Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-10-16

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showed almost oil Day. there VIC were i,in'd b.,
10 men x sot oG toward yc hcighth of Land, In
| hopes oi coming across our main hoddy K com.
ing to house in Middlesex bnrning which ",
Judged to have heen fred by the Enemy about
hours
we took their trail & followed into Brookfeld
q inding our men didn't follow we incampcd TINT
night but ye Mddle-ex men returned back. bn,
ye next morning ye 18th we followed on about
miles hrther onto We heighth Of land & fndinp
we should not he joined hy more men & our party
hut " which We thought t1O small n number Ia
engape whom We thought 70 he 300 by ye parth
they made which was very easy to follow in ye
might've left SO chase & rctnrn'd TINT Day Ia
col. Wooodwnrd-, Chnck again )-havinq marched
oyer as five level tract Of Land as | have seen
IN this Country. we went thro' Brookfeld. Dear.
HELD into Nnrthheld Oight timbcrei with
maple. Beach. Birch Sci at Col Woodwards we
heard that the Enemy had burnt and DESTROYED
koyaltnn, some houses in Sharon h Miidlescx
Sc and have taken Of upwards Of 90 Prisoners
and killed Notwithstanding they were fired
npon by We advance guard cf upwards of 100
men, which indeed put them ~ great Confusion
but they killed prisoners 4 fled while the cow.
ardly Coln' House was forming his men, hootnp
with a mock preience Of having field fight with
Indians in the Bash, which gave them time to
get oH Nhey were commanded by one Colo.
Peters q Tory,
Oct. Sc 10 we returned home in peace. some
moving nh over Connect. River, and our savage
Enemy gone with flying cnuiers into Canada
which is q poor story for a whig to tell.
ye 90 We he,r that the aforesaid enemy were
attached sic, probably detached for Cowas afer
Major WhitepQ Sc, bat Gnd their mistake. t,1k
40 IN thcir Heads t plague ps-also that there.
are 1900 Indians landed from the lake on,fhr
other side Of ye mountain a have taken fors.
ann Sc
ye 90, Part Of ye Companies from Windsor &
F.f. a IA
ye 81 Cool We sun Ecips'd &c
ye 30 Meliiia DISMISSED &c
Nov. Sc snow fell nbout inches
ye 2ud. The Tort 40 Barnard was Christnod hv
ye Name 0f Defiance We had false alarm how
'he Enemy were ut Grape brook. Sc went u
t,rt i9rttude at Bethel with an express &c Sc
Meli,ia ut Rockingham Dismi-sd-
Nov. 9th. | went out on a scout up 5. branch
Of White r. for Days
We II Cold frozen weather Moon Eclinsed &c.
Nov. Is was DISMISSED from tort Defiance
nj Barnard, q ~it IF for Pomiret j DIVERS II
miles and Sc 10 sltout for Rehoboth in company
with Adam Howard.
HISTORY or MARLBORO.
This history, in manuscript, by Rev Eahraim
H. Newton, handsomely hlund, is presented On
the Sioieiy by John W Newton. of Cincinnati.
upon the terms that it shall not be taken from
the rooms Of the Sciety.
prevent the los Of what hus c,-t himself and his
hther 50 much care and tm The book was
written for publication, and Is as worthy of it ns
any Town History we have seen. Copies can be
taken by any that desire.
nALpNAND PAPERS
Since the last regular meeting Of our s1cicty.
Collections Of the Vermont Historical 5 ciety
Vol ?, has been puhlshed. and the Haldimand
Correspondence has Tor the first time appeared in
print.
FROM 1850 to the peace of So the Leader.
oi Vermont Hoi he people, listened to the over
lures of Gov. Htdlfnand to make a separate
peace and become a British Province negofiofed
and pr0crashHafsd and thus. by The only
means in their ppwer, saved the frontiers Of Yer
mont and New York frum Invasion by an over
whelming force and their own homes from desj-
lation.
