NIVERSlTV OF CALfrORNIA SAN DIEGO THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF VERMONT OR A LIST OF BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS RELATING IN ANY WAY TO THE STATE. WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND OTHER NOTES. .-J^- PREPARED BY M. D. GILMAN. Montpelier, Vt. [ WITH ADDITIONS BY OTHER HANDS.l BURLINGTON : PRINTED BY THE FREE PRESS ASSOCIATION. 1897. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1S97, ByCHAUNCEY W. BROWNELL, Secretary of State, of Vermont, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. INTRODUCTION. By II. A. IIuRE, State Libearian. This l)Ook is in remembrance of Marcus D. Gii.man. Made b}' him as a memorial of otbers and their work, it now stands by the indnstry which he wronght in love of his State, l)y the gift of his children, and by an act of that State which did it as well as him honor, as a worthy and lasting memorial of himself. How it came to have its being in its present shape is shown by the following letter from his danghter, Mrs. Cnshman, and her husband, and the act of the Ver- mont legislature of 1894, authorizing the publication : To the Lih'arian of the Vermont State Library, Montpelier, Vt.: Dear Sir :— The "Bibliography of Vermont, or a List of Books and Pamphlets relating in any way to the State, with biographical and other notes ; pi-e}iarcd by M. D. Gilman, Montpelier, Vt.," represents much thought and time and labor of its author. The work was done by him during his years of retirement from active business and in love and loyalty to his native State. We, his surviving children, as the only heirs of his beloved wife, Mrs. M. M. Gilman, have in our possession and ownership corrected slips of the whole work as ])ublished in 1879-80 in the Argus and Patriot, together with the author's addi- tions made from time to time until his decease, January 5, 1889. Feeling that this work is too important to remain inaccessible to those who are interested in the literary achievements of Vermonters, and furthermore desiring that the work should be preserved as a monument to our esteemed father, we hereby jirexenithe entire worh to the Vermoiit State Libi-ary, in the as.snraiice that it will be safely guarded there, and in the earnest hoj)e that the State will l)e disposed, in the near future, to make the work more accessible liy jirinting the same. Respectfully yours, HENRY IRVING GUSHMAN, and EMILV E. GILMAN GUSHMAN. Montpelier, Vt., August 14, 1893. iv INTRODUCTION. At tlie legislative session next succeeding the presentation of tLe work to the State the following act was passed : "AN ACT TO AUTHOKIZE THE PUBLICATION OF THE OILMAN BIBLIOGRAPHY OF VERMONT. It is hereby enacted ly the General Asseinbly of the State of Vermont : Section 1. The Printing Commissioners are anthorized to procure the print- ing and hinding of not to exceed eight hundred copies of the Oilman Bibliography of Vermont, at an expense to the state not exceeding two dollars and twenty-iive cents a copy, to be disposed of as follows : one cojiy to each town and city clerk's oillee, one copy to each free public library in tlie state, fifty copies to the Vermont Historical Society, and the remainder to the State Lil)rary for sale or exciiange under the direction of the trustees. The Secretary of State shall procure copyright of the book for the State. Approved November 24, 1894." Charles Reed and Mr. Oilman had known each other as young men, and they had kept an acquaintance that was the more intimate as Mrs. Reed and Mrs. Oilman were sisters. At the time of Mr. Oilman's return to the East, Mr. Reed, who was State librarian and librarian of the Vermont Historical Society, was much interested in preparation for the then forthcoming publication of the Collections of tlie Vermont Historical Society. When Mr. Oilman retired from business in 1868 he could follow the Ijciit of his mind and lie soon became a student of New England history, his own inclination receiving added impetus from the zeal of his friend. He marked out his own line, however, and it was a new one ; and on it he made his book. With ample means at his command, as well as knowledge of books and love of them, he for many years took delight in gathering a library rich in local history, till, after the manner of many of those whose pleasure is in acquiring as well as having rare books, he sold a large part of his collection, but through life kept add- ing to the choice library which he retained. In 1874, the year after Mr. Reed's death, Mr. Oilman became librarian of the Vermont Historical Society and continued in this position until he declined a re-election in ISSl. It was while he was librarian of this society tliat he mo.st zealr onsly labored upon the matter presented in the following pages. It was a task involving infinite pains and work and was Tiever ending. He began printing liis Bibliograi)hy of Vermont in the Anjus and Patriot, January S9, 187!», and the printing continued to Jnne 9, 1880. He had meantime gathered much additional matter, which was published in the same paper in the issues immediately after, as a supplement to the Bibliography. The printing of the supplement was concluded in iNTJiODUCTION. v the issue for September 22, 1880. But to near the time of liis death in 1889 Mr. Gilman sought and found new material and added it in manuscript to what he iiad printed in tlie two years named The copy, in print and manuscript coml)ined, became tiie property of his widow and at her decease, that of their daughter, the wife of Rev. Henry Irving Cuslnnan, of Providence, K. I. Tiie generous disposition made of it by tliem is set forth in tlicir letter, and the act of 1894 made provision for this publication. lion. George Grenville Benedict, best qualilicd of all men for the task, was selected to edit the work. Mr. Thomas L. Wood, assistant state librarian, had col- lected many additional titles of Vernumt hooks and these he freely placed at the disposal of the editor. Mr. Benedict himself has furnished 503 titles and 73 bio- graphical sketches, and has made some hundreds of additions to the biographical notes and mimerous additions to the ii.st of newspapers given under the head of " Printing in Vermont." But, much as has been added, the addition and the work of making it only emphasize the research aiid labor of Mr. Gilman in creating tlio great body of the work, and his wisdom in planning the whole of it; for all addi- tions have been upon the lines marked and followed by him. Mr. Benedict, with the knowledge brought to him l)y editing the book, pays tribute to " the vast amount of work and care which Mr. Gilman gave, for so many years, to the collection and annotation of the titles," and adds : "I liave, as you know, spent many months of labor in preparing the Bibliography for publication. * * Perhaps in justice to myself (and to Mr. Gilman) I ought to have bracketed the more important addi- tions I have made; l)ut I have not done so. It is Mr. Gilman's Bibliograpiiy, sim- ply edited by myself, with so much of care and labor as I could afford to give to it." Mr. Gilman's work will commend itself; and best to those who know best and most concerning the men of whom he wrote aiid what they did. He would not want much said of it here or of himself, for he was a man of affairs and not of words unless they were words that recorded some historical fact. In Ijusiness he was a merchant, in politics a democrat, and in religion a spiritual- ist ; and as to all his convictions he was decided and outspoken. He was a leader among his fellows and was prominent and energetic in all Iiis undertakings. It should be noted that his election as representative of Montpelier to the House of Representatives in 1874-, was as a democrat in a strongly repuliliean town, and that he was prominent in the councils of his party wherever he resided. A hap])y fam- ily and social life were his, and they count most of all. Marcus Davis Gilman was born iti Calais, Vermont, January 28, 1820. He was a son of Dr. John Taylor Gilman, and a grand-son of Jonathan Gihnan. Jonathan Gilman was born in Gilinanton, New Hampshire, May 31, I7t!3 ; mar- ried Susannah Dudley, November 9, 1783; moved toVershire, Vermont, in 179C, remaining there until 1817, when he went to live with hie son Joiin in Calai.s, making his home there until his death, December 5, 1824. vi INTRODUCTION. Dr. John Taj'lor Gilman was born in Gilmanton, Jnly 24, 1791 ; was a grad- uate of Dartmoutli Medical College in the class of 1814, and began practice at East Calais in ISlo, being the iirst physician resident in Calais. He married Ruth Curtis (who was the daughter of Col. Caleb Curtis and Polly Davis Curtis of Calais, and a grand- daughter of Rev. Caleb Curtis of Charlton, IMass.), and they had two children, Marcus Davis Gilman and John Melvin Gilman, the latter of whom studied law with Heaton & Reed in Montpelier, and now lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. Dr. Gilman died at East Calais, February 10, 1825. His widow mar- ried Nathaniel Eaton in 1829, and died in Middlesex, Vermont, July 28, ISOC, at the home of her son, Mr. Gilman's half-brother, Caleb Curtis Eaton. Nathaniel Eaton, by his first wife, Ruth Bridgman, was the father of Dorman Bridgman Eaton (of Civil Service Reform fame) and Ruth Eaton ; and Marcus, until fifteen years old, lived at his step-father's on a farm in Calais. He then came to Montpelier and entered the store of Baldwin & Scott as a clerk, remaining with them until he became of age, when he went to Northfield, Vermont, and began his mercantile career as a member of the firm of White, Gil- man & Co. After two years in Northfield he returned to Montpelier, where he for two years was a member of the firm of Ellis, Wilder k, Co. Mr. Gilman's school education was obtained in the common schools in Calais and at the Washing- ton County Grammar School in Montpelier. He left the Washington County Grammar School to enter the store of Baldwin & Scott. He boarded in the home of the head of the firm, Daniel Baldwin, while working in Montpelier. Mr. Gilman married, at Montpelier, May 10, 1843, Maria Malleville Baldwin, a daugli- ter of Daniel Baldwin and Emily Wheelock Baldwin and a grand-daughter of the first president of Dartmouth College. In 1845 Mr. and Mrs. Gilman moved to Chicago, where Mr. Gilman was for twenty-three years, the remainder of his busi- ness life, a merchant. While in Chicago he was a member of three successive firms, M. D. Gilman & Co., Gilman & Grannis, and Gilman, Grannis & Farwell. His business career was very successful. In 1855 he built on Michigan Avenue what was then characterized as the most costly and in many respects the most elegant residence in Chicago. Mr. Gilman retired from business in 1868, and for the next three years he and liis wife lived at Riverside in Newton, Massachusetts. They moved to IMontpelier in the fall of 1871, where they converted the Daniel Baldwin homestead, now No. 1, Baldwin Street, into a new and costly residence. This was their homo during the remainder of their lives. Mr. Gilman died in Montpelier, January 5, 1889, and his widow died in Providence, Rhode Island, May 18, 1892. They are buried, with their children and three grand-children, in the Gilman- Cushman lot in Green Mount Cemetery, Montpelier. