| Sources:
1. Frederick Adams Virkus, ed. 1933. The Compendium
of American Genealogy. Institute of American Genealogy, Chicago
(1968 by Genealogical Publ. Co., Baltimore; Broderbund CD-200). In
v. 6, on p. 292:
1-HERRICK, George Ira, b nr. Wheaton, Ill., June
11, 1868...
10-William Chittenden (qv);
9-Thomas (d 1683), Guilford, Conn.; m Joanna Jordan
(John10, m Anna--);
8-William (1666-1738), m 1st, Hannah-- (d 1703);
7-Ebenezer (1699-1756), East Guilford; m 1723, Mary Johnson
(1699-1779; Sam.8, m Mary Sage; Wm.9; Robt.10);
6-Lt. Col Thomas (1730-97), to Salisbury,
Conn., 1751; dep. Gen. Ct. of Conn.; to Vt., 1774; 1st gov. of the Independent
Republic of Vt. 14 yrs., and gov. of state 6 yrs.; 1st pres. Com. Safety,
Bennington; State of Vt. erected granite monument to his memory; m
1749, Elizabeth Meigs (1731-1817; Lt. Janna7, m Elizabeth, dau.
Ebenr. Dudley; Capt. Janna8; Dea. John9; John10;
Vincent12, qv);
5-Mabel (1750-1838), m Capt. Thomas Barney (1745-1828),
Jericho, Vt.; with the "Green Mtn. Boys," Am.Rev.;
4-Mabel (177--1844), m Ezra Galusha
(4 above)... |
2. Alvan Talcott. 1882. Chittenden Family:
William Chittenden of Guilford, Conn., and His Descendants. Tuttle,
Morehouse & Taylor, New Haven, CT.
| Gov. Thomas Chittenden, son of Ebenezer, removed from Guilford
at the age of 21 to Salisbury, in Litchfield County, then in its first
settlement, where he was prosperous In business, and a prominent man in
the community, sustaining important civil and military offices. In
1773, he removed again to what was then called the New Hampshire Grants,
now the state of Vermont. He purchased a large tract of land on Onion
River, then a wilderness, which took the name of Williston. Here
he began a settlement with brilliant prospects, til the war of Revolution
commenced, when he was driven from his home to a place less exposed to
the enemy. He was a leading man in the measures taken to form a separate
government for the State of Vermont, and in 1778 was chosen as its first
Governor, which office he held with the exception of one year until his
death.
Gov. Chittenden possessed in an eminent degree precisely those qualities
that fitted him for the place in which he was called to act. He had
not, indeed, enjoyed many of the advantages of education, but his want
of education was amply supplied by the possession of a strong and active
mind, which, at the time when he immigrated to Vermont, was matured by
age, practiced in business, and enriched by a careful observation of men
and things. His knowledge was practical, rather than theoretical.
He was regular in his habits, plain and simple in his manners, averse to
ostentation in equipage or dress, and he cared little for the luxuries,
blandishments and etiquette of refined society.
Though he was deficient in many of the qualities now deemed essential
in a statesman, he possessed all that was necessary in the times in which
he lived, and was probably far better fitted to be the leader and governor
of the independent, dauntless and hardy, but uneducated, settlers of Vermont,
than would have been a man of greater theoretic knowledge and more political
accomplishments.
He married in 1750, Elizabeth Meigs, dau. of Janna Meigs and Elizabeth
Dudley, of East Guilford, sister of his brother Ebenezer's wife. |
3. WorldConnect / Ancestry World Trees (online at RootsWeb.com/Ancestry.com).
4. Broderbund. World Family Trees. Vol. 15,
Pedigree No. 568. |