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Upon the Memorial of Nicholas Holt of Norfolk in Litchfield County Shewing to this Assembly that he on the sixth Day of June 1784 killed one large and full grown Wolf in said Norfolk, and had his Ears Cropped of by the Select Men and Constables of said Norfolk Praying for the Sum of three Pounds lawfull Money being the Bounty Given as an encouragement for killing and distroying of Wolves as by a Law of this State made at their Sessions in May 1784 &c* as per Memorial on File-
Therefore Resolved by this Assembly that the said Nicholas Holt receive the Sum of three Pounds LMoney on said Memorial And that the Treasurer is hereby Ordered and directed to pay the same accordingly.
Upon the Memorial of Talcott Hawley of Ridgefield Representing to this Assembly that he hath been a Soldier in the Connecticut Line in the Continental Army and while in Service he fell sick and by Order of General Washington was removed to his Friends in Ridgefield where he remain in a weak and languishing State, that he is poor and been at great expence and unable to Join the Corps of Invalids &c as per Memorial on File ----
Resolved by this Assembly that the Treasurer of this State be and hereby is Ordered and directed to pay unto the said Talcott Hawley out of the Treasury of this State five Dollars per Month for the Term of two Years if he shall so long live that is that the same be paid every six Months.
Upon the Memorial of Thomas Shaw Executor of the last Will and Testament of Nathaniel Shaw Esq" late of New London Deceasd
* See above, p. 342.
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Shewing to this Assembly That a tract of Land belonging to said Deceasd was taken by the State in the Year 1776 and a Fort erected and Barracks built thereon, that the Wood growing thereon been cut and used by the Troop stationed there, and the State have had the Use thereof to the end of the War Praying a Committee to ascertain the Damages &c as per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Honble Joseph Spencer Charles Phelps Peter Bulkley and Samuel Mott Esqrs be and they are hereby appointed a Committee with Power to repair to New London and examine the facts alledged in the Memorial and all Circumstances relative thereto and Report what if any Thing is due to the Memorialist, And what Public Property is still remaining on said Land, and the Measures proper to be adopted thereon, and also to enquire into the quantity of Land requisite and necessary to be occupied for the Purposes of said Fort and the value thereof and of the expediency of purchasing the same to remain for the said Purpose, all at the Cost of the Memorialist.
Upon the Memorial of Oliver Hart of Farmington Guardian of the Person and Estate of Solomon Cole of said Town a Minor shewing that he is bounded to pay a Legacy of £12 0 0 LMoney being the fourth Part of a Legacy given by the last Will and Testament of Nath- aniel Cole late of said Farmington Deceasd unto Elizabeth Cloe Lydia and Sibil Daughters of said Deceasd that he is called upon as Guardian to the said Minor and exposed to a Suit at Law for the Same, and that he has no Effects in his Hands the Property of the said Minor that he can dispose of to pay the said Legacy, and praying for Liberty to Sell real Estate of said Minors sufficient to raise the said Sum of £12 0 0 LMoney with Interest thereon being £3 11 8 LMoney with Incident Charges of Sale as per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialist have Liberty and Liberty and Authority is hereby Granted to him to Sell real Estate of said Minors sufficient to raise the said Sum of £12 0 0 LMoney with the Lawfull Interest arising thereon from the Date of the Distribution of the Estate of the said Nathaniel Deceasd being £3 11 8 like Money with incident Charges of Sale taking the direction of the Court of Probate for the District of Farmington therein.
