David Welch, 2d major of the 1st regiment, and 2d captain of 4th company. 4th company, 1st regiment-Bezaleel Beebe, 1st lieutenant; Aaron Foot, 2d lieutenant; Thomas Catlin, ensign.

5th company, 1st regiment-Benedict Arnold, captain; Caleb Trowbridge, 1st lieutenant; Jesse Curtis, 2d lieutenant; Nathan Edwards, ensign.

6th company, 1st regiment-William Douglass, captain; Samuel Blackman, Jr., 1st lieutenant; Jared Robertson, 2d lieutenant; Ebenezer Trusdel, ensign. 7th company, 1st regiment-Isaac Cooper, Jr., captain; John Hough, 1st lieutenant; Thomas Shepard, 2d lieutenant; James Peck, ensign.

8th company, 1st regiment-Phineas Porter, captain; Stephen Matthews, 1st lieutenant; Isaac Brownson, 2d lieutenant; David Smith, ensign.

9th company, 1st regiment-James Arnold captain; Samuel Wilmott, 1st lieutenant; Nathaniel Bunnell, 2d lieutenant; Philemon Potter, ensign.

10th company, 1st regiment-Samuel Peck, Jr., captain; John Fowler, Jr., 1st lieutenant; Israel Terrell, 2d lieutenant; Daniel Doolittle, ensign. This Assembly do appoint Rev. Benjamin Trumbull, chaplain for the 1st regiment.

Jared Potter, surgeon.

Levi Ives and Isaac Chalker, surgeon's mates.

SECOND REGIMENT.

This Assembly do appoint Joseph Spencer, colonel of the 2d regiment and captain of 1st company.

1st company-Samuel Cone, Jr., 1st lieutenant; James Smith, 2d lieutenant; Joel Arnold, ensign.

Samuel Wyllys, lieutenant colonel, and captain of 2d company,

2d company-Ezekiel Scott, 1st lieutenant; Samuel Cooper, 2d lieutenant; Marcus Cole, ensign.

Roger Enos, 1st major, and captain of 3d company.

3d company-Elijah Robinson, 1st lieutenant; Silas Blodget, 2d lieutenant; Benjamin Farlee, ensign.

Return J. Meigs, 2d major, and captain of 4th company.

4th company-Elijah Blackman, 1st lieutenant; Ebenezer Sumner, 2d lieu. tenant; Joseph Savage, ensign.

5th company-Solomon Willes, captain; Jonathan Parker, 1st lieutenant; Samuel Fitch, Jr., 2d lieutenant; Noah Chapin, ensign.

6th company-Noadiah Hooker, captain; Peter Curtiss, 1st lieutenant; Joseph Byington, 2d lieutenant; Amos Wadsworth, ensign.

7th company-Abel Pettibone, captain; Amasa Mills, 1st lieutenant; Joseph Forward, 2d lieutenant; Jonathan Pettibone, ensign.

9th company-John Chester, captain; Barnabas Dean, 1st lieutenant; Stephen Goodrich, 2d lieutenant; Charles Butler, ensign.

10th company-John Harman, captain; Samuel Wright, 1st lieutenant; Consider Willeston, 2d lieutenant; Oliver Hanchet, ensign.

8th company-Levi Welles, captain; James Ransom, 1st lieutenant; John Isham, 2d lieutenant; Samuel Palmer, ensign.

Rev. Benjamin Boardman, chaplain.

William Jepson, surgeon.

Daniel Southmayd and John Richard Watrous, surgeon's mates.

THIRD REGIMENT.

This Assembly do appoint Israel Putnam, colonel of the 3d regiment, and captain of 1st company.

1st company-Jonathan Kingsley, 1st lieutenant; Thomas Grosvenor, 2d lieutenant; Elijah Loomis, ensign.

Experience Storrs, lieutenant colonel, and captain of 2d company.

2d company-James Dana, 1st lieutenant; Ebenezer Gray, 2d lieutenant; Isaac Farewell, ensign.

John Durkee, major, and captain of 3d company.

