While much of this is accurate, a few corrections are in order in case someone should come across this...

Thomas Chittenden never came to Eddyville - he had been dead two years by the time the Lyon party got to Eddyville.

While the story persists that Gideon operated iron furnaces in Eddyville, I've found no evidence that he actually did. Several of his sons clearly did, and it was two of them, Robert L. and Gideon Dyer Jr. who sold the Eddyville Furnace to William and John Kelly on 12 Aug 1850.

Modena was the niece of Matthew Lyon (actually, the niece of his second wife) but he was never governor of Vermont. She was the granddaughter of the first governor of Vermont, Thomas Chittenden