The Connecticut courant — Hartford, Conn., 1774-03-15 00:00:00, page 4

N. B. If aoy young gentleman short of thir
ty, chance to read the above, whose charade?
answers to the foregoing difeription, and who
would be glad to leap out fingudarity, iota du
plicity, with a fine young lady, poffefs’d of
twelve hundred, in order to prove the yet en
tailed pleasures of conjugal life ; his most san
guine expeditions fh&li be fulfilled, upon pro
ducing to the fubferiber, through the channel
of this paper, a certificate of his good behavi
our from the lad person he courted, which is
all (hat will be required in order to entitle him
to the ready heart and hand (with all their
appurtenances) of the fair *
L U C E T T A.
POET’s CORNER.
Mr. PRINTER,
As I think your entertaining Courant h great-
Jy embellished by the ingenious Pieces which
frequently sppear-in Poet’s Corner and as I
observe Icveral of your late Papers are destitute
of any poetical Performance—and being defir
oas that Poet’s Corner may always be supplied,
I have taken the Liberty to fend you herewith
the following Piece of CompoGdon, which, if
you will picafe to iofert in your next, yon will
at lead, oblige One Friend and conHant Reader.
From the LONDON MAGAZINE.
The MAI D E N’s CHOICE.
IF e’erl’m doom’d the marriage chain to wear,
Propitious hcav’n,attend my humble prayer.
May the dear man I’m deftin’d to obey,
Skill kindly govern with a gentle sway,
May his good fcalc, improve my belt of tho’ts,
And with good nature, (mile on all my faults ;
May every virtue, his best frienofhip know,
And all vice (hun him as his mortal fae.
May I too find poffffs’d, by the dear youth,
The llrideft manners, and fincerell truth ;
Unblcmilhed be his character and fame,
May his good aliens merit a good name.
I’d have his fortune cafy, but not great.
Far troubles often on the wealthy wait j
Nor life so short, that I could never spare
A trifling part to throw away on care.
Be this my fate, if e’er I’m made a wife,
Or keep me happy in a tingle life.
WHEREAS the fubferiber has been im
proved for [evcral years part io teach
ing Pfalmody, and finding by long experience
the necessity of an Emendation, even io the best
approved pieces of mufick now extant, has
been induced, by the advice of his friends, to
submit the fallowing to the confidcration of the
Public, viz.
PROPOSALS,
For Eograving by SUBSCRIPTION,
The GENTLEMAN and LADY’s
Musical Companion :
Being a neat and general Collcdioo of
PSALM TUNES and ANTHEMS.
The fubferiber has found that complaints
have generally subsisted among the bed teach
ers of mufick, with regard to the ufcfulncfs of a
cocfidcrarblc part of the belt col led ions of mufick
that have as yet been made public. Io almost
every collection we find a very considerable
proportion, both of tune; and anthems, which
have never been so lueky as to obtain a general
approbation, and psobably never will ; so that
in order to purchafc thole that are gent rally
approved and probably will contimc so, we are
put to an equal expence for those that are en
tircly ufckfs. In order to remedy the above
inconvenience, ’cis propoLd that this collection
(hall couGH of pieces taken from the thoft ap
proved authors, and efpccially such as have ob
tained the approbation of the bcR mailers, To
which will be added Pme pieces which have
not yet b.\o puLiifird, together with a conli
dcrable ou-aber which have been but little
known ; to which will be prefixed a (bort but
plain and cafy explanation of the rules of mu
fick. THU work to be executed on a good pa
per, the plates prepared by a good engraver,
the whole carefully cor reded, and the bucks
w// found. The above collection will contain
MUSICK.
about iyo pages, of the fsme disseefun as
Bayley’s emendation of Tat>f ’ur and Williams.
The price to fiiSfcribers will be Six Shillings,
Lawful Money for each book ; aoy person who
Hull fubferibe for fix books (had have a seventh
gratis. Sublcriptians are liken in at the Print
ing-Office in Hartfotd, where the work will be
executed ; and by Mr. Jehn Chester at Ut
thersfidd, Mr. Oliver Pomeroy of Stepney, Mr.
Benjamin Calpin of Kcofiogtoo, Mcff. Thomas
and Samuel Green, Printers in New. Haven,Mr.
Timothy Green Printer New-London, Mt fl.
Green and Spooler, Printers in Norwich, Mr.
William Stanton ©f Litchfield, Mcff Smith
and Shepard in Simon, Mr. John Wat fen of
Canaan, Mr. Titus Watson in Norfolk, Mr. Seth
Smith of New-Hanford, Miff. Shepard and
Hopkins in Northampton, Dr, Rugger Wood
bridge in South Hadley. Mr. Luke BHfs in
Spring fie Id, Mr. Oliver Mather in Windjor, Mr.
Eliakim Mather io Windier North Society, Dr.
Edzur Hate jun. in Glaflenlu r y and by &
number of other Gentlemen io different towns,
to whom fubfeription papers arc sent.
Those gentlemen and ladies that incline to
become fubferibers arc desired to do it as soon
as convenience will allow, as the gentlemen
who have fubferiptien papers in their hands will
be desired to return them iota the piioiicg
office at or before the Geeerat Election at Hart
ford io May next, that the undertakers may
know what encouragement they may have to
proceed ; immediately upon which will be ad
vertised io the public papers their resolution
whether to proceed or not ; at which timeaod
place the fubferiber experts to be prefect, acd
give those who have become fubferibers an op
portunity to peruse thf collection (if desired) as
it is expe&ed by that time it will be prepared
for the engraver. The fubferiber will cHeem it
as a peculiar kindness if gentlemen employedjn
teaching cf mufick, or aoy others would favour
him with those curious pieces they may be ac
quainted wiih, which have not been made pub
lic, by fending them, as soon as may be to the
printing-office io Hartford, (ram whence the
fubferiber will cafi y obtain them. The public
I trull, will readily Ice the ceccffity, at lead
the advantage cf such a performance, partica
larly in laving a considerable sum of money in
the colony, which is annually carried out of it
for the purchase of books— and the fubferiber
hoper, at leafl, that this coHcSion will deferv®
the preference in point of ulcfukefs, to any o
tbers which have, yet been iatroduccd into prac
tice among us. He has only to obfervc.thtt if
the public (hall favour this attempt, he (hall al
ways gratefully acknewlcdg-i their kindness, and
endeavour to serve them faithfully in his call
ing, according to his capacity, and remain,
Their very Humb’c Servant,
JOHN STICKNEY.
