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This Assembly do establish Elias Sanford Palmer to be Captain of the 6th Company or Trainband on the 8th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Jesse York to be Lieutenant of the 6th Company or Trainband in the 8th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Zebulon Lewiss to be Ensign of the 6th Company or Trainband in the 8th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Daniel Gates to be Captain of the 5th Company or Trainband in the 8th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Daniel Morgan to be Ensign of the 5th Company or Trainband in the 8th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Elijah Holcomb to be Lieutenant of the 6th Company or Trainband in the 14th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Abraham Bushnel to be Ensign of the 6th Company or Trainband in the 14th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish John Peck to be Captain of the second Company or Trainband in the 4th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Samuel Wm Johnson to be Ensign of the 2ª Company or Trainband in the 4th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Joshua Bains Jun" to be Captain of the 8th Company or Trainband in the 2ª Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Samuel De Forrest to be Lieutenant of the 14th Company or Trainband in the 4th Regiment in this State.
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This Assembly do establish Eli Smith to be Ensign of the 14th Company or Trainband in the 4th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Joseph Curtiss to be Lieutenant of the 6th Company or Trainband in the 27th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Elijah Warner to be Ensign of the 6th Company or Trainband in the 27th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Samuel Smith to be Captain of the third Company or Trainband in the 6th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Elihu Thomson to be Captain of the 1st Company or Trainband in the Town of Stonington in the 8th Regi- ment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Thomas Noyes to be Lieutent of the 1st Company or Trainband in the Town of Stonington in the 8th Regi- ment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Noyes Palmer to be Ensign of the first Company or Trainband in the Town of Stonington in the 8th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Joab Griswold to be Lieutenant of the 8th Company or Trainband in the 1st Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Nathaniel Griswold to be Ensign of the 8th Company or Trainband in the 1st Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish David Elsworth to be Lieutenant of the 5th Company or Trainband in the 1st Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Allen Ives to be Captain of the 12th Company or Trainband in the 2ª Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Chauncey Dickerman to be Lieutenant of the 12th Company or Trainband in the 2ª Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Hezekiah Bassett to be Ensign of the 12th Company or Trainband in the 2ª Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Benjamin Doolittle to be Captain of the 8th Company or Trainband in the 10th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Samuel Merriman to be Lieutenant of the 8th Company or Trainband in the 10th Regiment in this State. This Assembly do establish Ezekiel Woodford to be Captain of the 8th Company or Trainband in the 15th Regiment in this State. This Assembly do establish William Woodford to be Lieutent of the 8th Company or Trainband in the 15th Regiment in this State. This Assembly do establish Michael Woodruff to be Ensign of the 8th Company or Trainband in the 15th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Samuel Tibballs to be Ensign of the 15th Company or Trainband in the 14th Regiment in this State.
Upon the Petition of Gideon Benjamin of East Hartford in the County of Hartford Shewing to this Assembly that by various Misfor- tunes he is reduced in his advanced Age and become unable to pay all his Just Debts and is exposed to Arrests and perpetual Imprisonment by his Creditors and that he is willing to resign up all his Estate for
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the Benefit of his Creditors &c and Praying for an Act of Insolvency to be passed in his favour &c
Resolved by this Assembly that said Petition be continued and that the Petitioner be protected from any Arrests and Imprisonment for Debt untill the rising of the General Assembly in May next .*
Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee appointed in May last to look into sundry losses of Solomon Baldwin Collector of Taxes for the Town of Milford occasioned by his having been plundered by the Enemy of a number of Public Securities be continued and Authorized and directed to make their Report in May next.t
Resolved by this Assembly that Messrs John Chenward & Hezekiah Marrells be and they are hereby appointed Auditors to Audit adjust and Settle the Public Accounts of this State with the Treasurer and also to receive examine and burn all the Bills of Credit emitted by this State that may be found in the Treasury and to Report to this or the next Ses- sion of the General Assembly in the room of two of the Gentlemen viz Samuel Lyman Esqr & Mª Ebenezer Plummer appointed to that Business in May last who decline attending the Same.
