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Resolved by this Assembly that the Light House near the Port of New London be immediately repaired and Provided with Utensils and Oil and Mr Amasa Learned is hereby appointed to Order direct and make such repairs and provide measures to the amount of £110 0 0 LMoney if needed and he is hereby Impowered to borrow for that pur- pose the Sum aforesaid on Interest, and he shall be entituled to receive said Sum out of the Light Money which shall be Collected in this State by virtue of an Act entituled An Act for laying a Tax on Shipping for repairing and maintaining the light House near the Port of New Lon- don, And the Naval Officers are hereby Ordered & directed to pay the Light Money Quarterly or every three Months to said M' Amasa Learned taking his Reciept therefor who shall annually Account with the Treasurer of this State for the Same.
Resolved by this Assembly that the Listers of the several Towns in this State be and they are hereby directed to compleat the List of the present Year with the Additions and fourfold Assesments and return the Same to the General Assembly at their next Adjourned Sessions any Law Usage or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding, And the Secretary is hereby directed to Cause this Resolve to be Pub- lished in the several Public News Papers in this State.
Resolved by this Assembly, that all Orders drawn by proper Authority on the Treasurer for Bills of this State may be applied towards the Payment of any Taxes imposed for State Bills emitted since the first of January 1780 excepting Taxes appropriated for the sinking Fund, and also towards the Payment of any Taxes imposed for Bills of the United States and afterwards reduced by Act of Assembly to one for forty in said Bills of this State.
Also Resolved that the Sheriffs of the respective Countys having any
* See above, p. 120.
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of the Treasurers Executions in their Hands may administer an Oath to any Collector in the same manner as the Treasurer by Law may do, and any Sheriff who shall Certify the Treasurer that such Oath has been administered by him and that he has not exchanged or disposed of any Order or Certificate received of any Collector but that the Same has been bona fide delivered by him to the Treasurer such Oath and Certificate thereof made as aforesaid, shall have the same legal Effect as though the same had been administered by the Treasurer.
Resolved by this Assembly that the Select Men of the several Towns in this State make enquiry and a proper return of all the Military Stores belonging to this State in whosoever Custody the same may be found to the General Assembly at their next Meeting that further Order may be had thereon, And the Secretary is directed to publish this Resolution in the News Papers within this State.
This Assembly do appoint Roger Sherman Esq" William Williams Esq" James Wadsworth Esq and William Hilhouse Esq Delegates to represent this State in the Congress of the United States of America the Year ensueing in the room of Samuel Huntington Esq" Oliver Wol- cott Esq" Richard Law Esq" and Oliver Elsworth Esq" resigned.
Resolved by this Assembly that Mr Fenn Wadsworth having repre- sented to this Assembly that his Private Affairs will no longer admit of his attending upon the Business of preparing the Accounts of this State against the United States and presenting and supporting the Same for an adjustment with the Commissioner appointed to Liquidate and allow such Accounts, the Committee of Pay Table therefor be and hereby are fully Authorized and directed to perform and execute the special Business and Duties assigned and committed as aforesaid to the said Mr Fenn Wadsworth.
Whereas the United States in Congress Assembled did on the 23d Day of April 1782 Resolve in the Words following viz "Resolved that all Sick and wounded Soldiers of the Armies of the United States, who shall in future be Reported by the Inspector General or the Inspector of a Seperate Department and approved by the Com- mander in Chief or Commanding Officer of a Seperate Department as unfit for further Duty either in the Field or Garrison and who apply for a discharge in preference to being placed or continued in the Corps of Invalids shall be discharged and be entituled to receive as a Pension five dollars Per Month in Lieu of all Pay and emolument. Resolved that it be and hereby is recommended to the several States to discharge such Pensions annually and draw on the Superintendant of Finance for the Payment of the Money they shall so Advance. ["]*
* See Jour. Cont. Cong., XXII, 209-210.
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Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of Pay Table be and hereby are enabled and directed to draw on the Treasurer of this State in favour of such of the Citizens of thus [sic] State as are Subjects of the before recited Resolution of Congress on their producing and lodging with said Committee proper Certificates and discharges comporting with said Resolve of Congress, and draw on the superintendant of Finance in favour of the Treasurer of this State for the repayment of such Sums so to be advanced, and the Secretary is directed to cause this Resolve to be published in the Several Public Papers in this State.
