{"page_1": " OLD COBBLER'S SHOP\nThe land on which you are now standing was Major Abel Moulton's\npitch, who came to Castleton in 1771 and built a log cabin store.\nwas fron this store that the Allen Brothers and Remember Baker bought their supplies when they were marking the Onion River road to Castleton, and where Ira Allen and Remember Baker surveyed the north line of the Town of Castleton and the Allen lots in Hubbardton. Abel. Moulton died of smallpox in 1776. His widow married Nehemiah Hoit, who was the third man to enter Fort Ticonderoga at the time of its capture by Ebhan Allen.\nThe Moulton's trame house, which was built in 1774, was purchased by Deacon Merrill who lived in it for over sixty years. Before buying the frame house Deacon Merrill bought the land on which he built his brick cobbler's shop. One of the interesting features of the shop is that the brick is laid in running bond rather than in the more popular Flemish bond of that period.\nFour years before Washington was inaugurated President, and six years before Vermont was admitted to the Union, this cobbler's shop was used by the settlers of the community•\nThe following is about Enos Merrill from Steele's History of\n\"Fron time to time there were many young men in his family, apprentices to the trade of tanning and shoe maling.\nThey were required to be present at family prayers, to pay a strict regard to the Sabbath; and most of them became pious while in his employ; and several of them, turning aside from the trade, became ministers of the Gospel.\nHe was a model of regularity in all social and religious matters.\"\nThe restoration of this interesting old building is the main project of the Castleton Historical Society. We would very much appreciate gifts or articles pertaining to early methods of tenning and shoenaking, and,\nof course, any financial help will be most welcome\n1473 ", "page_2": " Deacon Enos Merrill conta\nNOTES:\nDeacon Enos Merrill, a native of West Hartford, Conn. was one\nof the early settlers of\nCastleton arriving in Castleton about 1785.\nHis early\ntraining was strickly Furitan, and he was a pillar of\nthe Church in\nCastleton for nearly\nsixty years.\nOn 2 May 1790\nhe and his wife Delight having given satisfaction to the church of their religious experience made public profession of religion and were received by the church as members\nin complete standing.\nin the lst Book\nof Church records\nthe years from 1804 to 1827/8 are missing, but he\nappears as\n\"Deacon\" in 1828.\nIt is said that he bacame a Deacon in this\nchurch in 1809.\nHe was interested in education and on 29 Oct 1805 appears on a board\nof trustees under the\ntitle of \"the corporation of Rutland\nGrammar School\" which had been appointed by the General assembly of Vermont.\nDeacon Merrill was a tanner and shoemaker.\nAbel Moulton of Castleton built a frame house in 1774 which Mr.\nVerrill purchased and lived in in for sixty years.\nBefore this purchase\nhe had bought\nthe land on which he built his brick cobblers shop.\nand \"from titm to time there were many young men in his family\napprentices to the trade of tanning and shoe making.\nThey were required\nto be present at family prayers and to pay strict regard to the Sabbath.\nMost of them became pious while in his employ, and several of them turning aside from the trade, became ministers of the Gospel.\nDeacon Merrill was a model of regularity in all social and religious\nmatters \" ( taken from Steele's \"History of Castleton, Vt.\nwest section of the town of Castleton on old route\nThis old brick cobblers shop with its well sweep still stands in the\nRefs:\nCemetery inscriptions Old Castleton Churchyard cemetert.\nTombstone inscriptions Hillside Cemetery,\nFirst Book of Church Records-Congregational Church,\ncastlero, Castleton, vt.\nTinmouth Congregational Church Records-microfilm, Rutland Free\nLibrary pg 242 marriages\nThe Higleys and Their Descendants by Hemminways Gazeteer of Kermont Bol. 3 pg 509\nCastleton Town Book\nCastleton Town Record Book Vol. I pg 8, 13, births; Deaths pg16 "}