Fort Dummer Survey 1749 Brattleboro
Brattleboro's Fort Dummer, built in 1724, was the first English settlement in Vermont, and was an important military fort and trading post before there was a Vermont. This was Massachusetts at the time. An accurate survey of the fort as it stood 25 years later was made by surveyor Matthew Patten from New Hanpshire*. This surveyor's 1749 notebook sketch shown above is likely not proportional , a normal practice when a surveyor is making his raw measurements. (see the Jones drawing following), There may not be a final drafted version of this survey, as this image was used as the basis for published drawings of the fort, such as this 1896 rendering (BELOW) by PVMA (Deerfield, MA) ****** Volunteers needed to transcribe more old docs. ****** If you would like a nifty winter project to help flesh out this 300 year old bit of history. contact dave allen: daven@sover.net . I have original documents (copies) that need transcribing and analysis....