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OF CONNECTICUT
1783.
Excellency the Governor be desired to Write to Congress on the Subject for their approbation and also to Instruct the Delegates of this State in Congress to endeavour to procure releif upon the Matter aforesaid.
Upon the Memorial of Isaiah Thomson Capta Lieut, Lieut James Brewster Peter Woodward and John R Throop Serjt Elias Wilcox and Samuel Printitle, Ebenezer Lines Nathan M Lounsbury Asael Jacobs Andrew Dawling Thomas Warner, Obadiah Hill Benjamin Peck Wil- liam DeMott, Joshua Hinkley, Edmund Parker, Ebnez" Hasting Thad- deus Thomson Peter Ferriss Jonathan Mead, Joseph Hunt and William Hart, raised in this State and now Serving in the Continental Army and accounting as part of the Quota of this State Shewing to this Assembly that the real Estate of Nicholas Lechmere in New Haven hath been legally confiscated for the Use of this State and praying this Assembly to Order and direct the Judge of Probate for the District of New Haven to cause said Estate to be apprized at its Just value and execute a Deed of the Same to Your Memorialists as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Judge of the Probate for the District of New Haven be and he is Authorized and directed to Cause so much of the real Estate of Nicholas Lechmere to be apprized by three Judicious disinterested freeholders under Oath at its Just value in Money, and shall make and execute a Warrantee Deed of said Estate in behalf of this State and binding on them to the Memorialists they paying to the amount it shall be apprized at in Obligations against this State for their Service in the Continental Army previous to the Year 1781 always excepting so much of said Estate as to pay the Cost of Condemnation and the Just Debts due from said Estate being ascertained according to Law.
Upon the Memorial of Asa Bebee and Joseph Day both of Colchester in the County of Hartford Shewing to this Assembly that in the Year 1779 they sold sundry Beef Cattle to Israel Champion of East Haddam in said County an Assistant purchasing Commissary for the United States of America on Credit and payment being delayed they brought their Several Actions against the said Champion, which Actions are now pending proposing to receive their Several Debts for said Cattle in Treas- urers Notes payable one Year after the War on Interest, agreeable to an Act of Assembly passed for the purpose of Liquidating such Debts Pro- vided they may be allowed the legal Costs of such Suits and that the said Costs in each of said Actions be taxed by two of the Judges of the County Court in the County of Hartford and that the Same may be secured and made payable in the Same manner as the principal Debts as Per Memorial &c,
Resolved by this Assembly that the Debts due to the said Asa Bebee and Joseph Day for Beef Cattle as aforesaid be Liquidated according to Law, and that the Costs lawfully arisen on said Suits be taxed by any two of the Judges of said Court and that the Committee of Pay Table draw on the Treasurer for the Sums found due to the beforementioned
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Asa Bebee and Joseph Day severally upon such Liquidation together with the respective Bills of Cost to be secured to them by Notes in manner as above proposed.
Upon the Memorial of Andrew Hillyer of Symsbury Shewing to this Assembly that as Constable of said Symsbury on the 24th Day of June 1782 he had in his Hands one certain Execution in due form containing a Sum exceeding £20 LMoney, against one Levi Wolworth by force of which the Memorialist had then taken the Body of said Wolworth and there then being no other means of Payment to be had from him but by his drawing an Order in favour of the Memorialist on the Paymaster of the second Regiment of the Light Dragoons of this State to which he then belonged which he then did for said Sum of £20, on the receipt whereof Your Memorialist indorsed said Execution in full but so it hath happened that before the Comtee appointed by this State to Settle and destine Such Sum as should be Justly due to him for Wages for past Service in said Regiment, he said Wolworth did Desert said Service which hath Defeated Your Memorialist from recovering said £20 for that by force of sª Desertion all Wages then due said Wolworth did become forfeit, as Per Memorial on File-
Whereupon it is Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee appointed by this State to Liquidate and Determine what Sum is Justly due each Soldier belonging to this State for their past Services be enabled and they are hereby directed to Settle and determine such Sum as was Justly due said Wolworth for his Service as a Soldier of this State at the Time of his Desertion, and if said Sum of £20 should be found due then in such Case the Committee of Pay Table are enabled to draw an Order in favour of the Memorialist on the Treasury of said State who is likewise enabled to make out such kind of security for said Sum of £20 or such as shall be found due payable in the Same way and manner as would have been done to said Wolworth in case he had not deserted.
