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

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Safety for the aforesaid pretended State. That afterwards your Petitioner Oliver Colvin was retried upén the 'same accusation by Col° Ethan Allen who sentenced him to be banished within the lines of the Enemy. That your Petitioner last mentioned having been set at Liberty by his Excellency Governor Clinton & received a Pass to return home to his Family, sent to Mr. Thomas Chittenden (the Governor of the said pretended State) & requested that he might be permitted to go and take care of his Family. so long as he behaved as a Friend of the United States. That M* Chittenden answered that your Petitioner was an old Yorker and should not live in their State. And that your said Petitioner is now kept from his family and dares not return to them.

Your Petitioners therefore most humbly pray that this honorable House will take into their serious Consideration the unfortunate & distressed Situation of your Petitioners and others who continue loyal to the State of New York, & take measures for effectually defending the Persons and Property of your subjects agreable to the Resolutions of the honorable the Legislature passed last winter, and for restoring Harmony to that part of this State now known by the Name of, the State of Vermont and grant such further Relief in the Premises as to this honorable House shall seem meet.