Manchester Historic Association collections . adjacent stream and Saratoga afterthe village close to which that fight occurred. It is acurious thing that neither Stark nor Burgoyne were accus-tomed to refer to the battle as that of Bennington. Starkseveral times characterized it, as I have indicated in thetitle selected for this address, as the battle at Walloom-sac, and Burgoyne more than once has referred to it as theaffair at Saint Coicks Mill, or plain Saint Coicks,which was the spot where the first skirmish began and lastfight ended. While New Hampshire furnished the commandinggeneral, th
Manchester Historic Association collections . adjacent stream and Saratoga afterthe village close to which that fight occurred. It is acurious thing that neither Stark nor Burgoyne were accus-tomed to refer to the battle as that of Bennington. Starkseveral times characterized it, as I have indicated in thetitle selected for this address, as the battle at Walloom-sac, and Burgoyne more than once has referred to it as theaffair at Saint Coicks Mill, or plain Saint Coicks,which was the spot where the first skirmish began and lastfight ended. While New Hampshire furnished the commandinggeneral, the sagacious and brave Stark, and more thanhalf the troops, Massachusetts and Vermont divided theremaining part not so very unequally between them. NewYork furnished the battle field and a very considerable THE BATTLE OF BENNINGTON 177 sprinkling of men besides. It should be borne in mindthat every available man from that part of New YorkState was with the main American army before New York at this period was distracted. She was. being ground between the upper and nether millstones atSaratoga and New York. King George III, on July 20,1764, by royal decree had declared that what is now Ver-mont was part of the Province of New York. Before thatit had been by common consent considered a part of New 178 THE BATTLE OF BENNINGTON Hampshire. From 1765 to 1777 there had been a mostbitter legal war, oftentimes threatening serious bloodshed,between the people of this section and the authorities inNew York, who regarded the revolt against the Kingsgrant as unwarranted. It was a sadly mixed quarrel withvarying right and wrong on our part.* On January 15, 1777, Vermont declared her independ-ence and soon after adopted her present name, having firstchosen New Connecticut, which was soon was therefore in a state of open rebellion against NewYork, and had declared herself a fourteenth State, whichwas not, however, as yet recognized by the other thirteenof the United
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