Barnard SALISBURY
Biography

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History of the Town of Townshend

"Deacon Barnard SALISBURY was born in Dummerston, Vt., March 30, 1786, and married Arathusa DUNCAN, of that town, August 3, 1806. About 1807, they came to Townshend and located on road 39, on what is called West Hill. He cleared .130 acres. He was left an orphan at the age of three years, and was brought up by a Mr. HADLEY. He received a common school education and fitted himself for the duties of a teacher, which he performed in several schools prior to his marriage. After his-settlement in Townshend he was honored with many public trusts. He was a magistrate for about twenty-five years, and a deacon of the Congregational church for an equal period, serving on the committee to whom was entrusted the erection of the parsonage, &c. He died in 1854. He was twice married. His youngest child, Henry SALISBURY, the present postmaster and clerk of Townshend, was born in this town July 6, 1829. He married Alice HARRINGTON in 1857, and has always resided here. He has held the office of town clerk and postmaster since 1869. He represented this town in 1868-'69."

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"The Biographical record of Ogle County, Illinois" (anonymous); pub. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1899, 492 pgs. (LH10357, HeritageQuest images 4/ 2007; FHL book 977.332 D3b and film 1,000,508 item 5)


Pg.307: Charles Fisher … on the 10th of November, 1850, in Byron township, occurred the marriage of Mr. Fisher and Miss Harriet N. Salisbury, who was born in Townsend, Windham County, Vermont, August 2, 1827, a daughter of Barnard and Arethusa (Duncan) Salisbury, also natives of the Green Mountain state. The father was born in Brattleboro, March 30, 1786, and was descended from a family of German origin … pioneer of Townsend, Vermont. … On returning from a visit to our subject and his wife he was taken ill with cholera at Pulaski, New York, and died July 4, 1854. His wife passed away December 27, 1832. In the family of this worthy couple were ten children, of whom nine reached years of maturity, but only Mrs. Fisher, Mrs. Arethusa Merwin of New Haven, Connecticut, and Henry Salisbury, of Schenectady, New York, are now living. …



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