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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Green Mountain boys. (search)
r the close of the French and Indian War (q. v.), and the present State of Vermont was largely covered by Wentworth's grants. The authorities of New York now proceeded to assert their claims to this territory under the charter given to the Duke of York. Acting-Governor Colden issued a proclamation to that effect, Dec. 28, 1763, to which Wentworth replied by a counter-proclamation. Then the matter, on Colden's application, was laid before the King in council. A royal order was issued, March 13, 1764, which declared the Connecticut River to be the eastern boundary of New York. The settlers did not suppose this decision would affect the titles to their lands, and they had no care about political jurisdiction. Land speculators caused the New York authorities to assert further claims that were unjust and impolitic. On the decision of able legal authority, they asserted the right of property in the soil, and orders were issued for the survey and sale of farms on the Grants in the poss
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vermont, (search)
t of the Connecticut, now Vermont, under grants from Charles II. to the Duke of York, and ordering the sheriff to return the names of those who had settled on it under titles from New Hampshire......Dec. 28, 1763 [This claim was not settled until 1790.] Northern boundary of Vermont fixed at lat. 45° N......1763 Governor Wentworth, after granting about 130 townships west of the Connecticut, proclaims the claims of New York obsolete, and jurisdiction belongs to New Hampshire......March 13, 1764 New York appeals to the King, who decides the Connecticut River to be the eastern boundary of New York......July 20, 1764 Lieutenant-Governor Colden proclaims Vermont annexed to New York......April 10, 1765 First New York patent for lands in Vermont, under Colden's proclamation, for 26,000 acres, called Princetown, in the valley of the Battenkill, between Arlington and Dorset......May 21, 1765 Samuel Robinson, appointed by 1,000 settlers under the New Hampshire grants to pre