[1] During the American Revolution in 1777 British General John Burgoyne came south from Montreal with a large force to attack Fort Ticonderoga and Fort Crown Point on Lake Champlain, and ultimately to meet British forces from New York City and divide the Colonies in half.

The British campaign relied upon Native Americans to raid settlers and towns along the lake and inland.

It is marked by a squat marble obelisk adjacent to a roadside pullout on the west side of United States Route 7.

In 1780 Hendee's farmstead became the site of Fort Vengeance, a palisaded fortification whose construction was ordered by the independent government of the Vermont Republic as part of its northern line of defense.

[2] "Indian and Tory Raids on the Otter Valley, 1777-1782," by Wynn Underwood, Vermont Quarterly, Vol XV, No.