Thomas Sargent was born in 1806, in Hill, N.H., and died in 1889, in Thetford, Vt. In 1827 he married Lydia Cook (1804-1873), the widow of Francis Cook who had a house built in 1805 in Norwich, Vt., which was later to become the Sargent home. Children of Thomas and Lydia Sargent include: Harriet S. (b. 1828); George Washington (1833-1913); Charles Alexander (1839-1911); David Pratt (b. 1841); Solon H. (b. 1843).
Harriet S. Sargent married George S. Young; of Windsor and farmed in Royalton . George Washington Sargent married Lucy Colman in 1856. He served in the Civil War in the First Artillery of the Eleventh Vermont Volunteers from 1862 to 1865. Immediately after the war, he moved to New York State where he made machines to print newspapers. He was a carpenter by trade and he died in Malden, Mass. Charles Alexander served in the Civil War with the Fourth Regiment of the Vermont Volunteer Infantry. He married Lydia Kittridge in 1864. He was married a second time in 1892, to Mrs. Ella F. Kittridge and was a farmer in South Walpole, Mass. David Pratt remained on the family farm. He married Lucy Kilburn in 1871 and Lucy E. Lovejoy in 1873.
From the description of Sargent family papers, 1857-1909. (Vermont Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 36077083
