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Resolved that Colo Eli Mygatt of Danbury be and he is hereby appointed Pay Master to said fourth Brigade to Settle with the Memo- rialists and others in like Circumstances belonging to said Brigade, deducting what they have received in Continental Bills for their said Service at the Rate of eighteen for one.
Upon the Memorial of Elizabeth Elmore of Harwington Widow of Caleb Elmore late of Harwington Deceasd, Shewing to this Assembly that her late Husband was a Soldier in the Connecticut Line of the Army, that there was due to him at the Time of his Death for the Depreciation of his Wages £10 15 4 as Liquidated, that she has paid the Chief of his Debts Supported the Children &c Praying Releif &c as Per Memorial on File,
Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of Pay Table be and they are hereby directed to draw on the Treasurer in favour of the Memorialist for the Sum due to the said Caleb as aforesaid and the Treasurer is also directed to Issue his Notes to her for the Same accord- ingly all in the Same manner as has been done for the Ballances due the other Soldiers.
* See below, p. 288.
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Upon the Memorial of Robert Kimberly of Guilford in New Haven County Shewing to this Assembly that in the Year 1777 he engaged in a Company of Infantry Commanded by Capt Edward Shipman and Regiment Commanded by Thaddeus Cook Esq and was in both Actions at Still Water and Saratoga and was wounded in his Breast in the last Action and Praying for Releif &c as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of Pay Table be and they are hereby Ordered and directed to draw on the Treasurer in favour of the Memorialist for the Sum of nine Pounds lawfull Money.
Upon the Petition of William Sherman Jun" of the Town and County of New Haven, Shewing that he has for a number of Years been engaged in Trade and Merchandizing, and by a Series of inevitable Misfortunes such as the Failure of some Persons largely Indebted to him losses at Sea &c, he has become unable to pay all his Creditors the full amount of their Just dues from him, and he being very desir- ous that the property of which he is possessed should be equitably divided to and among all his Creditors in proportion to the Sums to them respectively due Praying this Assembly to appoint Trustees to receive all the Estate of the Petitioner for the Benefit of his Creditors and to decree that upon his assigning and delivering all his Estate upon Oath to such Trustees for the Benefit of his Creditors as aforesaid that the Person of the Petitioner may be exempted from Arrest or Imprisonment on account of said Debts as by said Petition on File Dated the 23ª Day of September 1775 Appears. And a number of Persons named as Creditors having been duely Cited to Show Reasons, if any they have why the Prayer of said Petition should not be granted as appears on File, who being publickly called, none of them appeared to object to Granting the Same. And the Petitioner having by his Deed Dated the 27th of May A D 1782 Assigned all his Estate both real and Personal to David Austin and James Hilhouse both of New Haven Esqrs for the Benefit of all his Creditors-
It is Resolved and Decreed by this Assembly that the said David Austin and James Hilhouse Esqrs be and they are hereby appointed Trustees and fully Authorized and Impowered to receive from the Peti- tioner all his Estate both real and Personal except his wearing Apparrel, and all Debts due to him in Law or Equity for the Use and Benefit of all his Creditors in proportion to the Sums to them repectively due, And the said Trustees are hereby fully Impowered to recover and receive all the Estate Goods Chattels & Credits of the Petitioner, and all Accounts and Securities relating thereto, and in their own Names to Commence and prosecute any Actions or Suits in Law or Equity for the recovery thereof And also to Sell and dispose of said Estate real and Personal and to divide the Neet Proceeds thereof after deducting the necessary and reasonable Expences to and among all the Creditors of the Petitioner, in proportion to the Sums to them respectively due, and the said Trustees are hereby Authorized to decide any Dispute that may
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arise concerning the Claims of any Persons Claiming to be Creditors agreeable to the Rules prescribed by a late Law of this State Entituled an Act for preventing Frauds in Debtors and for securing the Effects of Insolvent Debtors for the Use of their Creditors, and for the equitable Division of the Estates and Effects of such Debtors to and among their Creditors-
And it is further Resolved and Decreed, that upon the Petitioners disclosing and delivering over to said Trustees all his Estate, with all Accounts Securities and Vouchers relating thereto, on Oath according to the form prescribed in said Act his Person shall be forever exempted from any Arrest or Imprisonment on Account of any of the Debts due from him at the Date of his said Petition, but any Estate which the Petitioner may hereafter acquire shall be Liable for the remainder of said Debts.
