"Ethan Allen (1738-1789)" Topic

"Ethan Allen is best known for the capture of Fort Ticonderoga as the leader of the "Green Mountain Boys" and for his tireless — and controversial — efforts to make Vermont independent from the British Empire, other colonies, and perhaps even from the United States. George Washington said of him that "There is an original something in him that commands admiration."

Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, on January 21, 1738, Allen had virtually no formal education but became familiar with Enlightenment ideas. He served briefly in the Seven Years War and operated an iron forge in Salisbury, Connecticut, before his warm embrace of deism caused his neighbors to have him warned out of the town in 1765. He and his wife, Mary Brownson, then settled in Northampton, Massachusetts, but he was warned out of there in 1767 and moved to the Green Mountains, then part of the farthest reaches of the colony of New York but also claimed by New Hampshire. He speculated in New Hampshire titles to property in the region and formed the Green Mountain Boys in 1771 to openly resist New York's authority over it. Consequently, the governor of New York offered a £20.00 GBP reward for his capture and arrest, which was raised to £100.00 GBP in 1774…"

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