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Calais Town Grant
Resolved, that there be, and we Do hereby, grant unto Colonel Jacob Davis, Mr. Stephen Fay and Company, to the Number of Sixty, a Township of Land by the Name of Calais, Situated in this State, Bounded as follows, and lying East of, and adjoining to, Worcester, and north of Montpelier, Containing Twenty-three Thousand and forty acres, and the Governor and Council are hereby Requested to State the fees for Granting Said tract, and Issue a Grant under such Restrictions and Regulations as they shall Judge Proper.
Extract from the Journals. R. Hopkins, clerk.
Boston, 28th of September, 1781. Rec'd of Col. Jacob Davis, Two Hundred and forty-two Pounds, Twelve Shillings and Nine pence in full of the Granting fees of the Town of Calais, in the State of Vermont, within mentioned. Pr. Noah Chittenden.
Previous to the payment of the two last mentioned sums, the charter was issued unto the said Jacob Davis, Stephen Fay, and to the several persons hereafter named, their associates [viz]:
| Ebenezer Allen
[Clerk] Caleb Ammidown Daniel Bacon Jr. Richard Coburn William Comins Ezra Davis Jeremiah Davis Sarah Davis Joseph Dorr Lemuel Edwards Justin Ely David Fay* Samuel Fay David Fisk Henry Fisk Jr. Thomas Foskett Abel Goodell Noah Goodman David Hammond Eli Jones |
Lemuel Kollock Abijah Lamb Ebenezer Lamb Bezaleel Mann Abner Mellen Job Merrit John Morey John Mower Marvin Mower Shubal Peck Jonathan Rich Isaiah Rider Samuel Robinson* Job Rutter Phinehas Slayton Phinehas Slayton Jr. Peter Sleeman Ephraim Starkweather John Starkweather |
Oliver
Starkweather Daniel Steeter Nehemiah Stone Nehemiah Stone Jr. Peter Taft Elisha Thomson Elisha Town Josiah Town Salem Town Jonathan Tucker Nathan Tyler William Ware Seth Washburn Nathaniel Wellington David Wheelock Eli Wheelock Peter Wheelock Ebenezer White Jr. Edward Woolcott |
| * of Charlton | ||
The usual reservation of five rights for public uses follows in the charter, and then the boundaries. And that the same be, and hereby is, incorporated into a township by the name of Calais.
Town Officers
Source: History of Washington County Vermont, Collated and Published by Abby Maria Hemenway, 1882.
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