Sources found:
\n1)\tBenning Wentworth\u2019s Claims in the New Hampshire-New York Border Controversy: A case of Twenty-Twenty Hindsight? (1975)
\nBy: Allan R. Raymond <\/p>\n
This source secondary source explores the New Hampshire-New York border controversy through a contemporary point of view. The author claims that many look at the controversy through a modern perspective, letting Wentworth\u2019s flagrant disregard for instructions blind them from what really occurred. Wentworth had a legitimate right to dispense the land grants. Raymond\u2019s evidence is based off the New Hampshire occupation of the Dummerstown blockhouse and trading post. Built with private funds in 1724 (in exchange for land), the blockhouse (originally built for frontier security) had a small trading post attached to it (built in 1728). The trading post was intended to maintain Indian goodwill (e.g. maintain trade relations on the border) and did not make much of a profit. Since the trading post did not yield much profits, the oblation to supply troops and maintenance for Dummerstown was debated by Massachusetts, New York, and New Hampshire. New York insisted that New Hampshire should maintain Dummerstown. According to Raymond, \u201cthe crucial point, however, is not who maintained the fort, but the view of all three participants, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and the crown, that the outpost was on New Hampshire Soil, that was the colony\u2019s first solid claim west of the Connecticut (23).\u201d By looking at it from this contemporary perspective, we can see the logic behind Wentworth\u2019s actions. <\/p>\n
Primary sources mined out of this secondary work:<\/p>\n
1)\tBenning Wentworth to George Clinton, 25 April, 1750, Doc. HIST. N.Y., IV, 533-4.
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2)\tGeorge Clinton to Benning Wentworth, 6 June, 1750, Ibid, IV, 543-5
\n3)\tUnited States Reports. Vermont V. New Hampshire, Vol. 289, (Washington 1933), 593-620.
\n4)\tMassachusetts State Archives, General Court Records, Vol. XII, 107.
\n5)\tBenning Wentworth to the Board of Trade, IV, 548-9
\n6)\tWilliam Slade, Jr. Vermont State Papers, (Middlebury, 1823), 13-16 lists all Wentworth\u2019s grants. <\/p>\n
2)\tIndian Occupation of Vermont (July 1965)
\nBy: Gordon M. Day<\/p>\n
This source explores the question of Native American presence in Vermont. It had been widely accepted that there was not a large Native American presence in Vermont in 1749 when Wentworth began giving land grants. Day provides evidence that the Missisquoi tribe were possible occupants of the area, along with the Mohican tribe (though that is still an open question). He also makes a compelling case of the Schaghticokes occupying Vermont as refugees in the wake of defeat during King Phillip\u2019s war. We do not want to completely ignore the Native American perspective of the New Hampshire land grants and the early settlement of Vermont. This article has given us a launching point to include some Native American perspectives throughout out the pages. Undergraduate students interested in Native American history can use this not well talked about question of the Indian presence in Vermont as a paper topic. Hopefully our site can be a launching point for further, in-depth research on the topic. <\/p>\n
3)\tTwo Hundred Years in the Hartland Church (January 1962)
\nBy: Virginia Sutherland Bail<\/p>\n
Bail explores the religious culture of Vermont prior to and after the American Revolution. Bail focuses more post revolution groups as they make their way onto the Vermont Grants. The religious freedoms built into the Vermont Constitution were extensive, making religious pluralism common. That did not come without its issues, as many small groups of Congregationalists such as the Protestants, Baptists, and Quakers competed for political power. Even with smaller religious groups quarreling over old issues, Bail claims, \u201cthe principles of toleration and freedom of worship, incorporated in the constitutions of the United States and Vermont, are debts we owe this new liberalism (18).\u201d Therefore, the post revolution and U.S. and Vermont legislatures had turned their attention away from British occupation and towards the churches and the practices of religion (18). This article will be very useful for Section III of our project when we explore the actual secession of Vermont Republic and its constitution.<\/p>\n
Primary Sources that will be used to further the analysis of this sources include:<\/p>\n
1) Reason, the Only Oracle of Man. By: Ethan Allen
\n2) The Vermont Republic Constitution, http:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/18th_century\/vt01.asp.
\nThere are also other useful resources that are within the footnotes of the article, such as the history of the Baptists in Vermont recorded by Rev. Henry Crocker. <\/p>\n
4)\tVermont Attitudes toward Slavery: The Need for a Closer Look (1977).
\nBy: Kevin J. Graffagnino <\/p>\n
This work explores the strong anti-slavery movement within Vermont and how the constitution of the Vermont reflects anti-slavery sentiments.<\/p>\n
Primary Sources that will be used to further the analysis of this sources include:<\/p>\n
1)\tThe Vermont Republic Constitution, http:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/18th_century\/vt01.asp.<\/p>\n
5)\tBennington and the Green Mountain Boys (1996)
\nBy: Robert E. Shalhope <\/p>\n
6)\tThe New Hampshire State Papers
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