Polly Knowlton and Elliot Coolidge
(Exerpt from Knowlton Landing: A history of people and place by Michelle Nicole Knowlton Perry; last updated May 24, 2020)
Tintype (circa 1856-1860) imprinted with ‘MELAINOTYPE PLATE FOR NEFF'S PAT 19 FEB 56’. Found in the old granary (two room house converted into a grain storage) on Knowlton Maplehurst Farm (Potton, Quebec) in 2019. Believed to be Polly Knowlton.
Polly Knowlton was among the first generation of children born in Stukely, Lower Canada (Quebec). Born March 10, 18021, Polly was the only child of Levi Knowlton (born Dec. 4, 1768, in Templeton, Massachusetts; son of Captain Ezekiel Knowlton and Ann Miles)2 and Mary ‘Polly’ Morse (born Dec. 26, 1778; daughter of Jacob Morse and Sarah Mary Hawes)3. Luke Knowlton Jr. (son of Judge Luke Knowlton) officiated the marriage of Levi and Mary ‘Polly’ Morse in Newfane, Vermont, on January 22, 1801.4 Earlier that month, Levi had placed an order for supplies with Samuel Willard, presumably for Levi’s move to Stukely.5 The ‘STUKELY-SUD Un survol de son passé’ by Jean-Paul Barrette and Jo-Ann Savage places the arrival in Stukely of brothers Levi, Lyman, Ezekiel, and Asaph in 1801.6 Their cousin Silas Knowlton and his brother-in-law Samuel Willard had settled in Stukely in 1796.7
On October 1, 1802, Levi purchased lots 15 first range and 13 eighth range in the Township of Stukely from Samuel Willard (brother-in-law of Silas Knowlton).8 Levi made an additional purchase of lot 13 second range in the Township of Stukely from Jonathan Denning in Jan. 31, 1803.9 Shortly thereafter, Mary Morse died on March 28, 1803.10 Although the Morse family history states that she died in Newfane, no legible gravestone or death record has been found. The deed of sale of lot 13 in the second range to brother Lyman Knowlton contains access rights for Levi and his heirs to the graves of his family members, presumably son Ephraim who died in 1814 and possibly other children and/or his first wife Mary Morse.11 A preliminary search of the land in 2019 failed to find any trace of this early cemetery.
It is unclear whether Levi trusted the care of his infant daughter to one of his unmarried sisters Anna (married Captain John Brill of Bolton in 1832)12 and Lucy (married Amasa Elmer in 1806 before removing to Stukely)13, or his sister-in-law, Relief Whitcomb, who had several young children of her own. Alternatively, Polly may have been sent back to Newfane to live with relations. Levi did not remarry until Feb. 11, 1809, when he wed Philena Stone (Mrs. Buttersfield, first married to Ralph Buttersfield who died in 1800 leaving her with one or two small children who presumably died young) in Franklin, Vermont.14
Stukely is likely that Polly met her future husband, Elliot Coolidge (born Dec. 8, 1794, in Marlborough, New Hampshire; son of Hezekiah Coolidge and Esther Cleveland).15 Hezekiah Coolidge passed away when Elliot was only nine years old after falling from his wagon and sustaining a fatal head injury after the wagon wheel passed over his head.16 Esther remarried to Jonathan Frost, Jr., and her daughter Harriet married Asa Frost (Harriet’s step-brother). Asa’s uncles, Joseph and Jeremiah Frost, settled in Frost Village, Shefford, Quebec.17
Elliot Coolidge first married Nancy Gates Jan 22, 1818, in Marlborough, New Hampshire.18 It is unclear when Elliot arrived in Lower Canada and whether Nancy accompanied him and when or where she died. Prior to the marriage, Elliot Coolidge (noted as being of Marlborough N.H.) had purchased lot 25 in the third range in the Township of Shefford from his step uncle Joseph Frost.19 When Elliot purchased more land in Shefford, this time 43 acres located in lot 26 in the fourth range in the Township of Shefford from Jeremiah Frost, Elliot’s residence was listed as Shefford township.20 Elliot began selling his Shefford township land.21 His residence in an 1824 discharge record is Stukely.22
Following Elliot Coolidge and Polly Knowlton’s marriage on June 1, 1826,23 the couple relocated to Bolton township having purchased lot 28 in the tenth range from Polly’s father, Levi Knowlton.24 The land is located on the western shore of Lake Memphremagog in present day Sargent’s Bay. This 150 acre lot had originally been granted to Peter Weare as an associate of Nicholas Austin in the establishment of Brome township. Peter had deeded the lot to his son Jonathan in 1798 later relocating to Stanstead on the other side of Lake Memphremagog.25,26 Jonathan sold the lot to Abraham Channel in 1810.27 Channel is believed to have exchanged lot 28 in the tenth range in the Township of Bolton with Richard Holland for the Camperdown property in Georgeville.28 Richard Holland is reported to have maintained an inn on the Bolton lot before returning the property to Channel prior to moving to present day South Bolton.
