The Washington County Courthouse is located at 65 State Street, Montpelier VT 05602; phone: 802-828-2091.
Photo: Chauncey B. Leonard House, circa 1845, located at Shed Road and Crosstown Road, Berlin, VT. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. Photographed by User:Magicpiano (own work), 2015, [cc-3.0] via Wikimedia Commons, accessed August, 2021.
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The Indians exercised practical jurisdiction overall the lands now included in Washington county till 1781 or 1782, when Thomas Mead made the first permanent white settlement in Middlesex, a mile or more below Montpelier. White men had, however, before that taken to themselves paper or parchment title — what Col. Orange Fifield would call " a paper front" if describing their invasion — to a good many acres.
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