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.

That when General St. Clair retreated from Ticonderoga he advised the Inhabitants to remain upon their Lands, as may appear by a certificate now in the hands of his Excellency the Governor. That they and some other of the Inhabitants of Durham, did so, as also did many other men living further southward, who acknowledge themselves subjects of the pretended State of Vermont. That your Petitioners do not recollect to have heard that any one who has revolted from this State has been punished or called to account for not removing from their farms at that time. But your Petitioners & a number of other Inhabitants of Durham have had their real and personal estates taken from them by authority derived from the said pretended State, for no other cause than following the advice. of General

St. Clair, & by Commissioners precisely in the same Circumstances,

with your Petitioners.

That superadded to the loss of their property a number of the Inhabitants (of which your Petitioners are a part) have been condemned to servitude during the pleasure of the Cound¢il of