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  American Commonwealths.

  EDITED BY

  HORACE E. SCUDDER.

[Illustration: (Map of)

  VERMONT
  TO ACCOMPANY
  ROWLAND E. ROBINSON'S
  VERMONT in
  AMERICAN COMMONWEALTHS

  THE MATTHEWS-NORTHRUP CO., BUFFALO, N. Y.]




  American Commonwealths


  VERMONT

  A STUDY OF INDEPENDENCE


  BY

  ROWLAND E. ROBINSON

  [Illustration]

  BOSTON AND NEW YORK
  HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

  The Riverside Press, Cambridge
  1892




  Copyright, 1892,
  BY ROWLAND E. ROBINSON.

  _All rights reserved._


  _The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A._
  Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.




   CONTENTS.


   CHAPTER                                                     PAGE

        I. THE HIGHWAY OF WAR                                     1

       II. THE WILDERNESS DURING THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS      15

      III. OCCUPATION AND SETTLEMENT                             47

       IV. THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS                              57

        V. THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS                               68

       VI. THE WESTMINSTER MASSACRE                              90

      VII. TICONDEROGA                                          100

     VIII. GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS IN CANADA