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In grateful
appreciation to:
Bob Grigg
Curator:
Colebrook Historical
Society
Municipal Historian:
Town of Colebrook,
County of Litchfield,
State of Connecticut, USA
"Ethan Allen took Ticonderoga
in 1775 and told the commander that he did it in the name of the Great
Jehovah [he probably chose stronger language] and the Continental Congress.
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This is taken
from The Connecticut Magazine, July, August, September 1906. The
article, entitled “Memoirs of Connecticut” was written by Edward Everett
Hale.
“Remember that in that critical struggle of
the revolution which
 we
like to go back to, there was, strictly speaking, no revolution in
Connecticut; every form of government went on without a break of a hair as
it had done before. The elections were the old colonial elections. Governor Trumbull was chosen as every other governor had been chosen in
every other Connecticut election from the beginning. Randolph and some other
English governors were commissioned as governors of New England, but they
exercised no power in Connecticut except, perhaps, sending a catch-poll to
hunt up a fugitive. When the Revolution came, Connecticut had her governor
and her army; she knew how to
commission her officers and to arm her troops. Ethan Allen took
Ticonderoga in 1775 and told the commander that he did it in the name of the
Great Jehovah [he probably chose stronger language] and the Continental
Congress. This was a very imaginative use of language. The only
commission he had was from the state of Connecticut, and she used such power
exactly as she had used it in commissioning colonels for one hundred and
fifty years.
- Bob Grigg
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