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  • 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.
  • Guilford, 238.
  • Haldimand, General, 83;
  • Hale, Colonel, 158.
  • Hampton, Gen. Wade, inaction of, 275.
  • Hay, Col. Udney, 183.
  • Headee, Mrs., 228.
  • Henry, John, 269.
  • Herrick, Captain, captures boats at Skenesborough, 112;
    • colonel, 167, 187;
    • receives thanks of council, 183.
  • Hobbs, Capt. Humphrey, scout of, 25.
  • Horses, Morgan, 298.
  • Houghton, Daniel, 95.
  • Howe, Caleb, 22.
  • Hubbardton, battle of, 158.
  • Indians, forays of, 5;
    • routes of, 11;
    • St. Francis, 33.
  • Iroquois, 2;
    • Montreal sacked by, 5.
  • Isle aux Noix, 33;
    • taken by Haviland, 44;
    • conference with British at, 208.
  • Izard, General, 283.
  • Johnson, Sir John, 225.
  • Johnson, Sir William, 26.
  • Kent, Cephas, innholder, 139.
  • Land embargo, 266.
  • Legislature, acts of, 255-257;
    • promptcalls for troops, 340.
  • Libraries, early, 315;
    • endowment of, 317.
  • Lincoln, Abraham, President, 339;
    • action of, 342.
  • Lincoln, General, 169, 181.
  • Liquor drinking, 364.
  • Louisburg, capture of, 21, 29.
  • Lumbering, 364.
  • Lydius, John Henry, 47.
  • Macdonough, 273;
    • builds fleet at Vergennes, 279;
    • fleet of, enters the lake, 281;
    • naval victory of, 285.
  • McIntosh, Donald, 54, 79.
  • Manchester, jail at, 142;
    • Stark at, 168;
    • Lincoln at, 169;
    • Warner's regiment left at, 169.
  • Marble quarries, 193;
    • the west, 202.
  • Unions dissolved, 234, 235.
  • Valcour, Island of, 134, 135.
  • Vaudreuil, expeditions of, 20;
    • surrender of Canada by, 46.
  • Vergennes, 54, 76.
  • Vermont, 145;
    • 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.
  • Vermontensium Res Publica, 248.
  • Walbridge, Colonel, and General Gansevoort, 233.
  • Warner, Seth, 70, 73, 78, 84, 86;
    • 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.
  • Washington, General, letter from, 234;
    • opinion of, concerning Vermont, 244.
  • Waters, Constable Oliver, 245.
  • Waubanakee, name of, 2.
  • Wentworth, Gov. Benning, grants by, 52, 58, 60.
  • Westminster, 54;
    • massacre at, 90, 240;
    • convention at, 98, 142;
    • declaration of independence at, 144, 179.
  • Wilderness, the, country of, 11, 18, 47, 49<

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