Counterfeiting.

the bills or Coins of any province on this Continent, and be thereof Convicted before such quarterly meeting, the Colony whose bills thereof are thus Counterfeited, shall have liberty to take such offender and punish him. He shall be instantly banished the settlement, and his personal effects Confiscated as aforesaid. And all persons Convicted or accused of any heinous Crime in any province on this Continent, and shall fly from justice, the inhabitants shall, as well Directors, peace officer and others, aid and assist their pursuers in apprehending them, that they may be duly punished in the government where they have offended.

Appeal.

Ninthly. There shall be no appeal from the doings of Such quarterly meeting, or their decrees to the Susquehanna Comp' in general, save when the property of land is disputed, in which Case the appellant shall first secure the appellee his Costs, if he make his appeal good before the Company.

assessment.

Tenthly. The Directors of each town shall make out and exThis should be 11th hibit to their first quarterly Meeting a list of the rateable estates and polls of the inhabitants of each town, and such quarterly meeting shall have power to assess the inhabitants for defraying public Expenses, and also to enforce the assessments made in each particular town if need be.

This should be 10th.

Elections.

Eleventhly. The inhabitants of each town, to wit, all the males of twenty one years and upwards, and a proprietor in one of the said towns, shall anually Meet on the first Monday in December, and choose Directors for said town, with their peace officer and other officers that shall be found necessary for the ensuing year, and the Directors, &c., that may now be chosen, shall have authority until new ones are Chosen, and no longer.

Militia Law

Twelfthly. The law regulating the Militia of the Colony, shall be particularly attended to by the Directors of the respective towns, and the general regulation thereof as the particular Circumstances of the people require, shall be in the power of such general quarterly meeting.

Also, we do Solemnly declare these and Such other regulations as we shall hereafter Come into, by and with the advice and Consent of the Susqa Comp' in full meeting assembled, to be of force and binding on us, and each of us, our heirs and assigns, until the Colony of Connecticut shall annex us to one of the Colonies of this County, or make us a distinct County,

or we obtain from the said Colony, or from his gracious Majesty King George III. whose true and loyal subjects we are, powers of Government in Some more permanent method.

And it is further agreed and voted, that the Directors in each of the several towns now Settled, and that shall be settled, Shall forthwith procure a Copy of the foregoing Agreement, which Shall be entered at large in a book for that purpose, and all the male inhabitants of the age of twenty-one years, shall personally subscribe the Same with their own proper names or Mark, and Strictly abide by, and fulfil the same, and such inhabitants or Settlers as are already Come in to Settle, or shall hereafter appear to Come in as Settlers, as shall neglect or refuse to subscribe to, and abide by, the foregoing agreement, shall not Continue there, nor be admitted as settlers on Said land.

Directors appointed

Voted, that the following persons be and they are hereby appointed Directors in the several towns hereafter mentioned, until the first Monday in Decemb' next, with the powers and authority according to the foregoing agreement, to wit:

Voted, that Major Durkee, Capt. Zeb". ButCommittee on Townships. ler, Obadiah Gore, Junr., and Nathan Denison, or the Major part of them that shall be present at Susq", shall be a Committee to direct the laying out of townships to such proprietors as shall apply for the same, According to the votes of this Comp", and that those proprietors that have not settled and paid up the taxes due on their rights to the Clerk of this

Comp, Shall satisfy the Committee now appointed that they are proprietors, and shall pay all taxes due on said rights.

Whereas, there is one particular Gentlemen in this Colony, a proprietor in the Susqa purchase, that has done Sundry Services for this Company, for which he has had no Compensation, in testimony of our gratitude to him we do hereby authorize Eliphalet Dyer, Sam Gray and Jedediah Elderkin, Esq., a Committee, to give order for locating and laying to said gentleman, a tract of land to make a handsome and Convenient Settlement, in some place in said purchase, which shall not be any damage in laying out towns on said purchase, to be in part of said gentleman's proprietor's rights, not Exceeding 500 acres.

Whereas, there is a Controversy between Abel Yarrington, Ichabod Hopkins and William Hurlburt respecting a settling right in the township of Plymouth, which was on the 4th day of Feby last settled by the Committee to said William Hurlburt, the parties appeared in this meeting, and mutually agreed to Submit the Controversy to Major John Durkee, Capt. Benj. Steavens and Mr. Noah Phelps, who undertook to hear the parties; and under their hands report, that they had determined said right in said Plymouth, to said Wm. Hurlburt, and the said Yarrington and Hopkins to be otherwise provided for by this Company.

It is now Voted, that the said Wm. Hurlburt, shall have said right in said township of Plymouth, on his Continuing to do the duties due on Said right according to the vote of this Comp', and that the said Yarrington and Hopkins, be further provided for by this Company.

Voted, that Major Durkee, Capt. Butler, Obediah Gore, Jun., and Nathan Denison, be a Committee, with three more persons Chosen by the Settlers of the Six towns, to be a joint Committee, to regulate the Settlement of said towns Consistent with the former votes of this Comp', and to redress those griev ances that are agreed upon at this meeting, that are not particularly already provided with a Committee.