Upon the Memorial of John Dickinson Esq" and others Inhabitants of Middleton, Shewing to this Assembly that Gurdon Whitmore of said Midletown is now confined in Goal on a Judgment of the Superior Court, that his Family is Suffering & Praying that said Whitmore may be released &c as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that upon said Gurdons Paying all Cost which has arisen on his Prosecution and Subsequent Imprisonment he shall be discharged from his Present Confinement and the Sheriff of the County of Hartford is Impowered and directed to discharge said Whit- more from Goal on his paying all Cost arisen as aforesaid.
Upon the Petition and Remonstrance of Ezra Hanchet Gad Lane and others Inhabitants within the Limits of the sixth Military Company in the first Regiment in this State Shewing to this Assembly that the Choice of Ashbel King to be Captain and Thaddeus Leavitt to be Lieutenant in said Company as Certified by Capt Josiah King was Illegal on account that sundry Persons under the Age of sixteen Years were through inattention admitted to Vote in the Choice of said Officers,
Resolved by this Assembly that the said Capt Josiah King be and he is hereby directed to Cause legal Warning to be given to all within the Limits of said Sixth Company who by Law have a Right to Vote in the Choice of Commissioned Officers to meet at such Time and Place as he may appoint and when so met that he lead them to the Choice of a Captain and such other Officer as may be necessary and that he make return of his Proceedings in the Premisses to this or the next Assembly.
Upon the Memorial of the Widow Hannah Rowley of Hebron in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut Shewing to this Assembly that her late Husband Capt Abijah Rowley of said Hebron Deceasd had the Command of a Company at the Northward, and when he marched with said Company to said Department he left Ensign Phineas Grover of Glastonbury to List some Recruits and to bring them
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on, which said Grover did, and furnished them with Arms and Accoutre- ments to the Amount of forty five Pounds thirteen shillings and gave his Recept to the Select Men of the Town of Glastonbury therefor but by reason of said Capt Rowleys being removed from said Company by the Sickness whereof he soon after died, never received said Arms nor any Account of them, but notwithstanding the Committee of Pay Table have Charged'the Same against the Estate of said Captain Rowley Decd and the said Memorialist being Executrix of the last Will of her Hus- band stands exposed to pay said Money Praying Releif &c as Per Memorial on File.
Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of Pay Table be and they are hereby directed to Credit the said Capt Rowleys Estate the said Sum of forty five Pounds thirteen shillings and Charge the Same to the Estate of said Ensign Phineas Grover Decd who received said Arms.
Upon the Memorial of William Barnard Keeper of the Common Goal in the County of Hartford, Shewing to this Assembly that he has been greatly Burthened in the oversight and keeping of the Goal in said County and Care of the Prisoners &c and that he has Suffered much in receiving a depreciating Currency for his Sevrices &c, And that not- withstanding which he has been Assessed by the Listers in the Year past the Sum of £15 merely on Account of his Supplying Prisoners &c with some small Refreshments of Liquors &c, which Goal Keepers have ever been accustomed to do without being considered as Retailers or Tav- erners and is also now Subjected to pay an Excise &c Praying for Releif &c.
Whereupon Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialist be and he is hereby released and exempted from said Assesment and also from paying any Excise on Liquors retailed as aforesaid And all Collectors of Taxes of Excise &c are directed not to exact or Collect any Taxes or Excise thereon.
Upon the Memorial of Samuel Wadsworth, John Olcott Gurdon Wadsworth & Hannah Bigelow all of Hartford which said Samuel John and Gurdon are Executors of the last Will and Testament of Major John Bigelow late of Hartford Deceasd, and the said Hannah and Gurdon are Guardians to all the Children of said Deceasd and the said Hannah is also Mother of said Children Shewing to this Assembly that the said Decd died Seized of sundry Peices of Wild Land lying in Hart- land in Partnership with the Heirs of James Bigelow Decd, that the Heirs of said John Decd are all very Young, that such Land is sinking in value, cannot be divided without Injury to the whole, and that the Public Taxes with the Cost arising upon said Land will amount to more than the whole value thereof before said Children arrive of Age Praying for Liberty to Sell the Same &c as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that Capt Samuel Wadsworth of Hart-
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ford be and he is hereby Authorized and Impowered to Sell and dispose of all the aforesaid Lands lying in said Hartland belonging to the Heirs of said John Deceasd for the Use and Benefit of said Heirs under the direction of the Court of Probate for the District of Hartford.
