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Holmes, John,
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Thirty-seven of the above named rode horses from Horse- neck, seventeen from Stanwich, and eleven from Greenwich, Old Town. The following were detailed to return the horses :
Mead, Henry, Mead, Joseph,
Newman, Isaac, Reynolds, Horton.
It should be borne in mind that the militia companies were only called out to re-enforce the troops already in the field. Greenwich had, at the commencement of this cam- paign, furnished her quota of men, who were now in the service in Captain Waterbury's Company of Stamford. The printed roll contains the following names:
6TH COMPANY, IST REGIMENT.
Waterbury, David, 3rd, Captain, of Stamford. Ferris, Reuben, Ist Lieutenant of Greenwich. Taylor, John, 2nd Lieutenant. Stebbins, Josiah, Ensign.
Sergeants.
Ferris, Nathan, Gale, William,
Taylor, Reuben, Whelpley, Isaac,
Bates, Abraham, Clerk,
Elmer, Daniel, Drummer.
Corporals.
Jagger, Jeremiah, Morris, Joseph,
Lockwood, Moses, Verdin, Peter.
Privates.
Ask, Thomas,
Dan, David,
Barnite, William,
Daton, Stephen,
Baterson, Joseph,
Dauchy, James,
Bates, Ebenezer,
Deen, John,
Beears, Jesse,
Demorat, John,
Camp, Abraham,
Denslow, Charles,
Canedy, Philip,
Dickson, Nathan,
Castalow, James,
Downs, Robert,
Close, Nathaniel,
Eget, Stephen,
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Ferris, James,
Peters, Benjamin,
Ferris, Pack,
Proverse, Samuel,
Forquar, Robert,
Raymond, Sands,
George, Thomas,
Reboe, Andrew,
Gray, Nathan,
Reynolds, Caleb,
Green, Ezra,
Reynolds, Daniel,
Gregory, Seely,
Reynolds, Ebenezer,
Hays, Thomas,
Rockwell, John,
Hilton, Addison,
Seely, Abijah,
House, John,
Selleck, Nathaniel,
Jackson, Daniel,
Sherwood, Samuel,
Jackson, Stephen,
Sickels, Eliakim,
Jagger, Reuben,
Slason, Peter,
Jarman, John,
Slason, Silvanus,
Jessup, Nathaniel,
Sloem, Alexander,
Kelly, Morris,
Smith, Josiah,
Knapp, Amos,
Smith, Moses,
Leeke, William,
Squier, Nathaniel,
Lewis, Foster,
St. John, Isaac,
Lewis, William J.,
Steward, Daniel,
Lobdell, Ebenezer,
Stone, John,
Lockwood, Ephraim,
Taylor, Barak,
Lockwood, John,
Taylor, Phineas,
Lockwood, Robert,
Tharps, Daniel,
Loder, John,
Tomson, John,
Mead, James,
Waterbury, Ebenezer,
Morris, Stephen,
Webb, Jonathan,
Mow, John,
Weed, Youngs,
Nash, Jedediah,
Westcott, Nathaniel,
Nickals, Thomas,
White, David,
Nickes, Nehemiah,
Williams, Charles,
Olmstead, David,
Willmoth, Zophar,
Palmer, Jacob,
Worden, Samuel,
Palmer, Samuel,
Yeras, Nathan.
Palmer, Silas,
The General Assembly in March, 1758, resolved to raise five thousand men, officers included, for the coming cam- paign, the forces to be divided into four regiments of twelve companies each. These troops were to act in conjunction with those of the other New England Colonies under Major- General Abercromby, Commander-in-Chief of his Majesty's forces in North America. The Connecticut forces con-
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tinued under the command of Major-General Phineas Lyman, and the expedition was against Crown Point and Fort Ticonderoga.
The Greenwich company, under the command of Captain Thomas Hobby, was mustered into the 4th Regiment early in the spring of 1758.
5TH COMPANY, 4TH REGIMENT.
Hobby, Thomas, Captain, of Greenwich. Walker, Josiah, Ist Lieutenant. Olmstead, Stephen, 2nd Lieutenant. Mead, James, Ensign.
This company apparently consisted of seventy-two men, in addition to the officers. The roll does not appear in the printed records.
