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This Assembly do establish Joseph Howland to be Lieutenant of the light Infantry Company in the Town of Norwich.
This Assembly do establish, John MClellan Breed to be Ensign of the light Infantry Company in the Town of Norwich.
This Assembly do establish Timothy Barber to be Captain of the 9th Company or Trainband in the 14th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Friend Thrall to be Lieutenant of the 9th Company or Trainband in the 14th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Edward Gaylord to be Ensign of the 9th Company or Trainband in the 14th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Elisha Edgerton to be Quarter Master of the first Troop of Horse in the 2ª Regiment of Light Horse in this State.
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This Assembly do establish Oliver Bradley to be Ensign of the 8th Company or Trainband in the 10th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Caleb Root to be Captain of the 9th Company or Trainband in the 12th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Christopher Crouch to be Lieutenant of the 9th Company or Trainband in the 12th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Amos Hitchcock to be Captain of the seventh Company or Trainband in the 27th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish David Foot to be Lieutenant of the seventh Company or Trainband in the 27th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Reuben Andruss to be Ensign of the 7th Company or Trainband in the 27th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Zechariah Mather to be Lieutenant of the ninth Company in the 17th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Elijah Barber to be Captain of the 5th Company or Trainband in the 17th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Abijah Wilson to be Lieutenant of the 5th Company or Trainband in the 17th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Levi Thrall to be Ensign of the 5th Company or Trainband in the 17th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Augustus Haydon to be Captain of the 9th Company or Trainband in the 17th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Samuel Austin to be Ensign of the 9th Company or Trainband in the 17th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Elizer Talcott Jun" to be Lieutent of the third Company or Trainband in the 6th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Joseph Wells to be Ensign of the third Company or Trainband in the 6th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Elisha Wilcox to be Captain of the second Company or Trainband in the 23ª Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish William Sage to be Lieutenant of the second Company or Trainband in the 23ª Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Peter Goodrich to be Ensign of the second Company or Trainband in the 23d Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Elijah Starr to be Lieutenant of the 10th Company or Trainband in the 16th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Levi Bostwick to be Ensign of the 10th Company or Trainband in the 16th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Paul Hamlinton to be Lieutenant of the fourth Company or Trainband in the 16th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Samuel Stevens to be Ensign of the 4th Company or Trainband in the 16th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish John Curtiss to be Ensign of the fifth Company or Trainband in the 16th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Thadeus Parmer to be Ensign of the first Company or Trainband in the 21st Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Abraham Herrington to be Ensign of the seventh Company or Trainband in the 21st Regiment in this State.
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This Assembly do establish Jabez Brewster to be Captain of the fifth Company or Trainband in the 20th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Philip Harvey to be Lieutenant of the 5th Company or Trainband in the 20th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Daniel Fitch to be Ensign of the 5th Company or Trainband in the 20th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Elihu Baldwin to be Lieutenant of the 7th Company or Trainband in the 28th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Asa Todd to be Ensign of the 7th Company or Trainband in the 28th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Joseph Seley to be Captain of the ninth Company or Trainband in the 9th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Aaron Comstock to be Lieutenant of the ninth Company or Trainband in the ninth Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Jonathan Ayres to be Ensign of the 9th Company or Trainband in the ninth Regiment in this State. This Assembly do establish Cornelius Brunson to be Captain of the 4th Company or Trainband in the 13th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish John Mallery to be Ensign of the 4th Company or Trainband in the 13th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish William Buell Jun" to be Captain of the 6th Company or Trainband in the 12th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Theodore Lord to be Lieutenant of the 6th Company or Trainband in the 12th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Eleazer Carter to be Ensign of the sixth Company or Trainband in the 12th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Jeremiah Butler to be Captain of the second Company or Trainband in the 10th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Jacob Clark to be Lieutenant of the second Company or Trainband in the 10th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Richard Spelman to be Ensign of the 2ª Company or Trainband in the 10th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Theodore Root to be Captain of the 6th Company or Trainband in the 15th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Abel Lewiss to be Lieutenant of the sixth Company or Trainband in the 15th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Enos Ives to be Ensign of the sixth Company or Trainband in the 15th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish James Lee to be Captain of the 10th Company or Trainband in the 15th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Lament Peck to be Lieutenant of the 10th Company or Trainband in the 15th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Jacob Hungerford to be Ensign of the 10th Company or Trainband in the 15th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Aaron Cook to be Captain of the first Company or Trainband in the first Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Thomas Sloan to be Lieutenant of the first Company or Trainband in the first Regiment in this State.
