Caledonia

LAUGHLIN, Hugh

Vermont Historical Magazine, No. XI, October 1867, p 381
(extracted from a section on the history of Ryegate, Caledonia County, 
Vermont)

Hugh LAUGHLIN was a native of Ireland, who emigrated to the United States and 
settled in Ryegate [Caledonia County, Vermont] on 02 August 1799. Possessed 
of considerable attainments, and a benevolent heart, he soon rose in the 
estimation of the people. Thrice he represented the town, was many years a 
justice of the peace, for a long time an active member of the Bible society, 
and a deacon in the Congregational Church. He [Hugh LAUGHLIN] died 30 June 
1826, in the sixty-fifth year of his age. He had three children.

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