Contributions To The History of The Eastern Townships, Accounts of the Early Settlement of St. Armand, Dunham, Sutton, Brome, Potton, and Bolton

By Cyrus Thomas

This book is essential to everyone with an interest in the settlement and development of the Eastern Townships and details of it's early people by Townships where they lived

Thomas' work has endured as a valued reference work since it was first published in 1866. It is a carefully prepared text that offers valuable insights into the early settlement and development of the Eastern Townships of present-day Quebec as reported by a careful witness from one hundred and sixty years ago.

Contents is organized by community:

• St Armand
  • Philipsburg
  • St Armand Station
  • Pigeon Hill
• St. Armand East
  • St Armand Centre
  • Lagrange
  • Frelighsburg
  • Abbott's Corner
• Dunham
  • Dunham flat
  • Nelsonville
  • Sweetsburg
  • East Dunham
• Sutton
  • Abercorn
  • Sutton Flat
  • North Sutton
  • Glen Sutton
• Brome
  • West Brome
  • Brome Corner
  • Knowlton
  • Fulford
  • Bromere
  • Brome Woods
• Potton
  • Meig's Corners
  • Mansonville
  • North Potton
• Bolton
  • East Bolton
  • Bolton Forest
  • West Bolton
  • South Bolton
• Municipal and Judiciary Systems

The descendants of the settlers and early inhabitants of those townships dispersed throughout Quebec, the rest of Canada, the USA and beyond.

Example of biographical information

Thomas shares biographical information that illustrates the stories with valuable information for the family historian. An abbreviated example is a small excerpt regarding one Mr. Marsh (page 197):

• "In 1813, Mr. Marsh removed to Stanbridge [Quebec], where he remained till 1825..... at a later period he went to Whitby C.W. [Ontario] .... He died in peace at that place March 15, 1843, in the 76th year of his age."

Original title

The original title of this book was a long one: Contributions To The History of The Eastern Townships, A Work Containing An Account of the Early Settlement of St. Armand, Dunham, Sutton, Brome, Potton, and Bolton; With a History of the Principle Events That Have Transpired in Each of These Townships Up To The Present Time {1866].

Details

381 pages
6" X 9"
Index (of places - no nominal Index)
Originally published by John Lovell, Montreal 1866
This edition published by Global Heritage Press Inc. 2006
ISBN 1-894378-91-1 (Hardcover edition temporarily out of print)