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KING GEORGE'S WAR
1. Childhood
1741-57
FRENCH & INDIAN WAR
PRE-REVOLUTIONARY YEARS
1st WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE
(Revolutionary War)
WAR'S END, CONFEDERATION & CONSTITUTION
PARTISANISM
and
2nd WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE
(War of 1812)
11. Chelsea, VT
1797-1819
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LIFE OF DAVID PERRY.
PART FOUR. THE VERMONT YEARS.
(Chapters Eleven through Twelve Inclusive.)
Chapter XI
Chelsea 1797-1819.
A New State and the War of 1812 (beginning).
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n 1797, I moved to Chelsea,• Vt.. and have lived here twenty one
years last March, and helped pay the premium to New-York, in
order to become a state -- and for a portion of the time we have
been a state much opposition has been manifested by a part of our
citizens, to-wards the general government,• and in a very bad time, too,
-- in a time of war, when we ought to have united as a band of brothers
in the common cause of our country. But we were not alone in this evil.
It has pervaded• most of the New England states•. I have lived to see
four wars in our country, and the last• was attended with difficulties harder
to be surmounted than any of the other wars, by reason of the enmity,
towards the General Government, of that portion of the people,
who declared there was no cause• of war with England, although she
had taken between nine hundred and a thousand of our vessels,
impressed• some
thousands of our citizens, and sent the Indians to
massacre our defenceless inhabitants -- and not-withstanding the
General Government had done every thing to effect an accommodation
of their differences, and obtain redress for our grievances, without a
resort to arms.
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