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926 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE
That Persons of considerable Rank Influence and Authority
in the neighbouring States are deeply concerned in the said
Designs with a view of dismembring this State and for that Purpose have promulgated a Report that it is the Intention of the
honorable the Continental Congress to aid and assist in the Independence of the said Counties.
That such Report hath received great weight and authority
from the appointment of Seth Warner to be the Colonel of a Regiment to be raised within that Part of this State and to appoint
his own officers independant of this State and utterly contrary
to the usual mode of appointment in such cases and also to a
Representation made by this Convention of the eleventh Day of
July last.
That the said Seth Warner hath been principally concerned
in divers'Riots Outrages and Cruelties committed in the said
Counties in direct opposition to the former Government of this
State and is otherwise utterly unfit to command a Regiment in
the Continental Service. From which and from sundry other
Facts resting within their knowledge the disaffected Persons
aforesaid do conclude and affirm that the Congress meant by the
said appointment to give direct and ample Testimony of their
Intentionsto protect them in their wicked and unjust designs
aforesaid.
That this. Convention hath not only advanced considerable
sums of money for the Protection of the said Counties in common
with other Parts of this State but also for their immediate and
particular Defence at their special Instance and Request.
That tlfe Counties aforesaid are of great Extent and Fertility
forming a very considerable and very valuable Part of this State
and that therefore it is the Duty of this Convention to take speedy
and vigorous measures for reducing them to an obedience to the
same.
That other the Inhabitants of this State are greatly and justly
alarmed at the Proceedings abovementd and are many of them
determined rather to submit to the Tyranny of Great Britain
than suffer so valuable a Territory to be purloined from them
as they do consider the Proceedings with Respect to that Country
to be in Consequence of a deep and dangerous Conspiracy against