Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1861-01-31
THE VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY.


A special meeting of the Vermont Historical
Society was held at Burlington on Wednesday
and Thursday of last week. From the Times
and Free Press we condense the report of pro-
ceedings as follows:
During the absence of the President, on
Wednesday, the Hon. George p. Marsh was
called to the chair. A Memoir of the Rev.
Sam'l Anstin Woreostcr, by the Rev. Pliny H.
White, of Coventry, was read by ID. w. c.
Clarke in the absence of the author. George
F. Houghton presented and read a Memoir Of
the late Hon. George Tisdae Hodges, of Rut-
land. The thanks of the Society were voted to
Messrs. White and Houghton, and copies re-
quested for the archives of the Society.
In the evening paper on the Battle ofBen-
nington was read BY Henry B. Dawson of Nor
risannia, n. Y. While waiting fot Mr. Dawson.
who was delayed short time beyond the lime
set for his address, by detention of the train,
Hon. George p. Marsh, who presided remark
ed to the Society, in allusion to communica-
ton upon the date of the supposed modern in
venton of saving Marble, by the use of sand
and toothleSs saws, that exactly such process
was described by Pl ny tro thousand years ago,
and alluded to the interesting fact that Pliny
also mentions the use of reaping machines, in
propelled in front of the horses, as were the
first of modern reaping machines.
Mr. Dawson, with Gov Hall, President of the
Society, arrived at eight o'clock, and proceeded
at once with his address. Of this an abstract
would convey most imperfect idea, and we
do not attempt to give one.- 1t was probably
the fullest account of that Battle as yet pre-
pared. Commencing with the movement OF
Bur, goyne from Cumberland Head TO Fort Ed
ward, he described with great iullness and mi
-nutencss OF detail, the positions of the various
forces on each side,~the nature and effect of
the various movements, the particulars of the
fight and the defeat first of Baum and then of
Breyman, and the important consequences
of those actions. Much of the matter OF
the paper was now, derived from the reports
of the German officers to the Duke OF Brnns-
wick, and other sources, not within the reach
of previous writer's on the subject: All was
fresh, graphic and interesting in high degree
to all who heard it,
Thursday morning short biographical sketch
es of Ex- Governor Robinson and DIR Noadiah
Swift were read by Hon. Hiland Hall. An in
terestng relic of early times, being musket,
taken from British soldier at New York City
in collision between the soldiers and the "SonS
of Liberty" in l170 and claimed to be the first
tropby of the Revolution, was exhibited by Mr.
Henry b. Dawson, and its history giveni
Appointments were made as follows: ]. S.
Adams of Burlington, an associate with his
father in the preparation of a paper on "The
Patriot War of 1886; TO Benz, II. Smalley a
memoir Of the late Hon, Asa Adds; TO Sir
William T.. Logan of Montreal the Geology
of Northern Vermont and the Valley of Lake
Champlain to Geo. w. Benedict of Burling.
ton, the time, manner of death, and burial
place of Ethan Aenj to James NJ. Read oil
Colchester, the botany and fora of Colchester
plains, compared with similar productions Of
New Mexico to Rev. C. G. Parker of Water
bury, a memoir of the late Gov. Ezra Butler.
The Rev. ]. X. Converse presented to the
Society, nearly perfect series of the annua
reports of the Vermont Colonization Society
The Rev. ID. B. Ames of Brandon, presented 1
volume of Poems by Gilbert Cook Lane, A. NJ.
edited hy Mr. Ames. Geo. A Weeks, of thu
General Theological Seminary, New York, pre-
sented a copy of the History of Salisbury, Vt.
with memoir of John Nj. Weeks Nj. b
Curtis, of Burlington, presented a manuscript
volume of Proprietors' Records of Georgia, VI,
kept by Ira Allen, Proprietors' Clerk. DIR. ii
Stevens, of st. Albans presented, in behalf O
the Hon. Daved Olmsted, formerly of Mime
sofa, now in Fairfax, VT, specimen of nativ
copper and an Indian implement. John L
Wheeler, OF Burlington, on behalf of J. Home
Bostwick, late of Burlington, now of Michigan
grandson of Levi Allen, presented chest O
Pamphlets, Deed, Memorandum books, Joul
nails and Private Documents, belonging to lie,
Allen, brother of Ethan Allen; and Messri
George +. Houghton and John b. Wheelt
were appointed committee to collect and al