THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF THE COLONY OF CONNECTICUT, FROM MAY, 1762, TO OCTOBER, 1767, INCLUSIVE. TRANSCRIBED AND EDITED IN ACCORDANCE WITH A RESOLUTION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. vol. 12 SIGILLY! BY CHARLES J. HOADLY, STATE LIBRARIAN. HARTFORD: PRESS OF THE CASE, LOCKWOOD & BRAINARD CO. 1881. PREFATORY NOTE. THIS book contains the remaining portion of volume IX of the Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, from page 447, and also pages 1 to 310, inclusive, of volume X of the same series. It is not known that the Journals of either House of the General Assembly are extant for any of the six years covered by this publication. The Journal of the Governor and Council has also disappeared. Appended is the book of Reasons why the British Colonies in America should not be charged with Internal Taxes by authority of Parliament, to which reference is made on pages 256 and 299 of this volume. Governor Fitch was the principal compiler and draughtsman of it, as Mr. Ingersoll informs us. The original edition was of five hundred copies, and Mr. Ingersoll took one hundred and twelve with him to England. After 1762, it does not appear that the General Assembly appointed a committee to hear the records read off and to see them signed by the Secretary as perfect and complete. It is evident that considerable portions of the record were not compared with the original bills, and this may account for various errors and omissions. The editor has endeavored to supply the omissions from the files, and what has been supplied is enclosed in brackets. C. J. H. October 29th, 1881. THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF THE COLONY OF CONNECTICUT. [VOLUME IX., PAGE 447.] Anno Regni Regis Georgii tertii secundo. AT A GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY OF HIS MAJESTY'S ENGLISH COLONY OF CONNECTICUT IN NEW ENGLAND IN AMERICA, HOLDEN AT HARTFORD IN SAID COLONY ON THE SECOND THURSDAY OF MAY (BEING THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF SAID MONTH) AND CONTINUED BY SEVERAL ADJOURN MENTS UNTIL THE EIGHTH DAY OF JUNE NEXT FOLLOWING, ANNOQUE DOMINI 1762. Present: The Honourable Thomas Fitch, Esq', Governor. The Honble William Pitkin, Esq', Deputy Governor. Daniel Edwards, Ebenezer Silliman, Jonathan Trumble, Andrew Burr, John Chester, Benjamin Hall, Esqrs, Assistants. Representatives or Deputies who attended this Assembly are as follow, viz: Col. Samuel Talcott, Maj. William Pitkin, for Hartford, |