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Caption:\u00a0Example of township plan in grants (one of the earliest at 1749), of the town of Bennington (named after Benning Wentworth). (Vermont Historical Society<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1749, Benning Wentworth, the Royal Governor of New Hampshire, distributed\u00a0land grants, “in townships of six miles square each, by the name of Hinsdale, Brattleboro, and Fulham” [1]. Other families then settled on the Hoosook River without titles were later granted land rights by Wentworth [1]. After New York Governor George Clinton heard of the land grants being\u00a0distributed west\u00a0of the Connecticut by Wentworth, he\u00a0formally asked Wentworth\u00a0to cease and desist. He claimed that New York owned the land that Wentworth was selling.\u00a0Governor Wentworth ignored the request of\u00a0Governor Clinton after several exchanges through pen and paper. The Governor of New York then began selling land to groups of settlers to start towns under New York jurisdiction [2]. New York\u00a0went to the crown and attempted, “to prove that the colony had an ancient and indisputable title to the lands west of the Connecticut river, in virtue of a\u00a0grant of King Charles II. to his brother James Duke of\u00a0York, containing, ‘all lands from\u00a0the west side of the Connecticut river, to the east side of the Delaware-bay”<\/a>\u00a0[3]. New York’s argument was shaky at best, but in 1764, the privy council sided with New York. The privy council’s ruling made all of the New Hampshire land purchases invalid, which meant they the towns established would have had to re-buy their land through New York [2].\u00a0 Between 1749 and 1764 New Hampshire residents settled 129 towns in the New Hampshire Grants <\/a>[4].<\/p>\n

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  1. Ira Allen.\u00a0\u00a0The Natural and Political <\/em>History of the State of Vermont<\/em>. London: J.W. Myers, NO. 2 Paternoster-Row, 1798. Reprint 1969. Japan: Tuttle Co., Inc, 18.<\/li>\n
  2. Vermont History Explorer. New York Patents<\/em>. Vermont Historical Society. Accessed March 28, 2017. https:\/\/vermonthistory.org\/explorer\/vermont-stories\/becoming-a-state\/the-new-york-patents<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  3. Ira Allen, The Natural and Political <\/em>History of the State of Vermont<\/em>, 22.<\/li>\n
  4. Vermont History Explorer. New Hampshire Land Grants<\/em>. Vermont Historical Society. https:\/\/vermonthistory.org\/explorer\/vermont-stories\/becoming-a-state\/the-new-hampshire-grants<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Caption:\u00a0Example of township plan in grants (one of the earliest at 1749), of the town of Bennington (named after Benning Wentworth). (Vermont Historical Society) In 1749, Benning Wentworth, the Royal Governor of New Hampshire, distributed\u00a0land grants, “in townships of six miles square each, by the name of Hinsdale, Brattleboro, and \u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":35,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-41","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/divided.coplacdigital.org\/uis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/divided.coplacdigital.org\/uis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/divided.coplacdigital.org\/uis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divided.coplacdigital.org\/uis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divided.coplacdigital.org\/uis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/divided.coplacdigital.org\/uis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"https:\/\/divided.coplacdigital.org\/uis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions\/607"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divided.coplacdigital.org\/uis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/divided.coplacdigital.org\/uis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}