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Ira Allen was born in Cornwall in the Connecticut Colony (in present-day Litchfield County, Connecticut), the youngest of eight children born to Joseph and Mary Baker Allen. In 1771, Allen went to Vermont (then part of the British colonial Province of New York) with his brother Ethan as a surveyor for the Onion River Land Company.
Ethan Allen (January 21, 1738 [O.S. January 10, 1737] [a] – February 12, 1789) was an American farmer, writer, military officer and politician. He is best known as one of the founders of Vermont and for the capture of Fort Ticonderoga during the American Revolutionary War, and was also the brother of Ira Allen and the father of Fanny Allen.
Kevin Graffagnino's "Ira Allen: A Biography" examines the complex and often disliked Vermonter, who was the first person to donate land for UVM. 'A difficult Founding Father to love': New ...
They married before Allen left for his diplomatic mission. She died in 1834, as did their daughter Jeanette. In 1844, Allen married Eliza Davis Fay. They were the parents of three daughters and a son. [13] Allen was the nephew of Ira Allen and Ethan Allen. He was the distant cousin of Heman Allen (of Milton). [14] [15]
Ira Allen – militia leader, and the founder of the University of Vermont (Ethan Allen's brother) [10] Remember Baker – militia member (captain) (Ethan Allen's cousin) [ 11 ] John Fassett Jr. – Vermont Supreme Court Justice, 1778–1786, diarist who chronicled the Green Mountain Boys’ 1775 expedition to Canada .
Jason Allen. Josh and his younger brother bonded over their love of sports growing up. “For as long as I can remember, sitting there in our living room watching Monday Night Football, running ...
Ira Allen was the principal on the Vermont side.. The Haldimand Affair (also called the Haldimand or Vermont Negotiations) was a series of negotiations conducted in the early 1780s (late in the American Revolutionary War) between Frederick Haldimand, the British governor of the Province of Quebec, his agents, and several people representing the independent Vermont Republic.
In "Pure Innocent Fun," 38-year-old TV writer and cultural critic Ira Madison uses his signature wit to examine his childhood as a Black closeted gay boy in the Midwest. Photo: Kit Karzen / Random ...