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 showing 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 lists
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 being
notified appeared by their agents and the parties were fully heard
and the facts in said Petition stated being proved.
RESOLVED by this Assembly that the Inhabitants
living within the limits hereafter mentioned be 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
appertaining or belonging to other Towns in this state by virtue of
their respective Incorporations, except that said Town of Wilton shall
be entitled to elect and send one Representative only to the General
Assembly until 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 Southwest and Southeast
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 Select-men then in such place and manner
as Joseph Selliman, Esq. of New Canaan, Seth Samuel Smith, Esq. of
Redding and Samuel B. Sherwood, Esq. of Weston 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
Southeast Corner N. 22° 30' W. Six Miles and 29 Chains to the
Northeast Monument dividing the Towns of Redding, Ridgefield and Norwalk,
thence W. 22° 30' S. Three Miles and 70 Chains to the Northwest
Monument, thence S. 24° 30' E. Two Miles, thence W. 22° S.
Twelve Chains, thence bounded on the Town of New Canaan to the first
mentioned Monument at the Southwest corner of Wilton Society- And
said 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
and shall be entitled to receive such part of the credits, claims,
monies and other personal Estate belonging to 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 tho' this Resolve had not passed.
And the 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 choose for
the current year a Town Clerk, Select-men, Listers, Constables and
other officers by law established which meeting shall be warned by
a warrant signed by Matthew Mead Esq. of said Wilton, 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, Esq. shall be the Moderator of said Meeting and in case
of his absence or decease Matthew Marvin, Esq. is hereby empowered
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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