The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1781-01-30 00:00:00, page 3

NEW: HAVEN, January 25.
Lift week, two vessel% loaded wbh wood, were
taken off Hempflead, Long Island, by two whale
bate : one of the vessels was armed with two four
pounders, fix swivels, a cohort &c. bad fix hands,
who engaged the boats, and did not funeader, until
the captain was badly wounded in htr head; two
men were wounded on board the boat#; the prizes
are got into port..
Friday and Saturday lal four ci five Arps palled
the found, fremGsrdiner's-Bay fuppefed to be bound
to New-Vork. . , .
Monday evening left, began, and continued
next day, in the forenoon, a mod violent Borm from
the N. E. in which a final! vessel belonging to Nor
walk, (with her people on board) was driven cut
this harbour.
A frefh importation of counterfeit money, has late
ly taken place ;---printed in imitation of the bjlls
emitted by this State, dated June 1, 1780. The for
gery is eaffily discovered, by comparing the coun
terfeit, with the true bills,
Strayed or stolen from the Sub
scriber, about the middle of July left, a Red
HEIFERI three years old pal, mark'd with a
half crop under the right ear, and two flits under
the left. Whoever take-up said Heifer and Thief,
(if Bolen) fall have Ten Silver Dollars ; and for
the Heifer only, a reafonablt reward, and charges
paid, by ,
ELISHA 1 STILMAN,
Wethersfield, January 28, 1781.
STATE of RHODE-ISLAND.
Updikes, (Newtown) December 29. 1780.
TH E Subscriber takes this method to inform
the Public, That he keeps two good Freight
BOATS, that plyes every day from here to New
port, with Freight and PafTengm.---This place $
about eight miles nerthwand from the South Ferry,
and the fame dittar.ee nigher to Newport : The
road it much better, and easier tranfporiatlon by
land, than to the South Ferry, horn Canned cut.---
The Freight or Paffengert, may be landed at any
wharf in Newport, without any land carriage.
Entertainment may ba had nt the above place.
By the public'* bumble servant,
THOMAS COLHELL.
ST RAYED cr STOLEN from the Seb
fcriber. lai Fall or Summer, a yellowish red
STEAR or STAG; 2 years old ,«A, mark'd
with a half crop under the right ear, some white
about him. Whoever will take is, said Stem if
frayed, and return him % the cvntr, fhril b^ hond
fomely rewarded ; but if ^olcn.tud the n. rs leanred,
three diver dollars, and ,11 receffary hnr,f paid.
• AMOS BIDWELL.
HlWof/ t We±DiviAch January 26. 5781,
R~AYBD or Sf6LTN h^ M Sub
-3 fenbey, a pair of black 3 year old ST EARS;
one mark'd with z'halfpennies order the kft ear,
and one under the' right ; the other with & half
crop in the left eif, and a flit in fame. . Whoever,
will take up said Bray, andrfltirn then to the
owner, fhail hr r^roe fly rWard, bv •q
n JOSEPH LB^
Mount-3%hrinfo'n, Die. 2,. 1780.,.', ~,
WHEREAS, Safannah Hurlbut of ^a/mington,
(a Angle woman) refined at my house, a few
days, the left Summer, during which time I loft ri
pair of linen Sheets (the fald Safannah being a Bran-,
ger, and I not acquainted with her charafte) I had
fufyicions, in my own mind, that she, the fa d Su
sannah, had taken them; and did inadvertantly fay/
that I thought and believed she had taken fild fheetsj
from my house. lam now fully fatirfied that my
suspicions were ill founded; and in oider to restore
the said Susannah's charader, I do hereby voluntas
rily declare, that after the mofi Bri& fcratiny, I could
find no evidence or traces cf evidence to warrant
fitch fufykriont against the said Safannah, and dp
acquit her of the fame, and recommend her to the
good esteem and charity cf all and every perlon
„hatfcever, and that lam free and willing that the
said Sufanuah publlffi this writing to whom she
please. As witness my band, in Farmington, this
20th day of Jan. 1,81,
JAMES JUDD.
RUNAWAY from the Salfcriber. on the
night cf the 9th Inflant, *r. Apprentice Boy,
named LEMUEL COOL; 14 years of age,
about 5 feet high, light complexion, dark brown
hair ; had on when he went away, a S^ht brawn
coat, blue v,# and cverhalls, and m'x'd colour'd
flockings. Whoever will return said boy to the
fubferiber; fha } l have SIX PENCE reward, paid by
NATHANIEL EDGERTON.
