The birthplace of Vermont; a history of Windsor to 1781, Part 48

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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INDEX


lost to, 374; constitution of, 359 ff., 392; loyalty to, in southeastern Ver- mont, 417, 418, 422, 439 ff., 452, 496; meeting to protest against secession from, 439 ff.


New York Council, 140


New York Mercury, the, 73


New York Narrative of 1773, 25, 79


New York Provincial Congress, 255; memorial addressed to, 319, 396; Cumberland County's delegates to, 287,288


Newell, Elihu, 417 Noble, Jonathan, 150


North Hero, 505


Norton, Andrew, 55, 74, 87, 89, 114, 144, 150, 165, 190, 193, 320, 353, 396- 399, 448


Norton, John, 244, 308, 441


Norwich, 9, 27, 184, 335, 463; Earl of, 34


Nova Scotia, Wentworth, governor of, 99 Number Four, 6, 7


Olcott, Peter, 291, 367, 407, 408, 417, 432, 433, 436, 462, 463, 472, 501, 502, 511, 520-522 Olcott, Simeon, 131, 134


Olcott, Timothy, 246


Old Constitution House, 54, 228, 293, 351, 385


Old South Church, 91, 234 Olin, Gideon, 433 n.


Onion River Company, 77 Orange County, 532, 536


Orford, 9 Osborn, Danvers, 20 Otis, James, 356


Packard, John, 318, 346 Page, David, 41 Paine, Elijah, 117 n., 221 Paine, Thomas, 356


Paisley, John, 69


"Paradise," 102 Parmelee, Alexander, 350, 351, 412, 438, 448, 505, 534 Paterson, Eleazar, 373, 374, 396, 441, 499


Paterson, William, 243-248, 277 Patrick, Benoni, 350


Patrick, Isabel, 89, 193, 350


Patrick, Jacob, 350


Patrick, Jane, 350


Patrick, Matthew, 350


Patrick, Samuel, 89, 91, 120, 193, 350, 534 Patrick, the widow, 135


Payne, Elisha, 442, 462, 463, 468, 469, 481, 482 ff., 501, 521, 528, 531 Pearsall, Thomas, 218


Pearson, William, 69


Penn, William, his "Frame of Govern- ment," 390


Pennsylvania, comparison of constitu- tion with Vermont's, 388 ff.


Peters, John, 131, 134, 262, 401


Peters, Samuel, 359


Petersham, 39 Phelps, Alexander, 95


Phelps, Charles, 241, 507, 508, 520;


letter of, 281-283, 307, 308 ff., 327 ff.


Phelps, Davenport, 489


Phelps, James H., 183


Phelps Papers, 116 n., 151 n.


Phelps, Solomon, 158, 249 n., 325-327, 342 Phelps, Thomas, Jr., 193


Philadelphia, 273; continental congress at, 240, 257, 458, 500; Allen's visit to, 458, 459; encouragement from, to secessionists, 356; anti-slavery so- ciety, 386; Knoulton at, 513


Piermont, 9


Pines, in Vermont, 101, 102


Pingry Papers, the, 228, 240, 373


Plainfield, 9, 541


Plaistridge, 95


Platt, Zephaniah, 310


Plumb, Mrs., 479 n.


Plymouth, 3, 27


Pomfret, 27, 335, 365


Pope, quoted, 497, 498


Porter, Thomas, 540


Porter, William, 417


Portsmouth, 11, 98; Dean's trip to, 131 ff.


Powell, Martin, 334, 366


Powers, Joseph, 92


Powers, Peter, 432


Pownal, 6, 23, 146, 186


Pownall, John, 24, 33


Pownall, Thomas, 24


Present State of His Majestie's Isles and Territories in America, 5


Prim, Peter, 69


Principal Officers of Vermont, 381


Proceedings of the Vermont Historical Society, 78 Proclamation, Colden's, 46, 47


Proctor, Redfield, 339 n., 548


Proprietors, the Windsor, 35-42, 43, 86, 87, 115; first meeting, 35 ff .; records of, 40-42


Provincial Council, 26, 27; New Hamp- shire grantees visit to, 56 ff .; rep- resentatives to, 276; name changed, 291 Public Defence, 483 ff. Pulk Hole Brook, 177 Putnam's Creek, 381


