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Resolved by this Assembly that the said Sarah be and she is hereby permitted to pay and deliver said Bills of the denomination of six shil- lings and upwards into the public Treasury of this State and that the Treasurer be and he is hereby Directed having Liquidated by the Scale of Depreciation the value of said Bills at the last period at which the like Bills have been received, to execute in behalf of this State to said Sarah a Note on Interest bearing Date the first Day of February 1781 for the Amount of said Bills so Liquidated as aforesaid and the Interest thereof from the Period aforesaid to said first Day of February.
Upon the Petition of Asahel Hooker, Elisha Morris and Samuel Richards in behalf of themselves and others Inhabitants living upon a Tract of Land comprehending the South part of the first Society in
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Farmington and the East part of the Society of New Cambridge in said Town Praying that the Inhabitants living upon the said Tract of Land bounded South on Southington Line North on Mix® Highway so called, extending East to the Common Field in said first Society, thence South East to the little Pond so called, thence East to the Line of New Britain Society, thence South to Southington Line and extending so far West as to include the East Tier of Lots in New Cambridge Society with the said Tract of Land, be Constituted and formed into a Distinct Eclesi- astical Society-
Resolved that John Curtiss Esq" of Southington Colº Aaron Austin of New Hartford and Maj" David Smith of Watertown be and they are hereby appointed a Committee to view the State and Circumstances of the said proposed Society to hear all Parties concerned and to report the State of Facts relative thereto with their Opinion thereon to the General Assembly in May next all at the Cost of the Petitioner.
Upon the Petition of Gideon Benjamin of East Hartford Shewing to this Assembly That by various Misfortunes and Losses he is become reduced in his advanced Age, That he is indebted to the Amount of £255, that he has a Horse Teem, Houshold Furniture and about £ 100, in Book Debts-That he is willing to deliver up his Estate for the Benefit of his Creditors Praying for a special Act of Insolvency exemp- ting his Person from Arrests and Imprisonment for Debts now oweing by him as per Petition on File
Resolved that Colo Jonathan Wells East Hartford Aaron Bissell Esq" and Mr Daniel Pitkin be and they are hereby appointed a Commit- tee at the Cost of the Petitioner to enquire into the Facts mentioned and referred to in said Petition giveing due Notice to the Creditors of said Benjamin and to make Report of the Facts in the Case to the General Assembly in May next with their Opinion thereon, and the Person and Estate of the Petitioner is hereby protected from all Arrests and Imprisonment by mein Process and Execution for any Debt now oweing by him and he is also prohibited from alienating any of his Property in the mean Time.
Upon the Memorial of Matthew Talcott Shewing to this Assembly that in the Year 1775 he was appointed by this Assembly One of a Com- mittee to take Charge of British Prisoners in which he served untill the latter end of the Year 1776 and during that Time one McLean a British Prisoner by Accident broke his Thigh to the cure of which Mrs Porter was called and her Bill of Expence for the Cure amounted to a considerable Sum for which she has brought her Action against him which is now depending Praying Relief as per Memorial on File
Resolved by this Assembly that upon the Memorialist procuring the Account of Mrs Porter properly Attested and exhibiting the Same to the Committee of Pay Table they are Impowered and directed to Settle
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and adjust the same together with the Cost arisen in said Suit and draw an Order on the Treasurer to pay the sum they shall find due thereon.
