Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1897 — The First Patent. [ARTICLE]

The First Patent.

The State of Vermont seems to be distinguished in many notable and diversified ways. It transpires that the first patent granted by the United States was to Samuel Hopkins, of Vermont (July 31, 1790), for making pot and pearl ashes.