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" The first land cleared and cultivated in the town was located according to the following description :
"' At a meeting of the proprietors of Torrington, held in Windsor, Feb. 10, 1734, voted Lieut. Roger Newberry be a committee, and he is hereby fully empowered in the name of the proprietors to rent out to Josiah Graut, of Litchfield, about four or five acres of land lying iu said Tor- ringtoo, which is already broken up, as it lieth bonoded south ou Litch- field and east on Waterbury River, until such time as said proprietors by their vote shall see cause to call it in.'
"One deed, given by Joseph Ellsworth, of Litch- field, dated March 21, 1734, says lot 77 was a home- lot, which meant that it had a dwelling-house on it, and had been the home of somebody. This lot joined Goshen on the west, and was about one mile north of Litchfield line.
"In October, 1744, the town voted thirty-five pounds six shillings and sixpence, as one-half of the cost of building a fort. It was located near Ebenezer Ly- man's dwelling, on the west side of the present road at that place, and was built of chestnut logs split in halves and standing in the ground, rising to the height of about eight feet. The object of the fort was pro- tectiou to the inhabitants from the ravages of the In- dians, especially the raids of the Mohawks, which were made for the one only purpose of pillage and destruction. The Connecticut Indians had learned, many years before, to make little trouble for the set- tlers. Various narrations are still repeated about the fright of the people, the haste with which they fled to the fort, leaving nearly everything in their homes, and remaining over-night, and sometimes several days, in great anxiety as to their own lives, and also the safety of their homes; and for a time the settlers
* The lumber for making framed houses in 1740 must have beeo brought through the forests from Litchfield or New Hartford.
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sought homes near this fort. Several of them owned lots on the east side, but sold them and bought on the west side, and then brought their families into the town near the fort; and others lived on the west side, while they worked their lands on the east side.
" This fear of the Indians was the greatest disturber of the peace of the people in the new settlements. The dread of the wild beasts, though no inconsider- able matter, was of little weight compared to the ter- ror produced at the report of the coming of the Mo- hawk Indians. The alarm at the approach of the Indians was given by lighting signal-fires on the hills from Albany eastward as the party advanced ; hence if an accidental fire occurred in the direction of the Hudson River it was taken as an alarm-fire, and the people hastened to the fort to wait until information could be obtained of the cause of the fire. This state of society came to an end soon after the close of the French war in 1760. The old fort served its purpose as a refuge in time of need, was a number of times occupied by the frightened inhabitants for several days at a time, then gradually tumbled down, leaving nothing but a mound seventy-five feet by one hundred, which still marks the place of its once warlike stand- ing. There is said to be another mound about three- fourths of a mile westerly from the site of this old fort, which marks the place of some fortification, either of the Indians before, or by the first settlers of the town.
" A school-house was built within the fort in 1745,* the first institution of learning in the town. In this house religious services were held several years.
"So far as ascertained, the first settler in Torring- ford was Abraham Dibble, or his son Daniel, in 1744 or 1745, on the second lot laid out from Harwinton line, the place still known as the Dibble place. The next settler was Benjamin Bissell, a little north of the Shubael Griswold place, on the east side of the street, where Mr. Bissell kept a tavern a number of years. Ile came probably in 1745. . The third settler was John Birge, on the present Roswell Birge place. Nehemiah Gaylord made his home opposite Benjamin Bissell's, a little north, in a log house first, probably in 1746. Elijah Gaylord settled on a farm that in- chided the site of the present Torringford church and the burying-ground-his log house standing in the lot southeast of the present church-in 1747. Shubael Griswold built his house a little south of Nehemiah Gaylord's, in 1754, and made his home there. Ile lived on the west side of the town a year or two before this house was completed, and before he was married. In 1752 or 1753, John Burr settled on the place long known by his name, and Benjamin Matthews came about the same time, with Mr. Burr, from Farmington ; the others were from Windsor. Soon after this came Deacon Jonathan Kelsey and his son Nathan from
Woodbury. Between 1753 and 1760 came Joshua, David, Daniel, and Aaron Austin from Suffield, some of whom settled on West Street, and Aaron Yale from Wallingford, and some others from Windsor, and Samuel and Ephraim Durwin from Waterbury."
FIRST TAVERNS.
