( 360 ) 
believed the New York Court to be venal and corrupt,* and 
they would make no terms with the ‘‘ Yorkers,” by which 
they would lose their homes or pay twice for them. Suits of 
ejectment were therefore multiplied. But after the first few 
trials in 1770, the settlers resolved to defend no longer in the 
court at Albany, but at their own hearthstones; they ac- 
cordingly suffered judgments by default, but resisted writs of 
possession to the death. 
The persistent efforts to enforce evictions under these judg- 
ments led to the formation of the ‘* Green Mountain Boys,” 
rude military organization for their common defence. Com- 
mittees of safety were also formed to direct measures for their 
mutual protection throughout the district. They forbade New 
York sly for further New York grants; prevented by 
e . Cyc., 16: 731, ‘‘ Vermont,’’ 1863. Judge Livingston, who 
presided : me ne at eee or his family, held by New York patents 
35,000 acres of the Vermont lands. Land Patents, Albany, Vol. 14. (H. 
Hall, Vt., 121.) 
Notwithstanding this order and all the additional instructions to the same 
effect, Lt. Governor Colden and the succeeding Governors after Gov. Moore's 
e 
Tryon is pues to issue grants from the English war-vessel on which 
he had ta ig g from the patriots in October, 1775, caidas the 
timely warning given by Mr. Duane’s footman. These grants, being m 
any of the g b 
pov of it. Vermont granted the lands as unappropriated. H. Ha 
27 
Gov. Twon was among the 60 persons whose lands were confiscated under 
the N.Y. Act - attainder, passed Oct. 22,1779. (1 Green. Laws 26; T. Jones 
Hist. N. Y. in Rev., 2: 510, 539. 
Mr. Duane’s ee eee iepeaene ‘“ State of the Evidence,” in favor of 
New York titles, may be found in N. Y. Hist. Soc. Pub., 1870: 1-154. Doc 
ments also in N. Y. Hist. Soc. Pub., 1869: 282-528. The Assembly’s “‘ aoe 
of the Right, etc.,’’ prepared mainly by Mr. Duane (B. H. Hall’s Vermont, 
1773, pp. go to 116, and is also printed. As to these, see H. Ha’ t., . 
t. Mag., Jan., 1868: 22; Feb., 1 : 74; Mag. a Hist., 23 
142; also Journals of Congress, 3 4; Vt. Hist. Soc. Pub., 1 and 2, 506; 
nd 4 
1 and 2, ‘‘Governor and Council”; ‘‘Slade’s Vermont State Papers’’; B. 
Hall’s “‘ Karly History of Vermont’; R.C. Benton’s “ Vermont's Early 
ae ” 1894; Thompson’s History ée Vermont, Pt. indsor’s Narr. 
Crit. Hist. Amer., 3:,5: 179. Regents’ Rep. on N. Y. ee 1873, 1886. 
