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Upon the Memorial of Theophilus Miles of Derby in the County of New Haven Shewing to this Assembly that he became bound before the Honble Superior Court held at New Haven on the last Tuesday of February 1776 in a Recognizance or Bond of £ 500, for the appearence of his Brother Jonathan Miles then in Custody for having had some intercourse with the Enemy before the next Superior Court the amount of which Bond said Superior Court supposed to be the value of said Jonathan" Estate, that some Time after said Jonathan went over to the Enemy and said Bond was forfeited and said Jonathan" Estate has since been confiscated and sold for the Use of this State and nothing allowed to the Memorialist on Account of his being bound for his said Brother and the Memorialist has likewise been Sued upon his said Bond or Recognizance and Judgment has been had thereon for the whole Amount thereof and Cost of suit, which Cost the Memorialist has since paid Praying for Relief and that the Memorialist may be discharged from said Bond and the Judgment that has been obtained thereon as Per Memorial on File &c-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialist be and he is hereby
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released and discharged from said Recognizance or Bond and the Judgment that has been obtained thereon and that all further Proceed- ings thereon be and they are hereby stayed Provided nevertheless that said Memorialist shall not be entituled to receive back any Cost he has paid thereon.
Upon the Memorial of Asa Leavenworth of Watertown Shewing to this Assembly that he was induced to be Bondsman for the appearence of David Punderson before the Superior Court being prosecuted for passing Counterfeit Money by being informed that he would have nothing to pay except the Cost of Prosecution in Case said Punderson inlisted into the Public Service which he did accordingly; that he was deceived in said Information and also in the Security which he took, that he now has a Judgment and Execution against him upon said Bond for the Sum of one hundred Pounds lawfull Money with Cost Praying for Relief &c as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that upon the Memorialists paying upon said Execution the Sum of twelve Pounds ten shillings in public Securi- ties against this State and also discharging all Cost that has already arisen in the Premisses, he be discharged from said Judgment and Exe- cution, and that the State Attorney in and for the County of Litchfield be and he is hereby directed to receive and Settle the same and discharge the Memorialist accordingly.
Upon the Memorial of Lucy Lyon of Fairfield Shewing to this Assembly that on the 10th Day of October 1765, that Lois Lyon Mother to the Memorialist and Wife to Joseph Lyon late of said Fairfield, had distributed to her out of her Father Ephraim Sanford® Estate the Sum of £279 10 6 which Money the said Joseph Lyon Recieved, with which he purchased several Peices of Land particularly one of Henry Lyon Esq" lying in the Township of Fairfield by estimation thirty Acres, lying in Grummons long Lott and Meakers long Lott so called bounded beginning in said Meakers Long Lott at the end of three Miles down from the Rear of said Lots, thence to run up Northwesterly taking the whole width of said Lott so far as to include the quantity of fourteen Acres and to begin, in said Grummons Lott about Ten Rods Southerly of the Southermost Branch of Cross Brook, being about two Miles and three Quarters down from the Rear of the said Lott thence to run up Northwesterly taking the whole Width of said Lott about fifty five Rods to the Top of a great Ledge of Rocks crossing said Lott on a slant bounded by the Top of said Ledge as it runs across said Lott for which said Joseph gave ninety five Pounds of the aforesaid Money, that he purchased other Lands with the aforesaid Money to the amount of fifty nine Pounds two shillings Lawfull Money, that at the Time of purchasing said Lands the said Joseph agreed and promissed his said Wife Lois and her Friends that he would convey and secure to her the said Lois and her Heirs the whole of the Lands purchased with her
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said Money, that the said Lois soon after died very suddenly and that the said Joseph Lyon never did Convey or Secure the said Land to the said Lois and her Heirs, which consisted of the Memorialist and one Son named Augustus that in April 1777 the said Joseph Lyon and the said Augustus went to long Island and put themselves under the Protec- tion of the Enemies of these States, and since removed to Nova Scotia the said Augustus being then and still is under the Age of twenty one Years, that the Memorialist is the only Heir to the said Lois Deceasd now living in these States, that the whole of the Estate of the said Joseph is confiscated to be improved to and for the Use of this State, that the above Land purchased of Henry Lyon Esqr is not Sold as appears by Memorial and Report of Committee on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that Hezekiah Hubbel Esq" Administrator on said Joseph Lyons Estate be Impowered and directed at the expence of the Memorialist to give to her a Quit Claim Deed of all the Right and Title this State has in the above described Land purchased of the said Henry Lyon Esqr in the Name of the Governor & Compy of this State.
