CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS.

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That notwithstanding the Promise of the Legislature above mentioned, and their several applica-tions for Protection, Persons acting under the authority of the pretended State of Vermont haveimprisoned a large number of the most respectable Subjects of this State in Cumberland County, andhave taken Property from a considerable number of others.

That the Persons who have thus suffered are of Opinion that the Legislature are bound in Equity,at least to make Compensation for the Injuries they have received since their Petition for Protection ;and a majority of them have requested your Petitioner to make Application to the honorable theLegislature therefor.

Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays that the honorable the Legislature will be pleased totake into Consideration the Injuries the Persons aforesaid have received by the State’s not protectingthem, agreeable to the joint Resolution of the Legislature of February 1778 ; and make thema reasonable Compensation for tlm Imprisonment of their Persons, and Loss of their Property inConsequence thereof.

And your Petitioner as in duty bound, shall ever pray &c.

Micah Townsend.

Kingston, June 12 th . 1780.

ARTICLES OF UNION AGREED TO AT CAMBRIDGE,

ANNO 1781.

Proposed by Convention composed of the Representatives from the several Districts of Hosick,Schaghtekocke, Cambridge, Saratoga, Upper White Creek, Black Creek, Granvil, Skeensborough,Kingsbury, Fort Edward, Little Hosick convened at Cambridge aforesaid this 9 May 1781 and byadj‘ to the 15 of the same Inclusive

Article 1 That the District or Tract of Land lying north of a Line being extended from the NorthLine of the Massachusets to Hudsons River and South of Latitude 45 as Comprehended in the lateJurisdictional Claim by the Legislature of the State of Vermont be Considered as part of the State &the Inhabitants as free Citizens Agreed to

2 That the whole of the Military force of the State of Vermont (as occasion may require) shall beexerted in our defence as free Citizens against any Insurrection, Incursion whatsoever but especiallyagainst the Common Enemy Agreed to

3 That application be made by the Legislature of the State of Vermont to the Congress to beadmitted into Union with them as soon as Circumstances will admit Agreed to

4 That as the People within the aforesaid late Claim have been called upon and paid a Consid-erable part of the Contenental Taxes into the Treasury of New York shall have credit for thesame in case Vermont at some future period should be called upon to pay their proportion ofmoney emitted by Congress

Agreed to provided the services done by Vermont in the present war be included

Reply agreed to provided the expence of the said District in the present war be likewise included

5 That all actions depending with the late Claim be transferred in the situation they shall be in atthe Time of Completing the Union to Courts that may be then forthwith erected under the authorityof Vermont without Costs .to the parties other than would have accrued had they been Terminatedin Courts under Jurisdiction of New York Agreed to