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TH^ fubfcrib,r hating red# as post to carry ihe
1 QnedicutContent far some time pai, would
in thia pubi c manner return hi* thanks for the very
generous &ad u,expe&ed encouragement ^ hat re
chived from the public. He weald likewise with
gratitude acknowledge the favGureof these of hi# kiwd
fylomers who have beam pna&ual in making him
payment for his fervicts:- --And a# there are Bill a,
fiw who areim arrears for the Courant as well as the
Ceaneaicuft Gazette ;he weald esteem it &san addi
tional favor affach if they weald be kind eneugh to
make him pay meat, eitker in perfen or by leaving the
^.ea^y wh&a their papers have ufaall, been left,
which will greedy oblige their humble fervent,
Efi*l+ June 2 177% _ Moses Allen
the letter end of A ril iaft,
1 afire, Mare, &f a red roan colour, about 15 hands
high, about 12 years old, both tret# and paces, no
brand and is hipt. A brown mare two years old was
taken up with said mare. Whoever owns laid mere
is desired to come and pay the changes and tak# her
sway. DANIEL PHELPS.
New Fifield, May 28. 1777.
FOUND on Litchfield green, a pack fu?pofed to
belong to the artillery, one black coat with red
facings, are check silk vest, two pair cf breaches, two
flripea cotton ffiirts, four pair of flockings, one felt
hat, one pair of shoes, one pair of gloves, and sundry
other articles. Said pack may ba found at Reevb
Peck's dwelling h#efa i* bid Litchfield.
fpAKEN up by Isaiah Smith, of Saffian, a final!
' tore! Mare, about 6 years old, crooned hind legs,
hump back. The owner is defined to pay charges and
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STRAYED er holeit horn the lubicriber long ta
' New Marlborough a bay roue Marty with a black
mana and tail, 13 hands and half high, shad before
when Iha went away, is a natural pacer, 9 -^ 10 gears
#ld, her bind If, fomethiag creaked. Whoever will
take up said mare aad return her or lead word where
ffie is, (hall be haadf.maty rewarded and all u^c&ffsry
chiw§ p#id, by [ohn "ormsh.
TAKEN up 0, sue i M bf&ib<r. hk 1, ^ ^. M^r«,
' 7 years old, a small white Ear in her face, pace,
and trots, very g 9: d carriage, and ha# get a colt.
The owner may h&v^ him egeia by proving his pro
perty and faying charges. Apply te Benjamin
Hawley us Spencer town, Aluan, Conaty, Clau ick
d ^ ie+ J^ # r 1777,
nESERTED from Capt. Samuel Granger's corapa-
' my, one J^faph Staetcliff-Srid Stun cliff was
drafted to fe<v» in the continental army until the fid
day of January next ; he is about 5 f^t 7 inches high,
about 39 years of age, black hair, dark complexion ;
had on Arnold back coat. Whoever will take up Did
dafarter and return Lira to Aid Granger shall here five
dollars reward and all necessary charges paid, by
Samuel Granger, C pt.
Hertford, Jaree 11, 1777^
lubfcri^rs beiwg appointed by the hen,
'' ceurt of probate for thediftrid of Sharon, to ex
amine the claims of the creditors of the estate of Elea
tour Jewett, lace of Sharon deceas'd, reprefeated ia
iolvuA! ; do hereby give notice that we shall a^ead to
adjust ftid claims the second ard the third taefdays of
July, at the dwelling-haute of Cap,. Thumbs Purdie
in Sharon, at tan of tee clock in the aftemoou.
Thomas Pardie, ) Comra iffi. n . r ,.
David Downs. J
June 10. 1777.
L'ObT, 1* going treat & Highlands in Hanover,
id the S,&:c of New York to T)emon, 86 dollars
continental currency, via. two thirty dollar bills, twc
eight dollars ditto, one fix duller#, and one four dol
lars dine ; the two 30 dollar bills, were wrapped in a
brown paper, the others were loofs in the fams packet.
Whoever hath or ftull find said money and will return
the fra* to the fibfcriber, balonfrg to C,pt. Mun
foa's company, CoL Chandler's regituent now at Pecks
Kill, or to W?d. Mary Deafly of Suffield, in the
Si&te of Conn^&icut, or to any of the efficers &f frid
cc^p^y, Cull have five dollars reward &ad all neces
sary charges phid, by
Philander Denslow.
I Pack's KUL Jaae it, 1777.
M6kDAY, June ,I'3, ^^
CONNECTICUT
ANU
W EE KLY
Containing the Freiheit AD ZICES,
Printed And Published by EBENEZER WATSON^ near the GREAT BRIDGE.
APPENDIX to tb& Report ftbe Committee of C^grtf,
a„@iKtt4 to examine txt® tbi condua of ibe «&<?», cox
Huawig ,reefi and illa^ratins. (continued from our la, )
Maryland Baltimore Tron, fanuar, 29, 1777.
