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1776.] TOWN RECORDS. 129
been made to this meeting, that there are numbers of
the inhabitants of this town, living at Poplar Plain and
parts adjacent, have united with numbers of the inhabitants
of Fairfield, living in Norfield Parish and the Western
part of the town of Fairfield adjoining to this
town, and have unwarrantably formed themselves into a
body, and call themselves a committee, and being so
formed, have resolved and determined that every person
that is in debt shall not be liable to be sued for the same,
nor be liable
to pay any interest on obligations, but be
discharged therefrom ; and that Justices of the peace
shall not sign any writ, or grant any executions, and the
officers shall not serve either writs or executions ; and
have also in case any creditor shall attempt to sue for
his debt or require interest on obligations, or a justice sign
a writ, or any officer serve
the same, they will unitedly
prevent and oppose with all the force and strength they
can procure the same.—This meeting, taking into
consideration
the aforesaid matters of information, and the
aforesaid illegal resolves and determinations, are of opinion
that the same have a direct tendency to set aside
all law, and leave us in the
hands of a merciless set of
men, and to throw us into confusion and distraction, and
to deprive us of all our valuable and constitutional rights.
We therefore do hereby vote and agree to use our utmost
influence, power, and strength, to disapprove and to discountenance
every such illegal measure ;
and do everything
in our power, unitedly, to aid and assist the authority
in suppressing the same in every proper and legal
way.
Salt Petre Works.
At the same meeting, the
select men are directed to
erect Salt Petre works, and carry on the making of Salt