report to the governor
and council, that, on account of the state of the country, it was in-
expedient to establish counties, but they recommended to the gover-
nor to "appoint a competent number of fit persons for conservation
of the peace and administration of justice in that part of the prov-
ince." And on the 11th day of July 1766, an ordinance Avas
adopted," for establishing a court of common pleas and a court of
general sessions of the peace," and judges and other officers were
appointed. On the 19th of March 1768 " a large tract of land
containing forty townships," was by letters patent " erected into
a County by the name of the County of Cumberland." This
County was bounded east by Connecticut River, south by Massa-
chusetts, west by the highest part of the GreenMountain, and
north by the same, or nearly the same, line which divides the present
58 HISTORY OF ADDISON COUNTY.
Counties of Windsor and Orange. On tlie 2Cdof December 1772,
it was ordered, that writs issue for the election of t^Yo representa-
tives to the general assembly from that County.
On the IGth of March 1770, all the territory east of the moun^
tains, and north of the County of Cumberland, was formed into a
County, by the name of Gloucester, and the usual county officers
were appointed. Soon after the territory west of the mountains,
and north of the north lines of the towns of Sunderland and Arling-
ton, and embracing considerable territory also west of the lake, was
established as a County by the name of Charlotte : and the re-
mainder of the New Hampshire Grants v.as embraced