- Ido therefore hereby, in the name of the people of the state of New-York, publish and proclaim the aforesaid declared resolutions ; and I do hereby strictly charge and command all manner of persons within this state, at their peril, to take due notice of this Proclamation, and of every article, clause, matter and thing therein recited and contained and to govern themselves accordingly.

~ Given under my hand, ana the privy seal of the State of New- York vt Poughkeepsie, in the County of Dutchess, the twentythird day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-cight.

Gro. CLINTON.

Gop SAVE THE PEOPLE.

956 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE

PETITION OF COL. SPENCER & OTHERS.

To the honorable the Representatives of the State of New in General Assembly convened.

The Petition of Jeremiah Spencer and Oliver Colvin late of the Town of Durham in the County of Charlotte on behalf of themselves and divers of the late Inhabitants of Durham aforesaid.

Humbly Sheweth,

That the Township of Durham was originally settled by its

late Inhabitants under Cole John Lidius.

That discovering the Imperfection of their Tittle they. applied for and obtained Letters Patent under New-York--That many of the Inhabitants (of which number your Petitioners are) have since been compelled to purchase the New Hampshire Title to their Lands under Penalty of being turned out of their Possessions by a Mob. ;

That before the Revolt of the North Eastern part of the State the Inhabitants suffered greatly for no other reason than because they held their Lands under New York.