From: [email protected] Subject: [NHSULLIV] Green Mountain Boys Part 1 Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 20:40:36 EST The information following is stamped "New Hampshire State Library 993.344 V527 The State of Vermont Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War 1775 to 1783 Published by Authority of the Legislature Compiled and Edited by John E. Goodrich A Member of the Vermont Historical Society Rutland, Vermont The Tuttle Company 1904 Index to Special Persons and Subjects (excerpt following pertinent subject) Green Mountain Boys pp 813, 814, 815, 816, 827, 831 and 836. p.814 A List of the Field Officers, Captains and part of the Lieutenants of the Regiment of Green Mountain Boys, con- sisting of seven companies. July 4, 1775 Colonel Allen's royal list of loyal Officers. Ethan Allen, Field Officer Seth Warner, Field Officer Captains Remember Baker Robert Cochran Michael Veal Peleg Sutherling Gideon Warren Wait Hopkins Herman Allen Levi Allen, Adjutant Elijah Babcock, Comissay Jonas Fay, Doctor & Surgeon Ordered that in consequence of a recommendation from the Continental Congress a Body of Troops not exceeding five hundred men, officers included, be forthwith raised of those called Green Mountain Boys, that they elect all their own officers >except< Field Officers. That Major General Schuyler be requested to forward this order to them & receive from them a list of such officers as they shall elect to be communicated to this Congress and that General Schuyler be further requested, without de- lay to procure the sense of thos troops concerning the persons who will be most agreeable to them for Field Officers, and to make other inquiry & upon the whole advise this Congress, what persons will be most proper to be appointed as Field Officers to lead to Command these troops. That the said troops, when raised, be considered as an Independent Body, their Field Officers taking rank after the Field Officers of the other Troops to be raised by this Colony for the Continental Service. That their Corps of Officers consist of one Lieutenant Colonel, one Major, seven Captains and fourteen lieuten- ants and that the General be furnished with Blank Warr- ants to be filled up by him, agreeable to such election as above mentioned. Die Martis, 9 ho. A.M. 15th Augt. 1775. A letter from General Schuyler of the 31st of July last was read and filed and is in the words following: "Ticonderoga, July 31, 1775 Gentlemen: I do myself the honor to enclose you a copy of a letter and paper I have received from the people called Green Mountain Boys, together with a copy of my letter in answer. I am apprehensive that the controversy, that has arisen amongst them, relative to Field Officers, will cause delay in the levies. Whilst at New York and even after my arrival here, on convening with Allen and Warner, I did not conceive there would have been any contest between them, or that a third person would have been recommended by the People as a Field Officer; on that supposition and believing the people unanimous in their favor I should not have hesi- tated to have recommended them." p.815 The several papers referred to in the proceeding letter from General Schuyler were respectively read and filed and are in the words following: "May it please your Honour. In compliance with the Orders of Congress as well as your recommendation, I enclose the proceedings of our Committee on the New Hampshire Grants, upon due notice to the Towns in General - all which is humbly submitted to your wisdom, not doubting but the warrants will issue agreeable to our wishes. We are, etc etc Nathan Clark, Chairman Dorset, July 28th 1775 To the Hon'ble Gen'l Schuyler." At a Meeting of the Committees of the several Townships on the New Hampshire Grants. West of the Range of Green Mountains, convened at the house of Mr. Cephas Kents in the Township of Dorset, July 27th, 1775 - Voted as foll- ows, to wit: 1st Chose Mr. Nathan Clark, Chairman 2d Chose John Fasset, Clerk 3d The motion being made and seconded Whether this Convention shall prose- cute in choosing Field and other Offi- cers, according to the Provincial Con- gress and your Honour's directions. Passed in the affirmative: Then proceeded as follows: 4th Chose Mr. Seth Warner Lieutenant Colon- el for the Regiment of Green Mountain Boys, by a majority of forty-one to five. 5th Chose Mr. Samuel Spafford Major for said Regiment by a majority of twenty to seventeen Then proceeded and chose seven Captains and fourteen Lieutenants by a great majority, viz: Captains Weight Hopkins Oliver Potter John Grant William Fitch Gideon Brownson Micah Vail Heman? Allen First Lieutenants John Fassett Eben'r Allen Barnebas Barnum David Galusha Bleaksley Ira Allen Gideon Warren Second Lieutenants Johan Noble James Claghors John Chipman Philo Herd Nathan Smith Jesse Sawyer Joshua Stanton Nathan Clark, Chairman Hd Qtrs Ticonderoga July 31, 1775 Sir: Your letter dated July 28th has been delivered me by Captain Fitch, together with all the votes, that were enclosed. The choice of the Captains and Lieutenants being left unconditional to the people, those chosen will receive their Warrants as soon as they come to my hands. And that the levying of the men may not be retarded, you will signify to them that I hereby empower them immediat- ly to proceed to that business without waiting for the Warrants. The votes I shall immediately transmit to Congress, that they may approve of the Field Officers or appoint others out of your Body as they may think proper. I am, Sir, etc etc Ph. Schuyler" To Mr. Nathan Clark Ordered, that Blank Warrants be sent to General Schuyler for the seven Captains & fourteen Lieutenants of the Troops to be raised by this Colony from among those called Green Mountain Boys, when such a number are raised as (in his opinion) shall make it necessary. Resolved, that when the Green Mountain Boys are raised each of them shall be furnished with a Coat and that Mr. Peter T. Curtenius be requested to purchase coarse green Cloth for that purpose and red Cloth suffi- cient to face those Coats and to have two hundred and twenty-five coats of a large size made of the said Cloth. p. 816, 817 deal with letters concerning the Green Mountain Boys but not Rosters. p.827 "A return of Captain John Grant's Company in Colonel Warner's Regiment in the Servis of the United Colonies. March 31, 1776 Before Quebec This lists only the number of Commissioned Officers and Non-Commissioned Officer but no names. p.829 to p. 830 Gives the Roster of the Vermont Militia (and I will transcribe that list in a subsequent email. p.831 The Line - Additonal Corps (Green Mountain Boys) (These muster-rolls are recorded as "Major Brown's De- tachment," and that detachment is mentioned as in "Gen- eral Arnold's Regiment." (The only mention of General Arnold found in our records.) The fact that the "Green Mountain Boys" were at Quebec in 1776; that two of the officers on these rolls - Captain and Commissary Elijah Babcock and Capt. Robert Cochran - are identified in name and rank with those on a list handed to the Prov- incial Congress of New York by Ethan Allen and Seth Warner, on July 4, 1775, as officers of the Green Mount- ain Boys; and the further fact that none of the men are recorded in any other place, or with any other organi- zation, all confirm the belief that the soldiers on its rolls herewith were a part of that historic band.) Colonel Ethan Allen Colonel Seth Warner Major John Brown Adjutant William Satterlee Quartermaster Jonathan Capron Quartermaster Samuel McClund Capt. and Com. Elijah Babcock Capt. Gideon Brownson Capt. Goodrich Capt. Hopkins Capt. Charles Nelson Lieut. Palmerly Allen Lieut. Michael Dunning Lieut. James Gould Lietu. Ebenezer Hyde Lieut. William Lighthall Lieut. David Pixley Lieut. Walter Swite Lieut. Elishama Tozer Lieut. Ebenezer Walbridge Lieut. Seth Wheeler Ensign Benoni Grant Ensign William Lighthall Continued Part 2, Enlisted Men, p. 832 - 833 Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~