USA > Vermont > Washington County > Montpelier > Calendar of Ira Allen papers in the Wilbur Library, University of Vermont > Part 2
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14
Photostat. 2 pp. 24 cm x 19 cm. [58]
1784 Sep. 23
Stephen R. BRADLEY, Bennington. To Ira ALLEN. Note for £75 in payment for land. Photostat. 1 p. 19 cm x 11 cm. [59]
Ira ALLEN, Onion River. To General HALDI AND.
1784 Sep. 27 Protests against the treatment of the people of Swanton by the Indians; asks him to recall those who disturbed the peace and those engaged in "diabolical machinations"; if he doesn't interpose "the citizens of the commonwealth will be reduced to the disagrecable necessity of taking up arms". Photostat. 2 pp. 24 cm x 19 cm. [60]
1784 Nov. 17
Alex CHISHOLM, Pawlet. To Ira ALLEN. Encloses two deeds to be registered. Photostat. 1 p. 25 cm x 20 cm. Enclosures missing. [6]]
1784 Nov. 23
Abraham IVES, Georgia. To Ira ALLEN, Sunderland. Deed of one whole share of land of Samuel Willis for the sun of £1 9s; deed attached with notation of record and deposition of Ira Allen of Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania ] as to location of decd between the dates 1792-1810.
D.S. 1 p. 34 cm x 22 cm. A 1 42. [62]
1784 Nov. 24
Abrchan IVES, New Haven. To Irs. ALLEN, Sunderland. Docd of one whole share of land in New Haven for the sun of El 16s.
D.S. 1 p. 32 cm x 21 cm. 4 1 42. [63]
1784 Nov. 24
Abrahan IVES, New Haven. T. Ira ALTEN, Sunderland. Dood of one whole share of land in Now Haven for the sun of £1 ls. D.S. 1 p. 32 cm x 21 cm. A 1 42. [64]
-----------
- - 10
1784
· Nov. 24
Abraham IVES, New Haven. To Ira ALLEN, Sunderland. Decd of one whole right of land in New Haven for the sum of £1 16s. Photostat. 1 p. 32 cm x 21 cm. A 1 42. [65]
Thomas BUTTERFIELD, Colchester. To Ira ALLEN.
1785 Jan. 8 The people have moved into his house; one man will. remain if his work is satisfactory; advises him rot to settle with Mr. Rowley Condock; the corn is almost gone; requests him to send flour and pork; "I have taken as good care as I should but not as good as I wood wish". Photostat, 2 pp. 30 cm x 20 cm. [66]
1785 Jan. 11
. Ira ALLEN, Sheffield. To Captain Isaac LAWRENCE. "I think proper to make you a present of cloath trimmings for a suit of close, which I beg of you to accept as an acknowledgment of your favors, from the youngest Branch of the Allen family". Photostat. 1 p. 32 cm x 20 cm. [67]
1785 Mar. 29
Ira ALLEN, Quebec, [Canada]. To Henry HAMILTON, Lieutenant Governor of Canada. .
Advocates a commercial treaty with Great Britain through the Province of Quebec; "in which the Mother Country will have the advantage of the commerce of an extensive thriving country, without any expense for protection . . . and the citizens of Vermont would re- ceive British goods of every kind . . . A treaty of commerce settled on terms so reciprocally advantageous cannot feil of comenting a friendship which no viciss- itudes of time will be able to alter".
Photostat. 2 pp. 32 cm x 20 cm. [68]
1785 Apr. 21
Thomas BUTTERFIELD, Onion River. To Ira ALLEN. Advises hin not to lease certain lands until he has seen him; disappointed that he has leased lands to Saxton.
