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Ethan Allen, leading the Green Mountain Boys, captured Fort Ticonderoga on May 10, 1775. This letter was written two days later, offering to Johnathan Trumbull some of the captured officers as ransom. Allen's words are presented here in his handwriting, followed by a typed transcription.

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Document size: 14" x 16"

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