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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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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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