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#13 - Daniel MacFarlane House, 238 Columbia St.
This white house with blue shutters can be seen from the top of Lime St. at the corner of Columbia St. Daniel MacFarlane bought this piece of land in 1773. He was part of the Scotch-Irish settlers from Rutland, MA in Worcester County. He lived here until 1817 when his family moved to Ohio The house was later owned by Leonard J. and Phoebe Follett from Smithfield, RI. Mr. Follett was one of the first settlers to quarry lime from the hills of Adams. The house is basically the Cape Cod style with a central door between two windows but an addition makes this house appear longer than usual.

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5 (barrels? lbs?)

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send so that I can get in Saturday sun.

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Barna A. Clark was born in Westminster West June 28, 1835. He was one of the five children of Mark Clark, a farmer and an active man of his day. The ancestry of the family dates back to the Pilgrim Fathers of Plymouth in the person of Thomas Clark, the reputed mate of the Mayflower, who lived to be the patriarch of the Plymouth colony, dying at the age of almost one hundred years. Barnabas Clark, who founded the Westminster branch of the family, was the fourth in descent from Thomas Clark and B. A. Clark was the fourth in descent from him. Mark Clark died when his children were young, and soon afterwards the mother bought the house in Westminster West, now well known as The Parsonage, to which was her home until her removal to Brattleboro twelve or fifteen years later.

When a lad of fifteen B. A. Clark came to Brattleboro to enter the drug and hardware store of Williston & Tyler in the Williston stone building. He remained with this firm as a faithful clerk for twelve years, leaving that position in 1862 to engage in the drug business with Henry C. Willard, later of Greenfield, Massachusetts, under the firm name of Clark & Willard. The firm was first in the Blake building, where the Vermont National Bank now stands, and for the last two years in the store now occupied by the Brooks House Pharmacy. The partnership was discontinued after eleven years, Mr. Clark buying the hardware and drug business of Joseph Clark. Mr. Clark sold out the drug department and devoted his whole time to the hardware business, then located on the present site of W. J. Pentland's store. This business was moved to the Tyler building near the bridge when that structure was completed, and Mr. Clark moved from there to Crosby Block, where he continued in business until April, 1893, when he sold to Mellen & Proctor. Mr. Clark had an interest in lumbering operations, and bought the Luther Adams farm in Halifax. He was thirty years in trade in this town.

Mr. Clark married November 17, 1859, Helen C. Bullock, daughter of the late William Bullock of Brattleboro. She was born March 8, 1836, and died December 3, 1899.

Mr. Clark was chosen at different times to the offices of selectman, bailiff, town grand juror and overseer of the poor. He joined the Centre Congregational Church in May, 1854, and was one of its regular attendants and supporters. He was made deacon of the church January 1, 1882, and held that honorable office at his death. He had also served as trustee of the Centre Congregational Society.

He died September 30, 1895.