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Page 358 corner of Westminster and Church Streets, overlooking the Connecticut River. A landmark in the village, it had been built in 1806 by Captain Hall and was owned by Edward's grandfather, Nathaniel Tucker, who owned the toll bridge between Bellows Falls and Walpole, New Hampshire. He greatly enjoyed this home and died there on March 19, 1902, at the age of 81. Hetty always lived as she wanted: frugally and independently. She would walk to the grocery store at the south end of Atkinson Street where she bought broken cookies in bulk, considerably less expensive. She returned her berry boxes for a nickel. She carried a small milk can to get the best price on milk for her cat. She would get a free bone for her dog with her purchases. She is said to have once spent hours searching for a two-cent stamp she had lost. Much of her behavior could be seen as harmless eccentricity. Such was not always the case, however. Her unwillingness to pay for a doctor to treat an injury to Ned's leg resulted in amputation. Children ran when she walked down the street because they had seen long black skirts such as she always wore only in pictures of witches. When the bottom of the skirt needed to be washed from all the dust and dirt it swept through, she went to Wheeler's Laundry in the Square, where she instructed them to “wash only the bottom.” She waited in her ample petticoats until her skirt was ready for her. On her 78th birthday she said her good health and long life were possible because of her habit of chewing baked onions. Hetty's last years were spent in New York. She had had several strokes and was confined to a wheelchair. She died at Ned's unpretentious house on West 90th Street. Always an ardent Quaker, Hetty wanted to be buried with her family in the Immanuel Church's cemetery in Bellows Falls. In 1910 she was baptized at the Holy Cross Episcopal Church in Jersey city so she could be buried as she wished. Hetty on rare occasions gave a nickel tip when someone in Bellows Falls had been kind to her. Except for a special gift, her money and all her property were left to Ned and Sylvia: one hundred million dollars in “liquid assets.” Ned enjoyed his money. In 1922 he became interested in the miracle of radio and gave Dartmouth College money to erect an experimental station, the most complete station in the country at the time. Ned and Sylvia gave the Hetty Green Hall at Wellesley College in 1930. Sylvia married Matthew Wilks, great-grandson of John Jacob Astor: she was in her late thirties, he was 63. In many ways she was like her mother, but she gave the Green family home in Bellows Falls to the Town. The house was in such need of repair that it was taken down. Money was left to Immanuel Church and she also gave funds for a million dollar hospital in Bellows Falls. In the cover story of the October, 1998 edition of “American Heritage Magazine,” Hetty is ranked #36 of the 40 richest Americans in history. Expressed in today's dollars, her fortune is estimated at having been worth $17.3 Billion. She is the only female on the list. [Source: http://www.virtualvermont.com/history/hgreen.html, and other sites] Our Connection to Henrietta Howland Robinson Green She is descended, as are we, from Henry 1 Howland and Zoeth 2 Howland. Then the lines diverge. See next page for a side-by-side glance. Hetty's ancestry comes from Howland, Franklyn, A Brief Genealogical & Biographical History of Arthur, Henry and John Howland and Their Descendants, at p. 159
Henry Howland The Pettys Line 1 Henry Howland Unknown - 1671 +Mary Newland Unknown - 1674 2 Zoeth Howland - 1676 +Abigail 3 Henry Howland 1672 - +Deborah Briggs 1674 - 1732 4 Zoeth Howland 1701 - +Sarah 5 Philip Howland 1731 - 1814 +Thankful 1730 - 1818 6 Peace Howland 1768 - +Jonathan Kirby 1765 - 1798 7 Hannah Kirby 1790 - 1842 +Job Pettys 1791 - 1871 8 Daniel Charles Pettys 1810 - 1867 +Mary Louisa Snyder 1825 - 1879 9 William Howland Pettys 1850 - 1907 + Daisy Guthman 1880 - 1948 10 Norman Wm. Pettys, Sr. 1904-1985 Henry Howland The Hetty Green Line Page 359 1Henry Howland Unknown - 1671 +Mary Newland Unknown - 1674 2 Zoeth Howland - 1676 +Abigail 3 Benjamin Howland 1657 - 1727 +Judith Sampson 4 Barnabas Howland 1699 - 1773 +Rebecca Lapham 1707 - 1736 5 Gideon Howland 1734 - +Sarah Hicks 1736 - 1824 6 Gideon Howland 1770 - +Mehitable Howland - 1809 7 Abbie Slocum Howland 1809 - 1860 +Edward Mott Robinson 8 Henrietta Howland Robinson 1834 -1916
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