A text book of the geography, history, constitution and civil government of Vermont; also Constitution and civil government of the US., a publication expressly prepared to comply with Vermont's state school laws . fe and children, butMr. Churchill could get no news of his family and so wentforward on foot to Sheffield. His family had arrived beforehim. After the surrender of Burgoyne they returned toCastleton, and the next spring to Hubbardton to begin lifethere again. 15. RoYALTON Burned.—In 1780 a party of Indians,with a few Tories commanded by a sergeant of the British The Revolutionary War
A text book of the geography, history, constitution and civil government of Vermont; also Constitution and civil government of the US., a publication expressly prepared to comply with Vermont's state school laws . fe and children, butMr. Churchill could get no news of his family and so wentforward on foot to Sheffield. His family had arrived beforehim. After the surrender of Burgoyne they returned toCastleton, and the next spring to Hubbardton to begin lifethere again. 15. RoYALTON Burned.—In 1780 a party of Indians,with a few Tories commanded by a sergeant of the British The Revolutionary War 181 army, came up Lake Champlain and the Winooski Riverto attack Newbury, but, hearing that Newbury was wellprepared for defense, they changed their course for Royal-ton, a flourishing settlement on the White River, and wentthrough Barre and Chelsea to Tunbridge on thefirst branch of the White River, where they lay inicamp for a day. In the gray of the morning of Monday,October i6, they began their work of taking prisoners,plundering and destroying pra|Derty, in the south part ofTunbridge, near Royalton. At the mouth of the first branchin Royalton, they formed several parties so as to reach all tAt-y/-:. A messenger coming to warnsettlers of Indian raid,faints at gate of town parts of the settlement as quickly as possible. By twooclock in the afternoon they had killed two men, takentwenty-six prisoners, burned twenty-one houses and twentybarns with their contents and killed all the cattle, sheep andswine they could find. They captured and took with themabout thirty horses. Returning to their previous encamp-ment, they crossed the hills to the second branch of theWhite River, w^here, being overtaken in the night by a bodyof militia, they killed two prisoners and sent back a thirdwith the word that they would kill all the rest if they 182 History of Vermont were molested. No attack was made. The next daya deep snow covered the smoking ruins and desolated fieldsof Royalton. It
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