John Bancroft (1745 - 1809)

Born 10 Dec 1745 in Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Eunice (Blood) Bancroft — married 17 Nov 1768 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 20 Nov 1809 at age 63 in Chittenden, Rutland, Vermont, United States

Biography

Burial

Here lies the body of Mr. John Bancroft

who died Nov. 20, 1809

Age 63 years.

"Bound to the sect, he walk took no private road

But walked through nature up to Nature's God."

Barnard Cemetery, Chittenden, Rutland County, Vermont, USA

Chittenden

Chittenden is a town in Rutland County, Vermont.^[1]

Chartered: March 16, 1780 (Vermont Charter)^[2]

Aka: Phildadelphia, Old Phildadelphia

13 Mar 1804 Petition:^[3]

To David Wadsworth... We the inhabitants in Philadelphia... in order to keep up good regulation (request) that the Town be organized.

Signed:

1. John Clark
2. Elijah Seger
3. Caleb Churchill
4. John W Clark
5. Issachar Brissbee
6. Elisha Wadsworth
7. Samuel Bencraft
8. Seth Churchill
9. John Bancraft
10. John Capen
11. Ezra Artel

Sources

1. ↑ Chittenden on Wikipedia: Chittenden (not to be confused with Chittenden County) is a town in Rutland County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,258 at the 2010 census.
2. ↑ Virtual Vermont: Both town and county of Chittenden was named for Vermont's first Governor, Thomas Chittenden, who made his home in Williston, Chittenden County. The Governor never had anything much to do with the town, although he and his son, Noah, were among the grantees. Chittenden is the largest town in the state; however, the ridge of the Green Mountains runs down the entire eastern half of it, making that area suitable only for lumbering and providing a barrier to highways. As a result, only the western part of the town has ever had much in the way of settlements, and these were chiefly clustered around the villages of Chittenden (sometimes called South Chittenden) and Holden (sometimes North Chittenden), both near the Pittsford-Chittenden town line. A section in the northwest part of Chittenden is known as Philadelphia or Old Philadelphia. Called Philadelphia, this town was granted to Samuel Beach, a brother of the first named grantee of Chittenden.
3. ↑ "Town Records, 1757-1857," images, FamilySearch (Town Records : accessed 9 January 2018), Philadelphia charter; citing Town record book belonging to Chittenden, Rutland, Vermont, unindexed images available at Family Search.

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Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile created by Michael Sheffield.