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regularities, and riots did not wholly destroy ; and it committed 
New York to a false and difficult position, which she never 
retrieved until the Treaty of 1790. It moreover impressed 
the Vermont settlers with such an indelible sense of wrong, 
mbraced in the former charter, as theretofore. New York in December, 
area of Massachusetts. Regents’ Bound. Rept., 1886 (Sen. Doc. 71), 402- 
417. N.Y. Laws, 2: 3, 293, Ap. 28, 1786. Benton’s Vt., 174. Hotchin’s 
West. N. Y., 3-8, 1848. N. Y. Laws, Acts of Nov. 12, 1784, Ap. 28, 1786, 
century after the new charter, Massachusetts had been in possession of that 
istrict, as under her first aed from the Merrimack westward; sh e had 
mont). and 44 4 jaf, 7 theatndai 
. e st. 
U. S., 2: 297.) Thus no part of what is now Vermont was at the date oe 
commission, or previously, nodes the . rit laciiiad ” of New York. 
als of Trade, in reviewing th: 1772, say that ‘‘7o establish. 
re made by New Yi we » [north of the ase line of Massachnu- 
a SSipapetan to the exercise of any regular jurisdiction,”’ (Colonial 
331. Doc. Hist. 4: 4 
‘om the date of Gov. eae s commission in 1741 until the King’s 
See of 1764 the whole territory now constituting Vermont was therefore 
considered and treated by the Crown and its responsible ministers as a part 
of the province of New Hampshire, and never as pacers g to New York. 
. orders of the Crown in 1744, and again in 1749, New Hampshire was re- 
quired to assume the support of Fort Dummer as “ eee lately fallen within 
1738, that tract zs become a part of New Hampshire.” (Doc. Hist., 4: 547- 