"One of the first taverns was erected and kept by Epaphras Sheldon, a little north of Ebenezer Lyman's, on the east side of the road. Mr. Sheldon having received quite a farm from his father, and having pur- chased several pieces of land, made his home here 'about 1760, and was of considerable importance as a new settler, and for thirty years he was as prominent as any man in the business transactions of the town, and in social, military, and political positions. His tavern was the headquarters for most doings of the town. The road running north and south past his house was the race-course for running horses, and the fields near his house were the parade-grounds for mil- itary drill until after the centre of the town became established at the green, after the building of the second meeting-house.
"Ephraim Bancroft lived a little north of Mr. Sheldon's, and also kept a tavern.
"Capt. Abel Beach kept a tavern, beginning some time before the Revolutionary war, but at what time he opened his house for public entertainment cannot be definitely ascertained.
"John Burr, of Farmington, bought in 1751, and in 1752, land amounting to over four hundred pounds money, and settled in the town in 1753, on the farm known many years as the Burr place, east of Burrville, on the hill. Here Mr. Burr was keeping a tavern in 1762, and may have opened such a house some years earlier.
"Shubael Griswold built his house on the corner of Torringford Street and what was afterwards the Torrington turnpike, in 1754, and opened it as a tavern about 1757. His son, Thaddeus Griswold, con- tinued it as a public-house many years.
" Benjamin Bissell's tavern stood a little north of Shubael Griswold's, and was kept as a public-house some years before the Revolution; and still later David Soper kept a tavern on Torringford Street, west side, near the first meeting-house."
WAR OF THE REVOLUTION.
" The number of inhabitants in Torrington in 1774 was eight hundred and forty-three, of which there were only one hundred and thirty-two men and one hundred and thirty-four women over twenty years of age, leaving five hundred and seventy-seven persons under twenty years of age, and in a great measure dependent on the older people for sustenance, care, and protection. Besides this, the country was new, and the obtaining of food and comforts was much · more difficult than it would have been under other
. Itev. J. A. Mckinstry, in " Manual of the First Church ;" Deacon L. Wetmore, In " Wolcottville Register," 1875.
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circumstances. It is important to bear these things in mind as we attempt to estimate the struggle through which the inhabitants passed in order to obtain their political independence.
" The two military companies in 1774 included one hundred and sixty-nine men, or all the men in the town over twenty years of age, and thirty-seven under that age. When hostilities commenced at Concord, in this same year, these companies were not called on to go to Boston, but were notified to be in readiness at a minute's warning. In the autumn session of the Assembly of that year an act was passed offering a sum of money to every member of the military com- panies of the State that would train twelve half-days in the spring of the next year, and the officers were required to report to the justices of the town, and they to the Assembly and draw the pay. The following are the reports made from Torrington. The report was made by the clerk of the company, and addressed :
"'To Captain Amos Wilson, 5th Company of the 17th Regiment in the colony of Connecticut; and to John Cook and Epaphras Seldon, Esqrs., Justices of the pesce, etc.
" This may certify that the following persons, in pursuance of the Inte act of law of the colony, passed October last, respecting the mili- tary, each one has troined in his own person, according to order, as fol- lows:
IIsIf-Days.
Half-Days.
Lient. Epaphras Loomis. 12
Private Nosh Thrall.
12
Sergt. Wait Beach
12
Noadish Bancroft. 12
Noah Wilson ....
2
Noah Beach. 12
Eli Loomis ..
7
=
Benjamin Beach
19
Roger Wilson ..
12
Joseph Blake
8
= Samuel Beach
12
= Shubaal Cook
12
Caleb Lynisn. 12
Ariel Brace.
10
Dr. Ebenezer Smith
12
Private Willism Wilson
Ashbal Bronson.
7
Joshua Leach.
8
= Daniel Benedict
12
Ashbel North.
Daniel Loomis ...
12
Abel Beach, Jr.
12
Jacob Johnson.
7
Asahel North 12
Joseph Thompson
12
Asshel Wilcox. 10
12
Benjamin Eggleston.
9
= Noah North, Jr ...
12
Caleb Lesch 12
12
Ebenezer North, Jr. 12 Isaiah Tuttle .. 12
Ebenezer Lyman ...
12
Abel Thrall.
7
Ambros Marshall 12
12
"' CROWNPOINT, July 26, 1775.
"' Mr. Andrus, Sutler, Sir: Please to let Edward Fuller have of your stores tbree shillings, lawful money, by order of
"'SUUNAEL GRISWOLD, Capt.
"' CROWNPOINT, August 4, 1775.
