city of Brattleboro. Here Timothy Dwight was born in 1726. Three of his descendants through his marriage with Mary, daughter of the Reverend Jonathan Edwards, were to become presidents of Yale. This is worth noting, because Vermont talks more of her men than of her marble or slate or granite.

"More than once," is the cautious statement, "Vermont has furnished a greater number of men to Who's Who, relative to population, than any other State."

In 1741 New Hampshire was made a royal province, and in 1749-it seems unbelievable this was only a century before the discovery of gold at Sutters Creek, clear across the continent-Governor Benning Wentworth began to make land grants west of the Connecticut River. Alert speculators in New York soon persuaded the royal governor of that province to grant them land as far east as the

Connecticut River. Because of overlapping claims, the settlers, who had paid for their lands in good faith and who had worked incredibly hard to improve them, were called on to pay again.

Men lived hard then. One reads of the plumping mills for the pounding up of samp, or coarse cornmeal, which was the year-round diet of many a pioneer household, eaten with boiled-down maple sap. Some lived for a season on boiled potatoes only. Women worked at weaving for 50 cents a week when calico was 50 cents a yard and six yards went to a dress pattern.

The only cash product of many farms was the "salts," made by boiling down hardwood lye. One hundred pounds of salts, which involved the handling of no one knows how many tons of wood and ash, were salable for $3 to $5.50.

Under such conditions men learn the