hope that no stories may hinder your Honours from sending the message to the back nations, which your Honours proposed when I was at New-York. And your Honours may be assured that I am, have been, and still will be a true friend to the American Colonies; and I hope that your Honours and all that know me may soon be convinced of my love to my Country, and of my real friendship to the Colonies. I am yours, to serve,

JOSEPH JOHNSON.

To the Honourable Provincial Congress of New-York.

P. S. I would just inform your Honours that I purpose, by divine leave, to set off from Mohegan, my native place, the twelfth of this instant, or before; so I humbly hope that your Honours would send ample directions to Albany for me as soon as possible. Although I leave my companion as my own self, and seemly more, and the pleasure in being among friends and acquaintances, yet duty obligates me, methinks, to take this one journey more, hoping I may be a means, by the blessing of our gracious Lord, of preventing much blood being spilt. So I go cheerfully, though I should never return.

I am, with great esteem, yours to serve,

JOSEPH JOHNSON.

N. B. Should I be deprived of my life, and never return, I humbly recommend to your mercy my beloved companion. I am, ut ante.

CONNECTICUT ASSEMBLY.

Anno Regni Regis Georgii tertii 15to, 1775.

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 Saturday, the first day of July, Annoq. Domini 1775. Present:

The Honourable Jonathan Trumbull, Esquire, Governour; the Honourable Matthew Griswold, Esquire, Deputy-Governour; Jabez Hamlin, Elisha Sheldon, Jabez Huntington, William Pitkin, Abraham Davenport, William Samuel Johnson, Oliver Wolcott, and Samuel Huntington, Esquires, Assistants.

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

HARTFORD.— Col. John Pitkin, Col. Samuel Wyllys.

WEATHERSFIELD.— Colonel Thomas Belding.

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

SYMSBURY.—Capt. Judah Holcomb, Mr. Asahel Holcomb.

WINDSOR.— Captain Henry Allyn, Captain John Phelps.

FARMINGTON.—Colonel Isaac Lee, Mr. Jonathan Root,

SUFFIELD.—Mr. Alexander King, Captain John Leavitt.

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

STAFFORD.—Mr. Isaac Pinney, Captain Samuel Davis.

HADDAM.—Captain Joseph Brooks, Mr. Joseph Smith.

COLCHESTER.— Colonel Henry Champion, Doctor John Watrous

SOMERS.—Mr. Reuben Sikes, Captain Emery Pease.

HEBRON.—Captain Benjamin Buell, Captain Obadiah Hosford.

GLASTENBURY.—Captain Jonathan Wells, Mr. Ebenezer Plummer

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

BOLTON.—Mr. Benjamin Trumbull.

TOLLAND.—Colonel Samuel Chapman.

WILLINGTON.—Major Elijah Fenton, Captain Timothy Pearl.

ENFIELD.—Maj. Nathaniel Terry, Mr. Nathaniel Chapin.

CHATHAM.— Mr. David Sage, Mr. Ebenezer White.

NEW-HAVEN.—Mr. Samuel Bishop, Capt. Jonathan Fitch.

DURHAM.—Colonel James Wadsworth, Mr. Daniel Hall.

GUILFORD.—Mr. John Burgess.

DERBY.—Captain John Holbrook, Mr. Joseph Hull.

WATERBURY.—Mr. Joseph Hopkins, Col. John Baldwin.

MILFORD.—Mr. Ephraim Strong.

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

WALLINGFORD.—Mr. Samuel Beach, Captain Thaddeus Cook.

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

NORWICH.—Mr. Benjamin Huntington.

STONINGTON.—Mr. Nathaniel Minor.

KILLINGWORTH.—Captain Elnathan Stevens, Captain John Pierson.

GROTON.—Mr. Thomas Mumford, Mr. Nathan Gallop.

PRESTON.—Captain Roger Sterry.

LYME.—Mr. Marshfield Parsons, Mr. Ezra Selden.

SAYBROOK.—Captain Benjamin Williams.

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

STRATFORD.—Captain Robert Fairchild, Colonel Ichabod Lewis.

STAMFORD.—Colonel Charles Webb.

RIDGEFIELD.—Captain Lemuel Morehouse.

REDDING.—Mr. William Hawley.

NORWALK.—Colonel Thomas Fitch.

NEW-FAIRFIELD.—Mr. Ephraim Hubbell.

GREENWICH.—Colonel John Mead.

NEWTOWN.—Mr. John Beach.

WINDHAM.—Colonel Jedediah Elderkin, Mr. Ebenezer Devotion.

LEBANON.—Col. William Williams, Mr. Jonathan Trumbull, Jun.

MANSFIELD.—Mr. Nathaniel Atwood.

WOODSTOCK.—Captain Elisha Child, Captain Samuel McClellen.

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

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

KILLINGLY.—Mr. Stephen Crosby, Captain Eleazer Warner.

POMFRET.—Mr. Elisha Lord.

ASHFORD.—Captain Benjamin Sumner, Captain Ichabod Ward.

PLAINFIELD.—Captain James Bradford, Mr. William Robinson

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

LITCHFIELD.—Mr. Jedediah Strong.

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

SALISBURY.—Col. Joshua Porter, Capt. Abiel Camp.

KENT.—Mr. Ephraim Hubbell, Jun., Captain Eliphalet Whittlesey.

CANAAN.—Mr. Asahel Bebee, Captain Samuel Forbes.

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

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

GOSHEN.— Col. Ebenezer Norton, Capt. Samuel Nash.

NEW-HARTFORD.—Major Abel Merrill, Mr. Zebulon Merrill.

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

TORRINGTON.—Major Ephraim Shelden.

HARWINTON.—Mr. Jonah Phelps, Mr. Mark Prindle.

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

An Act in addition to an Act entitled An Act for Assembling, Equipping, &c., a number of the Inhabitants of this Colony, for the special defence and safety thereof, passed at the General Assembly held at HARTFORD, by special order of the Governour, on WEDNESDAY, the 26th day of APRIL, 1775

Be it enacted by the Governour, Council and Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That in addition to, and re-enforcement or the inhabitants in and by said Act directed to be assembled, &c., a further body of fourteen hundred Men, exclusive of commissioned Officers, be Forthwith enlisted, equipped, accoutred, and assembled, for the special defencer and safety of this Colony, to serve during the pleasure of this Assembly, not exceeding five months, and to be led and conducted as the General Assembly shall order; that the inhabitants so to be enlisted and assembled shall