(VERMONT) Butterfield Benjamin et al Letter protesting Vermo

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(VERMONT.) Butterfield, Benjamin, et al. Letter protesting Vermont's disunion with New York. Letter Signed by Benjamin Butterfield, Samuel Knight, Israel Smith, James Blakslee, and Micah Townshend of Brattleboro to 'Freeholders and Inhabitants of Springfield' in Vermont. 2 pages, 7 1/2 x 6 inches, plus integral address leaf without postal markings; lacking blank lower panel of address leaf, tape repairs to a separation at one fold, minor wear and soiling. With typed transcript. (MRS) Brattleboro, VT, 4 March 1778

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The subscribers convey the result of Brattleboro's annual meeting, at which 'it was unanimously agreed to send a protest to the Assembly of the pretended State of Vermont against disavowing their allegiance to New York, a step in their opinion tending to disunite the friends of America in the present important contest with Great Britain.' Like-minded delegates from other Vermont towns were invited to a pro-New York meeting in Brattleboro scheduled for 18 March.