An officer in the Green Mountain Boys, Capt. Edward Mott, described the preparations for the assault on Fort Ticonderoga.
"“ . . . that a party of thirty men, under the command of Capt. Herrick, should, the next day in the afternoon, take into the custody Major Skene and his party and boats; and that the rest of the men, which consisted of about 140, shoudl go through Shoreham to the Lake, opposite to Ticonderoga; and that a part of the men that went to Skenesborough to Shoreham, in order to carry men across the Lake to Ticonderoga. We also sent Capt. Douglas to go to Crown Point and see if he could not agree with his brother-in-law, who lived there, to hire the king’s boats on some strategem, and send up the Lake from there to assist in carrying over our men. It was further agreed that Col. Ethan Allen should have the command of the party that should go against Ticonderoga . . . “"
Capt. Edward MottCommager and Morris, “The Spirit of Seventy-Six” p. 100.