Upon the Memorial of Mary Marshall now residing in Windsor Shewing to this Assembly that her late Husband the late Elisha Marshall who died in the Army left due to him from the Public Ten Pounds nine shillings and eleven pence LMoney for his Services in the Connecticut Line before January 1780, and that the said Elisha has left when he died no Estate Sufficient to pay the expence of taking out Letters of Adminis- tration &c excepting the said Debt from the public and that the Mem- orialist is left indigent with three small Children to maintain Praying for Liberty to receive the publick Securities for said Debt without being at the expence of taking a Letter of Administration on the Estate of said Deceasd as Per Memorial on File -
Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialist have Liberty and Liberty is hereby Granted to the said Mary Marshall to receive the said Publick Securities in manner as Prayed for and the Committee of Pay Table are hereby directed to give Orders for the said Securities accordingly.
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OF CONNECTICUT
1783.
Upon the Memorial of Jabez Stone Jun" Shewing to this Assembly he hath for a number of Years been a Lieutenant of the Guards Sta- tioned at the Forts at New London and Groton, was in the last mentioned Fortress when it was Stormed by the Enemy Captivated and carried Prisoner to New York after permitted to return Home on Paroll, pro- cured Pay Table Orders for sundry Articles of Cloathing he lost in Fort Griswold, and afterward purchased the States Share of a small Vessell that had been condemned in a Maritime Court for not conforming to the Laws of Trade and Commerce and therefor became bound by Bond to the State Treasurer in the Sum of £31 Praying said Treasurer may be directed and Ordered to receive of the Memorialist the States Orders to the amount of what is due from the Memorialist on the Bond afore- said, and that thereupon said Bond may be cancelled and delivered to the Memorialist as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Treasurer of this State be and he hereby is Ordered and directed upon the said Jabez Stones Paying or delivering to him said Pay Table Orders to the amount of the Bond given by said Jabez as aforesaid to cancell and deliver the Same to the said Jabez Stone.
Upon the Memorial of Benjamin Hine and Daniel Brown both of Waterbury in New Haven County Shewing to this Assembly that said Hine is possessed of an Order in his favour on the Treasurer of this State for the Sum of £233 9 11 for so much Lawfull Money by him advanced in the Year 1777, for Provisions and other necessaries for a Company of State Guards then under his Command which Order is dated June 16th 1780 and yet unpaid, and said Brown did by his Deed March 16th 1772 Mortgage to Charles Ward Apthorp of the City and Province of New York for £90 New York Currency a certain peice of Land lying in said Waterbury in said Deed described as by the Records of said Town of Waterbury appears Praying that said Hine may have Liberty to discharge the Sums due on said Mortgage, the Estate of said Apthorp being since confiscated to the Use of this State, in the Sums due by said Order, and may thereon receive a Deed of Release of said Land as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that James Hilhouse Esq™ of New Haven in New Haven County Administrator on the confiscated Estate of said Apthorp be and he is hereby Impowered and directed to adjust and determine with said Brown the Sums due in hard Money by Virtue of said Mortgage Deed and on his receiving from said Hine a Receipt for the full Sums so due upon said Order, and in full Payment of said Order so far as said Sums shall extend towards payment on the Same, the said Hilhouse be and he is hereby Authorized and directed in behalf of this State to execute to said Hine a good and legal Deed of Release of said Mortgaged Lands, thereby vesting in said Hine all such Interest Right Title Claim and demand as this State or its Agents have in and unto said Mortgaged Premisses by Virtue of said Mortgage Deed and confiscation abovementioned.