The General Assembly in March, 1759, resolved to raise three thousand and six hundred men, including officers, for the coming campaign, and gave further encouragement for four hundred more to enlist, the forces to be divided into four regiments of ten companies each. In May, 1759, the As- sembly gave encouragement for enlisting one thousand additional men to be added to the four regiments, three companies each to the first and second, and two companies each to the third and fourth. The Connecticut forces con- tinued under the command of Major-General Phineas Lyman, and the expedition was against Crown Point and Fort Ticonderoga.
The Greenwich Company, under the command of Cap- tain Thomas Hobby, was mustered into the 3rd Regiment early in the spring of 1759. The printed roll contains the following names:
3RD REGIMENT.
Mead, Amos, Surgeon, of Greenwich, at Ticonderoga, October, 1759.
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4TH COMPANY.
Hobby, Thomas, Captain, of Greenwich. Hall, Jabez, Ist Lieutenant. Mead, James, 2nd Lieutenant. Mead, Joseph, Ensign. Sergeants.
Barnes, Joseph,
Knapp, David,
Parsons, Jesse, Clerk.
Baird, Robert, Drummer. Rundle, Abraham, Drum- mer.
Corporals.
Burhorns, Henry, Joyce, John,
Mead, Sylvanus, Whelpley, Darling.
Privates.
Abbott, David,
Ketcham, Benjamin,
Alger, James,
Knapp, Abraham,
Austin, David,
Knapp, Daniel,
Barnham, Nathan,
Lee, Joseph,
Baxter, David,
Lockwood, Caleb,
Beardslee, John,
Lockwood, Jacob,
Bennitt, James,
Lockwood, Joshua,
Brown, Thomas,
Marshall, Jeremiah,
Castien, Samuel,
Marshall, Samuel,
Edwards, Robert,
Mead, Eliphalet,
Fairchild, Samuel,
Mead, Jesse,
Ferris, Moses,
Measurall, Christian,
Ferris, Timothy,
Morehouse, Daniel,
Finch, David,
Myers, Alexander,
Finch, Jonathan,
Nuel, Lostis,
Graves, Allen,
Owens, Ebenezer,
Graves, Stephen,
Palmer, Enos,
Hall, Elnathan,
Palmeter (?), Silvanus,
Harrison, Robert,
Patterson, William,
Hobby, Enos,
Peck, Henry,
Holmes, Thatford (?),
Peck, John,
Jessup, Silvanus,
Poor, James,
Johnson, Peter,
Pue, Henry,
Reynolds, Titus,
Kelly, Maurice,
Lockwood, Moses, Stevens, Hesekiah,
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Seeley, Nehemiah,
Trowbridge, Seth,
Smithsur (?), Jasper,
Willmoth, Francis,
Studwell, Abraham,
Wilson, Daniel,
Towner, Ithiel (?),
Wilson, Uriah.
The General Assembly in March, 1760, resolved to raise five thousand men, officers included, for the coming cam- paign, to serve "under the supreme command of his Maj- esty's Commander-in-Chief in America," the forces to be divided into four regiments of twelve companies each. The Connecticut forces continued under the command of Major- General Phineas Lyman, and the expedition was against Montreal. The Greenwich Company, under the command of Captain Thomas Hobby, was mustered into the 3rd . Regiment.
5TH COMPANY, 3RD REGIMENT.
Hobby, Thomas, Captain, of Greenwich. Lockwood, Timothy, Ist Lieutenant. Mead, James, 2nd Lieutenant. Mead, Joseph, Ensign.
This company consisted of five sergeants, six corporals, and fifty privates who had served in some previous cam- paign, and sixteen new soldiers, probably in addition to the four commissioned officers. The roll does not appear in the printed records.
The General Assembly in March, 1761, resolved to raise two thousand and three hundred men, officers included, for the coming campaign, the forces to be divided into two regi- ments of twelve companies each. These troops were to be under the supreme command of his Majesty's Commander- in-Chief in America. In October, 1761, the Assembly re- solved to give proper encouragement for new enlisting from the troops then in service of two hundred and twenty-six men, including officers, to serve during the coming winter and, if necessary, until the first day of July, 1762. The Con- necticut forces continued under the command of Major-
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General Phineas Lyman, and the expedition was against the Indians.
