5 The Provincial Congress evidently called the attention of the Delegation in the Continental Congress to the subject, as it promised to do, in its letter to Governor Trumbull ; and on the eleventh of .January, 177fi, the Delegation wrote, in reply : " We highly applaud the spirit, " and, at the same time, respectful manner in which you have supported "the dignity and independence of our Colony, and demanded reiiaration "on the subject of the Connecticut inroad. An interposition, so rash, "officjous, and violent gave us great anxiety, as it was not only a high "insult to your authority, but had a direct tendency to confirm that fatal "spirit of jealousy and distrust of our eastern brethren which has done "so much injury to our cause, and which every wi.feand virtuous jiat riot "should study to suppieiss. " The Government of Connecticut, we are "persuaded, will not only do you the justice which you have rcc|uired, "but adopt cfTcctual means to restrain their inhabitants from simitar at- " tempts in future. In this expectation, we shall take the liberty " to defer the application to Congress which you direct, until we are "favoured with a copy of Governor Trumbull's answer to your letter." {I'hdip LiviiujHioti, Jame8 Duaue, John Jny, Henry Wi&ner, and William Floyd to the Provinciid Conyrem, " PniLAi>Ei.i'HiA, 5th January, 17711.")

The Governor of Connecticut having, meanwhile, taken no notice whatever of the letter which the Provincial Congres.s had written to him, in the preceding December, on the 8th of March, 1771), the latter informed the Delegation from New York in the Continental ('ongress, of that fact, (Jourmd of the 1\i>riucial Conyrem, "Die \ eneris, "10 ho., A.M., March 8, 1771) ;") but there seems to have been no .iction, on that subject, in the former body, then or at any other time.