A report on New Hampshire Grants, Connecticut River and Vermont

View of Springfield on the Connecticut River by Alvan Fisher (Brooklyn Museum)

The New Hampshire Grants region petitioned the Continental Congress for entry into the American union as a state independent of New York in 1776.

View of the City of Hartford, Connecticut by William Havell

The Old Constitution House at Windsor, where the Constitution of Vermont was adopted on July 8, 1777

View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow (1836) by Thomas Cole

A circa 1775 flag used by the Green Mountain Boys

The Memorial Bridge across the Connecticut River at Springfield, Massachusetts, the river's largest city

The gold leaf dome of the neoclassical Vermont State House (Capitol) in Montpelier

The Windsor Locks Canal Company at Enfield Falls, the Connecticut River's first major barrier to navigation

1791 Act of Congress admitting Vermont into the Union

The Oxbow, Connecticut River, circa 1910

Vermont in 1827. The county boundaries have since changed.

Downtown Hartford, Connecticut, during the 1936 flood

Map of Vermont showing cities, roads, and rivers

The Connecticut Lakes, the source of the Connecticut River, near the border of New Hampshire and Quebec

Great Falls (Bellows Falls) at high flow under the Vilas Bridge, taken from the end of Bridge St on the Vermont side, looking upriver

Satellite image of the Connecticut River depositing silt into Long Island Sound

Western face of Camel's Hump Mountain (elevation 4079 ft).

Drift boat fishing guide working the river near Colebrook, New Hampshire

Harbor seal in the Connecticut River, below the Holyoke Dam, following the shad run

Köppen climate types of Vermont, using 1991–2020 climate normals.

Riverbank restoration project in Fairlee, Vermont

Silurian and Devonian stratigraphy of Vermont

The hermit thrush, the state bird of Vermont

A proportional representation of Vermont exports, 2020

Looking north from the French King Bridge at the Erving-Gill town line in western Massachusetts

Fall foliage seen from Hogback Mountain, Wilmington

Mist upstream of the Bissell Bridge between Windsor and South Windsor, CT

Founders Bridge in Hartford, with a view of the Bulkeley Bridge upstream

The Lyndon Institute, a high school in Lyndon, Vermont

The University of Vermont
Old Mill, the oldest building of the university

Vermont welcome sign in Addison on Route 17 just over the New York border over the Champlain Bridge

The Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, in Vernon

The Vermont Supreme Court's building in Montpelier

Vermont towns hold a March town meeting for voters to approve the town's budget and decide other matters. Marlboro voters meet in this building.

Senators Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy and Representative Peter Welch greet supporters in 2017.

Vermontasaurus sculpture in Post Mills, in 2010

The land grants, totaling about 135 (including 131 towns), were made on land claimed by New Hampshire west of the Connecticut River, territory that was also claimed by the Province of New York.

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The resulting dispute led to the eventual establishment of the Vermont Republic, which later became the U.S. state of Vermont.

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Thereafter, the nearby British Thirteen Colonies, especially the provinces of New Hampshire and New York, disputed the extent of the area called the New Hampshire Grants to the west of the Connecticut River, encompassing present-day Vermont.

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The region stretching from Springfield north to the New Hampshire and Vermont state borders fostered many agricultural Pocomtuc and Nipmuc settlements, with its soil enhanced by sedimentary deposits.

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Vermont was claimed by both New Hampshire and New York, and was settled primarily through the issuance of land grants by New Hampshire Governor Benning Wentworth beginning in the 1740s.

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Vermont Republic

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Independent state in New England that existed from January 15, 1777, to March 4, 1791.

Location of the Vermont Republic in 1777.

Vellum manuscript of the 1777 Constitution of Vermont

Vermont coin with the passage VERMONTIS. RES. PUBLICA. on the obverse, and the motto "STELLA QUARTA DECIMA" on the reverse

Engraving of Thomas Chittenden, first and third governor of the Vermont Republic, and first governor of the State of Vermont with the most gubernatorial terms held to date

The Old Constitution House in Windsor, Vermont, where the 1777 constitution was signed, is also called the birthplace of Vermont.

The "Old Chapel" (Castleton Medical College Building) in Castleton

On March 4, 1791, it was admitted into the United States as the State of Vermont, with the constitution and laws of the independent state continuing in effect after admission.

Because of objections from New York, which had conflicting property claims, the Continental Congress declined to recognize Vermont, then sometimes also known as the New Hampshire Grants.

After 1724, the Province of Massachusetts Bay built Fort Dummer near Brattleboro, as well as three other forts along the northern portion of the Connecticut River to protect against raids by Native Americans farther south into Western Massachusetts.

Benning Wentworth

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Merchant and colonial administrator who served as the governor of New Hampshire from 1741 to 1766.

A Thanksgiving proclamation issued by Wentworth on November 9, 1763

While serving as governor, Wentworth is best known for issuing several land grants in territory claimed by the Province of New Hampshire west of the Connecticut River, which led to disputes with the neighbouring colony of New York and the eventual creation of Vermont.

Green Mountain Boys

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Replica of the 1777 flag from the Battle of Bennington.

The Green Mountain Boys were a militia organization first established in 1770 in the territory between the British provinces of New York and New Hampshire, known as the New Hampshire Grants and later in 1777 as the Vermont Republic (which later became the state of Vermont).

They comprised settlers and land speculators who held New Hampshire titles to lands between the Connecticut River and Lake Champlain, an area then known as the New Hampshire Grants, that is now modern Vermont.