The Greenwich company, under the command of Captain Thomas Hobby, was mustered into the 2nd Regiment early in the spring of 1761. The printed roll contains the fol- lowing names:
6TH COMPANY, 2ND REGIMENT.
Hobby, Thomas, Captain, of Greenwich. Hall, Jabez, Ist Lieutenant. Smith, Moses, Jr., 2nd Lieutenant. Stebbins, Joseph, Ensign.
Sergeants.
Baird, Robert, Hall, David, Jones, John,
Tharp, Eduert, Whelpley, Isaac.
Drummers.
Hobby, John, Reynolds, Eli.
Corporals.
Finch, Jeremiah,
Foster, Zachariah,
Smith, Joseph, Weed, Gilbert.
Privates.
Addington, John,
Craford, Thomas,
Adoms, Abraham,
Cross, Nathaniel,
Ambler, Jonathan,
Curten, John,
Barnet, Jeremiah,
Dayly, Samuel,
Barnum, Bunel,
Ditmen, Stephen,
Dogherty, Andrew,
Barnum, Nathan, Bennet, Gabral,
Ferrel, John,
Bennet, Moses,
Ferris, Thomas,
Blake, William,
Finch, Jonathan,
Bond, Michael,
Fisher, Francis,
Bradly, Jabez, Bush, Martin,
Gales, Josiah,
Chapman, Daniel,
Gilbert, Hezekiah,
Gilbert, Isaac,
Gregory, Zachariah,
Griffen, Joseph,
Clement, Francis, Coll, Hezekiah, Conoly, Patrick, 6
Flowers, Joseph,
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Hael, Amos,
Palmer, Samuel,
Hall, Gasham,
Partilo, Amos,
Hally, Gerediah,
Partilo, Jehiel,
Hambleton, Aduert,
Perry, Elisha,
Hobby, Thomas, Jr.,
Perry, James,
Holouday, Michael,
Resseca, James,
Hubert, Joseph,
Reynolds, Jeremiah,
Johnson, Peter,
Reynolds, Jonathan,
Johnson, William,
Reynolds, Philip,
Joyce, James,
Reynolds, Silas,
Joyce, John,
Roberts, Benjamin, Rundle, Joshua,
Kady, Maleky,
Knapp, Amos,
Sherwood, Abel,
Knapp, Caleb,
Sherwood, Andrew,
Knapp, Eli,
Sherwood, Nemiah,
Knapp, Samuel,
Slauson, John,
Labdle, Uriah,
Smith, John,
Lee, Joseph,
Studwell, Abraham,
Lues, James,
Thearps, Daniel,
McMullen, James,
Traner, John,
Marshall, Thomas,
White, Uriah,
Mead, Josiah,
Willmoth, Francis,
Mious, Alexander,
Wood, Jonah,
Morehouse, Elisha,
Wright, James,
Morehouse, Elisha, Jr.,
Wright, Reuben,
Nicholas, John,
Wright, Salvenus.
Nichols, Joseph,
The General Assembly in March, 1762, resolved to raise two thousand and three hundred men, officers included, for the coming campaign "to march to such place or places in North America as his Majesty's Commander-in-Chief shall appoint"; the forces to be divided into two regiments of twelve companies each. The first regiment, excepting the tenth company, took part in the expedition against Havana. The second regiment and the tenth company of the first regiment served in the northern campaign. Encourage- ment was also given for the enlistment of five hundred and seventy-five men to aid in making the complement of the regular regiments serving in America. In October, 1762, the Assembly gave "proper encouragement" for new en-
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listing, from the troops then in service, of two hundred and twenty-six men, including officers, to serve during the coming winter and, if necessary, until the first day of July, 1763. The Connecticut forces continued under the com- mand of Major-General Phineas Lyman.
The Greenwich company, under the command of Captain Thomas Hobby, was mustered into the 2nd Regiment early in the spring of 1762. The printed roll contains the fol- lowing names:
5TH COMPANY, 2ND REGIMENT.
Hobby, Thomas, Captain, of Greenwich. Hall, Jabez, Ist Lieutenant. Smith, Moses, 2nd Lieutenant. Mead, Matthew, Ensign.
