The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-12-20

(2J 1t is indeed wonderful how quick the
news of the affair spread. Capt Robert Coch-
ran and his company, OF Green Mountain
there the next day and how word was got to
him is more than anybody knows or can guess.
Oliver Church of Bratteboro and Joseph Ian.
cock of Hopkinson, Mass, state that they met
Cochran at BrattleborO Wednesday afternoon
with about GO men going towards Westminster.
IIe said he was captain of the Green Noun,
tain Boys and would have the blood of Sherih
Patterson, Clerk Samuel Gale and Christopher
Osgood- anyhow at that time. Ihere was
then an act of outawry against Cochran anu Il
reward of { 80 offered for his head as wei n
others; when he got TO Westminster he called the
attention of the royalists and Workers To the
fact and asked them why they didn't take nm
and get 1t. A.,
ground before the day closed and the way they
0yercame the court party VIII be told next
week.
fs> There were two taverns in the place at
the time-John NOrtOn's on the upper street anu
John Goulds on the lower Gouids WIS Wnat
Is called the peoples tavern then and Norton :
was the resort of the Tory and aristocrat1c eie-
ment Norton came from Pennington, Conn;
about 1850 and married Anna, daughter OF J9el
Uolton and despite his Tory aflillauons at lhe
heginning of the Revolution, was long a proml-
nent man in town, a delegate to the county coul-
eli of safty in 1116 and member OF the legisla-
ture in l1s2 ami allied ny ms iaiiiii! hion5
Westmin ster ever contained.1t was in alluslon 70
h;s oa riv nroclyties that Ethan Allen made MS
famous retort in discussion about the tnen
new theories of Uniyersansm Ihat rSneIon
viii suit YOU, will it not General" asked norton
somewhat sarcastically. "No, no, repneu n,
len. scornfully; "for there must be q hell IN inc
other world for the punishment OF tories.
Jobn GouId was among the earnest -culers
in Town with his father and several Drothers,
and he became one of the largest lahun1lders
81 Westminster. The building IN when ne
lent bis tavern is still standing, the whitman
ho1se He was soldier of the Revolution, anu
numerous descendants of his still i've IN inc
state i'm Westminster, Windham CHESTER Gov
try and other towns.
fp DIR Reuben Jones, big-hearted, enthrsas-
&c generous and energetic, was one OF tle men
of whom history ought to preserves lu1ei ~" ~
limit He was one of the earliest settlers on
DocIinpham the only physician and Surgeon u,
Tho towI for long time. and the earnest allu
narI,ans the most active OF the new stare mch
an the east side of the mountain. nc We
.o,,,inent i'm all the Westminster analr anu roue
p.a,nns batiess the next morning to DunmerS-
.,i 20 arou.e the people to Resistance anu retal-
;o,;on and afterwards in his "RelatiOn OF th'
,ronble presented the peoples size OF ~ "a =
Yer to The officials misrepresentation anu w.
!, eogently He was clerk OF the heoanS .,
,ya.sninstrr Apr1l II, '15 to devise means "
49,, " ibs urorress OF oppression" lie WIS
e..,,,her of the Dorset convention OF NtPt -,
,,,i in tact of most of the gatherings IN WI ~! !,
The state OF Vermont took ITS ioTindtloil an he
three wears he Represented hot II h,-,i,sI
,'.,r;i assembly His generosity ana hoslh.
- s,'a,i, fmnoyished him and his later year.
r.re -rent in deep poverty ana toNsir" Wv
" od,,;no hack and forth between NcI ii9 ~
~ ~ Nv Hampshire 20 avoid imprisonment ~.
belt He was connneu IN TO-, ~ ~ and
De,.,hv force his release, for winch nc au'i
s.a syienis were indictel In the WINDSOR eou ~
w .aurt lie afterwards snoved 10 ohesseI -. ~
y r., s,riyas that towns representative one ea'