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STATE of CONNECTICUT,
By the TREASURER,
THE Several Collegers of the Tax of Nine Pence on the
Pound, payable March I, 1782, are hereby Notified,
That they may receive Officers and Soldiers Notes, payable
at the firft Period (June 1782) Principal and Interest ; —
And likewise discharge the lntereft of those payable at the
other Three different Periods—Which, on their producing
the Notes for Indorfement, shall be credited to said Rate.
Treasury h Office, Hartford, Marchta, 1781.
N. B. The several Printers in this State are requested to
insert the above, and continue the fame three weeks.
WHEREAS Captains Abraham Sedgwick and Seymour,
and their associates, having obtained a charter of the
Town of WESTFORD, in the State of Vermont; and by
define of the agent and a number of the associates, that a
Meeting offaid Associates be had.—This is therefore to
Warn all that are offaid Company of Associates, That a
Meeting is to be held at the House of Captain ELIJAH
WRIGHT, Innholder, in Wethersfield, on the second
Wednesday of April next, at Two o'Clock, Afternoon, in
order to fee if they will lay out said town into allotments,
and raise a tax to defray the charges that have arisen by ob
taining said charter, and do any other business that may be
thought necessary. JOSEPH MERRIL, Clerk.
March „, 1782.
~TAKE NOTIC E.
THE Subscriber would inform those that served as short
levies, in the army of the United States, in the Sum
mer of the year 1780, who went from the 6th brigade of
inPitialn this State, that he has received State Money or
ders, in order to pay the additional pay of 40 shillings per
month, and he is now ready to deliver said orders for pay
ment. Andas the greatest part of said levies who are still
unpaid belong to Farmington, he will meet them for that
purpose, at the house ofCapt. Solomon Cowles in said town,
on Wednesday the doth day of April next, at noon. Those
belongingto Litchfield or places adjacent, may call upon
him at Mr. Samuel Shelden's, at Litchfield, on Wednesday
the 27th of March next, any time after noon. Those towns
who are entitled by a resolve of the General AfTembly,to re
ceive the additional pay, must, by their Sele&men or some
other perlon appointed for that purpose, make a lift of the
men's names they had in service, and certify the fame, and
that they have made them ample payment before they can
receive their pay. Collectors who have received orders of
him, are desired to forward the payment of said men as faft
as possible, so that there may be a fettlcraent between them
and their humble servant,
AARON AUSTIN, Paymaster.
New-Hartford, March 12, 1782.
SJU S T PRIN TE D,
By NATHANIEL PATTEN,
And to be Sold at his Shop, a few Rods North of che Court-
Houfc, Hartford :
WARRANTEE DEEDS, Quit Claim do. County
Court Summonses, by Note, Do. by Book, County
Court Attachments, by Note, Do. by Book, County Court
Executions, Single Justices Summonses, by Note, Do. by
Book, Single Justices Attachments, by Note, Do. by Book,
Single Justices Executions.
N. B. The above BLANKS are printed on Good Paper,
and with much larger spaces than usual.
¥ * ¥ A Second-Hand CHAIS E, with Harness
compleat, to be fold for Cash or Produce.—Enquire at
said Shop.
GARDEN SEEDS,
Of the last Year's Growth, saved in the
best Manner,
TOBE SOLD, AT
CALEB BULL, jun'rs Store,
In HARTFORD.
T OST lift Tuesday, between Mr. NURMAND SEYMOUR'S
in West-Division, and the Great-Bridge in Hartford
an old LEATHER POCKET BOOK, containing two Gui
neas, about fifteen or twenty Shillings State Money, and a
Receipt for a Quantity of Rags, delivered by the Subscriber
at the old Paper Mill in Hartford. Whoever has found said
Book, and will leave it, with its contents, with the Printer
hereof, shall have a generous Reward and the Thanks of the
owner, ELIPHALET YOUNG.
Hebron, Feb. 28. 17R2.
BLANKs of all KINDS,
To be fold at the PRINTING-OFFICE.
ms ^Qo^tyffl&i @ms
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER.
HJR TFO RD: Printed by H UDSON and GOODWIN, near the Great Bridge.
TUESDA Y, March 19, 1782.
-American Patriotism and Fortitude exemplified.
An ANECDOTE.
IN August, A. D. 1777. when General Bur
goyne came down from the northward with
a mighty army and in greAt wrath ; he sent Col.