Sergeants.
Hobby, Thomas, Jr.,
Finch, Jeremiah,
Tharp, Edward, Towner, Othiel.
Mead, Jeremiah,
Drummers.
Ketcham, Benjamin, Reynolds, Eli.
Corporals.
Chase, Isaac,
Kimberly, Ephriam,
Reynolds, Eliphalet, Rowley, Israel.
Privates.
Abrahamson, Justus,
Chapman, Daniel,
Adams, Jonathan,
Chappel, Nathaniel,
Adams, Jonathan, Jr.,
Chase, Joshua,
Bartow, Peter,
Clement, Francis,
Beardslee, John,
Clock, Peter,
Bennit, Stephen,
Cross, Nathaniel,
Betts, Ezer,
Curtain, John,
Blake, William,
Dikeman, Stephen,
Bush, John,
Dilluvan, John,
Bush, Martin,
Durant, Peter,
Cadey, Malachi,
Fairchild, Andrew,
Chapman, Barnabas,
Ferris, Abraham,
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Ferris, Gilbert,
Nichols, Eliakim,
Ferris, Pack,
Nichols, Nehemiah,
George, Thomas,
Palmer, Enos,
Gideons, Solomon,
Parks, Andrew,
Green, John,
Partilo, Jehiel,
Green, Joseph,
Patchen, George,
Haight, Amos,
Patchen, Jesse,
Hall, John,
Price, John,
Hall, Joseph,
Reynolds, James,
Hall, Josiah,
Reynolds, Jonathan,
Hall, Lewis,
Reynolds, Silas,
Jessup, Nathaniel,
Roberts, Peter,
Joyce, James,
Rockwell, John,
Kelley, James,
Rowell, Oliver,
Kellyhat, William,
Scribner, Stephen,
Knapp, Amos,
Smith, Jasper,
Knapp, Jonas,
Smith, John,
Lewis, Thomas,
St. John, Ezra,
Lockwood, Hezekiah,
Thomas, Joseph,
Lockwood, Jabez,
Underwood, Thomas,
Lockwood, Robert,
Walker, Isaac,
Lockwood, Stephen,
Wallis, Joshua,
McGregory, Duncan,
Wanser, Jesse,
McMullen, James,
Ward, Peter,
Marshall, Thomas,
Webb, Joseph,
Mead, Jesse,
Wiccomb (?), Jonathan,
Mills, John,
Willmoth, Francis,
Moger, Isaac,
Wood, Jonah,
Murry, Thomas,
Yarns, Adonijah.
Nicholas, John,
During the war a part of the regular troops were quartered at Stamford, I Connecticut, and at a town meeting held in 1757, the Town of Stamford voted, that if the "Earl of Loudon shall send regulars into this town, the town will bear the charge of accommodating them with what shall be necessary for them." The committee appointed to care for the troops made the following report:
These may certify your Honors, that the Highland soldiers ordered to be quartered in the Town of Stamford
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arrived at said town November 30, 1757, and were quar- tered there until March 30, 1758. The number of soldiers, officers included, were 250. There were also belonging to them, 17 women and 9 children. They were at the cost of the town provided with houseroom, bedding, firewood, candles, &c., &c. Their officers insisted upon their being kept in a small compass, which exposed us to much more trouble and cost than otherwise would have been necessary.
Stamford, April 28, 1758.
JONA. HOYT ABR. DAVENPORT JNO. HOLLY
- Committee to take care of the Highlanders.
In 1758, troops were again quartered at Stamford, and in December of that year, a committee was appointed "to supply his Majesty's regular forces now quartered in this town with firewood for their guard room and hospital and what bedding they shall think proper to provide them with, to be paid for out of the town treasury." The Governor and Company of the Colony of Connecticut, at their meeting in New Haven, on the second Thursday of October, 1758, ordered the colony treasurer to pay the Town of Stamford £369, 13s and 4d to reimburse the town for the cost of keep- ing "a part of Colonel Fraser's Highland Battalion the last winter."