Upon the Memorial of Matthew Gilbert Jun" and Phebe his Wife both of New Haven Administrators with the Will annexed the said Matthew in Right of his said Wife on the Estate of Joseph Dorman late of sd New Haven Deceasd Shewing to this Assembly that in 1779 said Dorman Died leaving a Will thereby giving all his Estate to his Young- est Son Roger after payment of Debts and certain Specific Legacies, that all the Debts and Legacies which appeared and were allowed by the Court of Probate being paid, for which Lands to a considerable Amount were Sold by Order of Assembly, the residue of said Estate was dis- tributed according to said Will, since which Levi Ives of said New Haven, brought his Action against the Memorialist for a Contract Claimed by said Ives to have been made by said Deceasd to induce him to Instruct the eldest Son of said Deceasd in the Medical Art, upon which Suit said Ives Recovered Judgment before the Superior Court held at New Haven in August last for the Sum of £15 0 0 LMoney Damages and £7 4 11 Cost and that the other Expence of Prosecuting said Suit Amounts to £3 18 0 That the Memorialists have no Estate in their Hands for the Payment of said Sums that said Roger is a Minor and unable to make Sale of the Lands descended to him as afore- said and being unable to raise said Sums in any other Way made Appli- cation to the Judge of Probate to Order the Sale of the Lands of said Deceased to the Amount of said Sums who supposing himself unauthor- ized to give such Order Praying this Assembly to give Liberty and Authority for the Sale of so much of the Lands of said Deceasd dis- tributed to said Roger as shall be sufficient to raise said Sum being £26 2 11 and the Contingent Charges of Sale as per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that Liberty and Authority be and the Same is hereby given to said Memorialist to Sell so much of the Lands of said Deceased distributed to said Roger Dorman as aforesaid as shall be Sufficient to raise said Sum of £26 2 11 together with the contin- gent Charges of Sale taking the direction of the Judge of Probate for the District of New Haven therein and a Deed given by said Memorialists shall be Sufficient and effectual in Law to convey the Title of the Lands that may be sold in pursuance of this Act.
Upon the Memorial of William White of Boston in the Common- wealth of Massachusets, Representing to this Assembly that William White late of said Boston Esqr in the Year 1774 died & Deceased hav- ing before that Time made and executed his last Will and Testament in and by which he appointed Philips White Samuel Abbott and Joshua Henshaw Jun his Executors and said Will being proved and approved and said Philips White alone undertook said Executorship but not hav- ing compleated a Settlement of said Estate and living in the State of New Hampshire agreeable to a Statute of said State of Massachusets
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Bay, said Memorialist was on the 17th Day of Decembr 1782, appointed Administrator on said Estate cum Testamento annexo, having given Bond for the Execution of his said Trust And as by said Will said Executors were Impowered and directed to Sell and dispose of all the real Estate of said Deceasd and Tenement in Boston excepted, to satisfy Debts and Legacies and several Peices of Land lying in this State, and in divers Districts of Probate and the Judges of Probate not thinking themselves Authorized by the Laws of this State to grant Liberty and Authority to Sell said Land Praying for Liberty &c as per Memorial-
Resolved by this Assembly that Liberty and Authority be and Liberty and Authority is hereby Granted to said William White Administrator as aforesaid to Sell and dispose of all the said Real Estate of said William White Deceasd lying in this State and to give good and Authentic Deeds of the Same taking the Directions of the Judge of Probate for the District of Windham wherein almost the whole of said Estate lies being still holden and to Account to Oliver Wendell Esq" Judge of Probate for the County of Suffolk in the State of Massa- chusets Bay by whom he was appointed Administrator as aforesaid for the neet Proceeds of said Estate and to Settle the same with him accordingly.
Upon the Memorial of Mary Daggett Shewing to this Assembly that in the Distribution of her Father the Revd Naphtali Daggett® Estate a Right of £8 19 1 was set of to her in six Acres of Land in said New Haven which Land was only Mortgaged and is under the Incumbrance of the Equity of redemption that her Brother to whom the residue of said Land was distributed is about to Sell the same, and unless she should be enabled to sell in conjunction with him she must almost entirely loose the value thereof, That she is more than nineteen Years old pray- ing for Liberty to sell her said Right in said Land as per Memorial on File &c-
Resolved by this Assembly that said Mary Daggett have Liberty and Liberty and Authority is hereby Granted to said Memorialist to sell her said Right in said Land, and a Deed properly Executed and delivered by said Mary shall be good and valid in Law to every Intent and purpose as if said Mary was of full Age.
Upon the Memorial of John Smith of Milford in the County of New Haven Shewing to this Assembly that in the Course of the late War he sold to the Purchasing Commissarys of this State a number of Beef Cattle and took their Notes for the same payable in Continental Money And that agreeable to an Act of this State he had the same Liquidated and took out a Note from the Treasurer of this State therefor amounting to £475 12 11 LMoney Dated the 20th of March 1782 Payable in one Year after the Cessation of Hostilities, And that he is called upon by his Creditors who are in some Instances willing to take Public Securities &c Praying for Relief as per Memorial on File-
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Resolved by this Assembly That the Treasurer of this State be and he is hereby ordered and directed to receive into his Office said Note and in Lieu thereof to Issue a number of smaller Notes of the same Tenor and Date of the one so received endorsing the Interest upon the same to the 20th of March 1784.