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Gilman were : INTRODUCTION. vii (1) John Baldwin Oilman, ^I. D., who was horn in Chicago, July 5, 1847, and died in Montpclier, May 18,1873. He graduated at Harvard in 18fi8, and afterwards studied medicine in Germany and at the Boston Medical Oollcge. In the Franco-German war, 1870-71, he served as assistant surgeon in the Prussian army, and at the close of his service received the decoration of the Iron Cross. After the close of that war lie completed his studies in Boston, and in the fall of 1871 began practice in Topeka, Kansas. Exposure and overwork in an epidemic brought upon him a severe sickness, which developed into quick consumption, and in April, 1873, he came to the family home in Montpclier, where he spent the last few weeks of his life. (2) Emily Eliza Gilman, born in Chicago, June 10, 18-i9 ; married in Chicago Rev. Henry Irving Cnshman, April 13, 1868. Their children were (1) Mary Alice, born in Boston, April 27, 1869 ; died in Providence, R. I., June 18, 1877. (2) Ruth Gilman, born in Newton, Mass., May 29, 1870 ; married "William Gardner Anthony, February 17, 1896, at Providence, R. I. (3) Robert, born in Boston, September 18, 1872. (4) Marcus Gilman, born in Montpclier, July 25, 1875; died in Providence, R. I., July 18, 1877. (5) Earl Baldwin, born in Providence, R. I., May 6, 1878 ; died in Providence, R. I., May 25, 1878. (6) Albert Henry, born in Providence, R. I., Se)>teraber 26, 1880. Mrs. Cushman died at LamandaPark, Los Angeles County, California, March 14, 1895. (3) Sarah Alice Gilman, born in Chicago, March 21, 1851 ; died in Chicago, March 19, 1853. (4) Marcus Edward Gilman, born in Chicago, June 26, 1853 ; died in Chi- cago, November 9, 1853. This introduction, how^ever brief, should not conclude without a word of tribute to Mrs. Cushman, who made gift to the State of her father's work in its behalf. In her early married life in Boston, while her husband was Dr. Miner's associate, and in Dr. Cuslanan's long pastorate in Providence, her lovely character was his most efficient help in pastoral work and influence. Seeking a milder climate in hope of staying the progress of New England's most insidious disease she died in Southern California, March 14, 1895. Her t)urial was in Green Mount Cemetery from the Gilman homestead in IMontpelier. It is right that those to whom she was unknown who read this book should hero read what all who knew her knew that she was the exemplar of what is beautiful, good and pure — of true womanhood, wifehood and motherhood. H. A. H. Vermont State Library, Moutpelier, Vt., August, 1897. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF VERMONT. Abbott, George N. TVie Christolooic Proh- leiii \ an Essay read before the Winooski Asso- ciation, January 8, 18G7. By George N. Abliott, South Ne\vl)ury, Vt. Andover : Printed by Warren F. Draper. 1809. 8vo, pp. 20. Abbott, Jacob. Marco Paul's \^oya. 43. Mr. Adams was a native of Brookfield, Vt., bom March 12, 1S18. He published sermons, one or two books, and a poem on the Book of Job ; was a graduate of Wesleyan University in the class of 1S41, and was for a time a preach- er in the New Hampshire Conference. Afterward he be- came an Episcopalian, and was a rector in Springfield. He died at Charlotte, N. C, October 21, 1S81. Hewas a brother of Rev. Elisha .\dams, who was t>om in Williams- town, vt. in 1S15. resided at Concord. N. H., and died sud- denly at Concord, N. H., in Augu.st, 18S0. Adams, John Sullivan, Can the Vermont Col- leges be United/ Addressed to the Town Sup- erintendents of Schools and to all thoughtful and liberal friends of a State Educational Sys- tem. 1864. No impruit : 8vo, pp. 49. J. S. Adams was born in Burlington in 1S20 ; graduated at the University of Vermont in 183S ; studied law with his father, Hon. Charles Adams ; went to California in 1849 ; returned in 1851 to Burlington : clerk of Chittenden County Court 1S54 to 1S67 ; secretary of the State Board of Education 1S56 to 1867; removed, 1S67. to Jacksonville, Fla., where he held tlie offices of Postmaster, Commi.s- sioner of Immigration and Collector of Customs ; estab- lished and edited the New South newspaper. Died at Jacksonville, April 23, 1876. Adams, Warren P., A. M., [of Burlington.] (Quarterly Adih-ess, to the Young Men's Lyce- um of Troy Conference Academy, [Poultney.] February 25th, 1853. Burlington: Stacy & Jameson, Printers. 1853. 8vo, pp. 15. Addison Connty. Atlas of Addison County, i'ennont. From actual surveys by and under tlie direction of F. W. Beers, assisted by W. S. Peet and Others. Published by P. W. Beers & Co., 93 and 95 Maiden Lane, New York. 1871. Folio, pp. 48. Contains maps and historical sketches of each town. — List of Congregational Ministers, Churches, etc. See Latnb, Dana. —Hi.'ttory of, See Swift, S. — Rules of Addison County Court, 17S7--1S05. 18mo. pp. 4. No imprint. — Rulex of Addison County Court, adopted December Term, 1840. Printe.l liy Eph. Ma-x- ham,OfKceof the People's Press, Middlebury. 12nio, pp. 8. — Vermont Patriot. Extra. Correspondence of the Hon. Richard Rush and a number of citizens of .Addison <'ountv, Vermont. Letter to Mr. Rush, Middlebury. Vt.. April 25th, 1834. [And His Re|)ly.J 8vo, pp. 16. Is opposed to the re-charter of the U. S. Bank. — Gazetteer and Business Directory of Addi- son (Utunty, \'ermont, I6'i>':i-S. Compiled and ))ublished by Hamilton Child, Syracuse, N. Y., 1882. 8vo, pp. 551. Address. An Address to the Freemen of Ver- viont, by their Delegation to the National Republican Convention, holden at Baltimore, Md., in December, 1831. H. H. Houghton, Printer, Middlebury, Vt. 8vo, pp. 16. Signed by William Jarvis, Robert Temple, Phineas White, William A. Griswold, Dan. Carpenter and Thomas D. Hammond. — To Christian Parents of the Churches in Vermont. E. W. Hooker, Amos Drury, and Hosea Beckley, Committee of the Copvention. Rutland: W. Fay, Printer. 1833. 12mo, pp. 36. — Before the Reunion Society of Vermont Offi- cers and the Fir.it Vermo7it Cai^ab-y Society, Nov. 4th and 5th, 1874. Burlington : Free Press Print. 1874. 8vo, pp. 34. — Before the Vermont State Agricidtiiral So- ciety, at its Exhibition held at Rutland, Sep- tember, 1 852 : Together with tlie Report of the Committee on Manufactured Goods. Published by the Society. Middlebury: Justus Cobb, Printer, Register Office. 1853. 8vo, pp. 63. Continued. — Of Members of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, to their Constituents, on the Subject of the War with Great Britain. Middlebury. Printed by T. C. Strong. 1812. 12mo. pp. 32. — Another edition, Bennington, Vt.: Printed by S. Williams & Co. 1812. The same, Wind- sor: Printed by Thomas M. Pomroy. 1812. 8vo, pp. 30. A Federal address, in opposition to the war. — To the Freemen of ^'ermont, by a Soldier of '77. n. d., n. p. [1808] 8vo, pp. 23. A strong Federal pamphlet. — Tlie Present State of Our Country Consid- ered, in an Address to the Freemen of Vermont, by a Farmer of Windham County. Motto. 12ino, p. 31, n. d. No imprint. [1808.] — To Heads of Families in General, and to Professors in particular, u|X)n the duty of Prayer, and the Education of those under their care. Selected from Late Eminent Authors. Windsor: Printed by A. Spooner, [Fori. New- ton, Norwich, Vt.] 1807. 12mo, pp. 60. — An Address to the People of the County of Franklin. Middlebury, Vt. : Printed by Hunt- ington & Fitch for the Publisher, March, 1806. 12 mo, pp. 10. Gives au account of the short coming of County Clerk, 179S to 1804. Admonitions Against Sxcearing, Sabbath- breaking, and Drunkomess. Designed for the benefit of such :is are guilty of one or more of these Vices. Motto. The Eleventh Edition. Windsor: Printed and sold by Alden Spooner. MDCCXClv. 16mo, pp. 12. The Adviser; or Vermont Evangelical Maga- zine, for the ye.ar 1809. Vol. I. The Profits of this Work are devoted to the use of the Ver- mont Missionary Societ}'. The Editors ap- (X)inted by the General Convention are the Rev. Messrs. Asa Burton, D. D., GershomC. Lyman, Martin Tullar. Publius V. Booge, Heniaii Ball, John B. Pieston, John Fitch. Leonard Worces- ter. Holland Weeks, Tilton Eastman, Bancroft Fowler, Thomas A. Merrill. Middlebury: Pub- lished by William C. Hooker, General Agent of the Editors, at whose store may be had com- BIBLIOGRAPHY OF VERMONT. plete sets of the Adviser. Tricf one dollar ; bound $1.25. J. D. Huntington, Printer, 1809. 8vo. Continued to Januar)'. 'Si6. 7 volumes in .ill, of about 400 pp. each. Published nioulhlv ; the later vols, printed byT.C. Strong. ^^. Cl.-i.<n*' M'T-i"- H'^'IOIH. AGKICULTURAL. List of I'remiums j^ven l>y the W.LsliiiiKtiin County, Vt. ARricultural Soc-iety, Joshua Y. Vail, Secretary, 1822. — The Enfranchusemcnt of Liibor. An Address delivered before the Vermont State Agricul- tural .Society, at Brattleboro, Vt., Sept. 14th, 18.54, by Charles Theodore Russell. Middlebury: Printed at the Register Book and Job Office. 1855. 8vo, pp. 21. — The Seventeenth .Innual Fairoi the Addison County Agricultural Society at Middlebury, September 5lli, 6th and 7th, 1860. Register Office Print. Middlebury: 12mo, pp. 16. —Premium List of the Fair of the j\'cw England and Vermont State Agricnltural Soeieties, held at Brattleboro, Vt., September, 1866. Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle, Gay & Co.. Printers. 1866. 8vo, pp. 47. —Tuvnty-second Annual Fair of the Vermont State Agricultural Society and Wool Growers' Association, to be held at St. Johnsbury, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, September 10th, llth, 12th and 13th, 1872. Rut- land, Vt.: Tuttle & Co., Printers. 1872. 8vo, pp. 24. Continued. —Thirty-first Annunl Fair of the Rutland County Agricultural Society, to be held at Rutland, Vt., Thursday and Friday, Septem- ber 14th and 15th, 1870. Rutland. Vt.: Tuttle & Co., Printers. 1876. 8vo, pp. 20. Continued. — Official Report of the Special Committee of the Vermont State Agricultural Society, relat- ing to the great State Trial of Mowing Machines and Hay Implements, held at Rutland, June 10th, llth, 12th and 13th, 1872. Judges: George Hammond, Middlebury; Lawrence Braiiierd. St. Albans: Henry Chase, Lyndon, Samuel Everts, Cornwall: James A. Shedd, Burlington. Rutland: Tuttle & Co., Printers. 1872. 8vo, pp. 12. — The Fanners' Wai — Ecjual Taxation — Granges — Patrons of Husbandry. A Series of letters publishe- shire. jVnd also, of the monoimlizing Conduct of the Government of New York, in their sub- seipientl.v patenting Part of the same Land, and opjiressing the Grantees and Settlers under New Ham|)shire. Together with Arguments demon- strating that the Property of those Lands was conveyed from the Crown to the New Hamj)- shire tirantees, by Virtue of their rcsjiective Charters. With Remarks ou a Pamphlet en- titled, " A State of the Right of the Colony of Nevi' York," &c. , and on tlie Narrative of the Proceedings subse(iuent to the royal Adjudica- tion, concerning the L;inds to the Westward of the Coimecticut River, lately usurp'il by New Hampshire. Intended as an Ap])endi.x to the General Assembly's State of the Right of the Colony of New York (with Resjiect to its Eastern Boundary on Connecticut River, .so far a.s concerns the late Encroachments imder the Government of New Hampshire) publi.-shcd at their Session, 1773. By Ethan Allen. Ben- nington, 23d Septembe'r, 1774. Hartford : Printed by Eben Watson, near the Great Bridge. 