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

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