INDEX.

Abercrombie, General, 29, 32.

Abolitionists, 335.

Academy, military, 314.

Adams, Secretary J. S., 311.

Alien and sedition laws, 261.

Allen, Ebenezer, captures Mount Defiance, 179; frees Dinah Mattis, 183; at New Haven Fort, 187, 225.

Allen, Ethan, 63, 68, 69, 76, 78, 84; outlawed, 86, 103, 109, 113, 115, 119; petition to king, 99; attempt to take Montreal by, 121; capture of, 122; return to Bennington of, 192; pamphlets written by, 198; receives letter from B. Robinson, 204, 207, 212, 226; quells rebellion in Guilford, 239; sent to Cumberland County, 196; death of, 258.

Allen, Herman, 140.

Allen, Ira, 68, 70, 78; secretary of Council of Safety, 165, 167, 199, 201; commissioner with Fay, 206; commissioner to Isle aux Noix, 208-220, 224, 265, 313.

Allen, Parson, at Bennington, 172.

Amherst, General, 28, 32, 33, 41, 42, 44.

Arnold, Benedict, 103, 107, 112, 114; expedition to Canada of, 125, 128, 130; naval battle of, 134; retreat of, 136.

Baker, Remember, 71, 72, 111, 119; at Otter Creek Falls, 78; outlawed, 86.

Barnum, Lieut. Barnabas, 188.

Baum, Colonel, 170, 176.

Beach, Major Gershom, 105.

Bees, 294.

Bennington, 54; convention at, 64, 67, 80; legislature at, 193.

Big Bethel, First regiment at, 344.

Bills of credit, 249.

Boundary line, settlement of, 252.

Bowker, Joseph, 116.

Bradley, Stephen R., pamphlet of, 198, 201.

Brattleboro, 16, 54.

Breckenridge, James, 65.

Breyman, 171, 175; retreat of, 176.

Brown, John, 102, 119, 179.

Burgoyne, Sir John, at the Bouquet, 151; proclamation of, 152, 162; sends Baum to Bennington, 170, 177; retreat of the army of, 182.

Burlington, 54; lumber trade at, 364; steamer launched at, 365.

Canada, expeditions against, 7, 13, 21; conquest of, 46; invasion of, 115-131.

Canal, Champlain, 325; Erie, 325; ship, 265.

Carleton, General, 124, 136; at Crown Point, 138; threatens Ticonderoga, 142.

Carpenter, Isaiah, 66.

Catamount Tavern, 54, 83, 103.

Champlain, Lake, 4; Waubanakee name of, 6; Iroquois name of, 19; seigniories on, 19.

Champlain, Sieur Samuel, 1.

Charlestown, 24; legislature at, 232.

Charlotte, County of, 89.

Chimney Point, 19.

Chittenden, Gov. Martin, 278, 284.

Chittenden, Thomas, president of Council of Safety, 165, 182, 184; appointed governor, 189; his letter to Washington, 195, 205, 230, 239; answer to Congress of, 242, 244; letter of, 247, 254; death of, 259; anecdote of, 321; counsel of, 366.

Church, Timothy, 239, 240.

Clark, Col. Isaac, at St. Armand, 276, 282.

Clay, Capt. James, 195.

Clinton, Governor, 225, 226, 230.

Cockran, Robert, 71, 72.

Cognahwaghnah Indians, claims of, 260.

Colden, Governor, 98.

Colleges, 313.

Commissioners of Sequestration, 167.

Committees of Safety, 67, 73, 75, 77; decrees of, 82; answer of, to New York resolutions, 85; "Association" of, 141.

Conger, Captain, captures raiders, 352.

Congress, vacillating course of, 236, 242.

Connecticut, letters from, 238.

Constitution adopted, 146.

Controversy between New Hampshire and New York, 56-67.

Copper mines, 360.

Council of Safety, 150, 170; acts of, 181, 184, 187.

Crown Point, fort built by Amherst at, 41, 84, 100.

Cumberland County, 90.

Cummings, 346.

Dairying, 358.

Debeline's attack on Number Four, 23.

Declaration of Independence, 143.

Deerfield, destruction of, 11.

Delaplace, Captain, 110, 111.

Dellius, Godfrey, 47.

Derby, raid on, 277.

Dorset, convention at, 139.

Dummer, Fort, built, 17; truck house at, 18.

Dummerston, 91.

Eaton, Capt. William, 358.

Election day, 254; customs of, 301.

Enos, General, 216.

Equivalent lands, 16.

