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Barrett, Joseph, 447
Bartlett, Aaron, 144, 150, 177, 262
Battle of Trenton, 117 n.
Bayard, William, 111, 112
Bayley, E. A., 181, 182, 192
Bayley, Frye, 262 n. Bayley, Jacob, 81, 95, 182, 191, 192, 226, 274, 291, 304, 305, 326, 339, 340,
344, 363, 374, 380, 404 ff., 428, 433, 462, 466, 469, 472, 483 ff., 502, 539, Beach, Elihu, 353
Beaman, Charles Coatsworth, 484
549
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Beatty, Francis, 220 n.
Becker, C. L., 53
Beginnings of the American People, 53
Belknap, Jeremy, 11, 19, 473, 486
Bell, Benjamin, 50
Bellomont, Earl of, 108
Bellows, Benjamin, 95, 246, 381, 521 Bellows Falls, see Great Falls
Benjamin, Caleb, 89, 91, 114, 150, 185, 190, 193, 262, 352
Benjamin, John, 74, 89, 114, 190, 193, 232, 352, 416, 461, 478 n., 498, 505, 506, 525; highway surveyor, 144; among rioters, 150; sheriff, 430, 431, 438, 490, 491, 492, 497; joins Congre- gational church, 493
Bennington, 6, 12 ff., 18, 24, 186, 235, 299, 300, 387, 394, 420, 421, 426, 453; turmoil in, 146, 230; Battle of, 404, 407, 414, 461; Vermont Legislature at, 516, 524; County of, 437; public hanging at, 454
Berkshire County, 529
Bernard, Francis, 58 n.
Bishop, Benjamin, 92, 193, 352
Bishop, Jeremiah, 92, 190, 193, 259, 348, 352, 506, 525, 534
Bishop, Seth, 534
Blackstone, Sir William, 3 n.
Blakeslee, James, 441
Blanchard, Joseph, 25 ff.
Blome, Richard, 5
"Blowmedown," 51
Blunt, Andrew, 89, 92, 95, 150, 353, 534
Bowker, Joseph, 286, 299, 324, 334, 366, 377, 379, 384, 415, 432, 433, 462, 529 Bradford, 9
Bradford Club Series, 5
Bradley, Stephen Row, 499, 502, 513, 516
Brainerd, Lawrence, 547
Brands, statute for, 496 Brattle, Colonel, 33
Brattleboro, 6, 9, 23, 72, 76, 83, 184, 188, 373, 536; loyalty of, to New York, 362, 365, 367, 417, 426, 427, 439, 462, 465; meeting of Cumber- land County men at, 423; meeting at, to protest against secession from New York, 439 ff .; town meeting, 452; records at, 547, 548
Breakenridge farm, the, 146, 151 Bridgeman, John, 308
Bridgeman's Fort, 6
Bridgewater, grant of, 27; Earl of, 34 British, grievances against Parliament, 239; approach of, to Vermont, 381, 383, 401; refuge with, sought by Green Mountain Boys, 401; Allen's secret negotiations with, 510 ff., 538 ff.
Brooks Library, 183
Brown, Briant, 113, 117 n., 507, 523, 525, 533, 541
Brownson, Gideon, 306
Brownson, Timothy, 384, 406, 432, 433, 462
Brush, Crean, 228, 243, 253, 277, 489
Bryant, Stanley R., 546
Bryce, James, 386
Buena Vista, 54, 350
Bull, Joseph, 218
Burgoyne, General, 381, 401, 414
Burk, Jonathan, 92, 193, 293
Burke, Isaiah, 352
Burke, Solomon, 352
Burlingame, Israel, 293
Burnet, William, 20
Burnham, John, 334, 338, 366, 433 n.
