Just got this document this week thanks to the Vermont State Archives. They digitized it and sent it via email at no charge. Some of the names are very difficult to read so I apologize to anyone whose ancestors name I have butchered in the transcription.
A Petition of the
Land owners of Fairfax for a Land Tax
---- Oct. 15, 1795
B.? Hopkins, Secy.
In Genl. Assembly 15th Oct. 1795
Rec’d & referred
to the 2nd Land tax ----
Wm. R. Whitney,
clerk
To the Honorable the
General Assembly now sitting, Your committee to whom was refer’d the within do
report that the prayer thereof --- to be granted.
D. Sheldon for
Comtt.
Windsor 19th
of Oct. 1795
In Genl. Assembly 19th
Oct. 1795
Rec’d. & accepted
& ----
W.R. Whitney, Clk.
To the Honorable ---
General Assembly to be Conven’d. at Windsor on Thursday the Eight day of October
next. The petition of a large number of
proprietors ^and Landowners of Fairfax Humbly ---- that whereas the town of
Fairfax in subject to the extraordinary expense of Building ^a Bridge over the
river Lamoil [Lamoille] and the land being very wet in many parts of the Town
they are under the necessaty of expanding more (?) upon the highways than
almost any other town in that part of the state your Petitioners therefore
request that a tax of one penny upon the acre ---- may be laid upon the land in
Fairfax publick right ---- for the purpose of building bridges and replacing the
road in sd. Town as in duty bound your petitioners will ever pray.
Date at Fairfax this
1st day of September 1795
[Signature] No. of
acres
David Farwell 100
Thomas Parker 200
John Farwell 100
Deliverance Wilson
100
Rober Kin—ly 100
Ebenezar Jutlett (?)
100
Joseph ----- 75
Jedidiah Bearman 100
Francis Story 100
Jedidiah Meitt 200
Newston Loal(?) 100
Shelding Parker 100
Jacob Story 100
James Hotchkiss 100
Jonathan Doughtry 100
James Farnsworth 100
Abijah Hawley 200
Geld [Gerald?] Buck
500
George Buck 500
Nathan Buck 180
Thomas Story 220
John ---- 100
Zephaniah Holm 150
Hampton Lovegood 120
Jonathan Danforth
400
Icabod Orter (?) 100
Elkanah Lothrop
100
[subtotal] 4445
Daniel Clark 250
Thomas Tefford 130
Chapel Wickwise 100
James Cressy 100
Nathan Shafford 250
Nathaniel Cressy 180
Ephraim Safford 100
Josiah Safford 180
Erastus Safford 200
Gideon Orter 100
Thomas Russell 100
Theopholas
Blake 100
Bradbury Blake 100
Willm. Mugit 100
William Morfield 100
Thomas Richards 150
Luster Grovenor 160
Stephen England 205
Theopholas Grovenor
300
Silas Squier 150
Hezekiah Wright 150
Jese Barnet 125
Robert Barnnet 50
Braodstreet Safford
100
Francis Fathington
180
Jese Fathington 100
Peter Thorton 100
John Hart 90
Thomas Farnsworth
200
[subtotal] 3020
James Farnsworth 300
Oliver Farnsworth,
Jr. 200
Oliver Farwell 100
Benjmn. Farnsworth
300
Horis Hopkins 100
M--- Hopkins 100
Whitlock Put 100
Asa Beaman 100
Samuel Millington
100
Jabes Safford, 120
Icbad (?) Wormer 100
Ross Lane 120
Joseph Bearman Jr.
900
Samuel Webster 100
Aaron Minor 100
James Bettage (?)
100
2660
4445
3020
10125
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