Daniel Burditt

1795 - 1850  (55 years)

• Name	Daniel Burditt
  Birth	14 Apr 1795	Sullivan, Cheshire County, New Hampshire
  Gender	Male
  Military Service	8 Jun 1813
  	War of 1812 (US) Regular Army (One year enlistment) 30th US Infantry (Capt Clarks Co.) 5'9"Tall, Grey eyes, light brown hair, light complexion. Discharge 13June1814 - Plattsburgh, NY
  Death	10 Jul 1850	Shrewsbury, Rutland County, Vermont
  Burial	Northam Cemetery, North Shrewsbury, Rutland County, Vermont
  Notes	From Ian Day, dated 12/13/2001: The information is taken from the book "Shrewsbury, Vermont: Our Town As It Was" by Dawn Hance. In this book there are some super photographs of the Burditt mill and the houses they owned. This book is out of print......of course. If you could add to or correct this information I would be grateful. In 1826, Daniel Burditt is listed as head of Family with three children enrolled in School District 4 and his brother Abner had one child enrolled. In 1835, Daniel had 6 children enrolled in School District 8 - formerly part of District 4. (Question: Was Joshua Burditt involved in the lumber industry? We know that he married, at the age of 66, in 1834 in Rutland Co. We know that his son Daniel - born in 1795 - married in 1816 in Rutland Co. The family must have have moved to Vermont from New Hampshire around this time.) Milling was Shrewsbury's largest industry. The Burditt family operated several mills in the northern part of Shrewsbury. Various members of the family participated in the sawmill industry for over fifty years. William Kilburn owned a sawmill and a gristmill at the junction of Lower Cold River Road and the Wilmouth Hill Road and in 1834 sold the mills to John Buckmaster who deeded them to Daniel Burditt in 1835. (Note: It would be very interesting to find out why this was deeded.) Daniel died in 1850. The mills might have been passed down to the eldest son, Sylvester but he died in 1851. There is no mention of Darius, the next son in line, having inherited the mills. However, the mills did remain in the family until Lowell Jay, Daniel's third son, sold it to Horace G. Hewitt for $312.00 in 1852. By 1860 Rodney Burditt, Lowell's younger brother, had taken over the operation. (The book doesn't say how it returned to the Burditt family) The Burditt Mills manufactured lumber and chair stock. Burditt also ran the sawmill located about 1/8 of a mile west of the Shrewsbury line on the Old Plymouth Road. In 1880 Burditt employed twelve men and milled 2,000,000 feet of lumber annually as well as chair stock. (Note: in the photograph of the Burditt Mill employees, there are far more than twelve men photographed.) The records for School District 13 or The Union District (Old Plymouth Road Area) indicates that repairs to the school house were to be shared by both Shrewsbury and Plymouth, each paying half the cost not to exceed $150.00. The school population had risen with an influx of lumbermen. In 1896, Mr. E.A. Burditt, owner of the nearby mill, was called upon to contribute twenty-five dollars towards the repairs. (Note: could this be Elroy Allan Burditt, son of Rodney Burditt....he would have been about 38 years old.)
  Person ID	I7997	OurNorthernRoots
  Last Modified	15 Mar 2020

  
  

  Father	Joshua Burditt,   b. 3 Jun 1768, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts d. 24 May 1852, Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Charlotte Houghton,   b. 2 Jan 1774, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts d. 21 Mar 1813, Shrewsbury, Rutland County, Vermont (Age 39 years)
  Marriage	6 Oct 1793	Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F1922	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hannah Oliver,   b. 22 Jun 1796, Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire d. 15 Jan 1868, Shrewsbury, Rutland County, Vermont (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	30 Jun 1816	Shrewsbury, Rutland County, Vermont
  Children	+ 1. Lucinda D. Burditt,   b. 4 May 1817, Shrewsbury, Rutland County, Vermont d. 18 Nov 1892, Chester, Warren County, New York (Age 75 years) + 2. Sylvester Palmer Burditt,   b. 13 Aug 1818, Shrewsbury, Rutland County, Vermont d. 5 Jul 1851, Shrewsbury, Rutland County, Vermont (Age 32 years) + 3. Roxana Burditt,   b. 20 Jun 1821, Shrewsbury, Rutland County, Vermont d. 10 Apr 1850, Shrewsbury, Rutland County, Vermont (Age 28 years) + 4. Darius J. Burditt,   b. 18 Jul 1823, Shrewsbury, Rutland County, Vermont d. 1 Dec 1901, Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana (Age 78 years) + 5. Lowell Jay Burditt,   b. 15 May 1825, Shrewsbury, Rutland County, Vermont d. 27 Apr 1914, Fonda, Pocahontas County, Iowa (Age 88 years) + 6. Rodney Perry Burditt,   b. 1 Apr 1827, Shrewsbury, Rutland County, Vermont d. 1 Dec 1904, Shrewsbury, Rutland County, Vermont (Age 77 years) + 7. Lysander Burditt,   b. 1 Jan 1830, Shrewsbury, Rutland County, Vermont d. 1892, Chestertown, Warren County, New York (Age 61 years) > 8. Frances C. Burditt,   b. 1831, Shrewsbury, Rutland County, Vermont d. 25 Jul 1907, Shrewsbury, Rutland County, Vermont (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F1925	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 14 Apr 1795 - Sullivan, Cheshire County, New Hampshire Marriage - 30 Jun 1816 - Shrewsbury, Rutland County, Vermont Death - 10 Jul 1850 - Shrewsbury, Rutland County, Vermont Burial - - Northam Cemetery, North Shrewsbury, Rutland County, Vermont  = Link to Google Earth
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