A text book of the geography, history, constitution and civil government of Vermont; also Constitution and civil government of the US., a publication expressly prepared to comply with Vermont's state school laws . ndians atpeace 3. Timothy Knox.—In some of these towns the peoplewere few. The entire population of Woodstock at thistime consisted of Timothy Knox. Knox had not been re-quited in affection, so went to Woodstock, where he builta shack in which he slept, cooked his food, and stored hisfurs. For three years he was the only inhabitant of the town. 4. New Hampshire Grants.—In 1765 the se
A text book of the geography, history, constitution and civil government of Vermont; also Constitution and civil government of the US., a publication expressly prepared to comply with Vermont's state school laws . ndians atpeace 3. Timothy Knox.—In some of these towns the peoplewere few. The entire population of Woodstock at thistime consisted of Timothy Knox. Knox had not been re-quited in affection, so went to Woodstock, where he builta shack in which he slept, cooked his food, and stored hisfurs. For three years he was the only inhabitant of the town. 4. New Hampshire Grants.—In 1765 the settlementsIn what is now Vermont extended from the border of Mas-sachusetts northward In two lines; on the west to the headwaters of the Otter Creek, on the east to Guildhall. Be-ginnings had been made in some twent3^-five townships, and 144 History of Vermont wherever the population was sufficient towns had been organ-ized. Before this date one hundred fifty townships hadbeen granted by Governor Wentworth of New Hampshireto purchasers who constituted a large and influential portionof the citizens of the New England colonies. The countryin which these lands lay was then called the New Hamp-shire Spinning before the fire-place, 1776 5. News.—To these settlers and purchasers there cameinteresting news from Albany, in the early summer of thisyear, in the form of a proclamation by Lieutenant-GovernorColden of New York, reciting an order of the King ofEngland declaring the w^st bank of the Connecticut Riverto be the boundary between the provinces of New Hamp-shire and New York. 6. Changed Jurisdiction.—By this decision the landsgranted by Governor Wentworth west of the ConnecticutRiver were placed under the jurisdiction of New not until surveyors appeared in the valley of the Batten-kill, laying out for New York grantees fields just won fromthe forest and for which payment had been made to theGovernor of New Hampshire, did the settlers believe thatthe titles
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