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NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 919
LT. GOV. COLDEN TO LORD DARTMOUTH.
CAPTURE OF TICONDEROGA BY THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS.
[Lond. Doc. XLV.1
New York, 7 June, 1775.
EXTRACT. While these transactions engrossed the attention
)f the City [of N. York] a matter of greater importance was
carried on in the Northern part of this Province No less than
the actual taking His Majestys Forts at Tienonderoga and Crown
Point, and making the Garrison Prisoners. I have not any
account my Lord of this affair, but what I have collected from
the current Reports, for all intelligence to Government thro'
the Country is effectually cut off. The only people of this Province who had any hand in this expedition, where that set of
lawless people whom your Lordship has heard much of under
the name of the Bennington Mob. They were joined by a party
fiom Connecticut and an other from Massachusetts Bay They
surprized the Garrison & took tle Forts without opposition.
The Prisoners are carried into Connecticut These people advanced across a lake as far as St Johns; took a Vessell there and
destroyed a number of Boats and some Store Houses. This will
retard the operations which Governor Carleton will probably
undertake on this occasion. He alone has it in his power to do
any thing in that quarter, and I hope he may have an opportunity of severely retaliating this wanton Act of Treason.
ETHAN ALLEN TO THE N. Y. PROV. CONGRESS.
Ticonderoga 20th July, 1775.
RESPECTABLE GENTLFEMENWhen I reflect on the unhappy controversy which, hath many
years subsisted between the government of New-York and the
settlers on the New-Hampshire Grants, and also contemplate on
the friendship and union that hath lately taken place between
the government and those its former discontented slubjects, ii
making a united resistance against ministerial vengeance and