HISTORY OF VERMONT. 19 



second grant of the lands, than the governor of 

 New Hampshire had acquired, by making the 

 first.*' 



AUhough it proved an easy thing for the 

 claimants under New York, to recover judg- 

 ment against the settlers, it was not found so 

 easy a matter, to carry those judgments into 

 execution. When the executive officers came 

 to eject the inhabitants, from their houses and 

 lands, they generally met with an avowed op- 

 position, from tlie possessors ; and were not 

 suffered, to proceed to the execution of their 

 offices. The minds of the settlers', instead of 

 being depressed into submission, seemed to de-. 

 rive new powers, from oppression : And the 

 people soon began to associate, to defend one 

 another, in their opposition to the courts, and 

 officers of New York. 



When it was found, that there was an avow- 

 ed opposition and combination, against the pro- 

 ceedings of the courts at AlL.jiy, an attempt 

 was made by the government of New^ York, to 

 engage the militia to assist and support the sher= 

 iiT. The people who were thus forced to march, 

 in support of the sheriff, had no affection for 

 the business : They were rather in sentiment,, 

 with the settlers ; . and had no disposition to 

 hazard then- lives, in support of a quarrel, w^hich 

 they plainij^ saw, was designed only for the c- 

 molument of a few speculators ; whose claims 

 and conduct, did not appear to them, to be so 



* The fecf. to the governor of New Hampshire, for granting a town- 

 ship, were about one hundred dollars; under the government ot Nevv 

 York, they generally amounted to two thousanu or two thousand six, 

 hundred dollars. 



