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1794 Ira ALLEN and William ROOD.
Mar. 4 Allen agrees to sell 50 acres in Jericho. Photostat. 1 p. 19 cm x 16 cm. [363]
1794 Captain Matthew PHELPS, New Haven. To General [Ira]
Mar. 10 ALLEN.
Asks permission to resign as Captain of the 4th company 2nd regiment because of long service, advanced age, and other obstacles. Photostat. 1 p. 27 cm x 20 cm. [364]
1794 Mar. 14
Ira ALLEN and Eli BARNARD
Allen agrees to allow Barnard a choice of land · sufficient for a good farm in Essex, Jericho, Milton, New Huntington, Waterbury, Georgia, or the Two Heroes; part payment to be a "trunk of goods" and the remainder to be determined when the choice of land is made in accordance with the price commonly paid Allen for similar lands. Photostat. 1 p. 31 cm x 20 cm. [365]
1794 Mar. 15
Caleb HENDERSON. To Ira ALLEN. Has bought a farm, which includes a house, barn, and 35 acres; gives an order for £35. Photostat. 1 p. 31 cm x 20 cm. [366]
1794 Mar ..
Thomas BUTTERFIELD, Swanton. To Ira ALLEN. Concerns matters connected with the building of his sawmill; mentions officers chosen by the Swanton Company and requests that commissions be sent to them. Photostat. 2 pp. 31 cm x 20 cm. [367]
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1794 Ira ALLEN, Colchester, amd John PLACE, Rochester,
Apr. 29 New Hampshire.
Allen agrees to sell 100 acres in Colchester for £80; payment to be £65 in cash and £15 "neat" cattle. Photostat. 1 p. 20 cm x 16 cm. [368]
1794 John C. TAYLOR, Boston, [Massachusetts]. To William WALLACE.
Apr.
Offers to lend Ira Allen $7500 on condition that Wallace write him a bond payable in 32 years. Photostat. 1 p. 31 cm x 20 cm. [369]
Ira ALLEN and Jonathan ALLEN.
1794 May 2 Jonathan Allen agrees to clear the land and build a rail fence on a farm in Burlington; Ira Allen to ad- vanco one yoke of oxen and pay 24s. for clearing each acre. Photostat. 2 pp. 31 cm x 21 cm. [370]
1794 May 15
Ira ALLEN and Stephen B. SEELEY.
Allen agrees to furnish timber for a house and shop in Burlington; Seeley to erect the buildings, improve the land, and pay annual interest. Photostat. 1 p. 32 cm x 20 cm. [371]
1794 May 26
Ira ALLEN. To Charles SPOOR, Vergennes.
Allen leases a tract of land in South Colchester for the erection of a fulling mill; "lease to hold as long as water runs, timber grows, or the sun shines". Photostat. 2 pp. 32 cm x 21 cm. [372]
1794 May 26
Ira ALLEN, Stephen MACK, and John MUGGIT. Allen agrees to sell two city lots for £33; payment to be "neat" cattle and young oxen. Photostat. 1 p. 20 cm x 16 cm. [373]
Ira ALLEN and Samuel BELL.
1794 Juno 7 Bell agrees to cut timber and construct a log boom at St. Johns, [Canada] for £15; payment to be "ncat" cattle; Allen agrees to pay William Munson £3 if he does not hinder Captain Bell in the construction of a boom across Onion River. Photostat. 2 pp. 31 cm x 20 cm. [374]
1794 June 7
Ira ALLEN and John HOVEY.
Hovey agrees to erect a building for £20; payment to be cattle and provisions; £6 paid in provisions "while tho work is doing" and the remainder in cattle ten days after the work is completed. Photostat. 1 p. 31 cm x 20 [375]
1794 June 21
Robert LINSLEY, Colchester. To Ira ALLEN, Col- chester.
