Tag: Bennington Vermont

American Revolutionary War, Armstrong, Vermont

Hopestill Armstrong and the Green Mountain Boys of Vermont

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Hopestill Armstrong was a private in Capt. Elijah Dewey’s Co. of Col. Moses Robinson’s Regt. of the Green Mountain Boys of Vermont. Ensign Nathaniel Fillmore Sr. was Hopestill’s relative by marriage and the grandfather of the Thirteenth President of the United States, Millard Fillmore. Together they fought at the Battle of Bennington.

American Revolutionary War, Armstrong, Ohio, Vermont, War of 1812

Oliver Armstrong: militia general and abolitionist

Oliver Armstrong of Bennington, Vermont came into this world with big shoes to fill. He was born 26 Apr 1783, at the tail end of America’s war for Independence. His father Hopestill, along with uncles John, Lebbeus and Hezekiah Armstrong, were veterans of the Battle of Bennington in the Revolutionary War.