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And we your Excellencys Petitioners Humbly Beg that we may have full Liberty to cut our own Wood and that Permissions may not be granted to any Person or Persons to cut our timber as we mean to convince Your Excellency that we are cutting A sufficient Quantity our selves agreeable to the above said Proclamation and we further Humbly Beg that the Permissions already Granted to other Persons to cut on our Wood Lands may be Recalled.
(File No. 257).
[TOWN MEETING.]
[1779, May 4.]
At a Town Meeting held this 4th Day of May 1779 the following Persons chosen.
Trustees, Israel Wood President. Capt. Timothy Carll Samuel Oakley Stephen Kellcy Timothy Conkling Gilbert fleet Solomon Ketcham.
Solomon Ketcham chosen Town Clerk and Treasurer.
Chosen to take care of Intestate Estates Justice Williams Stephen Kellcy.
Commissioners John Brush Stephen Kellcy Solomon Ketcham.
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Surveyors Capt. Timothy Carl Solomon Ketcham.
Assessors Joseph Lewis Jeremiah Brush.
Supervisor Capt. Timothy Carll.
Chosen Overseers of the poor Henry Smith Ananias Conkling.
To take care of fires Col. Conkling & ten others.
Fence viewers Henry Sammis & thirteen others.
Overseers of highways Eliphelet Jarvis & twenty-five others.
The same Day it was Voted that the Deficiency or Loss in the horses & oxen taken the IS of March 1779 and also the Deficiency or Loss in the Horses to be delivered at Epenetus Smith the 10th of May 1780 should Be all made up with the charges & expences By A Town Rate .*
(Town Meetings, Vol. I , p. 330.)
[THREATS OF BANISHMENT AND CONFISCATION.]
[1779, July 10.]
Orders Head Quarters Long Island, the Ioth July 1779.
To the Commander and every Commissioned Officer of Delancys third Battalion at Loyds Neck &c. To the Colonel of Kings County Coll. of Queens County and Colonel of Suffolk County Melitia &c.
As by the Duplicity and faint Attachment to Loyalty of some persons on this Island that enjoy the Protection of Government, and have the benefit of a Peaceable and
[* As the British troops plundered the rich and the poor in- discriminately, this act of the Town Meeting, in making the losses on the occasion referred to a charge on the town, to be paid according to the assessed value of property, was highly commendable. This plan, however, was not generally pursued. -C. R. S.]
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Profitable life Who have sons and near Relations with the Rebbles taking a leading part in Committing Scandalous Robberies and secretly in the night carry off Peaceable and Inofensive Inhabitants to Captivity. The Persons in this Predicament may be assured that on Proof of their connivance Abetting, assisting secreting or corresponding with such Robbers I will send over such Fathers or Masters with their whole Families to Connuticut and give Possession of their Farms and Property to be enjoyed by his Majesties true and Faithfull Subjects who are to take a just and true Inventory on Oath of all the effects left by the Owners in the Presence of three Neighbours of good Repute One copy to be left with me and one copy with the Justice of Peace or Nearest Capt. of Militia that they may be made accountable for the value untill they can prevail on the Robbers to desist wholly from such detesta- ble actions These orders to be put in Execution on due proof and they are to couse the heads of such Familys to be apprehended and sent to me with The report and proof of their Crimes that I may use the spediest means to Red his majesties lines of such unfaithfull Perjured Persons.
OLIVER DE LANCEY, B. G1 Commandant of Long Island.
The Inhabitants Living on the Necks and Shores of Long Island are to give the spediest notice that the Melitia and other People near the approach of the enemy may take the Alarm and Muster to repel the enemy and cut off the Retreat of their Boats by which they will Merritt Thanks and Rewards from their Country for their Allert Behaviour of which they have a Recent Instance in the spirited Conduct of the Hempstead Militia any Person knowing where these Robbers Intend to Land or have Landed and from any feigned cause does not immediately communicate to the nearest Militia officer This Inteligence
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will be Treated with the greatest Rigor as being Privy to and Abetting the enemy's Designs.