Some of the descendants of Surgeon Amos Mead have in their possession an old flintlock-pistol and powder horn, which were carried by him through the campaign of 1759, and upon the powder horn are almost perfectly delineated, the relative positions and forts of the hostile armies of Ticon- deroga. This work was done by Dr. Mead while in active service as Surgeon of the 3rd Connecticut Regiment. The horn, besides, has engraved upon it the following:
"AMOS MEAD, "Surgn of ye 3d Conn Reg "Ticonderoga October 1759."
His original commission, which was duly issued under
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the Seal of the Colony of Connecticut and signed by the Governor, is also in their possession.
Timothy Reynolds, who was a soldier in Captain White's Company of Stanwich during the campaign of 1756, was captured by the Indians and after his escape presented the following petition to the General Assembly :
1760, March 13. Upon the memorial of Timothy Rey- nolds of Greenwich, "representing to this Assembly that he was a soldier in the service of this Colony on the seventeenth day of July, 1756, at Lake George, and was then on a party with Major Waterbury when attacked by the enemy, and was taken prisoner by the Indians and carried into captivity, and by them detained until the second day of June last, when he found means to escape, and arrived at Lake George on the thirtieth day of June and entered the same service and con- tinued until the sixteenth day of October last, and praying this Assembly to Order him his pay as a soldier from said seventeenth day of July to the sixteenth day of October, as per memorial on file.
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"Resolved by this Assembly, that the sum of £25 be granted to said Timothy Reynolds, to be paid out of the public treasury of this Colony and the Treasurer of this Colony is hereby ordered and directed to pay the same to sd Timothy Reynolds."
At a town meeting held on the second day of March 1756, it was "furthermore voted that Nehemiah Mead should have liberty to sell the town stock of powder as soon as he can conveniently to ye town's best advantage and lay out all the money that he shall sell said powder for in powder that is good and put the same into town stock as soon as he conveniently can."
On the fifteenth day of December, 1760, it was voted to build a town house and it was left to the authority of the selectmen to select a site and decide on the size of the building. It stood on Putnam Avenue near the Second Congregational Church, and was used during the Revolutionary War as a guard house for the Green-
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wich Artillery Company. It was burned during Tryon's Raid in 1779.
The First Society of Greenwich, Old Town (now Sound Beach), having been without a settled minister for nearly nine years, the Associated Pastors of the Churches of Christ for this section of Fairfield County on the eighth day of May, 1755, presented the following petition to the General Assembly :
On the representation of the Rev. William Gaylord and others of the Associated Pastors of the Churches of Christ in the western district in the County of Fairfield, that the Church and Society of Greenwich within said district for about nine years past has been and still remains destitute of any settled gospel minister and unable of themselves to settle and support one among them, and recommending to this Assembly the consideration and care of said Society according to law in such cases, provided and especially suggesting as an expedient therein the annexing of them to the Parish of Horseneck. In October of the same year, after hearing Nathaniel Peck in relation thereto, a committee consisting of Colonel Andrew Burr, Major John Read, and David Row- land was appointed to view the state and circumstances of each of said parishes, especially as to those disputes that now subsist between them, Greenwich, and Horseneck, respecting their parochial extension and the levying of ministerial taxes. The matter was amicably settled and the two parishes were allowed to continue as heretofore.
A letter from the Rev. Ebenezer Dibble to the Assembly, dated March 25, 1762, gives the population of Greenwich, as follows:
2,021 whites, 52 blacks.
The Town of Greenwich in 1762 had a school fund, which was obtained from the excess of the moneys collected from the excise tax, not from the sale of western lands, and the
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selectmen were authorized by the General Assembly to invest it for the benefit of the schools. It consisted of a bond for £158 secured by a mortgage on real property at Norwalk, held by a committee appointed by the town, com- posed of John Clapp, Silas Betts, and Peter Mead, who were instructed to divide the money equally according to the design of the Assembly for the use of the schools. The minutes of 1768 contain the following reference to said fund:
"And whereas there are certain lands conveyed to the committee of the Town of Greenwich and to their successors by Ezra Knapp of Norwalk, which lands are lying in said Norwalk and are designed for the use of schools in Green- wich, and as it appears necessary that some proper persons be appointed to lease or sell said land for the purpose aforesaid for and in behalf of said town and to account for the sales or profits thereof," a committee was thereupon appointed for the purpose aforesaid. The land in question was thereafter conveyed to Epenetus Holmes subject to the above mortgage, who had the same transferred to his house and lands in Greenwich, together with his sloop, and in 1774, he having defaulted in some of the conditions thereof, the town or- dered the sale of the aforesaid property, as follows:
At a town meeting holden in Greenwich on the seven- teenth day of October, 1774, the town appointed the present selectmen, John Clapp, Bezaleel Brown, John Mackay, John Mead, and Peter Mead, its committee, to sell the sloop and lands and outlands conveyed to said town by Epenetus Holmes; said sale to be accounted for to said town for the use of the schools; and the selectmen are appointed to sell said house and lands, either together or separate, as may best suit ye purchaser or purchasers on the day of the next annual town meeting at twelve o'clock, noon, at the town house at Horseneck, by way of Public Vendue.
