Revolutionary Westminster: From Massacre to Statehood

But Vengeance let us Wreak, my Boys, For Matron, Maid, and Spinster: Whose joys are fled, whose Homes are sad, For the Youth of Red Westminster.

The Battles of Lexington and Concord have long been considered the beginning of the American Revolution. However, Vermonters know that the first blood was actually shed in Westminster in March 1775. Over a month before Lexington and Concord, Westminster Whigs endured an attack from their own Loyalist sheriff and his men that left two dead. In respon...