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United States Vermont  Windsor   Weathersfield

Brief History
The town of Weathersfield was chartered on August 20, 1761. Settlement began in the town before 1765 and organization took place in 1768. The first town meeting was held on May 19, 1772.

n 1830 a post office was opened at the village which is now known as Ascutney. The office was named just Corners (not Weathersfield Corners, as was intended). When the application forms were made out for the post office, Weathersfield name was put in the proper place for the town's name and Corners was put in for the village name, the assumption apparently that any fool could see the village name was Weathersfield Corners. But the postal authorities weren't just any fools: they took the name exactly as they read it, and for twenty years the office was just Corners.

At some point it occurred to someone that Corners lay in the shadow of Mount Ascutney, so in 1851 the name of the post office was changed to Ascutneyville. In 1924, during one of Washington's periods of trying to tidy up postal names, the -ville was dropped, and the village has been Ascutney ever since. Ascutney is a very old Abnaki name for the mountain, possibly meaning a place "at the end of the river fork." Although Weathersfield has the village of Ascutney and Little Ascutney Mountain, the main peak of Mount Ascutney is over the line in the towns of Windsor and West Windsor.

Historical Data
The Vermont Historical Gazetteer is a 5 volume set of historical information by Abby Maria Hemenway with Volume I published in 1867 and Volume V completed in 1891 after her death. Also available online in PDF format at this link.

Weathersfield historical photos.

Town Histories
The early history of Weathersfield, Vermont, by Ernest W. Butterfield - Find the book in a library. Also available at Ancestry.com ($).

Weathersfield (containes Century One and Two), by John L Hurd - Find the book in a library.

Vital Records
FamilySearch Historical Records Collection has Vermont birth, death, and marriage records online.

Probate Records
The probate district for Weathersfiled is Windsor. Windsor Probate Court PO Box 402 (Cota Fuel Bdg) N. Springfield, VT 05150 Phone: (802) 886-2284

City Directories
Weathersfield directory, 1915-1916 is available on microfilm from the Family History Library.

Maps
1869 map of Weathersfield

Cemeteries
The following is a list of cemeteries in present-day Weathersfiled. For location of cemeteries, see Cemeteries of Vermont, Windosr County, website at this link.


 * Ascutneyville Cemetery
 * Grout Cemetery
 * Plain Cemetery
 * Tuttle Cemetery
 * Upham-Aldrich Cemetery
 * Weathersfield Bow Cemetery

Weathersfield Bow Cemetery inscriptions at Find a Grave.

Town Records
Digital images of Weathersfiled Town records 1732-2005 are available online at FamilySearch.

The Family History Library has microfilm of original records from the Weston Town Clerk's Office. These include Land records, 1781-1900; general index to land records, 1781-1925, and Records of births, marriages, and deaths, 1857-1996.

Weathersfield Town Clerk Physical Address: 5259 VT Route 5 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 550 Ascutney, Vermont 05030 Phone: [802) 674-9500 Email: tclerk@weathersfield.org Website: http://www.weathersfieldvt.org/town-clerk

Libraries and Historical Societies
Weathersfield Historical Society P.O. Box 126 Weathersfield, VT 05151 Phone: (802) 263-9345 Website: http://www.weathersfieldvt.org/ourcommunity/historical-society

Weathersfield Proctor Library 5181 VT Route 5 Ascutney, Vermont 05030 Phone [802] 674-2863 Email: weathersfieldproctorlibrary@gmail.com Websire: http://www.weathersfieldproctorlibrary.org/