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belonging to St. Kitts, west
r<^c to cut ligaum-vi x, Bcc. after tarrying
'q>c » little time, they were surprised by a
r<®*nber of armed Spaniard!, from Porto-Rieo*
who took the.vcfieL and murdered every f ul
on board^exccpt one man, who made hta escape ;*
in cons qtence of which, a mao of war failed
from St. Kitts, las! Saturday, for London. I:
han iff sir of great importarce ; it is certain a
picket failed from Porto Rico for Old Spain,
it conf*q oence es this Crab iftaod expedition.
NEW-LONDON Apiiß
ed I Note, there it no Physician above a free Li
Spiry. The plan proposed it that the phyG
bans in their rdpeftive cousties immediately
ball their brethren together on the occafioo
that we may all join as ooe ia chafing two three
hr more in each county to meet at Mr. Bull’s
tavern, Hartford, on e't&ioo day that the mat
ter there may be taken into ewh deration, tho
tough y difeoutfed on and futable methods
Uken to compleat the thng propefed by the
of this county acd tfec oor/efpGndtnt
ExtraG of a Letter from FILKESB .dRRE,
^Weftmore-ana) to the Printer of the New-
London Gazette dated March 3< 1774
Oa Turf Jay the ik laftaot, was a ge
serai Meeting of the Town cf Wcftmorlaod :
At which was a cocGderab’c Concourlc of Peo
ple, for the Seafan. The Meeting being open
cd with Prayer, and a Word suited to the Oc
caGan. Zdu'on Bitter, Esq,- was unanimously
chorea Moderator, M>j Ezekiel Pierce Town-
C ctk. The Town being divided into proper
Diftrids, was filled up with Town Officers, ac
cording as the Law directs. The whole was
coodutted in pood Order, and with great D f
patch. The Proc amarioo of Governor Turn'
bull'* bciog rcid at the Meeting, was gratefu ly
acknowledged, with the acclamation of three
Huzza’s, &c. Every Thing at prefect looks
smiling upon us. The River is cow broke op.
Boats, Battees, &c p fla^g «nd repaffi g. The
thick covering of Snow, which has been tbout
three Feet deep, is going eff the Ground apace.
The Weather very mild and moderate for the
Sexfon. Trough several have been Gck (with
Fevers and Plurifits) only ooe, a Child, has di
td with the R&tt’es. Though the Winter has
ibcen remarkably severe for the Cchntry, (which
is commonly moderate even in the Winter) and
though much Hay and Coro htd been spent
here by the inhabitants, and by many that have
visited os, yet have i heard of no Indian Corn
being fold for more than 2s per Bushel, and fdme
under, and even the belt of Corn - There
has been ten Couple married here, three left
Sumtmer, Seven this Winter, and fuodry others
read off for Marriage. The G uotry fills up
Lit ; not only.fioto divers Places croudirg in
here, but aI fa by cocreaGng among surfclves.
AT a meeting of the pbyficians io the county
of New-London, held at Norwich on the
24th of March iofiant, taking into cocG leration
the dangerous and high inroads daily made on
the public the learned and ingeneocs of the fa
culty, by the rambling emp ric, or fraudulent
quack We are iodeed vety forty to observe,
that the power of the magißratc is very seldom
or ever exerted, or any norice taken in this
country for the preservation of health,, or dif
tinguilhing the eminent, the learned, from the
illiterate and the igoorsst, ne two charafters
can be more different than that of the h-cneft
phyGciap and the quick The importance of a
proper medical police is either not uaderftood or
very little attended to or regarded. We cruft
far the honour of cur profcfEoo and the fafety
of the people jin amicably in petitioning in e
very county throughout this colony to the ge
neral affcmhly in their next sessions • and it is
carncftly expected without any heffication ।hat
there are more or less pbyficians in every ccun’y
that are read/ and willing for their virtue and
the public good, to pin “arosffy in pnyer and
petition to the leg (Inure that they t?ke the
matter into their wife conf/Jeration diftioguith
iog and fopparting the well qn’ified and learned
phyGcian from the villainous medicaftor. There
certainly cannot be a more neceffry, a more
oob'e or a more godlike aftion then to admi
niGcr to the wants of our fellow men in diftreQ.