Upon the Memorial of Ensign Robert Bradford Shewing that he was an Ensign in a Regiment raised for the defence of this State in the Year 1776 and on the 15th Day of March 1777, was taken Prisoner by the Enemy and held by the Enemy untill the 24th Day of May 1779. And that he hath received but a small Part of his Wages, and that he lost sundry Articles of Cloathing and Warlike Implements Praying for Releif &c as Per Memorial &c-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of Pay Table be and they are hereby directed to allow to said Bradford a reasonable Sum for a Gun Bayonet and Cartouch Box lost by the Enemy, also that they examine liquidate and adjust his other losses and Wages according to General Rules, already heretofore Given and adopted by them, respect- ing Losses and Wages in Simular Cases, and that a Settlement be made with him, and that the said Committee be directed to draw on the Treasurer for the Ballance found due who is directed to pay the Same out of the /12ª Tax payable in April 1783.
Upon the Memorial of Nathan Fowler William Atwater Nathan Clark and Gideon Buckingham all of Milford in the County of New Haven Select Men of said Town Shewing to this Assembly that on the last of Jany 1781 the Times of those that were engaged in the Service of the State for Defence of said Town expired and that the Memorialists as they had been wont to do under Simular Circumstances engaged the Officer with about half his Men to Continue in the Fort and Places at which they had been Stationed untill the Assembly should meet and make farther Provision with encouragement that they should have the same pay and allowance that they had for the Time they had Served. And that it was about two Months before Provision was made Praying that the Committee of Pay Table be directed to Settle said Officers Pay Abstract and Account of Wood Supplied As Per Memorial on File-
Whereupon Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of Pay Table be and they are hereby Ordered and directed to Settle the Pay Abstract of said Guard with Account of Wood Supplied and draw Orders upon the Treasurer for the Payment of the Same.
Upon the Memorial of Smith Weed of Stamford Shewing to this Assembly that under an appointment of this State he Served as Issuing Commissary from the first Day of April 1780 to the 25th Day of April AD 1783, That he was also allowed a Clerk and Scaleman, who have also Served during said Term, Also that Mason Cogswell was by the Gov- ernor and Council appointed Clerk and Served one Month in said Office, and that no Pay has been made for any of the Services aforesaid Pray-
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ing that the Committee of Pay Table may be Ordered to examine and adjust his Account of said Service and draw an Order on the Treasurer for the Sum due thereon as Per Memorial &c,
Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of Pay Table examine and Adjust the Account of the Memorialist for his said Services alone and draw an Order on the Treasurer to give his Note to the Memorialist for the Sums they shall Judge Just and reasonable payable in the three Years with Interest to be paid annually and that the said Committee Charge the Same to the United States.
Upon the Memorial of John Lloyd of Danbury Shewing to this Assembly that he is fourfolded by the Listers of the Town of Hartford for the Year 1782 to the amount of £152 for the little remain of Prop- erty he brought with him in his flight from Long Island when invaded by the Enemy Praying for releif as Per Memorial on File &c.
Resolved by this Assembly that said fourfold Assesment of £152 made and Given into the List of said Town of Hartford for the Year 1782, be and the Same is hereby Abated and all Taxes that have or may be laid on said List are hereby Abated and discharged.
Upon the Memorial of Moses Hall of Wallingford a Continental Soldier Shewing to this Assembly that about two Years since he was possessed of four Notes Signed by John Lawrence Esq™ Treasurer of this State which Notes he had received for his Service in the Army as a Soldier and were the following Numbers viz 13335 13336, 13337, and 13338, and for the Sum of eight Pounds five shillings & two pence 1/4 each, which Notes were put into the Hands of Justus Johnson of said Wallingford to bring Home, but said Notes being Stolen from said Johnson and the Memorialist deprived of the Benefit of Principle and Interest of said Notes Praying that he may have the Same Number of Notes of the Same Dates and Sums, and that he may also have the Interest now due thereon-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Treasurer make out to said Memorialist and he is Ordered to make out four Notes of the Same Sums and Dates of those mentioned in the Memorial and also that he pay the Interest due thereon the Memorialist giving proper security the States shall not be Injured on Condition the Notes mentioned in the Memorial should be found.