On the Report of a Committee respecting the Inhabitants Settled under the Claim of this State west of Delaware River accepted and approved Whereas a large number of Inhabitants West of Delaware River and within the Charter Limits of this State settled there under the Claim and Jurisdiction of the said State having first with the appro- bation of the General Assembly thereof purchased the Native Right of Soil and for many Years past have been incorporated and in the exercise of Government under the Laws of the said State, And Whereas by a late Decree of Commissioners appointed for settling a Dispute rela- tive to Jurisdiction between this State and the State of Pensylvania, the Tract of Land possessed by the said Settlers is unexpectedly declared to be within the Jurisdiction of the latter,* since which the said Settlers as it is represented notwithstanding their having acquired the Native and Possessory Right as aforesaid and corroborated their Title by vast Labour and expence in reducing the said Lands from a Wilderness State and stood as a Barrier to Pensylvania and other Interior Settle- ments, through a long distressing War in which most of their Males capable of Labour or Defence have been Slain Circumstances which entituled them to expect as well from the Justice as Clemency of that great and opulent State the fullest Protection for their Persons and to be forever Quieted in their Possessions and for which they lost no Time in applying to its Legislature by Humble Petition, yet notwithstanding to their great astonishment and Distress they find themselves left to the Mercy of Men who Claiming under the Proprietary Title of that State are prosecuting against them Suits of ejectment, and in some Cases entering into their Possessions and Labours by force.
Whereupon Resolved by this Assembly that it will in their Opinion be expedient for the said Settlers as the only Remedy left them to apply to the Honble the Congress of the United States for a Court to be Instituted to try their Right of Soil & Possession, pursuant to the Ninth of the Articles of Confederation, that it will be the Duty of this State to contenance and Patronise them in such Application, and that the Delegates of this State that shall be in Congress be directed to give them all necessary Aid therein, And that his Excellency the Governor be desired to address a full State of their Claims and Sufferings to Con-
# See above, p. 11 n and 120.
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gress and sollicit the Protection of that Honorable Body in their behalf until a final adjudication of the Cause shall be had.
Whereas this State has the undoubted and exclusive Right of Jurisdiction and Preemption to all the Lands lying West of the Western Limits of the State of Pensylvania and East of the River Misisipi and extending throughout from the Lattitude 41, to Lattitude 42, & 2 Minits North by Virtue of the Charter Granted by King Charles the second to the late Colony now State of Connecticut bearing Date the 23ª Day of April A Dom 1662, which Claim and Title to make known for the information of all to the end that they may conform themselves thereto,
Resolved that his Excellency the Governor be desired to Issue his Proclamation declaring and ascerting the Right of this State to all the Lands within the Limits aforesaid and strictly forbiding all Persons to enter or Settle thereon without special Licence and Authority first obtained from the General Assembly of this State .*
Resolved by this Assembly that John Lawrence Esq" Treasurer of this State be and he hereby is directed forthwith to State the Amount of the Abatements made on the Several Taxes in each Town in this State, laid by this Assembly on the Lists for the Years 1779 & 1780 and investigate and particularise the Principles on which such Abatements are made and to employ suitable Assistance for that purpose, And Report make to this Session as soon as may be.
Upon a Representation made to this Assembly that Solomon Fer- riss formerly of Greenwich in this State who in the Year 1777 Joined the Army of the British King at New York and continued in his Service till the Cessation of Hostilities and on the 20th of Septemb" last returned to said Greenwich in Order to remove his Family from thence to Nova Scotia, was thereupon Arrested at said Greenwich in three Suits one in favour of Messenger Palmer one in favour of Samuel Lockwood and the other in favour of James Ferriss for Damages there done by him the said Solomon and others in Arms under the said British King in the Year 1779, and was on said Suits had before a Justice of the Peace & on the 25th Day of September aforesaid Ordered to find Bail for his Appearence to answer to said Suits before the County Court to be holden at Fairfield in the County of Fairfield on the third Tuesday of Novemb" next and that his Father Joseph Ferriss thereupon became Bail for him on the said Suits in the Sum of £500 LMoney, And a Committee having been appointed by this Assembly on said Representa- tion and they having Reported that said Representation is substantially true and that the said Suits are in the Name of Individuals and ought not under the Circumstances attending them to be maintained nor the said Bail to be holden,
* But see below, p. 277 for the cession of part of this land to the United States .
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Resolved and Ordered by this Assembly that the said Solomon with his said Bail be and they are hereby discharged of each of said Suits and all Costs thereon.
Whereas since the Issuing His Excellency the Governors Proclama- tion appointing the 20th Day of Novemb" next to be observed as a Day of Public Thanksgiving in this State, a Proclamation has been received from the President of Congress, appointing the second Thursday of Decembr next to be observed as a Day of Public Thanksgiving through- out the United States, it is Judged expedient by this Assembly that the said Day appointed in his Excellencys Proclamation be postponed untill the said second Thursday of Decembr
Therefore Resolved by this Assembly that his Excellency be requested to Issue his Proclamation appointing said second Thursday of Decembr to be observed as a Day of Publick Thanksgiving throughout this State instead of said 20th Day of Novemb".