While virtue or religion are known among
maokind, this con lust proposed will be spprov
ed ; and while heaven is just it mud be re ward
committee chafeo at this place fsr incon raging
the matter throughout this colony.
Dated kt Norwich, 261 b Day of March, 1774.
Joftph Perkint y
Eiijha Tracy, |
Benjamin Ga'e. I
E/eaz Mather, Commit tee.
John Barker, , |
The op h R g ri '
’ Phil- Turner, J , • -J
Meeting adjourn’d to .the 26 day of AprFi
next at 10 o’clock io tl c morning,/ to be held
at New Loudon, at ths London Coffee House.
Mr. Watsow,
Ify r u Hink the following refefli nt {bccajintd
bt a piect 1 lately obfetv'd in you C urant.
fgrei By a friend t« Posterity ) conjonant to
vealor.^yow inferring the fame, will oblige one
t>Jyur confiant readert, P Z
CHQULD it be affcred, that a wvll regulated
intercourfc betwixt the two sexes, is not
only commendable.and advantageous to society,
but •bfolut'e'y necessary in a fl .urifhing, and
profperuus people, I would readily gr^nt she
truth of the affertioo ; otherwi e their Hrength
and numbers mud decreafc, dr a fpuriour gener
ation mud be brought open the ft^ge, cither of
which is to be lamented ! Rut tvby vice is re
ctffsrily conne&ed with a Goglc life, I cannot
tell. Perhaps a parti*! contemplation of fails
drew this writer into such an absurd conc'oGon,
as the more c<edib e part of mankind, generally
cater upon the connubial Gate ; as for the rest,
i imagine a state of ce ibacy is not so of en the
canfe of th^ir a* iheir debauchery is tLt
cause of their living in that slate, as may be
(hewn. Neither, do I think it true “ that the
volunteers of Venus are daily declining, and ve
ry few facrifices offered on her alter ” I thii k
they are as numerous as ever, and their facrifices
as couflaotly offered, if not so pure- ’Than
unwarrantable commerce, which creates that
contempt of the rites of Hymen, by the votaries
of Bacchus ! and this contempt, which nukes
so msoy lift coder the god of debauchery.
Numerous instances might be produced, cf
thofc (mherwife accomp'iftied and attractive
persons) who would gladly pot on the nuptial
chain, but are tor their debaucheries treated
wi h contempt, by those v-ho perhaps have no
more real rrgsrd for virtue than thcmfelvee,
en'y flung by a ferfe of honor. Nor is it io be
woodered, if many, who fancy they enjoy all
the de ights of the conjiigsl Rate, (ihough per
haps (hangers to the ddicite feelings of com-,
placeocy) do not deGre to take on them the
bafids of wedlock except to avoid reproach, or
ti I age is Jikfely othcrw.fe to render them con
temptiblc. , . ;
If debauchery was suppressed, then Hymens,
rites would be more prized ; then marriage
would be accounted honorab'e in all, when ’tis
conG/ered that “ whoremongers and adulterers
God will judge.”
77 A RT F 0 R D, April 12 ,
Col, jchn Pitkin,and Benjamin. Payne^
Ef\ were Feft'erdayAhofen by tie. Free-,
men of this Town io rerrejent, them in
ibe General A^mbly in May next.
Last Saturday Ntgbt Daniel Hum
phry and William Crawford, committed
la/t Week to Newgate Prijon, as men
tion'd in our la ft, broke out of said Pri'
fan and made their escape
This is to give notice
to all the creditors of Jvcob Benton of Harwin
ten, that purfumt to an ad of the General Af
femb’y holdcn at Hartford by adjournment oa
the hcoad Wedncfday of Janu-ry A.D. 1774,
The committee appointed on the petitiou cf hid
B;oton praying for a fpccial aft of itf/hcncy
Thomas Hopkins,
HrtSjuft receiv’d a fre(h Affortmeot of
Englilh GOODS, which he will fell ,90
the most tCkfooablcTerms, at bis Stere, oppoGtc
the North Meeting House Hartford.