Putney, 6, 9, 23, 72, 73, 76, 80, 83, 184, 188, 231, 242, 268, 365, 439


Quakers, 537


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Quebec, assault on, 269 Queen's Loyal Rangers, 262, 401


Randolph, 517


Rangers, the, 291 ff., 329, 383, 397, 398; Queen's Loyal, 262, 401; Hoisington appointed major of, 292; inquiry into activities of, 331-333


Ranney's tavern, 121


Reading, 9, 27, 536


Redding, David, 454, 455


Reminiscences, of Bishop Philander Chase, 50


"Report on the Archives of Vermont," 548


Resolves of the Continental Congress, 410, 411


Revolutionary New England, 250


Richmond, 3


Robinson, Beverly, 510, 538, 539


Robinson, Moses, 300, 406, 407, 433, 462, 532, 548


Robinson, Nathaniel, 335


Robinson, Samuel, 80, 83, 85, 105


Robinson, Samuel, Jr., 146


Rockingham, 9, 23, 25, 184, 189, 297, 439; Marquess of, 99


Rogers, James, 75, 82, 268, 301, 489


Rogers, Nathaniel, 101


Root, Jesse, 500, 501


Root, Timothy, 441


Rose, James, 249, 250


Rosebrook, James, 120, 121


Rouville, Hertel de, 5


Rowley, Thomas, 271, 472


Royalton, 335, 517, 518


Ruggles, Timothy, 31, 38


Runnymede, 1


Rural Magazine, the, 466


Russell, Azubah, 351


Russell, E., 421


Russell Farm, 275


Rutherford, Walter, 118, 119, 126 ff. Rutland, 247, 490, 491


Sabin, Noah, 243, 246-248


Safford, Joseph, 377, 379, 518


Safford, Samuel, 300


St. Albans, 3


St. Clair, General, 402


Saltash, 27, 34. See also Plymouth


Sargent, John, 373


Sartwell's Fort, 6


Sartwell's tavern, 160, 161


Savage, Samuel Stow, 447, 506, 523, 525, 541


Sayles, Duty, 354


Sayles, Hannah, 351, 398


Schuyler, Philip, 263, 402, 403, 410, 429, 533, 544 Sedgwick, Theodore, 523


Sedgwick, Mrs. Theodore, 523 Seeley, Abner, 286, 299, 304-306, 322


Seeley, Nathaniel, 334


Seers, Samuel, 89, 91, 193


Semi-weekly Eagle (Brattleboro), 183 Sessions, John, 287, 291, 315, 320, 328, 333, 341, 342, 402, 417, 499; at New York convention, 308 ff .; letters from, 362, 363, 418, 419


Sharon, 517, 518


Shearer, Augustus Hunt, 548


Sheddsville, 87 n.


Sheldon, 247


Shelburne, Lord, 32, 75, 80, 81, 85 Sherburne, 27


Sherman, Roger, 286, 499 n.


Sherwood, Justus, 401, 492, 514, 538; banishment of, 489; interview with Ethan Allen, 518, 519


Shrewsbury, 490


Simonds, Titus, 448, 490


Skene, Philip, 33, 251, 252, 402, 530


Slade, William, 14 n., 391, 394, 432, 434, 437, 472, 473 Slade, William, Jr., 376


Slayton, Joshua, 263


Smead, Asa, 294


Smead, Joel, 220


Smeed, John, 91


Smeed, Simeon, 86


Smeed, William, 91, 185, 190, 193, 221, 222, 259, 260, 318, 352


Smeed, William, Jr., 92, 352


Smith, Asahel, 263, 518


Smith, Israel, 362, 367, 441


Smith, Lois, 51, 89


Smith, Noah, 461, 492, 524


Smith, Roswell, 263, 495


Smith, Samuel, 89, 227


Smith, Steel, 49 ff., 74, 86-91, 115, 194, 352, 417, 425, 494, 498, 505, 534; first Windsor settler, 42, 49, 227; property of, 50, 51; among Windsor grantees, 69; among rioters, 150, 155, 161; process obtained against, 165; town treasurer, 446 Smith, William, 169, 178


Society for the Propagation of the Gos- pel in Foreign Parts, 26, 85, 251 South Carolina, 98


South Hero, 505


Southgate, Doctor, 100


Spaulding, Leonard, 335, 367, 370


Spear, Andrew, 370


Spencer, Benjamin, 37, 231, 367, 380, 404, 405 Spicer, Anna, 350


Spicer, Zephaniah, 223 n.


