People

Vermont physician who helped draft Vermont's 1777 constitution and served as a Vermont Republic agent. Son of the Catamount Tavern's owner, he linked Brattleboro's Connecticut River valley community to the Green Mountain Boys' southwestern operations.

Young settler killed during the Westminster Massacre on March 13, 1775, when the Cumberland County sheriff's posse fired into a crowd occupying the courthouse. French became a martyr figure for the Vermont independence movement; his gravestone, inscribed "murdered by the tools of tyranny," was one of the first explicit political statements of the revolutionary era in Vermont.

Younger brother of Ethan Allen and one of the principal architects of Vermont statehood. Ira Allen negotiated the Haldimand Affair — secret negotiations with British General Haldimand that were probably a deliberate stratagem to buy Vermont time while the war concluded. His land speculation shaped the political economy of early Vermont.

Vermont militia general who commanded Connecticut River valley forces and proposed the Bayley-Hazen Military Road to allow Continental Army access to Canada. His operations kept the northeastern Vermont corridor from becoming a British invasion route.

Brattleboro militia colonel who organized and commanded the Connecticut River valley defense, maintaining the ranger and blockhouse network that kept southeastern Vermont settlements viable against British-allied raiding parties throughout the war.

First governor of Vermont, serving 1778–1797. Chittenden navigated Vermont's status as an independent republic throughout the Revolution, negotiating with both Congress and the British in ways that kept Vermont from being absorbed by New York or conquered by Burgoyne.

Vermont lawyer and jurist who embodied the transition from frontier independence politics to constitutional governance — the legal consolidation of what the Green Mountain Boys had defended with muskets.

Brattleboro militia captain who led scouting and ranging operations in the Connecticut River valley during the Revolution. Brownson's company represented the kind of local defense that made the difference between settlements that survived British-allied raids and those that did not.