13 September 1786


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Connecticut Cession of Western Land Claims, 1786

We William Samuel Johnson and Jonathan Sturges, the underwritten Delegates for the State of Connecticut in the Congress of the United States send Greeting— Whereas the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut on the second Thursday of May, in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and eighty six, passed an Act in the words following60—viz: "Be it enacted by the Governor, Council and Representatives in General Court Assembled and by the authority of the same, That the Delegates of this State or any two of them who shall be attending the Congress of the United States be and they are hereby directed, authorized and fully empowered in the name and behalf of this State, to make, execute and deliver under their Hands and Seals an ample Deed of Release and Cession of all the Right, Title, Interest,

 

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