Spooner, Alden, 463, 464, 480, 482, 483, 498, 505 Spooner, Judah Paddock, 463


Spooner, Paul, 175, 241, 256, 268, 364, 380, 404, 405, 417, 432, 433, 462, 481


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Springfield, 6, 9, 25, 146, 288, 365, 380, 536 Stafford, Abel, 193 Stamford, 23 Stamp Act riots, 63


Stark, John, letter from, 377, 378, 407, 410, 411, 456


State Papers, 473, 531 Statutes of the Realm, 108


Steele, Jason, 51


Stevens, Enos, 42, 69, 74


Stevens, Joseph, 87


Stevens, Levi, 193, 353


Stevens, Samuel, 75, 265 n., 328, 356, 368 n.


Stevens, Simon, 82, 142, 274, 287, 291, 308 ff., 315, 341, 342, 417, 440, 520


Stevens, Willard, 69, 74, 75 Stiles, Ezra, 264, 524


Stockwell, Abel, 124


Stockwell, Quentin, 5 Stone, Caleb, 74, 228, 350


Stone, David, 40, 52, 54, 58-62, 74, 80, 82, 87, 114, 115, 150, 165, 176, 189, 190, 193, 226; sealer of weights and measures, 145; in Chester riot, 159; death of, 262


Stone, David, Jr., 31, 32, 67-69


Stone, George M., 546


Stone, Joel, 52, 54, 69, 74, 82, 194, 262


Stone, Martha, 69, 74


Stone, Mary, 69, 74, 89


Stone, Nathan, 52, 76, 86, 89, 92, 96, 106, 115, 116, 247, 265 n., 318, 347, 348, 541; agent for Windsor Pro- prietors, 42, 87; outstanding indi- viduality among early settlers, 54; pe- titions of, 59-63, 142, 172 ff., 192 ff., 231, 232; survey made for, 67, 68; certificate of sale to, 69 ff., 80; in militia, 81, 82; commission, 83; town government organized by, 113 ff .; riots led by, 147 ff., 154 ff., 161 ff .; determination of, to oppose county officers, 147, 148; arrest and rescue of, 149; complaint against, 165; ap- pointment to government office, 175, 176; subsiding of rebellion of, 175 ff .; letter from, 178-181; his support of change in county seat, 186; deed executed in favor of, 216; grantees of, 219, 220; recognition of achieve- ment of, 226; a Loyalist, 226, 492; his memorial to New York Congress, 319; property of, 352; Allen's attack on, 361, 362; hostility to, 362; op- position of, to new state, 297, 412, 413; license for sale of liquors issued to, 228; loyalty to New York, 230, 231; prosecution of, 492, 493; elected to school committee, 534 Stone, Polly, 89


Stone, Samuel, 40, 52-55, 67-69, 74, 87, 114, 132, 165, 193, 194, 226, 227, 262, 294; deer reef, 145; arrest and rescue of, 149; among rioters, 150 Stone, Samuel, Jr., 31, 32


Stone, Zedekiah, 40, 52, 55, 74, 114,


115, 150, 185, 193, 194, 350, 412; a Windsor grantee, 31, 32; one of Windsor Proprietors, 36, 41, 86; property of, 54; petition of, 58-62; survey made for, 67, 68, 198 ff .; cer- tificate of sale to, 69 ff., 80; commis- sion of, 83; on school committee, 145; bond given by, in behalf of Hubbard, 438, 448; statement of, about Allen's Philadelphia bargains, 466, 467


Strafford, 401


Strong, Elnathan, 89, 91, 120, 145, 150, 165, 193, 352, 534


Strong, John, 293, 500


Suaro Maug, the, 5


Sullivan, General, 499 n.


Sunderland, 119


Supreme Court, decision of, in eject- ment suits, 167, 169


Swan, William, 69, 194


Taylor, David, 42 Taylor, John, 281, 282, 286, 315, 316; his letter on conditions in Cumber- land County, 320-322 Ten Broeck, Abraham, 283, 343 Thatcher, Partridge, 251


Thetford, 9, 401


Thomlinson, 23


Thompson, Zadock, 6, 7, 35, 40, 49, 52, 53, 201, 472, 525


Thompson's Vermont, 7, 18, 24, 35, 49, 52, 74, 113


Thomson, Hezekiah, 52, 55, 88, 91, 114, 145, 150, 190, 194, 224, 228, 232,


235, 253, 259, 318, 345, 352, 355, 438, 446, 494, 507


Thomson, Joseph, 150, 165, 495, 525


Throop, John, 377, 379, 433, 533


Thurston, Benjamin, 134, 150


Thurston, David, 159


Ticonderoga, 257, 384, 398, 401


Tilden, Stephen, 293, 335, 338, 537


Townshend, 23, 265, 288, 365


Townshend, Charles, 33


Townsend, Micah, 426, 441, 499, 520, 521, 539, 540 Trask, Nahum, 479 n.


