Ferrisburgh, Addison County, Vermont Genealogy

Brief History
The charter for Ferrisburgh was granted on June 24, 1762. The main village of Ferrisburg got a post office called Ferrisburgh in 1850. In 1892, the h was dropped, as it was most everywhere in the US at the urging of the postal service. Recent years have seen that spelling coming back into use for the entire town.

Town Histories
Go to Archive.org to find published materials for this town.


 * Ferrisburgh : a scrapbook of memories, Ferrisburgh Bicentennial Committee, 1976 - find this book in a library.


 * Around the mountains : historical essays about Charlotte, Ferrisburgh, and Monkton, William Wallace Higbee; Kathleen McKinley Harris; Mary G Lighthall (1991) - find this book in a library.

Vital Records
The town of Ferrisburgh kept annual town reports. These reports often contained birth, marriage, and death information. Below is a list of years when Ferrisburgh kept town reports. (NOTE: Occasionally, these town reports missed vital statistic information from the end of the year. If you don't find your ancestor's vital information, check the following year's town report to see if your ancestor's information was recorded later.)
 * FamilySearch Historical Records Collection has Vermont birth, death, and marriage records online.


 * Marriage book of Wm. Putnam Rallson William Rallson kept records of marriages for the following towns and years: Keeseville, 1873-1874; Essex, 1874-1875; Waterford, 1879-1880; Jonesville, 1880-1883, 1900-1902; Gloversville, 1883-1886; Mechanicville, 1886-1892; Salem, 1892-1896; Rupert, Vt., 1897; Brandon, Vt., 1898-1899; Vergennes, Vt. 1888-1892; Ferrisburg, Vt. 1888-1892; Schoharie, 1903-1904; Guilderland, 1905-1908; Richmondville, 1908-1912.

Probate Records
The probate district for Ferrisburgh is Addison. Addison Probate Court 7 Mahady Court Middlebury, VT 05753 Phone: (802) 388-2612

Maps
1871 map of Ferrisburgh Township

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


 * Allen Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.


 * Basin Harbor Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.


 * Collins Cemetery - inscriptions found at Find A Grave site.


 * First Quaker Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.


 * Friends Cemetery (also known as Quaker Cemetery) inscriptions at Find A Grave site.


 * Gage Cemetery - inscriptions found at Find A Grave site.


 * Kellogg- Field Cemetery- inscriptions at Find A Grave site.


 * Newton Cemetery- inscriptions at Find A Grave site.


 * North Ferrisburgh Cemetery - inscriptions found at Find A Grave site.


 * Porter Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.


 * Union Cemetery - inscriptions found at Find A Grave site.


 * Warner Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.

Town Records
at FamilySearch (browse only images).

The Family History Library has microfilm of original records from the Ferrisburgh Town Clerk's Office. These include Deeds, 1787-1852; index to deeds, 1793-1913, Town records, v. 1-3, 1759-1872, and Records of births, marriages, deaths, 1857-1999; indexes to marriages, births, deaths, 1759-1999.

Ferrisburgh Town Offices 3279 Route 7 PO Box 6 Ferrisburgh, VT 05456 Phone: (802) 877-3429 E-mail: ferrisburghclerk@comcast.net Website: http://www.ferrisburghvt.org/

Newspapers
Burlington Free Press

Rutland Herald

Libraries and Historical Societies
Ferrisburgh Historical Society PO Box 85 Ferrisburgh, VT 05456 Historical Society Website Link