the lists of the several towns in the County
(except the city of Vergennes, which maintained a Jail of its own)
for the purpose of erecting a jail in Middlebury, to be paid into the
treasury of the County, by the first day of February 1811, and
authorized the Judges of the County Court to appoint an agent to
superintend the erection. They appointed Hon. Daniel Chipmak,
who proceeded to procure a siiitable lot for its site, and in Decem-
ber 1810, received a deed from Artemas Nixon, of a vacant lot
on the corner made by the road leading east from the Court House,
and another leading thence north. On this he erected a jail house
of stone, at a cost of about four thousand dollars. After the com-
pletion of this building, the old jail house wassold to Capt. Jus-
tus Foot, and by him was removed to the lot east of the hotel,
repaired, fitted up and occupied by his family for a dwelling house.
It is now owned l>y Calvin Hill. Esq.
HISTORY OF ADDIa-ON COUNTY. 23
111 1814 the Court House, in its exposed condition, came to be
regarded as a nuisance, rather than an ornament, and was removed
to the place where it now stands. On the first of January, 181G,
and after the Court House was removed. Judge Painter deeded to
the County a tract of hind, *' being that piece or parcel of land, on
which the Court House now stands in Middlebury, together with a
free and open passage on the whole front of the same to the Center
Turnpike road, so called, with a passage around the said