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On the Memorial of Christopher Morgan of Groton in the County of New London as he is Administrator on the Estate of William Morgan Esqr late of said Groton Deceasd, Shewing to this Assembly that said Deceasd on the 28th May 1772 gave his Note of Hand with Colo Nathan
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Gallop to the Treasurer for one hundred thirty four Pounds seven pence 1/2 lawfull Money, that said Deceasd having paid about £64 in 1776 Deed and that the residue of said Note remains unpaid Praying this Assembly to permit him to pay said Note in this States Securities that are now due-
Resolved by this Assembly that said Christopher Morgan be per- mitted to pay the above described Note to the Treasurer in this States Notes that are now due.
Upon the Petition of John Alden of Lebanon in the County of Windham Shewing that by various misfortunes in Trade and by the operation of the late War he is much reduced and rendered unable to pay his Just Debts great part of which are Company Debts due from the late Company of John & Judah Alden which said Judah ended his Life bravely contending for the Safety of his Country without leaving any Estate whereby the whole of said Debts devolve upon Your Memo- rialist and that he is now Imprisoned on Execution in favour of Clark & Nightingale of Providence in the State of Rhode Island, that he is willing to deliver on Oath all his Estate and Property for the benefit of his Creditors and this Assembly not being able at this Session to hear and finally determine said Petition the Petitioner Labouring under great Bodily Infirmity which must endanger his Life if Continued long in his present Confinement,
Resolved by this Assembly that said Petition be Continued to the General Assembly to be holden in May next and that said John Alden be set at Liberty from his present Imprisonment untill the rising of the Assembly in May next upon his procuring Bonds for his return to Prison on said Execution Provided his Petition be not granted or the Assembly shall not otherways Order and the Keeper of the Prison in Windham is required to Conform to this Resolve and the said John is also hereby Protected from Arrests and Imprisonment for Debt for the Term aforesaid .*
Upon the Memorial of Robert Frazer of New London Shewing to this Assembly that he has Served his Country during the whole of the late War is under needy Circumstances with a helpless Family that on the 10th Day of March last he received a Wound in his Arm on Board the Alliance in an engagement with a British Frigate which has totally disabled him Praying for Relief &c as Per Memorial on File
Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of Pay Table be and they are hereby directed to draw on the Treasurer in favour of the Memorialist for the Sum of thirty One Pounds sixteen and five Pence lawfull Money for what is due to the Memorialist and his Son Frazer taking Duplicates Recepts for the Same and transmit one of said Receipts to the Superintendant of the finances of the United States and Charge said Sum to the United States.
* See below, p. 422.
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Upon the Memorial of Benjamin Huntington Administrator on the Confiscated Estate of William Brown Esq" Shewing to this Assembly that there are Sundry small Negro Children belonging to said Estate which ought to be disposed of in some Way to prevent their being Chargeable to the State Praying for Some directions for that purpose-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Judge of Probate for the District of Norwich be and he is hereby Authorized and Impowered by himself or such Person as he shall appoint to bind out such Children belonging to said Estate at his Discretion in such manner as to Save the Publick from Cost and that they may be well Governed and educated.
Upon the Petition of Aaron Payne of New Milford Shewing to this Assembly that on the 19th Day of August 1779 he removed with his Family from New Fairfield to Kent and soon after to New Milford that he carried in his List in said Kent as he was advised he ought by Law to do that notwithstanding he was fourfolded in said New Fairfield for the whole of his Personal Estate and also very largely Assessed and that Taxes have been granted on the whole of his said Estate in both said Towns of New Fairfield & N Milford besides the fourfold and Assesment aforesd, Praying for Relief &c as Per Memorial on File
Resolved by this Assembly that Daniel Sherman, Jonathan Sturges & Isaac Baldwin Jur Esqrs be and they are hereby appointed a Commit- tee to enquire into all the Matters mentioned and referred to in said Petition giving due notice to all Parties concerned and their Report of what they find in the Premisses with their Opinion thereon to make to this Assembly at their Present or next Session,* and that the Com- mittee be at the Cost of the Parties.