Upon the Memorial of William Davidson of Milford in the County of New Haven in behalf of himself and others Inhabitants of said Mil- ford Shewing that in the Fall of the Year 1781, they were detached to and served in the Guards in said Milford under the immediate Command of Lieut Abraham Carrington, then of said Milford in Capt Daggets Company and that at the expiration of said Service said Daggett made up his Pay Abstract for said Company and drew and paid over to said Carrington Pay Table Orders sufficient to make payment to those that served under said Carrington, amounting to £84 14 0 fifty Pounds of which were delivered over to a Collector of State Taxes for the Use of those that Served in said Milford, and that said Carrington soon after went over to and Joined with the Enemies of this and the United States and carried over with him the residue of said Orders amounting to £34 14 0 Praying for releif as per Memorial on File
Whereupon Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of Pay Table be and they are hereby Ordered and directed to draw their Order upon the Treasurer of this State for the Sum of ££28 8 0 payable to Capt Henry Daggett out of the Tax of one shilling for the payment of said Guard.
Upon the Memorial of William Munson in behalf of the late Officers and Soldiers in the late Regiment commanded by General Hazen Representing that said Officers and Soldiers did not receive any part of the three Months Pay for the Year 1781 forwarded by the Treasurer of this State, but that while on the March to Virginia such Officers and Soldiers as were then present received a Months Pay from the United States, which amounted to one hundred Pounds or there- abouts which Money was since Charged by this State as having been received on account of the three Months pay for the Year 1781, And that afterwards the Committee of Pay Table drew an Order on the Treasurer for the remaining Ballance, and that the Pay Master General in the final Settlement hath deducted the said Months Pay received from the United States from each Individual the Committee of Pay Table not being Impowered to allow said Sum unless they should receive special Authority for that purpose from this Assembly. Praying there- fore that this Assembly would Authorize and Impower the Committee of Pay Table to draw on the Treasurer for the Ballance which they may find Justly due on Account of said three Months Pay as per Memorial on File &c-
Resolved therefore by this Assembly, That the Committee of Pay Table be and they are hereby Authorized and Impowered on its appear-
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ing to them by proper Evidence that said One Months Pay advanced by the United States has been twice Charged to sd Officers & Soldiers, to draw on the Treasurer for the Ballance they may find Justly due on Account of the three Months Pay for the Year 1781 to the Officers and Soldiers belonging to this State in the late Regiment Commanded by General Hazen.
Upon the Petition of Josiah Willard Administrator on the Estate of Deliverance Demming late of Weathersfield Deceasd and Sarah Deming Widow and Relict of said Deliverance, and Guardian to her Children and Richard Deming of said Weathersfield Shewing to this Assembly that said Deliverance in his Life Time Jointly with said Richard and with the Moneys belonging to them purchased One Acre and a half of Land lying in said Weathersfield of John Treat at the Price of £60 0 0 which Peice of Land was Deeded to said Deliverance, and one other Peice containing thirty Rods of Land at the Price of £40 0 0 of Samuel Boardman, both which Peices adjoin their Homestead which they held in Common and undivided, said last Peice Deeded to said Richard, which Lands they Improved and occupied in Common untill on or about the Month of May 1782, when they made a Practical Division or Partition of said Lands with their other Lands as an Estate in Common, and that before Deeds were executed said Deliverance was taken sick and suddenly Died in August 1782, And that now said Richard and the other Petitioners, who are the only Persons legally capacitated to Act for the Children and Heirs of said Deliverance who are Minors and uncapable to act for themselves, are desirous to carry into Execution the Design and Intention of sd two Brothers, which would be greatly Advantageous to the Heirs of said Deliverance Praying an Order or Decree of this Assembly, that Partition of the aforesaid two Peices of Land be made between the Heirs of said Deliverance and his Brother Richard under the Direction of the Court of Probate as the Deeds had mutually passed between said Brothers making said Lands a Joint Estate as per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that said two Peices of Land shall be con- sidered as a Joint Interest belonging to said two Brothers and divided and treated accordingly, And that when Partition be made under the direction of the Court of Probate, All Parties shall be concluded thereby to all Intents and Purposes as fully as though said two Brothers had given Deeds to each other making said two Peices of Land a Joint Estate.
