( 363 ) 
During this long period New York had exhausted all avail- 
able means, both civil and criminal, to enforce her authority 
and the claims of her colonial grantees. Sheriffs with a large 
posse had been often sent to enforce her judgments for pos- 
session; she had indicted the leaders of the rebellion, sought 
in vain to arrest them, offered large rewards for their appre- 
hension, outlawed them and set a price on their heads.* Later, 
she had for years prevented the admission of Vermont into the 
Union and sought the intervention of Congress to compel her 
susceptible of cultivaton.”’ (Pine’s Charters Columbia Col., 72.) The dis- 
orders of the times a have formed an excuse, had they not been known 
to exist in 1769, prior to the issue of Columbia’s first patent, even to the 
interruption of ard surveys. Sapue ey Hist. Vt., Part II., 19-20. 
ipman’s Life of Seth Warner, 21. N.Y t. Soc. Pub, 1869: 299~302 5 
Ibid., Colden Papers, 1877: 196. 
Upon the grant of Kingsland to Columbia on March 14, 1770, a committee 
ees’ M 
township ”’ (Judge Reames in B. H. Hall’s Vt., 178 ; Doc. Hist. N. Y., 
here 
on February 17, it was ster that ‘‘the former encouragement to settlers 
was insufficient” ; and the Committee were authorized to ‘‘ grant in fee to the 
Jjirst twelve ibn who shall go and settle on satd tract”’ one to acre plot 
within, and roo acres out of, the town.’ (Doc. Hist. N. Y., 
In April, 1772, Yates wrote Mr. Duane as respects his own ee that the 
civil power was insufficient; and that without military force ‘‘ you will, I 
» (H.H 
Laie to report ‘‘means for recovering their landed property in the 
N. E. part of this State called Vermont.” In March, 1788, a Committee was 
Sar “to negotiate with the eee: claiming or possessing the lands,’’ 
to compromise with them, or to let, sell, take possession or sue for them. 
other settlers, and they retained them (ante, p. 44). Efforts to compro- 
apse if made, were ineffectual. 
H. Hall’s Hist. Vt., on H. Hall’s Vt., 180, 181; Doc. His., 4: 869; 
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