The Green Mountain Boys: A Historical Tale of the Early Settlement of Vermont, Two Volumes in One

Boston, Massachusetts: Sanborn, Carter, Bazin & Co, 1857. Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 0x0x0. Revised edition. Colloquial leather dust jacket. Jacket spine heavily rubbed with heavy loss, tear along edge of rear jacket panel. Pages soiled and foxed. 1857 Hard Cover. 364, 8 pp. Green Mountain Boys, patriot militia in the American Revolution. The Green Mountain Boys began in 1770 at present-day Bennington, Vermont, as an unauthorized militia organized to defend the property rights of local residents who had received land grants from New Hampshire. New York, which then claimed present-day Vermont, disputed New Hampshire’s right to grant land west of the Green Mountains. The Green Mountain Boys stopped sheriffs from enforcing New York laws and terrorized settlers who had New York grants, burning buildings, stealing cattle, and administering occasional floggings with birch rods. The Green Mountain Boys immediately joined the Revolution, and on May 10, 1775, fewer than a hundred of them, under the joint command of Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold, captured Fort Ticonderoga. Eventually they became part of the Continental Army and served in the abortive offensive against Canada. Reorganized despite an ongoing conflict with New York over jurisdiction, the Green Mountain Boys took the field against General John Burgoyne in 1777, playing central roles at the battles of Hubbardton and Bennington. The latter action, which destroyed a detachment of Burgoyne’s army as it sought to forage for supplies, was crucial to Burgoyne’s eventual defeat. - Britannica. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Daniel Pierce Thompson (1795-1868) was a judge, politician and author. The Green Mountain Boys is the most famous of his romantic adventure novels, and was first published in 1839.