The Connecticut courant and Hartford weekly intelligencer — Hartford, Conn., 1774-10-03 00:00:00, page 4

Sedi-ti-on and Strife,
Each Night, before you go to Bed, • x
Be sure your Pray’rs to fay,
And thank the Lord for all the Good
Of the proceeding Day.
And that you still may keep in Mind
These Rules, which I lay down,
I now command the School-masters
And Ushers of the Town—
That they, in their refpe&ive Schols,
May ever watchful be,
To train the Youth to my Commands,
In Ariel Conformity.
All naughty Boys you must correct,
With Birch and Ferri 1 too,
For, fare the Rod, andfpctl the Child,
A Spying is most true.
How can you hope that Heav’n will bless
The Saplins of this Land,
If you to Refor-ma-ti-on
Lend not your helping Hand.
And furthermore, ye Children dear,
I fuhemnly declare
That if you will obedient be,
My Favours you shall Ihare.
You shall have Cakes and Sugar-plumbs,
And many Things beside ;
You shall be drefs’d in Tunicks fine,
O’? Cock-horse for to ride.
But if you should rebellious prove,
For all that do amiss,
I keep at Home a monstrous Rod,
A Rod, well foak’d in P—
And now God prbfper George, our King,
And grant him long to live :
From Salem’s Council-Chamber I
These wise Inftru&ions give.
An ADDRESS to Americans upon Slave-Keeping,
[continued from No. 507.]
AS genera! observations will not affeft the mind
so much as particular fafts ; I would beg leave,
as a kind of fupplementto my last address, to lay
before the public, some extra&s from journals and o
ther accounts of voyages to the coasts of Guinea for
the purpose of purchasing Haves : by which, that de
testable trade with the shocking consequences that
either do or may follow from it, will appear in some
measure in its true light.—-For the Accounts lam
about to give I am indebted to Anthony Benex.et\ His
torical Account of Guinea, ^Ac. published at Philadel
phia, 1771, ch. 13. The following Account is ta
ken verbatim from the original manufeript of the
surgeon’s journal on board a velfel from Liverpool.
“ Seftro, Dec. 29th. 1724. No trade to day,
though many traders came on board ; they informed
us, that the people are gone to war within land, and
will bring prisoners enough in two or three days, in
hopes of which we stay.” ’
The 30th.•“ No trade yet,but our traders came bn
board to day, and informed us the people had burn
ed four Towns of the enemies, so that to-morrow
Ve expeft Haves. Another large fliip is come in.
Yelterday came inn large Londoner.”
The 31st. Fairweather, but no trade yet ;we
fee each night towns burning, but we hear the Seftro
men are many of them killed by the inland Negroes^
lb that we fear this war will be unfuccefsful.”
The 2d. of fan. Last night we saw a prodigi
ous fire break out about eleven o’clock ; and this
morning fee the town of Seftro burnt down to the
ground; (it contained some hundreds ofhoufes) so
that we find their enemies are too hard for them at
prelent, and consequently our trade spoiled here ;
therefore about seven o’clock we weighed anchor, as
A PROCLAMATION.
TO all the pretty Girls^and Boys,
That live in our Town,
This Proclamation I address,
In Hopes of great Renown.
When George our King firfl fill’d his Throne,
He thus increas’d his Fame,
In Imita-ti- on of him,
I mean to do the fame.
For you Ibould think that I am like
Unto our Sovereign King,
And so indeed I really am
As like as any Thing.
Therefore to you, my Subjefts dear,
These loving Lines I write,
In Hopes that you will read the fame.
And therein take Delight.
Would you be counted wife and great.
Shun ev’ry Thing that’s ill,
And evermore submit yourfftves
Obedient to my Will.
Devoutly make God’s sacred Lav/
The standing Rule of Life,
Avoid Deceit, Hypocrisy,
POETRY.
aid iikewife the three other veflels to proceed lower
down.”
The following relation alfois taken from the ori
ginal manufeript journal ofaperfon of credit, who
went surgeon on the fame trade, in a* vessel from
Nev/-York, about 20 years past, “ Being on the
coast, the commander of the vessel, according to cus
tom, put a person on Ihore with a present to the king,
acquainting him with his arrival, and letting him
know, they wanted "a cargo of Haves. -The king
promised to furnilh them with Haves ; and in order
to do it set out to go to war against his enemies; de
signing to furprize feme town and take all the peo
ple prisoners : some time after the king sent them
word, he had not yet met with the desired success ;
having been twice repulsed, in attempting to break
up two towns ; but that he still hoped to procure a
number of Haves for them ; and in this design he
persisted till he met his enemies in the field ; where
a battle was fought, which lalted three days, during
which time the engagement was fb bloody, that four
thoufand,five hundred men wereflain upon the spot.”