Fairbanks, Gov. Erastus, proclamation of, 341.

Fay, Dr. Jonas, 201, 211, 213.

Fay, Major Joseph, 206, 211, 214.

Fay, Capt. Stephen, 75.

Fees for grants, 81.

First Brigade, 345.

Forts, Bridgman's, 22; Crown Point, 41, 84, 100; Number Four, 23; Ranger, 194; St. Anne, 19; St. Frederic, 19, 20, 101; Ticonderoga, 26; Vengeance, 194; Warren, 194.

Francis, Colonel, 157; death of, 159.

French Canadians, 328.

French River, 11.

French, William, murder of, 95.

Frontenac, expeditions by, 4, 10.

Fugitive Slave Law, 337.

Galusha, Gov. Jonas, 268, 333.

Gates, General, 132, 137.

Granite quarries, 361.

Green Mountain Boys, 68.

Green Mountains, Republic of, 248.

Gregg, Lieutenant-Colonel, 171.

Growler and Eagle, loss of, 274.

Guilford, 238.

Haldimand, General, 83; correspondence of, 203-221.

Hale, Colonel, 158.

Hampton, Gen. Wade, inaction of, 275.

Hay, Col. Udney, 183.

Headee, Mrs., 228.

Henry, John, 269.

Herrick, Captain, captures boats at Skenesborough, 112; colonel, 167, 187; receives thanks of council, 183.

Hobbs, Capt. Humphrey, scout of, 25.

Horses, Morgan, 298.

Houghton, Daniel, 95.

Howe, Caleb, 22.

Hubbardton, battle of, 158.

Indians, forays of, 5; routes of, 11; St. Francis, 33.

Iroquois, 2; Montreal sacked by, 5.

Isle aux Noix, 33; taken by Haviland, 44; conference with British at, 208.

Izard, General, 283.

Johnson, Sir John, 225.

Johnson, Sir William, 26.

Kent, Cephas, innholder, 139.

Land embargo, 266.

Legislature, acts of, 255-257; promptcalls for troops, 340.

Libraries, early, 315; endowment of, 317.

Lincoln, Abraham, President, 339; action of, 342.

Lincoln, General, 169, 181.

Liquor drinking, 364.

Louisburg, capture of, 21, 29.

Lumbering, 364.

Lydius, John Henry, 47.

Macdonough, 273; builds fleet at Vergennes, 279; fleet of, enters the lake, 281; naval victory of, 285.

McIntosh, Donald, 54, 79.

Manchester, jail at, 142; Stark at, 168; Lincoln at, 169; Warner's regiment left at, 169.

Marble quarries, 362.

Massachusetts, claims of, 197.

Monro, Esquire, 66, 69.

Monroe, Colonel, 27.

Montcalm, 26, 31.

Montgomery, General, 117, 127; killed, 128.

Montpelier, the capitol at, 264; early library of, 315.

Montreal, taken by Amherst, 46; attempt on, by Ethan Allen, 123; taken by Montgomery, 128.

Mott, Captain, 103, 105.

Mount Defiance, 153; occupied by British, 156; taken by Ebenezer Allen, 179.

Mount Independence, 132; evacuation of, 156; ibid. by British, 182.

New Connecticut, 144.

New Hampshire, controversy of, concerning boundaries, 56; obedience of, to king, 60, 80; prompt action of, to repel invasion of Burgoyne, 166; sixteen towns of, join Vermont, 201, 232, 235.

New Hampshire Grants, 57-67, 143.

New York, claims of, 58, 60; frontiers of, protected by Allen's treaty, 223; appoints commissioners to treat concerning boundary, 251; draft riots of the city of, quelled by Vermont troops, 346.

Newspapers, early, 317.

Number Four, 22; defense of, 23; road from, to Crown Point, 43.

Otter, Great, mills destroyed at First Falls of, 78; fort at, 187; Macdonough's fleet winters in, 279; boats built at, 279; British attack at mouth of, 280; arsenal at, 341.

Papers, 318.

Petowbowk, 6.

Phelps, Charles, 240, 246.

Phelps, Col. John W., 342; his treatment of fugitives, 344; his proclamation and resignation, 348.

Phipps, Sir William, 9.

Plattsburgh, raid on, 275; battle of, 288.

Plumping-mill, 250.

Point à la Chevalure, 19, 48.

Political parties, 261, 270, 333.

Postal service, 248.

Prevost, Sir George, 283; defeat of, 290.

Printers and printing, 317.

