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Oxford (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-vermont
ns......1837 State capitol at Montpelier completed......1837 Small band of Vermont patriots, organized on the Canada side of the Vermont line to invade the province, threatened by 1,600 or 1,700 Canadian troops,. decide to return to Vermont, but are compelled to surrender by General Wool......December, 1838 Marble first quarried at Rutland......1844 License law passed......1844 School fund abolished to pay the State debt......1845 First slate quarry in the State opened at Fairhaven......1845 Act providing State superintendent of common schools, with town superintendents and district committees......Nov. 5, 1845 Local option law passed......1846 Two brass field-pieces, captured at Bennington, given to Vermont by Congress......July 10, 1848 Jacob Collamer appointed Postmaster-General......March 8, 1849 Railroad jubilee at Burlington, celebrating the union of the lakes and the Atlantic by railroad through Vermont......June 25, 1850 Vermont State Teac
Windsor, Vt. (Vermont, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-vermont
-six delegates from thirty-three towns, to form a separate State......Sept. 25, 1776 Convention at Westminster declares Vermont a separate, free, and independent jurisdiction or State, as New Connecticut, ......Jan. 17, 1777 Convention at Windsor names the State Vermont, adopts a constitution, and appoints a provisional council of safety for the State......July 2-8, 1777 British troops under Generals Fraser and Riedesel disperse the rear guard of St. Clair's army under Colonels Franci...July 28, 1777 Battle of Bennington; General Burgoyne sends about 1,000 German troops under Colonels Baume and Breyman to seize provisions at Bennington; they are routed by Americans under General Stark......Aug. 16, 1777 Legislature at Windsor divides the State into two counties: one east of the Green Mountains, called Cumberland, and another west, called Bennington......March 12, 1778 Stockade fort and block-house erected at Rutland......April, 1778 Col. Ethan Allen, prisoner o
Waterbury (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-vermont
lections made biennial......1871 Board of education abolished and the office of State superintendent of education created......1874 State reform school at Waterbury destroyed by fire......Feb. 12, 1874 Celebration at Bennington of one-hundredth anniversary of the battle of Bennington......Aug. 15-16, 1877 Revision of Srs prohibited......1882 State soldiers' home located at Bennington......Feb. 5, 1887 One hundred thousand dollars appropriated for a State insane asylum at Waterbury......1888 State board of trade organized......1888 Redfield Proctor appointed Secretary of War......March 5, 1889 Australian ballot law passed at sessio.....Oct. 1–Nov. 25, 1890 George F. Edmunds resigns from the United States Senate, to take effect Nov. 1......April 6, 1891 Ex-Gov. Paul Dillingham dies at Waterbury......July 26, 1891 Celebration of centennial of admission of Vermont into the Union and dedication of the battle monument (308 feet high) at Bennington......A
Norwich (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-vermont
e agricultural school at Burlington, chartered 1791, opened......1800 Steamboat The Vermont launched at Burlington by John and James Winans......1809 Flag-ship Saratoga, of twenty-six guns, and several small vessels, built upon Otter Creek during the winter of 1813-14, under Thomas Macdonough, engage in the battle of Plattsburg and Lake Champlain; Americans victorious......Sept. 11, 1814 President James Monroe makes a tour through Vermont......1817 Norwich University founded at Norwich......1819 Resolutions of the Vermont legislature presented in the United States Senate, declaring slavery a moral and political evil, and that Congress has the right to prohibit its extension......Dec. 9, 1820 General Lafayette lays the corner-stone of the new university building at Burlington, to replace that destroyed by fire in 1824......June 29, 1825 Act for the establishment of common schools......1827 Anti-masonic governor, William A. Palmer, elected......1831 House of
Brattleboro (Vermont, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-vermont
d to William Dummer, Anthony Stoddard, William Brattle, and John White......1716 Fort Dummer built by the colony of Massachusetts on the Connecticut River at Brattleboro......1724 French settle at Chimney Point, Addison township, Vt......1730 Township Number One, now Westminster, laid out between the great falls and the lacticut and west of the present New York State line, Aug. 20, 1781; the legislature dissolves its eastern and western unions......Feb. 22, 1782 Residents of Brattleboro, Guilford, and Halifax, in a petition prepared by Charles Phelps to Governor Clinton, of New York, complain of the Vermont government, and ask New York to assumernor, William A. Palmer, elected......1831 House of Representatives divided into a Senate and General Assembly......1836 Vermont asylum for the insane at Brattleboro, incorporated November, 1834, is opened......December, 1836 Legislature adopts anti-slavery resolutions......1837 State capitol at Montpelier completed...
