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State of Vermont, First settled by white people in 1724, by the erection of Fort Dummer near the (present) site of State seal of Vermont. Brattleboro, then supposed to be in Massachusetts. The portion of country between the Connecticut River and Lake Champlain was known as New Hampshire grants (see New Hampshire). At the middle of January (15-17), 1777, the people of the Grants assembled in convention at Windsor, and declared the Grants an independent State, with the title of Vermont. The territory was yet claimed by New York. At the same time the convention adopted a petition to the Continental Congress, setting forth reasons for their position of independence, and asking for admission into the confederacy of free and independent States and seats for delegates in the Congress. This petition, presented to Congress April 8, 1777, was dismissed by resolutions on June 30, in one of which it was declared That the independent government attempted to be established by the people