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.

And your Petitioners as in Duty bound shall ever pray &c

JEREMIAH SPENCER

Poughkeepsie 17 Oct 1778. OuiveR CoLvIn.

PEnITION FROM CUMBERLAND COUNTY PRAYING PROTEC TION,

To his Excellency George Clinton Esq" Governor of the State of New York General & Commander in Chief of all the Militia & admiral of the Navy of the same.

The Petition of the Committees of the Towns of Hinsdale,

Guilford, Brattleborough, Fulham, Putney, Westminster, Rockingham, Springfield and Weathersfield in

958 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE

Cumberland County; chosen for the Purpose of oppos- »

ing the pretended State of Vermont & convened at Brattleborough the 4th May 1779. Humbly Sheweth That there being a numerous party in avowed opposition to legal authority, your Petitioners and others have been compelled to submit, though reluctantly, to live without the benefits arising from a well regulated Government. They have been destitute of the regular means of punishing the most attrocious offenders

& of compelling the execution of private Justice. In short they |