Burnham, John, Jr., 300
Burnham, Moses, 131
Burroughs, Eden, 463
Burt, Benjamin, 441
Burt, Jonathan, 447
Burton, Asa, 460
Burton, Jacob, 335, 338, 366
Butler, Asaph, 259, 260, 353
Butler, Ezra, 353
Butler, Joel, 353, 417, 505, 534
Butterfield, Benjamin, 246, 247, 441
Byington, Ezra Hoyt, 92, 93, 234, 493, 494
Cabot, Miss, 426 Cady, Stephen, 350 Calvinists, in Windsor, 93
Calendar of Historical Manuscripts, 69, 333
Canada, conquest of, 23 Cardiff, 33
Carleton, Christopher, 322, 324, 515
Carpenter, Benjamin, 175, 299-301, 381, 406, 420, 433, 462
"Casino," the, 484
Castleton, 519 Catalogue of Vermont Officers, 434
Cavendish, 9, 536
Centennial Memorial of Windsor, Ver- mont, 202
Champlain, 5
Champlain, Lake, attack on American fleet on, 322, 324
Chandler, John, 159
Chandler, Thomas, 57, 61, 62, 81-83, 148, 154, 155, 164, 174, 194, 244-247, 335, 338, 339, 432
Chandler, Thomas, Jr., 462
Chapin, Pelatiah, 495, 534
Charles II, grant made by, 1-3, 15, 21, 46, 47, 173; the father of Vermont, 390
Charleston, 3, 4 Charlestown, 6, 8, 9, 42, 43; conven- tion at, 520-522. See also Number Four
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Charlotte, Queen, 100
Charlotte County, 84, 250, 291
Chase, Alice, 50, 51
Chase, Betty, 95
Chase, Bishop Philander, 51
Chase, Dudley, 51, 133, 135, 484
Chase, Jonathan, 354, 447 n., 501, 543 Chase, Samuel, 104, 135, 350, 521, 528 Chelsea, records at, 547
Chester, 9, 72, 76, 79, 83, 297, 345; rioters in, 154 ff .; agitation for re- moval of court house from, 185, 186, 188, 228, 231. See also Flamstead Chesterfield, 9
Child, W. H., 51
Child's Windsor County Gazetteer, 34 Chimney Point, 6
Chipman, Daniel, 77, 80, 391, 392, 394 Chipman, Nathaniel, 77, 221
Chittenden, L. E., 408
Chittenden, Thomas, 286, 299, 301, 334, 338, 339, 356, 366, 380, 385, 399, 404 ff., 424, 432, 433, 448, 458, 508, 510, 511, 539; letters from, 415, 465, 473, 474, 514; letter to, 482; final orders of Council of Safety issued by, 429, 430; re-election of, 461, 516, 517; recommends suspension of en- forcement of statute, 503; his procla- mation of pardon, 499, 501, 502
Church, established in Cornish and Windsor, 90 ff.
Church, John, 247 Claremont, 9
Clark, Ebenezer, 399, 402
Clark, Jeremiah, 406, 432, 433, 462
Clark, Nathan, 300, 334, 338, 339, 345, 366, 380, 404, 405, 409, 504
Clark, Nathan, Jr., 338
Clay, James, 281, 292 ff., 308, 327, 331, 363, 373, 400, 410, 417, 423; circular letters of, 315
Clesson, Mathew, 13
Clinton, George, Governor of New York after American independence, 14
Clinton, George, Governor of Province of New York, 13-17, 20, 23, 34, 503, 512, 520; proclamation of, 423, 429; extract from letter to, 427, 428; Allen's reply to proclamation of, 456, 457; letters from, 457, 465; attitude of, toward Vermont's statehood, 528; threat of, to prorogue legislature, 533 Clinton, Henry, 510 Clinton, James, 496 Cochran, Robert, 247, 253
Colden, Alexander, 67, 70
Colden, Cadwallader, 12, 14, 19-22, 32, 43-48, 56 ff., 64 ff., 78, 80, 125, 369; place of lawyer defined by, 110; grants by, 118; memorial addressed to, 140; enmity toward Dunmore,
170, 171; petition to, 241; letter from, 247; observations of, on riot, 248, 249 Cole, Ebenezer, 142
Collections of the Vermont Historical Society, 85 Common Sense, 356
Comstock, J. M., 381
Concise Refutation of the Claims of New Hampshire and Massachusetts Bay, A, 508
