The Connecticut courant and Hartford weekly intelligencer — Hartford, Conn., 1774-11-28 00:00:00, page 3

PHILADELPHIA.
'Extract of a Letter from Connecticut, Nov. 7, 1774.
“ I have to inform you, that on the report ot the
proceedings of the continental Congress being laid
before our House of Assembly, they were
by an unanimous resolution accepted and approved
of, and the ftrid observance thereof recommended
to all the inhabitants of the colony.- —Our militia,
are I hope, on a better footing than before the meet
ing of the last Assembly, who have ordered them to
more frequent excrcife, and closer attention to their
arms.”
Before the departure of the Boston Delegates from
this City Captain JOSEPH ELLIS paid into the
hands of the Hon. Thomas Cuftiing, Esq; Five Hun
dred and Thirty four Dollars, being a fubfeription,
raised in Gloucester County, New-Jersey, and sent
them for the use of the besieged Bolionians.
We hear from Charleftown, South-Carolina, that
aveffel arrived there with nineCheds of Tea, which,
as soon as known, the owner of it went on board,
and emptied them into the lea.
A gentieman now in this city, who formerly re
sided in Russia declared, that if an hundred thousand
Ruffians could be brought to America, and permitted
to enjoy for only one month the liberty of ipeakmg
then sentiments freely upon all iubjeds, they would
be so tj anfported with this iingle privilege, that they
would all chearfully die in defending it. How
much more are Americans contending fur I
B O S T O N, Novembrzi.
Extradi of a letter from Quebec, cl it ft Oclo. 24.
“ At the request of the gentlemen of a Commit
tee from Montreal, I fend you the indofed, wita an
assurance that it is a true translation from the French
original, and beg you would insert it in your uferul
paper, that the sentiments of a very (if not mod)
confidsrable number of our Canadian brethren and
fellow fubjeds in this province may appear in a just
light to our brethren in the Province of the Mafla
chufetts. Yours, &c.
mers, &c.
WE the Canadian Farmers and others, being
greatly alarmed at a late aft of parliament
which re-eftablilhes the ancient laws of this colony,
the bad effects of which we too severely felt during
the French government, and being entirely fatisfied
under the English laws as administered in this Pro
vince, beg leave to acquaint the gentlemen of the
committee for Montreal, that any legal fleps they
shall take for the repeal of the said aft will be ap
proved of by us, and we sincerely hope & pray that
they will'ufe all means in their power for the fame,
by petitioning his majesty and representing to the
merchants of London the flouriihing state of the
trade and agriculture of this province since the con
quest thereof, which we attribute to that freedom
which every one has enjoyed under theEngliih laws,
and we hereby declare that we never had any hand
in a certain petition said to be sent to his majesty in
the name and in behalf of all the Canadians for ob
taining said act, nor have we, nor any part of the
country where we reside been in any wife consulted
thereupon ; therefore we verily believe the said pe
tition was contrived and obtained in a clandestine
and fraudulent manner by a few deligning men,
inorder to get themielves into polls of proiit and
honor.”
BOSTON, (Thursday) Nov. 24.
Since the proceedings of the Continental Con
gress have been made public, there have been, fe-
Veral funerals of persons of coniiderable note in this
town, whole relations omitted the usual practice of
giving gloves, conformable to that wife and prudent
measure recommended by the worthy members of
said Congress, whose noble resolutions, under God,
we trust will be the salvation of America.
Yesterday the provincial Congress met at Cam
bridge according to adjournment.
Extract of a letter from Glasgow, dated August 16.
“ Your indignation would rife to hear how con
temptible people talk here of American associations.
They generally agree that such resolutions may last
three Months nominally, though all hands agree
that the majority of yourmerchans will violate the
spirit of them in much less time. The town is full
of letters from, factors and little (hop keepers in dif
ferent ports on the continent, all avowing their re
solutions to import and fell goods, let the public re
folutious be what they will. lam fully perfwaded
that the merchants agreeing to import goods will be
of little avail unless the people also in general agree
not to buy or use goods imported, and that in a so
lemn manner.”
INS TRUCTIONS to the Engliih gentlemen of the
Committee at Montreal, from the Canadian Far-
A guard 01500 men arc every day on duty.
°N E W - Y O R K, November 24.
A Letter from Philadelphia of Nov. 17, 1774
fays, Yesterday came to 'Town a Man from Pitts
burgh, and fays Lord Dunmore has had a Meeting
with the Indians and made Peace, demanding no
thing more than the restoring of any white Persons
they have among them, and such Horses as they stole
from. the Frontiers.
