Vermont: A Study of Independence

by Rowland Evans Robinson

INDEX.

• Abercrombie, General, [29], [32].
• Abolitionists, [335].
• Academy, military, [314].
• Adams, Secretary J. S., [311].
• Alien and sedition laws, [261].
• Allen, Ebenezer, captures Mount Defiance, [179];
  • frees Dinah Mattis, [183];
  • at New Haven Fort, [187], [225].
• Allen, Ethan, [63], [68], [69], [76], [78], [84];
  • outlawed, [86], [103], [109], [113], [115], [119];
  • petition to king, [99];
  • attempt to take Montreal by, [121];
  • capture of, [122];
  • return to Bennington of, [192];
  • pamphlets written by, [198];
  • receives letter from B. Robinson, [204], [207], [212], [226];
  • quells rebellion in Guilford, [239];
  • sent to Cumberland County, [196];
  • death of, [258].
• Allen, Herman, [140].
• Allen, Ira, [68], [70], [78];
  • secretary of Council of Safety, [165], [167], [199], [201];
  • commissioner with Fay, [206];
  • commissioner to Isle aux Noix, [208-220], [224], [265], [313].
• Allen, Parson, at Bennington, [172].
• Amherst, General, [28], [32], [33], [41], [42], [44].
• Arnold, Benedict, [103], [107], [112], [114];
  • expedition to Canada of, [125], [128], [130];
  • naval battle of, [134];
  • retreat of, [136].
• 
  
  • at Otter Creek Falls, [78];
  • outlawed, [86].
• Baker, Remember, [71], [72], [111], [119];
• Barnum, Lieut. Barnabas, [188].
• Baum, Colonel, [170], [176].
• Beach, Major Gershom, [105].
• Bees, [294].
  • convention at, [64], [67], [80];
  • legislature at, [193].
• Bennington, [54];
• Big Bethel, First regiment at, [344].
• Bills of credit, [249].
• Boundary line, settlement of, [252].
• Bowker, Joseph, [116].
• Bradley, Stephen R., pamphlet of, [198], [201].
• Brattleboro, [16], [54].
• Breckenridge, James, [65].
  • retreat of, [176].
• Breyman, [171], [175];
• Brown, John, [102], [119], [179].
  • proclamation of, [152], [162];
  • sends Baum to Bennington, [170], [177];
  • retreat of the army of, [182].
• Burgoyne, Sir John, at the Bouquet, [151];
  • lumber trade at, [364];
  • steamer launched at, [365].
• Burlington, [54];
  • conquest of, [46];
  • invasion of, [115-131].
• 
  
  • Erie, [325];
  • ship, [265].
• Canada, expeditions against, [7], [13], [21];
  • at Crown Point, [138];
  • threatens Ticonderoga, [142].
• Canal, Champlain, [325];
• Carleton, General, [124], [136];
• Carpenter, Isaiah, [66].
  • Waubanakee name of, [6];
  • Iroquois name of, [19];
  • seigniories on, [19].
• Catamount Tavern, [54], [83], [103].
• Champlain, Lake, [4];
  • legislature at, [232].
• Champlain, Sieur Samuel, [1].
• Charlestown, [24];
• Charlotte, County of, [89].
• Chimney Point, [19].
  • appointed governor, [189];
  • his letter to Washington, [195], [205], [230], [239];
  • answer to Congress of, [242], [244];
  • letter of, [247], [254];
  • death of, [259];
  • anecdote of, [321];
  • counsel of, [366].
• Chittenden, Gov. Martin, [278], [284].
• Chittenden, Thomas, president of Council of Safety, [165], [182], [184];
• Church, Timothy, [239], [240].
• Clark, Col. Isaac, at St. Armand, [276], [282].
• Clay, Capt. James, [195].
• Clinton, Governor, [225], [226], [230].
• Cockran, Robert, [71], [72].
• Cognahwaghnah Indians, claims of, [260].
• Colden, Governor, [98].
• Colleges, [313].
  • decrees of, [82];
  • answer of, to New York resolutions, [85];
  • "Association" of, [141].
• Commissioners of Sequestration, [167].
• Committees of Safety, [67], [73], [75], [77];
• Conger, Captain, captures raiders, [352].
• Congress, vacillating course of, [236], [242].
• Connecticut, letters from, [238].
• Constitution adopted, [146].
• Controversy between New Hampshire and New York, [56-67].
  • acts of, [181], [184], [187].
• Copper mines, [360].
• Council of Safety, [150], [170];
• Crown Point, fort built by Amherst at, [41], [84], [100].
• Cumberland County, [90].
• Cummings, [346].
  
• Dairying, [358].
• Debeline's attack on Number Four, [23].
• Declaration of Independence, [143].
• Deerfield, destruction of, [11].
• Delaplace, Captain, [110], [111].
• Dellius, Godfrey, [47].
• Derby, raid on, [277].
  • truck house at, [18].
• Dorset, convention at, [139].
• Dummer, Fort, built, [17];
• Dummerston, [91].
  
  • customs of, [301].
• Eaton, Capt. William, [358].
• Election day, [254];
• Enos, General, [216].
• Equivalent lands, [16].
  
