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Dartmouth-College, March id 17,8.
I Would take this method to notify the ftddents
of this College that the prefect vacation will end.
on the 1 sth of next month, when it is probable that
provision will be made for their comfortable ftipport
here, without another vacation till after commence
ment; but as times are so fluctuating and the me
dium of our trade f® uncertain, I cari find no man
both able and willing to undertake to supply the col
lege, with any confidetable quantities of provifiori,
beforehand ; though they are to be had in this coun
try. I have engaged a Reward who will undertake
the whole, and fettle in the business, a^ soon as he
can dispose his own affairs for that purpose. He has
appointed to remove his family hither and begin the
ferviee in September next, and upon a plan I trust,
which will be agreeable to all. viz. to provide sup
plies in the cheapest and-best manner he tan de
manding no compensation therefor but the prime ooft'
of provisions, and his own simple expence in procur
ing, and preparing them for use; and he is to have
a lease of the college lands flock, &c. to enable him
in the best manner, to effe& the fame; the whol#.
profits of which to be applied, for the benefit of the
Charity-Sehool. --'Till which time I Hull endeavor
to have the College supplied in the Left manner I can,
on the fame plan provided the students on their ra
turn, ffiall be furniflied to make punctual di charge
oftheir quarter bills, without which it cannot be
done. And if any of the students shall fee fit to put
in money for their future support they shall be al
lowed the interest of the fame till they have taken
their pay in their expence~. I wraild also advise that
the school in connexion withD r mouth College will
be opened by the middie of May next oil a moll
important and extensive plan under the immediate
infpe&ion and inftruciion of the Rev. Mr. Ripley,
furnifhed With proper Uffiers for that purpose in
which the best system of education is proposed to be
pursued --Scholars fitted for College with the mod
convenient dispatch.---The English, French Lrtin,
Greek, and oriental languages will here be taught as
well as mathematicks speaking, composition, or any
other ufeful branches of solid or polite learning, that
any may have inclination to pursue, to furn sh them
selves in the best manner for common business, with
out a Compleat course of collegiate studies. Educa
tion will here be rendered as cheap as possible, and
the students provided for in the fame manner as those
of the college. In this school every thing will be en
couraged but idleness and vice.
Eleazer Wheelock President.
P. S; It is desired that other Printers in the feve
tai States wbuld be so kind as to insert the foregoing
in their news papers.
Forge, at Colebrook, April 2f, 1778.
WANTED immediately, at this place or as
soon as can be convenient, one or tvko work
men that underhand making Steel in the German
method in all its branches fit for edge tools. 1 have
the best of Salisbury pigs water plenty in the dryeft
feafori, good blast of wooden bellows: if any indif
trrous steady men that are qualified as afo'efaid
Will apply as soon as may be, .shall have the best en
couragement allowed on the continent, that is one
fifth part of the steel or the price the fifth Ant fells
for. JACOB OGDEN.
Litchfield in the State of Connecticut.
TO BE SOLD
A Few barrels of TURPENTINE, [for Conti
nental or Connecticut money) by E. Fenno,
in Middletown.
WE the fubferibers being appointed eommif
fioners by the judge of the court of pro
bates in Hartford to adjust the claims of the cre
ditors to the estate of Austin Mygatt, late of
Wethersfield, deceased (teprefented insolvent) do
hereby notify the creditors to said estate that we will
attend to ad uft the claims oh the fir'd tuefday in may
next at one o'clock P. M. at the dwelling house of
the deceased, April 21, 1778.
Samuel Hart,)^
Rocbp. Riley, | CommUlfc.
TUESDAY, Apart 21, 1771. fH E [fo, fyh
CONNECTICUT COURANT,
Andthe
WEEKLY intelligence r.
HARTFORD: Printed by WATSON and GOODWIN, near the Great Bridge.
DESERTED, bro Indians named James Yocake
and Samuel Wampey, they inlifted with and
deferred from a ferjearit of Col. Charles Webb's re
giment when on their march to oin said regiment in
Penafyivania. Said Yocake is about 6 feet 2 inches
^igli long favored bulky head of hair. Wampey
is 5 feet 7or 8 inches high well set, fair complex
ion, had on an old blue coat, his under dress un
known. Said Yocake had on a dark brown coat and
a fightifh vaff; they have been seen in some part of
Granville since they deserted, and it is expected theft
will soon steer for Rhode Illand or Stockbridge and
from there to the Northward. Whoever will take
up said defer^rs and deliver them to the fubferiber at
Simfbury fend therh feetred to the regiment or se
cure them in any Continental goal, shall receive 25
dollars reward for eacli^and charges paid, by
ijAMEs Andrews Lieut..
N. B. It is to be fear^othey have done force mif
chief the^ have the fer cents clothing with them.
To C O V E^R this Season,
AT the liable of the ^bfeiber in Killingfwerth;
at two dollars the tingle leap or three dollars
tie teafon. The LEOPARD, ^qual for beauty,
Prength and fiviftnefs, to any horse in this State ; a
deep sorrel colour, blaze in his forehead, one quar
ter blooded, aftd of the Narraganfet breed.
^- i8 d '77 B___, 8 ___, _OLIVER PARMELE,
ALL performs having any demands on the eflate
of Samuel Booth late of Simfbuary, deceased,
are desired to exhibit,their accounts ; and all those
indebted are requeued to mqke immediate ,payment
to Elizabeth Booth Administratrix.
