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Whereas it is of great necessity that the monies due from the con- tinental treasury to this State should be obtained,
Resolved by this Assembly, That the Committee of the Pay-Table do forthwith call upon the several commissaries to settle their several accounts, and said commissaries are hereby required to liquidate and settle the same with them accordingly; and also that said com- mittee do adjust and allow the charges of disbursement and supplies made by Mr. Commissary Fitch to General Wooster's regiment while at New York and untill said regiment received continental supplies ; and that they said committee do prepare an account of all disburse- ments made by this State for and on account of the united States and which ought to be paid by them equally ; and that one of said com- mittee do proceed to Philadelphia and lay the same before the Honble Continental Congress or their committee of claims and accounts and obtain a settlement thereof. as also a payment of all such sums of money as shall be justly due to this State from the continental treasury and see the same duly lodged with the Treasurer of this State.
have this day voluntarily inlisted myself as a soldier in the army of the United States of America in the battalion ordered to be raised in the State of Connecticut to serve during the present war unless sooner discharged, and I do bind myself to conform in all instances to such rules and regulations as are or shall be established for the government of the said army. Witness my hand the day of 1776.
In the Lower House : The above form is approved and ordered to be transmitted &c.
Attest. BENJA. HUNTINGTON, Clerk. Concurrd in the Upper House. Test. GEORGE WYLLYS Secret".
Whereas it is represented to this Assembly that there are a num- ber of persons in the western towns in the State inimical to the liber- ties of this and the other united States of America, who are forming dangerous insurrections and taking every method in their power to communicate intelligence to comfort, aid and assist the enemies of these united States and to distress the inhabitants of said towns and to bring on a general anarchy and confusion among them &e.
Resolved by this Assembly, That Abraham Davenport and Daniel Sherman Esqrs, Thomas Fitch, Andrew Adams and Josiah Bissell,
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Esqrs, be appointed a committee forthwith to repair to said western towns and to convene before them all such persons as shall be suspected to be inimical and dangerous to the rights and liberties of America in this critical and convulsed state of affairs when the ordinary mode of prosecution will not be adequate to the mischief ap- prehended. And all such persons as said committee upon enquiry shall judge to be dangerous or too suspicious consistent with the pub- lic safety to be suffered to remain in their present situation, said com- mittee are hereby authorized and impowered to send such person or persons so deemed and adjudged dangerous as aforesaid under a proper guard to such place or places in this Colony as shall be thought best, there to remain and to be safe kept under the direction of his Honor the Governor and his Council of Safety for such time as the public security may require.
And it is further resolved, That his Honor the Governor be desired to direct Majr General Wooster to give all the aid and assistance with his troops in his power to said committee for carrying into execution the aforesaid resolve. Provided that in case any of said committee should be unable or fail to attend said business the residue or any three of them shall have power to proceed and execute the powers vested in said committee by this resolve.
Resolved by this Assembly, That the act passed this session for supporting the credit and currency of the bills of credit &c. be forth- with published in all the newspapers in this State, and the several printers are desired to insert the same accordingly.
This Assembly do appoint Joseph Thomson, Esq", to be Colonel of the second regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Colo. Jonathan Fitch, Esq", resigned.
This Assembly do appoint Benjamin Fenn, Esq', to be Lieutenant Colonel of the second regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Lient. Colo. Jabez Thomson, Esq', supposed to be deceasd.
This Assembly do appoint Edward Russell, Esq", to be Major of the second regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Major William Douglas, Esq', resigned.
This Assembly do appoint Jonathan Lattimer, Esq", to be Colonel of the third regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Gurdon Saltonstall, Esq', promoted.
This. Assembly do appoint Marshfield Parsons, Esq", to be Lieu- tenant Colonel of the third regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Samuel Holden Parsons, Esq', promoted.
This Assembly do appoint Joseph Harriss Jun", Esq", to be Major of the third regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Samuel Selden, Esq', promoted and resigned.
