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Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
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Benning Wentworth
American merchant and colonial administrator (1696–1770)
Benning Wentworth was an American merchant, landowner and colonial administrator who served as the governor of New Hampshire from 1741 to 1766. He is best known for issuing several land grants in territories claimed by the Province of New Hampshire west of the Connecticut River…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
New Hampshire Grants
Land grants in colonial New Hampshire (1749-64); later became the Republic of Vermont
The New Hampshire Grants or Benning Wentworth Grants were land grants made between 1749 and 1764 by the colonial governor of the Province of New Hampshire, Benning Wentworth. The land grants, totaling about 135, were made on land claimed by New Hampshire west of the Connecticut…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Vermont
U.S. state
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