The Documentary history of the state of New-York; arranged under direction of the Hon. Christopher Morgan, secretary of State. By E. B. O'Callaghan ...

NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 983
Since October last almost the whole County of Gloucester have
fallen off from Vermont and are now in open opposition to it.
That those who continue in allegiance to New York have
refused entering into this unprovoked and unreasonable Rebellion
against lawful Authority, not only from Principles of Affection
and Duty to the State of which they are a part; but because
they conceive that an internal Revolution undertaken at this
critical Juncture, must be attended with bad consequences to the
common Cause of America. The Powers of Government must
at such a time be necessarily weak, and consequently inadequate
to the extraordinary exertions which our Country requires from
us, both of AMen and Money. The precedent which it would
make for the disorderly Subjects of other States, and the contempt shewn to the Resolutions of the honorable the Congress,
hereinafter in part recited, are other reasons why we have chosen
not to join in measures so extraordinary.
That the Vermont Faction?n the year 1777 made application
to the honorable the Congress that what they had already declared
an independent State, might be considered as such by Congress,
and that delagates therefrom might be admitted to Seats in
that honorable House. Whereupon Congress among other
things resolved, that it was composed of Delagates chosen byand representing, the Communities respectively inhabiting the
Territories of New Hampshire &c &c New York &c &c as they
respectively stood, at the tirme of itsfirst Institution. That it could
not be intended that Congress by any of its Proceedings would
do recommened or countenance, any thing injurious to the rights and
Jurisdictions of the several communities which it represented.
That the independant Government attempted to be established
by the People stiling themselves Inhabitants of the New Hampshire Grants, could desire no Countenance or Justificafion from
the Act of Congress declaring the United Colonies to be independant
of the Crown of Great Britain, nor from any other act or Resolution of Congress. That the Petition of Jonas Fay &c in the
Name and behalf of the people stiling themselves as aforesaid,
praying that the district in the said Petition described, -might b&
ranked among the fiee and independant States, and that Delagates therefrom might be admitted to seats in Congress, should