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Upon the Memorial of Thomas Hawley of Ridgfield in Fairfield County Shewing to this Assembly that some Time in April 1780 he purchased the Confiscated Estate of Josiah Stebbins late of said Ridg- field of Colo John Chandler, and that he hath paid the Price thereof into £35 LMoney Praying that said Chandler may be directed to receive of the Memorialist the Sum aforesaid in public Securities now due and payable from this State as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that said Chandler be and he is hereby directed to receive of the Memorialist the Sum aforesaid in public Securities now due and payable from this State and on Payment being so made to discharge the Memorialist from said Debt.
Upon the Memorial of Benjamin Huntington Shewing to this Assembly that he hath two Orders drawn in his favour for fifty Pounds each for attending Congress in the Year 1782 upon the Tax of one shilling on the Pound Payable in April last which Tax is overdrawn &c Praying that the Treasurer may receive said two Orders towards Rents of confiscated Lands as Per Memorial-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Treasurer be and he is hereby directed to receive the said two Orders towards said Rents.
Upon the Memorial of Ebenezer Pickett of New Milford in Litch- field County Shewing that there is now an Execution out against him granted by the Superior Court for the Sum of fifty Pounds besides Cost, which was Issued on the forfeiture of a Recogs for the Appearance of Eldad Picket before said Court which Eldad was Decd at the Time of the sitting of said Court Praying to be exempted from the Payment of said £50 as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the further consideration of said Memorial be and the same is hereby Continued to the General Assembly in May next and that said Execution be and the same is in the mean Time hereby staid and Suspended untill the further Pleasure of said General Assembly in May next may be known in the Premisses.
Upon the Memorial of Joseph Mix of New Haven in the State of Connecticut representing to this Assembly that in May 1780 his Son Amos Mix was detached to serve in a Tour at Horseneck when he was wounded of which Wound his said Son died on the 28th Day of May 1781, and that being poor he expended all he had on his said Son and that he owes more than he is able to pay on said Account the Sum of seven Pounds fifteen shillings as Per Memorial on File-
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Resolved by this Assembly that the Sum of £7 15 0 be allowed to the Memorialist and that the Pay Table draw an Order on the Treasurer therefor in favour of the Memorialist.
Upon the Memorial of Stephen Daviss of Greenwich in Fairfield County Shewing to this Assembly that his Brother Elisha Daviss of said Greenwich during the Course of the War with Great Britain went over to and Joined the Enemy on Long Island and in consequence thereof said Elisha® Estate lying in said Greenwich was confiscated to and for the Use and benefit of this State according to Law and that said Estate has been proceeded with by the Court of Probate for the District of Stamford according to Law and that it appears by the Inven- tory exhibited by the Administrator on said Estate to the said Court of Probate that said Estate was apprized at £122 LMoney and by Report of Commissioners appointed by said Court to examine the Claims of the several Creditors in the Estate of the said Elisha that there is due from his said Estate to the several Creditors £464 6 3 lawfull Money exclusive of the Cost of Confiscation and administration, and that the Principal Part of said Elishas Estate is incumbered with his Mothers Dower and also the Payment of £20 New York Money to his Sister Praying that the Treasurer of the State may be directed to execute a Deed to the Memorialist of all the real Estate of said Elisha lying in said Greenwich as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Treasurer of this State be and he is hereby directed upon the Memorialists producing a Certificate from the Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Stamford that he hath paid all the Debts allowed by the Commissioners to be due from the Estate of the said Elisha Daviss and also the Cost of Con- fiscation and Administration to execute a Deed to the said Stephen Daviss of all the real Estate of the said Elisha Daviss lying in said Greenwich subjected to the incumbrance of the Dower of the Mother of the said Elisha and also to the Payment of twenty Pounds New York Money to his Sister.
Upon the Memorial of Thomas Shaw Executor of Nath1 Shaw Esq" Deceasª, Shewing that in Consequence of the direction of the Gen- eral Assembly in October last* the Committee of the Pay Table pro- ceeded to an adjustment of the Account of the said Nathaniel with this State but did not compleat the Same for want of some further Instructions therein &c as Per their Report &c Praying that the said Committee with others may be further directed &c as Per Memorial &c-
Resolved by this Assembly that the said Committee of the Pay Table do proceed according to their usual Rules and Customs to make a final settlement of said Accounts, omitting that Charge which relates to the Use and Damages said to be had and done to the said Nathaniels Lands in the Building Fort Trumbull, that they reduce the Sums of
* See above, p. 228.
