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264
PUBLIC RECORDS
[May,
This Assembly do appoint Nehemiah Beardsley, Esq", to be Lieutenant Colonel of the sixteenth regiment of militia in the State of Connecticut, in the room of Lieut. Colonel John Chandler, Esq", promoted.
This Assembly do appoint Eli Maggot, Esq", to be Major of the six- teenth regiment of militia in the State of Connecticut, in the room of Majr Nehemiah Beardsley, Esq', promoted.
This Assembly do appoint Epaphras Sheldon, Esq", to be Colonel of the 17th regiment of militia in this State, in the room of the Honble Oliver Wolcott, Esq", promoted.
This Assembly do appoint Medad Hills, Esq", to be Lieutenant Colonel of the 17th regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Epaphras Sheldon, Esq', promoted.
This Assembly do appoint Andrew Adams, Esq", to be Major of the 17th regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Medad Hills, Esq", promoted.
This Assembly do appoint Jonathan Wells the second, of Hart- ford, Esq', to be Lieutenant Colonel of the nineteenth regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Nathaniel Terry, Esq", promoted.
This Assembly do appoint Lemuel Stoughton, Esq", to be Major of the nineteenth regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Major Jonathan Wells promoted.
This Assembly do appoint Samuel Abbott, Esq", to be Colonel of the twentieth regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Colo. Jedidiah Huntington promoted to be a brigadier in the continental army.
This Assembly do appoint Zabdiel Rogers, Esq", to be Lieutenant Colonel of the 20th regiment of militia, in the room of Lieut. Colonel Samuel Abbott promoted.
This Assembly do appoint Capt. Joshua Huntington to be Major of the 20th regiment of militia, in the room of Maj" Zabdiel Rogers promoted.
This Assembly do appoint Lieut. Colo. Obadiah Johnson to be Colonel of the twenty-first regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Colo. John Douglas promoted.
This Assembly do appoint Majr James Gordon to be Lieutenant Colonel of the 21st regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Lieut. Colonel Obadiah Johnson promoted.
This Assembly do appoint Capt. Andrew Backus to be Major of the 21st regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Maj" James. Gordon promoted.
This Assembly do appoint Lt. Colo. Nathan Denison, Esq", to be Colonel of the 24th regiment of foot in this State, in the place of Colo. Zebulon Butler, Esq', now in service in the continental army.
This Assembly do appoint Capt. Lazarus Stewart to be Lieutenant Colonel of the 24th regiment of foot in this State, in the place of Colo. Nathan Denison advanced.
265.
OF CONNECTICUT.
1777.]
This Assembly do appoint Lieut. George Dorrance to be Major of the 24th regiment of foot in this State, in the place of Maj" William Judd, Esq', now in the continental army.
This Assembly do appoint Lieut. Colo. Dyar Throop, Esq", to be Colonel of the 25th regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Colo. Henry Champion, Esq", resigned.
This Assembly do appoint Major Jabez Chapman, Esq", to be Lieu- tenant Colonel of the 25th regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Lieut. Colo. Dyar Throop promoted.
This Assembly do appoint Elias Worthington, Esq", to be Major of the 25th regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Major Jabez Chapman, Esq', promoted.
This Assembly do establish Augustus Fitch to be Quarter-Master of the third troop of horse in the fourth regiment of light-horse in this State.
This Assembly do establish Agur Curtiss to be Captain of a company of light-horse in the fifth regiment of horse in this State.
This Assembly do establish Gideon Martin to be Cornet of a troop of light-horse in the 5th regiment of horse in this State.
This Assembly do establish Isaiah Gilbert to be Quarter Master of a troop of light-horse in the 5th regiment of horse in this State.
This Assembly do establish Isaac Pomeroy to be Captain of the third company or trainband in the town of Suffield, in the first regi- ment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Oliver Granger to be Ensign of the third company or trainband in the town of Suffield, in the first regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Jehiel Bryan to be Captain of the second company or trainband in the 2d regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Nathan Clark to be Lieutenant of the second company or trainband in the second regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Fletcher Prudden to be Ensign of the 2d company or trainband in the second regiment in this State.
This Assembly do appoint Samuel Selden to be Ensign of the 10th company or trainband in the third regiment in this State.
This Assembly do appoint David Nichols to be Captain of the 10th company or trainband in the fourth regiment in this State.
This Assembly do appoint Solomon Booth to be Lieutenant of the 10th company or trainband in the fourth regiment in this State.
