I have this day received an answer from the Delegates which M* Biglow has perused and from which it appears that altho there was not sufficient Time when my Messenger left Philadelphia for the Congress to come to any Determinaton on the Intelligence yet that there was every Reason to believe they will immediately interpose and exert their authority for your Relief and Protection and you may be assured that the moment I am favored with their Determination it shall be forwarded to you. In the mean Time I will still earnestly

1014 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE

recommend to you to persevere in the peaceable Line of Conduct which you have hitherto observed and not to have recourse to Violence or Force unless when the immediate Defence of your Person or Property render it necessary and by no means in order to avert the' apprehensions which you experience at present (and which I sincerely regret) to submit to the usurpation or to swerve from your Duty or Allegiance . I am Gentlemen with great Respect & Esteem your most obedt serv Gro. CLINTON.

Addressed, To the Gentlemen forming a Convention of

the Comittees of the Towns of Guilford,

Halifax Brattleborough, &¢ & & Cumberland County.

PETITION OF COL. CHURCH

IN BEHALF OF HIMSELF AND OTHERS OF THE VERMONT SUFFERERS.

To his Excellency the Governor and the Honourable the Legislature of the State of New York, the Petition of the Subscribers, in behalf of themselves and others most Humbly Sheweth, That your Petitioners and those they represent are Inhabitants