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i^fa as the, came wi&n mufot ^A, CM In
dian, who desired the firft fhofy fired and killed
She wan at the bow ear, when they immediate
h put back for the brig. After which a nu^
her of boats with about 300 marines avd ma
riners went afoore and burnt two dwelling lous
es, two barns full of hay and a grist mill'
By this time about a hundred and fifty of the mi
litia had muttered, who attacked and drove the
enemy off-, on feeing which, Dawson weighed
anchor, and was endeavouring t§ get down,
when be luckily ran aground, our people attacked
him with small arms only, so warmly as not a
man durst (hew bis bead above deck, till the a
brue boats came to tow him off; which our peo
ple beat off; having killed upwards of 60 of the
enemy ; and 'tis thought that if a ver, thick
fog bad not arose, the, would have killed all the
enemy, if not destroyed Dawfan, Our Loss
was only one, Mr femes Fefer, killed, and Mr.
„ nas Farnjwortb, winded, though nadan
gerous.*
iburfday lass arrived at a fafe port the
ricbeft prize it is (aid taken during the war ;
having on board 247 bales of the fr& and fe
fond deaths, beJids a peat quantity of other
valuable articles. She was b^und from Lon
dondfor Leghorn, and taken by Captain John
Lee, of Newbury Port.
Iburfda, lad; arrived at a fafe port, from
a CT&ize the sap Diver Cromwell, Seth Har
ding Est, commander, with a prize Jh p, which
has been employed as a packet from Jamaica to
London ; fee mounts 16 carriage guns ; carries
it is said, upwards 50 men: who, we are told,
together with a Captain of a 50 gun (hip, were
landed at the Eastward, and are now on the
road to this town. She bad on board, a large
number of dollars, and a quantity wrought
plate, of which proper care has been taken
Same day, arrived at the fame port, a prize
brig, laden with oil, &c. taken by the Tartar,
-Captain James Grtmes.
At aenurt martial held here lad week; one
Late, an Irifomin, was sentenced to be banged,
for desertion on this day fe'nnigbt.
PROVIDENC E, Sept. 6.
We hear that a Chip from England, bound
to New-York, with 1600 hogsheads of salt,
and a quantity of dry goods, is taken and
carried into a fafe port at the East ward.
Another valuable prize is said to be arriv
ed at the Eastward, having on board .600
hoglheads of sugar, 200 hoglheads of rum,
&€.
H ART FORD, September 15.
By the latest accounts from the Southward
we learn, That Mr. Howe's army had land
ed near the Elk—That hs numbers did not
exceed Jen thousand—That his artillery eon
fifted of 72 pieces of brass cannon, 18, 12,
6, 4 and 3 pounders—That General Wash
ington with a very numerous army, 800
light horse, and a fine train of artillery, was
at the distance of four miles, the advanced
centries within musket shot—That our peo
ple had taken 170 prisoners who were out
after plunders—That 60 deferrers had come
into head quarters —That the Hessians were
sickly, but the regular troops healthy, and
that Howe had 309 light horse. The ene
my's light horse are much enfeebled and fled
with great precipitation at the fight of ours.
La, Right tret to tomia Mr Brown tbs Governor's „,,
sobs left Gin WaJbiugtou la, Twffo morning, by whom
wo have the following iinttiligtuct : That General W^Jb
ington with 25000 TOR was at Newport, 3 mitt below
Wilmington aid 30 whs from Pbiledepbia .-That Mr.
Howe with abset 14000 men marched on meuA, in aJilif
column bit whole arm, from Gfrifseu or tbsreabens, wtrich
it 10 sr 12 miis briw Nefyert, to Mill Town, v berg
be gleam,"lol mix da, light, within about 01c mile aid a
halfef General Washington's main bad,. About owe o'clock
ex tutfda, marling aba enemy,ru k their tain aid filed off to
the rig St of our arm, in ardir to ,oft tbemfelvea of a fart
ox the heights of Bran) Wilt bit General Wa/bm^o*
Perceiving their dtfgn, ordered Lord Stirling with budiwi
-4m to ths ,00M fit before them if ,o,blfy which ',e
affiaid b, ten o'clock tbe fast da, ; tbs c^w, finding In
there, retired back abort a wit and a h&lf and thra an
tamped, whata they were when Mr. Brawn cant awa,.
