eleven o'clock at night, November 20th
Enoch and Lot planned their start into the woods in November , and they were nearly ready when the second raid on Durham was proposed . The boys knew that the matter had been discussed by Colonel Allen and the other leaders for some time , for Justice Spencer still continued to disobey the orders of the Council of Safety , and the matter could not be ignored . It was past the middle of November when the commander of the Green Mountain Boys and some of his followers set out in the direction of Durham , and Lot and Enoch hurried their own going , determined to hide their canoe when once they reached the Otter and join in the descent upon Clarendon village . It was eleven o'clock at night , November 20th , that Colonel Allen , Captain Baker , and more than a score of their friends , entered the settlement with all the care and circumlocution of Indians . Nuck and Lot Breckenridge had joined the party at supper time in a certain rendezvous of Allen 's in the woods , having hidden their canoe and traps on the bank of the Otter several miles away . The attacking force of Green Mountain Boys was heavily armed and might have been bound upon an expedition against Fort Ticonderoga itself , one might imagine . But a show of force was thought to be necessary to overawe the Yorkers who made up more than half the population of the village .