Sunderland -- Allen families lived here
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Allen families lived here Ira Allen lived on this site by the Batten Kill and as Treasurer and Surveyor-General his Office helped shape the destiny of the Republic of Vermont. Here Ethan's family lived; here he dictated his freethinking Oracles of Reason in 1782. To his bride, his second wife, he presented the first copy.
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