Vermont’s forgotten Abenaki war captain

Dear Editor,   Kyle Neece’s recent story in VTDigger about “three Vermonters whose histories are lesser known” was very interesting. However, the writer could have chosen a Native American who was even less well known than “Indian Joe” and far more important. When the American Revolution began, an Abenaki leader in Vermont and New Hampshire raised a company of Abenaki soldiers who fought alongside the Yankee militia commanded by Gen. Jacob Bayle