..Under the crown, American history; . t orders for the assembling of his forces,civil and military. Before him as chairman of acommittee of safety offenders were brought, 154 THE C\TAMOUNT TAVERN. tried, condemned and received sentences fromhis lips, sometimes of banishment from theterritory, sometimes of imprisonment, and fre-quently scourging with the twigs of the wilder-ness. A prominent doctor who made himselfobnoxious by persistent sympathy with the Yorkers sufferedonly the indignityof being suspend-ed in an armchairfor two hours fromthe tavern sign,above a jeeringcrowd. When Try onwas r
..Under the crown, American history; . t orders for the assembling of his forces,civil and military. Before him as chairman of acommittee of safety offenders were brought, 154 THE C\TAMOUNT TAVERN. tried, condemned and received sentences fromhis lips, sometimes of banishment from theterritory, sometimes of imprisonment, and fre-quently scourging with the twigs of the wilder-ness. A prominent doctor who made himselfobnoxious by persistent sympathy with the Yorkers sufferedonly the indignityof being suspend-ed in an armchairfor two hours fromthe tavern sign,above a jeeringcrowd. When Try onwas royal gover-nor of New Yorkin 1777, he offeredtwenty pounds each for the arrest of EthanAllen, Remember Baker and Robert Cochran,because of their riotous conduct in opposingthe measures of the New York government. These three outlaws and their friends hada jolly time of it at the Catamount Tavern overthe matter, and out from the council-room wenta counter proclamation, offering fifteen poundsfor the arrest of James Duane and ten pounds. THE COUNCIL-KOOM. THE CATAMOUNT TAVERN. 155 for John Kemp, New York land speculators,styling them the common disturbers of thepublic peace. The rewards were to be paidon the delivery of the culprits at LandlordFays at Bennington. It was signed by EthanAllen, Remember Baker and Robert Cochran. The breaking out of the war for independencesuspended the intercolonial quarrel. Allen wasappointed colonel of local forces. He wassojourning at the Catamount Tavern in thespring of 1775, when all New England wasaroused by the tocsin sounded at had espoused the cause of the patriots, andhis loyal Green Mountain Boys had increasedin numbers to a large multitude. From the council-room of the Catamount,after a consultation with a committee, Allenissued an order on May 3d, mustering theGreen Mountain Boys at Bennington to makean attempt to capture the British forts Ticon-deroga and Crown Point, on Lake led them on that expedition, wh
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