Ha alfe inform,, that General Smallwoodb^d arrived at
the head ofthe Elk 01 mqnday,ra the rear of Howe's arm,,
with abete 5000 troops corffling of the Madland militia,
Weaiio learn fron: the Norhward, that
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last Monday 8 o'clock in the mofriitig Gene
ral Gates with a large army advanced in
three columns : General Lincoln at the head
of one column, General Arnold at the head
of another column, and his Excellency Ge
neral Gates in the center.
A a mating of the honourable Corporation of Hartmutb-
Callage the 27th of Angy, tbey fawft to confer the Degree
of Dbriar in Divinity upm the Rav'd David Hall of
Sitton aid th Degree of IDoaor of Laws 1,0, the honour
able John Phillips, Efy of Exeter.
Lift weak Garden Whi.more. who was indiaed for
high handed mifdemem.s against the country; on
conviaion before the Supe^ ior Court held in this piece,
was sentenced to two years imprifoament, and a con
fiscation of his estate.
Before the fam# court ode —— Deris was convia
ed of Adultery, and featencsd to incite 15 Gripes en
the nuked body, to be branded with he letter A and
to wear a halter about his neck during his abode in
this State.
We hear fromPouhgkrep fie that about a week ago,
seven series were committed to gcal t^ere, charged
with robbing several houses end putting the families
in fear, I is said, when taken, they were all paint
ed and duffed like Indian men, hut that five of them
proved to be women, three of wh?m are a mother
and two daughters— Thu does th# infernal deigns
and proceedings of the Cour of Gre^t-Britain as
fimilats to their ewm chara&er, 11 those who efpo ft
their eaufe, not only reducing them to beome
base treacherous thieves, robbers murdtreM, &.
but diverting them of humanity and ten er ing them
to savages and perfect devils in human fharn
Angif 23d. departed thia life at Nrw Marlborough, the
Rd. Thomas Strong, ,«f&r of the church ta that
place, in the 6a.dyear of bit ago aid 33d if bit miifo,.
Hit death %u*efuddei aid u^xpaid ; bring fa %'d wab an
uicarcmri di,raja at bn braa,, in a fra hours be was ra
leafedfrm the beidt of corruption, aid rrfgiad 1, bis fal
in the bands of Cbri, Horoiog bfare birtad two virtusus
aid amiable coiferte, be bat left a family of fuel agreeable
children, me,l, iijowb to lament and de, lore the loft of a
may offt&ionate and exemplar, parent—aid a people to mourn
atfa , without a Shepherd.
D^rk if the af,ea when in tkefe times of wriv rfal
di,ref Zion's watchmen an so frequently call'd from bet
wails ! —lfei. iri^. 1. " The r:ghte@ ,#ifatb, and
no man l„etb it to heart and merciful men are taken away,
none can,daring that the rightma are taken awaj from the
ewii to come"
The 30th of Augnft departed this life nt Coaroa, in the
State of the Mass clufe/e Bay Mr. Samuel Hayden,
formerly of Wiadfir in 'bit Slate in the 70th year of bit
age. He wot excereijed for a long course of yeare wib
grirceu pain and indijpfifl oj body, wib ba endued
with exitylar,,< ieuct. ^few d,s before his decaafe be
wai taien with the camp di/order, which with bit eld
difficulties, put a price so bis life. He met death with a
ibrifiai cflmifs and front, of mind, and there is g^
reason to believe that be is gone to that world where there is
no pain ^or farrow. He has left a widra anafive children
to lamest dis death.
La, Tuofda, departed this life, after a long and exceeding
painful ficknef, Samuel Pitkin, fa of the Rtv Tft
mothy Pitkin of Farmington in the 23d year of bit
fl r; ayo^g gmlfmgx f may agreeable acc^mf JF^eata,
out down intbs bloom of life a trophy of the King offerrarts
66 La „irks)fd ah! wH her art thoug de ?
“ Ab ! leftforever to tbj fuririwing fronts 1"
M- Watson,
Pleafs to insert the following in voter nfyul ,e,tr, which
quell ebilge mar, of pour cu,amors.
