(365 ) 
Except in New York, the superior rights of the settlers 
under the New Hampshire grants prior to 1764, were gen- 
erally sustained ; viz., by the Cabinet Ministers of the Crown 
(Colonial Doc., 7: 9173 8: 343, 344, 356-359; Doc. Hist., 
4: 589); by the Board of Trade (Colonial Doc., 7: 224; 8: 
330); by the Commissioners under the British Act of 1783 
for compensation to Loyalists (see Jones’ Hist. N. Y., 2: 
643-662), who in the case of John Monroe granted him com- 
pensation for his New York lands, but denied it for lands in 
Vermont for /ack of title, because previously granted to others 
by Gov. Wentworth (Vt. Gov. and Council, 1: 17; Benton’s 
Vt. Settlers, 71); and finally after much vaccillation, by our 
own Congress (ante, p. 46).* The U.S. Supreme Court also 
in the cases of Soczety for the Propagation of the Gospel vs. 
New Haven (8 Wheaton 464) and same vs. Town of Paulet 
(4 Peters 480, 502), though this point apparently was not liti- 
gated, gave judgments for the plaintiffs, grantees of Gov. 
Wentworth, in actions of ejectment, in which the plaintiff 
recovers only on the strength of his own title. 
In 1782 it was apparent that Vermont was irretrievably 
lost to New York, and efforts to make the grants effective 
ceased. Time soon softened the asperities of the former 
struggle; and when a few years later a need arose in Con- 
gress for another northern state and for more northern votes 
to preserve the balance of power (Doc. Hist. N. Y., 4: 1068) 
and to sustain the hopes of New York to retain the seat of 
government, the sentiment gained ground that the controversy 
with Vermont ought to be formally closed by her admission 
to the Union, though relinquishment of the land-claims was 
a necessary condition (Hamilton to Chipman, July 26, 1788 ; 
Life of N. Chipman, 75-77; Williams’ Vt., 2: 276-284). 
Aside from these considerations, New York, after so long 
a struggle, was justified in making peace with Vermont 
without any liability to make compensation for land-claims 
lost as a consequence of revolution, even had they been of 
* See N. Y. Hist. Mag., 23: 357, 360; June, 1873. Col. Doc., 8: 339. 
