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Identifier/Call Number
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Doc 252-277
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Description
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This collection of primary and secondary source material for the five towns of Grand Isle County includes letters, diaries, deeds, probate records, town records, vital records, cemetery inscriptions, biographies, genealogies, photographs, newspaper clippings, typescripts, and copies of manuscripts, contained in 251 binders, 47 folders, and 2 card files. The compiler, Allen L. Stratton, organized most of his Grand Isle County collection in loose-leaf binders, and the binder system has been retained. The bulk of the collection contains information on "Champlain Islands" families, with an additional 13 notebooks with information on French Canadian families. Other French Canadian related notebooks contain reference data and letters from Virginia Easely DeMarce, including two manuscripts, "Canadians in the American Revolution, " and "Pepin County, Wisconsin, settlers from Vermont." The collection also includes 23 notebooks relating to the Allen family of Deerfield, Massachusetts, and Grand Isle, Vermont. As well, the collection contains transcriptions of McLellan cemetery records, a record of burials in cemeteries in Clinton, New York, and Grand Isle, Addison, Chittenden, and Franklin, Vermont, counties, compiled by Hugh, Charles, and Hulda McLellan.
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Biography, Administrative History and Provenance
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Allen Lehr Stratton was born in Montpelier, Vermont, on 18 July 1912, the son of Ralph O. and Ada Hannah (Lehr) Stratton. He was the owner and proprietor of Shore Acres Motel and Restaurant on North Hero. An avid historian, Mr. Stratton assembled a collection of primary and secondary source material for the towns in Grand Isle County and published four town histories: "History, Town of North Hero, Vermont" (1976); the two-volume "History of the South Heroe Island: Being the Towns of South Hero and Grand Isle, Vermont" (1980); "History, Town of Isle La Motte, Vermont" (1984); "History, Town of Alburgh, Vermont" (1986). He also wrote a second volume for the history of Alburgh, which was unpublished at the time of his death. The Vermont Historical Society published it in 2000 as "The Unfinished Typescript for History, Town of Alburgh, Vermont." Stratton died 21 September 1986 in Colchester, Vermont.
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Extent
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26 linear feet
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