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This Assembly do establish Joseph Pratt to be Ensign of the first Company or Trainband in the first Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish William Gallop to be Captain of the 7th Company or Trainband in the 21st Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Thomas Hodgkins to be Captain of the 6th Company or Trainband in the 5th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Abel Holt to be Lieutenant of the 6th Company or Trainband in the 5th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Benjamin Griffin to be Ensign of the 6th Company or Trainband in the 5th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish James North to be Captain of the fifth Company or Trainband in the 15th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Jonathan Belding to be Lieutenant of the fifth Company or Trainband in the 15th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Levi Andruss to be Ensign of the fifth Company or Trainband in the 15th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Joseph Gates to be Captain of the 8th Company or Trainband in the 25th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Robert Anderson to be Lieutenant of the 8th Company or Trainband in the 25th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Amos Randall to be Ensign of the 8th Company or Trainband in the 25th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Eliphalet Murdock to be Captain of the first Company or Trainband in the fifth Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Samuel Stoddard to be Lieutenant of the first Company or Trainband in the fifth Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Nathan Simons to be Ensign of the first Company or Trainband in the 5th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish John Tyler Jun" to be Captain of the third Company or Trainband in the 8th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish James Hickox to be Lieutenant of the 6th Company or Trainband in the 10th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish John Noyes Wadsworth Jr to be Ensign of the 6th Company or Trainband in the 10th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Samuel Haydon to be Ensign of the 8th Company or Trainband in the 26th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Gershom Scofield to be Captain of the 11th Company or Trainband in the 9th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Nathaniel Roberts to be Lieutenant of the 9th Company or Trainband in the 18th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish William Adams to be Ensign of the ninth Company or Trainband in the 18th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Caleb Booth to be Captain of the fourth Company or Trainband in the 19th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish David Trumbull to be Lieutenant of the 4th Company or Trainband in the 19th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish John Morton to be Ensign of the 4th Company or Trainband in the 19th Regiment in this State.
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This Assembly do establish Elias West to be Captain of the sixth Company or Trainband in the 20th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Zerobabel Wightman to be Lieutenant of the sixth Company or Trainband in the 20th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Nathan Bingham to be Ensign of the sixth Company or Trainband in the 20th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Alexander Cossett to be Captain of the 6th Company or Trainband in the 18th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Noadiah Holcomb to be Lieutenant of the 6th Company or Trainband in the 18th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Martin Gozard to be Ensign of the 6th Company or Trainband in the 18th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Ahijah Taylor to be Captain of the 12th Company or Trainband in the 9th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish John Gregory to be Lieutenant of the 12th Company or Trainband in the 9th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Matthew Sherwood to be Ensign of the 12th Company or Trainband in the 9th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do Establish Seril Peck to be Ensign of the third Company or Trainband in the 20th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish John Avery to be Captain of the 10th Company or Trainband in the eighth Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Edward Packer to be Lieutenant of the 10th Company or Trainband in the 8th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Elisha Niles to be Ensign of the 10th Company or Trainband in the 8th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Jonathan Burrall to be Ensign of the first Company or Trainband in the 14th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Hezekiah Holcomb Jun" to be Captain of the 8th Company or Trainband in the 18th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Samuel Clark to be Ensign of the 8th Company or Trainband in the 18th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Frederick Humphry to be Captain of the 13th Company or Trainband in the 15th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Jedidiah Norton Jur to be Lieutenant of the 13th Company or Trainband in the 15th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish John Tillotson to be Ensign of the 13th Company or Trainband in the 15th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Micah Woodruff to be Lieutenant of the 8th Company or Trainband in the 15th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Thomas Thomson to be Ensign of the 8th Company or Trainband in the 15th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Phineas Andruss to be Captain of the first Company or Trainband in the 2ª Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Stephen Dummer to be Lieutenant of the first Company or Trainband in the second Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Benjamin Granniss to be Ensign of the first Company or Trainband in the 2ª Regiment in this State.
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This Assembly do establish Daniel Hurlburt to be Captain of the 7th Company or Trainband in the 9th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Jeremiah Grummon to be Lieutenant of the 7th Company or Trainband in the 9th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Samuel Betts to be Ensign of the 7th Company or Trainband in the 9th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Joseph Heyden to be Captain of the 15th Company or Trainband in the 17th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Allyn Heyden to be Lieutenant of the 15th Company or Trainband in the 17th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Ezekiel Scovil to be Ensign of the 15th Company or Trainband in the 17th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Oliver Phelps to be Ensign of the 8th Company or Trainband in the 17th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish John Williams 3ª to be Captain of fifth Company or Trainband in the 8th Regiment in this State.
This Assembly do establish Elisha Williams Jun to be Lieutenant of the fifth Company or Trainband in the 8th Regiment in this State.
