The Genealogy of one Vermonter, Darrell A. Martin
Springfield, Windsor County, Vermont

           

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Springfield was created by a charter granted 20 August 1761 by Governor Benning Wentworth of New Hampshire. A second charter for Springfield was granted to Gideon Lyman, by New York authority, 16 March 1772.

"The territory between Connecticut River and Lake Champlain was the early battle ground of the Indians, and little progress was made towards its settlement till after the close of the contest in North America between the French and English in 1760. During this war the valley of the Connecticut was a favorite pathway of the red men, and, in later years, one of the great highways of travel between Massachusetts and Lake Champlain was up the valleys of Connecticut and Black Rivers and across the mountains to Otter Creek. There is on record, obtained by the government of Massachusetts, the diary of one James Coss, or Cross, who is said to have travelled over this route from Fort Dummer to the lake in 1730 with twelve Caughnawaga Indians. This diary is given in Hall's 'History of Eastern Vermont,' and, if it is authentic, Coss was probably the first white man to set foot on the territory of Springfield" (Hubbard/Dartt, History of Springfield, pg. 1.)

Springfield is my home town.

       

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