CONNECTICUT ASSEMBLY.

At a General Assembly of the Governour and Company of the English Colony of Connecticut in New-England, in America, holden at Hartford by Special Order of the Governour of said Colony, on Wednesday the twenty-sixth day of April, Annoque Domini 1775: Present:

The Honourable Jonathan Trumbull, Esq., Governour; the Honourable Matthew Griswold, Esq., Deputy Governour; Jabez Hamlin, Elisha Sheldon, Eliphalet Dyer, Jabez Huntington, William Pitkin, Roger Sherman, Abraham Davenport, William Samuel Johnson, Oliver Wolcott, James Abraham Hilhouse, Esquires, Assistants.

Representatives or Deputies of the Freemen of the several Towns are as follows, viz:

HARTFORD.—Colonel John Pitkin, Colonel Thomas Seymour.

WINDSOR.—Captain Josiah Bissell, Mr. Oliver Ellsworth.

SYMSBURY.—Colonel Jonathan Pettibone, Colonel Jonathan Humphrey.

EAST WINDSOR.—Mr. William Wolcott, Mr. Erastus Wolcott.

GLASTENBURY.—Captain Jonathan Wells, Mr. Ebenezer Plumer.

SUFFIELD.—Mr. Alex. King, Captain Abraham Granger.

WEATHERSFIELD.—Major Thomas Belding, Mr. Silas Dean.

MIDDLETOWN.—Mr. Matthew Talcott, Mr. Titus Hosmer.

WILLINGTON.—Mr. Moses Holmes, Mr. Elijah Fenton.

TOLLAND.—Mr. Samuel Cobb, Mr. Eleazer Steel.

HADDAM.—Captain Joseph Brooks.

BOLTON.—Captain Joel White, Captain Benj. Talcott.

SOMERS.—Mr. Zera Kibbee, Mr. Reuben Sikes.

CHATHAM.—Mr. David Sage, Captain Silas Dunham.

EAST HADDAM.—Mr. Daniel Brainard, Mr. Jabez Chapman.

COLCHESTER.—Mr. Henry Champion, Mr. John Watrous.

STAFFORD.—Mr. Josiah Converse, Mr. Joseph Fuller.

ENFIELD.—Mr. Edward Collins, Major Nath. Terry.

HEBRON.—Captain Daniel Ingham, Captain Obadiah Hosford.

FARMINGTON.—Colonel John Strong, Colonel Fisher Gay.

NEW-HAVEN.—Mr. Sam. Bishop, Mr. Joshua Chandler,

DURHAM.—Col. Elihu Chauncey, Colonel James Wadsworth.

DERBY.—Captain John Wooster, Mr. James Beard.

BRANFORD.—Mr. Edward Russell, Mr. Daniel Page.

GUILFORD.—Mr. John Burgess, Col. Andrew Ward.

WALLINGFORD.—Mr. Oliver Stanley, Major Reuben Atwater.

WATERBURY.—Mr. Joseph Hopkins, Colonel Jonathan Baldwin.

MILFORD.—Major David, Baldwin.

NEW-LONDON.—Mr. Richard Law, Mr. William Hilhouse.

NORWICH.—Mr. Benjamin Huntington.

STONINGTON.—Major Charles Phelps, Major Samuel Prentice.

SAYBROOK.—Doctor Samuel Field, Colonel William Worthington.

PRESTON.—Mr. Robert Crary, Captain James Morgan.

LYME.—Mr. John Lay, Mr. Ebenezer Selden.

KILLINGWORTH.—Mr. Hezekiah Lane.

GROTON.—Mr. Thomas Mumford, Mr. Stephen Billings.

FAIRFIELD.—Mr. Jonathan Sturgess, Captain Samuel Squier.

STRATFORD.—Captain Robert Fairchild, Captain Daniel Judson,

READING.—Mr. William Hawley.

GREENWICH.—Major John Mead, Mr. Peter Mead.

STAMFORD.—Colonel David Waterbury, Colonel Charles Webb.

RIDGEFIELD.—Colonel Philip B. Bradley.

NORWALK.—Mr. Tho. Belding, Doctor Thaddeus Betts.

NEWTOWN.—Captain Henry Glover, Captain Peter Nichols.