The Gentlemen nominated by the Votes of the Freemen of this State to stand for Election as Assistants or Members of the Council in May next as sent to the Present General Assembly are as follow-viz
Matthew Griswold Esqª
Oliver Wolcott Esqr
Samuel Huntington
Esq
Richard Law Esqr
Jabez Hamlin
Esqª
William Williams Esq™
William Pitkin
Esq™
Oliver Elsworth Esq"
Roger Sherman
Esqª
Andrew Adams Esq™
Joseph Spencer
Esqr
Benjamin Huntington
Esq™
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Joseph P Cook
Esq™
John Treadwell
Esq"
Stephen M. Mitchell
Esq™
Erastus Wolcott
Esq™
Eliphalet Dyer
Esq"
Jonathan Sturges
Esq
William Hilhouse
Esq™
Charles C Chandler
Esq™
The Gentlemen nominated by the Votes of the Freemen of this State to stand for Election as Delegates to the Congress of the United States in May next, as sent to the Present General Assembly are as follow viz-
Stephen M. Mitchell Esq™
James Wadsworth Esq™
Jonathan Sturges Esq
Pierpoint Edwards Esq
Joseph P. Cook Esq™
James Hilhouse Esq™
Charles C Chandler Esq™
John Canfield
William Hillhouse
Esq"
William Williams
Esq™ Esqr
John Treadwell Esqr
William Samuel Johnson Esq™
Upon the Petition of Amasa Brainerd and others Listers of the Town of East Haddam preferred to this Assembly in October 1783 Shewing to this Assembly that in Decembr 1781, they were by said Town Chosen Listers for said Town for the Year then next ensuing that they warned all the Inhabitants of said Town in the Month of July then next to bring in their Lists according to Law, that notwithstanding Said Warning sundry Persons Inhabitants of said Town neglected to give in a true List of their Estates and were by said Listers fourfelded accord- ing to Law in the several Sums hereafter annexed to their respective Names viz-
Ozias Chapman £30 0 0
Daniel Cone
£20 0 0
Emmons
197 18 0
Samuel P Lord
28 16 0
Franciss Chapman
15 0 0
Jonª Kilborn
90 0
John Gold 64 0 0 Matthew Smith 2ª
18 0 0
Silvanus Tinker
28 10 0
Matthew Sears
12 0 0
Ephraim Ackley 12 0 0
Colº Jabez Chapman
43 18 0
Nathan Griffing 40 0 0
Levi Beebe 12
0 0
Timothy Spencer 12 0
0 Enoch Arnold
12
0
0
Andrew Sill 24
0
0
Silas Bebee
11
4
0
Oliver Olmsted 26 0
0 Joseph Ackley
36
0 0
Phineas Parmely
18 8 0
Lemuel Marsh
27
4 0
Abraham Willey
8 0 0
Amounting in the whole to £718 10 0. That some Time after a part of the Civil Authority and Select Men of said Town abated the whole of the above fourfold and ordered said Listers to add the Same single, which Doings of said Authority and Select Men the Petitioners complain of as unjust that they and the Public are thereby deprived of their Just Right Praying this Assembly to set aside the Doings of said
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Authority and Select Men as per Petition on File, which Petition was at an Adjourned Assembly in January 1784, Granted,
Therefore Resolved by this Assembly that the Doings of said Jus- tices and Select Men in granting said Bills of Abatement be and the same is hereby made null and void and of none effect and that the sev- eral Collectors of State and other Taxes proceed and Collect on said Assesments as though the Same had not been Abated, and the Secretary is directed to lodge a Copy of this Bill with the Treasurer.
On the Memorial of the first Eclesiastical Society in New London Shewing to this Assembly that they were Possessed of two Notes given by the Treasurer of this State payable to the Treasurer of said Society for the Sum of £240 0 0 lawfull Money with Interest, Dated the third Day of October 1778, And that on the 6th Day of September 1781, said Notes were burnt and destroyed by the Enemy and Praying that the Treasurer may be Authorized and directed to Issue a new Note or Notes Payable to the Treasurer of said Society for the Amount of said Notes burnt and Interest as per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Treasurer be and he hereby is authorized and directed to Issue Payable to the Treasurer of said Society a new Note or Notes for the amount of said Note destroyed and for the Interest therein arisen from the Date the same being reduced by the Scale of Depreciation.
Provided nevertheless that the Treasurer of said Society shall procure and lodge with the Treasurer of this State sufficient Security to his acceptance that in Case said Notes supposed to be burnt should hereafter appear this State shall be indemnified against the same.
Upon the Memorial of Capt Samuel Barker of Branford late Samuel Barker Jun" of said Branford, Praying to be releived against a Judg- ment obtained by this State against him on his Bond given to account for Money &c received when Captain in a Regiment raised in the Year 1777-commanded by Colº William Douglas in the Connecticut Line of the Continental Army &c This Assembly having by their Committee examined the said Capt Barkers Account of his disposition of the Money &c by him received, and the said Committee having found and Reported to this Assembly, that the said Capt Barker has full accounted for said Money& &c and that upon the whole there is a Ballance due to him of £2 11 0 LMoney, But as considerable Cost has arisen in the Suit on said Bond partly through his Neglect in settling, It is the Opinion of this Assembly that the said Samuel shall not receive said Ballance but that the Same shall be considered as part payment of said Cost.
Therefore Resolved by this Assembly that the said Samuel Barker be discharged from said Judgment and the Execution thereon, upon his lodging with the Committee of Pay Table the Accounts of the Settle- ment made by the Committee of this Assembly (to wit) Roger New-
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berry Elisha Lathrop and Street Hall Esqrs with the said Capt Barker and the Committee of Pay Table are directed to charge to the United States the Sums in said Account allowed the said Samuel Barker.
