. A family flight around home. ISRAEL TWO HEROES. 181 side of the Green Mountains, till after the conquest of Canada bythe English. In their expeditions against the French, English col-onists had made themselves acquainted with the fertility and valueof the lands lying between the Connecticut River and Lake Cham-plain, and the conquest ofCanada having now removedthe danger of settling there,swarms of adventurers beganto arrive. Erom the year1760, the population of Ver-mont began to increase withsome rapidity. During thewar a road had been openedfrom Charleston, N. H., toCrown Point, w
. A family flight around home. ISRAEL TWO HEROES. 181 side of the Green Mountains, till after the conquest of Canada bythe English. In their expeditions against the French, English col-onists had made themselves acquainted with the fertility and valueof the lands lying between the Connecticut River and Lake Cham-plain, and the conquest ofCanada having now removedthe danger of settling there,swarms of adventurers beganto arrive. Erom the year1760, the population of Ver-mont began to increase withsome rapidity. During thewar a road had been openedfrom Charleston, N. H., toCrown Point, which helpedto open the land of Vermontto the attention of settlers. Governor Wentworth, ofNew Hampshire, laid outtownships on both sides ofthe Connecticut River, and by granting lands, with fees and emoluments, and by reservingfive hundred acres in each township for himself, was accumulatinga fortune. The government of New York, on the other side ofthese lands, determined to check this, in order to possess them-selves of the advantage. This w
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