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CABOT. Town in Washington County. Vermont grant of 23,040 acres to
Jesse
Levingsworth and sixty-five associates, August 17, 1781. Town annexed to Washington
County, 1855. Part annexed to Danville, 1834. See Sidney (New York grant).
CALAIS. Town in Washington County. Vermont grant of 23,040 acres to
Col. Jacob
Davis, Stephen Fay and fifty-eight associates, August 15, 1781. See Penryn (New York grant).
CALDERSBURGH. Vermont grant of 23,040 acres to
Col. Jedediah Elderkin and
sixty-three associates November 6, 1780. Brownington's and Whitelaw's Gores annexed, east
part annexed to Wenlock, and name changed to Morgan October 19, 1801.
CALDWELL'S UPPER MANOR. Same as Alburgh.
CAMBRIDGE. Town in Lamoille County. Vermont grant to
Col. Samuel Robinson,
Hon. John Fassett, Jr. Esq., Jonathan Fassett, Esq., and seventy-three
associates, August 30,
1781. Part of Sterling annexed, 1828. Annexation of parts of Fairfax and Fletcher
authorized, 1841.
CAMDEN. New York grant by Lt. Gov. Colden November 13, 1769, to
Robert R. Livingston, Chief Justice of New York, of 35,000 acres, covering land in Jamaica,
Wardsborough and Dover.
CANAAN. Town in Essex County. Vermont grant of 15,360 acres to
John Wheeler
and forty-three associates February 25, 1782. Norfolk annexed October 23, 1801. Part
annexed to Lemington, 1837. Annexation of parts of Lemington authorized, 1870.
See Thirming (New York grant).
CARTHAGE. See Jay.
CASTLETON. Town in Rutland County. New Hampshire grant of 23,040 acres to
Samuel Brown and sixty-three associates, September 22, 1761. Setting off part of school
district No. 9 to No. 11 of Hubbardton legalized, 1829.
CAVENDISH. Town in Windsor County. New Hampshire grant of 25,000 acres to
Amos Kimball and sixty-five associates, October 12, 1761. New York grant of 22,000 acres
by Gov. Tryon January 6, 1772, was a confirmation of New Hampshire charter. Cavendish
was divided into two towns October 19, 1793, Baltimore being incorporated but represented
jointly with Cavendish. Line with Baltimore established, 1841.
CHARLESTON. Town in Orleans County. Vermont grant of 23,040 acres as Navy
to Abraham Whipple and sixty-three associates, November 10, 1780. Name changed to
Charleston, November 16, 1825.
CHARLOTTE. Town in Chittenden County. New Hampshire grant of 23,060 acres
as Charlotta to Benjamin Ferris and sixty-five associates, June 24, 1762.
CHARLOTTE. New York grant of 25,000 acres to
Nathaniel Marston & Co. by Lt.
Gov. Colden, March 31, 1770, in Chelsea and vicinity. This is not to be confused with the
present town of Charlotte, in Chittenden County (q.v.).
CHATHAM. New York grant of 12,750 acres to Lt. John Cruikshank and others by
Gov. Dunsmore, March 14, 1771, embracing lands principally in Dorset.
CHELSEA. Town in Orange County. Vermont grant as Turnersborough of 23,040
acres to Bela Turner and seventy associates, August 4, 1781. Name changed to Chelsea
October 23, 1788. Annexation of part of Brookfield authorized, 1829. See Charlotte (New York grant) and Gageborough (New York grant).
CHESTER. Town in Windsor County. New Hampshire grant as Flamstead of
23,040 acres to John Balbridge and fifty-seven associates February 22, 1754. Regranted as
New Flamstead to Daniel Haywood and sixty-six associates November 3, 1761. The New
York grant of 31,700 acres as Chester July 14, 1766, was a confirmation of New Hampshire
charter of February 22, 1754.
CHITTENDEN. Town in Rutland County. Vermont grant to
Gershom Beach and
sixty-five associates March 16, 1780. Part annexed to Philadelphia for school purposes, 1812.
Philadelphia annexed November 2, 1812. Annexation of part to Sherburne authorized, 1829.
Annexation of part of Brandon authorized, 1855. Laws of 1854 repealed Laws of 1812
annexing part of Brandon to Philadelphia for school purposes provided towns of Brandon
and Chittenden so vote.
