Index 

 History of Vermont 



FOREWORD. 



Mr. Marcus D. Gilman states in his valuable work, 

 "The Bibliography of Vermont" in regard to the work 

 of Mr. Zadock Thompson : 



"We publish at the expense of the State of 

 Vermont glowing eulogies upon our ephemeral 

 politicians, such as members of Congress, etc., 

 and upon our military heroes, as we call them, and 

 yet the services of such a man as Mr. Thompson 

 will endure in the grateful memory of succeeding 

 generations long after the classes named have 

 passed into oblivion and be remembered no more." 

 Zadock Thompson's "History of Vermont" has been 

 for years a standard work on the history of our State. This 

 old leather bound book, now musty with age, has ever 

 been an unfailing spring of information, bubbling with his- 

 toric facts to delight the minds of the youth of the State. 

 What a pleasure it was to many of us in our youth to 

 read from its pages, yellowed with age, the Tiittbry of our 

 State. His accounts of the Trid'an depredations made the 

 facts he records a living present; and in fancy we saw the 

 Indian skulking in our forests anci heard, his shrill war 

 cry ring out in the calm of the night. 'His record of the 

 heroes of the early days fired our hearts' with a loyalty for 

 the State and inspired us with a spirit of emulation. 



