That notwithstanding the Promise of the Legislature above. mentioned, and their several applications for Protection, Persons acting under the authority of the pretended State of Vermont have imprisoned a large number of the most respectable Subjects of this State in Cumberland County, and have taken Property from a considerable number of others.

1004 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE

That the Persons who have thus suffered are of Opinion that the Legislature are bound in Equity, at least to make Compensation for the Injuries they have received since their Petition for Protection ; and a majority of them have requested your Petitioner to make Application to the honorable the Legislature therefor.

Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays that the honorable the Legislature will be pleased to take into Consideration the Injuries the Persons aforesaid have received by the State's not protecting them, agreeable to the joint Resolution of the Legislature of February 1778; and make them a reasonable Compensation for the Imprisonment of their Persons, and Loss of their Property in Consequence thereof.

And your Petitioner as in duty bound, shall ever pray &e.

Mican Townsenp. Kingston, June 12th. 1780.

ARTICLES OF UNION AGREED TO AT CAMBRIDGE, ANNO 1781.

Proposed by Convention composed of the Representatives from the several Districts of Hosick, Schaghtekocke, Cambridge, Saratoga, Upper White Creek, Black Creek, Granvil, Skeensborough, Kingsbury, Fort Edward, Little Hosick convened at Cambridge aforesaid this 9 May 1781 and by adj' to the 15 of the same Inclusive th.

Article 1 That the District or Tract of Land lying north of a Line being extended from the North Line of the Massachusets to Hudsons River and South of Latitude 45.as Comprehended in the late Jurisdictional Claim by the Legislature of the State of Vermont be Considered as part of the State & the Inhabitants as free Citizens Agreed to