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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 19: (search)
nsideration, declined the discussion of the remonstrance. To counterbalance the sturdy resistance of Virginia, 1780. the legislature of New York took the field. They founded claims to western territory on the discoveries of the Dutch; on the grant from Charles the Second to the Duke of York; on the capitulation of the Dutch; on the acquisition of the rights of the Five Nations and their tributaries as the native proprietors. Desirous to accelerate the federal alliance, on the nineteenth of April, 1780, they authorized con- April 19. gress to restrict their boundaries on the west. This Chap. XIX.} 1780. is the first important act of the states in surrendering public lands to the federal union. At the opening of the year 1780, congress found itself utterly helpless, and threw everything upon the states. In truth, there was nothing else that it could do. On the ninth of February, it fixed the Feb. 9. number of men necessary for the service of the year at thirty-five thousan