Friday, October 29, 2010
New Book About Royalton, Vermont 1780
We Go As Captives:The Royalton Raid and the Shadow War
on the Revolutionary Frontier
By Neil Goodwin
on the Revolutionary Frontier
By Neil Goodwin
"Royalton, Vermont. October 16, 1780. With no warning and in almost complete silence, a war party of 265 Canadian Mohawks and Abenakis, led by five British and French-Canadian soldiers, materializes from the forest at dawn. They move so fast and so quietly there is no time for anyone to escape and spread the alarm. Prisoners are taken, and the town of Royalton is burned to the ground."
My great grandmother, Julia Ann Tuller was from Royalton. She was found on the census there. She married my ggrandfather, Abiathar Smith Robinson in 1852 in Tunbridge, the next little town. Who Abiathar's parents were, I haven't figured out, but wonder if they had also been from Royalton and were caught in this war. It's something to ponder.
"Garner Rix was captured by the British and Mohawks during the Royalton Raid. The Mohawks took him to Montreal and sold him to a French woman who kept him safe until he could walk home a year later.He went on to clear his own land, build a house, a mill and more roads and raise his own family.He lived in an exciting time and saw more of the world than most boys of his time would ever have wanted to but took that experience and turned it into wonderful tales by the fireside with his grandchildren at his knee."
One of Abiathar Smith Robinson's sons was named Rix Robinson. I wonder if it was for Garner.
Reference: from Garner Rix and the Royalton Raid by Evelyn Saenz http://www.squidoo.com/1780
Reference: from Garner Rix and the Royalton Raid by Evelyn Saenz http://www.squidoo.com/1780
Labels: History of Royalton, Indian raid, Vermont
# posted by Nadene Goldfoot @ 5:29 PM 
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Dear Nadine, I am excited to learn of a new cousin. I see that you are also related to the Rix family. I discovered your post when searching for information on my ggggrandfather, Garner Rix. What a surprise I had when I discovered that you were also interested in him. The first paragraph of your post you have attributed correctly to my neighbor and author of the book We Go As Captives. This is a copy of the post from the Vermont Historical Society's announcement of his book published in time for the 230th Anniversary of the Royalton Raid. The second paragraph is copied from my article entitled Garner Rix and the Royalton Raid http://www.squidoo.com/1780. If you would like to keep those words, could you please credit me for the writing and link back to my site. If not, please delete the paragraph that I wrote.
Thank you,
Evelyn Saenz
Thank you,
Evelyn Saenz
Dear Nadine, I am excited to learn of a new cousin. I see that you are also related to the Rix family. I discovered your post when searching for information on my ggggrandfather, Garner Rix. What a surprise I had when I discovered that you were also interested in him. The first paragraph of your post you have attributed correctly to my neighbor and author of the book We Go As Captives. This is a copy of the post from the Vermont Historical Society's announcement of his book published in time for the 230th Anniversary of the Royalton Raid. The second paragraph is copied from my article entitled Garner Rix and the Royalton Raid http://www.squidoo.com/1780. If you would like to keep those words, could you please credit me for the writing and link back to my site. If not, please delete the paragraph that I wrote.
Thank you,
Evelyn Saenz
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Thank you,
Evelyn Saenz
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