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Title: A text book of the geography, history, constitution and civil government of Vermont; also Constitution and civil government of the U. S., a publication expressly prepared to comply with Vermont's state school laws
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Stone, Mason S. (Mason Sereno), 1859-
Subjects: Vermont -- Description and travel Vermont -- History Vermont -- Politics and government
Publisher: Rutland, Vt., The Tuttle Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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d they probably died of starvation in thewoods. Skeletons, guns and other remains, found by earlysettlers near the Connecticut and Passumpsic rivers, wereprobably the relics of Rogers men. Gathering up a rem-nant of his force, Major Rogers now returned to CrownPoint. Explorations 139 26. Vermont in 1760.—With the retreating army in1759) the French settlers in the Champlain valley retiredto Canada. There were then a few scattered settlementsnear the west bank of the Connecticut River from the Mas-sachusetts line to Bellows Falls. These, with the dwellersin the Indian village by the lower Falls of the MissisquoiRiver, constituted the population of Vermont in 1760. ^.^:D /U..?^ ^-^^;- -•— -^ ^-^-^ 1 < I ^^w/^/i^...//- ^ U^u^ /^v^-^v :;--^c: fA,J--■/y U4^ I ... 5:..,A:-/^-«:^-y^^i .^ ;2,^«^.^v jTrvl. /Lo-/.- A- . J Treaty with Indian tribes, showing peculiar signatures and seals tt^UVH
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New Hampshire and New York Grants; portion of a chorographical map engraved and printed at New Haven, Conn.; copied from Documentary History, Vol. IV, 1851 Settlements 141 CHAPTER IIFurther Settlements. Conflicting Claims I. Settlement of Bennington.—The township ofBennington was granted and surveyed in 1749, but theforest remained unbroken until after the conquest of Canada.Captain Samuel Robinson, returning from Lake George tohis home in Massachusetts during the French and Indianwar, passed through Bennington, encamping for the nightthere. He was so much pleased with the country that hefound the owners, purchased a portion of their rights andwith some friends began there, in 1761, the first permanentsettlement of Western Vermont. Six families from beyond

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