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2. As we are not represented in the Parliament of
England, we do fully believe that they have no
Right to tax us, neither will we accept or conform
to any such Taxation ; but cur Rights and Privi
leges we will maintain and defend.
3. We do heartily join and unite ourselves with
tlxe other Towns in the Colony of Connecticut, in
Defence of our Rights and Privileges.
4. We do own ourselves at present to be under the
Jurifdidion of the Colony of Connecticut, and fully
resolve to conform to the Laws and Regulations of
Laid Colony, until otherwise directed.
5. We do sincerely love and refpeft all the true
Sons of Liberty in the Colony, and elsewhere, and
we do sincerely thank Mr. Pitt, Mr., Wilkes, and
all those that have espoused the Cause of America.
And to conclude the Whole,we toast the King,
and Royal Family---Mr. Pi<t---Mr. Wilkes---Mr.
Glynr.---our Friends in the new Parliament, and
all the Sons of Liberty.
Sign'd by Order of the Company,
Timothy Smith, Clerk for said Company.
From the MASSACHUSETTS-SP Y.
Mr. Thomas,
Please to give the following, which is the production
of a common soldier in the army, a place in your
aaer, and you will oblige one of your readers.
MARS.
To bis Excellency G G—.
PERMIT an old soldier to address your E y,
not in the language cf praise or flattery, but
that of the deeped borrow : I have served his Ma
jesty near thirty years, and when I look back and
compare the present service, with what it was when
I firft inlifted, I could almost wish I had never been
born ; a soldier at that day was something of a ref
pe&able chara&er, and whatever town he came to
was treated as a citizen ; few men if any, were ad
mitted into the army without they sustained good
moral characters at lead, and a soldier's honour and
reputation was then as dear to him as his life : The
cat was seldom made use to bring him to a sense of
duty ; we were admonished again and again, we
were treated then as reasonable creatures, with all
the tenderness imaginable, well paid, and well
eloathed, and every indulgence granted to us which
was not incompatible with our duty; but times are
changed, inhead of being refpe&ed, we are held in
deviation and abhorrence,we are become a reproach
amchß men, and really thought good for nothing
but to ftopa bullet, CT satiate the cruelty of our of
ficers, which upon every little pretence is exercised
with the greatest want^efs : If my memory fails
^ t? 1en ' cr ^ :he ^y, 1 was in it three
years before! few a man puni^cd, and then the
punnnmentwasinfli&d with the greatest reludance,
after repeated aumoriirions, s o that it was evident
to everyone the offender was chaßifed ' jMtly, but
now every morning out ears are din'd with the cries
^.fr?^ And the late p ocr vie.
& m ^ feU a sense on ^ rc mmon , { a con .
4. Our Rights, Interefs and Poffons if the Sufque
bannah Purchase, under the Colony of CcnneAi&a,
5. Liberty.
6. No Taxation.
And fixed on the Pole the following Resolutions.
I. We do declare ourfelv.es true, loyal Subjects
to his Majesty King George the T^hird, and are
determined, at the Rifque of our Lives, to defend
his Person and Family, his Crown, Honors and Dig
nities.
And in Order to fatisfy Inquirers, fixed up in the
House, being a Tavern, the following Writing, viz.
The assembling and meeting of the Sons of Liberty,
raid erecting a Libert, Pole, is atygu d to promote, etueur
age, maintain and fyend, the following Proportions, viz.
Unity.
2. Indufry.
3. The Laws of the Colony, and Authority rflTfr
moreland.
Mr. Watson,
ALTHOUGH we are in the remote Paris C 0.%
"me of being under her Protection and
tioni And altho' in the Wildemfs, we have ah
Sense of Duty, but above all Things me ferine LIBEwk.
Yoh void fee, Sir, by the enelofed Refaves, that we are^
determined to bind ourselves together with the Cord of
Union and Love, to promote Peace, Regularity and good
Order. And vie do not scruple to tell our Enemies that we
mvill defend our Rights here, under the Colony. PC can
boast as good a Soil here as any in the Dorld, but it yaf
.not afford us Support without Cultivation. Ue acubt
not our Conduct will borrifand with our Refections—-
which we relief you to infers in,our ufjal Paper.
In the Name of the Company, .
\ Timothy-Smith, Clerks
A Number of Persons in the Dilajci of Kings
Town, in Weftmoreiand, on Sufquchannah
River, in Sulquchannah Purchase, in the Colony of
Connecticut, did, on the 30th Day of December
last, assemble at the House of Mr. Timothy Pierce
in said King's Town Difrid, and in Conformity to
the other Towns in the Colony, and in Order to de
clare their Minds and Resolutions to the. Public,
which they did in the following Manner. First,
eroded a Pole, or Enfigmof Liberty, about 90 Feet
high, with a Jack or Pendant,EightYards inLength,
so as to traverse like a Weather-cock, and fixed on
the Post, in large capital Letters,
UNITY and INDUSTRY,
BRINGS
PEACE and PLENTY."
