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THE

GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS:

A

HISTORICAL TALE

OF THE

EARLY SETTLEMENT OF VERMONT

BY THE

AUTHOR OF MAY MARTIN, OR THE MONEY DIGGERS ;
“LOCKE AMSDEN, OR THE SCHOOLMASTER," &c.

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""T is a rough land of rock, and stone, and tree,
Where breathes no castled lord, nor cabin’d slave;
Where thoughts, and hands, and tongues are free,
And friends will find a welcome-foes a grave."

TWO VOLUMES IN ONE.

Revised Edition.

BOSTON:

BENJAMIN B. MUSSEY AND COMPANY.

29 CORNHILL

1853.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848,

BY BENJAMIN B. MUSSEY & CO.

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

STEREOTYPED BY 8. N. DICKINSON, BÖSTON.

INSCRIBED TO THE

HONORABLE HEMAN ALLEN,

Late U. S. Minister to Chili.

TO NO ONE CAN THIS WORK BE MORE APPROPRIATELY DEDICATED,

THAN TO THE DISTINGUISHED SON

OF ONE OF THAT

INTELLIGENT, ENTERPRISING, PATRIOTIC AND FEARLESS BAND OF BROTHERS,

THE ALLENS,

гO WHOSE ENERGETIC CHARACTERS, AND VARIED SERVICES,

VERMONT IS SO DEEPLY INDEBTED

FOR HER EXISTENCE AS AN INDEPENDENT STATE,

AND FOR THE

FOUNDATION OF HER PRESENT PROSPERITY

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

THE favor with which this work has been received, even with all its typographical errors, and its uninviting dress, has induced the author to offer another and revised edition to the public, who have done his poor efforts so unexpected and, as he fears, undeserved an honor. The materials of the work, consisting of veritable incident, collected from original sources, were undoubtedly good; and the author can only regret that they were not wrought up with an ability corresponding to their richness. He would gladly make several alterations in the work, particularly in the appellation of one of the most conspicuous personages, CHARLES WARRINGTON, whose prototype was intended to be the chivalrous Colonel SETH WARNER, whom he always regretted he had not introduced, like ALLEN, BAKER, Mrs. STORY, and other historical characters, under his own name. But as this, and other like alterations could not be made without somewhat varying the construction of the whole Tale, he has concluded to present it, with the exception of corrections and a few additional notes, in the original form. 1*

THE AUTHOR.

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