The Connecticut courant — Hartford, Conn., 1774-03-01 00:00:00, page 1

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* Md£."ar« Pai; str ar-,
the felltmsirg in r?F ^'-?, and
\ j^sa «a«.7 •oblige many of your readers.
pvopofcd Mofcrrwcc of the toWcs »R
j^’ this C?d®oy, 65 the of the claim
>f the w«Seeo lauds, in certain ,y wwtej fcriocs
ca^hfatton.—Tbe obj;& is important, a^d
VheeptUieo uotWrg Id's dun. Whether we will
endeavour t® ebtaia a tra-fi of iand ©f Sve fifi^a
ths cx’cot of th: prefect tetfemsuts jd the r ^-
Joey, e®d of '^nal goodeefs, .procured fur; rd
^eftas by mav worthy yrsdccrS'-r?, «t a co Ids
^Spence than id retry out ward comfort of ’heir
lives.—- Sot th: propak? cf this meeting eel-
Gently appears to line as little fincerhy in pre
tcodtn^ to want it, »s hehssfhown in he other
^atts of hit piece in which he h?s so lahcercd
«o mfreprtkn’ fa^s, that were I to fo’lcw Um
pstticukdy it weu dbe e» : y to foes? that he
had trdpafs’d far hey«nd <he line held imp &
hie by every bcmtft writer. As his inclinati
on fee rots wrH fix’d, to nv&e what ■uceafincfs
he p (Bhly cao, ic the minds of the good people
ta this Celohy, I tocM recommend to hftp a
&reatife, wrote by the icimitabk Do^cr Swift,
intituled, z^r/ ff&du politic*, or thr *’t of po
litical lying, wl co he has well (ludkd, and
made himfelf maSer of this, lam leaded be
swiH manage the canfe the way he wtfhes
without hylrg himfelfopCE« ^ot chly to the
ccntradiZVcffi of by fbnderj, but ci the public
records of th£ Colony —Hr general efertions
are to this purpose, that the Cofody many years
fines, gave anuay to tbs Su^uehennah Company,
and to one Mr. Hazard of Phiiade pva ad.the
lands •wef es New York f ^ie to the Mififypi ;
that this Colony as Jash, have not one foot of and
in the controls’fy >— la the next p'ace. ttia' the
Stif^uebannab Conspany, ly fedr'g to fame, and
giving to others, or in other words, ty bribery,
had obtained a mojoHty in tie honor able House
Q f dfftmFy to sorry en ant expenjtve dilute, in.
which tbs Government was not id the iesft^ ir.te
refied ;—that this secafiohed the tale afoum
ment of the Afensby, and’took fp the thief of
their time, (ail of tt, if he tt an boaen sc .omp«,
taqt, for he charges the C moyny whh
whole expeoce of the feffian ) —-H4 then Hrei >».
the old firing of espenee, with a h pt or two ?<
waysand mesos a'tcady provided for the de
fraying it, equally candid wi’b ths ’eregping
aMcrtiops, to which tw*y c? add:d his co^phioc
of the Rcfo’ution of the A/fßmb y for’fetnog up
jonfdiflien. er the ineerpatieg the town of Wed
more^nd being taker W' en d e c werr no njore
than sixty Members in the Hoof: . — Now if by
appealing to the Members of the-Sufq >ehsnn.ah
tSompany ; to Mr Hazard’s heirs thcnjl -r^? ;
to the Members of either Houfc of ?,ir~mb!y ;
and finally, to the. records of the Co » r s c’e
ty one of tide ;{T-rt'ons should be found di
refily contrary to trash —The wor d will cat/?
judge of the other inlinuatinns in hi? piece : aod
cren his friends wi’l o'srn him, nt lead ciiftak:o r
and biclhim go on, and fin no more io. the fame
public iMnadi.■ —*Relpc<Siog the pr^er^ed grants
to the Su quab’Bn&b Company,it is well k-own
to eve y one, (that has irquired) ’hat nothing
tnorc was ever- done, than &are!y to g^c them
a liberty of purchffing ts <l»e natiwe# under err
taio rel r &ior» ; that as to their fe ’ing Of gi*
ing rights, no furh ’Ling has b> ca done by 'he
. fempsAy For acc r,b;r of yesrs not Gare
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^ttatniitg tU trclbejt and Kiojiw-*~ ZaMrh, bctb Foreign 4*6 Ltu.dhc
&ora T UESD A Y,^ciits ?, to T U E S D A Y, March 8, 1774.
