James Cray, Esq' Informs that on the 7 day "of August last Heman Allen, Doctor Fay, and Col: Marsh came as a Committee from the other side of the Green Mountains To Windsor ; when the Committees of Cumberland & Gloucester were setting at that place, and begged to be admitted before the Committees soon after they were admitted, and read several Papers, some of which ascertain the Boundaries they proposed for a New State and Invited the Committee to sign a Paper they had Consulted with several members of the Continental Congress who advised them to collect the sense of the people on the subject--that the

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Informant asked said Allen if he supposed the Continental Congress would take up the affair at this time in case the people did sign, that said Allen Aswered no, but that some members of Congress advised them to Petition--for if we submitted to the mode of Government now forming in the State of New York, we should be tied so that we could not get off in a future day.

JAMES CLAY. Westminster 20th Noy 1776. '

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REMONSTRANCE AGAINST CONGRESS AUTHORIZING

COLS ALLEN "AND WARNER TO RAISE TROOPS INDEPENDENT OF NEW YORK,

Sir--I beg leave to mention to you, that it is nere asserted and generally believed, that Congress have authorised a Colo. Warner and certain other officers to raise a regiment in this State, at least without the intervention of the State. This measure has given anxiety and disgust to several of the first characters in. the State who have risqued both their lives and fortunes in its defence. If such a regiment was necessary, men worthy of confidence might have been found to raise it with at least equal success.