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The Daily Dispatch: December 10, 1862., [Electronic resource] 9 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vermont, (search)
ry east of the Connecticut and west of the present New York State line, Aug. 20, 1781; the legislature dissolves its eastern and western unions......Feb. 22, 1782 Residents of Brattleboro, Guilford, and Halifax, in a petition prepared by Charles Phelps to Governor Clinton, of New York, complain of the Vermont government, and ask New York to assume jurisdiction over Windham county......April 30, 1782 Governor Chittenden commissions Gen. Ethan Allen, Sept. 2, to raise 250 volunteers, and march into Windham county as a posse comitatus to enforce Vermont laws. This force, doubled by volunteers from Windham county, arrests some twenty leaders of the rebellion, Charles Phelps escaping, Sept. 10; these leaders are tried at Westminster and banished from the State......Sept. 11, 1782 First school law; towns are empowered to form school districts and to elect trustees......Oct. 22, 1782 Legislature establishes post-offices and a postmaster-general; the rates of postage to be the s