Allen, ETHAN (1738-89), born at Litchfield, Conn., took part in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga (1775), and did good service in Montgomery's expedition to Canada, but was taken prisoner, and not exchanged till 1778. He was a member of the Vermont legislature. He wrote a deistical work on reason (1784). See Life by De Puy (1853).
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