in loose chronological order Primarily consists of highway tax bills, receipts, and surveyors records from (1800-1871). Also included are tax abatement records (1820s to 1870s), Listers poll tax records (1845), and two volumes of general records (1885, 1892-1895). |
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Lists of highway tax surveyors 1809-1843 |
Box 4 | Folder 1 | ||
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Highway tax receipts (9 folders) 1809-1841 |
Box 4 | Folder 2-10 | ||
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Highway tax bills (43 folders) 1800-1871 |
Box 4 | Folder 11-53 | ||
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Highway tax surveyors' notebooks 1865 |
Box 4 | Folder 54 | ||
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Highway tax receipts n.d. |
Box 4 | Folder 55 | ||
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Highway tax surveyors' notebooks n.d. |
Box 4 | Folder 56 | ||
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Misc. highway tax Infantryormation 1806-1878 |
Box 4 | Folder 57 | ||
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Lister's poll tax records 1845 |
Box 4 | Folder 58 | ||
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Tax abatements (11 folders) 1820's-1870's, n.d. |
Box 4 | Folder 59-69 | ||
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Tax records (2 volumes) 1885, 1892-1895 |
Box 3 | unfoldered | ||
III. Civil War records 1 linear foot (1 box)Scope and ContentArrangementArranged alphabetically Includes bills, enlistment records, pay vouchers, correspondence, orders, and related materials documenting St. Johnsburys participation in the Civil War. A list of soldiers names represented in the pay vouchers has been created, which appends this finding aid. In some instances the recipients names have been listed as well. |
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Abatement of soldier's taxes 1861-1862 |
Box 5 | Folder 1 | ||
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Accounting of people coming to or leaving town n.d. |
Box 5 | Folder 2 | ||
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Act relating to vagrants 11/03/1864 |
Box 5 | Folder 3 | ||
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Adjutant and Inspector General's orders (4 folders) 1862-1865 |
Box 5 | Folder 4-7 | ||
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Authorizations to pay $7 bonus 1861-1864 |
Box 5 | Folder 8 | ||
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Bank stock holdings, Corporation returns 1862 1863-1864 |
Box 5 | Folder 9 | ||
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Bills re: recruiting 1862 |
Box 5 | Folder 10 | ||
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Bounty subscription papers 8/4/1862 |
Box 5 | Folder 11 | ||
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Enlistment bonuses (2 folders) 9/2/1862-1/29/1866 |
Box 5 | Folder 12-13 | ||
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Enlistments (oversized folder) 1862 |
Box OD11 | Folder 1 | ||
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Enlistment and discharge forms 1865 |
Box 5 | Folder 14 | ||
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Fairbanks' certificate to exempt blacksmith from the Army 5/31/1864 |
Box 5 | Folder 15 | ||
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General Order No. 1 11/29/1864 |
Box 5 | Folder 16 | ||
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General Order No. 5 and General Order No. 12 1864 |
Box 5 | Folder 17 | ||
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Law on substitutes 1862-1864 |
Box 5 | Folder 18 | ||
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Letters 1864 |
Box 5 | Folder 19 | ||
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Letter from Ripley to his wife 11/27/1864 |
Box 5 | Folder 20 | ||
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List of recruits as appear on book 4/16/1864 |
Box 5 | Folder 21 | ||
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List of St. Johnsbury men who paid commutation fee 11/13/1864 |
Box 5 | Folder 22 | ||
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Militia act of 1864 1864 |
Box 5 | Folder 23 | ||
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Petitions to hold special town meetings (oversized folder) 12/2/1863 |
Box OD11 | Folder 2 | ||
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Ordinance received and returned 10/28/1864, 1/10/1867 |
Box 5 | Folder 24 | ||
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Parental enlistment permissions 1862, n.d. |
Box 5 | Folder 25 | ||
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Provost Marshal's enrollment list 12/05/1863 |
Box 5 | Folder 26 | ||
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Receipt for payment to do Soldier's Record 10/13/1873 |
Box 5 | Folder 27 | ||
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Receipts for re-enlistment bonuses 1864-1865 |
Box 5 | Folder 28 | ||
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Soldier's monument receipts, petition to change monuments 7/7/1868-1/26/1874 |
Box 5 | Folder 29 | ||
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Soldier's pay vouchers, A-K 1862-1865 |
Box 5A | |||
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Soldier's pay vouchers, L-Z 1862-1865 |
Box 5B | |||
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Town orders and receipts, soldiers' bounties 10/18/1862-3/1/1874 |
Box 5 | Folder 30 | ||
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Town quotas from IG's office 9/18/1862 |
Box 5 | Folder 31 | ||