Ebenezer Allen (1743 - 1806)

Born 17 Oct 1743 in Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Lydia (Richards) Allen — married 1762 in New Marlborough, Berkshire, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 26 Mar 1806 at age 62 in Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont, United States

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Biography

Ebenezer Allen is Notable.

Col Ebenezer Allen served with Green Mountain Boys during the American Revolution.

Ebenezer Allen is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A001502.

Ebenezer Allen is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: 102459
Rank: Colonel

Ebenezer was the son of Samuel Allen (1706-1755) and Hannah (Miller) Jones (1707-1771). ^[1][2][3][4] He was born 17 OCT 1743 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA^{[5] [6]} He was a tavern owner.

"Allen became a Lieutenant in a company of Green Mountain Boys, was with Ethan Allen when Ft. Ticonderoga was captured from the British, and with Colonel Warner in Canada. He was appointed a captain in Colonel Herrick's battalion of rangers in July 1777, and distinguished himself at the battle of Bennington. In September of the same year he captured Mt. Defiance by assault, and on the retreat of the enemy from Fort Ticonderoga made fifty of them prisoners. Subsequently he was made major in the rangers, and showed himself a brave partisan leader. In his later life he was always referred to as Col. Allen."[3] ^[7]

Allen occupied many positions of civil authority in Vermont. He was a Justice of the Peace, served on many town committees, and was a representative to the Vermont General Assembly from 1788-1792. He was prominent in the planning of a new government for Vermont, helping to frame its constitution.[4]

He moved to Bennington, VT, in 1768, and his family was the first to settle in Poutney in 1771. Within a short time, Ebenezer had relocated in Tinmouth and was there at the latest by June of 1773. ^[8]

He was one of the first two settlers in Poultney, 15 Apr 1771. His son was born there the same year, "the first white child born in Poultney. Allen remainded a few years, sold out, and removed to Grand Isle."^{[9] [10]}

The Palmer family history says he had a son, Ebenezer, a son, Timothy, and pollibly a daughter, Vashti.^[11]

On 29 Apr 1773, voted the right to lay out land in his own name.

In 1775 he became a lieutenant in Colonel Warner's regiment of Green Mountain boys; He was chosen Lieutenant by a great majority.^[12]. He removed to Timnouth in 1775, and was a delegate from that town to the several conventions in the New Hampshire grants in 1776, and to those that declared the state independent and formed the state constitution during the following year. He served as 1st Lieutenant in the Green Mountain Boys, 27th July 1775, to --January, 1776.

He was appointed a captain in Colonel Herrick's battalion of rangers in July 1777, He served subsequently as Colonel of a battalion New Hampshire Rangers and Militia. Ebenezer distinguished himself at the battle of Bennington. In September of the same year he captured Mt. Defiance by assault, andon the retreat of the enemy from Fort Ticonderoga made fifty of them prisoners. Subsequently he was made major in the rangers, and showed himself a brave mid successful partisan leader. Most men of the early days were at the taking of Ticonderoga and were "models of honesty, unflinching patriotism, and devotion to the interests of the new community." He "remained but a few years."^[13]

In 1780-81, he was mentioned in a record Capt Abel Meriman's Compy of Militia Colo. Eber Mllen's Regiment for their tower to Castleton. Octr 11 A.D. 1780.^{[14] [15]}

Allen was one of the original grantees of South Hero, Vermont by an act of the legislature in 1779. ^[16]

In 1783 he removed to South Hero, where he resided until 1800, when he went to Burlington and remained there until his death."

In 1790 Ebenezer was in the 1790 census in the two of South Hero, VT.

Ebenezer was third cousin to Ethan Allen. Ethan Allen spent his last night on earth in South Hero. In the tavern of his distant cousin, Ebenezer Allen (a figure of note in his own right) located at the very southernmost tip of the island, the storied hero of the revolution whiled away the evening of February 11, 1789. Legend has it his last night was spent reminiscing with a group of former Green Mt. Boys. It was on the trip home that Ethan Allen died, crossing the frozen lake on his hay wagon.^[17][18]

He died in Burlington, Vermont, 26 March 1806.

Ebenezer was mentioned on a memorial in Elmwood Cemetery, Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont, United States with a death date of 6 March 1806.^[19]

 ??, 88: during the Revolution captures two slaves and set them free, 24 Nov 1777.

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S00176 Data: Text: The ALLEN Memorial. second series. Descendants of Samuel Allenof Windsor, CT 1640-1907 by Orrin Peer Allen, 1907 (published by the author, from the press of C. B. Fiske & Company.)
2. ↑ Source: #S00241
3. ↑ Source: #S00207
4. ↑ Source: #S00008 Page: 21
5. ↑ Source: #S00008 Page: 22
6. ↑ Palmer families in America: "Palmer families in America"
   Introduction to "Palmers in America"
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Image (accessed 24 February 2024)
7. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 29 Oct 2023), "Record of Ebenezer Allen", Ancestor # A001502.
8. ↑ The Tinmouth Channel, a publication by the Tinmouth Historical & Genealogical Society, Summer 2001, Vol. 2, No. 4, page 12.
9. ↑ Joseph Joslin, Barnes Frisbie and Frederick Ruggles, A history of the town of Poultney, Vermont: from its settlement to the year 1875, with family and biographical sketches and incidents (Google eBook), 1875, 23, 24:
10. ↑ : Hiel Hollister, Pawlet One Hundred Years, J. Munsell: Albany, NY, 1867, 12
11. ↑ Palmer families in America: "Palmer families in America"
    Introduction to "Palmers in America"
    Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Image (accessed 24 February 2024)
12. ↑ The State of Vermont, Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, 1775 to 1783, Published by Authority of the Legislature, Compiled and Edited by John E. Goodrich, A Member of the Vermont Historical Society, Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company, 1904, 815:
13. ↑ Allen Family Records by Seaver page 68
14. ↑ . NARA, Muster rolls, payrolls, strength returns, and other miscellaneous personnel, pay, and supply records of American Army units, 1775-83. State: Vermont; Military Org: Allen's Regiment; Date Range: 1780-81; Folder: 6. "A Pay Roll of Capt Abel Meriman's Compy of Militia Colo. Eber Mllen's Regiment for their tower to Castleton. Octr 11 A.D. 1780.
15. ↑ image #9585324. NARA, Muster rolls, payrolls, strength returns, and other miscellaneous personnel, pay, and supply records of American Army units, 1775-83. State: Vermont; Military Org: Allen's Regiment;
16. ↑ "Wikipedia: 'Ebenezer Allen'"
17. ↑ https:// www. historiclakes. org/explore/islands .html
18. ↑ Palmer families in America: "Palmer families in America"
    Introduction to "Palmers in America"
    Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Image (accessed 24 February 2024)
19. ↑ Memorial: Find a Grave (has image)
    Find A Grave: Memorial #52433552 (accessed 24 February 2024)
    Memorial page for Col Ebenezer Allen (17 Oct 1743-6 Mar 1806), citing Elmwood Cemetery, Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont, USA (plot: 547); Maintained by Douglas Robinson (contributor 46999364).