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Mr. Watson, . : -
Please to give the following a place in your nzet,
and you will thereby aid a sincere though feeble at
tempt to promote the public utility.
To the General Meeting of the Committees of Inftcftion
and Observation, in the federal 1 owns in the Coun
ty of Hartford, on the 2„b of January infant.
GENTLEMEN,
THE trull reposed in you, by your constituents,
is important; on the prudent, vigilant and
faithful difeharge of it, in concurrence with others,
may depend the well being of America, of Bri
tain, of posterity. The united wisdom of this
country, in .the late General Congress, hath form
ed, adopted and recommended a plan of union
called the Association, which if llriftiy adhered to,
and allowed time to operate, cannot fail of the tie
fired success: You in compliance with its lith
article, are appointed " attentively to ebferse the
conduct of dll perlons, touching this Association;"
and within the limits of your refpe&ive appoint
ments; to expose every violation of it, in any per
son whatever, as it directs. As your constituents,
in appointing yon for this purpose; have virtually
espoused and bound themselves to a scrupulous ob
servance of all the articles of the Association, so you,
in accepting the trust, have implicitly plighted
your faith, that you will be attentive, and tho
rough in difeharging it. The design of your pre
sent meeting, as I am told, is to consult and de
termine on the moll effectual method to,be pursued
for this purpose; I have thought it neither out of
character, nor unseasonable, in this way, particu*
larly to recommend to you a careful observation of
the conduct of all persons immediately concerned
in the ninth article; in which " such as are vend
" ers of goods and merchandize (having adopted
" the Association) firmly agree and affuciate, under
“ the sacred ties of virtue, honour, and love of
" their country, that they will not take advantage
*' of the scarcity of goods, that may be. occasioned
" by this association; but will fell the fame at the
" rates they have been accustomed to do, for
" twelve months last pad," And, that they will
not " deal with any feerfen that fall dof^ at any
" time thereafter, for any commodity whatever."
The true sense, and real importance of this arti
cle, is so obvious, and the engagement so sacred,
that it is not a little futprifing, that any, who would
be thought to espouse it, Ihould at the fame time,
To openly in practice, disregard, and disavow it.---,-
The vender of goods is the firft that is fehfibly
touched; and what is the effeft? Doth he imme
diately flinch and fall back? Doth he mean to let
the public know that, from the paltry views of a
varice, and sordid felfifhnefs, he will palpably vi
olate the “ sacred ties of virtue, honour, and"
Satriotifm ? Of all men, is the trader the most for
id and faithlefs! or is this but a just Specimen
of what we are to expect of men of every rank and
employment, as faft as they come to the touehftone!
is this a true sample of the virtue, honour, faith
and patriotism of Americans! prithee tell it not
in Gath, publish it not in th? streets of Alkelon;
left the friends of American freedom drop their
heads, their enemies rejoice, and the abettors of
ministerial vengeance triumph.
The merchants and traders in this country, colo
ny, and county, arc a very refpedable part of the
inhabitants; their persons and conduct afe gene
rally the objects of public notoriety; their exam
ple will be very influential, whether good or bad;
if the latter, very pernicious. Therefore gentle
men, fuller me to urge you, from a fincere' regard
to the Welfare of our common country, and in pure
friendfhip to them, to make the venders of goods,
especially, such as in direct violation of the Associ
ation, shew themselves disposed to fell at an ad
vanced price, the objects of your critical and pecu
liar infpe&idn.----If so open and palpable an in
fringement of the general confederacy, in an ar
ticle so important, and in a class of men so re
fpeftable, be fuffered, and publicly tolerated; may
wenot easily forefee, without a spirit of prophecy,
that the so much boasted spirit, union, and firmhefs
of Americans, is likely to come to very little in the
issue, othervyays than add to their own ccmfufioff,
and to the vi&ory and triumph of their enemies.---,-
'/ill any retailer, in feriotts soberness, plead in
his own defence; I buy my goods at higher rates,
and therefore cannot afford them so low as hereto
fore ? the merchants with whom I deal, in profped
of a threatened scarcity of goods, have railed theft
prices, and retailers in order to save themselves, are
necessitated to do so; Does he confider what hefays ?
Does lie mean to juftify himfelfagainft a charge of
having violated one part of the article, viz. (fold
at an advanced rate) by bringing himfdlf in guilty
°' the other viz. (dealing with those who do so?)
