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Upon the Memorial of Daniel Leet of Guilford Shewing to this Assembly that on the 19th of June 1782 the Enemy burnt his Dwelling House and Barn &c That he had been Collector of State Taxes and had Settled with the Treasurer for the whole of said Taxes, and there still remained due to him on his Rate Bills the Sum of £21 0 0 LMoney, which said Rate Bills were burnt in his said House whereby he was Prevented from Collecting any Part thereof and that he is much reduced by said Burning Praying that the said Sum of £21 which he paid to the Treasurer of his own Money may be refunded, And that his State Taxes for the Current Year may be abated as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Sum of £21 0 0 LMoney be refunded back to the Memorialist and the Treasurer of this State is hereby Ordered to pay back to said Memorialist said Sum of £21 0 0 and all his State Taxes for the Current Year are also hereby Abated and the Several Collectors are directed not to Collect the same.
Upon the Memorial of Nathaniel Silleck of Stamford in Fairfield County Conservator of the Person and Estate of Sarah Silleck Jur of said Stamford a distracted Person, Shewing that the Debts due from the said Sarah as allowed by the County Court in Fairfield County exceeds the Personal Estate of the said Sarah the Sum of fifty five Pounds ten Shillings & threepence and Praying to be Impowered to Sell real Estate of said Sarah to raise said Sum &c as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the said Memorialist be and he is hereby Authorized and Impowered to Sell real Estate of said Sarah to raise said Sum of £55 10 3 lawfull Money to enable him to pay said Debts and also the Charges of Sale taking the Direction of the Court of Probate for the District of Stamford therein.
Upon the Memorial of Israhiah Wetmore of Stratford Shewing to this Assembly that he was duely Ordained and Settled in the Work of the Gospel Ministry in the first Society in said Stratford in the Year 1753, and Continued in that Work and in a good Agreement with the
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Church and People in said Society for twenty seven Years, and in the Year 1780 principally through Infirmity of Body, whereby he was unable to pursue his Studies and Partly by the Distresses of those Times, he was rendered unable to attend to his Work in said Society and was dismissed from his particular Charge, but not from the Ministry at large and still continues to Preach the Gospel, and means to spend his Days in that Service, That the Listers of Stratford have considered it as their Duty to add his small Estate in the List, by means whereof sundry Tax Bills are made out against him which are unpaid, and he unable to pay the Same without Ruin to himself, and his numerous and expensive Family for whom he cannot provide an Interest as Men in Secular Employment can do Praying for an exemption from pasd and future Taxation &c as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialist be and he is hereby exonerated discharged and exempted from all Taxation both pasd and future, in the Same Manner as the Law exempts regular Ministers of the Gospel, which future exemption shall continue during the Pleasure of this Assembly, and all Collectors of Taxes and Listers are to take Notice hereof and conform themselves to the direction of this Act.
Upon the Memorial of Stephen Johnson and others Inhabitants of the Towns of Midletown Durham Haddam and Killingworth; Repre- senting to this Assembly that a nearer and much better Road may be obtained from Midletown to Killingworth which will Shorten the Dis- tance about a Mile and three Quarters in passing from Middletown Church Southerly about five Miles without much alteration and from thence to be a new Road running nearly South three Miles and an half where it will fall into the Road near Enos Franciss That there is no Road leading to the Southward for the Distance of five Miles from the Country Road leading from Durham to Haddam, That if the above mentioned Part of the Road that must be new can be obtained together with Some easy Alterations, it will be of great Advantage both to the Public and to Individuals who stand in need of the Same to go to thier Lands and to Mill &c, And that as four Towns and three Counties are Interested in the new proposed Road, the Memorialists pray for a Com- mittee to view the Same &c as Per Memorial on File,
Resolved by this Assembly that Colo Gad Stanley of Farmington Oliver Stanley Esq' of Wallingford and Israel Spencer Esq" of East Haddam be and they are hereby appointed a Committee at the Cost of the Memorialists to view the Circumstances of said new Road prayed for and consider whether the Same be necessary or not and make Report of what they shall find respecting the Same and their Opinion thereon to the General Assembly in October next.
