Gloucester County, New York is a former county in New York that became part of the state of

Vermont Vermont () is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, New York (state), New York to the west, and the Provinces and territories of Ca ...

. It was a part of Albany County in the

Province of New York The Province of New York was a British proprietary colony and later a royal colony on the northeast coast of North America from 1664 to 1783. It extended from Long Island on the Atlantic, up the Hudson River and Mohawk River valleys to ...

until 1770 and was lost to Vermont in 1777. At that time, Vermont was holding itself out as the Republic of Vermont and did not become a state until 1791. The County of Gloucester name was used occasionally in contemporary documents, but the 28 February 1770 Order for Erection and many subsequent documents refer to the region as the County of Glocester.The Documentary History of the State of New-York
arranged under direction of the Hon. Christopher Morgan, Secretary of State. Edited by Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, 1797-1880., New York (State). Secretary's Office. Page 390. Accessed 8 September 2020. Contemporary maps also refer to the area as the County of Glocester.

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