The following Instructions to their Represen
tatives, were wered b, the Freemen of a town
in txis State, at heir annual meeting in Septem
ber 1776, and are now made public by particular
desire,
GENTLEMEN,
^J LTHOWGH use rapfe the highJi corfdance in,our foal
for the public weal and particular wteutio* to the true
intera, if,our coiflitneuts; yet we think it our duty to ma
life, to, on our fafiments reJpe&iug a matter which we hope
ma, come under the ooifidtfation of the honorable General ff
fembl, of the State of Coiiefliw, the e^fuiug fffi**,and
, in on- ajprehufsn, is of the uto, importance to the ,'•,/'
of this State, win The mode of electing Delegates to
reprefeat this State in the General Cangrefs of Arre
rica. Tbs exigency of public affairs, have bare oftrefamed
to require (but the, fould be nominated aid apprietd by the
General Affmby, which bus hem done to general fatisfaai
on, America is new declared independent, aid is farming
into an empire unconoeaed with an, other part of the globe ,
We think it a duty we owe eurferoe, anapefarit, to guard
ear rights and privileges on ever, quarter, left a precedent
founded at fr, in nsetf, or accident, fanld in time be con
frusd to deprive ns of toe"privilege which we dem eftsrtal
to the prefovation of all the rtf. Ybe,ewer of okasng re
prefatatives whs with others are eutrufed with power to
declare war and make peace, teform alliances with foreign
natient. and to make laws for an extenfat empire (we con
trive) can be lodged no where in so fafe bards as that of
the whale bed, of freeholders in a fate--- Bribery and corrup
tion intrigue and undue influence is much mere eafi, pralric.
ed u,n a few than mas, ; abbs' we have the bgbt, va
lue far our own General rtfimbl,, wbefe members have here
tofore been govern'd and dirsasd by the mo, laudable of
principles, the levs of their country's wefare, jet we are net
fare that in all future times, the fame attentiew will be paid
to the true inter, of their cetfitneuts ; or tbs fame principle
be tberubng motive of a&ton, we mu, declare to you tkat
we &nhit a right which unalierabl, belongs to the fretboL
d y \ ,f&sfate to 0^ mefehch so &lsrodt thrift ih I^
g^w al Cagrefs of Africa, and a right add power y bitt
p,frri, cannot be deprived of by an,p aurins er prefat dt-
Qctfiesi to others ^we de therefete as fa t ,the frechf dart
ofibis ,dte enjoin it ipeuyba as our reprstitatruri in Gene
ral ffimbh. to zfeyotir wm, influence ttai she Ajfobj
de o d:r and dire& tharfuch elc&isu of Alcg&es to sepryidl
this fate in general Congr, be aaiuutl, meds by the free
bold rj, orfesmew at large, atd net bj their rtfrtfntat:^ id
General AffimWy.
Mr. Watson,
If,an tbink the fallowing wartb, a fat in,ourßte, ,1. 4/^
to feftQ it, and much oblige,
A Conne&icut Officer in the Co^tinratal Army.
EVERY rational man wiri ftipp At that ^n a^,
hazarding their lives for the defence of their
CLQAtrr, and taking e,oa their own sh aiders the
burthen of the day, ought in justice and good c^nfei
ence to be supplied with tho r e articles which are abso
lutely nec ffary for their well being; articles flip.ulatrf
ed te be furaiihed them, up6a the faith end homo,rot
the country. Far my own part, I came front the army
to purchase fo^e Shoes, Stockings, &c for the regi
ment to which I belong; and from ray knowledge f
the quauiiri<s that were maeufi4uring in this slate
when 1 Left it the 'aff Spring,l had no d übt the agents,
would be well furnilhad with ever, nee ff&y wanted ;
baton my way hither, I rest a number of Pedhrtf
traafpoting on a fiale ho fe, these neceflhry articles
for file from place to place,at enormous prices at kaft
one hundred per cent more than the primi'c ft.On my ar
riva^ at the circle where I had been used to find the
above, mentioned articles of Shoes, Stacking,, &c. ia
the hands of the makers of them, I found very few ,
and was inform d they ^ere fold to p rfonr who pre
tended to be collecting them for the ARMY; nd om
further enquiry find thet t^e greatest part have b ea
bought up%y periods who were not employed by the
agents, but hate colluded them here end there, in or
der to heap up this enormous profit.
