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Better worth reading than many volumes to which reference has been made, perhaps, are the works of fiction having Vermont for their scene. Among these the foremost place is occupied by D. P. Thompson's "Green Mountain Boys on the March," " May Martin," " Locke Amsden," " Gaunt Gurley " and "The Rangers." J. G. Holland's " Bay Path " deals with the life of the early settlers of Massachusetts, and Mrs. Stowe's "Oldtown Folks" pictures New England country life in a community not far different from Vermont. The time and scene of Cooper's "Deer Slayer " and " Last of the Mohicans " are those of the last French war along the lake. A later phase of quiet country life in Vermont is given by Rowland E. Robinson in his quaint dialect sketches, "Uncle Lisha's Shop " and " Sam Lovel's Camps."
INDEX.
Abolitionists, 187. Adams, Dr. Samuel, punishment of, 51. Addison, fort at, 31.
Agriculture, 146, 178, 272 ; agricultural soci- eties, 203 ; agricultural implements, 181, 272 ; agricultural studies at University, 290. Alien and Sedition laws, 117.
Albany, 22.
Allen, Ebenezer, 223.
Allen, Ethan, 46, 51, 64, 68, 70, 81, 90, 100. Allen, Ira, 84, 106.
Allen, the Rev. Mr., 73.
- Anti-Masonic movement, 185.
Appomattox, Lee's surrender at, 261. Arnold, Benedict, 64.
Arquebus, 13, 14.
Baker, Remember, 51, 52, 89.
Banks, State, 197; U. S. Bank, 191 ; Sav- ings, 286.
Barns, 205. Base-ball, 239. Beech Seal, 48.
" Bees," 158.
Benedict, 261. Bennington chartered, 41 ; battle of, 73.
Boundary dispute, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44.
Braddock, 32.
Bread Riots, 190.
Brigade, First Vermont, 246, 249, 257. Brigade, Second Vermont, 251.
Bull Run, 243 ; Second Regiment at, 244.
Canada, 22, 30, 68, 71, 72, 266.
Canal, Erie, 167; Champlain, 153.
Capitol, the new, 188.
Caroline, the burning of the, 199.
Cartier, Jacques, 19.
Caughnawaga, 30.
Census figures, 163, 176, 177, 267, 284.
Champlain, Lake, 12 17, 66, 123, 130. Champlain, Samuel de, 14. Charge, Pickett's at Gettysburg, 251. Chittenden, Martin, 123.
Chittenden, Samuel, 81, 86, 87, 83, 98, 105, 115. Churches, 154, 290.
Clinton, Governor of New York, 42, 104, 106.
Cold summer, 136.
Committee of Safety, 93, 99.
Congress, the U. S., 91, 96, 105, 107.
Connecticut, 40, 63, 95, 164. Constitution, adopted, 97 ; amended, 189, 283 ; of New York, 93; of the U. S., 111. Conventions, 92, 93.
"Corlaer's Lake," 25.
Corps, Sixth Army, 250, 261.
Council, governor's, abolished, 189.
Council of Censors, 71, 80, 113, 280.
Council, king's orders in, 46.
Courcelles, governor of Canada, 22.
Courts, Vermont without, 99.
Crown Point, first settlement at, 31.
Debt of Vermont, 286.
Declaration of Independence, Vermont's, 94.
Declaration of Peace, 107.
Deerfield raid, the, 27.
Delaplaice, Captain, 66.
Dieskau, Baron, 32.
Discovery of the St. Lawrence, 27.
Dorset, conventions at, 92, 93.
Drunkenness in the U. S., 208.
Dummer, Fort, 31, 39.
Durham, 48, 53. Edmunds, George F., 277. Education, 298.
Era of Good Feeling, 133.
Factory system, the, 273.
Fairbanks, Governor, 238.
Federalists, 116, 134.
Fees, of colonial officials, 44.
Forestry, need of, 295.
Fort Edward, battle at, 32.
France in the New World, 14, 25, 26.
French, William, 57. Frontenac, Count, 26.
Future of Vermont, 291.
Galusha, Governor Jonas, 122.
Gates, General, 77. Garrison, William Lloyd, 224.
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INDEX.
Gettysburg, battle of, 250. Going to market in the old days, 144. Green Mountain Boys, 46, 55, 68, 236. Growth of Vermont, early, 59. Haldimand, General, 84, 87. Hochelaga, 18. Horses, 180, 276.
Hough, Benjamin, whipped by the Green Mountain Boys, 48. Hubbardton, battle of, 72.
Hudson, Henry, discovers the river named for him, 18.
Hurons, the, 16.
Imitations of butter and cheese, 274.
Imprisonment for debt, 213.
Iroquois, the, 12, 21.
