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 . Enosburg Falls High and Graded School County The Revolutionary War ibi CHAPTER IIIThe Revolutionary War TiCONDEROGA—Late in February, 1775, John Brown,.Esq., of Pittsfield, Mass., called at Bennington on his wayto Canada to secure the friendship of the Canadians andIndians in the approaching conflict between the Americancolonies and England. He had been selected for
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 . Enosburg Falls High and Graded School County The Revolutionary War ibi CHAPTER IIIThe Revolutionary War TiCONDEROGA—Late in February, 1775, John Brown,.Esq., of Pittsfield, Mass., called at Bennington on his wayto Canada to secure the friendship of the Canadians andIndians in the approaching conflict between the Americancolonies and England. He had been selected for this serviceby the Boston committee of correspondence, at the sugges-tion of the Massachusetts Congress. Peleg Sunderland, a:leader of the Green ^Mountain Bovs, for whose deliverv at. Development of the American flag Albany Governor Tryon had offered a reward the yearbefore, was his guide. Near the end of March, Brow^nwrote from Montreal to the committee in Boston, Thefort at Ticonderoga must be secured as soon as possibleshould hostilities be committed by the Kings troops. Thepeople on the New Hampshire Grants have engaged to dothis business. Soon after the battle of Lexington, severalgentlemen of Hartford, Conn., raised a sum of money topay the expenses of an expedition against Ticonderoga andsent it forward by messengers, one of whom w^as CaptainEdward Mott. Mott gathered a fev/ recruits in Connecti-cut, a few more in Massachusetts, and reached Benningtoa 162 History of Vermont with about fifty men. Affairs were in such a state ofreadiness there that in three days, that is, Sunday evening,May 7, 1775, Captain Mott had reached Castleton with onehundred and seventy men, including Colonel Ethan Allen,Captain Samuel Herrick and Captain Seth Warner, threeof the eight
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