The Newtown bee., 1908-07-31
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/ TOWN TOPICS. LEGISLATIV E ROLL OF 1883. AN INTERESTING OLD PAPER LOANED THE BEE BY M. G.
 LEACH OF SHERMAN.

l A copy of the Legislative roll of 1883 has been loaned The Bee by Malby Leach of Sherman, a grandson of Levi Leach, who represented Sherman in the Legislature, that year. From New town it will be noted Lemuel Beers and Henry Beers were representatives. Lemuel Beers was the grandfather of Robert H. Beers, the merchant, and Mrs Henry G. Curtis, and the father of Eli B. Beers and Miss Fannie Beers of Queen street. Henry L. Beers of Niagara Falls. N. Y, is another son of Lemuel Beers. Lemuel Beers resided in Palestine on the place now owned by his son, Eli s. Beers, and was one of the most influential men in the town ir his day. He was son of Eli Beers, who lived in the house where H. P. Boyson now resides. Henry Beers, or Harry Beers as he was generally called, lived in house which stood on the site of the present residence of Judge Beecher. A list of the members of the Legislature in 1883 follows:
 His Excellency, Henry w. Edwards, City Hotel.
 His Honor. Ebenezer Stoddard, Gen. Johnson's. SENATOR'S:
 District No. 1. James Dodd, At his own House,
 District No. 2. David E. Hubbard, Connecticut Hotel.
 District No. 8. David Grant, Con- necticnt Hotel. .. ~
 District No4. Jared Bassett, United States Hotel.
 District No. 5. John Pierce, United States Hotel.
 District No. 6. Ashbel Griswold, St Johns.
 District No. '. Nathan Daboll, Buck ley's, Main street.
 District No. 8. Buell. Woodworth, Treats Coffee House.
 District No. g. Samuel A. Peters, United States Hotel.
 District No. 10. Philip A. Cannon, St Johns.
 District No. Il. Samuel T. Barnum.
 District No. 12. Charles Hawley, City Hotel.
 District No. 13. Philip Pearl, IT,, Connecticut Hotel.
 District No. IA. Jonathan Nichols, Buckley's, Main street. District No. 15. William G. Williams, United States Hotel.
 District No. 16. Nehemiah c. San. ford, United States Hotel. District No. r. Elisha Sterling, United States Hotel.
 District No. IS. John Stewart, Treats Coffee House. District No. 19. George Pratt, Amer ican Boarding House.
 District No. 20. William Field, Gen. Johns0n's.
 District No. 21. Jabez l.. White, Jr., Treats Coffee House.
 REPRESENTATIVES,:
 Hon. Samuel Ingham, Speaker, American Boarding House.
 Silas Mix, 1st Clerk, U. S. Hotel. Loren P. Waldo, 2d Clerk, Gen. Johnson's.
 Hartford County:
 Hartford, Joseph Pratt, Conn. Ho- tel; William Hayden, His own house. Avon, Oliver Tillotson. Marshall's. Berlin. Benjamin Wilcox, Conn. Hotel; William Smith, Conn. Hotel. Bristol, Ephraim Downes, U. S. Hotel.
 Burlington, Enoch Cornwall, Mir Cranes, Asylum St.
 Canton. Theodore Pettibone, Pin ney's, Main St.
 East Hartford, Erastus Woodruff, Front St. Hotel; Samuel Brewer, Front St. Hotel.
 East Windsor, Horace Barber, Sam uel Mills, Front St, Hotel.
 Enfield, Ephraim P. Prudden, U. s. Hotel; John King, U. S. Hotel. Pennington. Timothy Cowles, Sid. ney Wadsworth, MT Kellogg's, Main St.
 Glastonbury, Robert Hunt, SyIvest- CT Blish, Conn Hotel.
 Granby, Justus D. Wilcox, Conn. Hotel; Oliver Alderman, Pinney's, Main St.
 Hartland, Austin Ensign, Wyllys Wright, Pinney's, Main St.
 Marlborough, Samuel F. Jones, Henry c. Hale, Ferry st.
 Manchester, William Cooley, Hart ford Hotel.
 Simsbury, Moses Ensign, Pinney's, Main st. {; Everett Wilcox, Kellogg's, Main st.
 Southington, Francis w. Wilcox, Julius Bristol. St Johns.
 Suffield, Henry Pease, William C. Gay, St Johns.
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