2. • Who was here before?
• Why did settlers come to the Middle Grants,
and where did they come from?
• How did they live?
• What did they do to organize their
communities?
5. ground, dis-
charging his excursion against the Iroquois. In previous journeys, he had carried with
arquebus. From his him objects that signified friendship in his quest to expand French trade in
Voyages (Paris, furs. But this voyage had a fresh purpose. “I had no other intention than to
1613)
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The Englishman offers a bolt of cloth and a Bible; the Frenchman, a tomahawk and a purse of money.
The image is taken from the cover of the March 1758 issue of The American Magazine and Monthly Chronicle for the British Colonies.
7. Source: Frederick M. Wiseman,
The Voice of the Dawn: An
Autohistory of the Abenaki Nation
(UPNE, 2001)
8. Why did settlers come to the Middle Grants,
and where did they come from?
Source: https://swogdog.wikispaces.com/file/view/New_England_Colonies.gif/87987179/New_England_Colonies.gif
9. 48 freedom and unity
King Philip’s War, 1675-76
(Metacom)
King Philip,
engraved by Paul
Revere (1772).
Courtesy of
the American
Antiquarian Society.
Engraving by Paul Revere
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Governor Benning Wentworth served from 1741 to 1766.
He chartered 116 towns between 1761 and 1764, most of
them in the Connecticut River Valley and westward into
what would become Vermont.
12. from the Champlain basin and Connecticut River valley never yielded to Brattleboro, the
diplomatic pressure, never risked destruction by full-scale confrontation, first permanent
and successfully used guerrilla warfare to keep the English frontier settle- settlement in
ments on edge and off balance. As historian Colin Calloway notes, “If Grey Vermont. From
Walter Hill Crockett,
Lock did not win his war, neither did he lose it. He remained defiant and
Vermont, The Green
undefeated,” the circumstances, place, and even the date of his death— Mountain State, vol.
sometime between 1744 and 1753—uncertain.27 The conclusion of his 1 (1921; reprinted
1938).
24. How did they make their livings?
118 freedom and unity
Above, “A Home in the Wilderness,” from A Vermont Settler’s Own Story, reprinted from the Original Narrative of
Seth Hubbell, First Settler of Wolcott, 1789, privately printed for Marvin E. Hatch, Solitarian Press, Hartland,
36. 130 freedom and unity
Portrait of Ira
Allen. From
Walter Hill
Crockett,
Vermont, The
Green Mountain
State, vol. 1.
Frustrated at the unresponsiveness of the London bureaucracy, and
increasingly worried about his family’s economic survival, Ira set out on a
quite different scheme. He traveled from London to Paris in late May
1796, where he arranged to acquire twenty thousand guns from the revo-
lutionary French government, the Directory. In this transaction, Ira osten-
Ethan and Ira Allen
37. First page of
the manuscript
copy of the
Constitution of
the State of
Vermont, 1777.
Courtesy of Vermont
State Archives.