This Assembly do appoint Ephraim Sterling to be Ensign of the 10th company or trainband in the 4th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do appoint Peter Curtiss to be Captain of a com- pany or trainband in New Stratford in the 4th regiment in this State. This Assembly do appoint David Wells to be Lieutenant of a com- pany or trainband in New Stratford in the 4th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do appoint Enoch Lewiss to be Ensign of a con- pany or trainband in New Stratford in the 4th regiment in this State.
266
PUBLIC RECORDS
[May,
This Assembly do appoint Seth Silliman to be Captain of the first company or trainband in the fourth regiment in this State.
This Assembly do appoint Andrew Wakeman to be Lieutenant of the first company or trainband in the 4th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do appoint Eleazer Osborn to be Ensign of the first company or trainband in the 4th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do appoint Ebenezer Hill to be Captain of the eighth company or trainband in the 4th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Lewis Goodsell to be Lieutenant of the 8th company or trainband in the 4th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Daniel Banks to be Ensign of the 8th company or trainband in the 4th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Prince Aspenwall to be Ensign of the 2d company or trainband in the 5th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Eleazer Warner to be Lieutenant of the 5th company or trainband in the fifth regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Asa Eaton to be Ensign of the fifth company or trainband in the 5th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Eliphas Hunt to be Ensign of the seventh company or trainband in the fifth regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish John Sumner to be Captain of the ninth company or trainband in the fifth regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Joseph Kendall to be Ensign of the ninth company or trainband in the 5th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Isaac Barrows to be Captain of the 10th company or trainband in the fifth regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Joseph Whitmore to be Lieutenant of the 10th company or trainband in the fifth regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Cornelius Storrs to be Ensign of the 10th company or trainband in the 5th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish David Chaffee jun" to be Ensign of the 11th company or trainband in the 5th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Dan Collins to be Lieutenant of the 5th company or trainband in the 7th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Dan Platt to be Captain of the 8th company or trainband in the 7th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Samuel Dady to be Ensign of the 8th company or trainband in the 7th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Nathaniel Weed jun' to be Lieutenant of the first company or trainband in the ninth regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Justus Weed to be Ensign of the first company or trainband in the ninth regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Silvanus Knapp to be Captain of the fifth company or trainband in the ninth regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Ebenezer Weed 3d to be Lieutenant of the fifth company or trainband in the ninth regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Seth Weed to be Ensign of the 5th company or trainband in the ninth regiment in this State.
1777.]
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OF CONNECTICUT.
This Assembly do establish John Carter to be Captain of the ninth company or trainband in the ninth regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish James Weed to be Ensign of the ninth company or trainband in the ninth regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Charles Smith to be Captain of the 10th company or trainband in the ninth regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Benja. Brush to be Lieutenant of the 10th company or trainband in the ninth regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Dan' Smith to be Ensign of the 10th company or trainband in the ninth regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Miles Hall to be Captain of the 5th company or trainband in the tenth regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish John Weld to be Captain of the first company or trainband in the 11th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Stephen Griggs to be Lieutenant of the first company or trainband in the 11th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Joseph Chandler to be Ensign of the first company or trainband in the 11th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Jonathan Morriss to be Captain of the 10th company or trainband in the 11th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Richard Peabody to be Lieutenant of the 10th company or trainband in the 11th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Edmund Chamberlain to be Ensign of the 10th company or trainband in the 11th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Abner Adams to be Captain of the third company or trainband in the 11th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish John Kimball to be Lieutenant of the third company or trainband in the 11th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Asa Pike to be Ensign of the third company or trainband in the 11th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Simon Abel to be Ensign of the fifth company or trainband in the 12th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Jonathan Ferrand to be Captain of the seventh company or trainband in the 13th regiment in this State. This Assembly do establish Abner Mosely to be Lieutenant of the 7th company or trainband in the 13th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish David Foot jun to be Ensign of the 7th company or trainband in the 13th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Noble Hine to be Captain of the 8th company or trainband in the 13th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Elisha Bostwick to be Lieutenant of the 8th company or trainband in the 13th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish John Murwin to be Ensign of the eighth company or trainband in the 13th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Martin Curtiss to be Ensign of the ninth company or trainband in the 13th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Gershom Hewett to be Lieutenant of the first company or trainband in the 14th regiment in this State.
