To Herman Allen, Marshal of the District of Vermont.

Sir: The division which has been allotted to me is very mountainous, thinly peopled, and the roads generally poor and hard to travel; and it is more than probable that several single towns in the county of Addison contain more inhabitants than my whole division.  But, to be more particular respecting the situation of my territory, I would state that several families live east of a high mountain, in Kingston, near Braintree line, and one of the families in Avery's Cove lives west of a high mountain near Lincoln, to obtain the number of which, I was under the necessity of travelling nearly forty miles.  Hancock and Kingston are tolerably compact, and Warren likewise, but between Kingston
and Warren settlements is a tract of four or five miles uninhabited; there is likewise a tract between Hancock and Goshen settlements of four or five miles, mountainous, where only three or four families reside.  The towns of Goshen and Ripton are very thinly peopled. The whole territory, being situated upon the Green Mountains, is particularly rough and uneven, and the number of inhabitants, considering its extent, is very small, as may be easily seen by referring to the within schedule.  Therefore, taking all things into consideration, I think I am justly entitled to the additional compensation allowed in such cases in the fourth section of "An Act to Provide for taking the fourth Census, an Enumeration of the Inhabitants of the United States", which compensation, if I have a correct idea of that clause of the Act, is two dollars and fifty cents for every hundred persons returned. Signed, Esaias Butts