Public Papers of Governor Volume 5

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ... gratest Landholders among us, must leave the country If Vermont Is continued to Exist; this I certainly know, that we are bound by the laws of selfe preservation, to Humbly pray In the most pungent (?) & earnest manner that that ungrateful unprovoked most wicked & the worst of all treasonable Insurrections & the most dnrelng Insolent of all Rebellions as wo view it that ever was perpetrated in America may be Immediately crushed & totally exterpetrated from off the earth and whilst I thus express my own sentiments I know I express the sentiments of vast numbers who am sir with the gratest esteem your Excellency's much obliged & most Humble & dutiful Servant at comand New Marlborough December 28th 1779. To His Excellency Samuel Huntington, president of the Honorable Continental Congress at Philadelphia. N. B. I Humbly think it best by all means to have them resolves published through all the states concerned by those Resolutions of the 24 of Sept'r and also In Connecticut State, for we are abundantly satisfyed vast numbers of Connecticutt Genti'n aro petitioners to Vermont for grants of the most valuable part of all the unapro priated Lands in New York State and that state of Connecticutt & Its members for selfe ends, self Intrest, are deeply Intrested & engaged to have Vermont established as a state and the prevailing opinion & hearty selfish desire of their leading men in Connecticutt I am assured of it aro warmly engaged to have it a state; therefore, I Humbly think it Improper & Infinitely dangerous to us as things may turn, to allow Connecticutt delegates to have any voice or vote in Congress in & upon that subject whether Vermont shall be created a state. Vermont's pretended Secretary cant deny giving copys o...