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Provided, That in case any town be aggrieved,
in the adjustment of said claims and returns, by
said committee, or the Governor and Council of
Safety, that on application made to this Assem
bly, in May next, relief shall be given, according
as the nature of the case shall appear ' to merit, —
And Colonel Nathaniel Terry, General Selah
Hart, Colonel John Chester, Colonel Noah
Phelps and Major Nathaniel Brown, for the coun
ty or Hartford ; Colonel Edward Russel, Colonel
Jonathan Baldwin, Mr. James Beard, Mr. Gide
on Buckingham and Doctor Eneas Munson, for
the county of New-Haven; Colonel Joseph
Hanes, jun. Colonel Zabdiel Rogers, Major
Charles Phelps, Colonel Marfhfield rarfons and
Colonel Samuel Mott, for the county of New-
London ; Captain John Brooks, Major Caleb
Baldwin, Colonel Nehemiah Bearddey, Mr.
Thaddeus Burr and Captain Silvanus Knapp, for
the county of Fairfield; Major John Ripley,
Colonel James Gordon, Colonel Jeremiah Ma
son, Captain Simeon Smith and Colonel jofeph
Abbot, for the county of Windham; Colonel
Aaron Austin, Major Giles Pettibone, Mr. Reu
ben Smith, Major Eleazer Curtis and Mr. Heze
kiah Fitch, are appointed committees within
their refpe&ve counties, with the powers and
for the purposes herein expressed.
A true Copy of Record,
Examined by,
GEORGE WYLLYS, Sec.
At a General Assembly of the Governor and
Company of the State of Connecticut, holden
at Hartford (by special Order of his Excellency
the Governor) on the 21st Day of February,
A. D. 1781.
An ACT, in addition to an A&, passed in May
last, for securing the Balances found due to the
Officers and Soldiers, of the Connecticut Line
of the Continental Army.
7V7 HE REAS, it was the Intention of the
General Assembly, that a Tax if Two Pence
half Penny, laid by fail Act, payable theffl Day of
March, 1781, for difeharging the Interest of the
Notes, ordered to be given by said All, nd to thesis
Tax of sane, 1781, Should be paid in Gold and Sil
ver, or such other Money as mould as quell answer
the Purposes of said Officers and Soldiers, who are
now serving in other States, where said Bills have
no Currency.
BE it therefore Enaffed, by the Governor, Coun
cil and Representatives, in General Court as
sembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That said
Tax of two Pence half Penny be, and the fame
is hereby ordered and directed to be collected in
Gold and Silver only, any Thing in said A& to
the contrary notwithstanding.
Provided nevertheless, That Certificates, given
by the Treasurer of this State, for the Interest
due upon said Notes, up to the firft Day of June,
which he is hereby authorifed and impowered to
give, endorsing the fame upon such Note, may
and shall be received by the Treasurer of this
State, in Payment of said Tax.
And be it further Resolved, That laid com
mittee fhal! hear and determine all dilutes be
tween different towns, refpe&ing their men al
ready in the army, or recruits raised, or to be
railed, for laid purpose of filling the continental
army, and that in doing the fame, said commit
ted- (hull conform themselves, to such rules re
fyeaing the fubjea, as this alterably have given
by a reiolve of the fame, in their present fenions.
And it is further Resolved and Ordered, That
the fcveral towns in this State shall compleat
their full compliment of recruits, which they
shall be deficient, according to said adjustment,
on or by the 20th day of April next, in the mah^
ner already directed by this Assembly, and that
the said committee shall, and are directed, as
soon as may b^ to make their returns to his Ex
cellency -the Governor, of any alterations they
may find in any town's quota, different from
what is already assigned them, as also of the
claims of towns in different counties, and that
his Excellency the Governor with advice of his
Council of Safetyg shall give all further directions
and orders, refpefting the filling and compleat
ing, each towns quota of said recruits, as they
shall find necessary, conformable only to aft of
this Assembly, passed in October daft, for filling
up the army, as also to determine the. claims,of
two or more towns, in different counties as afore
faid.
And whereas, it may have so happened, that
the Collectors in this State have, in lome Instan
ces, received Paper Currency in Payment of said
Tax, which will not answer the true Intend and
Meaning of said ACt.
Be it further Ena^ed, by the Authority aforefaid,
That such Collector, upon his returning said
Money, or tendering the fame to such Perlon,
of whom the fame was collected, may, and he is
hereby fully authorifed and impowered tocolleCt
said Tax in Gold and Silver, said former Collec
tion notwithstanding.
A true Copy of Record,
Examinedby GEORGE WYLLYS, Sec'ry.
At a General Aflembly of the Governor and
Company of the State of Connecticut, holden
at Hartford, by special Order of the Governor,
on the Twenty-firft Day of February, A. D.