This Assembly do appoint Oliver Stanley Esq" to be Judge of the Court of Probate within and for the District of Wallingford untill the first Day of June next.
This Assembly do appoint John Felch Esq" to be a Justice of the Quorum within and for the County of Windham untill the first Day of June next in the room of Nathaniel Wales Esq" Deceasd.
This Assembly do appoint Daniel Lyman Esq" a Justice of the Peace for the County of New Haven untill the first Day of June next.
This Assembly do appoint Colo Comfort Sage to be Brigadier Gen- eral of the second Brigade of Militia in this State in the room of Brigadier General Andrew Ward resigned.
This Assembly do appoint Colonel John Chandler to be Brigadier General of the fourth Brigade of Militia in this State in the room of Brigadier General John Mead resigned.
This Assembly do appoint Maj" Samuel Tyler Esq" to be Lieutenant Colonel of the eighth Regiment in the room of Lieut Colonel Nathan Gallop resigned.
This Assembly do appoint Capt Peleg Noyes to be Major of the eighth Regiment in the room of Maj" Samuel Tyler promoted.
This Assembly do appoint Capt David Brainerd Spencer to be Major of the twenty fifth Regiment in the room of Major Daniel Cone resigned.
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This Assembly do appoint Christopher Leffingwell Esq" to be Lieut Colonel Commandant of the twentieth Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do appoint Capt Benjamin Hikok to be Major of the third Regiment of Light Dragoons in the room of Maj" Ezra Starr resigned.
This Assembly do establish Agur Judson Jun" to be Captain of the seventh Company or Trainband in the 4th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Joseph Wooster to be Lieutenant of the 7th Company or Trainband in the 4th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Ephraim Wooster to be Ensign of the 7th Company or Trainband in the 4th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Abijah Sessions to be Captain of the 5th Company or Trainband in the 22ª Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Samuel Crawford to be Ensign of the 5th Company or Trainband in the 22ª Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Joel Arnold to be Ensign of the 6th Company or Trainband in the 7th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Ithamar Tuttle to be Captain of the 10th Company or Trainband in the 2ª Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Peter Eastman to be Ensign of the 10th Company or Trainband in the 2ª Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish James Porter to be Captain of the 1st Company or Trainband in the 27th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Benjamin Upson to be Lieutenant of the first Company or Trainband in the 27th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Benjamin Baldwin to be Ensign of the first Company or Trainband in the 27th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Ebenezer Deains Jun" to be Ensign of the 8th Company or Trainband in the 21st Regiment in this State. This Assembly do establish Elihu Thomas to be Captain of the 5th Company or Trainband in the 12th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Simon Abel to be Lieutenant of the 5th Company or Trainband in the 12th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Isaiah Loomiss to be Ensign of the 5th Company or Trainband in the 12th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish John Johnson to be Captain of the 10th Company or Trainband in the 22ª Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Moses Amidown to be Ensign of the 10th Company or Trainband in the 22ª Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Asaph Trumbull to be Captain of the 8th Company or Trainband in the 12th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish William Talcott to be Lieutenant of the 8th Company or Trainband in the 12th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Gad Talcott to be Ensign of the 8th Company or Trainband in the 12th Regiment in this State.
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This Assembly do establish David Kilborn to be Captain of the third Company or Trainband in the 25th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Dan Worthington to be Lieutenant of the third Company or Trainband in the 25th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Nathaniel Otis to be Ensign of the third Company or Trainband in the 25th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish William Perkins to be Captain of the 6th Company or Trainband in the third Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish William Sterlin to be Lieutenant of the 6th Company or Trainband in the third Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Daniel Ely to be Ensign of the 6th Company or Trainband in the third Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Samuel Selden to be Captain of the 10th Company or Trainband in the third Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Daniel Peck to be Lieutenant of the 10th Company or Trainband in the third Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Abner Brockway to be Ensign of the 10th Company or Trainband in the third Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Elihu Marvin to be Captain of the 9th Company or Trainband in the 20th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Joseph Williams to be Lieutenant of the 9th Company or Trainband in the 20th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Thomas Parmely to be Captain of the 7th Company or Trainband in the 13th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Richard Bryan to be Lieutenant of the 7th Company or Trainband in the 13th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Brinsmade Gibson to be Ensign of the 7th Company or Trainband in the 13th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Seth Austin to be Captain of the third Company or Trainband in the 14th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Elijah Stanton to be Lieutenant of the third Company or Trainband in the 14th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Peter Mason to be Ensign of the third Company or Trainband in the 14th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish William Miller to be Captain of the 7th Company or Trainband in the 6th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Elisha Treat to be Lieutenant of the 7th Company or Trainband in the 6th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Abraham Holliston Jun" to be Ensign of the 7th Company or Trainband in the 6th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Ebenezer Guthrie to be Ensign of the 2d Company or Trainband in the 13th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish do establish [sic] Isaac Bird to be Lieutenant of the 7th Company or Trainband in the 14th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Adomjah Strong to be Ensign of the 7th Company or Trainband in the 14th Regiment in this State.
