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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vermont, (search)
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 present their petition to the King, sails from New York for England......Dec. 25, 1766 King George III. forbids New York, until authorized, to grant land in Vermont......July 24, 1767 Lieutenant-Governor Colden disregards the order, and between September, 1769, and October, 1770, grants 600,000 acres......1769-70 New-Yorkers, claiming the farm of James Breakenridge in the township of Bennington (part of the Walloom