A History of Vermont: With Geological and Geographical Notes, Bibliography, Chronology, Maps, and IllustrationsGinn & Company, 1903 - 325 стор. |
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ALBANS RAID Albany American army Barton battle BATTLE OF BENNINGTON began Bellows Falls Benning Wentworth Bennington brigade British building built Burlington Canada cattle Champlain Valley CHAPTER Chittenden coins colonies companies Congress Connecticut River convention corn County Crown Point Dummer east England English Ethan Allen Falls farm farmers feet.¹ fight fire forest Fort Dummer French and Indian governor Green Mountain Boys Hampshire Grants hills hundred important independence industries Lake Champlain Lake Memphremagog land manufacturing marble Massachusetts Memphremagog ment Middlebury miles military mill Montpelier neighbors Newbury northern officers Otter Creek party pearlash Plattsburg politics Pond quarries Quebec raid regiment Revolution road route Rutland schools sent settled settlement settlers side South taken things Ticonderoga tion to-day took town trade Union Vermont Brigade Vermont troops Village West Westminster wheat wilderness Windsor woods wool York
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Сторінка 234 - Therefore, no male person, born in this country, or brought from over sea, ought to be holden by law to serve any person, as a servant, slave, or apprentice...
Сторінка 172 - Our galleys were about obeying with alacrity the signal to follow them, when all the vessels were reported to me to be in a sinking state. It then became necessary to annul the signal to the galleys, and order their men to the pumps. I could only look at the enemy's galleys going off in a shattered condition; for there was not a mast in either squadron that could stand to make sail on.
Сторінка 184 - Texas by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Сторінка 133 - I do not hesitate to say I am fully grounded in opinion, that Vermont has an indubitable right to agree on terms of cessation of hostilities with Great Britain, provided, the United States persist in rejecting her application for a union with them, for Vermont, of all people, would be the most miserable, were she obliged to defend the independence of United claiming States, and they, at the same time, at full liberty to overturn and ruin the independence of Vermont.
Сторінка 113 - ... name and description of the New Hampshire Grants, of right ought to be, and is hereby declared forever hereafter to be considered, as a free and independent jurisdiction, or State ; by the name, and forever hereafter to be called, known, and distinguished by the name of New Connecticut...
Сторінка 137 - received and admitted into this Union as a new and entire member of the United States of America.
Сторінка 135 - Britain should continue. The country is very mountainous, full of defiles, and extremely strong. The inhabitants, for the most part, are a hardy race, composed of that kind of people, who are best calculated for soldiers ; in truth, who are soldiers...
Сторінка 1 - Continuing our route along the west side of the lake, contemplating the country, I saw on the east side very high mountains capped with snow. I asked the Indians if those parts were inhabited? They answered me, Yes, and that they were Iroquois, and that there were in those parts beautiful valleys, and fields fertile in corn...
Сторінка 13 - Voted [December 27], that it will be of great service to all the western frontiers, both in this and the neighboring government of Connecticut, to build a...