Whether this conduct was one Of the all ,wable
stratagems of war b delay an enemy, or was
with the treasunahe purp sc To desert the com
mon cause Of freedom from British rule every in
jivduH can now decide for himself
Mr.. Walton was the sole editr Of this part Of
tie volume, and has illustrated these papers with
4 cuplous wealthoi cltemp1raiy history, and has
shown the connection OF each document with the /
current events Of the day.
When our Snciey shall awake in our people |
md in the Legislature proper pride in our early |
state History, one Of the chief objects of IT, /
punders will be accomplished. And then our
Society will mt he a beggar Tor funds 10 pint
lnnals which no State possesses 81 peculiar ar
more honorable This State could hardly have
rcated her early history with more neglect, had
The been ashamed Of
INDIANS II VERMONT m
Ii is now agreed that at the time Of the fra
IN iwlcdge oi New England by white men. the 4
erritury now called Vermont had no permanent /
indian inhabitants that it was a disputed terri
ry over which the lroquois and the Huron
uamed and hunted and fought whenever they
net. Each claimed it by occupancy. Bat here
ZONE dared ti live.
The extent OF this occupancy and claim is a
natter upon which there is now little left to
urnsh light, except the local Indian names that
ull llnger around river mountain and place
D Hammond Irnmbull, Hartford, Connecticut,
! now the highest living authority upon the hi~-
orical Indian Of New England In declining
eque-t IA prepare paper upon the above subject
or our Society, by reason Of previous engage
nents, be says
The invitation with which am honored hy
our CURATOR, would tempt me to undertake the
uf the paper proposed, if thought
hat the material. at my command would suffice
o do justice to the subject. Permit me 10 sug-
est tU your Society that it will be well To pre-
ede such work, by careful collection of all
he Indian local names which are preserved or
an be recovered, --notng the forms in which
hey appear in TIE earliest record, as well a.
hose which they now bear, - and their fradi.
'0nal meanings when such have come down to
ur time. Such lists have positive value, he
ond that which is merely local They are i'm
0rtant in di-posing Of ethnolugica a. well NJ
linguistic questions. At present. | have little
esltatiun IN saying, that no one is competent to
rcpare a satisfactory paper on the Indian nAmes
1 Vermont; and as for the Indians themselves, a /,
mn ut nis u Il fh.r,
ept as their history belongs to that Of the great
AlgJnkin family
10 accordance with the suggestions of Mr.
'rumhuil, ! have to ask our friends in each sec
ion Of the State 10 send me all the Indian names
n their vicinity, and their Specification for the
urpose he has indicated.
DONATION OF ELISHA HARRINGTON
In the valuable donation TO our Soeiety by Mr..
harrington are three small volumes in the Ahe-
aki tongue-the Gospel Of Mark, spelling and
eading book, and the Decalogue with comments
n each commandment.
These books were prepared for his tribe, the
It. Francis, by Rev Peter Paul Osunkcrhine
sho was educated for a missionary among his
rihe at MuOre's Charity School. These are the
inly books in that language, and Mr.. Osunker-
line assures rs they are the only ones there ever
will he, for the reason that the children who are
'Ow taught are taught the English language and
% read in English books.
The ST Fmncis tribe have been deprived by
eg, proceeding, of their lands, and are now
much reduced and scattered. And Osunkerhino
written in his native Indian, Wzlkhilain) is nuw
tatOned at Salamanca, Catamugus county, New
York, where he ministers 10 about 500 Sem
cas- and from thence he has sent to our society
cyera sheets Of hymns for religious services in
lis native Ahenaki. These were set up and
,rinted by himself at 81. Francis. many years
go, using little printing establishment Of his
lwn.
Mr.. Harrington has also presented to the Socie-
y History Of the Ahenakis in French by lie
Ahbe Maunult, from 1905 even To our time, p
nd of the author he says - Mr.. Maurult has
'een the Parish Priest Of ST. Francis, Indian vii
age, about 81 years. lie has in the Preshytery
manuscript vocabulary Of the root words Of the
\henakise language with their definition in
'rench, written in and about l7l2, by mission
ny priest. and it has not been printed Mr.. Mau-
ault' : address il pierreyille Ouebec -