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Continental Bills mentioned in said Account to Specie according to the Several Periods when said Sums were actually paid out or received and according to the Just true and real current value of the same at said several Periods, that they also allow such Sums of Interest expresly promissed on the part of this State for Moneys actually bor- rowed in behalf of this State, and also two and half Per Cent Com- missions on the Sums advanced and the Business actually done and negotiated by the said Nathaniel for and in behalf of this State also allow Such Sum for Services as Commissary of Prisoners as shall be Just and Right, That after having struck the Just Ballance due to said Nathaniels Estate upon the whole said Committee draw Orders therefore upon the Treasurer in favour of said Executor and the Treasurer is also hereby directed to Issue his Note or Notes for the same payable with Interest within three Years and said Committee are Ordered to Charge the United States with those Things and particulars named in said Account which appear to have inured to the Benefit of the said United States or with which they ought to be Charged. And Gener1 Erastus Wolcott is added to the Committee of Pay Table for the above Purposes.
Upon the Memorial of David Phips Shewing to this Assembly that in the Year 1781 he had a Grant of some Money to defray the Expence of obtaining an Exchange of Prisoners and that said Sum has never been paid or said Expences
Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of Pay Table do adjust and Settle the Account for the expence of said Phips in obtaining an Exchange of Prisoners as aforesaid and draw on the Treasurer for the Amount.
Upon the Memorial of Isaac Bishop and Lydia his Wife Natural Guardians of John Kimberly and Sarah Kimberly Minors the said Isaac in Right of his said Wife, Shewing to this Assembly that said Minors as Children and Heirs to John Kimberly late of said New Haven Deceasd are Owners and Proprietors of about One fourth part of four Rods and an half of Land lying in said New Haven in the Common so called in Common with sundry other Persons that said other Persons are about to make Sale of their Part of said Land which will leave the Land of said Minors being little more than one Rod in such Form as to be of little or no value Praying for Liberty and Authority to Sell said Right of said Minors in and to said Land and receive the Moneys therefor for the Benefit of sª Minors as Per Memorial on File,
Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialist have Liberty and Liberty and Authority is hereby Granted to Sell said Right of said Minors in and to said Land, and to receive their Proportion of the Money for which said Land shall be Sold for the Use and benefit of said Minors and for which the Memorialists shall be accountable to them, and a Deed of said Right of said Minors to said Land made
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executed and delivered in due form of Law by the Memorialists shall be good and Sufficient in Law to Convey the Title to said Land.
Upon the Memorial of the Inhabitants of the Town of Pomfret Praying Liberty of this Assembly to tax themselves for the purpose of mending their Highways as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Inhabitants of said Town of Pomfret have Liberty and Liberty is hereby granted them in Town Meeting legally Warned and Assembled to grant a Rate or Tax to be Levied on the List of Poles and rateable Estate of the Inhabitants of said Town Yearly for the purpose of mending & repairing the Roads and Highways in said Town and that they have Liberty to appoint a Collector or Collectors of said Rates or Taxes and that he or they have the same Power & Authority as other Collectors of Taxes by Law have, and be under the Same Regulations as other Collectors are by Law; and that the mending and repairing said Highways the Payment of said Taxes and the deposition of the Monies arising on said Tax be under the direction of the Inhabitants of said Town in Town Meeting Assembled or such Person or Persons as they shall appoint and Author- ize to dispose of the Same for the purpose aforesaid during the Pleasure of this Assembly.
Upon the Memorial of Timothy Bradley of New Haven Shewing that on Application to the Treasurer of this State for payment of one hundred Pounds of the Securities given him by said Treasurer for Supplies furnished the Continental Army out of any unappropriated Tax or the Avails of confiscated Estates agreeable to former Resolves of this Assembly* hath not been able to obtain payment in that manner and that he is now hardly pressed for Supplies by him so furnished Praying relief.