Trees, violation of timber law, 108, 117 ff .; early statutes concerning, 108, 109 Tryon, Governor, 16, 247, 259, 392 Tryon, William, 20, 194 Tullar, David, 439, 494, 534


Tunbridge, 517


Tute, Amos, 373 Tyler, Royall, 56


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United States, Oath of Allegiance to, 346 Upham, George B., 191 n. Upham, William, 293 Upper Regiment, the, 273, 275, 364 Utley, William, 160


Van Cortlandt, Pierre, 410; letter to, 401, 402


Vermont, debt of, to Charles II, 3, 21; settling of, 5 ff .; naming of towns, 33, 34; early settlers, 52 ff .; formation of, 15, 293, 376 ff., 443; admission of, to Union, 18; counties in, 82-84, 437, 469, 470; timber depredation in, 97, 101 ff., 108, 117; records of, 83, 548; first seal of, 107, 351, 478-480; Act of 1784, 117 n .; birth of, 151; Dean case, 169, 170; turmoil in, 230, 242, 244 ff., 489 ff .; conventions in, 235, 237 ff., 293; Young's activities in, 356 ff .; naming of, 359, 368; the con- stitution, 384, 385, 386 ff., 424, 472; dissolution of, with parts of New Hampshire, 394, 395, 488, 489; Council of Safety, 400, 404 ff., 414, 417, 421, 429, 430; preamble to con- stitution of, 414 ff., 419, 420; pro- posed annexations to, 422, 436, 447, 455-458, 465 ff .; 481 ff., 520, 521, 527 ff .; courts in, 448 ff., 472; first constitutional elections, 424 ff .; General Assembly, 430-433, 434 ff., 462 ff., 516, 528 ff .; members of first legislature, 434, 435; early judicial proceedings, 438, 449, 450; taxes in, 451, 525, 526; confiscation of prop- erty in, 451, 452; separatist move- ment in, 471 ff .; controversy over lo- cation of seat of government, 486; legislature, 451, 488, 489, 516, 536; claims on, of neighboring states, 489, 518 ff .; militia in, 495 ff., 543; di- vision of ungranted townships, 498; pamphleteering in, 502; new town- ships, 505; reunion of western New Hampshire with, 514; possibility of becoming British province, 509, 510, 514, 515, 517, 538-542; danger from Indians, 517, 518


Vermont Historical Society's Collec- tions, 383, 391, 395, 461


Vermont Journal, 34, 55


Vermont Republican, 49 n.


Vermont State Papers, 339, 387, 391, 432, 434, 437 Vermonter, The, 478


Vermont's Appeal, 502


Vernon, 6, 9. See also Hinsdale


Victoria, Queen, 99


Vindication of the Conduct of the Gen- eral Assembly of the State of Vermont, 481, 485, 487, 488, 491


Vindication of the Opposition of the In- habitants of Vermont to the Govern- ment of New York, A, 502, 503, 504


Wait, Benjamin, 62, 63, 74, 92, 117 n., 130, 137, 146, 190, 235, 240, 256-262, 294, 389, 399, 411, 416, 421, 505, 506, 533; a Windsor settler, 52, 54; officer in Revolutionary War, 54; land pat- ents sought by, 82; at town meet- ings, 86, 87, 89, 114; his part in Dean prosecution, 106, 120 ff., 132-135; property of, 133, 353; arrest and rescue of, 149; among rioters, 150, 155; application of, for grant, 176; license for sale of liquors issued to, 228; letter from, 398; favored by politicians, 499, 500


Wait, Gad, 441


Wait, Joseph, 62, 63, 92, 114, 115, 135, 144, 145, 260; a Windsor settler, 52, 54; officer in Revolutionary War, 54; land patents sought by, 82; arrest and rescue of, 149; among rioters, 150, 155 ff., 159 ff. ; complaint against, 165; grant to, 176; death of, 261 Wait, Martha, 262


Wait, Richard, 318, 346, 348, 353, 354, 416, 494, 505, 525


Walker, Timothy, 11 n.


