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| | Samuel Robinson |
 | | On his return to Massachusetts from one of his campaigns, mistaking his route, he passed by accident through what is now Bennington, Vermont, and, impressed by the attractiveness of the country, determined to settle there. |
 | | He formed a company at Hardwick, purchased the rights of the original grantees of lands, and, taking a colony with him in 1761, settled Bennington, this being the first town in what is now Vermont. |
 | | The degree of A. was conferred on him by Yale in 1789, and by Dartmouth in 1790.--Another son, David, soldier, born in Hardwick, Massachusetts, 4 November, 1754; died in Vermont, 11 December, 1843, removed to Bennington with his father in 1761. |
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