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Constitution of the United States : and on the 18th day of Februa-
rj of that year. Congress passed an act, 'Hhat on the 4th day of
March " following, " the State of Vermont shall be received and
admitted into the Union, as a new and entire member of the United
States of America."
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CHAPTER VIII.
INCIDKN'TS OF THft WAR IN THE COUNTY OF ADDISON.
The revolutionary war, •whicli bad been ended, some years before
Vermont Avas admitted to the Union, furnished but few incidents,
which can properly constitute a part of the history of Addison
County. Very few permanent settlements had been made in the
county before its commencement. It is said that James jMcIxtosii,
a Scotchman, commenced a settlement in territory now in the
city ofVergennes, in the year 176G ; and other settlements Avere
made on the creek above the falls in New Haven, now Waltham. as
early as 1769. Col. JoHX Chipman, in 176G made a small clear-
ing on his farm in Middlcbury, but did not return to it, Avith his
family, until 1773 ; and in the latter year several other families
w^ere settled in that town. And it is said that in the charter limits
of Middlebury, there were thirteen families, and in that part of
Cornwall, afterwards annexed to ]\Iiddlebury, eight families, before
the Avar. Col. Piiilip Stone commenced preparation for a settle-
ment on the border of the lake in Bridport in 1768, and several
other families were settled in that town before the Avar. John
CiiARTiER also commenced some improvements, on the south end
of Mount Independence