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VERMONT.
In February, 1781, the first newspaper printed in Vermont
was published at Westminster; it was entitled, The
Vermont Gazette or Green Mountain Post-Boy. Motto—
Firm as the Hills, to stem Oppression's Tide.
It was printed on a sheet of pot size, and published
weekly, on Monday, by Judah Paddock Spooner and Timothy
Green. Green resided in New London, and Spooner
conducted the Gazette, which was continued only two or
three years.
In 1810 there were not less than fourteen newspapers in
this state, which forty years before was an uncultivated
wilderness.
After the establishment of peace, the settlement of the
uncultivated country progressed with a rapidity unparalleled,
perhaps, in history. The press seems to have followed
the axe of the husbandman; forests were cleared,
settlements made, new states were formed, and gazettes
were published.
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