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See Hertford.
Harvard college, 691, 708.
Hatfield attacked, 8, 9.
Haverhill burned, 12.
Hawks's Garrison, 67.
Hazen road, 412.
Herkimer county, 546.
Hertford, now Hartland, 328; when settled, 114, 115; grants in, 141; road to Chester from, 177; troubles at, 429, 430; census of, 745; militia of, 771.
Highway robbery, punishment of, 575, 576. Hill, Fort, 27, 68.
Hinsdale, now Vernon, 311, 361, 420, 507; fort at, 26; when chartered, 101, 102, 103; title to lands in, 170, 171; committee of, 295, 319, 334, 359; legal investigation at, 317, 318; sentiments in, 325, 755; census of, 745; militia of, 773.
Hinsdell's or Hinsdale's Fort, 27, 48, 49, 52, 53, 76, 248, 730; attack on the soldiers of, 77, 78; rangers at, 85, 706.
Hinsdell's mill, skirmish at, 36.
Horse-racing, punishment of, 577.
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INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
Hospital Point, proposed as a county town, 132.
Incest, punishment of, 574, 575. Indian road, 21, 33, 41.
Indian Rock at Brattleborough, 588-591.
Indians, 546, 669 ; treaty witli, 24, 544, 670, 672, 736-738; vestiges of, 124, 586 ; incursion of, at Barnard, 382; attack of, on Royalton, 383-395; false alarm concerning, 396-399; depredations of, 412; settlements of, 585- 587; picture-writing of, 587-592.
Industry, benefits of, 572.
Iroquois Indians, 6, 555.
Jail, description of, at Chester, 173-175, 177; description of, at Westminster, 185, 298.
Jamaica, grant of, 642.
Jericho, grants in, 546, 547.
John street theatre, 712.
Kent, census of, 745.
Kilburn's Fort, account of the fight at, 74, 739 -742.
Kingsbury county proposed, 132.
Kingsbury, town of, proposed as a county town, 132.
King's college, 140.
Kingsland, a county town, 160; location of, 161, 178. King's Own regiment, 618.
King William's war, 92.
Land Office, proceedings of the commission- ers of the New York, 544-546, 757-760. Lands, method of granting, 140, 141, 170.
Lawful authority, act to uphold, 345, 346. Lead, its value, 264.
Letter, punishment of wearing a, 575.
Lexington, battle of, 751.
Libellous letters, 731, 732.
Liberty-men, 227.
License laws, 189, 190, 578, 579.
List of civil and military officers, 762-773.
Londonderry, 249, 770; probably the scenc of Melvin's fight, 42.
Lord's day, observance of, 569, 579, 580.
Loyalist, 679, 696, 720, 723, 724.
Lucas's Garrison, 67.
Lunenburgh, 585; settlement at, 124; charter of, 657, 658.
Lying, punishment of, 577.
Lyme, kindness of the people of, 302.
Manchester county proposed, 132.
Manchester, town of, report concerning, 481; convention at, 56S.
Manslaughter, punishment of, 574. Maqnas Indians, 16.
Markets, law establishing, 192, 193.
Marlborough, 427, 486; conflict with the In- dians at, 45; when chartered, 97, 679, 680 ; a half shire town, 186, 404; incidents at, 276,
. 441-443; sentiments in, 325, 756; men drafted at, 372, 373 ; history of, 395 ; excite- ment at, 397-399; soldiers at, 440, 514, 517 ; superior court at, 452-455, 492-495, 582; committee of, 461, 471; militia of, 516; pardon of citizens of, 536; a preacher at, 691; letter from, 694; early settlers of, 728, 729 ; census of, 745.
Maseesqueeg or Scatacook Indians, 18, 23.
Massachusetts, northern boundary line of, settled, 60; claim of, 306, 307, 365; adjudica- tion on the claim of 364, 365, 596 ; sympathy of, 450, 451, 479, 519, 530, 533 ; correspondence with, 531; idea of annexing Vermont to, 681; grants by, 735, 736.
Massachusetts, Fort, 33, 34, 52, 54, 61, 62, 66, 67, 70, 81, 83, 91; force of, increased, 39.
Massacre at Westminster, 209-241, 398, 409, 410, 609, 635, 636, 639, 643, 645, 646, 673, 674,
678, 679, 680, 695, 699, 706, 719, 720, 726, 780, 746-755.
