Green Mountain Boys, The

Green Mountain Boys, The, romance by D.P. Thompson, published in 1839.

Colonel Reed buys a Vermont tract from a group of New York land‐jobbers, evicts the settlers who have occupied it under the New Hampshire Grants, establishes a log fort, and returns to Canada. To defend the rights of the former settlers, Captain Warrington and his band of local patriots capture the fort and its occupants, who include Reed's daughter Jessie. Selden, Warrington's friend, who takes Jessie to a friend's home, falls in love with her. Meanwhile Warrington goes to his estate on Lake Champlain, opposite Crown Point, and finds his old friends, Captain Hendee and his daughter Alma, who are ignorant of his ownership, having purchased the land from the New Yorkers. Darrow and Sherwood, New York agents, capture Warrington, but when Ethan Allen, disguised as “Smith,” comes with news of the Battle of Lexington, he and Warrington escape, planning to organize the Green Mountain Boys to fight the British. Sherwood, now a Loyalist spy, attempts to malign Warrington's character, in order to further his own suit with Alma, but is unsuccessful. Allen, after Warrington reconciles his differences with Benedict Arnold, leads the Green Mountain Boys in capturing Crown Point and Hubbardton. Darrow, fatally wounded, confesses his duplicity and Sherwood's and reveals that Selden is Hendee's long‐lost son. Selden and Jessie are married, as are Warrington and Alma.