Vermont
(Lord Dorchester era) People of, anxious for canal communication with St.
Lawrence, 230; their aversion to entering American union, 244, 245;
annoy British outposts, 285; anxious to bring about war for commercial
reasons, 299; (Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Inhabitants of, claim separation from New York,
197-199; efforts to bring them back to their allegiance to Great
Britain, 199-216; Washington's alleged threat, 205; exchange of
prisoners with, 206; intention of inhabitants to join British in event
of their success, 208; duplicity of their policy, 210; trade carried on
with Canada, 216; received into Union as fourteenth state, 217;
emissaries of, reappear as Loyalists, 266.