| Mary Evelyn Wood Lovejoy - Royalton (Vt.) - 1911 - 726 pages
...Royalton men, it is sufficient to quote from a letter which Gen. Burgoyne sent to England: "The New Hampshire Grants in particular, a country unpeopled...in the last war, now abounds in the most active and rebellious race on the continent, and hangs like a gathering storm on my left." We shall never know... | |
| Grace Greylock Niles - History - 1912 - 638 pages
..."Statute of Limitation." CHAPTER XIV FIRST OPEN REBELLION AGAINST THE CROWN AT FORT BREAKENRIDGE 1766-1775 The Hampshire Grants, in particular, — a country...unpeopled and almost unknown in the last war,— now abound, in the most active and most rebellious race on the continent, and hangs like a gathering storm... | |
| Walter Hill Crockett - History - 1921 - 808 pages
...hours, they bring with them their subsistence &c. and, the alarm over, they return to their farms. The Hampshire Grants in particular, a country unpeopled...abounds in the most active and most rebellious race of the continent, and hangs like a gatherThe Bennington Battle Monument ing storm upon my left." Surely... | |
| James Truslow Adams - New England - 1926 - 484 pages
...Burgoyne's own list. bring with them their subsistence ; the alarm over, they return to their farms. The Hampshire Grants in particular, a country unpeopled...abounds in the most active and most rebellious race of the continent, and hangs like a gathering storm on my left." * A month after the battle of Bennington,... | |
| James Truslow Adams - Literary Criticism - 1926 - 482 pages
...Burgoyne's own list. bring with them their subsistence; the alarm over, they return to their farms. The Hampshire Grants in particular, a country unpeopled...abounds in the most active and most rebellious race of the continent, and hangs like a gathering storm on my left." ' A month after the battle of Bennington,... | |
| John Albert Scott - Fort Stanwix (N.Y.) - 1927 - 390 pages
...twenty-four hours; they bring with them subsistence, &c., and, the alarm over, they return to their farms. The Hampshire Grants in particular, a country unpeopled...abounds in the most active and most rebellious race of the continent, and hangs like a gathering storm upon my left. In all parts the industry and management... | |
| Hoffman Nickerson - History - 1928 - 590 pages
...to Germaine of August 20, '77, as to conditions in what was to be Vermont: 'The Hampshire Grants ... a country unpeopled and almost unknown in the last war, now abounds in the most active and rebellious race of the continent . . .' — these words, I say, show that the rapid push of American... | |
| Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - Local history - 1928 - 734 pages
...twenty-four hours, they bring with them their subsistance, the alarm over, they return to their farms. "The Hampshire Grants in particular, a country unpeopled and almost unknown in the last war, now abound in the most active and rebellious race of the country and hangs like a gathering storm on my... | |
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