• Fairbanks, Gov. Erastus, proclamation of, [341].
• Fay, Dr. Jonas, [201], [211], [213].
• Fay, Major Joseph, [206], [211], [214].
• Fay, Capt. Stephen, [75].
• Fees for grants, [81].
  • Crown Point, [41], [84], [100];
  • Number Four, [23];
  • Ranger, [194];
  • St. Anne, [19];
  • St. Frederic, [19], [20], [101];
  • Ticonderoga, [26];
  • Vengeance, [194];
  • Warren, [194].
• First Brigade, [345].
  • death of, [159].
• Forts, Bridgman's, [22];
• Francis, Colonel, [157];
• French Canadians, [328].
• French River, [11].
• French, William, murder of, [95].
• Frontenac, expeditions by, [4], [10].
• Fugitive Slave Law, [337].
  
• Galusha, Gov. Jonas, [268], [333].
• Gates, General, [132], [137].
• Granite quarries, [361].
• Green Mountain Boys, [68].
• Green Mountains, Republic of, [248].
• Gregg, Lieutenant-Colonel, [171].
• Growler and Eagle, loss of, [274].
  • correspondence of, [203-221].
• Guilford, [238].
  
• Haldimand, General, [83];
• Hale, Colonel, [158].
• Hampton, Gen. Wade, inaction of, [275].
• Hay, Col. Udney, [183].
• Headee, Mrs., [228].
  • colonel, [167], [187];
  • receives thanks of council, [183].
• Henry, John, [269].
• Herrick, Captain, captures boats at Skenesborough, [112];
• Hobbs, Capt. Humphrey, scout of, [25].
• Horses, Morgan, [298].
• Houghton, Daniel, [95].
• Howe, Caleb, [22].
  • routes of, [11];
  • St. Francis, [33].
• Hubbardton, battle of, [158].
  
  • Montreal sacked by, [5].
• Indians, forays of, [5];
  • taken by Haviland, [44];
  • conference with British at, [208].
• Iroquois, [2];
• Isle aux Noix, [33];
• Izard, General, [283].
  
• Johnson, Sir John, [225].
• Johnson, Sir William, [26].
  
• Kent, Cephas, innholder, [139].
  
  • promptcalls for troops, [340].
• Land embargo, [266].
  • endowment of, [317].
• Legislature, acts of, [255-257];
  • action of, [342].
• Libraries, early, [315];
• Lincoln, Abraham, President, [339];
• Lincoln, General, [169], [181].
• Liquor drinking, [364].
• Louisburg, capture of, [21], [29].
• Lumbering, [364].
  • builds fleet at Vergennes, [279];
  • fleet of, enters the lake, [281];
  • naval victory of, [285].
• Lydius, John Henry, [47].
  
• Macdonough, [273];
  • Stark at, [168];
  • Lincoln at, [169];
  • Warner's regiment left at, [169].
• McIntosh, Donald, [54], [79].
• Manchester, jail at, [142];
• Marble quarries, [362].
• Massachusetts, claims of, [197].
• Monro, Esquire, [66], [69].
• Monroe, Colonel, [27].
  • killed, [128].
• Montcalm, [26], [31].
  • early library of, [315].
• Montgomery, General, [117], [127];
  • attempt on, by Ethan Allen, [123];
  • taken by Montgomery, [128].
• Montpelier, the capitol at, [264];
• Montreal, taken by Amherst, [46];
  • occupied by British, [156];
  • taken by Ebenezer Allen, [179].
• Mott, Captain, [103], [105].
  • evacuation of, [156];
  • ibid. by British, [182].
• Mount Defiance, [153];
• Mount Independence, [132];
  • obedience of, to king, [60], [80];
  • prompt action of, to repel invasion of Burgoyne, [166];
  • sixteen towns of, join Vermont, [201], [232], [235].
• 
  
• New Connecticut, [144].
  • frontiers of, protected by Allen's treaty, [223];
  • appoints commissioners to treat concerning boundary, [251];
  • draft riots of the city of, quelled by Vermont troops, [346].
• New Hampshire, controversy of, concerning boundaries, [56];
• New Hampshire Grants, [57-67], [143].
  • defense of, [23];
  • road from, to Crown Point, [43].
• New York, claims of, [58], [60];
  • fort at, [187];
  • Macdonough's fleet winters in, [279];
  • boats built at, [279];
  • British attack at mouth of, [280];
  • arsenal at, [341].
• Newspapers, early, [317].
• Number Four, [22];
• 
  
• Otter, Great, mills destroyed at First Falls of, [78];
  • his treatment of fugitives, [344];
  • his proclamation and resignation, [348].
• 
  
• Papers, [318].
  • battle of, [288].
• Petowbowk, [6].
• Phelps, Charles, [240], [246].
• Phelps, Col. John W., [342];
• Phipps, Sir William, [9].
• Plattsburgh, raid on, [275];
  • defeat of, [290].
• Plumping-mill, [250].
• Point à la Chevalure, [19], [48].
• Political parties, [261], [270], [333].
  • fall of, [42];
  • trade with, [265].
• Postal service, [248].
• Prevost, Sir George, [283];
• Printers and printing, [317].
• Putnam, Gen. Israel, [30].
  
