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Noel Angell is my 4th Cousin, 4 times removed. In 1805, He purchased 115 Acres of land in Bridgewater Hollow from Oliver Williams of Woodstock. The purchase price was $287.50 and the deed was recorded on October 29, 1805. At the time he and his young family were living in Wendell, New Hampshire ( now Sunapee ) and it appears that the entire family may not have permanently moved to Vermont until after 1810, as some appeared in the 1800 and 1810 Census in Wendell. It is recorded that his oldest daughter, Polly, married Benjamin Woodward in Bridgewater on 18 October 1809. Noel Senior appears in the 1813 Bridgewater ( Tax? ) Book, page 411, as paying taxes on 65 acres and son Colburn taxes on 50 acres, both totalling the original 115. Brothers, Stukely, Hezekiah, Esek, and Abner appear on the same list: Stukely with 50 acres bounded South on Whitney Thayer lot, Hezekiah 200 Acres, Esek 87 acres bounded South by North. Angell, Abner ? acres bounded on the South by Samuel Woodward. Noel was bounded East by South Angell and West by Joshua Whitney. Further it is mentioned that Stukely, Esek, and Noel live on the lots indicated. What is belived to be the cellar hole of Noel's home in Bridgewater Hollow was visited by some of the Rice and Hammond families in October 1994 (beautiful spot); previously pointed out to GJR by Ira Stevens who owns a little corner of what had been Noel's land. The cellarhole is located about 300 feet west of the right hand (eaasterly) trail and just n/w of two parallel stone walls running in a south westerly direction that must have had a road between them. The two old roads, now Vast ( Vermont Association of Snow Travelers) snowmobile trails, steeply decend as a sort of "V: from the Applachion trail along the top of the rim surrounding the "Hollow" and enter, only yards apart, the clearing below the recently constructed log home of Ira Stevens which at the present time is the last place on the travled road. The "Hollow" itself is also quite elevated and it's access is a steep road cut in the side of an equally steep hill above a tumbling brook which also descends from the :"Hollow". The settlers in the early days of Vermont must have really wanted to be away from the misty dews and damps of the valleys. I believe most ot the land in the vicinity is now owned by a Whitney family?) and only a couple of year round homes, where 150 years ago there was a thriving farming district, with its oown school. Noel and Hannah are probably buried in one of the many unmarked graves in the Angell cemetery in the Hollow, where also is buried Hannah's sister Sarah a.k.a. "Sala", the wife of Stuckley Angell ( he died and was buried about 30 years later in Rochester, Vermont wher he had gone to live with one of his sons). Colburn Angell has a grave with a stone in this cemetery as do a few others-GJR. Herman William Tripp--Remembering......these rocords from Gerry Rice.
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Tripp Families of North America
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