Masting trees, reserved for the use of the king, 143, 144; malicious prosecution for cutting, 146-158.
Meeting-house, description of a, 211-214.
Middlebury college, 598, 662.
Military officers, list of, 770-773.
Military road across Vermont, 91, 92.
Militia laws, 332, 333, 423, 581.
Mill prison, 406.
Mob, name given to the Americans, 216, 219, 234.
Mohawk Indians, 7
Montgomery county, 546.
Montpelier, 383; Indians encamp ncar, 390. .
Mooretown or Moretown, 123, 160, 328. See Bradford.
Morrison's Garrison, 67.
Mount Independence, camp at, 667.
Murder, 574.
Mutilation, 574.
Nassau Hall, 700. Nepisinques Indians, 66.
Neutrals, 322 ; number of, 325, 755, 756.
Newbury, 404, 408, 585; incidents connected with the settlement of, 124-126, 666 ; pro- posed as a county town, 132; grants near, 141; selected as a county town, 161; a mili- tary station, 275, 300; shire of, 315, 326 ; plan to attack, 383, 384; Indian settlements at, 586, 587.
New Connecticut, alias Vermont, 283, 288, 566, 573.
Newfane, 311, 420; the supposed locality of Melvin's fight, 42; when chartered, 99, 100, 675; a county town, 186; sentiments in, 325, 756; militia of, 346; false Indian alarm at, 396, 397 ; superior court at, 582, 583, 662 ; incident at, 709, 710; census of, 745.
New Flamstead, now Chester, 633, 634, 638, 639; when chartered, 109 ; proposed as a county town, 132, 133.
New Hampshire, 559, 560, 596; limits of in- creased, 25; dispute concerning the New Hampshire Grants, between New York and, 128, 243; boundaries of, 129, 130, 418; juris- diction on the "Grants," of, 191; union with Vermont of sixteen towns in, 325, 327; ad- vice to, 364, 365; dismemberment of, 402, 417, 750, 751.
New Hampshire Grants, 463, 486, 487, 679, 719, 722, 728, 729; disputes concerning, 128, 510,, 530, 533, 595, 606, 751; included in Albany county, 131, 763, 765; attempts to divide, 132-134: military and civil condition of, 135, 136, 770 ; petition of the inhabitants of, 169, 170; effects of the controversy concern- ing, 172, 173, 562, 565; road through a por- tion of, 194; patriotismn of, 205; idea of forming a state in, 244, 254, 260, 268, 269, 401; alienation of, 281; formed into the state of Vermont, 283, 566, 568; militia of, ordered to report, 305; protest against the separation of, 311-314; resolves of Con gress respecting, 355, 364, 365, 470, 472 ; affi- davit concerning, 374; titles to land on, 42? report relative to, 522, 523; early settler on, 583; submission of, 611 ; property owned on, 626, 627 ; surveyor on, 644. See Grants.
New Marlborough, when chartered, 97, 679 ; road through, 194.
New Netherland, northern limit of, 128.
New Stamford, road through, 194.
New state's men, 310, 320, 373, 528.
New Taunton or Number One, now Westmin- ster, terms of the grant of, 58-61.
New York, disputes concerning the New Hampshire Grants between New Hamp- shire and, 128, 129, 298; boundaries of, 130, 561; dislike to the jurisdiction of, 216, 243.
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238, 269, 276; ordered to raise men, 256; opinions relative to a separation from, 275 -- 278, 325, 755-757; alienation from, 281, 2S2; enmity between Vermont and, 304- 306, 310; denial of the jurisdiction of Ver- mont by friends of, 316-318; correspond- ence concerning the rights of, 320-325; persecution of the subjects of, 336, 370; de- fiance to, 345, 354; delegation from, 349, 350, 353, 355, 362, 381, 457, 459, 463; advice to, 364, 365, 467; elections of, 368, 369; peti- tions to the Legislature of, 376, 415, 418, 510, 541, 542, 552, 606, 607, 633 ; dismemberment of, 403, 417; determination of the friends of, 438; commissions from, 450; condition of the friends of, 485, 506, 507, 519 ; acts con- cerning the citizens of, 502, 503, 534, 535, 543, 541; proceedings and acts of the Legislature of, 361, 362, 461, 522-525, 553, 554, 558, 559, 560, 564, 565, 674, 760; grants of land to the suffering citizens of, 542-547, 757-760; ad- mission of Vermont into the Union favored by, 553-564; adjudication concerning, 596; Council, 719.
