May 13,
1802
At a General Assembly of the State of Connecticut in America, Holden
at Hartford in said state, on the Second Thursday of May, being the
13th day of said month, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight
Hundred and Two.
Upon the Petition of Matthew Marvin and the rest of the Inhabitants
of the Society of Wilton in the Town of Norwalk and the Inhabitants
of that part of the Society of Norfield which is within said Town
shewing (sic) that the Town of Norwalk is so large that it is very
inconvenient for them to attend the Public Meetings or manage its
concerns with economy: that their List and their numbers are sufficient
for two respectable Towns and that a Division would leave each part
in a Compact form, and praying to be incorporated into a Town with
the Privileges usually granted, as by their Petition on file at large
appears. The Town of Norwalk having been Notified, appeared by the
Agents and their Parties were fully heard, and the facts in said
Petition stated being proved.
RESOLVED BY THE ASSEMBLY that the Inhabitants
within the limits hereafter mentioned by And they hereby are incorporated
into a Town
and made a Body Politic by the name of Wilton, and they and their
successors Inhabitants of said Territory shall ever be and remain
a Town corporate with the privileges and immunities, appurtaining
(sic) or belonging to the other Towns in this State by virtue of
their respective Incorporations, except that said Town of Wilton
shall be entitled to elect and send on Representative only to the
General Assembly untill (sic) by law it shall be entitled to two,
and that the boundaries and Limits of said Town of Wilton be and
the same are hereby established in pursuance of the agreement of
the Parties interested as follows (Viz) the Southern boundary of
said Town shall be a line to be run from the Monuments heretofore
erected on the South West and South east corners of said Society
of Wilton in such place and manner from one of those Monuments
to the other, as the Selectmen of said Towns of Norwalk and Wilton
shall
by their agreement establish and in case of disagreement between
said Selectmen then in such place and manner as Joseph Silliman
Esqr. of New Canaan, Seth Samuel Smith Esqr. of Redding and Samuel
B. Sherwood
Esqr. of West or any two of them shall designate which agreement
or designation shall be reported to this assembly at their sessions
in October next, thence from the said S.E. corner N22:30" W
6 Miles and 29 chains to the N.E. Monument dividing the Towns of
Redding, Ridgefield and Norwalk, thence W22:30" S3 Miles and
70 Chains, to the N.W. Monument, thence S24:30 E 2 Miles, thence
W 22" S 12 Chains, thence bounded on the Town of New Canaan
to the first mentioned Monument at the S.W. corner of Wilton Society.
And Town of Wilton shall take and maintain such part of the Town
Poor, and pay such part of the now existing Debts of said Town of
Norwalk as will be in proportion to the amount of the Grand List
of said Town of Wilton and the Grand List of the remaining part of
said Town of Norwalk as the same were made up for the year 1801,
and the Collectors of all State and Town taxes, heretofore granted
shall have power to proceed to the collection thereof as though this
Resolve had not passed.
And the said Town of Wilton shall hold their
first Meeting at the Meeting house in the Society of Wilton on the
third Monday of June
next and at Said meeting may proceed to chuse (sic) for the Current
Year a Town Clerk, Selectman, Listers, Constables and other Officers
by Law established, which Meeting shall be warned by a Warrant signed
by Matthew Mead of said Wilton Esqr., a Justice of the Peace for
the County of Fairfield and posted on the Sign Post in said Society
at least five days before said Meeting, and the said Matthew Mead
Esqr. shall be the Moderator of said Meeting and in case of his absence
or Decease Matthew Mead Esqr. is hereby Impowered (sic) to issue
said Warrant and to preside as Moderator at said Meeting. And said
Town of Wilton is hereby annexed to the County of Fairfield.
A true
copy of Record
examined by
Samuel Wyllys, Secretary |
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