Stephen Greenleaf

• General Notes
  • http://books.google.com/books?id=NCxPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA85
    
    He was the fifth child of Dr. Daniel Greenleaf, of Bolton. He married Eunice Fairbanks, of Boston, where he resided until the autumn of 1771, when he removed to Brattleboro, Vermont, having purchased a tract of land of about eight hundred acres, then known as "The Governor's Farm," comprehending what is now the whole of the East Village of Brattleboro. Here he built mills, and opened, as is supposed the first store in Vermont. His dwelling house occupied the present site of the "Phoenix House." The sawmill stood upon land afterwards occupied by the paper mill, and the gristmill was erected upon the spot afterwards used for the machine shop of Hines, Newman, Hunt & Co. That part of the village where the railroad depot is situated was used by Mr. Greenleaf as a goat pasture, Flat Street for a garden, and the rest of the land in the village not covered with forest as a cow pasture. For some time after Mr. Greenleaf moved into the place his was the only family residing within the limits of the village, and there were not more than twenty families in the town. He built the first dwelling house, the first sawmill, and the first gristmill erected in the village.
    
    An old bill of lading found among the papers of his son Stephen, shows how intimately religious feeling mingled with the business transactions of life. Mr. Greenleaf, when living in Boston, was a shipping merchant, and received the following bill of lading, dated 26 Aug. 1767: "shipped by the grace of God, in good order, by Stephen Greenleaf, Jr., In the good ship Betsey, whereof is now master, under God, for this voyage, Thomas Robson, now at anchor in the harbor of Boston, and by God's grace bound for London, two bags containing Spanish mills and dollars, etc., etc. And so God send the good ship to her desired port in safety, Amen."
    
    Eunice Fairbanks died on 8 March 1826.5
    
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