CLARENDON. Town in Rutland County. New Hampshire grant of 23,600 acres
to Caleb Willard and sixty-three associates September 5, 1761. Part annexed to Ira, 1854. See Durham (New York grant).
COIT'S GORE. Vermont grant of 10,000 acres to
James Whitelaw, James Savage
and William Colt, October 26, 1788. Part annexed to Bakersfield, 1799. Remainder
incorporated into town of Waterville, 1824.
COLCHESTER. Town in Chittenden County. New Hampshire grant of 23,040 acres
to Edward Burling and sixty-five associates, June 7, 1763. Part united with Burlington for
school purposes, November 1, 1808. Part annexed to Milton, 1868. Loomis Island annexed,
1872.
CONCORD. Town in Essex County. Vermont grant to
Reuben Jones and sixty-four associates, September 15, 1781. Annexed to Caledonia Co., 1826. Part of Bradleyvale
annexed, 1856. See Kersborough (New York grant).
CORINTH. Town in Orange County. New Hampshire grant of 24,000 acres to
Jonathan White, Esq., and sixty-five associates, February 4, 1764. New York grant of 23,100
acres by Gov. Tryon March 2, 1772, was a confirmation of New Hampshire charter. Line
with Vershire established November 6, 1801, and November 7, 1806. Part of Vershire
annexed October 23, 1811.
CORNWALL. Town in Addison County. New Hampshire grant of 25,000 acres to
Elias Reed and sixty-four associates November 3, 1761. Part annexed to Middlebury, 1796. See Morrisfield (New York grant); and under Leicester for New York grant.
COVENTRY. Town in Orleans County. November 4, 1780,
Major Elias Buel of
Coventry, Connecticut, obtained from Vermont for himself and associates a grant of "a
Certain tract of land in this State lying between the towns of Shorum, Orwel,
Hubbarton,
Sudbury and Whiting," and paid the granting fees thereof. When it was afterwards found
that the surrounding towns covered nearly the whole of the lands granted, the legislature in
October 1784, upon a petition filed, allowed Buel to select from the unlocated lands in the
state an equivalent for the deficiency. October 24, 1788, a sufficient amount of land having
been decreed by the Land Commissioners, in accordance with the "flying grant" of 1784, to
make up the deficiency, the Secretary of the Council was directed to issue a charter. The
charter dated November 4, 1780, issued to Major Elias Buel and fifty-nine
associates,
included three tracts of land: the present town of Coventry, 16,767 acres; 2,000 acres known
as Coventry Gore, which was annexed to Newport in 1816; and Buel's Gore in Chittenden
County, which then contained 4,273 acres. Name of town changed to Orleans in 1841 but
changed back to Coventry in 1843. See Buel's Gore and St. George (New York grant).
COVENTRY. A "Will o' the Wisp" sometime thought to have been seen where
Cornwall and Weybridge are. This Coventry is plainly neither the Coventry petitioned for
and granted to Major Buel and associates in 1780, nor the present Coventry which was
chartered (by charter dated back to November 4, 1780) to Major Buel and associates in
1788. It is discovered nowhere except on certain maps, and no doubt there appears by the
blunder of the draughtsman or engraver mistaking the name of Cornwall, which was granted
in 1761; or by thinking (from Coventry, N. H., holding the same relative position to
Connecticut River that Cornwall does to Lake Champlain) that he was at work on the New
Hampshire Coventry, when really at work on Cornwall. It looks more like a misreading of
the name Cornwall on the part of the map maker, for the same map in Jeffery's contains
Betton for Bolton and Woodbury for Newbury. Such carelessness would easily make
Coventry out of Cornwall.
COVENTRY GORE. See Coventry.
CRAFTSBURY. Town in Orleans County. Vermont grant as Minden of 23,040
acres to Timothy Newell, Ebenezer Craft and sixty-one associates August 23, 1781. Since
"from a similarity in sound between the names of Minden and Lyndon people often mistake
one for the other," the name was changed to Craftsbury in 1790.
CUMBERLAND. "Cumberland Township" was the south-west corner of
Cumberland County, and covered the present towns of Whitingham and Readsboro. New
York grants were made in this territory, one of 10,000 acres to Nathan Whiting and
associates March 12, 1770. A record of the charter of the town of Cumberland has not yet
appeared
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