Congregational Church, records of, 546 Connecticut, boundary of, 18, 19
Connecticut River, ferry established across, 354; first bridge, 355
Constitution, Vermont's, 384, 385, 386- 395; first to prohibit slavery, 386, 387; legislation provision, 388; pro- vision regarding senators, 388; com- parison of, with Pennsylvania's, 388 ff., inhabitants ignorance of, 390, 391; religious liberty provided by, 389; provision for council of censors, 393; acts to establish, 394, 395
Continental Congress, the, 240, 257, 285, 342, 411, 468, 469, 500; petition to, 271 ff .; resolutions of, 328, 356 ff., 371, 372, 503, 504; commission se- cured by Warner from, 345, 346; action of, on petition of New Hamp- shire Grants, 399, 400; Ethan Allen's visit to, 458, 459, 464, 465, 481; re- port to, of separatist movement in Vermont, 473; investigating com- mittee appointed by, 500, 501; me- morial to, from Lebanon convention, 501; progress on Vermont affairs, 503, 504, 507 ff .; Knoulton at, 512, 513; farewell letter of Allen and Bradley to, 516; Allen's letter to, 538, 539, 544
Cook, Samuel, 348
Cooper, Thomas, 41, 42, 52, 54, 55, 69, 74, 86, 87, 91, 113-115, 144, 150, 190,
194, 226, 253, 259, 273, 318, 348, 351,
435, 437, 446, 452, 455, 460, 461, 470, 472, 488, 494, 505, 507
Copley, John Singleton, 100, 137
Cornish, 9, 90, 102, 521, 541; conven- tion at, 473, 483 ff., 528 ff., in 1778, 477
Cornish History, 354 Cornwall, 462
Cosby, William, 20 Cossit, Ranna, 492
Courant, Hartford, 342, 355, 366, 367, 370, 371, 410, 411, 416
Courts, procedure in ancient admiralty,
126; commissioners, 448, 451, 452; of confiscation, 448, 449, 452; superior of Vermont, 472; "Special," 448-452, 472; records of, 547
Cowles, Gideon, 351, 438, 494 Crockett, Mr., 264
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Crown Point, 24, 255, 257 Croydon, 541
Cruger, Henry, 201, 216, 220, 353 Cruikshank, Lieutenant, 170
Cumberland County, erection of, 82-
84; doubtful legality of, 147, 156; indictment by Grand Jury of, 151- 153; first census, 170, 183 ff .; district- ing of, 227, 228; change in county seat, 228, 231; conventions in, 235, 237 ff., 251, 252, 255, 259, 265 ff., 275, 276; lawlessness in, 242, 243; com- plaints against Court of Common Pleas, 243, 244; conclusions of, on uprisings, 250; separate province suggested, 251, 252; committee of Safety, 255 ff., 275, 284, 287, 292, 317, 318, 326 ff .; military organization, 273; delegates from, to New York convention, 276, 291, 341; instruc- tions to delegates, 277 ff .; separate State idea in, 286, 288; distinction between meetings on west side of Green Mountains and conventions of, 287; doubtful jurisdiction of New York over, 288-290, 296, 297, 301 ff., 309, 312; one of two first Vermont counties, 437; records of, 547, 548 Cummings, Jacob, 86
"Cummings's Rocks," 105 n.
Cummins, Jerahmeel, 447, 534
Curtis, Abel, 463, 464
Curtis, Ebenezer, 92, 150, 165, 184, 185, 190, 194, 259, 293, 318, 345, 346, 348, 352, 354, 355, 371, 417, 446, 455, 480, 494, 505, 525, 534-537; petition signed by, 175; in General Assem- bly, 435-437, 461, 470, 472, 516, 528; commissioner for sale of confiscated estates, 499; at Charleston conven- tion, 521
Curtis, Elizabeth, 261