Upon the Memorial of Comfort Sage in behalf of himself and the rest of the Owners Master and Mariners of the Brigantine St Maria Packett Shewing that said Brigantine with a valuable Cargoe of Rum and other Merchandize was cast away and Lost near Sandy Hook on her return from Jamaica except about forty Hogsheads of Rum, and some other small Articles from the Wreck, that said Rum was taken up afloat and much Damaged by Salt Water Praying to be exempt from Paying the Duties on said Rum saved &c as per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialists be and they are hereby excused from Paying the Duties on said Rum saved from said Wreck, and that the Notes or obligation taken by the Naval Officer for the Port of Midletown be delivered up and become null and void.
Upon the Memorial of Nehemiah Peet, Nathaniel Curtiss and David Seeley Jun™ all of Stratford in Fairfield County, Shewing to this Assem- bly, that they were intimidated to Sign a certain Paper to Join the Troops of Great Britain, and that they have Continued in said Stratford during the late War and done all in their Power to support the War against Great Britain, And that the Memorialists were by the Superior Court holden at Fairfield in Decembr 1782 fined Ten Pounds lawfull Money each for signing said Paper, and also ordered to Pay Cost of Prosecu- tion which Cost the Memorialists have paid Praying that said Fine of ten Pounds set upon each of them may be remitted and cancelled as per Memorial on File --
Wherefore Resolved by this Assembly that said Fine of Ten Pounds LMoney that each of the Memorialists were by said Superior Court ordered to pay be and the same is hereby Cancelled and forgiven them.
Upon the Memorial of the Inhabitants of the Town of Sharon Shew- ing to this Assembly that David Hyde was Collector of the Colony Tax for the Year 1761-That in the Year 1763 the Memorialist found that the said David had Mortgaged his real and Personal Estate for near the value thereof but that he had Securities for Monies And that he had Collected but a small part of the Monies due on his Rate Bill whereupon they applied to Treasurer Talcott to Issue his Warrant against the said Hyde but neglected to do it, though frequently applied to, untill the latter end of the Year 1766-when William Pitkin Esq" then Sheriff of Hart- ford County, applied to said Hyde with the Treasurers Execution afore- said and demanded payment thereof but said Hyde being unable having spent the greatest part of his Estate which he had in Securities for Money and the Monies Collected on his Rate Bill aforesaid, the Select Men of Sharon, requested the said William Pitkin Esq" to depute some Person to execute said Warrant, and leave it subject to their controul,
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October,
supposing they could save more for the Town by this Method than, by having the said Hyde immediately Imprisoned which was agreed upon and the Select Men promissed to save the said Sheriff harmless that soon after the said David was Imprisoned and after some Time resigned his Estate to the Select Men which was not sufficient to pay the Sum due on said Warrant That the Memorialists in February 1769 reduced the same to the Sum of £274 6 312 and by sundry Payments afterwards untill the Year 1772, they reduced the same to the Sum of £102 7 7 also shewing to this Assembly that in the Year 1778, they had Money sufficient in the Town Treasury to pay the Ballance, and proposed pay- ing the Same but it being wanted for the Use of Government, they have ever since Yearly employed it for the Use of Government untill the end of the War, and that there is now due to them from this State £150 0 0 in liquidated Securities for Moneys by them advanced as aforesaid and it appearing that the Present Treasurer hath detained in his Hands Moneys due to them [said William Pitkin Esq" inserted] from this State for the Purpose of Paying the Ballance of said Tax Praying for releif in the Premisses as per Memorial on File-
Whereupon Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialist have Liberty to pay into the Treasury of this State the aforesaid Sum of £150 0 0 in Liquidated Securities due from this State to the Town of Sharon by the first Day of March next and that they also have Liberty to pay unto the said William Pitkin Esq" the Sum of £64 13 10 LMoney by the first Day of March 1785 with the Interest from the first Day of Novemb" 1784, that then the Treasurer is directed and ordered to discharge the Town of Sharon from the aforesaid Tax due from the said David Hyde, and that he Pay to the said William Pitkin Esq" the Ballance that may be due to him for Moneys detained as aforesaid, together with the Interest deducting the aforesaid Sum £64 13 10,
And it is further Resolved that if the Inhabitants of the Town of Sharon shall neglect to make the aforesaid Payment in the manner and by the Time aforesaid the Secretary is hereby Authorized and directed to Issue an Execution in the Name of William Pitkin Esq" against the Inhabitants of the Town of Sharon to Levy and Collect both the afore- said Sums together with the Interest accruing thereon.
