Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-06-07
The Vermont Historical Society.

The following Is list " contributions to the
Vernon, Historical Society during the month n
May, 1876.
Professor j. + Goodrich. Burlington Ter,,,,.,
dnrord, volumes one 10 seven. 1924 In isao
files not completed seven numbers Auf.rso.
sonic Republican, by b. d barber, Middleburv.
lS'i packages Of other newspapers thirty.
five pamphlets Vermont school Journal 30
" Teachers Voice, etc
Isaac Craig, Esq, Pittsburgh Pa A paper rclnt-
ing to washington's life guard
Chief Of Engineers, Washington, D. C-rntei
States Geographical Surveys West Of the one
hundreth meridian, volume three; Geology.
Rev. W II Lord, Montpelier One volume studies
on slavery by John Fletcher six hundred and
thirty-seven pages Mr. John Fletcher WA. n
native Of Vermont
G. W Eaton, Wakefield Mass One volume
genealogical History Of the towns Of Reading.
North Reading aud Wakefield, Mass by Hon
oraole Iilly Eaton, portraits, eight hundred and
seVeniy-iivc pages forty pamphlets
> \. Green VI. D., Boston-One pamphlet. copy
Of the lawsot Harvard College. 1855, edited by
Dr. Green
Essex Institute, Salem, Mass -Bullctin for lime
July and August iS75.
Miss Fanny Palmer, Montpelier -Antograpl, letter
OF Rev. Samuel Mosely, a missionary To the
Choctaw Indians, written in 1924 To the late
captain Lemuel Brooks and wife, he being
their nephew. The letter relates entirely to
the work Of the mission.
Middlebury College Proceedings at the inangu.
ration Of Rev. C. b Hubert a. President.
July p, 1875
w. b. Davis, Montpelier - Children's Primer.
Printed by r. ?. Walton, 1884, illustrated
Miss Eliza 5 Quincy No. Park street. Bos.
ton-One volume, A Dramatic Poem. hv Io
siah Phillips Quincy; one volume Memoir of
Josiah Quincy, Junior Of Massachusetts Ray
third edition, edited by his granddaughter
Miss Eliza S Quincy
Samuel A. Green, NJ d., Boston Forty-one mis-
cellaneons pamphlets
Recovered, a Powder Horn which many wears
ago was given 10 the Society but disappeared
This horn is handsomely engraved with figures
OF dolphins, etc. also the following. Elijah
Wetherell His Horn Made At Fort Cumbcr-
land, March I, l5G0" This Elijah Wetheren
was the father Of Elijah. who wa. one Of the
early settlers in Montpelier. The Fort Cum
beiland above mentioned was situated in Nova
Scotia, near the head Of the Bay Of Fuudy, IN
the district formerly called Acadia, and from
which the Acadians, OF Neutral French, were
so cruelty driven after It's capture from France
by the English Fort Cumberland was cap
tured in i7o5 by an expedition made up chiefly
OF Massachusetts volunteers To the number of
about fifteen hundred, under the immediate
command of Colonel John winslow; the latter
was active In carrying out Ills Majesty decree
against the unsuspectng and innocent Acadi-
ans, upon whoma wanton cruelty and Injustice
was inflicted which scarcely has parallel in
the history Of the human race
\. p. Hatch, ESD, Norwich VI -Four sermons
preached at Norwich, Vt, ia iSl7-1S, hy Rev.
James VI Woodward
Making total Of one hundred aud foriy-seyen
books, pamphlets aud other articles.
NJ. D. GILMAN, Librarian, Montpelier, w.