He admits the former, and in way of justification,
own# and pleads the latter! away with such reason
ings, the, fuggeltions of folly and avarice openly
avowed!-—-Does not a regard to the public welfare,
with our true felf interest is infeperably con
d^and the exact obfervahce of all the
,jun&ons of the Association? and is
As to the Longitude; I find by three several Osfer-
Vations of the Eclipses of the firft Satellite of Jupi
ter, thro' a Tellefcope, that the Meridian of New-
Haven is 4 Hours, 52 Min. 56 Sec. to the Westward
of the Meridian of London, or rather of the Green
wich Obferuatory, . as those Occultations, by a well
regulated Time-Piece, set by an exaft Meridian,
happen so much earlier in the 24 Hours, 'than they
do by Computation at London ; which imports th 3
Longitude to be 73 Deg. 14 Min. co Sec. *'
By the best Method, and the nfoft accurate Ob
servations I could make, I find thic the Variation of
the Compefs, or Magnetic Needle, is now 5 Deg. and
25 Min. Weft of North, that is to fay, the Magnetic
Needle lies on the Weft Side of a true North Line,
Making an Angle withit of 5 Deg. 25 Min.s
, Neh. Strong.
* From the Latitude and Longitude thus given,
and upon Supposition that theLatitude ofthe Towe,
of London, is 5 1 Deg. 32 Min. it appears by a tri
fonometrical Computation, that the neareftDifiance
etween New-Haven and London, on the straitest
Line that can be drawn above the common Surface
of the Globe, is 2046 Geographic Miles ; and that
theßearing of London, from New-Haven, is 27 De%
5*5 Min. North of East.
I The Variation of the Compafi is different in
Places that are very remote from each other; and
also in the fameßlaces at different Times. From a
Series of Observations in Times pall, it appears ro
have increased about,? Minutes and three Quarters
yearly, toward the Weft of North.
BUSI O M,.(f/ hurfda,) January 19,
It is said, and in a manner that may be depended
on, that G-----r H n, in a letter dated London,
Nov. 4th, informed Dr. F---n, that the continent
tial relolves, in consequence of the resolves of the
delegates of the county of Suffolk; had been receiv
ed in England ; that they were in daily expeftation
of the whole refultof the American congress ; that
he the said G r H---=n,had hoped and expt&ed;
that nothing ever would be done in the affair of
taxing the Colonies, and that they would be left to
legislate for, themselves, excepting iri such cases
where all the colonies were concerned; that this af
fair of taxation and legislation was laid aside; or
fafpended, for the present; that the general talk
pow was about & separation of the colonies from
Great-Britain ; that.no plan of conduct with refer
ence to the Colonies was refolded upon, nor would be
till the fitting of the parliament, no; then, till the
sense of the nation was known upon a free and.un
controuled debate .upon the matter; and in fine,
that he would not hazard a conjecture as to the plan
that would be formed to be carried intoexecution.
We shall just observe upon this letter, that it has a
very different complexion from the one which about
a fortnight past was read to Charles Froth,.and set
him crying glorious news thro' ths streets; arid that
this letter gives some hopes that ministry are at
length brought to that, consideration; which is thq
firft step to reformation, and that the vote ofthe
Continential Congress refpeding the Suffolk Re
solves, must have wrought powerfully to produce
their conviction.
HARTF O R D, Jaduaryzz.
In this Town, the mean Heights at which the
Mercury flood in Fahrenheit's Thermometer, thro'
the Mcnith of December were---At Sun rife, 29°,1,
--Noon, 35% fry-Sun set, 30 0 ,6 —-Mean of the
Whole, 31°,7. Comparing this with the Account
Th^feparation of the Colonies from Great-Bri
tain, was much feared in England, when the last
advices came away. , ..
It is said there is a letter in town, from a noble
Lord in England, wild gives it.as his opinion ; that
those unjust acts of parliament (which all America
Complains of) will in all probability be soon repeal
ed; and likewise adds, that he thinks a Spanish war
is now inevitable, in consequence of which, the
troops will ba more honourably employed, thaq
dragooning their fellow fubjeds into a compliance
to the present minillerial plan of slavery.
NEW-HAVEN, January 16, 1775. a
^S I have been desired by several Gentlemen of
Diftindion, to afcortain by Astronomical Ob
servations, the precise Latitude and Longitude of New-
Haven, and also the present Variation of the Compass;
Ihriye taken particular Pains to fatisty myfelf with
refped to each of those Articles. And by the Mean
of 2g Obfervatioris of the Meridian Altitude of the
Suh's Center, by a well conftruded r Aftronomical
Quadrant, I make the Latitude to be 41 Deg. 18 Min.
and 31 Sec.---Siflcf I made the above Observations,
I have been favoured with another Astronomical
Instrument of about three Feet Radius, conftruded
by an approved Mathematician in Philadelphia, anil
by 13 Obfetvations with this Instrument I make
the Latitude the fame, even to one Second, as I did
with the other. ... , - -
it not the true interest, and firm resolution of every
hQneft hearted American, not to take any goods,
whatever loss or disadvantage the refufal may fub
jedlhim to, but such as he may take in consistency
with the true spirit and design of those injuhaibns?
_ .PHILOPOLITES.