Upon the Memorial of Daniel Buck of Weathersfield Administrator on the Estate of Cesar Black Shewing to this Assembly that the Sum of £9 13 5 Lawfull Money the Estate of said Deceasd remains in his Hands due from this State after paying the Debts due from said Estate. and that said Caesar while alive Cohabited with a Woman whom he called his Wife, by whom he had two Children now Minors one a Boy called
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Joel the other a Girl called Sibel which Children said Caesar acknowl- edged as his, but there being no legal evidence of the Marriage of the Parents said Ballance Escheats to the Public, Praying a Decree of Assembly that said Ballance due to said Estate after defraying necessary Charges might be placed in the Hands of some Suitable Person in Trust for said Children to be put on Interest and paid to them when they arrive to the Age of twenty One Years as per Memorial on File --
Resolved that the said Daniel Buck be and he is hereby Authorized and Impowered to Place the aforesaid Ballance due to said Estate on Interest for the Benefit of said Children, the one half of said Sum and the Interest which may arise thereon to be paid or delivered to said Joel when he shall arrive at the Age of twenty one Years and the other half to be paid or delivered to said Sibyl when she shall arrive to the Age of eighteen Years, and if either of said Children should Die before they arrive to the Age aforesaid the Survivor shall have & receive the whole of said Ballance and the Avails thereof, and said Daniel shall hold said Ballance in Trust for said Children and be accountable to them under the the [ sic] direction of the Court of Probate for Hartford District.
Upon the Memorial of Elisha Mills and others the Inhabitants of the Parish of Ripton in the Town of Stratford Representing to this Assembly that the said Parrish of Ripton lyeth at a remote distance from the first Society where the Sign Post for said Town is set up, And Whereas the said Inhabitants are often Times put to Trouble & Expence to transport property taken by Execution within said Parish to the said Sign Post which are by Law exposed to Sale Praying that this Assembly will Order and direct that a Sign Post be set up in said Parish of Ripton for the disposing and Selling all Property that shall be exposed for Sale, either by Execution or for Public Taxes as may appear as per Memorial on File-
Wherefore Resolved by this Assembly that a Sign Post be set up in some Suitable Place in said Parish of Ripton, where all Goods taken by Execution and for Public Taxes within said Parish and by Law exposed to Sale may be sold and all other Business necessary to be done at a Sign Post relative to said Parish may be done.
Upon the Memorial of Mess"" Eliakim Raymond and Lemuel Brooks both of Norwalk in Fairfield County Shewing to this Assembly that in the Year 1776 they received into their Store by the Hands of Capt Robert Niles ten Hogsheads of Rum with Instructions to deliver the same to the Order of Maj" General Spencer or Commanding Officer for the Use of the Connecticut Line of the Continental Army, That some Time the latter end of said Year the Memorialists received Orders to convey said Rum with all possible dispatch to such Place as should be deemed Safe and secure which they did and lodged said ten Hogsheads of Rum together with such other Public Property then in their Care in the Store of Clap Raymond Esq" in the Parish of Wilton six Miles
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from the Sea side, That in the Month of April 1777 the Troops of his Britannic Majesty made a Descent upon the Western Sea Coast of this State and on their Rout to Danbury destroyed the aforesaid ten Hogs- heads of Rum And that there is a Receipt for said Rum now lying with the Committee of Pay Table which they are called upon by said Com- mittee to render Vouchers for a proper Delivery thereof which the Events of War has prevented 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 deliver up to said Memorialists or their Order the aforesaid Receit for said ten Hogsheads.
On the Memorial of Jonah Foster of Ridgfield Shewing to this Assembly that he was Head of a Class in said Town ordered to raise a Soldier for the Continental Army that said Class hired a Man for said Army and paid him sixty hard Dollars, that before their said Soldier was mustered he deserted and could not though they used every exertion for that purpose be procured to go into Service, That on account of their Deficiency the said Town were doomed in the Sum of £15 0 0 that Execution is now out against said Town in the Hands of the Sheriff of the County of Fairfield and Praying that they may be permitted to pay the said Sum to the said Sheriff in Orders drawn by the Committee of Pay Table payable out of the 2/6ª Tax as per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly That the said Sheriff be and he is hereby Authorized and directed to receive of said Town the Amount of said Execution in Orders drawn by the Committee of Pay Table on the 2/6ª Tax or any Securities of this State for hard Money which are due and Payable and the Treasurer is directed to receive the Same of said Sheriff in satisfaction for said Execution.