Upon the Memorial of Elizabeth Rose Adminitx on the Estate of Doct" Samuel Rose late of Coventry Deceasd Shewing to this Assem- bly that in the Spring of the Year 1780 the said Samuel was appointed Chief Surgeon to a Regiment of Troops raised by this State stationed at Horseneck that he marched with and faithfully performed the Duty of his said Office untill some Time in the beginning of the Month of Octobr 1780, when he was taken sick and there being no Hospital or Hospital Stores Provided for the sick at said Post was permitted to return Home where he was Doctored and nursed at his own expence under a distressing Sickness untill the 4th of Novembr 1780 when he expired Praying for Relief &c as Per Memorial &c-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of Pay Table be and they are hereby Authorized and directed to liquidate and settle the Accounts of Expences in bringing Home the said Doct" Rose and also the Doct's Bill for service and Medicine during said Sickness and to draw on the Treasurer of this State in favour of the Memorialist for what they shall find Justly due.
* See below, p. 415.
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Whereas the Town of Enfield by their Agent Mr Joseph Kings- bury preferred a Memorial to this Assembly for Liberty for the future to tax themselves for mending and repairing their Highways as Per Memorial on File
Resolved by this Assembly that said Town of Enfield have Liberty and Liberty and Authority is hereby given to said Town of Enfield to tax themselves at their discretion for the repairing their Highways during the Pleasure of this Assembly.
Upon the Memorial of Thomas Goodwin, Elijah Hubbard and the rest of the Select Men of Midletown Shewing to this Assembly that the great Road through said Town runs in a Ridge of Land by the side of the River, and by the Floods and Ice the same is greatly Injured and will soon be irrepairibly ruined, and that securing the same will be attended with great Expence &c Praying for a Lottery to raise three hundred Pounds to be applied to repairing and securing said Road and also the expences of said Lottery &c as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that Liberty be and Liberty and Author- ity is hereby granted to said Select Men to raise by Lottery the Sum of One thousand Dollars to be applied to mending repairing and secur- ing said Road and Mess's Nath1 Brown Elijah Hubbard Chauncey Whittlesey, Ebenezer Sage and Samuel Bull be and they are hereby appointed Managers of said Lottery who shall be sworn to a faithfull fulfilment of their Trust and shall Account to this Assembly for the Monies received and the Application thereof when required.
Upon the Memorial of Samuel Crane of Killingworth Shewing that in the Year 1781 being the Head of a Class he hired a Man for the Service in the Army and advanced of his own Money the Sum of thirty Pounds in State Bills to said Recruit being the Bounty Granted by the State to such Recruits, That he afterwards received an Order in favour of the Select Men upon the Treasurer for said Sum, but before any Payment of it could be had the same was unfortunately lost and never found and so the Memorialist never has been paid Praying for Relief &c as Per Memorial &c
Resolved by this Assembly that the Pay Table do draw an Order on the Treasurer in favour of the Select Men of said Killingworth for the aforesaid Sum of £30 in State Bills of the Tenor and Date of the Order drawn and Lost as aforesaid taking sufficient Security of the Memorialist to indemnify the State from all Demands and Claim on Virtue of said former Order drawn and lost as aforesaid.
Upon the Memorial of the Inhabitants of the Parishes of Amity and Bethany in the County of New Haven Praying to be incorporated into a Town as Per Memorial on File,
Resolved by this Assembly that the said Parishes of Amity and Bethany and the Lands within the following Bounds viz North Partly
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on the Town of Waterbury and Part on the Town of Cheshire East on the West Rock so called, South on the Line between New Haven Town and said Amity untill it comes to Milford Line at the South West Corner of Obed Johnsons Farm from thence a straight Line to the South East Corner of Sylvanus Baldwins Land thence running Westwardly in the Line of his Land to Derby Line and from thence upon the Line between Derby and Milford to said Waterbury Line, Be and they are hereby Incorporated and Constituted a Town by the Name of the Town of Woodbridge, with all the Rights Priveleges Immunities & Benefits that the Towns in the State of Connecticut now have by Law or shall hereafter have and enjoy and shall have Powers to elect Town Officers and to transact all Business and Matters proper for a Town as other Towns in said State have which Officers when duely appointed shall have all the Powers and Authorities