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About Williamstown, Vermont 
Orange County
*Area, Population and Density rankings above refer to Williamstown's relative position among Vermont's 255 civic entities (9 cities, 242 towns, 4 gores and grants). Complete rankings are here.
There are two schools of thought about the origin of Williamstown's name. The first says it was named for Judah Williams, one of the grantees. The other says it was named for Williamstown, Massachusetts, which took its name from Colonel Ephraim Williams, the founder of Williams College. In 1754, as he was leaving for the French and Indian War, Colonel Williams wrote a will leaving his estate for the establishment of a "free school forever in the township west of Fort Massachusetts, called West Hoosic, provided it be called Williamstown." Six weeks later the Colonel was killed during an expedition against the fort at Crown Point, on the New York side of the Lake Champlain narrows. His estate was eventually used to establish the school that became Williams College. Of the two possible origins, the latter seems the more reasonable, for it is known that many of the grantees of Vermont's Williamstown came from western Massachusetts. Furthermore, Judah Williams was not first on the list of grantees, not even near the top, which goes against the theory that the town would have been named for him.
Material excerpted or adapted from Esther Munroe Swift's
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Contact Info Emergency Services (Statewide): 911
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Churches, Ministries, Charitables Roman Catholic : St. Edward |
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Schools Orange North Supervisory Union 802-433-5818 |
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This is a basic geographic reference, intended to show relative location of adjacent towns. Directional accuracy is limited to 16 compass points. There isn't even the slightest suggestion that one can necessarily travel directly from one town to the next (as in "You can't get there from here").
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