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Following the session at Westminster in January, the court convened at Windsor on the second Tuesday and at Thetford on the third Tuesday of the same month, with Judge Spooner alone present, but adjourned until June; no quorum being present, no business was transacted. There is no docket entry of a term held pursuant to the adjournment at Charlestown, N. H., nor at Thetford, but there was a session at Westminster on the second Tuesday, and at Windsor on the third Tuesday in June; the names of the judges present were not inserted in the docket. Considerable business was transacted at both sessions, with a grand and petit jury in attendance. The judges then residing in the State were Fasset, Jr., Spooner, Throop, and Fay, the chief judgeship being vacant, until the election of Chief Judge Robinson on the 2Oth June, 1782. I do not insert the name of Mr. Olcott in the list of judges, as

there is no evidence that he ever acted as such, not sitting even at the term held in the town in which he resided. Judge Payne appeared but once in court, and that at the session held in New Hampshire, and with no quorum present. Nine persons served as judges during the four years of the existence of the court, — military men mostly : there were one major-general, one colonel, two majors, two captains, and a surgeon. After June, 1782, the terms were regularly held with juries in attendance; and notwithstanding the turmoils of the war then raging, litigants found time to assert their rights in the courts. All but two of the judges were members of the legislative bodies at the time of their election. Biographical notices of the judges are found in the records of the Governor and Council lately published. Three of the nine were physicians; four natives of Con necticut, five of Massachusetts.

JUDGES OF THE SUPERIOR COURT, 1778-82.

Residence when Elected.

Moses Robinson. .

Bennington

John Shcpardson

Guilford

John Fasset, Jr.,. Arlington Thomas Chandler, Jr. Chester

AE« Place of Birth.

Date of Birth.

Date of Death.

Time oí Service.

— 20 June Hardwick, Mass. 26 Mar., 1741 26 May, 1813 }| 1778-81. to Oct., 1782 1778-80 Attleboro, Mass. 1 6 Feb., 1729 3 Jan., 1802 Bedford, Mass. Woodstock, Ct.

23 June, 1743 2 April, 1803 28 Sept., 1740

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1778-82

1778-79

John Throop. ..

Pomfret

Paul Spooner. ..

Hartland

u Sept., 1733 25 Jan., 1802 (1 Feb. 1778-81 to Oct., 1782 1779-82 Dartmouth.Mass. 20 Mar., 1746 4 Sept., 1789

Increase Moseley

Clarendon

Norwich, Ct

Elisha Payne. .

Lebanon, N. H. Canterbury, Ct.

Jonas Fay ....

Bennington

Lebanon, Ct.

18 May, 1712

2 May, 1795

/ Mar., 1730 20 July, 1807

Hardwick, Mass. 28 Jan., 1737

6 Mar., 1818

when Elected.

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49 35 38 46

1780-81

33 68

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1781-82

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