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AT A MEETING OF THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL OF SAFETY, LEBANON, JULY 26TH, 1777.
Present : His Excellency the Governor. His Honor the Deputy Governor.
Jabez Huntington, Andrew Adams,
Nath" Wales, jun", Benj. Huntington, § Esqrs
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OF CONNECTICUT.
1777.]
The fore part of this day was taken up in preparing sundry letters to head quarters, delegates at Congress, &c. Sent per Sam1 Hunt, express.
Orders were given to Col. John Ely concerning ammunition carts, teams, tools, utensils, draught horses, paymaster, commissary of ordnance-stores, muster-master, artificers, magazines, SayBrook Fort well, &c., as on file.
AT A MEETING OF THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL OF SAFETY, LEBANON, JULY 28TH, 1777.
Present : His Excellency the Governor. His Honor the Deputy Governor.
Jabez Huntington, Andrew Adams,
Wm Hillhouse, Benj. Huntington, Esqrs.
Nath1 Wales jun",
A permit was given to Sam1 Burrell of Norwalk, to transport out of this State 30 bb. of flour and fifty bushels of rye to Dartmouth on board a boat, to be exchanged for West India goods.
A like permit was given to Jesse Lockwood of the same town, for 30 bb. flour and 400 bushels of rye and indian corn, to the same place and for the same purpose.
AT A MEETING OF THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL OF SAFETY, JULY 29TH, 1777.
Present : His Excellency the Governor. His Honor the Deputy Governor.
Jabez Huntington, Benj. Huntington,
Wm. Hillhouse, Benj. Payne, Esqrs.
Andrew Adams,
An order was given on the Treasurer to deliver five hundred pounds weight of musquet powder to the selectmen of Symsbury or order, taking their receipt to account. Order dd to Mr. Joseph Tuller, selectman.
His Excellency the Governor was taken up in the morning in considering the petition of John Denniss for a reprieve, but on consideration could see no cause for a reprieve, and the petition dismissed .*
Capt. Cotton of Middletown came in for advice in some difficulties he meets with in building the continental ship, as also for some directions how to obtain needful monies and provisions for carrying on that work, and was heard and answered.
Resolved, That Mr. David Trumbull be desired to send two teams to East Hartford, to receive and bring to Lebanon, to remain under his care, five hundred stands or one half of the arms lately received from the laboratory at Springfield and now lodged in the hands of Capt. Russell Woodbridge, who is desired to deliver the same accordingly.
That he send up by the same teams a set of tyer for a four-wheel'd carriage, to the care of said Capt: Woodbridge, to be used by the selectmen of Hartford for mounting a piece of cannon lately brought from Windsor and now under the care of said selectmen and proper receipts taken for the same.
* John Dennis of New London, mariner, was tried at the superior court at New London, March, 1777, for the murder of William Garrick, found guilty and sentenced to be hanged.
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COUNCIL OF SAFETY
[August,
AT A MEETING OF THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL OF SAFETY, LEBANON, JULY 30TH, 1777.
Present : His Excellency the Governor. His Honor the Deputy Governor. Benj. Payne, Nath1 Wales jun",
Wm. Hillhouse, Benj. Huntington, Esq™ª.
An order was given on Capt. Ephraim Bill, in favour of Thos. Mumford, Esq", for two hundred and thirty-five gallons of rum, to [be] paid out of the State's stores for the like quantity borrowed of him, with orders to give intelligence if he has none on hand nor can get any.
Order da to Mr. Mumford July 30th, 1777.
Orders were given to the several brigadiers general, to order to put the militia of this State into readiness to march on the shortest notice to any place that may be attacked.
At five o'clock p. m. an express arrived from head quarters at Peekskill, with intelligence that Gen1 Washington had marched with the main body of his army to the southward toward Philadelphia, expecting that the British fleet were gone there, and they at Peekskill were apprehensive of a decoy in the motions of the enemy and that their return might be expected and an attack upon their post, requesting the militia &c. Upon which a dispatch was sent to Springfield to the Committees of the States sitting there, for their advice &c., and that ammunition might be forwarded from the labora- tory there to Peekskill &c. Orders being previously given as above to the brigadier generals and renewed and enforced.
AT A MEETING OF THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL OF SAFETY, LEBANON, JULY 31ST, 1777.