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This Assembly do establish Stephen Dodge to be Captain of the 6th Company or Trainband in the 13th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Peleg Chamberlain to be Lieutenant of the 6th Company or Trainband in the 13th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish David Foot to be Ensign of the 7th Com- pany or Trainband in the 27th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Abel Ferriss to be Ensign of the 3d Company or Trainband in the 16th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Daniel Camp to be Captain of the third Company or Trainband in the 13th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Abel Gun to be Lieut of the 3ª Company or Trainband in the 13th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Paul Welch Jun" to be Ensign of the 3ª Company or Trainband in the 13th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Julius Coswell to be Ensign of the 10th Company or Trainband in the 13th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Daniel Potter to be Captain of the 6th Company or Trainband in the 27th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Aaron Fenn to be Captain of the third Company or Trainband in the 27th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Joel Dunbar to be Ensign of the 3d Company or Trainband in the 27th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Comfort Butler to be Ensign of the fifth Company or Trainband in the 10 Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish John Chapman to be Captain of the 6th Company or Trainband in the 4th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish John Andrews to be Lieutenant of the 6th Company or Trainband in the 4th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Simon Desbrow to be Ensign of the 6th Company or Trainband in the 4th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish John Porter to be Lieutenant of the 7th Company or Trainband in the 26th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Jacob Ogden to be Ensign of the 7th Company or Trainband in the 26th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Andrew Hill to be Lieutenant of the 9th Company or Trainband in the 14th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Benjamin Remington to be Ensign of the 3ª Company or Trainband in the 1st Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Jonathan Morse to be Captain of the 2ª Company or Trainband in the 11th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Jonah Smith to be Captain of the 8th Company or Trainband in the 26th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Robert Whitford to be Lieutenant of the 8th Company or Trainband in the 26th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Oliver Granger to be Captain of the 9th Company or Trainband in the 1st Regiment in this State.
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This Assembly do establish Abel Rising to be Lieutenant of the 9th Company or Trainband in the 1st Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Heber Stone to be Lieutent of the first Company or Trainband in the 17th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Timothy Skinner to be Captain of the 10th Company or Trainband in the 17th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Eli Smith to be Lieutenant of the 10th Company or Trainband in the 17th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Samuel Seymour to be Ensign of the 10th Company or Trainband in the 17th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Harriss Hopkins to be Captain of the 14th Company or Trainband in the 17th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Levi Morse to be Lieutenant of the 14th Company or Trainband in the 17th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Ozias Lewiss to be Ensign of the 14th Company or Trainband in the 17th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Drake Seymour to be Captain of the 8th Company or Trainband in the 9th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Andrew Miller to be Lieutenant of the 8th Company or Trainband in the 9th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Eben Knapp to be Ensign of the 6th Company or Trainband in the 9th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Benjamin Brush to be Captain of the 10th Company or Trainband in the 9th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Edmund Mead to be Lieutenant of the 10th Company or Trainband in the 9th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish John Holmes to be Captain of the 4th Company or Trainband in the eighth Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Benadam Williams to be Lieutenant of the 4th Company or Trainband in the 8th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Paul Wheeler Junt to be Ensign of the 4th Company or Trainband in the 8th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Benjamin Flint to be Captain of the 12th Company or Trainband in the 5th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish George Martin 3ª to be Lieutenant of the 12th Company or Trainband in the 5th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Thomas Kingsbury to be Ensign of the 12th Company or Trainband in the 5th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Reuben Boyce to be Captain of the 10th Company or Trainband in the 10th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Ezra Doolittle to be Lieutenant of the 10th Company or Trainband in the 10th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Rufus Hitchcock to be Ensign of the 10th Company or Trainband in the 10th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Noah Alling to be Captain of the 4th Company or Trainband in the 19th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Caleb Booth to be Lieutenant of the 4th Company or Trainband in the 19th Regiment in this State.
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This Assembly do establish David Botsford to be Captain of the 6th Company or Trainband in the 2ª Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Joseph Peck to be Lieutenant of the 6th Company or Trainband in the 2ª Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Jedidiah Stowe to be Ensign of the 6th Company or Trainband in the 2ª Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Fletcher Pruden to be Captain of the 2ª Company or Trainband in the 2ª Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Joseph Platt to be Lieutenant of the 2ª Company or Trainband in the 2ª Regiment in this State. This Assembly do establish Samuel Fenn to be Ensign of the 2ª Company or Trainband in the 2ª Regiment in this State.
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