Baum, with a strong detachment, to desolate
the country eastward, and to enrich themselves
with the spoil. Bennington was particularly
marked as an object of their vengeance ; ac
cordingly Col. Baura took post with his front
on an advantageous height, seven miles welt of
the town, where he fortified strongly, his rear
being seven miles back. The inhabitants of Ben
nington were much alarmed, the militia below
had been sent for but few had yet arrived ; how
ever they formed a line between the town and
the enemy, in about three miles of them, and
by some means got intelligence of the day fixed
upon to destroy the town; The inhabitants
were filled with consternation and aroused to the
greatest caution and exertions. A council was
held, and it was determined not best to wait the
enemy's approach, but to go out and attack them
in their strong holds .• Every male able to bear
arms went forth to the battle—~the women and
children were paraded along the main street,
with the carts and waggons loaded with their
furniture and effects, the night before the action,
ready to move off in case the enemy prevailed :
Thus matters were disposed when the important
day arose, which was to decide the fate of Ben
nington. General Stark and the officers with
him considering every thing at rifque upon the
exertions of their little band of invincibles, as
they afterwards proved ; made such judicious
arrangements, and such an unexpected and
spirited attack upon the enemy in their works,
that they at once, by the crowning aid of au
spicious heaven, forced them from their lines and
redoubts, killed and captivated nearly the whole
of that party. The inhabitants heard the attack
and waited to know the issue with a diftrefsful
anxiety, not to be conceived, much less exprefl
ed—The firing ceased, and lo ! a courier hove
in fight, all in foam, and as he approached, he
flung his hat into the air and announced to the
trembling multitude the joyful tidings of success
and victory ! The day is cur own ! The enemy
are vanquished,and you are all fafe !—And very
soon after their eyes were gratified with feeing
the intended authors of their destruction led
captive through their streets and secured under
guard in their meeting-house. Nothing was now
said or heard, scarcely, but ejaculations of praise
to God for their deliverance, and mutual con
gratulations of each other: But they had scarce
ly enjoyed the felicity, before their hopes were
all blasted by profpeCts of the deepest distress, ill
tidings from every charter, in thick succession
crowdin upon them : The action to the North
ward is renewed, an express arrives with an
account that a strong reinforcement had engaged
Col. Herrick, and that he was forced to flee be
fore them—At the fame time a patrol returned
from the southward with intelligence that; a
party of the enemy, consisting of a thousand
men were coming upon the town from that
quarter—At the fame time the prisoners make
an infurredtion in the meeting house : What a
fad reverse of fortune, from the most flattering
profpe&s, at once reduced to a Situation beset
with ills, and environed round with danger and
with darkness, without a gleam of b>pe left.—
But he who turneth the day into night and
night into day for mortals, did not forfake them.
The guard by spirited exertions soon reduced the
insurgents to order.—A second patrol from the
southward contradicted the report of the former.
Col. Warner fortunately came up to the assist
ance of Col. Herrick, in an advantageous Situa
tion, they engaged and vanquished the enemy a
second time ; thus Were their fears again dispel
led, and their defponding spirits revived
to joy and to praise, and now they had leisure to
attend to the killed and wounded.
.A good old Gentleman, that had five sons in
the field, whose furrowed cheeks and filter locks
added venerableness to his hoary brows, being
told that he was unfortunate in one ofhis sons--
replied, what, has he misbehaved, did he desert
his post ! Or Shrink from the charge !---No Sir,
fays the informant; worse than that',-—He
is among the flain,he fell contending mightily in
the cause ;---then I am fatisfied replied the ve
nerable Sire, bring hira in and lay ftim before me,
that ^t leisure I may behold and survey the dar
ling of my foul—upon which the corps was
brought and laid before him, all befmear'd with
dirt and gore^—He then calls for a bowl of wa
ter and a napkin, and with his own hands washes
the gore from his fon's corps and wiped his gap
ing wounds, with a complacency, as he himferf
expressed it, which before he had never felt of
experienced.
How beautiful is death when earn'd by virtue,
how precious the blood that is Shed for one's
country and for the ransom of millions !—How
triumphant to fall when by falling we rife to
conquest, honor and immortality!
May America never want of her sons to im
mitate so bright an example, and to become ri
vals for such diflinguifhed glory— -to hand forth
in the hour of her distress and nobly vindicate her
cause and avenge her wrongs.
I^ O NDO N, November 2b.
ADVICE has been received from Frahte, of
twelve fail of the line and fix frigates, and
five thousand men, having failed from Breit the
beginning of this month to the Weft-Indies
We are also informed, from the fame Authority,
that the Spaniards have equipped a very formic
dable fleet, which is upon the eve of failing for
the fame quarter ; and there is every reason to
believe that the French fleet are ordered to touch
at Cadiz, and to fail from thence in company
with the Spaniards. It is with the utmost re^
lu&nce we observe, that many corroborating
circumstances have occasioned very just appre^
henfion to be entertained for Jamaica. There is
too much reason to fear their sole object is to
attempt the reduction ofthat island.
We have many proofs to convince us, that the
science of War is not of so intricate a hature as
has been generally imagined. Wehaveoften seen
men, from the occupations of civil life, launch
ing suddenly into the field, and becoming at
once able and fuccefsful Generals. But no pe
riod of time has produced so many instances of
this as the present rebellion. There is hardly a
mechanic employment in America that has not
produced the leader of ah army; The awl, the
bodkin, and the crifpin tongs have all, by turns,
been converted into truncheons ;.nor have such
commanders disgraced their new prose ffions, as
many a well fought battle can witness. This
Shews, that early difeipline and length ®f service,
about which our military sparks make such a
rout, are not so efi'ential to constitute a General.
But the feint, with which Mr. Washington has
lately imposed on Sir Henry Clinton, by-coun
terfeiting an attack on New-York, will, forever,
be a ftandingjeft against the regular system.
(No. 895.)