/ HEREAS application has been made to me ’
W in writing, by more than a sixteenth part of
the proprietors of the township of PANTON, a
township lately granted by the governor and council
of the province of New-Hampshire, desiring a meet
ing of said proprietors may be warned—These are
therefore to notify said proprietors to meet at the
dwelling-house of Paul Smith, Inn-holder in Sharon,
on the 27th day of December next, at g o’clock in
the forenoon, to deliberate on measures proper to be
taken concerning a pretended claim of the proprie
tors of the townfliip of Addison to some part of the
lands in said Panton, and to tranfaft any other busi
ness that may be thought proper for said proprietors
of Panton. Dated at Sharon, the 16th day of No
vember, A.D. 1774.
John Canfield, Justice of Peace.
The author has artfully endeavoured to deceive
the ignorant and unwary, and flicks at no falfhood
to do it; but his reasoning is contemptible, and his
conclusions absurd; which will be properly exposed
as time will permit—mean while it was withone
ebnfent concluded, to treat the pamphlet as it was
thought the author deserved to be treated; and it
was accordingly committed to the Hames.
Since the above, we have just heard that another
of the fame pamphlets was treated in like manner in
another company-—And feme others burnt before
Mr. Rivington’s door. C. D
H A R T F O R D, November 28.
Last Saturday morning departed this Life, in the
25 th year of his age, Mr. John Lawrence, jun.
Ton to John Lawrence, Esq; Treasurer of this
colony ; who for some years pall has served as Cleric
to the Treafury-Office, and performed the various
business of the station in which he was placed, to
universal fatisfaftion. His Life was greatly efteem’d
by all those who were acquainted with him, and his
death is universally lamented.
A few days since the Rev’d Nathan Perkins,
of the Weft society in this town, was married to
the agreeable Miss Catherine Pitkin, daugh
ter of the Rev’d Timothy Pitkin, of Farming
ton.
gTRAY’D or stolen on the 16th inst. from an in-
M closure in Branford, a very dark brown mare a
bout 1 5 hands high, a natural pacer, hangs her head
and tail. Whoever will secure. said mare and bring
her to Mr. Moses Butler in Hartford, shall have three
dollars and all expences paid, either by said Mr.
Butler, or Josiah Blakefleeof Enfield.
Nov. 28, 1774. •
LOST or stolen from the fubferiber between Har
tford and Wethersfield, about £.\6 in bills of
this colony of various denominations, part of which
have been found torn in the high way, the upper part
gone, Whoever shall find, or can give information
to the printer in Hartford, or the fubferiber in Col
chefter, of any of said bills, or such paYts as are
miffing, shall be well rewarded.
Ebenezer Strong.
Nov. 25, 1774.
ON the 2 ill of Nov. the. priioners in New-Gate
(6 in Number) having previously, unperceiv
ed, secured a passage around the iron gate through
a wall of stone contiguous, the next gate which is
usually open in the day time for the communication
of frefh air, upon a salacious pretence inveigled the
two miners, their overseers, into the most retired part
of their fubterraneous abode, where they seized and
bound their hands behind them with ihreds ipade of
Yesterday waspublifhed by Mr. James RivingtOn
and fold to many people in town, a pamphlet, with
the following falfe, arrogant, & impudent title, viz.
“ Free thoughts on the proceedings of the conti
nental congress held at Philadelphia, Sept. 5, 1774,
wherein their errors are exhibited; their reasoning
confuted, and the fatal tendency of their non impor
tation, non exportation; and non conlumption mea
sures, are laid open to the plainest understanding ;
and the only means pointed out for preserving otlr
p'refent happy constitution. In a letter to the far
mers, and other inhabitants of North-Am erica, in
general ; and to those of the province of New-York
in particular. By a farmer— me, for Ivtillfpeaky
The fame evening the above pamphlet was read
in a company of 20 or 30 inhabitants of this city,
who unanimously expreifed the utmost abhorrence
and deteflation of the performance, as being one of
the most treacherous malicious, and wicked produc
tions that has yet appeared, from the implacable
enemies of the Britifli colonies and nation.
TUESDAY, Nov. 22, 1774.
THE Eleftion of a Committee of Sixty Perlons
for the Purposes mentioned in the Association enter
ed into by the Congress, having this Day come on
pursuant to Advertisements in the public News Pa
pers ; a respectable Number of the Freeholders arid
Freemen, of this City assembled at the City Hall,
where the Eleftion was condufted under the Inlpec
tion of several of the Vestry men : when Isaac Low,
Philip Livingston, James Duane, and 57 other Gen
tlemen were chosen without a dissenting Voice.