"'To Mr. Bemus, Suttler : Please to let Edward Fuller bave of your stores six shillings, lawful money.
"'SHUBAEL GRISWOLD, Cupt.
"'CROWNPOINT, Sept. 28, 1775.
""" Received of Mr. Jothem Bemsus sixteen shilling Rod three pence, york money, which I desire Capt. Griswold to pay out of my wages, oud you will oblige, Sir, Your's
"' To Cspt. Shubael Griswold : Sir. This is your order to pay Elisha Frisbie, of Torrington, two pounds money, out of what is due to me for my wages in last year's campaign, it being for value received.
"' Dated, Farmington the 13th day of March, 1776.
"' DAVID HAYDON. "' JAMES COWLES.'
"It is quite evident that a number of Torrington men were in this campaign with Capt. Griswold.
"The following paper, found in the State Library,
explains itself, to the credit of Torrington :
5
Clerk Zachariah Mather ..
12 Elisba Kelsey.
12
Corp. Daniel Stow.
12
Asaph Atwater ...
9
Daniel Hudson
10
David Norton.
9
Daniel Dibble.
10
Daniel Winchell.
12
" John Gillett
4
John Marslı.
12 11 12
Musician Timothy Soper .. 11
Abraham Filley. 4
Ebenezer Rood.
9
Ulisus Fyler ... 11
Hezekiah Bissell.
11
Nathaniel Frisbie 10 Jonathan Kelsey ..
10
Private Benjamin Bissell, Jr. 12
Ichabod Stark, Jr.
3
Samuel Austin. 12
11
Cyrenus Anstin ...
12
Samuel Averitt
9
Joseph Guylord 12
Thomas Matthews 12
12
Nathaniel Austin.
12
John Standcliff ..
12
Abel Clark 12
Oliver Bissell.
12 12
Comfort Standcliff, Jr ..
12
John Spencer
Seth Cus.
12
44 Simeon Birge.
12
Joseph Loomis ...
12
=
Thomas Goodman .. Dan Austin.
12
Samuel Kelsey, Jr.
12
=
Silas White. 10
Timothy Gillett
10
Daniel Kelsey.
12
Timothy Loomis 12
John Burr, Jr. 12
Job Curtiss.
8
Cotton Mather 9
6
= Ebenezer Rissell 11
Eliphas Bissell.
12
Samuel Austiu (2d)
7
Ezekiel Bissell, Jr. 12
Abner Ives ..
6
=
Roger Sheldon
12
David Soper
3
=
Reuben Burr ..
12
Michael Loomis
12
Enos Austin.
12
Nehemiah Gaylord.
12
"' JOHN COOK, "' EPAPHRAS SHELDON, S Justices of the Peace.
"' Amount £19 68. 6d.
"' Received payment,
"' JOHN COOK,
"' EPAPHRAS SHELDON.'
"Capt. Shubael Griswold, as captain, was in the war of the Revolution as early as 1775, in the North- ern campaign, as the following receipts will show. These receipts are preserved in the pocket of the book in which he kept his journal in the French war, and which he used many years afterwards, as an ac- count-book.
""CaOWNPOINT, July 4, 1775.
"Elishs Andrus: Sir. Please to let Benjamiu Gaylord have five shillings, lawful money worth of your stores.
"'SHUBAEL GRISWOLD, Capt.
Christopher Whiting. Joel Miller
12
Benoni Loomis.
12
Abuer Loomis, Jr.
12
Charles Thrall.
12
Ahel Stannard ....
3
Elisha Smith.
12
Ephraim Bancroft .. 12
= Ephraim Loomis, Jr. 12
Joseph Drake, Sr.
12 12
=
George Allyn ..
12
Roger Loomis ..
12
11 Joseph Eggleston.
Ebenazer Leach
3
Joseph Thrall ..
David Alvord.
9
John Curtiss. 11
Joseph Holmes
12
Johu Beach. 12
Daniel Murray
4
= Josiah Whiting, Jr
Pardon Thrall
4
Israel Averitt, Jr ... 12
4
= James Leach. 12 Aaron Marshall
4
12 Richard Loomis
4
James Beach
12
4
= Joseph Beach, Jr. 7
Joseph Taylor.
4
Levi Thrall
12
Noab North 11
Joel Roberts.
8
"' DANIEL GRANT, Clerk.
"' JOHN COOK,
". EPAPHRAS SHELDON,
" Amount £24 68. 6d.