Upon the Memorial of Joseph Gregory of Sharon Shewing to this Assembly that in the Year 1760, he was indebted by Bond to William Bayard & Company of New York in the Sum of £308 15 2 New York Money, that in the Year 1761 he executed to said Bayard a Deed of sixty five Acres of Land in Sharon at the Price of £ 300 like Money that in the Year 1765, he executed a Deed of Mortgage to said Bayard of his Dwelling House and about ten Acres of Land in said Sharon, that he also advanced Moneys to said Bayard under an expectation and agree-
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ment of receiving a Shop of Goods, which was never performed that there is now due to the Memorialist about forty Pounds lawfull Money over and above paying his aforesaid Debt and the Money for which said ten Acres was Mortgaged with Interest That the Estate of said Bayard has since been confiscated to the Use of this State, And the whole of the abovesaid Lands has been Sold to Capt William Moulton by Order of His Excellency the Governor & Council of Safety, who were unacquainted with the Circumstances thereof and that said Moulton is willing to release his Right to said Lands upon his receiving back the Same or simular Securities for Money which he gave for said Lands with his Cost, that the said Gregory has Given sundry Notes for the Rents of said Lands Praying that said Notes might be cancelled, and he quieted in the Possession of said ten Acres of Land, and also have secured to him said forty Pounds &c as Per Memorial on File.
Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialist be and he is hereby quieted in the Possession of said about ten Acres of Land Buildings and Appurtenances mentioned in said second Deed to be and remain to him & his Heirs forever in fee, and that the Treasurer be and he is hereby directed to give execute and deliver to the said Capt William Moulton Securities for Money of the Same Tenor and Date and to the same Amount of those received from him for said Lands upon his giving to this State a Quit Claim Deed of said Lands which he is hereby Ordered to do; And the said Treasurer is also directed to pay to the said Moulton the Sum of thirteen Pounds ten shillings lawfull Money out of the Public Treasury and that John Canfield Esqr be and he is hereby directed to resign and deliver up to said Gregory all the Notes Given by him for the Rents of said Land which are hereby Cancelled.
Upon the Memorial of John Deshon of New London Shewing to this Assembly that there are two small Lots of Land Situate in said New London the one lying at Hogneck so called containing about forty Rods of Land the other containing about eight Square Rods lying near Charles Jefferys, Bounded East on a Highway South on Land of Jona- than Brooks West on Land of Winthrop Saltonstall and North on a Highway and Praying for Liberty to purchase said Lots of Land at Apprizement and make Payment therefor in Public Securities now due and on Interest as Per Memorial on File,
Resolved by this Assembly that Benjamin Huntington Esq" be and he hereby is appointed and directed to make Sale of said two Lots of Land above described at his best discretion either by Private Sale at the Apprizement of such good and Judicious Men as he shall agree upon with the Purchase or by Publick Vendue to the Highest Bidder, to be paid for in either Case in Public Securities against this State, which are become due and on Interest, and such Sale being made the Treasurer of this State is hereby Authorized and directed to execute a Deed in behalf of this State to the Purchaser or Purchasers & receive the Secu- rities that shall be given in Payment therefor pursuant to this Act.
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Upon the Memorial of the Inhabitants of the Town of Kent Shewing to this Assembly that for more than twenty Years last past they have been at great Expence in Building and maintaining a free Bridge over Ousatonuck River in said Kent near the dwelling House of Capt Abra- ham Fuller which Bridge in February last was Carried off by an extror- dinary Flood, And that a Bridge is much wanted in said Place and that said Inhabitants are unable to build the Same, Praying Liberty to Institute a Lottery for the purpose of raising £250 lawfull Money to defray the expences of Building said Bridge and that said Lottery be under such Regulations as this Assembly shall appoint,
Resolved by this Assembly that Liberty be and the same is hereby given to the Memorialists to Institute a Lottery for the purpose of rebuilding said Bridge to be so calculated as to raise the Sum of ££250 Pounds to be applied to that purpose only, And that the Civil Authority and Select Men of the Town of Kent appoint the Managers and super- intend the management of said Lottery, and that said Lottery be compleated and drawn & finished within two Years now next comeing and be at the Sole Risque of said Town of Kent.
On the Memorial of James Booth &c Select Men of the Town of Stratford Praying to be releived from an Execution in favour of the Governor and Company of the State of Connecticut against said Town for the Sum of £60 0 0 LMoney.