New York Committee of Safety, 283, 649, 720, 749.
New York Convention, 263, 268, 234, 285; commission from, 266; proceedings of, 270 -274. 289-294. 649, 772; obnoxious letter to, 277, 278; loan by, 282.
New York Council of Safety, 299; letter of, 298.
New York, General Assembly of, representa- tives in, 188, 605, 645, 767; remuneration of representatives in, 193; last meeting of, 195, 196, 218, 238.
New York Provincial Congress, 245, 248, 249, 256, 284, 640, 641, 644, 647, 648, 729, 762, 766, 770, 771, 772 ; delegates in, 246, 247, 250, 254, 258, 728, 767, 770 ; letter to, 260, 261; name changed, 263; extracts from journals of, 264, 749.
New York Provincial Convention, 244, 247, 649, 762.
Night-walking, punishment of, 578.
Northfield, 67, 248, 670, 671; settlement at, 7; depredations at, 8, 52; abandoned, 10.
North Haven, first settler of, 594.
Norton's tavern, 630, 631 ; a representation of, 221.
Norwalk, burning of, 696.
Norwich, 323, 602, 703 ; first called Norwhich, 112; settlement of, 113; a shire town, 404; census of, 745.
Number One or New Taunton, now Westmin- ster, terms of the grant of, 58-61, 101; list of the grantees or proprietors of, 738, 739. Number Two, now Rockingham, 101.
Number Three, now Walpole, fort at, 740.
Number Four, now Charlestown, 27, 31, 33, 36, 41, 43, 45, 49, 52, 53, 54, 61, 62, 84, 89, 90, 91; attacked and valiantly defended, 38; other attacks on, 39, 40, 64.
Oath, required, 581; commissioners to admi- nister, 763, 763.
Oneida Indians, 546. Oorondax Indians, 34.
Orange county (N.Y.), 291; exposed to attack, 264.
Orange county (Vt.), 4, 6, 143, 161; boun- daries of, 403, 404.
Order of King in Council, of July 20th, 1764, 118, 122, 130, 145, 146, 169, 170, 171, 191, 201, 359, 562, 606, 679.
Orleans county, 6.
Pardon, offers of, 347, 343. Paris, peace of, 72S. Peacham, 412; incursion at, 405, 406, 668. Pelham, Fort, 33, 40, 67.
Pennsylvannia, similarity between the consti- tution of Vermont and that of, 567.
Penobscot Indians, 62.
Perjury, punishment of, 576.
Philip's war, 7, 8.
Picture writing of Indians, 587-592.
Pigwacket, fight at, 585.
Pillory, punishment of the, 576, 582, 583.
Pitt county proposed, 132.
Plymouth, when chartered, 113.
Poetic account of the Westminster Massacre, 234, 235, 752.
Polygamy, punishment of, 575.
Pomfret, 411, 486; when chartered, 107, 114; minister at, 699; census of, 745; militia of, 771.
Poor law, 580.
Population of the New Hampshire Grants, 130, 131, 134, 135, 187, 188, 745.
Pownal, when chartered, 93; road through, 194.
Presents to the Indians, 34, 35.
Presidential elector, 662.
Press, freedom of the, 571.
Profanity, punishment of, 577.
Propagation of the gospel, society for the, 743. Protestant religion, 569.
Putney, 311, 361, 375, 376, 420, 486, 677, 698; when chartered, 68, 94, 697; incidents con- nected with the settlement of, 95, 96, 106, 108, 695; grants in, 141; riots at, 172, 173, 180, 652 ; anger of the people, 224; disaffec- tion in, 251, 252; committee of, 295, 335, 359, 695; sentiments in, 325, 756; rescue at. 334, 336, 340; citizens of, arrested, 339; election prevented at, 369; drafts in, 373; false alarm at, 396-399; militia of, 515, 772, 773 ; church at, 696; census of, 745.
Pypowder, courts of, meaning of the name, 193.
Randolph, Indians encamp in, 388; incursion at, 390, 392.