268
PUBLIC RECORDS
[May,
This Assembly do establish Ephraim Marrinir to be Captain of the 10th company or trainband in the 14th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Enoch Parsons to be Lieutenant of the 10th company or trainband in the 14th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish William Barns to be Lieutenant of the 7th company or trainband in the 16th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish William Phelps to be Ensign of the 7th company or trainband in the 16th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Knowles Sears to be Captain of the eighth company or trainband in the 16th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Jonathan Gates to be Lieutenant of the 8th company or trainband in the 16th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Henry Whitney to be Ensign of the 8th company or trainband in the 16th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Peter Penfield to be Captain of the 6th company or trainband in the 16th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Gideon Beardsley to be Lieutenant of the 6th company or trainband in the 16th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Bille Trowbridge to be Ensign of the 6th company or trainband in the 16th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish David Olmsted to be Lieutenant of the 2d company or trainband in the 16th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Job Smith 2d to be Ensign of the 2d company or trainband in the 16th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Reuben Stone to be Ensign of the first company or trainband in the 17th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Jabez Wright to be Lieutenant of the third company or trainband in the 17th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Moses Wright to be Ensign of the third company or trainband in the 17th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Mathew Smith to be Captain of the 6th company or trainband in the 17th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Miles Norton to be Lieutenant of the 6th company or trainband in the 17th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Aaron Norton to be Ensign of the 6th company or trainband in the 17th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Bryant Stoddard to be Captain of the seventh company or trainband in the 17th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Job Case to be Captain of the third company or trainband in the 18th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Benjamin Farnham to be Lieutenant of the third company or trainband in the 18th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Noah Kellogg to be Captain of the fifth company or trainband in the 18th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Jonathan Goodwin to be Lieutenant of the fifth company or trainband in the 18th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Joseph Kellogg to be Ensign of the fifth company or trainband in the 18th regiment in this State.
269
OF CONNECTICUT.
1777.]
This Assembly do establish Thomas Bidwell to be Captain of the 7th company or trainband in the 18th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Ebenezer Goodwin to be Lieutenant of the 7th company or trainband in the 18th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Jesse Doolittle to be Ensign of the 7th company or trainband in the 18th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Eliphalet Curtiss to be Captain of the 8th company or trainband in the 18th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Richard Case to be Lieutenant of the 8th company or trainband in the 18th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Aaron Moses to be Ensign of the 8th company or trainband in the 18th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Samuel Rockwell to be Captain of the 16th company or trainband in the 18th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Pelatiah Mills to be Lieutenant of the 16th company or trainband in the 18th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Joseph Carew to be Captain of the first company or trainband in the 20th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Simeon Huntington to be Lieutenant of the first company or trainband in the 20th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish William Pride to be Ensign of the fifth company or trainband in the 20th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Daniel Clark to be Captain of the first company or trainband in the 21st regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Joshua Bottom to be Lieutenant of the first company or trainband in the 21st regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Stephen Clark to be Ensign of the first company or trainband in the 21st regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Moses Campbell to be Captain of the third company or trainband in the 21st regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Andrew Edmond to be Lieutenant of the third company or trainband in the 21st regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Benjamin Dow to be Ensign of the 3d company or trainband in the 21st regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Samuel Robins to be Captain of the 7th company or trainband in the 21st regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Peleg Randell to be Lieutenant of the 7th company or trainband in the 21st regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish John Wylie 3ª to be Ensign of the seventh company or trainband in the 21st regiment in this State ..
This Assembly do establish Daniel Edgerton to be Ensign of the 1st company or trainband in the 22ª regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Stephen Day to be Captain of the 7th company or trainband in the 22d regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish David Jewit to be Lieutenant of the 7th company or trainband in the 22d regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Benoni Shepard to be Ensign of the 7th company or trainband in the 221 regiment in this State.
