Connecticut Assembly

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At a General Assembly of the Governour and Company of the English Colony of Connecticut, in New-England, in America, holden at New-Haven, by adjournment and special order of the Governour of said Colony, on Thursday, the second day of March, Annoque Domini, 1775:

It being represented to this Assembly that Abraham Blackslee, of New-Haven, Captain of a Military Company in the Second Regiment in this Colony, is disaffected to this Government, and the privileges thereof, as established by Charter, and has frequently spoken contemptuously of the measure taken by this Assembly for maintaining the same, and threatened to act in his office in opposition to the lawful authority of the Colony contrary to the duty of his office:

Resolved, By this Assembly, that James A˙ Hilhouse and Samuel Bishop, Esquires, be, and they are hereby appointed a Committee to inquire into said matters, and make report of what they find, with their opinion thereon, to this Assembly at the next session.

It having been represented to this Assembly that Isaac Quintard, of Stamford, in the County of Fairfield, Captain of the Second Military Company in the Town of Stamford, in the Ninth Regiment in this Colony, and Filer Dibble, of said Stamford, Captain of the First Military Company in the Town of Stamford, in said Regiment, at said Stamford, in January last, in contempt of the authority in this Colony, did attempt and endeavour to prevent the introduction of certain barrels of Gunpowder into this Colony for the Government use, agreeable to the order and directions of legal authority, which conduct is inconsistent with the duty of their said office and of dangerous tendency:

Whereupon it is Resolved, By this Assembly, that Gold Sillick Silliman, and Jonathan Sturgess, Esquires, be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners, and are fully authorized and empowered to notify said Quintard and Dibble to appear before them, at such time and place as shall be by them appointed, and to examine the witnesses relative to said conduct, and examine into the truth of said representation, and to report what they shall find to the General Assembly, at their session in May next.

It being represented to this House, that the Towns of Ridgfield and Newtown have come into and published certain Resolutions injurious to the rights of this Colony, in direct opposition to the repeated Resolves of this House, and of dangerous tendency:

Resolved, That Col˙ Joseph Platt Cook and Col˙ John Read, be a Committee to inquire into the truth of said representation, and how far any person or persons holding commissions under this Government have been any way active or concerned in promoting the measures taken by said Towns, and make report of what they shall find to the General Assembly, to be held at Hartford, in May next.