This Assembly do appoint Lient. Colo. Samuel Whiting to be Colonel of the fourth regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Gold Selleck Silliman, Esq', promoted.
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This Assembly do appoint Capt. Abraham Gould to be Lieutenant Colonel of the fourth regiment of Militia in this State, in the room of Ichabod Lewiss, Esq", deceasd.
This Assembly do appoint Capt. Jonathan Dimon to be Major of the fourth regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Agur Jud- son, Esq', resigned.
This Assembly do appoint John Tyler, Esq', to be Colonel of the eighth regiment of militia in this State, instead of Samuel Coit, Esq', resigned.
This Assembly do appoint Oliver Smith, Esq', to be Lieutenant Colonel of the eighth regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Ebenezer Avery, Esq', resigned.
This Assembly do appoint Nathan Gallop, Esq", to be Major of the eighth regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Oliver Smith, Esq', promoted.
This Assembly do appoint Thaddeus Cook, Esq", to be Colonel of the tenth regiment of militia in this State.
This Assembly do appoint Jeremiah Mason, Esq", to be Lieutenant Colonel of the 12th regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Obadiah Horsford, Esq', resigned.
This Assembly do appoint Joel Jones, Esq", to be Major of the 12th regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Jeremiah Mason, Esq", promoted.
This Assembly appoints Increase Mosely Jun", Esq", to be Colonel of the 13th regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Colo. Ben- jamin Hinman resigned.
This Assembly appoints Samuel Canfield, Esq', to be Lieutenant Colonel of the 13th regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Colo. Mosely advanced.
This Assembly appoints Jethro Hatch, Esq", to be Major of the thirteenth regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Major Can- field advanced.
This Assembly do appoint John Chandler, Esq", to be Lieutenant Colonel of the 16th regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Philip Burr Bradley, Esq", promoted.
This Assembly do appoint Nehemiah Beardsley, Esq", to be Major of the 16th regiment of militia in this State, in the room of John Chandler, Esq', promoted.
This Assembly do appoint Medad Hills, Esq', to be Major of the 17th regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Epaphras Sheldon, Esq", promoted.
This Assembly do appoint Selah Heart, Esqr, to be Colonel of the 15th regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Fisher Gay, Esq', deceasd.
This Assembly do appoint Noadiah Hooker Esqr, to be Lieutenant Colonel of the 15th regiment of, militia in this State, in the room of Selah Hart, Esq', promoted.
This Assembly do appoint Gad Stanley, Esq", to be Major of the
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15th regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Simeon Strong, Esqr, deceased.
This Assembly do appoint Abiel Pease, Esq", to be Major of the 22ª regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Elijah Fenton, Esq', deceased.
This Assembly do appoint Comfort Sage, Esqr, to be Colonel of the 23d regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Mathew Tal- cott, Esq', resigned.
This Assembly do appoint John Penfield, Esq', to be Lieutenant Colonel of the 23d regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Comfort Sage, Esq', promoted.
This Assembly do appoint Nathaniel Brown, Esq', to be Major of the 23d regiment of militia in this State, in the room of John Pen- field, Esq', promoted.
This Assembly do appoint Epaphras Sheldon, Esq', to be Lieuten- ant Colonel of the 17th regiment of militia in this State, in the room of Ebenezer Norton, Esq", resigned.
This Assembly do appoint Jonathan Humphry, Esq", to be Colonel of the 18th regiment of militia in this State in the room of Jonathan Pettibone, Esqr, deceasd.
This Assembly do appoint Seth Smith, Esq', to be Lieutenant Col- onel of the 18th regiment of militia, in the room of Jonathan Hum- phry, Esq', promoted.
This Assembly do appoint Amos Wilcox, Esq", to be Major of the 18th regiment, in the room of Seth Smith, Esq", promoted.
