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==History== Washington County is one of several Vermont counties created from land ceded by the state of [[New York (state)|New York]] on January 15, 1777, when Vermont declared itself to be a distinct state from New York.<ref>Slade, William, Jr., comp. ''Vermont State Papers: Being a collection of Records and Documents Connected with the Assumption and Establishment of Government by the People of Vermont, Together with the Journal of the Council of Safety, the First Constitution, the Early Journals of the General Assembly, and the Laws from the Year 1779 to 1786, Inclusive.'' Middlebury, 1823. P. 70-73.</ref><ref>Van Zandt, Franklin K. ''Boundaries of the United States and the Several States.'' Geological Survey Professional Paper 909. Washington, DC; Government Printing Office, 1976. The Standard Compilation for its subject. P. 64.</ref><ref>Williamson, Chilton. ''Vermont in Quandary: 1763-1825.'' Growth of Vermont series, Number 4. Montpelier: Vermont Historical Series, 1949. PP. 82-84; map facing 95, 100-102, 112-113.</ref> The land originally was contested by [[Massachusetts]], [[New Hampshire]], and [[New Netherland]], but it remained undelineated until July 20, 1764, when [[George III of the United Kingdom|King George III]] established the boundary between New Hampshire and New York along the west bank of the [[Connecticut River]], north of Massachusetts and south of the parallel of [[45th parallel north|45 degrees north latitude]]. New York assigned the land gained to [[Albany County, New York|Albany County]].<ref>Slade, William, Jr., comp. ''Vermont State Papers: Being a collection of Records and Documents Connected with the Assumption and Establishment of Government by the People of Vermont, Together with the Journal of the Council of Safety, the First Constitution, the Early Journals of the General Assembly, and the Laws from the Year 1779 to 1786, Inclusive.'' Middlebury, 1823. pp.13-19.</ref><ref>Van Zandt, Franklin K. ''Boundaries of the United States and the Several States.'' Geological Survey Professional Paper 909. Washington, DC; Government Printing Office, 1976. The Standard Compilation for its subject. P. 63.</ref> On March 12, 1772, Albany County was partitioned to create [[Charlotte County, Province of New York|Charlotte County]],<ref>New York Colonial Laws, Chapter 1534; Section 5; Paragraph 321)</ref> and this situation remained until Vermont's independence from New York and Britain. Washington County was originally established as [[Jefferson County, Vermont|Jefferson County]] in 1810 from parts of [[Caledonia County, Vermont|Caledonia County]], [[Chittenden County, Vermont|Chittenden County]], and [[Orange County, Vermont|Orange County]] and organized the following year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/documents/VT_Individual_County_Chronologies.htm|title=Vermont: Individual County Chronologies|website=Vermont Atlas of Historical County Boundaries|publisher=[[Newberry Library|The Newberry Library]]|date=2008|access-date=June 30, 2015}}</ref> In 1814 it was renamed to Washington County. The name change occurred after the [[Federalist Party|Federalists]] took control of the Vermont Legislature from the [[Democratic-Republican Party|Jeffersonians]]. Vermont which conducted significant trade with [[British Canada]] had suffered particularly by passage of the [[Embargo Act of 1807]] during the [[Presidency of Thomas Jefferson|Jefferson administration]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.centralvt.com/towns/history/HstACV.htm|website=Central Vermont Chamber of Commerce|publisher=Central Vermont Magazine|title=And They Called The County Washington|date=Summer 1988|access-date=October 10, 2016}}</ref>
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