Rangers, life of, 71-73; established, 264, 265, 772; command of, 266-268; conduct of, 270, 271, 286-289 ; report concerning, 273- 275; disaffection among, 279 ; wages of, paid, 282; ordered to march, 299, 300.
Rape, 574.
Raynham Hall, name proposed for Wood- stock, 116.
Readesborough, road through, 194.
Reading, when chartered, 113, 328; comme morative stones at, 65, 66, 591.
Regulators, 551.
Religion protected, 569, 573.
Rescue at Putney, 334.
Rice's Fort, 33, 67, 73, 86.
Riots, severe acts to prevent, 340, 341, 344, 576.
Road laws, 138, 139, 189, 194, 195.
Roads from Lake Champlain to Connecticut river, 21, 22, 23, 32, 51, 64, 75, 83, 84, 85, 91, 92.
Rockingham, 311, 328, 361, 420, 423; when chartered, 100, 101, 104; meeting of civil officers at, 135 ; settlements at, 178; efforts to make it a county town, 179; patriotism of, 217, 218, 224, 233; friendly to a new state, 269; committee of, 335, 359 : disturbance at, 336; remonstrance from, 409, 410; militia of, 515, 753, 773; census of, 745; representa- tives from, 754; sentiments in, 756.
Royal tavern, 221, 222.
Royalton, 383, 554; the attack on and burn- ing of, 384-395.
Rutland county, troops assemble from, 440, 551.
Rutland, town of, trial at, 329, 330; Council meet at, 527; outbreak at, 551; General Assembly meet at, 568. Ryswick, peace of, 9.
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Sabbath, observance of, 569, 579, 580.
Saltash, former name of Plymouth, 113. San Coick, attack on, 66. Sartwell's Fort, 26, 27; tavern. 166. Saturday evening, observance of, 580. Scatacook Indians, 18, 23.
Scouting expeditions, routes of, 18, 19; or- ganized, 89; journal of, 670, 671.
Sculptures by the Indians, 587-592. Service, a punishment, 332, 341, 577.
Sharon, 328; when chartered, 116; Indian in- cursion at, 386, 387, 392; census of, 745.
Shay's Rebellion, 530, 709, 711.
Sheldon's Fort, 33, 67.
Sheriff, law concerning his duties, 192.
Shirley, Fort, 33, 36, 40, 45, 67.
Sodomy, 574.
Sons of Liberty, 196.
Sounding-board, account of a, 212.
South Carolina, maritime condition of, 658, 659.
Springfield, 361; when chartered, 116; diffi- culties of settling, 117-119; early militia company in, 185 ; agreement signed at, 248; sentiments in, 325, 423, 756; committee of, 335, 359; town meeting at, 634; census of, 745; inilitia of, 771, 773.
Squakheag, settlement at, 7.
Stanwix, Fort, 544.
Sterling county proposed, 132.
St. Francis Indians, 44, 62, 586.
Stillwater proposed as a county town, 132. Stocks, punishment of, 577, 578, 579, 580. Stratford, 328; deserters from, 302.
Supply bill, 674, 702.
Swanzey, attack on, 7.
Swine, law to prevent damage by, 193, 194.
Taunton river, writing roek on, 588, 589. Tavern-haunter, punishment of a, 578.
Taverns, courts held at, 195, 196.
Taylor's Garrison, 67.
Tender act, 551.
Theft, punishment of, 577.
Thetford, 328; when chartered, 116; deserters from, 302; a shire-town, 404.
Thirty thousand dollars, aet granting the sum of, to New York, 561, 564; division of the sum of, 565, 633, 676, 761, 762.
Thomlinson, now Grafton, when chartered, 111.
Ticonderoga, 287, 729; attack on feared, 275, 285, 567; evacuated, 297, 301, 308; troops march to, 300; events at, 405, 641, 667.
Timber, law concerning the destruction of, 191.
Tinmouth, consultation at, 555.
Tioga county, 546.
Tory, 216, 217. 218, 220, 221, 222, 224, 233, 275, 293, 335, 360, 397, 398, 412, 608, 613, 624, 627, 639, 647, 674, 696, 701, 702, 751, 752.
Townshend, when chartered, 101; agreement signed at, 248; militia of, 515, 641; early in-
habitants of, 640; representative from, 642; census of, 745.
Treason, punishment of, 573, 574.