"' Received payment, Hartford, July, 1775,
" " CAPT. AMOS WILSON.
"'EPAPHRAS SHELDON.'
"'THIE TORRINGFORD COMPANY.
""To Cspt. Jolin Strong, of the 9th Company of the 17th Regiment.
Half-Days.
Half-Days.
Sergt. Jesse Cook.
12
Private John Birge, Jr. 11
Stephen Taylor ....
12
Augustus Haydon 12
Isaac Austin.
12 Nathaniel Barber.
Isaac Goodwin
Roswell Olmstead.
7
Return Bissell
Jesse Spencer.
Asa Loomis .. 12
Joseph Austin. 12
9
Andrew D. Austin. 10
Benjamin Gaylord 12
Amos Miller. Juhu Squire ..
3
Corp. Abijah Wilson. 12
Elijah Barber. 11
= Thomas Marshall
10
Timothy Barber.
12
Urijah Cook.
12
William Grant, Jr.
11
= Joho Cook, Jr.
7
Oliver Cotton ...
11
Oliver Bancroft
12
John Whiting, Jr.
12
Epaphras Sheldon. 12
Elijah Loomis ... 12
Ephraim Loomis
12
Epaphras Loomis, Jr. 12
John Miner ...
12
Friend Thrall 12
George Miller. 12
Solomon Agard
=
5
Remembrance Loomis ...
" ' BUSHNIEL BENEDICT.
John Youngs.
John Richards,
= Daniel Grant.
12
Noah Fowler. 12
Justices of the peace.
Charles Mather.
11
Lovi Austin ..
Elisha Bissell 11
Timothy Kelsey.
Roswell Coe.
6
Lott Woodruff.
46 Isaac Hull
Asahel Strong, Jr. 12
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TORRINGTON.
"'To Jebn Lawrence, Esq .. Colony Treasurer for the State of Connec- ticut : Sir, these are to certify that there were forty-one soldiers that went into the service out of the town of Torrington in the year 1775, whose heade were all put into the common lists and county rates made thereen, 188. per head, which by a late act made and provided, they are all abated; therefore, Sir, we desire that the same may be credited to our collector, Elisha Smith, the whole thereof amounts to the sum of thirty-six pounds, 18s. lawful money, etc.
"These from your most humble servants.
"" Dated, Torrington 7th of April, 1777.
" JOHN COOK, " 'EPAPHRAS SHELDON,
Justices of the Peace.
" ' JOHN STRONG,
"' ' AMOS WILSON,
Selectmen.'
"' EPHRAIM BANCROFT,
"In 1775 Goshen sent thirty-nine soldiers, New Hartford fifty-five, Cornwall twenty-nine, Harwinton thirty-two.
" Early in August, 1776, the aspect of affairs at New York was so threatening that, at the urgent request of Gen. Washington, the Governor and Council of Connecticut ordered the whole of the standing militia west of the Connecticut River, with two regiments on the east side of the river, to march to New York City. This order took two companies from this town.
"For the comfort of the militia when they should go into the service, the Assembly directed that each town should provide one tent for every thousand pounds on the list, and Torrington, standing five thousand eight hundred and sixteen pounds fifteen shillings, was required to provide five, if not six, tents ; hence Deacon John Cook, then town treasurer, paid one order to the Widow Mary Birge by the hand of her son, John Birge, for tent-eloth, amounting to five pounds and six shillings, and also paid Capt. John Strong, one of the seleetmen, seven pounds and six- teen shillings lawful money for tent-cloth.
"In December, 1776, to raise an army for the fol- lowing two years, ten pounds were offered as a pre- mium or bounty, and the same pay continued ; and in 1779 the authorities of this town paid as high as thirty pounds for one soldier for three years or during the war.
"Capt. Epaphras Sheldon, of this town, was ap- pointed captain in the second of the six battalions ordered in June, 1776, to be 'raised and marched directly to New York, and there join the Continental army.' The other officers of this company were : first lieutenant, Jolin Rockwell; second lieutenant, Abner Wilson ; ensign, Charles Goodwin. In this company were probably two of the sons of the captain, viz. :
"Epaphras, aged twenty years, served his time, re- turned home, and after many years removed to Han- nibal, Oswego Co., N. Y., where he died in 1850, ninety-four years of age.
" Remembrance, nineteen years of age, was taken prisoner by the British at Fort Washington; was poisoned by the water, and died in January, 1777.
