Appointment of Committee on the Petition of James Wawowos

Upon the petition of James Wawowos and the rest of the Tunxis Tribe of Indians living at Farmington against Solomon Whitman, Esq., and others of said Farmington, representing that the petitioners have encroached upon certain lands called the Indian Neck and other lands anciently reserved and set apart for the use of said tribe, praying for relief, etc., as by the petition on file.      

Resolved by this Assembly that Zebulon West and Nehemiah Humphreys, Esq., and Mr. Benjamin Payne be and they are hereby appointed a committee with full power to enquire into the several matters in said petition mentioned and set forth and make report of what they shall find with their opinion thereon to this Assembly at their sessions in May next.