Jackson, President, and the panic, 191.
Jenison, Governor, proclaims the patriot movement, 200.
Lafayette visits Vermont, 137.
Land law reform, 109.
Lee's Mills, battle of, 248.
Legend of the bell, 29.
Legislation, recent, 279.
Libraries, 156, 290.
Lincoln, 232, 258.
Louisbourg taken by the British, 32.
Lumber, 275.
Lydius' claim, 53.
Maine law, the passage of, 210.
Manufactures in Vermont, 153, 177, 276, 293. Maple sugar, 143, 274.
Massachusetts, Vermont a portion of, 40 ; its boundary, 60; renewal of its claim to Vermont, 104; its slavery proposition, 121.
Massacre at Fort William Henry, 34.
Massacre at Schenectady, 26.
May, the Rev. Samuel J., mobbed in Ver- mont, 225.
McCrea, Jane, 80.
McDonough, Commodore, 127.
McLeod, trial of, 200.
Mckenzie, leader of the " Patriots," 199. Middlebury College, 238.
Mob duty in New York, 255.
Monroe, James, 133.
Montgomery, General James, 68.
Montreal, 26, 36, 68.
Morrill, J. S., 277; the Morrill tariff, 275. Morris, Dinah, 223. Mrs. Howe, the fair captive, 35.
Napoleon, 132. New Amsterdam, 38.
New Hampshire, 41, 103. New York claims Vermont, 42 ; endeavors
to enforce its claims, 52, 57; renounces its. claims, 110; its constitution adopted, 98. Newspapers in Vermont, 155. "Onontio," 25.
Oswego, capture of, 33. Oxen in Vermont, 181.
Panic of 1837, 189, 193.
Parties in Vermont, 116, 135, 277.
Patriot movement, the, 198, 201.
Pay of officials in early times, 113.
Peace of Utrecht, 31; of 1763, 36; with Great Britain, 107.
Peters, the Rev. Samuel, 37.
Petersburg, battle of, 259.
Phelps, Professor E. J., Minister to Eng- land, 278.
Pitt, William, 34.
Plank roads, 201.
Plymouth, 18.
Prevost, General, 129.
Prohibition, the law passed, 212; in Maine, 2 10 ; foreign criticism upon, 217.
Protection, resolutions favoring, 284.
Putnam, Israel, 35.
Putney, fort at, 39.
Quarries, 128, 277.
Railroads, 170; injury effected by their com- petition, 272; the Inter-State commerce law regulating, 284, 293.
" Raisings," 159.
Rebellion, the outbreak of, 235; in Wind- ham County, 106.
Redding, David, 100.
Regiments of Vermont, 248, 249.
Republican party, the, 230.
Robinson, Samuel, 46.
Royalton, Indian raid upon, 82.
Scott, General Winfield, 131.
Scott, William, 247.
Schenectady, massacre at, 26.
Schuyler, General, 68, 72, 83.
Senate of Vermont, 189.
Settlement of Vermont, 31, 39, 40.
Sheriff of Albany, 47, 52.
Slavery prohibited in the Constitution, 98; the Massachusetts amendment relative to, 121 ; sympathizers with in the West, 7, 169; Legislative protests against, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228; abolition of slavery in Ver- mont, 231.
Specie Circular, the, 193. St. Albans, the raid at, 264. Stamp Act, 55. St. Lawrence, discovery of, 19. Stannard, General, at Gettysburg, 251.
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Stark, General, 33, 73, 78. Summer people in Vermont, 294. Sumter, fall of, 235. Tariff, the Morrill, 285 ; of 1828, 152; of 1883, 275. Temperance societies, 210. Texas, controversy about, 228. Ten Eyck, Sheriff, 52: Ticonderoga, battle near, 17; capture of, 63. Tories' property confiscated, 99. Torture of prisoner by Indians, 18.
Town Meeting, 157. Tupper, Sergeant, 86. University of Vermont, 289. Van Curler, Arendt, 23.
War of the Revolution, 63 ; of 1812, 123; of the Rebellion, 235; Vermont in the war, 236; war measures in the Legislature, 239. Washington, 106.
Warner, Seth, 47, 66, 89. Wentworth, Governor Benning, 41. West, Vermonters in the, 284. " Western fever," the, 169. Westminster town charter granted, 40; the bloody court at, 56. Wheat, 149 190. Wild animals, 153. Wilderness, battle of the, 256. Williams, the Rev. John, 28. Williams, William, 41. Windham rebellion, the, 106.
Windsor, Constitution, adopted at, 97. Wirt, William, vote for President, 186. Wolfe's Victory at Quebec, 35.
Wool, 152, 275. Wright, Silas, 165. Yorktown, the British surrender at, 87.
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