" Wait, son of Capt. Epaphras, served in the war, and must have entered the army when fourteen or fifteen years of age; returned, lived in this town, and died in 1849, aged eighty-four years.
"The captain lived in this town until 1809, when he removed to Winchester, where he died in 1812, aged eighty years.
" Elijah Loomis, son of Ichabod, was probably in this company, and died a prisoner.
"Capt. Shuhael Griswold was appointed captain in December, 1776, with the following officers in his company : Jonathan Mason, first lieutenant ; Theo- dore Catlin, second lieutenant ; Jesse Buell, ensign. The men were enlisted from Torringford, Litchfield, and Cornwall. The pay-roll of this company is re- ported in the State library as lost, yet Capt. Gris- wold made an extra roll, which he placed in the pocket of his journal, where it remained to the pres- ent, in spite of three generations of children, and more than a hundred years of wear and tear. It is well preserved, and beautiful to bebold, except some hawk-eyed pictures, which have been scribbled on it either by soldiers in the army or those of the house- hold.
"The company marched to Sawpits, where it joined the army.
"The marching roll of Capt. Griswold's company, March 4, 1777 :
"From Torrington : John Burr, Seth Coe, Charles Roberts, Ambrose Fyler, Jonathan Miller, Asaph Atwater, John Birge, Isaac Filley, Timothy Loomis, Ebenezer Bissell, Return Bissell, Daniel Winchell, Frederick Bigelow, Cotton Mather, Benjamin Friebie, Thomas Skinner, Nathaniel Barber, Timothy Kelsey, Tbomns Matthews, Stephen Rossiter, Elisha Kelsey.
" From Litchfield : Stephen Smith, Gideon Phillips, Abel Catlin, Simeon Boss, Timothy Gibbs, Benjamin Stone, Ashbel Catlin, Calvin Bissell, Benjamin Palmer, John Way, Abner Baldwin, Phllemon Wilcox, Solomon Lineley, John Woodruff, Enoch Sperry, Dyer Cleaveland, Encs Balnes, Solomon Hurson, Harris Hopkins, Timothy Linsley, Joel Taylor, John Bissell, Solomon Woodruff. Philo Woodruff, Sim- eon Gibbs, Belah Benton.
" From Cornwall: John Mebbins, Samnel Burton, Josinh Hopkins, Asahel Leet, Solomon Johnson, Henry Philemor, Samuel Ensmions, Israel Dibble, Thomas White, Elishn Damon, Jernas Wadsworth, Joshua Hartshorn, Noah Harrison, Asa Emmons, Jonathan Bell, Simeon North.
"The Torringford and Cornwall mnen marched eighty-five miles, and the Litchfield men seventy-five, before reaching the army, on which account the former received seven shillings and onepence each, and the latter six shillings and threepence, as travel- ing expenses. Tradition says this company was in the Northern campaign, going to Crown Point and Montreal, taking Fort St. John's, and returning in the winter; and this agrees with the reports preserved by the State.
"Capt. Medad Hills was appointed captain in De- cember, 1776, and raised his company from Goshen, Torrington, and Winchester, with the following ofli- cers : Timothy Stanley, lieutenant, and John Dowd, ensign. Capt. Ilills resided in Goshen, near the Torrington line, and is celebrated for the guns which he made during the war more than for the battles he fought ; for the reason that his guns have been seen more than his battles have been heard of, although he was a brave and honored soldier. He is said to
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have been in command of two companies at the taking of New York City by the British, and to have con- ducted himself and men to the honor of his country in that perilous time.
"The several volunteer companies of the State this year were put into one regiment, and the Assembly appointed Noadiah Hooker colonel, James Root lieutenant-colonel, and Medad Hills major. Mr. Hills was afterwards appointed colonel.
"The following persons being detached [drafted] in 1777, paid their fines, each five pounds of money :
" Asahel Wilcox, Joseph Taylor, Isaiah Tuttle, Moses Loomis, Jr., Epa- phras Loomis, Jr., Roger Wilson, Ephraim Loomis, Thomas Mar- shall, Noalı Fowler, Arial Brace, Samuel Beach, William Wilson, George Baldwin, Moses Loomis (for his son, second time), George Baldwin (second draft), Noadiah Bancroft, Pardon Thrall, Ashbel North, [Samnel] Cummings, Benjamin Beach.