Salisbury, Janet,, 18$ r,Bi.
CT" HIS it tc Notify, the Towns id the tTATs
£ cf Connecticut, That Ihave received Or
dels Ur m the Hons Major. General Paifons. to con
tinue in the [State Four Weeks, to receive and for
^ard fuc, Recruits, a 4 ^all b< delivered to tee, to
joir the Continental Army., Mr. Mpfet Seymours
iiappbinted for a house of rendtivoufy where I
ffiail attend to receive and give receipts for foch
Recruits, 4s are inlißed for tbitf years or during
the war-One of each class will come with the Sol
diers, and bring a certificate from the Colonel or
Commanding Officer of the regiment to which the
said Recruits belong, certifying what town they be
long to. j :
SIMEON BELDING, Lieut.
Hertford, January 25, 1781.
N. B. None that are prisoners of war, deserters,
or convention troops will be taken.
At a Meeting ofEis Excellency the Gcv#neY and
Council of Safety, 24th January, 1781..
RESOLVED by this Board, That the Select
Men, or other proper Persons, in the several
Towns, in this State, be. and they are hereby di
rected, to deliver Mr. Ralph Pomeroy, Deputy-
Quarter Master, in this State, or his order, all fdch
Beef, as has been pat up therein, for public use : In
purfaance of an AA cf the General Assembly ini
October lift ; to be by him forwarded, and lodged
according to the orders of His Excellency General
Washington, taking proper receipts.
Attest, WmqWJLLIA^^^
WA NT~E D TO HIR E,„
AN UMBER of food Four and Six Ox
TEAMS, for the Service cf the Army,
during the next Campaign : Any Petfon or Bufens
inclining to furnish one or more Brigades, are de
sired to call at the D'puty Qgarttr-Maflei a Quce,
in Hartford, and make known the Terms tn which
they will Engage. .
January 30 1781. % ^-^
Fer State M'oNEVxJf icon applied for,
GERMAN and hngtfh Steel.
' Bar Iron.
Cotton Wook
R^ifim, ~
Indigo, by the Cwt ?-
Also, a variety of French and English GOODS,
well suited for the season, at the Store of
STEPHEN AUSTJNand C 0,,.
•„° Hard Cash given for Bert Wtx z^^S^e.
OTICE is hereby given,(That a Libel is
filed before Samuel Talcott, Elg. Jwftice
ci the Peace and Quotum, for the county of Hart-,
ford and HENRY ALLEN, Ef%Juftice of the Peace,
for the ct unty aforefaid ; by Elijah Woolworth, of
Simfbury, in said county, < agamß one piece of
Coating, and one piece of Marchefter Velvet, fa-\
ken in Snffiild, in said count, ; said to be illicitly
imported, from Long Island, or feme other island or
place in ti e pofhffion or under the controul of the,
enemy : A Maritime Courts will be held at the,
dwelling honfe of Jonathan Ellfworth^in Windsor,
on the 22d cf February next, at to o'clock in the
forenccn> for the trial of the jufiice cf said feizhre.
All perfens concerned are to take notice,hereof.
SAM.T ALCOTT, Jns.,pacis.& Q^uium.
Dated at Windsor. January 26, i,Bir
To be SOLD ^PUBLIC PENDUE,
On Thursday the First of February next, at M r >
. , Butler's Tavern ;
SEVERAL LOTS of LAND the pro
party of the Hefts cf the late Elisha Hof kins,
together with, the Widow's thirds. The fate will
begin at 2 o'clock, when the terms will be m *de
known - If any person is inclined to puechafe at
private file, it must be made known before the pub
lic fait begins, to •
, ELISHA HOPKINS.
^Hertford, January 26; 1781. — „
ALL periods that have any demands on the enae
of Isaac Kibbe, late of Enfield, deceased, are
defined to bring in their accounts; and those that
are indebted to the fald eßate ate requeued to fettle
the fame, with j ,
MARGARET KIBB& Executrix.
Enfield. January 2i,,i,3i. , & ,^ ^. n,~
GRAYED or STOLEN hem the Sub
scriber, femetime in November lai, a blackish
HORSE: 8 years old. ribands high, a white
Break in his face, the right eye wall'd, fytai, fom,,
thing £ re y, 3 or 111 h " feet white. Whoever vnl!
take up said horse, and fend worl to .the ownQ
living In Well- Hcofuch, near the wblta\%tefy fh'all,
have Two Hard Dollars reward, and all a^ffary
charges paid. +
LUKE HILL.
Weft-Hbofuck, January 11, 1781.
