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-

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sented in this meeting--that all the People in this Town are Loyal to the State of New York and think themselves in duty Bound to Put in Execution all orders of the Contennental and this State Congress--and that it is the opinion of this Committee that the Greater Part of the People in the County who own Propity are so--that these Factions are Carried so high in Some Parts of the County it is dangrous speaking against a New State-- that you inform the Convention of the many Dificulties that have subsisted in this County some years back Osapian WELLS Ser Smiru SaMLL Warriner JAMES BLAKESLEE JoHN GRIFFIN (Endorsed) Instructions for Israel Smith Esq their Representative.

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