LIBERTY and CONNECTICUT" LAWS!
NO TAXATION!
And JEWELERY Work,
Made and mended in the neatest manner, at the
fubferiber's ffiop, a little east of the Court-House,
in the street leading to the ferry, in Hartford; where
any gentlemen or ladies who will please to favour
him with their custom, may be fupplicd with the
following articles, which he has now on hand, and
which he will fell much cheaper than those can be
afforded, that are imported from Great-Britain,viz.
Gold necklaces, gold rings, gold ear-rings,
&c. silver shoe, knee and flock buckles, in the new
est fafhion; plated shoe and knee buckles, silver
fpoeas, and sugar tongs; silver broaches, stone
rings, Hone lockets, neat hair sprigs for the ladies,
and a variety of other articles . •He will take for pay
old gold or silver, for which h# is always ready to
give the real value; he will aJfp take for pay, old
brass, pewter, wheat, rye, indian corn, white beans,
pork or cash.
JAMES TILEY
The TREASURER of the
Colony of CONNECTICUT,
Informs the several towns in this colony, that he
is ready to pay the principal sums paid in by them
as excise money.----and in order to receive said mo
ney, they are desired to fend a proper order, signed
by the fele& men of the town, in which they be
long; together with a certificate from the Town-
Clerk, that those persons are the Select Men.
The SUBSCRIBER desires
All Persons indebted to the
Estate of his late Father, whose obligations on a di
vision of said estate have fallen into his hands, im
mediately to apply to him, and make payment, or
renew their obligations. And as he is to leave this
town, on a voyage to sea, in April next, those
who negled complying with the above request by
the middle of April, will have their accounts, &c.
left with an Attorney at that time, with orders im
mediately to put them in suit.
Nathaniel Goodwin.
Harford January 27, 177;.
'JpHE Subferiber deiires all Perlons indebted to
him'by Book, Note, or otherwise, to make him
immediate Pay, otherwise he shall be obliged to take
Measures for the Recovery of his Dues, which will
be expensive to them, as well as disagreeable to
Isaac Dickinson,
Who has about io Gallons of good Rum, which he
will fell cheap for Cash or Wheat.
Hartford, Jan. 20, 1774.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY~ '
Sprightly, ingenious Lad, about 14 Years of
Age, as an Apprentice to a Taylor. Enquire of
Stephen Austin.
Hartford, Jan. 20, 1775.
LINSEED OIL,
B By the Barrel or Gallon;
X Painter's Colours
Of all Sorts, to be Sold
o By Hezekiah Merrill, ®
QAt the Sign of the Unicorn an^MoßTaß,^
^ a few Rods South of the Court-House, Q
O Hartford. •
o Druf,s 3 Medicines, Books, &c.
®M^X)OCMX®^XM^M®^
vincing proof that your E, L Reeled to ever,
sentiment of humanity. Permit me. Sir., to aft.
what exigence required that poor fellow to be put to
death so suddenly ! not to allow a poor cieature,
scarcely twenty-four hours to prcpaie bimfelf for
death, but in the mole merciless manner plunge him
at once into eternity, with all - his fins unrepented
of, is really Shocking to human nature! And the'
your E has many able advocates for year
tender and companionate feelings, I cannot help
thinking whatever they may fay in future on that
fubjeft will b& looked upon as merefartafm. The
long experience you have had in the array ought to
force conviction on your E---.-?,--y's mind, that re
peated hogging newer reclaims^ soldier, this should
naturally lead you to feck for a remedy elsewhere---
need I point it out, our officers and leaders are in
general become a inoft corrupt, profligate and aban
doned set of men, no wonder that when the head is
unsound if the members be rotten ; no wonder if
such precedents are set before us, if we follow the
example-let an old soldier speak for once, lay a
side the cat, pay more attention to reforming the
morals cf the soldiery, reform yourselves, for as the
old faying is precedents go farther than precepts,
then ihall you command a set of men in whom you
can confide, an^ defection will scarcely be heard of,
a soldier's honed • will again become dear to him,
and his character rcfpeflable; but till that is the
case what confidence can you have from a set of men
whom you are continually cutting to pieces, for the
very fame faults you are guilty of yourfel^es, espe
cially when we have a city of refuge set open to us,
a wide and fpacieus country, the inhabitants of
which are with open arms offering us an asylum : in
a word, treat us like rational creatures, not like
brutes, and you will soon fee a happy change a
mongit us, which is the sincere wish of year Ex
cellency's, &c. &c.
Gold-Smith's, Silver-Smith's
An Old SOLDIER.