A'. B. Tea, Indigo, Peper, Alfpice, &c.
'*\ - j r
£0 Ms favow, will meet at the dwelling house oi
Mr Asa Yale in Farmington, co the 27th da^
®f hllant A pril, to ct quirt into the state of (aid!
Benton’s s’ffairs.-bcth with refpeft to his debts,
credits, and eflhte, io order to furnifh them
selves wi h the necc&ry mesns to reptefent
the state of bis circumflances to the General
Assembly at their kffion in May next, to which
by hid aft hid Coßimiitcc arc ordered to make
their report.
John Strong,
ZbijahCat in, € Committee.
■ ' * J fjb Phepi.\ j
Harwiotcn, Apri 4 1774.
Broke out of Litchfield
county goal in the night after the 24th rj Feb.
in ft one A extender Thomftn lately convified be
fore the Hon Superior CoU't of Man daughter
and committed for the Cost of projecution. ri a
bout 2% yeare of age a hkey looking feeilnu,
with curled brown hair, a joiner by trade
Whoever will apprehend and return /aid Thomson.
to /aid goal jhall have Six Dollar 1 reward paif
by LTNDE LORD, Sherif.
Liichfidd, 21’hFcb. 1774.
Taken up the 3d day
of April 1774 two colts one three year old,
the Other ooe coming—The eideft it red roan
with a white face, and red spot on the left
shoulder and dock’d. »h c other brown, their
manes inditing the right Gd e , both pacers —
The right owner by a P p yi o g t 0 mc may hare
them by paying the cofl,
< LOt STANLY.
New Britain, April 8 1774.
rw»» 11 w« ■ 1 ■« . - - _ _ '
TO BE SOLD by the Sub/criber,
F T T A F^MioTorriogteo,
containing 140 acres,
/ w hich are under im-
H SI provement.with >n orchard
BHi of g °° d brar ’ n 8 ’PP 1 ®
ir?c * ** we " watered, has
8 house and barn (finding
thereon, ar>cu« three miles from the meetiog
houfe. Whoever is iaclioed to purchase the
fame may apply to
; , r ■ EPHRAIM LOOMIS,
Torrington, 5 h April 1774-.
A New Supply cf
T E A,
‘ ‘Extraordinary good** . ..« >
The bdt French, ar.d fine Spanish Indigo, black
p.nd brgwd Barce opa Handkerchiefs, ful}
Yard fqiye^gnd lesser Sizes, toiie fold b^
William Beadle;
At itsthersfield'.
> A L S O,
INDI 4 Taffcties and other Silks for Gowns
F owei’d and plain Su tin for Cloaks. Per
fisns, Aiamcdrs, and thin St ks, a grtat Variety
ofChmtfes and CalJcocs G uzei and Lawns
fijwtrd and p ain. Clo<bv Nails, Sugars,Spi
ces, Lrquors, aod all otfer Article? as ufaal.
Said Beadle w;n'i to pur chafe direst y. feup.
or five hundred Dollars., for which he will let
the very bell o( his Goods go as cheap as eves.
be can , if 00 person fliould he willing to (apply
him with so large a nun.-ber he is willing to treat
with several, and buy a hundred fre m each ;
sod if this (hould rot suit. he will condescend
to take them in Gfths, twenties tens fives, or
even down to one, just as may fuii the (ei’e/.
To be fold at Public
Vendue at the Dwelling House of Mr. Mofc*
Butler innholder in Hartford, 00 the feunh
Tuesday in April Inst at 4 o’clock afterocoo,
the ReGdue of. the Efta,tc of Ebenezer Benton,
deceas’d cpnGfting of One Piece of Land lying
in the Socih Meadow io said Hartford alfoOne
Piece of Land lying in New Hartford, together
with sundry articles of houfhould Furniture,
per fbamas Seymour, lAdminif^
Jojepb Church jun. \tratorsf
Hartford, April tft, 1774