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'Ebenezer Allen' (1743-1806) was an American soldier. He was born in Northampton, Massachusetts and removed to Vermont in 1771. He became a Lieutenant in a company of Green Mountain Boys, was with Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga and with Colonel Warner in Canada. He was prominent in the planning of a new government for Vermont, helping to frame its constitution.
In 1795, Allen was part of a partnership with Charles Whitney, also of Vermont, Robert Randall, of Philadelphia and several British subjects in Detroit including John Askin and William Robertson, which planned to buy the entire lower Michigan peninsula from the United States government.^[1]

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1. Collections of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan together with Reports of County Pioneer Societies, Vol VIII., , , , Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford, 1907,