Treaty, renewal with the Indians of a, 24, 736 -738.
Trenton, battle of, 303.
Tryon county, 275, 291 ; fairs in, 193; exposed situation of, 264.
Tump-line, 47.
Tunbridge, Indian depredations at, 384, 892. Tuscarora Indians, 546.
Ulster county, 291; exposed to attack, 264. Unity county, 3, 5, 315.
University of Vermont, 708, 709. Utrecht, treaty of, 13.
Vermont, division into counties of, 1-6; early reference to, 6; first settlement in, 16;
second sett.ement in, 24; derivation of the principles of the laws of, 189, 573, 574; first convention within the limits of, opposed to Great Britain, 197-200 ; formed into a state, 283; constitution of, 297, 808, 320, 828, 329, 566-572, 702, 703 ; opinions concerning, 298, 363, 369, 413, 414, 424, 471 ; enmity between New York and, 304-306, 310; called an ideal state, 324; union of New Hampshire towns with, 325, 827, 402, 750; militia laws of, 332, 333, 423, 581; laws of, defied, 338, 425, 426; refusal to serve in the militia of, 356, 357 ; advice to, 365; supposed determi- nation of, 374; negotiations between the British and, 380, 881, 408, 412-414, 416, 419, 421, 422, 461, 464, 479, 485, 508, 568, 720, 721 ; * exposed situation of, 382, 383; union of New York towns with, 403, 417; peculiar situa- tion of, 412; condemnation of tlic resolves of December 5th, 1782, by, 478, 479, 481 ; power of, 495; gathering of the troops of, 515; sentiments in, 538; land granted to the sufferers by, 542-547; admission into the Union of, 553-565; division line be- tween New York and, 561; criminal code of, 574-580; Indians of, 585-592.
Vermont Council, 314, 315, 598, 602, 632, 639, 662, 674, 675, 698; determination of, 338; measures of, 346-349, 439, 440, 450, 453, 475, 476, 477, 478, 485, 491, 498, 500, 501, 502, 518, 526, 527, 534, 572, 596; letter to, 731; re- quest to, 750.
Vermont Council of Safety, 299, 626, 627. Vermonters, 301, 805, 322, 333, 334, 336, 373, 377, 415, 417, 427, 428, 434, 435, 440, 443, 444, 448, 450, 452, 457, 459, 471, 474, 475, 476, 478, 479, 480, 481, 457, 489, 500, 505, 506, 508, 509, 512, 513, 514, 515, 516, 517, 518, 519, 524, 528, 529, 530, 538, 539, 545, 683 ; number of, 325 ; determination of, 338.
Vermont, General Assembly of, 308, 309, 312 ; address to, 311; first session of, 314, 315, 639 ; acts of, 327, 328, 331, 332, 333, 336, 340, 341, 344, 345, 346, 356, 402, 403, 408, 410, 411, 423, 432, 433, 438, 439, 449, 450, 482, 490, 491, 501, 502, 525 528, 531, 533, 534, 586, 537, 539, 540, 548, 551, 559, 561, 564, 567, 568, 572-583, 627, 637, 662, 687, 688, 703, 724, 754, 755: grants by, 369, 370; petitions to, 419, 510, 513, 536, 636, 639, 688; accusation against, 461 ; letter from, 483 ; resolutions of, 506, 642, 704 ; com- missioners appointed by, 562; members of, 598, 602, 639, 642, 669, 675, 697, 698, 731; negotiations with, 709.
Vermont's Appeal, a pamphlet, 596 ; extract from, 750.
Vernon, disastrous affair at the meadow in, 74-77; when chartered, 101, 102, 103; early settler of, 706.
Wages and rations of soldiers, 33, 84, 89, 40, 61, 71.
Walpole, 633; patriotism of, 224; meeting at, 401; Indian fight at, 74, 789-742 ; epitaph at, 742; militia of, 753.
Wantastiquet river, sculptures on the bank of, 588-592.
Washington county (N. H.), 404.
Washington county (N. Y.), 555.
Washington county (Vt.), 6.
Washington, town of, formerly the township of Kingsland, 161.
Weathersfield, 311, 361, 420, 657; when char- tered, 119; grants in, 141; agreement sign- ed at, 248 ; committee of, 295, 335, 359; sen- timents in, 325, 756 ; supposed inscriptions at, 591, 592; census of, 745; militia of, 771, 778.
