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...Town's Deep Ancestry
...Susanna's Sources
...Joseph Addison Ripley
...Grandson Lafayette & Foster Parents

Susanna and many others connected to Barre named sons Royal. This was a way to remember all ancestors and ministers who came to Barre from the area around Royalton/Athol. The places were originally on the Massachusetts side of the Massachusetts-Vermont border, but that border would be adjusted later by moving it southward. (After the French had been chased out by the British, the Massachusetts side of the border was settled by the emerging new "Americans", many temporarily there, pre-American Revolution. The idea? To be on high land, ready to defend against those British attacks expected to come southward, down from Canada, down into upstate NY and into the future state of Vermont. High land could not support as many farmers and thus shopkeepers as would more fertile valley land, so many offspring of farmers and shopkeepers left post-Revolution, going, for example, to Barre in northwest Vermont.)

Barre's Masonic Hall was her former house. Built by her spouse Joseph Addison Ripley, it is featured in a walking tour of Barre:

"10. Masonic Temple. The original classic-lined brick house was built by Joseph Addison Ripley prior to 1830. Ripley served as Barre Town Clerk for 22 years from 1818 to 1840...

...The property was acquired in 1929 by Granite Lodge No. 35, Free and Accepted Masons, who undertook major renovations including the two-floored portico that replaced the broad, sweeping verandah that formerly graced the front of one of the most imposing Barre residences."
From Central-VT.com

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TOWN'S DEEP ANCESTRY. Beginning as a farming town, Barre would become known for its granite quarries. Its granite workers included the above club of masons. Many were skilled craftsmen, newly immigrating from Italy. The incoming stone cutters included those who could carve elaborately, artistically, even in hard granite. They would improve the aging Ripley house with restoration work and a portico that could shelter member masons and their guests from the harsh New England weather, many having been more accustomed to Italy's warmth.

The Italian stonecutters immigrated much later than did the Puritan-descended townspeople of early Barre, but many in both sets came from humble beginnings. The earliest included these Ripleys, pus the families of William and Sylvanus Ripley, the Dodges, the Gales, and the two sets of Frenches from different places, Salisbury, MA, and Braintree, MA. Previously not related, the two sets of Frenches would intermarry in Barre, with the resulting couple ultimately caring for a grandson of Susanna.

The first arrivals to Barre came mainly from two different directions, also part of the cultural region called New England. One set came from NH to the east, some by going northwesterly up the Merrimac/Merrimack River or its tributaries, then heading westerly to Barre/Montpelier through a gap in the Green Mountains. Others came from Mass. to the south, most of that route following the valleys of the Connecticut River and its tributaries.

The founders started as farmers. Not always literate at the beginning, they grew to be pro-education, so future generations could do more than farm. Their children and grandchildren, even when illiterate themselves, but wanting better for everyone's children, would take their pro-education, pro-school, pro-library values westward while migrating into frontier states along the Canadian border.

The town grew. An in-law (his sister married Susannah's last son) promoted the issue of bonds to finance the bringing of railroads to Barre and surrounding towns. The rails built were meant to take goods out to market, so more could be sold, and thus more employed locally in non-farm jobs. (That in-law was the banker and attorney Ephraim Eddy French, of the Frenches from Salisbury, Mass., newish to Barre. His youngest sister, Philona French Ripley, married Susannah's youngest son, Joseph A., the junior.

Ephraim's wife and widow, Angelia French French was of the big family from Braintree, Mass., unrelated by blood to Ephraim's Salisbury Frenches, that fact finally proven by male DNA tests in summer of 2014. Ephraim and Angelia would essentially adopt Susanna's grandson, Lafayette G. French, after his parents "died too young")

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SUSANNA'S SOURCES:

(1) A handwritten copy of Susanna Ripley's old death record from 1832, presumedly made for the state or county, by a later town clerk of Barre, Mr. McKay, in 1919. Death Dec. 24, 1832. Burial Elmwood Cem. Spouse Joseph Ripley. Age precisely 53 years, 7 months, 13 days:
FamilySearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939K-Y974-B

(2) A second death card, her father as Jabez Cottle:
FamilySearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939K-Y978-P

(3) A collation of family events, handwritten by her husband when city clerk, dated June 1837, as if taken from earlier church records.
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Marriage in Barre, June of 1806, but collation went much beyond, see below. Page 6 of about 20 such pages, all dated 1830s, done only for selected families. For example, the equally early Dodge families were on Pages 1 and 22. For his own family, Joseph wrote:

"6.
Joseph Ripley, son of Samuel Ripley was born at Plympton Massachusetts, June 7, 1777.

Susannah Cottle, daughter of Jabez Cottle, was born at Woodstock, Vermont, May 11, 1779.

Joseph Ripley & Susanna Cottle were duly joined in marriage at Woodstock, June 12, 1806.

Their Progeny are as followeth:"

The collation then went on to list four children born in Bridgewater, VT:
Charles, Feb. 27, 1808
Susan A., Jan. 30, 1810
Phebe S., Jan. 16, 1812
Royal C., May 12, 1814

It listed the last child, born in Barre, VT:
Addison, Sept. 10, 1816
[He went by Joseph A. Ripley, later, though locals and family still called him Addison.]

