Gloucester County, New York

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**Gloucester County, New York**
Regional statistics
	Political history
1,540 Square Miles Partitioned from Albany County, New York	1770-03-16^[1]
Gained land from Cumberland County, and exchanged land with Charlotte County, raising the total county land to 3,390 Square Miles	1772-03-24^[2]
Remainder of Gloucester County ceded to the independent State of Vermont as a result of the New Hampshire Grants claim made to Congress. Gloucester was divided up between Windsor, Orange, Addison, Chittenden, Washington, Caledonia, Lamoille, Orleans, and Essex Counties in Vermont.	1777-01-15^[3].
Largest cities	Bennington, Vermont Rutland, Vermont
U.S. States	New York Vermont
Area - Total	3,390 mi² (8,780.06 km²)
Population

Gloucester County, New York is a former county in New York that became part of the state of Vermont. It was a part of Albany County in the Province of New York until 1770 and was lost to Vermont in 1777. At that time, Vermont was holding itself out as the Republic of Vermont and did not become a state until 1791.

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^ New York: Commissioners of Statutory Revision:Colonial Laws of New York from the year 1664 to the Revolution, including the Charters of the Duke of York, the Commissions and instructions to Colonial Governors, the Duke's Laws, the Laws of the Dongan and Leisler Assemblies, the Charters of Albany and New York, and the acts of the Colonial Legislatures from 1691 to 1775, inclusive. Report to the Assenbly #107, 1894. five Volumes. Albany, New York; 1894 — 1896; Chapter 1559; Volume 5; Page 401.
^ New York: Commissioners of Statutory Revision:Colonial Laws of New York from the year 1664 to the Revolution, including the Charters of the Duke of York, the Commissions and instructions to Colonial Governors, the Duke's Laws, the Laws of the Dongan and Leisler Assemblies, the Charters of Albany and New York, and the acts of the Colonial Legislatures from 1691 to 1775, inclusive. Report to the Assenbly #107, 1894. five Volumes. Albany, New York; 1894 - 1896; Chapter 1559; Volume five; Page 402.
^ Slade, William, Jr. Compiler; Vermont State Papers: Being a collection of Records and Documents connected with the Assumption and Establishment of Government by the People of Vermont, Together with the Journal of the Council of Safety, the First Constitution, the Early Journals of the General Assembly, and the Laws from the years 1779 — 1786, inclusive: Middlebury, Vermont; 1823; Pages 70 — 72.