Ethan Allen
Founder of Vermont and hero of Fort Ticonderoga
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Joseph and Mary Baker Allen, both of English Puritan descent, had their first child, Ethan, in Litchfield, Connecticut Colony.[1]
Quick Facts
- Born
- January 21, 1738
- Died
- February 12, 1789
- Birthplace
- Litchfield, Connecticut Colony, British America
- Place of death
- Burlington, Vermont Republic
- Burial place
- Greenmount Cemetery, Burlington
- Allegiance
- Connecticut Colony (1757)
- United Colonies (1775–1776)
- United States (1778–1781)
- Vermont Republic (1779–1780)
- Rank
- Major general (Vermont Republic); Colonel (Continental Army)
- Branch
- Connecticut Militia
- Continental Army
- Vermont Militia
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
Allen met Thomas Young, a doctor, who taught him philosophy and political theory and convinced him to become a Deist.[2] Allen and Young collaborated on a manuscript attacking organized religion, which Allen later expanded and published as Reason: the Only Oracle of Man.[2][3] After the trial, settlers formed the Green Mountain Boys, naming Allen their Colonel Commandant.[4] Because his father sought religious freedom during the Great Awakening, the Allen family relocated to Cornwall, Connecticut, soon after Ethan's birth.[1]
With the goal of entering Yale College, Allen commenced studies with a minister in Salisbury, but his father's death compelled him to stop.[5][6] In July 1762, Allen married Mary Brownson of Roxbury and acquired a partial ownership stake in a Salisbury iron furnace.[7] On May 10, Allen directed the seizure of Fort Ticonderoga, famously calling for its surrender "In the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!"[8][9] At the Battle of Longue-Pointe in September, Allen was taken prisoner by British forces and remained incarcerated until 1778.[10]
References
- Wikipedia, "Ethan Allen" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Hall (1895), p. 11; Randall (2011), pp. 59–60, 72–78, 89–89; Randall (2011), pp. 85–86 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Ethan Allen" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Jellison, pp. 15–17 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Ethan Allen" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Holbrook, pp. 194–195, 225 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Ethan Allen" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Hall (1895), p. 27 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Ethan Allen" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Bellesiles, p. 8; Jellison, p. 5 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Ethan Allen" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Jellison, p. 7 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Ethan Allen" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Hall (1895), pp. 12–13 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Ethan Allen" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Jellison, p. 110; Jellison, p. 111 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Ethan Allen" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Randall (1990), p. 95; Randall (1990), p. 96; Randall (1990), p. 96; Bellesiles, p. 118; Randall (1990), p. 307 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Ethan Allen" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Lanctot (1967), pp. 77–78 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
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