think you will never be able to prove that Emmons had a much better right to the place-nothing beyond hearsay." Members of the Convention that adopted the Constitution, p. 63.—Mr. DANA has kindly furnished the following list of delegates to the Windsor Convention of July 1777, copied from a memoir of William Gallup, by his son the late Doct. Joseph A. Gallup, dated August 14, 1846. Doct. Gallup was eight years of age in 1777, and must in his youth have heard much of the public men and the transactions of that period: Jabez Sargent, Cavendish, [Chester.] Joel Matthews, Hartland. Benjamin Emmons, Woodstock. Stephen Tilden and Joseph Marsh, Hartford. Daniel Gilbert, Royalton, [Sharon.] William Gallup, Hartland.* Roger Enos, p. 111.-"Gen. Robert Enos" should be Gen. Roger Enos. P. 122.-Joseph Fay was Secretary of the Council of Safety till March 12, 1778, [instead of 1788.] P. 124, fifth line, for "Goodrich " read Griswold. Col. Philip Skene, p. 130, last line.-"Col. Steene" should probably be Col. Skene. Rescue of Remember Baker, 1772, pp. 149–50.-Gov. Hall has written to the editor saying: "I do not quite like what you say about the rescuers of Baker in your notice of John Munro. I do not admit there is a shadow of doubt but that the rescuers were the list given in the Rural Magazine, [the first list given on page 150.] Ira Allen in his history (p. 31,) after speaking of the capture of Baker says that an express was sent to Bennington with the tidings, instantly on the news ten men mounted their horses and pursued them, &c. This, with the circumstantial narrative in the Rural Magazine, to which there was no contradiction, seems to me conclusive. You say that the list in the Documentary History of New York, p. 777, 'is represented as having been furnished by Munro himself." That does not appear in the Documentary History. The letter of Munro, giving an account of the rescue, is dated April 15, 1772, and the list is stated to have been produced in Council the 26th of May, 1772, more than a month after Munro's letter, but by whom produced does not appear. The statement in the Vermont Historical Magazine, vol. 1, p. 125, is evidently the mere conjecture of Mr. [Rev. F. A.] Wadleigh. It might have been furnished by Munro, and might not, but a loose memorandum found on the files of the New York Council, from an unknown source, which has but lately seen the light, should not, I think, be allowed the weight of a feather against the authentic statements of Ira Allen and the Rural Magazine, both published while there were numerous living actors in the affair." Gov. Hall referred me to Ethan Allen's account, which, I find, indicates that inhabitants "on the premises," i. e. near the scene in Arlington, * The names in Italic are additions to the list of delegates. went immediately in pursuit. His words, as quoted by Du Puy,1 were: "These distressing tidings being soon spread on the premises, enhanced the innocent inhabitants, and for the preservation of Baker his family & their own persons, families and effects, some of them did pursue the said carriage about thirty miles, and when said John with his attendants, being savage like, conscience struck and condemned, run and hid themselves so private that it is not known by his or their acquaintances where they have been ever since; leaving the said Baker with very little remains of life, unable to fight for himself, who willingly in his capacity accepted of mercy, which he had been so long a stranger to.”" Having found it said, in the history of Arlington in the Vermont Historical Magazine, vol. 1, p. 125, that the list published in the Documentary History of New York was "in the account communicated by this savage Justice Munro, to the Governor of New York,” I felt bound to take notice of it, and give the statement, together with suggestions for the reader to consider. Ethan Allen's account strengthens this so called "Munro's list" rather than the other. On the whole the theory in Gov. Hall's Early History, that two parties pursued Munroe, is the best sustained; and the balance of proof is that the Bennington party [the Magazine list] were the actual rescuers. The claim for the Bennington party in the Rural Magazine, uncontradicted by the Arlington party, I think, with Gov. Hall, is conclusive of this point. Though the Bradleys, Jesse Sawyer and Justice Sherwood, in the Arlington list, were energetic men, they could not have surpassed Clark, the Saffords and the two Messrs. Hopkins of the Bennington list, who, it is quite probable, might have intercepted Munro before the Arlington company came up. The praise of good intention is due equally to each party. P. 237, 16th line from the bottom, the imperfectly printed date should be August 13. P. 243. In the reference, fourth line from the bottom, to Appendix G, the "No. 1" should have been omitted. When that was written, it was expected that the documents on the second Union of New Hampshire towns would be given in this volume as Appendix G, No. 2. These documents will appear in another volume. Fight at Shelburne, p. 245.-The fight was, evidently from the Council and Assembly records, on the 12th of March 1778. The crop of wheat contended for must therefore have been grown in 1777 [instead of 1776,] and Capt. Sawyer must have gone to Shelburne in Jan. 1778 [instead of 1777.] The erroneous years in the text, 1776 and 1777, were gathered from Lyman Thayer's account in the Vt. Historical Magazine, vol. 1, p. 859. In Rev. Geo. F. Sutton's account, in the same volume, p. 877, the dates are correct. P. 262. The printers have transposed in the text the reference figures to the notes at the bottom of the page. 1 1 Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Heroes of 1776, p. 164. Colonel Eleazer and the tory William Patterson, p. 299.-In the first line instead of "Col. William Patterson" read Col. Eleazer Patterson. This bad blunder (originating in an attempt to supply from memory an omission in the copy,) makes the note on William Patterson a libel upon Gov. Clinton, inasmuch as the Governor did not commission the tory William as a colonel. Leaving out that statement as to the governor, the note is a good one for the tory William Patterson. Col. Eleazer Patterson was for awhile a zealous 'Yorker,' but never a tory. From the fact that Col. Patterson's residence in Vernon is marked on Gen. Whitelaw's map of Vermont, 1821, the editor infers that the colonel was a worthy and highly respected citizen of the state for many years, and probably until his death.-See p. 397. |