8vo, pp. 311. Referred to in Ira .Allen's History of Vermont, p. 52 ; also in an olTicial letter of Ethan Allen in Slade's Vt. State Tapers, p. 93 ; and in Hiland Hall's Early Vermont, pp. 1S4, 185. — An Aniniadversory Address to the Inhabi- tants of the State of I'ermont ; with Remarks on a Proclamation, under the hand of His Ex- cellency George Clinton, Esq.; Governor of the State of New York. By Ethan ^Mlen. Hart- ford : Printed bv Watson & (Joodw in, near the Great Bridge. ILDCCLXXVIII. 8vo, pp. 24. Dated Bennington, August y, 1778. — A Narratii-e of Col. Ethan Allen's Cajilivity, From the Time of his being taken by the Brit- ish, near Montreal, on the 3.')th day of Septem- ber, in the Year 1775, to the Time of his Ex- change on the 0th day of May. 177M. Contain- ing His Voyages and Travels, With the most remarkable Occurrences resi)ecting himself, and many other Continental Prisoners of dilVerent Ivanks and Characters, which fell under his Ob- servation, in the Course of the same ; particu- larly the Destruction of the Prisoners at New York, by General Sir William Howe, in the Years 1770 and 1777. Interspersed with some Political Observations. Written by Himself, and now Published for the Information of the Curious of all Nations. " When Ood from chaos gave this world to be, Man then he formed, and formed him to be free." Antt-rican Imicpfndfmf. A I^>em by /•'>t'>ii\tii. Price Ten Paper Dolkirs. Philadelphi;i; Prinle>d and Sold bv Robert Bell, In Third Street. M.DCC.LXXIX. 8vo. Title, 1 leaf, pp. 46, in double columns. Mr. Sabin says this is the first edition. A copy sold in March, 1866. for $,s6. It was reprinted with the same title, but in single coltimns. rhiladelphia. Printed ; Boston. Reprinted by Draper & Kolsom (1779). 8 vo., pp. 40. This is regarded as the second edition. 6 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF VERMONT. —Third Edition; same title. Philadelphia: Printed for and sold by William Mentz, in t'her- ry Alley, 1779. 12mo,pp. 64. This is sometimes called the first edition. — Fourth Edition ; same title. Newbury: Printed by John Mycall, for Nathaniel (.'overly of Boston, and Sold at his Shop, between Seven Star Lane and the Sign of the Lamb. 1780. 8vo, pp. 80. —Fifth Edition ; same title. Norwich: Printed by John Trumbull. 1780. 12mo., pp. 47. It was also reprinted in Vol. H of the " Olive Branch " as an appendix. See Allen, Ira. -~Si,rth Edition ; same title, with the follow- ing addition : To which are now added a con- siderable number of explanatory and occasional notes, together with an index of reference to the most remarkable occurrences in the narra- tive. Walrx)le, N. H.: Thomas & Thomas. From the Press of Charter & Hale. 1807. 12 mo, pp. 158, Subscribers, 1 leaf. —Seventh Edition ; Albany: Published by Pratt & Clark, 1814. pp. 144. Printed by Moses Pratt, Jun., No. 163 Lion Street. —Eighth Edition : A Narrative of Colonel Eth- an Allen's Captivity. Written by Himself. Third Edition. With Notes. Burlington: H. Johnson & Co. 1838. 12 mo, pp. 144. Mr. Goodrich calls this the " Third Edition." —Ninth Edition ; Allen's Captivity, being a Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen, containing his Voyages, Travels, &c. Interspei-sed with Political Observations. Written by Himself. Boston: Oliver L. Perkins. 1845. 13mo, nn 126. Preface by F. W. E. This edition has a curious frontispiece, representing Allen in the act of demanding the surrender of the Kort at Ticondcroga. — Tenth Edition ; A Narrative of Col. Ethan Allen's Captivity. Written by Himself. Fourth Edition, With Notes. Burlington: Chauncey Goodrich. 1846, 12nio, pp. 120. —Eleventh Edition: Ethan Allen's Narrative of the Capture of Ticonderoga, and of His Cap- tivity and Treatment by the British. Written by Himself. Fifth Edition, with Notes. Bur- hngton: C. Goodrich & S. B. Nichols, 1849. 8vo, pp. 50. —The same, Burlington. Nichols and Warren, No. 4, Leavenworth Block. 1852, 8vo, pp 50. —Twelfth Edition ; A Narrative of the Captiv- ity of Colonel Ethan Allen, from the time he wa.s taken by the British, near Montreal, Sep- tember 25th, 1775, to the time of his exchange May 6th. 1778. 8vo, Dayton, 1849, And there may be other editions of this work. It may he a question whether the edition called the third in this list should not be named the fourth, making thirteen in all without the Olive Branch edition, which if counted will make fourteen. —A Vindication of the Opposition of the In- habitants of Vermont to the Government of New York, and of their Right to form an Inde- pendent State, humbly submitted to the con- sideration of the Impartial World, By Etlitin Allen. Printed by Alden Spooner, Printer to the State of Vermont. 1779. Svo, pp. 172. Reprinted in " Governor and Council" of Vermont Vol. 1, pp. 444-517. — The Present State of the Controversy between the States of Ncto York and New Hampshire, on the one part, And the State of Vermont on the other. Hartford: Printed bV^ Hudson & Goodwin. M.UCC.LXXXII. Svo, pp. 16. This pamphlet is dated, " State of Vermont, January 17 1782," and circum.stances render it pretty certain that Col' Allen was the author. Reprinted, with notes, in " Gov- ernor and Council of Vermont," Vol. 2, pp. vi'.--K6-i See Vermont Historical Society Collections, Vol 2 pp 231- 239, fora history of its origin, anda reprint of theonginal. —and Fay. A Concise Refutation of the claims of New Hampshire and Massachusetts Bay to the Territory of Vermont ; with occasional Re- marks on the long disputed Claim of New York to the same. Written by Ethan Allen and Jo- nas Fay, Esq'rs. And published by order of the Governor and Council of Vermont. Benning- ton, the firet day of January, 1780. Joseph Fay, Sec'ry. Hartford: Printed by Hudson & Good- win. Svo, pp. 29. Reprinted, with notes, in '• Governor and Council " \ol. 2, pp. 223-234. —Reason the only Oracle of Man, or a Com- penduous System of Natural Religion. Altern- ately Adorned with Confutations of a variety of Doctrines incomi)atible to it ; Deduced from the most exalted Ideas which we are able to form of the Dirine and Human Characters, and from the Universe in General. By Ethan AUen, Esq. Bennington, State of Vermont: Printed by Haswell & Russell. M.DCC.LXXXIV. 8vo pp. 477. ' This singular book is the rarest of Allen's publications and IS remarkable as being the first work published in America 111 direct opposition to the Christian religion as has been alleged. An abridgement of it was published in New York in 1S36, with the following title : "Reason the only Oracle of Man ; or a Compendious System of Natural Religion. By Col. Ethan Allen. Published by G. W and A. J. Matsell, 94 Chatham St., New York, 1836." 12 mo pp. 106, including table of contents and index. "The first edition of this work was printed by Mr Has- "'^i'' o' Bennmeton, Vt. Not long after its publication, a part of the edition, comprising the entire of several signa- tures, was accidentally consumed by fire; whether Mr Haswell deemed this fire a judgment upon him for having printed the work or not, is unknown— but the fact is he soon after committed the remainder of the edition to the flames, andjoined the Methodist connection; so that but lew copies were circulated."— Introduction to MatseU's Edition, p. I.— Sabin. Mr. MatseU's story is a romance, so far as Mr Haswell having committed any part of the edition to the flames is concerned; it is true that the entire edition with the ex- ception of about thirty copies, was destroyed by an acci- dental fire, said by one authority to have "been caused by "gn'n'ng, so that the work is now exceedingly scarce The liberal views contained in the Oracle of Reason so generally censured and misunderstood at the time of pub- lication, if put up in the dress of to-day, might become as popular as numerous publications universally accepted by the masses of readers. An hundred years have enlarged and greatly harmonized the religions of enlightened people. " Another edition, abbreviated, was published in 1854 viz: 'Reason the only Oracle of Man; Or a coinpendiolis System of Natural Religion. By Col. Ethan Allen. Boston: J. P. .Mendnm, Cornhill. 1.954" 12 mo, pp. 171. Our attention was called to the followingwork of Ethan Allen by the Rev. Horace Edward Hayden, an Episcopal clergyman of Brownsville, Pa. ./ . -.k k —An Essay on the universal plentitude of Being, and on the nature and immortahty of the huiiian soul, and its Agency. By Ethan Allen. Es(|. Proposed as an appendix "to a sys- tem of moral philosophy, latelv published at Bennington, entitled Oracles of Reason. To which is subjoined a letter to Dr. Beni'n Gale in answer to one of his, on the subject of eternal Creation. Printed in Mr. Henry B. Dawson's Historical Magazine Morrisania. N. V., vols. I, II. Third Series: 187,, where it occupies about twenty-three pages. We give !n explana- BIBLIOORAPIIY OF VERMONT. tion the following extracts from the able note by Mr. Dawsou prefaced to the work : "Aiuoiig those who have become distiuguislied in the United States, few have been more seriously misrepre- sented than Hthan Allen, • * misrepresentation has extended over his character and conduct, as a man and a citizen, • • and the opinions on religious subjects which he is known to have entertained and published to the world. Without noticing, in this place, other subjects concerning which Ethan Allen has been thus misrepre- sented, we may be allowed to refer to the opinions on religious subjects— opinions which have been very fre- quently represented as of the most obnoxious type of infi- delity, etc. » • • The peculiar doctrines which Col. Alien published through the medium of the Oracle of Reason, as its author had reasonably supposed soon brought upon him the reproaches of many of those who read or profes.sed to rearl them; aud from that time to the present we imagine this work has ser\'ed as the founda- tion on which have been constructed the greater number ol the misrepresentations of his opinions ou religious and other subjects." « * • * Soon after the publi- cation of the uracles. Col. Allen discovered, or supposed he discovered, one, at least, of those 'errors,' which he was evidently prepared to find therein; and agreeably to the promi.se he had publicly made in the premce to that volume, he promptly proceeded, as best he could, to 'rescind' that error, and present in its stead what he conceived to be a purer ana better doctrine. The 'error' to wnich we allude is found in Chapter II, Section VIII, page 94 of the Oracles, and concerns the 'essence of the Soul,' etc., * * and to correct the error into which he supposed he had fallen. Col. Allen pre- pared, with evidently great care, an Appendix to the Oracles, explanatorj' of his latest opinions on that subject. The Appendix was intended to be published at a future day when it [wouldj not infringe ou [its au- thor's] fortune or present living; but so far as we can learn it was never published until the present time. It is a manuscript, evidently in the handwriting of its author, divided into an Introduction and four distinct Sections, extending over eighty pages of foolscap; but the letter to Doctor Gale, if it was ever attached to it, which is doubt- ful, has disappeared. The subject of that Appendix, in itself is scarcely such an one as would eutitle it to admission iuto The Histori- cal Magazine; but its author's position before the world, as one of the founders of the State of Vermout, and the f)urpo.se for which it was evidently written induced our amented friend, Hon. George K. Houghton, of St. Albans, "Vermont, to offer it to us, ou condition that we would publish it in that work, and appropriate, from the anticipated profits arising from its publication, a desig- nated sum toward the erection of a monument to the memory of the author of the Essay — promising at the same time, on his part, as an inducement for us to uuder- take what was not an agreeable duty, to prepare for it an appropriate prefatory note, in order that the publication of such a paper might be made as agreeable as possible to the readers of the Magazine and as remunerative as possible to ourself. The death of our friend, soon after, deprived those who have survived him of the pleasure aud iustniction which the promised note from his pen would undoubtedly have secured to them, and the duty has devolved upon us to perform, for ourself, as best we may, the service which he undertook to do for us, and, in this brief and simple Note to introduce what will be welcomed, in many quar- ters, as a paper of unusual interest, while in others it will be rcgartfed only as a literary or theological curi- osity." For a specimen of the early criticism of Allen's Oracle of Reason, see J. J. Henry's Journal of Arnold's cam- paign against Quebec, 1775, Munsell's ed. Note, pp. 120- "7- — Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Heroes of '70. With a Sketcli of the Early History of Vermont. By Henry W. De Puy. Buffalo: Phinney & Co., 1853. 