OLIVER DE LANCEY, B. G.
(File No. 147, "A.")
[ORDERED TO HELP BUILD THE FORT AT LLOYD'S NECK.]
[1779, July 24.]
HUNTINGTON July 24th 1779.
By Virtue of an Order from Leuit Coll Hewlett you are required to warn the number of Men whose names I send Here Enclosed to Appear on Lloyds Neck on Tuseday the 27th of July at 7 o'clock in the morning with three Days provision and one ox team or Waggon and Horses with a Driver in Order to build a fortification. each man to bring a shovel or spade except three men with Axces Likewise the Coll. also Insists that every mans name be returned that you are ordered to warn that does not Appear and he will send for them.
PHILIP CONKLING, Ensign.
To Segt Nath11 Brush.
N. B. If the above articles are not fullfilled you must abide the Consequence you must be on Loyd's Neck at 7 O Clock and Call at my House as you Go.
Nath Brush Malbah Burtice Eliphelet Brush
Benj Brush Jacobmiah Brush Tredwell Brush
Isaac Whitman
Zophar Brush Zophar Ketcham
Samuel Nostran
Richard Smith
Stephen Whitman
Jacob Ketcham
Richard Valentine Obediah Platt
Jesse Whitman (File No. 148.)
John Foster
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HUNTINGTON TOWN RECORDS.
[MEN WANTED FOR THE LLOYD'S NECK FORT.]
[1779, Aug. Io.]
SIR-As the Works are still unfinished-in a Good Way -I desire you will Immadiately warn one staff of your Company to be and Apear on Lloyds Neck ye 13 Instant With six axes the Rest with shovells, spaids and one Waggon with a good team In case yt they come by seven a Clock they shall only stay one Day, and ye other staff to Apper ye Next Day following In ye same manner. I am in hopes yt In Going through ye four Companies with one Day Each will Compleat ye Work.
From yr Humble Servt
RICH'D HEWLETT Lieut. Colo!
Lloyds Neck, Augst 10, 1779. To Capt Conkling. (File No. 262 )
[ORDER FROM COL. DELANCEY TO FURNISH MEN ON THE FORT AT BROOKLYN.]
[1779, Aug. 19.]
JAMAICA LONG ISLAND I9th August 1779
SIR .- Brig. D. Gen11 Delancey having received direc- tions To Order 500 Militia to parade with their Blankets On Monday the 23rd Instant to be employed in repairing and constructing the works at Brooklyn you will please to furnish 210 men from Suffolk County of the above Number and Cause them to March Imediately under a propper proportion of officers to Brooklyn heights where they will receive directions from the Engineer this party to be re- lieved by an Equal Number as often as you shall Judge Expedient from the Melitia of Suffolk County you are also directed to Cause from the said County the following
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HUNTINGTON TOWN RECORDS.
Articles to be prepared which when Compleat are to be sent to the Magazene at Brooklyn.
That is Fascins 9 feet long well Bound and \ Stript of their leaves 5000
Pickets from 3 to 4 feet long 25000
Fraising or Stockade from 9 to 10 feet long - & from 6 to 8 Inches thick 5000
Railing of 6 & 4 Inches Scantling fut round 10000
(File No. 147, "B.") 75000
[CORRESPONDENCE CONCERNING THE REFUSAL TO FURNISH MEN AND MATERIAL FOR BROOKLYN.]
[1779, Aug. 27.]
JAMACIA ye 27th August 1779
SIR .- Inclosed you have a Copy of Lord Rawdons Letter in Consequence of a Letter from Coll. Floyd in which he signifies his Inability to Comply with a Requisi- tion made for a working party and Sundry Articles re- quired from Suffolk County for building a Fort at Brooklyn Ferry this you will Immediately Communicate to the Other Capts. and Officers of the Militia in Huntington District that they may take such Measures as will prevent the threat in the Adjudant Gen11 Letter.
