That should the honorable the American Congress be so inattentive to the right of one of its members as to declare the New Hampshire Grants an independant State, the Party who have disclaimed their Allegiance to New York have shown so many Instances of an inveterate Enmity to, and of a fixed Disposition to ruin, those who have refused joining with them, that great numbers of the latter will be necessitated to sell their Interests (if that Priviledge is allowed them) and remove to some other State :--and your Petitioners are fearful that that will be the least bad Consequence which will follow so extraordinary a measure, as we can with truth assert that of late your Petitioners and their Constituents "are in the fullest sense as unwilling to be under the jurisdiction of" Vermont, "as we can conceive America would be to revert back under the Power of Great Britain" and that they should consider their Lives and Properties equally insecure.

Your Petitioners therefore humbly, and in the most earnest manner, intreat that your honorable House will commisserate the unhappy and distracted situation of the Inhabitants of the New Hampshire Grants in the State of New York, and as speedily

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as possible restore Peace to them (which we are confident will effect it) by recommending in the most explicit manner that they yield their Allegiance to the State of New York, until Congress shall take some further Resolution upon the subject.

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