12 mo, pp. 428. —De Pity's Ethan Allen and the Oreen Motm- tain Boys. New York: J. C. Derby, 8 Park Place. 1854. 13mo, pp. 428. —Same. Boston: 1853. 13mo, pp. 438. — Tlie Mountain Hero and JHs Associates. By Henry W. De Ptiy. Boston. Dayton & Went- worth, No. 86 Washington Street, 1855. 12mo, pp. 428. Another edition of " Ethan Allen and the Green Moun- tain Boys." —The Life of Col. Ethan Allen, by Jared Sparks, LL.D. Burlington: C. Boodrich & Company. 1858. 16mo, pp. 226. — Memoir of Col. Ethan Allen. Containing the most interesting incidents connected with liis private and public career. By Hugh Moore. Plattsburgh, N. Y: Publislied by O. R. Cook. 1834. 12mo, pp. 352. —Life of Ethan Allen. By Jared Sparks. In Sparks' American Biograpliy.Vol. I, lirst series, pp. 130. Was also republished at Middlebury in 1848, in the same volume with Chipman's Memoir of Col. Seth Warner. — Report of the Committee under the act pro- viding for the erection of a Monument over the grave of Ethan Allen. Printed by order of the Senate, 1858. Moutpelier: 8vo, pp. 7. —The Stephenson Statue of Ethan Allen. Ex- ercises attending the unveihng and presenta- tion of a Statue of Gen. Ethan Allen at Bur- lington, Vt,, July 4th, 1873, including an Ora- tion by Hon. L. E. Chittenden. Burlington: Free Press Print. 1874. 8vo, pp. 66. Plate. — Ethan Allen; or, the King's Men. An His- torical Novel. By Melville. New Y'ork: 1836. 8vo, —Sketch of the Life of Ethan Allen, by B, J. Lossiiig. Illustrated. In Harper's Monthly Magazine, November, 1858. 8vo, pp. 23. A statue of Ethan Allen, heroic size, in white marble, by I.arkin G. Mead, was placed in the portico of the State Capitol at Moutpelier, in 1.S61. It represents Allen in the act of demanding the surrender of Ticoiideroga. —Ethan Allen, The Robin Hood of Vermont, by Henry Hall. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1892. 12nio, pp. viii,207. Compiled by Mrs. Henrietta Hall Boardman, a daugh- ter of Mr. Hall, from uotes and unpublished mss. left by Mr. Hall at his death in 1S89. —Ancestry of Gen. Ethan Allen, by O. P. Allen of Palmer, Mass. See the Salem Press Historical and Genealogical Record for January, iJi92. Allen, Heman. Allen's Exposition of the con- troversy subsisting between Silas Hathairay and himself. Dated, Moutpelier, October 15, 1822. 8vo, pp. 40. No imprint. — State of Vermont, Chittenden County, ss. Heman Allen against Usal Pierson & Silas Hathaway. 8vo, pj). 24. No imprint or dates, but probably 1822. Is a statement by the del^eudauts, which includes Judge Brayton's Re- port of the Case, and all the evidence admitted. —Remarks of Mr. Allen's Counsel upon the Petition of Sila-s Hathaway, Praying for a New Trial, etc. Dated, Moutpelier, 16th October, 1822. No imprint. 8vo, pp.40. It is stated by Henry Stevens G. M. B., that this pamph- let was prepared by the Hon. Samuel I'rcntiss; it also includes the Opinion of the Hon. Daniel Webster upon the validity of the Act of the Legislature of Vermont, granting a new trial in the case in 1821, This Heman Allen, ol Colchester, was a nephew of General Ira and Ccl. Ethan Allen; and the three titles above are kindred to the famous Olive Branch case of General Ira Allen; and the contest was in relation to and a continuation of disputed land titles growing out of General Ira Allen's misfortune in consequence of the loss of the cargo of the Olive Branch. See Allen, Ira. Olive Branch publications. 8 BIBLIOGRAPnr OF VERMONT. IRA ALLEN. The Natural and Political His- tory of the State of Vermont, one of the United States of America. To which is added, an Appendix, containing answers to Sundry Que- ries addressed to the Author. By Ira Allen, Esquire, Major-General of the Militia in the State of Vermont. London: Printed by J. VV. Myers, No. 2, Paternoster-Row, and sold by W. West, No. 1, Queens-Head Passage, Paternos- ter-Row. 17'J8. 8vo, pp. vii, 300.. Reprinted iu Volume one, Collections of the Vermont Historical Society, pp. 319-499. — Twenty Thounand Muskets ! ! ! Particulars of the Capture of tlie Ship Olive Branch, iu November, 1796. laden with Cannon. Muskets, etc., by His Majesty's Ship Audacious, iji which the destination of the said Ship, and tlie use of the said Arms, etc., are discovered. London: 1797. 8vo, pp. 106. Rich sav.s this pamphlet was written by Mr. Allen. The date of publication indicatesthat it was Allen's first work in relation to the Olive Branch business. — Particnlars of the Capture of the Shi}) Olive Branch, laden with a Cargo of Arms, etc., the property of Ma.jor-General Ira Allen, destined for supplying the Militia of Vermont, and cap- tured by His Brittannic Majesty's Ship of War, Audacious; together with the Proceedings and Evidence before the High Court of Admiralty of Great Britain. Vol. I. By Ira Allen, Esq., of Vermont, in the United States of America, the Claimant in this Cause. London: Printed by J. W. Myers, No. 2, Paternoster Row, 1798. 8vo, pp. vi, 406. Allen calls this Vol. l; perhaps it may more properly be called the first edition. — Narrative of ike Transactions relative to the Capture of the American Ship, Olive Branch. 8vo, pp. 1,368. (1804. Philadelphia.] This is a part of what Allen calls Volume 2, and was hurried through the press without title page (^and omit- ting many articles, for want of documents, which are in- cluded iu the edition which follows), for di.strihution among the Citizens of Vermont prior to the meeting of the General Assembly of the State in October, 1804. 1 his volume is made up largely of matter contained in the editiou of 179S. See Allen's History of Vermont, pp. ill. iv. — Particulars of the Capture of the Ship Olive Branch, laden with a Cargo of Cannon and Arms, the property of Major General Ira Allen, destined for supplying the Militia of Vermont, and cajitured by his Britannic Majesty's ship of war Audacious ; together with the proceedings and evidence before the high Court of Admir- alty and Appeal, in Great Britain, and an ac- count of his imprisonment in France, and per- secutions by a conspiracy of the two Hemis- pheres : with an Appendix, proposing a Ship Canal from Lake Champlain to the River St. Lawrence ; the Evacuation of Ticonderoga, and Events of the War in 1777— Truce in 1780, to the end of the War — and a Narrative of Colonel Etiian .\lleirs Captivity, from 1775 to 1778. By Ira Allen of Vermont, the Claimant in this cause. Volume II. Philadelphia: Printed for the Author. 1805. (Copyright secured). 8vo, pp. XXX, 551. This volume includes a resume of the first, with addi- tions, iticluding the Appendix. In the l.'itter part of 1S02, about 160 pages of volume 2 of the Olive liranch w.as printed at Burlington, Vt.; but it is doubtful if many copies got into circulation. We quote from Mr. Allen's "Statements," 1.S07 : "In the latter part of 1802 thcCloimant resolved on publishing a second volume of the Olive Branch, at Burlington, in Vermont; much pains was tak^ by a conspiracy against kim to pre- vent the printing of it ; but he proceeded to print about 160 pages, taken principalh' from the first volume, when the press was stopped until the author could grain time to write the other parts, which he accomplished iu 1803, and delivered over the Manuscript to the printer who after perusing it. gave the terms for which he would procure the paper and complete the printing ; the Claimant fur- nished the whole of^the money." Mr. Allen then took a long journey on horseback for his health, and returning in January, 1S04, found that the printer had neglected to print any more of the book, and with difficulty he recov- ered the manuscript." In a foot note Mr. Allen says: "It is to be observed, that in Vermont a powerful combination had formed against the Claimant, which was thought influenced the powers of the State. When Mr. Allen returned (to Burl- ington) he was furnished with four pistols and a loaded whip, well charged ; these measures were said to make some cousternatiou among the laud thieves of Vermont, and while different measures were projecting to arrest and detain him, he packed up the papers necessary to compose the Olive Branch, and left Vermont." Mr. Allen in the "Statements," gives an amusing ac- count of the futile efforts to arrest and imprison him while attendiug the Legislature at Rutland, in 1.S04. Mr. Allen owned large tracts of lands about Burliugtouand in other parts of the State, but becoming involved pecunia- rily through the loss of the Olive Branch and its cargo, the " land thieves of Vermont," as he calls them, during his long absence in Europe combined together and stripped him of his valuable possessions, and he was forced to leave the State, never to return. We do not think the great services rendered to Vermont by Mr. Allen have ever been fully appreciated, he appearing to have been overshadowed 111 history by the coarser career of his brother Ethan. We trust that some pen will yet do him justice. For a brief sketch of Mr. Allen see "Gov- ernor and Council" of Vermont, pp. 115-117, of Vol. i. Mr. Walton thus closes the sketch : " his skill as states- man and diplomatist, his grand designs for the promotion of learning ( he was the founder of the University of Ver- mont,) and the development of the material resources of the State, will forever stand, a monument more brilliant than brass and more lasting than marble." See also me- moir of, by David Read, Vermont Historical Gazetteer, ( Miss Hemenway's). Vol. i. pp. 770-776, and by D. P. Thompson, Vermont Record, Vol.II.,Nos. 5-20, 1864. The following is the title to that part of Vol. 2 of the Olive Branch series printed at Burlington : — Extracts from the first volume of the Partic- ulars of the Capture of the Shiji Olive Brunch, laden with a cargo of arms, destined for the Militia of Vermont, and captured by His Brit- tanic Majesty's Ship of War, .Vudacious : with the evidence and proceedings in the High Court of Admiralty of Great Britain, and further proofs, recently taken by Commission. To which are added, the author's objects in going to Europe, the cause of his detention in Eng- land and France, with the principal effects they have produced on His property. By Ira Allen, the claimant in this cause. Burlington: Printed by John K. Barker. August, 1802. 