Curtis, Israel, 41, 42, 52, 54, 69, 74, 83, 86, 87, 91, 95, 106, 114, 120, 121, 130, 132, 137, 150, 177, 185, 224, 228, 235, 260, 261, 270, 351; on school commit- tee, 145; in Chester riot, 154 ff .; com- plaint against, 165; New York gov- ernment appointment, 176; letters from, 261; death of, 261
Curtis, William, 371
Curtis, Zebina, 261, 262, 294, 354, 413, 417
Cutler, Benoni, 507
Cutler, Thomas, 441 Cutting, Sewall, 270
Dallas, Alexander, 69, 75 Dana, Henry Swan, 54, 177 Dana, John, 372 Danvers pamphlet, the, 421, 422
Dartmouth College, 11, 98, 191, 463, 485
Dartmouth, Lord, letter to, 248 Davenport, Charles, 244 Davis, Ebenezer, 193
Day, Elkanah, 308, 324
Dean, Abigail, 350 Dean, Elizabeth, 89, 350
Dean, James, 350
Dean, Peace, 115
Dean, Phinehas, 107
Dean, Rachel, 121, 139
Dean, Reuben, 107, 349, 351, 507; Vermont's first seal cut by, 478-480
Dean, Willard, 103, 107, 117, 132, 350; arrest of, 119 ff .; decree against, 138; petition signed by, 175
Dean, William, 89, 102-106, 253, 273, 318, 345-350, 408, 446, 494; progres- siveness of, 107; violation of timber law, 108, 109, 117 ff., 130 ff .; con- veys land to Grout, 111; prosecu- tion of, 117 ff., 125 ff., 130 ff .; an- swer of, to information filed against, 130-132; lots on Lower Meadow claimed by, 135; bill of sale to Wells, 138; decree against, 138; impris- oned, 139; petition for forfeiture of land of, 140, 141, 168, 169; story of support from New Yorkers, 147; expense of case against, 171, 172; petition signed by, 175, 177; supports movement for change in county seat, 186, 231; activities of, in securing buyers for Windsor lands, 218, 219; ejectment suit in favor of, 223 n .; Windsor's leader, 375; convention delegate, 379, 380
Dean, William, Jr., 103, 107, 117, 132, 262; arrest of, 119 ff .; in jail, 124, 125; decree against, 138; petition signed by, 175
Declaration of Independence, 288, 291 Deering, 100
De Lancey, Lieutenant-Governor, 20, 43
Dictionary of National Biography, 84 "Districting Act," the, 224
Documentary History of New York, 112, 121, 124, 138, 142, 149, 155, 168, 172, 183, 264, 295, 304, 345
Dodsley's Annual Register, 84
Dorset, 262; convention at, 264, 269, 271 ff., 285 ff., 295-298, 299 ff., 318, 324, 345
Douglass, William, 19
Downer, Charles, 102 n.
Dresden, 261, 463, 541
Duane, James, 118, 119, 138, 167, 178, 310, 311, 500; counsel for Deans, 125 ff .; prominence of, 129; letter from, 140; quoted, 312 ff .; report of, 325, 327; extract from letter to, 457; papers of, 178, 466
Duer, William, 250, 291, 310
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Duke of York, grant to, 173 Dulles, Alexander, see Dallas Dummerston, 9. See also Fulham Duncan, George A., 546 Dunham, Obediah, 304
Dunmore, Earl of, 20; appointed gov- ernor of New York, 170; letters of, 171; his census of Cumberland and Gloucester, 170, 183 ff .; petitions re- ceived by, 173 ff .; governor of Vir- ginia, 194 Dwight, Timothy, 254 n., 486, 487 Early History of Vermont, 47, 64-66, 145, 151, 167, 237, 360, 376, 388, 423
Easton, James, 254 Edwards, Timothy, 500 Elliot, Andrew, 70 Ellsworth, Oliver, 500, 501 Ely, Joel, 297, 348, 507, 516, 525, 533, 534, 537 Ely, Joel, Jr., 447
Emmons, Benjamin, 293, 335, 408, 432, 433, 462, 481 Emmons, Mary, 49-51
Emmons, Solomon, 49, 50, 53, 87, 89, 114, 120, 193, 259, 260, 294, 352, 534; among rioters, 150, 159
Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences, 5 Evans, Asher, 441 Evans, John, 92 Evarts, farmhouse the, 227, 425 Evarts, Helen Minerva, 50 n.
