On December 26, 1753 Col.Josiah Willard led a proprietors' petition for a
Putney charter to be established in the Equivalent lands. The charter was to be
issued by Governor Benning Wentworth (issuer of the New Hampshire Grants) under
King George II of England that same day.
In 2006, Putney passed a resolution endorsing the impeachment of President
George W. Bush