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PUBLIC RECORDS
January,
Upon the Memorial of James Chamberlin Shewing to this Assembly that on the 13th Day of August 1776, he received his Excellencies the Governors Proclamation to raise a Company of Volunteers to march and Join the Army under his Excellency General Washington, that he raised a Company of thirty able Volunteers, That he was Commissioned by His Excellency the Governor as their Captain and received his Excellencys · Order on the Pay Table for £50 State Bills as marching Money, and on the 20th of said August set out on his march and Joined the Army under his Excellency General Washington at New York and continued in Serv- ice untill duely discharged that he imployed Teams to transport the Baggage of his Company to New York, that he was turned over for the pay of his Company to the Continental Paymaster who would allow Pay only from the 21st [?] of said August to the Time of discharge, nor any Pay for the transporting said Baggage and that in Paying of his Men he was obliged to pay them from the Time of their Inlisting, which was six Days more than he drew pay for Praying Releif &c as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee of Pay Table be hereby directed to Settle the Memorialists Accounts in the Premisses allowing what is reasonable for said six Days and transporting the Bag- gage of said Company and draw an Order on the Treasurer in his favour for what they may find Justly due.
Upon the Memorial of Simon Chapman of Tolland in the County of Hartford Shewing to this Assembly that he had become Bail in a Recognizance of five hundred Pounds lawfull Money to the Treasurer of this State, that one Kimball Calton late of said Tolland should appear before the Superior Court held at Hartford on the first Tuesday of Septemb 1782 to answer to a Complaint legally filed against him the said Calton for passing Counterfeit Bills made current by Law and Pay Table Orders drawn by the Committee of Pay Table on the Treasurer of this State &c which Bond is forfeited and a Suit is now Pending before the Adjourned County Court to be holden at Hartford on the second Tuesday of February next on said Bond Praying for Liberty to pay and discharge said Bond by Pay Table Orders and Soldiers Notes already due from this State &c As Per Memorial on File dated the 31st January 1783 may appear-
Resolved by this Assembly that Liberty be Given and Liberty is hereby Given to the Memorialist to pay and discharge said Bond of £500 LMoney in Pay Table Orders drawn on the Treasurer of this State to be paid out of the 28/6 Provision Tax and Soldiers Notes already due and oweing to them from this State, he the Memorialist paying all lawfull Cost that has or may arise on said Suit now pending on said Bond in Hard Money.
Upon the Memorial of Abel Franklin now residing in Groton Shew- ing to this Assembly that in the Year 1776 he moved from Block Island where he has a House and small Farm that he is now an aged Man
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OF CONNECTICUT
1783.
not able to Labour having a Wife and three Grand Children to maintain &c Praying Liberty to return to Block Island with his Family &c as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialist have Liberty and Liberty is hereby Granted to the Memorialist with his said Family to return to Block Island with his Household Furniture together with two Cows two Yearling Cattle and two Swine under the Inspection and direc- tion of the Officer commanding at the Posts of New London & Groton that nothing be done which is not contained in this Grant.
Upon the Memorial of Capt Jonathan Hart in behalf of the detach- ment of Light Infantry which Served with Maj" General the Marquis De La Fayette in the Campaign of 1781, representing that in settling the Accounts with the Officers and Soldiers of the Connecticut Line for their Services in the Year 1781, a Charge was improperly made against said Detachment of a Sum equal to One Months Pay and subsistance in Specie received at the Head of Elk in Bills of Pensylvania new Emission, that it was carried to Account against them as part of the three Months Pay, which this Assembly were Pleased to Order Paid to their Soldiers for their Services in 1781, that the said Bills of New Emission were paid to them as contingent Expences and not carried to Account against this State &c as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Committee appointed to Settle with the Connecticut Line of the Army be Instructed not to Charge the Pensylvania Money received by the Memorialist at the Head of Elk to them as any part of their three Months Pay mentioned in their Peti- tion but to Settle with them for the Same in the same manner as though no such Payment had been made.
