Talk:Vernon, Vermont

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I was hoping to identify the date the town was separated from its NH/Siamese twin, Hinsdale, among other things. 96.237.240.126 (talk) 20:17, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

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1753
The article said this:
 * The town was chartered in 1672 as part of the Massachusetts Grant. In 1736 the area was granted by Massachusetts as part of Fall Town, and in 1793 the area was granted as Hinsdale. When the Connecticut River was established as a boundary, two separate towns were created: Hinsdale, New Hampshire and Hinsdale, Vermont.

"1793" was rather confusing, since if there was any identifiable occasion when "the Connecticut River was established as the boundary", it would probably be the act of the Vermont legislature in the spring of 1782 (nine years before Vermont's admission to the Union), when they acquiesced to the demands that Congress had expressed in August 1781. The year 1753, on the other hand, was during the time when Governor Benning Wentworth of New Hampshire was issuing land grants, mostly west of the river in what later became Vermont. But there was nothing to stop him from issuing a grant straddling the river. The grants were typically squares of six miles by six miles, and looking at a map it appears that such a square in that location would straddle the river. The cited web site of the town of Vernon says there was a grant in 1753. The site seems somewhat less than authoritative, but 1753 makes sense where 1793 appears not to. Michael Hardy (talk) 16:30, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
 * The article on Hinsdale, New Hampshire mentions that it was "chartered" in 1753, and that seems to clinch it. But it's still not an authoritative source. Michael Hardy (talk) 05:16, 29 September 2016 (UTC)