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LANDGROVE. Town in Bennington County. Vermont grant to
William Utley and
twenty-one associates, November 9, 1780.
LEICESTER. Town in Addison County. New Hampshire grant of 23,000 acres to
Aaron Brown and sixty-five associates October 20, 1761. New York grant of 51,000 acres
by Gov. Dunmore to A. McClure and fifty others (really a grant to Gov. Dunsmore himself)
July 8, 1771; covered lands chartered by New Hampshire in Leicester, Salisbury, Middlebury,
Cornwall and Whiting. Line with Salisbury established, 1789. Alteration of boundary
with Salisbury and annexation of part to Salisbury and part of Salisbury to Leicester
authorized, 1840. Union of part of Leicester and part of Salisbury for school purposes, 1803.
LEINSTER. New York grant of 35,000 acres by Gov. Dunmore July 4, 1771;
included lands chartered by New Hampshire in Somerset and Woodford.
LEMINGTON. Town in Essex County. New Hampshire grant as Limington of
23,040 acres to Samuel Averill and sixty-three associates, June 29, 1762. Part annexed to
Canaan, 1837. Annexation of part to Canaan authorized, 1870.
LEWIS. Unorganized town in Essex County. New Hampshire grant of 23,040 acres
to Eleazer Hinman and sixty-three associates, June 29, 1762.
LEYDEN. New York grant of 24,000 acres by Lt. Gov. Colden August 7, 1770;
covered Northfield and vicinity.
LINCOLN. Town in Addison County. Vermont grant of 23,040 acres to
Col.
Benjamin Simonds and sixty-four associates November 9, 1780. Part annexed to Warren,
1824. Part of Bristol annexed, 1824. Part of Avery's Gore annexed, 1847. Part of
Ripton annexed, 1869. See Ripton for New York grant
LINFIELD, LINTFIELD or LITCHFIELD. "Linfield" on maps in Jeffery's Atlas
(1776) where Royalton is on map preceding index to Vol. I, Documentary History of
New York. The date of the latter map is 1779 and does not represent Royal Town as claimed
by New Hampshire. "Litchfield" is found on map in Vol. III, Governor and Council
[Vermont], and room is made for it between Royalton and Barnard, which are adjoining
towns. "Lintfield" is in the list of New York grants published in the Rural Magazine in
1795 and copied in Siade's Vermont State Papers and the Provincial and State Papers of New
Hampshire, the date of the grant being August 4, 1763. But John Kelly "being duly
sworn on the Holy Evangelists" testified in the City of New York on the 6th day of March,
1771, that he had in his possession a map procured in New Hampshire as an authentic draft of
the lands granted by Gov. Wentworth in Vermont with the dates of the patents, and
Lintfield does not appear on this list. There are other differences between these lists;
but the copy of charters in the Secretary of State's office in Montpelier, Vt., which was
certified to by the Secretary of State of New Hampshire in 1857 as correct, and supposed to
include all grants in Vermont territory, has all the towns on both the lists above mentioned
except Lintfield.
LITTLETON. Vermont grant. See Waterford.
LONDONDERRY. Town in Windham County. Vermont grant to
Edward Akin,
Samuel Fletcher, and Joseph Tyler, April 20, 1781. Part incorporated with Mack's Leg
into Windham, 1795. Part of Windham annexed, 1797.
LOWELL. Town in Orleans County. Vermont grant as Kellyvale to
John Kelly.
Name changed Lowell, 1831. Part annexed to Irasburgh, 1852. Annexation of part to
Montgomery authorized, 1858. Annexation of part to Albany authorized, 1870. See
Kellyvale.
LUDLOW. Town in Windsor County. New Hampshire grant of 24,000 acres to
Jacob Lee and sixty-four associates September 16, 1761. Part annexed to Mt. Holly,
1792.
LUNENBURGH. Town in Essex County. New Hampshire grant of 23,040 acres to
David Page and sixty-nine associates July 6, 1763.
LUTTERLOH. Name changed to Albany in 1815. See Albany.
LYNDON. Town in Caledonia County. Vermont grant to
Jona Arnold and fifty-two
associates November 20, 1780.
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