in OrAvell some years before the w^ar,
but no permanent settlements, we believe, were made in that town
until after the war. As stated on a previous page, John Stkong,
Zadoc Everest, Daa^d Vallanoe, Bi^njamin Kellogg, and
probably a fcAV others, had made preparations for a settlement,
on the borders of the lake in Addison, in 1765, and took posses-
sion with their families in 1766. The late Squire Firris, of
Vergennes, in a statement made to Philip C. Tucker, Esq., to
which we have referred elsewhere, says that his father, Pinter
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FeuuS; cams to and settled on the shore of the lake in Panton, in
1765. Mr. Feiiuis, and his ^\ife came through the ^voods from
]Jennington County, on horse back, he carrying his son Squirk
then two years old in his arms ; andthat there were then no settle-
ments on the lake, and that the nearest, and only neighbors were the
British garrison at Crown Point. A few other flimilies were settled
there before the war. The first settlements, by families, in Whiting
and Leicester, were in 1773, in Cornwall and Monkton in 1774;
in Weybridge, and in that part of New Haven, since aane.\;ed to
"Weybridge, in 1775. In no other towns in the County had perma-
nent settlements been made at tliat time ; and in the towns men-
tioned, the number of families was small.
After the retreat of the American troops from the disastrous ex-
pedition into Canada, in 1770, and especially after General BuR-
GOYNE, in 1777, with his formidable army, came up the lake,
sweeping away every resistance before him, a large proportion cf
the settlers deserted