Present : His Excellency the Governor. His Honor the Deputy Governor. Jabez Huntington, Benj. Payne, Nath1 Wales jun", 1 Esq™ª. Benj. Huntington,
A permit was given to James Church to ship and transport two tons of flour, two hundred bushels of corn and some onions and eight barrels of provision to the Massachusetts : the barrels of provision for use of a vessell, &c., and the remainder to be exchanged for salt &c.
A permit was given to Charles Caldwell to ship and transport to the Massachusetts Bay seven tons of flour on board the sloop Elenor, Capt. Benj. Horton master, for Bedford, for the purpose of purchasing salt &c. . A permit was given to Thomas Clark of Nantucket, to transport out of this State to the Massachusets Bay.
AT A MEETING OF THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL OF SAFETY, LEBANON, AUGUST FIRST, 1777.
Present : His Excellency the Governor. His Honor the Deputy Governor.
Jabez Huntington, Benj. Payne, Wm. Pitkin, Nath1 Wales jun", Esq"".
James Wadsworth, Benj. Huntington,
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OF CONNECTICUT.
· 1777.]
A consultation was had in consequence of letters from Gen1 Schuyler, from the Convention of N. York requesting two thousd of the militia of this State to join the continental forces at the northward, in order to repulse the progress of the enemy making an inroad in that part of the country. The whole of this day spent on the subject, and a further consideration of the matter is deferred till tomorrow.
AT A MEETING OF THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL OF SAFETY, LEBANON, AUGUST 2D, 1777.
Present : His Excellency the Governor. His Honor the Deputy Governor.
Jabez Huntington, Wm. Hillhouse, Wm. Pitkin, Nath1 Wales jun", James Wadsworth, Benj. Huntington, Benj. Payne,
Esq™s
Barber, the post, having returned from the Committees met at Spring- field. the subject of yesterday's consultation was again resumed.
Seth Mayo of Nantucket was permitted to purchase 300 bushels of rye and indian corn in this State by exchange for salt and transport the same in his boat Fanny to Nantucket.
A letter was sent to Gen1 Schuyler by his own express, informing of the determination of this Board, agreeable to their former proposal, to forward troops to join the continental army at Peekskill with expectation that the army at the northward will be reinforced from the continental troops at Peekskill or more southern parts, which appears to this Board to serve the common cause much better than to reinforce the northern army with militia, as well on account of the facility of the march and the steadiness of the continental troops inured to service, which renders them preferable to the militia who are impatient of a lengthy campaign.
Resolved, That Mr. Andrew Huntington be directed to send one hhd. N. England rum to the care of Ebenezer Ledyard, Esq', for the use of the troops at Groton, taking receipt. Order dd to Capt. Ebr. Mosely.
Orders were given to Col. Ely to remove the platform from the old fort in N. London town to Fort Trumbull.
Resolved, That Jedh Elderkin and Nath' Wales jun", Esqrs, send one ton of gunpowder to Maj Gen1 Jabez Huntington, for the use of this State.
Copy dd to Gen' Huntington.
Resolved, That Majr Gen' Jabez Huntington be desired to send one hundred and fifty pound weight of musquet powder and ten fire-arms sent to him from Windham to Capt. John Deshon for the brig Defence, and 500lb. wt of musquet powder one half to Maj" Nath' Saltonstall, the other half to Maj" Wm. Ledyard, for the use of the forts at New London and Groton.
Copy dd to Gen' Huntington.
l'oted, To confirm an order drawn by the Governor on Col. Pitkin or John Lawrence for 200lb. powder, in favour of Col. Hamlin, for the use of the miners at Middletown.
Order dated July 313, 1777.
Job Bartram is established Captain, David Wheeler Lieutenant, and Sam' Silliman Ensign, of the first company of alarm list in the fourth regi- ment of militia in this State, and his Excellency the Governor is desired to commissionate them accordingly.
362
COUNCIL OF SAFETY
[August,
AT A MEETING OF THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL OF SAFETY, LEBANON, AUGUST 4TH, 1777.
Present : His Excellency the Governor. His Honor the Deputy Governor.
Jabez Huntington, Wm. Hillhouse, Wm. Pitkin, Nath1 Wales jun", James Wadsworth, Benj. Huntington, Benj. Payne,
Esqrs.
Sundry matters of a publick nature, especially with regard to the present movements of the enemy to the northward and westward, those at the northward having penetrated the country as far as Fort Edward, and the fleet at the westward having arrived within the capes of Delaware, which calls for our most speedy and vigorous efforts to prevent the mischief designed.
AT A MEETING OF THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL OF SAFETY, LEBANON, AUGUST 5TH, 1777.
