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1600s - Vermont was part of Massachusetts. <br>1749 - New Hampshire claimed a large portion of the area and granted land for 129 towns in Vermont.<br>1764 - New York claimed jurisdiction over a large portion of the land held by New Hampshire. <br>1777 - Vermont became independent, and claimed the land was under its jurisdiction. The towns remained the same, and the town records contain the land deeds without regard to the political jurisdiction of the time. | 1600s - Vermont was part of Massachusetts. <br>1749 - New Hampshire claimed a large portion of the area and granted land for 129 towns in Vermont.<br>1764 - New York claimed jurisdiction over a large portion of the land held by New Hampshire. <br>1777 - Vermont became independent, and claimed the land was under its jurisdiction. The towns remained the same, and the town records contain the land deeds without regard to the political jurisdiction of the time. | ||
Land disputes before 1777 mean that land transactions for those early years could be located in New Hampshire, New York or Vermont: | |||
:New Hampshire - Check the New Hampshire State Papers | |||
:New York | |||
:Vermont - Check the Vermont State Papers, a volume of Vermont State Papers has information on confiscated land. The [http://vermont-archives.org/research/database/nye.asp Nye index] indexes signatories to petitions and is on the Vermont State Archives After 1777, land records are in the town clerk's office. Most records have been microfilmed and are available in central repositories such as the Vermont Historical Society http://www.vermonthistory.org. | |||
=== First Landholders === | === First Landholders === | ||