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New Hampshire Grants

The New Hampshire Grants or Benning Wentworth Grants were land grants made between 1749 and 1764 by the provincial governor of New Hampshire, Benning Wentworth. The land grants, totaling about 135 , were made on land claimed by New Hampshire west of the Connecticut River, territory that was also claimed by the Province of New York...

Timeline of Events

1749

1.3.1749

Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.

1760

1.28.1760

Pownal, Vermont is created by Benning Wentworth as one of the New Hampshire Grants.

1777

1.18.1777

Representatives of the New Hampshire Grants declare the independence of the Vermont Republic from Britain.