Fairfield, Franklin County, Vermont Genealogy

Brief History
Fairfield was chartered on August 18, 1763. The town was organized in March 1790 and the first town meeting was held on March 30, 1791.

Fairfield proved to be one of the biggest and best farming towns in Vermont. Its rolling hills are used for growing hay, corn, and pasture for dairy farms, along with the growing of maple trees for maple syrup production.

President Chester A. Arthur was born in Fairfield in 1829, and lived there for the first three years of his life. The reconstructed family home of the 21st President and the church where his father was preacher are located at the President Chester A. Arthur State Historic Site.

The population at the 2010 US Census was 1,891.

Town Histories

 * Fairfield, Vermont reminiscences : 1763-1977, by Anne Rowley Howrigan, Eleanor Wheeler Ballway, and Joaquin P. Aja (1977) - find this book in a library.
 * Some early records of Fairfield, Vermont, by Gilbert Harry Doane (1938) - find this book in a library. Also available at Ancestry.com ($)

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

Land Records
Fairfield, Vermont Land Records, 1851-1927, can be found online at FamilySearch (browse only images).

Probate Records
Franklin Probate Division 17 Church St. St. Albans, VT 05478 Phone: (802) 524-7948

Franklin County, Vermont Probate Records, 1860-1910, are available on FamilySearch (browse only images).

Church Records
Trinity Episcopal Church (Fairfax, Vermont) Records, 1838-1942, are available on microfilm at the Family History Library.

Maps
1871 maps of Fairfield Town and Fairfield,Fairfield East

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


 * Barlow Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Bradley Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Egypt Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Episcopal Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Fairview Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Morey Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * North Fairfield-Herrick Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Pond Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Pumpkin Village Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Saint Patricks Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Saint Rocks Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Soule Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
 * Waite Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.

Town Records
Vermont, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1786-1858, are available on FamilySearch (browse only imagess).

The Family History Library has microfilm of original records from the Fairfield Town Clerk's Office. These include: Records of births, marriages, and deaths, 1857-1999,and Land records, 1763-1851; index, 1763-1875.

Fairfield Town Clerk 25 North Rd. PO Box 5 Fairfield, VT 05455 Phone: (802) 827-3261 Email: info@FairfieldVermont.us Website: http://www.fairfieldvermont.us/wordpress/

Newspapers
St. Albans Messenger

Vermont Online Historical Newspapers

Libraries and Historical Societies
Bent Northrop Memorial Library 164 Park St. Fairfield, VT 05455 Phone: (802) 827-3945 Email: bnmllibrarian@gmail.com Website: http://www.bentnorthrop.org/