You may, perhaps, think strange, that nothing further is done for you, at this time, than to send you this extract; but if you consider, that till you incorporate and actually announce to Congress your haviag become a body politic, they cannot treat with you asa free state. While New-York claims you as subjects of that government, my humble opinion is, your own good sense will suggest to you, that no time is to be lost in availing yourselves of the same opportunity your assuming mistress is improving to establish a dominion for herself and you too.

A word to the wise is sufficient. Tuomas Youne.

DECLARATION BY THE PEOPLE AT BRATTLEBOROUGH, -

OF THEIR ALLEGIANCE TO THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

[Miscellaneous Papers XXXIX,]

ORES: Brattleborough Aprul 25 1777

To Israel Smith Esq of Brattleborough in the County of Cumberland and State of New York--You being appointed by this Town, to Represent the Different Circumstances this Town is Under by means of the Factions which Prevals in this and the Neighboring Counties--We the Subscribers being appointed a Committe for the Purpose of Giving You instructions--do instruct you as Followeth, (viz) that you Represent that a Number of Persons Calling them Selves the Representitives of the County in Conjunction with those Call'd the Green Mountain Boys met at Westminster in January Last and Declared the Land known by the Name of the Newhampshire Grants a Seperate independent State that Not half the Towns in this County ware Repre-

NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 937