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Chester, Windsor, VT
The town was originally chartered by New Hampshire Governor Benning Wentworth as Flamstead in 1754. The terms of the charter were not met and the town was re-chartered as New Flamstead in 1761. In 1766, a patent was issued by New York that changed the name of the town to Chester, after George Augustus Frederick, the Earl of Chester and the eldest son of King George III.
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- 1839 - Chester
Chester, Vermont
Windsor county. First settled 1764. Population, 1830, 2,320. Three considerable streams form William's river and give Chester a...Read MORE... 
1850 - THE RECENT FLOOD.
We had one of the greatest floods last week known since 1830.
In Chester, Mr. David Johnson was drowned. While crossing a bridge over a branch of...Read MORE...- 1854 - Chester
Chester, a post-township of Windsor county, Vermont, 80 miles S. of Montpelier. Population, 2001.
A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854. - 1893 - ACCIDENTS TO RAILROAD TRAINS. ONE PERSON WAS KILLED AND TWO WERE FATALLY INJURED.
CHESTER, Vt., Feb. 23. - A big snowplow on the Central Vermont Railroad, pushed by two engines, left the rails and tumbled down an embankment two...Read MORE... - 1895 - Chester
Chester, a post-village of Windsor co., Vt., in Chester township, on Williams River, and on the Central Vermont Railroad, 39 miles S.E. of Rutland....Read MORE... 
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1839 - Chester
Chester, Vermont
Windsor county. First settled 1764. Population, 1830, 2,320. Three considerable streams form William's river and give Chester a... Read MORE...
1850 - THE RECENT FLOOD.
We had one of the greatest floods last week known since 1830.
In Chester, Mr. David Johnson was drowned. While crossing a bridge over a branch of... Read MORE...
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1854 - Chester
Chester, a post-township of Windsor county, Vermont, 80 miles S. of Montpelier. Population, 2001.
A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
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1893 - ACCIDENTS TO RAILROAD TRAINS. ONE PERSON WAS KILLED AND TWO WERE FATALLY INJURED.
CHESTER, Vt., Feb. 23. - A big snowplow on the Central Vermont Railroad, pushed by two engines, left the rails and tumbled down an embankment two... Read MORE...
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1895 - Chester
Chester, a post-village of Windsor co., Vt., in Chester township, on Williams River, and on the Central Vermont Railroad, 39 miles S.E. of Rutland.... Read MORE...
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