and returned with h'm,
t This Captain David Wooster, at the commencement of the revolutionary war
was appointed by the legislature of Connecticut a major general of the troops of
that State. Being at home in New Haven in April, 1777, when the British troops
came up the sound and burned the town of Daubury, he volunteered and joined
the troops suddenly raised to oppose them, and while rallying the troops under his
command, received a mortal wound, of which he soon died.
t This flr.st visit wa» in 17fi7 or 17fi8.
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lends, leases, wlilch they absolutelj refused to accept, on any terma
whatever ; but declared that thej would support themselves there
by force of arms, and that they would spill their blood before they
would leave the said lands." Whereupon, " being wellarmed with
pistols," he "proceeded to serve two declarations in ejectment on
tvy-o principal ringleaders," "notwithstanding they continued their
firelocks presented against him during the whole time ; that after
the deponent had served the said ejectments, they declared with one
voice, that they would not attend any court in the Province of New
York, nor would be concluded by any law of New York respecting
their lands."
Among other grants by New York, within the present limits of
Addison county, a considerable tract of land was granted or re-
served to the Earl of Dunmoro, who was governor of that State in
1770 and 1771, embracing, as it appears by an ancient map, the
tov.n of Leicester and at least a part of Salisbury, from Otter
Creek to the Green Mountains, and including the lake which still
bears his name. On