. Reunion celebration : together with an historical sketch of Peru, Bennington County, Vermont, and its inhabitants from the first settlement of the town. fcontention for years. The difficulty was referred to commissionersat different times, but no settlement was concluded until 1835. Ihecitizens agreed on a line which was established by the legislatureas jurisdictional line and each town acquiesced. William Barlow in 1773 came from Connecticut, built a housenear where the old house stood below the road on M. B. Lyonsfarm. It is not known what became of him; some say he left duringthe war, but
. Reunion celebration : together with an historical sketch of Peru, Bennington County, Vermont, and its inhabitants from the first settlement of the town. fcontention for years. The difficulty was referred to commissionersat different times, but no settlement was concluded until 1835. Ihecitizens agreed on a line which was established by the legislatureas jurisdictional line and each town acquiesced. William Barlow in 1773 came from Connecticut, built a housenear where the old house stood below the road on M. B. Lyonsfarm. It is not known what became of him; some say he left duringthe war, but returned and died in Peru. He was buried on theplace in the corner of the Holton lot, where others were 1777, Ira Allen, secretary of a convention held atManchester, wrote in ]M-essing terms to Meshech Weare, presidentof the provincial council assembled at Exeter, N. II., to send troops orsoldiers to Vermont. On the 9th day of July, 1777, PresidentWeare sent a letter to Ira Allen, stating that They have nowdetermined that a quarter part of the militia of twelve regimentsshall be immediately drafted, formed into three battalions under the. EuMUNi) i iiisioKv oi ii;i<r. 21 romiiiaiid ol llri^adicr (iciicial loliii Star k, and Iml I mill i sciil into yourStal( to o|i|)os( the rava^^cs and coniini^ ffjiwanl of tin; c-nciiiy. Itwas linl hciniorc stated tlial the tio(jps Wfjiild depend for provisionsupon \eiiiiont. Il was also requested that proper persons be sentto No. ,j ((liarlestown), to meet (ieneial Stark, and advise witii himrelative to the roatc and disposition of his troops. It is siip))osedthat (leneral Warner met Stark at No. .\, perhaps others with a historv reeenlly published bv (. (. (oriin, it is said (ieneralStark found a eannon at No p which he mounte-d on earl wheelsand took alon^- with him. Il is j;ietured in (olTnis history, thehcjrses tui^^ to lake the eannon aloni,^, the men lendinL,^ a hand it (Aer hard places. The
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