against Peter Bulkley of said Colchester, the General Assembly at their sessions in May last appointed Joshua West, Samuel Selden and Benjamin Huntington, Esqrs, a committee to enquire into the matters in said petition alledged and make report &c, as per petition on file, and said committee having enquired into said matters have made report to this Assembly, that they find said Samuel Tozer is jointly indebted to said Peter Bulkley in the sum of thirtyseven pounds one shilling and four pence, and that what sum said Bulkley has got satisfyed on his execution ought to be deducted out of that sum, and that said Bulkley's execution [158] ought to be endorsed || down to that sum &c., as per report on file, which report is accepted and approved by this Assembly: And thereupon it is resolved by this Assembly, that said execution in favour of said Bulkley against said Tozer, mentioned in said petition, and the judgment on which it was granted may not be carried into execution for any further or greater sum than £37 1 4, including what sum hath already been paid or satisfyed on said execution. And the clerk of said county court for the county of Hartford is hereby authorized and impowered to grant alias execution on said judgment at the request of said Bulkley with a proper endorsement thereon that said judgment and former execution is satisfyed or remitted down to said sum of £37 18. 4d. including the sum that hath been paid or satisfyed already on said execution.

Upon the petition of Richard Alsop, of Midletown in the county of Hartford, against George Stilman, of Saybrook in the county of New London, shewing to this Assembly that John Provost, late of the city and Province of New York, now deceased, in his life time before the adjourned county court holden at Hartford on the fourth Tuesday of June, 1765, recovered a judgment of said court against said George Stilman for the sum of £56 10 0, York currency, damages, and £2 6 6, lawful money, for his costs of suit, and had execution issued thereon in due form of law, and the same was delivered to Stephen Blake, then sheriff's deputy for Hartford county, and the same on the first of September following was by said Blake levied on a small triangular piece of land, the property of said George, lying in said George's homelot in said Midletown now in Chatham in said county, containing four acres, beginning at the southwest corner of land the same day taken in execution at the suit of John Alsop, and runs thence by Connecticut River as said river runs forty-seven rods, thence turns and runs north 34

degrees east fifty rods, thence turns and runs by said Alsop's said land west fifteen degrees north twenty-eight rods to the first station abovesaid, and the same being then apprized at the price of thirty-two pounds, lawful money, the said Blake then immediately indorsed and subscribed his return of the said levy and apprizement on said execution, and said Provost likewise then and there indorsed on said execution his acceptance thereof as £32 0 0, lawful money, in part of said execution, and delivered the same to said Blake to return into the clerk's office of said county court to be recorded, and thereupon entered and took possession of said land and held the same until he conveyed the same by an authentick deed to said Alsop, who thereupon entered and hath held said land ever since, and that upon diligent search lately made said Alsop finds that said execution and said officer's return thereon are not either of record or on file in said office, neither can they be found among said Blake's papers, who is since deceased insolvent, and that the same is either lost or purloined from said clerk's office or lost some other way without any default of said Alsop, whereby his title to said. land has become very defective; he therefore prays this Assembly to confirm his title to said land in as ample a manner as if said execution and said returns of said officer were entered of record, as per petition on file, dated September 21st, A. D. 1772; and the said Stilman now appearing by his attorney and confessing the facts stated in said petition to be true: Resolved by this Assembly, that said Richard Alsop may and shall have and hold the abovementioned land to him, his heirs and assigns, in as full and ample manner, to all intents and purposes, as if said Blake's return of said execution and apprizement had been duly made to the office of the clerk of the county court for said Hartford county and there recorded; and that this decree, or a transcript thereof, in all future tryals at law shall be admitted and received as full evidence of said Richard's title to said land against said George Stilman and all claiming by, from or under him.

Upon the petition of William Jepson, of Hartford in the county of Hartford, and others his creditors &c., preferred to the General Assembly, shewing that by losses, misfortunes &c. he is reduced and become unable to pay his debts &c., praying for an act of insolvency to be passed in his favour, as per petition on file; Oliver Wolcott, Thomas Darling, Esq, and Capt. Joseph Trumbull were appointed a committee by the General Assembly in May last, who accordingly

make report, that they notifyed said Jepson's creditors, and none appeared to object or otherwise, and that said Jepson's [159] debts amount to £1949 10 11, exclusive of the sum of £592 158. 6d. found to be due to Doct. Silvester Gardiner, of Boston, in their company concerns, and for payment of which said company securities are on the petition of said Gardiner against said Jepson ordered to be delivered to said Gardiner if the same can be obtained therefrom, and that the amount of said Jepson's credits and estate, exclusive of his household furniture, chirurgical instruments, books and riding horse, which are necessary for the upholding life, amounts to the sum of £1075 128. 7d. lawful money, and finding that said Jepson has conducted fairly &c., and that he is willing to resign up all his estate excepting necessaries aforesaid, to be put into the hands of trustees for the use and benefit of his creditors; also give it as their opinion, that said Jepson ought to have a special act of insolvency made and passed in his favour, upon his resigning up his estate as aforesaid, as per report on file: It is resolved and enacted by this Assembly, that Messrs. Joseph Church jun' and Jonathan Bull be and they are hereby appointed trustees, with full power to receive from said Jepson a conveyance of all his estate and effects for the use and benefit of his creditors, excepting as above excepted in said report referred to; and upon said Jepson's delivering up on oath and conveying all his estate and effects for the purpose aforesaid, excepting as in said report is excepted above referred to, said trustees are hereby impowered to proceed with and dispose of said estate and effects in the same manner as trustees appointed by force of a late law of this Colony pass'd in May, 1765, entituled An Act for preventing fraud in debtors and for securing the effects of insolvent debtors for the use of their creditors and for the equitable division of the estate and effects of such debtors to and amongst their creditors, were enabled and directed to proceed with and dispose of the estate and effects of insolvent debtors; and that the petitioner be and he is hereby entituled to all the benefits, privileges and freedom from arrests, which insolvent debtors conforming to said act were entituled to; and that his person be and the same is hereby discharged from any and all liableness to arrest and imprisonment for debt by him owing to any person or persons in the Provinces of the Massachusets Bay, Connecticut or New York. And this act shall be a sufficient warrant to all officers or others, to forbear arresting or imprisoning the petitioner for any debt or debts heretofore contracted and owed by him.