by Law given to the said Town Officers, and the said Town of Woodbridge shall take upon them such a part of the expence of supporting and maintaining the Bridges Poor and Highways of the Town of New Haven as shall be Judged Just & reasonable by Joseph Hopkins Esq" Colº Edward Russell & Colº Street Hall who are appointed a Comtee for that purpose and to determine the Same by the last Day of May next and shall receive their proportion of the Town Stock of said New Haven Town in the same way, And the said Town of Woodbridge shall take upon themselves such part of the Expence of supporting and maintaining the Bridges Poor and Highways of said Town of Milford according to their List in proportion as the List of said Inhabitants of said Town of Wood- bridge that were before this Act part of said Town of Milford is to what the whole List of said Town of Milford was before passing this Act, and said Town of Woodbridge shall have like proportion of the Town Stock of said Milford and shall pay the Taxes already laid and Debts now due from said Town in proportion to the List as aforesaid & Joseph Hopkins Colº Edward Russell & Colº Street Hall shall be a Committee to determine the same unless said Towns shall agree, And the said Town of Woodbridge shall have and hold a Town Meeting of said Town on the third Tuesday of February instant at ten of the Clock in the forenoon at such Place as the Committees that have served as Societys Committees for the present Year of said Parishes shall agree to and appoint, And the said Meeting shall be warned by said Committees by their giving Notice to all the Voters in said Town or having Notice at their usual Places of abode at least three Days before said Meeting, and at said Town Meeting the said Town of Woodbridge shall Choose all such Town Officers as by Law Towns are required to Choose annually which shall be the Town Officers for said Town untill the Meeting of said Town in Decemb" next.
Upon the Memorial of Joseph Thompson of New Haven Shewing to this Assembly that he had paid to Ralph Isaacs the Sum of three Pounds lawfull Money for Waggon Tier taken by him for the Use of the State
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to tier some Field Carriages and the Sum of fifteen shillings to his Attorney employed in a Suit commenced by said Isaacs against Your Memorialist, and that he hath never received any Pay therefor as Per Memorial on File -
Resolved by this Assembly that the Treasurer of this State be and he is hereby Ordered and directed to pay the said Thomson® Account of three Pounds fifteen shillings taking his Receipt therefor.
Upon the Memorial of Jehiel Doud a Soldier in the late fourth Connecticut Regiment, Representing that by reason of his being absent from the Regiment to which he belonged he was omitted in the return and Settlement for the Year 1780, Praying that a settlement and pay- ment may be made him for his Services in the Army in said Year as Per Memorial on File-
Whereupon it is Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of Pay Table be and they hereby are directed and Authorized to settle and Liquidate the Accounts of said Doud for said Year 1780 and draw an Order in his favour on the Treasurer of this State for such Sum as shall be found due to him for his aforesaid Service.
Upon the Memorial of John Saunders Jun" of Lyme in the County of New London Shewing to this Assembly that on the 10th Day of Decembr 1776 he inlisted as a Private Soldier in the Connecticut Line in the Continental Army to Serve in said Capacity during the War and faithfully served as a Soldier in said Army untill the 7th Day of June last when by his Excellency General Washington he was Honorably dis- charged with the badge of Merit, And there is due to him from the State of Connecticut for his Service as a Soldier before the Year 1780, the Sum of £56 5 11 LMoney, and also the further Sum of £12 0 0 LMoney for Services in the Year 1780 for which he has applyed to the Committee of Pay Table for an Order on the Treasurer, and has been utterly refused ;
Whereupon it is Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of Pay Table be and they are hereby directed and Ordered to adjust the Ballance due to said John Saunders Jun' and draw an Order for the Same on the Treasurer of this State in usual form.
Upon the Memorial of Henry Champion of Colchester Esq" Shew- ing to this Assembly that there is a Ballance due to him of £296 18 61/2 on his Account for his receiving Collecting & forwarding to the Army Beef Cattle on the 2/6 Tax Praying for Payment of the Same &c as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved that the Committee of the Pay Table be and they are hereby directed to draw on the Treasurer of this State in favour of the said Champion for the Ballance aforesaid payable out of the 12ª Tax granted January 1783 or any other unappropriated Monies.
