The birthplace of Vermont; a history of Windsor to 1781, Part 47

Author: Wardner, Henry Steele
Publication date: 1927
Publisher: New York, Priv. Print. by C. Scribner's Sons
Number of Pages: 610


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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


550


INDEX


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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INDEX


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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INDEX


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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INDEX


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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INDEX


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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INDEX


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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INDEX


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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