The person who wrote the account beheld the bodies
as they law in the field of battle. “ Think (fays
he in his journal) what a pitiable fight it was to fee
the widows weeping over their loft husbands, or
phans deploring the loss of their fathers, &c. &c.”
What humane heart can feel pleafcd with a trade that
encourages, and even directly causes such bloody
wars.
In the 6th vol. of Churchill’s col. of voyages page
219, we have the relation of a voyage performed by
Capt. Philips, in a ship of 450 tuns, along the coast
of Guinea, for elephants teeth, Gold and Negro
Haves, intended for Barbadoes; in which he fays,
that they took “ 700 Haves on board, the men. being
all put ih irons two by two shackled together to pre
vent their mutinying or fwimmirig afhere—That
the Negroes are so loath to leave their own country,
that they often leap out of the canoe, beat, or fliip,
into the fea,and keep under water til! theyare drown
ed to avoid being taken up, and saved by the boats
which purfuethem.”—They had about twelve Ne
■ groes who willingly drowned thcmfelvcS ; others
starved themselves to death.-—-Philips was auvifed
to cut offthe legs and aims.of some to terrify the rest,
(as other captains had dbne) blit this he refilfed to
do. From the time of his taking the Negroes on
Board to his arrival at Barbadoes, no less than 320
died of various dife'afes. Nev? if we reflect on the
situation of these unhappy creatures so taken,fo treat
ed as these accounts hold forth, who can help being
touched with pity, and feeling his indignation rife
against that avaricious trade, which is the caiife’ of
these miseries. I hope I may add without being cal
led a passionate declaimer (a name those ihtereftect
in the fiavery of the Negroes are very apt to bestow
upco anyone, that attempts to move the minds of
people by a just reprefentatioii of their misery;)
that we can hardly conceive of any fituatiori more
compleatly miserable, than these v/retchcd captives,
if we take into view ; that almost every individual
of this number must have some tender attachment
broken, by this cruel feperation—here is the hus
band torn from his beloved wife, without so much
as an opportunity of mingling tears in a parting em
brace. Parents torn from their infant offspring—
without so much as an opportunity to recommend
them to the kind prote&ion of their friends.---Little
children-torn from thebofoms of indulgent parents
—-drag’d to some distant land, without a friend to
protect their helpless innocence Children torn
from their aged parents, by feeding and protecting
whom, they were gratefully repaying, the kind care
they experienced from them in their infant years.—
See these wretches called to part with every thing
that is dear in life, parents, children, friends, inter
est, country and al! ; confined hundreds in one float
ing dungeon :—their ears pierced with the conti
nual groans of the sick and dying around them
their minds at the fame time filled with the moil
dreadful forbodings of the ftid greater misery that
awaits them : at best they can hope for nothing, but
perpetual slavery among a nation, whom, from the
fpecimfen they have already had, they can look upon
in no other light than the greatest monsters of cruel
ty. So that^n, the only cdmfGrtof the wretched,
must here forfake them. Reduced thus to despair
of ever feeing any more Comfort in this life, what
wonder if many chiife rat'her to put an end to their
wretched lives : or that others more adventurous
run the hazard of all that the enraged vengeance of
their enslavers can infliCt, to regain their beloved
Liberty. Thus often, unless Confined with irons, do
they call themselves into the fca, to free themselves
from the’dreadful misery that awaits them : others
indignant of their fafferings have starved themselves
to death : and instances more or less we read every
year in the public prints of Negroes rising on board
the veflels from Guii^i : which most commonly
brings on these unhappy wretches, the most barba
rous punishment which the wanton cruelty of a liw
lefs crew of sailors can inflift. I will mention one
instance of this kind by which the reader may judge
of others, from Alley’s collection 2 vol. p. 449. re
Notice is hereby given 3 TEat
the Co-pattnerflrip of George Pitki^ and As
Cowls of Hartford, Clothiers in company > is dif-'
solved. Al! perfanS hdvihg accounts open with said
company arc desired to fettle their said account^
wish said GeorgE Fitkin by payment or their
notes of hand.——The Clothiers bbfin'efs will be
still carried on by said George Pirkift at his
(hop as usual, where his customers will be fervCd da
they have been heretofore. Thdr former /avOuE
are thankfully acknowledged, and a cbntiriuahte of
then! req netted, by George Pitkin.
iss i s
THE Veffcl advert!fed to fail from Middleto-v:n
for Mijftfippi the First of September, will not
fail till the Tenth cf O<ftober, as some of thcPaflcn
are not ready. .
