The Connecticut courant — Hartford, Conn., 1774-03-08 00:00:00, page 1

[March, M.dcc lx*iK NUMBER 481.]
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CONNECTICUT COURANT
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Mr. Watson,
.sir.
Oleate ta insert the icc’oiM Obfervatieos and
Advertiferncpt >0 your next, and yon will
mach oblige
A Member of the Su 'feehannah Cwp any.
V) E A DING the other D<y a Pamphlet on
jt V titufed The Right of the Governs and
Company of the Colony of Conntfliaut to claim
and hold Landi within the Limin of th sir Ch ar
ter lying Weft of New Tork.ftated and consider'
ad, in a Letter to J. H Ef^uire — \ obfervsd
the fallowing Paragraph* Fol 9 of said Letter,
* 6 Soon after (-viz . 463 6 J Mr. Hbpkins. Ho2k
er, Wyllfs and a Number of other t " As dates
and Afigrt, under the patent last men
tiomeo (viz. the Patent to the Plymouth
Company who fold to Lord Say, Seal & Brook)
took Pcftf.n of the Landi onConnefiicut River,
—and tn the Tear 1637 Mr. Raton and otheri
Afaiates and Afigm unier the s am 8 Fa text
btgan a Settlement at New Haven, and claim
and ztltshxo their Settlement to Delaware
Pay and^wiK. but t a trading House, purchof
sd Landi of the Natives on both files of Dela*
ware, ani lent Families to fettie there. ■■—
No», at ha:h Hiflory and oar owo Colony
Records tell at that George Fenwick, Efq\ ne
v?r Sold 3»y Brook Fort, Stores, and Artillery,
nor any Laods oa Gjauefticat River, uotH yth
Dc-cmScr <644, which >« -eight Years after
that Settlement was -nidc on Coinefticut River,.
sod as the Peop'o of New Haven J urijoiSion
was not inc'udcd io that WUutneot or Deed—
I ctuS concLahthe-c muS be Tone other Deed,,
or Deed*, cither from the Plymouth Comply
r-r firm Lord Say Seal, and Brook, or from
Georgs Fenwick, E/q\ secreted by fame evil-,
mimoed Persox. which will not oily greatly
prejudice the Stjfqathaonih Comp.oy, bat pre-,
Yent, the inriching oar Treasury by the Sale of
vbofe Laads, and not cd; so, but force ill
miEdmed PerfpoJ vei l ca'l in Qaeftiai the
Veracity of this Honorable Letter Writer.
M.ooovsx 11 ike wife ob r <me£/ the Stififie
hannab Case as fluted by our Honorable AfT:m
b'y, and fapt to Great Britain far the Op nion
of Gentlemen h-tied io the Lsw, we found
our title to those Lani; on a Pwchsfe under
the Plymouth Company, ratoß »c our Charter,
and their Anf-ver to those Qu-ro firm are
founded on this very HypoTefis viz that we
derive car Right to the Lands isc'uied io our
Charter, by. a Parchafe under the P'ymouh
Company priori our Ciarter-aid if W: caa
not produce Deed* by which we thu» derive
oar Title from the P ymwh Company, oar
Title muR Li!—for as to the Biuidr of our
p-cfeot G lartttr, they were fix’d.by oar own
settlement with the King’s Comnyffimen m
1664' to irreit* and purpofs—And if the
Peop eof New Haven Jurifd'ftjjn cannot pro
doce their Deed from ths Ptymouth Company,
h ide? whic’4 this Hanorab’e Letter- Writer lays
fhey fl'fl fettled, by. Virtue of which Parchafe
4hey extended their Settlement to De'aware Bay
And Rit^r. ( Which by the way is within the
Patent to the London Company, as the Chy of
Philadelphia Iyer extftly in L«t. 4G 0 which
Latva ie divides the London & Plymouth Com
^mtes.thsßiy therefore is fe*xr*lLwg»r« with
?n the. Patent t© ths London Company ) It
®*’ll nec*fl\ri!y impeach the Ver»ci;y of this
Honorable Letter Writer ~a; well t? be Coms
From TUESDAY, March 8, to TUESDAY, March 15, 1774.