Resolved by this Assembly that on the said Timothy delivering his Securities of the Description aforesaid to the amount of One hundred Pounds to the Treasurer of this State said Treasurer is hereby Impowered and Ordered to draw in his favour for said Sum of One hundred Pounds on Jabez Perkins of Norwich Esqr to be paid out of Moneys by said Perkins Collected or to be Collected of Thos Mumford Esqr or Mr James Jarviss by them respectively oweing to the State for Pork &c sold them.
Upon the Memorial of Stephen Barnes of New Fairfield in Fair- field County Shewing to this Assembly that about nine of the Clock in the Evening of the 23ª Day of January Inst his House was broken open by three Men Armed with Guns Bayonets &c who Assaulted him and most greviously wounded him by Stabbing Bruising &c and by Violence dragged him out of his House and in a Cruel & abusive man-
* See above, pp. 170, 246.
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ner by force carried him into the State of New York and there Seized and Arrested him by Virtue of a Number of Warrants by one Benjamin Birdsell who pretended to act as an Officer and who conveyed the Memorialist to the Goal in Poughkepsie where he remains confined in a destitute and distressed Condition Praying for relief as Per Memo- rial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly That his Excellency the Governor be and he is hereby requested to write to his Excellency the Governor of the State of New York upon the Subject of the Violence and Abuses Com- plained of in said Memorial Stating the Matters therein set forth with the dangerous tendency of such Lawless and Violent Hostilities being suffered to take Place by the Subject of either State upon those of the other and requesting his Excellency Governor Clinton Inter- position in the Premisses in behalf of said Barns.
Upon the Memorial of Elijah Humphrys of Derby Shewing to this Assembly that in the Year 1774 he Imported into this State twenty six Hogsheads of Rum and in April 1775 did Import as aforesaid sixty eight Hogsheads of Rum on which there was a Duty of seven shillings and six pence Per Hogshead for which he gave his Bond to Colo David Wooster Naval Officer Payable to the Treasurer of this State and he being since that a great part of his Time in the American Army which together with the Troubles of the late War prevented him from Cancel- ling said Bond and that he is now Sued to the County Court of New Haven County upon said Bond and exposed to have Execution granted out against him and that he is possessed of Public Securities of this State for his Services in said State Praying for Releif as Per Memorial on File
Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialist have Liberty & Liberty is hereby granted to him to pay and satisfy said Bond with Notes given to him by the Treasurer of this State for service as afore- said he Paying the Cost that has arisen on said Suit before the County Court aforesaid, and on his producing a Receipt from the Treasurer of such securities being lodged in his Office said Action shall be discharged.
Upon the Memorial of Ichabod Hubbard of Stratford, One of the Heirs of Joseph Hubbard late of said Stratford Decd shewing to this Assembly that the said Joseph in his Life Time viz on the 16th Day of April 1777 Inlisted to Serve during the War in a Regiment commanded by Colº James Livingston in the Army of the United States and con- tinued in such Service and in the capacity of a Serjeant untill his Death which happened on the 13th Day of October AD 1780, that soon after the Death of said Joseph the said Regiment was reduced and so it happened that the said Joseph has been omitted in the Official Returns made by the several Colonels of Regiments to entitule to the depreciation Notes Issued by this State and no Administr" hath been appointed by
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reason that said Joseph left no other Estate and the uncertainty of obtaining a Grant from this Assembly Praying for relief &c as Per Memorial ---
Resolved by this Assembly that the said Joseph was at the Time of his Death entituled to receive of the United States his Wages for the Services aforesaid and the Committee of Pay Table be and they are hereby directed to Liquidate and Settle the Accounts of said Deceasd for the Depreciation of his Wages in the same manner as has been done with the Non Commission Officers & Soldiers of the Connecticut Line of the Army and draw on the Treasurer in favour of such Administra- tor as may be appointed on said Deceasds Estate for such Sum as shall appear to be due to said Deceasd in the Premisses and Charge the Same to the United States and the Treasurer is thereupon Ordered to Issue his Notes for the same accordingly in the same manner as has been done to the Non Commissioned Officers and Soldiers of said Line.
