Appointment of Lewis Sturgess and Others as a Committee to Examine the Accounts of Aaron Hawley Guardian to the Golden Hill Indians

At a General Assembly of the State of Connecticut Holden at New Haven on the Second Thursday of October AD 17971

Whereas the General Assembly held at Hartford in May 1791 did appoint Aaron Hawley of Stratford in Fairfield County guardian to the Indians at Golden Hill in said Stratford2 and no person or forum was appointed to whom said Hawley should render an account of his said guardianship.

This Assembly does therefore appoint David Burr II, Lewis B. Sturges, and Joseph Noyes, Esqs., a committee to examine and adjust the accounts of said Hawley respecting his said guardianship and their award to make and the said Committee are hereby required to give the said Hawley notice of the time, and place, of their meeting on said business at least twelve days before the time of their said meeting, and shall make Report of their doings to the General Assembly to be held at Hartford in May next, and Roswell Judson, Esq., is appointed to conduct said examination before said committee, as an attorney on the part of said Indians, provided always that the expenses of said committee and attorney shall be defrayed by said Indians.

• 1. The second Thursday of October in 1797 was the 12th.
• 2. In its May 1791 session, the Assembly authorized the New Haven County Court to appoint an overseer to the Turkey Hill band of Paugussett Indians in Milford. It did not name the overseer but merely formalized the legal mechanism to create the position. Nothing was addressed at that time about the Indians at Golden Hill or Stratford. PRSC 7:261.