Upon the Memorial of Benajah Phelps of East Hartford shewing that in the Year 1766, he was settled in the Ministry in the Province of Nova Scotia that in the late War from his attachment to the Cause of his Country he was compelled to leave his said Settlement with the loss of almost all his Property which was of about six hundred Pounds value. That he is much reduced by his said Misfortunes and Losses Praying for Releif &c-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialist shall have and receive to the amount and value of one hundred and fifty Pounds lawfull Money in the Lands Confiscated to the Use of this State late the Property of William Brown Esq" to be apprized to the Memorialist and Messrs the
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Honble Joseph Spencer & Benjamin Huntington Esq's and Colo Joel Jones are hereby appointed to apprize and Locate to the Memorialist on the Cost of the Memorialist so much of said Lands in this State as they shall Judge to be of the true and Just value of £150, LMoney and bound out and discribe the same after the manner of a Survey Bill and subscribe their Names thereto taking care in said Location not to Inter- fere with any former Sales or Grant made by Order of this Assembly, which said Survey Bill being first Recorded in the Town Clerks Office of the Town wherein said Land lieth, the Treasurer of this State upon receiving said Survey Bill, or an attested Copy thereof from such Town Clerk, shall make and execute to the Memorialists a well authenticated Deed of said Lands so apprized located and recorded as aforesaid in the Name and behalf of this State.
Upon the Memorial of Benjamin Henshaw of Midletown in the County of Hartford Shewing that on the seventh Day of July 1775 he gave two Promissory Notes of Hand to Thomas Apthorp of Boston in the commonwealth of Massachusets which said several Notes were and are in the Words and form following to wit "Hartford July 7th 1775 For Value received I promise to pay to Thomas Apthorp or Order the Sum of Two Hundred and eighty three Pounds ten shillings and eleven pence three farthings lawfull Money in twelve Months from the Date hereof and if not then paid to pay lawfull Interest till Paid the Same to be paid in such Articles of Country Produce as are usually Shipped from this Colony to Boston and to be delivered in Boston as Witness my Hand Benjamin Henshaw Test Joseph Church Jr Mary Church-Hartford July 7th 1775. For Value received I Promiss to Pay Thomas Apthorp or Order the Sum of seventeen Pounds three Pence lawfull Money in twelve Months from the Date hereof Witness my Hand Benjamin Henshaw Test Joseph Church J' Mary Church ["] -That the Memorialist made himself ready to pay said Several Notes according to the Tenor thereof and should have done it but the Events of the late War and the absence of the said Thomas Apthorp who voluntarily withdrew and put himself under the Protection of the British Troops and Government during the late War utterly prevented the Memorialist. That in consequence of such Absence and withdraw of the said Thomas his Estate both real and Personal in this State hath been confiscated and Elijah Hubbard of said Midletown hath been duely appointed Administrator thereon according to the Statute of this State in such Case Provided. That said Administrator thereupon made demand of the Memorialist to Secure and pay to him the Contents of said two several Notes as it was his Duty to do and the Memorialist to avoid being sued thereon and in settlement of the Same actually did give his Promissory Note of Hand to said Administrator for the full Amount and value of said two several Notes aforesaid and in Lieu thereof given to the said Thomas as aforesaid and the Interest thereon for the Use of this State, and he is now holden to pay and discharge the Same.
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That the Memorialist at the same Time now holds the Public Notes and Securities of this State due and Payable to him for Money Loaned to this State to a much greater amount and value than the Note given to said Administrator as aforesaid Praying for a discount and Relief in the Premisses as per Memorial &c
Resolved by this Assembly that upon the said Benjamin Paying and satisfying to said Administrator all the Debts and Charges which are or may be duely exhibited and allowed in this State against the Estate of the said Thomas Apthorp, and also lodge in the Hands of said Adminis- trator Public Securities or Notes for the Use of this State now due and upon Interest liquidated and payable in Lawfull Money Issued by the Order and Authority of this State for the remainder of the Sum due on the Note given to said Administrator in Lieu of said two Notes given to the said Thomas Apthorp as aforesaid, that the said two Notes given to the said Thomas Apthorp and the Note given in Lieu thereof to the said Aministrator shall and the same are each and every of them hereby made null and void and of none effect in the Law and the Memorialist is hereby discharged & exonerated from any recovery thereon against him therefor.