Sells a shop at Burlington Bay. Photostat. 1 p. 19 cm x 14 cm. [376]
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1794 June 25
Ira ALLEN and Charles CALDWELL. Allen agrees to sell one half of lot number 167 in Georgia for £35; payment to be "neat" cattle de- livered at Allen's dwelling house in Colchester. Photostat. 1 p. 28 cm x 17 cm. [377]
1794 June 26
Ira ALLEN and Edward GRIFFIN. Griffin agrees to build a barn "in a neat manner"; Allen to furnish the boards, planks, and pay £72 in scythes, axes, and hoes. Photostat. 2 pp. 32 cm x 21 cm. [378]
1794 June 26
Ira ALLEN and Ansel MARRET. Allen agrees to sell 50 acres in Georgia for £30; payment to be money with interest. Photostat. 1 p. 22 cm x 12 cm. [379]
1794 July 5
Ira ALLEN and Otis TURNER. Allen agrees to sell lot number 50 in Jericho for £78; payment to be carpenter and joiner work and cattle. Photostat. 1 p. 20 cm x 20 cm. [380]
Ira ALLEN and Otis TURNER,
1794 July 11 Turner agrees to erect a building in Colchester near the falls; Allen to furnish the boards, shingles, and nails. Photostat. 1 p. 23 cm x 19 cm. [381]
Samuel BELL. To Ira ALLEN.
1794 July 12 Receipt for one yoke of oxen for cutting timber and building a log boom at St. Johns, [Canada]. Photostat. 1 p. 31 cm x 20 cm. [382]
1794 July 12
Ira ALLEN, Colchester. To Charles SPOOR, Vergennes. Allen leases water privileges and room for a full- ing mill in Colchester for £5. Photostat. 1 p. 32 cm x 20 cm. [383]
1794 July 12
Ira ALLEN and Charles SPOOR, Vergennes. Allen agrees if other fulling mills are to be built at the falls of Onion River Spoor shall have the first offer of the privilege. Photostat. 1 p. 31 cm x 21 cm. [384]
Ira ALLEN and Zimri BARBOOR.
1794 July 18 Barber agrees to clear land on Onion River for 16s. an acre; payment to be "neat" cattle. Photostat. 1 p. 21 cm x 19 cm. [385]
1794 Aug. 4
Ira ALLEN, Alexander DODGE, and Abiather TACHER. Dodge and Tacher agree to clear land and cut timber for 24s. an acre; payment to be "neat" cattle. Photostat. 1 p. 31 cm x 19 cm. [386]
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1794 Aug. 11
Ira ALLEN and Sanborn BEAN. Bean agrees to build a house. Photostat. 1 p. 31 cm x 20 cm, Mostly illegible. [387]
1794 Ira ALLEN, Colchester, Silas HATHAWAY, St. Albans, and John W. SOUTHMAYD, Georgia.
Sep. 15
Allen agrees to sell 50 acres in St. Albans; Southmayd has the deed for the land. Photostat. 2 pp. 32 cm x 20 cm. Mostly illegible. [388]
1794 Sep. 29
Ira ALLEN and Nathaniel WRIGHT. Allen agrees to sell 50 acres in Essex for £25; part payment to be shingles delivered at Allen's dwelling house in Colchester. Photostat. 1 p. 21 cm x 19 cm. [389]
1794 Sep.
Udney HAY, New York. To Ira [ALLEN]. Concerns payment of his account and financial affairs, Photostat. 2 pp. 31 cm x 20 cm. Mostly illegible. [390]
1794 Ira ALLEN, Colchester. To Levi PITKIN.
Oct. 4 Deed of 2 city lots, number 130 and 140, at Bur- lington Bay for £21; each lot to contain one quarter of an acre. D.S. 1 p. 31 cm x 21 cm, A 1 42 p. [391]
Oct. 4
1794 Ira ALLEN, Colchester. To Nathan WHITE, Burlington, Deed for two city lots, number 219 and 220, at Bur- lington Bay for £21; each lot to contain one quarter of an acre. D.S. 1 p. 31 cm x 21 cm. A 1 42 w. [392]
1794 Ira ALLEN and Ezra WARE.
Oct. 6 Ware agrees to build a house in Essex; payment to be "neat" cattle. Photostat. 1 p. 30 cm x 20 cm. [393]
Ira ALLEN, Colchester, and Joseph MOZIER.
