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."