. The New England magazine . Mam Buiidmg of the University of Vermont, Burlington. THE STATE OF lERMOAT. 691 and Herricksportant part, regiments bore an inl-and their commanderswere highly compUmented by (leneralStark. In the autmnn Herricks rangersand about five hundred Vermontersunder Colonel Brown of Massachusettsharrassed the enemys rear near Ticon-deroga, recapturing many prisoners takenat Hubbardton, taking two hundred and was held by Capt. Chipman and abouteighty men of Warners regiment, nearlyall of whom were slaughtered in a the same time a body of three hun-dred, chiefly In
. The New England magazine . Mam Buiidmg of the University of Vermont, Burlington. THE STATE OF lERMOAT. 691 and Herricksportant part, regiments bore an inl-and their commanderswere highly compUmented by (leneralStark. In the autmnn Herricks rangersand about five hundred Vermontersunder Colonel Brown of Massachusettsharrassed the enemys rear near Ticon-deroga, recapturing many prisoners takenat Hubbardton, taking two hundred and was held by Capt. Chipman and abouteighty men of Warners regiment, nearlyall of whom were slaughtered in a the same time a body of three hun-dred, chiefly Indians, under Lieut. Hor-ton, of the British army, passed up theWinooski over the divide and down Whiteriver to Royalton, where they killed twosettlers, captured thirty, burned twenty. Southerland Falls, Proctor. ninety-three of the enemy and destroyingone hundred and fifty bateaux, seventeengunboats and one armed sloop. In 1778,while Warners regiment was at Albany,a British force sailed up the lake andpenetrated Vermont as far as Middlebury,taking captive all the men, burning allthe buildings, and retreating before troopsfrom Rutland could meet them. Thefollowing spring a line of defence wasformed and partially fortified, from Cas-tleton to the mountains east of Pittsford,and all settlers north of it were requiredto come in. Companies of rangers de-fended the frontier throughout 1779. InOctober, 1780, more than one thousandBritish and Indians sailed up the lakeand moved against Foit George, which houses, killed many cattle, and escapedbefore men from the settlements couldovertake them. This was the last invasion of Vermontduring the Revolution ; but the frontierwas constantly menaced. The continen-tal army was all employed had asked permission to
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