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New Hampshire Grants
The
New Hampshire Grants
or
Benning Wentworth Grants
were
land grants
made between 1749 and 1764 by the
provincial governor
of
New Hampshire
,
Benning Wentworth
. The land grants, totaling about 135 (including 131
towns
), were made on land claimed by New Hampshire west of the
Connecticut River
, territory that was also claimed by the
Province of New York
. The resulting dispute led to the eventual establishment of the
Vermont Republic
, which later became the
U.S. state
of
Vermont
.
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