1794 Oct. 24 Peaslee and Munson agree to appraise a brown horse which Mozier will give in payment of a debt; appraisal of horse to be $48. Photostat. 2 pp. 22 cm x 12 cm. [394]
1794 Ira ALLEN, Colchester, and Elisha WHITCOMB.
Nov. 5 Whitcomb agrees to deliver a deed of land pur- chased in Burlington. Photostat. 1 p. 34 cm x 20 cm. [395]
1794 Nov. 18
[Ira ALLEN,7], Jericho. To Noah CHITTENDEN. Note for £877 in dry, goods .. Photostat. 1 p. 30 cm x 18 cm. [396]
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1794 Nov. 29
William FAIMOR. To Ira ALLEN. Asks Allen to help obtain the release of Joseph [Allen] from jail; "despise his past conduct, but do not despise his humility, pray, sir consider his family". Photostat. 2 pp. 31 cm x 20 cm. [397]
1794 Nov.
Joseph ALLEN, Albany, [New York]. To Ira ALLEN, Asks his uncle to get him out of jail; he will spend the remainder of his days in jail "wearing and ever to wear the galling chains of a prison, fatherless, moneyless, and without friends, that have property to relieve me".
Photostat. 1 p. 32 cm x 20 cm. [398]
1794 Nov.
Ira ALLEN. To Roger ENOS, Jr., [brother-in-law of Ira Allen].
Gives directions respecting land matters during his absence from home; he has gone to Albany, [New York] to get Joseph Allen out of jail and will soon complete a settlement. Photostat. 2 pp. 31 cm x 21 cm. [399]
1794 Dec. 11
Benjamin SAMLEY, Shelburne. Concerns loss of note signed by Iro. Allen; Seeley to free Allen of any obligation if note is over found. Photostat. 1 p. 31 cm x 20 cm. [400]
1794 Dec. 11
Ira ALLEN, Colchester, and Asa LYON. Allen agrees to sell 50 acres in Shelburne for £37 10s.
Photostat. 1 p. 20 cm x 16 cm. [40]]
1794 Ira ALLEN and Israel BURRITT.
Doc. 12 Allen agrees to buy a house, barn, and two and a quarter acres of land in Shelburne for £100. Photostat. 1 p. 20 cm x 16 cm. [402]
1794 Ira ALLEN, Colchester. To Peter BENEDICT. Dec. 18 Deed of 100 acres in Burlington for 285. D.S. 1 p. 31 cm x 20 cm. A 1 42. [403]
1794 Dec. 20
Samuel HUNTINGTON, Shaftsbury. To Ira ALLEN. Urges him to settle Ethan Allen's estate par- ticularly payment of a note due him. Photostat. 4 pp. 19 cm x 17 cm. [404]
1794
Abel ALLIS. To Ira ALLEN. Asks for aid; owes £50 in cattle, which he requests him to pay, Photostat. 1 p. 31 cm x 20 cm .. [405]
1794
Ira ALLEN and Noah SHIT!, Bonnington. They agree to a settlement in court regarding land in Milton, which both clain. Photostat. 4 pp. 34 cr: x 21 cm. [406]
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1794
Samuel WILLIAMS. To Ira ALLEN.
Governor Chittenden is too busy to see him; the printer demands the manuscript which is not finished; requests him to send necessary papers; asks for list of officers in the division of the militia which is under his command. Photostat. 1 p. 30 cm x 20 cm. [407]
1794
Jacob DAVIS. To General Ira ALLEN. Stock account for 1790-1794. A.D. 2 pp. 19 cm x 15 cm. Vermont Historical Society 794169.
Ira ALLEN.
1794 1795 List of land holdings redeemed in 1794 and 1795. Photostat. 6 pp. 31 cm x 20 cm. [409]
K. K. VAN RENSERLARR. To Ira ALLEN.
1795 Jan. 2 Concerns his note held by Fraser and Young of Quebec, [Canada]. Photostat. 1 p. 32 cm x 21 cm. [410]
Silas HATHAWAY and Ira ALLEN.
1795 Jan. 7 Agreement for lands at East Albany. Photostat. 1 p. 21 cm x 20 cm. [41]]
1795 Ebenezer ALLEN, Burlington. To Ira ALLEN.
Jan. 31 Ready to leave for a journey "to the lands of the native Indians"; asks him to send papers which he may need if summoned to court. Photostat. 1 p. 30 cm x 19 cm, [4]2]
1795 Ebenezer ALLEN, Schenectady, [New York]. To Ira
Feb. 7 ALLEN.
