Forwarding from Janice on the NHSULLIV-L mailling list........names of some Green Mtn Boys.....thought the lists might be interested (dont contact me as I dont have the information) Cynthia Moderator of : Ct-River-Valley-L@rootsweb.com VTWindso-L@rootsweb.com CTHartfo-L@rootsweb.com to research posted information on towns and counties in the mailing list go to http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl (put name of mailing list in the first box and in the 2nd box put what you are looking for) http;//archiver.rootsweb.com/Ct-River-Valley-L/ http:archiver.rootsweb.com/VTWindso-L/ http//archiver.rootsweb.com/CTHartfo-L/ ----- Original Message ----- From: <Farns10th@aol.com> To: <NHSULLIV-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 26, 1999 10:40 PM Subject: [NHSULLIV] Green Mountain Boys > Thanks (a million) to Gil Bagley (mvi18th@ici.net) for sending for > manuscripts with > the State of Vermont, listing some of the Green Mountain Boys. > > Green Mountain Boys > The Continental Congress passed 5 July 1775 the following Resolution: Resolved > that a regiment be raised out of the officers who served in Canada, on the > same > terms on which the regiment, to be commanded by colonel Dubois is to be > raised; > and that the following be appointed officers of the said regiment: > > Seth Warner, colonel > Samuel Safford, lieutenant colonel > Elisha Painter, major > Captains > Wait Hopkins > John Grant > Gideon Brownson > Abiather Angel > Simeon Smith > Joshua Stanton > Abner Seely > Jacob Vorsboroug > > First Lieutenants > > John Allen > _____ Fusset (John Fasset, Jr) > Ebenezer Walbridge > William Deane > James Gold > _______Sill? > Ebenezer Hyde > Gamaliel Painter > > Ebenezer Beaumont, Adjutant > Journals of Congress 1776 V. II p. 234 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >From the Haldimand Manuscript in the British Museum, vol 21, 842; came through > B. F. DeCosta of NYC to H. D. Hopkins of St. Albans: > > "They belong to the State of Vermont, commonly called Green Mountain Boys > and have been the most cruel and inveterate people from the beginning of the > Rebellion, for after the affair at Bennington in 1777, the women insulted and > abused > some of our prisoners more than the men." > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Gil is sending more records which I will transcribe as they come along. > Janice Farnsworth > >