tions of British power, the inhabitants of the "New Hampshire Grants" finally attained the political condition they had so eagerly coveted, and through such various difficulties had so wisely and firmly maintained.

Those who would wish to obtain fuller details of this interesting portion of American annals, may find them in Williams's History of Vermont, Slade's Vermont State Papers, and the fourth volume of the Documentary History of New York.

THE END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.