THE HISTORY OF VERMONT FROM THE ... Rolls of the soldiers in the revolutionary war, 1775 to 1783. Men of Vermont – Robert Cochran « Vermont History and Genealogy. Cochran, Robert.
–Who was honored as one of the eight outlawed by New York in 1774, and who was one of the recognized leaders in the “beech seal” days, came from Coleraine, Mass., to Bennington about 1768, but soon moved to Rupert. He was a captain among the Green Mountain Boys before the Revolution, and after the Westminster massacre, appeared within forty-eight hours at the head of forty men to fight the cause of the people against the “Court party.” With a file of twenty-five he assisted in conveying the prisoners taken the next day to the jail at Northampton. He was a captain in the Ticonderoga expedition in the May following, and assisted Warner in the capture of Crown Point. COCHRAN-L Re: [COCHRAN] Major Robert Cochran(e) and Lt. Col. Robert Cochran(e)