 | Francis Josiah Hudleston - Revolutionaries - 1927 - 408 pages
...hours, they bring with them their subsistence, etc., 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 "tonrtfienf,- aho!"hangS"tifce-ag«tfeefttig sUU'ltt UpoTT"my left." A fine phrase, this last,... | |
 | Vermont Historical Society - Vermont - 1910 - 448 pages
...mean even more than they say. The great bulk of the country is undoubtedly with the Congress and adds: "The 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." Burgoyne had now fair... | |
 | Max M. Mintz - History - 1992 - 308 pages
...they bring their own subsistence, and the alarm over they return to their farms. The Hampshire grant in particular, a country unpeopled and almost unknown...abounds in the most active and most rebellious race of the continent and hangs like a gathering storm on my left. The main American army, at the mouth... | |
 | New England Historic Genealogical Society Staff - New England - 1996 - 460 pages
...impassable barrier at Bennington, and four days after the battle, wrote to England thus : " 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." The detatchmcnt of... | |
 | Grace Greylock Niles - Hoosic River Valley (Mass.-N.Y.) - 1997 - 620 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... | |
 | Bruce Lancaster, John Harold Plumb - History - 2001 - 380 pages
...to remain inactive." Not one to underplay the situation's drama, he added: "The Hampshire Grants ... a country unpeopled and almost unknown in the last war, now abounds in the most active and rebellious race on the continent, and hangs like a gathering storm upon my left." September 15, 1777,... | |
 | Genealogy - 1902 - 590 pages
...Burgoyne as an apology for his defeat and surrender, that "The Hampshire Grants — a country unpeopled almost unknown in the last war — now abounds in the most active and the most rebellious race of men on the continent, and hangs like a gathering storm on my left." The... | |
 | Samuel B. Griffith - History - 2002 - 780 pages
...forces point, militia, to the amount of two or three thousand, assemble in twenty-four hours. . . . 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... | |
 | Vermont - 1937 - 502 pages
...battle of Bennington, reveals how his confidence was shaken by the totally unexpected and stunning blow: 'The Hampshire Grants in particular — a country...and almost unknown in the last war — now abounds with the most active and rebellious race on the continent, and hangs, like a gathering storm, on my... | |
 | Francis Josiah Hudleston - Generals - 1927 - 434 pages
...hours, they bring with them their subsistence, etc., and, the alarm over, they return to their farms. The Hampshire Grants in particular, a country unpeopled and almost unknown in the last war, now [173] abounds in the most active and most rebellious race of the continent, and hangs like a gathering... | |
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The Hampshire Grants in particular, a country unpeopled and almost unknown in the last war, now abounds in the most active and most rebellious race of the continent, and hangs like a gathering storm upon my left. 
