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New Eye Witness Account of Battle of Bennington Found
A family manuscript recounts the Battle of Bennington through Phoebe Smith Lawrence’s descendants. Gertrude Adelaide Pier wrote it as An Eventful Day based on oral history from the Lawrence farm. The document suggests Captain Lawrence may have been present, though this is not certain.
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Bennington
Battle of
Bennington Museum
Stanley T. Vaill
Minneapolis, Minn
Phoebe Smith Lawrence
Vaill
Lawrence Homestead
Gertrude Adelaide Pier
St. Albans
Lawrence
Phoebe
Charles G. Bennett
Museum
Thomas Smith
Nathaniel Lawrence