Vermont

Dr 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; Hd 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 succe , 208; duplicity of their policy, 210; trade carried on with Canada, 216; received into Union as fourteenth state, 217; emi aries of, reappear as Loyalists, 266.