Upon the Memorial of Sarah Burrows of Groton Shewing to this Assembly that a number of Arms which were procured by her late Hus- band Capt Hubbard Burrows Deceasd for the Service of the Public have been taken by the Enemy from the Place where deposited and that she the Memorialist under her low and distressed Circumstances is now called upon to pay for said Arms &c Praying to be discharged from pay- ing for said Arms &c as Per Memorial on File -
Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialist and the Estate of the late Capt Hubbard Burrows Decd be and the Memorialist & said Estate is hereby discharged from making any Payment for said Arms to any Claimant whatsoever.
Upon the Memorial of Stephen Miller Jun" of Midletown Shewing to this Assembly that in the Month of October 1780 One Gurdon Whit- more stood Indicted before the Honble Superior Court of this State, as being Guilty of transgressing the Laws of this State against Illicit Trade before which Court the Memorialist became bound in a Recognizance of £200 Lawfull Money Conditioned that said Witmore should abide final Judgment in said Cause, but so it happened that said Witmore did
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January,
fail in complying with the Conditional Part of said Bond whereby the penal part became forfeit, and that Judgment is since had thereon against the Memorialist for said Sum of £200 with additional Costs and Execu- tion granted thereon by force of which the Body of the Memorialist hath been Imprisoned Praying this Assembly to have Liberty to pay said Sum of two hundred Pounds in State Securities as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialist have Liberty and Liberty is hereby Granted that he may pay and discharge said Sum of two hundred Pounds to the Treasurer of this State in any securities Issued by them and now due saving Securities for State Bills, and the Treasurer is likewise Ordered and directed to receive said Securities in discharge of said Debt at their nominal value, except the Cost which hath arose in and about said Prosecution which shall be paid in Specie Provided always that the Memorialist deliver in such Security within One Month after the rising of this Assembly.
The Sums total of the Lists of the Polls and rateable Estate together with the fourfold additions of the same, of the several Towns hereafter mentioned as returned to this Assembly and accepted are as follow viz.
Single
Fourfold
Hartford
£17090
5
10
£1214
8
0
Windsor
24315
14
5
403
4
0
Weathersfield
31789
19
21/2
309
11
0
Symsbury
37732
3
8
East Windsor
31488
9
4
222
17 0
Farmington
53079
6
8
1555
4
0
Hebron
22161
5
11
64
8
0
Glastonbury
19237
9
3
1217
0
0
Southington
19191
2
4
220
10
0
Tolland
14220
12
7
729
4
0
Colchester
31936
12
9
1345
14
6
Bolton
10788
8
0
82
12
0
Enfield
12426
6
3
Haddam
15179
16
1
44
4
0
Chatham
24387
17
11
276
14
0
Willington
8645
3
9
63
2
0
Suffield
20240
9
6
East Haddam
24868
0
0
1149
10
8
Somers
9403
12
1
-
Stafford
12535
7
2
242
Midletown
40547
9
0
193
0
0
New Haven
61578
15
7
920
9
0
Milford
23892
1
9
415
4
0
Derby
17351
17
8
-
-
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OF CONNECTICUT
Fourfold
Waterbury
£20076
16
11/2
£ 457
10
0
Cheshire
18291
5
2
Wallingford
28718
15
2
19
4
0
Durham
12481
9