1781.
tfVHEREAS the Officers and Soldiers employed
" in D fence of this and the United States have
fuffered much by Want of the Article of Sauce, so
necessary for their Health and Comfort, which In
convenience cannot be remedied, except by the Exerti
ons of the Peoplefor that Purpose :
'f ' HEREFORD Resolved, That it be recom
£ mended to the Inhabitants of the several
Towns in this State, that they remember their
Brethern in the Field, and endeavour themext
Season to raise a Quantity of Peas and Beans,
fuffieient to supply the Officers and Soldiers in
public Service, belonging to this State, for which
they shall receive a generous Reward.
And the several Printers, in this State, are re
quested to publilh this Resolve in their refpe&ive
News-Papers.
A true Copy of Record,
Examinedby GEORGE WYLLYS, Sec'ry.
At a General Aflembly of the Governor and
Company of the State of Connecticut, holden
at Hartford, by special Orderof his Excellency
the Governor, on the Twenty-firft Day of
February, A. I). 1781.
INHERE AS bya Refold of this Assembly at
r their Seffons, in May last, for the Raising
three Regiments, for the Defence of this State, it mas
fetforth, as an Inducement for inlifting, that the
Heads of such asfoould so inlift, and Jhould continue
in Service for the Space of three Months, soul cl be
exempted from the Lift of if 0 ; But in the Pro
clamateon which issued out thereon, the Encourage
ment was held up for Exemption, upon the Inlif
ment only forfaid Term, andnot upon the Continu
ance therein, whereby the Lifers in the several
Towns have conduced variously in that Refeft ;in
some Towns said Heads being put in, and in others
not, which Inequality tends to uneafnefs and in
jufice, which to prevent :
RESOLVED by this Assembly, That theLifters
of such Towns as have put the Heads of said
Officers and Soldiers into the Lill of 1780, shall
abate the Heads of such Officers and Soldiers'
from said Lift, and they are hereby ordered and
directed to abate the fame, together with the
Four-fold Assessments thereon.
A true Copy of Record,
Examined by GEORGE WYLLYS, Sec'ry.
B'A LT IMOR F„ Ma?ch'6.'
Extract of a letter from Martinico, dated Jan. 15.
" Admiral Rodney has been at the island of
St. Vincent, with 20 (hips of the line, 7 frigates,
and several transports, and landed near 4000
men. All our force to defend it consisted of on
ly 620 regular troops and 200 militia. Generals
Vaughan and St. Leger, who commanded the
British forces, were repulsed at every attack up
on our advanced polls, so they durfl not advance
to our intrenched camp. They re-embarked,
after taking from the plantations 500 negroes.
You fee they make war like pirates.
" This expedition must certainly have hum
bled Admiral Rodney. General St. Leger was
wounded.
" We learn from St. Lucia, that they landed
300 wounded on their arrival there. The num
ber of killed unknown. On our fide only a gre
nadier, belonging to the Martinico regiment,
was wounded in his knee."
Extract of a letter from Richmond, dated Feb. 24.
" Since my letter of the 18th inst. we learn,
that General Greene, with his army, had been
elofely pursued by Lord Cornwallis, through
the western parts of North-Carolina, to the
boundaries of this state, into which, he thought
prudent to retire, by eroding the river Dan at
Boyd's ferry. On the opposite fide, Cornwallis
has been obliged to cease his pursuit, not carry
ing with him batteaux for the eroding of rivers,
and the American army halting to oppose his
passage.
" Our affairs to the southward now bear a
more plcafing afpe&. The western inhabitants
of Virginia, who so nobly distinguished them
selves in their battle ofK.ing's Mountain and the
Cowpens, have, t® a man, turned out, bringing
rout to Salisbury, another towards Pedee, and a third towards
Wilmington,to join the body that had landed atCape-Fear.
That Governor Nash and General Cafwell were at Cross-
Creek, with a considerable body of militia. Gen. Green
was in pursuit of Lord Cornwallis, who, by cutting down a
number of trees, as if to throw a bridge over the Dan, had
suddenly retreated, and dole a day's march of him.
Extrad of a letter, dated Camp, Rocky-river, February 6,
(22 miles in Cornwallis'sßetreat.)
" After Tarleton's defeat Lord Cornwallis pursued Gen.
Morgan with great rapidity to Ramfours, on the south fork
of Catawba, but finding he had got to the mainCatawba,and
the prifor ers near the Yadkin, he < ppeared for eight days as
if he had given over the pursuit. During which time Gen.