3d company-Joshua Huntington, 1st lieutenant; Jacobus Delbet, 2d lieu. tenant; Lemuel Bingham, ensign.

Obadiah Johnson, 2d major, and captain of 4th company.

4th company-Ephraim Lyon, 1st lieutenant; Wells Clift, 2d lieutenant; Isaac Hide, Jr., ensign.

5th company-Thomas Knowlton, Jr., captain; Reuben Marcey, 1st lieuten. ant; John Keyes, 2d lieutenant; Daniel Allen, Jr., ensign.

6th company-James Clark, captain; Daniel Tilden, 1st lieutenant; Andrew Fitch, 2d lieutenant; Thomas Bell, ensign.

7th company-Ephraim Manning, captain; Stephen Lyon; 1st lieutenant; Asa Morris, 2d lieutenant; William Irissell, ensign.

8th company-Joseph Elliott, captain; Benoni Cutler, 1st lieutenant; Daniel Waters, 2d lieutenant; Comfort Day, ensign.

9th company-Ebenezer Mosely, captain; Stephen Brown, 1st lieutenant; Melaliah Bingham, 2d lieutenant; Nathaniel Wales, ensign.

10th company- Israel Putnam, Jr., captain; Samuel Robinson, Jr., 1st lieutenant; Amos Avery, 2d lieutenant; Caleb Stanley, ensign.

Rev. Abiel Leonard, chaplain.

John Spalding, surgeon.

Penuel Cheeny and Elijah Adams, surgeon's mates.

FOURTH REGIMENT.

This Assembly do appoint Benjamin Hinman, colonel of the 4th regiment, and captain of the 1st company.

1st company-David Hinman, 1st lieutenant; Benjamin Hungerford, 2d lieutenant; Asahel Hurd, ensign.

George Pitkin, lieutenant colonel, and captain of 2d company.

2d company-Isaac Fellows, 1st lieutenant; David Bissell, 2d lieutenant; Edward Payne, ensign.

Samuel Ellmore, major, and captain of 3d company.

3d company-Amos Chappel, 1st lieutenant; Oliver Parmaly, 2d lieutenant; Moses Shepard, ensign.

4th company-Nathaniel Bull, captain; Timothy Holcomb, 1st lieutenant; Luther Stoddard, 2d lieutenant; Nathan Dawsey, ensign.

5th company-Shubael Griswold, captain; Benjamin Mills, 1st lieutenant; Aaron Austin, Jr., 2d lieutenant; Caleb Lyman, ensign.

6th company-Josiah Starr, captain; Asaph Hull, 1st lieutenant; Paul Yates, 2d lieutenant; Asahel Hodge, ensign.

7th company-Eleazer Curtiss, captain; John Ransom, 1st lieutenant; Morgan Noble, 2d lieutenant; John Rockwell, ensign.

8th company-John Sedgwick, captain; Warham Gibbs, 1st lieutenant; James Thomson, 2d lieutenant; Matthew Patterson, ensign.

9th company--John Watson, Jr., captain; Theodore Woodbridge, 1st lieu tenant; Titus Watson, 2d lieutenant; John Hull, ensign.

10th company-Hezekiah Parsons, captain; Hezekiah Holdridge, 1st lieutenant; John Skinner, 2d lieutenant; Ebenezer Watson, ensign.

David Waterbury, Jr., colonel of the 5th regiment, and captain of the 1st company.

1st company-Sylvanus Brown, 1st lieutenant; Jonathan Whiting, 2d lieu. tenant; Samuel Hoit, ensign.

Samuel Whiting, lieutenant colonel, and captain of 2d company.

2d company-Elijah Beach, 1st lieutenant; Robert Walker, 2d lieutenant; Abijah Starling, ensign.

Thomas Hobby, major, and captain of 3d company.

3d company-Bezaleel Brown, 1st lieutenant; Samuel Lockwood, Jr., 2d lieutenant; John Waterbury, the 5th ensign.

