January 29

On the 28th in 1760, Bennington Wentworth founded the town of Pownal, Vermont. Today, Pownal is still a very small town. Wentworth managed to become quite wealthy by speculating in land development. Is his yet another inspiring story of an individual of modest means reaping success from the wilds of a young New England? Hardly. One small matter that Wentworth somehow overlooked was that he did not own the land that would became Pownal. Colonists from New York had purchased the land legitimately from its original owners, the Mohican people, who were members of the Mohawk Nation.