Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. CALEB OLIN, FOURTH AND YOUNGEST SON OF HENRY OLIN, OF EAST GREENWICH, R. I. Caleb Olin was born in Warwick, R. I., December 8, 1753. To him who feels a lively interest in the welfare of his country, the death of a revolutionary patriot is an event that makes emotions of thrilling interest. Caleb Olin came from a hardy race of distinguished men, whose spirit failed not in a trying time that was to give birth to a nation of freemen or bind the yoke of despotism with a perpetual bondage on their necks and that of posterity. These men are fast passing away. In his boyhood he was the playmate of General Green, and often boasted that he could lift a larger anchor than the General, he being about six feet two inches in height and as straight as an arrow. His physical strength was almost unbounded. But very few men in the State could stand before him, on account of his superior strength and daring in personal encounters. When the spirit of freedom had prevaded the colonies, and had reached the thinly settled parts of our country, it found him poor in the things of this world, but never selfish, and always ready at his country's call to resist oppression, let it come from where it would. To a strong mind and generous feeling towards his fellow men was united great endurance and agility surpassed by no one in the State. And thus you have a sample of the "Green Mountain Boy." He was an ensign in the company commanded by Captain Galusha, who was subsequently Governor of Vermont. He was chiefly employed in hunting Tories on the Green Mountains, under orders from the Military Committee of Safety, and it is said that Caleb Olin knew the country so well from valley to hilltop that no Tory escaped his vigilant eye. The result was that every...
