Windsor County Court November 18

Lucy Guerra, DOB 7/18/95, pled not guilty to her first DUI, in Ludlow on November 9

Jacob Haehnel, DOB 3/30/92, pled not guilty to his first DUI, in Hartford on October 29

Philip Harrington, DOB 11/19/48, pled no contest to a charge of driving with a suspended license, in Hartford on October 1

Kevin Cole, DOB 1/1/53, pled not guilty to a charge of driving with a suspended license, in Hartford on October 1

Ryan Jorgensen, DOB 9/18/90, pled not guilty to a charge of his first DUI, in Hartford on October 31

Derrick Ward, DOB DOB 5/11/84, pled not guilty to a charge of careless and negligent operation in Windsor on October 9

Michael Kline, DOB 6/20/72, pled guilty to a charge of driving with a suspended license in Springfield on September 22

Jessica Thompson, DOB 7/11/92, pled not guilty to a charge of his first DUI, in Plymouth on October 31

Kym Blaisdell, DOB 8/5/58, pled not guilty to a charge of violating a prevention of abuse order. In Norwich on October 14

Thomas Vaillancourt, DOB 4/21/92, pled guilty to a charge of unlawful trespass on land, in Hartford.

Casey Chase, DOB 5/14/85, pled not guilty to charges of driving with a suspended license on September 26, October 24, and November 4, in Springfield and Weathersfield. He was also charged with violating conditions of release on November 4 in Weathersfield. He also has outstanding charges for careless and negligent operation in Weathersfield on September 19.

Crystal Krysztofik, DOB 5/27/73, pled not guilty to a charge of driving with a suspended license in Rochester on October 1

Robert Farnham, DOB 3/17/78, pled not guilty to a charge of his second DUI, and driving with a suspended license, in Sharon on October 12.

Shannon Endicott, DOB 6/25/76, pled not guilty to a charge of her first DUI, in Ludlow on November 8

Julia Ayward, DOB 7/28/52, was charged with her first DUI, in Windsor on September 20

Nikiesha McGovern, DOB 11/12/88, of West Rutland, was charged with welfare fraud and false pretenses or tokens from January to July of 2013

You can read more about these charges here:http://vtdigger.org/2014/03/27/four-charged-medicaid-fraud/

Jason Lamson, DOB 8/7/92, pled not guilty to charges of burglary of an occupied dwelling, and simple assault, in Royalton on October 15

Matthew Prucha, DOB 5/28/93, pled not guilty to charges of burglary of an occupied dwelling and simple assault, in Royalton on October 15

Hannah Potter, DOB 8/8/94, was charged with 2 counts of burglary into an occupied dwelling and 1 count of burglary, on August 16 in Barnard. You can read about these and other charges here:

http://www.ourherald.com/news/2014-08-28/Communities/Police_May_Be_Close_To_Solving_Several_Burglaries_.html

Andrea Rossi, DOB 11/21/81, pled not guilty to a charge of heroin trafficking in Royalton on August 21 Read more about these charges here:

http://www.vermonttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20141119/NEWS01/711199850/-1/tee..

Thurston Twigg-Smith, DOB 1/21/47, pled not guilty to a charge of lewd and lascivious conduct with a child in Barnard on October 8 You can read more about these charges here:

http://www.vnews.com/home/14413467-95/barnard-man-pleads-not-guilty-to-lewd-conduct-charge

Jonathan White, DOB 2/3/55, was charged with careless and negligent operation of a motor vehicle, reckless endangerment, giving false information to a police officer, and unlawful trespass/land in Hartford on September 23

Teanna Record, DOB 8/1/91, pled not guilty to a charge of possession of heroin in Springfield on September 22. She has active court cases involving identity theft and possession of narcotics in Cavendish on July 26

Record was also arrested in Lebanon on November 19. You can read about that arrest here:

http://police.lebnh.net/home/police-news

Windsor County Crime Online

Heroin Bust at Windsor Park and Ride: http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2014/11/holyoke_couple_arrested_in_ver.html

Jessica Potter, age 29 of Sharon

http://vtstatepolice.blogspot.com/2014/11/press-release-arrest-dui2-refusal-sharon.html