Davidson had colluded a corfiderable body of militia, who
joined Gen. Morgan's light troops on die north banks of
the Catawbaliver. Trees were cut down at the fords to im
pede the enemy's palling. The fords were so Numerous that
only a few troops could be spared for the defence of each.
'' On the mornirg of theist inst. die enemy forced their
way at Cowen's Ford, where Gen. Davidson was polled with
120 militia. Although his party was weak, lie would have
given them a spirited oopo/rcion, had he not unfortunately
fallen, almost the firft fae: The fall of diat great and good
officer is universally and juflly lamented.
" Cornwallis is now at Salisbury, and Generals Green
and Morgan on the other fide the Yadkin. The Rowan and
Mecklenburg militia are turning out very unanimously, and
are in hopes they shall be able to prevent the enemy from
plundering and foraging in the county.
@ “ His Lordship has given us fresh specimens of his huma
nity, and of his Majesty's mild government, burning the
houses of Meflrs. Brevard, Givens, Terrence, and others.
“ Several parties of our friends have risen in Georgia, and
done some things very clever."
General Davidson was a Lieuteuant-Colonel in the firft
regiment of die North-Corolina line of the Continental ar
my, in which station he served with the reputation of a brave
and attentive officer: He received a dangerous wound on
the 21st of July last, near the mouth of the Rocky river,
where he dislodged a superior body of Tories, strongly poll
ed. When Lord Cornwallis began his late advances into
North-Carolina, he commanded the militia at Salisbury dif
tri% and during his Lordship's halt in Charlotte, by his ju
dicious and vigilant manoeuvres in the face of the enemy,
was fucctfsftl in annoying thtii forageing parwps and inifß
PHILADELPHIA, March 14.
Saturday moimng last arrived here the brig Hibernia,
Cap:. Collins, in 22 days from Port-au-Prince. By this vef
fe± we learn, that a schooner, belonging to North-Carolina,
arrived at that poit from St. Euftatia, which she le ft while
the British fleet lay off that ifland,having blocked up a num
ber of American veffcls then laying there, that the British
fleet, amounting to fix or seven ships of the line, and a num
ber of frigates and privateers, arrived about the 3d or 4th
ult. That while he was there but one gun was fired from one
of the men of war, at an American ship, who had her colours
still flying, and the whole were drawn up in a line, seeming
determined to defend themselves, if possible, against so su
perior a force. That the Captain of this schooner feeing an
opening where but one frigate was Rationed resolved to run
out to sea, and escape by that means if he found it practica
ble, and accordingly came to fail ; the frigate gave chace,
and run under a small fort, which fired on the frigate. He
was chafed nine hours by the frigate and a cutter, but finally
gqt clear. The Captain added, that after he got outto sea,.
he heard a heavy hi ine, and saw a great smoke arise from
the island. It was said Sir George Rodney commanded the
British ships on this buccaneering expedition.
The Carolina Captain was qualified before the French Go
vernor, as to the truth of this intelligence, of which the
above is the substance.
Cur latcft advices from the Southward mention, that Lord
Cornwallis had retreated to Hillfborongh where he divided
his army into three divisions; orc of wKich had taken the
with them their fellow fettled; These, 'tis said
joined General Gieene's army last Monday, to
the amount of 2000 ; and ' the whole militia of
Virginia, to the westward of Peterfburgh and
southward of James River, are marched to re
inforce the army. Cornualhs perceiving the
formidable force collecting against him from
Virginia, 'tis said, has attempted to retreat in his
tur , but found it impracticable, from a consi
derable body of the North-Carolina militia col
lected in his rear under the command of Gene
ral Sumpter, whose good conduct and fortune
have been so much applauded. In this situati
on, the people here ipeak of the deftru&ion of
the British army, under Lord Cornwallis as ine
vitable. The Assembly of North-Carolina have
directed, that all persons who can be armed, and
are able to bear arms, to affcmble themselves
under Major-General Cafwelj, to form an army
to cut off his retreat through that state, if at
tempted. This body, it is laid, are to assemble
immediately in the neighbourhood of Hillfbo
rough, and 'tis computed they will amount to
SOOO, exclusive of those under Gen. Sumpter."
Extract of a letter from Annapolis, dated 2d inst.
" We are well assured that Lord Cornwallis
is retreating, and that General Greene is pur
suing him. The militia of Virginia have turn
ed out in great numbers, and with great alacri
ty ; they have surpassed the expectations of the
moll sanguine. It is said General Greene is
much stronger than Cornwallis ; and the Baron
Stuben, who was intended to reinforce General
Greene, has received orders from him not to
join him, but to cross over into North-Carolina,
lower down, to gain a pass on the route to Wil
mington, in case Cornwallis should bend his
ceurfe that way. It is also said Col. Lee has
got round Cornwallis, and is animating the mi
litia."