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Native Americans inhabited and hunted in Vermont. From 7000 to 1000 BC was the Archaic Period.During that era, Native Americans migrated year-round. From 1000 BC to 1600 AD was the Woodland Period, when villages and trade networks were established, and ceramic and bow and arrow technology were developed.
Ethan Allen (January 21, 1738 [O.S. January 10, 1737] [a] – February 12, 1789) was an American farmer, writer, military officer and politician. He is best known as one of the founders of Vermont and for the capture of Fort Ticonderoga during the American Revolutionary War, and was also the brother of Ira Allen and the father of Fanny Allen.
The Vermont Republic, which included land claimed by New York and New Hampshire and, ... and Foley Island are discovered and added to Northwest Territories. March 31 ...
The Vermont Republic officially known at the time as the State of Vermont, was an independent state in New England that existed from January 15, 1777, to March 4, 1791. [1] The state was founded in January 1777, when delegates from 28 towns met and declared independence from the jurisdictions and land claims of the British colonies of Quebec ...
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 the Province of New York. The resulting dispute led to the eventual establishment of the Vermont Republic, which later became the U.S. state of Vermont.
A delicate annual herb and Vermont native is back from the presumed dead. Botanists with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department have discovered a population of false mermaid-weed along a stream ...
The negotiations were successfully concluded in October 1790 with an agreement that Vermont would pay $30,000 to New York to be distributed among New Yorkers who claimed land in Vermont under New York land patents. [45] In January 1791, a convention in Vermont voted 105–4 [46] to petition Congress to become a state in the federal union.
Chester Arthur, New York. One of the two Vermont natives to serve as U.S. president, Chester Arthur was born in Fairfield and lived for a time with his family in Williston and Hinesburg.