1776. |
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Act for raising and equipping a body of Minute-men, to he held in readiness for the better defence of the Colony, |
1609 |
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Act for raising a Regiment of Troops within the Colony to march to Boston, or elsewhere, in the Continental service, |
1611 |
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Act for raising two Regiments of Troops within this Colony, for the special defence of the same, |
1612 |
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Field-Officers for the three Regiments appointed, |
1613 |
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Company Officers appointed, |
1613 |
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Form of Inlistment, |
1614 |
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Soldiers of the Continental Regiment, if unable to supply themselves with Arms, to be furnished by the Selectmen of the Towns, |
1615 |
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Governour authorized to fill up any vacancy that shall happen in the three Regiments, |
1616 |
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Sixty thousand Pounds, in Bills of Credit, ordered to he emitted, |
1616 |
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Tax levied to pay the Bills issued by the Assembly, Continental Bills, or lawful Money, |
1616 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Treasurer directed not to enforce the collection of Taxes due from persons abroad in the defence of the United Colonies, |
1619 |
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Treasurer directed to take Continental Bills in payment of all dues to the Colony, |
1619 |
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Act to prohibit the exportation of West-India produce out of the Colony before the first of November, next, |
1620 |
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Oliver Ellsworth appointed to receive from General Schuyler the amount advanced by this Colony for the Continental Troops employed last year at Canada, |
1620 |
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Committee of Safety appointed, with the Governour to order and direct the Militia and Navy of the Colony, |
1620 |
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The Governour requested to transmit authenticated copies of the Petitions to the King, to the Continental Congress, |
1620 |
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Committee of Safety requested to complete the Works at New-London, |
1621 |
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Committee to purchase five thousand pair of yarn Stockings for the Army in Canada, |
1621 |
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Further premium for good Gun-locks made in the Colony, |
1621 |
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The Governour authorized to fill up commissions for private Ships-of-War and Letters of Marque and Reprisal, |
1621 |
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Accounts for the support of Continental Prisoners to be forwarded to the Congress for payment, |
1622 |
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Postmasters employed by the Assembly, directed to settle their Accounts, |
1623 |
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Acts and Resolves for encouraging the manufacture of Fire-Arms and Locks, revised, |
1623 |
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Inhabitants of Saybrook permitted to build a Battery where the old Fort stood, in that Town, |
1624 |
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Prosecutions ordered against such Soldiers as refused to march to New-York, on a late occasion, |
1624 |
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Agreement with Thomas Bidwell, of Pennsylvania, for the manufacture of Sulphur in the Colony, |
1624 |
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Daniel Hill, Peter Lyon, and Samuel Hawley, Officers in Colonel Sillimans Regiment, charged with refusing to march to New-York, to be brought before the Assembly, |
1625 |
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Committee to obtain Specie for Bills, for the use of the Northern Army, |
1625 |
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Appointment of the Committee revoked, |
1626 |
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The Treasurer directed to procure and forward eighteen hundred Pounds, in specie, for the Northern Army, |
1626 |
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Arrest of Captain Hezekiah Brown, ordered, |
1627 |
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Field Officers of the Twenty-Fifth, Twelfth, Eighteenth, and Fifteenth Regiments, appointed, |
1627 |
1776. |
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Robert Fairchild and others, authorized to erect a Powder-Mill in Stratford, |
1628 |
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James Law, of Lebanon, wounded at the battle of Bunkers Hill, allowed fifty Pounds, |
1628 |
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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 |
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Assembly adjourned by Proclamation, |
1630 |
Mar .1, |
Committee on a Letter and Petition from the Committee of Safety of New-Hampshire, |
1629 |
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Committee on a Petition from the Inhabitants of Falmouth, |
1629 |
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Committee on a Letter from J. Mease, |
1629 |
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Accounts of Massachusetts against the Continent, transmitted by the General Assembly, referred for liquidation to the Committee of Claims, |
1629 |
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General Lee appointed to the command of the Southern Department, |
1630 |
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Six Brigadier-Generals chosen, |
1630 |
4, |
Committee on a Memorial from the Merchants of Montreal, |
1631 |
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Secret Committee directed to send with all expedition, ten tons of Powder to Cambridge, |
1631 |
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Three of the Canadian Prisoners, Officers, permitted to come to Philadelphia, |
1631 |
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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 |
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General Thomas, promoted to a Major-General, appointed to the command in Canada, |
1632 |
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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 |
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General Schuylerrequested to remain at Albany until further orders, |
1633 |
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Thomas Bullitt appointed Deputy Adjutant-General in the Southern Department, |
1633 |
7, |
One hundred thousand Dollars repaid to Connecticut, |
1633 |
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Isaac Melchior required to attend the Congress for a contempt, |
1633 |
8, |
Field-Officers to the four New-York Battalions chosen, |
1634 |
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Mr. Melchior appeared, asked pardon of the Congress, and was dismissed, |
1634 |
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Commissioners to Canada, to inquire into the cause of the imprisonment of the Officers of Militia in that country, |
1634 |
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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 |
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Philadelphia Committee desired to collect all the Gold and Silver Coin they can, for the service in Canada, |
1634 |
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Committee on the best means of supplying the Army in Canada, |
1634 |
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Committee on the losses sustained by Colonel Hazen, |
1635 |
9, |
Committee to consider the state of the Colonies in the Southern Department, |
1635 |
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Names of the persons appointed to sign the Bills of Credit, |
1635 |
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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 |
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Committee to confer with General Lee on the defence of New-York, |
1636 |
12, |
Report on the losses sustained by Colonel Moses Hazen, |
1637 |