The Vermont company joined Wayne at Pittsburgh on Oct. 22, 1792, and the succeeding summer was spent in organizing and drilling the army, for fighting Indians, on a plan prescribed by President Washington, and in endeavors to negotiate a peace with the Indians. Wayne, failing in these negotiations, advanced eighty miles north of Cincinnati and there erected a fort on the site of Greenville, Ohio, where he remained till the spring of 1794.

On Sept. 22, 1793, Captain Eaton wrote, that, "the Indians are collected in large numbers at the site of Fort Defiance and are determined to meet us on our route--they are elated with their former success [in the defeat of St. Clair]—they are resentful, determinate and laugh at the idea of our approaching their towns. These circumstances concur to make them less contemptable as an enemy. That they will fight with desperation, we expect— and God grant they may have enough of it. We are well desciplined and well reconciled to the expedition, and whatever may be our success, I will venture to assure you, that we shall not fly. Our business will be serious and decisive provided we are engaged of which I have not a doubt." He stated, also, in his letter, that Thomas Avery and Benjamin Coburn of his company had died, and that "they were excellent soldiers, and I consider their death a very great loss in my company,-but death is arbitrary." About the first of January 1794, a part of Captain Eaton's company, advanced into the Indian country about thirty-five miles from Greenville and met a large party of In

dians, suprised and routed them, but the loss of the company was three killed and one wounded. About this time the company was out in skirmishing and scouting parties, and in gathering and burying the bones of those who were killed in St. Clair's defeat, and in reconstructing Fort Recovery on that disastrous battle ground.

The Vermonters were engaged in the decisive battle near the British fort Miami on Aug. 20, 1794. In that battle, James Underhill had succeeded Eaton as Captain, and the Vermont company was in the fourth sub-legion that lost in killed fourteen men, five of which were from Captain Underhill's company. The fact, that five of the fourteen killed in that sub-legion, were from the Vermont company, is proof that the Green • Mountain Boys were in the thickest of the fight.

An act of Congress of May 9, 1794, directed a detachment from the militia of eighty thousand men to be organized, armed and equipped and held in readiness to march on a moment's warning in the service of the United States. 2,139 of those men were assigned to Vermont. And on May 19, 1794, President Washington issued his requisition to the Governors of the several states to use the most effectual means for making the neeessary detachment. Governor Chittenden took immediate measures to raise the men and the work was promptly done, but the men were not called into actual service. In anticipation that these militia would be called into active service by the general government, the Vermont Legislature, Oct. 30, 1794, passed an act raising the monthly pay to

forty shillings to each private and a larger sum to the officers of the company. This was a precedent for the giving the extra State pay to volunteers from Vermont in the United States service in the war of the rebellion.

During the administration of John Adams a requisition for men was made under the act of Congress of June 24, 1797; and under that requisition Governor Tichenor issued orders for the detachment of three regiments of Vermont militia, numbering in all 2,150 men to be under the command of Big. Gen. Zebina Curtis of Windsor, but these men were not ordered into actual service.

By an act of Congress of July 16, 1798, twelve regiments were added to the U. S. Army, making the army composed of sixteen regiments of which George Washington was to have the command as · Lieutenant General. The 16th regiment was to be filled by enlistments in New Hampshire, Vermont and Rhode Island, and of these, Vermont was to furnish three companies. Enlistment offices were at once opened at Westminster, Newbury and Burlington, and the rendezvous for the State was at Westminster under the command of Major Cornelius Lynde of Williamstown; Captains and Lieutenants were appointed. None of these 12 regiments were filled and only 233 men were enlisted for the 16th regiment; and in February, 1800, enlistments were suspended, and the army reduced to four regiments. It has been seen that when Vermont sought to establish her independence her brave sons stood forth against the unjust claims of New Hampshire, Massachusetts and

New York for her territory, and rather than submit to the grasping and intolerant power of New York, they were determined to maintain their independence by force against the federal power. But when she became one of the States of the Federal Union, she was ready and willing to furnish her share of men and money against aggressive foreign powers and to maintain the honor of the

nation.

CHAPTER IV.

ACCEPTANCE AND RESIGNATION OF OFFICIAL POSITIONS-EXTRADITION OF FUGATIVES FROM JUSTICECOLONIZATION SOCIETY

SLAVERY.

In the closing years of the eighteenth century there were several notable resignations of men from public office-some on account of the infirmities of old age and some to take other and higher positions. Samuel Knight, on Oct. 19, 1791, in accepting the appointment as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Vermont, said, "I am convinced from experience I have had for two years past, that the office of Judge of the Supreme Court is attended with many and great difficulties, and that the number of persons completely qualified to fill that place are very few, among which number I cannot claim to be reconed." And on retiring from the office of Chief Justice he addressed the General Assembly on Oct. 15, 1794, and said, "I cannot but express a consciousness of the most upright intentions and view in the discharge of every part of the duty of that important office and I am happy to find that the people of this State have not complained that any part of my official conduct has appeared unto them to deviate from