Nicholas Putnam, age 30, of Springfield

http://weathersfieldvermontnews.blogspot.com/2014/11/providing-false-information-to-law.html

http://rutlandherald.com/article/20140927/THISJUSTIN/709279932

Windsor County Court November 4

Britney Parson DOB 6/26/89, pled not guilty to a charge of violating conditions of release in Chester on August 25. She pled not guilty to charges of burglary and unlawful mischief in Weathersfield on April 16

Jantas Wladyslaw, DOB 5/29/61 pled not guilty to charges of aggressive domestic assault and engaging in prohibited acts, in Chester from January to September

Christopher Goodwin, DOB 9/22/91, pled not guilty to charges of his first DUI, leaving the scene of a crash, and violating conditions of release in Hartford on October 24. You can read more about these charges here: http://www.thevermontstandard.com/2014/11/police-drinking-led-to-hartland-residents-crash/

Chad Cushman, DOB 7/13/71, pled not guilty to cultivation of marijuana and possession of a hallucinogen, in Weathersfield on September 22. You can read more about these charges here: http://wycu.wordpress.com/2014/09/26/vermont-man-charged-with-drug-possession-with-children-around/

Mitchell Horton, DOB 10/9/87, pled not guilty to three charges of engaging in prohibited acts in Chester in September. You can read more about these charges here: http://eagletimes.villagesoup.com/p/felon-cited-for-inappropriate-comments-to-female-co-workers/1266160

Keith Gokey, DOB 9/30/66, pled not guilty to a charge of unlawful trespass in Hartford on September 17

Deseree Lemay, DOB 3/11/93, pled not guilty to a charge of domestic assault in Hartford on May 2

Mark Boutin, DOB 1/28/67, pled not guilty to a charge of his first DUI, in Hartford on October 25

Tracy Sherer, DOB 1/14/87, pled not guilty to a charge of her first DUI, in Cavendish on October 16

Shendye Sumant, DOB 6/21/88 pled not guilty to a charge of a first DUI, in Hartford on October 22

Windsor County Crime Online:

Eric Danielson, age 42, from Hartland, and Jereme Schoff, age 27 from Springfield:

https://wuvr.wordpress.com/tag/elizabeth-magoon/

Chad Herring, age 17, from Northfield Vermont, in South Royalton http://www.ourherald.com/news/2014-10-30/Communities/Machete_Threat_By_17YearOld_Is_Alleged.html

Heroin arrests in Windsor: https://wntk.wordpress.com/2014/10/28/heroin-seized-arrests-made-in-windsor/

Rum and Carpentry

I am trying to find a link to the Chase family that takes me somewhere else in the Upper Valley. Bethel is an outlying town, and much of the Chase family were either early proprietors or settlers in Bethel. I wasn't going to continue posting about Bethel, because I ended up in Bethel with the Akins family, and here I am again with the Chases. However, as I read the stories, they are so interesting, I feel compelled to share them. There are some interesting stories in Bethel's past. Part of the reason there are so many stories available on the internet is the book “Two Vermont Hollows, a History of Gilead and Little Hollows, published in Randolph in 1976. This book is often quoted on various genealogical sites, and would be a gem of a book to read over the winter, for anyone interested in the history of Bethel.

Dudley and Alice's oldest child, Mercy,, born in Sutton, Massachusetts, moved to Cornish when she was 10 years old. She was one of the kids who traveled up from Fort Number 4 in the canoe when Alice demanded to be taken to Dudley. She married Stephen Child in 1778 when she was 23. Stephen had served in the Revolutionary War under Jonathan, and was with him during the aborted trip to Ticonderoga. He was a corporal under Jonathan, and returned to New York State with Jonathan as they marched to the Battle of Saratoga, and witnessed the surrender of Burgoyne.

Along with Dudley, Stephen was one of the early proprietors of Bethel, although he never lived there. He and Mercy lived to be old in Cornish. Stephen died at age 82 and Mercy died at age 80.

Two of their sons, Daniel and Enos, did move to Bethel.

