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Fairfield, Franklin County, Vermont Genealogy

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Description

Fairfield, Vermont at Wikipedia

Fairfield was chartered on August 18, 1763. The town was organized in March 1790 and the first town meeting was held on March 30, 1791.

Fairfield proved to be one of the biggest and best farming towns in Vermont. Its rolling hills are used for growing hay, corn, and pasture for dairy farms, along with the growing of maple trees for maple syrup production.

President Chester A. Arthur was born in Fairfield in 1829, and lived there for the first three years of his life. The reconstructed family home of the 21st President and the church where his father was preacher are located at the President Chester A. Arthur State Historic Site.

The population at the 2010 US Census was 1,891. [1] [2] [3]

Parent Towns

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Adjacent Towns

Town Records

In New England most original vital records of birth, marriage, and death can be found at the town clerk's office

Fairfield Town Clerk

The town clerk is responsible for these records, and so most originals can be found at the town clerk's office.

Fairfield Town Clerk
25 North Rd.
PO Box 5
Fairfield, VT 05455
Phone: (802) 827-3261
Email: info@FairfieldVermont.us
Website: http://www.fairfieldvermont.us/wordpress/

Vital Records

FamilySearch Historical Records Collection has Vermont birth, death, and marriage records online.

Births

Marriages

Deaths

Divorce

Town Reports

Resources

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Biographies

  • Biographical Encyclopædia of Vermont of the Nineteenth Century. By H Clay Williams. Boston, Massachusetts: Metropolitan Publishing & Engraving Company, 1885. Salt Lake City, Utah : Family Search International, 2018. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library.
  • Biographical Sketches of Vermonters. By Vermont Historical Society. Montpelier, Vermont : Vermont Historical Society, c1947. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library.
  • Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation. By Hiram Carleton. New York, New York: Lewis Pub. Co., 1903. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library, Vols. 1-2.
  • Some Vermont Ancestors: The Bicentennial Project of the Genealogical Society of Vermont. Compiled and ed. by Joann H. Nichols. [S.l.]: Genealogical Society of Vermont, 1976. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library.
  • The Vermont Historical Gazetteer: a Magazine Embracing a History of Each Town, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Military. By ed. by Abby Maria Hemenway. Burlington, Vermont: A.M. Hemenway, 1868-1923. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library, Vol. 1-6.
  • The Vermont of Today: With its Historic Background, Attractions and People. By Arthur F. Stone. New York, New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., c1929. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library, Vols. 1-4.
  • Vermonters. By Dorman B.E. Kent. Tucson, Arizona: W.C. Cox & Co., 1974. Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library.
  • Vermont Biography at FamilySearch Research Wiki

Cemeteries

The following is a list of major cemeteries in present-day Fairfield Town. For location of all cemeteries, see Cemeteries of Vermont, Franklin County, website at this link.

Census

Church Records

Historically, the largest religious groups in Vermont were the Congregational, Baptist, Roman Catholic, and Methodist churches. For general information about Vermont denominations, view the New Hampshire Church Records wiki page.

To see the churches in Fairfield, visit.

Church records and the information they provide vary significantly depending on the denomination and the record keeper. They may contain information about members of the congregation, such as age, date of baptism, christening, or birth; marriage information and maiden names; and death date. The following are church records available online for the town of Fairfield:

Trinity Episcopal Church (Fairfax, Vermont) Records, 1838-1942, are available on microfilm at the FamilySearch Library.

City Directories

Compiled Genealogies

Court Records

Immigration

Land Records

The following are online land records for the town of Fairfield:

Fairfield, Vermont Land Records, 1851-1927, can be found online at FamilySearch (browse only images).

Local Histories

Maps

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Migration

Military

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Revolutionary War, 1775-1783

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Civil War, 1861-1865

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World War I, 1917-1918

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World War II, 1941-1945

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Newspapers

St. Albans Messenger
Vermont Online Historical Newspapers
Free Online Newspapers for Research at libraries.vermont.gov

Obituaries

Other Town Records

In Vermont, most records are kept at the town level and generally began being kept at the founding of the town. These records may include the following:

  • Births
  • Marriages
  • Deaths
  • Burials
  • Cemetery records
  • Appointments
  • Earmarks
  • Estrays (stray animals)
  • Freemens' oaths (men eligible to vote)
  • Land records
  • Mortgages
  • Name changes
  • Care of the poor
  • School records
  • Surveys
  • Tax lists
  • Town meeting minutes
  • Voter registrations
  • Warning outs (of town)

The following are Fairfield town records available online:

Vermont, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1786-1858, are available on FamilySearch (browse only imagess).

The FamilySearch Library has microfilm of original records from the Fairfield Town Clerk's Office. These include: Records of births, marriages, and deaths, 1857-1999,and Land records, 1763-1851; index, 1763-1875.

Probate Records

In Vermont, most probate records are kept at the town level. The following are online probate records for the town of Fairfield:

Franklin Probate Division
17 Church St.
St. Albans, VT 05478
Phone: (802) 524-7948

Franklin County, Vermont Probate Records, 1860-1910, are available on FamilySearch (browse only images).

School Records

Tax Records

Websites

Research Facilities

Archives

Libraries

Bent Northrop Memorial Library
164 Park St.
Fairfield, VT 05455
Phone: (802) 827-3945
Email: bnmllibrarian@gmail.com
Website: http://www.bentnorthrop.org/

Museums

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Societies

References

  1. ↑ About Fairfield, Vermont - http://www.virtualvermont.com/towns/fairfield.html#about
  2. ↑ Fairfield, Vermont - Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairfield,_Vermont
  3. ↑ Fairfield Town, Vermont - http://usgenwebsites.org/VTGenWeb/Franklin-Co-VT.htm#Fairfield
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