Seth Warner of the Army of the Revolution was born in Roxbury, Connecticut, on May 17, 1743, lived in Bennington, Vermont, from 1765 to 1784, and died in his native parish on December 25, 1784. He was the captor of Crown Point, commander of the Green Mountain Boys in the repulse of Carlton at Longueil and in the Battle of Hubbardton, and an associate of Stark in the victory at Bennington. He was distinguished as a successful defender of the New Hampshire Grants and for bravery, sagacity, energy, and humanity as a partisan officer in the War of the Revolution. His remains are deposited under this monument erected by order of the General Assembly of Connecticut in A.D. 1859.