Samuel Olcott;^
JfyEolßitS all that, are indebted to him by 800 l
or Note, (except those Debts on Book lately
contrasted) to make Payment immediately.
Hertford, 26th Jan. 1775.
A Stout Negro Feiiow, to be fold, about 18 or
19 Years of Age; Enquire of The Printer.
^'HE Subicriber denres all Perlons indebted to
him by Book, Note, or otherwise, to make him
immediate Pay, otherwise he ffiall 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. So Gallons of good Rum, which he
will fell cheap for Cath or Wheat.
Hartford, Jan. 20, 1774.
A Sprightly, ingenious Lady abotit 14 Years of
Age, as an Apprentice to a Taylor. Enquire of
, r Stephen Austin,
Hartford, Jan. 20, 1775.
, HAS FOR SALE,
At his Store near the Meeting-House in Farfyor.,
A General Affortmentof DRUGS and MEDI-
C.NES, both Galenical and Chemical. Also
good Weft-Eta Rum, Sugar, Molasses, Tenerife
Malaga and Claret Wines, French Brand, Gene
va Spirits, Clove Water, Cherry Rum, ' Raisins
lamarinds, Figs, Rice, Coffee, Pepper and All
spice, Painter's and Dyer's Colours, Varhiffi Lin.
feed Oil, Earthen Ware, Gjaf s Bottles, &c.
All who will please to favour him. with their
Curtom, may expert to be supplied with arty ofthe
above Articles on Terms advantageous to, the Pur
chaser, and the Favour gratefully acknowledged, by
their Humble Servant, Seth Lee.
__^2JJ£££° n , January; 1775.
fffHERhAS my^fi tlixabeth, hath eloped from me,
and is gone f with another man, and has robb'd
me rs al! my boufbad furniture, together with several
notes of band, and other papers of consequence. Th^fe dre
therefore to forewarn all persons not to truf her on m.
ff°^f or I ^^ ^ debt fa fall contrail after
this date. And I hereby fremife a reward of twenty,
dollars to ary perfa who fall recover and return th
^s to ^AMES HOWdS
Farming!on, fait. 16, 1774.
Whereas SamueT -^TWill^
Burr, have dissolved their Co-partnership— they
desire all who have accounts with them by book, tb
r 1 either by making pay or their notes
of hand. Likewise they would inform their cuftc
"^ "" ''' opened a neat afertment of
/ ','"'' ' are '°'^ ° n as reasonable terms as
ufaal, by Samuel But; at his Shop where he usually
kept, and by William Burr at his ffiop opposite Mr. s
Daniel Goodwin's. ' '
Ri^rgton's New-York Gazetteer ofTEurfday last,
Contains thh following
Extras of a Letter from Hartford, in Conneflicut, Ga
ted fanuary 13.
' le Governor of our Colony called his Coun
cil in this d own on the 4th Instant, their
beratiohs are -keptvery secret; but we are told
" they have ordered three Hundred Barrels of Gun-
I owder, and Lead in Proportion, tb Be ptirchafed
" at the public Expence. The Militia in the whole
" Colony arc mustered every Week ; in molt Towns
they have a Deserter from his Majesty's Forces,
by Way of Drill-Serjeant Nothing but a Spi
rit of Independence would lufFer Matters to be
" carried to such Extremities, as make all prudent
Inhabitants fear that our Parchment will soon
totter. [The infamous author of the dbo^e predic
tion might possibly in some part of bis life, have sassed this
face, but never bad art, fixed abode in the tozun of Hart
ford. From my khozvledge of the foil I will venture to
that this part ofthe country will tot bear filch nox
ious, fruit : An ardent third for liberty, and a noble uni
formity offentimext reigns indeed among allranks of people,
and if occafiorifhould require, we fall doubtless be ready
to vindicate our rights at the rife of air lives ; but no one
even di earns of ajtate of independences, nor is there a noddle
^"'''""' '° cra% ? as to imagine our parchmentjufly en
dangered by the tranfaAions ofthe people of this colony,
ye people of ConneAicut to their immortal honour be it
ffeoken, move forward in tbe.caufe of liberty with circum
fpefhon, firmnefs, dignity; and uniformity; there being but
very few anamoloui heads disposed to difurb the order of
nature, and wreflour privileges from us.]
from New-Haven, pLblifhed last Week, it app&rr
that at a Mean it was colder herb than-there tli'ro' the
Month-In the Morning, 1% 4—-At Noon, 3°2,
y-fAt-Sunfet, 4° 4.--Mean qf the whole Day, ? Q -..~
l he Morning ofthe firft of January was eight Deg.
colder than any other hath been the present Year.
.-Died at Roxbury, on Monday last, the Rev. Mr.
William Patten, of this Town. The Thurs
day following, hrs Remains were decehtly'depofit
ed in the Tomb built for the Mihiftry iri that Place.