page 416 HISTORY OF ADDISON COUNTY. HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF
CORNWALL THE original grantees of Cornwall were probably
residents of Litchfield county, Connecticut. The charter granted
to them was signed by Benning Wentworth, governor of New
Hampshire, on the 3d day of November, 1761. The following are
their names; Elias Reed, Thomas Chipman, Murry Lester, Samuel
Lee, Josiah Heath, James Nichols, Josiah Dean, Ebenezer
Fletcher, Samuel Keep, Roswell Steel, Alexander Gaston, George
Nichols, William Nichols, John Judd, Timothy Brownson, Solomon
Linsley, Andrew Esquire, Moses Buck, David Cowles, Moses Read
the 3d, Zuriel Jacobs, William Trumbull, Stephen Benton, Sarah
Nichols, Benjamin Smalley, John Willoby, Joel Reed, Joseph
Williams, James Nichols, jr., Enoch Slawson, Phinehas Holdcom,
Josiah Willoby, Samuel Chipman, Thomas Tuttle, Jabez Tuttle,
John Skinner, Samuel Hulburd, Hannah Austin, Ruluff White, David
Averill, Amos Chipman, Jabez Williams, James Smith, Andrew
Brownson and John Scovill, one right; Samuel Jud