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HEALTH: Colonial Connecticut Records, Volume VII, pg 501-502
"May 1734
Upon the memorial of Eleazar Hubbell and John Merrick, and the rest of the inhabitants of the town of Wellington, shewing to this assembly that one Reuben Goff, an idiot, the son of Solomon goff, who was transiently in said Wellington with his wife and the said Reuben, and after some time settled in said town, the said Reuben being an infant, and the said Inhabitants not then being vested with town privilieges and so could not accept or reject the said Solomon or his family as to their settling in said town, and the said Solomon being very poor and not able to support the said idiot, the aaid idiot being no way capable to act in any respect as a rational creature, and the said town of Wellington hath been at reat charge and cost in supporting the said child, and the town of Wellington not able to bear the charge did obtain a brief of his Honour the Governor and Council, by which they obtained thirty pounds, and yet said child is like to be a continual charge to them; and therefore under their poor and low circumstances they pray for some further relief; It is resolved by this Assembly, that when the said inhabitants shall make it appear to the satisfaction of Nathaniel Stanly of Hartford, Esq. that the money collected by the brief he be expended, that then by the order of said Nathaniel Stanly to the Treasurer of this Colony, there shall be paid out of the publick treasury of this Colony to the agent or agents of the said town of Willington, the sum of six shillings per week, to be paid quaterly, which shall be imporved to support the said idiot, during the pleasure of this Assembly.

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HEALTH: Colonial Connecticut Records, Volume VIII, pg 187
May 1738
"Upon the memorial of Prince Tracy of Willington, representing the peculiar circumstances of one Reuben Goff, an idiot child now resident in Wellington, and praying for relief, &c., as per his memorial on file, dated May 15th, 1738; Resolved by this Assembly, that there be paid out of the publick treasury of this Colony, for the support of said Reuben Goff, the sum of ten shillings per week; and that Nathaniel Stanly, Esqr, of Hartford, do from time to time fign and direct orders to the Treasurerof this Colony (on application of such meet person as the town of Willington shall to that purpose appoint,) to draw out of the publick treasury the sum of ten shillings per week, quarterly, to be imporved for the subsisitence of the said idiot child, during the pleasure of this Assembly."

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HEALTH: Colonial Connecticut Records, Volume 9, pg 25
May 1744
"Upon the memorial of Jacob Fuller, of Wellington in the county of Hartford, shewing he hath been at the expence and charge of keeping Reuben Goff, an idiot, one of the poor of this Colony, and praying for allowance for time past, and for quarterly allowance from time to come; Ordered by this Assembly, that there shall be paid out of the publick treasury to the said Fuller, for keeping said Goff the time past, seventeen pounds old tenour bills, and twenty shillings per week like bills for so many weeks as the said Fuller shall keep and provide for said Goff, to be paid quarterly; provided this allowance do not continue for more than the space of four years next coming."

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HEALTH: Colonial Connecticut Records, Volume 10 pg 439-440
October 1755
Upon the memorial of Elizabeth Fuller, of Willington, representing to this Assembly that some years past there was granted the sum of forty shillings old tenor per week for the suppot of one Reuben goff, an idiot, to be paid quarterly to the person that should support said Reuben, and that the said Elizabeth, had next before the date of said memorial kept said idiot so long that the rate aforesaid there was due to her ₤26 old tenor, which she had not received; and also representing that to keep said idior and him support at this day was well worth ₤5 0s. 0d. old tenor per week; praying to this Assembly, that the memorialist be paid out of the treasury of this Colony such a sum in bills of credit of this Colony lately emitted as shall be aqual to said sum of ₤26 old tenor of said Colony, for the support of said idiot as aforesaid. And it is further resolved by said Assembly, that for the future there shall be allowed and paid out of the treasury of this Colony to the memorialist, for her trouble and charge of cloathing, victualing, nursing, and tending of said idiot, the sum of six shillings and eight pence per week of bills of credit of the last emission during the pleasure of this Assembly, to be paid quaterly; and that a copy of this resolve shall be a sufficient warrant to the Treasury to pay the same accordingly."