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BURLINGTON:
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE II, 1858
THE BURIAL PLACE or ALLEN
BURLINGTON

interest in other portions of our State and
country, and our exchanges contain numcr-
Gus allusions to the matter. These notices
are for the most part condensed from the
articles which have appeared in the Burling-
ton papers, and will therefore hardly pay for
copying. Three of them, however, which
have come under our eye, contain original
suggestions, and we copy them below.
A correspondent of the Brattleboro PhGnix
who is. the Times states, the venerable and
respected Hon. VIM. c. Bradley Of West
Minister writes as follows:
| az Can you learn whether the Burlngtonians
| have any person remaining who wancSSed tho
| burial of len. Allen? lie died in the winter and
was brought home a sled load of hay, to his
| house, where it was ascertaincd that ne hau pccn
dead for some time. always supposed that he did
| not care for Christian burial, and was Inferred
| upon his farm at Applctrcc Point
Mr.. Bradlcvs information or recollection,
is evidently at fault concerning the partcu-
lar circumstances of Aliens death. Mr.
|.Wittcrs' assertion that he was taken with II
fit while returning home upon load of hay,
but that he did not die till the next day, is
doubtless correct, and is in accordance with
statements made by our former townsnan,
the late DR.. John pomcroy, who was called
to attend him at the time, which latter fact
of itself would seem to show that Allen was
not dead when brought home.
We may add fact not heretofore men
toned in print, we believe, but which was
occasionally alluded to by Aliens widow in
conversation, during her lifetime, that Gen.
Allen anticipated death in the manner in
which it came to him, and that she kept Ian
Get in constant readiness, which he had given
her with directions to use it freely and
fcarlessly whcneverthc attack might come.
The following is an extract from letter
written by Mr.. Samuel Drake of Cincin-
natl, which appeared in one of the papers
of that city.
| "Upon reading it to my mother, she informed
me that in the year ISIS she was in Montreal,
| and there acquainted with daughter of Ethan
| Allen (who was nun in the convent of ursulians,
she thnks.) The convent, however, of which she
of the sisters, was at that time, ISIS, sit
uatcd on Notrc Dame street, Montreal
| She remembers distinctly of visiting her and
| finding her unwell, and upon inquiry informed
that she had inst raurned from Vermont with the
mans of her father, and that her sickness arose
from the excitement consequent upon so solemn an
| occasion. The name Miss Allen boro as nun mas
] esca ned nv mother memory, but if the committee
| appointed by the State of Vermont to superintcnd
he removal of Aliens remains, would apply to
Oliver Bcrthier, St Xavier street. Montreal, Qi he
be living,) he could inform them, they being IN
timately acquainted
On the whole, the most valuable piece of
information, - over the lcft,' yet elected, is
the following from the Montpelier Freeman;
| "a subscriber asks ua to suggest to the good
people of Burlington, that if they will dig to the
depth of feet, they will find whore Ethan Aliens
remains were. He 'raS duied, by hs request
| StdRfiny postum; anil the tpP ej ms c!JlH SiL
ttd Hnder grOLanG.
The above is rather positive. all things con-
sidered. The soil five and half feet below
the surface, at the grave, is IL hard lan,
which, in all probability, was not disturbed
in the digging Of the grave. Besides, MIR.
Writers says he thinks there was nothing
uncommon in the depth Of the grave. 1t
.. rather likely he would have remembered it, ii
the patriot had been inferred in the pcrpcn-
dicular manner indicated,
Z > u llpt why 'l"''i'i'N VI ''N'' ~
, minisccnccs of former rumors, unlounded al
: the start, and growing wider and wider from
. the truth in the lapse of time, should weaker
at all the confidence of amy one in the posH'r
testimony already adduccd as to the place o
f Ethan Aliens burial. If those whose laitl
l in history and tradition is 50 easily shaken
will lust remember that it is altogether probi
+ BILE that his widow and children knew wha
c they were about, when they caused II table
to be erected with the statement that sun
- der M.s stone" the corporeal part OF the her
a was placed; and that the evidence of Mrs
h Fobes, ncighbor of Aliens, who attcndc
= his funeral, and OF Mr. llawley Writers,
v living eyewitness of the intcrmcnt,' is ceai
v uncontradctcd, and decisive upon the por
,, of burial in Greenmount Cemetery, the
!. doubts must fly to the winds, The questio
d cannot be considered now, fit ever was, a
e open one.
Is As to this report, it is enough to rcpe'
10 the statements made to us respecting it b.
U. II. Penniman, Esq, of Colchester, tn
= llull-biotii'i VI -''''' WV ''ro'NN
IL referred to in the Cincinnati story lie say
O. the members of the lamily-he among tt
he rest-were wont to visit her at the Nunner,
D. in Montreal, quite often, but from the day
b. her entering it to her death, she never can
nd to Vermont, and never left the Nunnery al Z
ed that she would not have been allowed
o,rr do so, by the rules of the Nunnery' ii 81
tv had wished to. The story of the removal
nd Ethan Aliens bones to Montreal, by her
III by any body else, he pronounces absurd
false, in every particular. What more a
surd story could have been invented, TIN
that the bones of Ethan Allen were tax
on from their resting-place in Vermont
10. place where his strongest affections centred
Ied from the neighborhood where his suryiyi
les children and friends were still liying,-to
ion buried in Montreal (of all the places in
hen world,) simply because one daughter h
'is- inmured herself in convent there
the MUSICAL CONVENTION. Our readers "
1t" notice that the third meeting of the Vest
d." Vermont Musical Association taxes place
ah sho Brandon, commencing Tomorrow and C
ter tlnuing three days. We are glad to LEI
do that the Association is in a prosperous C
y. dition Git could not well be otherwise in
to .
at hands Of its present managers) and we "
the it AN abundant measure of public appr
the alton and success in its endeavours to eleN
her .t...4.,l..l ,c ,,u.,c,I t,ste and incr,
vide 'n' ''''''. " ~.