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profile, we fcemmAy exert M
means which are placed in 0, power.
To conclude; it the teg;flature of any
Sta r e shall not be assembled, Congress re
tommend to the executive power to covene
it without delay ; and to-each refpefive le
gidature it is recommended to invents de
bates With competent powers, ultimately
in the name and behalf of the State, to iub-.
fcrib- articles of confederation and perpetual
Union of the United States, and to attend
Congreis for that purpofa on or before the
tenth day of March next. ..
Byorder of Congress,
HENRY LAURENS, Preficent.
The Honorable the Speaker of the Gene
ral Aflembly, in the State of Magachuletts-,
B "in CONGRESS, fafo 6, 1778.
WHEREAS it appears by a return made
to the board of Treasury, from the Mana
gers of the Lottery of the nited States,
that theinvafion of the State of Pennsylva
nia by the^enemy has obtruded this bufi
hefs, and 'produced considerable delays in
the sale of tickets, insomuch that the num
ber yet remaining on hand renders it ne
cessary once more "to postpone the drawing
thereof: Andwhereas Congress being de
sirous so far as possible to fulfil the expec
tations of the adventurers, think it proper
to give them the fuljeft assurance that at
the" time herein proposed, the Managers
are to proceed on this business without tur
ther delay.
Refolded, That the drawing of the First
Class of the Lottery mentioned, be poft
ponrd to the firft day of May next, at
which time the Managers are dirtied to
proceed therein, and complea^ it as soon as
may be ; and that al the tickets then un
fold (hall be the property, and at th: rifque
of the United States.
Extras from the Minutes.
CHARLES THOMSON. Sec'ry
TREASURY OFFICER
York Town Jan. 8, 1778.
1 CONGRESS having curetted that the Lottery
ts the United States fall be absolutely drawn
tn the firft day of May next, and that all the
tickets then remaining unfold foall be the pro
perty, and at the rifque of the fad States.-
Resolved, That the Managers of ,be said
Lottery be directed to order each person em
ployed by them or by the rfeEive States, who
jb^ll on the 30th day of Aprs; next, have in
bis hands any tickets of the First Class of said
Lothry for sale on foe public account, to deliver
tbm that day to ^ Governor or President of
the council of the State in which he refidec,
who is requested to receive the fame and fgn
quadruplicate certificates thereof, Specifying the
number of each ticket so delivered, one certifi
cate to be given to the person of whom he may
receive fueb tickets,, one to be retained by bith
fclf, one to be tranfraitted to the managers, und
the other forthwith font to the board ofTrea
f% together with fueb tickets, under the Seal
of the State ; and tkanbe Managers be fur
ther direfled to deliver to the board ofTredJary
on the fold 30th day of April next, the ticket
iben in their bands, together with an invoice
of their numbers, taking certificates therefor as
aforefaid, and to draw the Lottery in the place
where the Congrefsflail then befitting,
That all the tickets not returned on the fold
goth day of April next, eitbff to the.board of
Treasury or the Governors or the Prefdents of
councils above. drreßed r foall be conffdered as
purd^fed by, and at the rifye of the ssffors
ts fueb tickets. $ '
~Extract from the Minutes,
WILIAM GOVETT: A. Avd Gen:
IN PU^SU INCZ of the above RefAriio^
direbl : ?ri the drawing tie Lottery absolutely to
commence oft the sos day of May next, and 10
be drawn without delay ; the Managers acquaint
'the public that the Offices for tiefale of the
tickets are fill open in the different estates,
where #ny person or company may be fcpplied if
")' ^» before the 36th 2 cy of April ^^
No tickets to be fold on any account after faia
day.
BOSTON January 22.,
Friday last a privateer sloop of 13 ^ u n%
commanded by Capt. Connolly, ot Man
chester, retuned to Salem from a cruize:
About a month ago he fell in wi.h and en
gaged a ship of io guns, with 40 men dur
ing which the Flip blew up, and all the
.hands bur nine wereloft She ,was bound
from London for Antigua, with a very valu
able cargo ; eftimared (as the hands lay who
were taken on the wreck after file blew up,)
at upwardsof 80,000. They fay aifo there
was a Lady of an immense fortune on board,
who likewise perished.
" We hear the ftii'p Poftfmouth, of 20 guns;
returned to Poitfmouth last Thursday from
a Cruise • ,during which she took two prizes,
:and carried them into Bilboa, and on her
return fine t^ok two more, one of which was
a 2® gun ship with 40 men, bound from
London for New-York, laden with woollens
&c. to the amount of 8 0001. prime cost,
which lait prize she parted with only four
days before ler arrival. The other a brig,
laden with provisions, is arrived ih a fare
port.