NEW-FAIRFIELD.—Mr. Zaccheus Towner, Mr. Alexander Fairchild.

DANBUEY.—Col. Joseph P. Cook, Captain Daniel Taylor.

WINDHAM.—Colonel Jedediah Elderkin, Mr. Nathaniel Wales.

LEBANON.—Colonel William Williams, Mr. Jonathan Trumbull.

CANTERBURY.—Mr. Solomon Pain, Mr. Eliashib Adams.

POMFRET.—Mr. Thomas Williams, Mr. Elisha Lord.

WOODSTOCK.—Mr. Caleb May, Captain Timothy Perrin.

COVENTRY.—Captain Ebenezer Kingsbury, Mr. Jeremiah Ripley.

MANSFIELD.—Mr. Constant Southworth, Colonel Ebenezer Storrs.

PLAINFIELD.—Capt. Isaac Coit, Capt. John Douglass.

VOLUNTOWN.—Major James Gordon, Mr. Robert Hunter.

KILLINGLY.—Mr. Benjamin Leavings.

ASHFORD.—Captain Benj. Sumner, Mr. Elijah Whitton.

LITCHFIELD.—Mr. Jedediah Strong, Captain David Welch.

NEW-HARTFORD.—Capt. Matthew Gillett, Captain Seth Smith.

SHARON.—Major Ebenezer Gay, Mr. James Pardee.

SALISBURY.—Col. Joseph Porter, Mr. Hezekiah Fitch.

KENT.—Mr. Ephraim Hubbell, Mr. Justus Sackett.

WOODBURY.—Mr. Daniel Sherman, Captain Increase Moseley.

GOSHEN.—Colonel Ebenezer Norton, Captain Edmund Beach.

HARWINGTON.—Capt. John Willson, Mr. Josiah Phelps.

NEW-MILFORD.—Major Samuel Canfield, Mr. Sherman Boardman.

TORRINGTON.—Major Epaphras Sheldon, Mr. Noah Marshall.

CORNWALL.—Mr. Heman Swift, Captain Thomas Porter.

CANAAN.—Mr. John Watson, Colonel Charles Burrall.

WESTMORELAND.—Mr. Joseph Sluman.

William Williams, Esq., Speaker of the House of Representatives; Richard Law, Clerk.

Whereas it was enacted by the General Assembly held at New-Haven, on the second Thursday of October last, that every Regiment in this Colony, as well the Horse as Foot belonging thereto, shall meet either together or in parts, at the discretion of the Colonel or Commanding Officer, at such time and place as such Colonel or Field Officer shall appoint for Regimental Exercise, one day before the tenth clay of May next; and whereas the meeting of such Regiments agreeably to said Act will be inconvenient in the present situation of affairs,

Resolved by this Assembly, The Colonels or Commanding Officers of the several Regiments in this Colony shall be, and they are hereby released from the obligation to callout their said Regiments for Regimental Exercises before the tenth day of May next, any thing in said Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

Resolved by this Assembly, That an Embargo be forthwith laid upon the Exportation out of this Colony by water of the following articles of Provision, viz: Wheat, Rye, Indian-Corn, Pork, Beef, live Cattle and Beans, Bread, Flour, and every kind of Meal, except necessary Stores for Vessels bound to Sea; and that his Honour the Governour be, and he is hereby desired to issue a Proclamation, laying such Embargo and Prohibition of such Provisions accordingly; such Embargo to continue till the 20th day of May next.

Resolved by this Assembly, That William Samuel Johnson and Erastus Walcott, Esquires, wait upon his Excellency Governour Gage, with the Letters written to him by his. Honour our Governour by the desire of this Assembly, and confer with him on the subject contained in said Letters, and request his answer.

Resolved by this Assembly, That Thaddeus Burr, Esq., of Fairfield, and Charles Church Chandler, Esq., of Woodstock, at the publick expense of this Colony, be a Committee to engage and employ News-Carriers to perform regular stages from Fairfield to Woodstock, and from Woodstock to Fairfield, in such manner that they severally arrive in Hartford every Saturday, and that they forward all proper intelligence to Fairfield and Woodstock with all convenient speed; also that Gurdon Saltonstall, Esq., of New-London, be a Committee to engage and employ two News-Carriers, at the Colony’s expense, to perform regular