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Stone Cairn Marks Log Cabin James Whitehill Ryegate Vermont VT Real Photo RPPC:
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Information from a 1928 Vermont Newspaper
A stone cairn to mark the site of the log cabin occupied in 1798 by James Whitehill and family of Inchinnan, Scotland, during the time the present stone house was being built.
The general committee of this reunion asked the guests to bring a small sized stone from their local vicinity to be placed in a cairn to mark the site of the first Whitehill home in Vermont. About 300 stones were brought and a few more added to honor the memory of the deceased members of the original family once living on the Whitehill estate.
A depression with raised sides marks the grass-grown cellar of the original log cabin on a knoll northeast of the stone house, near a spring. The cairn rests on a cement base and also contains a large quartz stone taken nearby from the lowest part of the farm by the present owner, Corwin W. Whitehill. The height of the cairn is about four feet above the base and is plainly visible from the main highway. The cairn was erected on October 9th 1928. Bears the dates 1797-1928 facing the east and the distant view of the Presidential mountain range in N. H. Ellsworth Morrison supervised the cement work.
The records of the early days of the Whitehills in Vermont are incomplete, but supplementing the records in the Ryegate history with family tradition it appears that John und Alexander Holmes came to Ryegate in 1795 from Scotland and assisted in the purchase of the Witherspoon grant by the Whitehill brothers, James and Abraham in 1798. Alexander who married Agnes, second daughter of Jimes, before returning to Scotland was instrumental in erecting the Whitehill log cabin in 1797, returning with family in 1798. The record also shows that there were at least four log cabins on this tract of practically & square mile. The first In 1714, by James, son of President Wither-spoon, near the Barnet line.