Green Mountain boy

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Green Mountain boy (plural Green Mountain boys)

  1. A member of the Vermont National Guard.
  2. (historical) A member of a militia organization established in 1770 in the territory between the British provinces of New York and New Hampshire, instrumental in resisting New York's attempts to control the territory.
    • 1849 December, C. D. Stuart, Esq., “Rambledom: in Four Chapters. Chapter First”, in The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, volume 34, number 6, New York: Samuel Hueston, page 490:
      H. G. was here lately, preaching political truths to the Green Mountain boys.