The Middle Grants
Early Settlement in the
     Upper Valley
• Who was here before?

• Why did settlers come to the Middle Grants,
 and where did they come from?

• How did they live?

• What did they do to organize their
 communities?
Who was here before?
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                The Englishman offers a bolt of cloth and a Bible; the Frenchman, a tomahawk and a purse of money.
The image is taken from the cover of the March 1758 issue of The American Magazine and Monthly Chronicle for the British Colonies.
Source: Frederick M. Wiseman,
   The Voice of the Dawn: An
Autohistory of the Abenaki Nation
         (UPNE, 2001)
Why did settlers come to the Middle Grants,
     and where did they come from?




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     King Philip,
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                                   Engraving by Paul Revere
Source: Jere Daniell, Colonial New Hampshire: A History (KTO Press, 1981)
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what would become Vermont.
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and successfully used guerrilla warfare to keep the English frontier settle-   settlement in
ments on edge and off balance. As historian Colin Calloway notes, “If Grey     Vermont. From
                                                                               Walter Hill Crockett,
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undefeated,” the circumstances, place, and even the date of his death—         Mountain State, vol.
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How did they make their livings?
118                   freedom and unity




Above, “A Home in the Wilderness,” from A Vermont Settler’s Own Story, reprinted from the Original Narrative of
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                         Frustrated at the unresponsiveness of the London bureaucracy, and
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Early settlement uv 250

  • 1. The Middle Grants Early Settlement in the Upper Valley
  • 2. • Who was here before? • Why did settlers come to the Middle Grants, and where did they come from? • How did they live? • What did they do to organize their communities?
  • 3. Who was here before?
  • 5. ground, dis- charging his excursion against the Iroquois. In previous journeys, he had carried with arquebus. From his him objects that signified friendship in his quest to expand French trade in Voyages (Paris, furs. But this voyage had a fresh purpose. “I had no other intention than to 1613)
  • 6. ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! The Englishman offers a bolt of cloth and a Bible; the Frenchman, a tomahawk and a purse of money. The image is taken from the cover of the March 1758 issue of The American Magazine and Monthly Chronicle for the British Colonies.
  • 7. Source: Frederick M. Wiseman, The Voice of the Dawn: An Autohistory of the Abenaki Nation (UPNE, 2001)
  • 8. Why did settlers come to the Middle Grants, and where did they come from? Source: https://swogdog.wikispaces.com/file/view/New_England_Colonies.gif/87987179/New_England_Colonies.gif
  • 9. 48 freedom and unity King Philip’s War, 1675-76 (Metacom) King Philip, engraved by Paul Revere (1772). Courtesy of the American Antiquarian Society. Engraving by Paul Revere
  • 10. Source: Jere Daniell, Colonial New Hampshire: A History (KTO Press, 1981)
  • 11. ! Governor Benning Wentworth served from 1741 to 1766. He chartered 116 towns between 1761 and 1764, most of them in the Connecticut River Valley and westward into what would become Vermont.
  • 12. from the Champlain basin and Connecticut River valley never yielded to Brattleboro, the diplomatic pressure, never risked destruction by full-scale confrontation, first permanent and successfully used guerrilla warfare to keep the English frontier settle- settlement in ments on edge and off balance. As historian Colin Calloway notes, “If Grey Vermont. From Walter Hill Crockett, Lock did not win his war, neither did he lose it. He remained defiant and Vermont, The Green undefeated,” the circumstances, place, and even the date of his death— Mountain State, vol. sometime between 1744 and 1753—uncertain.27 The conclusion of his 1 (1921; reprinted 1938).
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  • 17. Samuel Holland, Topographical Map of the Province of New Hampshire, 1784
  • 18. Map by Thomas Jeffreys, 1777
  • 24. How did they make their livings? 118 freedom and unity Above, “A Home in the Wilderness,” from A Vermont Settler’s Own Story, reprinted from the Original Narrative of Seth Hubbell, First Settler of Wolcott, 1789, privately printed for Marvin E. Hatch, Solitarian Press, Hartland,
  • 25. the lure of the land: 1763–1807 119
  • 26. ! ! ! !
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  • 30. What did they do to organize their communities?
  • 35. The Revolution and Statehood
  • 36. 130 freedom and unity Portrait of Ira Allen. From Walter Hill Crockett, Vermont, The Green Mountain State, vol. 1. Frustrated at the unresponsiveness of the London bureaucracy, and increasingly worried about his family’s economic survival, Ira set out on a quite different scheme. He traveled from London to Paris in late May 1796, where he arranged to acquire twenty thousand guns from the revo- lutionary French government, the Directory. In this transaction, Ira osten- Ethan and Ira Allen
  • 37. First page of the manuscript copy of the Constitution of the State of Vermont, 1777. Courtesy of Vermont State Archives.
  • 38. No slaves in Vermont?
  • 39. Freedom of worship, but.... VT ends required town tax support of a church in 1807; NH does the same in 1819

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