John Fassett, Jr.

John Fassett Jr. (June 23, 1743—April 2, 1803) was an early white settler of Vermont who served in the military during the American Revolution and held several government positions during Vermont's early years, including Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court. Biography John Fassett Jr. was born in Bedford, Massachusetts on June 23, 1743. His father, John Fassett (1720-1794), moved the family to Bennington, Vermont in 1764, where he farmed and owned an inn. The elder John Fassett was a leader of early Vermont's military as a captain in the Green Mountain Boys and a member of the Vermont House of Representatives. The younger John Fassett moved to Bennington with his father and became a farmer. He was a lieutenant in the Green Mountain Boys militia regiment raised at the start of the American Revolution in 1775 and commanded by Seth Warner, and he took part in the attempted invasion of Canada in the fall of 1775. He was a captain in the Continental Army regiment Warner raised in 1777, called Warner's Additional Regiment. Fassett kept a diary during the Canada expedition, which was later published as Diary of Captain John Fassett, Jr. (1743-1803): When a First Lieutenant of "Green Mountain Boys," September 1st to December 7th, 1775. During the Revolution Fassett also served with Thomas Chittenden and Matthew Lyon as a sequestration commissioner, the authorities charged with seizing the property of Loyalists and dispensing with it for the state's benefit.