I am Sir Your Humble Servant OLIVER DELANCEY, Brig. Gen11
(File No. 146, "A.")
To Capt Dingee at Huntington South and the Militia officers for Huntington District Suffolk County. Head Quarters Long Island.
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HUNTINGTON TOWN RECORDS.
27th August 1779
Upon Co11 Floyds Lately receiveing Orders for a Certain proportion of Militia from Suffolk County to be employed in the Public works at Brooklyn As well as the furnishing a Quantity of Fasines &c. &c. to Construct them We replied that It was Impossible for him to Comply with the same in Consequence of which the Adjutant Gen11 has Wrote the following Letter by order of the Commander in Chief in Order that his Intention may be known in Case the County Does not Comply with the Demand.
Copy of the Letter to Brig Gen11 Delancy.
(File No. 146, "B."
[1779, Aug. 26.]
NEW YORK August 26th 1779
SIR .- I have laid before the Commander in Chief your Letter With its Inclosure, Stateing the Refusal of the In- habitants of Suffolk County to take share in the Publick
[NOTE .- That all the inhabitants of Huntington did not tame- ly submit to British oppression is shown by newspaper items of the period taken from Loyalist sources. A writer here says : "The friends of Government here have been greatly distressed ever since the King's troops left the East End of Long Island. The rebellious part of the inhabitants of this town (Hunting- ton), who were kept in awe, while the troops were stationed east of us, are now becoming more insolent than ever and pub- licly threaten to have all the Loyalists carried off to Connecti- cut. The principal of these miscreants are Nathaniel Wil- liams, Stephen Kelsey, Eliphalet Chichester, John Brush, Jonas Rogers, Marlboro Burtis and Isaac Wood. These scoundrels live in perfect safety, when scarcely a night passes but some of their loyal neighbors are plundered by the sons and other re- lations of those rebels, who fled to Connecticut when the King's troops landed on the Island. I hope you will keep a good lookout for these traitors. I hope in God these perjured villains will be made to rue the day they entered into rebellion against the best of Kings."-GAINE, July 28th, 1779 .- C. R. S.]
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HUNTINGTON TOWN RECORDS.
Works at Brooklyn you will Please to Signify to that County by sending written Copies of the Letters that If the Requisition of men and Materials for the purpose Above Mentioned is not Imediately Complyed with A Detatchment of Troops will be sent Into that District and every Person who shall have refused to Contribute his Assistance towards a Work in which the Kings Service and the Interest of the Loyal Inhabitants are so Intimately Blended Shall be turned without Distinction out of Long Island and their Farmes will be Allotted for the Support of those who have Suffered for Real Attachment to Gov- erment.
I have the Honour to be and &c. &c. JAGNEE RAWDON, Adjudant Gen11 To Capt. Dingee and other
Melitia Captins of Huntington District From Brigadier Gen11 Delancey Commanding on Long Island .*
(File No. 146, "C.")
[NAMES OF SOME OF THE SOLDIERS CAMPED IN HUNTINGTON.]
Muster Roll of Captain. -
I Graves Simcoe Esq. Lieutenant.
No. Rank Names Date of-or time of enlisting. I Cap- tain John Saunders I Lieutenant John Wilson I Cornet Thomas Merritt I Qr Master Robert Payne, 3 Sergents John Bert William Hodgins Daniel Keith, 2 Corporals
[* This proclamation of Gen. Rowdon was occasioned by the refusal of the inhabitants to comply with the requisition made on, tnem, shown in the foregoing paper, to send men to aid in the construction of a new fort at Brooklyn and furnish material for stockades .- C. R. S.]
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HUNTINGTON TOWN RECORDS.