Upon the Memorial of John Brooks of Stratford Shewing to this Assembly that he was appointed Barrack Master in the Town of Strat- ford by the Civil Authority and Select Men in said Town on the 13th
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of March 1780 to Provide Barracks Wood and other necessaries for the reception and accomodation of the Troops in the Service of this State that then were or that thereafter might be Ordered to that Post for the Defence of the Sea Cost &c &c as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialist be allowed five Pounds lawfull Money Per Month during the Time of his actually serv- ing as Barrack Master as a full Compensation for said Service inclusive of Rations and Forage, And that the Committee of Pay Table receive the Memorialists Account therefor liquidate and adjust the Same and draw on the Treasurer for what they shall find Justly due thereon.
Upon the Memorial of Thomas Hooker of Farmington Shewing to this Assembly that in the Year 1774 for the Consideration of £261 0 0 he Mortgaged to Colburn Barrel of Boston two Peices of Land as secu- rity for said Sum both lying in said Farmington, in Quantity fifty Acres one of said Peices bounded North on Judah Judds Land, South on Land of Isaac and Stephen Lee, East and West on Highway, the other Peice Bounded North & East on James Judds Land, South on Stephen Lee and West on a Highway together with the House Barn and other Buildings standing thereon which Estate being legally vested in said Barrell his Estate has been declared and adjudged forfeit to this State, That the Memorialist is desirous to redeem said Mortgaged Premisses but cannot procure hard Money Praying for Liberty to redeem the Same by paying the Principal and Interest in Public Securi- ties as Per Memorial-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialist be and he hereby is allowed and permitted to redeem said Mortgaged Premisses with Public Securities against this State for hard Money, and are now Payable And the Treasurer of this State is directed to make and execute to said Hooker a Deed of Quit Claim of the Right and Title of this State to said Mortgaged Premisses on his delivering to said Treasurer such Securities to the amount of said Principal Sum and the Interest thereof and Paying in hard Money the Cost of Suit that has already been Commenced and Carried to Judgment for recovery of the Suzin [seizin] and Possession of said Mortgaged Premisses by Oliver Wolcott Jun" Administrator of said Estate.
Upon the Memorial of Phineas Beardsley Shewing to this Assembly that in the Year 1777 he was appointed a Captain in the Continental Army that he received a Sum of Money from the Treasurer of this State to pay the Bounties of Men that should Inlist into said Service that he also received some Money to pay the Bounties given by Congress, that he has paid out more Money for the Bounties &c given by this State and Congress than he has received from both &c as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of Pay Table be directed to allow to the Memorialist the whole of the Monies he paid out
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as Bounties to said Soldiers deducting the Sum of ££326 which he received to pay the Bounties given by Congress and to draw an Order on the Treasurer of this State for the Ballance due to him And Charge the Same to Account of the United States.
Upon the Memorial of Timothy Bradley Shewing to this Assembly that as a Purchasing Commissary he was Obliged to advance his own Monies & Credit to make Purchases for the Army for which & his own Services he has received this States Securities payable within one Year after the War, that he is pressed for Payment &c Praying for releif as Per Memorial on File &c,
Resolved by this Assembly that the Treasurer of this State be and he is hereby directed to receive of said Memorialist his said State Notes to the amount of One hundred Pounds LMoney And draw Orders therefor upon the Several Collectors payable out of any of the Rates or Taxes due to this State and not particularly appropriated to any other Purpose at the Option of the Memorialist.
Upon the Petition of Isaac Tomlinson of Woodbury Shewing that Major Thomas Bull Administrator on the Estate of Isaac Tomlinson Jun" & Russell Tomlinson Jun" Praying for relief against an Execution in favour of said Bull against the Petitioner for a large Sum and that he may have a certain Note against said Isaac & Russell which is Justly his due discounted on said Execution he having paid said Bull nearly the Ballance between said Execution and Note as Per Petition on File, and by reason of the Public Business could not be heard,
Resolved by this Assembly that the further Consideration of said Petition be continued to the General Assembly to be holden in October next, and said Execution and all Proceedings thereon be Suspended in the mean Time.
