Pawlet (VT) One Hundred Years
Hiel Hollister
1867
J. Munsell, Albany
GUILD, JOHN, from Attleboro, Mass., 1802, settled near the cotton factory, of which he was agent several years.
He was an upright and thorough business man and safely conducted the cotton business through the trying times that succeeded the war of 1812.
His children were Chauncy, Plina, Milton, Eunice, Lucy and Abigail. He died in 1850, aged 87; his wife in 1830, aged 63.
His sister, Lucy, married Nathaniel Wilmarth, of Ira, and was killed by falling out of a wagon in Ira, at which spot a stone is erected, marked L. W.
Chauncy.
Guild m. Celinda, da. of Nehemiah Bourn, who died in 1839.
He is the only survivor of his father’s family in town and is well and favorably known as land surveyor and tinsmith.
His age is 78.
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