fhetf Grfi fovo«3g. Wu-cn '.'hey Wd r^i’s
fer vaksable eo Gderation?. and gave o hers,
th*’ few, «s i fp ringly to fbeh ?s rot’d become
edr.a! feitkrs-on the land, the v-h de therefore
of the iofiouation, as ths’ grant* were given te
sr«ct>rea rrup'ity, is wotG than groondkfr, it
■is rile and abu^re, equally’fe to ti^'C^mpiny,
and to the honorable General A/Tcmb’y itfetf.
—The gr JG t, 21 it i» caPed, to Mr. Hazard,
was in May 175^ —This GcotlenMn, Gccc de
■ccafed, had conceived thejornarHc notion of
’Obtaining and fettling a Colony, to esic&d by
way of frontier on the buk of the feu H o
Co.co'ei, and westward as far as one hundred
tndcs beyond the M'ffifippl ; he presented 2
memorial to the General of thia Co
tony, sod wish it a plan of fettl'^’ent, re:y
lengthy ted particuht. The reaf?a<?f his pre
senting rifts memorial, sppran fi©»' the sfl of
A'^imbly, to have been tit appnberfieri, that
feme part of hi’ intended Colony m ght come
within ;he c.i;m of Co&ne® cut ; inf which c f:,
his prayer was, that the Colchy 'jqu’d reau
-qa ; <h Inch psrt, let it be more or less, that is
tneir right therein, to him and bis ifTociwtes,
(not hsirsj s.ho fluuld purfui the oHamirg and
fettiiog such frontier Calouy,. £grcc*ble to tie
plan annexed and exhibited ; rcicn ng to which
the AHembly in their ?■& psfs’d ly jy did
-rclifc'.ifl’ tn Gid Haxird sbH •A ' what
part of fetch hit proposed colony mh ht fall
whhia the CococSicut C urter, between one
hundred miles well of the w;ft boundaries of
Peenfy’vaoiT and one hundred rat es weft cf
the M ffifippi so that bis dcG^nrd government
con'd not beg'a. within st lead two huodred
mites weft’ of he wefttrmoft p*rt of the Suf
ctrftarnih Pnrchsfe •— Mr Hazard was then,
at was allo the General ^flcmbly, iotiteiy tin
certain what'part or whether any part of it,
would come within this Colony ; but ’he dcurc
of harizig a frontier on that (ide, to the set; e
meets we might mske, ioc ined the Ailcmb'y
to remove any doubt, on their p rt, io Mr,
H z?n’s fungi: (Hostilities were then
commenced in this quarter.)—Mr. Hazard dy
Kg fooa sf<er,. nothteg has been doue in the
affair, to this time, in which II doubt not M-r.
Hsiard’s ,(T ciotes, if be had aoy, wo'jld glacly
avail tbrmftl vcf of it 5 bat they n aft Gift rua
cut tbrir tr fl agreeable to their memorial,
and Slid whether it touches cur claim, before
they.c 0 prctcod to avail thcmfe>c« of fit ctft
of ■ fternb y predicated 00 that Cupps fi :co — *
The troth is no psrt cf his designed ktt’emjnt
win regch Within enc hundred mt’cs of oer
foothjme—l have been thus particular on
this grant which has row Sept almost twe-ity
years, cn account of its fomchow being (hinge
ly forgot, etch by tbofe Gcniletjjen, who were
then Members cf the General Aflembly, tut is
cow revived,, to krve particular purposes —
Al owing Hazard’? grant to be good, sod tint
it extends quite ctWi the Co’dsy, yet, his if
Articii that the Colony have not one foci of lend
thtre, is abfolu sly grouadltfs, f the Sufque
Having only seen the plan of Mr. Hazard's
annexed to the memorial, and not the anetnotial
itfetf, if in judging! rem the plan and the. nG
o f /jf :m b'y I have fire made a wrong coueffon
pray to be cr.nvir.eed by the memorial itief—th.e
plan end. all 1 am po/ttive Zam not mifiaken in.