Evarts, John, 74 Evarts, Sherman, 40, 546
Evarts, William Maxwell, 1 n., 102 Everett, Horace, Jr., 523
Fairlee, 9 Family Memoirs, 249 n. Fane, 23 Fane, Francis, 33 Farmington, 33 Farrand, Daniel, 524 Fassett, John, 436, 504
Fay, Jonas, 250, 271, 286, 288, 295-301, 306, 326, 334, 339, 340, 356, 366, 370, 371, 376, 379, 380, 399, 404-409, 432 ff., 442, 462, 468, 469, 501, 508, 548 Fay, Joseph, 462 Fish, Josiah, 286, 288 Fitch, Pelatiah, 450, 451, 465 Fitch, William, 325 Fitzpatrick, John, 69 Flamstead, 23, 62, 79 Fletcher, Robert, 26 Fletcher, Samuel, 286-288, 335 Floyd, William, 500, 509, 520 Folklore of Springfield, 478 Fort Dummer, 6, 7, 18, 19 Fort Edward, 249, 250 Fort Payne, 33
Fort Ranger, 490
Fort Ticonderoga, 254 Foster, Reuben, 380 Francestown, 100
Franklin, Doctor, 99, 100
Franklin, Benjamin, 12, 21, 104, 390
Frederick, Henry, 84
French, trading-post of, 6
French, William, 246
Frink, Thomas, 31, 36, 38-42, 54, 86, 87 Fulham, 6, 9, 23, 268 Fuller, Ebenezer, 297
Gaine, Hugh, 73, 216
Gale, Samuel, 243-247, 277 Gates, Horatio, 332, 429, 456
Gazetteer of Vermont, Thompson's, 35, 40, 49, 74, 113 George I, 108 George II, 10, 109
George III, 75 George Clinton Papers, 439 Getchell, David, 89, 120, 145, 150, 159, 162, 165 Getchell, Jacob, 89, 150, 262
Gilbert, Ezra, 89, 114, 116, 144 Gilbert, quoted, 524
Gilson, Michael, 373
Gloucester, 82-84
Gloucester County, first census, 170, 183 ff .; conventions in, 235, 238 ff .; delegates from, 291, 366; court rec- ords of, 547
Goffe, John, 24
Governor and Council, 66, 237, 239, 264, 268, 271, 284, 338, 345, 379, 381, 387, 388, 390, 395, 409, 422, 482, 483, 486, 502, 508
Grafton, 3. See also Thomlinson.
Graham, Ennis, 219
Graham, John Andrew, 233, 275, 386 Grand Isle, 505
Granger, Elijah, 126, 134; testifies against Deans, 132, 135-137
Granger, Robert, Jr., 136 Granger, Zadock, 136 Grant, Anne Mac Vicar, 64, 65
Grant, John, 263
Grantees, the Windsor, 31, 32, 40 Grantham, 541
Grants, the Bennington, 12 ff .; for sixteen towns, 23; of Pownal, 23, 24; of Windsor, 25, 27 ff., 37, 38, 67 ff., 70 ff .; forms of, 26; method of ob- taining, 26, 27; of 1761, 27; reserva- tions in, 29-31, 79, 140, 141; specula- tion in, 32, 33, 37, 38; settlers on, 52 ff .; applications for new, 56 ff., 66 ff., 192 ff .; Ilchester petition, 66, 67; fees for New York, 77, 78; the Hoosick, 80, 186, 187; the Wallum- schaak, 80, 186, 187; test of validity
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of Wentworth, 118, 119, 127, 128; Newbury's New York, 192; New York's provision for ratifying and confirming, 392; the Mason, 421. See also New Hampshire Grants Graves, Phineas, 42 Great Falls, the, 7
Green Mountain Boys, the, 106, 178, 229, 253, 258, 262, 269, 401
Greenleaf, Stephen, 246 Gridley, Samuel, 150
Griffin, John, 241, 248
Griffin, S. G., 39
Grout, Hilkiah, 35-37, 40, 41, 109, 373, 374, 417, 441, 452, 453, 490, 491, 520 Grout, John, 37, 90, 128, 134, 146, 147, 155, 239, 355; character of, 109; con- sulted by Dean, 109, 111; attack on, 115, 116, 148; his part in Dean prosecution, 121 ff .; in riot, 146 ff .; Stone's opinion of, 147; disbarring of, demanded, 157; abduction of, 159 ff .; his escape, 163, 164; petition signed by, 175; banishment of, 489 Guilford, 23, 164, 184, 439 Guilford, Francis, 33
Haldimand, Frederick, 301, 512 n., 517-519, 539
Halifax, 23, 79, 80, 99, 184, 297, 317, 423 Hall, A. K., 546
Hall, Benjamin Homer, 7, 35, 51, 66, 68, 82, 83, 102, 104, 105, 115, 119- 121, 138, 148, 155, 163, 165, 183-186, 228, 237, 241, 265, 284, 296, 312, 320, 332, 345, 401, 418, 423, 426, 439, 492, 497, 520, 547
Hall, David, 352, 355
Hall, Hiland, 47, 64-66, 78, 82, 145, 151, 167, 175, 237, 244, 252, 324, 360, 376, 388, 391, 395, 423, 472, 475, 532. Hall, John, 334
Ham, William, 133, 136
Hamilton, Alexander, 21
Hammond, Matthew, 92, 294
Hancock, John, 248, 257, 291, 343
Hancock, Joseph, 241
Hanover, 9, 261, 422, 463, 541 Hardy, Charles, 20
Harmony of Divine Attributes, 95
Harris, Edward, 472
Hartford, 9, 27, 34, 335, 365, 536
Hartland, 9, 27, 76, 80, 83. See also Hertford
Harvard University, 12 Harvey, Solomon, 241
Hastings, Jacob, 92, 351, 352, 383 n., 446, 507, 541 Hatch, Joseph, 463, 464
Hathaway, Charles, 136
Hathaway, Jacob, Jr., 136
Hathaway, Simeon, 300, 367
Haughton, Lieutenant, 517, 518 Haverhill, 9
Hawley, Elisha, 52, 55, 91, 145, 150, 165, 194, 268, 294, 351, 354, 397-399, 437, 447, 494
Hawley, Ezekial, 294
Hawley, Josiah, 434 n.
