With the utmost Concern for the Publick welfare of the Vnited States, and this in particular I take my Pen to write when I consider the Absolute nessecty of an Intiere Union of all the Friends to truth the American cause I mean and when I see all the Friends of hell Combined and using all their Deiabolicall Arts * 'to Disunite us and now the Deivil as usuall at the last efforts of Changing thomselves into angles of light now pleading you were abused by the State of N, Y, they having taken away your property Imposed upon you in every shape you having nothing better to expect than as heretofore. Now is the time to separate &e and so fer has this timptation prevailed that a number (not from this County) has declared Independacy of the State of N. Yk.,! and the Committee of Dorset has Directed'a Convention of all the New H. Grants to meet at Dorset to fill up by Draft or 'Raising a bounty Collo Warners Regt. houever Incocistant to there own plann I Supose the

1A convention of Delegates purporting to be from the several towns and counties in the New Hampshire grants was held at Westminster on the 15th January, 1777, when a Declaration of Independence was agreed to, and it was resolved that the new State should hereafter be called '"' by the name of New Connecticut."--Appendix to Prof. J. D. Butler's Address; in Pamphlets, Vol. 22, in N. Y. State Lib.