The Connecticut courant — Hartford, Conn., 1774-03-01 00:00:00, page 4

family.
On Saturday lad his Excellency the
Governor, gave 1 j o Loads of Wood, to
be delivered out of the yard at the Bat
tery 2 10® Loads to be didributed among
the poor, and 10 loads to the prijoners
in Goal.
NEWFORRy Feb. 25.
We are informed that yefierday toe
loon. House of Ajfembly, refolded to grant
t>he Sum of Five fboufand Pounds cur
rency, to his Excellency Governor Tryon,
to comp^nfate in Jome measure for the
loss fudained by the late dreadful Fire
at Fort George, and to express their great
edeem for bis Excellences person and
scriber, a farm of about 80 acres of good hod,
lying about a mile and an half fouthcriy of the
Furnace in Sa ifoary. Said farm is well water
ed and timbered, has a good house, barn and
orchard thereon. Ooe third of the pay will be
expend in hand, the other on good fccurity,
may lye two years, on interrft &c.
Adonijah Strong.
Feb. 16, 1774.
poet’s corner.
A Prophecy of the future Gxort of AME*
RIGA.
TO year* far di(Lnt, and to kencs mars
bright,
Alsng the vale of time extend thy fight,
Where hemt and dayt and yean, hem yea
bright po c ,
Wsvc fallow ng wave *n kng fucccfficn ro.i ;
There fee in pm ? Er ages without end.
The glories c f the V* eflero World akccd .
See tots b eitLsnd io her bright mom appears,
Wak’d fo* dead (limbers of fixtboukndyca’J J
While clouds of darkaefs vai’d each changing
bE* ;
Bid ev’ry realm that hears the trump of fame,
Quake at the distant terror of her name.
ray :
To krage beaSs and kvage men a prey.
Fair Freedom nos her ensigns Might dtfp.ays,
And peace and p enty bids the golden days.
In mighty pomp America shall rife.
Her glories fpreadi.-g to the bounders (k«« :
Of ev’ry fair fat bo^U th’ affcmbled charms,
The queen of empires and the outfe of arms.
Sec ©here her Heroes, matk their glor eus
Arm’d for the fight and bhimg on the day r
Blood Rains their steps I and o’er the conqu’rr g
plain, _ .
’Mid fighting thcufands & ’mid thousands Ik in ;
Their eager {words prowikneas carnage blend,
And ghad y deaths /heir raging courk attend.
Her mighty pow’r th? fu’jeS world thall fee,
For lacrel’d cerq^rft waits bet hgh decree.
See «?r baM vcffcls rufaing to the main, *
Catch the fwik gales, and fwerp the wat ry
p am ; ,
Or Iw oy commerce, at the merchant s doer,
Unlade he treasures of each dtftant faore s
Or arm’d with thunder, on the guilty foe
Rufa big wifa death and aim th’ impending
The Managers of
Saybrook Barr Lottery
Inform she public, that they expeft to begin
drawing the fame, on the 21st of March as
heretofore advert.fed, th^fe who incline to be
come adventurers, mutt be early in their appli
cation. as the tickets are almost all difpokd of.
And those Gentleman, ta whom tickets have
been Cent for fa'e are desired to return tbcMana*
gen an account of wh t numbers they tmy
ftiil bars oa hand, in due season before said
21st of March, per order of the Managers,
Silas Deane.
February aZih, W*.
To be fold by the sub-
scriber an the 24th instant, a Giver watch with
China face and green seal. The thief calls
bimfelf Benjamin Bcfto Dyre, he’s of a midling
(la are, brown comp'exion, black hair, black
eyes, with a hair mole on the right fide of his
chin. Said thief tad on when he abkonded,
« fmajl brim felt bat, a woolen check’d fain,
facet light brown rest, German serge mix’d co
lour’d breeches, pale blue flockings, rcardcarv’d
brak fade buck's*—faid thief carried a (mall
pack ur.dir bis arm. Whoever sekes np said
Whereas the owners
of more than a sixteenth of the rights or fa res
of each of thr fevera! towns of Burlington, IVtl
lidon C^cbsfter,' Efx Jericho, Georgia St.
Athens. Sevanton, Higate, Shelburn, and l\evs-
Haven, which townships were granted by the
governor cf the province of Nevs-Hamp (hire,
now said to be io the province of Ntvs Teri,
have made app’icttion to rce ’he fubferi' er, te
warn a meeting of the prepritt^rs of each of
the i fore said towns — Tbek are therefore to
notify and warn a meeting of kici proprietors,
to meet at the dwelling h^ufe of capt. Samuel
Moore, inn holder in Sahfaury, io Con' edbctH,
oa the 23d day of March, A.D 1774 b en a °d
there to cho fc a moderator and proprietor’*
clerk for each of said towns, and to pot for
ward the fetilcment of each of’ said towns ;
and to 1 ran fait any other bufioef* thought ne
csflary at said meeting
Themas Chittcn'en, Jufliceof Peace.
