PUBLIC RECORDS

OF THE

COLONY OF CONNECTICUT.

FROM MAY, 1744, TO NOVEMBER, 1750, INCLUSIVE.

PRESS OF THE CASE, LOCKWOOD & BRAINARD CO.

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PREFATORY NOTE.

This volume contains the remainder of Volume VII. of the manuscript Records of the Colony of Connecticut, from page 222, together with the first fifty-one pages of Volume VIII., and covers the period from May, 1744, to the death of Governor Law and the election of Governor Wolcott, in November, 1750.

In the Appendix will be found the Proceedings of the English Privy Council on the Appeals of Samuel Clark against Thomas Tousey and others, relative to the Law governing the Descent and Distribution of Intestate Estates, 1737-1745, and also Queries from the Board of Trade, with the Answers thereto, 1748-9.

For the time covered by this publication neither the Journals of the Governor and Council, of the Committees of War, nor of either branch of the General Assembly, save that of the Lower House at the May session 1744, are now among the State archives. C. J. H.

STATE LIBRARY, HARTFORD,

December 28th, 1875.