Upon the Memorial of the County Court for the County of New Haven Shewing to this Assembly that by reason of the decays of the Common Goal in said County it is become necessary to build a New Prison which cannot be effected without pulling down the old Goal in said County Praying this Assembly to Enact that it shall and may be lawfull to confine in the Common Goal in Hartford in Hartford County all such Persons as by the General Laws of this State ought to be con- fined in the Common Goal in said New Haven County during the Time such new Goal or Prison shall be Building and insufficient safely and securely to hold and confine Prisoners as Per Memorial,
Be it Enacted and Resolved by this Assembly that it shall and may be Lawfull for the Sheriff and Chief Keeper of the Goal in the County of New Haven to Convey and carry or by his Lawfull Deputy to Cause to be conveyed and Carried all Prisoners which he shall have in his Custody within the Common Goal in the County of New Haven on the 10th Day of May next or any Prisoner or Prisoners he may so have in Custody between said 10th Day and the 30th Day Of June next who by Law are not Bailable or those who by Law on sufficient Security Given are Entituled to the Liberties of his said Prison and are unable or neglect to procure good and sufficient Bonds that they shall well and truly abide and remain faithfull Prisoners within the Liberties to said New Haven County Prison to the Common Goal in Hartford in the County of Hartford and them deliver to the Keeper of said Hartford County Goal
* In May the case was further postponed to October, 1784, at which time a committee was appointed to investigate and report in May, 1785. See below, pp. 382, 461.
t See above, p. 149, and below, p. 415.
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within said Prison, and the Keeper of said Hartford County Goal shall receive all Such Prisoners and them safely keep within his said Prison untill they shall be redelivered to the Sheriff of New Haven County or his Dputy as is hereafter Provided or shall be otherwise discharged by due Order of Law And a Copy of any Lawfull Warrant Mittimus or other Precept by Virtue whereon any Person or Persons are or within the Time aforesaid shall be Committed to and remain in the Custody of the Keeper of said Goal in said New Haven County attested by the Sheriff of New Haven County or his lawfull Deputy, and delivered with such Prisoner or Prisoners to the Keeper of the Goal in Hartford County shall be a Sufficient Warrant to the Keeper of the Goal in Hartford County to receive such Prisoner or Prisoners into his Custody and him her or them to keep hold and detain within his said Prison as aforesaid, and on or before the 30th Day of June next and as soon as the Goal in New Haven County can and shall be made Sufficient for the safe holding of Prisoners, the Sheriff of New Haven County or his Deputy shall repair to the said Goal in Hartford, and there receive of the Keeper of the Goal in Hartford County all Prison- ers in his Custody by him received by Virtue of this Act, and thereupon such Prisoners so to be received of the Keeper of said Hartford County Goal shall be by the Sheriff of New Haven County or his Deputy immediately Conveyed and Carried in the most direct Way to the Goal in the County of New Haven and there properly secured, and all expences of conveying and carrying such Prisoner or Prisoners to said Hartford Goal and back to said New Haven County Goal shall be paid out of the Treasury of New Haven County and also the Charge of supporting any such Prisoner or Prisoners in said Hartford County Goal shall be paid out of the Treasury of New Haven County to the Keeper of the Goal in Hartford County, and such Prisoner.or Prisoners may be retained in Prison untill the Expence of such Support be by him or them paid and satisfied in the Same manner as if he or they had not been so removed, And if any Person or Persons shall be sued for any Act or Thing by him or them done in pursuance of this Act the Defendt or Defendts may Plead the General Issue, and give this Act in Evidence on Tryal for his or their Justification.
Upon the Representation of Joseph Kingman of Canaan in Litch- field County against Ira Rowlinson Ensign in the first Company in the 14th Regiment informing that said Rowlinson Sold his Commission for a Beaver Hat which Commission was Issued under the Seal of this State and by fraud obtained another Commission by which the Dignity of this Assembly is trampled upon .*
Resolved by this Assembly that the said Ira Rowlinson be Cashired from his said Office and hereafter rendered incapable of holding any Commission, and that he Pay all Costs which have arisen for which the Secretary is directed to Issue out Execution, also that the Secretary
* See above, p. 220.
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transmit a Copy of this Resolution to Edward Brownal Captain of said Company Ordering him to lead said Company to the Choice of an Ensign in the room of said Ira Rowlinson Cashired.
Cost allowed by this Assembly for which the Secretary is to Send out his Ex" as aforesaid viz
Secretarys fees £0 15 6 Sheriffs fees 1 10 0
Ex" granted May 15th 1784.
