Remember Baker Remember Baker ( June 1737 – August 22 , 1775 ) was a member of the Green Mountain Boys . He was born in Roxbury , Connecticut ( then part of Woodbury ) and died in Quebec . The son of Remember Baker and Tamar Warner , he was a first cousin of Ethan Allen and Seth Warner . Remember Baker , Jr . was described by a cousin as a tough , redheaded , freckle - faced young giant . He enlisted as a private in a company of provincial troops in 1755 . In 1757 , he was stationed at Fort William Henry , at the head of Lake George , and during that year participated in battles which went badly for the provincial troops . In 1758 , he enlisted a second time in the expedition of General Abercrombie in his attempted invasion of Canada , then held by the French . He was part of a band of 100 men under command of Major Putnam and accompanied by Lord Howe that went on a scouting expedition . They were surprised by a party of 500 of the enemy and Lord Howe was killed . Putnam and Baker and their men cut their way through the French ranks , charged them in the rear , and after being reinforced killed 300 of the enemy and captured 143 prisoners . Baker received honorable mention in the report of the commanding general . He remained in the service until the close of the year 1759 . He and Desire Hurlbut were married in Roxbury on April 3 , 1760 . In 1764 , Remember , Desire and their small son Ozi moved to Arlington , now in Vermont , and built a grist mill . This was in response to an offer of from the town to anyone who would start a mill there . This mill burned down in 1789 ; a mill built in the 1790s is still there . Remember ’ s cousins Ethan Allen and Ira Allen also settled in Arlington . Remember Baker was the first town clerk of Arlington . The Bakers and the Allens were involved in the controversy over the title of the settlers of Vermont to their land , and Baker became a captain in one of the companies of the Green Mountain Boys . Remember is said to have been more hot headed than the Allens and Seth Warner . Following attacks on those loyal to New York , the Governor of New York offered an award for the capture of Ethan Allen , Remember Baker , and others . On March 21 , 1771 , men from New York under the leadership of Captain John Munro attacked Baker ' s mill and took Baker away as a prisoner . In the fight , Baker lost a thumb and his wife injured her arm jumping out of a window . She never fully recovered the use of that arm . Remember was taken across the New York border . The Green Mountain Boys rescued Baker and returned him to his family . By May , 1773 , Ira Allen and Remember Baker , as the Allen and Baker Land Co . , owned some of virgin land along the Winooski River , near Burlington , Vermont . That year there were no roads north of Castleton , and Baker and Allen cut a road through the forest for seventy miles so that supplies could be brought in from Lake Champlain . In the summer , they settled on their land and built a log house across the river from Burlington . Ira Allen was unmarried and lived with the Bakers . Remember Baker joined Ethan Allen for the capture of Fort Ticonderoga in 1775 . He and Seth Warner met at Crown Point , New York and captured the garrison there . Following that , he served as a scout for General Phillip Schuyler in the area around St . John ' s , where the English troops and Native Americans were camped . Around August 19 , 1775 , Baker left Ticonderoga for another scouting expedition along the Richelieu River . On August 22 , he was shot and killed by Indians who had taken his boat . The Indians plundered the body , cut off Baker ' s head , raised it upon a pole and carried it in triumph to Saint - Jean - sur - Richelieu , which horrified the British officers there . They bought it from the Indians and buried it , and also sent some men to the point to bury the body .