From the Confidence I have in the Gentlemen who represent this State in Congress & particularly the Chief Justice who was elected for the special Purpose, I am persuaded that every measure will be used for obtaining the Decision of Congress relative to this Dispute ; and therefore I could ardently wish that the Inhabitants of Vermont would conduct themselves in such manner as to avoid the necessity of bringing matters to a Crisis ruinous to them & very injurious to individuals among us.

You will please to communicate the Contents of this to Coll. Patterson.

Tam &c. &e. &e. Gro. CLinTon.

Samuel Minott Esq

GOV. CLINTON TO. PRESIDENT JAY.

Pokeepsie May 18h 1779, Sir.

Inclosed I transmit copies of several papers relative to the Disorders which still prevail in the northeastern Parts of this State with a Request that you will please to lay them together with this letter before Congress.

From these Papers it evidently appears that matters in that Quarter are fast approaching to a very serious Crisis which nothing but the immediate Interposition of Congress can possibly prevent.

The Legislature have from time to time given the most solemn assurances of Protection to their well affected subjects, and relying upon these Promises, the Inhabitants of several Towns | have hitherto persevered in their allegiance to this state. They will not I imagine remain much longer 'content with mere Promises, and I daily expect that I shall be obliged to order out a force in their Defence. The wisdom of Congress will readily suggest to them what will be the Consequence of submitting the Controversy, especially at this Juncture to the Decision of the sword. It will not however, I trust be imputed to this state that we have precipitately. had recourse to coercive: