eventful period. The columns of the newspapers then abounded. with animating and instructive essays, and dissertations on the abstract principles of justice, with examples taken from ancient and modern history. The three newspapers then published in the colony, were all faithful to the cause of freedom; but the one in New London, called the "Connecticut Gazette, and Universal Intelligencer," published by Timothy Green, was distinguished for its superior devotion to the cause of liberty, and the rights of America.

The delegation to the General Assembly which met in New Haven, in October, 1774, was of the most patriotic character, being composed for the most part, of men who had taken an active part in the town meetings of the preceding summer, or belonged to the association of the "sons of liberty." They were men of determined spirit, devoted to the rights and liberties of their country. This Assembly held an adjourned session in March, 1775, and another in April of the same year. At te April session, a law was enacted to raise one-fourth of the militia for the special defence of the colony; formed into companies of one hundred men each, and into six regiments. A major general, two brigadier generals, and six colonels, were appointed. This force was subsequently sent to Boston, after the affair of Lexington.* This Assembly also authorised the purchase of three

* The annexed companies marched from the following towns in Connecticut, for the relief of Boston, &c., in the Lexington alarm, April, 1775.

Woodstock, Capt. Benjamin Lyon, with 35 men; East Windsor, Capt. Charles Ellsworth, 37, Capt. Matthew Grant, 28; Woodstock, Capt. E. Manning, 22; Branford, Capt. Josiah Fowler, 36; Hartford, Capt. Abraham Sedgwick, 33; Woodstock, Capt. Daniel Lyon, 27; Windham, Capt. Wm. Warner, 41; East Haddam, Col. Joseph Spencer, John Willey, Capt., 43; Canterbury, Capt. Aaron Cleveland, 20; Somers, Capt. Emery Pease, 47; East Windsor, Capt. Amasa Loomis, 43; Windham, Capt. James Stedman, 49, Capt. Return J. Meigs, 43; Norfolk, Capt. Timothy Gaylord, 24; New Hartford, Lieut. Uriah Seymour, 5; Simsbury, Capt. Amos Wilcox, 25; Wethersfield, Capt. John Chester, about 60; Lyme, Capt. Joseph Jewitt, 55; Canterbury, Capt. Joseph Burgess, 20; Union, Capt. Thomas Lawson, 26; Enfield, Capt. Nathaniel Terry, 57; Wallingford, Capt. Isaac Cook; Killingworth, Capt. Aaron Stevens, 26; Canterbury, Lt. Col. A. Johnson, Shrebiah Butt, Capt., 30; Ashford, Capt. Thomas Knowlton, 78; Chatham, Capt. Silas Dunham, 36; Fairfield, Capt. David Dimon, about 50; Glastenbury, Capt. Elizur Hubbard, 47; Brooklyn, Gen. Putnam; Milford, Capt. Peter Perrit, from different places, 73; Windsor, Capt. Nathaniel Hayden, Jr.; New Haven, Capt. Hezekiah Dickerman, 9 ;

thousand stand of arms, and the issuing of £50,000 in bills of credit equal to lawful money, and laid a tax of seven pence on the pound on all polls and rateable estate in the colony.

Bolton, Capt. Ezekiel Olcott, 34; Colchester, Capt. Eliphalet Bulkley, 69; Middletown, Capt. Cumfort Sage, 43; East Windsor, Capt. Lemuel Stoughton; Pomfret, Capt. Zebulon Ingalls, 89; Norwich, Capt. Jedediah Huntington, 70; Tolland, Capt. Solomon Willis, 50; Plainfield, Capt. Andrew Backus, 54; Stafford, Lt. Col. Stephen Moulton, Zephaniah Alden, Capt., 17; Wallingford, Capt. John Couch; Hartford, Lieut. Col. George Pitkin; Hebron, Capt. Worthy Waters, 61; Guilford, Capt. Noah Fowler, 45; Durham, Col. James Wadsworth, Stephen Norton, Capt.; Mansfield, Lieut. Col. Experience Storrs, Jonathan Nichols, Capt.; Derby, Maj. Jabez Thompson, Capt. Nathaniel Johnson, 32; Lyme, Lieut. Thomas Way, Jr., 6; Killingworth, Capt. Samuel Gale, 25; Capt. Lemuel Roberts, 10; Preston, Capt. Ebenezer Witter, 99; Col. Samuel H. Parsons; Maj. Thomas Brown; New Hartford, Capt. Seth Smith; Killingly, Maj. Wm. Danielson, Joseph Cady, Capt., 88; Coventry, Maj. Thos. Brown, Joseph Talcott, Lieut., over 100; Lebanon, Capt. Daniel Tilden; Windham, Capt. John Kingsley; Suffield, Capt. Elihu Kent; Woodstock, Lieut. Mark Elwell, 22; Greenwich, Capt. Abraham Mead, 58; Stonington, Capt. Benjamin Park; Bolton, Capt. Thomas Pitkin, 27; Woodstock, Capt. Samuel McLelland, (troop of horse,) about 45; Willington, Maj. Elijah Fenton, Ebenezer Heath, Capt., 30; Stafford, Capt. Amos Walbridge, 23; Saybrook, Capt. John Ely, 59; Stafford, Capt. Paul Blodget, 23; New Haven, Capt. Benedict Arnold; Guilford, Ensign Jehiel Meigs, 23; Simsbury, Capt. Zachariah Gillet, 26; Hartford, Capt. Jonathan Welles, Capt. Timothy Cheney, 24; Middletown, Lieut. Amos Hosford, 16; Woodstock, Capt. Nathaniel Mercy, 38; Killingly, Capt. Joseph Elliott, 58; Windham, Lieut. Mather Bingham, 22; Stamford, Capt. Joseph Hart, with 33 men marched to New York for its protection, occasioned by the alarm of the battle at Lexington; Capt. Amos Wallbridge and his company; Capt. Lemuel Stoughton and his company.

The number of men, where given, are generally correct, the files from which they are taken are so badly mutilated, they may not be perfectly accurate-and to some Captains, their number of men cannot be ascertained, and in some cases even the towns from which they marched. There were but few towns in this State who were not fully represented at Lexington and Boston immediately after the alarm reached Connecticut.

An account of moneys paid by Connecticut to the inhabitants of the following towns, for their services and expenses in the Lexington alarm, in April, 1775, per order of the Assembly, in May, 1775.

Some members of this Assembly projected the famous Ticonderoga expedition, on their own responsibility, without the sanction of the colonial authority.

The delegation to the General Assembly that was elected in April, '75, to meet at Hartford, in the succeeding May, were not less patriotic than their predecessors. This Assembly held an adjourned session, in July. They sanctioned the successful northern enterprise of the capture of the forts at Ticonderoga and Crown Point; provided for the prisoners there taken, and sent a force of a thousand men to occupy those important posts; besides affording every aid to their suffering bretheren in Massachusetts.

In the July session, two additional regiments were raised, making in the whole, eight regiments. An additional sum of

£50,000 in bills of credit, was issued, making the whole amount issued in 1775, £100,000. Duties of the highest responsibility, and most dangerous character, were assumed by the members that composed both delegations of the General Assembly of 1775; but all these duties were discharged in such a judicious and successful manner, that few bodies of men in the history of legislation, are better entitled to the gratitude of the friends of liberty and human rights, than were the disinterested and patriotic members that composed the General Assembly and Government of Connecticut, in 1775.

Officers of the Colony of Connecticut, 1775.

Hon. JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Governor-Hon. MATTHEW GRISWOLD, Lieut. Governor. Assistants, Jabez Hamlin, Elisha Sheldon, Eliphalet Dyer, Jabez Huntington, William Pitkin, Roger Sherman, Wm. Samuel Johnson, Abraham Davenport, Joseph Spencer, Oliver Wolcott, and James Abraham Hillhouse, Esq'rs. Representatives of the Freemen in the several Towns in the Colony.

