Person:Ethan Allen (3)

  1. Gen. Ethan Allen1738 - 1789
  2. Heman Allen1740 - 1778
  3. Lydia Allen1742 -
  4. Heber Allen1743 - 1782
  5. Levi Allen1745 -
  6. Lucy Allen1747 - 1775
  7. Col Ira Allen1751 - 1814
  8. Sarah "Sallie" Allen
  • HGen. Ethan Allen1738 - 1789
  • WMary BrownsonAbt 1732 - 1783
m. Jul 1762
  1. Loraine Allen1763 -
  2. Joseph AllenAbt 1765 -
  3. Lucy Caroline AllenAbt 1768 - 1842
  4. Mary AllenAbt 1770 -
  5. Permelia AllenAbt 1772 -
m. 1784
  1. Frances Allen1784 - 1819
  2. Capt Hannibal Montresor Allen1787 - 1813
  3. Ethan Alphonso Allen1789 - 1855
Facts and Events
Name[1] Gen. Ethan Allen
Gender Male
Birth[1] 21 Jan 1738 Litchfield, Connecticut, United States
Marriage Jul 1762 to Mary Brownson
Marriage 1784 Vermont[2nd husband]
to Frances Montesque
Death[1] 12 Feb 1789 Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont, United States
Burial[1] Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont, United States
Reference Number? Q552007?


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Ethan Allen ( – February 12, 1789) was an American farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, lay theologian, American Revolutionary War patriot, and politician. He is best known as one of the founders of Vermont and for the capture of Fort Ticonderoga early in the Revolutionary War. He was the brother of Ira Allen and the father of Frances Allen.

Allen was born in rural Connecticut and had a frontier upbringing, but he also received an education that included some philosophical teachings. In the late 1760s, he became interested in the New Hampshire Grants, buying land there and becoming embroiled in the legal disputes surrounding the territory. Legal setbacks led to the formation of the Green Mountain Boys, whom Allen led in a campaign of intimidation and property destruction to drive New York settlers from the Grants. He and the Green Mountain Boys seized the initiative early in the Revolutionary War and captured Fort Ticonderoga in May 1775. In September 1775, Allen led a failed attempt on Montreal which resulted in his capture by British authorities. He was imprisoned aboard Royal Navy ships, then paroled in New York City, and finally released in a prisoner exchange in 1778.

Upon his release, Allen returned to the New Hampshire Grants which had declared independence in 1777, and he resumed political activity in the territory, continuing resistance to New York's attempts to assert control over the territory. Allen lobbied Congress for Vermont's official state recognition, and he participated in controversial negotiations with the British over the possibility of Vermont becoming a separate British province.

Allen wrote accounts of his exploits in the war that were widely read in the 19th century, as well as philosophical treatises and documents relating to the politics of Vermont's formation. His business dealings included successful farming operations, one of Connecticut's early iron works, and land speculation in the Vermont territory. Allen and his brothers purchased tracts of land that became Burlington, Vermont. He was married twice, fathering eight children.

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References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Allen, Willard S. (Willard Spencer). A genealogy of Samuel Allen of Windsor, Connecticut, and some of his descendants. (Boston: Privately printed [by] D. Clapp & son, 1876)
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  2.   Ethan Allen, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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