Upon the Memorial of Peter Johnson of New Haven Shewing to this Assembly that he received the Provisions collected in New Haven on the sixpenny Tax, and that he was appointed by General Parsons and the Civil Authority and Select Men of New Haven to Issue said Provi- sions to the Continental and State Troops which he did to a considerable Amount, And that the Committee of Pay Table on settling his Accounts did not make him the allowance of the wastage &c Praying this Assem- bly to Order the Committee of Pay Table to examine his Accounts of Provisions issued and make him the same allowance which has been made to those who have received and Issued Provisions Collected on the 28/6ª Tax as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of Pay Table be and they are hereby ordered and directed to examine the Accounts of Provi- sion Issued by said Johnson and make him the same allowance as they have usually made others who have Issued Provisions collected on the 2/6ª Tax and Settle with him accordingly.
Upon the Complaint of Aaron Hawley of Stratford relative to certain Abuses and Injuries done to Tom and Eunice, and the other Indians of Golden Hill in said Stratford a Committee were appointed by the Assem- bly to examine into the Subject Matter of said Complaint and Report make which Committee having Reported to this Assembly as Per Report-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Accounts of Daniel Morriss of said Stratford late Guardian of said Indians have been overcharged as exhibited annually to the Judge of Probate and that the Credits for the Use of their Lands fall much Short of their real value and for a full settlement of all Affairs of said Indians said Guardian Daniel Morriss
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do pay and satisfy to said Indians the Sum of thirty six Pounds fifteen shillings lawfull Money and the Cost of this Suit and that Execution Issue accordingly.
Cost taxed and allowed at £25 6 31/2 LMoney.
Exª granted Octobr 31st 1783.
Upon the Memorial of Seth Johnson Jun" Shewing to this Assembly that he was Bail for the appearence of Jonah Griswold before the Superior Court held at Hartford the first Tuesday of Septembr last on an Information for passing Counterfeit Pay Table Orders, that his Bonds were forfeited &c Praying that the Adjourned Superior Court to be held at Hartford the fourth Tuesday of Novemb" next may enabled to try said Cause and be discharged &c as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the said Adjourned Superior Court be and they are hereby Impowered and directed to proceed to take Cog- nizance off and to hear and decide on said Process against said Griswold as though said Bond had not been forfeited and on the Memorialists delivering up said Josiah Griswold in said Adjourned Superior Court into the Custody of the Sheriff of said County of Hartford the Memo- rialist be and he is hereby released & discharged from his said Bond he paying all Legal Cost arisen on said process to this Time.
Upon the Memorial of Thomas Fanning & Levi Johnson both of Windham Shewing to this Assembly that they are subjected to pay the Sum of £42 4 0 to the Treasurer of Windham County for the Use of this State for and on account that the Memorialist had become Bail for one John Bowman for a Review of a certain Cause wherein said Bowman was convicted by the County Court for Windham County, for carrying Wheat Flour out of this State contrary to the Laws thereof wherein said Bowman was ordered to pay as a forfeiture to the Treasury of said State the Sum of £25 4 0 LMoney with additional Cost Praying for Relief in the Premisses as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialist have Liberty and Liberty is hereby granted that they pay said Sum of £25 4 0 as part of the said £42 4 0 in the Publick Securitys of this State now due equal to their specie value, and the States Attorney for Windham County is hereby enabled to receive said Sum in the aforesaid Securities and so far to discharge the Memorialist from said Sum which they are obliged to pay as aforesaid.
Upon the Petition of Levi Johnson of Windham Shewing to this Assembly, that he was by the County Court for Windham County con- victed of driving out of this State a number of Sheep contrary to the Laws of this State for which he was adjudged to pay a forfeiture of £9 0 0 LMoney to and for the Use of the Treasury of said State Praying for Relief in the Premisses as Per his Petition on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Petitioner have Liberty and
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Liberty is hereby granted that he may discharge said forfeiture by pay- ing the same in the Public Securities now due from this State at the Specie value, and the States Attorney for Windham County is hereby enabled and Ordered to receive the Same at the value aforesd in dis- charge of said forfeiture and Settle said Matter with said Johnson in manner aforesaid.
