Pawlet (VT) One Hundred Years
Hiel Hollister
1867
J. Munsell, Albany
CURTIS, ELDAD, from Connecticut; settled at a very early day on the place now owned by Robert
Stevens. He was uncommonly intelligent and very fond of music. When compelled, by the
improvidence of others, to leave his home when nearly 90, he composed a farewell hymn, which he sung on
crossing the state line. When he had finished the hymn, he reverently lifted his hat and bade Pawlet farewell.
CURTIS, AARON, son of Eldad, succeeded to the homestead, on which he had an extensive rope
walk, during the war of 1812. Two of his children were instantly killed, by being thrown from a
wagon, in 1813. He removed to Ithaca, N.Y., about 1818, where he established an extensive rope
walk. He was deacon of the church in that town. He died a few years since, aged about 80.
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