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with their most spirited exertions, and that New 

 Hampshire must be accountable for the conse- 

 quences.* With this letter, commissioners 

 were sent to the general assembh'- of New Hamp» 

 shire, to endeavor to accommodate matters, and 

 prevent the effusion of blood. f 



At the same time the troops of New York 

 were in motion to suppress the proceedings of 

 their citizens, who had formed an union with 

 Vermont. On December 18th, their comman- 

 der, brigadier general Gansevoort, Vv'rote to the 

 commanding officer of the troops from Vermont, 

 that in pursuance of a law of New York, he had 

 been detached with a part of his brigade, to sup- 

 press an insurrection of some of the inliabitants 

 of Schaticook and Hoosac ; that he v/as arrived 

 to aid the sheriff of the county, to apprehend the 

 insurgents,; and was informed that a large body 

 of troops from the grants, were marching in 

 force, Vi?ith artillery ; but before he proceeded 

 any further, he wished to be informed what v/as 

 the object of their movement into the interior 

 parts of that state, and by what authority.^ 

 Colonel Wiilbridge, commandant of the troops 

 from Vermont, wrote in answer, that the object; 

 of their movement, was to protect those of the 

 inhabitants, who in consequence of the union, 

 professed allegiance to the state of Vermont ; 

 that he wished conciliatory methods miglit be 

 adopted, but if those persons v/ho professed to 

 be citizens of Vermont, should be imprisoned, 

 and their properly destroyed, he was not to be 

 answerable for the consequences. ^^ 



* Air. Paine's letter to President Weare, Dec. at, 1781. 

 T General Roger Enos, Ira Allen and William 'Page. 

 i P. Gansevoorc's- letf.tr, of December 18, 1781. 

 ^ E. Waibridgt's letccr, ot Dccorabcr 19, 17 Si- 