Photostat. 1 p. 30 cm x 20 cm. [69]
1785 Apr. 25
Thomas BUTTERFIELD, Colchester. To Ira ALLEN. .The house and sawmill on his farn will be ready in a few days; is out of provisions; the cattle are very poor; asks for grain for secd as ground is ready for planting; "P. S. My Complos to Mr. Lovi and his lady". Photostat. 2 pp. 30.cn x 19 cn. [70]
1785 May 30
Ira ALLEN, Bennington and A. STEVENS, Colchester. Stevens agrees to cover and glaze a house "by the falls of the Onion River". Photostat. 2 pp. 32 cm x 21 cm. [7]]
1785 June 8
Thomas BUTTERFIELD, Onion River. To Ira ALLEN. Asks for provisions as "poople at Mississquou is in grate wont". Photostat. 1 p. 30 cm x 19 cm. [72]
- 11 -
June 27
1785 Patrick ABRION and Simeon SMITH, Middletown, Con- necticut. To Ira ALLEN, Sunderland. Deed for tract of land in Irasburgh for the sum of 10s. D.S. 1 p. 33 cm x 20 cm. A 1 42 ir. [73]
1785 Ira ALLEN. To Charles PHELPS, Marlboro.
July 22 Summons for recovery of £35.
Photostat. 1 p. 32 cm x 15 cm. [74]
1785 Ira ALLEN, Litchfield, Connecticut. To Ethan
Aug. 4 ALLEN. Relates to the dispossession of the Connecticut settlers in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. Photostat. 2 pp. 30 cm x 20 cm. [75]
1785 Silos BLASDEL, Keman PANGBURN and Truman BLACKMAN, Aug. 22 New Hampshire. To Ira ALLEN, Sunderland. Decd for tract of land in Irasburgh for the sum of 10s. D.S. 1 p. 33 cm x 20 cm. A 1 42 ir. [76]
1785 Solomon WHISTAM, Numan BUEL, Ephraim DOOLITTLE and Aug. 22 Parley WHITMARSH, Chester, New Hampshire. To Ira ALLEN, Sunderland.
Decd for tract of land in Irasburg for the sum of 10s.
D.S. 1 p. 33 cm x 20 cm. A 1 42 ir. [77]
1785 William MASTERS and Peter BOND, Massachusetts. To Aug. 25 Ira ALLEN, Sunderland. Deed for tract of land in Irasburgh for the sum of 6s. D.S. 1 p. 33 cm x 20 cm. A 1 42 ir. [78]
Ira ALLEN and Isaac LAWRENCE.
1785 Aug. 26 Lawrence agrees to construct a road through Hines- burgh to Monkton; also a road from Lawrence's house to tho Monkton linc. Photostat. 2 pp. 32 cm x 20 cm. [79]
1785 Aug. 27
Patrick ABRION and Simcon SMITH, Middletown, Con- necticut. To Ira ALLEN, Sunderland. Deed for tract of land in Irasburgh for the sum of 10s. D.S. 1 p. 33 cm x 20 cm. A 1 42 ir. [80]
1785 Sop. 23
Ira ALLEN, Sunderland and Chattwill PARSONS. Parsons agrees to improve land in Swanton. Photostat. 1 p. 32 cn x 19 cn. [81]
1785 Simon AVRIL, Anthony BROWSON, and Nathan WHITE, Oct. 28 Chester, No. Hampshire. To fra ALLEN, Sunderland. Decd for tract of land in Ivasburgh for the sun of 10s.
D.S. 1 p. 33 cm x 20 cm. A 1 42 ir. [82]
-
- 12 -
1785
Hugh FINLAY, Quebec, [Canada]. To Goneral HALDI. MAND. The letter concerning the treaty with Quebec has been delivered to Licutonant Governor Hamilton and for- warded to London, [England]. Photostat. 1 p. 32 cm x 20 cm. [83]
1786 Jan. 23
Ira ALLEN, Sunderland and John DAVIDSON, Arlington, Davidson agrees to go to Burlington and "tend said Allon's grist mill for fore weeks for ono half tho tole as compensation for his sorvicos"; Allen to build a com- fortablo log house in Burlington for Davidson and sell him a yoko of oxen for clearing land. Photostat. 2 pp. 32 cm x 21 cm. [84]
1786 Apr. 13
Ira ALLEN, Sunderland and James HAWLEY, Arlington. Hawley agrees to go to Onion River to take charge of Ira Allen's mills for one year, for which he is to re- ceive "60 pounds one half in land, the other part in provisions and clothing"; Allon to furnish him a house. Photostat. 1 p. 30 cm x 19 cm. [85]
1786 Apr. 26
Ira ALLEN, Onion River. To FRASER and YOUNG, [merchants of Quebec, Canada].