Upon the Memorial of the first Society in Newtown Fairfield County, Shewing to this Assembly that their House for Public Worship is much decayed and must soon be ruined and Lost unless repaired, and that by reason of Division &c Subsisting amongst them they are unable to repair the Same, and Praying to this Assembly that the Committee of Sales on the confiscated Estates in Fairfield County be directed to pay to the Societys Committee for said Society fifty Pounds LMoney to be appropriated Solely for the Purpose of repairing said House &c as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that John Chandler of said Newtown be directed and he is hereby directed as soon as may be Collected to pay over into the Hands of said Societys Committee the Sum of fifty Pounds LMoney to be by them applied for the repairing the House of Public Worship belonging to said Society taking their receipt therefor which Receipt shall Account for said Chandler in Settling his Accounts as Committee for the Sale of Confiscated Land in Fairfield County.
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Upon the Memorial of Nathan Hibbard of Windham Administrator on the Estate of Jacob Bottom late of the Parish of Ellington in East Windsor Decd Praying for Liberty to make Sale of the whole of the real Estate of said Deceasª being fourteen Acres of Land with the Buildings lying and being in said Parish of Ellington &c As Per Memo- rial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialist be and he hereby is fully Impowered and Authorized to make Sale of the whole of said real Estate of said Deceasd in said Parish of Ellington taking the directions of the Court of Probate for the District of Stafford therein, and that he give Security to said Court for the Overplus of the Avails of said Estate if any be after the Debts of said Decd are paid and deducted with inci- dent Charges for the Benefit of the Heirs of said Decd with the lawfull Interest thereon arising till paid.
Upon the Memorial of Thomas Brown of Coventry, shewing to this Assembly that he is indebted to the confiscated Estate of Doct" Sil- vester Gardiner by Note the Sum of about fifty or sixty Pounds law- full Money for which a Suit is now depending before the County Court in the County of Windham, Praying for Liberty to pay said Debt in State Securities given to the Soldiers which are due as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that upon the Memorialists Paying to the Administrator on said Confiscated Estate said Debt in State Securi- ties given to Soldiers which are now due and also paying said Adminis- trator the lawfull Cost arisen in said Action in Money said Adminis- trator deliver up said Note & withdraw said Suit.
Upon the Petition of Enos Atwater, Timothy Hull, Robert Rice, Gad Pond Ephraim Cook and others of the Church and Society of Cheshire in the County of New Haven Shewing to this Assembly that great uneasiness has arisen in said Society respecting the Continuance of the Revª ME John Foot in the Work of the Gospel Ministry in said Society and their being compelled to pay Taxes for the support of said Mr Foot whilst they have supported the Preaching of the Gospel in a distinct Worshiping Assembly. Praying to be discharged from the payment of any Rates that may in future be laid for the support of said Mr Foot as a Gospel Minister &c as Per Petition &c,
Resolved by this Assembly, that such of the Petitioners and other Members of said Church and Society as shall on or before the first Day of Novembr next enter their Names with the Town Clerk in said Cheshire shall be and they are hereby freed exempted and discharged from paying any and all Rates that shall hereafter be Imposed and laid in said Society for the purpose of maintaining and supporting the said Mr Foot in the Work of the Gospel Ministry so long as they shall support the Preaching of the Gospel among themselves, And all such Persons so entering their Names are hereby declared incapable of Voting
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in any Society Meeting relative to the laying of Taxes or other Matters for supporting said Mr Foot in said Society, And the said Persons so entering their Names as aforesaid are hereby allowed and Impowered to Tax themselves for the purpose of maintaining the Preaching of the Gospel among themselves and have Liberty to meet and attend public Worship among themselves in said Society during the pleasure of this Assembly.
And it is further Ordered and Decreed by this Assembly that Liberty be and the Same is hereby Granted to all the Members of said Society to Choose once in every Year to which of said Parties they will belong
Provided they make their Election and enter their Names with said Town Clerk on or before the 1st Day of Novemb" annually.
On the Memorial of Philip B Bradley of Ridgfield Shewing to this Assembly that in the Year 1780 he purchased Lands belonging to this State lying in said Ridgfield to the amount of seventy Pounds LMoney and that he has Obligations against this State in Interest now Payable to a much larger Amount Praying this Assembly to receive said Obliga- tions to the Amount of Seventy Pounds in Payment for said Land,
Therefore Resolved by this Assembly that John Chandler Esq" be and hereby is ordered to receive of the said Philip B Bradley to the Amount of Seventy Pounds lawfull Money in said Obligations in Pay- ment of said Land.