On July 4, 1818, Abraham Channel sold lot 28 in the tenth range Bolton Township (also known as Channel Place) to John Dimond of Brome.29 John Dimond was married to Susan Stone30, the sister of Levi Knowlton’s second wife Philena Stone. On a subsequent deed in 1821 for property in Brome, John Dimond of Bolton is noted as an inn holder.31 However, John Dimond’s stay in Bolton was short. By 1825, he sold Channel Place (then called Dimond Place) back to Abraham Channel and purchased land in Stanstead township.32,33 Abraham Channel then sold the lake side property to Levi Knowlton three months later and it was subsequently sold to Elliot Coolidge (noted as farmer of Bolton) in 1826.34
John Dimond drowned in Lake Memphremagog during a winter crossing in 1831.35 He left behind a wife and eight children.36 The youngest of these children, Eliza Dimond, was adopted by Polly Knowlton and Elliot Coolidge.37 In 1848, she married Orrin Rexford and their son Dr. Elson Irving Rexford, became an educator of note38 serving as president of the Provincial Association of Protestant Teachers. John Dimond, Jr., like his father drowned during a lake crossing in 1860 and is buried in the Knowlton Landing cemetery in the coffin originally built for James Baker Hoyt, an associate of Miles Knowlton in the Mountain House building who was presumed drowned but who had in fact escaped from debts by moving to Minnesota[44] .39-42
Polly and Elliot Coolidge were active in the Bolton school at the corner of present day Mountain Road and Coolidge Road (now Austin township).43 Polly likely taught at the school and Elliot served as chairman of the District 4 School Board from 1832 to 1834.44,45 The school, originally referred to as the Bay District school46, was later named the Coolidge school. Elliot also served as a Captain in the Township militia and justice of the peace.47 He contributed the use of oxen when the road leading from the ferry in Bolton through Brome was improved.48 Elliot was a member of the Stanstead Agricultural Society as early as 183449, and is noted to have won a prize at the Stanstead Agricultural Society cattle show of 1845 held at Langmaid’s Flat (Hatley, Quebec).50
While Polly and Elliot had no biological children, they adopted Eliza Dimond as well as Coolidge Elliot and Betsey Melvina Burnham, children of Samuel Burnham and Margaret Davis.51,52 Samuel Burnham was a neighbor and business associate of Levi Knowlton, often appearing together on legal documents such as the 1822 will of prominent Georgeville resident Abraham Channel53. He is buried in the cemetery at Knowlton Landing.54 Betsey later married Charles Bullock55, who was the son of Increase Bullock of Georgeville and the last captain of the steamer Lady of the Lake.56 In 1872, Polly Knowlton “being in declining health” bequeathed to Eliza Dimond all of lot 28 in the tenth range along with “all cattle, sheep, hay, grains, farming utensils, household furnitures”, the western half of lot 25 in the ninth range, and the western quarter of lot 26 in the ninth range all in the Bolton township.57 This last property Polly Knowlton obtained by letters of patent on Jan. 23, 1869.58 In addition, Polly’s will stipulated that Betsey Burnham receive $250 and Coolidge Elliot Burnham $100 while providing for Polly her living arrangements for the remainder of her years including a yearly stipend of $15, travel expenses to Boston to visit her friends, and a “good, steady horse harnessed a waggon or sleigh with suitable buffalo robes”.
Elliot Coolidge died Aug. 5, 1859,59 and Polly Knowlton died Sept. 3, 1886.60 Both are buried in the Knowlton Landing cemetery although their gravestones have fallen and Polly’s name is no longer visible. The Coolidge road passed their former property still bears their name.
