Finnigans, Slaters, and Stonepeggers: A History of the Irish in Vermont Books No historians have ever read

No historians have ever read the transcripts of the Ejectment Trials—until now

Political and military leaders on both sides viewed the Hudson River Valley as the American jugular

Based on original archival research

at the beginning of the American War of Independence

this is a groundbreaking account of an important and little-known front of the Revolutionary War

Finnigans, Slaters, and Stonepeggers: A History of the Irish in Vermont Books No historians have ever readThe first book that peels back the Yankee mythos and examines the surprisingly rich, true story of the Irish in Vermont, from the first steady trickle of colonial pioneers to the flood of famine refugees and onward. From Fort Ticonderoga to Civil War battlefields to up until the years after World War II: how the Irish arrived, survived, fought, labored, organized, worshipped, played, and managed to prosper . . . a surprisingly behind the scenes