Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from How Neshobe Came Up Into the Green Mountains: Also the Discovery of Lake Bombazon by Samuel De Champlain
This word was brought upinto the Green Mountains by one Capt. Josiah Powers, a native of Nashobah, and a land speculator of the New Hampshire Grants. On Oct 20, 1761 the town of Brandon was chartered to Capt. Josiah Powers, then a resident of Greenwich, Mass., and sixty-five others, by Benning Wentworth, governor of New Hampshire, by the name of Neshobe. Capt. Powers came to the new town to reside in 1774. He commenced early to buy up the shares of the original proprietors of the town, and soon became the largest share holder of the new town of -neshobe. He and his Brother Dr. Benjamin Powers were the only original proprietors who settled in the town. New settlers came in, purchased land, cleared off the trees, built. Buildings, and soon there was a thriving settlement.
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