Upon the Memorial of Doct" Philip Turner Shewing to this Assem- bly, that on the 11th Day of April 1777 the Honble Congress appointed him Surgeon General of the Hospital of the United States in the Eastern Department with a Pay of five Dollars Per Day and six Rations of Pro- visions, which appointment he accepted and Served in that Department with faithfulness and Fidelity untill the 13th of June 1781 and that the full direction of said Hospital was committed to him on the 6th Day of Feb 1778 that in May 1781 he made application to this Assembly to make good his Wages by making up the Depreciation on the Same Prin- ciples and in the Same manner as has been done for the Officers of the Line from this State, but he not being at that Time furnished with any Act of Congress pointing directly to his particular Case, the Assembly at that Time granted to him allowance for Depreciation at the Rate of sixteen Shillings Per Day only in Lieu of thirty shillings which was his establish Pay, and that since that Time he has received Resolves of Con- gress of the 11th and 13th of June 1781 which entitles him to the allow- ance of Depreciation upon his whole established pay and recommending to this State to Settle the same, and that he is willing to relinquish what is due to him for Rations on the adjustment of the Depreciation of his pay Praying that allowance may be made to him for the Depreciation on the said 14$ Per Day which he has not received of his established Wages while in Service-
Whereupon Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of Pay Table be and they are hereby Ordered and directed to Liquidate and adjust the Accounts of the Memorialist and allow him the Depreciation on the said 14s/ Per Day which has not been heretofore allowed of his established pay, and draw Orders on the Treasurer for what may be found due and Charge the same to the United States, and the Treasurer is hereby Ordered to secure the Same to the Memorialist in the same manner as has been allowed and Secured to the Connecticut Line of the Army.
Upon the Memorial of John Ackley of Hebron Shewing to this Assembly that on the twenty first Day of October 1782, he received of the Treasurer of this State a Note of that Date for ten Pounds seventeen shillings and five pence payable one Year after the War with Interest annually, which Note he soon afterwards Lost and hath not been able to obtain Praying that the Treasurer be enabled and directed to give the Memorialist a second Note of the same Tenor and Date of that lost as aforesaid as Per Memorial,
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Resolved by this Assembly that on the said John Ackleys giving to the Treasurer of this State sufficient security to repay the Sums Secured by said lost Note in case said Note shall regularly be presented for payment the said Treasurer be and is hereby enabled and directed to give said Ackley a second Note of the same Tenor and Date of said Note so lost as aforesaid.
Upon the Petition of Benjamin Hanks of Litchfield Shewing to this Assembly that he has with great Study for a number of Years applied himself in search of Mechanical Knoledge, and in pursuance thereof has invented and executed a Clock, which winds itself up by the effect of Air, and which will continue so to do without any other Assistance till the Component parts thereof are destroyed by Friction and that said Clock will keep Time in the most regular manner, as it is wound up without any variation or stop put to its mechanical Operation and that conse- quently said Invention is a great Improvement in Mechanical Knoledge Praying for the Privelege of an exclusive Right to make and vend Clocks so constructed for the Term of fourteen Years as by Memorial on File *-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Prayer of the said Petition be granted and that he the said Benjamin Hanks be and he hereby is legally vested with the Sole and exclusive Right of making executing and vending Clocks of the beforementioned Description and Construction for the Term of fourteen Years, and that any Person or Persons who shall make any Clock Constructed conformable to the aforesaid descrip- tion or simular thereto, or shall Import or bring into or vend any such Clock within this State so as to defeat the exclusive Right which it is the Intention of this Act to vest the said Benjamin Hanks with the Privelege to make and vend as a Reward for his Study and Invention as aforesaid during the Term aforesaid, every such Person or Persons for every such Clock constructed or brought into this State contrary to the Design and inclination of this Act, and without the consent of the said Benjamin Hanks shall forfeit to him or to his Heirs or Executors the value of every such Clock so constructed or brought into this State which value shall not be estimated at less than Twenty Pounds Lawfull Mony to be recovered by the said Benjamin Hanks his Heirs Executors or Administrators before any Court having Cognizance of such Offence
Provided nevertheless that nothing shall be considered or deemed an Offence against this Act by which any forfeiture shall accrue to him the said Benjamin Hanks or to his Heirs or Executors but what shall be Committed in the Life of the said Benjamin Hanks-
* On Benjamin Hanks (1755-1824), clock and watchmaker, stocking-weaver, goldsmith, engraver, see Penrose R. Hoopes, Connecticut Clockmakers of the Eighteenth Century (Hartford, 1930), pp. 79-83. The Fairfield Gazette of Aug. 19, 1787, referred to him as "the ingenious Mr. Hanks. . . to whom the public are indebted for that curious piece of mechanism, the invention of air clocks." He installed one of his clocks, said to have wound itself by a sort of windmill device, in the tower of the Old Dutch Church, Nassau and Liberty Streets, New York City.
