Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-03-17

wounded afore the battle was owe
n and taken back to the rear. A few
h weeks arterward he come home OF
: a furlur, to recruit up. After thu
e battle O. Bunker Hill, the Arcadiar
jined Washington's army and fought
to the close. Father didn't go to
, war agin until word came from Col
Warner, calm out the militia. He
was hoein' corn at the time; twas
in July, 1777. He said that Col
Warner. in his letter to the. conven.
; ton at Windsor, urgin' 'em to send
on all the men they could raise
) added, that he'd be glad if they
didn't stop to finish hoein' their
corn, that the post at Ticonderoga
was a good deal more important
than few hills of unhoed corn.
Father said he dropped his hoe and
started, but when they got there,
they want strong enough with their
nine hundred militia to stand out
agin Burgoyne's big army, and so
they retreated fast's they could un-
til they come to Hubbardton, where
they was overlook by the enemy
and faced about and stood battle.
Their colonel was killed and several
others on both sides. After that,
father said they took to the woods.
There's the date on the powder
horn, see, Hub 7, July, TT. That
next date 'bove it, Ben, Aug. 16,
1777, is for the battle of Benning-
ton. Father was with Col. Warner,
and he said he never saw i'm when
he want cool and collected. That
follerin' September father was in
the company o rangers led by Cap'n
Ebenezer Allen, when they elm the
rocks O. Mount Defiance and driv
the garrison off; and soon arter,
when the British we're retreatin'
from Fort IT,, they raked their rear
and got back the pris'ners they
tuck at Hubbardton, N lot O.
their own besides. There tits, re-
corded on the horn. 'Mong the
prisners they took was a negro
woman named Dinah MATHS, who
was a slave, and her babe. Father
said Cap'n Allen freed her in jiffy
and had her free papers recorded in
the town clerks office in Benning-
ton. So you see slavery away back
in TIT couldn't git half a breath
on Vermont sile; and don't fergit
too, that this state that same year
long before twas taken into the
Union, was the fust state to prohibit
slavery by constitutional pervision;
and we're all pooty proud O. that;
twas too big an event to not be
scratched on the old powder horn.
See? F. Jan. Is, TIT. F stands
for Freedom. Twas that next June
in a convention at Windsor, that the
name of New Connecticut" was
changed to that of Vermont; We see
it carved on the horn. That notch
there tells O. the storming of Stony
Point by General Wayne on the
night of July Is, 1873. Whenever
faJher'd tell bout that his eyebrows
nd raise up, m he'd look awful
darein'. In the summer afore Corn
wallis surrendered, father was with
the army on the Hudson, and he
marched with Washington to York
town, and twas there he made his
last record on the old powder horn.
Sect, Won Up. Oct. 1881. Father
said he met his old friend, Louis
Foonia, the Arcadian exile, at York
town; he was in Lafayette's army,
and they come home together. |
ken tell We there was some poorly
jyful families in that neighborhood
when they got back home. The rest
o. those markin's on the old horn
was some made. | didn't cal'late
to let it lose its patriotic reputation
any, and so when the war of 1912
broke out | jined the army of the
North on the St. Lawrence and had
my first smell O. powder in battle at
Chrysler's Field on the 18th Nov,
1918; see it, on the horn. felt a
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