again Imprisoned maney, and otherwise Injured your Petitioners very materially, so that rather than be Deprived of their whole Property they were obliged to submit to the usurpation of the Government of Vermont.

That while your Petitioners and their Associates were Strugling to Support the Government of the State of New York in manner before specified the Chiefs of Vermont divided the whole of the wild Land, in that Country among themselves and their Adherants to the Injury of your Petitioners most of whom would have obtained a considerable part thereof had it not been for their uniform Loyalty and Adherence to the State of New York.

That the faith of the Government of the State of New York being pledged to your Petitioners and their Associates in manner before suggested, they humbly conceive themselves clearly Entitled to a Compensation for their Losses and sufferings which Compensation if agreable to your Excelency and honours they would wish to receive by a Grant of vacant and unappropriated Lands within this State of New York.

The truly unfortunate and critical Situation of Public affairs in the Neighbouring States and the Riots and Tumolts in other quarters of the Countrey induce your Petitioners sincerely to wish for a Grant of Lands in the State of New York, in support of whose Government they have resqued their Lives and fortunes as long as they possibly could, a Government whose Constitution they admire, and whose rulers they revere, from that upright and Equel administration of Justice for which the State of New York is so Emminently Conspicuous.

Your Petitioners therefore most humbly pray, that in consideration of their Loyalty, the Equity of their Case and the Losses they have suffered your Excellency and Honours would be favorably pleased to Grant to them and their Associates, a Patent of wild Land in Compensation therefor.

Bound, ever pray.

SAML. KNIGHT,

BENJ. BUTTERFIELD,

And they will as in duty ELEAZER PATTERSON,

JOHN SERGEANT,

JOSIAH ARMS in behalf of

themselves and the Son of Samuel Minot deceased & their Asso

eiates mentioned in the List transmitted.

Dated at Brattleborough December ye 12th 1786.

ASSOCIATES NAMES.

1 Noah Sabin of Putney Esq1. Confined by the Mob and Ill Treated

2 Benjamin Butterfield of Brattleborough the same.

3 John Sargent of ditto the same and his Son exceedingly Ill Treated by Allen.

4 William Willard of Westminster the same.

5 Samuel Knight of Brattleborough Taken but run away from the Mob.

€ Eleazer Patterson Hindsdale Confined.

7 John Norton Westminister Supported New York.

8 Simon Stevens Springfield,

9 Thomas Sayer the same,

10 Josiah Arms Brattleborough, 11 Samuel Minott Putney,

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The Committee to whom was referred the petition of Eleazer Patterson and others praying for a pattent for Lands as a compensation for losses sustained by their attachment to the State, report—that in their opinion as there are no vouchers to support the facts alledged in the said petition the prayer thereof ought not to be granted.

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The Hon? DIRCK TEN BROECK.

Speaker of the House of Assembly,

STATE OF NEWYORK.

Copied from an Engraving in the State Library, Albany. N'V'

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SETTLEMENT OF THE VERMONT DIFFICULTIES.

"To facilitate this business and to get Vermont into the Union the Legislature of the State of New York passed a law in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety appointing Commissiners on the part of the State of New York to settle a boundary Line with the Commissioners appointed on the part of Vermont.

That the Commissioners on both sides met in the City of New York in the month of October of that year, when a Treaty was entered into and executed by the New York Commissioners whereby they ceded to the state of Vermont all the lands together with the Islands in Lake Champlain Lying to the Eastward of the following bounds to witt, Beginning at the North west corner of the State of Massachusetts thence westward along the south boundary of the township of Pownall to the southwest corner thereof thence northerly along the western boundaries of the Township of Pownall Bennington Shaftsbury Arlington Sandgate Rupert Pawlet Wells and Poultney as the said Townships are now held or possessed to the river commonly called Poultney River thence down the same through the middle of the deepest Channel of East Bay and the waters thereof to where the same communicate with Lake Champlain thence through the middle of the deepest channel of Lake Champlain to the Eastward of the Islands called the Four Brothers and the westward of the Islands called Grand Isle and Long Isle or the two Heroes and to the westward of the Isle La Motte to the forty fifth degree of North Latitude in the consideration of Vermont paying to the State of New York Thirty Thousand dollars within a time therein limited which sum of Thirty thousand dollars it is matter of notoriety bears no proportion to the value of private property so ceded.”—Petition of Theophylack Bache & others.