Name: John Manley [Jr] Age 78 [Birth about 1738] Name of Spouse: Jerusha Manley Date of Death: Dec. 13, 1816 Name of Cemetery: Maple Hill Cemetery Attest: Town Clerk of Dorset
↑ ..John [Manley] Jr., one of the first settlers of Dorset...was born in 1737 and died in Dorset in 1816. [He], in selecting a home [in Dorset], located on the summit level, near the source of streams flowing northward to Lake Champlain and southward to the Hudson. Soon after, while looking for his cattle that had strayed away, he discovered a magnificent spring a mile southward. Here he relocated and built a log tavern...