Person:Judah Spooner (1)

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Judah Paddack Spooner
d.11 Feb 1807
m. 10 Jun 1741
  1. Thomas Spooner1742 -
  2. Rebecca Spooner1743 - 1806
  3. John Spooner1745 - 1773
  4. Thomas Spooner1746 -
  5. Judah Paddack Spooner1748 - 1807
  6. Rosamond Spooner1750 - 1829
  7. Alice Spooner1753 - 1792
  8. Jeduthan Spooner1755 - 1817
  9. Alden Spooner1757 - 1827
  10. Frances Spooner1760 - 1824
m. 10 Sep 1770
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Name Judah Paddack Spooner
Gender Male
Birth? 5 Nov 1748 New London, ConnecticutBirth of Spooner, Judah Paddack
Marriage 10 Sep 1770 New London, New London, Connecticut, United Statesto Deborah Douglass
Death? 11 Feb 1807 Death of Spooner, Judah Paddack

BIOGRAPHY: Crook An American Family 1698-1955 , Page 28 It is interesting to relate that in the midst of war in the summer of 1778, the first printing office in Vermont was established at Westminster by Judah Poddock Spooner and Timothy Green. The venture must have been a success for they soon published the first newspaper in Vermont, "The Vermont Gazetter or Green Mountain Post-Boy," Westminster, February, 1781. The paper's motto or guiding principle was characteristic reading for the Green Mountain State:

BIOGRAPHY: Firm as the hills to stem oppressor's tide."