[624] There are photographs of it in the Boston Public Library, Mass. State Library, and Mass. Hist. Society library.
[625] Cf. his letter to the provincial congress of Massachusetts in their journals, and various letters from him in the Trumbull Papers, vol. iv.
[626] Dr. Trumbull also stated the Connecticut case in the Hartford Daily Courant, Jan. 9, 1869, likewise printed separately. Cf. further Hollister's Connecticut, ii. ch. 7; Hinman's Connecticut in the Revolution, p. 29.
[627] Holland's Western Mass.; Barry's Mass.; Smith's Pittsfield; letters of Thomas Allen, May 4 and 9, 1775, in Hist. Mag., i. p. 109, etc.
[628] The original edition, A narrative of Col. Ethan Allen's Captivity, Sept. 25, 1775, to May 6, 1778, containing his voyages and travels, with the most remarkable occurrences respecting himself, ... particularly the destruction of the prisoners at New York by Gen. Sir William Howe, in 1776 and 1777. Written by himself (Philad., 1779), was reprinted the same year in Philad., and also in Boston; again at Newbury, for publication in Boston, 1780; at Norwich in 1780; at Philadelphia in 1799; in the Appendix of the second volume of Ira Allen's Particulars of the Capture of the ship Olive Branch, etc. (Philad., 1805); with notes, at Walpole, N. H., 1807 (Stevens, Hist. Coll., ii. no. 6); at Albany, 1814; at Burlington, 1838; as Ethan Allen's Captivity, being a Narrative, etc. (Boston, 1845); as A Narrative of Col. Ethan Allen's Captivity (Burlington, 1846, and, with slightly changed title, in 1849); as Ethan Allen's Narrative of the Capture of Ticonderoga and of his Captivity, etc. (Burlington, 1849); as Narrative of the Captivity, etc. (Dayton, 1849). Cf. Sabin, i. 793-800, 821. Allen's letter (May 11th) to the Massachusetts Congress is in Dawson's Battles, i. 38; and another (May 10th) to Seth Warner is in the Mag. of Am. Hist., 1885, p. 319. Various letters of Ethan Allen at this time are among the Trumbull Papers (vol. iv.): to the Conn. Assembly, from Crown Point, May 26, 1775, covering a copy of his letter to the Indians (p. 96); to Governor Trumbull, July 6th and Aug. 3d. His letter from Crown Point, June 2d, to the N. Y. Congress, is in Sparks's Gouverneur Morris, i. p. 54. Cf. Lives of Allen by Sparks and by Hugh Moore; De Puy's Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain heroes; Williams's Vermont. Dr. De Costa having, in the Galaxy, Dec., 1868 (also in his Fort George, p. 10), disputed Allen's claim to the sole credit of the surprise, he was answered by Hiland Hall in a pamphlet, The Capture of Ticonderoga (Montpelier, 1869; also in the Vermont Hist. Soc. Proc., Oct. 19, 1869). Cf. Ira Allen's Vermont; Goodhue's Shoreham, Vt.
[629] Cf. Lives of Arnold by Sparks and by Isaac N. Arnold (ch. 2). The regimental memorandum-book of Benedict Arnold, written while at Ticonderoga and Crown Point, is printed in the Penna. Mag. of History (Dec., 1884), viii. 363, and separately. It begins May 10th and ends June 24th, and is published from a copy made by W. H. B. Thomas before the original was lost. The Sparks MSS. (lii. vol. ii. p. 27) contain letters from Arnold between 1775 and 1780, beginning with a letter from Crown Point, May 23, 1775, and ending with a letter dated at Philadelphia, July 17, 1780, to Governor Huntington. There is a letter of Arnold from Crown Point, June 13, 1775, in the Trumbull Papers (vol. iv. p. 111). Arnold was accused of countenancing the robbery of Skene's house a few days before the capture, and some papers in his defence are given in Stevens's Bibliotheca Historica (1870), no. 96. The original list of trophies of Ticonderoga, in Arnold's handwriting, is in Dr. T. A. Emmet's Collection (Carrington's Battles). Cf. "Who took Ticonderoga?" in Hist. Mag., vol. xv. (Feb., 1869) p. 126. Arnold's appointment of May 3d, and his report of May 14th, are given from the original documents in the possession of Jonathan Edwards, of N. Y., in Jones's N. Y. during the Rev., i. pp. 546-7.
[630] Jones (p. 49) sets forth the tergiversations of Duane and other New Yorkers (who had assisted a few months before in proclaiming Allen an outlaw) as soon as the capture of Ticonderoga had made him the hero of the hour. Depositions and other documents in the Doc. Hist. N. Y., iv., touch the riotous proceedings of Allen, which had caused a price to be set on his head by the New York authorities. Cf. also Jones, N. Y. during the Rev., i. note xx.
[631] Cf. also Schuyler's letters in Sparks's Correspondence of the Amer. Revolution and Lossing's Life of Schuyler, i. 310. Lossing also deals with the subject in his Field-Book of the Revolution, and in Harper's Monthly, vol. xvii. p. 721. Chas. Carroll (Journal to Canada, 1876, p. 75) describes the ruinous condition of Ticonderoga a year later. Reference may be made to Sparks's Gouverneur Morris (vol. i. ch. 4), and to the general historians: Bancroft (orig. ed., vii. 338); Gay's Pop. Hist. U. S. (iii. ch. 17); Irving's Washington (i. 404); and local histories, like Watson's Essex County (ch. 9); Palmer's Lake Champlain; Holden's Queensbury (p. 405); Bourne's Wells and Kennebunk, Me.; Van Rensselaer's Essays; Poole's Index, etc. A letter of Joseph Warren congratulating Connecticut on the event is in Frothingham's Warren, p. 490. Another letter of Joseph Warren (Watertown, May 17, 1775) to John Scollay, being captured by Gage, gave the British general the first intimation of the fall of Ticonderoga (Sparks, MSS., xxxii.). Governor Franklin communicates a diary at Ticonderoga, May 11-19, to Dartmouth (N. Jersey Archives, x. 608). Respecting the condition of Ticonderoga after the capture, see Eliphalet Dyer's letter, May 31, 1775, in Hist. Mag., vii. 22; and the letters of Governor Trumbull and the Connecticut committee to the New Hampshire authorities, in the N. H. Prov. Papers, vii. 489-501.
[632] Sparks caused copies to be made of some of the most important parts, which are in the Sparks MSS., no. lx.
[633] The orderly-book of Sergeant Aaron Barlow, under Montgomery, June 2 to Dec. 6, 1775, was preserved in 1848, when a copy was made for the New York Historical Society (Proc., 1849, p. 279).