Session laws, including acts and resolves passed by the General Assembly of the State of Vermont: title varies, 1778–, var. state printers, 1779–.
Prior to 1777, present day Vermont was vaguely a county of the English Colony of New York. In that year, the residents of the area declared themselves
independent and organized a republic with an elected General Assembly, the first session of which was held in March of 1878. Statehood came when
Congress, without debate, unanimously accepted Vermont as the fourteenth state effective February 14, 1791. The first session of the statehood legislature
was held in October of that year. (Documents which were part of the Early State Records collection were digitized from a microfilm copy of titles
originally held by the Library of Congress, American Antiquarian Society Library, University of Vermont Library, Wilbur Collection, and others).
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