Isle of Wight Committee Proceedings
"At a Committee held for Isle of Wight County on Friday, the thirteenth
day of .January, in the fifteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord
George, the third King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the
Faith etc. and in the year of our Lord Christ one thousand seven hundred
antl seventy five.
Present: .John Scarsbrook Wills, Josiah Parker, Brewer Godwin, Arthur
Smith, the Reverend Henry John Burgess, John Mallory, Tristram Nors-
worthy, Jun., William Davis, Goodrich Wilson, and Nathaniel Burwell Gent.
Resolved: That John Scarsbrook Wills Gent, be appointed Chairman to
the Committee, and William Francis Young be appointed Clerk to the said
Committee.
Resolved: That notice be given to the several members of this committee
and that they do meet in the town of Smithfield, on Tuesday, the seventeenth
day of this Instant-January for the purpose of holding a Committee for
the said County.
The minutes of these proceedings were signed .
John Scarsbrook Wills, Chairman."
We can still visit the 1750 Courthouse on Main Street, Smithfield!
