NVPL RESEARCH LIBRARIES 3 3433 07954307 4 Hi;:: ^i^e/ oco'vCcaa. c(j2xi/i^c/c^^^ W^^^ .y\3^Z. ^ wm. ,, *.-t u 7- Hippincotfs of \^t §MtB.Cahintt liHtorira YEEMONT. THENEW YORK LIBRARY.PDBLIC LENOX ANDASTOR, TILDSN FOUr-'DA-^!0"S. AA'^'v. iTi-mw ALLiErj, ^ re.-^%r :A[P,[!f^ET ^ flSTORC TSmSHC'ir^;, phl-ladelph: ^ ^r^i. YORKNEWTHE LIBRARY.[PUBLIC ANDLENOXASTOR, FaUNDATlONS.TILO^N THE HISTORY VERMONT,OF FEOM ITS (KnrliBBt tnIritlBmrirt tjiB l^xnmi €m. BY H. CARPENTER,W. T. S. ARTHUR. PHILADELPHIA: J. B LIPPINCOTT&CO 1856. UBRARYPUBUC 162596 LENOX ANDASTOR, FOUNDATIONS.TILDE.N 1899. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by T. S. ARTHUR AND W. H. CARPENTER, in the Clerk's OfiSce of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. PUBLISHEES' PEEPACE. There are but few persons in this country who have not, timeat some or other, felt the want of an accurate, well written, concise, yet clear and reliable history of their own or some other state. The want here indicated is now about being sup- plied; and, as the task of doing so is no light or superficial one, the publishers have given into the hands of the two gentlemen whose names appear in the title-page, the work of preparing a series of Cabi- net Histories, embracing a volume for each state in the theirUnion. Of ability to perform this well, we need not speak. They are no strangers in the literary world.