Upon the Memorial of Nathaniel Eells and others Shewing to this Assembly that in the Year 1780 they performed a Tour of Duty under the command of Capt Elijah Seymour that their Wages amounted to £45 15 4, that said Seymour has received the same and not paid them &c Praying Releif &c
Resolved by this Assembly that General Comfort Sage and William Noyes Esq™ be a Committee to examine into the Matters of said Memo- rial and what Security said Seymour hath given to the Treasury and Report to this Assembly.
Upon the Memorial of Nathaniel Eells and others Shewing to this Assembly that in the Year 1780 they performed a Tour of Duty under the Command of Capt Elijah Seymour and that their Wages amounted to £45 15 4, which said Seymour as Pay Master of the Company received and has never paid the Same but is insolvent and totally unable to pay the Same Praying this Assembly to Order the Payment thereof to them &c as per Memorial on File
Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of Pay Table be and they are hereby Impowered and Authorized to draw on the Treasurer for the Sums due to the Memorialists for said Military Service and the Treasurer is directed to pay the Same accordingly.
Upon the Memorial of Silvanus Phelps of Hebron Shewing that in January 1772, he was induced to give Bond to the Treasurer of this State in a Recogz of £ 150 L Money for the appearence of his Brother Jeremiah Phelps then of said Hebron before the then next Superior Court to be holden at Hartford in March 1772, to answer a Charge laid against him on Suspicion of Counterfeiting Coins, for which he was
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then held in Prison, and also with a further View of making discov- eries of such Evil practises, that immediately upon giving sd Bond and the enlargement of the said Jeremiah he was Attached and Imprisoned in Windham County Goal by one Charles Hinkley and others upon Meme Process, and there held and detained so that the Memorialist could not have him before said Superior Court, though he moved said Superior Court for a special Order to that purpose and said Recogz was forfeited, and the Memorialist by Act of Law without any neglect of his ; became liable to pay said Sum, the said Jeremiah being Insolvent, and gone out of the County-That the Memorialist has been Obliged to pledge almost the whole of his real Estate Mortgagewise for the Security of said Sum and he is now sued out of the Possession of said Estate &c praying for releif &c as per Memorial &c-
Resolved by this Assembly that upon the Memorialist securing and paying to the Treasurer of this State by the first Day of Novembr next the Sum of thirty Pounds lawfull Money for the Use of this State, that the Treasurer thereupon do and he is hereby directed and Impowered to make execute and deliver to the Memorialist in the Name and behalf of this State a Release of all the Right Title and Interest which was or is vested in this State by Virtue of said Mortgage Deed given as afore- said and said Release so executed and Recorded in the Public Records of said Town of Hebron, or an Attested Copy thereof shall be sufficient Evidence of the Memorialists Title to said Land before any Court of Record in this State, and may be given in Evidence accordingly.
Upon the Memorial of David Bushnell Shewing to this Assembly that he was employed and directed by the Governor of this State and Council of Safety to pursue Measures for destroying the Enemies Shipping and Boats during the War and employed himself in that Business with some degree of Success from the 23ª Day of April 1777 to the second Day of August 1779, in which he necessarily expended large Sums of his own property* Praying for a compensation for his said Service and Expences as per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialist be allowed the Sum of One hundred and fifty Pounds lawfull Money as a Reward in full
* David Bushnell of Saybrook (now Westbrook) may truly be called the father of the sub- marine ship and the submarine torpedo. While an undergraduate at Yale he demonstrated the practicability of exploding gunpowder under water, and upon graduating in 1775 built a hand- propelled, one-man submarine vessel, the Turtle. It carried on its outside a powder-filled maga- zine, or torpedo, which was to be attached by a screw device to the bull of an enemy ship and exploded by a clockwork timer after the submarine had made its escape. Bushnell was too frail to operate his invention, but in August 1776 Sergeant Ezra Lee of Lyme made an attack in the Turtle against Lord Howe's ship Eagle in New York Harbor. The attempt failed because Lee was unable to force the screw into the hull of the Eagle. Later Bushnell made attacks upon the British ship Cerberus in Long Island Sound by means of a floating mine towed from 8 whale boat and upon British shipping in the Delaware. Damage was caused in each case, though not to the intended victims. It is doubtless to these latter exploits that the above memorial refers. Bushnell did not pursue his experiments further. More than a century passed before the submarine warship was recognized as a regular arm of the leading navies. For con- temporary accounts of Bushnell's invention and attempts to use it see Transactions of the Amer- ican Philosophical Society, IV (1799), 303-312; American Journal of Science, and Arts, II (1820), 94-100; Conn. Historical Society Collections, II (1870), 315-318. See also Henry L. Abbot. The Beginning of Modern Submarine Warfare. under Captain-Lieutenant David Bushnell, Sappers and Miners, Army of the Revolution (1881).
