Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-11-05
Cores in GencraI and Ayery's Cores
in Particular.

The Free Press is furnished with the
following interesting account Of the Cores
in our State, Ny Pliny IL. White, Of Cow
entry:
Webster defines Gore AS " slip or
triangular piece Of land" But. in Yer
mont parlancc, gore is Il piece Of land
Of any shape whatever, separated 10y inter-
yening land frcm the main portion Of the
township of which the gore constitutes "a
part. Cores came into existence in this
wise. Il was the intent Of the State that
every town should contain lands cqaiya-
lent to six miles square, or 23,O4O acres
The grantees paid for that quantity of
hand. But it sometimes happened that
when a number of town charters had been
granted in particular locality, there re-
manned tract of land not large .enough
- h"t NOR" than hair large
enough. The deficiency was made up
by tract, or by tracts Of land anywhere
else in the State, that could be made
available for that purpose. These COM
Elementary tracts were calledgores.
For example; the town of Goshen, in
Addison County, is much less than six
miles square, as is apparent by comparing
it on the map with Il nGighboriug town OF
full size,-with Lincoln for example. In
fact, it originally contained no more than
thirteen thousand acres, though it,
boundaries have been materially enlarged
! by the addition to it of a considerable part
of the old town Of Philadelphia. When
the charter of Goshen was originally
granted, i'm 1882 if was granted as if the
! e. l,s. m ls,l
/ but that proving not to be the case
there was granted tract of land
adjoining Wheelock, containing 933y
acres and another adjoining Plain.
field, and containing 2S2S acres
The former was called Goshen Gore by
Wheelock, and the latter Goshen Gore by
Plainfeld. In 1915, these Cores were
Severed" from the town of Goshen by
an act Of the legislature and in 1867 it
was discovered that the harmless word
Sever" was Of power sufficient to create a
new town, upon which was worthily be-
slowed the name of Stannard.
There are three Ayery's Cores in the
State, one each in Addison, Essex, and
Franklin Counties. In the former days
there were three others, and perhaps more,
but they have ceased to exist Samuel
Avery, whose name they bear, was in
1882, and at least two years later, depu-
ty Sheriff for Cumberland County, and
keeper Of the Jail at Westminster. There
is still on file in the Secretary of States
Office, an account of his services in con-
nection with the trial of Timothy Church,
the Phelpses, and other Cumberland
In,, r+ h., al ..,l g.,
GUS resistance to the authority of YER
mont. Avery continued to live at West
minister till 1899, and perhaps longer
Many years previous to 1850, Avery
and his associates had bought OF Col
John Henry Lydius, two townships, one
of $4,000 acres, lying North OF Otter
Creek, and the other of "A, 600 acres adj
Joining and South Of Otter Creek. Ly-
dlus was an Indian trader and land
Spectator at Albany, n. Y, who in
l'52 had procured what purported to be
deed executed by certain Mohawk In
dams, conveying two immense tracts of
land, one Of which extended sixty miles
from the mouth of Otter Creek and was
twenty-tour miles wide. He divided this
INTO thirty-fve townships, of about thirty
SIX square miles in each, end sold several
OF them. In l'44, he procured from Gov
ernor Shirley, of Massachusetts,, Il paper
confirming, in the name Of the King
OF England, the title acquired from
the Indians, The State Of New
York, however, wholly ignored the title Of
Lydius, and granted the same land to
other persons. See Halls early History Of
Vermont, Appendix 81
In lIo0, Avery petitioned the Legisla-
ture OF Vermont, for a confirmation Of his
title to the lands purchased of Lydius
but 1T appeared upon examination that
they had already been granted by the
State to other persons, and that it was
thus made impossible to comply with the
petition. He had previously entered A
caveat against making such grants. but
probably the caveat was not in season.
The next year the petition was renewed.
1t affirmed that Avery had been nearly
twenty years trying to perfect his title
that he was forty days in he wilder
ness without shelter surveying them
that after the Lydius title was treated as
void he was delayed seven years in procur-
ing confirmation from New York, and
then only succeeded by paying fes to the
amount Of $500, and incurriug other ex.
lPenses amounting in all to about $1,000,