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John Fobes (ca. 1600-1660) immigrated from Scotland (via Holland) to Duxbury, Massachusetts in 1636, married Constant Mitchell, and moved to Bridgewater, Massachusetts in 1645. Descendants lived in New England, New York, Ohio, Missouri, Kansas and elsewhere.
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Two Vermonts establishes a little-known fact about Vermont: that the state's fascination with tourism as a savior for a suffering economy is more than a century old, and that this interest in tourism has always been dogged by controversy. Through this lens, the book is poised to take its place as the standard work on Vermont in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. Searls examines the origins of Vermont's contemporary identity and some reasons why that identity ("Who is a Vermonter?") is to this day so hotly contested. Searls divides nineteenth-century Vermonters into conceptually "uphill," or rural/parochial, and "downhill," or urban/cosmopolitan, elements. These two groups, he says, nego...
Includes the constitution, registers of officers of both the national and state societies, plus an index of ancestors and descendants.
Includes the constitution, registers of officers of both the national and the state societies plus an index of ancestors and descendants.