Captain; Elijah Beach, First Lieutenant; Robert Walker, Second Lieutenant; Abijah Sterling, Ensign.

Third Company, Fifth Regiment.—Thomas Hobby, to be Major of the Fifth Regiment, and Captain; Bazaleel Brown, First Lieutenant; Samuel Lockwood, Second Lieutenant; John Waterbury, Ensign.

Fourth Company, Fifth Regiment.—David Dimon, Captain; Peter Hendrick, First Lieutenant; Ebenezer Hill, Second Lieutenant; Wakeman Burr, Ensign.

Fifth Company, Fifth Regiment.—Matthew Mead, Captain; Levi Taylor, First Lieutenant; Samuel Cannon, Second Lieutenant; William Seymour, Ensign.

Sixth Company, Fifth Regiment.—Noble Benedict, Captain; James Clark, First Lieutenant; Ephraim Lyon, Second Lieutenant; Daniel Hickox, Ensign.

Seventh Company, Fifth Regiment.—Abraham Gray, Captain; Stephen Wakeman, First Lieutenant; Thaddeus Rockwell, Second Lieutenant; George Burr, Ensign.

Eighth Company, Fifth Regiment.—Joseph Smith, Jr., Captain; Abel Botsford, Jr., First Lieutenant; Nathaniel Blackman, Second Lieutenant; Silas Hubbel, Ensign.

Ninth Company, Fifth Regiment.—Nehemiah Beardslee, Captain; Samuel Keeler, First Lieutenant; Zephaniah Briggs, Second Lieutenant; William Benedict, Ensign.

Tenth Company, Fifth Regiment.—Zalmon Read, Captain; Peter Fairchild, First Lieutenant; David, Peet, Second Lieutenant; Benjamin Nichols, Ensign.

Reverend Samuel, Wood, Chaplain of the Fifth Regiment.

John Wood, Surgeon; Asael Fitch, Samuel Whiting, Surgeon’s Mates, Fifth Regiment.

Sixth Regiment.

First Company, Sixth Regiment.—Samuel Holden Parsons, Esquire, to be Colonel of the Sixth Regiment, and Captain; David F. Sill, First Lieutenant; Christopher Ely, Second Lieutenant; Elisha Wade, Ensign.

Second Company, Sixth Regiment.—John Tyler, Esq., to be Lieutenant-Colonel of the Sixth Regiment, and Captain; Elnathan Rossiter, First Lieutenant; Ebenezer Brewster, Second Lieutenant; Joseph Hilyard, Ensign.

Third Company, Sixth Regiment.—Samuel Prentice, Esq., to be Major of the Sixth Regiment, and Captain; James Eldridge, First Lieutenant; Richard Hewet, Second Lieutenant; Oliver Babcock, Ensign.

Fourth Company, Sixth Regiment.—William Coit, Captain; Jedediah Hide, First Lieutenant; James Day, Second Lieutenant; William Adams, Junior, Ensign.

Fifth Company, Sixth Regiment.—James Chapman, Jun., Captain; Christopher Darrow, First Lieutenant; John Raymond, Jr., Second; George Lattimore, Ensign.

Sixth Company, Sixth Regiment.—Waterman Cleft, Captain; William Edmond, First Lieutenant; John McGregor, Second Lieutenant; Nathaniel Morgan, Ensign.

Seventh Company, Sixth Regiment.—Edward Mott, Captain; Benjamin Throop, Jr., First Lieutenant; Jeremiah Halsey, Second Lieutenant; Nathan Peters, Ensign.

Eighth Company, Sixth Regiment.—Samuel Gale, Captain; Josiah Baldwin, First Lieutenant; Elisha Lee, Second Lieutenant; David Nevins, Ensign.

Ninth Company, Sixth Regiment.—John Ely, Captain; Abraham Waterhouse, First Lieutenant; Martin Kirtland, Second Lieutenant; Israel Doan, Ensign.

Tenth Company, Sixth Regiment.—Abel Spicer, Captain; Isaac Gallop, First Lieutenant; Samuel Williams, Second Lieutenant; William Latham, Ensign.

Rev. Stephen Johnson, Chaplain of the Sixth Regiment.

Philip Turner, Surgeon; Thomas Fosdick, Benjamin Ellis, Surgeon’s Mates, Sixth Regiment.

