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navigation, search  by Scott Andrew Bartley and Alice Eichholz,
Ph.D., C.G.  Vermont had its beginnings in a land controversy.
Near the middle of the eighteenth century, both Benning
Wentworth, the colonial governor of New Hampshire, and Lt.
Governor Cadwallader Colden, representing the colonial
government of New York, claimed territory in what is now
Vermont. Massachusetts had previously claimed a small part along
Vermont’s southern border. Each government petitioned the king
to validate its boundaries to include the disputed Vermont land.
However, the process of petitioning did not stop either New
Hampshire or New York from issuing grants for the same land to
their own proprietors and the proprietors in turn selling the
land to settlers.  Settlers from lower New England and New York
began to arrive in “The Grants,” as they were called, as early
as the 1750s. Life for those settling “The Grant