York, Pa. (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-vermont
etween the great falls and the land grant of 1716, by the General Court of Massachusetts......Nov. 19, 1736 Grant of Walloomsac, 1,200 acres mostly in New York, but extending into the township of Bennington......1739 Governor Wentworth, of New Hampshire, makes a grant of Bennington......1749 Bennington settled......1761 Proclamation by Lieutenant-Governor Colden, of New York, claiming the territory west 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 th
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-vermont
res, 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.....and officers are imprisoned at Northampton by the mob......March 14, 1775 Ethan Allen, with eighty-three men, captures Fort Ticonderoga......May 10, 1775 Ethan Allen and thirty-eight men, captured in an attack on Montreal, sent in irons to England......Sept. 25, 1775 Convention of the New Hampshire grants at Dorset; fifty-six delegates from thirty-three towns, to form a separate State......Sept. 25, 1776 Convention at Westminster declares Vermont a separate, free, and independent ju
United States (United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-vermont
tricts and to elect trustees......Oct. 22, 1782 Legislature establishes post-offices and a postmaster-general; the rates of postage to be the same as in the United States ......1784 Grant to Reuben Harmon, Jr., of Rupert, of the exclusive privilege of coining copper for a limited period......1785 As provided by State constrning direct-tax money refunded by Congress......Aug. 25, 1891 Ex-Gov. John Gregory Smith dies at St. Albans......Nov. 6, 1891 Redfield Proctor appointed United States Senator, Aug. 25; qualifies......Dec. 7, 1891 Redfield Proctor elected United States Senator......Oct. 19, 1892 Justin S. Morrill dies at Washington, D. St. Albans......Nov. 6, 1891 Redfield Proctor appointed United States Senator, Aug. 25; qualifies......Dec. 7, 1891 Redfield Proctor elected United States Senator......Oct. 19, 1892 Justin S. Morrill dies at Washington, D. C......Dec. 28, 1898 Merchants' National Bank, Rutland. failed......March 26, 1900 Virginia
New England (United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-vermont
Vermont, A New England State, is bounded on the north by the province of Quebec, east by New Hampshire, south by Massachusetts, and west by New York and Lake Champlain. It lies between 42° 44′ to 45° 43′ N. lat., and 71° 38′ to 73° 25′ W. long. Area, 9,565 square miles, in fourteen counties. Population, 1890, 332,422; 1900, 343,641. Capital, Montpelier. Samuel de Champlain explores the lake bearing his name......1609 About 44,000 acres in southern Vermont, granted to the colony of Connecticut, in 1715, as an equivalent for lands granted by Massachusetts in Connecticut territory, transferred to William Dummer, Anthony Stoddard, William Brattle, and John White......1716 Fort Dummer built by the colony of Massachusetts on the Connecticut River at Brattleboro......1724 French settle at Chimney Point, Addison township, Vt......1730 Township Number One, now Westminster, laid out between the great falls and the land grant of 1716, by the General Court of Massachuse
Connecticut River (United States) (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-vermont
......1609 About 44,000 acres in southern Vermont, granted to the colony of Connecticut, in 1715, as an equivalent for lands granted by Massachusetts in Connecticut territory, transferred to William Dummer, Anthony Stoddard, William Brattle, and John White......1716 Fort Dummer built by the colony of Massachusetts on the ConnConnecticut River at Brattleboro......1724 French settle at Chimney Point, Addison township, Vt......1730 Township Number One, now Westminster, laid out between the great falls and the land grant of 1716, by the General Court of Massachusetts......Nov. 19, 1736 Grant of Walloomsac, 1,200 acres mostly in New York, but extendingut, 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 N
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