Since our last arrived if a fate port a prize fhi§ of
290 Tons mounting 14 carriage and 12 fwiyel g^
and navagated with 45 men. taken by the CuraberLmd
privateer, belonging to this place, with the following
cargo, viz. 40 pipe: port wine 4 hogsheads dvto^
and a half hogsheads Lisbon ditto 166 pipes Madeira
ditto 78 hoglhead ditto 68 Quartered ditto 3 00
boxes claret 13 cbefts green tea 4 tons pig idtn. a
quantity of gin brandy &e;
HART FOR D January 2%
The Alfred Frigate. Cant Hinman belonging to
the .United St ^eh is arrived in France, where the car
ried in and fold two Jamaica men of considerable value;
Last Tuesday dep rted this life Mr. John BRADLEY,
of this town in an advanced age, &
*4* A number of pieces sent for publication mast
be omitted f#r want of room.
' M OSE~M IT H,
JT7OULD inform his cuftomets in particular and
Vy I >e public in een& A that he so just receiv
ed a small supply of Choice good INDIGO for retail/
Hartford, Jan. 22
T~ O^U^ld at pri^ atthe dwelling-house
of Mr. Stephen Norton :n the foc;ety of Ken-
Hngton in Farmington on the 9th day of February
next at one o'clock afternoon part of the estate of
Mr. Jonathan Hart of said Kensington confining of
has the dwelling-house and batn formerly belonging
to Thomas Hart, Es ; one choice piece of land near
said house < piece of Hnd n^m the Blue Hills so
called together wrth a frame for a house a pleasure
Lay and haraeis, with sundry other articles.
Isaac L^ jun. ( Assignees.
Stephen Norton }
Farmington Dec. 7 J 77 7:
JUST pubiithed, and to be fold by NATHANIEL
PATLEN Book-hinder ana Stationer opposite
the north end of the Court-Hcule the Ne*v England
ALMANACK for the yeat of our Lord 1778 being
the fecend after" Biffextile or Leap Ye.r contains
Sun, Moon and Seven Stars rising and felting for every
day in the year, eclipfev tie planets, affre^s and
^tidgnlent of the weather courts in New England
States, Freemen's annual meetings with n^ny other
things Curious and entertaining &~c. &c. &c. Spewing
Books, Primefs\ Proof gafeehiffos the Bible in Mi-,
niature. Popes EHay oh Man. the Death of General
Montgomery Lord Somers Judgment df Whole King
doms and Nations, the 64th Exe/cife Tate arid Bra
dy's Pfilmk the Camht or Scale of Mhfic Verges &c
N. B. Great allowance 'to those who buy toibh again.'
CT^O be fold at PUBLIC VENDUE, f"the dwel
ling-hoife of. John Fairchi# late of Dhrharrf
deceas'd, on Thursday the 19th hay of February 177 b
part of'tfe,houfhold fornhure bis wearing apparel,,
and sundry. other, things she 'vendee to begin aty 0
clock forenoon, by , .
Martha "Fairchild A'dminiHratrix.
QTR AYED from Bag^fyfted last Mafiom of the
y^afoe(ulfcrfe 0^ dark brown Heifer,
marked With a hollow crop in each ear two years old
witb low Joins'growing airnod ft'rart forward bending
t'!faops inward, there may 'e fomr white between her
fore4egj of on .her Tag, but not certain, ^Vno^er
hathfaid creatpre^nd will inform the fubfehber fliaft
,be well rewarded by .ste^ben Loebau of Wint'on
bufy in Windier^ Jan. 19 1 7?^ •_
"1 LL perform having any demands on the estate of
-Joseph Wright, iafe of^ilirg worth, deccafe 1 are
defied touring ihe.it accoun3 in that" the, may be ad
jured. Ande^eh heir to said tiftate is desired to apply,
to the fubferiier to receive their legacies vs ^vel t : e
by wilf. Ahi!r . F.i?NA% Executor.
kißiugworth, Jari, so 'if*
{f°TlC± is hereby given to all tho 4 perfeu whb
Werq difooffeiTed of their farms, in Duichel
County 'in the&a¥ ofNeW-YorNjabbUt ten or tWelvb
years ago, by RooertUn arid Philips that a meeting
of those persons is proposed th be held at the house of
Col' .Smith in Lainiborongh, on the third tueiday of
February next, to concert some proper measures relative
so that affair. Jan. a" ,778'.
be fold inMohtague near to the meeting house,
, 1 about nine or ten acres of land with a good
ftieam for mills of any kind, with a dwelling-houfp and
fulling-mill bn the fame. For font cellars enquire of
John Bingham, living ih said Montague.
r~W" AKEN in an.iriclofure a large bay horse black
inane and tail neither mark nor brand supposed
to be about 14 hands and half or 15 hands high. Who
ever can lay cldm to said horse and pay charges ma,
have him by applying to Daniel Shove.