Samuel Bates Richard Steers I Trumpeter John Porter, I - Jacob Iden I Privates Samuel arbuckle 2 Jonathan Blair 3 John Barret, 4 John Barry, 5 Rich Brown 6 John Bellard 7 Humphrey Cockran 8 Joseph Cole 9 James Campbell, 10 William Cornwall 11 Makepeace Coleby 12 Robert Carson 13 John Dogherty 14 Jacob De Lien 15 James Inglis 16 Theobald Franks, 17 James Fox 18 Lewis. Florence, 19 Mathew Gallant 20 John Gray 21 William Harvy 22 Edward Hinks 23 James Hill 24 John Higgins Sen' 25 John Higgins Jun' 26 Isaac Horton 27 David Lind- say 29 John Leighton 30 William Mitchell 31 John Monroe 32 John Maize 33 Anthony Manuel 34 John Newbury 35 Fredk Pickhart 36 William Pope 37 John Sparks, 38 Barny slack 39 Alex. Simpson 40 Thomas shannon 41 David Mitchell 42 William Winflow 43 Thomas Willis 44 Thomas. Whalley 45 John Mc Connell.
(War Claims, Vol. I, p. 86.)
[COL. SIMCOE DESCRIBES HUNTINGTON AS REBELLIOUS.]
SIR .- The expectation of seeing the General which is frustrated by the delay of our Embarkation and my In- disposition prevented me from Instantly answering your Letter relative to the Complaint of Isaac Ketcham Mr. Moffat, the Quarter Master alluded to has been dead some time so that I cannot particularize on what account I did not give a receipt to the complainant for his Corn ; altho if he applied to me I do not know that I then Gave him a reason conformable to the Instructions I had received from General Vaughn or Sir W. Erskine. I did not give re- ceipts to a great Number of People on Account of their Rebellious Principles, or absolute disobediance of the General Order the Inhabitants of the town of Huntington
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came under both discriptions-The last Order I received relative to the Collection of Forage was to direct it all to be brought in giving only an allowance for working Oxen, under Penalty not only of having it Confiscated but their Houses given up to Plunder in case of a disobedience
I have the honour to be Sir Your Most Obt Sert J. G. SIMCOE. Coll. of Queens Rangers,
(A Copy) (File No. 231.)
[1779, Dec. 6.]
6th of December 1779 Carted from the Kings Magazine In Huntington on Long Island to go to Marstins Wharf
T.
lbs.
grs.
6 Ox Loads prized at
4 IO
O
31 Waggon Loads prized
II
00
O
Amount of the Day
15
IO
O
7th 16 Country Waggon Loads prized
5
I3
47 Kings Waggon Loads prized
25
17
II Ox Loads prized
8
16
22 Kings Waggon Loads prized
14
6
Amount of the Day
54
12
O
Ton.
8th 30 Kings Waggon Loads prized
23
00
O
The whole Amount of Each Day is
Ton.
lbs.
gr
(War Claims, Vol. I, p. 11.)
93
2
O
[PETITION OF ALEXANDER SAMMIS.] [1780, Feb. 18.]
To His Excellency Major General Tryon Governor &
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HUNTINGTON TOWN RECORDS.
Commander in Chief of the Province of New York &c. &c.
The Petition of Alexander Sammis of Huntington in Queens County.
MOST HUMBLY SHEWETH.
That the Petitioner is Proprieter of about fifteen acres of wood Land in the Township of Huntington-That altho it was no more than was necessary for the use of His Family, he did in Consideration of the wants of the In- habitants cause two Boats Loads of wood to be cut (con- sisting of Thirty six Cords of wood) and sent down to New York before the severe frost set in and hath since had one other boat load cut which he intends to send to N. York as soon as the Navigation will admit.
That not withstanding these Exertions Joseph Booth, Mr Goram & Mr Moss have by some wrong suggestions obtained Permission to cut three hundred Cords of Wood upon the Land of the Petitioner for the use of the City.