Hazeltine, John, 239-241, 247, 248, 252, 255, 256, 266, 267, 275, 286
Heartman, C. F., 319 n.
Heath, John, 263
Henry, William, 84
Herrick, Samuel, 409, 411, 421, 505
Hertford, 9, 27, 72, 188, 317, 536
Hertford, Marquess, 34
Hessians, chest captured from, 117 n. Hide, Joshua, 441
Hillsborough, Lord, 47, 101, 102, 118,
170; letters to, 142, 143, 170, 171; letter from, 192
Hilton, Martha, 11, 97
Hinsdale, 9, 23, 122, 249, 365, 417, 439, 462, 465, 536
History of Cornish, 51
History of Eastern Vermont, 7, 35, 51, 66, 68, 82, 102, 115, 138, 183, 186, 228, 237, 241, 265, 296, 312, 418, 426, 439, 492, 497, 547
History of the First Congregational Church of Windsor, 92, 234
History of Keene, New Hampshire, 39
History of Newbury, 408
History of the People of the United States, quotation from, 444
History of Vermont, Allen's, 76, 145,
160, 175, 362, 372, 394, 404, 415, 420, 424, 485, 511, 513-515, 532 History of Vermont, Williams's, 183, 386
History of Woodstock, 54, 177 Hodgman, Lot, 417
Hoisington, Ebenezer, 91, 184, 185, 194, 270, 274-276, 293, 318, 339, 355, 366, 408, 437, 480, 481, 494; among rioters, 150; for secession, 232; dele- gate at conventions, 259, 260, 297, 299 ff., 304 ff., 324 ff., 335 ff., 340, 341, 375, 379, 380; his code of instruc- tions, 277 ff., 283, 307, 310, 314 ff., 328, 360; his letter to Cumberland County delegates, 341; letter from, 364, 365; town meeting called by, 346; Windsor property of, 352, 354; commissioner of Sequestration, 417 Hoisington, Joab, 54, 69, 74, 87-91, 95, 114, 145, 150, 177, 194, 239, 240, 256, 257, 260, 262, 268, 292, 293, 329, 332, 352, 383, 389; communication from, 308 ff .; inquiry into activities of, 331- 333; death of, 333 Holland, Lord, 66, 101
"Hoosick Grant," the, 24, 80 Horsmanden, Daniel, 149, 164, 248
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Houghton, Daniel, 246 Hourglass Hill, 54 Howard, Ebenezer, 91, 193, 294, 353 Hubbard, Eldad, 294 Hubbard, Elisha, 352
Hubbard, Watts, 259, 351, 352, 354, 438, 494
Hubbard, Watts, Jr., 320, 351, 412, 447-450, 478, 490; trial of, among earliest Vermont judicial proceed- ings, 438
Hubbard's History of New England, 34 Hubbardton, 401 Hunt, Arad, 135 Hunt, Samuel, 42, 69, 74, 521 Hunter, David, 294, 413, 417
Hunter, Robert, 20
Hunter, Thomas, 294
Hunter, William, 263, 270, 294, 354, 505 Hutchinson, Aaron, 94, 377, 378, 381- 383, 407 Hyatt, Caleb, 75
Ilchester, Earl of, 66, 101
Indians, in early Vermont, 5-8, 517, 518; monuments commemorating warfare of, 7, 8; school for, 95 Ingersoll, Jared, 117, 167
"Intervale of Cohass," the, 25
Jacob, Stephen, 461, 523, 524, 541 James, Duke of York, grant made to, 1-3, 15, 46, 47 Jay, John, 311, 360, 500, 503 John, King, 1 Johnson, Thomas, 340 Johnson, William Samuel, 105, 251 Jones, Daniel, 103, 123, 137, 522 n. Jones, Reuben, 244, 248, 250, 297, 299, 301, 306, 325, 334, 335, 338, 339, 356, 399, 408, 436, 504, 540 Journal, Sherwood's, 518
Journals of the New York Provincial Congress, 329 Judd, Enoch, 89, 91, 120, 150, 165, 193, 262, 354
Keene, 39, 42, 43 Kelley, John, 173
