Vermont photostat collection, 1774-1800.

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Vermont photostat collection, 1774-1800.

Papers relating to the history of Vermont and to Ira Allen. Includes selections from the papers of Heman Allen, Ira Allen, Samuel Avery, Silas Hathaway, and Isaac Tichenor. Also includes a portrait of Ira Allen.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8077420

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Allen, Ira, 1751-1814

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Ira Allen was born in Cornwall, Connecticut on April 21, 1751, the sixth and youngest son of Joseph and Mary (Baker) Allen. Moving to Vermont around 1770, Allen entered into various land speculations and became a member of the Onion River Land Company with his brothers Heman, Zimri, and Ethan and his cousin Remember Baker. During the Revolution he was a member of the Green Mountain Boys and he played important roles in the Canadian Campaign of 1775-1776 and in the recapturing of Fort ...

Avery, Samuel, 1791?-1867

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Allen, Heman, 1779-1852

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Tichenor, Isaac, 1754-1838

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Isaac Tichenor was born on February 8, 1754 in Newark, New Jersey. A 1775 graduate of Princeton College, Tichenor studied law in Schenectady, New York before his appointment as assistant to Jacob Cuyler, Deputy Commissary General of purchases for the Northern Department, in 1777. His job as purchasing agent took him throughout New England, and he settled in Bennington and opened a law practice at the close of the Revolutionary War. Tichenor's political career began in 17...

Hathaway, Silas, 1763-1831

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Silas Hathaway was born June 23, 1763, in Bennington, Vermont, He moved to St. Albans in 1788, where he was known as "Baron Hathaway" because of his extensive land holdings in north-western Vermont. Active in local and state affairs, Hathaway served as a state representative from 1789 to 1790, 1794 to 1796, 1798 to 1799, and in 1820. He was also a delegate to both the 1791 and 1793 constitutional conventions and an assistant judge in Franklin County in 1798 and 1799. Hathaway moved to Swanton in...