RUN AWAY from the fubferiber living io
Farmington, in the county of Hartford,
ao apprentice boy named Norman Newell, a
beut 14 yc;rs of age, lightiffi comp’exioo,
brown hair, a large kernel underneath his jaw
bone Had on a light brown fudian coar,b’ue
camblet ved with fhalleon backs, b j ue yarn
flockings, leather breeches, check wolicn (hirt,
aid carried with him two brown jackets sod a
felt h»t, has worked near four years at the lay•
Jors trade. Any person that will apprehend
and return fajd lad to the fubferiber, (hall be
entituled to the above reward and reafonablc
charges paid, by / Nehemiah Street.
Farmiogtoa, March 2, 2774^*
LEFT at the (tore of the Subscriber feme
time lad fall, A bag containing Dry
Goods and Cheefc, a!(o a tub with Butter,
Any person appearing that will prove hie pro
perty may have the articles.
Samuel Olcott.
Hartford, 14th March, 1774.
FOUND in Middletown about the xoih of
February last, a light coloured brown
Riding Hood, with a Head, Stc. pin’d up in a
bundle. The cwner may have it en proving
property and paying charges, by apply jpg to
Samuel Adkins, of Middletown.
March 10, 1774.
Six Shillings Reward.
We the fubferibers be
i^g »Ppo ntcd(by the Hon Judge cf Probate for
the dilhid of Hartford ) comne;ffnr.cn t© cx
am/ne ths chimvof the creditors to ite edate
of GeorgcO.'catt juo’r.late of Hartford deceas'd,
rep efea cd iafolvent, do hrreby gi * notice ta
fa id creditors t L at wc dull attend 00 Lid bufi
nsfj at the dwelling house Mr. David Bull of
laid Hirtford, on the lad 1 udelay of March
indrnt and the Grd acd fccond Tucfday of April
next, at two o’clock in the afternoon of each
of said days
N B Ns account 1 nvill be teceiv d but what
are properly attefied to.
N. B. A ^yantity of Sheer by the Dozen or
fngle Pair. Qj,
WE the fubferibers being sppaiated by the
Hon. court of probate for the didrift
of Sin fjury, to receive and examine the claims
of the creditors te the edate of AfapbHumphry
late of Simfbiiry deceas’d, represented iofolvent,
do hereby give notice to (aid creditors that
we (hall attend said business co the lad Tusf
day of March inst. snd on the firft god hU
Tuesdays of April next, at 10 o'clock io the
forenoon on fai I days at the dwelling hoof® of
Capt. Jonathan' Humphry inhoidcr in hid
Simfbury.
3-4 7-8
and Yard wideLinoens
Plain Btfiawer’dLawns
Lawn Aprons &Hand
kerchicfs
Cambricks
Plain & flower’d Gau
zes
Gauze Aprons and
Handkerchiefs
Paris Net
Spiders Net
Black & white Catgut
Hilf dl and three
quarter Diapers
Diaper Table Cloth’s
Flower’d Dimothy
Cotton and Linneo
Checks
Strip’d Hollands
Damascus
Gingham
Bedtick
Silk and Kcneu Hand
kerchiefs
White and brown
Drillings
Thread and cotton
Hose
Worsted Ditto
Callicocsand Chintzes
Tammys
Durants
ALL perlons that have any demandr cn th®
cllstc of Mr. Salmen Burr, late of Fae*
mingten deceas’d, arc desired to bring them i®
to the fobferiber for fettle meat— And all per.
fans indebted to hid estate arc desired to fettk
the fame immediately, with
Deborah Burr, Execu'.rix,
Farmington, Mitch 10, 1774.
Printed by Eben, Watson.
Cheap GOODS,
,TO BE SOLD BY
William Prentice,
At hts Shop at Mn. Collyer’s, a Httl? Nonh
of the Court Houle in HERTFORD,
the owner intends to leave Colony this
Spring, those that want to buy wi. find it
to their advantage by applyii n foca. as
intends to fell at about the whig CeL
either by Wholesale or Retail.
Samuel Marfo, ICcmmiJJi-
Jo^pb Talcott, junr. j oners.
Hartford, March 14^, 1774.
Daniel Humphry, ")
Hoab Phelps,
Eli [ha Barber. j cners -
Simfbury, Maxh 14th, 1774;
1 Calimancoes
Cambists sad Gamble
teens
Iriffi Camblcts
Crspc
Miffinets
Denmark Luflcra
Ducspes
Lutdirings
P!air.& flowcr’dSattios
Sattin Hatts
Lace Sattin
Taffity
Pcrfhn
Sarfnctt
Ribbons
Head Flowers
Silk Mitts and Gloves
, White Kid Gloves 1
Dutch & Blond Laces
Palis Board
French and Eoglifh
Beads
Common and Whktf
Chapel Nccdl®
Loaf Sugar
Cinnamao
Cloves
Nutmegs
Chocolate!
Psalm Books
8 by 10 WindowGlaia
With a variety of
Couric Goods.