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Upon the Memorial of John Smith Shewing to this Assembly that he has several Negroe Slaves and a Sum of Money in New York which he has reason to beleive he could obtain if he could send for them and Praying Liberty for Justus B Smith to go into said New York to obtain the Same as by Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that said Smith have Liberty and Liberty is hereby granted to said Justus B Smith to go into said New York and to return with any such Negroes of said John as he may be able to obtain, and to lay out such of said Money in New York as may be necessary to procure Necessaries for the Family of said John and to return with the Same under the Inspection and direction of the Honble Abraham Davenport Esq" or the Commandant of the Post of Stamford.
Upon the Memorial of Joshua Griggs, Elnathan Strong Stephen Simpson and Hope Lathrop Listers of the Town of Tolland in the Year 1781 Shewing to this Assembly that on the first Day of January 1782 they made a Return of all the fourfolds of the Town of Tolland on the grand List for the Year 1781 to the Honorable General Assembly then sitting and no return of said fourfolds hath ever been made to the State Treasurer amounting in the whole to £688 11 0 as set down in the Grand List Praying the said fourfold Sum of £688 11 0 may be returned to the Treasurer of the State that the Publick and the Memo- rialists may have Justice done in the premisses as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved that said fourfold Assesment of £688 11 0 be and hereby is Ordered and directed to be returned to the Treasurer of this State and the Treasurer is hereby directed and Ordered upon said Assesment being returned to him to Issue his Warrants to the Collector of the State Taxes of said Tolland for the Year 1782 in usual form to Collect of the Person or Persons on whom said fourfold Assesment was raised to Collect of him or them the several Taxes which have already been laid on the List of 1781, in like proportion Per Pound as the Taxes on that List have been laid and collected.
Upon the Memorial of Michael Baldwin Collector of the State Taxes for the Town of New Haven made on the List for the Year 1780, Shewing that by reason of Sickness of himself and Family he has been unable to complete the Collection of said Taxes and that the distressed State of his Family is at present such that he cannot pay due attention to said Collection Praying for Liberty to appoint a suitable Person to Assist him therein-
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Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialist be and is hereby Authorized by and with the approbation of the said Town or the Select Men thereof to appoint a suitable Person to aid him in the Collection of said Taxes who shall have like Power and Authority as the Memo- rialist hath for executing the Treasurers Warrant granted for that purpose Provided that nothing herein contained shall exempt the Memo- rialist from being proceeded against for the Arrears of said Taxes or to exempt the said Town or Select Men from being proceeded against for the Same in the Same manner as if this Resolve had not been passed.
Upon the Memorial of Benjamin Clark of Milford in the County of New Haven Shewing to this Assembly that previous to a Resolution of the General Assembly directing the taking out of Circulation the Bills of this State he had on Hand thirteen Pounds in said Bills which at the Time limited for calling in said Money and before was mislaid and could not be found after the most diligent Search untill the Enemy came to New Haven in July 1779 when in putting up Clothing &c he found said Money in the Bottom of a Chest and has kept it ever since Praying that the Treasurer of the State be Ordered and directed to execute and deliver a Note of the Same Tenor and Date of those that were carried in agreeable to said Resolution as Per Memorial on File.
It is thereupon Resolved by this Assembly that the Treasurer of this State be ordered and directed and he is hereby Ordered and directed to draw and execute a Note of the Same Tenor and Date to the Memorialist of those that were given for said Bills that were carried in agreeable to said Resolution.
Upon the Memorial of Peter Vandervoort now residing in Hart- ford Shewing to this Assembly that by reason of the Calamities of the present War his means of subsistance are much diminished and that he has Debts and Rents in New York which he is advised he can now recover Praying for Liberty for himself or his Wife Sarah Vandervoort to go on to Long Island or into the City of New York and Collect the said Debts and Rents to the amount of £1500 or £2000 and the same to bring from thence into this State in Goods or Money under proper Limitations & Restrictions as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the said Peter Vandervoort or some proper Person by him appointed and approved by His Excellency Governor Trumbull and Mrs Sarah Vandervoort, be and are hereby permitted to go from this State on to long Island or into the City of New York for the purpose aforesaid and from thence to bring into this State to the amount of two thousand Pounds value of what is there due to said Peter Vandervoort for Debts and Rents in Goods or Money Provided that no more than the value of one hundred Pounds Lawfull Money be Imported in Goods of British Manufacture and that the aforesaid Importation shall be entirely in every Respect and particular under the Inspection and direction of the Honble Abraham Davenport Esq" or the Commandant of the Guards at Horseneck.
