Village Court House
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Westminster Massacre Northward stood the Cumberland County Courthouse, seat of New York's colonial administration. Opposition to holding a court session let to the Massacre of March 13, 1775. Here the New Hampshire Grants on Jan. 16, 1777, declared their independence as New Connecticut, later Vermont.
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