8vo, pp. 160. —A Concise Summary of the Second volume of the Olive Branch. A Book containing an account of Governor Chittenden's giving writ- ten instructions to General Ira Allen in 1795, to purchiise Military Stores In Europe for the Mili- tia of the State of Vermont; of his purchase of 24 Brass Field Pieces, 20,000 Muskets furnished with bayonets in France; of his being Captured by an English 74 Gun Ship, with consequences resulting therefrom. To which is Subjoined, General Allen's Circular Letter, on the subject of a Ship Canal of Commerce, and the advan- tage of l?ritish America in preserving jieace be- tween Great Britain and the United States. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Thomas T. Styles, No. 84, South Front Street, & Solomon W'ical t No. 400, North Second-Street, at which BIBLIOGRAPUY OF VERMONT. d places the second volume of the Olive Branch, is for sale. 8vo, pp. 15. Thtre is no date to thi.s pamphlet, except near the end is a statement, signed by General Allen, dated Philadel- phia, July 4th, 1806 J audit was probably printed that year; as an enlarged edition followed in April 1807. — A Concise Suvimary of the Seco7itl Volnvie of the Olive Branch, A Book containing an ac- count of Governor Chittenden's giving written instructions to Gen. Ira Allen in 1795, to pur- clia.se Military Stores in Europe for the Militia of the State of Vermont, of his purchase of 'ii Brass Field Pieces, 20.000 Muskets furnished with hayonets in France; of his being Captured by an English 74 Gun Ship, with confe<)uences resulting therefrom. To which is Subjoined General Allen's Circular Letter, on the subject of a Ship Canal of Commerce, and the advan- tage of British America in preserving Peace be- tween Great Britain and the United States. Including General Allen's Memorials to the Sen- ate of the United States, of February, 1805, and December, 1806, and with other Documents and letters to Men of Great Respectability in Europe and America. Philadcli)hia: Printed for the Author. April, 1807. 8vo, pp. 24. Mr. Sabin quotes an edition of the same, Philadelphia: 1804. — Statements applicable to the Cause of the Olive Branch, which was a Cargo of Cannon and .\rnis, purchased by the Authority of the Governor of Vermont, to supply the Militia thereof, and Captured on its Passage from Os- tend in France, to New York in the United States, by an English Man of War ( In 1796,) which Statements are submitted for the Con- sideration of the Government and Ministers of Great Britain, the Government and Ministers of France, and the Government and People of the United States. By Ira Allen, Claimant of the Cargo of the Olive Branch. Philadelphia: Printed for the Author. July, 1807. 8vo, pp. 16. It appears from page 10 of the above, that the first ten pages were printed in August, 1S06, and copies " sent to Washington, London, and Vermont." ^Ira Allen's ALklress to the Freemen of Ver- mont, and Legislature Thereof, respecting a Cai-go of Military Stores, captured by the Brit- ish. Conduct of the Senators and Representa- tives of Vermont, and that of a Conspiracy. Philadelphia: Printed for the Author. August, 1808. 8vo, pp. 27. — Extracts From Volumes 5th, 1st & 4th of select Speeches lately published in Philadelphia, which with remarks subjoined, are applicable to the cause of the Olive Branch, and conse- quences resulting therefrom. 12mo, pp. 6. n. p. n. d. Was printed about June, 1S09. — Copies of Letters to the Oovemor of Ver- mont, an Address to the Legislature thereof, Respecting a Conspiracy against the Author ; and Respecting a Ship Canal From Lake Cham- plain to the River St. Lawrence : With Letters To the Allen Family on said subjects, and Com- pensjition from the Britisli trovernment, for the illegal Capture of the Cargo of the Olive Branch: with the Opinion of the Attorney Gener;il on the Ca.se of the Olive Branch. By Ira Allen, Claimant of s;iid Cargo. Philadelphia: Printed for the Author. January, 1810. iSvo, pp. 28. — Copiesof Letters to the Oovemor of Vermont, and address to the Legislature thereof, respect- ing a conspiracy against the author ; and re- specting a Ship CJanal from Lake Cliamplain to tlie River St. Lawrence : with the Opinion of the Attorney General on the case of the Olive Branch. With letters to the Allen Family on said subjects, and compensation from the Brit- ish Government, for the illegal Capture of the Cargo of the Olive Branch ; By Ira Allen, claim- ant of said cargo. Philadelphia: Printed by John Binns — For the Author. 8vo, pp. 01. This title is without date, but the last document of the pamphlet is dated June 20, i8u, and the publication dDuhtless was in the summer of that year. The contest over the cargo of the Olive Branch, after being in the Knglish Courts for eight years, was decided in lavor of Mr. Allen, but the expenses of the litigation far exceeded the value of the property involved, in addition to the loss of his estates in Vennont resulting primarily from the Olive Branch difficulties. — Some Miscellaneous liemarks, and Short Ar- guments, on a Small P.amphlet, Dated in the Convention of tlie Representatives of the State of NeAv York, October 2, 1770, and sent from said Convention to the County of Cumberland, and some Reasons given, why the District of the New Hampshire Grants had best be a State. By Ira Allen. Hartford, Conn.: printed by Ebenezer Watson, near the Great Bridge, M.DCC.LXXVII. 8vo, [May 1777.] Reprinted in Vermont Historical Society Collections, Vol. I, pp. 109-132. Also iu Governor and Council, Vol. 1, pp. 376-3S9. See also. Hall's Bibliography of Vermont, Note. — Miscellaneous Remarks on the Proceedings of the State of New York against the State of Vermont, &c. By Ira Allen. Hartford: Prijited by Hannah Watson, near the Great Bridge. 8vo, Dated October aoth, 1777. Reprinted in Collections of the Vermont Historical So- ciety, Vol. 1, pp. 133-144. — Address to the Inhabitants of the State of Vermont, by Ira Allen, dated at Dresden, No- vember 27, 1778. Gives the result of his official mission from Vermont to the Government of New Hampshire, in relation to the Union of Sixteen New Hampshire towns with Vermont. Reprinted in Governor and Council of Vermont, Vol. 5, pp. 540-543. — A Vindication of the Conduct of the General Assembly of the State of Vermont, Held at Windsor in October, 1778, against Allegations and Remarks of the Protesting Members ; with Observations on their Proceedings at a Conven- tion held at Cornish, on the 9th Day of Decem- ber, 1778. By Ira Allen. Arlington, 9th Jjin- uary, 1779. Dresden: Printed by Alden Spooner. 12mo, pp. 48. —Allen, Ira. Founder of tlie University of Vermont. Oration on his Life and Public Ser- vices, delivered June 29, 1892, by J. E. Good- rich, Burlington: 1892, Free Press Print, 8vo, pp. 45. Allen, John Johnson. Post Prandial Poem, written for the Reunion of the Sigma Phi Socie- ty at the Alpha Chapter, U. V. M., June 28, 1887. Burlington: 1887. pp. 19. Allen, Jonathan A. Adilress against Anti- masonri/ in /.sv.v. See Masonic. — An Essay on Narcotic Substances, embracing intoxicating liijuids, tobacco, etc., by Jonathan A. Allen, M. D., Middlelmry, Vt. Middlebuiy: American Olllce. 1835. 8vo, pp. 32. 10 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF VERMONT. Doctor Allen was a Physician in Middlebury. Vt.; he was born in HoUiston, Mass., in 17S7, and came to Ver- mont at an early day. See Swift's Hist. Middlebury, pp. 354-56- Allen, J. Adams, M. D , LL. D. Address at the Public Exercises of the Chi Psi Fraternity at tlieir Tliirty-Sixtli Annual Convention, with Alpha Mu Chapter, Middlebury College, Vt., June Sth, 1876. By J. Adams Allen, M. D., LL. D. , Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine, Rush Medical College, Chicago, 111. Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., Printers and Engravers. 1876. 8vo, pp. 15. — Address introductory to the Seventeenth An- nual Course of Lectures in Rush Medical Col- lege, delivered November 1, 1859. By J. Adams Allen, Professor of Principles and Practice of Medicine. 8vo, pp. 16. Mr. Allen, sou of the late Dr. J. A. Allen, of Middle- bury, Vt., was boru in that town, January 16, 1826. See Pearson's Middlebury Graduates. 1845. .Vlleii, Joseph W. Allen, Joseph William, the fifth son of the late Hon. Hemau Allen, was born in Milton, Vt., January 17. 1S19; was graduated at the University of \'ermont, 18,^9, read law, and practiced his profession at Burlington for several years, then at Milton and Rich- mond, where he died March 15, 1S61. In the latter years uf his life he edited and published two important legal works: "Fell on Guaranty." and " Reeves Domestic Relations." See Vermont Historical Gazetteer, Vol. i, Biography of, See Barnes, pp. 841-2. Allen, Samuel. Melvin. Ailing, Mrs. Martha ( Sparha-wk ). A sign to the CliKrcli. A Sermon preaclied at the Wash- ington St. t;hurch, January 11, 185J, Occasioned by the death of Mrs. Martha Sparhavvk Ailing; Bv M. J. Hickok, Pastor of the Clhurch. Roch- es'ter, N. Y. 1853. 8vo, pp. 18. Mrs. Ailing, daughterof Dea. Ebenezer Sparhawk, was born in Rochester, Vt., February 15, 1814. AUis, Rev. 0. D. A Funeral Sermon on the Jh'ittli of CJiarles M. Griswold, who died in the Military Hospital at Galena, Ark., September 4, 1862. Delivered in the Congregational Church at Randolph, September 21, 1863, By Rev. O. D. Allis. Montpelier: Printed at the Freeman Printing Establishment. 1863. 8vo, pp. 14. Rev. O. D. Allis died in Dansville, N. Y., June 2.s, 1866, aged 41. He was ordained at Randolph, Vt.. in 1S60. and preached there and at "West Randolph until 1S65, when he was disabled by rheumatism from further labor. ALMANAC. Walton's Vermont Register and Almanac. For the yearof our Lord 1818. Being the second after Bissextile or Leap Year, and Forty second of Am. Independence. Montpel- ier, Vt.: Published by E. P. & G. S. Walton, at the Montpelier Bookstore. 