The Public Records of the State of Connecticut

The Public Records of the State of Connecticut
By:"Leonard Woods Labaree"
Published on 2015-08-04 by

Excerpt from The Public Records of the State of Connecticut: For the Year 1782, With the Journal of the Council of Safety Council From January 17, 1782, to December 16, 1782, Inclusive This volume continues the publication of early State Records begun in 1894 under the editorship of the late Charles J. Hoadly. Two volumes, covering the period from November, 1776, through April, 1780, were published during his lifetime, and a third, partially prepared by him and completed after his death by Forrest Morgan and published at the expense of Mr. Hoadly's brother, George E. Hoadly, was published in 1922, bringing down to the end of the year 1781 the printed Records of the General Assembly and the Journal of the Council of Safety. In 1937 the General Assembly, by Special Act 596, appropriated the sum of $2,000 to the State Library Committee to continue the publication of these two sets of public records from the point at which the earlier volumes ended. A further Act of 1941 insured the continuation of the work. From the start the new project was supervised by Professor George M.Butcher, State Historian, acting under the direction of the State Library Committee. He oversaw the microfilming, photostating, and typing of several volumes of the original manuscript records and then, upon his resignation as State Historian in the summer of 1941, turned over to his successor the task of preparing the typescript for the printer and seeing the work through the press. The volume herewith presented contains the State Records (constituting the proceedings of the General Assembly) during the three sessions of the year 1782 and the Journal of the Council of Safety for the same year. The material is found in Volume II of the manuscript Public Records of the State of Connecticut and in the last part of Volume Hi and the first part of Volume IV of the manuscript Journal of the Council of Safety, all in the State Library at Hartford. As in the earlier published volumes, the record of each session of the General Assembly is followed by the section of the Journal covering meetings of the Council of Safety up to the next session of the Assembly. In preparing the manuscript for the press, it has been the editors policy to allow as few departures from the form of the original as possible, consistent with sound typographical practice and certain precedents established in earlier volumes in this series. The absence of an index will be noticed. Volume V, covering the year 1783, is now in an advanced stage of preparation and will be published during the first half of 1943. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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