S M AL L-P 0 X,
nr'OBIAS and Oliver, continue the prariise of
A inoculating for the Small-Pox as usual/
Without the use of Mercury, or any preparation
thereof, in Filkintown, Great Nine Partners/
Dutches County; they have inoculated numbers
within a few years, with the Greatest success/
which has encouraged them this last Summer to
build a house far that purpose, and have it in good
order for the reception and accommodation cf gen
tlemen and ladies that please to,onour .them with
their custom; they generally discharge their pa:
tients in fifteen or twenty d^yE from the time they
are inoculated; and they are inoculated as foort
as they come, and kept in said Tobias's dwelling
house until the eruptive fever comes cn, which ma
ny that follow the practice do not. and their pa+
tients by going into the hofeital as seen as they are
inoculated for want qf Efficient room take it the
natural way, none that they hay^ had the care cf
ever complain of abfeefes under their arms, or pains
in their bones, as many of those do that have used
the mercurial Method. .;
N. B. The whole expence for one person is only
31. iqs. New-York currency..
-O~N CE FOR ALL.
m LL persons indebted to the Subferiber by Bill,
/'I Bond, Note or Book, are desired forthwith t,Q
fettle and pay the fame, or expe& to be sued imme
diately, without e^eptich.
Wm.jusr,
•Farmington Dscr. ?g, I?7>^
A Stout Negro Fellow, to be fold, about, 18 c
-19 Years of Age. Enquire of The Printer
Notice is hereby given, Th#
the meeting of the proprietors of the townships of
Pembrook and diallings, situate on the wc^ branch
of the Sufquchannah river, hands adjourned to the
3d tuefday of February next, then to meet at the
dwelting-houfe cf Mr. Phineas Lewis in Farming
ton, at io of the clock forenoon, when it js expelled
all such persons who have not paid the t^xes already
granted by said proprietors will pay the fame, other
ways so much of the Ihares of such delinquent pro
prietors will be fold as is fufficient to pay such taxes,
together with the incident charges of sales.
By order cf the proprietors,
Wm. JyDD A Clerk. 1
And whereas application hath
been made to me by the agents of the several towns
located on the said weft branch, desiring that a meet
ing of the agents for such towns might soon be held
at Hartford. These are to desire the proprietors of
all such located towns, by thelhfelves or agents, to
meet at Hertford, on the second Wednesday of Fe
bruary next, to point out "and agree upon the bell
measures for fettling the fame early next spring----
and the Printers in New-London and New-Haven
are efpeciall, desired to insert this advertisement in
thgrrefpettive papers, which will doubtless oblige
many of their customers who are interested in the
immediate settlement of such towns.
3 WILLIAM JUDD.
Hartford, January 23, 1775.
Whereas Samuel and William
Burr, have dissolved their Co-partnerihip---they
desire all who have accounts with them by book, to
fettle the fame either by making pay Or their notes
of hand. Likewise they would inform their cufto-°
mers that they have just opened a neat assortment of
GOODS, which are fold on as reasonable terms as
usual, by Samue'l Burr at his Shop where he usually
keptyand by William Burr at his ihop oppofiVe Mr,
Daniel Goodwin's. . :#
HAS FOR SALE;
At his Store near the Meeting^HOufe in Farmingtou,
A General Affoftmcnt ol DRUGS and MIIDIa
' CINES, both Galenical and Chemical. • Also;
good WetEWia Rem, Sugar, Molaffcs, Tenerife,
Malaga and Claret Wines, French Brandy, Gene
va Spirits, Clove Water, Cherry Rum, Raisins,
Tamarinds, Figs, Rice, Coffee, Pepper and All
fpicc, Painters and Dyer's Colours, Vantifh, Lin
seed Oil, Earthen Ware, Gjafs Bottles, Ac.•
- All who will please to favour him with their
Cullom, may expert to be supplied with any of the
above Articles, cn Terms advantageous to the Pur
chaser, and the Favour gratefully acknowledged, by
their Humble Servant, „Seth Lee,
harmington, lanuary, 177;.,
f^/nERLAd mywia Elizabeth,, .hath eloped from ?ne %
add is gone of wish another man, and has rebb'd
me of all Qboufhcld furniture,,together with several
notes f hand, and other papers of coufequente. 9Cyc cue
Urfore toforewarn all perlons not no truf for on 7,
account,for f will pay no debt Jbe fall contrail after
this dutce .'And l hereby promise a reward '-of twenty
dollars to any r^nu who Jball recover and return the
goods wo ' % 'fAZES HOND.
Farmington, fan. 16, 1774.
Samuel Olcott,
nESIRES all that are indebted to him by Book
•or Note, (except ihofe Debts cn Book lately
contrasted) to make Payment immediately.
Hartford, 20th Jan. I77§<'