21/2
152
0
0
Guilford
32660
3
11
1106
14
5
Branford
21236
4
9
New London
33249
0
6
6529
7
0
Norwich
64249
8
91/2
3062
18
3
Saybrook
24507
12
51/2
Killingworth
20724
13
3
11
10
0
Lyme
24192
10
4
3020
0
0
Groton
23421
17
01/2
1426
17
0
Stonington
33047
1
1112
392
0
0
Preston
21720
19
3
610
16
0
Fairfield
43494
2
2
7
0
0
0
Norwalk
39187
18
4
Stamford
26209
2
0
55
8
4
New Town
19499
0
0
Ridgfield
17838
1
10
Danbury
24140
2
0
498
0
0
Greenwich
9037
16
0
86
0
0
New Fairfield
13023
0
0
220
0
0
Ashford
18880
11
6
60
-
Canterbury
21144
6
0
576
17
0
Coventry
20657
5
9
108
18
0
Killingley
27062
3
9
Lebanon
37262
15
1012
Mansfield
22712
4
822
4
0
Pomfret
26787
17
1
163
12
0
Plainfield
13795
13
8
329
10
0
Union
6132
3
0
Voluntown
12981
15
1
305
8
0
Woodstock
21157
4
3
148
0
0 0
Woodbury
49112
4
3
New Milford
29298
9
2
Kent
15538
19
0
Sharon
14741
5
6
353
8
-
Salisbury
18892
8
11
134
0
0
Canaan
15898
15
8
Goshen
13333
10
1
108
2
0
Washington
14306
18
7
117
16
0
Cornwall
9864
9
6
28
8
0
-
-
Windham
32490
5
8
Redding
13412
Stratford
50098
6
-
Litchfield
26894
79
Single
80
PUBLIC RECORDS
January,
Single
Fourfold
Torrington
£11284
19
0
£593
12 0
Harwington
9976
9
0
934
0
0
Norfolk
10623
7
1
Winchester
4376
2
0
411
2
0
Hartland
7716
11
6
86
0
0
Watertown
22944
1
5
New Hartford
10983
1
10
397
15
0
Upon the Memorial of the Town of Midletown by their Agents Ben- jamin Henshaw and Seth Wetmore Shewing to this Assembly that said Town are desirous of Liberty to repair their Highways by a Tax and praying for Liberty and Authority to do the Same and to tax them- selves accordingly as Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the said Town of Midletown be and they are hereby Impowered from and after the first of April Anno Dom 1784, to repair all their Highways by a Tax or Rate on the List of said Town untill said Town shall in legal Town Meeting specially warned for that purpose agree otherwise and when said Town shall Grant any Tax for the repairing of the Highways or Bridges it shall be specially appro- priated and Improved for that purpose only in such manner and propor- tion and under such Directions as they shall Order.
The Gentlemen nominated by the Votes of the Freemen of this State Assistants, to stand for Election in May next as sent into this present Assembly are as follow viz.
His Excellency Jonath Trumbull Esq"
Richard Law Esq™
The Honbl Matthew Griswold Esq™
Oliver Elsworth
Esq™
Esqr Andrew Adams Esq"
Jabez Hamlin
Eliphalet Dyer
Esq™ Benjamin Huntington Esqr
William Pitkin
Esq™ William Williams
Esq™
Roger Sherman Esq™
Gener1 Erastus Wolcott
Abraham Davenport
Esq™ Colº Jesse Root
Joseph Spencer
Esq™ Mr Stephen M Mitchell
Oliver Wolcott Esq™
Mª Daniel Sherman
Samuel Huntington Esq™
Colº Joseph Platt Cook
The Gentlemen nominated by the Votes of the Freemen of this State to stand for Election in May next Delegates in Congress of the United States of America for the Year 1783 as sent in to the Assembly are as follows, viz
Samuel Huntington Esqr Jedidiah Strong Esqr
Oliver Elsworth
Esq™
Eliphalet Dyer Esq™
Richard Law
Esq™ Stephen M Mitchell Esqr
Jesse Root
Esq™ Pierpoint Edwards Esq™
Oliver Wolcott
Esq Roger Sherman Esq™
Benjamin Huntington
Esq" Andrew Adams
Esq™
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OF CONNECTICUT
1783.
