ALLEN, Ebenezer, soldier, born in Northampton, Massachusetts, 17 October 1743; died in Burlington, Vermont, 26 March 1806. In 1771 he immigrated to Poultney, Vermont. and became a lieutenant in Colonel Warner's regiment of Green Mountain boys. 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 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 mid successful partisan leader. In 1783 he removed to South Hero, where he resided until 1800, when he went to Burlington and remained there until his death.

ALLEN, Ebenezer, soldier, born in Northampton, Massachusetts, 17 October 1743; died in Burlington, Vermont, 26 March 1806. In 1771 he immigrated to Poult-ney, Vermont. and became a lieutenant in Colonel Warner's regiment of Green Mountain boys. 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 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 Mr. Defiance by assault, and on the retreat of the enemy from Fort Ticonderoga made fifty of them priso;iers. Subsequently he was made major in the rangers, and showed himself a brave mid successful partisan leader. In 1783 he removed to South Hero, where he resided until 1800, when he went to Burlington and remained there until his death.

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