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Engelberth Construction, Inc.
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Saxe Communications
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05495-7799 Williston -
IDX Systems Corporation
Distance: 16.2 Mi40 Idx Dr
5403 South Burlington
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The Town of Milton was chartered on 8th day of June 1763 by Governor Benning Wentworth of New Hampshire, it was comprised of 23,040 acres and was made to 62 grantees. As far as can be determined the Town was not settled until the end of the Revolutionary War although settlements were encouraged in order to increase the value of the land. Any records which may have existed of proceedings of proprietors previous to the war have been lost in the Flood of 1927. Milton was first settled by William Irish, Leonard Owen, Amos Mansfield, Absalom Taylor and Thomas Dewey in February, 1782. The first meeting of which a record has been kept was held in Middletown on August 2, 1786. At that meeting a moderator and a clerk were chosen. On August 5th it was voted to let out the first division of lots. A tax of one pound and ten shillings was to be paid by each proprietor to defray expenses. A meeting was held June 25, 1788 in Manchester, New Hampshire for the purpose of allotting and surveying the 2nd, 3rd and 4th divisions of the undivided land, the first division having been previously let out on August 5, 1786. By 1795, about 300 settlers were living in Milton, making it difficult to hold Town or religious meetings in private homes. However, meetings were held in private homes until 1806 when the voters met at the Town House at Checkerberry Green. The Town House was built in 1849 and destroyed by fire in 1878. West Milton, on the Lamoille River, was the first part of Town to be settled...