Ethan Allen

Join me today on the Ancestral Findings podcast as we ask the question, who was Ethan Allen and what role did he play in the American Revolution? The man known as the father of Vermont was instr Ethan Allen may best known as the father of Vermont, but he was also a revolutionary war hero in He was born in rural Connecticut and raised as a farmer, but one with an impressive education that included p In so doing, he became involved in legal disputes surrounding t Allen got involved when the Green Mountain Boys formed to protect the grants from New York. In fact, Allen became the leader of the group and they began a campaign of intimidation and destruction of property to force the New York settlers off the grant land. They were already deeply involved in t Shortly after the battles of Lexington and Concord, Allen received a letter from a member of one of the Connecticut militias informing He agreed to bring the Green Mountain Boys to help. In At any rate, 60 men from Connecticut and Massachusetts met with Allen and Allen was elected leader of the expedition that day. The raid on the fort was planned for May 10 and two small regiments were sent to get boats to help them get to where they needed to be. On May 9, Benedict Arnold arrived without notice to meet with the raiding party. T Arnold brought with The men refused Arnold's leaders Allen and Arnold met in private and worked out a solution of co-leaders The raid on the fort went as planned, happening when most of the fort's residents were asleep. The raiders took the lone sentry by surprise who woke up the fort's British commander. When the commander saw Allen, Arnold, and all their men, he handed over Allen's fame and the revolutionary cause was established quite firmly in t However, In September 1775, he led an army to gain control of Montreal w He was put on a s The king decided that prisoner exchanges were a better method of dealing with these t Allen was put back on a stop was made in Ireland on the way where villagers in Cork learned the famous Ethan Allen was among them and took up donations to buy better food and clot Once he was in New York City, Allen was granted limited parole as a colonial officer. T W However, it was also during t Wandering away and It didn't matter much in the long run as Allen was released very soon after t After being repatriated, Allen reported to George Was Allen was granted military pay of $75 a month. As he was never called upon, After being made a colonel and released to return home, Allen went back to the grants, w The grants were now the newly independent nation of Vermont. Allen res Once New York backed off, Allen was instr He also participated in negotiations with Great Britain for the possibility of Vermont becoming a British province. Ethan Allen died at the age of 50 after losing his first wife and eldest daughter, remarrying, and having three more children by his second wife, the last one being born posth He died at Though he died two years before Vermont was admitted to the new United States as its first state that wasn't an original colony. He is still considered the father of Vermont because of Vermont still honors Did There was, and it changed the way t Join me the next time on the Ancestral Findings podcast and we'll try to figure it all out and get the date correct in your research. Copyright by Ancestral Findings, All Rights Reserved.