The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-10-21
VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
librarians Report.

To tie Vermont Historical, Society j; At
our meeting last held in this room, the
librarians report was presented by Hon.
Charles Reed In his death, which took
place on the It'll of March, 1879, the So
ciety suffered an irreparable LOIS, and
true man, true son of Vermont passed
away. In no way can the surviving men,
bers of this association more fully learn
and set forth the early history of the state,
or make its present and future history one
that shall be worth the writing, than by
emulating the zeal and uprightness of that
good man.
During the last two years there have
been added to the library the books of
which list is hereto appended.
The address of Mr. Chittenden is excel
lent in its clear presentation of the order
of events that eliminated in the taking of
Ticonderoga and the service thus render
ed by Mr. Chittenden can be best appre-
ciated by those who have had occasion to
examine the older accounts with the aim of
getting at the exact truth of the matter.
| Hon. j. S. Adams, now of Florida, sent
by Mr.. Willard in the spring of 1873, sew
eral old letters that were signed by Thomas
jefferson, and one written by General
Wayne. The latter shows that Mad An
thony welded the pen, and with it the
ponderously polite sentences of his day,
with as much apparent ease as lie did the
weaker if not the lighter we,pon, the
sword.
Hon. IIiland Hall has given ihe society
a number of copies of his Early History of
Vermont, and has thus put us under re-
newed obligations.
Two years ago it was hoped that the
third volume of the collections would have
been published long before this. Circum-
stances have not warranted the expected
publication. The provision made by the
state for the publication of the records of
the governor and council has, however
been the means of employing the pen of
Mr.. Walton in what has been in reality a
continuation of the same kind of work
The dry bones of the official records have
been built upon by him until the figure OF
the old time walks rehablitated-a clean
case of ''materialsm."
Two volumes of these records have been
printed most creditably by the press of j.
& j. M. Poland. and two hundred copies OF
each are by law the property of this So
ciety.
The first volume contains the records OF
the general conventions, of the council o
safety and the governor and council t
August Odd, 1910. The appendix consist
of valuable reprints of early documents
ard, with the body of work, is profusell
illustrated by the notes of the editor
The second volume continues the rccoy,
to May 26, 1881, and has an equally valua
BILE appendix. In this appendix Mr.. Wal
ton reprints document discovered within
, the last year which he deems ''the frs
, known act of convention in the Ne,
Hampshire grants having, in degree, til
! form and authority of an independent CIV
! government The place and date of thi
convention he fixes at Manchester. Januar
, 81, 1775.
The document was found with others o
the late Nathan b. Haswell, purchased G
, VIM. III. Root, Esq. of Burlington, for tn
I state library last fall. Mr.. Root wrote IN
in relation to these documents, and as the
= were exceedingly valuable, and MS the sc
ciety was not in condition to buy then
they were purchased for the state librar
g and thus retained within the state and pr,
served here for reference as fully as thong
= they had taken their position among I'll
/ immediate possessions of the historical 81
q cety.
The most important part of this collet
ton was that which contained very fu
: files of early newspapers. The first egh
| 4 tl,n a.. .it.tT
G at Bennington, were included in these fill,
these volumes of the Gazette extendir
from 1888 to 1901. There were also con
J. plete files of the Windsor paper, the JON
{ nal, from 1888 to 1871, and fill
r. of the Rutland papers from 1909
1901. Here it may be noted tn
= we have copy of the Vermont Gazette {
II Green Mountain Post Boy, the first We
= mont newspaper, printed at Westminste