That by virtue of the said Permit they began to cut Timber, but upon application to Colonel Hewlett and a Representation of the facts under both, by two of the Petitioners Neighbours, he desired the Persons cutting to desist untill he could make known the situation of his Case to your Excellency and obtain a Revocation of the Permit or that your Excellency might refer the same to Colonel Ludlow & Colonel Hewlett.
The Petitioner therefore most humbly Prays that your Excellency will be pleased to order that the Premises may be refered to the Colonels & Hewlett, and that he may be allowed to cut & send to the Market his own wood in such quantity as those Gentlemen shall direct.
And as in Duty bound he will ever Pray.
ALEXANDER SAMMIS.
N. York, 18 Feb. 1780. (File No. 235.)
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HUNTINGTON TOWN RECORDS.
[MEMORIAL OF SOLOMON KETCHAM AND OTHERS CONCERNING THEIR WOODLANDS.]
[1780, March 2.]
To the Honorable Brigadier General John Leland Es- quire &c.
The Memorial of Solomon Ketcham in behalf of himself and sundry Inhabitants of the Town of Huntington on Long Island
HUMBLY SHOWETII
That'your Memorialists are the proprietors of sundry Lots of Woodland contiguous to the Town of Huntington, many of which are barely sufficient for the uses and ordi- nary purposes of their Farms and a few have some wood to spare.
That a number of people under the Character of Refu- gees are cutting the Wood from off your Memorialists Lands which will entirely ruin their Farms.
That your Memorialists are disposed and ready to cut any quantity of wood for the supply of the Garrison and Inhabitants, that may be thought a just and reasonable proportion of their woods.
And therefore humbly pray that the persons who are now Cutting their wood may be ordered immediately to desist and that Col. Richard Hewlet who Commands at Loyds Neck or any other person the General may think proper to appoint may be directed to enquire into the state and quantity of their Woodland and ascertain what Quantity each person shall have cut.
And the memorialist as in Duty bound snall ever pray &c.
SOLOMON KETCHAM.
New York March 2 1780.
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(ANSWER.)
Gen1 Tryon cannot Revoke his orders or supersede them -But will inform himself of the state of the wood Lands in Huntington Township.
WM. TRYON M. G.
(File No. 263.)
[1780, March 9.]
Public thanks are hereby rendered to His Ex. Brig. Gen. Leland for his amiable command during his stay at Hun- tington by a vote (nem. con.) of the inhabitants, at a town meeting, held March 9, 80.
A
Sol Ketcham, Town Clerk.
("O." p. 92, File No. 271.)
[THE MEN WHO NEVER SURRENDERED.]
[1780, Apr. 13.]
An Account of Farmes which were evacuated when the Island was Taken and since in Huntington .*
Cornelius Conkling's by Joseph Hoit
Thomas Brush Jun' by Jabeth Cabbs
William Sammis by Jeams Ketcham
Gilbert Bryant by Sam11 Hitchcock.
[* The names at the left indicate those who suffered banish- ment rather than submit and take the oath of allegiance, and the right hand column contains the names of those loyalists who took possession of the abandoned farms. A journal of the period under date of Oct. 21st, 1780, states that Maj. Jesse Brush sent a warning to Ketcham and his associates as fol- lows : . Aug. 25th 1780, "I have repeatedly ordered you, es- pecially April 15th to leave my farm. This is the last invitation. If you do not your next landfall will be in a warmer climate
.
HUNTINGTON TOWN RECORDS. 63
Josiah Buffett
by Stanton & Birdseye
Joshua Rorgers
by Nathaniel Jarvis
Thomas Weeks
by - Burr.
Jesse Brush's
by John Ketcham & the Hobarts.
Isaiah Whitman
by Filer Dibble by Order of DAILY.
Huntington April 13, 1780.
by Capt. Squire I wrote the same.
(File No. 248.)
[TOWN MEETING.]
[1780, May 2.]