Resolved by this Assembly that the further Consideration of said Memorial be referred to the General Assembly in October next and in the mean Time execution be Stayed and no Proceeding had thereon untill the rising of said Assembly.
Upon the Memorial of Silas Davenport of Stamford in Fairfield County Shewing to this Assembly that he was purchasing Commissary for this State for the Year 1780 &1781, And that there are large Sums now due to him from this State for supplies furnished for which he is indebted to the Persons of whom he purchased and is pressed for Pay- ment and in one Instance has been sued and Judgment obtained against him for a large Sum by Daniel Gray of said Stamford, and is liable to be wholly ruined for having steped in to the Aid of this State unless this Honble Assembly will afford their Interposition Praying for Releif &c as Per Memorial on File &c,
Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of Pay Table be and they are hereby directed to draw on the Treasurer in favour of the Memorialist or any of the Creditors of the Memorialist for Debts con- tracted for making said Supplies, who are willing to receive the Same for such Sums as may be due to them to be paid out of any of the unappropriated Monies of this State or Treasurers Notes on Interest Annually, Payable in three Years Provided the Same does not exceed the Sum due to the Memorialist, And that the Judgment obtained by said Daniel Gray before the County Court held at Fairfield on the third
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Tuesday of April 1783 be and the Same is hereby Suspended and that no Execution be inforced thereon, and that no Judgment be rendered against the Memorialist for said Debts during the Pleasure of this Assembly.
Upon the Memorial of John Deshon Shewing to this Assembly that he was employed by this State as Agent to fit and send out a number of Vessels for the Purpose of bringing in Salt and warlike Stores for the Use of this and the United States of America and that he said John Deshon did Charter the Sloop Polly of about eighty Tons of Christopher Leffingwell Esqr for the purpose aforesaid at the risque of this and the United States of America and that the Sloop Polly was Captured by the Enemy as appears by Memorial on File,
Therefore Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of Pay Table be and the Same are hereby directed to draw on the Treasurer for the Sum of £795 lawfull Money payable to Christopher Leffingwell Esq" three years from the Date hereof with the lawfull Interest Annually untill paid, And that the Committee of Pay Table be further directed to Charge half of the above Sum which is £397 10 0 LMoney to the United States of America.
Upon the Memorial of Amos Mead of Greenwich Shewing to this Assembly that he has Orders on the Treasurer of this State to the amount of One hundred and Sixty three Pounds fifteen Shillings drawn by the Committee of Pay Table for lawfull Silver Money, and that there was also due to him for Beef and Mutton delivered to Commissary Silas Davenport in Septembr and October 1780, the Sum of £48 14 0 Pray- ing for Interest to be allowed thereon as has been usual in such Cases, And also that there is due to him for Services in the General Assembly the Sum of thirty five Pounds Praying that the Committee of Pay Table may be directed to Liquidate the said Accounts of Beef and Mutton and the Interest thereon and the said Orders and that they draw on the Treasurer for what they find due-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of Pay Table be and they are hereby directed to Liquidate the Accounts mentioned in the sd Memorial, allowing the Interest on the said Provisions from the Time of delivery, and draw on the Treasurer for what they shall find due thereon in lawfull Money together with the said Orders, and the Treas- urer is directed to give and execute Notes therefor together with what is due to the said Amos Mead for Services in the General Assembly Payable in two Years to the Memorialist with Interest therefor annually.
Upon the Memorial of Timothy Jones of New Haven, Administrator on the Confiscated Estate of Benjamin Anderson late of said New Haven, Shewing to this Assembly that the Debts found and allowed by Commissioners and Court of Probate to be due from said Anderson are unpaid though there was sufficient Property left by said Anderson for
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that purpose which has since been Sold by Order of the Governor and Council of Safety for Bills of this State which have been Paid into the Treasury of this State, Praying this Assembly to provide some Way for the Payment of said Debt, as Per Memorial on File &c,
Resolved by this Assembly that James Hilhouse, Administrator on the Confiscated Estate of Charles Ward Apthorp be and he is hereby directed and Impowered to pay such Demand as shall be Certified by the Judge of Probate for the District of New Haven to be found and allowed to be due from said Anderson in such Monies Notes or Securitys as he may receive for Debts due to said Apthorp Provided said Cred- itors will receive the Same, And the Treasurer is hereby directed to allow the same to said Hillhouse in the Settlement of his Accounts.
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