A visit to a historic home . . . and a walk through history as told by the art and objects inside. In these pages, longtime collectors John and Judith Herdeg introduce you to their salvaged eighteenth-century house and its grounds, and then take you on a tour of its rooms filled with favorite objects from their collection of American fine and decorative arts: colonial-era portraits, tall clocks, silver pap boats, embroidery, furnishings, and more. All these objects tell stories about people, which are laid out here for you to enjoy: Who was the person in the portrait? Who owned the clock?

This first volume in the Early Vermont Settlers scholarly prosopography study contains 137 sketches organized bytown and presented in alphabetical order by head of household. It provides a better understanding of the outward migration of southern New England along the northern route to the early westward settlements in New York, Ohio, Michigan, and beyond—a path often posing challenges for those researching ancestors in the Old Northwest Territories.

List of covered towns: Andover, Chester, Springfield, Weathersfield, and Windsor.