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gun, he might very probably be dispossessed by an- 

 other New Englander coming with a Connecticut deed. 

 The New Englanders were always the strongest 

 party. + In the early seventies bloody rights took place 

 between the colonists, when several lives were lost. 

 However this was only private war and the war with 

 England coming on suppressed the quarrels beyond the 

 mountains, the matter at issue having not yet been de- 

 cided. But since the peace these dissensions have been 

 again renewed, and both states recently laid their 

 claims before the tribunal of the Congress. A commit- 

 tee decided for Pensylvania. The New England party 

 is altogether dissatisfied with this judgment, because in 

 this case they must lose their gains, Pensylvania hav- 

 ing long since granted to its own subjects much of the 

 land in dispute. To be sure, Pensylvania has offered 

 the New Englanders reimbursement in lands else- 

 where, but they prefer if they can to stay where they 

 are, and threaten to do so by force of their fists ; for 

 orders of the Congress are not regarded here if not 

 pleasing or unsupported by force. So far the outbreak 

 of further hostilities has been controlled by the little 

 garrison which the state of Pensylvania maintains here 

 against the Indians until a treaty with these nations 

 is drawn up.* 



Wyoming, according to the New England claim, 



* According to sundry items of a public nature, there have 

 been of late other bloody proceedings in Wyoming, and the 

 disquiets among the colonists of both states have only very 

 recently been brought to a peaceable conclusion Extract from 

 a communication from Philadelphia, 1787. ' The tedious 

 " territorial quarrel between Pensylvania and Connecticut has 

 " at last been happily ended without bloodshed. The Connecti- 



