This will keep you busy reading for awhile, speaking of Ethan Allen...I had lots of fun gathering this for you this afternoon....
---Book written by Ethan Allen: Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's Captivity, 1779
Turns out you can buy a reprint from the Ethan Allen Homestead Gift Shop:
ethanallenhomestead.org
Jennifer Ely, Executive Director
Winooski Valley Park District
1 Ethan Allen Homestead, Suite 1
(802) 863-5744
---One source says Ethan Allen buried in Colchester County cemetery...?? So found this....In view of the earlier find, don't know...but worth checking out at the EA Homestead site....
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--Wikipedia says Ethan Allen did have children! ---http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Allen
>>>>>Ethan Allen had five children with his first wife, Mary Brownson: Loraine (1763-1783), Joseph (1765-1777), Lucy Caroline (1768-1842), Mary Ann (1772-1790), and Pamela (1779-1809). Ethan's marriage to Mary, who was several years older than he, does not seem to have been particularly happy. Mary died of consumption in 1783, a few months before her eldest daughter. Ethan met his second wife, Frances Montresor Brush Buchanan, in 1784, fell in love and married her within a few months. They had three children: Fanny (1784-1819), Hannibal (1786-1813), and Ethan (1787-1855). <<<<<
Well, he did have children, but did any of those children have children who lived to have descendants????
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You will laugh at this find....
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I'd have to see proof of this lineage....
militantislammonitor.org
In any case Arlington is somewhat unique among New England towns in that so many who did so much for her in her early days, passed on to find their last abode in even newer settlements further North. Some like Jehiel Hawley were Tories and though invited to return after Saratoga did not do so. In others the migratory instinct, which brought them to Arlington, originally proved too strong and they moved to newer settlements. Of these may be mentioned Daniel Castle, who was one of the early settlers in four different Vermont towns, Ethan Allen, Mathew Lyons, Governor Chittenden and many other notable Vermonters. Some, like Remember Baker, to whom a memorial has been erected (1941) met untimely deaths in line of duty to the new Republic elsewhere and never, returned to their home. However, many of Arlington’s early notables still watch its progress from St. James’ Churchyard. The earliest remaining stone is that of Amos Leonard who died December eighth, 1777. Many of Ethan Allen’s Green Mountain Boys, both officers and enlisted men lie beneath the little waving flags, which spot the green lawn. Just within and to the right of the evergreen shaded gate is the mossy stone of Mary Lyons, wife of Mathew Lyons the bull-necked Irish contemporary and neighbor of Ethan Allen and Thomas Chittenden. Not much is known of Mary but not the least of her husband’s achievements was that of being the only man to ever represent successively - and successfully - in Washington, the people of three different states.
A recent publication states that Mary Brownson, Ethan Allen’s first wife was buried in Sunderland. In fact, both she and two of the lusty Ethan’s children, Joseph and Mary are buried in St. James’. The exact location of their graves was lost in the moving mentioned above. However, a stone to their memory was erected by Mr. Jesse Burdett on the Burdett lot near the center of the yard. A young college graduate-progenitor of Miss Hermione and Mr. Nathaniel Canfield of Manchester, was Ethan Allen’s secretary while the latter was producing his "Oracle of Reason" in Sunderland. Mary Brownson was not noted for tenderness of tongue nor was young Hitchcock over assiduous in the matter of work. Hitchcock’s friends were wont to remark after Mary’s death that they never saw him work so hard or so willingly as when helping to carry Mary’s body from Sunderland to St. James’ Churchyard in February, 1785.
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From the Vermont History Expo....
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3:00 - 3:45 pm The Gods of the Hills
Jim Hogue
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The Gods of the Hills is a dramatization of A Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's Captivity by Ethan Allen, 1779. The performance by Jim Hogue tells a compelling military history from the point of view of the man who became the commanding officer in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga; an imprisoned rebel bound for the gallows; a witness to the starvation and murder of American prisoners; a philosopher who saw the opportunities for liberty and public good on the one hand, and for servitude on the other; the leader of The Green Mountain Boys who, with them, carved out the Republic of Vermont.
Jim Hogue is an actor who has appeared in several films, and on stage with various theatres in Vermont. He created Cabaret Shakespeare, writes for Vermont Commons, and has a weekly radio program on WGDR. His narration of Ethan Allen's A Narrative of Colonel Ethan Allen's Captivity will soon be available on tape and CD.
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Looks like a good reference source:
Subject: Ethan Allen & the Green Mountain Boys
Source: Harper's New Monthly Magazine
No. CII. November. 1858 - Vol. XVII
Note: with additions and links by transcriber
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And a general info site:
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