18mo, pp. 132. Continued : In 1819 "k" was added to the word Almanac, and H. P. Walton's name appears as sole publisher until 1S31. In 1820 the following addition was made to the title: "No. III. Calculated for the Meridian of Montpelier, Vt., in Latitude 44° 17m North, and Longitude 4° 38m Uast from Washington City ; " in 1823, " Astronomical Calculations by Zadock Thompson," and in 1824, "A. B." was ap- pended to Mr. Thompson's name, and the longitude amended to read, "4" 2S m ; " in 1825 the letter " k " was dropped from the word "Almanack." In 1827, "A. M." appears in place of "A. B." as the appendage to Mr. Thompson's name ; and in iS^i the publishing firm was: "K. P. Walton 8c Co.;" in 1832-3, "Published by J. S. Walton, K. P. Walton, Printer;" in 1834-5, "E. P. Wal- ton" again appears as publisher ; 1836 101840, "Published by K- P. Walton & Son," and the words, "At the Mont- pelier Book Store" are omitted ; in 1837 a cut of the State House was placed upon the first page of the cover, for that year only, and at the bottom of the title pape was added for that year only. "Price twenty cents single — two dollars per dozen ; " in 1838, "Published Annually," follows the imprint, for that year only. In 1840 the title reads ; — No. XXIII. WaUon''s Vermont Register and Farmers' Almanac for JS4o: Being Bissex- tile or Leap Year. Calculated for the Meridian of Montpelier, lat. 44' 17' north, long. 4 25' east from the capitol at Washington. Astronomical calculations by Zadock Thompson, A. M. Mont- pelier: Published by E. P. Walton & Sons. 18 mo, pp. 144, 14. A cut of the coat of arms of Vermont appears upon the first page of the cover of this number, and in 184 1 the coat of arms gives place to a cut of the Winooski Falls in Marshfield, Vt., which in turn disappears the year fol- lowing, to give place to a cut of a plow, which also retires in 1843. In 1849 an improved coat of arms appears on the cover for that year only ; in 1S51, "Printed and published by E. P. Walton & Son ;" in 1853, "Published and printed by H- P. Walton & Son." pp 144, (2). In 1854, "Published and Printed by K. P. Walton, Jr."; and in 1856. with an enlarged coat of arms for that year ; in 1857, "Published byE. P.Walton. Walton's Steam Press." In 1858, As- tronomical calculations are by Hosea Doton, A. M., and so continue. From 1859 to '868, "Published by S. M. Walton." In i860 for the first time appears a map of the State, which is continued. In 1868. "E. P. Walton, Editor. Printed and sold by the Claremont Manufg Co." In 1871, "and Business Directory" is added after "Almanac;" Clare- mont. N. H. Published by The Claremont Manufacturing Co., 1871 to 1880. S. L. Farmau appears as publisher in i88i,and the White River Paper Co. from 1SS2 to 1891, inclusive. Since 1892 published by The Home Publishing Co., Burlington. After 1871 Mr. Walton's name does not appear as editor ; in 1872 the Longitude appears as 4^ 27' East, etc.; in 1896 the number of pages is iv, 324, 30. — Tlie Vermont Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1784 : Being Bissextile or Leap-Year and the Ninth Year of American Independence, containing the motions of the Sun and Moon, the Rising and Setting of the sun, and the Rising and Setting and Southing of the moon. Also, the Eclipses, Judgment of the Weather, length of days and nights ; Rising, Setting and South- ing of the principal fixed stars ; Sun's declina- tion. Moon's greatest north and south Latitude; Observable days of the church ; Tide, Interest and expence tables ; a list of Roads to most of the principal places on the continent. By Ned Foresight, Gent. Albany : Printed and Sold by S. Balentine at his printing office near the market House. Great allowance to those who buy to sell again. 12mo. — Tlie Vermont Almanack for the year of our Lord 1785. Being the first after Bissextile or Leap Year, and of our Independence the eighth. Containing everything necessary in an Alma- nack, and a great variety of instructive and interesting matter. Calculated for the Meri- dian of Bennington, Latitude 42 degrees, 45 minutes. North. By Eliakim Perry, Jr. Motto. Bennington: Printed by Haswell & Russell. 12 mo, pp. 24, not numbered. — An Astronomical Diary, or Almanack, for the year of our Lord 1786. Of the Indepen- dence of the United States of America, the Tenth, and of the Sovereignty of the State of Vermont the Ninth. Being the second after Bissextile or Leap Year. (Calculated for the Meridian of Bennington and latitude 43 deg., 4 niin.. North, from the Equator 2,584 miles, and from the Royal Observatory West longi- tude 72 degr., 48 min., which reduced to time makes nearly four hours and three-ijuart- ers, being about 4,320 miles, and from the angle of 51 degrees due South from London, 7 BIBLIOORAPIIY OF VERMONT. 11 degrees, 56 minutes, or 546 mili;s liorizoiital zenith or iierpeiidicular line nf direction over Haswell's printing office. By Samuel Ells- worth, Es(j., student in Astronomy. Benning- ton: Printed by Haswell & Russell. 12 mo, pp. 24. — 77i« Universal Calender and North Ameri- can Almanack, for the year of our Lord 1790. And from the creation of the World, according to Sacred Writ, 57.53. Being the second after Bissextile or Leap Year, and the fourteentli of the Independence of the State of Vermont and America. Calculated for the Latitude and Longitude of the State of Vermont. By Samuel Stearnes. Professor of the Mathematics, Nat- ural Philosophy, and Physic. Printed at Ben- nington, Vt., by liaswell & Russell. 13 mo, pp. 24. — The same for 1791. Printed at Bennington, by Anthony Haswell. Sold by him wholesale and retail. — An Almanac, and Register, for the State of Vermont, for the year of our Lord 1794. Being the second after Leap Year and nineteenth of American Independence. Fitted to the Lati- tude and Longitude of Rutland. Printed at AValpole, N. H., by I. Thomas and D. Carlisle, Jr. For the Author. I8mo, 7 leaves of cal- endar, etc., 32 pp. of Register, and table of distances 4 pp. — Farmers' Useful and Entertaining Compan- ion : or New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Vermont Almanac, for the year of our Lord, 1795. Exeter: Stearns & Winslow. 13 mo, 12 leaves. — The Vermont Almanac and Register, for the year of our Lord, 1795. Being the third after leap year, and the 19lh of Independence of America. Fitted to the latitude and longitude of Rutland. Latitude 43' 21' north. Longitude 2° 9' east of Philadelphia. Vermont: Printed anr the New York, Vermont and Connecticut Almanac for the year of our Lord 1815. By Andrew Beer.s, Philom. Bennington: Printed by Darius Clark & Co. — Beers's Calendar : or Vermont Almanac, for the year of our Lord, 1804 ; And until the 4th of July, the 28th of the Independenc^e of the United .States of America. JIancbester, Vt. Printed and sold by W. Stockwell, at his book store and printing office, by the gross, dozen or single. Great allowance made to those who purchase to retail. 13mo. — TVie Vermo7it Register and Almanac, for the year of our Lord 1806. and the thirtieth of the Independence of the United States. Contain- ing Much Useful Information. Middlebury: Printed and .sold by Huntington & Fitch. 18 mo. pp. 144. The first number was published 1S02. — Tlie Vermont Almanac, for the year of our Lord 1807. Astrunomical calculations by Eben W. Judd. Printed at Middlebury, Vt., by J. D. Huntington. 12mo. —Franklin's legacy: or the New York and Vermont Almanac, for the year of our Lord, 1801. Troy: Printed and sold by R. Moffit & Co. pp. 34. — Franklin's Legacy : or the New York and Vermont Almanac, for the year of our Lord, 1806. By Andrew Beers, Philomath. Troy. N. Y. Printed and sold by Motlit & Lyon. 12 mo. —The Columbian Calendar : or New York and Vermont Almanac, for the year of our Lord, 1819. By Andrew Beers, Philom. Troy: Printed and sold by Francis Adancourt. 12 mo. 12 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF VERMONT. — The Ladies' and Gentlemen's Diary and Almanac, for the year of our Lord, 1814. By Asa Houghton. Brattleborough, Vt. : Pubhshed by William Fessenden. Price 7 1-2 dolls. , per gross, 75 Cts. per dozen, and 10 Cts. single. 12 mo. — The Ladies' and Gentlemen's Diary and Almanac, with an Ephemeris, for tlie year of Creation according to sacred writ, 5782, and of the Christian Era, 1820. By Asa Houghton. Bellows Falls, Vt. Printed and Published by Bill Blake & Co. Price 9 dollars per gross, 87 1-2 cents per dozen, and 12 1-2 cents single. 12mo. — The Vermont Register and Almanac, for the year of our Lord 1811, and the 35th of the Inde- pendence of the United States of America. Containing a great variety of useful informa- tion. Burlington, Vt. Printed by S. Mills. Sold wholesale and retail at his book store; by Swift & Chipman, Middlebury ; Josiah Parks, Montpelier ; Z. Lyon, Royalton ; Famsworth & Churchill, and Merrifield & Cochran, Windsor ; Wm. Fay, Rutland ; Wm. Fessenden, Brattle- borough, and by the other booksellers and printers in Vermont. 18mo, pp. 102. Continued, until 1824. This being number two. — The Vermont and Neio York Almanac, for the year of our Lord Christ, 1812; Astronomi- cal Calculations by Eben W. Judd. Burlington, Vt.: Printed by S. Mills. 12mo. — The New Hampshire and Vermont Almanack, with an Ephemeris for the year of our Lord, 1805, * * * fitted to the latitude and longi- tude of the town of Windsor. * * * Printed at Windsor, Vt. By Nahum Slower. — Mower's Netv Hampshire and Vermont Aima7iac, with an Ephemeris for the year of our Lord, 1806. Astronomical calculations by Amos Cole. Printed at Windsor, Vt. , by Nahum Mower. 12mo. — The Neiv Hampshire and Vermont Almanack for ISOS. Calculated by Amos Colo, Philom. Printed and sold at Windsor, by Alden Spooner. — Tlie same for 1809 bears the imprint H. H. Cunningham, and C. Spear. Windsor, Vt. — The same for 1811. Windsor: Printed by Merrifield & Cochran. — The Complete New Hampshire and Vermont Almanac, for the year of our Lord, 1813. * * * Calculations by Amos Cole, Philom. * * * Windsor, Vt. Published by Merri- lield & Cochran. —1813. do. Windsor, Vt. Published by P. Merrifield J. Cunningham, Printer. — The Neio England Farmers' Diary and Almanac, for * * * 1816. * * » By Truman Abell. Windsor, Vt: Published by Jesse Cochran. — The New England Farmers Diary and Almanac, from the year of the creation, according to the sacred writ, 5782, and of the Christian era 1820. Being Bissextile or leap year and the forty-fourth of American Inde- I)endence, containing besides the usual astron- omical calculations a great variety of needful and entertaining matter. Fitted to the Latitude and Longitude of Windsor, Vt., but will serve without sensible variation for the adjacent States. By Truman Abell. Philom. Motto. Windsor : Printed for the publisher Ebenezer Hutchinson, Hartford, by Ide& Aldrich. — Same. 1834, by Ide & Goddard. lu 1841 Ide & Goddard, of Claremont, N. H., published it. 1S46 and those after were published by the Clare- mont Manufacturing Company, which means Ide & God- dard. or Goddard & Ide. —1821. The same. —1822. The same (except that "Philom" is omitted.) —1823. The same. — 1825. The same. Published by Newton & Tuft, Alstead, N. H., and Simeon Ide, Windsor, Vt. —1826. The same. —1827. The same. —1828. The same. — The New England Farmers' Almanack, by Truman Abell, 1819, and some years after. Printed at Windsor, by Simeon Ide, and Ide & Aldrich. — The New England Farmers' Diary and Almanac, from the year of Creation, According to Sacred Writ, 5785; and of the Christian Era, 1823. By Truman Abell, Windsor, Vt. Printed for the Publisher, Ebenezer llutchiu- son, Hartford, by Simeon Ide, and sold by them, and by the principal Booksellers in the Country. Price $9.00 per .E;ross— $0.83 per dozen— and 12^ Cents single. 12mo. Continued; the latest we have seen being No. XX, 1834, priuted by Ide& Goddard. — The Vontli's Almanac, Astronomical Calcu- lations by Truman H. Safford, Jr., of Royalton, Vt., a boy only nine years old. Bradford: Asa Low. 1845. 12mo, pp. 48. —The Same, 1846. See Safford, T. H. — The Farmers' Almanack, for the year of our Lord 1820. By Andrew Beers. Burlington, Vt: Printed by E. & T. Mills. 13mo, pp. 24. Continued. —Tlie same, 1828 and 1829, by Zadock Thomp- son, A. M. Same imprint. — 77ie Vermnnt Almanack, for the year of our Lord 1820. By Andrew Beers, Philom. Bur- lington, Vt: Printed by E. and T. Mills. 