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HARTFORD, April 3 .
We hear that at the request of the Stu lents in
Yale-College, all public exhibitions in that semi
nary will be discontinued till national affairs assume
a more favourable afpeft, and that the Senior Class
have appointed a Committee to wait upon the au
thority of College, with a petition for a privatecom
mencement.
Tuesday morning last died very suddenly, Mr.
John Hurlbut of Middletown.
Died, on Friday last, Mrs. Welles, wife of Capt.
Thomas Welles, of Wethersfield.
The Honourable House of Representatives of this
Colony, at their last Sefton, 'voted an Aadrejs of 1 hanhs,
to the referable House of Assembly of the important sfland
of Jamaica, for their late kind and Jeafonable Mediation,
&c. by their Petition and Remonstrance to His Majefy,
of which the folio wing is a Co,y. # ,
Colony of Connecticut, ff. New-Hatten, March, 1775°
. In the House of Representatives,
RESOLVED, That the Thanks of this House,
be given to the worthy and patriotic House of
Assembly for the Illand of Jamaica, for their kind
and seasonable Mediation in favour of the Colonies
on this Continent, by their humble Petition and
Remonstrance to His Majesty. And that the Speak
er of this House, be, and he is hereby direded, to
write to the said Honourable Assembly, and enclose
a Copy of this Revolution, also of the Rcfoluuon of
this House, at their Session in May, 1773 appoint
ing a Chmmittee of Correspondence, and invite
them to come into that, or a similar Method of mu
tually communicating such Intelligence, as may be
of public Importance, and more immediately affect
ing the Inhabitants of the British Colonies and
Islands, in America, TeC
RICH'd LAW; Clerk.
His Honour Governor Trumbull with advice of
Council has appointed Wednesday the 19th of April
inll. to be observed as a Day of Falling and Prayer
throughout this Colony.
Mr. Watson,
Please to insert the following in your next.
WE, Solomon Cowles of Farmington, and
Martha his wife, being fully sensible
that the purchasing and consumption of India teas,
from and after the firft day of March, A. D. 1775,
was prohibited by the Association of the Continen
tal Congress, notwithstanding we profefs to be firm
ly engaged in the cause of Liberty, have made use
of that article, personally, since the firft day of
March: And that! the said Martha did, at the so
licitation of Mefliers Seth Bird of I.itchfield, and
Daniel Sheldon of Woodbury, provide and dress
said article, and fuft'er them to drink the fame in
our house, in the absence of my husband: All which
we confefs is a violation of the third article of said
Association, contrary to the sense of the people of
this town, derogatory of the character it sustains as
firmly engaged in the interesting cause of liberty,
and to the manifeft injury of the public interests of
British America: Which conduct of ours, we do
voluntarily, in this public manner, utterly disap
prove of and condemn: And further, we do pro
mise and engage, for the future, ftridly to conform
curfelves to the obvious sense and meaning of said
Association, in this and every other particular.
Dated at Farmington, this 23d Day of March, 1775.
SOLOMON COWLE S,
MARTHA COWLE S.
The above instrument, being at the inflance and in the
presence of the Committee of infection for the town of
Farmington, voluntarily fabferibed by the above named
Solomon and Martha Cowles, was voted fatifaflory,
provided the fame be made public.
^L y° HN treadwell, Clerk,
At a legal meeting of the Inhabitants of the town of
Hartland, A held on the if of March, 1775.
Nehemiah andrews, Esq; was mode
rator for said meeting.
This meeting being sensible that the liberty of
every free-born American is most attrocioufly in
vaded, and having duly coilfidered how the Associ
ation of the continental congress is most happily
concerted to relieve our fears, to recover and pre
serve uninjured our invaded rights and privileges,
we heartily approve of and acquiesce in it, and will
to our utmost, faithfully adherre to, and observe
the fame; and acknowlege to our worthy Dele
gates who attended that congress, that we have a
mod grateful sense of the service they have done us
and our country, in the wife and noble resolutions
they adopted, and to teftify our full and hearty ap
probation of what we have said, we have chosen
the following gentlemen as a Committee to fulfil
the intention of the 1 ith article of said Association,
viz. Nehemiah Andrews,Eft; Mr. Abel Erace, Mr. John
Wilder, Dr. Asa Smith, and Mr. Ifdac Burnham;
should be a committee of infpeftion. Voted, that
the above committee or either of them, should also
be a committee to attend any county congress.
