upon so to do. Lot Breckenridge's mother had allowed her son to
march away to Boston where, under Israel Putman, he saw most active
service during the campaign which finally drove the red-coats out of the
Massachusetts capital. Robbie Baker was with his father when, while
reconnoitering outside St. Johns, the Green Mountain sharpshooter was
killed by an Indian ally of the British.

Enoch Harding, too, joined that ill-fated expedition into Canada where
the rash attempt of Ethan Allen and his followers before Montreal
resulted in the capture and imprisonment of the intrepid leader. Enoch,
returning with the broken columns of the American army, but with a
lieutenant's commission, was sent south and took no further part in the
struggles about Lake Champlain. But Bryce, two years after the capture
of Ticonderoga, well sustained the family name and honor while fighting
with Stark at Bennington.

The girls and young Henry became their mother's sole support in her work
of tilling the farm which Jonas Harding had cleared, and throughout the
uncertain years of the Revolution the family continued to sow and reap,
like so many other patriotic folk, that the army might be clothed and
fed while fighting the King's hirelings. Perhaps the part played by the
"non-combatants" in the Revolution was not the least loyal nor the least
helpful to the cause of liberty.

The war between the confederated states and Great Britain did not end
the controversy regarding the rights of the settlers in the Hampshire
Grants; it simply postponed the vexing matter. But in the end the
freedom of Vermont as a state was brought about. After the war, and
while the Thirteen States were endeavoring to bring order out of the
chaotic conditions which had been the legacy of the great struggle, it
was really New York herself that urged the admittance of Vermont into
the Union. Even at that early date the supremacy of the South was
feared, and when Kentucky applied for entrance to the Union, Vermont was
made a state also to counteract the addition of another of southern
sentiment.

During the war, however, the condition of Vermont was very precarious.
It was due to Ethan Allen, as much as to any one man, that the Green
Mountains and the Champlain Valley were not overrun with foes both white
and red. While imprisoned in the hulks in New York Bay Allen was
approached by agents of the crown who strove to buy his good-will by
presents and promises. They did not und