From the turbulent day of her birth through the period during which she maintained a separate and independent existence, and during the hundred years that she has borne her faithful part as a member of the great republic, the history of Vermont is one that her people may well be proud of. Such shall it continue to be, if her sons depart not from the wise and fatherly counsel of her first governor, "to be a faithful, industrious, and moral people," and in all their appointments "to have regard to none but those who maintain a good, moral character, men of integrity, and distinguished for wisdom and abilities." So may the commonwealth still rear worthy generations to uphold and increase her honorable fame, while her beautiful valleys continue, as in the long-past day of their discovery, "fertile in corn and an infinitude of other fruits." FOOTNOTES: [117] _Geology of Vermont._ [118] _Hearth and Home_, October, 1870. [119] One of the first of these, named Stevens, was found in his cabin near the mouth of the stream which bears his name, dead on his piled treasure of rich peltry, with a kettle of unavailing medicinal herbs hanging over the ashes of his burned-out fire. INDEX. Abercrombie, General, 29, 32. Abolitionists, 335. Academy, military, 314. Adams, Secretary J. S., 311. Alien and sedition laws, 261. Allen, Ebenezer, captures Mount Defiance, 179; frees Dinah Mattis, 183; at New Haven Fort, 187, 225. Allen, Ethan, 63, 68, 69, 76, 78, 84; outlawed, 86, 103, 109, 113, 115, 119; petition to king, 99; attempt to take Montreal by, 121; capture of, 122; return to Bennington of, 192; pamphlets written by, 198; receives letter from B. Robinson, 204, 207, 212, 226; quells rebellion in Guilford, 239; sent to Cumberland County, 196; death of, 258. Allen, Herman, 140. Allen, Ira, 68, 70, 78; secretary of Council of Safety, 165, 167, 199, 201; commissioner with Fay, 206; commissioner to Isle aux Noix, 208-220, 224, 265, 313. Allen, Parson, at Bennington, 172. Amherst, General, 28, 32, 33, 41, 42, 44. Arnold, Benedict, 103, 107, 112, 114; expedition to Canada of, 125, 128, 130; naval battle of, 134; retreat of, 136. Baker, Remember, 71, 72, 111, 119; at Otter Creek Falls, 78; outlawed, 86. Barnum, Lieut. Barnabas, 188. Baum, Colonel, 170, 176. Beach, Major Gershom, 105. Bees, 294. Bennington, 54; convention at, 64, 67, 80; legislature at, 193. Big Bethel, First regiment at, 344. Bills of credit, 249. Boundary line, settlement of, 252. Bowker, Joseph, 116. Bradley, Stephen R., pamphlet of, 198, 201. Brattleboro, 16, 54. Breckenridge, James, 65. Breyman, 171, 175; retreat of, 176. Brown, John, 102, 119, 179.