Impedimkot in the Decifian of our Controversy
with Mr. Penn before Kmg and Council.——
Whcreforeforc I have thought fit to iffae the
following Pruclamiuon or Advertifetnent :
Ten Tboufand Dollars Reward I
TO all manner of Pcrfons who may have
any Deed or Deeds, or any legal Coa
veyaeces. of any Lands lying more than 15
Miles Weft of ConneGicut River., from the Py
mouth Company, or from Lord Soy, Seal and
Brook, the Earl cf IParwici. or from George
Fenwick, Elq; ro the firft Settlers oa C^ottedt
cat River—or if any Perfan has any such C -n
---vcyances, from any of th? before mentioned
Lords, Earls, Dukes, Counts or Fifccunts, to
the firft Settlers of New Haven Jnrifai&iop, of
Lands, extending westward to Delaware Bay
or River— »or if any facto Deeds are known »o
be on any of the Public Records of this Co'ony,
or are clandeftine'y conceal’d, with a malicio^t
iatcot t& defeat oar said Company, and preveat
the inriching oar Trcafury,. or with an evil iq
teat to impeach the Chara&er of this Honored®
Letter-Writer, and will produce an fiutbcn’ic
€bpy thereof, (hall be cntttu ed to the above
Reward, a* soon as the Cootrovrrfy «s deter
mined, and that I caa raise theC-fh from the
Sale of those Lands. .. ' „
All Printers Friends to this Colony, to the
Sa'quehanoah.Company, or the Honorable Let
ter Writer, are desired to infect th>4 • 'adama
tion in their several Papers. per
A Member offaid Company.
ADVERTISEMENT.
RAN AWAY, about the hR of February,
7 a certain peftilcnt fellow who is varioufiy
denominated ;he was early Apo!lion and
Abaddon, aider which oame* he was for a
long time a trouble? of the brethren. He af
terward called himfelf Legion, and as he bad
recently altered bis appellation be became in
tjrnatcly acqusinted with fume perfoos el pre
viem good character, fill’d them with fits of
frantic rage and desperation and cruelly tofmedt-,
cd them for a long time —He has often fiitfied
his oatne the better to conccallris real porpefes,
bat bia charter and condoft have been iorari
ally the lame from the firft knowledge of him
to this day—He is much nd-Jided to lyiog and
fa fhooJ, and takes great plealurc in setting
pe-ple together by the ears, and will flick at.
noting to efiedt his deteftabie purposes—He
sometimes afTumes the appearance of a Lrious
Candid inqrrer after truth, and in the most so
lemn manner will propz^atc the mod abomina
ble L fluids tn deceive well ms ded peop’e, in
a I places where he or his cm ^rics have any
iiifl tence. it is fappm’d he was far fjtne ihoc
harboured in the wsflern parts of the coaaty of
few London by force new difcp’es ; froni
whence he lately went to New Haven, where
he appeared under the name of MANY, and
soon after came to Hartford coder the fame
came, and by his fpecioas pretence of real con
cern for the good es the people he gain’d an
ext lufive acquaintance and wai in high efteera
during his residence here. He ha* Hoc: been
heard of at the wefl ward, where he has a&ed
his old part over again, and by hi* wile* and
crafty intrigues has deceiv’d multitudes ; he has
Simulated many good fort of people to tumu’t
and (edition against government ; encouraged
thcai to kt up an affctnbly st Middletown in
th run violently down a steep hill into the sea
and were drown’d ; and it wa? for feme time
hop’d had alio perifh’d ; tut from lung experi
ence ’<l* fouod he efeap’d the catafl.ophe rhe
poor animal* wetc involv’d in —He has for force
time been in chain*, being fuppos’d »o be de
lirious • proper fobjrft of eccfincmenl, bat
of la c has broke away from his keepers, and
has ev.-rfi-ce indufirivefly fpresd D np^rt*
to the diflutbaDcc of the peace of the colony.