Putnam, Gen. Israel, 30.

Quebec, 3, 9; fall of, 42; trade with, 265.

Ransom, Truman B., 338.

Reid, Col. John, 76, 79, 88.

Religious societies, 307.

Robinson, Col. Beverly, 204, 207.

Robinson, Moses and Samuel, 211.

Robinson, Samuel, 62.

Rogers, Major Robert, expedition of, 34-41.

Royalton, Indian massacre at, 227.

Sancoick, 171, 177, 233.

Savage's Station, Vermonters at, 345.

Schools, support of, 309-311; laws concerning, 311; grammar, state, normal, 312.

Schuyler, General, 115, 117, 162; favors claims of Vermont, 231.

Schuyler, Capt. John, 8.

Schuyler, Major, 9.

Scott, General, 343.

Seigniories, 19.

Sheep, 251; importation of merino, 355; breeding of, 358.

Shelburne, British attack on block-house at, 188.

Sherwood, Captain, 205, 206.

Skene, Colonel, 88, 105, 170; supposed charter of, 219.

Skene, Major, 112.

Slate quarries, 362.

Slavery prohibited, 147.

Smuggling, 267.

Smugglers, device of, 282.

Sobapsqua, 114.

Sons of Vermont, 327.

St. Albans, protest of, 267; rebel raid on, 351; Fenians at, 353.

St. Anne, Fort, building of, 19.

St. Clair, General, at Ticonderoga, 153; retreat of, 161.

St. Frederic, Fort, 19; Vaudreuil's expedition from, 20; abandoned by French, 33.

St. John's, surrender of, 124.

St. Leger, General, 216; abandons Ticonderoga, 217.

Stannard, General, colonel of 9th regiment, 348; at Gettysburg, 349.

Stark, Gen. John, 43; at Number Four, 166, 168; at Bennington, 172.

Steele, Zadock, 229.

Stevens, Capt. Phineas, defense by, 23.

Stoddard, Col. John, 17, 23.

Sugar-making, 295.

Sunderland, Peleg, 71, 111.

Taverns, 321.

Taxes, payment of, 249.

Temperance, 322.

Ten Eyck, Sheriff, 65.

Tichenor, Governor, 260, 268.

Ticonderoga, Fort, 26; Abercrombie's attack on, 29-32; captured by Amherst, 32, 84; ibid. by Green Mountain Boys, 100, 103, 183; commanded by St. Clair, 153; commissioners sent to, 154; evacuation of, 156; occupied by British, 161; evacuated by British, 183.

Tryon, Governor, 73-76, 83; proclamation of, 85.

Tupper, Sergeant, killed, 216.

Underground railroad, 34.

Union of New Hampshire towns, 193; the west, 202.

Unions dissolved, 234, 235.

Valcour, Island of, 134, 135.

Vaudreuil, expeditions of, 20; surrender of Canada by, 46.

Vergennes, 54, 76.

Vermont, 145; its constitution, 147-187; militia of, called out, 226; agents appointed by, 231; refusal of, to break the Unions, 232; an independent republic, 238; included in territory of the United States, 248; admission of, to the Union, 253; unpopularity of war with England in, 270; raises troops, 272; in the Mexican war, 338; unprepared for war in 1861, 340; characteristics of the people of, 365.

Vermontensium Res Publica, 248.

Walbridge, Colonel, and General Gansevoort, 233.

Warner, Seth, 70, 73, 78, 84, 86; takes Crown Point, 111, 115; appointed commander of Green Mountain Boys, 116, 124; recalled to Canada, 128; retreat covered by, 128, 130, 147; New York demands recall of commission of, 144; repels Indian invasion, 154; letter of, 154; at Hubbardton, 157; at Bennington, 175-177; death of, 258, 328.

Washington, General, letter from, 234; opinion of, concerning Vermont, 244.

Waters, Constable Oliver, 245.

Waubanakee, name of, 2.

Wentworth, Gov. Benning, grants by, 52, 58, 60.

Westminster, 54; massacre at, 90, 240; convention at, 98, 142; declaration of independence at, 144, 179.

Wilderness, the, country of, 11, 18, 47, 49.

Wilkinson, General, movements of, 277.

Windsor, convention at, 146; first legislature at, 191.

Winooski, 54.

Winthrop, John, 7.

Wohjahose, Rock Dunder, 6.

Wool-growing, 297; insignificance of, 358.

Wright, Captain, scout of, 18.

Young, Dr. Thomas, 145.

Zooquagese, 34.

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