Lamoille County Vermont Courts

The act of the legislature incorporating the county provided that when some town should erect a suitable court-house and jail, the county should be deemed organized. This of course gave rise to much competition, as each town would naturally wish to secure to itself. the advantages and dignity appertaining to the county seat. . The lower portion of the county considered it the most advantageous to have Johnson made the shire town, while the northern portion wished to have it vested in Morristown. Finally the mooted question was left for a committee to settle, and Joshua Sawyer, a member of the bar, who exerted a great influence in public matters, secured the county seat for Hyde Park, and the buildings were erected there. The town bore the expense of erecting the buildings, and the court-house was built, and the county courts held there in December, 1836, where the supreme court now meets on the third Tuesday in August, and the county court on the fourth Tuesday in April, and first Tuesday in December. The building is a wood structure, containing a convenient court-room, jury room, etc., and the county clerk’s office, and office of the probate judge. In 1875, an addition of twenty-five feet was made to the length of the building.

The first county officers were as follows: judges, Jonathan Bridges, Morristown; Joseph Waterman, Johnson; State’s attorney, O. W. Butler, Stowe; judge of probate, Daniel Dodge, Johnson; sheriff, Almerin Tinker, Morristown; bailiff, Luther H. Brown, Eden; clerk, Philo G. Camp, Hyde Park. The other chief county officers, since its organization, have been as follows:

 

Chief Judges	Term
Stephen Royce	1836-50
Milo L. Bennett	1850-51
Asahel Peck	1851-57
Asa O. Aldis	1857-65
John Pierpoint	May term, 1862
William C. Wilson	1865-70
Timothy P. Redfield	1870-74
Jonathan Ross	Dec. term, 1874
H. Henry Powers	1875

Assistant Judges	Term
Jonathan Bridge	1836-38
Joseph Waterman	1836-38
Isaac Pennock	1838-40
Gardner Gates	1838-40
David P. Noyes	1840-42
Nathan H. Thomas	1840-42
John Warner	1842-44
Calvin Burnett	1842-44
Nathaniel Jones	1844-46
Moses Fisk	1844-46
Vernon V. Waterman	1846-48
Alpheus Morse	1846-48
John West	1848-49
John C. Bryant	1848-49
Henry Stobwell	1849-51
John Meigs	1849-51
James M. Hotchkiss	1851-53
Giles A. Barber	1851-53
Nathan Foster	1853-55
Samuel Pennock	1853-55
Alger Jones	1855-57
Eli Hinds	1855-57
John C. Page	1857-59
Eli N. Bennett	1857-59
Samuel M. Pennock	1859-61
Norman Atwood	1859-61
Jerome B. Slayton	1861-63
William C. Atwell	1861-62
Samuel Plumley	1862-64
Thaddeus Hubbell	1863-65
Lyman B. Sherwin	1864-66
Lyman W. Holmes	1865-67
Russell S. Page	1866-68
Charles S. Parker	1867-69
Farwell Wetherby	1868-70
Thomas Potter	1869-72
Prince A. Stevens	1870-72
Amasa Stevens	1872-74
James T. Parish	1872-74
Allen B. Smith	1874-76
Albert M. Woodbury	1874-76
James W. Stiles	1876-78
John H. Page	1876-78
Leander S. Small	1878-82
Edwin H. Shattuck	1878-80
Chester W. Ward	1880-81
Reuben A. Savage	1881
Horace Wait	1882

Court Auditors	Term
David P. Noyes
Vernon P. Noyes
Vernon W. Waterman	1850-80

State Attorneys	Term
Orion W. Butler	1836-38
Solomon Wires	1838-40
Harlow P. Smith	1840-42
W. H. H. Bingham	1842-44, 1849-51
Luke P. Poland	1844-46
William W. White	1846-48
Whitman G. Ferrin	1848-49
George Wilkins	1851-53
Thomas Gleed	1853-55
John A. Childs	1855-57
George W. Hendee	1857-59
Reuben C. Benton	1859-61
H. Henry Powers	1861-63
Philip K. Gleed*	1863-65
Richard F. Parker	1865-67
Charles J. Lewis	1867-69
Marcellus A. Bingham	1869-72
Albert A. Niles	1872-74
Leonard S. Thompson	1874-76
Edgar W. Thorp	1876-78
Volney P. Macutchan	1878-80
Richard F. Parker	1880-82
Philip K. Gleed	1882

  *Also appointed by the assistant judges of the Lamoille county court, October 1, 1869, to fill a vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Charles J. Lewis.

Sheriffs	Term
Almerin Tinker	1836-38
Riverius Camp	1838-40
Martin Armstrong	1840-42
Nathaniel P. Keeler	1842-44
Horace Powers	1844-46
Jason Crane	1846-48
George W. Bailey	1848-49
Vernon W. Waterman	1849-51
Samuel M Pennock	1851-53
Elisha Bentley	1853-54
Russell S. Page	1854-55
Emory Town	1855-57
Charles S. Parker	1857-59
Erastus P. Fairman	1859-61
Orlo Cady	1861-63
John B. Seaver	1863-65
David Randall	1865-67
William C. Doane	1867-69
George W. Doty	1869-72
Norman Camp	1872-74
Nason Chaffee	1874-76
Lyman B. Sherwin	1876-78
Jonas T. Stevens	1878-80
Norris C. Raymore	1880-82
Herbert C. Lanpher	1882

County Clerks	Term
Philo G. Camp *	1836-48
Nathan Robinson	1848
Harlow P. Smith	1848-49
Edward B. Sawyer	1849-51, 1853-61,1868-75
Carlos S. Noyes	1851-53
Leander S. Small	1861-68
W. H. Harrison Kenfield	1875

* Wm. Camp died in the autumn of 1848, and Nathan Robinson succeeded him for the remainder of his term.