Upon the Report of the Committee appointed by the General Assem- bly at their Sessions in May last on the Petition of Matthias Leaming* Shewing that being involved in Debt and to gain Time to Satisfy his Creditors he made a Deed of his Land in Farmington where he lived to his Brother the Revd MT Jeremiah Leaming of Norwalk without the Privity of his said Brother, or receiving any Consideration therefor, that the said Deed was recorded at the Petitioners Request by the Regis- ter of the said Town of Farmington that his said Brother soon after went off to the Enemy, and his Estate including the Land Covered by the said Deed, hath been since confiscated to and for the Use of this State And thereon reporting that having previously notified the Parties concerned Maj" Talmadge excepted who was out of the State, they met on the Business of their appointment at said Farmington on the third Day of October 1783 when and where the said Matthias Leaming and Enos Ives of said Farmington to whom the Estate in Question was Deeded by Government attended on the Committee and on examination finding the following Facts, That a Number of Years since Mathias Leaming purchased of the Revd M' Samuel Newell of New Cambridge for about £150 the 29th Lott in the fifth Division of Land West of the reserved Land so called in said Farmington containing about 148 Acres that the whole of the Purchase Money was advanced to M' Newell by Mr Jeremiah Leaming of Norwalk that it is a Doubt whether the said Money was intended as a Donation or not that the said Matthias exe- cuted a Deed to the said Jeremiah dated the 28th Day of Novembr 1774 of the one half of said Lott taken of at the North Side for the Con- sideration of £80 0 0 which Deed was found among the Papers of the said Jeremiah after he Joined the Enemy and was sent of by the Select Men of Norwalk to the Register of the Town of Farmington to be Recorded and was received by him June 4th 1781 That afterwards the said Mathias executed another Deed of fifty Acres of the Land covered by the Last mentioned Deed to Doct" Joseph Roberts of said Farmington leaving 24 Acres Deeded to Jeremiah which Deed to Roberts was Recorded by the Register aforesaid before he received the Deed to Jere- miah that the said Deed to Jeremiah hath therefore never been entered of Record That the said Matthias afterwards falling out with the said Rob- erts told him he should never be the better for the Land Deeded to him for that he had Sold the same Land before to his Brother Jeremiah and
* See above, p. 158.
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confessed it was done to Secure a Debt Justly due to the said Jeremiah, that the said Matthias obstinately refused to inform the Committee of the Reason why he made said Deed to Jeremiah that afterwards Matthias executed Deeds to his two Sons Judah Leaming & David Leaming of about 38 Acres on the South Side of said Lott except a small Patch of Land reserved for a Pasway leaving about 60 Acres in the Centre of the Lott unsold including the 24 Acres of Land Deeded to Jeremiah and not Covered by Roberts' Deed leaving 36 Acres Clear with a House and Barn standing thereon, That of this remainder or nearly the whole of it the said Matthias executed another Deed to Jeremiah bearing Date the 17th Day of April 1775, which the said Register received and entered for Record the Same Day That he told the said Register he owed the said Jeremiah a Sum of Money and he thought it his Duty to Secure him and gave the Deed for that purpose, That in fact there was no Privity between the Parties in the transaction, that after adjudication was had upon the sª Estate it was delivered to Majr Tallmadge at Appraisement for £100, that afterwards Maj" Talmadge contracted with Enos Ives to dispose of the Estate to him at £170 10 0 who received the Deed immediately from Government that he has in Consequence of the Con- duct of the said Matthias been Subjected to much Trouble and expence & vexation long and expensive Lawsuits and is exceedingly hurt in his Interest. Whereupon the Committee Reported it as their Opinion that the transactions of the said Matthias in the Premisses were fraud- ulent and ought to be considered good as against himself, but never to operate to the detriment of Maj" Talmadge M' Ives or the State, which Report is accepted and approved and therefore,
Resolved by this Assembly that nothing be granted to the said Matthias Leaming on his said Petition and that the said Enos Ives recover the Cost to which he has been subjected on the said Petition.
Upon the Memorial of Bernard Lintot, shewing to this Assembly that his Estate in this State was in the Month of January AD 1783 by the Judgment of the Adjourned County Court holden at New Haven in Decembr 1782 forfeited and Confiscated to and for the Use of this State Praying that said Judgment may be reversed and annulled and his said Estate be restored to him as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the said Judgment of said Adjourned County Court adjudging the Estate of said Bernard Lintot to be con- fiscated to and for the Use of this State be and the same is hereby reversed and annulled and the said Estate is hereby Ordered to be restored to him the said Lintot he paying the Costs of confiscating said Estate as taxed by said County Court.