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Upon the Memorial of Theophilus Merriman of Wallingford in New Haven County Representing to this Assembly that some Time in the Year 1777, James Jauncey Esqr of the City of New York had an Execution in his favour granted by New Haven County Court against said Merriman for about One hundred and twenty Pounds lawfull Money which said Jauncey put into the Hands of Charles Chauncey his Attorney to Collect & said Merriman offered to pay said Chauncey the Money due on said Execution in Continental Bills of Credit who being unwilling to receive the same, engaged to said Merriman that he would exact no Interest from him on said Execution and would make him a further reasonable Allowance, and afterwards recommended to said Merriman to put said Money into the Loan Office which he did, and the Estate of said Jauncey having since been confiscated, and Chauncey Whittlesey of Midletown appointed Administrator thereon said Merri- man is now required to pay the whole Sum of said Execution without any Abatement Praying relief &c as Per Petition-
Resolved by this Assembly that upon the said Theophilus Merrimans delivering and Paying to said Chauncey Whittlesey a Loan Office Cer- tificate dated the seventh Day of Septembr 1778 for the Sum of three hundred Dollars, the same shall be allowed to said Merriman in Payment of said Execution at the Sum the same shall be well worth by the Scale of Depreciation and the Interest thereon and upon said Merrimans Pay- ing to said Whittlesey the remaining part of the Execution without any Interest thereon either in Public Securities of this State now due or States Money, all which the said Whittlesey is directed to receive the said Merriman shall be discharged from said Execution and said Whittlesey endorse the same satisfied.
Upon the Memorial of Phineas Porter Thomas Fenn and others Select Men of the Towns of Waterbury and Watertown Shewing to this Assembly that the List of Noah Combe of said Waterbury in the Year 1779 was £159 16 0 and the List of David Wooster of said Waterbury in said Year was £168 1 0 on which Lists sundry State Taxes have been laid and are now unpaid viz on said Combs List sundry Rates in Continental Bills amounting to the Sum of £479 7 0 and sundry Taxes on State Bills amounting to the Sum of £23 19 2, and one Tax in hard Money of 2ª1/2 on the Pound payable the first Day of March 1781 amounting to the Sum of £1 13 4, And that on the List of said Wooster was laid one Rate of four Dollars on the Pound amounting to £201 16 0 Continental Bills and in State Bills sundry Rates amounting to £ 10 9 4 and one Rate in hard Money of 2ª12 on the Pound payable the first of March 1781 amounting to £1 15 0 Praying that all the said Rates or Taxes might be Abated as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that all the aforesaid Rates or Taxes be and they are hereby abated and the Treasurer is hereby directed to
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Credit Capt Thomas Dutton Collector of said Taxes for the said several Rates and Charge the same in account against this State.
Upon the Memorial of Benjamin Adkins & Benjamin Adkins Jun", Shewing to this Assembly that in the beginning of the Year 1782, a number of Soldiers belonging to the second Regiment of Light Dra- goons in the Continental Army and others belonging to said Army were by Order of the Government Inoculated in the Town of Midletown and the House of the Memorialists was taken up as an Hospital for the purpose aforesaid and by the Carelessness of the Troops was set on fire and both House and furniture consumed, and the Memorialists suffered thereby the loss of three hundred Pounds lawfull Money Praying Relief &c as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Sum of One hundred and fifteen Pounds lawfull Money be allowed the Memorialists out of the Treasury of this State as a Compensation for said Loss and that the Committee of Pay Table draw an Order in favour of the Memorialist for said Sum on the Treasurer of this State who is hereby Ordered and directed to Issue a Note in favour of said Memorialists Payable in three Years on Interest and the Committee of Pay Table are ordered to Charge the same to the United States.
Upon the Memorial of Samuel Fuller and others Inhabitants of the second Society called West Stafford in the County of Hartford Shew- ing that some Years since M' Isaac Foster was settled in the Ministry in said Society he then professing and preaching the Doctrines com- monly received by the New England Churches called Calvinian Doc- trines, which the said Society in General had been Educated in the beliefs of and then held, since which the said M' Foster has openly professed and preached and still continues so to do Doctrines essentially opposed thereto, and which by a Consociation and a mutual Council have been so adjudged, and to be unscriptural, Whereupon as in Conscience bound and by the said Consociation and Council advised the Memorialists have withdrawn from his Ministry to which however a Major Part of said Society adhere and tax Your Memorialists for M' Fosters support, Praying to be declared a Society unconnected with the adherents of the said M' Foster &c And a Committee appointed by this Assembly* having upon examination Reported that the said Matters and allegations are substantially true &c
Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialists and such as Join or may Join with or be of them shall [ be] unconnected with the Adherents of the said M' Foster and exempt from all Taxes that are have been or may be laid by them be and remain an Eclesiastical Society with all the Priveleges and Immunities by Law to any such Society granted or
* See above, p. 157.
