Captain Thomas Sawyer’ Vermont Militia

25 Feb

When Thomas Sawyer called up his militia group, most were from the Rutland Vermont area. The men were Daniel Smith, Elisha Wright, Jared Post, Nathanial Perry Johathan Rowley, Mathew Cox, James Hopkins, Joseph Willias, Christopher Kenyon, Jesse Place, Jobal Smith, John Williams, John Stearns, Silas Rood, Timothy Bishop, and Barnabas Barnum.

Several joined in or around Shelburne. They were John Cannon, Nathan Griswold, Jesse Sawyer, and Justus Webster.

Joshua Woodward and Samuel Daniels had just stopped in for the night. In one account they stopped in to buy wheat. In another they were just staying the night, but in one account they were militia who had stopped in to help defend the Peirson block house.

what ever account you read, they were all in the Peirson block house the morning of the attack. Lieutenant Barnabas Barnum, Joshua Woodward and Samuel Daniels lost their lives in the early part of the battle.

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