12mo. Continued. — Tlie Christian and Fanners' Almanac, No. II, for the year of our Lord 1824. Astronom- ical calculations by Andrew Beers. Burling- ton: Printed by E. & T. Mills. 13mo, pp. 48. Contintied after 1825 by Zadock Thompson. A. B., same imprint. No. xiii. 1835, V>y Zadock Thomp.son, A. M. Imprint the same. — The Vermont Directory and Commercial Almanac. No. 2, 1856. With an Appendix. By W. W. Atwater. Burlington. Sold by merchants generally throughout the State. Geo. C. Rand & Averj^, printers, Boston. Coutinued with the imprints of Tuttle & Gay, and Tuttle, Gay & Co., Rutland, until 1S6S. when it was printed and sold by the Claremont Manufacturing Co. 18 mo, pp. 139, and Appendix, pp. 51. — The Vermont and Nerc York Almanac, for the year of our Lord 1808. Astronomical cal- culations by Eben W. Judd. Printed at Mid- dlebury, Vt. . by J. D. Huntington. 12mo. Continued with the same Imprint until 1812. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF VERMONT. 13 —Stcift's Verviont Register and Almanac, for the year of our Lord 1812, and the thirty-sixth of the Independence of the United States. Middlebury: Published hy Samuel Swift, at his Tlieological, Classical, and Law Book-Store. T. C. Strong, printer. 12ino, pp. 108. Continued until i8i8. i8ii, by Swift & Chapman: i8i6, by L. Fillmore & Sons. — The Vermont and A'en' York Almanac, for the year of our Lord 1813 Being the first after Bissextile or Leap Year, and the thirty- seventh of tlie Independence of the United States of America. Calculated for the Meri- dian of Middlebury, 44 deg. N. Lat.and 4 deg. E. Long, from Washington City. Astronomical calculations by Eben W. Judd. Middlebury, Vt. : Published by Samuel Swift, and sold at his book-store, also by the book-sellers, mer- chants, ix)st-riders, etc., throughout the State. T. C. Strong, printer. 12mo, pp. 36. —Eaton's Anti-Masonic Almanac, for 1833. Being the first after Bissextile or Leap Year, and the fifty-seventh of American Indepen- dence. Calculated for the Meridian of Mont- pelier, Vt., but will serve for the adjacent States. View of Morgan, as confined in the dungeon at Fort Niagara. Nor wife, uor children more shall he behold. Nor friends — nor sacred home ! ■ In our boasted Republic, the blood of an Americ.m. who was taken from his home, bound, tortured, agonized, borne by the conspirators along the high roads with an impudent cavalcade of carriages and horsemen, cast into a fortress over which had floated the sovereign flagof the Union, and at last immolated, by harpies belonging to an organized and powerful iustitutioii who conceal tneir crinic under the horrible delusion of their mystic tie." Danville, Vt: Publi-shed and sold, wholesale and retail, by E, Eaton, Danville, and Capt. Ira Whit«, Wells River, Vt. Price |9.50 per gross, 95 Cents i>er dozen, and 12J cents single. 8vo, pp. 34. — 77te Anti-Masonic Almanac for the year of our Lord, 1830; being Bissextile or leap year, and fifty-fourth of American Iiuiependeiice. Calculated for the meridian of Woodstock, con- taining besides the usual .-vstronomical calcula- tions, much interesting matter on the subject of Free-Masonry, a Narrative of the Abduction of William Morgon, etc., etc., with two cuts illustrating the Sublime Mysteries of Noodlcism. Wood-cut. Woodstock: Printed by D. Watson. Price $5.00 per gross, 50 cents per dozen, 8 cents single. — Tlie Vermont Anti-Masonic Almanac, for the year of our Lord, 1831; being the third after Bissextile or leap year, and the fifty-fifth of American Independence. | Anti-Masonic Wood-cut.] Calculated for the Jleridian of Montpelier, lat.44deg. 17min. N. and Ion. 4deg. 35 min. E. from the Capitol of the United States at Washington. By S:unuel Hemenway, Jr. Woodstock, Vt.: Hemenway & Holbrook, Printers. — No. II. Tlie Gentleman's Almanack and An- nual Register, for the year of our Lord, 1820. By Zadock Thompson. Woodstock: Printed by David Watson. —The Farmers' Almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1837. Calculations by Zadock Thompson. Printed, Woodstock, Vt., by David Watson. — TTie Complete New England Almanac, Nos. I, II, III. bv Marshall Conant for 1829, 1830 and 1831. Printed, Wot)d8toc-k, Vt., by^Kufus Col- ton, and R. & A. Colton. — R. & A. Colton's Vermont Miniature Regis- ter and Gentleman's Pocket Almanac, for 1831. Astronomical Calculations by Marshall Conmit. Woodstock, Vt., n. d. 24mo. — The Vermont Almanac, Pocket Memorandum and Statistical Register, for the year 1843; being tliird after Bissextile or leap year. Astronomical Calculations by Hosea Doton. Vol. 1, No. 1. Woodstock, Vt.: Published by Haskell & Palmer. [Mercury Press.] 18mo. pp. 144. Continued. — Lyon's Vennont Calendar or, A Planatory Diary, For theyearof our Lord, 1795. To whicli is annexed a Federal and State Register. Rut- land, Vt. : James Lyon. — The Vermont Almanac and Register, for the Year of Our Lord, 179G, Being Leap Year, and until July 4, the twentieth of the Independence of America. Fitted to the Latitude and Longi- tude of Rutland: Latitude 43 21 North. Longitude 2 9' East of Philadelphia. Vermont: Printed by James Kirkaldie, and sold wholesale and retail, at the Printing Office, Rutland: lOmo, pp. 54. (Interleaved.) I have copies of the same, 1794, 1797. ^***^ former imper- fect; how many numbers were published I am unable to say. I give a few statistics from the Register for 1794. which are of interest at the present day. There were in 1793 two post roads established by Cougress in Vermont, one in the east, and the other in the west part of the State, along Connecticut River, from .Springfield. Mass., by Brattleborough,Charleslown, N.H., Windsor to Hanover, N. H. On the West side from New York, by Albany, Bennington, Manchester, Rutland, to Burlington, Also a post road was established between Burliugton and Montreal: and a British carrier arrived at Burling- ton ever>' fortnight. The only post offices in the State given by the Register were Brattleborougli, Johu W. Blake, Postmaster: Westminster, Keubin .\twater. Post- master: Windsor, .\lden Spooner, roslmaster; Benning- ton. David Russell, Postmaster: Manchester, Abel AUls, Postmaster; Rutland, Frederick Hill, Postmaster: Middlc- bnr>', Robert Huston. Postmaster; Vergennes, Alexander Brush, Postmaster: Burlington, John Fay, Postmaster. The rate of postage as given was, per single letter, 30 miles, 6 cents, 60 miles, 8 cents, 100 miles, 10 cents, 150 miles, 12^ cents, 200 miles, 15 cents, 250 miles, 17 cents, 330 miles, 20 cents, 4jjo miles, 22 cents, over 4^0 miles 25 cents. Double and triple letters, double and triple rates ; one ounce, one dollar, and so in proportion. The only custom house officer in the Slate was at Al- burgh, Stephen Keyes, Collector In 1793 there were five Masonic Lodges: Temple, at Bennington, North Star, at Manchester, Aurora, at Poultney, Dorchester, at Ver- gennes. Vermont, at Wind-or. Of Ministers, Churches and Religious Assemblies, there were five Episcopalian, 36 Congregational, 13 Baptist, three Presbyterian. Of Literary Societies ; University of Vermont . incorporated November 3, 1792; Clio Hall, (academy) at Bennington, incorporated October, 1780; Windham Hall, incorporated November 3, 1791 ; Cavendish Academy, incorporated October 26, 1792. At the above date there was not a church organization, or a lawyer, within the present limits of Washington county: there were Justices of the Peace; Waterbiiry, then in Chittenden county. Richard Holden; Waitsfield, then in Chittenden, Benjamin Wait; Middlesex, then in Chittenden, Seth Putnam; Cabot, tlienin Orange county, Lyman Hitchcock: Montpelier, then in Orange. Jacob Davis, Da\'id Wing; Berlin, then in Orange, Johu Taplin; Wildersborough, now Barre, Benjamin Walker. The only Representatives from the present Washington county in the Legislature for the year 1793. were: Mid- dlesex, Seth Putnam: Waterhiirj-, HbenererReed: .Mont- pelier, Jacob Davis; Barre. Natnan Harrington; Cabot, James Morse; Berlin, John Taplin. 14 BLBLIOGRAPHY OF VERMONT. Deming does not give Waterbury a Representative iu 179.^, but gives correctly Jacob Bliss iu 1792, as the first Representative from that town. In a Middlebury Register for 1S04, we find sixty Post towns in the State, with Timothy Hubbard postmaster at Moutpelier; Ira Day at Barre, Bennet Beardsley at Cabot, and George Kennan, Jr., at Waterbury. Tweuty- one Masonic Lodges; the only additional educational institution reported is Peacham Academy. Of churches, etc.. there were 35 Congregational. 20 Baptist, 3 Episcopalian, 3 Universalist, 2 Friends, aud i Presbyterian. — Rutland County Almanac, 1S61. Astronom- ical < 'alculations for the meridian of Rutland, by W. W. Atwater. Issued !)y Pond & Morse, wholesale and retail dealers in drugs, medi- cines, cliemicals, and patent medicines, oppo- site the depot, Rutland, Vt. George A. Tuttle and Company, printers. 13mo, pp. 56. — The same for 1862. — Rutland Herald Almanac for 1S7G. Illus- trated. Published by the Herald Association, Rutland, Vt. Tuttle & Company, Book and Job Printers, Rutland, Vt. 8vo. Continued for a year or two. — The Burlington Free Press Almanac. Vol. 2. 1877. 12mo. Continued. Almon, J. The Remembrancer ; or Impartial Repository of public events. 17 vols. London. 177.5-1784. Contains many papers relating to the War of the Revo- lution, and references to Vermont aflTairs and persons. American Archives. A Documentary History, published by M. St. Clair and Peter Force. 4th series, 1774-1776, vols, i-vi: 5th series, 1776, vols, i-iii. Wiishington: 1837-1853. 9 vols. fol. Interspersed throughout these volumes are many docu- meuts relating to the early history of Vermont. American Cooking, or the Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultrv and Vegetables, etc., with cuts. * * " * * * By an Orphan. 2d Edition, Improved. Woodstock, Vt. : Printed and Published for the Author. ByA. Colton. 1831. 12mo, pp. 113. The American Songster's Companion, a new selectiim of the most approved Songs. Dan- ville. Published by Eaton & Baker. 1815. 34mo, pp. 84. The American Taxation. -1 Song of the Rev- olution. 1776. W. W. Curtiss, printer, Brad- ford, Vt. 12mo, pi>. 4. n. d. This song com- mences : " While I relate my Story, Americans give ear, Of Britain's fading glory you presently shall hear." Anderson, Mr. An Adventure in Vermont ; or the Story of Mr. Anderson. No. 63. Printed for the American Tract Society. 182.J. 12mo, pp. 24. Anderson, James. Survey of the Congrega- tional Churches in the County of Bennington, Vt. From their Organization down to the present time. (1843.) Am. Quar. Register, Nov. 1842. Vol. 15. Contains historical notes on each town in the connty. Rev. Mr. Anderson was Pastor of the Congregational Church, Manchester, Vt., 1S29-1858. Andover. Auditor's Report for the Town of Andover, Vt., For the year ending January 2H, 1871. 