Feb. iS, 1774
Vendue at the Dwelling House of Mr. M&ks
Butler Inßhoider in Hanford, on the fourth
Tuesday in March Inst. at 4 o’clock afternoon,
the Rcfidue es the Eflate of Ebenezer Benton,
deceas’d confiding ®f One Piece of Land lying
in the South Meadow in said Hartford a'fo One
Piece of Laad lying in New-Hartford, together
with fuodry article* of hoiifaould Fornbßre,
per' Thomas Seymour, lAdminiL
fofeph Church Jun. j trators.
Hartford, Match xfl, 1774
thief and returns him to me, or feruies him in
any of bis M;jcdy’s goals, (hall have three dol
lars rewtrd, and all neccflary charges paid by
me, Hezekiah Sage.
Wallingford, Feb. ay, 1774.
TXTHEREthe Ho-oorable General Aficm
’ ’ bly of the Gortrnot ?nd Company of the
Colony of Conocflicut. bdden at Hartford by
Adjournment in January last, appointed us the
Subscribers a Committee to take into Considera
tion the Claims and Settlements lately made
by divers Per fans oa the Lands fi uatc oa or
near the Sufqueb.annth River, within the Limits
and Boundaries of the Charter to this Colony,
and to endeavour to adjust and fettle with such
Claimants and Settler*, what and how much of
their refpe^ivc Clams th*y fa»H hold, and be
quieted in under ths Title of this Colony and
on what Terms, and report thereof make to
the General Aflcmbly in May next.
These are to give Notice to all concerned.
That wc fail! be ready to attend fa d Bufinef*
in New Haven.on the Second Tuesday in April
next, and at other Tiircs between faidTuefc'ay
and the fittiag of the General Afle.mb’y in May
next, upon A ppi .cation made to us for that
Purpose-
New Haven, February 22d. 1774.
Roger Sherman,
James A. Hillhoufe.
Thomas Howell.
A few of the
Norfolk. Exercise,
May be had at the Printing-Office,
,.* — - . . —
HARTFORD.-
Printed by Eben. Watson.
To be fold at Public
Stolen from the sub-
SCHEME.
Said Lottery confiits of 3000 Tickets at fifteen
Shillings each, of which 1004 arc prizes of the
fallowing Value, viz.
Number of Prizes. Dollars Total.
1 Prize of €OO is £. iSg
1 Do. of 400 is 120
2 Do. of 2co is 120
4 Do. of ico is 120
6 Do. of 50 is 90
10 Do. of 20 is 60
20 Do. of 10 is 60
40 Do. of 6 is 72
920 Do. of 4 is 1104
Firfl Drawo, 40 is 12
Lafl Drawn, 40 is 12
1004 Prices, f.
1996 8 anke,
good Tickets, at 15*. each, is/. 225 s
’9s°
To be patdin Prizes. » .
Romaics, £. 300
The Sum to be railed.
Prcper Notice will be given of the Time and
Place of drawing —A L ftof the P,iz<* will be
pubirfaed io H;riford, New Haven and New-
London News Papers, and the Bent Gt Tickets
paid eff upon Demand, if demanded within
twelve months after the drawing is finifaed——■
if not, they will be deemed as generously give©
for the purpofc of fccuriog said Bank.—Gold,
Silver, or Gonnedlicut Bills will be taken for
Tickets, and Pr zes paid elfin like Manner.
As the Scheme ’is favourable for the adver’
turns, there being not two Bia, ks to a Prize,
and the Prizes fu jed to no Dedu&ioa, it is
exposed that the Lottery will be drawn by the
middle of April next.
Tickets to be had of the Managers in Hart
ford.
Hartford, October 12, 17 73.
Hartford LOTTED,
For railing the Cum of ShreeHundredPwidt,
to be laid out in fepirirg the Bank of the River
at the Landing Place in Hartford agieeable to
an A6l of the General AfTemb y in May kfl,
wlnrein Mcffirurs J'bn Chenevard, Sotomn
Smith and Joseph Church, joo. are uppotsicd
Managers, and wiM be accoreieg y fworo to th»
faithful difeharge of their Trcft.
Three Dollarsßeward.
In 1656 the colony of
New Haven, printed a code of laws, istroduetd
with an account of the settlement of New Ha
ven, io New-England, by Governor Eaton.——
Five hundred of ihofe bocks were diflributed in
the towns of New Haven, Milford, Guilford, •
Stanford, Br-v ferd, and Southold, on Long-
Island. Of To large a number it is not improba
ble that some may remain legible. As much *
light may probably be refl &cd cd the hiflory
of New-Haven by said book, the subscriber is
very desirous of ob aining it for thtt purpofc.
Whoever therefore faaM convey one of the
said books within the term of two months from
Ihc date hereof, either to the Printers in New-
Haven, or to the subscriber, for his nfc, faall
have three dollars Reward.
Benjamin Trumbull.
New Haven, Feb. 16, 1774;
ChoiceMalagaLemons
to be Sold tXTREUE LT CHEAP, by Jihn
Thcmas: Hartford.
^^\A S H given for clean Cotton and
Linnen Rags, at the Printing-
Ojice in Hartford.
—— .... .a
BLANKS of most Kinds, com-*
monly used in this Colony, t®
be fold by the Printer hereof.