Hope some of you may be able to use these tidbits of information I came across: Follwing the American Revolution, Colonel Jacob Davis built his first log cabin in Montpelier as his postwar home. He didn't need a mortgage, and a kettle was all his kitchen equipment. Thetford, Vermont, 1777. Mrs. Richard Wallace, the wife of one of the two American soldiers who swam across Lake Champlain through the enemy fleet to deliver important messages, was a true pioneer woman. She worked the farm singlehanded while her husband was with his regiment. Threatened with seizure by the redcoats, Jacob Bayley, founder of Newbury, Vermont, escaped from his home. Although his son was captured, other members of his household would have been taken but for the courage of a housemaid, who stood off the assailants until the occupants of the house escaped. Reading, Vermont. Mrs. James Johnson, one of two women captives of raiding indians, was delivered of a daughter at their first night's encampment, August 31, 1754. Elizabeth Captive Johnson thus became the third white child to be born on what is now Vermont soil. Londonderry Settlment, Vermont. In the early 1800's a hungry bear kept Mrs. Nancy Arnold and her two children imprisoned in the loft of their cabin until he had finished eating the evening meal she had been preparing. More to follow, Michele