Upon the Memorial of Abraham Fuller of Kent in the County of Litchfield Shewing to this Assembly that for several Years past he has served and acted as Conservator and owner of the Indian Natives in Scatocook in said Kent by Virtue of an appointment of the General Assembly, and has for several Years past leased out part of said Indian Lands for the Payment of their Just Debts & Charges occasioned by Sickness and their being no Person appointed to whom said Conservator should account and with whom he should Settle his Accounts relative to said Conservatorship Praying that the Select Men of the Town of Kent or some other proper Person or Persons may be appointed by this Assembly and fully Impowered to Settle and adjust said Accounts with said Conservator as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that Capt Joseph Pratt and Lieut John Ransom both of said Kent be and they hereby are appointed a Committee to receive adjust & Settle all the Accounts of said Conservator relative to his Conservatorship aforesaid and their Report make to this or the next General Assembly.
Upon the Memorial of the Inhabitants of the Town of Cornwall Shewing to this Assembly, That by reason of the roughness and Moun- tainous Surface of said Town, they are at extriordinary Labour and expence in mending and repairing their Highways annually, and that it might be better done, and with less expence by a Tax or Assesment upon the Inhabitants of said Town &c Praying for Liberty to Tax themselves for said Purpose &c as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Inhabitants of said Town of Cornwall have Liberty and Liberty is hereby Granted them in Town Meeting legally warned and Assembled to grant a Rate or Tax to be levied on the List of Polls and rateable Estate of the Inhabitants of said Town Yearly for the Purpose of mending and repairing the Roads and Highways in said Town and that they have Liberty to appoint a
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Collector or Collectors of said Rate or Taxes and that he or they have the Same Power and Authority as other Collectors of Taxes by Law have and be under the Same Regulations as other Collectors are by Law: and that the mending and repairing said Highways the Payment of said Taxes, and the Disposition of the Moneys arising on said Taxes be under the direction of the Inhabitants of said Town in Town Meet- ing Assembled or such Person or Persons as they shall appoint and Authorize to dispose of the Same for the Purposes aforesaid during the Pleasure of this Assembly.
Upon the Memorial of Capt Daniel Allen of Ashford, Shewing to this Assembly that in the Year 1777, he was appointed a Capt in Colo Wyllys& Regiment in the Connecticut Line in the Continental Army and on the 22ª of Feby 1777 received from the Committee of Pay Table an Order on the Treasurer of this State for £ 500, and on the 12th of May 1777 one other like Order for ££360 to be paid out in Bounties to such Recruits as he should raise for said Army at ten Pounds for each Recruit given by the Authority of this State in addi- tion to the Continental Bounty of six Pounds to each Recruit, That he Inlisted sixty five Soldiers and paid them their said State Bounty of ten Pounds each amounting to £650 which left in his Hands of said Monies by him so received of the Treasurer of this State the Sum of £210 and finding it necessary in Order to Inlist Soldiers for said Service to pay them their full Bounties at the Time of their Inlisting and not being furnished with a Sufficiency of Moneys from the Con- tinental Treasury for that purpose he found himself necessitated to and in Fact did pay out the whole of said £210 to said Recruits on account of their Continental Bounty expecting to be soon able to replace the Same but that it so happened that he was never able to receive the Same from the Continental Department untill about the first of July 1779 at which Time he was Honourably discharged from said Army and was thereon immediately appointed a Capt in a Regi- ment of State Troops then raising in this State which he accepted and Soon raised a Company of Soldiers to effect which as the Treasury of this State was then unsupplied with Money he applied said £210 towards Paying the Bounties of his said Company of State Troops, and was not able to replace the Same on the Orders he for that pur- pose received on the Constables untill some Time in the Summer 1780 and now stands Charged by the Committee of Pay Table for the full Sum of £210, further Shewing that while in the Continental Army by reason of the absence of the Field Officers of said Regiment the Command thereof devolved on him for about two Months in which Time a quantity of Cloathing by this State furnished for and for- warded to said Regiment was lodged in his Hands for the whole of which he hath accounted with the Committee of Pay Table excepting a part thereof to the amount of £7 7 0 Specie Value for which by reason of the dispersed Situation of said Regiment and his being soon Ordered
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on Command to a different Post he was never able to procure Receipts although said Regiment had the full advantage of the whole of sd Cloathing &c and that a Suit is now depending against him on Account of said Cloathing and said £210 Praying for Relief-
Resolved by this Assembly that the said Sum of £7 7 0 by the Committee of Pay Table Charged to the sd Capt Allen on account of said Cloathing be Abated And that the said Sum of £210 the Ballance against him for Money received of this State and not accounted for with the Committee of Pay Table be reduced at the Rate of One to forty and that the Committee of Pay Table settle with said Allen accordingly and on his Paying the Ballance that may be found due against him on the Rule aforesaid and the Cost of the Suit now depend- ing against him relating to sª Premisses he shall be and hereby is dis- charged from all further Demands for or on Account of the Matters aforesaid.