Asks him to assist Mrs. Allen and take care of his business. Photostat. 2 pp. 30 cm x 18 cm. [413]
1795 K. K. VAN RENSERLARR. To General [Ira] ALLEN.
Feb. 7 His case with Fraser and Young will be tried in April; has reasons to believe it may be postponed. Photostat. 2 pp. 34 cm x 21 cm. [414]
1795 Ebenezer ALLEN, Canandaigiia, Now York. To Goneral ALLEN.
Feb. 14 Enthusiastic over New York land "called by the natives the garden of Paradise", Photostat. 1 p. 30 cm x 19 cm. [415]
1795 Feb. 15
Robert WORK, [Alburgh]. To Ira ALLEN, Burlington. Has cut his leg with an axe and is unable to attend court; asks Allon to assist Mr. [Joseph] Fay to have his case continued to another term. Photostat. 1 p. 30 cm x 20 cm. [416]
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1785 Noah SMITH. To Ira ALLEN.
Feb. 21 Receipt for £12 toward rent of school lot number 66 in Milton.
Photostat. 1 p. 20 cm x 16 cm. [417]
Feb. 21
1795 Ira ALLEN, Colchester. To Noah SMITH, Bennington. Note for £800 "lawful" money. Photostat. 1 p. 19 cm x 13 cm. [418]
1795 Ira ALLEN and Noah SMITH, [Bennington].
Feb. 21 Smith agrees to build a dwelling house, barn, and gristmill in Milton. Photostat. 1 p. 30 cm x 19 cm. [419]
1795 K. K. VAN RENSERLARR. To Ira ALLEN.
Mar. 4 Asks for his affidavit in order that his cause with Fraser and Young may be postponed until the fall. Photostat. 2 pp. 34 cm x 21 cm. [420]
1795 Zenos BRADLEY, Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania]. To Ira ALLEN.
Mar. 2
Asks for employment for an Irish emigrant who would make a good clerk or overseer for some gentlemen; several of his friends will settle where he advises. Photostat. 2 pp. 32 cm x 20 cm. [42]]
1795 Mar. 6
John FINCH, Cork Harbour, [Ireland]. To Ira ALLEN. Arrived after a difficult passage; the ship lost her rudder so that all passengers for general safety had to do duty and stand watch upon deck; "Amsterdam has sur- rendered to France without firing a gun. Holland has adopted the French Constitution and joined against the combined armies. Dublin and the major part of Ireland and even England are ripe for a revolution". Photostat. 1 p. 23 cm x 19 cm. [422]
1795 Mar. 11
Ira ALLEN and James HAWLEY.
Hawley agrces to repair a grist mill in Shelburne; Allen to furnish boards, planks, and nails, pay Hawley £55 in money, cne barrel of pork, and cattle by the first of May. Photostat. 2 pp. 31 cm x 20 cm. [423]
1795 Mar. 17
Ira ALLEN and Solomon FAY. Allen agrees to sell 100 acres in Jericho for £64; pays £19 18s. at time of sale and the remainder in cattle in June and September. Photostat. 1 p. 32 cm x 20 cm. [424]
Ira ALLEN and Timothy BLISS.
1795 Mar. 18 Bliss agrees to sell 50 acres in Jericho for £40; payment to be in "good merchantable neat cattle" de- livered at Allen's dwelling house in Colchester. Photostat. 2 pp. 20 cm x 16 cm. [425]
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Ira ALLEN and Timothy BLISS.
1795 Mar. 18 Bliss agrees to sell 50 acres in Jericho for £40; payment to be in "good merchantable neat cattle" de- livered at Allen's dwelling house in Colchester. Photostat. 2 pp. 20 cm x 16 cm. [425]
1795 Mar. 25
Ira ALLEN and Daniel LAMSON. Lamson agrees to pay for lands in Essox.
Photostat. 1 p. 34 cm x 19 cm. [426]
1795 John FINCH, London, [England ]. To Ira ALLEN.
Mar. 26 Finch sailed from New York January 11, reaching London March 31; has soen Colonel [John ] Graham, [lawyor], and General Cogswell; thinks he will accom- plish the business of obtaining goods to start a storo in Boston, [Massachusetts]. Photostat. 4 pp. 25 cm x 20 cm. [427]
1795 Ebenezor ALLEN, Queenstown, New York. To Ira
Mar. 29 ALLEN. Describes the New York country; asks that Captain John Martin come and join them as "he has got the Mohawk tong" and is a government man. Photostat. 3 pp. 30 cm x 19 cm. [428]
1795
Mar. 30
Joseph ALLEN, Albany jail, [New York]. To Ira ALLEN.