At a Town Meeting held this 2 day of May 1780 the fol- lowing Persons Chosen.
Trustees Joseph Lewis President Capt. Timothy Carll, Samuel Oakley Stephen Kellcy, Timothy Conkling Gilbert Fleet.
Solomon Ketcham chosen Town Clerk & Treasurer.
Chosen to take care of Intested Estates Justice Williams Stephen Kelcy.
Surveyors Capt. Timothy Carll Solomon Ketcham.
Commissioners John Brush Stephen Kelcy Solomon Ketcham.
Assessors John Brush Stephen Kelcy.
Supervisor Capt. Timothy Carll.
Overseers of the Poor Silas Sammis Jacob Brush.
To take care of fires Col. Conkling and ten others.
than any you ever lived in yet. 20 days you have to make your escape." Maj. Brush is described in an account of one of his adventures as "A small, well-built man with red hair, sandy complexion and a bright eye, strong as Hercules and bold as a lion." The list above given evidently does not contain the names of all who abandoned their property here rather than submit, but it is important as the only list among the records .- C. R. S.]
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HUNTINGTON TOWN RECORDS.
Fence Viewers Henry Sammis & twenty four others. Overseers of Highways Eliphelet Jarvis & thirty others. A hog act passed.
Chosen Constable and Collecter Jesse Whitman. (Town Meetings, Vol. I, p. 332.)
[1780, July II.]
A List of Wood Land belonging to the Inhabitants of Huntington and in Capt. Conkling's Company, July II, 1 780.
John Wood
40- 4 Joseph White
12- 14
Obediah Platt
15- 1} Selah Wood
20- 2
Solomon Ketcham
200-20
Stephen White 25- -
Timothy Conkling 18- 13 Joseph Ireland
40 4
Thomas Conkling 12- 11
Nath1 Whitman
20- 2
Jeremiah Wood 20- 2 John Oakely
20- 2
Jonas Williams 9- I Eliphelet Chichester
IO- I
Stephen Ketcham
18- 13 Malbat Burtis
8- 3 4
Hobert Conkling 10- I
Jonathan Brush
10- I
Silas Sammis
20- 2
Nathan Valentine
40 - 4
Tredwell Brush
35-
33 Richd Smith
10- 1
Joseph Sammis
7-
3 Samuel Oakley
100-10
Timothy Sammis
7-
Jonas Rogers
IO- I
Jacobmiah Brush Benj. Brush
14 1 3
George Youngs
12- I
1
Ananias Brush
IO- I
Alexander Rorgers
15-
Nath11 Brush
IO- I
Isaac Ketcham
60-
6 Zophar Brush
IO- 1
Jeams Rorgers
15-
13. Jesse Ketcham
20- 2
Jonas Sammis
IO- 1 WVilmott Oakly
80- 8
John Sammis
10- I Zophar Ketcham
20- 2
Silvanus Sammis
10- I Daniel Ireland
20- 2
Ananias Conkling
10- 1 John Howard
20- 2
Philip Conkling 5- 1 Dan'll Nostran
20- 2
Nehemiah Whitman 100-IO
Israel Ketcham
IO- I
Sam1 Nostran
15-11
Jeams Nostran
15- I
John Foster
12- 12
(File. No. 261.)
3
Ezekiel Brush
14- I
4
Theadorus Vanwicke 25-23
14- 12
Dan' Hendrickinder- son 8-
John Brush 70- 7
Jacob Ketcham
15-
242
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HUNTINGTON TOWN RECORDS.
[1780, Sept. II.]
HUNTINGTON, September 11 1780
By Virtue of an Order from the Barrack Master you are required Imediately to warn all the Inhabitants of the Town, to Cart their Wood for Goverment, (each man his Proportion as was before pointed out by tickets) to John Brushes Landing without Delay ; for the Vessels have waited some time where an Officer of the Millitia will point out a spot for the Wood to be Laid to prevent fur- ther Cartage, the Wood must be Down in ten Days if Pos- sible ; When the Wood is down it will be Measured by Capt. Squires, and Receits Given both for Wood and Cart- age to an officer of the Millitia, the Wood to be Corded 4 Feet 9 inches.
