A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists/Allen, Colonel Ethan
Allen, Colonel Ethan, American politician. B. Jan. 10, 1737. As Colonel of the "Green Mountain Boys," Allen played an important part in the War of Separation, and he was afterwards a member of the Vermont State-Legislature. In 1781 he issued what seems to have been the first anti-Christian publication in America, Reason the Only Oracle of Man. A statue has been raised in his honour at Montpelier (Vermont). D. Feb. 13, 1789.