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Town Information

Description

Addison, Vermont at Wikipedia

Addison was chartered on October 14, 1761. The town was organized and the first town meeting held March 29, 1784. Addison is exclusively an agricultural township. Though one of the oldest and in a historical point of view one of the most important towns in the State, the only settlement within its limits at all approaching the dignity of a village is a small cluster of houses in the northeastern part of the town, and known as “The Corners.” [1]

Parent Towns

Populated Places

Includes Neighborhoods, Villages, Unincorporated Communities,
Districts, and Census-Designated Places:

Boundary Changes

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

Addison Town Clerk

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

Addison Town Clerks Office
65 VT Route 17
West Addison, VT 05491
Phone: 802 759 2020
Website

Vital Records

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

Births

Marriages

Deaths

Divorce

Town Reports

Resources

For more County and State resources see:

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 cemeteries in present-day Addison. For location of cemeteries, see Cemeteries of Vermont, Addison 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 TOWN, 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 TOWN:

City Directories

Compiled Genealogies

Court Records

Immigration

Land Records

Local Histories

History of the town of Addison, 1609-1976, by Erwin S. Clark (1976) - find this book in a library.

Maps

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This selection incudes town, county, state, and historical maps

Migration

Military

Searchable by Town Enrolled militia, town of Addison, January 1863, records are available on microfilm at the FamilySearch Library and some FamilySearch centers.

Some Records are Searchable by Town

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

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 Addison town records available online:
Town Clerk Vital and Town Records, 1761-1977, can be found on FamilySearch (browse only images).

The FamilySearch Library has microfilm of original records from the Addison Town Clerk's Office. These include Town records and deeds, 1761-1858; deeds index, 1761-1950, and Records of births, marriages, and deaths of Addison Vermont, 1857-Mar. 1999; indexes, 1760's-Feb. 1999.

Probate Records

In Vermont, most probate records are kept at the town level. The following are online probate records for the town of Addison:
Addison Probate Court
7 Mahady Court
Middlebury, VT 05753
Phone: 802-388-2612


School Records

Tax Records

Websites

Research Facilities

Archives

Libraries

Museums

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Local Centers and Affiliate Libraries

Societies

Addison Town Historical Society
3968 VT Route 22A,
Addison, VT 05491
Phone: (802) 759-2380

References

  1. ↑ History of the Town of Addison, VT http://sites.rootsweb.com/~vermont/AddisonAddison.html
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