Upon the Memorial of John Pierce of Litchfield now confined in the Public Goal in said Litchfield Shewing to this Assembly that at the Superior Court holden at Litchfield in August last he was sentenced to pay a fine of thirty Pounds 1Money to the Treasurer of the State of Connecticut and the Cost of Prosecution, amounting to eleven Pounds LMoney on which Sentence he is now confined in said Goal Praying that he may have Liberty to give his Note of Hand for the Payment of said fine and Cost and thereupon be Liberated from his present confinement &c
Whereupon Resolved by this Assembly that upon the said Pierces giving his own Note of Hand for the Sum of thirty Pounds LMoney payable to the Treasurer of the State of Connecticut on Interest at the expiration of one Year from the Date of said Note and also give his Note of Hand on Interest with good and sufficient Securities, such as Lynde Lord Esq" Sheriff of said Litchfield County shall Judge suf- ficient for the amount of the Legal Cost arisen on said Prosecution against said Peirce and his confinement in Goal up to the Time that said Note shall be given Payable to the Treasurer of this State at the expira- tion of one Year and lodge said Notes with the said Sheriff Lord then said Pierce shall be Liberated from his present confinement and the Sheriff of said Litchfield County is ordered to Liberate him accordingly.
Upon the Memorial of Nathan Douchy of Ridgefield Shewing to this Assembly that in the Year 1780 he then living in the Town of Salisbury was appointed Collector for the State Taxes in said Town and received a Warrant from the State Treasurer to collect said Tax, and the Memorialist Collected and Settled the said Rate with the Treas-
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urer agreeable to his Warrant, but without the knoledge of the Memo- rialist there Proved to be a mistake in the List he Collected his Rates upon to the amount of about eighteen hundred Pounds, the List left with the Town Clerk which was the true List proved to be about £1800, larger than the Copy left with the Treasurer, on which Your Memorial- ists Warrants were given out upon which Mistake was not discovered untill about the middle of Decembr 1783 by the Memorialist who immedi- ately made it known to the Select Men of Salisbury which Mistake and the Circumstances thereof was by the Representatives of Salisbury last May laid before the General Assembly, and said Assembly Ordered the Treasurer to call on the Memorialist for all the Monies he had Col- lected on the said ££1800 Pounds of the List to be by the Memorialist refunded and paid in to the Treasurer immediately or otherwise to send out his Execution for the Same.
Resolved by this Assembly that the Treasurer of this State be Ordered and directed to Suspend sending his Execution against the Memorialist for the Space of one Year and no longer for the Sum of the Arrears of said Tax and Interest which remains unpaid and uncollected.
Upon the Petition of William Danielson &c Agents for the Town of Killingley Shewing that in May 1777 the Selectmen of the said Town received of Ebenezer Green fifty Pounds LMoney, which was due by Note to Abijah and Levi Willard and Samuel Ward by Note and paid the same to the Treasurer of this State, That said Ward Recovered Judgment and Execution against Mary Green of said Killingley the Executrix of the said Ebenezer now Deceasd before the Superior Court held at Windham Decembr 1783 for said Money &c. Praying for releif-
Resolved that said Memorial be Continued and that said Execution be stayed and suspended untill the rising of the next General Assembly.
On the Memorial of the Mohegan & Nahantick Indians -
Granted and Resolved that the Provisions and Regulations of the Law Entituled an Act for encouraging and regulating Fisheries shall not be Construed and understood to hinder or restrain the Indians of the Mohegan or Niantic Tribes from using and drawing of one Sein only for taking of Fish in or near the Mouth of Connecticut River in the same manner as they might lawfully and of Right do before the mak- ing and passing the said Regulation.
Upon the Memorial of George Philips of Midletown Shewing to this Assembly that the setting up necessary Buildings and Manufacturing Loaf Sugar will amount to £6000, LMoney and great Advantages will arise therefrom &c Praying some public encouragement to enable him to Set up the Same &c as per Memorial on File-
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Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialist have and this Assem- bly do Grant to the Memorialist his Executors and Administrators the Sole and exclusive Privelege of setting up the necessary Works for manufacturing Loaf Sugar within this State for the Term of ten Years from the rising of this Assembly.
Provided that if the Memorialist shall not Set up said Works by the first Day of Decembr 1785 or shall neglect to carry on that Business for the space of six Months successively in said Term this Act shall be of no Effect.
And Provided also that it shall be in the Power of this Assembly to Grant Liberty for setting up two other Sugar Works and manufacturing Loaf Sugar therein at any Time within said Term of ten Years.
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