Gazetteer and business directory of Lamoille and Orleans counties, Vt., for 1883-84 .. . Vt. Vols., and was mustered inas corporal September 16, 1861. He was severely wounded in his side by afragment of a shell during the seven days fight before Richmond, June 27,1862, and in consequence of it was discharged January 6, 1863. He waseducated at New Hampton Institution, Eairfax, Vt., and ordained as anevangelist January 30, 1867, at Montgomery, Vt. He represented the townof Reading, Vt., in 1876, and began his present labors here last May, buthad preached here three years previous. The Methodist
Gazetteer and business directory of Lamoille and Orleans counties, Vt., for 1883-84 .. . Vt. Vols., and was mustered inas corporal September 16, 1861. He was severely wounded in his side by afragment of a shell during the seven days fight before Richmond, June 27,1862, and in consequence of it was discharged January 6, 1863. He waseducated at New Hampton Institution, Eairfax, Vt., and ordained as anevangelist January 30, 1867, at Montgomery, Vt. He represented the townof Reading, Vt., in 1876, and began his present labors here last May, buthad preached here three years previous. The Methodist church.—The Methodists have a meeting-house at thecenter and hold their meetings there. Their first Resident minister wasprobably Enos Putnam. The society is a branch of the Westfield church,and is considerably larger than the Baptist society. E. A. Emery suppliesthe pulpit, though he is not an ordained minister. lyie Christian church.—Rev. H. C. Sisco is the pastor of the Christiansociety, and they hold their meetings at the school-house in North Jay, wheretheir pastor TOWN OF LOWELL. 288 LO^ATELL. iOWELL lies in the southwestern part of the county, in lat 44^47, andlong. 4° 21, bounded north by Westfield and Troy, east by Irasburghand Albany, south by Eden, and west by Montgomery, having anirregular outline much in the form of a triangle. It was granted March 5,1787, and chartered by Gov. Thomas Chittenden to John Kelley, Esq., ofNew York, from whom it received its original name, Kelleyvale. In twocharters, the first for 6,000 acres, being dated June 6, 1791, and the second,for 31,000, June 7, 1791. November i, 1831, the name of Kelleyvale wasaltered to the one it now bears. Immediately after its charter the townshippassed into the hands of Mr. Kelleys creditors, who sold it to a WiUiamDuer for $4,, and a considerable portion of the territory still remainsin the hands of non-residents. The town is hemmed in by mountains and hills on three sides. Upon thes
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