"In addition to these, Capt. Epaphras Loomis re- ported the fines of nine others in 1777. Twenty- three others gave their notes for these fines, and paid the notes in 1779, one hundred and fifteen pounds, amounting, in all, to two hundred and sixty pounds. These funds were used by the town in giving extra pay to those who did go and in hiring other soldiers. Capt. Epaphras Loomis' company received of this forty-six pounds.
" Benjamin Phelps, in January, 1779, 'paid two hundred dollars for a fine for his son Jonathan ; being detached and not going, sixty pounds.'
"In 1779 the town treasurer paid the following sums for men as soldiers :
" ** Paid Samuel Roberts for his service in the army, £6 108. Paid an order in favor of Noah North for his hiring a man in the service, £10; to Copt. Amos Wilson for his hiring a man, etc., £10; to Urijahı Cook for his hiring a mao, etc., £10; to Ebenezer Leach for his service in the army, £10; to Daniel Grant for money paid for clothiiog, £43 7s. Gd .; to Samuel Kelsey for his service in the army ; to Bushniel Benedict for cartouch-box, £4 4s .; to Daniel and Abraham Loomis for their hiring & man into the army, £10; to Jabez Gillett for two soldiers' blankets, £18; to Daniel Waller for his hiring a man, etc., after he was detached, £10; Dea. Miller for two blankets for the soldiers, £1G; to Daniel Dibble for a soldier's blanket, £9; to Ambrose Fyler, a Continental soldier, £13; to Jabez Gillett for a pot detached for the State use, £12 12s .; to Abner Loomis to hire John Dear to go into the service in Phelps' boy's room, who paid his fine, £60.'
"In 1780 the treasurer received fines as follows : by Col. Sheldon, from Ulysses Fyler, Samuel Clark, Clement Tuttle, William Wilson, and James Fer- gnson, two hundred and sixteen dollars; by Maj. Strong, a fine from Stephen -, two hundred and forty dollars.
"In 1781 the following moneys were received : by several notes given for fines by those who were de- tached, £5 each, £35; also by Ebenezer Bissell, as fine, £10; sundry other notes, £5 178.
"In 1781 the treasurer of the town paid the fol- lowing for services in the army :
£ s. d.
" ' To Jesse Whiting for three months' tour .. 10 8 0
" George Baldwin for cloth blankets, pork, etc ... 4 9 6 " Nehemiah Gaylord, Jr., for hiring Brigadore Loomis a tour .. 34 10 0
" Elisha Kelsey for a six months' tour ..... 34 10 0 " Eliphalet Hongh six months' tour for Sam. Cummings 20 5 6
" Roger Marshall for six months' tour 10
8 0
8. d. £
" Timothy Loomis for hiring a man a six months' tour. 20
0 0
" Andrew Ely for six months' tour. 37
4
0
" Benjamin Gaylord for a six months' tour ... 20
0
0
" Asahel Strong, conductor of teams ... 18
0 0
" Stanley Griswold for part of three months' tour. 10 0
" Capt. Noah Wilson for whent for soldiers ... 2
5
O
Jolin Ellsworth for service as a soldier. 5 14 0
" Nathan Sanders for his apprentice in service one summer. 37 4
0
" Barber Moore for a six months' tour. 30 12 0
" Elijah Bissell for six months' tonr. 36
0
" Ebenezer North for one iron pot for service ... I
8 0
" Nathaniel Kelsey, Jr., for part of three months' tour. 10
0 0
" Elisha Smith and Samuel Austin, receivers and packers of beef and other provisions. 38
" Zachariah Mather, Wait Beach, and Abijnh
2 0 Wilson for clothing and transporting to New Milford. 25
3
6
" Jolin Standcliff for a six months' tour 20 g
0
" John Ellsworth for part of a six months' tour .. 20 0
" Jared Palmer for part of a three months' tour .. 5 14 08
' Noah North for hiring a six months' tour ........ 20 0 0
" Ensign [Benj.] Whiting for part of three 8
months' tour
8 0
" Daniel Benedict was voted. 20 0 0
......
"The following are some of the actions taken in town-meeting in support of the Revolution:
" ' Dec., 1777 .- Voted, That Abner Marshall, Capt. Noah Wilson, Mr. Ebenezer Coe, Sergt Aaron Austin, and Capt. Shubuel Griswold shall be a committee to look into the matter, in respect to fines, and to do jus- tice and equity to them that were fined.'
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