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Hello,
I'm afraid I can't help much with JOHANNA JONS but I do have a bit on Charles. Also I apologize in advance if I'm violating protocol by posting this. I only found this forum today and I'm not all that sure of the rules.
CHARLES BURT.
Charles Burt, son of Leonard, and grandson of Benjamin, mentioned in the preceeding, was from 1830 1860 a merchant at Rutland, Vt. He was born at Bellows Falls in 1791 and died April 10, 1860. He was a great reader anjd on of the most intelligent men in his community. He had a remarkable memory and was well informed on all the important events of his time. He reared a large family, each one of whom at the age of eighteen was put to business and worked untill twenty-one.He had ten children, viz.: Charles Fay, Henry and Helen (who were twins), George, Mary, Jane, James Margaret L., William and Benjamin Hercules. He was a powerful man, six feet high and weighed 200 pounds. Of his children, Charles went to New York, Henry to New Orleans; Helen married J. C. Dexter, who was the first sheriff of San Francisco in 1849. George left Rutland in 1840 and went to New York, and then to St. Augustine, Fla., where he is still living. He was a mayor of that ancient city after the war. Mary married Minor Hilliard and reared ten children. Jane married Charles C. Hapgood of Bellows Falls. James went to New York, thence to Savannah, where he engaged in the dry goods business, from there to Galveston, Tex., and thence to Palatka, Fla., where he was agent for the Bank of Charleston, Charleston, S. C. He afterwards engaged in the real estate business and he laid out and named nearly all the streets in Palatka. He married late in life an adopted daughter of John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, and has ten children. William went to New York and thence to Chicago, where he has been in business. Benjamin Hercules, the youngest of the family, was kept at home. He was a clerk from 1847 to 1850, when he joined his father in general merchandise in Rutland. In 1860 he bought his father's interest, who died that year, and he has since been engaged in the dry goods business.
EARLY DAYS IN NWE ENGLAND - LIFE AND TOMES OF HENRY BURT OF SPRINGFIELD AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS, Springfield, Ma., 1893, clark W. Bryan Company, Printers. Pg 386
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