Editing Pittsford, Vermont (section)

==History==
Pittsford was first settled as a frontier town in 1769, about {{convert|60|mi}} north of [[Bennington, Vermont|Bennington]]. It is the location of two historical picket [[Forts in Vermont|forts]] used by the [[militia]] during the [[American Revolutionary War]]: [[Fort Mott (Vermont)|Fort Mott]] (built in 1777), and [[Fort Vengeance Monument Site|Fort Vengeance]] (built from 1780 to 1781), about a mile north.

The town of [[Pittsford (town), New York|Pittsford, New York]], was named by [[Caleb Hopkins (colonel)|Colonel Caleb Hopkins]] after his hometown of Pittsford, Vermont, named after [[William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham|William Pitt]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=25200|title=Profile for Pittsford, Vermont|publisher=[[ePodunk]]|access-date=May 10, 2010}}</ref>

The first settlers and founders of Pittsford were the Cooley half-brothers, Benjamin Cooley (b. 1747, d. 1790) and Gideon Cooley (b. 1731,  d. abt 1800).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/townpittsford00caverich/townpittsford00caverich_djvu.txt|title=History of the Town of Pittsford, Vt with Biographical Sketches|author=A. M. Caverly, M.D.|access-date=December 20, 2016}}</ref> Benjamin Cooley joined [[Ethan Allen]], [[Benedict Arnold]], and the rest of the [[Green Mountain Boys]] in the first victory of the Colonies over England: the [[Capture of Fort Ticonderoga]] on 10 May 1775.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/ticonderogaexped00basc/ticonderogaexped00basc_djvu.txt|title=The Ticonderoga expedition of 1775; list of men with Ethan Allen, page 10 | author=Robert O. Bascom}}</ref>