Requests information concerning oak ship plank in regard to length and prico; asks if there will be a mar- kot for ship planks; if so he will add to the number of his mills; remittances from Vermont will have to be made in lumber, potash and pearlash, a now industry, in Ver- mont; plans to manufacture potash on the lake, and will have his brother, Levi, do likewise at St. Johns, Can- ada; has charge of roads and bridges which are being cut through the northem part of the stato; if goods aro sent, and the lumber doos not complete the balance due, promises to moko it good the following winter; has had considerable expenso in surveying and cutting tho roads.
Photostat. 3 pp. 30 cm x 19 cm. [86]
1786 May 2
Ira ALLEN. To Jonathan BUTTERFIELD and Josiah AVERILL.
In behalf of General Ethan Allen, Ira Allen leases a farm in Burlington; Allen to have "one equal half of such produse divided in the customary way". Photostat. 1 p. 30 cm x 19 cm. [87]
James GLENNY, Chambly, [Canada]. To Ira ALLEN.
1786 May 11 Urges immediate payment of note due September 20, 1784; "I beg according to your promise you will be punctual in payment as I am much in want of that sum at present".
Photostat. 2 pp. 24 cm x 19 cm. [88]
1786 July 31
James WHITELAW, Ryogate. To Ira ALLEN Reports surveying operation in Ryogato and
"Peachum" [Poacham ]; gives reasons why omigrants from Scotland should sottlo thoro.
Photostat. 1 p. 32 cm x 20 cm. [89]
~13 -
1786 Aug. 2
William COIT, [Deputy Surveyor General ], Colchester. To Ira ALLEN.
Has completed the survey "to the north"; Mr. Savage. has not left any record of surveys which are of use; has found the survey of the back lines of Jericho and Bolton; if this survey agrees with the lines as they now run will proceed to survey Underhill. Photostat. 1 p. 30 cm x 20 cm. [90]
1786 Levi ALLEN, "On Bord the Schooner Mary near Three Rivers, [Canada]". To Ira ALLEN.
Aug. 18
Reports bad business conditions and "timber and all lumber is quite a drug .. . except you look well to business at Onion River nothing will be done. Tho men you hiro in general do not carn the provisions they cat. If by chance a good man comes one month at Onion River will make him as bad as the rest". Photostat. 3 pp. 24 cm x 19 cm. [9]]
1786 Aug. 18
Ethan ALLEN, Sunderland. To Ira ALLEN.
Concerns his business affairs; "I have not a cop- per of money to save me from the devil. We are rich poor cursed rascals, By God. Alter our methods or we shall be a hiss, a proverb, and a bye word and derision upon earth". Photostat. 2 pp. 30 cm x 20 cm. [92]
1786
Ira ALLEN.
Memorandum that he attended the Council at Benning- ton, Sunderland, and Arlington to obtain advice respect- ing town lines. Photostat. 1 p. 21 cm x 19 cm. [93]
1787 May 1
Ethan ALLEN, Sunderland, and Ira ALLEN, Sunderland. Agree to the division of land, of the Onion River Company, made necessary by the death of other partners; to enable Ira Allen's saw mills to operate, Ethan Allen relinquishes his interest in 400 acres surrounding cach of the mills; besides other lands deeded to him, Ethan Allen was given a 1,000 acre farm near Burlington; Ira Allen agrees to build Ethan a home and to furnish goods to the value of £100 from the Onion River Store on August 1 of each year for seven years; the undivided lands are to be assigned after a survey is made; a mutual bond of £10,000 was signed.
