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| Home | Modify info | Search | Administrative Add URL (sw) | What's Cool | Ethan Allen Homestead who has become a folk hero in Vermont, was an unusually flamboyant backwoodsman-turned-statesman from Connecticut. He was one of the early inhabitants of Burlington, where he lived on his property in the Winooski River intervale from 1787 until his death in 1789. He made a very significant contribution to the early history of Vermont, at that time called the New Hampshire Grants, when the territory constituted the northern frontier of the New England colonies, and of the emerging nation. He is best known for the capture of Fort Ticonderoga at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War and his leadership of the Green Mountain Boys. He was also a Deist and philosopher. Towards the end of his life he published Reason the Only Oracle of Man, rewritten from a manuscript he and Dr. Thomas Young, a Deist friend and mentor from Connecticut, had written together years earlier.Backup at http://burlingtonvt.org/arts-and-humanities/history-and-museums/ethan-allen.html Click here to read more. (Link number 50 was added on 23-Sep-2002 and has had 95 hits. The source of this resource was found at http://www.ethanallenhomestead.org/HISTORY/ . ) Ethan Allen Homestead Museum was Ethan Allen's last home. The site commands rolling fields and scenic curves of the Winooski (Onion) River. ... Only a short drive from downtown Burlington, the Homestead offers hands-on history, spectacular scenery, and riverside picnic areas and walks. The Homestead provides a genuine slice of 18th century life, and an intimate look at Vermont's most colorful - and controversial founder. ... Ethan Allen, who has become a folk hero in Vermont, was an unusually flamboyant backwoodsman-turned-statesman from Connecticut. He was one of the early inhabitants of Burlington, where he lived on his property in the Winooski River intervale from 1787 until his death in 1789. He made a very significant contribution to the early history of Vermont, at that time called the New Hampshire Grants, when the territory constituted the northern frontier of the New England colonies, and of the emerging nation. Click here to read more. (Link number 47 was added on 23-Sep-2002 and has had 100 hits. The source of this resource was found at http://www.ethanallenhomestead.org/ . ) Ethan Allen was born in Litchfield, Connecticut on January 10, 1738. His parents, Joseph and Mary Baker Allen were very religious. He had eight brothers and two sisters. Because of his love of learning, his father sent him to Yale. In 1757 he joined the military to fight in the French and Indian War. He spent most of his time defending Fort William Henry against the French. When the war was over, Ethan Allen supported himself by making and selling kettles. He married Mary Brownson and they moved to the New Hampshire Grants in 1769. The British gave the area of what is today Vermont to both New Hampshire and New York, which meant both colonies were selling the same land. Sometimes two people bought the same piece of land - one person from New Hampshire and one person from New York. In 1770, the New York Supreme Court decided that none of the land grants from New Hampshire were legal. This made a lot of settlers mad, because they would have to buy back the land they had already paid for. Click here to read more. (Link number 286 was added on 26-Nov-2003 and has had 94 hits. The source of this resource was found at http://www.vtgunsmiths.com/gmbsc/ethanall.html . )
Fanny Allen
was Ethan Allen's second wife. Before marriage she was known as Frances Montresor Brush Buchanan, was an attractive and well-educated young widow of twenty-four when she met Ethan in 1784 in Westminster; he then being a widower of forty-six with three young daughter's. Fanny had grown up in New York, and, through her stepfather, had strong Tory connections.
She was very interested in botany and was an accomplished musician - skills hardly suitable for frontier life. However, the marriage seems to have been very happy. After Ethan's death in 1789, Fanny and the children moved back to her mother's home in Westminster. In 1793 Fanny married her third husband, Jabez Penniman. Despite conflict over the intervale property, Fanny and her new husband lived there from 1794-1800.
(Link number 51 was added on 23-Sep-2002 and has had 96 hits. The source of this resource was found at http://www.ethanallenhomestead.org/HISTORY/fanny.htm . ) Green Mountain Boys was the popular name of armed bands formed (c.1770) under the auspices of Ethan Allen in the Green Mountains of what is today Vermont. Their purpose was to prevent the New Hampshire Grants, as Vermont was then known, from becoming part of New York, to which it had been awarded by the British. Land speculators, such as Allen and his brothers, and settlers banded together in armed groups to defend their lands. Their methods were threat, intimidation, and actual violence against the New Yorkers, and they managed to keep the region free from New York control, establishing (1777) instead a separate government that ultimately achieved (1791) statehood for Vermont. In the American Revolution the Green Mountain Boys figured prominently in 1775, when, under Allen's leadership, they captured Ticonderoga. In 1777 Seth Warner and John Stark led them to victory at Bennington : one of the notable achievements of the revolutionaries in the Saratoga campaign. Click here to read more. (Link number 285 was added on 26-Nov-2003 and has had 45 hits. The source of this resource was found at http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/G/GreenMtnB.html . ) In 1749, the governor of New Hampshire began giving away land to settlers willing to brave the howling wilderness of what is now Vermont. Two decades later, New York State courts decreed those grants void, opening the door for New York speculators to flood into the region vowing to push the original settlers out of the valleys and up into the Green Mountains. Not surprisingly, this decision didn't sit well with those already there, who established a network of military units, Green Mountain Boys, and promised to drive out the New Yorkers. A hale fellow named Ethan Allen headed up the new militia, which launched a series of effective harrying raids against the impudent New Yorkers. Green Mountain Boys destroyed homes, drove away livestock, and chased the New York sheriffs back across the border. The American Revolution soon intervened, and Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys took up the revolutionary cause with vigor. They helped sack Fort Ticonderoga in New York in 1775, rallied to the cause at the famed Battle of Bennington, Click here to read more. (Link number 284 was added on 26-Nov-2003 and has had 42 hits. The source of this resource was found at http://www.frommers.com/destinations/vermont/0817028011.html . )
On the day of May 10, 1775 a man named Ethan Allen
(Link number 283 was added on 26-Nov-2003 and has had 38 hits. The source of this resource was found at http://www.virtualology.com/virtualwarmuseum.com/revolutionarywarhall/ETHAN-ALLEN.COM/ . ) Onion River Land Company was a partnership, originally of Ethan, his brothers Heman, Zimri, and Ira, and their first cousin Remember Baker. ... The land-holding company, formed in 1773, bought land at the mouth of the Winooski (Onion) River, in the intervale, and around the Winooski Falls from its New York owner, Edward Burling. The company purchased only New Hampshire Grant Lands, and owned a total of 65,000 acres in about 15 to 20 towns which constituted major land speculation at that time. The company was dissolved in May 1787; Ethan received 1400 acres of the intervale land in the settlement. Click here to read more. (Link number 53 was added on 23-Sep-2002 and has had 53 hits. The source of this resource was found at http://www.ethanallenhomestead.org/HISTORY/onion_river.htm . )
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and his Green Mountain Boys seized and captured Fort Ticonderoga from the British. ... Ethan Allen was a man that stood up for Vermont and made sure that it became an independent state. ... The Green Mountain Boys were a militia of about 300 men, trained by Allen himself. Although the GMB weren't really an army, they fought for their freedom and their pride.
Ethan Allen was born in Litchfield Connecticut on January 21, 1738. In 1751 he served briefly in the French and Indian War, then he settled in Vermont. While in Vermont, New Hampshire granted land to people in the west. Later the British said that the land belonged to New York. In 1770, New York also said that land in Vermont was no good unless the land was bought from them. From this, Allen and Seth Warner decided to create the Green Mountain Boys.
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