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United States Vermont  Windham   Rockingham

Brief History
Rockingham is a town in Windham County along the Connecticut River and was chartered by Gov. Benning Wentworth on December 28, 1752. Rockingham includes the incorporated villages of Bellows Falls and Saxtons River. Rockingham has no formal town center, instead town offices and the Rockingham Public Library are located in the village of Bellows Falls.

Town Histories

 * History of the town of Rockingham, Vermont, including the villages of Bellows Falls, Saxtons River, Rockingham, Cambridgeport and Bartonsville, 1753-1907, with family genealogies (1907), by Lyman Simpson Hayes - view a digital version of this book online free of charge.
 * History of the Town of Rockingham, 1907-1957, by Frances Stockwell Lovell and Everett C. Lovell, published by the Town, 1958 - find this book in a library.

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

Probate Records
The probate district for Putney is Westminster. Westminster Probate Court PO Box 47 Bellows Falls, VT 05101 Phone: (802) 463-3019

Maps
1869 map of Putney

Cemeteries

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


 * Allyn Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Alpin Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Davis Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Dipping Hole-West Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * East Putney Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Houghton Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Joy Cemetery
 * Kathan Cemetery - inscriptins at Find A Grave site.
 * Lowell Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Maple Grove Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * McWain cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Mount Pleasant Cemtery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Old North Burying Ground - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * West Hill Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.

Town Records
The Family History Library has microfilm of original records from the Putney Town Clerk's Office. These include Land records, 1764-1949; indexes, 1770-1937, Marriages, births and deaths (1857-1994) and indexes (1857-1905), Putney, Vermont town records : births, deaths, and marriages, 1740-1832, Records of births, marriages, deaths, and publishments, 1789-1914, and Town records, 1745-1846.

Town of Rockingham &amp; Village of Bellows Falls, Vermont 7 Square PO Box 370 Bellows Falls, VT 05101 Phone: (802) 463-4336. Website: http://www.rockbf.org/

Newspapers
Brattleboro Reformer

Libraries and Historical Societies
Putney Historical Society 15 Kimball Hill P.O. Box 260 Putney, Vermont 05346 Phone: 802-387-4411 Email: info@putneyhistory.us Website: http://putneyhistory.us/

Putney Public Library 55 Main St. Putney, VT 05346 Phone: (802) 387-4407 Email: putpub@svcable.net Website: http://home.svcable.net/putpub/