they considered as their own. They disputed the title, and defended themselves by arms. Allen was their leader, and he was declared an outlaw. As soon as hostilities commenced between Great Britain and her colonies, these hardy soldiers of the wilderness, engaged fiercely in the cause of America, and marched directly to Ticonderoga and Crown Point, which places were garrisoned by British troops. These garrisons were surprised and taken May 10th, the former by Allen, and the other by col. Seth Warner, one of the boldest of these mɔuntaneers, who from this time took the name of the Green mountain boys.

After this, col, Allen passed the lake with the troops that gen. Montgomery commanded, and was sent to the Canadians to give them information and gain their influence, in which he met with some success. This was during the summer months. He went a second time in November. But attempting to take Montreal, he with his whole party of Canadians, were taken prisoners. He says, that Brown first proposed this, but did not assist him according to his promise. It was thought an imprudent action, and col. Allen, whose fame had been trumpeted through the provinces, was now called a "high flying genius" fearless as a man, but without prudence for a superior officer. His courage did not forsake him when he was taken, but he acted and spake like one conscious of doing well, and deserving applause. He was put in irons and sent over the Atlantick, was in prison in England, and aboard a vessel, in Halifax and New York, and in 1771 exchanged for col. Archibald Campbell, who had been taken with a battalion of Highlanders in Boston bay in the summer of 1776. He published a book the next year, which is styled "his narrative" which makes him a hero in suffering as well

as action.

We hear but little of him during the last year of the war, the historian not finding so many instances

of his prowess as are related in the narrative.-He might perhaps expect a separate command, which some officers had who were inferior to him in the date of their commisions, or had not been so early in the field. He appeared after his exchange to have been more of a politician than a warrior; and entered fully into all the debates about making the green mountains a separate state; and amused his mind at the same time with theological enquiries. With these, the publick were favoured. He printed a book called the Oracles of Reason in which he thought he had said enough to discard all revelation. But he was not fortunate enough to convince others that religion was a fable; or that he was able to manage a controversy in which men of much greater ingenuity had failed. The book was equally bad in argument and style; it was wretchedly printed, very little read, and is now wholly forgot

ten.

ALLEN EBENEZER, also a green mountain boy, was one of the first soldiers of the revolution. He was in the party that went against Ticonderoga. With forty men he went upon the hill Defiance, and carried the fortress without loss of a man. He also distinguished himself in the battle of Bennington; taking advantage of a breastwork of rocks, he contended with the front of the enemy, till he caused a temporary retreat. He was among those who exerted themselves in making Vermont a separate state, and lived to see not only the wilderness subdued, where he first ploughed the ground, but the places filled with inhabitants.-The account of his death is mentioned in the newspapers of the year

1805.

ALLERTON JOHN, one of the number who arrived at Plymouth, 1620-he died the first winter.

ALLERTON ISAAC, one of the first settlers, who was employed as their agent in England upon several occasions. In 1620 he went over to treat with the adventurers and to obtain money and articles

which were wanted in the plantation. The next year he went again upon a similar errand, and Nov. 6, finished "the bargain with the company at London, delivered his bonds and received their deeds." In 1628 he returned to New England, and was sent in the fall as the agent of those planters, that he might get their Kennebeck patent enlarged, and give some assistance to their friends at Leyden. He returned the next year without accomplishing their object, the enlargement and confirmation of the Plymouth patent. Morton was his clerk in this business, who came over with him, and proved a scourge to the plantation, and also Mr. Rodgers an independent minister, who proved insanc, and whom he carried back the year after according to the wishes of his brethren. They also commissioned him to finish the business of the patent. He returned to New England in the spring of 1630, and brought over Ashley and others who had taken a patent for Penobscot to trade with the natives in those eastern parts.

We find no further account of his being employed upon publick business. It is most likely he spent the remainder of his days with the people at Plymouth, but the year of his death is not recorded.

