Talk:Ebenezer Allen (Vermont politician)

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Ebenezer Allen

Allen left Poultney by 1774 for Tinmouth. It was then the next town to Poultney. He moved up the Poultney River to land at the mouth of the valley known as the Gulf, near land owned by his brothers Samuel and Noah Allen and a pitch owned until 1778(but not occupied) by his distant cousin Ethan Allen. His sister Waity Allen married Ensign Stephen Rice, an early settler in Tinmouth. Allen was conducting surveys in Tinmouth in 1773. At the second Tinmouth town meeting, in 1775, he was chosen surveyor of highways, tithing man, and fence-viewer - then important local positions; now gone or functionless. He represented Tinmouth at the Vermont Constitutional Convention. Whether he was the originator of the Constitution's provision barring holding men over 21 and women over 18 slavery is unknown. However, in pursuing British soldiers retreating from Ticonderoga in November 1777 he captured a large party - two of whom turned out to be a slave woman and her child. Allen wrote out a classic manumission document for her. "It is not right in the sight of good to keep slaves," it states. Since Congress allowed troops who captured enemy property to keep it, he and his company chose to free her. The document is recorded in the town records of Bennington, Vermont. Allen spent the rest of the War commanding frontier forts. In 1782 he was commanding Fort Vengeance in Pittsford, Vermont. He moved to South Hero in 1783. Since he surveyed Tinmouth roads in 1789 and 1780, all of them still in use, and commanded forts in the south until 1782, he is unlikely to have moved much earlier than 1783.

66.220.228.32 (talk) 18:30, 30 March 2016 (UTC)Grant Reynolds, Tinmouth, Vermont <ref>The Tinmouth Channel, Quarterly Journal of the Tinmouth Historical and Genealogical Society, Summer, 2001, Vol. 2, N.4; Fall, 2003, Vol 3, No. 1. Address: 515 North End Road, Tinmouth, Vermont 05773<ref>

Information in this article belongs to two different individuals.

The whole last paragraph under the Career heading belongs to Ebenezer Allan, a Tory and member of Butler's Rangers during the Revolution.

His birth and death information. Birth 17 September 1752, Morristown, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States DEATH 13 April 1813, Delaware, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada

There are citations about him in many histories and folios. http://www.libraryweb.org/~digitized/Wheatland/Turpin/Turpin_Morley_Records_of_Ebenezer_(Indian)_Allan_comp._by_Turpin_and_Osgood/Records_of_E_Allan_Indian_2.pdf http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/allan_ebenezer_5E.html http://www.crookedlakereview.com/articles/136_167/136summer2005/136shilling.html http://www.ontarioplaques.com/Plaques/Plaque_Middlesex07.html http://nyhrarticles.blogspot.com/2015/08/ebenezer-indian-allan-18th-century.html and two volumes on the settling of the Northwestern part of New York written the early 1800s that I can't recall at the moment.

204.169.146.122 (talk) 18:48, 2 January 2018 (UTC)Dan Cavanaugh204.169.146.122 (talk) 18:48, 2 January 2018 (UTC)