Present : His Excellency the Governor. His Honor the Deputy Governor.
Wm. Pitkin, Wm. Hillhouse, James Wadsworth, Benj. Huntington, Benj. Payne, Nath1 Wales jun',
Esqrs.
This day spent in preparing letters and sending expresses to Providence, Boston &c., giving information of the situation of the affairs of the army at the westward, and in consultation on sundry matters of the publick, as call- ing the Assembly to set at Hartford on the 2ª Wednesday of August instant.
AT A MEETING OF THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL OF SAFETY, AUGUST 6TH, 1777.
Present : His Excellency the Governor. His Honor the Deputy Governor.
Jabez, Huntington, Wm. Hillhouse, Wm. Pitkin, Nath1 Wales jun", James Wadsworth, Benj. Huntington. Benj. Payne,
Esq's.
A letter was received by Gen1 Wadsworth from B. Gen1. Silliman, inclos- ing copies of letters from Gen1 Parsons and Col. Root to him, as also a copy of another from Gen? Washington to Gen1 Putnam, informing that the enemy had sail'd out from the capes of Delaware on an eastern course, and request- ing the militia of Gen' Silliman's brigade. An express immediately after arriv'd with letters from Peekskill informing of the same and that the army at Peekskill are in reasonable apprehension of an attack at the Highlands. Gen. Silliman in his informs that in consequence of the above-mentioned copies he ordered the two northern regiments of his brigade to march imme- diately to Peekskill, also a detachment of Col. Enos's regiment in Fairfield county and one company of horse from the 3ª regiment and the whole of the 5th regiment to march to the same place ; which is approved of by the Gov- ernor and Council.
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OF CONNECTICUT.
1777.]
A letter was received from Brig' O. Wolcott, in which he informs that he has ordered all the effective men of Sheldon's, Hart's and Humphrey's regiments, who have not done a tour of duty under the late act and by law are liable to do duty out of the State, to march well arm'd &c. and with 4 days provision, to Peekskill to defend that post which seems to [be] the enemy's object ; which orders of Gen1 Wolcott are approved.
The Council, in order to promote the march of militia to Peekskill, gave orders to the Pay-Table in the words following :
LEBANON, AUGUST 6TH, 1777.
Gent" : Draw on the Treasurer of this State for the sum of one thousand pounds, in favour of Brig" Gen1 Oliver Wolcott ; one thousand pounds, in favour of Brig' Gen1 G. S. Silliman ; four hundred pounds, in fa- vour of Brig Gen Erastus Wolcott, and three hundred pounds, in favour of Brig Gen1 Andrew Ward, to be by them paid and delivered to the com- manding officers of the marching militia from their brigades towards Peeks- kill for the purpose of advancing 18s. to each non-commission officer and soldier, and the remainder to be in the hands of those officers to defray con- tingent charges of the march, for which they are to be accountable. You may take care to forward the sum to Gen1 O. Wolcott per Mr. Shelden the bearer, and the rest to the other generals above mentioned per express if no other conveyance offers without delay.
By order the Gov" and Council of Safety, JONTH TRUMBULL GOU". To the Committee of Pay. Table at Hartford.
Orders were given to Brig" Erastus Wolcott to draught 400 men of his brigade proper officered and equipped, to go on horse-back to Peekskill, and like orders were given to Brig" Gen1 Ward for three hundred of his brigade.
Resolved, That one Brigadier Gen' Ward shall take the command of the militia now ordered to Peekskill, and Brig Gen1 Andrew Ward jun", Esq', is chosen to take the said command.
Resolved, To send forward the hundred barrels of continental powder (now stored in Lebanon) to Farmington, to the care of Mr. Thos. Lewis, to be stored under a proper guard untill further orders from Gen' Washington or this Board, and that an express be sent to Peekskill to the general officers there, to inform them thereof that they make use of the same if needful ; also to send a number of flints to the care of the same gentleman.
Letters were sent to Gen's Erastus Wolcott, Oliver Wolcott, Silliman and Ward, with orders to draught men from their brigades as resolved by this Board, and a letter was sent to Brig" Gen1 Silliman in the words following, viz :
STATE OF CONNECTICUT.
By the Governor.
To the Honble Brigadier Gen1 Silliman.
Yours of the 4th instant have before me, informing that you have given orders to the two northern regiments in your brigade, a detachment from Col. Enos's battalion, one troop of horse from the 3ª regiment, and the whole of the 5th regiment of horse, to march immediately to Peekskill for the defence of that post, in consequence of letters received from Gen's Wash- ington, Parsons &c., which is approved of.
