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Excerpt from An Address Commemorative of the Life and Public Services of Brig.-Gen. Jacob Bayley, 1726-1815, a Founder of the State of Vermont, a Neglected Patriot of the Revolution: Delivered Before the Vermont Historical Society in the Hall of Representatives in the Capitol at Montpelier, Vermont, on January 28, 1919
They who on glorious ancestors enlarge Produce their debt instead of their discharge.
Judged by the record of his public services in civil and military affairs, General Bayley earned a distinction which was excelled or even equalled by comparatively very few men of his time residing within the limits of this State; this is a strong statement, yet it is amply warranted from a study of the history of that period, and therefore renders the neglect from which his memory has so long suffered all the more difficult to explain or to excuse.
To properly estimate the life and services of any public man it is necessary to understand the history of the times in which he lived and the relation in which he stood to the important events which make up that history; I therefore invite you to review with me as brie?y as possible the long and eventful life of General Bayley and its relation to the history of that period.
The last half of the eighteenth century is recognized by historians as a most epoch-making period on this continent, for it witnessed the establishment not only of the final supremacy of England over France through the French and Indian War but also of the independence of the American Colonies through the War of the Revolution.
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