Wallace, Ebenezer, 450


Walpole, 9, 514; convention at, 520


Walpole, Horace, quoted, 4 n.


Walton, Eliakim P., 8, 66, 237, 264, 271, 286, 296, 330, 338, 345, 372, 376,


379, 390, 392, 394, 395, 406-409, 422, 427, 432-434, 486, 504, 508


Ward, Stephen, 117 n., 218 Wardner, Henry S., 50 n., 546


Warner, Seth, 230, 253, 255, 257, 258, 264, 286, 299, 304, 306, 345, 400-403, 411, 428, 489, 537; his Green Moun- tain Boys, 262 ff .; letter from, 383, 384


Warren, Joseph, 356


Washington, General, 453; Duane ap- pointed Federal judge by, 129; on Allen, 263; letter to, 331; army of, 421; his attitude toward expulsion of Loyalists, 456; quoted, 542, 543; Washington County, erection of, 536


Watson, Ebenezer, 342


Watson, Hannah, 414


Watson-Wentworth, Charles, 33, 98


Weare, Meshech, 409, 410, 458, 467; letter from, 458, 464, 465, 482; letters to, 473-476, 496 Weathersfield, 9, 25, 34, 189, 288, 365, 417, 440, 452, 536


Webb, Joshua, 154, 325, 335, 371 Webster, Alexander, 291, 374 Webster, Daniel, 3


Wellman, Isaac, 95


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INDEX


Wellman, James, 90-95, 135, 234, 350, 398


Wellman, Solomon, 95


Wendell, John, 105


Wendell, a notary, 134


Wells, Frederick P., 408


Wells, Jona, 7


Wells, Obadiah, 373


Wells, Samuel, 57, 76, 82, 83, 96, 122 ff., 128, 142, 146, 147, 174, 243, 247, 253, 521, 522 n., 536, 537, 539, 540; Dean's bill of sale to, 138, 139; complaint against, 141; Stone's friendship for, 147-149; at Chester, 155; memorial concerning conduct of, 168; organizer for movement in favor of change in county seat, 186


Wentworth (N. H.), 100


Wentworth, Benning, 10-17, 18, 20-22, 37, 38, 88, 174, 419, 545; grants made by, 12, 23 ff., 45 ff., 57, 61; criticism of, 97; death of, 181; adver- tisement for claimants under charter of, 216-218


Wentworth, Frances Deering. See At- kinson


Wentworth, John, 26, 98, 174 n., 182; in Paris, 99; governor of Nova Scotia, 99; part of, in history Vermont, 100 ff .; efforts of, to extend New Hamp- shire jurisdiction, 111 ff .; complaint of Deans, 117 ff., 131, 134; test of validity of charters of, 118, 127, 128; advice to Bayley, 191, 192; consents to release of Deans, 140; drawing of petition attributed to, 142, 172; Allen seeks advice of, 167; letter from, 171; grant to Joseph Wait, 176 Wentworth, Mark Hunking, 105, 134 Wentworth, Paul, letter to, 142, 143 West, Elijah, 351, 383, 434 n.


West, Hannah, 351


West Parish cemetery, 87 n.


Westminster, 6, 9, 23, 121, 184, 189, 231, 265, 284, 365, 440, 497; riot in, 244 ff .; conventions at, 239 ff., 251, 252, 265 ff., 275, 324, 334, 343, 344, 366; the Massacre, 242, 445 ff .; aban- donment of, as convention town, 342; meeting of Cumberland County Committee at, 372, 373; the jail, 384 Westminster Court House, seizure of, 244


Westmoreland, 9 Wheelock, Eleazar, 95, 261, 336, 463


Wheelock, John, 336, 473, 481, 488


Whipple, Daniel, 147, 149, 150, 158, 164, 183, 243


Whiston, Samuel, 150


White, John, 150 White, Pliny, 382, 392, 394


White Plains, 287, 288, 291


White River Valley, 517, 518


Whiting, Benjamin, 103, 118, 119 ff.,


172, 293; surveyor of King's Woods, 130, 131, 133; his part in Dean prose- cution, 126, 132 ff., 146, 147