8 vo., pp. 8. Coutinued. i^-v;^ , kiAA^j^^ «yv\. JVt^rf^. V^ ^qol- ^'"^^ ^'^-^ Andrew, John A. An Ah letter to the Coniiuittee of the Green Mountain Boys sitting at Charlestown, No, 4, defending liiniself from tlie charge of plundering the proi)erty of Major Skeene, at Skeenesborough, a day or two before the capture of Ticonderoga, May 10, 1775, with a copy of his orders to Capt. Herrick, May 8tli, 1775, written at Castleton, Vt., to proceed im- mediately to Skeenesborough, etc. See Stevens, Henry, a Catalogue of 50qendeuce. By B. F. Bailey, Esa »■(•»,? kept the hear from hurting us." At one time going along the road alone, when a small boy, he was suddenly overcome with love and gratitude lor one of his older sisters ; and he knelt right down by the roadside and thanked the Lord for giving him such a /irt//rf.vow^' sister ! Later in life be was often as suddenly moved bv the same sweet impulse — to kneel and thank the Lord for some good gift. At fourteen years of age he was apprenticed to Mr. John Osgood, of Haverhill, N. H. At the expiration of his apprenticeship he settled in Chelsea, Vt., and formed a co-partnership with a man having the same trade as bis own, who furnished the stock and tools, whilg Phine- has furnished the labor. While living in Chelsea Mr. Bailey united with the Congregational church, and also married there. From the time of his conversion to the Christian relig- ion, when about eighteen years of age, Mr. Bailev felt a strong desire to preach tiie gospel ; but the want of proper education and means to obtain It, seemed fatal obstacles in the way. He found the barrier between him and the ministry growing more and more insurmountable every day. Very early in his religious experience he formed the resolution that "always in public or private he would im- pro\e every opportunity to recommend the religion of Christ." In the large village of Haverhill he went from house to house and prayed and exhorted in nearly every family. At one time he pressed into a bar-room and exhorted those who were swearing to desist. One of the men said "that was no place to preach!" another said "that Mr. Bailey had as good a right to preach there as thev h.id to swear." Several swearers never used another profane word in his hearine. Again in Pranconia, N. H.,he went into a store to re- pair a watch, but bearing a man in the store using very profane lauguagL-. he gathered up his tools and went to a private house and asked for a table, saying, that a man in yonder store was so profane he could not stay there. Uf course the remark was quickly carried back to the store. This \ ilhige was chiefly owned by a manufactur- ing company. Tlie agent was greatly concerned for the reputation of the place, and was unwilling to have it said that the inhabitants were so profane that a stranger could not stay in the place; and finally through the agent the profane man apologized. Mr. Halley was soon solicited to help settle a diihculty between a Baptist brother and a deacon. The agent much interested col- lected witnesses for the trial while Mr. Bailey went to each party and made them agree tnmect.an', was indeed the call of CiOing all of his leisure time. He went to Middlebury and was assisted by the college professors, though not as a regular student. He studied Latin, Greek and Hebrew, logic, rhetoric, and nearly all of the studies that lie between the A, E, C and a finished education. Though he could never boast of a college education, he possessed a well stored mind; acquired by the most unaccountable energ>" and persistency. His acquisition of so much knowledge was partly owing to self-esteem, and a will to conquer ever>- thing ! He would never for a moment admit that there was anything that he could not and would not grasp. In later years all of the difficult questions and problems that could be found were brought to him by his children, as puzzles ; but he would never give up without master- ing them. By teaching, his phonography principally, he was enabled to cancel his debts and buy more books. Scott Brown in the •'Phonographic Monthly," New York, says of his work : "Phinebas Bailey gives in his first edition published in 1819, as complete an analysis of the elements of our language as exists in the works of any Phonetician, and more complete than can be found in any lexicography. No consonant element, no fine shades of vowel sounds have been discovered and presented to the public, that Mr. Bailey had not discovered and presented in his little book fifty-seven years ago, away up among the green mountains of Old Vermont. There is not a recognized element of our language that Mr. Bailey has not furnished with a sign of its possessing positive value." "We do not know that Isaac Pitman ever heard of Mr. Bailey or his Phonetic system, so that both men may de- serve equal credit; but it is considerable for our people to be proud of, that in the practical applicatiou of Phon- etics to the stenographic representation of our language. young America was ahead of Old England eighteen years. The people of New England, especially Vermont, will feel a just pride in this." Dr. Julius VValdemar Zeibig, in his "History and Liter- ature of Stenography," recently published, has given to Mr. Bailey the deserving pla':e of priority in the inven- tion of Phonography. He studied theology under Rev. Calvin Noble, of Chel- sea, Vt., and in 1S23, was licensed to preach by the Orange Association in Thetford, \'t. He preached his first sermon in the town of Washington, and soon after, hearing of a vacant pulpit in Berk- shire, slaried for that place; but on his way was detained by the people of Richmond and Waterbury and invited to preach alternately in the two places a year. He returned for his family: the morning arrived for the last good-bye to friends, and the last tears to fall, on the threshold of the little place that had been their home for thirteen years. A company of friends gathered around the door and sang a verse of the hymn, "Pilgrims, farewell." The venerable Mr. Noble grasped the young brother's hand and with his parting blessing said, "L'ntil now you have had ministers and teachers to lead you in the way ofhfe, but henceforth you are to lead others." Mr. Bailey received a call from Waterbury and from Richmond to settle ; but for some reason preferred to go to Berkshire. In September, 1S24. he was ordained over the two churches of East and West Berkshire — the first settled minister in town. Here belabored arduously, being his first charge; and he being the first pastor the church ever had, they were trusting and confiding in him. During his pastorate of ten years, sixty were added to the chuich. He owed his effectual labors greatly to his pastoral visits; going to every house in the course of the year for the purpose of talking with each individual about their spiritual wel- fare. His labors in this way were marked with many wonderful conversions, and a great revival in 1S31. His idea of authority was implicit obedience "to the powers that be"— to parents, teachers, or rulers. Some- times he administered reproof to his family, or to his people with great severity; and sometimes with a little cunning and wit. At one time one of the deacons usually at his post, was absent at the prayer meeting, — it being a very rainy, windy night in the fall of the year, scarcely any one was present. After all the brethren who were there had "done their duty," the meeting was closed^ not very late of course, and the few went home. Mr. Bailey took his tin lantern and walked a mile and a half up hill to the deacon's. The deacon tremblingly invited the minister to sit down, for now he expected a sharp reproof or the "first step of labor ;" but to his surprise the minister seemed very happy, and sat down by the cheer- ful old fire-place and chatted about everything but the weather and the meeting. A dish of the deacon's good apples were eaten, a pleasant hour slipped by, and the minister took his leave. The deacon understood very well that if the minister could go there to call and not hurt him, he could go to prayer meeting; and his place was not vacant again for so trivial a cause as rain and tnud. After a while Mr. Bailey thought he better seek a new field ; it might be better for the people and better for him- self. There were a few inmiovable hearts that possibly might be impressed under other teachers, and they were a burden npon his mind ; but when he came back years afterwards and found the same stationary souls, and the church scattered, he felt that he erred in leaving them when he did. In 1833, he asked for a dimission, and was finlly dis- missed by a council. He then removed to Beekmantown, N. v., preached four years, when he found himself dis- abled by the bronchitis, Now he thought was the time to commence an undertaking that appears to have been on his mind for some years. We find from an old letter written by his younger son from Burlington in 1834 that Mr. Bailey had been urging him to come home and print a Bereaii paper with him — the son was a printer by trade. The son says, "I hope you will not be grieved when I tell you that although I have no doubt your desire of having me print a Biblical paper is founded on the purest of mo- tives for doing good, yet I view it beyond my powerand limits to accomplish it; it is impossible! 'Count the cost,' is a good maxim, founded on reason and the Bible ; therefore I hope you will not think of so extravagant an undertaking." But he could not give up what he knew would be such a valuable acquisition in teaching the Bible. He removed to Essex, N. v., and succeeded in getting i\\Q promises of a great many good people to support "A weekly paper devoted to the study of the Bible;" and some gave him - money, expressing their fears at the same time. The oldest son was persuaded to undertake the work with him, and the paper was issued, "The Berean Guide," "A weekly paper devoted to the study of the Bible." The design was to have all Sabbath Schools and families pur- suing the same scripture at the same time. This as far as we know, was the first advancement of this beautiful idea. The Prospectus says : "We hope to render assist- ance to Bible classes by furnishing them from time to time with interesting questions and profitable answers." This grand conception was too early for those times. Mr. Bailey coilld not be made to believe two things; namely, that it cost a great deal of money to publish a paper for one object alone, like that ; and that people would be sIo7u to appreciate and support it. In view of all the Sunday School organs — and some pretty weak ones — of different societies that find abun- dant support now, we sometimes wonder at the dealings of Providence that could not so order such an undertak- ing to prosper even forty-one years ago. (?) But it went down as hopeless, in a very short time. Mr. Bailey then went to preaching again, first in Ticon- deroga, thenin Hebron, N. V. and back to Berkshire again in 1S45. We have passed hastily over the years— the iiistory of his own family, the dark days of suffering and want, over the (f^-t'Z waters of atlliction that God called him to pass through, as if to see how much human na- ture could endure, or to "show him how great things he must suffer for His sake ;" he who was so anxious to take up Christ's work learned the same lesson that Paul did. Vet in those darkest days he could often rend the black- est cloud by orayer ; during his life he received some of the most wonderful answers to prayer that have ever been recorded — prayer for house and home, food and raiment, as well as spiritual blessings. Prayer for daily bread was no vain petition upon his lips. He had un- limited faith in prayer. He believed that in some cases when great favors are sought, the ear of heaven must be reached by fasting and prayer. Thus at such times he had in the seclusion of the fireside /