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Hi, Judy -
To answer your rhetorical question, New Jersey? ;~)
Seriously, timewise, I believe the Boys could have been from the Green
Mountains, regardless of the status the NY/NH boundary settlement as
last time I checked, the Green Mountains are a geographic region not a
political region. However, I believe that they formed when Vermont was
still a republic and actually got more organized during the
Revolutionary period. There's also evidence on several Civil War
battlefield monuments that their units in the Civil War were called the
Green Mountain Boys as well. BTW - The current Vermont National Guard
is nicknamed the Green Mountain Boys, which I still think is kinda neat,
even though I found this out when I spent a lot of time in that
neighborhood years and years ago.
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My fave: http://www.washington.edu/cambots/camera1_l.gif
There's no place like: 34N 8' 25.40", 117W 58'5.36"
if you can't be at: 48N 6' 59.9" 122W 59' 54.2"
Kim H. Edwin wrote:
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>From an Archives List, for interested Maphisters:
Subject: Long-standing border dispute settled (Vermont)
From: Judith Turner <judy53...@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:18:12 -0700 (PDT)
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Hard to believe it's the 21st century and a town border disput from the 18th
cent. has just been resolved:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100425/ap_on_re_us/us_old_boundaries
OTOH, until I read this I didn't realize Vermont was created as a way to settle a colonial era boundary dispute between New York and New Hampshire. So where exactly did Ethan Allen and the Green Mountains Boys think they were from?
Judy Turner
Las Vegas, NV
Blogging at: http://alms-jact.blogspot.com/
and
http://judyct.wordpress.com/
"The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large
matter--it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning." - Mark Twain
in a letter to George Bainton, 10/15/1888
Kim Edwin,
Library of Congress,
Geography & Map Division
202-707-8514
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