Hartford County.-Hartford, Col. John Pitkin, Col. Samuel Wyllys; Wethersfield, Maj. Thomas Belding; East Windsor, Wm. Wolcott, Col. Erastus Wolcott; Simsbury, Capt. Judah Holcomb, Asahel Holcomb; Windsor, Capt. Henry Allyn, Capt. Josiah Phelps; Farmington, Col. Isaac Lee, Jonathan Root; Suffield, Alexander King, Capt. John Leavitt; East Haddam, Daniel Brainard, Jabez Chapman; Stafford, Capt. Isaac Pinney, Capt. Samuel Davies; Haddam, Capt. Joseph Brooks, Joseph Smith; Colchester, Maj. Henry Champion, Doct. John Watrous; Somers, Reuben Sikes, Capt. Emery Pease; Hebron, Benjamin Buell, Capt. Obadiah Horsford; Canterbury, Capt. Jonathan Wells, Ebenezer Plummer; Middletown, Col. Matthew Talcott, Titus Hosmer; Bolton, Benjamin Trumbull, Seth King; Tolland, Capt. Solomon Welles, Capt. Samuel Chapman; Willington, Maj. Elijah Fenton, Capt. Timothy Pearl; Enfield, Maj. Nathaniel Terry, Nathaniel Chapin; Chatham, David Sage, Ebenezer White.

New Haven County.-New Haven, Samuel Bishop, Capt. Jonathan Fitch; Durham, Col. James Wadsworth, Daniel Hall; Guilford, Col. Andrew Ward, John Burgiss; Derby, Capt. John Holbrook, Joseph Hull; Waterbury, Joseph Hopkins, Col. Jona

than Baldwin; Milford, Capt. John Fowler, Ephraim Strong; Branford, Capt. Edward Russell, Daniel Page; Wallingford, Samuel Beach, Capt. Thaddeus Cook.

Fairfield County.-Fairfield, Jonathan Sturgess, Capt. Samuel Squire; Stratford, Capt. Robert Fairchild, Capt. Ichabod Lewis; Stamford, Col. Charles Webb, Col. David Waterbury; Danbury, Col. Joseph Platt Cook, Thomas Taylor, Jr.; Ridgefield, Capt. Lemuel Morehouse; Redding, Wm. Hawley; Norwalk, Thomas Belding; New Fairfield, Ephraim Hubbell, Capt. Nehemiah Beardslee; Greenwich, Maj. John Mead, Peter Mead; Newtown, John Beach, Jr.

Litchfield County.-Litchfield, Jedediah Strong, Maj. David Welch; Woodbury, Daniel Sherman, Capt. Increase Mosely; Salisbury, Col. Joshua Porter, Capt. Abiel Camp; Kent, Ephraim Hubbell, Jr., Capt. Eliphalet Whittlesey; Canaan, Asahel Bebee, Capt. Samuel Forbes; Sharon, Maj. Ebenezer Gay, James Pardy; New Milford, Maj. Samuel Canfield, Capt. Sherman Boardman; Goshen, Col. Ebenezer Norton, Capt. Samuel Nash; New Hartford, Maj. Abel Merrell, Zebulon Merrell; Cornwall, Heman Swift, Capt. Thomas Porter; Torrington, Maj. Epaphras Sheldon, Noah Marshall; Harwinton, Josiah Phelps, Mark Prindle; Westmoreland, Capt. Zebulon Butler, Maj. Ezekiel Pierce.

New London County.-New London, Richard Law, Wm. Hillhouse; Norwich, Benjamin Huntington, Samuel Huntington; Stonington, Maj. Charles Phelps, Nathaniel Miner; Killingworth, Capt. Elnathan Stevens, Capt. John Pierson; Groton, Thomas Mumford, Nathan Gallop; Preston, Capt. Roger Sperry, Col. John Tyler; Lyme, Marshfield Parsons, Ezra Selden; Saybrook, Capt. John Ely.

Windham County.-Windham, Col. Jedediah Elderkin, Ebenezer Devotion; Lebanon, Col. Wm. Williams, Jonathan Trumbull, Jr.; Mansfield, Col. Experience Storrs, Nathaniel Atwood; Woodstock, Capt. Elisha Child, Capt. Samuel McLellan; Coventry, Capt. Ebenezer Kingsbury, Jeremiah Ripley; Canterbury, David Payne, Eleashel Adams; Killingly, Stephen Crosby, Capt. Eleazer Warren; Pomfret, Gen. Israel Putnam, Elisha Lord; Ashford, Capt. Benjamin Sumner, Capt. Ichabod Ward; Plainfield, Capt. James Bradford, Wm. Robinson; Voluntown, Maj. James Gordon, Robert Hunter.