Photostat. 8 pp. 32 cm x 20 cm. [94]
1787 Nay 1
Ira ALLEN, Colchester. To Ethan ALLEN, Sunderland. Promises to pay 14 months from date £50 "lawful money in merchantable neat cattle". Photostat. 1 p. 23 cm x 20 cm. [95]
1787 Sep. 30
Jacob GALUSHA, Shaftsbury. To Ira ALLE !. Concerns right of land in Hinesburgh. Photostat. 1 p. 20 cm x 15 cm. [96]
-
- 14 -
1787 Nov. 22
Levi ALLEN, St. Johns, [Canada]. To Ira ALLEN. "Yesterday returned from Quebec, [Canada] with 400 bushels of salt. Shall come immediately to Onion River with 300 bushels salt . . . I strongly recommend Mr. Shepardson to build what mills you propose next spring". Photostat. 2 pp. 22 cm x 18 cm. [97]
1787 Dec. 2
Levi ALLEN, St. Johns, [Canada]. To Ira ALLEN. "I send you by Mr. Amos Spafford in a large covered chest, sixty four pounds 8 shillings which is intended for Sanford and Adams to inable them to carry on their busi- ness with spirit"; they will give land security. Photostat. 2 pp. 22 cm x 20 cm. [98]
1787 Dec. 2
Levi ALLEN, St. Johns, [Canada]. To Ira ALLEN. Suggests Colonel Jonathan Spafford might buy butter and cheese in Vermont and bring them to him immediately; "I have made a contract for two tons of cheese and I have a ton of butter, and it is a great misfortune I cannot come to Onion River . . . my faith grows weak for since the damned war I have never found a man when sont did anything to any good purpose . . . I will give said Spaf- ford half of the profit".
Photostat. 3 pp. 23 cm x 19 cm. [99]
1787 Dec. 19
Levi ALLEN, St. Johns, [Canada]. To Ira ALLEN. Intends coming when the ice is good, but in the meantime asks to be informed of every matter that any way concerns him; no man shall have one shilling with- out Ira's order on credit; "If I give no credit, then my credit will be good and my poor designing enemics will wilt away like mushrooms. .. . Pray let me know what you think of the cheese and butter plan, and for God's sake acknowledge the letters you receive and montion the dates and the goods you receive from time to time".
Photostat. 5 pp. 23 cm x 18 cm. [100]
1788 Mar. 16
Lovi ALLEN, Poultney. To Ira ALLEN.
"Last evening I delivered Asa Farwell of Dorset two half jocs [fourpenco] & ono guinca to deliver at Simmons Tavern for you "grecablo to my promiso". Photostat. 1 p. 21 cm x 17 cm. [101]
1788 Mar. 22
Levi ALLEN, St. Johns, [Canada]. To Ira ALLEN. Concerns lumber lusiness; expects to be at Onion River soon; Nancy's [wife of Lovi Allen] illness keeps him at home. Photostat. 2 pp. 28 cm x 18 cm. [Mostly illegible]. [102]
Levi ALLEN, St. Johns, [Canada]. To Ira ALLEN.
1788 Apr. 25 "Let overy preparation be made for rafting. The water was never and probably will not be higher this Season . . . I shall mako all dispatch to Onion River. - The top sail looso, Signal for Sailing". Photostat. 1 p. 23 cm x 19 cm. [103]
-15 -
1788 May 22
Ira ALLEN and D. SPEARS & Company, Burlington. Spears & Company to keep a "dayly Register" of all the boards sawed, their dimensions, and variety, send a duplicate every Monday morning to Allen, furnish the mill with firewood and lights; Allen to supply mate- rials and logs and pay 6s. for each thousand feet sawed, two cows, provisions, and clothing; boards for the Quebec, [Canada] market are to be examined and counted when rafted. Photostat. 2 pp. 30 cm x 20 cm. [104]
1788 June 4
William BUELL, Rupert. To Ira ALLEN. Order to pay Noah Chittenden 16s. for repairing Allen's watches.
Photostat. 1 p. 16 cm x 10 ca. [105]
1788 Juno 13
Levi ALLEN, "On board the raft". To Ira ALLEN. Concerns business affairs; "Every business must be done on an economical plan and well looked to or nothing will bemade by it"; hopes another raft will be ready when he returns with winter goods. Photostat. 2 pp. 23 cm x 19 cm. [106]
1788 June 16
Levi ALLEN, Chambly, [Canada]. To Ira ALLEN. Tells of troubles in the lumber business; "Be ex- tremely cautious who you trust, times was never moro uncertain, nor common faith and honesty less regarded. All is well . . . encmies lift up their heads for different reasons".
