Ferrisburgh, Addison County, Vermont Genealogy

United States

Vermont

Addison County

Ferrisburgh

Church Records

Historically, the largest religious groups in Vermont were the Congregational, Baptist, Roman Catholic, and Methodist churches. For general information about Vermont denominations, view the New Hampshire Church Records wiki page.

To see the churches in TOWN, visit.

Church records and the information they provide vary significantly depending on the denomination and the record keeper. They may contain information about members of the congregation, such as age, date of baptism, christening, or birth; marriage information and maiden names; and death date. The following are church records available online for the town of TOWN:

Land Records

The following are online land records for the town of TOWN:

Maps

The following are online maps of the town of TOWN:

Probate Records

In Vermont, most probate records are kept at the town level. The following are online probate records for the town of TOWN:

Town Records

In Vermont, most records are kept at the town level and generally began being kept at the founding of the town. These records may include the following:

Births Marriages Deaths Burials Cemetery records Appointments Earmarks Estrays (stray animals) Freemens' oaths (men eligible to vote) Land records Mortgages Name changes Care of the poor School records Surveys Tax lists Town meeting minutes Voter registrations Warning outs (of town)

The following are TOWN town records available online:

Town Clerk

The town clerk is responsible for these records, and so most originals can be found at the town clerk's office.

Brief History

The charter for Ferrisburgh was granted on June 24, 1762. The main village of Ferrisburg got a post office called Ferrisburgh in 1850. In 1892, the h was dropped, as it was most everywhere in the US at the urging of the postal service. Recent years have seen that spelling coming back into use for the entire town.   

Town Histories

Go to Archive.org to find published materials for this town.

• Ferrisburgh : a scrapbook of memories, Ferrisburgh Bicentennial Committee, 1976 - find this book in a library.

• Around the mountains : historical essays about Charlotte, Ferrisburgh, and Monkton, William Wallace Higbee; Kathleen McKinley Harris; Mary G Lighthall (1991) - find this book in a library.
  

Vital Records

The town of Ferrisburgh kept annual town reports. These reports often contained birth, marriage, and death information. Below is a list of years when Ferrisburgh kept town reports. (NOTE: Occasionally, these town reports missed vital statistic information from the end of the year. If you don't find your ancestor's vital information, check the following year's town report to see if your ancestor's information was recorded later.)

1956

1957

• FamilySearch Historical Records Collection has Vermont birth, death, and marriage records online.
  

• Marriage book of Wm. Putnam Rallson FHL Collection
  William Rallson kept records of marriages for the following towns and years: Keeseville, 1873-1874; Essex, 1874-1875; Waterford, 1879-1880; Jonesville, 1880-1883, 1900-1902; Gloversville, 1883-1886; Mechanicville, 1886-1892; Salem, 1892-1896; Rupert, Vt., 1897; Brandon, Vt., 1898-1899; Vergennes, Vt. 1888-1892; Ferrisburg, Vt. 1888-1892; Schoharie, 1903-1904; Guilderland, 1905-1908; Richmondville, 1908-1912.

Probate Records

The probate district for Ferrisburgh is Addison.
Addison Probate Court
7 Mahady Court
Middlebury, VT 05753
Phone: (802) 388-2612

Maps

1871 map of Ferrisburgh Township

Cemeteries

The following is a list of cemeteries in present-day Ferrisburgh. For location of cemeteries, see Cemeteries of Vermont, Addison County, website at this link.  

• Allen Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
  

• Basin Harbor Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
  

• Collins Cemetery - inscriptions found at Find A Grave site.
  

• First Quaker Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
  

• Friends Cemetery (also known as Quaker Cemetery) inscriptions at Find A Grave site.

• Gage Cemetery - inscriptions found at Find A Grave site.

• Kellogg- Field Cemetery- inscriptions at Find A Grave site.

• Newton Cemetery- inscriptions at Find A Grave site.

• North Ferrisburgh Cemetery - inscriptions found at Find A Grave site.
  

• Porter Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
  

• Union Cemetery - inscriptions found at Find A Grave site.

• Warner Cemetery - inscriptions at Find A Grave site.
  

Town Records

Town Clerk Vital and Town Records, 1811-1999 at FamilySearch (browse only images).

The Family History Library has microfilm of original records from the Ferrisburgh Town Clerk's Office. These include Deeds, 1787-1852; index to deeds, 1793-1913, Town records, v. 1-3, 1759-1872, and Records of births, marriages, deaths, 1857-1999; indexes to marriages, births, deaths, 1759-1999.

Ferrisburgh Town Offices
3279 Route 7
PO Box 6
Ferrisburgh, VT 05456
Phone: (802) 877-3429
E-mail: ferrisburghclerk@comcast.net
Website: http://www.ferrisburghvt.org/

Newspapers

Burlington Free Press

Rutland Herald

Libraries and Historical Societies

Ferrisburgh Historical Society
PO Box 85
Ferrisburgh, VT 05456
Historical Society Website Link