Anxious to have his liberty and asks for assist- ance; has taken his second degreo at college and has learned moro of human nature "thon I ever learnt in my life before". Photostat. 2 pp. 32 cm x 21 cm. Signed: "your very humble servant and nephew in Lymbo". [429]
1795 Ira ALLEN and Nathan TYLER.
Apr. 4 Tyler agrees to build a house in Shelburne; Allen to board Tyler and a man while doing the work, furnish boards, clabboards, shingles and nails, haul the timber, and designate the place to oroct the building. Photostat. 1 p. 26 cm x 20 cm. [430]
1795 Ira ALLEN. To Noah SMITH, Bonnington.
Apr. 8 Deed of 90 acros in Milton for £159 50s. Photostat. 1 p. 21 cm x 14 cm. [431]
1795 Ebonczer [ALLEN], Nowark, [Now Jorscy]. To Ira
Apr. 25 ALLEN Describes the settlement of Detroit, [Michigan] and land to the southwest; can bo purchased for half a dollar an acre and titlo came from the Indians. Photostat. 2 pp. 31 cm x 21 cm. [432]
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Ira ALLEN and Lyman and Squire MOORHOUSE.
1795 Apr. 26 Lyman and Squire agree to clear land near Bur- lington, "in a neat manner" and cut and pile timber for rails; Allen to pay 40s. per acre for part of the work and the remainder in new lands. Photostat. 1 p. 21 cm x 20 cm. [433]
1795 Apr. 28
Ira ALLEN, Colchester, and Eldridge FARWELL. Farwell agrees to sell 2 lots, number 229 and 230, at Burlington Bay for £27. Photostat. 1 p. 20 cm x 13 cm. [434]
1795 Apr. 29
Ira ALLEN. To Allyn HUMPHREYS.
Allen leases land at the falls of Onion River for the erection of a fulling mill. Photostat. 1 p. 31 cm x 19 cm. [435]
1795 Apr. 29
Ira ALLEN and Nathan FISH. Fish agrees to erect a fulling mill in Shelburne and to have the use of water when it does not interfere with other business; at the end of five years Fish shall have the right to take away the mill or the use of the place for a longer timc. Photostat. 1 p. 31 cm x 20 cm. [436]
1795 May 2
Ira ALLEN, Pelham COOK, and Elias BINGHAM. Cook and Bingham agree to clear an island in the mill pond for plowing and mowing and to have the work done by the first of May; Allen to pay 20s. for each acre cleared. Photostat. 1 p. 31 cm x 20 cm. [437]
1795 May 9
Samuel HITCHCOCK, Rutland. To General ALLEN. Concerns Susquehanna lands in Pennsylvania which Allen inherited from his father; Hitchcock writes "You have made a most unfortunate bargain I wish if possible you would recall it". Photostat. 1 p. 31 cm x 19 cm. [438]
1795 June 6
Ira ALLEN and Levi BARBER.
Allen agrees to sell land in Georgia for £65 per hundred acres.
Photostat. 1 p. 21 cm x 18 cm. [439]
1795 June 6
Ira ALLEN. To Samuel WILLIAMS, [Rutland].
Gives a brief sketch of General Ethan Allen's life; concerns lease of lands for the University of Vermont; some of the lands to be leased for beef, pork, butter, or cheese delivered at the University at their current value.