270
PUBLIC RECORDS
[May,
This Assembly do establish Samuel Porter to be Ensign of the 7th company or trainband in the 23d regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Jeremiah Blanchard to be Captain of the fourth company or trainband in the 24th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Timothy Keyes to be Licutenant of the 4th company or trainband in the 24th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish William Shays to be Ensign of the 4th company or trainband in the 24th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Asaph Whittlesey to be Captain of the 3d company or trainband in the 24th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Aaron Gaylord to be Lieutenant of the 3d company or trainband in the 24th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish William White to be Ensign of the 3d company or trainband in the 24th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Roswell Franklin to be Lieutenant of the fifth company or trainband in the 24th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Titus Hinman to be Ensign of the 5th company or trainband in the 24th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish David Brainard Spencer to be Lieuten- ant of the first company or trainband in the 25th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Elijah Ackley jun' to be Ensign of the first company or trainband in the 25th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish John Chapman to be Ensign of the Sth company or trainband in the 25th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Enoch Brainard to be Ensign of the 7th company or trainband in the 25th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Zechariah Hungerford to be Captain of the 9th company or trainband in the 25th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Robert Hungerford 2ª to be Lieuten- ant of the 9th company or trainband in the 25th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Abraham Willey to be Ensign of the 9th company or trainband in the 25th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish John Hemsted jun" to be Captain of the first company or trainband in the 3d regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Ebenezer Douglas to be Lieutenant of the first company or trainband in the 3d regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Japhet Mason to be Ensign of the first. company or trainband in the 3d regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish William Howard to be Captain of the 6th company or trainband in the fifth regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Thomas Terrill to be Captain of the 7th company or trainband in the 12th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Daniel White to be Lieutenant of the 7th company or trainband in the 12th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Eliphalet Hendee to be Ensign of the 7th company or trainband in the 12th regiment in this State.
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OF CONNECTICUT.
1777.]
This Assembly do establish Abraham Camp to be Ensign of the alarm list company in Sharon in the 14th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Elisha Swift to be Captain of the 1st alarm list company in the 24th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish James Bedlock to be Lieutenant of the 1st alarm list company in the 24th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Lebbeus Tubbs to be Ensign of the 1st alarm list company in the 24th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish William Hooker Smith to be Captain of the 2d alarm list company in the 24th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Flavius Waterman to be Lieutenant of the 2d alarm list company in the 24th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Elisha Blackman to be Ensign of the 2d alarm list company in the 24th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish George Palmer to be Ensign of the second company or trainband in Stonington in the 8th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Joseph Babcock 2d to be Ensign of the third company or trainband in Stonington in the 8th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Josiah Converse to be Captain of the 9th company or trainband in the 22d regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Joseph Alden to be Lieutenant of the 9th company or trainband in the 22d regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Noah Chapin jun' to be Cornet of the fifth troop of horse in the 4th regiment of light-horse in this State.
This Assembly do establish Hope Lathrop to be Quarter Master of the 5th troop of horse in the 4th regiment of light-horse in this State.
This Assembly do establish Thomas Griswold to be Cornet of the first troop of horse in the first regiment of light-horse in this State.
This Assembly do establish James Marsh to be Quarter Master of the first troop of horse in the first regiment of light-horse in this State.
This Assembly do establish Raymond Sanford to be Lieutenant of the 16th company or trainband in the 2d regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Aaron Kelcey to be Lieutenant of the 12th company or trainband in the 7th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Elias Sterns to be Ensign of the 5th company or trainband in the 11th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Payne Converse jun' to be Captain of the 7th company or trainband in the 11th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Asa Nichols junr to be Lieutenant of the seventh company or trainband in the 11th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Jacob Dresser jun' to be Ensign of the seventh company or trainband in the 11th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Nathan Dauchee to be Lieutenant of the 3d company or trainband in the 14th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Luke Camp to be Ensign of the third company or trainband in the 14th regiment in this State.
272
PUBLIC RECORDS
[May,
This Assembly do establish Giles Meigs to be Lieutenant of the first company or trainband in the 23d regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Lamberton Cooper to be Ensign of the first company or trainband in the 23d regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Timothy Clark to be Captain of the 5th company or trainband in the 23d regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Oliver Wetmore to be Lieutenant of the fifth company or trainband in the 23d regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Israel Jones to be Captain of the 13th company or trainband in the 18th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Elijah Case to be Lieutenant of the 13th company or trainband in the 18th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Lemuel Kingsbury to be Lieutenant of a troop of horse in the fifth regiment of light-horse in this State.
This Assembly do establish Jonas Lawrence to be Cornet of a troop of horse in the 5th regiment of light-horse in this State.
This Assembly do establish Samuel Lee to be Quarter Master of a troop of horse in the 5th regiment of light-horse in this State.
This Assembly do establish Barnabas Hinsdale to be Lieutenant of the second company or trainband in the town of Hartford in the 1st regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Zebulon Seymour to be Ensign of the 2d company or trainband in the town of Hartford in the 1st regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Joseph Webb to be Lieutenant of the first company or trainband in the 6th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Absalom Williams to be Ensign of the first company or trainband in the 6th regiment in this State.
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