Chittenden

BOYNTON, Jedidiah

Vermont Historical Magazine, No XI, October 1867, p 804

Jedidiah BOYNTON came into this town [Hinesburgh, Chittenden County, Vermont] 
from Shelburne [Chittenden County] in 1807, and established his residence on 
a beautiful little eminence in the center of the village. He built a store 
convenient and large for those times, and was for several years the principal 
merchant in this town and vicinity. He was a man of great enterprise, a kind 
neighbor, a liberal citizen, and generously devoted to the growth, prosperity 
and honor of the town. He became the owner of considerable land in and near 
the village, and disposed of building lots on favorable terms to purchasers, 
and encouraged liberally all improvements upon them by mechanics and others. 
In company with Mitchell HENEDILL he opened a canal from Pond brook to the 
north end of the village, and built on it a factory for cotton and woolen 
goods, which added greatly to the productive industry of the town. He made 
liberal donations for public purposes. He gave deeds for the land occupied 
as a graveyard in the village, for that occupied by the academy, and for that 
occupied by the Baptist church. He was involved in pecuniary difficulties 
near the close of his life; he [Jedidiah BOYNTON] died in 1848, aged 
seventy-four years.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly