Produced by David Garcia, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team THE RANGERS OR, THE TORY'S DAUGHTER A Tale Illustrative Of The Revolutionary History Of Vermont And The Northern Campaign Of 1777 By D. P. Thompson The Author Of “The Green Mountain Boys” Two Volumes In One Tenth Edition VOLUME I. On commencing his former work, illustrative of the revolutionary history of Vermont,--THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS,--it was the design of the author to have embraced the battle of Bennington, and other events of historic interest which occurred in the older and more southerly parts of the state; but finding, as he proceeded, that the unity and interest of his effort would be endangered by embracing so much ground, a part of the original design was relinquished, or rather its execution was deferred for a new and separate work, wherein better justice could be done to the rich and unappropriated materials of which his researches had put him in possession. That work, after an interval of ten years, and the writing and publishing of several intermediate ones, is now presented to the public, and with the single remark, that if it is made to possess less interest, as a mere tale, than its predecessor, the excuse must be found in the author's greater anxiety to give a true historic version of the interesting and important events he has undertaken to illustrate. THE RANGERS; OR, THE TORY'S DAUGHTER CHAPTER I. “Sing on! sing on! my mountain home, The paths where erst I used to roam, The thundering torrent lost in foam. The snow-hill side all bathed in light,-- All, all are bursting on my sight!”