Litchfield enquirer., 1846-12-24
HISTORICAL CLEANING
FROM THE LITcHFIELD TOWN REcC

FROM THE LITcHFIELD TOWN REcC
 March II, I7o3 -" By unanimous vote granted permission for the Small Pox 10 be- communicated and carried on by Innoculatid= on Gliett $ Folly, so called, it being penin4 sula or neck of land belonging to Stephen
 Baldwin, in the Northern part of the Great Pond, in Litchhsld."
 March 20, 1799.-Leave was granted foi
 innocuation to be carried on at the house of Daniel Lord, Standing on Chestnut Hill,) pur- chased by the heiIs of Michael Dickinson; also, at the house of Roswell Harrison, lately the property of Thomas Harrison" Voted, also, that limits be prescribed beyond which the infected shall not be suffered to go, and that these limits extend not within forty rods of any public road except those by which saio ) house must be approached !; and on those roNus, } at least forty rods either May mfi0R0
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 Dec. 8, IFS
 shall put out th>
 friends, to be supported in -
 ole situation possible" Q
 Dec ', 1797.-The Selecmen were directed ! to take in proposals from individuals for the care of the poor in body. for the year ensuing. This, as appears from vote some years later, passed into practice of disposing of said con- tract at vendue. l A DEED OF MANUMIss1oN. --" Know all men by these presents that I, Oliver Wolcott, 1 of Ltchfeld, in the State of Connecticut, in expectation that my Negro Servant man, Cesar, will by his industry be able to obtain a comfortable subsistence for himself, and that he will make proper use of the freedom which I hereby give him, do discharge, llberate and set free, him the said Caesar, and do hereby ex- empt him from any farther obligation of setvI- tude to me, my heirs, and from any other per- son claiming any authority over him by, from or under me. And that my said servant whom | now make free as aforesaid, may be known hereafter by proper cognomen, hereby give him the name of Janus, so that hereafter he may be known ahd distinguished by the name of Cesar Janus. As witness my hand and k | seal in Litchfeld, November 23, l1S6. M | OLIVER WOLCOTT, & SEAL. | In presence of l MARY ANN WoLcoTT, l FREDERICK WoLcoTT,
 Recorded Nov 2l, l7s0, pr. Jed. .Strong ! Town Clerk
 Nov I2, 17s7.-'s The Hon. Oliver Woldpu Es1, and Mir. Jededlah Strong, were cho#s l delegates" to the Convention proposed toN | holden at Hartford on the lst Thursday oi J$E uary. 76s, to consider and decide upon t 1 Consttut, on for the United states as submik ] ted by the Congress al Philadelphia. Morch, 793 -. Voted discretionary order tc the Seectmen to pay Capt. Alexander Calliq for his horse, cr dis .spte it, as shall seem mo expedient or reasonable." 1 April 9, 1796.--On petition of Elihu Hotc kiss, "yotsd to pay him ten pounds law money in full for all damage" ' for burnl | his house, Sc by John Humaston, who waS panper of saidstown, being crazy, and under Seectnen of said town" a | PRICES OF LABoR.--A few entries conccrn ing the rates allowed for work in Cavment various dues to the tewn. may give some i'd of the prices labor has commanded at differs ! times. In l726 in the matter of fuel provd for Rev. MT. Collins. the town voted to ere l each man shillings for each h cord of wood, A ' for days labor of each man ? shillings al sxpence, and for each Aas2n af Glas 6a . ia r the driver, 5 shilling
 tax was laid and
 From 1900
 lings per daa