Ethan Allen

armer in moderate circumstances. He afterwards resided in Litchfield, where Ethan was born in the year 1739. The family c

perior intellect ever commands, induced him diligently to explore every subject that came under his notice. A stranger to fear, his opinions w

ss of Ticonderoga, May 10, 1775, containing about forty men, and one hundred pieces of cannon. He was unfortunately taken prisoner in September following, in an attempt on Montreal, and s

ands of a printer at Hartford, who had not the moral courage to print it. It was finally printed by a Mr. Haswell, of Bennington, Vt. in 1784. Not long after its publication, a part of the edition, comprising the entire of several signatures, was accidentally consumed b

ington, Vt., on the 12th of Februar