Matching exercise

Match these famous Vermonters with the statements below.  Mark your answer with the letter that is beside the correct name.

 

A.     Ira Allen

B.     James Whitelaw

C.     John Johnson

D.    Zadock Thompson

E.     Abby Hemenway

F.      James Wilson

 

______ 1.   Did many of northern Vermont's town surveys.

 

______ 2.   Learned copper engraving as part of his trade.

 

______ 3.   Vermont's second Surveyor General, served for seventeen years.

 

______ 4.   Wrote geography books for schoolchildren.

 

______ 5.    Originally from Connecticut and an early landowner in the Champlain Valley.

 

______ 6.   Chittenden County engineer, millwright, and architect.

 

______ 7.   Had difficulty getting support for "the project."

 

______ 8.   Early Scottish settler in Ryegate.

 

______ 9.   Wrote the History of Vermont: Natural, Civil and Statistical.

 

______ 10.  First Surveyor General of Vermont.

 

______ 11.  Bought a copy of the Encyclopedia Britannica to learn about geography.

 

______ 12.  Wanted to write the history of every Vermont town.