Danbury Nov. '3. 1777°
At a meeting of the Preliddnt and Fellows of Yale-Col
lege in New-Haven, at Hartford Jan. 13 !„B.'
XT 7HEREAS on various accounts, it may be diffi-
VV cult for all the fludents to convene at the pla
ces assigned for their refidenco the executive authority
are directed to give liberty to each students of their res
pective classes who have good reasons, for residing else
where arid apply for the fame ; and provided fach
students thrill pursue their studies in a regular course,
and their proficiency be made to appear on examinati
on when they return they shall be considered as still
retaining their standing in their reipeftive elates.
Extract from the minutes
Attest Elizur Goodrich Scribe.
, ,; If the other Printers in this State would infers
the above it might oblige the public.
To the P U B" L C."
INTREATING all who may cast an eye en these
lines that they would cast in their minds wiiether
they have not seen or known a young man (about 19
ye rs old) either ck or well, either dead or living of
light complexion fair hair, al-ont 5 feet 9 inchesnigh;
his name Thomas Bir+lett and his c'oat a. id waficoat
red and- black mixed cl!saths marked TBa whit©
blanket and eheckr wob'en shirts, riript cotton and lift
nen collars rcerkt as a'ove w th red lerers feme time
since the 17th of October lad which was the la:t we
can near of him - at Which time he Was d charge I at
New City ho pira^ above Albany as appears by their
records / And any nerfon can give information it is
emnettiy reauefted that i* m^y be done with the u,moft
speed by a letter -„outlining what interipence can be
given and directed to Obadiah Bartlett, L. Brookfield,
in the county of Worcester and state of Mariachufetts-
Bay who Will With che-mfuhiefs make all teafonaole
fatitfa&ion and thankfully acknowledges e favor, as
it will afford feme relief to his diftreled parents.
Obad/ah and R +BE kA'h Bart l^tt.
brookfield January 7, 1778.
WE the fabferiberi being appointed commiPione7g
by the court of probate for the diibi& o' Hart
ford to ad est the claims of the creditors to the eriate
of Joseph Farnam late of Enfield decid'd, hereby
give notice to the creditors to said effate that we will
attend on the business at the dwelling house of Daniel
Abbe, tavern keeper in said Enfield, on the fifft mon
days of March arid April next at two o'clock on each
of said days (said estate being rendered insolvent. Da
ted at Hartford, the 1 jth day of January 1778.
Nathan Pease,
r Comimhioners;
Samuel Jones, ,
__„__„_—__—., ——- ..-_~—— -% &mm#fewmm —cttpoQ
TZf, E the fobferibers Icing appointed by the hon.
¥y court of probate 'f3r tried Arictof Windsor, com-,
missioners on the eri'ate ofJfiap Phelps' 2d, late of said
Win'dfor deceas'd represented insolvent; hereby give
notice that we fh/Tf attend' on the business of our ap
pointment at the dwellmg-houfe of Nathaniel Grit
wold, on the firft and second mondays in February
next, at onb o'ch/ck afternoon.
ErwAßb Griswold' , 7
Jo Ar G r / SW&LB ,j C omml ffi cner ,.
fft E the fubfetfibbrs being appointed by the hon.
yg court of probate far the diflrYt of Simt ' ury
dommifhoners to receive and examine the efrifr of th#
creditors to the effate of Thomas Wmchbh,'°^'b
Strrfbury /deceas'd repfefe-ited ihiolyeirf do hereby
give notice that we .'hall attend' on the Iwfine's of our
appointment at th i t houfe of tr.f Widow Mary Owen of
Windsor, on the firft', second and third mendays If
February next at three o'Kcck on said days ; ind
thole accounts which are not exhibited on' said days
may expert not <6 be accepted,
Samuel Owen,] r -
r A , Commissioners.
Elijah Owen.
Wir^. Loty
7 LL perlons that have', y uh dem in sis agrinft tne
fl efyte of Jonathan Ash ky, lite of Hartford, de
&as'd, are defiled to exhibit the fur? for fe'tLm-w;
and those fade! t^d to said ktat6 are r^jnetted to make
immediate payment to %
, f saac Turner .Adminiftefor.
Hartford. J?F. 25, 1 „8.
U-r-kAKEN tin hr #he FiblcTiU? aUnt one month
ago, a bright sores MARE, White Merk in her
foTcrichd, bar offTind mt white above the fowkok,"
her ~r.:nea little whit^h. about r? hands and half
IhM, aborit twoyears old. The o'vnei'<. ,derived to
6x7 Friargek^d fake he? away? Apply to
,EyiiX^L.
UkalG..b3/yMiW fkind.o, Jen.l4 ICT.','"/