t The Su^fhannab Purcbsrje is calif d i?o
h»2Dsh PurchaTc h cot so large as he
it to be, nod th^c General 'Aitembly in i-hcir rc^
(elation come into iaft Odtober, of cbrmiyg
thef: lands, d'd cornier tbofe in the Sn^ue
bannah po’chafe, so ca led, to be re^uaHy with*
in the power, and at the d^^dfa! cf the Gorera
ment. as any other part of the weftero lands#
—For proof of this fee the records of the Co-
I coy. and you will find a rrf^luiipn of .-(Tend/’/
to this scry purp'f- That ^hc General A f
(e-pbly wis acj a^ed cn account cf the bafc ?
■nefj of the Sulquchacnah Company or welkin
lands, is known to bs o^lu'ely gr uodkfj.
— The accumuls’ing of btfi-aefs in the General
Auemb y, and of cenfequencc the tetwding
kulircfs in flic lower Count, and delay of Jufj
tice has long b ? cn Complained of es a growing
evil. —Nj longer fincc than the year ij6o,
thfre was an acjoqrced aflembly io January, ia
f -sh the privaic bufiucfs then co hand. —lt ia
true Courts of Chancery have been eredkd, but
«it weft known they have cogoissocc of do
more thin one hundred pounds valce ; atd (hat
a: last Odolser a large cumber of petitiree
brought before the fftJ Courts of Chancery
«erc ertdktf, lay uodeterm'rcd ; —To i(Tue
which, and nuke a clear bond, was the folc
ciuk of the adjournment which was mov’d for,
and obtain'd without «ty views of so partial %
f® ure, at J^ifLootj log oi th ktud was n--gc?i
on the fohj^-—As to tbcie being bet sixty
Members present wheo rhe town es ‘fVflmore
hnd was iDiorporated—fttaJ ody Ly. wheat
the general queflion was put in Odctur k(f w
there was moic than fjxty majority, there be
iog but thirty in the negative ia a full H u r e.
—ln January a bill Was brought in, nod pfs’<g
the s-h-use ofßcprefentasives early in f c bt(S~
co, iqd when the Houk was full fir including
all tbofe w/ftna lands m £ County, wi;h C ua-r
ty prirckges. This bill, it is true, did act p;fg
the Hoc. Upper Board ; but io lieu thereof,
they included a certain tn^ of ihofa lands in e
town called Weftmcrcland. ard Cent the bill
down the day before the ‘ifemb'y refe ; (’ho*
by the way the 1 tTrmbly pterions to this, had
reviv’d to fit into the next week ) I mentioa
this l o th w the littk ground there is to inficu
ate that this rcfo'ution was unduly obtained ’he
other hints, io this piece, are of a fiisftar com
plexion, so (ball not notice them particularly.—,
1 ptefefs t»y(elf a friend to the liberty of the
fubjeft, and to its great support, the liberty of
the P«efs. But cannot, wheo I cor.fider that
the Aflembly did CQth’bg at their ftfEoa in Ja.
nuary, but merely in pUtfuincc of their refo*
Jutioot tikeq in October, sod that their fprirg
fefSon is neir at hsnd, believe there is the least
neseffity of a general meeting of the towns.—
No refo'otiow of Rich meeting can be decifivc,
uolcfs the towns will piefomc to ere<ft a new
kind of kg future, which believe ih<y do noe
w : (h for in gcreral, whatever certain reflJtG,
di (appointed individuals may. —The Pref* is e.
pco apd free—papers circulate oaivcrfally— »l£
CxO, and most do read them, here then is a fare
flage, and here let the matter be fairly agitated,,
without colouring or difguile, and let the public
judge of <he merits of the controveify.
i am, &c. CoshECTicuTßKsrs.’
miler, as it contains two degrees of longitu^,
but two degrees of longitude in that latitude wlf
be but 88 to ^0 miles,