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Upon the Memorial of Theophilus Morgan Esqr of Killingworth Shewing to this Assembly that he hath Suffered many Losses since the Commencement of the present War, That Joseph Chew Esq" late of New London now in New York is Indebted to him in a large Sum which said Chew is willing to pay in Goods, That said Morgan hath two Negroe Servants run from him within the British Lines Praying for Liberty to receive said Debt and recover his Servants &c as Per Memo- rial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialist or such other Suit- able Person as shall be approved of by Abraham Davenport Esq or the Commandant of the Fort at Stamford have Liberty and the Same is hereby granted to him to pass with a Flagg within the British Lines and to New York by Land or Water and to receive his said Debt of Joseph Chew Esq' and to return with Safety into this State with the Effects of said Debt in Mony Goods or Merchandize Provided no more thereof in value than one hundred Pounds Lawfull Mony at the whole Sale Price be of the British Manufacture, Also to recover and bring back his said Servants into this State, said Morgans Conduct in the Business abovesaid or the Person who shall go in his behalf to be under the inspection and direction of the Honble Abraham Davenport Esq" or the Commander of the Guards on the Western Frontiers of this State.
Upon the Memorial of Collins Gorton a Prisoner now confined in Hartford Goal Shewing to this Assembly that he was Sentenced by the Honbe Superior Court holden at Hartford in March 1782 to Suffer three Years Imprisonment in NewGate for the Crime of passing Counterfeit Bills &c and that his Health is much Impaired by his long Confinement Praying for Liberation as Per Memorial on File,
Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialist be and he is hereby released from his said Confinement and has Liberty to reside in the North Parish in the Town of New London and not to Depart the Limits of said Society without proper Licence on pain of being remanded to Prison to Suffer the remaining part of his Imprisonment.
Whereas Rebecca Payne of Hartford in Hartford County Adminis- tratrix on the Estate of her Deceasd Husband Benjamin Payne Esq has preferred her Petition to this Assembly Shewing that in and for the Consideration of the Sum of eighty four Pounds LMoney received from said Benjamin Payne Esq" Mr Ebenezer Webster late of said Hartford now Decd deeded unto the said Benjamin Payne Esq" on the 23ª Day of May 1765, two Peices of Land in said Hartford, One Peice in the South Meadow so called containing about two Acres twenty six Rods of Land butted and bounded as follows viz North on Land of Colo George Wyllys East in part on Samuel Knowles Land and part on Land belong- ing to Joseph Buckingham Esq" Deceasd South on Thomas Ensign Land and West on Medad Websters Land, the other Peice of Land containing twenty eight Acres and three Roods of Land bounded West
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on a Highway North on undivided Land East on Hog River so called and South on said River in part and partly on Land in the Possession and Improvement of the Heirs of Ebenezer Benton Jun" Deceasª Con- ditioned in said Deed that if the said Grantor Ebenezer Webster his Heirs Executors or Administrtrators or either of them should well and truly pay unto the said Benjamin Payne his Heirs and Assigns the said Sum of eighty four Pounds LMoney and the lawfull Interest thereof at or before the 23ª Day of May next ensuing the Date of said Deed then said Deed to be void that there was an agreement made between Capt Medad Webster of said Hartford and sd Benjamin Payne Esq" that he the said Medad Webster should Pay and satisfy unto the said Benjamin Payne the aforesaid Sum of eighty four Pounds LMoney and Lawfull Interest thereof, he the said Benjamin Payne should make unto said Medad Webster a Quit Claim Deed of said Premisses that said Agreement remained in part unexecuted at the Time of the Death of her said Husband Praying that she the said Rebecca Payne may be fully Authorized and impowered as administratrix on the Estate of her Deceasd Husband to make and execute unto the said Medad Webster a Quit Claim Deed of all the Right Title and Interest the Heirs of the said Benjamin Payne Esq™ have or ought to have unto the above described Premisses upon his the said Medad Websters Paying or satisfying unto said Administratrix what now remains due on said Mortgage Deed as by said Memorial appears.