Photostat. 2 pp. 32 cm x 20 cm. [107]
1788 June 19
Levi ALLEN, St. Johns, [Canada]. To Ira ALLEN. "The board raft all safe in Chambly bason [Canada]. Everything looks smiling at present"; is waiting for Ethan Allen and a man to go to Quebec, [Canada]. Photostat. 2 pp. 23 cm x 19 cm. [100]
1788 O[si] BAKER, [son of Remember Baker], Arlington. To Ira ALLEN.
July 24
Cannot find his old account book; settlement with Bradley must be deferred. Photostat. 1 p. 22 cm x 20 cm. [109]
1788 July,28
Levi ALLEN, Quebec, [Canada]. To Ira ALLEN. Concerns business matters; regards the payment of accounts of Mr. Young and George Gardner. Photostat, 1 p. 21 cm x 16 cm. [110]
Levi ALLEN, St. Johns, [Canada]. To Ira ALLEN.
1788 Aug. 17 "I feel amazingly ambitious to do something cleaver and God knows it is a great pity so many little stumbling blocks are in the way . . . I am confident some bills may be purchased from the Loyalists on good terms". Photostat. 3 pp. 20 cm x 17 cm. [1]]]
A
!
- 16
:
Levi ALLEN, St. Johns, [Canada]. To Ira ALLEN.
1788 Sep. 13 Detained because of no cash, "a poor man's misery"; asks him to procure the deposition from Walpole; "Compts to Mr. Coit tell him I can make nor bargain for him with Oliver Evarts". Photostat. 2 pp. 21 cm x 16 cm. . [112]
1788 Sep. 17
"BUMPER B.", [Levi Allen], St. Johns, [Canada]. To Ira ALLEN.
.Leaves for Quebec, [Canada] where he hopes to take a ship for London, [England]; directions as to his busi- ness; "bonds and book debts collect as fast as possible either by giving to Hitchcock to put in suit or giting them by coaxing". Photostat. 2 pp. 32 cm x 18 cm. [113]
1788 Sep. 20
Levi ALLEN, Montreal, [Canada]. To Ira ALLEN.
Bewails his misfortune in being unable to get a ship for England; short of funds; "I have not enough to pay the fair oven to Quebec, [Canada] but have Expectation of giting the Same by 12 o'clock by selling traps at half price or undor, it is the devil to be in such a situation which I firmly believe will never be my case again".
Photostat. 4 pp. 23 cm x 19 cm. [114]
1788 Scp. 20
Daniel KINGSLEY, Cambridge. To Ira ALLEN.
Deed for tract of land in Irasburgh for the sum of £38. D.S. 1 p. 30 cm x 18 cm. A 1 42 ir. [115]
1788 "BUMPER B.", [Levi Allen], St. Johns, [Canada]. To Ira ALLEN.
" .. Sep. 27
"Am again disappointed, Nancy running mad, have agreed to stay until tomorrow morning four o'clock at which hour nothing but the King of Terrors shall detain me one moment . . . If business went to my liking should always be in good humor, then all the house is right, but otherwise quite the reverse".
Photostat. 2 pp. 19 cm x 16 cm. [116]
1788 Sep. 28
Levi ALLEN, St. Johns, [Canada]. To Ira ALLEN. Appoints him his lawful attorney. Photostat. 1 p. 23 cm x 19 cm. [117]
1788
Lovi ALLEN, "At Colonel Ebenczor Allen's". To Ira ALLEN
Oct. 11
Wishes to see him on business concerning the pur- chase of wheat; would come but Nancy is ill; "If this grand plan fail I shall retire from the business of the world to the desorts of St. Albans, there with my Nancy, dog and gun, to bo contented with the little simple Nature requires and no longer grasp and reach boyond ry strength for baubles on the other side of the Atlantick (ah Says, the fox Sour grapes when he could not reach them)".
