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.