On the Memorial of Joshua Coit Winthrop Saltonstall and Thomas Shaw Committee for the first Eclesiastical Society in the Town of New London Shewing that the said Society were possessed of two certain Notes given by the Treasurer of this State for Money Loaned both dated the 3d Day of October 1778, One for the Sum of ninety Pounds and the other for the Sum of One hundred and fifty Pounds both pay- able to said Society with Interest, That the said Notes were on the 6th Day of September 1781 burnt in the Town of New London aforesaid, the same never having been paid and Praying that the Treasurer may be Authorized and directed to Issue a new Note in favour of said Society to the Amount of the said two Notes and the Interest due thereon as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Treasurer be and he is hereby Authorized and directed to Issue a Note for the Amount of said two Notes burnt & the Interest due thereon according to the Scale of Depre- ciation Payable to said Society with Interest taking the usual Security of Indemnification in Case said Notes supposed to be destroyed should ever hereafter appear.
Upon the Memorial of Daniel Rodman of Norwich Shewing to this Assembly that he holds an Order from the Committee of Pay Table on the Treasurer for the Sum of £468 0 3 Dated May 27th 1783 and that he is indebted to this State for Land which he purchased of this State to be paid in Soldiers Notes, and that he is willing to discount his said Order toward what he owes this State as aforesaid as Per Memorial on File-
Whereupon Resolved by this Assembly that the Treasurer is hereby Ordered and directed on said Rodman his delivering up said Order to him that he Discount the Same toward what said Rodman owes this State as aforesaid.
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Upon the Memorial of Jabez Raymond of Norwalk in the County of Fairfield Shewing to this Assembly that he was possessed of a dwelling House Barn and Land lying in the Township of said Fairfield in Greens Farms and that the same was burnt up by the Enemy in July 1779, And that he had also on the 11th Day of said July his own dwelling House Barn Grain Hay &c in Norwalk burnt up, and that he has sus- tained many other Heavy Losses by said Enemy which has reduced him in his Estate, And that he is called upon by the Collectors of the State Taxes in the Town of Fairfield for the State Taxes that arose upon the List of the Years 1778 1779 1780 and 1781 on this Estate lying in said Fairfield Township arising to a considerable Amount at a Time when he is put to great Difficulties by reason of the aforesaid Losses Praying for an Abatement of all the Taxes that have been on the Lists of the aforesaid Years of 1778 1779 1780 1781 for the Estate lying in the aforesaid Parish as per Memorial
Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialist be and he is hereby Abated of All his Taxes that have arose on the Lists for the Years 1778 1779 1780 & 1781 for his Estate lying in the Parish of Greens Farms in the Town of Fairfield aforesaid.
Upon the Memorial of Franciss Harmon Jun" and Naomi Boardman both of Weathersfield shewing to this Assembly that said Naomi gave a Bond before her Intermarriage with Samuel Boardman her present Husband who is now under the Care and oversight of said Franciss who has been legally appointed his overseer upon which Bond a Judgment has been rendered for the Sum of £16 7 7 lawfull Money Debt and Cost, on which Execution has arisen Cost to the amount of £1 5 5 LMoney and that there are no Chattels which can be spared to satisfy said Execution, and said Naomi is in possession in her own Right of One Acre of Land lying in the great Plain in said Weathersfield bounded East and West by Lands of Colo John Belden and North by a High- way, which said Naomi and the Overseer of said Samuel are desirous of applying to the Payment of said Debt which the Creditor will not Levy upon and said Samuel refuses to subscribe a Deed thereof Praying Liberty for said Naomi with consent of said Overseer to convey said Land as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that said Naomi be and she is hereby Impowered and Authorized with Consent of said Overseer to Sell and dispose of said one Acre of Land and a Deed by her made with Consent of said Overseer shall be as good and valid in Law to all intents and purposes as if given and executed by her said Husband herself and said Overseer.
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