To the PRINTER.
Printing-Office, Hartford, Nov. 21, 1774.
* # * The Printer of this Paper returns his most
grateful Thanks to about 300 of his Cuftorners who
take his Paper without Postage, for the punctual
Payments they have made him—He begs the Con
tinuance of their Favours, for which he shall feel
himfelf under special Obligations to serve them to
the utmost of his Ability. Fie likewise observes,
that he has fupplieda Number of Persons with the
Paper (perhaps abodt 400) of a very different Cha
rafter from those above-mentioned. They have
been so far from Punftualityin their Payment, that
they have made very little Payment tho’ they have
had the Benefit of the Papers, some four, feme fix,
and some not less than seven Years, and tho’ he has
been forced to involve himfelf to the Amount of
near T^uo Hundred Pounds for an Assortment of Types
and other Printing Materials; of which they "had
seasonable Notice by Ocular Demonjlration, and an
Advertisement in the Paper, and the most eaineft
Expostulation to fend him the Ballance of their A.c
counts and thereby enable him to do Justice, in^
stead of violating his Engagements to those Gen
tlemen by whose friendly Afiiftance he purchased the
Materialsand Types above-mentioned.
Those who receive their Papers by the Posts be
ranks in one Class-—Those who take them without
Postage, and make current. Pay in another and
those who receive the Papers' without Postage, and
make no Pay, in the third and last Class. It is to
the laftClais he would address himfelf, without any
Reference to the others, in what follows—and is
really sorry to fly, that such Cuftorners, instead of
supporting and encouraging the Paper, are a great
Moth and Bill of Charge to the Printer. The very
Interest of the Sum he has expended for Paper in
.their Service is almost as much as the Principal/
which they so ungenerously withold. Those who
are conscious of being long in Arrears, are thePer
fons he aims at, and whom he once more requests to.
think of the Matter for a Moment, and, if of-Lie,
to find it in their Hearts Ws come or fend and fettle
their Accounts, otherwise their Papers without Ex
ception, will be difeontinued after the 11 th Day of
December next, after which Time those Debts that
have been so long due,if not beyond Redemption and
Recovery by being Out-LavPd, will probably be col-
Icdled. If the Printer was not under grea/Embar
raffments, and utterly unable to get along with
his Business to the Satisfaction of the Public, or witk
Honor to himfelf, without Help from his Cuftoirr
ers, he would sooner (Srace their Accounts, and
wait till Remorse of Conscience brought them to a
Sense of their Duty, than goad and press them wit^i
repeated Duns and Aplications in the Paper and.
otherwise, for Money. But he trlifts his Necessity
will fully excuse him in the View of all who imoar.
tlally confider the Case.
some of their cloathing, then they bound fifem to
gether, and leaving them in the dark they came into
that mirt of the prison which is above ground, and
having now but one door to pass they call’d to the
keeper, who thinking them fafe below, came and
unlocked the door ; whereupon they sprung from
their ambush, seized the keeper, dragged him into
the prison, and after a few words of threatning and
infuit, attempted to throw him down upon the iron,
gate some oiftanOe from the furface; which not
finding so easy, they struck him on the head with an
iron instrument called by the miners, aßorier, which
brought him to the ground, ftupeficd,and afterwards
abused him—then made use of their heels, taking
with them the prison key, and a gun. Advertise
ments were immediately dispatched after them, with
ten dollars reward for each prisoner, which has al
ready brought four of thefd abandoned villains back,
who are however very refraftory. One of the two
remaining ones is the noted Richard Steel who is
so well known as to need no difeription. The other
is James Peafe, not far from 30 years of age, about
5 feet 8 inches high, thinifli favoured, black eyes,
black hair, had on a brown coat, red coating long
trowfers, poor shoes, &c. Whoever shall appre
hend and. deliver at said New-Gate, either of these
two wretches, shall have ten dollars, or twenty dol
lars for both of them, paid by me,
John Vi ets, Keeper of New-Gate.
HARTFORD,
HEREBY informs his cuftorners and others, that
he has now employed sundry workmen from
Philadelphia and Boston, among which is a wheel
wright who warrants his work. Any gentlemen who
will favour him with their custom may depend up
on having their work done as well as in either of the
above places, and on as reasonable terms.
Chaise-Maker, near the North Meeting-Houfeiri
To be let and entered upon immediately.
A new dwelling house with a
good Barn, Well, and Garden spot, situated about
a quarter of a mile weft of the south meeting house,
for terms enquire of ASHBEL STEEL.
Hartford, Nov. 28, 1774.
Nicholas Brown,