4th company-David Dimon, captain; Peter Hendrick, 1st lieutenant; Ebe. nezer Hill, 2d lieutenant; Wakeman Burr, ensign.

5th company-Matthew Mead, captain; Levi Taylor, 1st lieutenant; Samuel Cannon, 2d lieutenant; William Seymour, ensign.

6th company-Noble Benedict, captain; James Clark, 1st lieutenant; Ephraim Lyon, 2d lieutenant; Daniel Hicox, ensign.

7th company-Abraham Gray, captain; Stephen Wakeman, 1st lieutenant; Thaddeus Rockwell, 2d lieutenant; George Burr, ensign.

8th company-Joseph Smith, Jr., captain; Abel Botsford, J., 1st lieutenant; Nathan Blackman, 2d lieutenant; Silas Hubbel, ensign.

9th company-Nehemiah Beardslee, captain; Sanuel Keeler, Jr., 1st lieuten. ant; Zephaniah Briggs, 2d lieutenant; William Benedict, ensign.

10th company-Zalmon Read, captain; Peter Fairchild, 1st lieutenant; David Peet, 2d lieutenant; Benjamin Nichols, ensign.

Rev. Samuel Wood, chaplain.

John Wood, surgeon.

Asel Fitch and Samuel Whiting, surgeon's mates.

SIXTH REGIMENT.

Samuel Holden Parsons, Esq., colonel of the 6th regiment, and captain of the 1st company.

1st company-David Fisher Sill, 1st lieutenant; Christopher Ely, 2d lieutenant; Elisha Wade, ensign.

John Tyler, lieutenant colonel, and captain of 2d company.

2d company-Elnathan Rossiter, 1st lieutenant; Ebenezer Brewster, 2d lieutenant; Joseph Hillyard, ensign.

Samuel Prentice, major, and captain of 3d company.

3d company-James Eldridge, 1st lieutenant; Richard Hewit, 2d lieutenant; Oliver Babcock, ensign.

4th company-William Coit, captain; Jedediah Hide, 1st lieutenant; James Day, 2d lieutenant; William Adams, ensign.

5th company-James Chapman, Jr., captain; Christopher Darrow, 1st lieutenant; John Raymond, Jr., 2d lieutenant; George Lattimore, ensign.

6th company-Waterman Cleft, captain; William Edmond, 1st lieutenant; John McGregor, 2d lieutenant; Nathaniel Morgan, ensign.

7th company-Edward Mott, captain; Benjamin Throop, Jr., 1st lieutenant; Jeremiah Halsey, 2d lieutenant; Nathan Peters, ensign.

8th company-Samuel Gale, captain; Josiah Baldwin, 1st lieutenant; Elisha Lee, 2d lieutenant; David Nevins, ensign.

9th company-John Ely, captain; Abraham Waterhouse, 1st lieutenant; Martin Kirtland, 2d lieutenant; Israel Doan, ensign.

10th company-Abel Speer, captain; Isaac Gallop, 1st lieutenant; Samuel Williams, 3d, 2d lieutenant; William Latham, 2d, ensign.

Rev. Stephen Johnson, chaplain.

Philip Turner, surgeon.

Thomas Fosdick and Benjamin Ellis, surgeon's mates.

(These six regiments of men were the first enlisted troops in Connecticut, raised for the revolutionary war; and I discover in the list of the officers, the names of many, who survived the war, and lived to honor the highest court in the State, and the legislative halls of the State, and Nation.)

The Legislature in April, 1775, passed a resolve, that should the officers so appointed refuse to accept the trust, or should vacancies occur, by death, &c., the Governor was to fill the vacancies, and commission the officers that he should appoint.

At the same session of the Assembly, Capt. Joseph Trumbull was appointed commissary general, to take charge of the provisions purchased at Salem, by Brigadier General Spencer, or any other provisions that should be sent to him, for the inhabitants, either enlisting or assembling for special defence of the colony, who was to distribute such provisions among them; also to purchase further supplies, if he could purchase on better terms, than in this colony; and was directed to report his doings, for the direction of the commissaries employed in this colony.

