Revolution and empire on the northern frontier: Ira Allen of Vermont, 1751-1814
Ira Allen was the quintessential late-eighteenth-century frontier entrepreneur. At the age of 21, he founded the Onion River Land Company, a loose family partnership designed to speculate in land titles to the disputed northern New England territory known as the New Hampshire Grants. By the time he...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
1993
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9316655 |