Connecticut State LOTTERY,
FOR calbbg In Three M liions cf Dollars of the
old Continental B lie, to cotfid of 20,000
1 ickets at 150 Dollars each.
h The S CHEME is as follows, viz.
Number of Prizes. Dollars Dollars:
4of - 5.0.000 is - 50 000.
2 40 coo ~ 80 000.
4 •. 30 000 - 120,000.
10 . -. 20,000 - 200 000.
ZQ, . ^ 10 000 -200,000 i.
48 - . 5,000 : 240 000.
100, - -. 2,000 - 200,000.
200 . - 1 coo - 200 000.
37a . -. 600 - 222,000.
.4960 - - 30° - 1488 000.
5715 Prizes'., - 3,000,000.
14285 Blanks.
20,000 Tickets at 150 D-liars, is 3,000 000 Dol
lm. Not two and half Blanks to a,
Prize. gubjcA to a Dedu&ion of 10
"H! per Cent^ . i/
THIS Lottery, by an AA of the General Aticm
bly of the State of Conuefheut, is designed to faci
litate the Issuing the new Continental Bills, and
make it cnneceflary /0 emit billi^f this State, and
will be drawn at Hartford the 20th of May next,
eg foorer if the Tickets before that time fhouid be all
f&l4.i The fortunate adventurers to be paid out of
the Treasury oft this. State within one month after
the drawing is concluded, the amount of their ref-,
peAive prizes after the dedu&ion often per cent, in
new Continental Bills, issued agreeable to the re
solve cf Coufreh of the 18th of Mat^h last. compt
ting cue dollar ol the new, to be equal to forty oft
the,fd. hr J
, No argsra@atf will be offered to, induce ,a inha
bitants cfthis State to become adventurers, their In,
tereft and patrictifm in this Infancy being joined.
To others the schme holds out (efficient advanta^
|ti. Every mercantile man in out fid,er States will
tsgerly embrace this c[ por&anity ,tc%ffifi in opening,
the intercom,!,, and inembng the -grade from State
tc Slate. Experience has taught,every cr&er of men
that tc th, different forts of money new in circula
tion is owing man? pnblicand private embarraiments..
The Managers affine Qc Public, they will, to the,
be#,of their abilities, execute (he tr># reposed in.
them ; and will hatlen r by every means in their,
power, thg fall of the Tickets, and the completion
©f the business. 1 < , vnA 1
ELISHA WILLIAMS,
JERK .WADSWORTH,!
JONATHAN BULL,>^
CALEB BULL, Jun. :
A HE Z. MERRILL,
Hartford, January 29.1781. £ ,
. LIST es the Pr zee will be published in the
Connefiicut Courant. . f & =~
TICKETS to be had of the Managers ; and
will be feat to the different Towns in this State. rs
•,• The feviral Punters in this State, are desired
tc pubJifh the above.
nROKE Into the incisure of the Sabferiberi
>n OAober lift, two yearling S TEARS;,
u..c a black, with a white face, a fit in the end of
the near ear ; the other a red, with a white face, ar
crop off the; near .ear, and a flit in the end of
the fame. The owner is desired to prove his pro
perty, pay charges, and take them away.?.
, DAVID ROSE.
Granville, January I®, 1781
A quantity of Providence Lime r
to be exchanged for. Wheat, Rye.or Indian Corn,
at Samuel Kilburn's Store in Hartford.
„_____= ffi W
WHEREAS I have lately received cf the Tie*-,
furor of this State, a warrant,to^colleA twq,
fence half penny on the pound on the^m of the year
1779, in filYer or gold— This is therefore to warm
all persons that pay rater to the ,tewq of Wethers
field, to meet me at the time, and places following,
to pay said rate, viz. At Mr, J6feph Stilman's, on
Monday the 29^ cf January infant ; at Capt. Ab
falcm Williams's, on Tuesday the 30th ; at Mr. :
Bl.ffia Batlet's, o^Wednefday the 3 iff; at Mr. David
Beckley's, on Thursday the Ift cf February ; and at
Capt. Smith's, on Thursday the Bth, from 2 o'clock
inthe afternoon till sun-set, on each of said days.
All perfone that are in arrears for former rates, are
desired to fettle them without delay.
JOSIA H WILLA RD, Colleflor.
, Wethersfield. January 18, 178 j.
ALL pulohi i indebted to the Primm Zs rim Pa
per are desired t 6 make freed, payment ; efi
peciall, those who have contrasted to pay in Grain,
Wood, &c.