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Title: A text book of the geography, history, constitution and civil government of Vermont; also Constitution and civil government of the U. S., a publication expressly prepared to comply with Vermont's state school laws
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Stone, Mason S. (Mason Sereno), 1859-
Subjects: Vermont -- Description and travel Vermont -- History Vermont -- Politics and government
Publisher: Rutland, Vt., The Tuttle Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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A bit of Vermont pasture Farther off, green mountains stand-Like giant guards on either hand. 14. Counties.—New York had at first treated the en-tire territory between the Connecticut River and LakeChamplain as belonging to the county of Albany. But the
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Political divisions of Vermont in 1772 Settlements 153 distance from the county seat, in the absence of roads, ren-dered the administration of justice difficult, if not impossi-ble, in the further portions of the county, and led to theestablishment, in 1768, of Cumberland County. This newcounty had an area nearly the same as that of the presentWindham and Windsor counties. Chester was made atfirst the shire town. Two years later the county of Gloucester was formed,extending from Cumberland County to Canada and fromthe Connecticut River to the Green Mountains. The shirewas Kingsland, now Washington, in Orange County. Alog building was erected for courthouse and jail, near theheadwaters of two streams, one flowing into the Winooski,the other into the Waits River, each of which was calledJail Branch. Here, eight miles from any human habitation,courts were held until, in the attempt to hold a winterterm, the judges and officers of the court lost their way inthe woods, and all standing on

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