[bayourant]

Cool. You know in history class I remember a little known factoid. It seems that there was some border dispute after we got Independence. Evid some sort of Free Vermont Republic was established. Washington at one time thought he would have send in troops to supress it. Was that in your area

[Candor7]

Yes it was. We had to run off land surveyors from New York State and New hampshire who tried to absorb Vermont into their states. Ethan Allen and the Green mountain Boys put an end to that, and in the process created a state.

I am one of those Green Mountain Boys now!

Heres the story:

http://www.americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/ALLEN.HTM