PHILLIP CONKLING Esq.
N. B. Your Teams are not to be Prest when Carting Wood.
(File No. 247.)
JAMAICA ye 23ª September 1780 I do hereby certify that Eliphilet Sammises four ox team and Ezekiel Conklings Jeremiah Woods * * * * and Joseph Wickes Nathaniel and Nathan Platts wagons were employed two days carrying the sick of the second Batt. Light Infantry from Huntington to Jamaica.
THO. ARMSTRONG Major commd 2ud B. 2 I.
JAMAICA ye 23 September 1780 I hereby certify that two four ox teams of Zophar were employed two days in car-
[NOTE .- The year 1780, now drawing to a close, had been one of almost uninterrupted disaster to the patriot cause throughout the country. The British Parliament had voted $100,000,000, 85,000 seaman and 35,000 troops in addition to
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HUNTINGTON TOWN RECORDS.
rying the sick of the 2ª Batt Q Infantry from Huntington to Jamaca.
THO. ARMSTRONG Major Com. 2 B. Q. I.
(War Claims, Vol. I, p. 58.)
[TOWN MEETING.]
[1781, May I.]
At a Town Meeting held this first day of May 1781 the following Persons chosen.
Trustees Joseph Lewis President.
Eliphelet Chichester Capt. Digbe Jonah Scudder Tim- othy Conklin Stephen Kelcy Solomon Ketcham.
Solomon Ketcham chosen Town Clerk and Treasurer.
To take care of Intestate estates Justic Williams Stephen Kelcy.
Commisioners John Brush, Stephen Kelcy Solomon Ketcham.
Surveyors Capt. Carll Solomon Ketcham.
Assessors Jesse Ketcham John Ketcham.
Chosen to take A New Estimate Capt. Carll Samuel Oakley.
Chosen Supervisor Capt. Timothy Carll.
Israel Smith and Eliphelet Chichester to estimate Capt. Carll's & Samuel Oakly's estates.
Overseers of the poor Jonathan Scudder and Hubbard Conkling.
Chosen Constable and Collector Ezekiel Conkling.
Fence Viewers Henry Sammis & thirteen others.
Overseers of highways Eliphelet Jarvis & twenty five others.
those already in America. Gen. Benedict Arnold had turned traitor and surrendered West Point to the enemy. In the gen- eral despondency, the people of Huntington, at this period, doubtless had little hope of ever gaining their independence .- C. R. S.]
HUNTINGTON TOWN RECORDS. 67
Capt Squire and Justic Platt chosen to Buy the Horses and take them to Jamaica and to joyn with the men in the other towns to chuse other men to Value them.
Hog act revised.
(lown Meetings, Vol. I, pp. 334-5.
[1781, June 23.]
Account Current of Horses Purchased by Capt. John Squier and Zophar Platt Esq. for Huntington for the use of Government Huntington June 23 1781.
E
s. d.
Hulet Jones one Mare
35
0 O
Zophar Smith I Horse
37 O
George Norton I Horse
40 0
Selah Carll I Mare
31 O
Eliphilet Stratten I Horse
35
.
Elemuel Carl Mare & I Horse
60
0
Jesse Smith I Horse
34
Eliphilet Chichester 2 Horses & I Mare
100
Jesse Fleet I Horse
29
Amos Willis I Horse
40
0
John Ketcham I Mare
36
Nathil Williams I Horse
35
O
John Carmen I Horse
28
0
Jesse Buffett I Horse
36
0
Shubal Smith I Horse
36
O
Malby Burtis I Mare
30 0
Nathan Valentine I Mare
30
C
John Veall I Mare
33
0
Samuel Jarvis I Mare
28
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