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Free Research > B > Bancroft > Family StoryUse the free genealogy search to quickly discover your family history or share your own! Bancroft and "The Violin"
The History of Woodstock, Vermont 1761 - 1886
By Henry Swan Dana Page 225 Early 1800's Singing in our religious societies was conducted for a long time with little, if any, aid from instruments. When the vase-viol was first introduced it is not known, but Isaiah H. Carpenter is thought to have been one of the earliest performers on this instrument. While John C. Bancroft was a member of the choir, he ventured now and then of a Sunday to accompany the singing with his violin. The introduction of this profane and worldly instrument shocked the minds of the more serious ones in the church, and caused much comment on the evil tendencies of the times. Yet Bancroft played it so softly, and under his touch it blended so sweetly with the voices of the singers, that no one in the congregation would have known of its presence in the choir, without taking pains to look for the wicked thing. The violin, however, was at no time much used in the choir. The main dependence of all times for instrumental aid was on the double bass-viol; sometimes Amos Cutler would add the tenor-viol or the clarinet would be brought in, oftener the flute. In December, 1827, organs were first set up in this town, one in the Congretational Church and one in the Episcopal Church. Page 323 November 26, 1813 the mill property was conveyed to John C. Bancroft who retained the title about a year and then made the concern over to Samuel Ward. Soon, after this, Bancroft went to sea in a merchant vessel and was lost. He was a brother to George Bancroft, the historian, was a man of brilliant parts, attractive in his manners, and as some was disposed to say, the most of a man in that branch of the Bancroft family to which he belonged. Note at the bottom of the page: NOTICE: If the man who robbed a chaise last Wednesday will return the Pocket Book and Manuscripts to Mr. Pettes at Windsor or the subscriber at Woodstock, no questions shall be asked concerning the remainder of the property. (Washingtonian) Novembert 25, 1814 John C Bancroft (Retyped exactly as the original copy by pr 2007)
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