The Green Mountain Boys II

The information following is stamped "New Hampshire State Library 993.344 V527"

The State of Vermont Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War 1775 to 1783
Published by Authority of the Legislature Compiled and Edited by John E. Goodrich a
member of the Vermont Historical Society Rutland, Vermont The Tuttle Company 1904
Index to Special Persons and Subjects (excerpt following pertinent subject)

Green Mountain Boys pp 813, 814, 815, 816, 827, 831 and 836.

p.814
A List of the Field Officers, Captains and part of the Lieutenants of the Regiment of
Green Mountain Boys, con-
sisting of seven companies.

July 4, 1775 Colonel Allen's Royal list of loyal Officers.

Ethan Allen, Field Officer
Seth Warner, Field Officer

Captains
Remember Baker
Robert Cochran
Michael Veal
Peleg Sutherling
Gideon Warren
Wait Hopkins
Herman Allen

Levi Allen, Adjutant
Elijah Babcock, Comissay
Jonas Fay, Doctor & Surgeon

Ordered that in consequence of a recommendation from the Continental Congress a Body of Troops not exceeding five hundred men, officers included, be forthwith raised of those called Green Mountain Boys, that they elect all their own officers except Field Officers. That Major General Schuyler be requested to forward this order to them & receive from them a list of such officers asthey shall elect to be communicated to this Congress and that General Schuyler be further requested, without delay to procure the sense of thos troops concerning the persons who will be most agreeable to them for Field Officers, and to make other inquiry & upon the whole advise this Congress, what persons will be most proper to be appointed as Field Officers to lead to Command
these troops.

That the said troops, when raised, be considered as an Independent Body, their
Field Officers taking rank after the Field Officers of the other Troops to be raised
by this Colony for the Continental Service. That their Corps of Officers consist of one Lieutenant Colonel, one Major, seven Captains and fourteen lieutenants and that the General be furnished with Blank Warrants to be filled up by him, agreeable to such election as above mentioned. Die Martis, 9 ho. A.M. 15th Augt.1775.

A letter from General Schuyler of the 31st of July last was read and filed and is in the
 words following:

"Ticonderoga, July 31, 1775
Gentlemen:
I do myself the honor to enclose you a copy of a letter and paper I have received from
 the people called Green Mountain Boys, together with a copy of my letter in answer. I
am apprehensive that the controversy, that has arisen amongst them, relative to Field
 Officers, will cause delay in the levies.

Whilst at New York and even after my  arrival here, on convening with  Allen and 
Warner, I did not conceive there would have been any contest between them, or that a third person would have been recommended by the People as a  Field Officer; on  that supposition  and  believing  the people unanimous in their favor I should  not have hesi-
tated to have recommended them."

p.815
The several papers referred to in the proceeding letter from General Schuyler were
respectively read and filed and are in the words following:

"May it please your Honour. In compliance with the Orders of Congress as well as your
recommendation, I enclose the proceedings of our Committee on the New Hampshire
 Grants, upon due notice to the Towns in General - all which is humbly submitted to
 your wisdom, not doubting but the warrants will issue agreeable to our wishes. We are, etc etc

Nathan Clark, Chairman

Dorset, July 28th 1775
To the Hon'ble Gen'l Schuyler."

At a Meeting of the Committees of the several Townships on the New Hampshire Grants. West of the Range of Green Mountains, convened at the house of Mr. Cephas Kents in the Township of
Dorset, July 27th, 1775 - Voted as follows, to wit:
1st Chose Mr. Nathan Clark, Chairman
2d Chose John Fasset, Clerk
3d The motion being made and seconded whether this convention shall prosecute in choosing Field and other Officers, according to the Provincial Congress and your Honour's directions.

Passed in the affirmative:

Then proceeded as follows:
4th Chose Mr. Seth Warner Lieutenant Colonel for the Regiment of Green Mountain
Boys, by a majority of forty-one to five. 5th Chose Mr. Samuel Spafford Major for  said Regiment by a majority of twenty to seventeen Then proceeded and chose seven Captains and fourteen Lieutenants by a great majority, viz:

Hd Qtrs Ticonderoga July 31, 1775

Sir: Your letter dated July 28th has been delivered me by Captain Fitch, together with all
 the votes, that were enclosed.

The choice of the Captains and Lieutenants being left unconditional to the people, those
chosen will receive their Warrants as soon as they come to my hands. And that the levying of the
men may not be retarded, you will signify to them that I hereby empower them immediately to
proceed to that  business without waiting for the Warrants.

The votes I shall immediately transmit to Congress, that they may approve of the
Field Officers or appoint others out of your Body as they may think proper. I am, Sir,
etc etc Ph. Schuyler"

To Mr. Nathan Clark
Ordered, that Blank Warrants be sent to General Schuyler for the seven Captains &
fourteen Lieutenants of the Troops to be raised by this Colony from among those
called Green Mountain Boys, when such a number are raised as (in his opinion)
 shall make it necessary.

Resolved, that when the Green Mountain Boys are raised each of them shall be
furnished with a Coat and that Mr. Peter T. Curtenius be requested to purchase
coarse green Cloth for that purpose and red Cloth sufficient to face those Coats and
to have two hundred and  twenty-five coats of a large size made of the said Cloth.

p. 816, 817 deal with letters concerning the Green Mountain Boys but not Rosters.

p.827
"A return of Captain John Grant's Company in Colonel Warner's Regiment in the
 Servis of the United Colonies.
March 31, 1776 Before Quebec

This lists only the number of Commissioned Officers and Non-Commissioned Officer
 but no names.

p.829 to p. 830 Gives the Roster of the Vermont Militia (will transcribe that list at a later
date).

p.831
The Line - Additonal Corps (Green Mountain Boys)   These muster-rolls are recorded
 as "Major Brown's Detachment," and that detachment is mentioned as in "General Arnold's
Regiment." (The only mention of General Arnold found in our records.) The fact that the "Green
Mountain Boys" were at Quebec in 1776; that two of the officers on these rolls -

Captain and Commissary Elijah Babcock, and Capt. Robert Cochran  are identified
in name and rank with those on a list handed to the Provincial Congress of New
York by Ethan Allen and Seth Warner, on July 4, 1775, as officers of the Green
Mountain Boys; and the further fact that none of the men are recorded in any other
 place, or with any other organization, all confirm the belief that the soldiers on its
 rolls herewith were a part of that historic band.)