New Hampshire Grants

The New Hampshire Grants were land grants, including 131 towns, made between 1749 and 1764 by the governor of the Province of New Hampshire, Benning Wentworth (they are thus also known as the Benning Wentworth Grants). The land grants, totalling about 135, were made on land claimed by New Hampshire west of the Connecticut River, but which properly belonged to the Province of New York. The resulting dispute led to the eventual establishment of the U.S. state of Vermont.

External links

• The Problem of the New Hampshire Grants
• Virtual Vermont: Benning Wentworth
• Vermont Genealogy Resources
• New Hampshire Grants
• New York Patents
• Map of Vermont Towns with Grant States and Dates
• FindLaw: Vermont vs. New Hampshire 289 U.S. 593 (1933)