Upon the Memorial of Chauncey Whittlesey of Midletown Adminis- trator to the Confiscated Estate of James Jauncey late of the City of New York Shewing to this Assembly that he recovered Judgment against Josiah Starr of Midletown for the Surrendry of his House and Home- sted upon a Mortgage from said Starr to said Jauncey since which said Starr hath paid up said Mortgage and Cost of Suit to the Memorialist and no Way is appointed by Law by which said Starr can obtain a proper Deed to discharge the aforesaid Mortgage and Judgment of Court Pray- ing for Authority to execute a Deed of Release of said Mortgage Prem- isses &c As Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Memorialist be and he is hereby Impowered to reconvey said Mortgaged Estate unto said Starr And for that purpose to execute a Deed of Release thereof which being com- pleated said Starr shall be as fully and compleatly entituled to said Mortgaged Estate as though the Same had never been Mortgaged unto said James Jauncey. .
Upon the Memorial of Abel Hine of New Milford Shewing to this Assembly that in May 1777 pursuant to appointment and direction of the General Assembly he received of the Treasurer a Quantity of small Bills to number and Sign to the amount of £403 16 3 which he paid for by replacing in the Treasury the like Sum in Money, and that he was unable to compleat and finish the whole of said small Bills untill by the depreciation of Paper Currency they became of no value by which means he has left on Hand the Sum of £95 11 2 part Signed and part not Signed Praying that on his returning to the Treasurer the said Bills on Hand amounting to said Sum of £95 11 2 the Treasurer be directed to pay the value of the amount at the Time it was received with Interest &c and to Secure the Same &c As Per Memorial on File-
Resolved by this Assembly that the Treasurer be and he is hereby directed on the Memorialists returning the said Bills on Hand into the Treasury to give security to the Memorialist for such Sum as the said Bills were worth at the Time they were paid for by the Memorialist with the Interest from that Time, and that said Security be made Payable within one Year after the end of the present War with Interest annually in the usual form.
Resolved that all Suits between Party and Party lying before this Assembly by and hereby are Continued to the Sessions of the General Assembly in May next, and that all Powers and Authorities given to Committees or other Persons and all Exemptions heretofore granted by this Assembly on such Suits be and remain in full force.
[At this point comes to an end Volume 2 of the manuscript State Records of Connecticut. Volume 3 opens with the May 1783 session of the General Assembly.]
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PUBLIC RECORDS
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AT A MEETING OF THE GOVERNOR & COUNCIL OF SAFETY AT HARTFORD THE 9th DAY OF JANUARY 1783.
Present his Excellency the Governor. The Honble Mathew Griswold. Wm Pitkin Joseph Spencer Esqrs. Joshua Porter Sam1 Huntington 1
Resolved, That Permision be granted by his Excellency the Gov- ernor to Miss Mary Ann Moore to go with a Flag to New York by the way of Dobbs& Ferry.
Resolved That his Excellency the Governor grant Permission to Brig" General Huntington8 Lady & Children to have an Interview with her Parents and famaly at Dobbss ferry.
AT A MEETING OF THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL OF SAFETY CONVENED AT HARTFORD THE 11th DAY OF JANUARY 1783.
Present his Excellency the Governor. The Honble Mathw Griswold.
Abrm Davenport Joseph Spencer Wm Williams Joshua Porter Sam. Huntington L
Esq™s.
Resolved That the Committee of pay table draw on the Treasurer in favour of Capt Wm Stanton pay master to the Second Regiment of Light Draggoons for the Sum of Four hundred Eighty one pounds Seventeen Shillings & three pence to be applied in payment of the wages of Said Regiment now in Actuall Service; for the months of January February & March 1783, Said Capt Stanton to be accountable & make a particular return to the pay table of the payments made of Said Monies to each & every officer & private that receive the same : as soon as may be.
Upon the Memorial of Lester Bebee
Resolved That Lester Bebee a Refugee late of Southhold on long Island, now Residing at Stoning have permission granted him to go to said Long Island in a Small boat with two hands on board for the purposes mentiond in his Memorial, & that he have liberty to bring off Money, Twenty bolts of Russia Duck & Some flax for his famalies use as prayd for : to be under the Inspection of Nath1 Miner Esq" both going & coming.
Upon the Memorial of Gamaliel Bayley a Reffugee from long Island now residing at Lyme praying for Liberty to return with his Effects,
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