Oliver Luce of Hartland, Vermont, came into Vermont in the early 1800's with his wife, two small daughters and furniture on an ox-sled. When the heavy sled became mired and the oxen failed, it is said that he buckled into the traces and frew it to firmer ground. The British threatened Poultney, Vermont in 1777. The battle was fought nearby, after which the men of the town returned and found that their families had vanished. Mrs. Dan Richards with her two children, had fled fifty miled through the forest to Bennington, where later they were found safe and well. On August 17, 1775, John Kilburn and his family were able to repel and Indian attack on their cabin which lasted from noon until sunset. Kilburn lived to see four generations enjoy the land which he helped free from primitive dangers. On a cold night in 1777 two Vermonters, Richard Wallace of Thetford and Ephraim Webster of Newbury, swam across Lake Champlain and through the British fleet to deliver important dispatches from Ticonderoga to Mt. Independence. Hartland, Vermont, was settled by Timothy Lull, who in the Spring of 1763 transported his family up the Connecticut River from Dummerston in a hollowed out log canoe. Hope you enjoyed, Michele