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1776.
Act for raising and equipping a body of Minute-men, to he held in readiness for the better defence of the Colony,
1609
Act for raising a Regiment of Troops within the Colony to march to Boston, or elsewhere, in the Continental service,
1611
Act for raising two Regiments of Troops within this Colony, for the special defence of the same,
1612
Field-Officers for the three Regiments appointed,
1613
Company Officers appointed,
1613
Form of Inlistment,
1614
Soldiers of the Continental Regiment, if unable to supply themselves with Arms, to be furnished by the Selectmen of the Towns,
1615
Governour authorized to fill up any vacancy that shall happen in the three Regiments,
1616
Sixty thousand Pounds, in Bills of Credit, ordered to he emitted,
1616
Tax levied to pay the Bills issued by the Assembly, Continental Bills, or lawful Money,
1616
Form of Commissions for the Chief Judge and Assistant Judges of the Superior Court, Judges of County Courts and Courts of Probate, and Officers of the Militia,
1617
Selectmen in the respective Towns required to return, before the 1st of September, a particular account of all persons, as well Negroes or Slaves for life as White persons, in their respective Towns,
1619
Treasurer directed not to enforce the collection of Taxes due from persons abroad in the defence of the United Colonies,
1619
Treasurer directed to take Continental Bills in payment of all dues to the Colony,
1619
Act to prohibit the exportation of West-India produce out of the Colony before the first of November, next,
1620
Oliver Ellsworth appointed to receive from General Schuyler the amount advanced by this Colony for the Continental Troops employed last year at Canada,
1620
Committee of Safety appointed, with the Governour to order and direct the Militia and Navy of the Colony,
1620
The Governour requested to transmit authenticated copies of the Petitions to the King, to the Continental Congress,
1620
Committee of Safety requested to complete the Works at New-London,
1621
Committee to purchase five thousand pair of yarn Stockings for the Army in Canada,
1621
Further premium for good Gun-locks made in the Colony,
1621
The Governour authorized to fill up commissions for private Ships-of-War and Letters of Marque and Reprisal,
1621
Accounts for the support of Continental Prisoners to be forwarded to the Congress for payment,
1622
Postmasters employed by the Assembly, directed to settle their Accounts,
1623
Acts and Resolves for encouraging the manufacture of Fire-Arms and Locks, revised,
1623
Inhabitants of Saybrook permitted to build a Battery where the old Fort stood, in that Town,
1624
Prosecutions ordered against such Soldiers as refused to march to New-York, on a late occasion,
1624
Agreement with Thomas Bidwell, of Pennsylvania, for the manufacture of Sulphur in the Colony,
1624
Daniel Hill, Peter Lyon, and Samuel Hawley, Officers in Colonel Silliman’s Regiment, charged with refusing to march to New-York, to be brought before the Assembly,
1625
Committee to obtain Specie for Bills, for the use of the Northern Army,
1625
Appointment of the Committee revoked,
1626
The Treasurer directed to procure and forward eighteen hundred Pounds, in specie, for the Northern Army,
1626
Arrest of Captain Hezekiah Brown, ordered,
1627
Field Officers of the Twenty-Fifth, Twelfth, Eighteenth, and Fifteenth Regiments, appointed,
1627
1776.
Robert Fairchild and others, authorized to erect a Powder-Mill in Stratford,
1628
James Law, of Lebanon, wounded at the battle of Bunker’s Hill, allowed fifty Pounds,
1628
Persons of every rank and denomination, earnestly recommended to furnish themselves with arms, as a further defence against the increasing hostilities and efforts of our unnatural enemies,
1629
Assembly adjourned by Proclamation,
1630

CONTINENTAL CONGRESS.


Mar .1,
Committee on a Letter and Petition from the Committee of Safety of New-Hampshire,
1629
Committee on a Petition from the Inhabitants of Falmouth,
1629
Committee on a Letter from J. Mease,
1629
Accounts of Massachusetts against the Continent, transmitted by the General Assembly, referred for liquidation to the Committee of Claims,
1629
General Lee appointed to the command of the Southern Department,
1630
Six Brigadier-Generals chosen,
1630
4,
Committee on a Memorial from the Merchants of Montreal,
1631
Secret Committee directed to send with all expedition, ten tons of Powder to Cambridge,
1631
Three of the Canadian Prisoners, Officers, permitted to come to Philadelphia,
1631
Memorial of a number of inhabitants of Northumberland, ordered to be transmitted to the Assembly of Pennsylvania,
1632
6,
Committee on Saltpetre, appointed on the 23d of February, directed to inquire in all the Colonies after virgin Lead, Lead Ore, and the best method of collecting, smelting, and refining it,
1632
General Thomas, promoted to a Major-General, appointed to the command in Canada,
1632
Secret Committee directed to send five tons of Powder to New-York, five to the Southern Department, one to New-Jersey, and one to Delaware; and to return the Powder borrowed of Maryland, New-York, Pennsylvania, and New-Jersey,
1632
General Schuylerrequested to remain at Albany until further orders,
1633
Thomas Bullitt appointed Deputy Adjutant-General in the Southern Department,
1633
7,
One hundred thousand Dollars repaid to Connecticut,
1633
Isaac Melchior required to attend the Congress for a contempt,
1633
8,
Field-Officers to the four New-York Battalions chosen,
1634
Mr. Melchior appeared, asked pardon of the Congress, and was dismissed,
1634
Commissioners to Canada, to inquire into the cause of the imprisonment of the Officers of Militia in that country,
1634
Indians not to be employed in the Armies of the United Colonies, without the consent of their Tribes, nor then without the express approbation of Congress,
1634
Philadelphia Committee desired to collect all the Gold and Silver Coin they can, for the service in Canada,
1634
Committee on the best means of supplying the Army in Canada,
1634
Committee on the losses sustained by Colonel Hazen,
1635
9,
Committee to consider the state of the Colonies in the Southern Department,
1635
Names of the persons appointed to sign the Bills of Credit,
1635
No Oath, by way of Test, to be required of any inhabitant of the Colonies, by any Military Officer,
1636
11,
Patrick Sinclair, Lieutenant-Governour of Michilimackinack, now a prisoner, permitted to return to Europe,
1636
Committee to confer with General Lee on the defence of New-York,
1636
12,
Report on the losses sustained by Colonel Moses Hazen,
1637

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