That it could not be intended that Congress by any of its Proceedings would do recommend or countenance, any thing injurious to the rights and Jurisdictions of the several communities which it represented. That the independant Government attempted to be established by the People stiling themselves Inhabitants of the New Hampshire Grants, could desire no Cowntenance or Jusiification from the Act of Congress declaring the United Colonies to be independant of the Crown of Great Britain, nor from any other act or Resolution of Congress. That the Petition of Jonas Fay &* in the Name and behalf of the people stiling themselves as aforesaid, praying that the district in the said Petition described, might be ranked among the free and independant States, and that Delagates therefrom might be admitted to seats in Congress, should

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be dismissed. And that the paper signed 'Thomas Young". advising the Inhabitants of the. said District to chuse Members for a Generall Convention, and Delagates for the General Congress and Committee of Safety, and form a Constitution, was derogatory to the Honor of Congress, and a gross misrepresentation of the Resolution of Congress therein referred to, and tended to deceive and mislead the People to whom it was addressed.

That the said Resolutions at first seemed sufficient to quiett the Disorders which then prevailed, and their appeared in many, if not most of the revolters, a Disposition to return to their Duty; But it was not long before the leaders of the Mal-contents, in Print and in Conversation so misrepresented and explained those Resolutions as induced that Party to believe that Congress favored their plan.