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... noun The largest city in Vermont; located in northwestern Vermont on Lake Champlain; site of the University of Vermont. .

... the "New Hampshire Grants" as Vermont was then known. He formed the Green Mountain Boys, and resisted all efforts by New York and New Hampshire to control the Vermont area. He and Benedict Arnold jointly captured Fort Ticonderoga (1775) but he was then captured by the British during an attack on Montreal. After his imprisonment (1775–78), he returned to the new ...

... and then practiced law in Vermont (1813–33). He was judge of the Vermont Superior Court (1833–42, 1850–54). He served in the U.S. House of Representatives (Whig, Vt.; 1843–49) and was U.S. Postmaster general (1849–50). As a U.S. Senator from Vermont (Rep., 1855–65) he played an important role in granting broad powers to the federal government in ...

... negotiated the admittance of Vermont to the Union and sat on Vermont's Supreme Court intermittently (1787–1816). During those years he also served in Vermont's legislature, as well as a term as a federal judge (1791–93), and a term in the U.S. Senate (Fed., Vt.; 1799–1805). He lectured at Middlebury College (1816–17), but deafness limited him thereafter.

... in East Guilford, Conn. A Vermont farmer, he was a member of the council of state that drew up Vermont's first request for statehood (1777) after it had declared itself an independent republic that year. When the Continental Congress rejected the request, he became governor of the republic (1778–89, 1790–91). After Vermont began negotiating with the British ...