A.L.S. 2 pp. , 28 cm x 21 cm. A 1 42 w. [440]
1795 Juno 7
Ira ALLEN, Colchester. To Charles AMES, Burlington. Allen leases two lots, number 23 und 24, at Bur- lington Bay for four years; Ames to clear and cultivate the land according to rules of "Good Husbandry". Photostat. 1 p. 31 cm x 21 cm. [44]]
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1795 June 15
Ira ALLEN, Colchester. To Joseph MOZIER. Mozier leases one fire in Allen's forge for 50s. per month and is to have the use of the house he now lives in; part of the repairs are to be made by Allen and part by Mozicr. Photostat. 1 p. 31 cm x 20 cm. [442]
1795 June 17
Ira ALLEN and Richard CORNING. Allen agrees to sell lots in Burlington; payment to be carpenter and joiner work. Photostat. 1 p. 31 cm x 20 cm. [443]
1795 June 26
Ira ALLEN and Israel KEITH, Pittsford. Allen agrees to sell land in Pittsford for iron works; payment to be iron and hollow ware manufactured by him and delivered at Allen's dwelling house in Colchester Photostat. 1 p. 22 cm x 20 cm. [444]
1795 June 29
Ira ALLEN and Benjamin BAFFORD. Bafford agrees to clear a certain tract of land, cut the stumps, and sow grass seed; work is to be com- pleted before July 1796; Allen to pay in new lands. Photostat. 1 p. 24 cm x 21 cm. [445]
1795 Juno
Ira ALLEN, T. HILL and D. JOHNSON. Hill and Johnson agree to clear lands at the Inter- vale, [Burlington] "in a neat manner" and cut and pile timber for rails; Allen to pay 40s per acre for some of the work and the remainder in "neat" cattle. Photostat. 2 pp. 24 cm x 21 cm. [446]
1795 June
Ira ALLEN and Samuel SINCLAIR. Allen agrees to sell 50 acres in Essex; payment to be "good merchantablo neat cattle" at their current value. Photostat. 1 p. 21 cm x 16 cm. [447]
1795 July 2
Stephen PRICE, Colchester. To Ira [ALLEN]. Promises to pay in full, one month from date, for lot number 17 in Essex. Photostat. 1 p. 20 cm x 17 cm. [448]
1795 July 4
Ira ALLEN, Burlington. To A. ALLEN, Asks him to come for the irons for the bellows wheel; will be inconvenient to take it on horseback; "my boys are all sick and lame think you had best take a canoe if there be any handy". Photostat. 1 p. 31 cm x 20 Cm. [449]
1795 July 28
Ira ALLEN and Stephen HOLMES.
Allen agrees to sell lot number 120 in Georgia for £60; Holmes to pay money with interest on November 1. Photostat. 2 pp. 20 cm x 17 cm. [450]
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1795 Aug. 10
Ira ALLEN, Colchester. To David MUNN, Burlington. Allen leases two city lots, number 146 and 147, in Burlington for 5 years; Munn to cultivate and improve the land and build a house and shop at Allen's expense. Photostat. 1 p. 32 cm x 20 cm. [451 ]
Ira ALLEN. To Eleazer ALLIS.
1795 Aug. 12 Allen leases lot number 127 in Georgia; Allis to clear and improve land and give up possession if Allen desires upon reasonable payment; if Allen decides to sell the land Allis to have the first offer of purchase. Photostat. 1 p. 21 cm x 17 cm. [452]
Ira ALLEN, Colchester, and James HAWLEY, Shelburne.
1795 Aug. 18 Hawley agrees to build a mill in a durable manner; Allen to furnish materials and receive a part of the toll of the wheat ground at the mill. Photostat. 1 p. 32 cm x 19 cm. [453]
1795 Ira ALLEN, Colchester. To Thomas and Zebediah
Aug. 20 DEWEY, Milton.
Allen leases a sawmill; for the use of the mill and the privilege of cutting pine timber on Allen's land the Deweys are to deliver to Allen ono third of the boards and planks sawed in the mill. Photostat. 2 pp. 32 cm x 20 cm. [454]
1795 Scp. 23
Heber ALLEN, Georgia. To General Ira ALLEN, Colchester.
Wishes to know if Ira Allen desires to buy certain lands in Milton; will sell them for £70; if Allen does not intend to buy them at that price he has another offer; is waiting a reply from Allen.
A.L.S. 1 p. 20 cm x 16 cm. Vermont Historical Society A 1 535 1 m. [455]
1795 Oct. 27
Governor Thomas CHITTENDEN, Windsor.
Appoints Major General Ira Allen one of the board of Trustees of the University of Vermont; as agent he is to solicit and receive donations in real or personal estate, for the use of the University; "Trusting and hoping that his pious and Liberal exertions, in wishing and endeavoring to sow the seeds of Erudition and civilization in the wilds of America, may be crowned with Laudability and success and that the scientific knowledge gained by this charitable In- stitution will reflect honor to the lastest ages of posteri- ty, remain a lasting monument of pleasing approbation to its worthy Donors, and a bright example of useful Charity". Photostat. 1 p. 32 cm x 21 cm. [456]
Ira ALLEN and Ariel STRONG.
