M& D Group Read

[Joseph Tracy]

Enjoyed history notes on 7year war and NY and Pennsylvania. This is what makes the list worth it.  One other example of' bickering itself into fragments’ was happening between NY and Vermont. New York, claiming the Crown had given them VT, were opposed by Ethan Allen and the Green Mt boys who claimed Benning Wentworth had legitimately sold Vermonters land in VT that was  also based on grants to Wentworth by Britain. Even after the revolution which seemingly would have dissolved land claims based on Royal land grants, this was unresolved and VT remained an independent nation holding out until the abdication of NY’s claims  a few years later. 
   Many of Shay’s followers fled to VT while it was independent and prospered there.-
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