HISTORY OF VERMONT. 291 



3-ear 1775, when the king of England, who had 

 granted these lands, made war upon this coun- 

 try, these Indians were his allies, in that war, 

 and thereby subjected themselves and interest 

 to its consequences. The people of the United 

 States were victorious, and the king of England, 

 by treaty, yielded to the United States all the 

 lands south of Canada. Thus, in my view the 

 claims of the Indians have been extinguished."* 

 A committee of the assembly agreed in senti- 

 ment with the governor, and its was " Resolved^ 



* That his excellency the governor of this state 



* be requested to notify the chiefs of the seven 



* nations of Indians inhabiting lower Cana- 



* da, that the state of Vermont has taken all 



* possible care to examine into the merit of the 

 ' claims mentioned in their communications to 

 '■ his excellency the governor, at the city of \qx- 



* gennes, in October, 1798 ; and are fully of 

 ' opinion, that their claim, if it ever did exist, 

 ' has long since been done away and become 



* extinct, in consequence of the treaty of peace 



* in 1763, between the king of Great Britain and 

 ' the French king ; and the treaty of peace be- 



* tween the king of Great Britain and the United 

 ' States, of which this state is a part, in the year 

 ' 1783 ; and that the said Indians have now no 



* real claim either injustice or equity."! 



The questions that most of all engaged the 

 politics and passions of this assembly, were those 

 which were occasioned by the resolutions which 

 had been passed by the assemblies of the states 

 of Virginia and Kentucky. The Congress oi 



* Journal for 1799. p. 97. 

 + Ibid, p, 14^. 



