He was so zealous in these efforts that they also included naming his own brother Levi, who was apparently trying to swindle Allen and Ira out of land at the time. Arnold then began asserting his authority over Allen for control of Ticonderoga and Crown Point. In 1807, Fanny went to Montreal to study French, where she subsequently underwent conversion to Catholicism. Efforts by members of the Vermont Historical Society and other historical groups through the years have followed up on rumored likenesses, only to come up empty. The death of Heman, with whom Allen had been quite close, hit him quite hard.He then set out for Bennington, where news of his impending return preceded him, and he was met with all of the honor due a military war hero.Allen spent the next several years involved in Vermont's political and military matters.

To that end, he and about 100 Boys climbed into four bateaux, and began rowing north.When Allen and his men landed above St. John and scouted the situation, they learned that a column of 200 or more regulars was approaching. Finally, the failure of the attempt on St. John's was widely seen as reckless and ill-advised, attributes they did not appreciate in a regimental leader.When he returned from that expedition eight days later, Brigadier General On September 24, he and Brown, whose company was guarding the road between St. John's and Montreal, met at Much of what is known of Allen's captivity is known only from his own account of the time; where contemporary records are available, they tend to confirm those aspects of his story.In January 1776, Allen and his men were put on board HMS According to another prisoner's account, Allen wandered off after learning of his son's death.
A lack of cash, complicated by Vermont's currency problems, placed a strain on Fanny's relatively free hand on spending, which was further exacerbated by the cost of publishing Allen and his family moved to Burlington in 1787, which was no longer a small frontier settlement but a small town, and much more to Allen's liking than the larger community that Bennington had become.

She was five when her father died. The Fanny Allen Hospital in Colchester, Vermont, run by her order, the Religious Hospitaliers of St. Joseph, was named in her honor.Ethan had five children with his first wife Mary Brownson: Loraine, born in 1763, who died in 1783 of consumption; Joseph, born in 1765, who died of smallpox in 1777; Lucy Caroline, born in 1768, who died in 1842; Mary Ann, born in 1772, who died in 1790, the year after her father; and Pamela, who was born in 1779, and who died at the age of thirty.Ethan's marriage to Mary, who was several years older than he, does not seem to have been particularly happy. Allen's Immediate Family Ethan Allen was born in 1738 in Litchfield, Connecticut, the eldest of the eight children of Joseph and Mary Allen. There is little historic evidence of these qualities, and much more for the fact that Ethan was not an easy man; he was impulsive, a heavy drinker, and frequently absent from home.Mary died of consumption in 1783, a few months before her eldest daughter, in Sunderland, Vermont.Ethan met his second wife, Fanny, in 1784, fell in love and married her within a few months. There is an original something in him that commands admiration; and his long captivity and sufferings have only served to increase, if possible, his enthusiastic zealAllen's date of birth is made confusing by calendrical differences caused by the conversion between the Vermont Historical Society, pp. Joseph Allen was one of the wealthier landowners in the area by the time of his death in 1755. Allen's widow Fanny gave birth to a son, Ethan Alphonso, on October 24, 1789. His family moved to Cornwall soon after his birth. While his family remained in Arlington, he spent most of his time either in Bennington or on the road, where he could avoid his wife's nagging.While Allen's service as a judge in Vermont was brief, he continued to ferret out Tories and report them to local Boards of Confiscation for action. Of these siblings, his youngest brother Ira is best known as the founder of the University of Vermont in 1791, and as an influential member of the government of the Republic of Vermont.Ethan's father died in 1755, thus preventing Ethan from going to Yale to pursue his education, a disappointment he felt throughout his life. The Boys, in a panic, piled into their bateaux and rowed with all speed upriver. Governor Tryon and the Green Mountain Boys exchanged threats, truce offers, and other writings, frequently written by Allen in florid and didactic language while the Green Mountain Boys continued to drive away surveyors and incoming tenants. Allen was the 22nd graduate, a member of the Class of 1806, and served until 1821.
The family tree for Ethan Allen is still in the early stages of research. Rather than attempt an ambush on those troops, which significantly outnumbered his tired company, Allen withdrew to the other side of the river, where the men collapsed with exhaustion and slept without sentries through the night. H.M. Allen was the 7th graduate, a member of the Class of 1804, and served until 1813. There he learned that his brother Heman had died just the previous week, and that his brother Zimri, who had been caring for Allen's family and farm, had died in the spring following his capture. As tradition relates it, her conversion was based on a supernatural experience; whatever the impetus, she became a sister in the Religious Hospitaliers of St. Joseph. Fanny had grown up in New York, and, through her stepfather, had strong Tory connections. Allen's two youngest sons went on to graduate from Sometime in the early 1850s, the original plaque marking Allen's grave disappeared; its original text was preserved by early war historian In 1858, the Vermont Legislature authorized the placement of a 42-foot (13 m) column of Vermont The exact location within the cemetery of his remains is unknown.No likenesses of Allen made from life have been found, in spite of numerous attempts to locate them.

She was revered after her death, as she was in her life. Instead, Ethan, the oldest of seven children, took over the family landholdings.