Upon the Memorial of Israel Stoughton of Windsor in Hartford County Conservator of the Person and Estate of Jemima Stoughton of sª Windsor an Impotent and distracted Person Shewing to this Assem- bly that for his Services and Expences as Conservator to the said Jemima there is due to him from the Estate of the said Jemima a Ballance of £357 6 81/2 1Money and that the said Jemima has no Per- sonal Estate to satisfy said Ballance or any Part thereof Praying for Liberty and Authority to Sell so much of the real Estate of the said Jemima as to pay said Ballance with incident Charges of Sale as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialist have Liberty and Liberty and Authority is hereby Granted to the Memorialist to Sell so much of the real Estate of the said Jemima as shall be Sufficient to raise the Sum of £357 6 812 LMoney together with incident Charges of Sale taking the direction of the County Court for Hartford County therein and making return of his Doings to said Court.
Upon the Petition of Grace Spalding of Fairfield in the County of Fairfield Shewing to this Assembly that soon after the Commencement of the Present War viz in the Year 1776, her Husband Asa Spalding left her with a Family of six Children and is gone into parts unknown. that the Petitioner has for a long Time had the Care and Burthen of maintaining and educating her said Children and for that purpose has
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been Obliged to contract Debts, and that sundry Persons have become Justly indebted to her for Services done &c, And that the Petitioner hath been Obliged to conduct in all respects in contracting as though she had been a feme sole, and further Shewing that her Father Samuel Rowland hath lately Dyed Intestate leaving his real Estate in such Cir- cumstances that it cannot be Settled so as to accomodate the Heirs, if the Course of Law is pursued, And that therefore it is necessary that the Petitioner be enabled to dispose of and divide said real Estate, as though she were a Single Woman Praying this Assembly to Impower her to dispose of her real and Personal Estate as though she were a Single Woman, and that she may sue and be liable to be Sued on all Contracts by her made in her own Name with others as the Case may require since the Departure of her said Husband as Per Petition &c,
Resolved by this Assembly that the Petitioner be and she is hereby made liable to answer all those Debts she has contracted in her own Name since the first Day of Feby 1776 and to be Sued for the Same in the same manner as though she had been and were a Feme Sole at the Time of contracting the Same, And that she also be Impowered to Sue for and recover to her own Use and benefit all Debts that are Justly due to her for and on Account of Bargains and Contracts by her made from and after said first Day of Feby, and that so far as respects the said Bargains and Contracts during the Term aforesaid she be Considered and [treated?] as a Feme Sole, And that she be and hereby is Authorized and Impowered to Sell Alienate and dispose of the real Estate that has come fallen or accrued to her by Descent from her said Father and divide the Same with the other Heirs in as full and ample Manner as though she were a Single Woman, And that all Sales and Alienations and Divisions thereof that shall be by her made and all Contracts and Bargains that she shall hereafter make shall be good and valid in Law to all Intents and purposes as if she were a Single and unmarried Woman.
Upon the Memorial of John Graham Shewing to this Assembly that he Served in one of this States Regiments in the Continental Army for three Years AD 1778, 1779 & 1780, for which he had sent to him in Camp four Treasurers Notes viz Nº. 121 122 123 124 for the Sum of £8 8 21/2 each dated 1st June 1780 & Payable 1st June AD 1782 1783 1784 & 1785, and that he having no safe Place to deposit said Notes in casualty lost them and Supposes they were Stolen without being endorsed, or having received any Thing thereon Praying for Releif &c as Per Memorial,
Resolved by this Assembly that the Treasurer be and he is hereby directed to Issue new Notes to the Memorialist of the same Tenor and Dates of those lost abovesaid distinguishing said New Notes by some Mark upon his giving sufficient Bond with surety to Indemnify the Public against said Notes which are lost and the Treasurer is Ordered that in Case any of said Note which are lost shall be presented for
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Payment to Seize and hold them, And that the Notes aforesaid which were lost be forthwith Advertized in the Public News Papers in this State to prevent Imposition & Fraud at the Cost of the Memorialist.
