Proceedings of the Vermont Historical SocietyVermont Historical Society., 1872 |
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Albany appointed arms army arrived Assembly attack authority Benedict Arnold Bennington board the vessels boats Boston Canada cannon Capt Captain Mott capture of Ticonderoga Castleton CHARLES REED claim Colonel Allen Colonel Arnold Colonel Easton Colonel Ethan Allen Colonel Hinman Colony of Connecticut command commission Committee of Safety Continental Congress Crown Point deroga directed enemy enlist Ethan Allen evidence expedition facts force Fort Edward fortress French garrison gentlemen Green Mountain Boys Hampshire Grants Hartford honor hundred Indians informed John Brown join Lake Champlain Lake George land letter liberty Major Skene Massachusetts Committee miles Montcalm Montpelier Montreal morning night Noah Phelps officers orders party person Pittsfield prisoners provisions raised regiment returned river says sent Seth Warner settlers Shoreham Skenesborough sloop soldiers Sunderland surrender Ticon Ticonderoga and Crown took town Trumbull VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY Warner York
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Page 6 - Finally, Allen himself declares that, "the first systematical and bloody attempt at Lexington to enslave America, thoroughly electrified my mind, and fully determined me to take part with my country ; and while I was wishing for an opportunity to signalize myself in its behalf, directions were privately
Page 65 - It was computed that 1500 persons were killed or made prisoners by these savages during this fatal day. Many of the latter were carried off by them, and never returned. A few, through favorable accidents, found their way back to their native country, after having experienced a long and painful captivity."—Carver's
Page 97 - decided in favor of New York, but the Governor of New Hampshire had made grants of between one and two hundred townships in it, whence it had acquired the name of the New Hampshire Grants. The settlers on these Grants resisted the attempts of New York to eject them, and formed themselves into an association called
Page 93 - satisfaction to the different Colonies, that Colonel Hinman's Regiment, now on their march from Connecticut to Ticonderoga, should form part of the army—say one thousand men ; 500 do. to be sent from New York, including one company of one hundred men, of the train of artillery, properly equipped ; 500 do. B. Arnold's Regiment, including seamen and
Page 66 - who put fire round about the fort, and as they would have come out of it to save themselves, they were all slaine, only five excepted, who escaped. For which losse they yet sorrowed, shewing with signes that one day they would be revenged; that done, we came to our ships
Page 6 - me from the then Colony (now State) of Connecticut, to raise the Green Mountain Boys, and with them (if ; possible) to surprise and take the fortress, Ticonderoga. This enterprise I cheerfully undertook.'
Page 98 - forcible.' Washington, in one of his letters, says there was ' an original something in him which commanded admiration! ' "Thus reinforced, the party, now two hundred and seventy strong, pushed forward to Castleton, a place within a few miles of the head of
Page 82 - break of day of tenth of May, 1775, by the order of the General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut, I. took the Fortress of Ticonderoga by storm. The soldiery was composed! of about one hundred Green Mountain Boys, and near fifty veteran soldiers from the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The latter was under the command of
Page 97 - rough eloquence, also, that was very effective with his followers. 'His style,' says one who knew him personally, 'was a singular compound of local barbarisms, scriptural phrases and oriental wildness ; and although
Page 86 - To the Honorable, the General Assembly of the Governour and Company of the ENGLISH Colony of CONNECTICUT, in NEW ENGLAND, in