'T'HE Sdbfcriber being now about to set up titp
x GUNSMITH Bufipefs, in Amema, Dutchefs
County, would be glad to employ a gpod Work
man, that understands the Business in ail its Bran
ches, and good Wages will be given to a Man well
recommended, not siddi&ed tor ftronp Drink, by
CORNELIUS ATHERTON.
'■pHL 'Sublcriber for the last Fime in this way, re
cuefts allPerfons having accounts unfftded with
the estate cf fames Taylor, late of Hartford deceas’d,
to make settlement by the middle of O&ober next.
'I hose Persons indebted to said estate, who negleft
to comply with this request, will be sued to a set
tlement at November Court.
Ebenezer Kneeland.
Hartford, Sept. 17, 177 L '
We the Subscribers being ap
pointed by the Hon. Court of Probate for the Dif
tritft of Farmington, to examine the Claims cf the
Creditors to the Estate of William Humphry,-late
cf New-Hartford deceas’d, said estate being repre
sented insolvent ; hereby give notice that we fliall
attend on said Business at the Dweding-Houfe cf
Dudly Case, jun. in said New-Hartford, on the last
-Tuesday of September inflant, and firft Tuesday of
Oflober next, at 1 o’Clock in the Afternoon on
each Day. New-Hartford, Sept. 1, 1774.
Matthew Gillett,}
Seth Smith, > Commiffoncrsi
Thomas Olcott, jr. J
Rai^-away from the {ubfcnbcf
Samuel Chapman of Tolland, in Hartford counir
the night after the 28th of August last, a j
servant named ISRAEL, a strong well built LEbc. ,
about 18 years of age, something ftraitiflr hair lor
a Molatto, carried with him a Ldfe tail to tie, ch h'd
hair, one or more small fedrs on his forehead, wore
and carried with him a red black and' white mix’d
grey colour’d coat, a lappel’d V/nifttoat with hen
buttons brown colour’d, one grey ditto' with pewtW
buttons, 2 pair of ftfeaked liiinen trowfers/i pair
wool ditto, 2 pair flockings, f pair twilled black
and white, the other red and white/ rind a pai» of
thin flioes tap’d, 4 Ihifts, 2 striped woolen 1 firiped
linen ditto, 1 check’d ditto, ? old b^ver hat, and a
buff cap. Hi? went away with a servant-boy be
longing to William Hatch of said Tolland, named
Joseph Robins, a snort thick set fellow, about 17
years old, carried a large pack of cloathing. AVho
ever will take up said runaways, and return them
to their matters fliall have 4 Dollars reward for the
Molatto, and a handsome reward foi the boy, and
all heceffary charges paid, by me
Samuel Chapman.
N. B. AII matters of veflels and others are so. c
warned harbouring said servants.
Dated Tolland, September 2, 1774.
lated by John Atkins, surgeon on board admiral
Ogle’s fqaadron, of one “ Harding mailer of avef
fcl, in which several of the men slaves-and a'wornan
Have had attempted "to rife in order to recover their
Liberty', some of whom the mailer, of his own au
thority, sentenced to cruel death, making them frit
eit the heart and liver of one of thof- he had killed.
The woman he hoisted by the thumbs, whipped and
flaflied with knives before the other Haves till fne
died.” Who can take into view what these prior,
creatures fuHer by means of this trade and not Lei
his indignation rife against the avarice & wickedness
of men ; that ftiould ever introduce such a de-eftaLe
traffic as that of the fouls and bodies of men. 'i is
high time for all Isoneji men to bear teflimony against
it One would think the poor As icons had alrea
dy fuffered enough to satiate the most unbound
ed avarice or most wanton cruelty; and that
all flwu’d join now to find out the most effectual re
lief for these unhappy fufferers. But left I cnprols
too big apart of tne paper, I will poftpons lime
further narratives to my next address.
* ’ ANTIDOULIOS.
\fTo be ccntinaed.^
Printed by Ebenezer Wistfon.