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Barnet, was with him when they noorobe,
Into the fort by the side of Ethan Alien
Statement OF Geo. w. Kennedy, BuriinR
ton, Vermont.)
Samuel Blagden of Salisbury, Conn. wa,
with the party at Castieton and went +,
Whitehall. Wordon's American Rcvo,,,
t'on, PIP. 1l-12.)
y f+ershom Beach Of Salisbury, VT, I.
said to have been present. (proceedinp
Vermont Historical society 1904. page es.
Ozlas Bissell is said to have beer
present at the capture. Empire Stat,
s.. A. r.. Reg. p. 3si)
Thomas Barber, ard, was with tn,
party at Norfolk. Corn. Conn. IIistor,.
cal Collections, Vol. I, page 1919
Col. John Brown Of Pittsfeld entered
the fort with Allen. A graduate OF Yale
College. Kings attorney It Johnstown
n. Y. and acquainted with Sir. Jobr
Johnston. Moved to Pittsfeld, Mass. 177a
held various military offices. killed Octo.
tober 10. 1850, T." the 36th year of his age
He is said to have been engaged in the
capture. Conn. Men in Revolution
Fields Berkshire, page 50. Chittenden.
page 110.)
Epaphras Bull of Hartford, Conn, was
ono of tic war committee under whose
direction the expedition proceeded
Conn. Men in Revolution. Chittenden,
page 1887
= Nathan Beman, who ~as Aliens
guide into the fort. in 1875, wrot. rs
follows: Il was over IS years old and
resided with my father, Samuel Beman,
in the town of Shoreham. VT, nearly
opposite the fort. I had been in the habit
or visiting the fort very frequently. be-
Ing we'll acquainted with Captain Della
PAGES family and other young people
residing there. On the day preceding the
capture my father and mother dined by
invitation with Captain Delaplace. was
with the party and spent the day in and
ABOUT the fort. On our return to Shore.
nam in the evening and just as we were
landing We discovered troops approach
ing who We soon ascertained to be Allen
and his party. To my father. with whom
he had been long acquainted. Allen stated
his object. and the proper measures were
at once concerted for at once accomplish
ing it." tThe Malone Palladium, May
2sth, 1881
Judge Samuel A. Beman Of Malone, n.
Y, is a lineal descendant of Nathan
Beman. The Judge adds n little family
'N'hBi'N', tp'I S'NiiS II
with Colonel Allen. exclaimed. What, you
here, Nathan, and am 1 your prisoner
In response to the inquiry Nathan replied,
Not mine, but Colonel Aliens" Ma
than Beman afterwards served in Col.
onel Set Warmers regiment. was with
Montgomcr.. at Montreal and Quebec;
and his father, Samuel, served in Bene-
dict Arnold's regiment in the same cam
paign.
Samuel Beman, the father. lived at
Shoreham upon the farm owned by the
late Judge Myron Plat, into which
Hands Cove projects from Lake Cham
plain. It was from this cove that Allen
and his party embarked for the capture
of Fort I'll. In ancient days a little rlvu-
let ran through this farm westerly to-
ward Lake Champlain. cutting through
clay banks OF the lake making a deep
and broad hollow in pla ces a quarter or
half a mile in width. 1t Is now n marsh
filled with a tangled growth Of wild
grasses and rushes. The stream has al
most disappeared although 1t was once
sufficient TO turn a sawmill. When the
woods covered the hills the locality would
form n convenient place where n consider
able body of mon might gather without
danger Of being observed from the op-
posite side of the lake. The mouth OF the
cove is probably two and one-half or
three miles distant from the point upon
Lake Chanplain where Allen and his
party hnded on the New York shore.
The Hands Cove Chapter of the D. A.. r..
take their name from this historic spot
and the patriotic ladies of this Chapter
have erected a marker on the farm for
merly owned by Samuel Beman to desig-
nate the spot where Allen and his party
embarked upon their immortal voyage.
Nathan Beman married lAmlma, daugh.
ter Of John and Susanna Roberts of
Manchester. VT. Nathan appears in Man.
chester not long after the capture of Fort
III. and probably returned to that place
with the expedition. He and his wife left
Manchester before 1900 and went to Ferris
burgh. VT, removing thence to Platts-
burgh. N. Y. and became one of the first
settlers of ~Chateaugay, N. Y.
In the family of Nathan's wife the ira
dition obtains that Nathan was a play
mate of the son of Captain Delaplace and
that the captains wife had been very
kind to Nathan. and Nathan, before ur,.
dcrtaking to act as a guide for Allen,
stipulated that no harm should come to
either the boy or his mother. From thi.
same source the information 's obtained
that Samuel Beman, the father, and his
brother. Abner. were scouts in the en-
ploy Of Washington. statement OF e. G..
Manchester. VIZ
:" Major Samuel Beach of Whiting, VT. |
was born in New Jersey, his parents re-
to Virginia and finally to Vermont |
nrinr 20 ~. paxyol,ttan liz x,o, % -
Teton with Allen and was sent to rally
the Green Mountain Boys. He started
on this mission at day-break, going from
Castleton to Rutland. to Pittsford. Bran
don, Leicester, Salisbury. Middlebury,
Cornwall, Whiting and Shoreham, a dis
Of GA miles. Smith in his history
says this was accomplished "between
he rising and the setting OF the sun"
Others say that the time occupied was
"a hours. Perhaps the expression "be-
tween the rising and the setting OF the
may be considered n fgurative one.
Smith says, "The following day at early
he entered the fort by the side of
His descendants still treasure
the silk stockings worn by him OH this
march and the staff which he carried. and
hey likewise preserve n silk vest present
ID him by Washington. which has the gen
erals profile woven in the silk in over
% different places. He served through
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