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Weathersfield is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States. The population was 2,825 at the 2010 census. ==History== The town of Weathersfield was named for Wethersfield, Connecticut, the home of some of its earliest settlers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Profile for Weathersfield, Vermont, VT )〕 The Connecticut town had taken its name, in turn, from Wethersfield, a village in the English county of Essex, the name of which derived from "wether", or in Old English ''wither'', meaning a castrated lamb. In England, wethers were trained to lead flocks of ewes to pasture. It was a supreme irony that the name of the Vermont town (with an 'a' inserted) would derive from a connection to sheep, the animal that would come to define Weathersfield's earliest antecedents and first put it on the map.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=William Jarvis & the Merino Sheep Craze )〕 The man responsible for that feat was a native of Boston who had become a European trader. William Jarvis was appointed by President Thomas Jefferson as U.S. Consul General to Portugal, after founding a trading house in Lisbon. In 1811 Jarvis imported from Spain to his farm at Weathersfield Bow the first Merino sheep brought to America.〔(William Jarvis, Weatherfield history, Town of Weathersfield, Vermont )〕 Jarvis set aside eight of the 4,000 Merino sheep he imported as gifts to former President Jefferson and to President James Madison.〔(Monticello Report: Sheep for the President, monticello.org )〕 "I cannot forbear, Sir," Jarvis wrote to Jefferson, "making you an offer of a Ram & Ewes, both as a mark of my great esteem & well knowing that the experiment cannot be in better hands."〔(U.S. Consul William Jarvis to Pres. Thomas Jefferson, Lisbon, Jan. 20, 1810, Thomas Jefferson's Farm Book, by Thomas Jefferson, ed. by Edwin Morris Betts, University of North Carolina Press, 2002 )〕 Jarvis was a wealthy financier and gentleman farmer who had bought up most of the flood plain of Weathersfield. Jarvis was also one of the most prominent Republicans in the Connecticut River Valley. Thanks to his introduction of Merino sheep, he provided the underpinning for Vermont agriculture for the next century.〔(William Jarvis's Merino Sheep, Vermont Historical Society )〕〔(''Our Sheep and the Tariff'', William Draper Lewis, Wharton School of Finance, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1890 )〕〔(Stone Walls and the Joys of Scholarly Connections, January 5, 2007, Dr. Ross, Groton School, groton.org )〕 Jarvis married Mary Pepperell Sparhawk of Boston, a fellow descendant of Sir William Pepperrell of Massachusetts.〔(William Jarvis Papers, Vermont Historical Society Library )〕〔("The Life and Times of Hon. William Jarvis", ''The New England Historical and Genealogical Register'', John Albion, 1869 )〕 (Jarvis' wife was the niece of his mother, the former Mary Pepperell Sparhawk Jarvis).〔(''The Wentworth Genealogy: English and American'', John Wentworth LL.D., Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1878 )〕 Katherine L. Jarvis, daughter of Hon. William Jarvis, married Harvard-educated lawyer and photographer Col. Leavitt Hunt, brother of architect Richard Morris Hunt and Boston painter William Morris Hunt, and son of Vermont congressman Jonathan Hunt. Leavitt Hunt and his wife later lived in Weathersfield at their home, ''Elmsholme''.〔(Social Register, New York, Social Register Association, 1896 )〕〔(''Annals of Brattleboro, 1681–1895'', Mary Rogers Cabot, 1922 )〕 Rev. John Dudley, a sometime missionary to the Choctaw Indians, a graduate of Yale Seminary, the descendant of one of the earliest families of Connecticut (his ancestor William Dudley settled in Guilford in the early 17th century) and a widely reprinted Congregational preacher, made his home in Weathersfield, where his son William Wade Dudley was born. On August 20, 2011, Weathersfield celebrated the 250th anniversary of its town charter. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Weathersfield, Vermont」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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