• Quebec, [3], [9];
• 
  
• Ransom, Truman B., [338].
• Reid, Col. John, [76], [79], [88].
• Religious societies, [307].
• Robinson, Col. Beverly, [204], [207].
• Robinson, Moses and Samuel, [211].
  • laws concerning, [311];
  • grammar, state, normal, [312].
• Robinson, Samuel, [62].
  • favors claims of Vermont, [231].
• Rogers, Major Robert, expedition of, [34-41].
• Royalton, Indian massacre at, [227].
  
• Sancoick, [171], [177], [233].
• Savage's Station, Vermonters at, [345].
• Schools, support of, [309-311];
  • importation of merino, [355];
  • breeding of, [358].
• Schuyler, General, [115], [117], [162];
• Schuyler, Capt. John, [8].
• Schuyler, Major, [9].
  • supposed charter of, [219].
• Scott, General, [343].
• Seigniories, [19].
• Sheep, [251];
• Shelburne, British attack on block-house at, [188].
• Sherwood, Captain, [205], [206].
• Skene, Colonel, [88], [105], [170];
• Skene, Major, [112].
• Slate quarries, [362].
  • rebel raid on, [351];
  • Fenians at, [353].
• Slavery prohibited, [147].
• Smuggling, [267].
  • retreat of, [161].
• Smugglers, device of, [282].
  • Vaudreuil's expedition from, [20];
  • abandoned by French, [33].
• Sobapsqua, [114].
• Sons of Vermont, [327].
  • abandons Ticonderoga, [217].
• St. Albans, protest of, [267];
  • at Gettysburg, [349].
• St. Anne, Fort, building of, [19].
  • at Number Four, [166], [168];
  • at Bennington, [172].
• St. Clair, General, at Ticonderoga, [153];
• St. Frederic, Fort, [19];
• St. John's, surrender of, [124].
• St. Leger, General, [216];
• Stannard, General, colonel of 9th regiment, [348];
• Stark, Gen. John, [43];
• Steele, Zadock, [229].
• Stevens, Capt. Phineas, defense by, [23].
• Stoddard, Col. John, [17], [23].
• Sugar-making, [295].
• Sunderland, Peleg, [71], [111].
  
  • Abercrombie's attack on, [29-32];
  • captured by Amherst, [32], [84];
  • ibid. by Green Mountain Boys, [100], [103], [183];
  • commanded by St. Clair, [153];
  • commissioners sent to, [154];
  • evacuation of, [156];
  • occupied by British, [161];
  • evacuated by British, [183].
• Taverns, [321].
  • proclamation of, [85].
• Taxes, payment of, [249].
• Temperance, [322].
• Ten Eyck, Sheriff, [65].
  • the west, [202].
• Tichenor, Governor, [260], [268].
• Ticonderoga, Fort, [26];
• Tryon, Governor, [73-76], [83];
  • surrender of Canada by, [46].
• Tupper, Sergeant, killed, [216].
  
• Underground railroad, [34].
  • its constitution, [147-187];
  • militia of, called out, [226];
  • agents appointed by, [231];
  • refusal of, to break the Unions, [232];
  • an independent republic, [238];
  • included in territory of the United States, [248];
  • admission of, to the Union, [253];
  • unpopularity of war with England in, [270];
  • raises troops, [272];
  • in the Mexican war, [338];
  • unprepared for war in 1861, [340];
  • characteristics of the people of, [365].
• Union of New Hampshire towns, [193];
• Unions dissolved, [234], [235].
  
• Valcour, Island of, [134], [135].
  • takes Crown Point, [111], [115];
  • appointed commander of Green Mountain Boys, [116], [124];
  • recalled to Canada, [128];
  • retreat covered by, [128], [130], [147];
  • New York demands recall of commission of, [144];
  • repels Indian invasion, [154];
  • letter of, [154];
  • at Hubbardton, [157];
  • at Bennington, [175-177];
  • death of, [258], [328].
• Vaudreuil, expeditions of, [20];
  • opinion of, concerning Vermont, [244].
• Vergennes, [54], [76].
• Vermont, [145];
• Vermontensium Res Publica, [248].
  
• Walbridge, Colonel, and General Gansevoort, [233].
  • massacre at, [90], [240];
  • convention at, [98], [142];
  • declaration of independence at, [144], [179].
• Warner, Seth, [70], [73], [78], [84], [86];
• Washington, General, letter from, [234];
• Waters, Constable Oliver, [245].
  • first legislature at, [191].
• Waubanakee, name of, [2].
• Wentworth, Gov. Benning, grants by, [52], [58], [60].
• Westminster, [54];
• Wilderness, the, country of, [11], [18], [47], [49].
  • insignificance of, [358].
• Wilkinson, General, movements of, [277].
• Windsor, convention at, [146];
• Winooski, [54].
• Winthrop, John, [7].
• Wohjahose, Rock Dunder, [6].
• Wool-growing, [297];
• Wright, Captain, scout of, [18].
  
• Young, Dr. Thomas, [145].
  
• Zooquagese, [34].

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