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936 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE
APRIL 12, 1777.
Your committee have obtained for you a copy of the recommendation of Congress, to all such bodys of men as looked upon
themselves returned to a state of nature, to adopt such government as should, in the opinion of the representatives of the people,
best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in
particular and America in general.
You may, perhaps, think strange, that nothing further is done
for you, at this time, than to send you this extract; but if you
consider, that till you incorporate and actually announce to
Congress your haviug become a body politic, they cannot treat
with you as a free state. While New-York claims you as subjects of that government, my humble opinion is, your own good:sense will suggest to you, that no time is to be lost in availing
yourselves of the same opportunity your assuming mistress is
improving to establish a dominion for herself and you too.
Jq word to the wise is suficient. THOMAs YOUNG.
DECLARATION BY THE PEOPLE AT BRATTLEBOROUGH,
OF THEIR ALLEGIANCE TO THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
[Miscellaneous Papers XXXIX.]
Brattleborough Aprul 25 1777
To Israel Smith Esqr of Brattleborough in the County of Cumberland and State of New York-You being appointed by this
Town, to Represent the Different Circumstances this Town is
Under by means of the Factions which Prevals in this and the
Neighboring Counties-We the Subscribers being appointed a
Committe for the Purpose of Giving You instructions-do instruct
you as Followeth, (viz) that you Represent that a Number of
Persons Calling them Selves the Representitives of the County
in Conjunction with those Call'd the Green Mountain Boys met
at Westminster in January Last and Declared the Land known
by the Name of the Newhampshire Grants a Seperate independent State that Not half the Towns in this County ware Repre