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Green Mountain Boys

Albany Posse! The Capture of Remember Baker, Captain of the Green Mountain Boys

March 17, 2022 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

The Green Mountain Boys in Council by Benson LossingBetween 1749 and 1764 colonial governor of the Province of New Hampshire Benning Wenworth made about 135 land grants (now known as the New Hampshire Grants), including 131 towns, on land claimed by New Hampshire west of the Connecticut River.  This area was also claimed by the colonial Province of New York.

From the 1760s until 1779 the Green Mountain Boys, led by Ethan Allen and his brother Ira, controlled the area. Based at a tavern in Bennington, they evaded arrest warrants from New York State and harassed settlers from New York, surveyors, and other officials, often with severe beatings and destruction of their belongings. [Read more…] about Albany Posse! The Capture of Remember Baker, Captain of the Green Mountain Boys

Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Capital-Saratoga, Events, History Tagged With: Albany, American Revolution, Crime and Justice, Green Mountain Boys, New Hampshire, New Hampshire Grants, Vermont

Green Mountain Boys in the American Revolution

July 9, 2019 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

mount independenceSince 2016 the Green Mountain Boys Project have been researching the celebrated military unit, which lived and served along what was then the New York and New Hampshire border (in modern day Vermont) from the 1760s until 1779.

The Green Mountain Boys, led by Ethan Allen and his brother Ira, controlled the area of disputed land grants. Based at a tavern in Bennington, they evaded arrest warrants from New York State and harassed settlers from New York, surveyors, and other officials, often with severe beatings and destruction of their belongings. [Read more…] about Green Mountain Boys in the American Revolution

Filed Under: History Tagged With: American Revolution, AmRev, Green Mountain Boys, Mount Independence, New Hampshire, New Hampshire Grants, Vermont

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