It finished with the marriage of senior Joseph to his second wife, Lucy Russ, including her birth information, with Susannah's death on page 7.

(4) Their daughters married in Barre (Phebe to Washington Bacon in 1836, Susan A. in 1837, to Hezekiah Davis Jr. of the nearby state capital, Montepelier). The Bacons went to Michigan, the Davises, to Springfield , Ohio.

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MORE ABOUT JOSEPH ADDISON RIPLEY:

(1) He remarried Lucy Russ, June, 1837, five years after Susannah's death. Known thereafter as Lucy R. Ripley, Lucy was with Joseph in his last Census, the 1850, when he was 73 (born 1776-1777). Whoever spoke to the censustaker, perhaps Lucy, perhaps Joseph, agreed with the collation that Joseph was born in Massachusetts. Another Lucy Ripley, perhaps his sister, was with them, boarding or visiting.

(2) Birth record filed in Barre for him, cited June 17, 1777, father Samuel Ripley, as in the collation, but SEEMED to indicate birth in Barre, Vermont. However, close examination shows Plympton in Plymouth County written to the right of his name:
FamilySearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939K-Y94W-9

Note that no churches, the usual source of many early birth records, appeared in Barre Township until the late 1790s. Then there were suddenly three, Congregational, Methodist and Universalist, according to the same walking tour that covered their house.

(3) The son listed only as Addison in the collation became the younger Joseph Addison Ripley listed in a local paper as dying of consumption (tuberculosis), Mar. 4, 1850, son of Joseph Ripley, Esq. (The esquire title for his father usually meant a lawyer. His own age given as 33, so born in the year prior to Mar, 1817, so roughly April, 1816 to Mar., 1817. The exact month given in the collation, Sept., 1816, fits. He died too early to make the 1850 Census.)
From The Vermont Watchman, at Nekg-Vt.com

(4) Multiple children went to Michigan. The obituary for this son's only son said this younger Joseph and his wife Philona French contracted "ague" (malaria) once in Michigan, from which they both died. The illness having calm periods allowed them to return to Vermont. Since he was "co-morbid" (two killing illnesses at the same time), he died more quickly. Philona was in the 1850 Census in Barre with her father and child, she and her father both died five years later. Their son, Lafayette G. Ripley, was taken in to the house of Philona's brother, Ephraim Eddy French.

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Ending Notes--
GRANDSON LAFAYETTE RIPLEY.
Lafayette would go to the Civil War, be seriously wounded, but emerge to become a druggist, highly educated, due to his fostering Frenches. He would return to Michigan to start his own drug company under the name L.G. Ripley, and a family, having married a Pennsylvania-born woman. He moved to a different county (Muskegon) than did his other relatives. When he remarried as an elderly widower in his 70s, as a "snowbird" out in LA County in California, he chose a widowed cousin, Kate Young. She listed Phebe Ripley as her mother.

SOCIOLOGY NOTE: Marrying of cousins, usually just distant ones, but sometimes first cousins, was seen repeatedly in the Puritan-descended. It was a side effect of repeatedly "marrying inside the group", what sociologists call "endogamy". In the Puritan case, it involved marrying people recommended by in-laws, to avoid general conflicts in views that led to divorce, so often produced couples with nearly the same religious beliefs. The negative side effect was the accumulation of recessive genes that were not always good. Those effects were perhaps seen by this generation, as more cousin-marriers or their offspring seemed to do so in a way that avoided having children, for example, postponing marriage until elderly.

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LAFAYETTE'S FOSTER PARENTS.
Childless themselves, Ephraim and Angelia would become caretakers for Lafayette G. Ripley, a grandson of Susanna. His parents, Philona and Joseph Ripley Jr., had "died too young", both gone by the time he was about 11.

Ephraim French advocated for the Barre Academy. Those "academies" were to be the first high schools, run "by subscription", but by necessity only, not preferred, as the Puritan-descended found that too much of the voting public (all male then, often limited to landowners) refused to tax themselves more for higher levels of public schooling. Many academies served simultaneously as teachers' colleges, aka "normal schools".

What Uncle Ephraim advocated for children in general, he would certainly do for Lafayette.

His wife Angelia, also a French, but unrelated to Ephraim and his Salisbury Frenches, was instead doubly-related to Braintree Frenches in Barre. Her mother Delia's side was long in Barre. Delia's father and uncle, Bartholomew and Micah French Jr., started two large families with many children and grandchildren. The two men came newly married, post-Revolution, from Royalton/Athol, with the Gales. Her father, David French, was new to Barre, coming from the other common direction, not Royalton, but from NH. He was the David French who came as a tanner, then became a farmer, with a side business as a shopkeeper that helped pay the bills when farming did not work out. He accumulated farmland that became a part of downtown Barre, so valuable. His sons (Angelia's brothers) would leave to become a retail merchanting chain in Chicago and Milwaukee known as the French Brothers, apparently with Ephraim an early partner in the Barre end, before they sold that end to Ephraim.

Only a distant cousin to Bartholomew and Micah French, David's NH branch was an orphaned offshoot of the Braintree Frenches that went from Braintree to Mendon, then into NH.

Wealthy Angelia, at the end of her life, routinely shared her big house with a relative. She would have found room for Lafayette even if living in more cramped quarters earlier. She made generous bequests at death to fund a hospital and another academy.

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