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SETH WARNER (1743-1784)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 327 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SETH See also:WARNER (1743-1784)  , See also:American Revolutionary soldier, was See also:born in See also:Roxbury, See also:Connecticut, on the 17th of May 1743 . He removed with his See also:father to the " New See also:Hampshire Grants " in 1763, and became prominent among the See also:young men who forcibly resisted New See also:York's claim to the territory (see See also:VERMONT) . At the outbreak of the See also:War of See also:Independence, he led the detachment of " See also:Green See also:Mountain Boys " which captured See also:Crown Point (q.v.) on the 11th of May 1775, and took See also:part in the unsuccessful expedition against See also:Quebec later in the See also:year . In See also:July 1776 he became See also:colonel in the See also:Continental See also:Army, and served throughout the war . He retired in 1782, and returned to Roxbury, where he died in 1784 . See See also:Daniel Chipman . See also:Life (See also:Burlington, Vt., 1858) .

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