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Resolved farther that this Act shall be adjudged a Publick Act after it shall have been published in three successive Papers in each of the Public Newspapers of this State.
On the Representation and Prayer of Thomas Fanning of Norwich in New London County Shewing to this Assembly that in Decembr 1780 he was appointed by the General Assembly of this State to purchase a quantity of Pork for the Use of the State, that in consequence of said appointment he purchased of Brig" General Tyler of Preston on the 28th Feby 1781 eight Barrels of Pork for said Use at fourteen Pounds Per Barrell, that said eight Barrels with the Cost of transporta- tion from Preston to Norwich amounted to one hundred and fifteen Pounds ten shillings in the Currency of the State, which Sum was at said Time computed to be equal in value to fifty seven Pounds fifteen shillings lawfull Money for the Payment of said Sum said Tyler was to receive Pay of the Collector in State Taxes for Preston, on an Order drawn by the Treasurer on the said Collector for three hundred Pounds in said Currency in favour of said Fanning, also that said Fan- ning on the 5th Day of March 1781 purchased of Wheeler Coit of Preston four Barrels of Pork for the Use aforesaid for the Sum of sixty eight Pounds fifteen shillings, including Cost of Transportation under like Conditions with the purchase of said Pork of General Tyler, that in Consequence of the great Delay made by said Collector in Col- lecting said Taxes said Money became depreciated one half of its value from the Time of the Purchase of said Pork, and the Time said Collector appeared to be ready to pay said Money either to said Tyler or Coit by means whereof said Tyler and Coiit refused to receive their Pay for said Pork of said Collector, nor have they as yet ever received any Pay for said Pork but now demand Pay of said Fanning. Praying that the Assembly would Grant a State Note to said General Tyler for said Sum of fifty seven Pounds fifteen shillings lawfull Money Payable in one Year after the expiration of the late War including Interest from the purchase of said Pork also one other State Note to said Wheeler Coiit for the Sum of thirty four Pounds seven shillings lawfull Money Payable in one Year after the late War including Interest from the purchase of said Pork as Per Representation and Prayer on File.
Resolved by this Assembly that the Treasurer make out two State Notes one to said Gen1 Tyler for the Sum of £ 57 15 0 LMoney payable in one Year after Cessation of the late Hostilities, also one other Note to said Wheeler Coit for thirty four Pounds seven shillings LMoney payable in one Year after the late War with Interest from the Time of the sitting of this Assembly.
Upon the Memorial of Lydia Hosmer Administratrix on the Estate of Titus Hosmer Esqr late of Midletown Deceasd, Shewing to this Assembly that said Titus in his Life Time was legally possessed in his own Right in fee simple of a Right of Land in the Township of
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Bath in the County of Grafton and State of New Hamshire which Lands are unprofitable Estate to the Family of the Deceasd, and also that said Deceasd was possessed of one other small peice of Land in Midletown at fur Neck containing five Acres which is also unprofitable to said Family Praying that she may be Authorized and Impowered to Sell said two Peices of Land &c as Per Memorial Dated Octobr 13th 1783-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialist be and she is hereby Impowered and Authorized to Sell and give good and lawfull Deeds and Titles to said two Peices of Land and to Use and Improve the Avails thereof for the Benefit of said Family under the Inspection and direction of the Court of Probate for the District of Midletown therein.
