'The present war is only between the King and a part of the Lords and America.
The Lords say all Americans shall become slaves or servants to them, shall plow no more than they say, EAT NOR DRINK, nor war nor hunt but only by their leave shall not kill deer, moose beaver or any other thing but by their consent.
Americans say they will and that the King by the Lords advice has sent redcoats to kill us if we will not be subject to what they say.
And we have thirty thousand men with guns great and small to fight in our defense we only want to live as we have lived here to fore We do not want to fight if they would let us alone."
"History of Newbury, Vermont: From the Discovery of the Coös Country to ..." edited by Frederic Palmer Well, p73
Nice. Thanks.