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Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. IV

O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. IV. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1851. 250 words

and are desirous of removing immediately into the western parts of this State, Provided they could procure vacant lands fit for cultivation, That in the Opinion of your Committee the said Petitioners and others whom they represent have a Claim on the State for some compensation for their sufferings and Losses, and that it will be proper for the State to Grant to the Petitioners and the Persons they Represent a quantity of vacant land equivalent to a Township of Eight miles square which report he read in his place and delivered the same in at the Table where it was again read and agreed to by the Senate thereupon,

Resolved (if the Honourable the Assembly concur herein) That the Legislature during their present meeting will make Provision for Granting to Col'. Timothy Church Major William Shattack Major Henry Evans and about one hundred other Persons whom they represent a Quantity of Vacant Lands equal to a Township _ of Eight Miles Square.

Ordered that M'. Roosevelt deliver a Copy of the preceeding Resolution to the Honourable the Assembly.

Extract Asm. B. Banxer, Clk

'State of New York In Assembly March 1st 1786 Resolved that this House do concur with the Honorable the Senate in the preceeding Resolution. Ordered that M". Goforth deliver a Copy of the last preceeding Resolution of Concurrence to the Honorable the Senate. A Copy Joun McKzsson Clk

LIST OF VERMONT SUFFERERS

WHO OBTAINED LAND IN THE TOWNSHIP OF CLINTON, (NOW BAINBRIDGE) CHENANGO COUNTY N. Y.,