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Bnly the sixteen towns in New Hampshire which 

 had= formerly joined, but those in Vermont 

 which had been disaffected upon the dissolution 

 of the former union, and those that had been 

 attached to New York; immediately joined in 

 the measure. Most of the towns in the adjacent 

 counties of Cheshire, and Grafton, in New 

 Hampshire, declared for the union : And at a 

 session of the assembly of Vermont in April, 

 thirty five towns in the Western parts of New 

 Hampshire, were represented. The adjacent 

 settlements in New York generally embraced 

 the same irieasures, and several petitions were 

 received from their inhabitants at this session of 

 the assembly, requesting the legislature of Ver- 

 inont, to exercise jurisdiction over them with- 

 out any further delay. A committee was ap- 

 pointed by the assembly, to confer with a con- 

 vention of those districts ; and on May 15th, 

 articles of union were agreed to, by the repre- 

 sewtatives of twelve districts in New York, and 

 the committee from Vermont, On the 16th of 

 ■June, these articles were confirmed by the le- 

 gislature, and representatives from ten of the 

 districts took their seats in the assembly of 

 Vermont, t 



Many circumstances had combined, to pro-' 

 duce this union of the people, in favor of Ver- 

 mont ; and one of a singular nature, had served 

 to reconcile those, who had been unfriendly to 

 the cause of America ; it was generally believed 

 that negociations, were at this period, carried 

 on between some of the leading men in Ver- 



■^ Journal of the assembly of Vermont, "Vol. I, June x6, X78X.' 

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