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FAIRFAX. Town in Franklin County. New Hampshire grant of 23,040 acres to
Edward Burling and sixty-three associates August 18, 1763. Annexation of part of
Cambridge authorized, 1841.
FAIRFIELD. Town in Franklin County. New Hampshire grant of 23,040 acres to
Samuel Hungerford and sixty-three associates August 18, 1763. Part of Smithfield annexed
October 25, 1792, and part of Fairfield annexed to Bakersfield by the same act. Part of
Swanton annexed, and part of Fairfield annexed to Swanton, 1829. New York grants by Lt. Gov. Colden of 5,000 acres to
Henry Gordon, September 1,
1774, and of 5,000 acres to Henry Gordon for Peter Gordon, December 1, 1774, covered
lands in Fairfield. See Meath (New York grant).
FAIRHAVEN. Town in Rutland County. Vermont grant to
Ebenezer Allen and
seventy-six associates October 27, 1779. Divided into the towns of Fairhaven and Westhaven
October 20, 1792. [In some places the names are written as "Fair Haven" and West
Haven."]
FAIRLEE. Town in Orange County. New Hampshire grant of 24,000 acres to
Josiah Chauncy and sixty-three associates September 9, 1761. February 25, 1797, divided
into two towns, Fairlee and West Fairlee.
FAINE. New Hampshire grant. See Newfane.
FAYSTON. Town in Washington County. Vermont grant of 23,040 acres to
Ebenezer Walbridge and sixty-four associates February 27, 1782.
FERDINAND. Unorganized town in Essex County. New Hampshire grant of 25,000
acres to Thomas Hungerford and sixty-three associates October 12, 1761. Part of Wenlock
and part of Brighton annexed, 1853.
FERRISBURG. Town in Addison County. New Hampshire grant as Farrisburg or
Ferrisburg of 24,600 acres to Daniel Merritt and sixty-three associates June 24, 1762. Part
incorporated into the City of Vergennes October 23, 1788. See Mecklenburg.
FINCASTLE. New York grant of 18,000 acres by Gov. Dunmore June 11, 1771; was
in Stockbridge. Chartered by New Hampshire in 1761.
FLAMSTEAD. New Hampshire grant. See Chester.
FLETCHER. Town in Franklin County. Vermont grant of 23,040 acres to
Moses
Robinson, Jonas Fay, John Fassett, Jr., Major Joseph Tyler, and sixty-one associates August
20, 1781. See Kellybrook (New York grant).
FRANKLIN. Town in Franklin County. Vermont grant as Huntsburgh of 23,040
acres to Jonathan Hunt and five associates March 19, 1789. Name changed to Franklin,
1817.
FRENCH GRANTS. According to a map of French and English grants, six
Seigniories were granted by the French east of Lake Champlain, and within the present
State of Vermont.
1. The Seigniory of Hocquart; see Hocquart.
2. Concession of July 7, 1734, to M.
Contrecoeur, Junior, of land "beginning at the
mouth of the Riviere aux Loutres [Otter River] one league and a half above and one league
and a half below making two leagues front by three leagues in depth." The Seigniory was
situated just north of the Seigniory of Hocquart, and is marked on a 1748 map of Lake
Champlain.
3. Seigniory conceded to M. De la Perriere July 6, 1734, "beginning at the Mouth
of the River Ouynouski one league above and one below making tow leagues in front and
three leagues in depth."
4. Seigniory south of No. 3. A record of the grant is not found, and the name of the
grantee does not appear on the map of No. 3.
5. Seigniory "La Manaudiere," just north of No. 3, conceded April 30, 1737, to
M.
Raimbault "containing four Leagues front by five leagues deep, the said four Leagues
commencing in descending the Lake, from the Bounds of the Seigniory granted to Sieur La
Perriere" . . . "in which is included the River called A la Mouelle." This Seigniory was sold
to Benjamin Price, Daniel Robertson, and John Livingston, September 27, 1766.
6. Seigniory just north of No. 5 "two leagues front by three leagues deep on the East
side of Lake Champlain," conceded to M. Douville October 8, 1736. The Seigniory granted to
M. De Beauvals July 20, 1734 "two leagues in front by three
leagues in depth on Lake Champlain together with the peninsula which is found to be in
front of said land" . . . is evidently in Vermont territory. Isle La Motte was included within
the limits of a Seigniory west of the lake, conceded to M. Pean, April 10, 1733. Part, at least, of Alburgh is in the Seigniory granted
M. Lafontaine, April 5, 1733,
"being five quarters of a league in front on the River Chambly by the depth that may be
found to be the bay of Missikuoy." All the above grants except the Seigniories of Hocquart
and La Manaudiere (1 and 5) were reunited to His Majesty's Domain, May 10, 1741, the
Proprietors not having fulfilled the conditions set forth in their deeds. Grand Isle, which embraced both Heroes as the Seigniory of
M. Contrecoeur, was
probably forfeited at the same time as the other Seigniories above mentioned.
The Seigniory of M. Faulcant probably included part of Alburgh; see Caldwell's Upper
Manor. The Seigniory Bedou on the River Thazy, granted November 1, 1752, included "the
Island called a la Mothe" (Isle La Motte).
FULLAM or FULLUM. New Hampshire grant. See
Dummerston.
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