WOOSTER, HENRY, from Connecticut, about 1780 settled on the present
premises of Daniel Folger In 1793, the Episcopal convention of Vermont met at
his house, and elected the first Bishop of Vermont, Dr. Edward Bass, who,
however, did not enter on its duties. He died about 1820, aged 80. He left two
sons, Henry and Amos.
WOOSTER, HENRY, Jr, married Dorothy Baldwin, who died in 1817, leaving
two children Asa and Amanda. The latter married Rev. Mr. Stannard and was a
missionary to the Indians Next he m. Deborah Loomis, and died in 1839, aged 63,
leaving one daughter, Deborah, who m. Luther P. Lincoln.
WOOSTER, AMOS, m. Zeriah Hall, and succeeded to the homestead of his
father. He raised a family of twelve children: Amos, Avery, Andrew, Alpheus,
Aaron, Albert, Asa, Mary, Mercy, Martha. Manda and Maria. Avery is the only one
living in town. He married Tryphena, a daughter of Samuel Stratton. Amos is a
Methodist preacher. Mr. Wooster died in 1836, aged 56; his widow in 1849, aged
57. Mrs. Wooster’s sister, Miss Polly Hall, long a resident of this town, died
in 1866, in Pittsford, aged 88.
