VERMONT STATE PAPERS; BEING A COLLECTION OF RECORDS AND DOCUMENTS, CONNECTED WITH THE ASSUMPTION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE OF VERMONT ; TOGETHER WITH THE Journal of the Council of Safety, THE FIRST CONSTITUTION, THE EARLY JOURNALS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, AND THE LAWS FROM THE YEAR 1779 TO 1786, INCLUSIVE. TO WHICH ARE ADDED THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST AND SECOND COUNCILS OF CENSORS. COMPILED AND PUBLISHED BY MIDDLEBURY : J. W. COPELAND, PRINTER. JK3016 FT. L. S. BE DISTRICT OF VERMONT, TO WIT. E IT REMEMBERED, that on the third day of February, in the forty-seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America, WILLIAM SLADE, Junior, of the said district, Esquire, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit:-"Vermont State Papers; being a collection of records and documents counected with the assumption and establishment of government by the people of Vermont; together with the journal of the Council of Safety, the first Constitution, the early journals of the General Assembly and the laws from the year 1779, to 1786, inclusive To which are added the proceedings of the first and second Councils of Censors. Compiled and published by WILLIAM SLADE, Jun. Secretary of State." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned." JESSE GOVE, Clerk of the District of Vermont. A true copy of record, examined and sealed by TRO VIMU J. GOVE, Clerk. Documents relating to the controversy with New-York and New- Journal of the Council of Safety, Extracts from the early journal of the Governor and Council, Journal of the General Assembly,-March Session, 1778, 257 Resolutions of the first Council of Censors, Constitution, as revised by the first Council of Censors, Ancient inscription, 568. M169096 Correspondence between the Governors of New-Hampshire and New-York, relative to the jurisdiction of those provinces, com- List of grants made by the Governor of New-Hampshire, west of Connecticut river, previous to the year 1765, Grant from Charles II to the Duke of York, by virtue of which the territory called the New-Hampshire grants, was originally claimed by the province of New-York, Proclamation of the Governor of New-Hampshire, asserting the claim of that province to the grants, west of Connecticut Order of the King in Council, establishing the west bank of Con- necticut river as the boundary between the provinces of New- Order of the King in Council, prohibiting the Governor of New- York from making grants of land in the disputed terri- Continuance of grants by the Governor of New-York, and vio Communication of Ethan Allen, Seth Warner, Remember Baker Communication of the Governor of New-York to the inhabi- Answer to the foregoing communication, Report of the Lords of trade to his Majesty's Privy Council, on the subject of this controversy, Meetings and resolutions of committees from sundry towns on - Act of the Legislature of New-York," for preventing tumultuous Letters from the President of the Convention of New-York, to June, 1777, 78 July, 1777, 79 Address of the Council of Safety, to the people of Vermont, re- February, 1778, February, 1778, Proclamation of the Governor of New-York, containing certain June, 1778, |