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IRA. Town in Rutland County. October 12, 1780, the petition of Lemuel Roberts
and thirty-nine associates was filed asking for a grant of the District of Ira. A grant must
have been made, for November 9, 1780, the Governor and Council fixed the amount of the
granting fees and the time for their payment at June 1, 1781. The granting fees being unpaid October 20, 1783, a committee of the General
Assembly to w hom was referred the question of the right of the District of Ira to be
represented reported that inasmuch as the district was represented in the convention that
formed the constitution and had since been represented and taxed, that the district continue
to be allowed a representative. The report was accepted. Two years later, however, the
following report was adopted, October 25, 1785:
"The Honl Generable Assembly now Convened.
"Your committee appointed to confer with his Excellency the Governor Respecting
the granting fees of the town of Ira find that the said Town was granted in Oct 1780 that
a charter was to Issue on the granting fees being paid and that the greatest art of Said
proprietors have as yet Neglected to pay any part thereof although Five years have Elapsed
Since Said grant Therefore it is the opinion of your Committee that a time be allowed
said proprietors to pay the fees and upon their neglect a charter be made to any person that
will appear and pay the same all of which is humbly Submitted by
"Saml Williams for Com."
October 31, 1792, the report of a committee on granting fees of Ira showed that only part
had been paid. There is no record that the granting fees were ever paid and probably a
charter was never issued. New York grant of 5,000 acres to Henry Van Vleck &
Co. Tryon, November 6, 1772,
covered lands now in Ira. Part of Ira was incorporated with part of Wells, Tinmouth, and
Poultney into Middletown, October 31, 1804. Part annexed to Poultney for school purposes,
1804. Part of Clarendon annexed, 1854.
IRASBURGH. Town in Orleans County. Vermont grant of 23,040 acres to
Ira
Allen and sixty-three associates, February 23, 1781. Part of Lowell annexed, 1854.
ISLA LA MOTTE. Town in Grand Isle County. Vermont grant to
Benjamin Walt
and ninety-five associates, October 27, 1779. Name changed to Vineyard, 1802. Name
changed back to Isle La Motte, 1830.
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