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for the whole of his said Services and expenditures, and that the Com- mittee of Pay Table be and they are hereby Impowered and directed to draw Orders on the Treasurer of this State in favour of the Memo- rialist for that Sum payable out of the twelve penny Tax.
Upon the Memorial of Moses Merrills and Other Inhabitants of the Town of Farmington Praying to be transferred from the Military Company in the Parrish of Northington to the Military Company in the Parish of West Division-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Tract of Land laying North of the East and West Highway that runs between the dwelling House of Stephen Sedgwick & Samuel Stanley and South of a Parallel Line drawn West from the North West Corner of the Town of Hartford and to extend one Mile West from Hartford west Line, and the Inhab- itants thereon residing be and the same hereby are transferred from the Military Company in the Parish of Northington in said Farmington to the Military Company in the Parish of West Division in the Town of Hartford any Law Usage or Custom to the Contrary notwithstanding.
Upon the Memorial of Ebenezer Kingsbury of Pomfret in the County of Windham, Shewing to this Assembly that in the Year 1782 he was Chosen Collector of State Taxes for said Town, and that in June 1783 the Treasurer of this State Issued out sundry Warrants to said Collector on the Levy 1782 which Warrants contain including fourfolds the Sum of £26951 9 1 Whereas the Levy of said Town contains but £25913 0 7 by which means said Collector is Charged in said Warrants £ 1038 86 over the Sum of the Levy which said Collector hath to Collect Praying for releif &c As per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Treasurer be and he is hereby directed to examine the Returns of the Listers of said Pomfrett for said Year and if he shall find said Town or Collector to be over charged in said Warrants shall give said Collector Credit for the Sum or Sums he shall find to be over Charged against him.
Upon the Memorial of Samuel Boardman of Weathersfield Shew- ing to this Assembly that by Misfortunes and Losses he is reduced in his Circumstances and unable to Settle his Affairs without Assistance Praying that Commissioners be appointed with Authority to call his Debtors to account, and also to make Settlement with his Creditors, and that his Body in the mean Time be exempt &c as per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that Messrs John Wright and Elisha Baxter both of Weathersfield be appointed and they are hereby appointed Commissioners with full Powers and Authoritys to make a Settlement of said Samuels Book Accounts Bonds and Notes due to him and to Adjust the Ballances due from said Samuel to his Creditors and pay out a Just Dividend of such Monies of said Samuel to his Creditors in proportion to the Just demands they have against said Samuel And the
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Person of said Samuel is hereby exempted from all Arrests or Imprison- ment for Debts untill said Accounts are settled by said Commissioners.
Upon the Memorial of Joseph Lane Jun" John Lane Jun" Hozikiah Clark Elisha White Giles Parmely Samuel Cruttendon Elias Redfield Ezra Porter Hiel Wilcox Jail Hart and Walter Griswold Shewing to this Assembly that they voluntarily Inlisted into the Continental Army for the Term of six Months and performed their Duty therein and in Con- sequence thereof were entituled by a Resolve of the General Assembly to receive the Sum of thirty shillings each for furnishing themselves with Blankets &c which they have never received &c as per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of Pay Table do call upon Brigadier General Ward and Colº William Worthington, in whose Hand the said Money due to the Memorialists is represented as resting to account for the Same and upon receiving the Money from them or either of them to pay over the Same with Interest since the Same was due to the Memorialists, And in Case the said Committee of Pay Table shall not be able to Collect the said Sum together with Interest thereof from said Ward or Worthington, that they the said Committee prosecute said Ward or Worthington or both as the Case may require in the Name of this State for the recovery of said Sums, and that in that Case the Committee of Pay Table draw on the Treasurer of this State, for the Sums that they shall find to be due to the Memorialists respectively.
Upon the Memorial of John Reed Shewing to this Assembly that Peter Gilchrist of Woodbury was indebted to him in the Sum of Seventy nine Pounds seventeen shillings and ten pence New York Money, and that said Peter sometime during the War died and his Estate represented Insolvent and Commissioners appointed who have made their Report and the same accepted and their Commission Closed, and that the Memorialist had no knoledge of said Peters Death or opportunity to exhibit his Debt before said Commissioners Praying this Assembly to Impower and direct the Judge of Probate for the District of Woodbury to reappoint said Commissioners &c as per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Judge of Probate for the Dis- trict of Woodbury be and he is hereby Impowered and directed to reap- point the Commissioners on the Estate of the said Peter Gilchrist, in order to their receiving and examining the Claim of the Petitioner as aforesaid.
Upon the Memorial of the Select Men of Weathersfield Shewing to this Assembly that Jacob Riley the Person Chosen by said Town to Collect the State Taxes levied on the List given in in the year 1783 is sick and likely to be unable to Collect said Taxes. Praying Liberty if necessity requires through inability of said Jacob, to Chuse another
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