Upon the Memorial of Joshua Hempsted of New London in the County of New London Shewing to this Assembly that in the Month of May ADom 1778 he was Collector of State Taxes for the Town of New London and received from Nathaniel Shaw Esqr then of New London but since Deceasd in payment of Taxes the Sum of £58 13 9 LMoney in Bills of Credit of this State emitted at different Periods, that by Mis- fortune said Money was by the Memorialist mislaid, and he never found the Same untill within two Years last past Praying for Releif in the premesses as Per Memorial on File
Resolved by this Assembly that the Treasurer of this State receive said Sum of £58 13 9 in said Bills from the Memorialist and having ascertained the value of said Money on the first Day of May 1778 by the Scale of Depreciation and Computed the Interest thereon from the said first Day of May to the first Day of February 1781 he give and execute to the Memorialist a Note of Hand in behalf of this State for the amount payable in Silver or Gold at or before the end of One Year after the expiration of the War or a Cessation of Hostilities between Great Britain and the United States, with Interest at 6 Per Cent Per Annum said Interest to be paid annually in Gold or Silver said Note to be dated the said first Day of said February.
Upon the Memorial of Mary Sumner late of Ashford in the County of Windham but now of Roxbury in the County of Suffolk and Com- monwealth of Massachusets and Administratrix on the Estate of Samuel Sumner late of Ashford aforesaid Deceasd Shewing to this Assembly that the Debts already paid by her which were due from the Estate of said Deceasd and allowances made to her surmount the Inventory of the Personal Estate the Sum of sixty six Pounds five shillings & ten Pence silver Money, that there still remains due from the Estate of said Deceasd Debts to the amount of near four hundred Pounds LMoney that said Deceasd left a real Estate which consists chiefly of a Farm of Land in said Ashford and a Lott of wild Land in Mansfield, that he also left six Children three of whom are under Age, That the other three Children are Settled at said Roxbury and are desirous that
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said Lands should be sold, That said Lands are so Situated that the Sale of so much thereof as would be Sufficient for the payment of said Debts, would wholly spoil said Farm, render the Same unsaleable and very unsuitable to make a Settlement for one of said Children, or any other Person, and not in a situation to lease out to advantage &c And Praying for Liberty to Sell and dispose of the whole of the real Estate of said Deceasd lying and being within this State &c as Per Memorial on File &c-
Resolved by this Assembly that the said Mary be and she is hereby fully Authorized and Impowered to make Sale of and by Deed to Convey the whole of the real Estate of said Deceasd lying and being within this State, taking the direction of the Court of Probate for the District of Pomfret therein, and giving Bond with sufficient surety to the Judge of the Court of Probate for said District in a suitable Sum Conditioned that the said Mary shall distribute the whole of the Avails of the Sales thereof to and among the legal Heirs and Representatives of said Samuel Deceasd according to Law, except what shall be necessary for the Pay- ment of said Debts and the Cost arising in and about the same.
On the Petition of Sarah Loveland of Durham Shewing to this Assem- bly that her late Husband Jonathan Loveland died in the Connecticut Line in the Continental Army, and at the Time of his Death there was due from the State to him eight Pounds fourteen shillings Praying for Liberty of this Assembly to receive the Same in a Note on the State.
It is therefore Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of Pay Table be and they are hereby directed to draw an Order on the Treasurer of this State to secure by a Note on Interest for the Sum that is found due to the said Jonathan Loveland at the Time of his Death and deliver the same to the said Sarah Loveland.
Upon the Memorial of Abner Andruss of Wallingford, Shewing to this Assembly that he engaged as a Soldier or Private in Capt Wil- liam Mills Company of Artificers on the 12th Day of Feby 1777, and that being at Wilmington he was sick with the Meazles, and to avoid the Enemy in August 1777, he was obliged to march in a violent Storm one whole Night which so affected his Health that a Paralitick Fitt soon ensued which deprived him of the Use of one Hand and his Senses almost ruined of which he never expects to recover Praying that he may have his Wages which are due to him from the Time he was taken sick and also such farther allowance as shall be thought proper as Per Memorial-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Comtee of the Pay Table adjust the Account of the Pay of the Memorialist from the first Day of August 1777 to the Time of his Sickness to the first Day of August 1779 and give Order on the Treasurer for the Payment thereof and Charge the amount to the United States,
And it is further Resolved that the Memorialist shall receive of this
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State the further Sum of twenty Pounds lawfull Money and that the Committee of Pay Table draw Order on the Treasurer therefor accordingly.
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