Willard, Joshua, 38, 69, 74


Willard, Josiah, 27, 31, 36-38, 40, 57, 76, 95 Willard, Josiah, Jr., 40


Willard, Oliver, 26, 27, 32, 51, 52, 57, 95, 163, 164, 173


William, King, 15


William, Prince, 82


Williams, John, 291, 374, 399, 402, 423, 426, 543, 544 Williams, Joseph, 334


Williams, Samuel, 5, 8, 183, 237, 386, 466, 472, 509-511, 520, 539


Williams, Wiliam, 14, 256, 257, 260, 265, 268, 363, 364, 380, 384, 407, 408 Wilmington, 23 Wilson, George, 69


Wilson, Lucius, 373


Wilson, Thomas, 447


Winchester, 36, 39, 43


Windham County, 532, 540


Windham County Battlefield : The Am- bush at the Salmon Hole, A, 7 Windsor (Conn.), 34


Windsor, beginning of, 1; Indian monu- ments in, 7, 8; settling of, 9, 49 ff .; grant of, 25, 27 ff., 37, 38, 67 ff., 80, 189; naming of, 33, 34; first settler, 42, 49, 50, 227; the Proprietors, 35- 42, 43, 86, 87, 115, 192, 452, 545, 546; petition of, for new grant, 56 ff., 79, 192 ff .; surveyor's return, 67, 68; certificate of sale, 69-72; first town officer, 82; records in, 83, 114, 265, 345, 545-548; "public yard" in, 87; mills in, 87, 90, 349, 351, 354; taxes in, 88; highways in, 88, 89, 353; emi- gration to, 89; first birth in, 89, 227; establishment of church in, 90 ff .; Wentworth's visit to, 101 ff .; pines in, 101, 102, 133; organization of town government, 106, 107 ff., 113 ff .; violation of timber law in, 108, 109, 117 ff .; attitude of, toward lawyers, 110; attack on John Grout, 115, 116; first recorded notice of town meeting at, 143, 144; riots in, 145 ff., 154 ff., 159 ff., 242; a tragedy in, 177; population of, in first census, 184, 185; an early will recorded in, 201; New York charter for, 202 ff .; town meetings, 224 ff., 233 ff., 253, 259, 260, 268, 274, 317, 318, 345-347, 364, 375, 425, 460, 487, 494, 506, 507, 525, 534, 541; traditions of, 227; first death, 227; quitrents, 228; develop- ment of, 228; birthplace of Vermont, 229; loyalty of, to New York, 230, 231; Meeting House, 233-235, 351,


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371, 375 n .; meeting at, of nominat- ing committee, 273, 274; Committee of Safety, 293 ff., 348, 417; delegate from, sent to Dorset convention, 297, 299 ff .; signers from, of Stone's memorial, 319, 320; investigation in, of Hoisington, 331-333; chosen as convention town, 342; political im- portance, 349, 355 ff .; probable ap- pearance of, in 1777, 349 ff .; con- ventions at, 355, 366 ff., 376 ff., 419, 420; Congregational Church of, 355; declines to act under New York's election ordinance, 364; reign of terror, 396; military movements in, 417; legislature at, 420, 461 ff., 498; first town meeting at, under inde- pendent Vermont, 446 ff .; political controversy around, 452; two town- ships, 460; compared with Cornish, 477, 478; two parishes in, 494, 495; danger to, from Indians, 517, 518; new inhabitants, 523 ff .; scene of ne- gotiations for new union of New Hampshire Grants, 528 ff .; County


of, 532, 536, 541; districting of, 534, 535; favors union of New Hampshire


towns, 536; county buildings, 541


Windsor County History, 219


Windsor Great Park, 84


Windsor Rock, 386


Witherspoon, John, 500, 501


Wood, Ebenezer, 446, 461, 505-507, 523, 525


Woodford, 23


Woodruff, Joseph, 193, 353, 417


Woodstock, 9, 27, 536; records at, 547


Woodward, Bezaleel, 462, 469, 483 ff., 502, 511, 513, 520, 521


Woodworth, Amaziah, 371


Worcester, Asa, 417


Wright, Moses, 335


Wright, Zadock, 448


Yates, Abraham, Jr., 401 Young, David, 69


Young, Thomas, 328, 372, 385, 387, 390, 400, 442, 356 ff .; letter from, 357- 359; activities in forming Vermont, 367


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