Cowdry, William, came into town in 1787, and settled in 1794 on the place we now occupy. The name of his wife was Rebecca Fuller, both from Conn. He remained in town till 1809, he then went to Middletown; his wife dying, he again married and lived several years in Poultney, from thence he went to Ontario Co., N. Y. The children were, Warren who married Patience Simonds of Pawlet: he was a Physician and practised as such in Wells and Pawlet several years, and afterwards went west. Stephen, Erastus, Dyer, Lyman, Oliver, Sally and Olive. Both of the daughters went west, married, and joined the Mormons. Oliver the youngest son, was the scribe for Joe Smith, the founder of the book of Mormon. Smith being illiterate was incapacitated to write his wonderful revelations, employed this Oliver Cowdry to perform the duties of a scribe. We well remember this same Oliver Cowdry when in our boyhood, the person who has figured so largely in giving to the world the wonderful revelations that many dupes seek to follow. He attended school in the District where we reside in 1821 and 1822. He then went to Palmyra, N. Y. There with Joe Smith and others in translating mormonism. This book contains 588 pages, and also the testimony of three witnesses, Oliver Cowdry, David Whitmore and Martin Harris, that "They know that these books have been translated by the gift and the power of God, for His voice hath declared it unto us. Wherefore we know of a surety that the work is true." Cowdry went with the Mormons to Kirtland, Ohio, where he published periodicals espousing their cause. Cowdry followed the deluded Mormons no further than Ohio. He adhered to their tenets, but turned his attention to the practise of the law, and went to Wisconsin.