Charlotte County, Province of New York

The county was named for Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, wife of George III of the United Kingdom.

Its western boundary ran from the northern boundary of Albany County to the Canada line, at a point near the old village of St. Regis.

Much of western Vermont, then claimed by New York, was also part of the county.

This claim was largely ignored by New York's new state legislature, which voted on April 2, 1784, to change the name of all of Charlotte County to Washington County, NY, in honor of George Washington, stating, “From and after the passing of this act, the county of Tryon shall be called and known by the name of Montgomery, and the county of Charlotte by the name of Washington.”[3] In 1791, Vermont became a state, taking that section of Charlotte County.

This article about a location in Washington County, New York is a stub.