This Assembly do establish Elihu Kent to be Captain of a company or trainband in the town of Suffield in the first regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Stephen Potter to be Lieutenant of the third company or trainband in the second regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Joseph Bartholomew to be Ensign of the third company or trainband in the second regiment in this State. This Assembly do establish Jared Hill to be Lieutenant of the ninth company or trainband in the second regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Lawrence Clinton to be Ensign of the ninth company or trainband in the second regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish David Beecher to be Captain of the 16th company or trainband in the second regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Titus Peck to be Lieutenant of the 16th company or trainband in the second regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Joel Hotchkiss to be Ensign of the 16th company or trainband in the second regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Samuel Osborn to be Captain of the 10th company or trainband in the second regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Samuel Newton to be Lieutenant of the 10th company or trainband in the second regiment in this State.
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This Assembly do establish Joseph Beecher to be Ensign of the 10th company or trainband in the second regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish John Merrill to be Captain of the seventh company or trainband in the eighth regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Thomas Bidwell to be Lieutenant of the seventh company or trainband in the 8th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Ebenezer Goodwin to be Ensign of the seventh company or trainband in the 8th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Elihu Thomson to be Ensign of the first company or trainband in the eighth regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Ephraim Grant Jun", to be Captain of the first company or trainband in the 22d regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Joshua Wells to be Lieutenant of the first company or trainband in the 22d regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Christopher Morgan to be Ensign of the fourth company or trainband in the town of Groton in the 8th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Elisha Tobey to be Captain of the sec- ond company or trainband in the 14th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Jabez Hamlin to be Lieutenant of the second company or trainband in the 14th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Benjamin Conklin to be Ensign of the second company or trainband in the 14th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish John Garrett to be Captain of the first company or trainband in the 24th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Asa Stephens to be Lientenant of the first company or trainband in the 24th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Daniel Downing to be Ensign of the first company or trainband in the 24th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Dethick Hewet to be Ensign of the sec- ond company or trainband in the 24th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Frethias Wall to be Lieutenant of a company or trainband in the 24th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish John Franklin Jun' to be Ensign of a company or trainband in the 24th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Elnathan Nichols to be Lieutenant of the first troop of light horse in the third regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Nathan Sherman to be Quarter Master of the first troop of light horse in the third regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Isaac Serjeant to be Captain of the troop of horse in the town of Windham in the 4th regiment of light horse in this State.
This Assembly do establish Josiah Stowell to be Lieutenant of the troop of horse in the town of Windham in the 4th regiment of light horse in this State.
This Assembly do establish Samuel Canady to be Cornet of the troop of horse in the town of Windham in the 4th regiment of light horse in this State.
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This Assembly do establish Moses Woodward to be Quarter Mas- ter of the troop of horse in the town of Windham in the 4th regiment of light horse in this State.
This Assembly do establish Abijah Hide to be Captain of the 13th company or trainband in the second regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Noah Cande to be Lieutenant of the 13th company or trainband in the second regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Gideon Perry to be Ensign of the 13th company or trainband in the second regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Ambrose Evants to be Ensign of a company or trainband in the seventh regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Peter Curtiss to be Captain of the sec- ond company or trainband in the 15th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Jonathan Bull Jun", to be Lieutenant of the second company or trainband in the 15th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Timothy Gridley to be Ensign of the second company or trainband in the 15th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish William Anderson to be Lieutenant of the eighth company or trainband in the ninth regiment in this State. This Assembly do establish Benjamin Green to be Ensign of the eighth company or trainband in the ninth regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish John Hamlin to be Lieutenant of the 11th company or trainband in the 15th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Asahel Hooker to be Ensign of the 11th company or trainband in the 15th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish David Hinman to be Captain of [the] 2ª company or trainband in the 13th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish David Porter to be Lieutenant of the second company or trainband in the 13th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Aaron Thorp to be Ensign of the sec- ond company or trainband in the 13th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Samuel Camp to be Captain of the 8th company or trainband in the 10th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Samuel Hart to be Lieutenant of the eighth company or trainband in the tenth regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Charles Burrit to be Ensign of the eighth company or trainband in the 10th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish John Johnson 2ª, to be Ensign of the third company or trainband in the 10th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Thomas Fenn to be Captain of the seventh company or trainband in the 10th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Isaac Merriman to be Ensign of the 7th company or trainband in the 10th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Ruluff Dutcher to be Captain of the second troop of horse in the 5th regiment of light horse in this State.