Daniel married Apama Lyman, from Lebanon, in 1804, when he was 25 and she was 19. They moved to Rochester as newlyweds. Apparently Dudley Chase was one of the proprietors of Rochester,and he sold his grandson Daniel a hundred acre lot. Daniel and Apama cleared their land and built a house. Daniel had settled in Rochester because the road from southern Vermont to Montpelier was supposed to go through Rochester Hollow near his land. The road was never built, and in the summer of 1818 the Childs moved to Bethel. By this time they had six children: Emily, Abel, Philander, Eliza, Elijah and Lucy.

Daniel relocated in Bethel by trading his farm in an even trade with Charles Morse. Morse took possession of Daniel's farm in Rochester, and Daniel moved to Morse's farm in Bethel. When they moved to Bethel, the Childs were not satisfied with the house there so they hired Chester and Cyrus Chapman to build another. The 1820 census lists a Charles Morse living in Rochester, and he had a wife and two children. It is entirely possible that the Morse house was not big enough for six children.

Leyland Wood, in his book “Two Vermont Hollows”, published in Randolph in 1976, says that the Chapman brothers built the house for an unspecified amount of money and all the rum they could drink. He goes on to say that “The builders must have been able to carry their liquor well. It is doubtful if present day builders would be able to construct a house that was true and plumb if they were to consume a gallon of liquor daily.” I have lived in old houses all my life, and have always wondered if carpenters from that era had even ever heard of a plumb line or a level. Now I know that there may have been other reasons for the uneven floors and slanted molding in the houses that were built back then.

The story was that Daniel's two sons, Abel and Philander, carried the rum from Bethel every day. The rum was contained in a gallon jug, and the two boys carried it between them strung on a stick.

In 1818 Abel was 8 years old and Philander was 6. It's hard to imagine such young boys doing such a huge job, but it certainly wasn't uncommon in that day and age.

The “Two Hollows” book describes the location of the house as being “in the short cross road from the Camp Brook Road to the present Route 12, the first place on the right going south.” From this description, it is a fair estimate that the boys walked a little more than two miles every day to deliver the rum. The question is, did they walk from the farm to Bethel, get the rum, and bring it all the way back? If so, it would have been a four mile walk. Did they get a ride to Bethel in the farm wagon, and then walk back? Were they living in town in Bethel while the house was being built? If so, they walked from town to the building site and then back to town again.

At one point, Daniel thought he might want to move to Ohio. Several of his Chase relatives had moved there and he thought he would check it out, so he walked there, didn't like it, and walked back.

He was very involved in town and church affairs. He was one of the organizers of the Old Christ Church. He was also the clerk of the Episcopal district of the area. Wood, in “Two Vermont Hollows”, tells that the local paper was the “Woodstock Mercury”, and Daniel would stop in at the
post office on Friday and gather up all the papers belonging to the subscribers that were church members, and hold them hostage until Sunday, when he would scatter them on the pews of the church, making it necessary for those people to come to church to get their papers.

                                                                                                                                                                          Old Christ Church in Bethel                                                                                  

Daniel was a surveyor and was well known for keeping meticulous records and being very focused on details. His surveying work was accurate and well documented, and even in the 1970's, landowners used his old documents to ascertain property lines. He was also the town clerk for many years. He was famous for his beautiful handwriting, and in 1829 the town hired him to recopy the records of the early proprietors, as well as the early vital statistics. His work is still in the town vault.

Daniel and Apama had nine children and lived to their early seventies. Daniel dropped dead in the streets of downtown Bethel when he was 73. Just to keep things in perspective, Dudley and Alice Chase were Daniel's grandparents. Jonathan was Daniel's great-uncle. Allace and Bibye Cotton were his Aunt and Uncle, as were Lois and Benjamin Smith. There is every indication that the various branches of the Chase extended family in Bethel got along, so Daniel and his children probably spent a lot of time with many of these relatives, all of whom had large families of their own.

Note to readers:Looking at google maps, I can see where the end of Camp Brook Road makes a fork into Route 12. Using the street view, there is a house that appears quite old that would be the first right headed south. I hesitate to definitively say this is the house, but if you are reading this, and you have some extra time, and are interested, head to google maps, give it a look, and email your comments, or comment on this blog. If I have time in the next few weeks, I'll head up to the Bethel town clerk's office and do a title search on this house to see if it is Daniel and Apama's house.