Allen agrees to sell lot number 51 in Jericho for £68; payment to be shingles, cash, and "good merchantable neat cattle". Photostat. 1 p. 25 cm x 20 cm. [457]
1795 Νov. 4
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1795 Ira ALLEN. To Eliphabet BEAN.
Nov. 5 Allen leases a sawmill in Burlington; Bean to keep mill in repair and deliver to Allen one third of the boards and planks. Photostat. 1 p. 31 cm x 30 cm, [458]
1795 Ira ALLEN. To Gershom and Asa LYON.
Nov. 11 Allen leases a sawmill in Shelburne; Gershom and Asa to keep the mill in repair, are not to draw water to the injury of the forge or grist mill, and furnish Allen with one third of the boards and planks. Photostat. 1 p. 33 cm x 20 cm. [459]
1795 Ira ALLEN, To John STOREY.
Nov. 12 Allen leases a house; Storcy to "Redeliver possess- ion" of the house the first of April in good repair. Photostat. 1 p. 21 cm x 17 cm. [460]
1795 Ira ALLEN. To Noel JALESON,
Nov. 12 Memorandum shows he has given deeds to land in Jericho to Arthur, James, Jr., Benjamin and Charles Jarvis, John Bates, and Benjamin Balls. Photostat. 1 p. 20 cm x 11 cm. [461 ]
Ira ALLEN. To Jonathan WICKAM.
1795 Nov. 13 Allen leases a house, pasture, and gristmill in Burlington; Allen and Wickham to share expenses on repairs; Wickham to deliver onc half of the grain. Photostat. 1 p. 31 cm x 20 cm. [462]
Ira ALLEN. To Aaron BROWNELL, Colchester.
1795 Nov. 15 Allen leases an anchor shop and one forge; Brownell to pay Allen £60 a year for the use of the anchor shop and £50 a year for the use of the forge. Photostat. 2 pp. 32 cm x 20 cm. [463]
1795 Nov.
Ebenezer ALLEN, South Hero. To Ira ALLEN, Concerns his recent western trip; Ebenezer mited at Queenstown, [New York ] for his company to come; will be at Ira's house next Saturday. Photostat. 1 p. 31 cm x 20 cm. [464]
1795 Ira ALLEN. To General William HULL, [Major General of the Massachusetts' militia].
Doc. 5 Negotiates a loon of £4000; £2500 paid in English coin and the remainder in two drafts drawn on men in London, [England] who were indebted to Hull; Hull agrees to furnish dry goods for John Finch's store in Boston, [Massachusetts] and pay drafts not exceeding $30,000; . Allen signs a note and deeds to Hull 46,000 acres in Essex, Burlington, Colchester, Georgia, and Shelburno; note and docd, with quit claim deed from Hull, were de- posited with a third party. D.S. 4 pp. 25 cm x 21 cm. Tuttle Building, Old and Rare Books, Rutland, Vermont. [465]
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1795 Dec. 7
Ira ALLEN, Boston, [Massachusetts]. To Stephen PEARL.
Allen finds money scarce in Boston; will sail for London, [England ] on Wednesday; "the Being that has pre- served me through so many storms in life will I am con- fident yeald His protecting arm to waft me from and to my native shore; when it will be in my power to rejoice with my friends and laugh at my enemies"; asks Pearl to take care of his farming business in Burlington for the ensuing year.
Photostat. 3 pp. 28 cm x 18 cm. [466]
1795 Dec. 10
John MARSTON, Boston, [Massachusetts]. To [English Business MENJ.
Introduces Ira Allen to London business mon. Photostat. 1 p. 23 cm x 19 cm. [467]
1795 John MARSTON, Boston, [Massachusetts]. To Messrs. Dec. 10 William and Alex WALKER, London, [England ].
Ira Allen will soon sail for England where he will . spend considerable money in your manufactures; "I have recommended him to apply to your house, not doubting but you will serve him on advantageous terus", Photostat. 1 p. 23 cm x 19 cm. [468]
1795 John MARSTON, Boston, [Massachusetts]. To London FRIEND, London, [England].
Dec. 10
Ira Allen will soon sail for England where he will spend considerable money in the manufactures of Great Britain; "I take the liberty of introducing him to you and shall consider myself much obliged for any services you may render hin".
Photostat. 1 p. 23 cm x 19 cm. [469]
1795 Dec. 11
Ira ALLEN, Boston, Massachusetts.
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