This Assembly do establish William Bowland to be Lieutenant of the second troop of horse in the 5th regiment of light horse in this State.
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This Assembly do establish Lemuel Kingsbury to be Cornet of the second troop of horse in the 5th regiment of light horse in this State.
This Assembly do establish Jonas Lawrence to be Quarter Master of the 2ª troop of horse in the 5th regiment of light horse in this State.
This Assembly do establish Seth Blaksly to be Ensign of the 12th company or trainband in the second regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Asa Franciss to be Captain of the third company or trainband in the 17th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Miles Johnson to be Captain of the fourth company or trainband in the tenth regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Asahel Cooley to be Lientenant of the fourth company or trainband in the tenth regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Andrew Bartholomew to be Ensign of the fourth company or trainband in the tenth regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Caleb Mix to be Lieutenant of the fifth company or trainband in the second regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish John Warner to be Ensign of the fifth company or trainband in the second regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Job Yale to be Ensign of the fifth company or trainband in the 10th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Benjamin Thrall to be Ensign of the east company or trainband in Turkey Hills society in the town of Symsbury in the 18th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish John Curtiss to be Lieutenant of the fourth company or trainband in the 15th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish John Clark to be Ensign of the fourth company or trainband in the 15th regiment in this State.
This Assembly do appoint Joseph P. Cook, Esq', to be Judge of Probate for the district of Danbury untill the first day of June next, in the room of Thomas Benedict, Esq', deceasd.
This Assembly do appoint Douglass Davidson Surveyor of Lands in the county of Westmoreland.
This Assembly do appoint Elihu Marvin to be Surveyor of Lands for the county of Hartford.
This Assembly do appoint John Poole Surveyor of Lands for the county of Hartford.
Resolved, That Colo. Seymour, Mr. Bishop, Majr Hillhouse and Rufus Lathrop, Esq", be a committee to procure a copy of the act passed relating to High Treason &e., also the copy of one other act relating to the Oath of Fidelity &c., and deliver the copies to the sev- eral printers in this State and procure the same to be published in the several newspapers.
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Whereas the listers in a number of towns in this State by means of the sudden call for the militia have not been able to compleat the lists in said towns, by means whereof inconvenience may arise : Which to prevent,
Resolved by this Assembly, That each of the towns in this State shall have and receive their school-money after the rate of forty shillings on every thousand pounds of all the additions of the polls and ratcable estate that shall or may be brought into this Assembly in May next; and the Treasurer is hereby ordered and directed to pay the same to said towns accordingly.
This Assembly do appoint Nathan Denison, Esq", to be Judge of Probate for the district of Westmoreland untill the first day of June next.
Resolved by this Assembly, That the Committee of Pay-Table draw an order on the Treasurer for the sum of one hundred pounds, in favour of Thomas Fitch, Josiah Bissell and Andrew Adams, Esq"", a committee now appointed to go into the western towns of this State to enquire after and direct the removal of such persons as are inimi- cal to this State, and render their account of the same.
Whereas Capt. John Veits of Symsbury hath resigned his trust of keeper of New Gate Prison in said Symsbury, and as there is need of another to be appointed in his stead : And whereas there is want of an addition to be made to the block-house over the said prison, and also a well to be dug there for the use of said prison :
Resolved by this Assentoly, That the overseers of said prison be and they are hereby impowered and directed, to appoint a keeper to said prison from time to time as occasion shall require untill further order from this Assembly. And said overseers are further im- powered to make such addition as is necessary to said block honse, and also to dig a well for the use aforesaid, using their prudence and discretion in doing the same, and to lay an account of the expences thereof before this Assembly at some future session for liquidation ; and they are hereby allowed to draw the sum of £50. 0. 0., L. money, out of the Treasury of this State for the purpose aforesaid, and the Treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same to said overseers, taking their receipt to account therefor.