Whereas this Assembly have ordered one-fourth part of their Militia to be enlisted and equipped for the defence and safety of this Colony, and appointed Officers to command the same, and as some of the Officers so appointed may fail to accept said trust, or by death or otherwise others may be wanted:

Resolved by this Assembly, That his Honour the Governour be desired, and he is hereby desired and empowered to appoint Officers to fill up any such vacancy that shall happen, and commission them accordingly.

Resolved by this Assembly, That Captain Joseph Trumbull be appointed, and he is hereby appointed Commissary General, to take care of the Rations purchased at Salem, by Brigadier-General Spencer, or any others that shall be sent for our inhabitants enlisting or assembling for the special defence and safety of this Colony, and take care that the same are distributed among them; and take advantage of any opportunity to purchase thereabouts any further supply, when to be had on better terms than to be purchased and had from this Colony; to purchase the same as there shall be occasion, and inform, from time to time, his doings therein for the directions of the Commissaries employed in this Colony.

This Assembly do appoint Oliver Wolcott, Henry Champion, Thomas Mumford, Jedediah Strong, Esquires, Captain Jeremiah Wadsworth, Thomas Howel, Samuel Squier, Esquires, Messrs. Amasa Keys and Hezekiah Bissell, Commissaries, to supply all necessary Stores and Provisions for the Troops now to be raised for the defence of this Colony.

On Report of the Committee to consider how far the Commissaries shall be instructed to procure Provisions and other Supplies for the immediate use of the men now to be raised for the defence of the Colony, it is now

Resolved, That Joseph Trumbull, Esquire, Commissary-General, immediately purchase one hogshead of New-England Rum, and one hundred Tin Kettles; and that Captain Jeremiah Wadsworth procure, as soon as may be, one hundred Tin Kettles, and also fifty barrels of Pork, also fifty bushels of Peas and Beans, and immediately forward said Peas and Beans to the Commissary-General, and also procure two hundred hundred weight of Bread; and that Mr. Hezekiah Bissell procure sixty barrels of Pork, and two hundred and forty hundred weight of Bread; and that the Commissaries in Litchfield County procure twenty barrels of Pork, and eighty hundred weight of Bread, and that the Commissaries for the County of New-Haven, New-London, and Fairfield, each procure fifty barrels of Pork, and two hundred hundred weight of Bread.

Resolved by this Assembly, That William Pitkin, Thomas Seymour, Oliver Ellsworth, and Ezekiel Williams, Esquires, or any three of them, be a Committee with full power, and they, or any three of them, are hereby fully empowered to examine, liquidate, adjust, settle, and give needful orders for the payment of the several accounts of the expenses that have, or may be incurred, relative to assembling, equipping, supplying, encouraging, or paying wages to such of the inhabitants as may enlist for the defence of this Colony for the current year; said Committee to proceed therein according to such order, rules, and directions, as shall from time to time be given by this Assembly for that purpose.

Resolved by this Assembly, That the Committee of Pay-Table be and they are hereby directed and empowered to take Bonds, with sufficient sureties, payable to the Governour and Company of this Colony, of every Commissary appointed, to provide Stores and Provisions for the Troops now raising for the defence of the Colony; and in such Bond every Commissary shall be obliged, faithfully and justly, to dispose of the money he shall receive for the purpose aforesaid, and to account with the Committee of Pay-Table for the same.

Resolved by this Assembly, That the chief Officers and Captains of the several Companies to be enlisted, shall be the Paymasters to their respective Companies, and that the Committee of the Pay-Table be and they are hereby directed and empowered to take Bonds, with sufficient sureties, payable to the Governour and Company of this Colony, of every Captain or other person who shall undertake to act as Paymaster to any one of said Companies now to be enlisted; and in such Bond, every Paymaster shall be obligated faithfully and justly to dispose of the money he shall receive for the purpose aforesaid, and to account to the Committee of the Pay-Table for the same; and such Paymaster shall be allowed one and a half per cent for said service.

Whereas, a sum of Money is necessary for payment of incident charges of Government:

Be it therefore enacted by the Governour, Council, and Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That there Be forthwith imprinted the sum of fifty thousand Pounds, Bills of Credit on this Colony, equal to lawful money, of suitable denominations