Cabot, Washington County, Vermont Genealogy

Description
Cabot, Vermont at Wikipedia

Cabot was chartered on August 17, 1781 by the Vermont State Legislature. Cabot started out as an army town. When the town was officially organized, eight years after the chartering, six out of seven people elected to fill town offices had been commissioned Continental Army officers (the odd civilian was elected to the office of highway surveyor).

It has been said that a man could live in Cabot for seventy-five years and have been a resident of four counties without ever leaving his place of birth. The town has been successively part of the Vermont counties of Cumberland, Orange, Caledonia and, since 1855, Washington.

Cabot did have what the proprietors of every town hoped for: good farm lands, plenty of mill sites and no excessively high hills. At first the town grew quite rapidly, then after the Civil War it started to decline. The population at the 2010 US. Census was 1,433.

Populated Places
Includes Neighborhoods, Villages, Unincorporated Communities, Districts, and Census-Designated Places:

Town Records
In New England most original vital records of birth, marriage, and death can be found at the town clerk's office

Cabot Town Clerk
Cabot Town Clerk 3084 Main St. PO Box 36 Cabot, VT 05647 Phone: (802) 563-2279 Website: http://www.cabotvt.us/

Vital Records

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

Resources
For more County and State resources see:

Cemeteries

 * Cabot Cemeteries List at FindAGrave
 * at FamilySearch Catalog
 * at FamilySearch Catalog
 * Washington County Cemeteries at FamilySearch Places

The following is a list of major cemeteries in present-day Cabot. For location of all cemeteries, see Cemeteries of Vermont, Washington County, website at this link.


 * Cabot Plains Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Cabot Village Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Center Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Durant Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * East Cabot Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * South Cabot Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * West Hill Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.

Church Records
Historically, the largest religious groups in Vermont were the Congregational, Baptist, Roman Catholic, and Methodist churches. For general information about Vermont denominations, view the New Hampshire Church Records wiki page. To see the churches in Cabot, visit. Church records and the information they provide vary significantly depending on the denomination and the record keeper. They may contain information about members of the congregation, such as age, date of baptism, christening, or birth; marriage information and maiden names; and death date. The following are church records available online for the town of Cabot:

City Directories

 * Various Dates U.S. City Directories, 1860-1960 at MyHeritage - index and images ($) some towns and years may be missing

Land Records

 * 1600s-1900s at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images; ''Also at: Ancestry ($),
 * Vermont Land and Property

Local Histories

 * Years of Cabot History, Cabot Historical Society

Maps
This selection incudes town, county, state, and historical maps
 * Boundary Map of Cabot at HomeTownLocator
 * Cabot at FamilySearch Places
 * Cabot at Google Maps
 * Cabot at Mapcarta
 * McConnell's Historical Maps of the United States at Library of Congress
 * Old Maps of Vermont at Old-Maps.com
 * Town of Cabot at Vermont.org
 * Vermont Maps State Page


 * 1873 map of Cabot

Military
Some Records are Searchable by Town

Revolutionary War, 1775-1783
For more Revolutionary War Military Records see:
 * Vermont Military Records - Revolutionary War, 1775-1783
 * United States Military Records - Revolutionary War, 1775-1783

Civil War, 1861-1865
For more Civil War Military Records see:
 * Vermont Military Records - Civil War, 1861-1865
 * United States Military Records - Civil War, 1861-1865

World War I, 1917-1918
For more World War I Military Records see:
 * Vermont Military Records - World War I, 1917-1918
 * United States Military Records - World War I, 1917-1918

World War II, 1941-1945
For more World War II Military Records see:
 * Vermont Military Records - World War II, 1941-1945
 * United States Military Records - World War II, 1941-1945

Newspapers

 * Burlington Free Press

Other Town Records
In Vermont, most records are kept at the town level and generally began being kept at the founding of the town. These records may include the following: The following are Cabot town records available online:

Town Clerk Vital and Town Records, 1857-1998, can be found on *FamilySearch (browse only images).

Vermont, Washington County, Cabot, land records, 1852-1904, can be found on *FamilySearch (browse only images).

The Family History Library has microfilm of original records from the Cabot Town Clerk's Office. These include: *Births, marriages, deaths records, v. 1, 1764-1881*Deeds, 1788-1852.

Probate Records

 * The probate district for Cabot is Washington. Washington District Probate Court 10 Elm St. #3 Montpelier, VT 05602 Phone: (802) 828-3405
 * 1749-1999 Vermont, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1749-1999 at Ancestry - index & images, ($)
 * 1800-1921 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * Vermont Probate Records

Libraries

 * Cabot Public Library 3084 Main St. Cabot, VT 05647 Phone: 802-563-2721 Website

Family History Centers & Affiliate Libraries

 * Essex Vermont Family History Center
 * Montpelier Vermont Family History Center
 * South Royalton Vermont Family History Center
 * Bath Public Library - an affiliate library
 * Thornton Public Library - New Hampshire - an affiliate library
 * Vermont French-Canadian Genealogical Society - an affiliate library

Societies

 * Cabot Historical Society 3216 Main Street P. O. Box 275 Cabot, VT 05647 Email: [mailto:cabothistorical@gmail.com cabothistorical@gmail.com] Website