Wedding, a curious, 585.
Wells river, fort at the mouth of, 19.
Westehester county, 701, 702.
Western Union, 403, 415, 418, 419, 421, 423, 466.
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INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
West Fairlee, formerly a part of Fairlee, 120. Westminster, 311, 328, 386, 361, 375, 376, 397, 409, 420, 423, 604, 605, 640, 662; terms of the grant of, 58-61; deserted, 68; charter re- newed, 93, 94; inn at, 148, 221 ; attempts to make it a county town, 179, 182; shire of, 184. 815, 326; court house at, 185, 186, 192; roads to, 194; supervisors to meet at, 195; conventions at, 197, 198, 202, 204-208, 249, 250, 254, 771 ; resolves of convention at, 199, 200 ; massacre at, 209-241, 898, 409, 410, 609, 685, 636, 639, 643, 645, 646, 678, 674, 678, 679, 680, 695, 699, 706, 719, 720, 726, 730, 746 -755 ; old meeting house at, 211-214; first settled minister at, 211, 732 ; court to meet at, 217; hostile assemblage at, 218-221; militia gather at, 224, 225, 226; account of those killed at, 227-231; incidents con- nected with the massacre at, 232-235; re- sults of the massacre at, 236-241, 258; meeting of committees at, 243, 244, 641, 754 ; county congress at, 245, 246, 655 ; manifesto from, 251, 252 ; county committee of safety at, 257-263, 277, 294; convention establish- ing Vermont mcets at, 283, 285, 292; com- mittee of, 295, 835, 359; Yorkers confined at, 339, 446, 455, 488, 519; trial of Yorkers at, 340-845, 349, 506, 509; letters written from, 345, 719; defences recommended at, 854: General Assembly mcet at, 869; a half-shire, 404 ; superior court held at, 411, 446-452, 456, 520, 521, 595; militia of, 445, 515, 772, 773 ; occurrences at, 478, 733, 784 ; examination at, 536; strange burial at, 583, 584, 637; curious wedding at, 585; office holders from, 597, 598; list of the proprie- tors of, 739, 742, 743 ; census of, 745; senti- ments in, 756.
West river, sculptures on the bank of, 588- 592; notice of, 670, 671.
Whig, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 222, 223, 224, 227, 233, 238, 635, 653, 666, 679, 752, 753. Whipping post, punishment at the, 582, 583. White Plains, incidents at, 701, 702.
Whiting, road through, 194; militia of, 346. Willard's hill, 61.
William Henry, Fort, capture of, 85, 86. Williams's Garrison, 67.
Wills, law regarding the probate of, 190.
Wilmington, 453, 454; when chartered, 99; militia of, 515, 516; census of, 745; senti- ments in, 756.
Windham county, 1, 4, 5, 403, 404, 429, 526, 708 ; office-holders in, 408, 409, 597, 640, 642, 675, 696, 702, 709; court of, 415, 419, 438; pre- sentment to the grand jurors of, 426, 694; military brought into requisition in, 439, 440, 482, 501, 528; condition of, 461, 462, 479, 502, 503, 525, 581, 535, 541, 597; delegate from, 527; charge to the grand jurors of, 662-665; election in, 750.
Windsor county, 1, 4, 5, 408, 404; court house for, 534; troops gather in, 551; officers of, 602.
Windsor, town of, 828, 408, 582, 651, 703, 754; when chartered, 113, 114, 146; grants in, 141; noted for its white pines, 146; mali- cious prosecution against citizens of, for cut- ting masting timber, 147 -158; riotous behavior of the people of, 161-168; con- duct of people of, reprobated, 169; road to Chester from, 177 ; conventions at, 255, 267, 268, 288, 772 ; convention at, disapproved of, 295-297; constitution of Vermont adopted at, 297, 308; first session of General Assem- bly meet at, 309, 814, 315; General Assem- bly meet at, 844, 345, 564, 568 ; proclamation dated at, 348; a shire town, 404; condition of, 461, 462; statement prepared at, 530; court house at, 534; disturbance at, 548- 551, 725; fourth of July at, 713; census of, 745; militia of, 771.
Woodstock, 328; when chartered, 115; rioters from, 550; census of, 745 ; militia of, 771. Worship, right of, 569.
