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July 24th, 1767 AD (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-vermont
ont 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 Walloomsac grant of 1739), send commissioners and surveyors who are dispersed by friends of Breakenridge......Oct. 19, 1769 Ejectment suits for lands claimed by New York at Albany are decided against settlers under New Hampshire grants......June, 1770 S
1797 AD (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-vermont
laims for $30,000, and the legislature of Vermont ratifies the agreement......Oct. 28, 1790 Vermont adopts the Constitution of the United States without amendments......Jan. 10, 1791 Vermont admitted by act of Congress of Feb. 18, to take effect......March 4, 1791 Constitutional convention meets at Windsor, July 4; completes its labors......July 9, 1793 Constitution of 1793 adopted by the legislature......Nov. 2, 1796 Gov. Thomas Chittenden resigns on account of failing health (1797), and dies at Williston......Aug. 25, 1797 University of Vermont and State 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 Monr
October 22nd, 1782 AD (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-vermont
ril 30, 1782 Governor Chittenden commissions Gen. Ethan Allen, Sept. 2, to raise 250 volunteers, and march into Windham county as a posse comitatus to enforce Vermont laws. This force, doubled by volunteers from Windham county, arrests some twenty leaders of the rebellion, Charles Phelps escaping, Sept. 10; these leaders are tried at Westminster and banished from the State......Sept. 11, 1782 First school law; towns are empowered to form school districts 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 constitution, the first council of censors meets and suggests changes in the constitution, and calls a convention......1785 Constitution framed by a convention, July 4, 1786, is adopted by the legislature and
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