History of Barnard, Vermont.  Compiler, date & publisher currently unknown.
  
Thanks to Larry Ayres of CA for providing a xerox copy of the AYRES FAMILY 
information to this transcriber in Jan. 1999.

Brackets [ ] inserted by this transcriber; surnames of family members added.

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AYRES FAMILY

	There were two, and perhaps three, branches of this family in
town.  One was the family of Moses Ayres who came to town
from Brookfield, Mass., and settled on the farm first west of the
creek on the Smith Hill road to the Delectable Mountains.
	The family of Dr. Henry C. Ayres was from Hartland and
arrived in town much later.
	There were traces of several others of the name who were
here early and who were likely related to the family of Moses,
but just how is impossible now to say.
	The Moses Ayres family were descended from Capt. John
Ayres of Ipswich and Brookfield, Mass., who was killed by
Indians in their attack on the latter place, Aug. 3, 1675. [should be Aug 2]
His widow died in Ipswich, February 8, 1682-3.  No record of the
death of Moses Ayres or his wife Lucy is found in Barnard and
no stones are erected to their memory.  The names of the first
eight children credited with their birth dates, togethr with the
death dates of Dolly and Josiah, may be found in the records 
of Brookfield or in the "Ayres Family," by W. H. Whitmore.  It is
thought by the writer that James F. Ayres was probably a son of
Moses and Lucy Ayres, born after they came to Barnard.
	This branch of the family came to Barnard about 1792-3, the
father, mother and probably seven children.  The family was
related to other Barnard families, probably to the Calvin Fair-
banks family and the oldest daughter married Samuel Wood and
settled near her father in Barnard.

	1. Moses 5 AYRES (Capt. Moses 4 AYRES, John 3 AYRES, Joseph 2 AYRES, 
Capt. John 1 AYRES), b. Brookfield,; d. prob. Bd.; m. Brookfield, Mass., Jan. 1, 1777, 
Lucy CUTTING, d. prob. Bd.  He taxed in Bd., 1824.
	Children:
	I.	Lucy AYRES, b. Brookfield, Mass., Sept. 23, 1777; m. Samuel WOOD.
	II.	Dolly H. AYRES, b. Brk., July 29, 1779; d. unm., Brk., Nov. 19, 1841.
	III.	John AYRES, b. Brk., Sept 16, 1781.  May possibly have m. Han-
		nah WINSLOW and if so was taken prisoner at Sacketts
		Harbor, May 29, 1813, and d. on board the prison ship in
		Quebec the same year.  If this is true then he lived in
		Watertown, N. Y.  Taxed in Bd., 1824.
	IV.	James AYRES, b. Brk., Sept. 27, 1783; d. unm. prob. Bd. at the home
		of Josiah Gale.
	V.	Josiah AYRES, b. Brk., Oct. 27, 1785; d. July 11, 1786.
	VI.	Isaac AYRES, b. Brk., May 27, 1787; d. unm., Bd., Sept. 30, 1800. 
		The stone at his grave in the cemetery in Bd. village says "in the 20 year of his
 		age" and also calls him the son of Moses and Lucy Ayres, but the date on the
		stone would make him only thirteen years old instead of twenty.  [The date on
		stone was probably erroded; another source identified the death date as 
		Sept. 30, 1806.]
	VII. 	Josiah AYRES, b. Brk., Sept. 13, 1789; m. and lived in Bd.  His widow 
		went to Ware, Mass. abt. 1835.
	VIII. 	Lydia AYRES, b. Brk., May 21, 1791; m. Capt. Apollos WARNER.
		[On page 412 of this history book is included the family of Apollos Warner.  He had 
		married 	(1) 1804 to Tirzah NYE, dau. Jonathan and Margaret (Barr) Nye of New 
		Braintree, Mass., b. New Braintree, Dec 23, 1784; d. Bd., Apr. 22, 1826; m. (2) Bd., 
		Jan. 4, 1827, Lydia AYRES, dau. Moses and Lucy (Cutting) Ayres of Bd., b. 
		Brookfield, Mass., May 21, 1791-2; d. Peru, O., Apr. 15, 1875, ae. 83 yrs.  There 
		are included the descendants of Apollos, which all seem to have been born from 
		his first wife Tirzah NYE.  This transcriber does not have the following
 		page, so cannot confirm whether Apollos had children by his second wife Lydia 
		AYRES.]
	IX.	James AYRES, prob. b. Bd., was a carpenter and with his family went
		to Ware, Mass., about 1835.  [This James not proven to be part of this family!]

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	1. Peter AYRES, m. Esther SUMNER.  It is not thought they
lived in Bd. but two of their children d. in Bd. and unless the
clerk is mistaken in his return of the death of one of them then
one was also b. in Bd.
	Children:
	I.	Polly AYRES, d. Bd., Feb. 4, 1860, ae. 73 yrs.; m. Henry RICHMOND.
	II.	Frederick AYRES, b. Bd.; d. Bd., Mch. 15, 1868, ae 73.
	III.	Henry AYRES, b. Hartland; d. Bd., June 26, 1868, ae. 72; prob. m.
		Caroline (___).  He was a teacher.
		2. (a) Henry C. AYRES, b. 1823 [son of Henry; grandson of Peter]

	2. Henry C. AYRES, M.D. (Henry 2, Peter 1), b. Hartland,
1823; d. Bd., Apr. 5, 1862 [age 39 yrs.]; m. Bd., June 23, 1853, Laura D. ASPENWALL,
dau. Rev. Nathaniel W. ASPENWALL, b. Warren, N. H.  "Dr.
Ayres was town clerk, a good singer and interested in the gen-
eral welfare of the community and for all-around usefulness
has never had his equal in town."  He was a useful member of
the Methodist church and a member of the choir.  His home was
the house still standing at the northeast corner of the town com-
mon, built by Squire Chaney and sold to the University of Vt.
and later known as the Twombly house.
	Children:
	I.	George Latimer AYRES, b. Bd., July 5, 1857.
	II.	Annie J. AYRES, b. Bd., Mch. 25, 1860.
	III.	Harriette C. AYRES, b. Bd., Aug. 5, 1862; d. Bd., Sept. 21, 1862.  In
		this case the tombstone inscription has been followed as 
		to death rather than the record in the town book which is
		manifestly incorrect.  [d. age 7 weeks]

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...	Eight doctors are buried here - in orderof death, as follows:
Isaac Ayres, David Pierce, Isaac E. Danforth, Jabez Bicknell,
I. Danforth, Henry C. Ayres, S. P. Danforth and Amory Jewett.  
The last mentioned is buried near the Hammond lot without
stone, having died about 1891.

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	The hotel business was booming in Barnard and about 1830
Rodney C. Caryl, son of Willard Caryl the merchant of the village
of those days, whose store was just south of the town common on
the gulf road, built the hotel which was long known as Silver
Lake House.  What it was christened the writer knows not.  Caryl
did not long remain as hotel keeper, but joined the migration to 
Ware, Mass.
	After Caryl's departure from town this house had a checkered
career, changing hands not less than seven times in thirteen years.
First Solon Danforth bought it for $1,800 in 1837 and in 1841 sold
it to Norman Dunham and Isaac Ayers for $7,000.  Ayers had
had some experience in the hotel business and Dunham was a
farmer owning the Charles Waldo farm on the hill road in Royal-
ton.  They made a failure of the venture and in a little more than
four weeks sold back to Danforth, Dunham having lost his farm
and stock in the venture and joined the migration to Ware. ...

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compiler. 2/1999