By Act of the 20th March 1788 are to have grants for the Lots No 45 & 61 in Clinton Township on their applying for the same. The following persons also had grants, viz :—Isaac Crosby; Israel Smith; Henry Morgan; Col. Seth Smith-780 acres; James Comins, William Pierce, Francis Comins, James Cummins Junr. 500 acres. Obadiah Wells, Capt Joseph Elliot 450a.; Joshua Lindes, Samuel Lindes, Judathan Roberts, Giles Roberts, John Sherburn, Ensign Rutherford Hays, Amariah Parks, Zephaniah Shepardson. PETITION OF COL. PATTERSON AND HIS FELLOW SUFFERERS. To his Exelency George Clinton Esquire Governor of the State of New York and the Honourable the Senate and Assembly of the same State &ca. &ca. &ca. The Petition of the Subscribers in behalf of themselves and their associates Most Humbly Sheweth, That during the continuance of the Controversy which Subsisted between the State of New York and the Frinds and Supporters of Vermont your Petitioners and their Associates were uniformly Loyal to the State of New York Supported the rights and Interests thereof having not only frequently risqued their Lives but expended large sums of money, and Lost an abundance of time in Defence of the said State, in consequene of which many of your Petitioners were imprisoned and others dispoiled of Property to a considerable amount, by the Vermonters; all which facts were abundantly proved to your Excellency and the Honourable Legislature unanimously Resolved "that they would indemnify and support your Petitioners and associates in their Rights Liberties and Properties," recommending to them at the same time to persist in supporting the Interest of the State of New York as will appear by your Excellencys letters and ProclamationsThat in Obedience thereto as well as from real Inclination your Petitioners and their associates, at Great risque expence, trouble and loss of time, continued to exert themselves in Support of the State of New York until they were left totally abandoned to the fury of their Enemies, who again and again Imprisoned maney, and otherwise Injured your Petitioners very materially, so that rather than be Deprived of their whole Property they were obliged to submit to the usurpation of the Government of Vermont. That while your Petitioners and their Associates were Strugling to Support the Government of the State of New York in manner before specified the Chiefs of Vermont divided the whole of the wild Land, in that Country among themselves and their Adherants to the Injury of your Petitioners most of whom would have obtained a considerable part thereof had it not been for their uniform Loyalty and Adherence to the State of New York. That the faith of the Government of the State of New York being pledged to your Petitioners and their Associates in manner before suggested, they humbly conceive themselves clearly Entitled to a Compensation for their Losses and sufferings which Compensation if agreable to your Excelency and honours they would wish to receive by a Grant of vacant and unappropriated Lands within this State of New York. The truly unfortunate and critical Situation of Public affairs in the Neighbouring States and the Riots and Tumolts in other quarters of the Countrey induce your Petitioners sincerely to wish for a Grant of Lands in the State of New York, in support of whose Government they have resqued their Lives and fortunes as long as they possibly could, a Government whose Constitution they admire, and whose rulers they revere, from that upright and Equel administration of Justice for which the State of New York is so Emminently Conspicuous. Your Petitioners therefore most humbly pray, that in consideration of their Loyalty, the Equity of their Case and the Losses they have suffered your Excellency and Honours would be favorably pleased to Grant to them and their Associates, a Patent of wild Land in Compensation therefor. And they will as in duty Bound, ever pray. Saml. Knight, BENJ. BUTTERFIELD, ELEAZER PATTERSON, themselves and the Son of Samuel Minot deceased & their Associates mentioned in the List transmitted. Dated at Brattleborough December ye 12th 1786. ASSOCIATES NAMES. 1 Noah Sabin of Putney Esq. Confined by the Mob and Ill Treated 2 Benjamin Butterfield of Brattleborough the same. 3 John Sargent of ditto the same and his Son exceedingly Ill Treated by Allen 4 William Willard of Westminster the same. 5 Samuel Knight of Brattleborough Taken but run away from the Mob. 6 Eleazer Patterson Hindsdale Confined. 7 John Norton Westminister Supported New York 8 Simon Stevens Springfield, 9 Thomas Sayer the same, 10 Josiah Arms Brattleborough, 11 Samuel Minott Putney, do do do do The Committee to whom was referred the petition of Eleazer Patterson and others praying for a pattent for Lands as a compensation for losses sustained by their attachment to the State, reportthat in their opinion as there are no vouchers to support the facts alledged in the said petition the prayer thereof ought not to be granted. SETTLEMENT OF THE VERMONT DIFFICULTIES. "To facilitate this business and to get Vermont into the Union the Legislature of the State of New York passed a law in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety appointing Commissioners on the part of the State of New York to settle a boundary Line with the Commissioners appointed on the part of Vermont. That the Commissioners on both sides met in the City of New York in the month of October of that year, when a Treaty was entered into and executed by the New York Commissioners whereby |