The most significant impact from this war was the settling of large numbers of Loyalist refugees in the region, especially in Shelburne and Parrtown ( Saint John ).

The case was brought by three same-sex couples who applied for and were denied marriage licenses in the towns of Milton, Shelburne and South Burlington.

The following Shelburne administration was short-lived, however, and in April 1783 Fox returned to power, this time in an unexpected coalition with his old enemy Lord North.

At the same meeting of the board of trustees at which Professor Moore was elected president of Williams College, May 2, 1815, Dr. Packard of Shelburne introduced the following motion: " That a committee of six persons be appointed to take into consideration the removal of the college to some other part of the Commonwealth, to make all necessary inquiries which have a bearing on the subject, and report at the next meeting.

The William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne | " Lansdowne Antinous " was found at Hadrian's Villa in 1769 ( Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge )

Lord Rockingham died only three months after coming to power ; he was succeeded by another Whig, William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne.

Pitt, however, was comfortable joining the Shelburne Government ; he was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Streatham Park was later leased to Prime Minister Lord Shelburne, and was the venue for early negotiations with France that lead to the Peace Treaty of 1783.

It was initially organized as the district of Shelburne in 1768, named in honor of William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, an Irish-born British politician, who later served as Prime Minister during the American Revolutionary War.

Shelburne was officially incorporated as a town in 1775.

Shelburne Township was organized August 17, 1879.

First granted in 1769 by Governor John Wentworth, the town was named for William Petty Fitzmaurice, Earl of Shelburne.

The town was first settled in 1771, and incorporated on December 13, 1820, when Shelburne voters chose to keep the name.

It included Shelburne Addition until that was set off and incorporated in 1836 as Gorham.

In 1784, Shelburne County was formed in part from southwestern portions of Queens County.

Shelburne County was founded in 1784 shortly following the influx of Loyalist settlers evacuated from the newly independent United States of America.

It was originally named Port Roseway, until it became a very busy town and was considered to be the capital of Nova Scotia, in which the name was changed to Shelburne in an attempt to please Lord Shelburne, the British Prime Minister from 1782 to 1783.

In May 2007, selectmen from the towns of Buckland and Shelburne inked a memorandum of agreement with officials from Mutianyu, a village in China, making the two the first known " sister villages ".

He served under Wolfe on the Rochefort expedition of 1757, when he first met Shelburne, and afterwards in Canada where he was appointed adjutant-general, fighting at both Louisbourg ( 1758 ) and Quebec ( 1759 ).

William Petty-FitzMaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, KG, PC ( 2 May 1737 – 7 May 1805 ), known as The Earl of Shelburne between 1761 and 1784, by which title he is generally known to history, was an Irish-born British Whig statesman who was the first Home Secretary in 1782 and then Prime Minister 1782 – 1783 during the final months of the American War of Independence.

Shelburne was one of the first British statesmen to advocate free trade, his conversion to which he attributed to a journey he made to London in 1761, when he accompanied Adam Smith.

Defending it in the House of Lords, Shelburne observed " the security of the British colonies in North America was the first cause of the war " asserting that security " has been wisely attended to in the negotiations for peace ".

In 1754 Long sold it to the first Earl of Shelburne, who employed architect Henry Keene to extend the house.

The Shelburne title was created for the first time in the Peerage of Ireland in 1688 when Elizabeth, Lady Petty, was made Baroness Shelburne.

The first Earl of Shelburne in turn bequeathed the estate to his grand nephew William Petty ( who inherited a different Earldom of Shelburne † in 1761, and became Prime Minister in 1782 ).

He remained at Brussels until August 1782, when he was despatched to Paris by Lord Shelburne as plenipotentiary to negotiate a peace with the crowns of France and Spain, and with the States General of the United Provinces ; and on 20 January 1783 the preliminaries of peace with the first two powers were duly signed.

Measha's 4xgreat-grandparents first lived in Shelburne, but later settled in Fredericton.

This is currently the second largest turbine project in Canada ( the first being the Melancthon EcoPower Centre, located at Shelburne, Ontario ).

Fitzwilliam started to contribute to debates in the Lords, with his first intervention on 5 December 1782 during the debate on the address, intervening to criticise Lord Rockingham's successor as Prime Minister, Lord Shelburne, on the lack of principle on the concession of American independence.

The portrait measures 8 by 5 feet ( 2. 44 by 1. 52 m ) and was given as a gift of appreciation to British Prime Minister, born William Petty FitzMaurice ; the second Earl of Shelburne and subsequently the first Marquess of Lansdowne.

Conway is in the central part of the county, and is bordered by Shelburne to the north, Deerfield to the east, Whately to the southeast, Williamsburg to the south, Goshen to the southwest, Ashfield to the west, and Buckland to the northwest.

Shelburne lies along Massachusetts Route 2, commonly known as the Mohawk Trail, which is the main east-west route through the northern part of Massachusetts.

On the state level, Shelburne is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as part of the Second Berkshire district, represented by Paul Mark, which covers central Berkshire County, as well as portions of Hampshire and Franklin Counties.

On the national level, Shelburne is represented in the United States House of Representatives as part of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by John Olver of Amherst since June 1991.

Shelburne is part of the Berlin, NH – VT Micropolitan Statistical Area.

In 1836 Shelburne County was divided into two separate and distinct counties with Yarmouth County being formed out of what had been part of Shelburne County.

In 1761 it became part of Queens County ; in 1784 it became part of Shelburne County and finally became a county on its own in 1836.

It was later used by a private group as part of a SETI project, Project TARGET, and has recently been moved to a site outside Shelburne, Ontario.

Margaret's, and West Nova ridings at the federal level, or as the western rural part of the Halifax Regional Municipality, the Municipality of the District of Lunenburg, Queens County, and Shelburne County.

Shelburne Falls Truss Bridge carries Routes 2A and 112 across the Deerfield River

The Bardwell's Ferry Bridge connects Conway to Shelburne across the Deerfield River.

Deerfield is located in the northern Pioneer Valley and is bordered by Greenfield to the north, Montague to the northeast, Sunderland to the southeast, Whately to the south, Conway to the west, and Shelburne to the northwest.

Shelburne is located in central Franklin County, and is bordered by Colrain to the north, Greenfield to the east, Deerfield to the southeast, Conway to the south, Buckland to the west, and a short, stretch of Charlemont to the northwest.

Shelburne lies along the eastern banks of the Deerfield River, which flows along the town's southern and western border.

In the village of Shelburne Falls are the " Glacial Potholes ", a waterfall with many " potholes ", traces of large rock activity along the Deerfield River.

Notable features include the Bridge of Flowers, a former trolley bridge over the Deerfield River that is now maintained by the Shelburne Falls Women's Club as a floral display from April through October ; and the glacial potholes of the Deerfield River.

The Deerfield River bisects Shelburne Falls, and Massaemett Mountain rises east of the village.

Greenfield is located at the center of the county and is bordered by Colrain, Leyden, and Bernardston to the north ; Gill to the east ; Montague to the southeast ; Deerfield to the south ; and Shelburne to the west.

In June 1768 the General Court incorporated the district of Shelburne, Massachusetts from the area formerly known as " Deerfield Northeast " and in 1786 the district became a town.

A portion of the trail parallels the Deerfield River for several miles, and passes near the village of Shelburne Falls, and the Bridge of Flowers.

Swimming in the Deerfield River in Shelburne Falls