Photostat. 2 pp. 32 cm x 21 cm. [118]
- 17 -
1788 Nov. 11 ALLEN.
"BUMPER B.", [Levi Allen], South Hero. To Ira
"Keep yourself clear of Canady till I Return or you hear of my fate I know evil is determined - Send your Order to Quebec, [Canada] if the Saxe is not answered you Still keep yourself or your body elcar of prison. Evil ~ Evil - Evil. Remember Levi has always been faithful". Photostat. 2 pp. 20 cm x 16 cm. [119]
1788
Levi ALLET, St. Johns, [Canada]. To Ira ALLEN, Onion Rivero
Couce: !: business prospocts. Photosyet. 2 pp. 25 cm x 19 cm. Mutilated. [120]
1788 Levi ALLEN, St. Johns, [Canada]. To Ira ALLEN,
Colchester".
Concorne lumber orders. Photostot. 2 pp. 29 cm x 19 cm. Mutilated. [12]]
1788
Levi ALLEN, St. Johns, [Canada]. To Ira ALLEN. Complains of continued misfortune; "I feel a little low but I am not going to faint, By God, I will hold out". Photostat. 2 pp. 26 cm x 19 cm. [122]
1789 Lovi ALLEN, St. Johns, [Canada]. To Ira ALLEN, Jan. 8 Colchester.
"For divers good causes and consideration think . it fit to appoint my trusty, Brother, Ira Allen, to be my lawful attorney in any and all cases whatsoever and in any part of Vermont where I now own land". Photostat. 1 p. 32 cm x 20 cm. [123]
1789 Jon. 15
John KELLY, [a lawyer in New York, who owned and speculated in Vermont lands and who represented many influential men of New York], Bennington. To Ethan ALLEN.
Urges attention to Brushe's land property and pay- ment of money owed by both Ethan and Ira [Allen]; "you know as well as I do that this affair ought to be settled by yourself and Brother upon the principles of Justice and honour as I suffered exceedingly by you both and cannot wait much longer for my money".
Photostat. 2 pp. 30 cm x 19 cm. [124]
1789 Feb. 15
Levi ALLEN, Chester, New Hampshire. To Ira ALLEN. Attempts to sell a sleighload of doors!ins; "the amazing scarcity of cash forbids anything boing done in the country towns. and in the capitals those fow who have money know how to koop it . . . shall be obliged to sell for one third the real value".
Photostat. 1 p. 30 cm x 19 cm. [125]
:
- 18 -
1789 Feb. 21
"SUMPER 3.", [Levi Allen], Boston, [Massachusetts]. To Ira ALLEN. Not able to sell his load of deerskins; has no cash; grieved that some of the lands he intrusted to Ira have. been carlessly neglected; discouraged because his busi- ness ventures have failed; sends respects to Mrs. Allon; "The Misfortune has hurt me much and Nancy more".
Photostat. 4 pp. 30 cm x 19 cm. [126]
1789 Apr. 23
Levi ALLEN, on ship enroute to London, [England]. To Ira ALLEN.
Rocounts his hard luck in business; "three years in the Indian trade at groat risk of life and property . the trade at Salisbury, [Connecticut ] . . . the fortune lost in deerskins and indigo in Carolina, which I was robed of and no fault of my own . . . the hard earnings of industry in East Florida"; is confidont of success in present venture.
Photostat. 2 pp. 30 cm x 19 cm. [127]
1789 Apr. 28
Terence SMYTH, Montreal, [Canada]. To Ira ALLEN. Asks for pay for two barrels of pork. Photostat. 1 p. 23 cm x 18 cm. [128]
1789 May 1
Levi ALLEN, London, [England]. To Ira ALLEN.
Reports failure to obtain contracts for masts and other material for British navy which have gone to "the ever damned Scotch rascals"; asks for a new commission as Vermont agent to make a commercial treaty with England; "can live decently in a saving way for a month for what I paid per week in Montreal, [Canada]; uneasy over Nancy's condition; has read of Ethan Allen's death. Photostat. 4 pp. 32 cm x 19 cm. [129]
1789 May 1
Samuel WILLIAM, Rutland. To Ira ALLEN, States what must be done in order to establish a University at Burlington: 1. increase the number of representatives from Chittenden County; 2. procure subscriptions from Addison and Chittondon County; 3. obtain subscriptions and petitiors from settlements in New York and lower Canada; enclosos a form of po- tition to the General Assembly to be used by the various towns asking for the establishment of a college at Burlington.
