Gloucester County, New York
| Political history | ||
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| Template:Convert partitioned from Albany County, New York | 1770-03-16<ref name="NEW YORK COLONIAL LAWS 03161770">New York: Commissioners of Statutory Revision: Colonial Laws of New York from the year 1664 to the Revolution, including the Charters of the Duke of York, the Commissions and instructions to Colonial Governors, the Duke's Laws, the Laws of the Dongan and Leisler Assemblies, the Charters of Albany and New York, and the acts of the Colonial Legislatures from 1691 to 1775, inclusive. Report to the Assembly #107, 1894. five Volumes. Albany, New York; 1894 — 1896; Chapter 1559; Volume 5; Page 401.</ref> | |
| Gained land from Cumberland County, and exchanged land with Charlotte County, raising the total county land to Template:Convert | 1772-03-24<ref name="NEW YORK COLONIAL LAWS03241772">New York: Commissioners of Statutory Revision: Colonial Laws of New York from the year 1664 to the Revolution, including the Charters of the Duke of York, the Commissions and instructions to Colonial Governors, the Duke's Laws, the Laws of the Dongan and Leisler Assemblies, the Charters of Albany and New York, and the acts of the Colonial Legislatures from 1691 to 1775, inclusive. Report to the Assembly #107, 1894. five Volumes. Albany, New York; 1894 - 1896; Chapter 1559; Volume five; Page 402.</ref> | |
| Remainder of Gloucester County ceded to the independent State of Vermont as a result of the New Hampshire Grants claim made to Congress. Gloucester was divided up into Windsor, Orange, Addison, Chittenden, Washington, Caledonia, Lamoille, Orleans, and Essex Counties in Vermont. | 1777-01-15<ref>Slade, William, Jr. Compiler; Vermont State Papers: Being a collection of Records and Documents connected with the Assumption and Establishment of Government by the People of Vermont, Together with the Journal of the Council of Safety, the First Constitution, the Early Journals of the General Assembly, and the Laws from the years 1779 — 1786, inclusive: Middlebury, Vermont; 1823; Pages 70—72.</ref> | |
| Regional statistics | ||
| Largest cities | Bennington, Vermont Rutland, Vermont | |
| U.S. states | New York Vermont | |
| Area - Total |
3,390 mi2 (8,780.06 km2) | |
Gloucester County, New York, is a former county in New York that became part of the state of Vermont. It was a part of Albany County in the Province of New York until 1770, and was abandoned to Vermont in 1777. At that time, Vermont was holding itself out as the Vermont Republic and did not become a state until 1791.
Name
The County of Gloucester name was used occasionally in contemporary documents, but the 28 February 1770 Order for Erection and many subsequent documents refer to the region as the County of Glocester.<ref>The Documentary History of the State of New-York; arranged under direction of the Hon. Christopher Morgan, Secretary of State. Edited by Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, 1797-1880., New York (State). Secretary's Office. Page 390. Accessed 8 September 2020.</ref> Contemporary maps also refer to the area as the County of Glocester.