Thank you very much for your help you should be knighted Flora -----Original Message----- From: Farns10th@aol.com <Farns10th@aol.com> To: NHSULLIV-L@rootsweb.com <NHSULLIV-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 12:36 PM Subject: Re: [NHSULLIV-L] Essays on New Hampshire's Part in the Struggle forIndepende... >Funny you asked as I spent a full day trying to get something on the Green >Mountain >Boys and this is all I found > > New York~New England and Ethan Allen > > >Excerpt below - entire coverage at this website: > >http://members.aol.com/Pochalidze/ethan.html > >In the early 1760s both New Hampshire and New York had claimed >jurisdiction over the land between the Connecticut and Hudson rivers. >After an appeal to London met with a decision favorable to New York in >1764, that colony tried to force settlers with New Hampshire titles to >pay for their land a second time. The New Hampshire claimants sought >legal aid, but, when a New York judge ruled against them, they met at >Stephen Fay's Catamount Tavern in Bennington and formed the Green >Mountain Boys to keep Yorker surveyors, sheriffs, and settlers off their >land. Ethan Allen, the leader of these Vermont vigilantes, confidently >announced, "The Gods of the hills are not the Gods of the valleys." >Holders of New Hampshire titles viewed Allen and his followers as the >local version of Robin Hood and his merry men. New York authorities >vilified them as "the Bennington Mob." Frederick Haldimand, the >Governor-General of Canada with whom Allen later negotiated for the >future of Vermont, described the Green Mountain Boys as a "collection of >the most abandoned wretches that ever lived." >