- Governor Benning Wentworth promises Eleazar Wheelock 500 acres
in the Hanover area if Wheelock would establish his school in
England’s New Hampshire Province. - Governor John Wentworth
offers Wheelock a whole township if the school would be
established in New Hampshire. - A Royal Charter is issued to
Wheelock for his school (Dartmouth College). - 1770 (Landaff
Grant) - Governor Wentworth grants the College the township of
Landaff, expressing his desire to have the college in that
township. Eleazar Wheelock convinces the governor and trustees
that Hanover is the better site than Landaff for the College. -
1785 (Wheelock Grant) - The Governor, Council and General
Assembly of Vermont, then meeting in Norwich, aid the College
with the gift of a town, appropriately called Wheelock, in the
hill country between St. Johnsbury and Lake Willoughby. - 1789
(Clarksville Grant) - General John Sullivan, President of the
State of New Hampshire, persuades the General Assembly to
approve an act granting Dartmouth College th