Chapter I: Front Matter

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American Commonwealths.

EDITED BY

HORACE E. SCUDDER.

VERMONT
TO ACCOMPANY
ROWLAND E. ROBINSON'S
VERMONT in
AMERICAN COMMONWEALTHS

THE MATTHEWS-NORTHRUP CO., BUFFALO, N. Y.]

American Commonwealths

VERMONT

A STUDY OF INDEPENDENCE

BY

ROWLAND E. ROBINSON

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1892

Copyright, 1892,
BY ROWLAND E. ROBINSON.

_All rights reserved._

_The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A._
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE HIGHWAY OF WAR 1

II. THE WILDERNESS DURING THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS 15

III. OCCUPATION AND SETTLEMENT 47

IV. THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS 57

V. THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS 68

VI. THE WESTMINSTER MASSACRE 90

VII. TICONDEROGA 100

VIII. GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS IN CANADA 115

IX. LAKE CHAMPLAIN 132

X. VERMONT AN INDEPENDENT COMMONWEALTH 139

XI. TICONDEROGA; HUBBARDTON 151

XII. BENNINGTON 165

XIII. SUBSEQUENT OPERATIONS OF VERMONT TROOPS 179

XIV. THE UNIONS 189

XV. THE HALDIMAND CORRESPONDENCE 203

XVI. UNIONS DISSOLVED 225

XVII. "THE REPUBLIC OF THE GREEN MOUNTAINS" 238

XVIII. THE NEW STATE 254

XIX. VERMONT IN THE WAR OF 1812 269

XX. OLD-TIME CUSTOMS AND INDUSTRIES 292

XXI. RELIGION, EDUCATION, AND TEMPERANCE 307

XXII. EMIGRATION 324

XXIII. "THE STAR THAT NEVER SETS" 333

XXIV. VERMONT IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION 340

XXV. THE VERMONT PEOPLE 354

INDEX 367

VERMONT.