Resolved by this Assembly that the Widow Rebecca Payne of Hart- ford in Hartford County Administratrix on the Estate of her deceasd Husband Benjamin Payne Esq" late of said Hartford upon the aforesaid Medad Webster of said Hartford paying or satisfying unto her the said Rebecca Payne as Administratrix as aforesaid the Sum that now remains due on the aforesaid Mortgage Deed she the said Rebecca Payne be and hereby is fully Authorized and Impowered to make and execute unto the said Medad Webster a Deed of Quit Claim of all the right Title and Interest the Heirs of said Benjamin Payne Esq" Decd have or ought to have unto the above described Premisses.
Upon the Memorial of the Inhabitants of the Town of Hebron by their Agents Joel Jones and Daniel Ingham Shewing to this Assembly that agreeable to the Laws of this State they have heretofore mended and repaired the Public Highways in said Town by warning out the Inhabitants as the Law in that Case directs and Provides which under their present Circumstances is in some measure unequal and unjust Praying for Liberty to tax themselves for the purpose of mending and repairing the Public Highways in said Town as Per Memorial on File,
Whereupon Resolved by this Assembly that the Inhabitants of said Town of Hebron have Liberty and Liberty and Authority is hereby Given to said Town to mend and repair the Public Highways in said Town by taxing themselves in the Same way and manner as by Law
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they have right to defray the other necessary expences and Cost in said Town for the Term of three Years from the first Day of April next.
Upon the Memorial of John Lloyd Jun" Shewing to this Assembly that he has sundry Debts due to him from Persons on Long Island Praying for Liberty to collect the same in Money and Salt and bring the Same into this State as Per Memorial on File
Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialist be and he is hereby permitted either by himself or some prudent Person by him to be appointed to go on to Long Island and to bring from thence of his aforesaid Debts to the amount of two thousand Guineas in Specie and one thousand Bushels of Salt and to purchase Some suitable Vessell if he chooses in which to bring said Salt all under the inspection of the Honble Abraham Davenport Esq" or the Commanding Officers at the Post at Stamford who are respectively Impowered to give such direction and take such Order in the Premisses as they may think Proper.
Upon the Memorial of Abigail Wheeler of Stonington in New London County Shewing to this Assembly that her Decd Husband David Wheeler early in the present War entered into the Service of the United States and that in the Year 1777 sickened and died in said Service And that the Committee for settling with the Army found a Ballance due to said Decd the Sum of £7 15 4 that the Creditors of said Decd neglect and refuse to Administer on said Estate and that said Abigail was left with a Family of small Children without any other means to Support them than her Labour and the Charity of her Friends Praying that the Committee of Pay Table may be directed to secure to said Abigail said Ballance due to said Decd as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of Pay Table be and they are hereby Ordered and directed to give Orders to the Treasurer to Secure to said Abigail Wheeler, the Ballance due to said Decd as aforesaid in the Same Way and manner as is given for the Security of the Ballances due to the other Soldiers in the Connecticut Line of the Continental Army to enable her to Support the Children of said Deceasd.
Upon the Memorial of Samuel Bradley of Fairfield Shewing to this Assembly that at the Time of confiscating the Estate of John Croofoot of Newtown, and Years before and since, he was by the Providence of God visited with Sickness and confined to his room and did not know that said Crofoot had gone to the Enemy and his Estate confiscated or that Commissioners were appointed to examine the Claims of the Creditors to said Estate untill a long Time after said Commissioners had made their Report to the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury and that said Crofoot was and now is indebted to the Memorialist the Sum of three Pounds lawfull Money with the Interest from the 15th day of April 1774 by a Note of Hand of that Date which Note for Reasons aforesaid was never exhibited to said Commissioners
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&c Praying to have the Administrator on said Estate ordered to pay to the Petitioner the Contents of said Note out of said Estate as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the said Administrator be and he is hereby Ordered to pay to the Petitioner out of said Estate the amount of the aforesaid Note including the lawfull Interest thereon.