Voted, that we will endeavour to support our
committee with all our influence, in difeounte
n ancing all incroachments on said Association before
mentioned, and also, for the suppression ®f all ri
ots, mobs, &c, which tend to Ahe destruction of
good order and government, and uther tend to ruin
our rights and privileges than preserve them.
Dated at Hartland, March 21/4 1775.
A true copy of town votes,
Ts. PHINEAS KINGSBURY, Reg'r.
At a meeting of the committee of infpe&ion for the
town of Fairfield, held in Fairfield, on the 21st
day of March:
DANIEL WHEELER, Obediah Platt, and
Ebenezer Hall, all of said Fairfield, being
duly notified to a, pear before said committee, and
anfiver to the complaints made against them, did
not appear.
Whereupon the committee proceeded to examine
the evidences, and upon a full and impartial hear
ing of them, they were unanimously of opinion,
that the said Wheeler, Platt, and Hall, were guil
ty of a breach of the Association of the Continental
Congress; and that pursuant to the direction of
the county Congress, all connections, commerce
and dealings, ought to be withdrawn from them,
by every friend to.this country. And ordered,
that the Clerk of this Committee make this judg
ment public, that they may be dealt with accord
ingly. A true Copy, Test,
Thaddeus Burr, Clk. to the Com.
Extra 8 fa Letter from a Gentleman in South Carolina,
dated March 1.
" We have now appealed to the remaining Justice
of the Nation : We have endeavoured, to arouse
them to a Sense of their own Danger ; we have ap
pealed to the mercantile Interests fcr oUr Defence.
Our Hopes are not yet damped by any Thing, but
the Possibility of Disunion among ourselves. We
have the Pleasure to informyou, that in this Colo
ny the Association takes Place as effectually as Law
itfelf. Sundry Vessels from England have already
been obliged to return with their , Merchandize, or
have thrown it overboard as common Ballast. We
may assure you of our fixed Determination to ad
here to the Resolutions at all Hazards, and that Mi
nisterial Opposition is obliged to be silent. ~
The General Committee at Charleftown, in
South Carolina, on the Bth of last Month, among
Other matters relative to their strictly complying
with the Resolutions of the Continental Congress,
Refolded, " That inasmuch as the Colony of Geor
gia hath not acceded to the Continental A ffociation,
they would from thenceforth, have no Trade, Com
merce, Dealings, or Intercourse with the said Colo
ny of Georgia, but will hold them unworthy of the
Rights of Freemen, and as inimical to the Liberties
of their Country." -;
PROVIDENCE, Ma^bzfr
Ten DOLLARS Reward,
STOLEN from the subscriber, last night, a likely
° bay mare, natural trotter, also a suit of scarlet
broad-cloth clothes, laced and trim'd with gold ;
a beaver hat, silver hilted hanger, a case of silver
mounted pistols, three holland ffiirts, one blue dou
ble breamed coat, and red jacket; a pair of black
breeches, two silk gowns, one a black padafway,
the other a striped lutehring; also a filveret gown,
green and yellow, with many other articles.
The thief is about 5 feet 8 inches high, an Irish
At the Superior Court, last Thursday, came on
the trial of Ebenezer Ballard, Hatter, who in the
15th of November last wounded a certain H^nry
Preston, (alias Taylor) with a club, of which wound
he died.---It appeared by the evidence, that the
deceased, being intoxicated with liquor, had dan
gerously wounded a person inthe street with a club,&
was grossly insulting and threatening a number of
others,, when he received the wound ; that said Bal
lard was at work in an adjacent shop when the dis
turbance began, and the deceased being entirely
unknown to him, it could not be supposed hd was
actuated by malice; the Jury therefore; after with
drawing a Short time, broughtin their verdi&, Not
guilty, and he was discharged.
BARBADO S, Fei. 4.
Those who~are inclined to assist our much distress
ed brethren of Boston, in New-England, by sub
scriptions, for the use of the poor in that town, are
hereby acquainted that the subscriber will readily
receive and forward the fame by a vessel now in the
Bay, bound for Portsmouth, a neighbouring port.
This advertifment will be continued until the vessel
fails in March or April, when rum can be remitted;
a sum for that purpose is now in the hands of
The Meeting of the
LIBRARIAN COMPANY,
Held at the Grammar School-House last Tuesday,
hands adjourned hill to-morrow at 6 o'clock in the
afternoon, at the aforefaid place.----As some inters
efting matters will then come under consideration;
the proprietors are earnestly desired to be seasonably
and universally at the meeting. They are also de
sired to remember that the firft day of April was
fixed on for the annual payments of the sums sub
scribed for the increase of the Library.