Kempe, John Tabor, 117-119, 125 ff., 138, 140, 167, 428 Kent, 365, 367 Kent, Cephas, 285 Kent, Duke of, 99 Kent, Jacob, 305, 417, 432
Killington, 27. See also Sherburne King, Ebenezer, Jr., 136 King, Joseph, 55, 87, 88, 106, 114, 116, 135, 137, 145, 150, 155 King, Rufus, 100
King in Council, decision by, 56; order disallowing Cumberland County, 83; suspension of re-grants ordered by, 85,86
King's Woods, 98, 101 Kingston, 400
Knapp's Brook, 7 Knickerbocker, John, 415 Knight, Samuel, 221, 247, 441
Knoulton, Luke, 373, 512 ff., 521, 527, 540
Lady Wentworth, 11 Land Papers, 32, 58, 67-69, 197 Laurens, Henry, 464
Lawyers, attitude of Windsor toward, 110 Leavens, Charles, 507, 534
Leavens, Peter, 91, 150, 193
Lebanon, 9, 95, 541
Lesley, Susan, 93, 94
l'Hommedieu, Ezra, 509, 520
Life and Services of Samuel Adams, 286 Lincoln, Benjamin, 407, 412, 448
Livingston, Peter Van Brugh, 255, 257 Livingston, Robert R., 165, 269, 509, 520 Lockland, Dennis, 335 Lockwood, William, 379 Longfellow, 11 Lord, Joseph, 83, 148, 155, 164
Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, 24, 43, 44, 47, 97, 185 ff., 191 Loring, Joshua, Jr., 101 Low, Isaac, 238, 239, 255 Lowell, James Russell, quoted, 476 "Lower Meadows," 105, 130, 133, 135, 136 Lower Regiment, 273, 364
Loyalists, confiscation of property of, 417, 442, 451, 452; expulsion of, 451,
452, 455; in Cumberland County, 512 Ludlow, George Duncan, 165
Ludlow, Thomas, 119
Lull, Zenas, 263 Lyman, Mrs. Judge, 93
Lyme, 9 Lynd, Jerusha, 95 Lyon, Matthew, 537, 539, 540 Lyon, Zebulon, 412
Magna Charta, the, 1, 3 Manchester, 119, 249, 378 Marcy, John, 506, 518, 525, 534, 541 Marlborough, 23, 316, 317; Duke of, 34 Marsh, Joel, 461, 506 n.
Marsh, Joseph, 274, 288, 291, 308, 315, 320, 341, 342, 363, 364, 367, 377, 379, 384, 393, 394, 407, 408, 417, 432, 433, 442, 461, 468, 473, 483, 485, 501, 502, 506 n., 511, 517, 518, 537 Marsh, William, 249, 250, 271, 288, 295, 296, 299, 301, 306, 325, 328, 342, 401, 489 Martin, Matthew, 441
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Mason, Grant, 421 n. Mason, Jeremiah, 3, 392, 524 Mason Line, the, 528
Massachusetts, Fort Dummer built by government of, 5, 6; boundary of, 10, 18, 19; effect on Cumberland County of example of, 248, 249; Phelps's desire for union between New Hampshire Grants and, 282, 283; Allen ambas- sador to, 504
Mast Camp, the, 102 Mather, Increase, 5 McGinnis, Robert, 69
Mckesson, John, 119; letter to, 362, 363, 418
McMaster, James Bach, quoted, 444
Memoir of General Bayley, 192
Memoir of Thomas Chittenden, 391
Memoirs of an American Lady, 64
Messer, Samuel, 294
Mill Brook, bridge, 87, 89 Mills, in Windsor, 87, 90
Mills, Simeon, 89, 114, 150
Minute Men, 268, 273, 275
Miscellaneous Remarks and Short Argu- ments, 342, 359, 360, 392, 414, 416 Monckton, Robert, 20, 44, 170
Montgomerie, John, 20
Montgomery, Richard, 263, 269, 270, 332
Montpelier, 40 Montreal, 263
Moore, Henry, 20, 32, 64-67, 75, 78-81, 85, 86, 101, 125
Moore, Lady, 65
Mooretown, 9
Morey, Israel, 95
Morgan, Mrs. Henry M., 495 n.
