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Title: A history of Vermont, with the state constitution, geological and geographical notes, bibliography, chronology, statistical tables, maps, and illustrations
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Collins, Edward Day, 1869-1940
Subjects: Vermont -- History
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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of New York anyauthority to grant over again to some one else landswhich had been granted once by the governor of NewHampshire to purchasers in good faith. But the governors of New York had been emulatingthe example of Benning Wentworth and had alreadymade enough grants of just this kind to give the settlersa lively fight to retain their homes. Not only this, butthe kings second order was treated as a nullity andgrants were made continuously by the governor of NewYork and his successors with one exception to the daysof the American Revolution .^ The Green Mountain Boys The people of the New Hampshire Grants had beenliving plain, simple lives, without getting into quarrelsand without making much noise in the world. They had iSee Appendix, Part III, Table A, for the amount of the grantsand the fees. 74 HISTORY OF VERMONT little money, slight legal counsel, no influence. Theywere under the necessity of conducting their own defense.They did it; and if ever an inherent Anglo-Saxon sense of
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BATH OAsk Ik HANOy£ft (^ SHtRE f^ ALBANY Vermont divided into four Counties under theJurisdiction of New York constitutional procedure was shown, it was when they sub-mitted their cause to be tried at Albany, in the regularway, in the courts of the power that was overriding them, THE DEBATABLE LAND 75 after that power had shown indubitable signs of whatits pohcy would be, by sending home their agents fromNew York with answers that showed the hopelessnessof further appeal. As the contest went on it looked as though the NewYork authorities regarded it as one of the instances inwhich might makes right. The attorney general plainlyintimated this. Ethan Allen responded in scripturalphrase that the gods of the valleys are not the godsof the hills. On being questioned by the official asto the interpretation thereof, Allen replied that if hewould come to Bennington the meaning would be madeplain to him. It was made plain, and at Bennington,although the attorney general was not there. When th

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