Agreeable to your request have sent forward by a waggon a quantity of flints to Woodbury, to the care of Gideon Walker, Esq", &c.
6th August, 1777.
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COUNCIL OF SAFETY
[August,
A permit was given to Thomas Wilkins to exchange some West India goods for flour, butter, cheese, hog's lard and flax, and export the same to the Massachusets.
A permit was given to one Mr. Jarvis to transport a quantity of flour to Bedford to be exchanged for West India goods.
A permit was given to Hezekiah Freeman, captain of the schooner Go and Come, to ship a quantity of lumber and poultry and export the same to the French West Indies, to purchase West India goods &c.
AT A MEETING OF THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL OF SAFETY, AUGUST 7TH, 1777.
Present : His Excellency the Governor.
His Honor the Deputy Governor.
Jabez Huntington, Wm. Hillhouse,
William Pitkin, Nath1 Wales jun',
James Wadsworth, Benj. Huntington, Esq"s. Benj. Payne,
Nath1 Wales 3ª is accepted and established to be Captain, Joseph Coy Lieutenant, and Ebenezer Bingham, Ensign, of the first company of alarm list in the 5th regiment, and his Excellency the Governor is desired to commis- sion them accordingly. Commissions were granted August 7th, 1777.
Resolved by this Board, Pursuant to an application made by Mr. Dan1 Brush late resident in the State of New York together with a letter of recommendation relative to the character, conduct and behaviour of the said Brush, dated the 23ª of July. 1777, signed by Thomas Treadwell, that the said Brush be and he is hereby released and freed from any restraint laid upon him in consequence of any act or resolve of this Board ; and that the said Brush be permitted to negociate his affairs within this State as the free people have a right to do : Provided he, the said Brush, avoid all corres- pondence with the enemy and duly conform to the laws and government of this State.
Copy given August 7th, 1777.
Resolved, That Mr. David Trumbull be and he is hereby impowered and desired to procure teams and to convey one hundred barrels of continental powder from Lebanon to Farmington, to the care of Mr. Thomas Lewis, or to go forward as Gen1 Washington may direct, for the use of the army. Also that he procure a waggoner to go with the waggon purchased here, to remain in the service at the same wages that others have or return if that dont suit him, and that the waggon at the direction of the Governor be loaded with supplies and refreshments for the troops from this State, to be directed to the proper commissaries attending the army, and to attend his Excellency's orders therein.
Copy drawn off August 7th, 1777. A packet of letters were sent by his Excellency to Peekskill to Gen1 Washington and others by the hand of Jon" Palmer, Esq".
Resolved. Draw on the Pay-Table for the sum of £22 12 5, in favour of Maj" Gen1 James Wadsworth, for a journey and expence of himself and waiter to Fort Edward on publick business July, 1777, as per his account.
Order dd to Gent Wadsworth August 8th, 1777.
Resolved, That Mr. David Trumbull be and he is hereby desired to send (by a team) two hogsheads of the State's rum or spirit in his hands to the care of Capt. Ephraim Bill of Norwich, who is desired to receive the same and pay or replace to Thomas Mumford. Esq', of Groton equivalent to two hundred and thirty-five gallons of rum borrowed of him, observing the quality of the rum borrowed and of that replaced, that justice may be done. Copy drawn off August 8th, 1777.
365
OF CONNECTICUT.
1777.]
AT A GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT IN NEW ENGLAND IN AMERICA HOLDEN AT HARTFORD BY SPECIAL ORDER OF THE GOVERNOR ON THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF AUGUST, ANNO DOM. 1777.
Present :
His Excellency Jonathan Trumbull, Esq', Governor. The Honble Mathew Griswold, Esq', Deputy Governor. Jabez Hamlin, Esq', Elisha Sheldon, Esq',
Jabez Huntington, Esq',
William Pitkin, Esq",
Assistants.
Roger Sherman, Esq',
Abraham Davenport, Esq',
Oliver Wolcott, Esq",
Samuel Huntington, Esq',
Representatives or Deputies of the Freemen of the several Towns are as follow, viz. :
[The names of the Deputies are not recorded.]
An Act in Addition to a Law of this State entituled An Act for the Punishment of High Treason and other atrocious Crimes against the State.
Be it enacted by the Governor, Council and Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That no person accused of any of the crimes mentioned in said act, who on examination before proper authority shall be adjudged worthy to be held to tryal for the same, shall be set at liberty on bail but committed to prison, there to remain untill delivered by due course of law.
