On March 2, 1781, people gathered at Fairlee’s town meeting to discuss a call to arms. Fairlee voted in three men to serve until December 15th as protectors of Fairlee’s frontiers.

The vote called for support of these men, providing them with ample supplies to protect both town and townspeople. Each man would be supplied with one good musket, one good bayonet or tomahawk, one good knapsack, one powder flask, one bullet pouch, and a sufficient timp line, as well as some clothes and a blanket.

The citizens of Fairlee enlisted these frontier guards to help their town flourish and to keep their families safe.

Image courtesy the Vermont Historical Society.