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1774.] TOWN RECORDS. 127
Non Importation.
Aug. 20, 1770. Col. Thomas Fitch chosen moderator
of the meeting. Voted that they will send a committee
to N. Haven to attend the general meeting which
is proposed the next day after commencement, to consult
affairs relative to importing goods, &c.
(Capt. John Cannon, Col. Thos. Fitch, and Capt.
Benjamin Isaacs were chosen delegates of this town to
attend the general meeting afores^.)
Dr. Thadds. Betts, Mr. Thos. Belden, Capt. Stephen
St. John, and Samuel Gruman were chosen and
appointed to draw such instructions as they shall think
proper for the
aforesd delegates, and lay the same before
this meeting, which is to he adjourned.
The Continental Congress.
Dec. 5, 1774.
Whereas, this meeting have taken into
consideration the matters contained in the association
come into by the Continental Congress held at Philadelphia
the 5th day of September, 1774, and approved
of by the lower house of assembly, and recommended by
them to the several towns in this colony, to appoint
committees for the purposes in the eleventh article in
sd association contained—Do approve of the same,
and in pursuance thereof do appoint Eliakim Raymond,
John Cannon, Thadds. Betts, Stephen St. John 2d,
Lemuel Brooks, Eliphalet Lockwood, Nathl. Benedict,
Samuel Gruman, Goold Hoyt, Thos. Betts, Ozias Merwine,
Phinehas Hanford, Daniel Betts, jr., Blackleach
Jesup, Ezra Gregory, John Carter, James Richards,
Samuel Richards, Gershom Raymond, Asa Hoyt, a
committee for the purpose in s'^ Eleventh^Article contained,
during the pleasure of the town.