Upon the Memorial of Capt Stephen Billings late of Groton now of Lyme in his own behalf and in behalf of Capt Timothy Allyn and Nathan Allyn Jun" and in behalf of the Heirs of Mr Simeon Allyn late of said Groton Deceasd Shewing to this Assembly that on the first
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Day of Feby last he was possessed of sundry Notes given by the Treasurer of this State to the Officers and Soldiers of the Connecti- cut Line of the Continental Army for Services rendered before the first Day of May 1782 of which Notes the Amount of ££263 13 8 was his own property which he designed to apply in part Payment for some Confiscated Lands which he purchased of this State in the Month of January last, and £325 0 4 of said Notes was the property of Capt Timothy Allyn £272 of which was designed by said Timothy to pay for some confiscated Lands which Nathan Allyn Jun" purchased of this State, and at the same Time he was Possessed of one certain Order drawn by the Committee of Pay Table on the Treasurer for the Sum of £29 8 0 in favour of Lieut James Burnum of Lyme to be paid out of the 28/6ª Tax which Order belonged to the Estate of Mr Simeon Allyn late of Groton Deced and that on the said first Day of Feby last he lost said Notes and Order, and that he has great Reason to believe that the Same was burnt and consumed by fire As Per Memorial on File, and on Report of a Committee,
Resolved by this Assembly that the Treasurer of this State, be and he is hereby Ordered and directed to Credit to said Stephen Billings the said Sum of £263 13 8 toward payment for said Confiscated Lands by him purchased as aforesaid, And that he Credit to said Nathan Allyn Jun" £272 0 0 toward paying for said Confiscated Land by him pur- chased as aforesd and also give and execute to said Timothy one other Note for the Sum of £ 53 18 8 Payable the first Day of June next with Interest from the first Day of Jany 1782 it being in the room of Note Nº 11619 lost as aforesaid, And that the Comtee of Pay Table draw another Order on the Treasurer for the Sum of ££29 8 0 in favour of the Heirs of said Simeon Allyn Decd to be paid out of the 2/6 Tax in room of the one lost as aforesaid all on Condition that they each one in whose favour this Resolve is passd become bound to the Treasurer of this State with sufficient Surety to save this State harm- less against said Notes and Order in Case the Same or any of them should be found.
Upon the Representation of Nathan Olmsted &c Inhabitants of the Town of Ridgfield, Shewing to this Assembly that in the forenoon of the 2ª Day of Decembr 1783 a Number of Persons belonging to said Town convened together in said Town stiling themselves a Town Meet- ing and then and there Chose and appointed a set of Town Officers for said Town who have been sworn to a faithfull Discharge of the Duties of their respective Offices, That afterwards on the same Day the Select Men of said Town with the Town Clerk and Major Part of the Inhab- itants thereof convened together agreeable to an antient Usage and Cus- tom of said Town and appointed another Set of Town Officers for said Town who have also been duely Sworn which is like to produce great confusion and disorder among the Inhabitants thereof.
Whereupon Resolved by this Assembly that each of the aforesaid
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Meetings, and all the Votes and Doings thereof, be and the same are hereby declared to be utterly null and void, and the Inhabitants of said Town who have a Right by Law to Vote in Town Meetings are hereby directed and Impowered to meet together at the Usual Place for holding Town Meetings in said Town on the third Monday of February next at 12 oClock the said Day to Choose Town Officers for said Town for the Current Year and do any other ordinary Business proper to be done at a legal Town Meeting and that Copys of this Resolve be Posted up at the several Places in said Town heretofore appointed by said Town for Posting up Warnings for Town Meetings at least 6 Days before said 3ª Monday of February next, And that Joseph Platt Cook Esq of Danbury be and he is hereby appointed Moderator of said Meeting so ordered to be holden as aforesaid and invested with all the Powers of a Moderator of any Town Meeting Chosen in the Ordinary and usual Way and that said Meeting be under the same Regulations and their Votes and Doings be as valid to all intents and purposes as if Convened & holden in the Ordinary & usual Way and the Time by Law appointed.