An Act in further Addition to a Law of this State intituled An Act for the Direc- tion of Listers in their Office and Duty.
Whereas all persons by law rateable ought to be taxed for the sup- port of government and the common defence in proportion to the value of their estates and annual incomes, for which further provision is necessary to be made,
Be it enacted by the Governor, Council and Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That for the future the civil authority and selectmen in the respective towns, or other persons specially appointed by the town for that purpose, or the major part of them, shall be Assessors, who together with the listers shall according to their best judgment assess all traders, trades- men, artificers, attorneys at law, physicians, surgeons, tavern-keepers, owners of mills, iron-works, ware-houses, work-houses, graziers, drovers, and others by law rateable for their faculty, at the amount of
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their clear annual profits, and add the same to their list of polls and rateable estate at the times appointed by law ; any law, usage or cus- tom to the contrary notwithstanding. And all persons shall be set in the list at the rate of six per cent. for the monies due to them on in- terest on good security, deducting what they pay interest for, if any be. That cattle and sheep let out on shares or on loan shall be set in the list of the owner at the rate of six per cent. on their just value. And persons who make a business of buying and selling the neces- saries or conveniences of life and by engrossing the same or other artificial methods enhance the prices thereof and thereby make great gains to themselves, the least dealer in that way shall be set in the list fifty pounds, and others in like proportion according to their gains.
Whereas it is justly apprehended that the distilling of brandy from cyder will occasion a scarcity of that drink, so comfortable and usefull in this State, and in a great measure deprive the inhabitants, especially the poorer sort, of the benefit and use of cyder,
Be it enacted by the Governor, Council and Representatives, in Gen- eral Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That no person or persons whatsoever within this State shall distill any brandy or spirituous liquor of any kind from cyder at any time before the rising of this Assembly in May next, on penalty that the person or persons who shall be guilty of the breach of this act and duly convicted thereof before any court proper to try the same shall forfeit fourfold the value of such cyder so distilled: one-half to the treasurer of the town wherein the offence shall be committed, and the other half to the person, if a common informer, who shall prosecute the same to effect ; and all informing officers are hereby directed to make due pre- sentment of all breaches of this act, in which case the whole forfeiture shall be paid into the town treasury : Provided nevertheless, that it shall be lawfull for the civil authority and selectmen of the several towns, to grant licence in writing under their hands to the inhabitants to distill or procure to be distilled small quantities of cyder to supply their own families with such spirits only as are in their opinion abso- lutely necessary for their own use and consumption, taking care that no engrosser or monopolist or other person that shall offer or give any extravagant price for such cyder have any permission for that pur- pose ; anything in this act contained notwithstanding.
An Act for repealing an Act entituled An Act to prevent Monopolies and Op- pression by excessive and unreasonable Prices of Many of the Necessaries and Conveniences of Life, and also an Act entituled An Act in Addition to and Alteration of an Act of this State entituled An Act to prevent Monopo- lies and Oppression by excessive and unreasonable Prices of the Necessaries and Conveniences of Life.
Be it enacted by the Governor, Council and Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That said acts be and the same are hereby repealed and made void.
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OF CONNECTICUT.
1777.]
Resolved by this Assembly, That his Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice of the Council of Safety, be and is hereby fully authorized and impowered to permit and allow any person or persons to distil spirituous liquor commonly called Geneva, or any other spirits from wheat, rye or indian corn, for the use of the army or the inhabitants of this State, to be sold and disposed of for the uses aforesaid at such reasonable price as shall be affixed and agreed upon by the Governor and Council of Safety with the person or persons obtaining such per- mission or allowance in manner aforesaid ; and any person or persons obtaining such permission or allowance in manner aforesaid, and who shall conform thereto in selling the spirits by them distilled at the price affixed and in every other respect, may lawfully set up and carry on the business of distilling in manner aforesaid, any law or resolu- tion of this State to the contrary notwithstanding.
Resolved by this Assembly, That the Declaration of the United Colonies of New Hamshire, Massachusets Bay, Rhode Island, Connec- ticut, New York, New Jersey, Pensylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, made by their Delegates in General Congress assembled at Philadelphia on the fourth day of July, 1776, declaring said Colonies to be Free and Inde- pendent States, be recorded at length in the records of this Assembly, that the memory thereof may be preserved to posterity.
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4th, 1776.
The Unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America.
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God en- title them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to a separation.
We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are most disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed, but when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same objeet, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is
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