Upon the petition of Silvester Gardiner, Esq', of Boston in the county of Suffolk and Province of the Massachusets Bay, against William Jepson, of Hartford in the county of Hartford Whereas in October last Oliver Wolcott and Thomas Darling, Esq, and Capt. Joseph Trumbull were appointed a committee to hear and examine the matters alledged in said petition, and also to adjust all accounts and concerns between said parties, and to make report to this Assembly in May last, and said committee not having then finished their report, and said petition being continued to this time: Resolved by this Assembly, that the said Oliver Wolcott and Thomas Darling, Esq's, and Capt. Joseph Trumbull be and they are reappointed a committee, to hear and examine the matters in said petition alledged and also to adjust all accounts and concerns between said parties, and to make report of what they shall find in the premises to this Assembly at their present session.

Upon the petition of John Alsop, of the city and Province of New York, against George Stilman, of Saybrook in New London county, shewing that he, said Alsop, before the adjourned county court holden at Hartford on the fourth Tuesday of June, A.D. 1765, recovered a judgment against said George Stilman and Beriah Bacon, then of Midletown now of Chatham in said Hartford county, for the sum of £261 5 8, New York currency, for damages, and £2 8 0, lawful money, for his costs of suit, and that having taken execution in due form of law on said judgment, he caused the same on the first day of September thence next following, to be levied by Stephen Blake, then a deputy sheriff for said Hartford county, on two certain pieces of land then in said Midletown now in said Chatham, being the proper estate of said George Stilman: one of said pieces lying in the home lot of said George, containing six acres and one hundred rods of land, beginning at the northwest corner of land taken on execution at the suit of Thomas Walker and running thence west 37 degrees north by a lane or highway five rods, thence west 13 degrees south by Bushes' building-yard eighteen rods, thence south seven degrees west by Connecticut [160] River thirty-five || rods, thence south 3 degrees west by said river ten rods and an half, thence east 15 degrees south by land taken the same day on execution at the suit of John Provost twenty-eight rods, thence north 34 degrees east twelve rods by land taken the same day on execution at the suit of Gabriel Ludlow, thence west 37 degrees north by Thomas Walker's said land twenty-one rods, thence north 18

degrees east by said Walker's land thirty rods to the station. first abovementioned; the other piece lying in Pacousit meadow and bounded west by the pond and south by Doct. John Dickinson's land; and the same being duly apprized at the sum of £135 14 0, lawful money, that the said Blake endorsed his return of said levy and apprizement on said execution and took the same to return; that, notwithstanding, the said Blake either never returned said execution, or that the same hath been casually lost out of the clerk's office of the county court for said Hartford county, whereby he is in danger of losing all benefit of said judgment; praying that his title to said two pieces of land may be ratifyed and confirmed, and that he may have liberty to take out an alias execution on said judgment for the balance thereon due, as per petition on file, dated September 21st, 1772: and said Stillman now appearing by his attorney and confessing the facts stated in said petition to be true: Resolved by this Assembly, that said John Alsop and his heirs and assigns may and shall have and hold the two pieces of land above described, as fully and amply as though said execution with said officer's endorsement had been returned and recorded in the clerk's office of said Hartford county; and that this decree, or an exemplification thereof, shall in any future tryal at law be admitted and received as full evidence to maintain the title of the said John Alsop, his heirs and assigns, to said two pieces of land against the said George Stilman, and all claiming by, from or under him; and that said John Alsop shall have liberty to take out an alias execution on said judgment against said Stilman and Bacon for the balance due on said judgment, after deducting the sum of £135 14 0, lawful money, at which said lands were apprized, as is abovesaid.

Upon the petition of David Beekman and Abraham Lynsen, both of the city and Province of New York, against George Stillman, of Saybrook in the county of New London, shewing to this Assembly that said David and Abraham before the adjourned county court holden at Hartford on the fourth Tuesday of June, 1765, recovered judgment against said Stilman for the sum of £313 15 11, New York currency, for damages, and £2 6 6, lawful money, for their costs of suit, and had execution issued thereon in due form of law, and caused the same on the first of September following by Stephen Blake, then sheriff's deputy for Hartford county, to be duly levied on the southern half of said Stilman's dwellinghouse, then in said Midletown now in Chatham in said.