Index to the Papers of the Surveyors-General, 1918, Vol. 1

Excerpt from Index to the Papers of the Surveyors-General, 1918, Vol. 1: Index to the Papers of the Surveyors-Genaral It would seem scarcely right to launch the Papers of the Surveyors-General of Vermont without some account of their peculiar history. The late Henry Stevens of Barnet is authority for the statement that the tenth volume was deposited in the State Department by James Whitelaw, 1806; and, agreeably to an Act of Assembly of 1809, was delivered to Joseph Beeman to be copied, but was not returned; was recovered by Henry Stevens in January, 1847, and again deposited in the State Department. It was fortunate (if not intentional) that the tenth volume should have been the one to be returned, since it contains the gist of the most valuable work of the office in question, being a compilation, made by James Whitelaw while Surveyor-General, of all the surveys of town-lines made by the state. For lack of more definite information we shall have to assume that the remaining volumes disappeared along with the tenth; in any case they first come to light again (after having been sold, according to the tradition, for waste paper to a junkdealer) as a small part of the Stevens Collection of Vermontana, including the valuable files of ancient Vermont newspapers which had descended from the Whitelaw Land Office to Mr. Stevens, when offered to the Vermont Assembly about 1870; after negotiations looking to their return, which proved unavailing, they were sold to the State Library of New York. Here they remained until, in pursuance of a Resolution of the Assembly of 1900, Governor Stickney and State Librarian Huse waited upon the New York Librarian and procured their return to the office of the Vermont Secretary, May 15, 1902. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.