. The New England magazine . onvention,held at Windsor, June 4, unanimouslyresolved that the district should everhereafter be called and known by thename of Vermont. And so it has been, Hon Redfield Proctor, and there never hasbeen a moment sincewhen any of its peo-ple would have pre-ferred any othername. The first occu-pancy of the regionby civilized man wasin 1665, when theFrench constructedFort St. Ann, on IsleLa Motte, in thenorth end of LakeChamplain. T h i ssettlement was notpermanent, and somehistorians have con-tended that it wasonly a military pos-session ; but the fortwas used as lat

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. The New England magazine . onvention,held at Windsor, June 4, unanimouslyresolved that the district should everhereafter be called and known by thename of Vermont. And so it has been, Hon Redfield Proctor, and there never hasbeen a moment sincewhen any of its peo-ple would have pre-ferred any othername. The first occu-pancy of the regionby civilized man wasin 1665, when theFrench constructedFort St. Ann, on IsleLa Motte, in thenorth end of LakeChamplain. T h i ssettlement was notpermanent, and somehistorians have con-tended that it wasonly a military pos-session ; but the fortwas used as late asthe close of theFrench-Indian war in 1760, and thelate Hon. Ira Hill, who was born in1793 and went with his father to IsleLa Motte in 1803, said there werenumerous indications that the land inthe vicinity of the fort had been occupiedand cultivated long before the permanentsettlement of the island was begun in1788. In 1690 a small stone fort wasbuilt by the French at Chimney Point, inthe town of Addison, some sixty miles.

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