WM. Ster ITT, Li uten&Ai in U x Barton
L&cT^ Company ana late Col. Smallwood's
battalion, of M ,latd traepr, being ninema ye^rs
®f age, dep&fuh And f^i h;<
Taat ha was taken prisoner, on the 27th Aaguft,
on Leng Island; that many who were taken with
him were rebbed ^f their hats, fhoea buckles, &c
Mau, were ft i^ped ute^ft naked, particularly the
wounded ; the H^ffian efficars were fom&what kind
and pode, and the H ffi&n soldiers, as er zoramit
ti^g robberies en the prisoners, were obliging; the
allowance of provision, met near a fi fficU^cy, only
two thirds of a Britlh ration, allowed to each one,
the bread was f sq^entl, exceeding bad; numbers
fligariy wounded many of whom, thrcu<h ^he me
g est of the fargeens, feft their lives ; recruiting
officers often we e among the prifouers fame ialifted,
ehj<£ly Irilh and E glifh, but whether f om perfuafien
or free is unknown.
Sworn before George Gould Dresbury.
A just account of h 2 usage the American prifoxe:#
received from Lord H we.
Captains and Lieutenants i* the Continental fervica
and all officers whatever in p irate vefftls of war, are
huddled together between decks in a prifuafl.ip,
with Indians MsHattons, Negron. &c not being al
lowed the life of the qu rter each, nor of the fcre
caftle, mar hi use of a ftb or broom ta k^ep the
maindeck dy. With r^fped re the provifianx, they
are 1m 11 and wewholef m. ; the emt is fervid frem
the pickle c fk at nine o'clock in the morning, and
if not ceck#G by noon it mutt be eaten raw, as the
fi>e is put cu be ween twelve and one o'clock. They
have neither butter ner cheese, and the oil that is
feived in ft^d of these, is net fit fa human use.
Tae allowance of ua is about one gid, ind that
not so Htc?g as fii ors grog. We wwre.f ea k%t
twelve er fix ¥ hours wi:h u a drop cf ^^m, and
once we fff d the want if hat cicp but ne
c.ffar; arric^ f the face cf w-ntv fix kauri their
b,jng at th t tiCT two lu d^d a; d fiziy prifusers
on, bee d. Th is he common ufaage cf which I
ros one cf the fff rm. Their treatment of the
land priforms is yc fe, if prffibie. They carry thrir
khu^anity beyerd he prifin f + r, in bringing in
theTetumed, if R f inhabitant (hou'd give, or any
of them ih ad elk a drjtk of w^ter, or any thing
to eat, they wil ^xedi^uij be knocked down by
the guad Thefa whose lot is deash, th nwn out
iat> the re^d, and there ihsy lay with tkef# words
add^d, " Dauma the rebel, he i>not werh a bit
rying. WILLIAM GAMBLE.
Philadelphia, ff On the 8h day fF^rdary,
1777. Briere me, lames Y ur.g. Ifq; on* of the
Just c's f theP^CT &e.pe f nz ') c^rnt and appta ed
WILLIAM GAMBLE, a d bring stern on ^he
H^iy Evargi ift cf A mighty G/d did drcl re, de
pose, and uy, that toe rc<unt, by him fubferibed,
is just and true in every ref,cd, and farther this de
ppaent faith act.
Sworn trie da, and year aboyefeid,
Wi&L my hand and seal, William Gamble.
THOMAS BOYD, of Waft Caln, in Chriler
county, P^^fyiv^a.v, havi^q bets a private in Capt.
Wallace's company of the flying camp, and anw is
tur^d home from his imprif«nmeet at Ne^Yctk ;
and being called to evidence relative tn the tr^un^t
himf+lf and his fallow prifonars received f^ thu
eatr^y, while in their power, oa his friemu oath dom
depufe and fay,
That ffra the time they eat their breakfaft dsrly
the fetal S turdny morning tkeb were taken prifen
ers at Fort W fliingtoii, they received not the least
cr^ra of nay kind of provilwM, from the eremy, un
til the Toefday following, eleven o'clock A. M
Then they received what war called their rations for
thsee days, viz. fix biftuits, or a peund es luch bnad,
a quarter of a pound of beef or p, : k, a F l *^, pe^ft,
an ounce cf better, and a gill of ric^ — Fh^t tley
had to ftatv« on that allowance four days, as t^ey
were ever ch,eted one day, e^ch time they received
tktir rations - That their b/e&d was exueffiriy erdi-
lAU^&^^O^^ P;&
hULIB^R W.
COURANT;
^failt'FOßb
INTELLIGENCER.
Both FOREIGN and DOMESTIC.
nary, as black as ths tuif they had for fuel in 1%
land; feme times they received it broken like tho
fweepiiFgi cf c©ad«m^ed old sea bzead---T&at ^wice
tkey received good breed; to raifein tk#m as it
were a defile ^ appetite for goad, that they mighi§
mere f;p,fibly feelrihur wretcled cenditiun Tha§
their bread in cernmen was wormy, and trft^d hitter
•Rd fserned of a prifoac us rather than a ncu'rifhin^
qualu,-. That they w#ra hewed about fives hundred
in one cold chureh, a^d allowed cf full, tn cook their
little meat, and to w^^them, sal, one cart load
cf woed fir the %hale, . par week--That the Ea
g'liffi officers, sensible of their periiMagcoaditionp
cam# rm the esure* ema^g them te enlist them--.