To the Gentlemen of the Susqa Comp3 in meeting Convened: We your Committee appointed to hear the Complaints and grievances Exhibited to this meeting and make report of the State of those grievances and make our report thereon, beg leave to Report, That we find that Stephen Rice has the legal and equitable title to the right in Plymouth that justly belonged to John Chase, who was killed at the retaking of the Fort at Wyoming, &c., and that Capt. Gore be good by the Company elsewhere,

We further find that Major Durkee, Messrs. Vine Elderkin,

Ebenezer Gray, Jun., Andrew French and Capt. Ebenezer Backus have lost their rights, taken from them, and we are of opinion that they be provided by the Comp and each be made equal to a right in the township of Kingston, Computing the same according to the present value thereof, and that Capt. Zebulon Butler, Isaac Tripp, Esq., and Nathan Denison be, and they are hereby appointed a Committee, to determine the quantity of lands each of the above named persons shall have an equivalent to said right in Kingston.

Voted, that James Forsythe shall be, and he is hereby restored to his Settling right in the township of Kingston that belonged to Joseph Funk.

To the Gentlemen, Members of the Susqa Comp' in regular meeting Convened :

Your Committee appointed to hear all persons agrieved or are sufferers, and report make of the State of those matters together with our opinion thereon.

We find nothing different in the Case of Nash than there was found by the former Committee, viz: Doc. Wolcott, &c., but that Nash be Considered and admitted upon the right of James Ray and dealt with as Sufferers heretofore have been dealt with.

We further find that Thomas Heath was accepted as a settler in the township of Plymouth, on the 6th day of March, 1772, and on the 16th of the same Month, Heath had a furlough to go after his family, who then were at Loyal Sock on the West. Branch of the Susqa river, and to return as soon as he could, which Heath with the greatest distress and difficulty, on account of His poverty, and the circumstances of his family, and the season, was prevented from getting to Wyoming until the 234 of May following, which was as soon as was possible for him to get there, and in the absence of Heath, the Committee, on the 22 of May, 1772, declared Heath's rights vacant, by mistake, as the Committee now agree, which right was given to one Frasler, who was then absent, which right was by the Committee declared vacant after eight months absence, immediately upon which the Committee put one Reynolds upon Heath's original right, by mere Mistake, when they supposed they had put Heath to his original right, but it appears Reynolds' name is put thereto, and it is our opinion that said Heath be quited in his original right.

We also further report, that Mr. Wm. Stewart has lost that right given to him in Kingston; it is our opinion that Mr. Stewart be Considered by the Comp' on that account elsewhere.

We also find, that Caleb Bates ought to have his right in Pittstown, and upon his paying the 40 dollars agreed with the

Committee for which he be entitled to his right in Muncy Creek township, and not otherwise.

We also further find, that Comfort Shaw forfeited his right by absence, and he has been provided for by the Committee in one of the suffering towns, which is all he deserves, in our opinion.

We also further find, that Matthew Hollenback was one of Capt. Stewart's associates, but had so neglected his duty, that Capt. Stewart and his associates judged him unworthy, and have refused to allow him a settling right in Hanover, and we find no reason to dissent from Capt. Stewart's doings.

We also further find, that the matters of Jeremiah Ross, and Enoch Judd, are so particularly Circumstanced, that Ross ought to be restored to his former right, and Judd be established in the right he purchased of Stevens, and that all disputes relating thereto Cease, and their title be amply secured to them respectively.

We further find, Ezra Bewell, Gershom Breed, Gershom Hewitt, Benj. Hewitt, John Wooster, Gideon Lawrence, Ephraim Fellows and Joshua Whitney, have been sufferers, and are recommended to the favor of the Comp3 and provided for as they shall think fit, and that the matter of John Stevens, Eleazer Carey and Austin Hunt be Continued to some future meeting, all of which is submitted by Ebenezer Baldwin, Josiah Coles, Jos. Hurlburt, Gad. Stanley, William Judd, Committee.

This report accepted.

Whereas, Wm. Stewart is by this meeting voted out of his right in Kingston, it is now voted that the Committee for regulating the Settlement, shall see that the said Stewart has equivalent thereto.

Voted, that the Committee of Settlers at Wyoming, viz: Capt. Zebulon Butler, Maj. John Durkee and Obadiah Gore, Jun', or either two of them, be directed to lay out to Capt. Judah Woodruff and his associates, a Township of land on the South Side of the West Branch of the Susqa river, opposite the mouth of Pine Creek, to Extend up and down said West Branch, and to Extend as far south upon the side of the Mountain as land Can be found fit for improvement, to Contain the quantity of five miles square, including the Long Island so called, under the Same regulations as the other townships heretofore have been laid out.

Windham, March 9, 1774.

At a meeting of the Susqa Comp' lawfully warned and held at Windham, March 9, 1774. Col. Elizur Talcut, Moderator. Sam' Gray, clerk.