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Object |
Announcement |
Title |
Remarks, &ct. on some late Laws passed in New York |
Date |
1774 |
Description |
Printed document written in response to the State of New York authorizing apprehension of members of the Green Mountain Boys, dated at Bennington April 15, 1774, by Ethan Allen, Seth Warner, Remember Baker, Robert Cochran, Peleg Sunderland, John Smith, and Sylvanus Brown. Postscript at bottom notes that James Breakenridge is not among the "rioters" although he is also named on the arrest warrent. Handwritten note on back signed by Ethan Allen to Capt. Mical Veal offering the printed document for his approval/information. |
Information |
This document is a response published by the Green Mountain Boys to a March 1774 arrest warrant issued by Governor Tryon of New York for Ethan Allen and others. The warrant, issued in response to increasingly violent clashes between Allen’s group and New York officials, coincided with a proclamation that the area of the Grants was in a riotous condition. In late 1773 the Green Mountain Boys informally tried two New York officials, burning houses and removing the roof from another. In this letter Allen and his comrades outline the validity of their claims on the New Hampshire Grants and a history of the conflict. In the document, the Green Mountain Boys also challenged anyone disputing their land or attempting to arrest those in the warrant to violent action. Addressing anyone that might "insist upon killing [them]" they said, "come on,we are ready to take a Game of Scalping with them." Allen sent this copy of the letter to Micah Vail in Danby, Vermont, asking him to "Assist us in Humbling the Houghty Land Jobbers at New York." |
Related People |
Allen, Ethan Baker, Remember Cochran, Robert Sunderland, Peleg Smith, John Warner, Seth Brown, Sylvanus Breckenridge, James Sr. Veal, Mical |
Catalog Number |
2007.140 |