It is fafpefted he is conceal’d, hmboor’d, and
encouraged in his mifehieveu* preftices by feme
peop’e who have h-en dilafl'cfted to tht pre
fect adminiffration of government for nes.r eight
yean paR ; and during the whole of thei time,
hive been t nd to filh in troubled waters, ted
constantly endeavouring by mifreprefsutations
to rails tbemfelves to power and trufl on the
train of worthy and honest rnicrs. It is curicnt
ly reported that he intends (hort’y to visit the
esflern part* of the colony, where all perfpns
are desired to be aw^rk of h m and not be caught
in his Glares; . ■ ~ ■ -i
Wheerkr will apprehend and feeurc said run
g\vay so that he may be again cocfind in chains
to his old prison and the people be reliev’d
from their apprehensions in cenfcqacDCc oi- bi*
vile ir (ijuatinn* and grouodlcf* fuggsflions. will,
do eminent service to t|«e colony to themkke*
and p ’flerity ; will Terse tbe cause of truth and
jufticc. and will, be further rewarded with one
dozen of his book*, which the more cfT.ftually
to mislead the people he hg* promis’d to pub-
I (h before tbe next Frecn'ca’* Meeting. , ,
, N B. Certain intelligence i« receiv’d that
he intends to be prefect at tbe propos’d March
meeting io Middietswn, ■ where he intend* to.
make interest 10 be dtfted a Kjeroler of the
next general iflimbly. ’Tts desired that a
watchful eye may be kept oat to deteftand
brtag the villain io condign pumAis-ent.
V E R A X.
oppofi'ion to the known conflstutiooal kg:fla
tute of the cokoy—He induflrioofly makes and
spreads reports of oppression io the rnleis—bri
bery and conuption in the twohoufe* of i(T.m
bly—monic* levied o-> the people Lr (ecret
fervtces, carryieg on private caufcs at public
expense, &c &c. which arc all notorious Jies
and may be (hewn to be (o from the public aft*
and vote* of affcmbl.y —He ha* laic y reported
the lall sfiembly granted a tax of 6d or 3<
on the pound for carrying on the Sufquehanoah
Cause at the court of Great Britain, which ( hq’
a known fa'fhiod. as no tax ha* cither been
granted or mov’d for in any of the, three Jaff
Effcmblie ) gains credit with force from the se
rious fiflefted concern with which ’tis ir.finuat
cd ; — He ha* late'y been heard to Ly he would
willingly be at hi* proportion cf2s or 30 000
pound* flcrliog to try that cauk for the peace
of government when he k ool ** k Cin rc , ’«r*-
mount to one eighth of that (am, ’T * kid in
farmer tunc* he bad permission to enter and tor
rpent the brutal creation, <«nd prompted them
Beß Bohea TEA,
(O* Such as Fifties never drink ! ! ^0
To be fold by
.W IL LI A M BEADLE,
At Wethersfield.
Nails of all Sizes, and all Kinds of
Goods, very low for CASH,
paid, reward, Dollars Six fh&H have goal laid t to .
A
honfon Jaid and apprehend 1 will return Whcevtr
, Sherif, LORD, LYNDE by
Litchfield, Feb. 1774*,
Broke Litchfield\ of out
| be- Tbomfsn, A^mnder lately convifted infl. one
Feb. the 24th goal in ni^ht the after nJ I county
half faotberly of ?bout mile lying and the a aa
Salivary. faros ii well ia Said ^aace water-
To fab be fold by the ,
farm of of about hod, crihsr, 80 good, acres a
house, and ed good barn and timbered, has a
of will third be the orchard thereon,, One pay
fecarity, good in hand, the other expefted on
1 ' Adonijab Slror.^.
interest. lye way two years, ca
fore the Hon. Superior Ccurt, Mar/laughter, of
and the Cofi committed for of is profecufion, a
with brown hair, joiner by trade.-— curled a
bout likely 28 looking fellow, of fears age, a