Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Records of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Vermont: From 1794 to 1846 Inclusive
To give a detailed account of the union of the New Hampshire towns with Vermont would occupy too much space and probably would not particularly interest Masonic readers, but that the unin formed may understand why the original petition for a charter for Vermont Lodge was dated at Cornish, Vermont, and why the lodge met at Charlestown, N. H., in place of Springfield, Vt., which was the town specified in the charter, it is thought proper to state that in 1778 a number of towns in N cw Hampshire bordering on the Connecticut river placed themselves under the control of Vermont, or in other words, united with that State. Referring to the causes which produced those events, Ira Allen says: These measures drew the attention of the people, so that a petition from sixteen towns (including Hanover and others on the east side of Connecticut river) was presented to the Legislature of Vermont at their first session in March, 1778, and requested Vermont to receive them into union and confederation. At the next session of the Legislature, an act was passed authorizing said sixteen towns to elect and send members to the Legislature of Vcr mont at their next session. At the session of the General Assem bly held October 1778, delegates from at least eight towns in New Hampshire took their seats in the General Assembly of Vermont.
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