History and description of New EnglandVermont . Townshend. Aaron Johnson, Samuel Parkis, Thomas Barns, and Ebenezer Burt, whowere in the service at Roxbury, under General Washington. A com-pany was raised here in 1776, and marched, under command of CaptainFletcher, to Ticonderoga, and thence to Bennington. On their waythither, with a party of thirteen he attacked and routed a detachment offorty British, killed one, and took seven prisoners. General Fletchercame here from Grafton, Mass., and settled in 1767, at the age oftwenty-two years. In 1775 he entered the army as an orderly sergeant— was
History and description of New EnglandVermont . Townshend. Aaron Johnson, Samuel Parkis, Thomas Barns, and Ebenezer Burt, whowere in the service at Roxbury, under General Washington. A com-pany was raised here in 1776, and marched, under command of CaptainFletcher, to Ticonderoga, and thence to Bennington. On their waythither, with a party of thirteen he attacked and routed a detachment offorty British, killed one, and took seven prisoners. General Fletchercame here from Grafton, Mass., and settled in 1767, at the age oftwenty-two years. In 1775 he entered the army as an orderly sergeant— was in the battle of Bunker Hill — and, being discharged the follow-ing January, he returned to Townshend, where he received the commis-sion of a militia captain; he was an active politician, and renderedessential service to the people of Vermont in establishing their state VERMONT TOWN OF TROV. 921 governmont. He roinaincd in the service uiitil the surreiuler of Bur-goyne, when he returned home, and was promoted through the variousmilitary gr
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