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CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS.

Lenity & Mercy Dignifies the Human Nature more than strict Justice we doubt not but that you inYour Clemency & Goodness will Restore us to our former Situation that thereby we may be Ren-dered more Serviceable to the United-States of America, and to the State of New York inParticular, & your Petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray.

Signed, Jonathn. Waldo,

Josiah Dewey,

Fortunatus Shearman,

Com tee of Convention for said District.

Cambridge 1 st March 1782.

SUBMISSION OF THE PEOPLE OF GRANDVIL TO NEW YORK .

To his Excellency the Governor & the Honourable Senate and Assembly of the State ofNew-York .

The Petition of the Subscribers Inhabitants of Granvil Humbly Sheweth—

That your Petitioners have been Exposed to the Invations and Depredations of the Enemy sincethe year 1776 and since the Evacuation of Ticonderoga have had only a small Guard at Scheens-borough till in the Spring of 1780 : Since that your Petitioners have been Entirely Destitute of anySocor notwithstanding the many Petitions and Remonstrances Repeating the same—

That your Petitioners have been for the three Last Campains almost Constantly in alarms whichhath rendered them in a most Deplorable Condition So that there are Numbers of familys now amongus who have scarce one Bushel of Grain to support them nor is their any to be Purchased withintwenty miles Distance

That under these Distressing Circumstances and the Insenuation of Artfull and Designing menyour Petitioners were Seduced to Swerve from the allegiance, not from any Desire of Leaveing theState Could we have been Protected But w r e trust your Excellency and the honourable Body willagain Receive us, and over look what your Distressed Subjects have Done Hoping for the future weshall take Care how w r ee are Led by any Designing men and remain happy subjects under yourProtection

Your Petitioners most humbly Prays that your Excellency and the Honourable Senate andassembly will take our Case into Consideration and not only Pardon them of their TransgressionBut afford them some Defence for the Ensewing Campaign and your Petitioners as in Duty boundwill Ever Pray.

Dated Granvil, March y e 4 J D 1782.

Moses SawyerDaniel CurticeAsaph CookHenry WadkensBenjn BakerDavid DoaneGideon AllenEliphead ParkerAaron SmithMicah Griffith

Peter HarintonMoses PowersJoseph BarkerThomas GriffithJosiah MixSam’ll HarndonJames CovelIsa’h BennettTheod’s Norton

Jonathan HarndenEbn’r WalkerIchabead ParkerJohn BatemanJames OtesPeter GroverAbraham YandurceJohn GroverJohn Barnes

David BloksleeJohn WalkerJohn SpringSolomon BakerThomas GrefesJoseph HerintonEbeneser GouldJesse AtwaterHein Williams