The part taken in the movement in Western Massachusetts arose from confidence reposed in Brown and others of Pittsfield, by the Connecticut men who passed through that town on their way to the New Hampshire Grants.[627] Brown had, during the previous winter, notified the Massachusetts committee that Ticonderoga would receive the attention of Ethan Allen and Green Mountain boys as soon as the outbreak came. The credit which attaches to this commander is complicated by the relations which Arnold bore to the final capture, and has in turn given rise to controversy. The most comprehensive examination of the question on the Vermont side is L. E. Chittenden's Addresses before the Vermont Historical Society, Oct., 1872 (published at Rutland by the society), and at the unveiling of Allen's statue at Burlington, July 4, 1873. We have Allen's own statements in his _Narrative of his captivity, etc._[628] Dawson thinks that the merit of originating the active measures cannot be taken from Benedict Arnold, and in his chapter (_Battles of the United States_, i. ch. 2) on the subject traces minutely the sources of each step in the progress of events, and in his Appendix (p. 38) prints the protest (May 10th, p. 38) of the Connecticut committee against Arnold's interference and Arnold's report (May 11th, p. 38) to the Massachusetts Congress.[629] There are some of the current reports preserved in Moore's _Diary of the Amer. Revolution_ (i. pp. 78-80), and the account, which ignores Arnold, of the _Worcester Spy_ (May 16th) is given in the _Amer. Bibliopolist_ (1871, p. 491). There are other contemporary accounts in the _American Archives_ (vols. ii. and iii.); a journal by Elmer is in the _New Jersey Hist. Soc. Proc._, vols. ii. and iii.; a Tory account in Jones's _New York during the Revolutionary War_ (vol. i. pp. 47, 546), with a letter of May 14th.[630] Narratives by Caldwell and Beaman are in the _Historical Magazine_, August, 1867, and May, 1868, respectively.[631] =H.= THE CANADA CAMPAIGN, 1775-1776.—Washington in New York, June 25th, entrusted to Schuyler the command in the North (Lossing's _Schuyler_, i. 330; Jones's _N. Y. during the Rev. War_, 58), and Congress issued (May 29, 1775) an address to the Canadians (_Journal of Congress_; Pitkin's _United States_, i. App. 19). In August it was reported that this address was left at the door of every house in Canada. Schuyler reached Ticonderoga July 18th (Lossing's _Schuyler_, i. ch. 21; Palmer's _Lake Champlain_, ch. 6; Irving's _Washington_, ii.), and pushed on to the foot of Lake Champlain in September (Lossing, i. ch. 23).