At the same time, Oliver Wolcott, Henry Champion, Thomas Mumford, Jedediah Strong, Jeremiah Wadsworth, Thomas Howell, Samuel Squire, Amasa Keyes, and Hezekiah Bissell, were appointed commissaries to supply all necessary stores and provisions for the troops then to be raised under the previous order of the Assembly.

Commissary Trumbull was, by a resolution, then directed by the Legislature to purchase immediately, one hogshead of New England rum, and one hundred tin kettles; and Commissary Wadsworth, to procure as soon as might be, one hundred tin kettles, fifty barrels of pork, fifty bushels of peas and beans, and immediately forward the peas and beans to the commissary general, together with two hundred weight of bread; Commissary Bissell, was directed to procure sixty barrels of pork, and forty-two hundred pounds of bread; the commissary in Litchfield county, was directed to procure twenty barrels of pork, and eight thousand pounds of bread; and each of the commissaries for the counties of New London, New Haven and Fairfield, were directed to procure for the army, fifty barrels of pork, and twenty thousand pounds of bread.

These were the first stores ordered or procured by Connecticut for the army. During the same session, William Pitkin, Thomas Seymour, Oliver Ellsworth, and Ezekiel Williams, Esq'rs., or any three of them, were appointed a committee with full power to examine, liquidate, settle, and give needful orders for the pay`ment of the several accounts of expenses that had been, or should be incurred relative to the assembling, equipping, supporting, or paying wages to such of the colony as should, or might enlist or assemble for the defence of the colony, for the then eurrent year; and said committee were to act under the orders of the General Assembly.

The committee of Pay Table, were empowered to take bonds with sureties, of each commissary; in which bond such commissary was obliged faithfully and justly to dispose of all money he should receive, and account with the committee of Pay Table for the same.

It was also enacted that the chief officers and captains of the several companies then to be enlisted, should be the pay masters of their respective companies; and the committee of pay table were directed to take bonds with sureties of each captain, or other person who should act as pay master, and account also with the committee of pay table; and receive as a compensation for such service, one and a half per cent.

The immense amount of money required at this time, by the colony, to equip their recruits, provision and march them, in the then impoverished state of the country, could not be procured on so sudden an emergency. The Legislature, therefore, bold and daring in the enterprize, it being a war for their dearest rights and their liberty; passed an act (in April, 1775) that there should be forthwith imprinted the sum of fifty thousand pounds, bills of credit on the colony, equal to lawful money, of suitable denominations as the committee should direct, and of the same tenor with the (then) late emission of bills of credit, without interest, and payable at or before the 10th day of May, 1777; and dated the 10th day of May, 1775. William Pitkin, George Wyllys, Elisha Williams, Benjamin Payne, and Thomas Seymour, Esq'rs., or any three of them, were appointed a committee to take charge of imprinting said bills, with all convenient speed, and to sign and deliver the same to the Treasurer of the colony, taking his receipt therefor, and the Treasurer was to pay the same out of the Treasury, under orders of the Assembly.

And providing for a Sinking Fund, a tax of seven pence on the pound, was levied on all the polls and rateable estate in the colony, to be paid by the 10th day of May, 1777, in bills of credit of this emission, or lawful money, and the Treasurer was ordered to issue his warrants to collect the same.

The colony powder, was ordered by the Legislature to be placed in the hands of one gentleman in each county, in the colony, viz.: Capt. Jabez Huntington, to take charge of all the powder in Windham county; Winthrop Saltonstall, in New London, and Jabez Huntington, of such as should be lodged in Norwich. That 28 half barrels of powder lodged at New Haven, should be sent into Fairfield county, to the care of Thaddeus Burr; and that 14 half barrels of powder at New Haven, be sent to the care of Lynde Lord, Esq., at Litchfield, and the remainder of the powder at New Haven, to be taken charge of by Jonathan Fitch, Esq., of New Haven-all of which powder was to remain in the care of said persons, subject only to the order of the General Assembly, except on some sudden emergency, then by order of the selectmen of the several towns where lodged.