Upon the Memorial of William Williams Esq" of Lebanon Shewing to this Assembly that he served as a Delegate of this State at Congress in the Years 1776 and 1777 that he received of the Treasurer in said Years scarce a sufficiency to defray his necessary Expences in said Service that he has been inevatibly prevented from settling his Accounts thereof till the last Winter when on Settlement of the Same with the Pay Table there was found due to him for the Year 1776 the Sum of £128 13 8, And for the Year 1777, the Sum of £108 9 1 for which he took Orders but has not received nor has any way to obtain any Thing thereon Praying to be allowed the Interest on said Sums from the end of said respective Years, and that he may receive Securities therefor payable at such Period as said Assembly shall appoint with the Interest to be paid annually as Per Memorial on File
Resolved by this Assembly, That the Treasurer of this State be and he is hereby Authorized and directed to receive said Orders allow the Memorialist the Interest on said respective Sums or Ballances from and after the end of said Years respectively and make and Execute to the Memotialist his said Treasurers Note for the Sums so due Payable at or before the first Day of June in the Year 1786, with Interest to be paid annually untill the principal is discharged.
Upon the Memorial of Benjamin Brewster of Lebanon Shewing to this Assembly that in May 1781, his Negroe Man Servant, Jason Yapon, inlisted into a Regiment then raising by this State for Defence of the Post at Horseneck to Serve till the first of March then next. That some Time in January 1782, the said Jason was wounded by the Enemy whereby he was disenabled to return Home untill the Middle of July after being more than four Months after said Term of Service expired Praying for an allowance of the Same Sum he would have been Enti- tuled to as Wages for the Service of said Jason, had his Term of Service continued untill the said Time of his return Home,
Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of Pay Table draw upon the Treasurer in favour of said Benjamin Brewster at the Rate of 40 shilling Per Month from the seventh of March to the 13th of July 1782 for the Loss of said Jasons Service for that Time.
Upon the Memorial of Judith Huntington, Experience Storrs and Jabez Clark Administrators on the Estate of Jabez Huntington Esq" late of Windham Deceasd Shewing to this Assembly that the said Jabez Huntington was by the Gen1 Assembly holden the 11th Day of October 1777 appointed one of the Committee to receive of the Treasurer the small Bills then Ordered to be emitted to circulate as change in this
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State, and to be Signed and Issued by said Committee, that said Jabez Deceasd did receive of the Treasurer the Sum of four Hundred Pounds in said Bills, and gave his Note of Hand to the Treasurer for the Same, That there was at the Time of said Jabez Huntingtons Decease the Sum of £116 0 0 in said Bills that never were Signed and Issued and the Same is now in the Possession of the Memorialists. Praying for Direction to the Treasurer to receive said Bills and Indorse the Same on said Note as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Treasurer of this State be and he is hereby Ordered and directed to receive said small Bills of the Memo- rialists and indorse the Same on the Note aforesaid.
Upon the Memorial of James Durfy of Canterbury in the State of Connecticut, Administrator on the Goods and Estate of Daniel Durfy late of said Canterbury Deceasd Shewing to this Assembly that the said Daniel was engaged in the Service of the United States as a Soldier the greatest part of the Time during the present War in which he Served untill the Time of his Death which happened some Time in the Year 1782, That in the Summer Season 1781, the said Daniel was ordered by his commanding Officer to Join a Company Commanded by Capt Jonathan Hart, and to march with him to York Town in Vir- ginia and that while on his march he was taken sick at Williamsburgh and that during his said Sickness he either lost or had taken from him his Pocket Book containing many valuable Papers among which were two Notes Signed by John Lawrence Esq" Treasurer which he received for the Depreciation of his Wages as a Continental Soldier ; said Notes were dated June 1st 1780 each demanding the Sum of Eleven Pounds & one Penny three farthings, One of said Notes Nº 7363 payable June 1st 1782 the other Nº 7365 Payable June 1st 1784 whereby the Heirs of said Daniel Durfey Deceasd have altogether lost the Benefit of said Notes Praying this Assembly to Order and direct that the Treasurer of this State make and execute to Your Memorialist as Administrator on the Estate of said Deceasd two other Notes of the like Tenor and Sum with the Notes abovementioned in like manner as hath been done in like Cases ;
Therefore Resolved by this Assembly that the Treasurer make and execute and he is hereby Ordered & directed to make and Execute two Notes of simular Dates and Sums with those abovementioned to the said James Durfee as administrator aforesaid the said Treasurer taking Particular Care that the Notes lost as mentioned in the Memorial may not be received into his Office should they be presented therefor and the said James Durfee also procuring and lodging with said Treas- urer Sufficient Bonds to Indemnify the State in the Premisses.
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