THE PAWLET EXPEDITION, SEPTEMBER 1777
By Edward A. Hoyt & Ronald Kingsley
The Vermont Historical Society Vol. 75. No 2 Summer/Fall 2007
The book is available at the Historic Library and Museum in Montpelier and The Pawlet Library.
HISTORY OF THE SEPTEMBER 1777 ENCAMPMENT OF GENERAL BENJAMIN LINCOLN IN PAWLET
By Dorothy Offensend
Filed in the North School House, The Historical Society, on RT 30 in Pawlet. See the paper under ‘documents’.
PAWLET VERMONT FOR 100 YEARS
By Hiel Hollister
Revolution War pages: 12, 13, 157, 238 Available in the Pawlet Library
Start on page 32 Revolution
PAGES FROM MY PAWLET SCRAPBOOK
By Dorothy Backus Offensend, 1998
September 1777 Expedition, pages 170-173
“Pawlet played an historic part in the defense of our country. This ends one chapter in the building of Pawlet. Men fought for an idea that we might today enjoy the rich heritage of our town, PAWLET.”
THOSE TURBULENT SONS OF FREEDOM, ETHAN ALLEN’S GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
By Christopher S. Wren 2018
SARATOGA, TURNING POINT OF AMERICA’S REVOLUTIONARY WAR
By Richard Ketchum
Mr. Ketchum lived in VT not far from many of the events described in the book. Pages 376/377 “Col. Benjamin Lincoln camped in Pawlet with some 2,000 or 2,500 men where he was protected by an outcrop of boney mountains some of them impassable to harass the posts with surprise attacks in Burgoyne’s rear and prevent the full weight of Burgoyne’s army against Gates.”
THE BRITISH ARE COMING, THE WAR FOR AMERICA
Volume One of The Revolutionary trilogies
By Rick Atkinson
‘Yes, more distresses and calamities lay ahead, as Adams foresaw. But he took comfort in believing that the great struggle would remain “an astonishment to vulgar minds all over the world, in this and in future generations. “Words evincing a similar sentiment had been scribbled in the orderly book of the 2nd New York Regiment, they read like lyrics for an anthem sung by a people on the march-
The rising world shall sing of us a thousand years to come and tell our children’s children the wonders we have done.
VERMONT’S EBENEZER ALLEN
By Glenn Fay Jr.
CRUCIBLE OF WAR, THE SEVEN YEARS WAR AND THE FATE OF EMOIRE IN BRITISH NORTH AMERICA
By Fred Anderson
A prelude to the American Revolution