new hampshire's royal governor benny wentworth had sold charters for 170 townships in new hampshire and vermont. now who bought the charters? i did a little digging, for example, willingston, vermont is named after sam willis who was from hampstead, long island, and like his merchant friends wanted to lay some of it off in land in vermont. so willis and his friends came up with 40 shillings in silver andn't that that went to governor wentworth from granting the papers to set up a township five miles by five miles and you get to see the numbers. benny wentworth in 15 years pocketed $3 million of our money in fees just from those land charters only to be outdone by new york when new york said, wait a minute, our charter says everything between lake sham plain and the connecticut river is part of new york. so new york governors became counterclaiming and insisted that the settlers buy the land a second time. the speculators and settlers had begun to trickle in. there were 1500 people living in vermont by 1770. those people had wanted to hold on to the land and it was clear they took whatev