. Picturesque Burlington : a handbook of Burlington, Vermont, and Lake Champlain . r by Ira Allen in 1772. The ship-yards gradually moved southward along the lake shore as thetimber was cut away, some of the later vessels being built as farsouth as Marks Bay. The \ermont, one of the earliest steam-boats in the world, was built in iSoS, under an oak tree at thefoot of King street. The township was originally surveyed by Ira Allen in town was organized in , and the first town meeting onrecord was held in March, 1787. The beginning of the village ofBurlington was made about that tim
. Picturesque Burlington : a handbook of Burlington, Vermont, and Lake Champlain . r by Ira Allen in 1772. The ship-yards gradually moved southward along the lake shore as thetimber was cut away, some of the later vessels being built as farsouth as Marks Bay. The \ermont, one of the earliest steam-boats in the world, was built in iSoS, under an oak tree at thefoot of King street. The township was originally surveyed by Ira Allen in town was organized in , and the first town meeting onrecord was held in March, 1787. The beginning of the village ofBurlington was made about that time, on the bay near the foot ofKing street, where a few logs fastened to the shore of the lake wasthe beginning of the old wharf. Lumbermen had temporary hutsin the vicinit\- of the square, which was covered with bushes andshrubbery, with now and then a pine tree. In 1791 there were only three at the village or bay,as it was then called ; some small were scattered along atthe head of Pearl street, and from thence to the falls, where Ira PICTURESQUE BURLINGTON. 39. 40 PICTURESQUE BURLINGTON. Allen lived, across the river in Colchester, in a large two storyhouse. The 332 inhabitants were quite evenly distributed throughthe town, and the ratable property was valued at 1258 pounds. The town officers chosen were Samuel Lane, clerk ; JobBoynton, constable; Stephen Lawrence. Frederick Saxton andSamuel Allen, selectmen. Lemuel Bradley represented the townin the first general convention, before the State came into exist-ence. The first representative in the Legislature of the new vStatewas Samuel Lane, chosen in 1786. The first marriage recorded is as follows : Samuel Hitchcock and Lucy Caroline (daughter of Allen), married May 26, 1789. The births recorded are as follows : Loraine Allen Hitchcock, daughter of vSamuel and Lucy , born June 5. 1790. John \an vSicklin. .son ofJohn Van vSicklin and Elizabeth \an vSicklin. was born June
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