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Men Who Enetred II with Ethan
Allen.
(Con,inucd from 18th pngc.)

\ different men does not suggest that any
Iof the claims are fictitious but rather that
tthe men speak Of q different period as
tho time when Allen entered the fort.
| Christopher was engaged in the battles
tof Hubbardton and Bennington, was in
lcommand of II company detailed to take
| the women and children to M~assachus-
! etts for safety. He held many town and
| county offices; was Il prominent mason
and received his first degree with other
| Green Mountain Boys from Seth warner
under n dispensation from a lodge in
| Connecticut. He died 1882. Judge Mum
son says that Christopher was one Of
| Aliens guides and was one of the first
to enter the fort.
| william Roberts married Rachel An
drus and was with his brothers in the
e expedition against Ticondcroga; was en-
gagged In the battles at Hubbardton and
tBcnnington; lived in Dorset. Vermont.
| This family was known rs the Eight
Eng Roberts Family and considering
THE remarkable military record of the
kfather and tho five sons 1t is not sur
that they came to be thus de-
t%stgnated. tMunson's History of Manches-
tier, page p. Statement OF L. G. futile,
J Manchester Centre, VT
Bernard Romans of Hartford, Conn"
seems to have boon entrusted with i'm
portant responsibility in the beginning of
the expedition. He appears to have be-
come dissatisfied and while he took part
to some extent IN the expedition he was
| not present at the capture and dpes not
seem to have operated III harmony with
the other men. He was born in Holland
and died about 1893. At Bennington May
3rd, 1875, he paid Elisha Phelps 60 pounds
=
(DeCosta's notes on the history of Fort
George
Edward Richards. From the state
ment contained in the application for the
pension of Josiah Cunning he appears to
have been present the day after the cap
ture Of T~iconderoGa. but whether he was
one of the eighty-three or not is not
known. (Pension Office Records of Josiah
Dunning)
4Capt. John Stevens seems to have been
one of the party and it is said that he
went to Albany possibly TO buy provisions
and was probably with the party at Cas-
Teton. (Chittenden, page 1881
Josiah S%toddard of Salisbury. Conn,
was with the party at Norfolk. (Con-
!recticut Historical Collections, vol. J.,
page 1917
tPeleg Sunderland went with Seth
Warner to the capture OF Crown Point
and must have been present at Hands
Cove, but whether he was present at the
capture of Ticonderoga is uncertain.
tRobinson's Vermont, p. Ill, Chittenden, p.
709.)
fsLieut. Samuel Torrey, born Leicester,
Mass, June 22nd. 1853. removed to Gull
ford, Vermont, died November 18th 1898.
Married first Sabra Herrick, January 10,
S-SE. - rriaJ cpOprI yIactpr A11pp lam
uary 5. 1875; married third Olive Sma1ley
Gains, Oct. !, 1895. 1t is an ancient and
apparently well established tradition that
Lieut.. Torrey was one of the eighty
three to enter the fort with Allen. Abel
Ripley Torrey of Detroit, Mich, in 1875
said that his father, Samuel, was one of
those that entered the fort with Ethan
Allen. (Statement OF T. NJ. Tobin, Swan
ton. ermo and Clarence Almon Torrey,
University of Chicago, ND
1*Stephen Smith of Manchester. Vt.
entered the fort with Allen. Removed to
Shoreham 1884. He is sometimes called
Capt. stephen Smith. He was one of the
-four brothers who settled early in Shore
ham and from whom the beautiful and
picturesque Smith street takes its name.
History of Shoreham, page 12)
t"Nathan Smith. Jr.. son of Nathan,
brOtncr OF StepNeE dbpNe mentioned,
came to Shoreham about 1886. Was pres
rnt at the capture of Ticonderoga. His
father, Major Nathan Smith. was in the
battle of Bennington ana was one of the
first two to scale the breastWorks of the
British. GTistory of Shoreham. page 23.)
fJohn Stevens of Canaan. Conn, was
pne of the party from that State.
f+Ephraim Stevens of Pittsford, Yer
mont. a son of Roger Stevens and Mary
Doolittle, sister OF Col. Doolittle of
Ehoreham, was a brother of Roger
Stevens, the celebrated tory. Was one of
the five who went from Pittsford and is
said to have crossed the lake with AL
lens party and to have come originally
from Duchess county, n. Y. (History of
Pittsford, PIP. 1Do-103. Statement of w. b.
Butler, Florence, Vt)
~t'Col. John S~pafford of Tinmouth,
Vermont, was born IN Connecticut, died
at Lowville. y. Y, April "a, 1893, aged II
years. An obituary in an unknown paper
ptates that 'he with his company was
with Allen and Arnold in the taking OF
Ttconderoga and was by them directed to
Join In the expedition under Col. Warner
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