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English Timeline: Movement And Settlement To The Connecticut River Valley: 1691-1791

The theme of movement and settlement encompasses the century from the 1691 with the first settlements in Northfield, Massachusetts to 1791 with the entrance of Vermont into the republic of the United States of America. During this time, thousands of people moved into the Connecticut River Valley in Vermont, establishing the territory firmly in the New England small town tradition.

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1692 Salem witchcraft hysteria brings out tensions amongst settlers. 1702 Queen Anne's War begins 1711 Tuscarora Wars begin in NC 1712 Failed slave revolt in NYC PA colony bans importation of slaves 1715 Yamasee War in SC, protest against English mistreatment and slavery		1691 Massachusetts Colony gets new charter giving it all North American Territories north of the St. Lawrence. 1694 Massachusetts enumerates the "Frontier Towns." Inhabitants forbidden to desert on pain of loss of their lands (if landholders) or of imprisonment (if not landholders). Deerfield listed as frontier town. 1704 Raid on Deerfield. Part of Queen Anne's War 1702-1713 1715 MA orders the first land survey of the area in present-day southeastern VT to settle a boundary dispute with CT.

1722 Combined force of Hurons, Abenakis and other Canadian tribes raze communities along the Kennebec River. 1732 Georgia, last of 13 colonies, chartered. 1734 Beginning of the Great Awakening. 1739 3 separate slave insurrections occur in South Carolina		1724 Fort Dummer built. 1736 Massachusetts General Court votes to lay out four townships. Those on the east side of the river (NH) were numbered in order going up the stream: No. 1 Chesterfield, No. 2 Westmoreland, No. 3 Walpole, No. 4 Charlestown. 1740 Royal decree settles boundary disputes between Massachusetts and New Hampshire and places the line where it is today.

1754 Seven Years War, the last of the so called French and Indian Wars begins Albany Plan of Union 1763 French and Indian War ends. France cedes all major North American holdings to British Proclamation of 1763 angers colonists 1774 First Continental Congress 1776 Declaration of Independence		1744 Fort #4 built in Charlestown, NH 1749 -1761 Over 63 Vermont and New Hampshire towns chartered by Benning Wentworth under the rule of King George II. Known as the New Hampshire Grants. Done in an effort to lay claim on disputed New York territory. 1754 Moor's Indian Charity School founded -- later incorporated into Dartmouth College 1764 Royal Board of Trade declares the west bank of Connecticut River boundary line between NY and NH. Reverses the New Hampshire Grant charters. c. 1770 Rapid influx of settlers to the northern Connecticut River Valley begins and lasts until the early 1800s

1781 Articles of Confederation 1783 Treaty of Paris ends the Am Revolution 1784 US Treaty with the Six Nations 1787 Constitutional Convention Northwest Ordinance 1789 First US Congress meets in NYC Washington's First Inaugural Address Constitution is ratified. 1790 First U.S. census: 2,042,077 English/Welsh descent; 60,000 free African Americans; over 680,000 enslaved Africans; 54,900 French-born; 44,000 Irish-born residents. Thousands of Scots, German, Dutch and Spanish. Only free white persons can become citizens. Skilled craft unions begin to form. 1791 Bill of Rights ratified		1777 Independent Republic of Vermont established. Its constitution was the first to outlaw adult slavery and to include citizen rights within the original text. 1779 VT state legislators forbid allegiance to any courts, except those of Vermont. 1791 Vermont becomes a state.

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