CONNECTED WITH THE ASSUMPTION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE OF VERMONT, TOGETHER WITH THE Journal of the Council of Safety, 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 BI MIDDLEBURY : 52. DISTRICT OF VERMONT, TO WIT. \|ca, WILLIAM SLADE, Junior, of the said district, Esquire, hath deposited in ba t his 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 establisbment 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." lo 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 au. . thors 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 J. GOVE, Clerk, CONTENTS. Page. 'aran 20 : : : : : Documents relating to the controversy with New-York and New- Hampshire, and the admission of Vermont into the Union, - 8 Journal of the Council of Safety, - - .. . - 197 Extracts from the early journal of the Governor and Council, 237 First Constitution, - - - - - - - Journal of the General Assembly, March Session, 1778, . 257 Laws, passed Feb. session, 1779, . . . . . . 287 June session, 1785, - - - - - 497 .. Oct. session, 1786, - - - - - Resolutions of the first Council of Censors, . Constitution, as revised by the first Council of Censors, 516 Address of the first Council of Censors, to the freemen, Proceedings of the second Council of Censors, - - Proclamation of pardon, June 1779, Governor's speech, Oct. 1779, . Order of Court of Confiscation, - - - - - 563 List of Governors of Vermont, from 1778 to 1822, - - 564 List of Judges of Supreme Court, from 1778 to 1822, .. - 564 List of Senators in the Congress of the U. S. from 1791 to 1822, . INDEX 10 TO THE DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE CONTROVERSY WITM Page. Correspondence between the Governors of New Hampshire and New-York, relative to the jurisdiction of those provinces, com mencing - - - - - November, 1749, 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 river, - - - - - - March, 1764, Order of the King in Council, establishing the west bank of Connecticut river as the boundary between the provinces of NewYork and New-Hampshire, - - July, 1764, Order of the King in Council, prohibiting the Governor of New York from making grants of land in the disputed terri tory, - - - - - - - July, 1767. Continuance of grants by the Governor of New York, and vio. lent proceedings, thereupon, - - - - - Communication from the Governor of New York to the inhabi tants of Bennington and its vicinity, - - May, 1772, Answer of the inhabitants of Bennington, &c. to the foregoing communication, - - - - - June, 1772, Communication of Ethan Allen, Seth Warner, Remember Baker and R. Cochran, to the Governor of New-York, June, 1772, Order of Governor of New-York, suspending prosecutions in be half of the crown, against the inhabitants of the New-Hamp shire grants, - - - - - - - - 29 Communication of the Governor of New York to the inhabi tants of Bennington and the adjacent country, relative to their dispossessing certain settlers in the vicinity of Otter Creek, claiming under grants from New-York, - - Augt. 1772, Answer to the foregoing communication, - - - Augt. 1772, Report of the Lords of trade to his Majesty's Privy Council, on the subject of this controversy, • - . Dec. 1779, Review of the controversy,--violent proceedings on the New| Hampshire grants, . - - - - Violent proceedings of the General Assembly of New York, - - - - - - February, 1774, 37 Meetings and resolutions of committees from sundry towns on the New-Hampshire grants, • • April, 1774, 98 Act of the Legislature of New York," for preventing tumultuous and riotous assemblies” on the New-Hampshire grants, “ and passed, - - - - - - March, 1774, against the proceedings of New York, - April, 1774, Court House, in Westminster, - - March, 1775, the east side of the mountains, held at Westminster, evincing York, • - - - - - April, 1775, sentatives from the towns on the New Hampshire grants, a- York, - - - - - - January, 1776, of the New Hampshire grants, at their sessions at Dorset, with that declaration - - - - - - - shire grants, to the Continental Congress, announcing the dis- trict to be a free and independent State, - - - the President of Congress, relative to the assumed indepen. dence of Vermont, - - January and March, 1777, Vermont, recommending the formation of a Constitution and the election of Delegates to Congress, April, 1777, sumption and establishment of government in certain cases, to the President of Congress, relative to the proceedings of Vermont, - - - - - - May, 1777, dence of Vermont, - - - - June, 1777, the Governor of New-Ilampshire, relative to the surrender of frontier, - - - - - - July, 1777, lative to the Constitution, - - February, 1778, overtures to the inhabitants of i ermont, February, 1778, union with Vermont, . - - - June, 1778, 70 79 90 |