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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. We hear little of Ethan Allen until we find him a resident in the New Hampshire Grants?now the State of Vermont. At the period of his removal to this territory, a controversy was pending between the authorities of New York and the settlers in relation to the validity of the original titles to their lands and other matters connected with their rights and property. The first settlements were made under grants from the Provincial Government of Massachusetts, but in the year 1740, by a recommendation of King George II., the father and immediate predecessor of George the Third, through whose insane belief in the divine right of kings the American colonies were lost to Great Britain, the territory was placed under the jurisdiction of New Hampshire. A correspondence, however, was opened between the Governors of New Hampshire and New York in which the governor of the latter commonwealth claimed exclusive jurisdiction over the territory. Notwithstanding this claim, the New Hampshire governor proceeded to make further grants, and by advice of his Council in the year 1760, ordered a survey of all lands lying on both sides of the Connecticut river for sixty miles above the former survey made by the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The applications for lands being numerous, othersurveys rapidly followed, and during the year 1761 about sixty townships were apportioned among the settlers. In return for these, the Governor was liberally paid by the settlers, receiving besides fees allowed by law, a reservation of five hundred acres in each township for himself. This state of affairs excited the jealousies of the New York authorities, who determined if possible to check the operations of the Governor of New Hampshire. In view of this result the Lieutena...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217716574 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217716571 |
| Weight | 0.54 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.37 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 160 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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