Early in the year 1768, considerable discussion arose as to the selection of a county seat for the County of Fairfield, and at a special town meeting legally warned and holden on the fifth day of May, 1768, it was voted that it would, in con-
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junction with the Town of Norwalk in the County of Fair- field, send its agent to the next ensuing Assembly to prefer a memorial to said Assembly, that the court house and jail in said County of Fairfield may be built at said Norwalk. In October of the same year the following resolution was adopted:
Whereas, the Town of Norwalk, in conjunction with several other towns in the County of Fairfield, preferred a memorial to the General Assembly, held at New Haven in October last, and now lies before said Assembly to be heard at the adjournment in January next, praying that the said Town of Norwalk may be the head or county town, etc .; and whereas David Bush signed the same as agent for and in behalf of said town; it is therefore now voted and agreed that this town allows and approves of said David Bush's signing said memorial as agent for this town, and he is hereby fully impowered and authorized in the name and behalf of this town to appear and prefer said memorial to a final deter- mination, and that it is the earnest request and desire of the inhabitants of this town that the General Assembly would take the matters contained in said memorial unto their wise consideration and grant the prayer thereof, and that a copy of this vote may be used in the trial of said memorial in order to signify the minds of the inhabitants of this town in the premises.
In 1771 the question of title to lands now lying within the bounds of the State of Pennsylvania was brought before the General Assembly at the May Session, and it was then con- tended that the "lands west of the Delaware River are well contained in the charter granted by King Charles II," and a good title thereto was vested in the Colony of Connecticut. The claim called "The Susquehanna Case" was formally submitted in writing to a committee of lawyers in Great Britain, who reported in favor of the Colony of Connecticut. Whereupon the General Assembly appointed a committee, consisting of Colonel Eliphalet Dyer, Dr. William Samuel Johnson, and Jedediah Strong, to confer with William Penn at Philadelphia, and, if possible, reach an amicable settlement
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of the question. Mr. Penn, however, would not yield a point in favor of the Colony of Connecticut, and thus the matter stood during the Revolutionary War, during which time the Colony of Connecticut assumed jurisdiction over the territory in dispute.
The matter was brought before the town at a special meeting held on the twenty-first day of March, 1774, at which the following action was taken.
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This towne taking into serious consideration the Dis- tressed Situation and alarming Prospect that may occur, and in all human probability will occur, by entering into a Controversy with Mr. Penne and his brothers, as Joint Pro- prietors of the Provience of Pennsylvania, for a certain claim of lands on or near ye Susquehannah River, claimed by a company of purchasers, commonly called ye Susquehannah Purchasers, etc., etc., which claim having never yet been prosecuted before the King in Council (which we apprehend to be the only proper place of Decision). We, the inhabi- tants, etc., assembled as above, are of opinion that the prosecuting said claim to said lands will be tedious and ex- pensive, and of a dangerous tendency to this Colony; not only subjecting the Colony considered as such to pay the expenses of a litigation of a suit with Mr. Penne, but will or may mediately tend to a forfeiture of those invaluable privilledges whereof we (as a Colony) are now possessed. It is therefore voted by this meeting, that Doct. Amos Mead and John Mead, Esq., be and they are hereby appointed to go to Middletown in Connecticut on the last Wednesday of March instant, and there to confer with the Delegates of the other towns in this Colony, what is most proper to be done and acted in this most interesting affair.
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