Yale college, 14, 594, 708.
Yorkers, 305, 322, 334, 336, 342, 343, 344, 346, 354, 355, 357, 358, 359, 368, 369, 370, 371, 372, 373, 375, 376, 379, 413, 421, 424, 425, 432, 434, 435, 439, 440, 444, 445, 446, 447, 449, 450, 451, 452, 457, 468, 474, 475, 476, 477, 479, 481, 487, 500, 501, 502, 503, 504, 505, 508, 509, 510, 511, 513, 515, 516, 517, 518, 519, 520, 521, 522, 525, 526, 527, 528, 530, 531, 532, 534, 535, 566, 597, 683, 684, 686, 687, 751, 756; number of, 325; de- termination of, 338; rage of, 339.
INDEX OF PERSONS.
Abbott, James, 126. Abeel, James, 3, 554, 565, 761. Adams, John, 662, 758 ; remark of, 343. Adams, Simeon, 728. Adams, Thomas, 85, 86. Addarawanset, 7. Addington, Isaac, 736. Adgate, Matthew, 418, 524. Aiken, Edward, 2d., 257. Aiken, Solomon, 548. Albee, Jacob, 753. Albee, John, 753.
Aldrich. Gen. George, 69.
Alexander, Aaron, first person born in Putney, 69.
Alexander, Ebenezer, 40, 42, 43, 102.
Alexander, John. 78, 104, 743, 758, 772, 773; trial and fine of, 453. Alexander, Jonathan, 773.
Alexander, Jonathan S., 759.
Alexander, Joseph, 742. Alexander, Philip, 69, 95. Allen, Ebenezer. 562.
Allen, Ethan, 225, 237, 243, 244, 316, 349, 351, 353, 354, 449, 455, 456, 463, 519, 596, 684, 724, 732, 754; extract from his writings, 102, 535; anecdotes of, 221, 342, 343, 600, 629-631; threats of, 338; leads the Vermonters against the Yorkers, 339; ideas entertained of, 340, 452; a brigadier general, 346; ordered to quell an insurrection, 440; arrest by, 443 444; his terrible proclamation, 445; his boasts, 451; conversation of, 497; refuses to subscribe a test creed, 570; reward for, 607; marriage and children of, 631; letter from, 729.
Allen, Heman, 254, 268, 269.
Allen, Ira, 513, 562, 596; elected state treasurer, 314; writs issued by, 339; letters from, 344, 345; embassy of, 438; ordered to quell an in- surrection, 440; sent to make an arrest, 441 -443 ; agent, 539; a commissioner, 559 ; his advice, 626; extracts from his history of Vermont, 644, 724, 752; extracts from a pamphlet of, 750. Allen, James, 160. Allen, Joseph, Jr., 97. Allen, Josiah, 773. Allen, Newman, 87. Allen, Samuel. 96, 743. Allison, Col. William, 649. Alvord, Elijah, 206, 257. * Alvord. John, 690. Ames, Lemuel, 753.
Ames, Luther, 97.
Amherst, Gen. Jeffrey, 89, 91, 92. Amsden, Thomas, 230.
Amy, Micah, 120. Anderson, Samuel, 194.
Andrews, Rev. E. D., 70, 95, 96. Andrews, Edmond, 738. Andrews, John 738. Andros, Mr., 53.
Andros or Andross, Bildad, 163, 223; state- ment of, 747 ; a justice, 765.
Andross, Nathaniel, 40.
Apthorpe, Charles Ward, 328. Archer, Benjamin, 654.
Arms, John, 104, 725, 743; sheriff, 151, 152, 154, 766; poet, 234; office held by, 764, 765. Arms, John, Jr., 743.
Arms, Josiah, inn-keeper, 413, 452; scene at the inn of, 510, 511; troops assemble at the . inn of, 515, 519; petition of, 552,
Arms, Phineas, 73.
Armstrong, Hezekiah, a captain, 519.
Arnold, Jonathan, 562; letter of, 723. Ash, Capt., 96.
Ashcraft, Daniel, 424, 505, 773; account of, 510; grant of lands to, 545, 759.
Ashley, Benjamin, wife of. 673.
Ashley, John, 692.
Ashley, Joseph, 739, 743.
Ashley, Samuel, 113, 739, 743.
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