Upon the Memorial of Mary Alsop of Middletown in the County of Hartford Administratrix of the Goods and Estate of Richard Alsop late of said Midletown Decd Shewing to this Assembly that in the Month of June 1771 Samuel Barker and John Thompson then of Branford in the County of New Haven owned a certain Schooner called the John [.] John Price Master which was taking Loading in the Province of North Carolina for the West Indias, and that on the 21st Day of June 1771 said Deceasd Richard underwrote two Policies of Insurance at the request of said Barker and Thompson both amounting to £550 LMoney on said Schooner and Cargo on said intended Voy- age, and that at the Time said Insurance was made said Schooner and Cargo had suffered great Losses and Damage so as to break up said Voyage of all which said Barker and Thompson had full Notice when said Policies were underwritten but of which said Deceasd Richard was totally Ignorant and that said Barker & Thompson made said Insurance with an Intent to defraud said Richard and that Stephen Foot of Bran- ford in the County of New Haven and Sybil his Wife are well acquainted with said Fraud but that said Barker and Thompson neglect to bring their Actions on said Policies, till the Death of said Stephen & Sybil who are far advanced in Life and praying to take the Deposi- tions of said Stephen & Sybil relative to said Policies and that the Same in Case of the Death of said Stephen and Sybil may be made Use of in any Action or Actions that thereafter may be brought to recover said Insurance as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the said Mary Alsop be Authorized and Impowered and she is hereby Authorized and Impowered upon Notifying the said Samuel Barker if living within twenty Miles of said Stephen and Sybil, and upon notifying the said John Thompson if
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living within twenty Miles of said Stephen & Sybil to take the Deposi- tions of said Stephen & Sybil relative to the aforesaid Insurance and that said Depositions of said Stephen & Sybil so taken as aforesaid in Case of their Death or the Deposition of either so taken as aforesaid in Case of the Death of either shall and may be held Used & Improved as legal Evidence in any Court in this State, or any Action or Actions that may be brought on either or both of said Policies and that the same shall be good and effectual in Law.
Upon the Memorial of Benjamin Tallmadge Shewing to this Assem- bly that in the Month of Novemb" last he had in his Possession a number of State Securities which he has since lost and which he is confident were either destroyed by fire or stolen from him said notes being as follows viz One note given to
Benjamin Talmadge Nº 4627 Dated June 1 1780, due June 1 1784 for £126 14 63/4
Do
Do
4628
Do
1 80
Do Do
1 85 86 1
126 14
63/4
Do
Do
6625
Do
1 82
82
Do
1
87
114 15 10
Do
Do
6627
Do
1
82
Do
1
88
96 96
8 11/2
Do
Do
6840
6941
Do
1
82
do
1
86
16 12 5
Do
Do
6942
Do
1
82
do
1 1
87 86 or 87 88 or 89 86 87
19 19
6 4 6 41/2 81/2
To Israel Rowley
7281
Do
1
82
do
1 1
86 or 87 88
5
6
31 14 5
To Do
Do
6730
Do
1
82
do
1
89
31 14 5
To the Bearer
105
Do
1
81
do
1
83
30 0
0
Do
Do
106
Do
1
81
do
1
83
30
0 0
0
4 Do
Do to Ralph Pomeroy for ££5 each
20
0 0
6 Do
Do to Do
for £1 each
6
0
0
3 Do Do to Do Do
for £1 4 each
3 12 0 All the Pay Table Orders being marked on the back Side Forage & Wood Money, which said Notes aforementioned have had the Interest thereon paid up to the first Day of June 1783, excepting the following which have had no Interest paid thereon viz
1 Note Nº 6626 to Benjamin Talmadge for £114 15 10
1 Dº Nº 6729 to Jabez Campfield for 31 14 5
1 Dº Nº 6730 to Jabez Campfield for 31 14 5
1 Dº Nº 105 to the Bearer
for 30 0 0 Do Nº 106 to the Bearer
for 30
0 0
1
82
do
1
To Daniel Colburn
6839
Do
Do
1
82
do
1
89 86 87
16 1
9 11/2
To Michael Courrey
6777
Do
1
82
do do
1 1
5 16
Do
Do
6778
Do
1
82
do
1
To Jabez Campfield
6729
Do
1
82
do
1
11 2 1012
To Squire Jones
16 12 5
To Ephraim Yerrington 6665
Do
1
82
do
To Solomon Parkhurst 7064
Do
1
82
1 82
do
114 15 10
Do
Do
6626
Do
1
8 71/2
Do
Do 6617
Do
11 2 1012
Also two Pay Table Orders to Jabez Fitch for £25 each is .
50
0
1 None of which said Notes has he been able to find and prays for relief as Per Memorial on File.
Resolved by this Assembly that the Treasurer be and he is hereby directed to Issue new Notes to the Memorialist of the same Tenor Sums and Dates of the Notes abovementioned upon his giving sufficient
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Security to indemnify this State in Case said Notes or Orders so sup- posed to be lost as aforesaid should be found and the Committee of Pay Table are also directed to Issue Pay Table Orders of the aforesaid Sums and Description.
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