Morris, Gouverneur, 362, 401-403, 419, 427-429, 464, 500
Morris, Lewis Richard, 117, 221
Morris, Richard, 119, 125, 128, 138-140
Murdock, Thomas, 335, 432, 433, 462, 463, 472
Naughton, Andrew, see Norton Nevin, James, 134
Newbury, 9, 79, 80, 191, 536
Newfane, 439, 462. See also Fane
New Hampshire, boundary of, 10, 13 ff., 18 ff., 23, 24, 43-48; Benning Wentworth, governor of, 10-17; last royal governor, 98; day for annual town meetings, 115; Stone's petition for annexations to, 142; bitterness between New York and, 151, 162, 172, 242, 253, 322, 324 ff., 334 ff., 444-446; Phelps's desire for union of Massachusetts and, 282, 283; pro- posed annexation to Vermont of towns in, 455, 457, 458, 465 ff., 481 ff., 521, 527 ff .; convention, 514 New Hampshire Gazette, 35
New Hampshire Grants, 11 ff., 23 ff.,
45 ff., 52; quitrents, 45, 189, 361, 362, 369, 370, 401, 428; petition for county organization on, 61-63; restrictions in, 79, 80; organization of militia on, 81, 87; drawing for lots in, 86; Went- worth's efforts in behalf of, 111 ff .; ejectment cases against, 141, 143; pe- titions for annexations to, 142, 436; uprisings in, 145 ff .; Allen's activ- ities in, 167; decision against, 167, 169; representation of Lords of Trade regarding, 185 ff .; turmoil in, preceding Revolution, 230; conven- tions in, 236, 237 ff., 264, 265 ff., 271 ff., 334; end of New York courts in, 248; entrance of, in Revolution, 254; association subscribed to by, 288- 290; new state idea in, 295 ff .; 300 ff., 324 ff., 334 ff., 355 ff., 366 ff., 399; New York's case against, 311 ff .; conventions on, 324 ff .; form of notification of town meetings, 316, 317; declarations of independence, 337 ff., 356, 366; naming of new state, 339; objections of, to New York Constitution, 360; loyalty on, to New York, 417, 418, 422, 439 ff., 452, 496; complaints against New York, 369, 370, 382; motives underlying pro- posed consolidation of, 527 New Hampshire State Papers, 98 New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, advertisement in, 216-218 New York, disputed boundary of, 10, 13 ff., 18 ff., 23, 24, 43-48, 173; New Hampshire grantees visit to, 56; Windsor's grant from, 70 ff., 202 ff .; re-grants issued by, 73 ff .; Deans taken to, 121-124; ejectment suits in, 128, 167; Windsor legally in, 142; uprisings against, 145 ff .; bitterness between New Hampshire and, 151, 162, 172, 242, 253, 322, 324 ff., 334 ff., 444-446; proposed annexations of, by Vermont, 529, 530; decision of, in favor of Grants, 167, 169; Grants claimed by, 187 ff .; decision on legal- ity of grants, 220 ff .; petition for charters, 232; committee of corres- pondence at city of, 238, 239; threat of secession from, 281-283, 287, 307, 308 ff., 327 ff .; forms of association circulated by, 288; Cumberland County's union with, 255, 256; doubtful jurisdiction of, over Cum- berland County, 288-290, 296, 297, 301 ff., 309, 312; case against New Hampshire Grants, 311 ff .; Commit- tee of Safety, 343, 345, 398 ff .; re- linquishment of claims to grants, 369; New Hampshire Grants complaints against, 369, 370, 382; Gloucester
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