Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-04-17
At Old Tt.

Alien Ill May LOO, leu W uHe ulSClOSuIe
that there was no roster of the men
engaged in this adventure. With such
means as were at hand the work of
making an enrollemnt was commenced.
Additions to the roll have been made
and it seems reasonably certain that it
is yet possible to considerably extend the
list if not to complete it.
Ethan Aliens band of Green Mountain
Boys was largely recruited from the
southwestern part of Vermont, and
there are excellent reasons for supposing
that if the matter was brought to the
attention of the people. still residing in
that part of the Green Mountain state.
larger additions may yet be made to the
roll.
1t is said that 270 men were engaged,
and that $50 of them were Green Noun
tain boys, and that 50 entered the fort
with Allen. In the following list an
effort has been made to separate the
roll into two parts, the first comprehend
ing the names of those men who are
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Allen; the second comprehending those
who, while not of the party that entered
the fort. were nevertheless engaged in
the enterprise.
have in the following list attempted
to give a word sufficient to identify the
individual and at the same time to
comply with the demands for brevity of
the modern newspaper.
PART Ethan Allen, the Comman-
der: Benedict Arnold, who entered the
fort by the side of Allen; Thomas
Ashley of Poultney; Capt. Ebenezer
Allen of Poultney; Samuel Barnet,
whose place of residence at that time is
uncertain. He was buried upon Mount
Independence and probably was one of
the Massachusetts, party; Nathan Bee
man, the guide; Major Samuel Beach,
who made the celebrated march; Capt.
John Brown of Pittsfeld, Mass; Epa-
phras Bull of Hartford, Conn. one of
war committee, Isaac Buck of Pittsford
Col. John Chapman of Middlebury: Capt.
Ben jamin Cooley of Pittsford; Col.
Robert Cochran of Rupert; Amos Cal
lendar of Shoreham; Major Noah Cal
lendar of Shoreham; John Crigo of
Shoreham: Capt. Asa Douglass of
Jericho, Mass; Capt. Israel Dickinson of
Pittsfield, Mass; John Deming of Pitts
ford; Amariah Dana of Amherst, Mass,
Lieut.. Benjamin Everest; Col. James
Esston; George Foot of Castleton; Jeri-
miah Halsey of Preston, Conn; Israel
Harris of Rutland; John Kennedy of
Massachusetts, OF Connecticut, who re-
ceived $50 price money for his part in
the capture at Fort Ticonderoga; Elijah
Kellogg of Shoreham; Josiah Lewis of
Poultney; Daniel Newton of Shoreham;
the original of Pete Jones in the Green
Mountain Boys" Capt. Edward Mott of
Preston, Conn. Capt. Samuel II. Parsons
of Deerfeld Mass; John Roberts and
five SONS, Christopher. Peter, Ben iamin,
John and William of Manchester; Isaac
Rice, who was for many years the guide
on the old fort grounds: Hopkins Row
ley of Pittsford; Thomas Rowley
OF Shoreham; Stephen and Nathan
Y Smith of Shoreham; Peleg Sunderland,
the associate of Allen and Warner;
Ephram Stevens of Pittsford; Joseph
Tyler of Bridport; Samuel Wolcott and
Samuel Wolcott, Jr., of Shoreham; James
Wilcox of Bridport and Amos Weller,
probably of Pittsford, or from that
; vicinity.
| PART 11.-Ira Allen; Remember
. Baker; DR.. Joseph Fay; Josiah Fuller;
Ezra Heacock, Col. Samuel Herrick;
, Ensign Lewis: Noah Phelps, Bernard
Romans and Col. Seth Warner.
1t is not improbable that some of the
names in the second list belong to the
, first, and it is possible that there are
names in the first list that subsequent
and more exhaustive research may re-
o quire to be dropped, but there are only
q few names in either list for which re-
. putable historic authority cannot be adj
: duced. 1t is hoped that those who
may be in possession of information as
to other names of men who We're pres
: ent either at the surrender of the fort OF
who constituted part of the expedition
will kindly communicate the same tC
the undersigned with "A reference tt
such authority as is relied upon together
with such family traditions as may be
to the end that if practicable, the list
may be restored and completed.
1t is altogether probable that there
was Mr.. Stone, a Mr.. Smith and Mr.
Chapman from Brdport, or its vicinity
whose names should be in this list
There seems to be evidence that there
were four other men, aside from any
named, from Bridport or Panton. L
seems certain that there were five mel
from Hartford, Conn, and eleven from
the vicinity of Salisbury; and that forty
men were raised in the vicinity o
Jericho and Willamstown, Mass. Th'
thirty men who went with Col. Herricl
to the capture of Skeenesboro We're pro
baby part of the two hundred an'
seventy that formed the expedition
1t seems probable that Capt, Douglas
had brother-in-law in the vicinity o
Panton or Crown Point who perhap
participated in the expedition: and TO
the names of any of these men tn,
writer will be grateful.
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