[436] Brinley Catal., nos. 2,510, 2,622; Sparks’ Catal., nos. 47, 50. Allen’s argument in this tract was reprinted in 1779 in his Vindication of the opposition of the inhabitants of Vermont to the government of New York (Dresden, 1779).
[437] John L. Rice, in Mag. of Amer. Hist., viii. p. 1. Cf. Journals of Prov. Cong. etc. (Albany, 1842).
[438] Brinley, i. no. 2,511. Cf. for the proclamation, Sabin, xiii. 53, 873.
[439] Printed at Dresden, Vt., 1779, and reprinted in the Records of the Governor and Council of Vermont (Montpelier, 1877), vol. v. pp. 525-540. Brinley, i. no. 2,512; Boston Pub. Library, 2338.10.
[440] Printed at Dresden, 1779, and reprinted in the Records of the Council of Safety of Vermont (Montpelier, 1873), vol. i. p. 444. Cf. Brinley, i. no. 2,513.
[441] Printed at Hartford, 1780, and reprinted in the Records of the Gov. and Council of Vermont (Montpelier 1874), vol. ii. p. 223. Cf. Brinley, i. no. 2,514. Stephen R. Bradley published the same year Vermont’s appeal to the candid and impartial world (Hartford, 1780). Brinley, i. no. 2,515. The Journals of Congress (iii. 462) show how, June 2, 1780, that body denounced the claims of the people of the New Hampshire grants. The same journals (iv. pp. 4, 5) give the Vermont statement of their case, dated Oct. 16, 1781; and New York’s rejoinder, Nov. 15, 1781.
[442] It is reprinted in the Records of the Gov. and Council of Vermont (Montpelier, 1874), vol. ii. p. 355. Brinley, i. no. 2,516. It was published anonymously. Cf. under date of March 1, 1782, the Report on the history of the N. H. grants in the Journals of Congress, iii. 729-32. The pardon by New York of those who had been engaged in founding Vermont is in Ibid. iv. 31 (April 14, 1782); and a report to Congress acknowledging her autonomy is in Ibid. iv. p. ii. (April 17, 1782).
[443] Documentary sources respecting this prolonged controversy will be found in William Slade, Jr.’s Vermont State Papers, being a collection of records and documents connected with the assumption and establishment of government by the people of Vermont (Middlebury, 1823); in Documents and Records relating to New Hampshire, vol. x.; in O’Callaghan’s Doc. Hist. New York, vol. iv. pp. 329-625, with a map; in the Fund Publications of the N. Y. Hist. Society, vol. iii., and in the Historical Magazine (1873-74), vol. xxi. Henry Stevens, in the preface (p. vii.) of his Bibliotheca Historica (1870), refers to a collection of papers formed by his father, Henry Stevens, senior, of Barnet, Vermont. The first volume of the Collections of the Vermont Hist. Soc. had other papers, the editing of which was sharply criticised by H. B. Dawson in the Historical Magazine, Jan., 1871; with a reply by Hiland Hall in the July number (p. 49). The controversy was continued in the volume for 1872, Mr. Hall issuing fly leaves of argument and remonstrance to the editor’s statements.
The earliest general survey of the subject, after the difficulties were over, is in Ira Allen’s Natural and political History of the State of Vermont (London, 1798, with a map), which is reprinted in the first volume of the Collections of the Vermont Hist. Soc. (Montpelier, 1870). It is claimed to be “the aim of the writer to lay open the source of contention between Vermont and New York, and the reasons which induced the former to repudiate both the jurisdiction and claims of the latter, before and during the American Revolution, and also to point out the embarrassments the people met with in founding and establishing the independence of the State against the intrigues and claims of New York, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.” The most extensive of the later accounts is in Hiland Hall’s Early Hist. of Vermont (1868), ch. v. and vi., with a part of Mitchell’s map of 1755. Smith’s History of New York (ii. 149) gives the New York side of the controversy. Cf. also Bancroft’s United States, final revision, ii. 361; and Philip H. Smith’s Green-Mountain Boys, or Vermont and the New York land jobbers (Pawling, N. Y., 1885).
The controversy enters more or less into local histories, like Holden’s Queensbury, N. Y. (p. 393); William Bassett’s Richmond, N. H. (ch. iii.); O. E. Randall’s Chesterfield, N. H.; Saunderson’s Charlestown, N. H. All the towns constituting these early grants are included in Abby Maria Hemenway’s Vermont Historical Gazetteer, a local history of all the towns in the State (Burlington and Montpelier, 1867-1882), in four volumes.