The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-06-04
Ths 8utland daily Glnhs
MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1877.
THE WINDSOR CONVENTION,


OF the convention which assembled at
Windsor, one hundred years ago-June 4,
1777-no full record remains, and we have
only fragmentary accounts of its doings.
First we have notice, signed ''Ira Allen,
Clerk" published in the Connecticut
Courant, April A. l,i7, giving notice that
it was "ardently hoped" that each town in
the state should be represented and that
non-residents, that have desire to at
tend" the convention are notified of the
same, and that "said convention was foim-
ed to govern the internal police of said
district, and If thought proper 10 form
said district into a state
Secondly, we have list of delegates
seventy-two in number, representing fifty
towns-"Capt. Joseph Bowker in the
chair" and, third, preamble and reso-
luton setting forth that the Westminster
convention, in January, declared the state
free and independent by the name of
New Connecticut" that it had been dis
covered that district of land on the Sus-
quehanna river was already known by that
name and it was "ReS0lUed, therefore,
unanimously, that the said district de-
scribed in the preamble to the declara-
/" ton at Westminster, aforesaid, shall now
" hereafter be called and known by the
"name of Vermont" Then follows the
names of the delegates present, seventy
two in number, and the record proceeds as
follows "The motion being made and
" seconded, whether the house would pro-
"ceed to business Uu the former
" declaration made at Westminster
"in January, aforesaid, with this al.
iteration only, that instead of New Con-
" necticut, the said district should ever be
known by the name of Vernon, - 49,
=. A. $50, 81, representatives be-
Z, -.Ssiuctly and severally called by the
" secretary, seventy-one Of them did
answer in the words following, viz PRO
Oh" coed to form : at which time and place
" the said seventy-one members did renew
" their pledges to each other by all the ties
" held sacred among men, and resolve and
declare that they were at all times ready,
in conjunction with their brethren in the
United States, to contribute their full
proportion towards maintaining the pres
ent just war against the fleets and armies
OF Great Britain" Then, with due re-
gard to the opinions of mankind, The
causes of complaint against New York and
the reasons which obliged declaration of
independence are set forth.
The fourth fragment provides for the
holding of a constitutional convention at
Windsor on the second day of July, and
recommends the election of delegates there
to by the several towns on the twenty-third
of June. The fifth is the notice of the ap-
pointment of committee-Colonel Will
liam Marsh of Manchester, James Mead of
Rutland, Ira Allen, and Captain Salisbury
to visit TicoLderoga, and consult with
the commander there respecting the de-
fence of the frontiers. Sixth, we have the
proclamation for fast on the eighteenth
OF June and, seventh, an order taking
possession of the jails and ordering the ar
rest of all persons "that appear to be en-
I" emical to their country" or the state,
and the seizure of their estates--in a word,
assuming exclusive jurisdiction for the new
state of Vermont.
Fragmentary as the records are. they yet
sufficiently disclose the importance of the
work there ccomplished-work as impor-
tArt as that done by The Westminster con-
vention in january. or the convention
which framed the constitution in July and
yet the people of Windsor and of Vermont
allow the event to pass unnoticed, because
1t 80 happened that a battle was fought
near Bennington some ten weeks later.