Upon the Memorial of Hezekiah Huntington of Windham Shewing to this Assembly that in consequence of the encouragement by this State offered for the manufacturing Fire Arms for the Defence in the late War he engaged in said Business in the Year 1775 & pursued the same finished and Compleated three hundred and forty Stand which were Inspected and approved by the Committee appointed for that purpose whereby he became Intitled to a Premium of five shillings for each of said Stand of Arms that he has received said Premium upon sixty of said Guns only Praying for said Premium upon the remainder, Where- upon this Assembly in May last appointed a Committee to examine the Facts and Accounts Stated in said Memorial And Report with their Opinion thereon to this Assembly,* which Report is now made and accepted,
And thereupon it is Resolved that the Committee of Pay Table draw upon the Treasurer of this State for the Surplus Premium due by Law to said Huntington in the Premisses above what he has already
* See above, p. 405.
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received, deducting the value of about forty Gun Locks more or less belonging to this State which it is suggested he received of William Williams Esq" and has not accounted for to be allowed or deducted agreeable to a Certificate to be transmitted by said Williams to said Committee.
Upon the Memorial of Shubael Handee and Mary Handee Wife of the said Shubael of Woodbury who are Minors, and Isaac Sanford and Bargillai Handee Guardian to the said Shubael & Mary, Represent- ing to this Assembly that the said Mary is vested with the fee of about sixty five Acres of Land lying in Woodbridge in the County of New Haven, worth about four hundred Pounds And that the said Shubael and Mary have a Farm in Woodbury of the value of two hundred Pounds the Fee of which is vested in the said Mary. Praying to be Authorized & Impowered to Sell and dispose of said Lands in Wood- bridge to pay for the Lands purchased in Woodbury and to purchase necessary Houshold Furniture &c as per Memorial on File,
Whereupon Resolved by this Assembly that the said Shubael and Mary Handee be and hereby are Authorized & Impowered to Sell and Convey the said Sixty five Acres of Land lying in Woodbridge afore- said with the Consent and under the directions of the said Isaac Sanford & Bargillai Handee their Guardian, which Sale so made shall be good and valid in Law, and with the Avails thereof to pay the purchase Money of the Lands in Woodbury, and to procure necessary Household Furniture, and the remainder thereof to be laid out in the Purchase of usefull Lands in said Woodbury the fee whereof to be vested in the said Mary all which is to be done by the direction and consent of the aforesaid Guardian.
Upon the Memorial of Isaac Wells Shelton of Farmington in the County of Hartford Shewing to this Assembly that in the Year 1776 he being a Minor was by the artfull Insinuations, and persuations of designing Men unfriendly to the United States induced to go over to and Join the Enemy, That soon finding his mistake and wishing to return to the Allegiance and protection of this State and attone as far as possible for his Crime and folly embraced the first Opportunity in his Power to return and threw himself upon the Mercy of his Country, that his whole Estate which was left him by his Father and was to a considerable Amount was confiscated for the benefit of this State, and the whole thereof sold and the Monies paid into the Public Treasury excepting only his Right in his Mothers Dower who is still in Life and in the Possesion thereof Praying that this Assembly would restore him that little Part of his Patrimony which remains unsold being his said Right in his Mothers Dower or Thirds as per Memorial on File --
Resolved by this Assembly That the Memorialists said Estate which yet remains unsold, being his Right in his said Mothers Dower or Thirds be and the same is hereby restored to him and the Memorialist
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enabled to receive and enjoy the Same in as full and ample a manner as if the same had never been confiscated or forfeited to this State.
Upon the Memorial of Ebenezer Punderson Shewing that this Estate had been confiscated in this State, That upon examination it is apparent that the Debts due from said Estate greatly surmount the value of said Estate or what it will sell for. Praying for a restoration of his said Estate that he may settle with his Creditors and be allowed to take Care of his aged Mother residing in this State &c as per Memorial &c-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Judgment of confiscation ren- dered against said Estate be and the same is hereby reversed and set aside and that the Estate of the said Ebenez" be restored to him again, and he be allowed to return and remain in this State, and be Entituled to all the Rights and Priveleges of a free Citizen of this State and set- tle with his Creditors he paying the Cost that hath accrued in conse- quence of said confiscation as the same shall be taxed and allowed by the Judge of Probate for the District of Norwich.
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