Equivalent Lands

Map of New England showing much of the affected areas circa 1755

The Equivalent Lands were several large tracts of land that the Province of Massachusetts Bay made available to settlers from the Connecticut Colony after April 1716. This was done as compensation for an equivalent area of territory that was under Connecticut's jurisdiction but had been inadvertently settled by citizens of Massachusetts.[1][2]: 137  The problem had arisen due to errors and imprecise surveys made earlier in the seventeenth century. The Equivalent Lands were never mapped.[3]

  1. ^ Records held in office of the Secretary of the State of Connecticut; Colonial Boundaries, Vol. III; Massachusetts, 1670–1827.
  2. ^ Crockett, Walter Hill (1921). Vermont: The Green Mountain State. Vol. 1. New York: The Century History Company, Inc.
  3. ^ "The Equivalent Lands and Fort Dummer". Brattleboro History. Valley Historians. Retrieved March 10, 2017.