CHAPTER I.PAGEAn Account of Allen's Family,1CHAPTER II.Early Life, Habits of Thought, and Religious Tendencies,12CHAPTER III.Removal to Vermont.—The New Hampshire Grants,22CHAPTER IV.Allen and the Green Mountain Boys.—Negotiations Between New York and the New Hampshire Grants,32CHAPTER V.The Raid upon Colonel Reid's Settlers.—Allen's Outlawry.—Crean Brush.—Philip Skene,46CHAPTER VI.Preparations to Capture Ticonderoga.—Diary of Edward Mott.—Expeditions Planned.—Benedict Arnold.—Gershom Beach,61CHAPTER VII.Capture of Ticonderoga,73CHAPTER VIII.Allen's Letters to the Continental Congress, to the New York Provincial Congress, and to the Massachusetts Congress,81CHAPTER IX.Allen's Letters to the Montreal Merchants, to the Indians in Canada, and to the Canadians.—John Brown,89CHAPTER X.Warner Elected Colonel of the Green Mountain Boys.—Allen's Letter to Governor Trumbull.—Correspondence in Regard to the Invasion of Canada.—Attack on Montreal.—Defeat and Capture.—Warner's Report,98CHAPTER XI.Allen's Narrative.—Attack on Montreal.—Defeat and Surrender.—Brutal Treatment.—Arrival in England.—Debates in Parliament,110CHAPTER XII.Life in Pendennis Castle.—Lord North.—On Board the "Solebay."—Attentions Received in Ireland and Madeira,128CHAPTER XIII.Rendezvous at Cape Fear.—Sickness.—Halifax Jail.—Letter to General Massey.—Voyage to New York.—On Parole,144CHAPTER XIV.Release from Prison.—With Washington at Valley Forge.—The Haldimand Correspondence,162CHAPTER XV.Vermont's Treatment by Congress.—Allen's Letters to Colonel Webster and to Congress.—Reasons for Believing Allen a Patriot,173CHAPTER XVI.Allen with Gates.—At Bennington.—David Redding.—Reply to Clinton.—Embassies to Congress.—Complaint against Brother Levi.—Allen in Court,183CHAPTER XVII.Allen at Guilford.—"Oracles of Reason."—John Stark.—St. John de Crèvecœur.—Honors to Allen.—Shay's Rebellion.—Second Marriage,191CHAPTER XVIII.Death.—Civilization in Allen's Time.—Estimates of Allen.—Religious Feeling in Vermont.—Monuments,198
ETHAN ALLEN.