A concise summary of the second volume of the Olive Branch : a book containing an account of Governor Chittenden's giving written instructions to Gen. Ira Allen in 1795, to purchase military stores in Europe, for the militia of the state of Vermont, of his purchase of 24 brass field pieces, 20,000 muskets furnished with bayonets in France, of his being captured by an English 74 gun ship, with consequences resulting therefrom : to which is subjoined, General Allen's circular letter, on the subject of a ship canal of commerce, and the advantage of British America in preserving peace between Great Britain and the United States : including Gen. Allen's memorials to the Senate of the United States, of February 1805, and December 1806, and with other documents and letters to men of great respectability in Europe and America

A concise summary of the second volume of the Olive Branch : a book containing an account of Governor Chittenden's giving written instructions to Gen. Ira Allen in 1795, to purchase military stores in Europe, for the militia of the state of Vermont, of his purchase of 24 brass field pieces, 20,000 muskets furnished with bayonets in France, of his being captured by an English 74 gun ship, with consequences resulting therefrom : to which is subjoined, General Allen's circular letter, on the subject of a ship canal of commerce, and the advantage of British America in preserving peace between Great Britain and the United States : including Gen. Allen's memorials to the Senate of the United States, of February 1805, and December 1806, and with other documents and letters to men of great respectability in Europe and America

Particulars of the capture of the ship Olive Branch

Philadelphia : Printed for the author, 1807.

24 p. ; 22 cm.

L2018F156 1807

(OCoLC)01633576

"April.....1807."
A summary taken from Ira Allen's "Particulars of the capture of the ship Olive Branch ...," v. 2 (Philadelphia, 1805).
Author, brother of Ethan Allen, was one of the "Green Mountain Boys" and Vermont politician; in 1795 he bought arms to supply the Vermont militia, but his ship, Olive Branch, was captured by the British in Nov. 1796; charged with attempting to furnish Irish revolutionaries with arms, he argued he bought arms to protect Vermont's northern frontier; the case was finally settled in 1804.
"The public is informed, that Allen's history of Vermont, published in London, in 1798, will be revised and corrected by the author, and printed ... That near 100 pages will be printed and subjoined to the Olive Branch, when both books will be bound and offered for sale, in different parts of the United States"--p. 24.
Ownership stamp on title: Rhode Island Historical Society; deacessioned stamp on title verso: Wilbur Collection. University of Vermont Library.
In slip case.

Shaw & Shoemaker 11965
Sabin 824
Howes, W. U.S.iana (2nd ed) A143aa

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