The Coolidge school opened in 1829 with the building and property set aside for use as a school in 1831 with the deed of sale from Moses George, Jr., of the Bay district of Bolton, to the Trustees of the Bolton school of land for use as an elementary school.61-63 Some teachers who taught at the Coolidge school may have included:
Polly Knowlton
Samuel Burnham (1836)64
Eliza Dimond prior to her marriage in 184865,66
Whiting Ball (1875)67
Belle Davis (1888-1889)68
Eva Talbot (taught Coolidge resident Edmond Ethier around 1906)68
Miss Grace Pibus (1914-1915)70
Leena Greene (1915-1916)71
Miss M Hall of Farnham (1919-1920)72,73
Miss Marion Collins of Farnham (1921-1922)74
Miss Rose Joanette of Brigham (1922-1923)75
Miss Muriel Marshall of Henderson Vale (1924-1925)76
Miss Smith of Vale Perkins (1925-1926)77
Miss Laura Knowlton of Knowlton (1932-1934)78,79
Miss Alice Norwood of Montreal (1935-1936)80
Miss Iris Armstrong of Brome (1940-1941)81
Mrs. G. Wedge (1941-1942)82
Elsie (Davidson) Knowlton of Knowlton Landing (1942-1952)83
Miss Evelyn Paige (1950-1951)84.
The schoolhouse also served as a meeting hall and as a place of worship for many years. In 1935, a hot water tank was added.85 The East Bolton School Board sold the old schoolhouse in 1954 to the Knowlton Landing Women’s Institute.86 They used it as a meeting hall until they relinquished the deed of site for the schoolhouse to the Brome County Historical Society a couple of years before the group disbanded in 1978.87
Orchard Farm House, Knowlton Landing, Que. BAnQ Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie - Cartes postales. CP 11447 CON [Québec (Province)? : s.n., 19--?] http://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52...
The Coolidge homestead (no. 1366 lot 28 tenth range township of Bolton)88 in Bolton was known as Coolidge place.89 After being bequeathed to Eliza (Dimond) Rexford and her husband Orrin Rexford in 1872, Orrin Rexford sold the property, with the house originally built by Jonathan Weare, to Angus Balthazar dit St. Martin in 1890.90 He operated the Orchard Farm House as a resort that boasted ‘Good fishing, boating, bathing, driving, and rates as low as $6 a week’ in 1905.91 By 1916, Angus St. Martin was advertising the property as for sale:92
“'ORCHARD FARM HOUSE (Knowton Landing, Que.) For sale. This beautiful property, known all over Quebec, as one of the finest Lakeside resorts in the country, is now offered for sale on reasonable terms. It comprises 124 acres of land, with 10 acres of frontage on Lake Memphremagog, and near the wharf and the post office. The extensive buildings are all well built, ' with all modern conveniences. Orchard House would make a magnificent Club House. Write for full particulars to Angus St. Martin, Orchard Farm House, Knowlton Landing, Que.”
The sale was noted as being ‘on the account of illness’ in 1919.93 Mrs. Mathilde (Grégoire) Saint-Martin, who passed away in 1921 and is presumed to be a saint as her body was intact when exhumed 17 years after her burial.94,95,96 The Orchard Farm House was finally sold to George H. Ducharme in 192697. The property was also known as Maple Leaf Lodge until 1934 then Woodacres (‘where wood and water meet’)98,99 with owners including: Dale Perry (1929)100, Montague “Monty” Elsdon (1950)101, Gorski and Wordorski (1961)102, and Albert Vidor. The original building first burned to the ground Oct. 1964103. Mr. Vidor bought the property and built a three story hotel104. Ray Perry bought Woodacres in 1974105. He sold Woodacres to Mr. John Gilday (around 1976)106 who sold it to three people.107 One of the owners, Mr. Bourassa, operated the hotel until it burned to the ground on New Year’s Eve 1982 killing a ten year old girl.108 The property was later purchased by a group of people who formed the St. Benoit Yatch Club.109
Beautiful Memphremagog: including scenes around Newport, Vt., Georgeville, Fitch Bay and Magog, Que. 1905. Newport, VT : The Express Standard. ark:/13960/t58d3n72w https://archive.org/details/BeautifulMemphremagog/page/n29
La tribune (Sherbrooke) 22 janvier 1966 pg 29 http://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/3634243
Images:
● Polly Knowlton. Collection of Rhoda (Knowlton) Potter
● Orchard Farm House post card http://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/7906 (19??)
● Orchard Farm House advertisement https://archive.org/details/BeautifulMemphremagog/page/n29/mode/2up/search/orchard+farm+house (1905)
● Woodacres ski lodge 1966 http://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/3634243
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