JOHN PRETTEJOHN.
Litchfield, 23d March, 1775.
BROKE out of the county goal at Litchfield, the
night after the 20th of March inflant, one
Thomas Shirley, who was committed for breaking
open the shop of Mr. Miles Beach of Litchfield ; he
is a fellow about 5 feet 7 inches high, fair complex
ion, light brown hair, has a fore upon his left fide
occasioned by his falling into the fire in a fit---wore
a blue furtout with a velvet cape, dark brown coat,
leather breeches almost new, and green Indian flock
ings, is a very foft spoken fellow, fupppofed to be
about 28 years of age, fays that he was born at Phi
ladelphia. Whoever will apprehend and return
said felon to the prison from whence he made his
escape, shall have FOUR POUNDS lawful money
reward. William Stanton, Gcaler.'
Qian,-freaks bread and gru'm, has a wry large ncfa,~
he left his own clothes, and is likely to have on
fame of the above described clothes: Whoever will
secure said thief, shall have the above reward, and.
ail nec^ffary charges paid by
ELISHA SHELDON.
Salisbury March 30, 1775.
< To be SOLD,
By JOSEPH WE B B,
Athis Store in WETHERSFIELD,
CHOICE Weft-India rum, by the hogshead,
barrel, &c. Also, very best green Coffee, by
the hogfliead, barrel, or pound; excellent brown
Sugars by the hogshead, barrel, &c. Molafles,
Indigos Cocoa, and fine split Whalebone by the
quantity or pound , an assortment of English Goods,
Mr. Webb's compliments tb his good friends and
customers that have open accounts with him, and
lets them know, he is ready to attend a settlement
when they'll please to call, and further, begs
all that are any ways indebted to his late father, Mr.
Joseph Webb deceased, would without delay make
a full settlement with the Administrator.
Ibis Day publifad, and to be fold at the Printing-Office,
in Hartford, (Price one Shilling Lawful)
a short
E S S A Y,
ON
CIVIL GOVERNMENT,
The Substance of
SIX SERMONS,
Preached in WINDSOR, Second Society,
October, 1774.
By DAN FOSTER, A. M.
Salus Populi ft Magna Charta regni.
On Monday the 10th day of April next at 2 o'clock
P. M. there will be fold at PUBLIC VENDUE,
unless prevented by private sale, at the house of
Noah Tryon, innholder in Glaftenbyry:,
The Frame of a Vessel of the
following dimensions, 58 feet keel, 23 feet beam if
single deck, 10 feet deep in the hold, has one wale
about fill'd in, under the wale,plank'd five streaks
each fide, running fore and aft, togetherwith a con
siderable quantity in and near the yard already cut,
all in about 20 rods distance from said 'Tryon. Any
person that will attend and encourage said vendue
by bidding, may have fix or eight months credit^on <
proper security, and an indisputable bill of file
given by JOHN WELLES.
zzd March, 1775. v
We the fubferibers being ap--
pointed by the honorable court of probate for the
diftriH of Farmington commissioners to receive, ex
amine and adjust the claims of the creditors to the
estate of Bartholomew Bolt, late of Farmington de
ceas'd, represented insolvent. Do hereby give no
tice that we fliall attend that business at the duel
ling house of Jonathan Root of Southington parish,
in said Farmington, on the second mondays of April,
May, and June next, from 1 to 6 o'clock afternoon^
[ared Lee, )
Jonathan Root. J ommimonersi
Farmington, March 25, 1775.
We the fubferibers having re
ceiv'd a deed of about 40 acres of Land, with a
house and barn inthe name and behalf of the cre
ditors of Elijah Bill; of Harwinton, in Litchfield
county, that signed his petition dated the 6th day
cf February 1775. This is to Warn all said credi
tors to meet at Maj: Abijah Catlin's, in said Har
winton, on the third Tuesday of April riext, attwo
of the clock in the afternoon, then and there to bid
on said ellate, if they fee cause, as it wll be fold at
Public Vendue, that all may receive their propor
tionable part. Any of the said creditors that doth
not attend said meeting themselves or by their attor
nies, will be looked upon as giving up their rights
to said estate to the other creditors. Dated at Ilar
winton, the 27th day of March, ±775.
George Catlin,
Joseph Cook,
Jesse Woodruff.