Philadelphia (Vermont)
Philadelphia was a parish in Rutland County in what is now the state of Vermont in the United States . It was proclaimed as part of the New Hampshire Grants on March 14, 1761 by Governor Benning Wentworth for settlement. The area is located in the western part of the Green Mountains and is divided in the middle by an uninhabitable ridge that runs in an east-west direction. This natural barrier made settlement and later communication between the northern and southern settlement areas and thus the administration of the area much more difficult and was the reason for the later division.
The first census in the United States registered 39 residents in Philadelphia, which by 1800 names 125 residents. Both numbers refer to the southern part of the area; the first settler in the northern part was registered in 1806, the first birth in 1807.
The area was divided into two parts in 1814. The northern half was slammed on November 9, 1814, the neighboring parish of Goshen in Addison County . The southern half initially remained independent, but two years later, on November 2, 1816, it became part of the neighboring community of Chittenden .
literature
- Zadock Thompson: History of Vermont: natural, civil, and statistical, in three parts . 3rd volume. George H. Salisbury, Burlington 1842, p. 138 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Abby Maria Hemenway: The Vermont historical Gazetteer, Volume 1 . Burlington 1867, p. 35 .
- ↑ US Census Data from 1790, File 1790a-02.pdf, page 9
- ↑ 1800 U.S. Census Data , p. 23