his posi-
tion as leader of all the active operations of the State.
The government of Vermont did not hesitate to extend its juris-
diction and authority over the adherents of New York, as well as
others. There still remained in Brattleborough, Guilford, and other
towns in "Windham county, in the year 1779, many individuals of
this class, who endeavored to oppose the proceedings of Vermont.
These were taxed and drafted into service as others, and " a sum of
money was assessed on those who were supposed to have done least
in the war." Some "acquiesced in it rather than contend."
Among other acts, the Vermont party, in the spring of that year
"ordered Capt. Jami^s Clay, Lieut. Benjamin Wilson" and
another, who were militia officers appointed by New Y''ork, "to
provide a man to go into the service." Butthey failing to obey the
order, two of their cows were seized, and ordered to be sold, to pay
the man hired by the Vermontcrs. On the day appointed for the
sale. Colonel Patterson, who commanded the regiment of militia
under New York, with his " field officers and a considerable part
of the regiment," assembled and rescued the cattle, and delivered
them to the owners. Within a week or two, Etuan Allen, with
an armed body of troops, appeared there and arrested and imprisoned
Colonel Patterson, and nearly all the officers of the regiment.
The legislature of Vermont, at their session in February, 1781,
passed " a general act of amnesty in fiivor of such persons," who
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had opposed its authority. Upon which those persons submitted to
the authority of the State-^and took the