Upon the Petition of Daniel Osborn of Fairfield Shewing to this Assembly that the Petitioner and David Burr Esq" late of said Fairfield Decd received from Archibald Campbell on the 17th Day of Decembr 1770 a Mortgage Deed of a certain Tract of Land in said Fairfield and other Estate bounded and described in said Deed which Deed was for the purpose of securing Debts due to Thaddeus Osborn to whom said Daniel is Conservator and that said Burrs Estate is no way interested in said Mortgage and that it has become necessary to dispose of said Mortgaged Estate as Per Petition on File --
Resolved by this Assembly that Liberty be granted and Liberty and Authority is hereby granted to said Daniel Osborn to Sell and dispose of said Mortgaged Estate in as full a manner as if said Burr had not been named in said Deed and that on such Sale a Deed duely executed under the Hand and Seal of said Daniel Osborn of such of those Lands and Estate that shall be by him Sold shall be full and compleat Evi- dence of Title thereto to the Purchaser his Heirs and Assigns to all Intents and purposes.
Upon the Memorial of the Select Men of the Town of New Milford, Shewing to this Assembly that the rapid Ousatonuck River so called has its course through the Center of said Town and across which River lays at all Times but especially since the Present War a very great Use- full and public Road, leading from the Eastern to the Southern States over which River in the Center of said Town of New Milford a great number of Bridges have been successively erected at the Expence of the People of said New Milford and a few of the Neighbouring Inhabitants of one or two of the adjacent Towns which Bridges cost nearly £ 300 lawfull Money each and have been all of them successively swept away by the mighty Ice Floods which frequently happen in said River, and that there being now the utmost need of a Bridge across said River in said New Milford Town, and that the Expence of erecting a good and lasting Bridge will be very Great and that a Bridge across said River in New Milford would be of great Utility to the Public Praying for Liberty to set up a Lottery to raise the Sum of four Hundred Pounds to enable said Town to build a Bridge across said River in said Town as Per Memorial on File ---
Whereupon Resolved by this Assembly that the Select Men of the Town of New Milford have Liberty and Liberty and Authority is hereby given and granted to said Select Men to erect set up and draw a Lottery sufficient to raise the Sum of four hundred Pounds lawfull Money at
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the Sole Risque of said Town for the purpose of building a Bridge across the said Ousatonuck River in or near the Center of said New Milford with full Power and Authority to appoint Suitable Persons as managers of said Lottery and said Managers to be under Oath for a faithfull dis- charge of their said Trust Provided said Lottery shall be fully compleated and drawn within the Term of one Year from the first Day of June next.
Upon the Petition of Asa Lyon of Woodstock Shewing to this Assembly that by meer mistake in the return made to the Committee of Pay Table of his Services done in the Army for the Year 1780 as an Officer, he hath been defeated from receiving such Securities for pay- ment in future Time as other Officers under like Circumstances Praying that Justice may be done to him in the Premisses as Per his Petition on File
Resolved by this Assembly that the Petitioner shall have and receive from the Treasury of this State six Pounds Per Month for his Services as an Officer in their Service computing the Same from the first Day of May 1780 untill the thirteenth Day of Septemb" then next following and the Comtee of Pay Table are hereby directed to Settle with the Peti- tioner in manner aforesaid and draw an Order on the Treasurer of this State for such Sums as they shall find due, and the Treasurer is likewise directed to make out a Security to the Petitioner for said Sum in the Same manner as to other Officers and Soldiers of the Line of said Army and Charge the Same to the Account of the United States.
Upon the Memorial of Margret Moor Shewing to this Assembly that her late Husband William Moor Served several Years in the Continental Army in the Connecticut Line, that he died in said Service the 22ª of Novemb" 1781, that by the returns of the Committee of the Army of this State there was found due to said William at the Time of said Decease the Sum of £11 4 2 LMony from this State for his said Service that he left the Memorialist with three Children without any means of support that he died in Debt but his Estate so small that his Creditors have refused to take Administration thereon nor has any Administration been taken thereof Praying that the Committee of Pay Table may be directed to secure said Sum due to the Memorialist for the Benefit of her and her said Children &c As Per Memorial on File.
Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of Pay Table be and they are hereby directed to Secure the payment of said Sum of £11 4 2 to the said Margaret for the benefit and Support of her and Children in the Same manner as other Soldiers in the Same Service in the Connecti- cut Line have been by Law Secured.
