HISTORY OF VEKMONt. in 



To bring Congress to'' some decision upon 

 the matter, on June 23d, one of the delegates of 

 New York laid before that body, the printed 

 letter and publication of Thorhas Young. Con- 

 gress took up the matter, and ordered the prints 

 ed paper, the letters which had been received 

 from the convention of New York, and from the 

 inhabitants of the New Hampshire grants, to be 

 referred to a committee of the whole ; and after 

 several adjournments, on June 30th, passed the 

 following resolves : 



*' Mesolvedy That Congress is composed of 

 delegates chosen by, and representing the com- 

 munities respectively inhabiting the territories 

 of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode 

 Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut^ 

 New Yorki New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Dela- 

 ware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South 

 Carolina, and Georgia, as they respectively stood 

 at the time of its first institution ; that it was 

 instituted for the purpose of securing and de- 

 fending the communities aforesaid, against the 

 usurpations, oppi*essions, and hostile invasions 

 of Great Britain ; and therefore it cannot be in- 

 tended that Congress by any of its proceedings 

 would do^ Or recommend, or countenance, any 

 thing injurious to the rights and jnrisdiction of 

 the several communities, which it represents. 



" Resolved, That the independent government 

 attempted to be established by the people, styling 

 themselves inhabitants of the New Hampshire 

 grants, can derive no countenance, or justifica- 

 tion, from the act of Congress declaring the 

 United Colonies to be independent of the crown 

 of Great Britain ; nor from any other act, or 

 resolution of Congress, 