That not Meeting with the success they ex, &<d, th^
ufege of the prisoners was afterwards more barbary
oas. That they were fever#!, fl ged for imagine,
ry faults. That the ifar-friv ffi sis again trisd te
enlifl th-m; read thre H wes , reclamation ; pief
fered pardon and pre^a^ ; amd meiey te such as
won d swear alliance and eelift-. That this depg.
neat wat^ri&ved tef^any f^u f poor, a#', d fields
ly as io except th" iffir as a few did ; but thanks
ed hsav&a, th® ba k U,the prifehm chofa fa c^ in
their profant condition, relying en G^d tor relief, ra
ther th^n to pr^ftitute ri,ri f c effaces to save tho
re ff ties of the Pri^ cf Dorfatyj Trier new the
wretchedness of their tiiaA.i a w&s iacitafed, in h@s
bring allowed a proper p' : %ce to talc ^t^ : tha^
the two g" e *t proximo,y cf the excrements was ftgs
only B^ufemiag but kidiag to them- -Th&t @ ths
water t^ey had w^s very tad- Tattkey had LeMher
fir>w «or bay to ly^ on. that new )$ aright be ci,^&,
e< ) ihdy bafr to die in heaps- -Taut a Swj^i &f
the fy@flf, whofi bufaefs it was so report daily to
the C mmiffary the vw^bv <f he fad h thepmeh,
s& o esch merkiag H^ @sy arc dead non '? And
on the numb&rs beirg givia, & Lore or ^air^lqo,
or whatever the number was,- wi-u.d reply, Z^r, ccs%
g^d HSdfe rffo ^a^, npf, h&pcd in that ^^^ ic
b & Icon rid cf thorn -That Lme, white yet alive,
were thrown with the dead on the cart, &nd then
thrown with the dime into the epin pit-- 7'hst th@
Surviving condoled bitwlyrieir owe i&ilerß comdi,
tine ; deAth in ueufuri ngn^fi ^aud tach u th^
fee, in at city p's T : ' by pretendtoCh-iften#- -That
the poor prifeaw frit thcrafrifo enku Mpo&sdJ
or unaided by their fud^di. and by utir vaeßiee
treated with a more than Inkih b^rba/ty ; that,
without 1 refracle, it would be iwqtffib^l&r *ny cf
them to live any ti^d, or be able ever ee firvivc thrir
uf-ge, except a f'w to whim the God cf Nature had
givtt, for r*tle and gcod pt.r,c#e& an xrch.ukg
' coAfL uiicn, ef^hich number is the depoE^at, &i hffl
would never have f^a hit own dwelling w^.
THOMAS BOYD.
William Darlington, of E 1 ICaln, in Chester
county,Peaafylvani; a private *1 Captain Wallace'S
c^^pa'y of the fl i^g cimp, on hie fortran oath
dota deleft and faf.
That ts, the prifi^rs, ue.« very rcuphly ufad
at Harlem,' in their wa, fn,r Fo^ W ffi rgtea to
N w-Y^rk. That at N^ York eight inaoea es
them were flowed into ah^uie caked Xa^ Bridewell;
tbit it wain told spen hcule, the HrheCTs not glut
fid' ,That on the fa...r,d a) ihr, ecrived their previse
That they had hot one raru.hful from ^'-0 the un
forueau $# urday raenrißg "1^ than-, -1 fa theth
a»c so cm afterward#, their rations, for three ds,#
s^th individual; wrre 4ae h&lf peurd cf biscuit, halt
a pound cf ,0 k, half * sirs c',H& h.f & gi.4 cf
rice, end half an ra^ceif buri+L ; the wh^e r^
mere than earugh frr sre gce.d meal --That dry
were defcoded of hi, petty a'lew&^c& two days rati-
DRSg each weel---That thq had ne zba.fr^r hay ty
lye£» ; and #0 fuel, but che carf^kid §<rweefr^
fer the eight hundred---That at aise cf the^cta^
at oveniAg ibe H-ffiaos guards weald cc^e in nd
put cut their firn, &>d tuld ^7 '^ "^ F^cr pri
finets with hsav, clubs far fitting ifuad the fin---
That their four ras veg bad, as we- 1 ^ ihoirfoeed,,
&yv&d ull cempx&fiiM b,d, except cn,e frec ib/ciit,'
an 4 ACC ffed hyhi'# bread -T^t they kgztoto
die Hk< rtfbsa fhesp, wUh cold, hunger, &ad ertt..-
Tbit tUfe piftrfrs whe b/d ^ 6^^ Faring
app^rd! ^ il<m, ftch as bS.lfk.n btu&sj ^