SABON

In 1772 Ira Allen, Brother of Ethan
Allen, leader of Vermont’s Green
Mountain Boys of Revolutionary War
fame, did the first survey of the town
of Mansfield (now part of Stowe).

Having completed his survey, Allen
was paid off with land rights. It seems
he wasn’t too pleased because he
didn’t think much of the land, so he
decided to hoodwink other people
into buying it from him. He passed the
word that he was interested in
acquiring yet more land, and the
people reasoned that since he had
done the surveying, he must know
something they didn’t know. The land
must be valuable! Everyone began
urging Allen to sell them some of his
land, and in no time he’d unloaded
every last parcel. Allen was highly
pleased with being, as he thought,
such a real Yankee horse-trader.

“Having closed this business
satisfactory to myself,” he tells us,

“I returned to my brother’s and had a
hearty laugh...” We wonder if the old
boy would still be laughing if he knew
the present value of the land he was so
eager to get rid of. Somehow, we
doubt it.

THE LEGEND OF A REAL YANKEE HORSE-TRADER

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