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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 (including 131 towns ), were made on land claimed by New Hampshire west of the Connecticut River , territory that was also claimed by ...
Benning Wentworth was born on July 24, 1696, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.His father, John Wentworth, was a ship's captain, businessman and colonial administrator who served as the lieutenant-governor of colonial New Hampshire from 1717 until 1730 after spending two years serving on merchant ships. [1]
These grants brought New Hampshire into conflict with the Province of New York, the other claimant to the territory. King George III in 1764 ruled in New York's favor, setting off a struggle between the holders of the New Hampshire Grants and New York authorities that eventually resulted in the formation of the state of Vermont.
The Battle of Hubbardton was an engagement in the Saratoga campaign of the American Revolutionary War fought in the village of Hubbardton, Vermont.Vermont was then a disputed territory sometimes called the New Hampshire Grants, claimed by New York, New Hampshire, and the newly organized, not yet recognized, but de facto independent government of Vermont.
Townships, Grants, Locations, and Purchases in New Hampshire are county subdivisions which are not part of any town and have limited or no self-government. Many of these entities are uninhabited. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Townships in xxx
New Hampshire has a wide range of colleges and universities, from the Ivy League Dartmoutha to state institutions such as the University of New Hampshire and Keene State. Unfortunately, New ...
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In 1766, New Hampshire Governor John Wentworth promised Eleazar Wheelock a grant of a township on which to build Dartmouth College. In 1770, a month after Wheelock received the royal charter, the governor granted the college the township of Landaff (east of present-day Woodsville, New Hampshire), but Wheelock, after viewing the land and others under consideration, decided to establish the ...