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belonging by the same Name that the original Society aforesaid hath heretofore been called, And that the Memorialists shall retain and hold the Meeting House built by said Original Society unless the rest of the Inhabitants thereof shall within One Year pay or secure to be paid within that Time to the Memorialists their proportion according to the Lists given in for the Year 1783 of the present value of said House as the Same shall be ascertained by Messrs Ephraim Pease of Enfield James Stedman of Windham and Augustus Fitch of East Windsor, who are hereby appointed to apprize & apportion the same accordingly upon the application of either of said Parties And that the said Payment or security being made as aforesaid shall be in full of the Memorialists Right or Claim in or to said House.
Upon the Memorial of Joseph Colt and the rest of the Select Men of the Town of Lyme Shewing to this Assembly that said Town have advanced large Sums in hard Money to furnish a Sea Coast Guard in the Time of the late War with Provisions and that said Town have received Pay Table Orders on the 2$/6 Tax in pay for the Money so advanced and that said Town have been fined for not furnishing Sol- diers in several Instances to go into the Service of this and the United States Praying for Liberty to pay and discharge said fines in the Orders aforesaid as Per Memorial on File-
Whereupon it is Resolved by this Assembly that the said Select Men have Liberty and Liberty is hereby granted to said Select Men to pay and discharge said Executions in Orders drawn on the aforesaid 2/6ª Tax or in any other Securities on this State that are now due & payable and that are for hard Money and the Treasurer of this State is hereby directed to receive them accordingly.
Upon the Memorial of William Brown of Stamford Shewing to this Assembly that on the 31st Day of July 1783 he casually lost the following Notes which were his own Property viz One Note in favour of Enoch Thomas Nº 4136 payable the first of June 1785 for £11 11 3 on Interest the Interest having been paid to June 1782 one D° in favour of Capt Caleb St John for £12 2 4 payable in one Year after the War Nº 2647 the Interest of which having been paid to the first of Feby 1782, two Do in favour of William Brown Nº 238 & 239 for £14 13 2 each Payable the first of June in the Year 1786 & 1787, two other Notes in favour of said Brown Nº 240 & 241 for £15 9 each payable the first of June in the Year 1788 & 1789, One Do in favour of Timothy Han- ford Nº 9669 for £13 5 8 payable the first of June 1786 One other Do in favour of said Hanford Nº 9670 for £13 5 8 payable June first 1787, One D° in favour of Ebenezer Shelly Nº 1924 for £17 5 7 pay- able June first 1789 One D° in favour of Frank Freeman Nº 848 for £990 payable June first 1789 One D° in favour of Francis Wright Nº 2724 for £9 9 0 Payable June first 1789, All which Notes except the two first abovementioned had one Years Interest due on them upon the
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first Day of June 1783 That he has made diligent Search & due inquiry therefor but has not been able to obtain the same Praying for releif &c 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 Secur- ity to Indemnify this State in Case said Notes so supposed to be lost as aforesd should hereafter be found.
Upon the Memorial of David Bellamy of Woodbury Shewing to this Assembly that for several Years before the Commencement of the late War he was in Trade and in the Course of his Business he became indebted to Charles McEvers of the City and State of New York, that by means of the War it became impossible for him to settle his Accounts with the said McEvers, and that the Estate of said MeEvers has since been confiscated for the Use and Benefit of this State in Consequence of which it became the Duty of the Memorialist to pay the amount of the Debt due to said McEvers to the Administrator on said Estate, that he accordingly disclosed to said Administrator the true situation of his Affairs and executed his Note Payable on Demand for the Sum of three hundred & ninety five Pounds six shilling & ten Pence lawfull Money That he has securities given by this State for supplies furnished the Con- tinental Army by him and other securities against this State sufficient to pay said Sum due by the first of June next which he has offered in payment of said Note and that the sd Administr" has refused to accept of the Same by which the Memorialist is liable to be compelled to pay the amount of said Note in Money which would be attended with great Loss Trouble & vexation to the Memorialt Praying for relief &c as Per Memorial on File-
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