Upon the Memorial of Archibald Currie now residing in Hartford Shewing to this Assembly that at the commencement of the War he took an active part therein and that from his attachment as aforesaid he was Obliged with his Family to fly from New York where he left con-
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siderable Sums of Money in the Country since which he has been very unfortunate in loosing his Property &c Praying for Liberty to go upon Long Island or to the City of New York to bring off in Goods or Money to the value of £ 1500 due him as aforesaid as Per Memorial on File
Whereupon it is Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialist be and he is hereby permitted to go to the City of New York and to bring out from thence such Sums as he shall Collect in Moneys or Goods Pro- vided that no more than one hundred Pounds LMoney be in Goods of British Manufactures and that the Same be under the Care and direction of the Honble Abraham Davenport Esq" or the Commander of Guards on the Western Frontiers of this State.
Upon the Memorial of Josiah Fowler and others Inhabitants of the Town of Branford in New Haven County Shewing to this Assembly that a Town Meeting was holden in said Branford on the second Day of Decembr last past without any legal Warning by the Select Men of said Town as is by Law directed and said Meeting proceeded to the Choice of Select Men and other Town Officers and by the Previous Arts of sundry Persons unfriendly to the States and favourers of the Illicit Trade, and by the general attendance of Persons of simular Character effected the purpose of displacing the former Town Officers and Choesing sundry others of dubious and suspicious Character. That the other Inhabitants of the said Town who are opposed to the Illicit Trade and zealous in the Cause of this Country alarmed at their Proceedings procured another Town Meeting to be warned and holden on the 19th Day of said Decembr which Meeting also chose another sett of Town Officers, and that both said Setts of Town Officers are now acting in said Town Praying for Releif as Per Memorial on File, on which Memorial the Agents for said Parties in said Town were duely notified and appeared and were fully heard with their Evidences and Exhibits before this Assembly,
Whereupon Resolved by this Assembly that all the Doings and proceed- ings of both the said Town Meetings so holden in said Branford in the Month of Decemb" last past be vacated and set aside, and the Same are hereby wholly set aside and declared null and void to all Intents and pur- poses whatsoever, That the Inhabitants of said Town be and they are hereby Ordered and Impowered to meet in Town Meeting in said Town on the 13th Day of February next at the Meeting House in the first Society at One of the Clock Afternoon and then and there proceed to the Choice of Town Officers in and for said Town for the current Year and do and transact all other legal and necessary Business in said Town with full Powers to adjourn to any Time or Times within the Month of Feb- ruary to compleat said Business, That the Civil Authority or the Major Part of them in the Town of Branford be and they are hereby Author- ized and directed to warn the Inhabitants of said Town by notifications under their Hands set up on the Sign Post in each Society five Days pre- ceding said 13th Day of February, to meet in Town Meeting on the said 13th Day of February next as aforesaid for the purposes before men- tioned, And Edward Russell Esq" the Town Clerk is hereby authorized
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and Impowered to lead said Inhabitants when so met to the Choice of a Moderator at said Meeting, And that the Town Officers who shall be so Chosen by said Town Meeting to be holden as aforesaid be and they are hereby Authorized and Impowered to Act and Serve in their respective Offices as fully and legally to all Intents and purposes as though they had been duely Chosen in the Month of December last past accord- ing to the Laws of this State heretofore made and Provided and shall be liable to the same Penalties and Forfeitures in Case of their refusal to Serve in their respective Offices as is by Law already provided, and shall continue in their respective Offices untill a new Choice of Town Officers shall be duely made at a legal Town Meeting to be holden in said Bran- ford in the Month of Decembr next according to the Laws of this State Provided nevertheless that in all Cases wherein the Constables Chosen in said Town at either of the Town Meetings holden in said Month of Decembr last have already served any legal Writs to them directed, or have in due form of Law begun the Service of the Same before the passing of this Bill they shall be and are hereby Impowered to compleat the Service and return thereof in due form of Law, and such Service and return shall be holden valid and good in Law as though said Con- stable had been duely Chosen and appointed to said Office,
And it is further Resolved that the Civil Authority be and are hereby Impowered to meet with the Select Men and other Town Officers who shall be Chosen at said Town Meeting so herein appointed to be holden and proceed to appoint Tavern keepers and Jurymen in and for said Town for the current Year sometime in the said Month of February.
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