If the honaft fAme 3 of the country who hard WooL
flax and other a ticles, end manifaauie thew, rould
fell only to t^ole who are appointed by authority to
buy for the public, this evil pcffibly wo„ld ci fa but
the m sfortußo is, the PEDLARS, those nusances of
foeiety, out bid th* fervan of the public, aid weld
so were they t^effer ever so much I cons fsl fee nd
reme y for this insult, but to feikr upan all the arti
cles 6 lle&ed by these hawkers and a,pr< priaetvra
to the public ue. Jaftice, ^nd the honour of ear
count y nqri e it. A Hartford lam infirns tnat
more than aof thoewaet he# have been co l*& ng
the abo e named krtides, and so aotonou, were th#
fafr, the mizifters efih law could not be ignorant of
them, and et are they allowed to prxeer f a. have
we art virtue eno gh rem iring tmen^ as to putz^y
to this ruinous practice ? rui vas i. i> scan eqae&m/
as it sap. i*e fouadati^a of our ft tagh, Ne erFtue
utter a c^m lain; at the loss if a frt - F rts and ar
mies abroad, are no fecriity to people who fle, wth
fac' sadders in their b.foms at heme. The aro ref
peaing such perfoas as are above cefc Led, I am en
acqus ned with, but preface there are lavs which
would remedy the evi. if once put in execu ion.
I w^uld not be tedious, but cannot forbear menti
oning that the number of prrfonswhofe sole tafinefs ir
to take advantage of he wants kid necaffitfes of the.
trmy, ad are no# riding jbeut the country so that
pnrpofe is almost incredible, and not fa- ftor of these
that really bear aror in the fer ice of the fta e. And
that it is a uaiifil complaint of the agents t ho are
emplo.ed b, the pub ic, that they ere eve y where in
terrupted by th fi pri^a , dealers, who go where, the,
pleafs with 10 other pass, b&t the lIE that they
ARE PROCURING THINGS FOR THE ARMY.
Cenwaicw September 1 1777 ,
ST A f£&fCUN N r'C-uT'
Hartford Cm,, September 10, 1777.
PUBLIC no ice is hmyg^ea to ah whem it duffi
or may concern, that i belt are tiled bsf re th©
honorable JABEZ HAMLIN, Esq; judge of the
Cunty Court in the county es Hartford, ^phft the
fallowing veffils/vz. the sleep General Bugeyn.e,
b,rthen about 90 :ons, fhn Smith lale master —
Anothe floep uu.thea 22 tens, name unknown, cue
Brawn late raaft#r, in saver cf Achie, Rily, c^m,
wandet es the a med fl?ep called the Abigail, aa^ hie
iffatiam the captors a#d fitters faith of said fl^p;
b^th wh ch veff Is were take# by said Rile, upon thm
kigk fees, aid treugirtinte the county of Hartford ;
and fir the trial cf the juftiee es fai# cn, u es, the
mararime cenrt fir the cotta, es Hartford will be
oMaed at said H&tfwd, at the evurt h^ufe, nil the
fit munday of O&aber next, at which time all per
bic'Mmi^g property in tiieg &ff&id vt&lscsp u erf
asQfart fed may appear, and thaw m{>n if awy they
have, wh%the f^id v^fth and appurtevdneds £uu!<
net be afreged as lawful prize to the cap era and
fitters f-rth, agrtaab e tu the prayer es the libellants. -
By urdsr es the J*dg*
GEOR^R WYLLY, P fr.
NEW Barrelso Cassi g ven tor CYDER
by D AVID OLMSTED, of
Enfield.,
ENOS DOOUTILE n 43 a tew Wa est
Cryflals of various sizes on hand, which
frhe will difpefe of as cheap as the circum &
stances of the times will admit.
*, Several Advertisements prepared for ibid
dtps Paper n^il be owned till nein Week.