AMES DR. NATHANIEL, of Dedham, Massachusetts, was eminent as a physician and mathematician. He published an almanack forty years successively, which was so highly reputed, that no other almanacks were saleable in this and the neighbouring states. When he died, in the year 1765, he had made the calculations for the ensuing year, The almanack was published as his, and so attached were all classes of people to the name, that the demand was great for all that were printed. This worthy man descended in a direct line from the Rev. William Ames, son of the famous Franequer professor, who wrote the Medulla Theologia.*

Mr. William Ames was likewise ejected from Wrentham, and the next parish, Frostendon: Having been in the year 1648

AMES FISHER, Esq. the son of the astronomer, one of the most brilliant men this country ever produced, was born at Dedham, and graduated at Harvard College, 1774, when he was only 16 years of age. His compositions at this early period were excellent and original. They discovered not only a rich and glowing fancy, but correct taste and judgment beyond what could be expected from a youth. During the revolutionary war he was engaged in no particular business, but dwelt in the family mansion at Dedham, where he must have adorned and enriched his mind with those stores of knowledge which enabled him to give such delight to his friends, and render such eminent services to the community.

He was afterwards a student at law, and from exercising his profession a few years, he was introduced into a more extensive field of usefulness. In 1788 the convention met in Boston for the purpose of deliberating on the constitution recommended by the grand federal convention. He was sent as a member to this body, from his native town, and made a distinguished figure among the most cloquent speakers. A passage from one speech he

settled as co-pastor with his uncle Phillips, to the church of Christ in Wrentham; and likewise preaching one part of the Lord's day at Frostendon for many years. And at that time, I suppose Mr. Thomas King, after Mr. Phillips' great decay, supplied at Wrentham. Mr. Ames died in the year 1689, in the 66th year of his age. He was the son of the famous Dr. William Ames, (who after having been twelve years pastor at Franequer, was dismissed from thence, in order to his being professor at Rotterdam, and died not in 1639, as has been represented by some, but in 1633) and when a child went over with his mother to New England, where he had his education at Harvard College, and became a graduate in 1645, and returned to Old England and came to Wrentham in 1646. He was a very holy man, of the Congregational persuasion, and in all respects an excellent per son. He hath a sermon in print entitled the "saints security against seducing spirits; or, the anointing from the Holy One the best teaching;" on 1. John, ii. 20; preached at Paul's, before the lord mayor, aldermen, &c. Nov. 5, 1651. Calamy's Continuation, &c. vol. II. pp. 797, 798.

made carly in the session, was quoted with high approbation by a southern orator in their convention, as being the most forcible and animating description of the spirit of democracy. The eyes of the people were, turned to him when they elected members of Congress; and he represented the Suffolk District eight years. Amidst that constellation of worthies he shone a star of the first magnitude. The latter part of the time, his health was peculiarly delicate, and his feeble frame would often sink under the bold efforts made by a mind of superior native vigour and wonderfully active. But although he was able to pay less attention to publick concerns than he was prompted by the ardent desire of his soul, he delivered some of the best speeches ever heard in an American assembly. From this publick sphere he went to the shades of retirement, where he could enjoy his book, and his friends; attend to rural affairs or, as his health permitted, to the business of his profession.

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He was chosen into the council in the administration of gov. Sumner, and when the legislature met after the death of Washington, he was elected by them to pronounce the publick eulogy. degree of Doctor of Laws he received from New Jersey, and he was unanimously chosen president of Harvard College, which honour he declined in a polite letter to the corporation. His last days on earth were painful from his bodily complaints, but the vigour of his mind never failed; many admirable productions of a political nature came from his pen, equally instructive and entertaining, full of virtuous sentiments and true patriotick zeal. During every period of his life, his splendid abilities were guarded by his integrity and religion, and "adorned with the choicest flowers of eloquence :" and even when the last breath lingered on his trembling lips the recollection of his past life armed him with resignation; and the pure principles of his religious belief turned the shadows of death into the light of the morning.