Caledonia

PERRIN, Ephraim

Vermont Historical Magazine, No. XI, October 1867, p 435
(extracted from a section on the history of Goshen Gore, Caledonia County, 
Vermont; see also the Vermont biography of Reuben CROSBY, which contains an 
explanation of the three Gores and the Goshens in Caledonia and Addison 
Counties)

Ephraim PERRIN, from Connecticut, came into the Gore in 1807, and lived 
entirely alone eight years in a log hut, which he constructed by the side of 
a large rock, which served the purpose of fireplace, and one end of his 
apartment. It is said all the bedding which this man had, "was a rag 
coverlet and a secondhand great coat which Mrs. SABIN let him have." Finally 
his affairs prospered, and one of his neighbors, a good old lady, told him he 
must get married and "picked a wife out" for him, Miss Polly CHEEVER, whom he 
[Ephraim PERRIN] married, and then built a frame house. This wife died in a 
few years, and he [Ephraim PERRIN] married the second time to [Miss?] Maria 
CUTLER, and reared a numerous family. He justly merited the reputation he 
obtained, of being a remarkably honest, hard working man; was rather 
tenacious in his opinions and prejudices, but not forward to assert them. He 
[Ephraim PERRIN] died in 1859.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly