PAWLET REVOLUTIONARY MONUMENT
Located #2245 RT 30 Pawlet at The Old North Pawlet School House/Pawlet Historical Society
The monument reads:
In September, 1777, about 2,500 American troops under Gen. Benjamin Lincoln encamped in Pawlet, on 12-13 September, having broken camp and passed through the defile south of here, 500 men under Col. John Brown and 500 under Col. Samuel Johnson marched to Ticonderoga and Mount Independence respectively on the northern road and 500 under Col. Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge to Skenesborough (Whitehall) on the western road. In the vicinity of Ticonderoga and lake George Landing the Americans captured 330 prisoners, took or destroyed considerable war stores, numerous horses, carriages and boats, released about 118 American prisoners and captured several enemy outposts including Mount Defiance, scaled in an heroic assault by Capt. Ebenezer Allen’s company of Col. Samuel Herrick’s Vermont Rangers.
Pawlet was the base for these successful operations. The presence of troops here as well as the enemy’s disabling losses helped prevent the supply, reinforcement and retreat of Gen. Burgoyne’s army thereby contributing to its surrender at Saratoga, 17 October, 1777.
Erected by The Vermont Society Sons of the American Revolutions
The Pawlet Historical Society and
The Lake St. Catherine Chapter, D.A.R.
Vermont’s Bicentennial 1977
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