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.

REPORT TO THE N. Y. PROV. CONGRESS ON THE

NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS ECA.

[Miscellaneous Papers XXXVII.]

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Your Committee directed to confer with Israel Smith agent from the Township of Brattleborough beg leave to report,

That the said Israel Smith hath informed your Committee that the Township of Brattleborough aforesaid labours under many Inconveniences and Disadvantages some of which are common to the Counties of Cumberland Gloucester & Charlotte others peculiar to some of the Inhabitants of the first of the said Counties and particularly the Township aforesaid. ;

Among the former kind the first in order is the uncertainty of Titles to Land within the said Counties arising from the Peculiarities of their first Settlement & Cultivation too numerous to recite in this Report. By reason of which uncertainty unless some mode is adopted by the Legislature for the quieting of