Whereas Lamberton Smith and others, inhabitants of the town of New Haven, have exhibited a memorial to this Assembly, represent- ing Ralph Isaacs and Abiather Camp, both of New Haven aforesaid, *as being guilty of a series of conduct which has evinced that they are unfriendly and inimical to the rights and liberties of this State and are dangerous to the said town of New Haven in particular and to the State in general ; praying that they may be removed &c., as
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per memorial on file: Whereupon the parties have been heard at large with their witnesses and exhibits, and it is thercon adjudged by this Assembly that the said Isaacs and Camp are guilty as set forth in said memorial, and are dangerous to the State and ought to be re- moved,
Therefore it is resolved and ordered by this Assembly, That the said Ralph Isaacs and Abiather Camp be removed to the society of Eastbury in the town of Glastonbury, there to abide and remain within the limits of the said society of Eastbury, under the direction of the civil authority and selectmen of the town of Glastonbury, at their own cost and charge, untill further orders.
And it is further resolved and ordered, That if the said Isaacs or Camp shall receive any letter or letters from any person or persons, or shall send or convey any letter or letters to any person or persons whatsoever, they shall offer such letter or letters to some one of the said civil authority or selcetmen to be by them read and inspected ; and that if the said Isaacs or Camp shall escape out of the limits of the society of Eastbury, or otherwise transgress this order, it shall be the duty of all officers, civil and military, to detect or apprehend the offender or offenders and cause him or them to appear before some assistant or justice of the peace, who on proper evidence shall commit the offender or offenders to some prison within this State, there to remain at his or their own cost and charge till delivered by due order of law or by orders from his Honor the Governor and Coun- cil of Safety. But as the said Isaacs is at present infirm and unable to travail, it is further ordered that the execution of this resolve, as to him, shall be suspended untill the selectmen of New Haven afore- said shall judge it prudent and safe to remove him; and that the sheriff of the county of New Haven is hereby directed to cause the same to be put in execution.
Upon the memorial of George Philips, ensign of the light infan- try company of the twenty-third regiment of militia, and others of said company, complaining that Nathaniel Shayler of Midletown, captain of said company, in August last being duly ordered by Mathew Talcott, Esq", colonel of said regiment, to muster his com- pany and march with them to the assistance of the army under com- mand of General Washington then at New York, and that he, said Shayler, wilfully disobeyed said orders &c., as per memorial on file : On which memorial said Capt. Shayler hath been arrested and brought before this Assembly and fully heard thereon,
Whereupon resolved by this Assembly, That said Capt. Nathaniel Shayler be and he is hereby cashiered of his said office and broke, and the commanding officer of said regiment is ordered to lead said company to the choice of a captain in the room of said Shayler.
And it is further resolved, That the said Nathaniel Shayler be and he is declared to be incapable of holding any office or place of trust
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under this State for the future, and that he pay the cost of prosecu-
tion. Cost £10. 4. 0. Ex" granted Jan7 181, 1777.
Whereas upon the memorial of Mathew Talcott, Esq', and others, preferred to this Assembly in May, 1772, praying that buoys and marks might be erected in Connecticut River pointing out the shoals and bars, so that the navigation in said river might be rendered more safe; and as it was resolved, that the memorialists have liberty to set up and carry on a lottery or lotteries amounting to such a sum as by drawing at least ten per cent. out of each prize the whole might raise the sum of three hundred and thirty-seven pounds, and the managers to be liable for the payment of the prize-tickets signed by them : the sum of three hundred pounds raised by said lottery to be paid into the hands of a committee or company that should thereafter be ap- pointed for carrying said design into execution and thirty-seven pounds thereof to Capt. Abner Parker; and Mathew Talcot, Esq', Richard Alsop and John Stocken, of Midletown, Samuel Olcott and John Chenevard of Hartford, and Ebenezer Plummer of Glastonbury, and Silas Dean of Weathersfield, were appointed managers of said lottery,
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