Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-10-16
ye 81 Col ye sun E,lips'd &c.
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at b .thel with an express &c ye Mellti'
of r lckingham Dismissed.
Nov. 5th went out on scout up s
branch of White r for Days
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flnce at B,rnard & sot off for Pomfre
} Dryers ii mites and Ii Sot for Re
hoboth in company with Alan Howard.
History OF MARLBORO.
This history, in manuscript handsomely
bound. presented to the Society by John
w Newton, of Cincinnati, upon the terms
that 1t shall not be taken from the rooms
of the Society.
These terms the doner has insisted on
only to prevent the loss of what has cost
himself and his father so much care and
toll. Tho book was written for publication
and is as worthy Of it a. any Town Ills
tory we have seen. Copies can be taken
by any that desire.
HALDIMAND PAPERS.
Since the regular meeting of our Society
Collections OF the Vermont HistorIca
Society, Vol ., has been published, and
the Hadlmand Correspondence has for tht
first time appeared in print.
From 1880 = the peace of So. the
'' Leaders Of Vermont" not the geoDle
listened to the overtures of Gov. naldI-
mand to make a separate peace and be-
come a British Province; negotiQted
co9letted and pr0crastiaa ed and thus, by
the only means in Their power saved the
frontiers OF Y ermOnt and New York from
invasion BY an overwhelming force and
their own homes from desolauon.
Whether this conduct was one OF the
allowable strategems of war 70 delay an
enemy, or was with the reasonable pur-
pose TO desert the common cause Of tree
dom from British RUE, every inilyIdu4l
can now decide for himself
Mr. Walton vas the sole editor OF this
part OF the volume, aud has illustrated
these papers with q coPious wealth OF
cOtemporary history. AMI has shown the
connection Of each document with the cur
rent events Of the day.
When our society shall awake 10 our
people and 10 the LaQ stature 3 proper
pride ID our early State History. one Of
the chief objects of its founders viii be
accomplished. And then our Society will
not be . beggtr Tor funds 10 prta, annals
which no State possesses So peculiar or
more neglect had she been ashamed OF it.
INDIANS IS VERMONT
II is now agreed that AZ the time of the
first knowledge Of New E1g.aud By white
men, the territory now called Vermont n,d
no permanent Indian inhabitants that il
was disputed territory over whioh the
Iroquois and the Huron roamed and hunted
and fought whenever they met Elch
1t BY occupancy. But here uoue
dared 20 i've.
The extent Of tni- occupancy and claim
is o matter upon Whlch there is nos ht,le
left TO furnish light except the local
indian names that su!l iIn5er around RIVER
aud place.
) Hammond TrumbulI, Hartford, Con-
nectcut, is now the highest living authori
" upon the historical ludlan Of New ElL-
land, 10 declining q request TO prepare
a paper upon the above subject for cur
Society, by reason of previous engagements
be says;
Tne invitation with wni-h / am
honored by your Curators, would tempt
me to undertake the preparation ot the
paper proposed if | though, that the
at my command would suiG e to
10 do justice TO the subject Permit me
10 suggest to your Society that it will be
we'll TO precede su IN q work, BY careful
collection of all the Indian local names
when are preserved or eau be recovered.
noting the forms in which they appear
in the earliest record, as well as those
which they now bear,-aBd their tradition
al meanings, when such have come down 20
our time. Such lists have positive value
beyond that which is merely local Tney
IRE important in disposng of chronological
as we'll as linguistic questions. Al pres
INT, | have little hesitation in saying, that
10 one IS competent to prepare . sati>tac
ory paper on the Indian names Of Yer
mont and as for the Indians themselves,
a couple of paragraphs would dispose Of
hem, except as their history belongs to
hat OF the great Aigonkin family
In accordance with the suggestions Of
Mr.. Trumbull, / have to ask our friends
n each section Of the State to send ne All
he Indian names in their vicinity, and
heir sign,hcation, for the purpose he has
Indicated.
DONATION or ELISHA HARRINGTON.
In the valuable donation to our society
y Mr.. Harrington are three small volumes
IN the Abepaki tongue-the Gospel OF
Marx, and spelling and reading boOk and
he Decalogue with contents Oh each com
nandment.
These books were prepared for his tribe
he St. Francis, By Rev. Peter Pau Osun-
Zerhine, who was educated for mission
ny amo0g his tribe at Moore's Charity
School. THESE are the only books in that
anguage, and Mr. O.unkerhine assures Us !
hey are she only ones there ever will be,
or the reason that the children who are
10 ~ taught the Eoglish language and 70
cad in English books
The St. Francis tribe have been deprived
" legal proceedings, of their lands, aud are
low much reduced and scattered. And
O8unkerhine (written in his native Indian
Nzok hitainJ IS now stationed at Salma-
lac, Cataraugus county, New York, where
le ministers to about l, 800 Senacas and /
rom thence he has sent to our society I
everal sheets of hymns for religious ser. I
ices in his native Abenaki. These were /
ct up and printed BY himself at St.
francis, many years ago, using a little
'rinting establishment Of his own.
Mr.. Harrington has also presented to +
he society History of the Abenakis in
french by lie Able Maurault. - from 1905 /
ven to our time" and of the author he
ays Mr.. Maurault has been the Parish /
Priest of St. Francis, Indian village,
bout q years. He has in the Presby.
cry manuscript vocabulary of the root
Tords of the Abenakise language with I
heir definition in French. written in !