Photostat. 2 pp. 30 cm x 19 cm. [130]
1789
May 2
Matthew LYON, [Member of the General Assembly, Con- gressman from Vormont, Kontucky, and Arkansas]. To . Colonel Ira ALLEN, Onion River.
Givos Mr. Nightingale orders for flour and pcas; sonds two graplins and one anchor; has designed an anchor weighing 22 pounds; impossible to get a team to move it; will send it and the remaining peas and beans by John Adams.
A.L.S. 1 p. 31 cm x 19 cm. Vermont Historical Socioty L9891. [13]]
- 19 -
1789 May 2
Levi ALLEN, London, [England]. To Ira ALLEN. Cannot secure payment for lumber at present; will see what can be done in private contracts. Photostat. 1 p. 25 cm x 20 cm. [132]
1789 May 3
"Constantine ALONZO", [Levi Allen], London, [England]. To Ira ALLEN.
Sets forth various misfortunes; the brig, Mary Clement, twice sprung a leak; landed in a small boat at Cork, [Ireland ]; took a "packet boat" to Bristol, [England ]; from there traveled by mail coach to Lon- don where he arrived April 23; the year's contracts for masts etc. had been cleared on April 8; "Mr. Napone asked me if my brother was dend, which shocked me much, but for polite reasons answered I left him well, though I had had. the same report, gave no credit to it". Photostat. 3 pp. 23 cm x 19 cm. [133] 4
1789 May 8
Stephen ASHLEY, Troy, [New York]. To Ira ALLEN. Will send by May 20 twenty barrels of pork and "flower"; should have cent it on sooner if the roads had been passable; sorry it is not in his power to let Allen have it on credit; he is obliged to pay cash. Photostat. 1 p. 32 cm x 19 cm. [134]
1789 May 10
Shubael SIMMONS, St. Johns, [Canada]. To Ira ALLEN. Allen's brother left him to work but left no stock; has the small pox; business is very dull; has made 24 new traps and monded old ones. Photostat. 1 p. 32 cm = 20 cm. [135]
1789 May 18
Elias BUELL, Jr., Rutland. To Ira ALLEN. Major Beach is in Rutland and has deedod the farm to W. Foster; Mhjor Beach expects to arrive with his family by the first of June. Photostat. 1 p. 26 cm x 20 cm. [136]
1789 May 24
Levi ALLEN, London, [England]. To Ira ALLEN. Has had difficulty in obtaining British contracts and has little hope for success unless a war increases the demand for masts; learns much concerning the method of doing business in this "polite place"; has got "sur- prisingly in" with the clergy; believes the British would be glad of Vermont but not at the expense of war; believes truly he can at this time obtain something for Vermont, which he will be happy to do. Photostat. 7 pp. 23 cm x 19 cm. [137]
1789 May 24
Levi ALLEN, London, [England ]. To Ira ALLEN. Inquires about speculation in glebe lands in Ver- mont; wishes Levi to write him in a particular manner of the lands in Vermont "granted to.the Society of the Propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts, granted to the glebe of the church of England"; thinks a great bar- gain may be made in purchasing the glebe lands provided the title is good; "be very particular in ascertaining
- 20 -
the value and circumstances attending those lands, you shall have one half as I am not over anxious about more lands only to purchase by way of Specu- lation".
Photostat. 2 pp. 25 cm x 20 cm. [138]
1789
June 5
Ira ALLEN, Colchester. To Levi ALLEN, London, [England ].
Ethan Allen died on February 12; great scarcity of provisions renders it difficult to do much busi- ness; wheat much hurt with the winter and a cold back- ward spring will render provisions scarce another year. Photostat. 1 p. 32 cm x 20 cm. [139]
1789
Ira ALLEN, Colchester. To YOUNG and CULL, Quebec, [Canada].
Juno 5
Will soll ono of the towns he owns; the profit "would more than discharge all that I owe in the pro- vince of Quebec"; ordors goods for which he will pay in planed boards "noxt spring". Photostat. 3 pp. 32 cm x 20 cm. [140]
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.