April 16, <778,
T O B'E—S-O B Y ? ~
LY NDEand MARBL E,
At their Store between the Sfate-Houfe and Gredi-
Bridge, ,
DRUGS ^MEDICINES,
Cf almost every kind, Also, Coperas Alum, Btim
ftone. Red Lead, &c &c. &c,
N B At the above fore may be had best Bor
deaux Ciaret by the box dozen', or single bottle.
Also excellent Rock and Liverpool Salt.
—ff ETC) —
A Large, fleet, strong trotting HORSE, and a
? neat genteel light SULKEY; the Horse is in
his prime, and ex»eUeht on a jodtney. Also; a
second hand CHAISE will be fold at a low price
for produce. Enquire of the PRINTERS.
T'O be fold about 18 acres of land with a good
Fuling Mill, and barn thereon together,
With a cloathters ihop and tool,, said shop conveni
ent for a small family a small barn and a young
orchard thereon. For particulars enquire of the
fubfcr^ber living on the premises,.
TIMOTHY WELLS.
N. B. Those indebted to the fubferiber by foo k
before the 21 st of March 1778 are desired to make
immediate payment.
New Hartford April 10 1778,
s A LTSB~U°RT"F uRnYTc e"-
ANTED immediately for carrying on /aid
VV furnace a number of workmen for cutting of
wood, and making coals all who are inclined to
serve the State and will apply to the managers they
will receive generous wages, and be exempted from
military duty, draughts and fines. Also a
number of good teams are wanted to purchase or
hire for the ensuing summer, a quantity of pork
is also wanted, for which pay Will.be made in money
or pig ifon, any pefforis inclined to engage are de
£red to applv arid contra^ as soon as possible with,
BENJAMIN HENSHAW, )
WILLIAM WHITING. J Mana gem
April 3 1778;
N. 3. Those who cut wood muff find themfetves
boarding ax, and blanket.
A LL perfohs indebted to the fubferiber are desired
to fettle and pay the fame forthwith in CASH.
April 20, 17ft JESSE ROOT,
, LONDON, Dec. 4.
On Lord George Germains's informing the house
cf commons, 'that he had received accounts from '.^e
bee,' That some defetters had arrived at Ticondero
ga, who said that the remains of General Burgoyne's
army had surrendered to the enemy on the 16th 01
c&ober, ' Colonel Barre after some pause with an
averted look exclaimed. * Great GOD I who can
refrain from rage and indignation 1 when the planner
of so much misery relates with the utmod composure
the h®rrid tale of a British army deftro) ed through
hrs measures ? We need nothe told that superiority
es numbers and the greatest distress were neceifary to
force Burgoyne to surrender : who though t otherwise?
we all know that General's bravery and /kill ; he is
a Briton ; his troops were British ; he therefore could
not furrfcmder while there was a fioffibility of defence.
But at the fame tine that uftice commands us to
give these just eulogiums where they are so deservedly
due; what must we fay of the man who reduced to
gallant an officer to. the said alternative, of dying
without the smallest advantage tohis country or dif
gracefully ful mating to the law of a conquerer?'
B. OS TO N. April 16.
,Four prizes arrived laftnhurtdaf at a fafe port to
to the Southward of this, viz a flop a lncw a brig,
and a sloop, The snow is the prize the Warren
frigate took on her pafflge round from Providence ;
but the other three we cannot learn who captured b„;
what laden with } or where from.,
, Yesterday morning the firfl divifibn of British
troops late tinder, the command of Lieut. General
Burgoyne marched from Cambridge, oh their way
to Rutland..
Thomas Jones . who on the 7th hit. ' was convi^ect
of high-way robbery at the Superior Court then fit
ting here, and received sentence of death, is to be
executed on th^ 30th instant. .
Since our last arrived in an eahern pot a prize
schooner. taken by a Snake privateer, bur whether
by the Rattle or Black, cannot at piefent be
ascertained.
We.heat from Salem that on tuefday fe'night
arrived there, two prizes, taken by a Imall privateer
from the eaflward, commanded by Capt, MeDan el,
Viz. a schooner laden with runs and molasses found
from Halifax for fort Cumberland ; and a floep la
den with fait and dry goods.
Same day arrived at Salem a schooner taken by a
bo'at, with fix men. The schooner was sited out as
a tender to the Albany, commanded by the no ed
Capt. Mowatt, and was in purfurt of a French vessel
in one of the eastern p@rts where the meh boarded
and carried her and brought her fafe into port, as
above. The fehconef was commanded by one
Brown amidfhipman of the Albany, arid had eight
hands besides who vvete brought to* this town and
fut oh board one of the guard ships in this harbour,
on wednefday last.
On fr day last the body of a female infant was
found est the end of Dommett's wharf in this town.
It appeared to the jhry of inquest that the Did child
was murdered by some petfon hr perfohs to them un
known and thrown off said wharf.
BALTIMORE March 24:
ExtraA of a letter from a gentleman in St. Euftut a
to his correspondent in this town, dated March 1.
>778
"If we arefo give faith to neSvs from Bohfdeaux,
received here a few days ago by way of Martinico,
it is likely your trade with that place and the other
sea-port towns in France, is gbnig so be, more free
and birfk, since letters from Buurdeaux cf the 30th
and 31st of December, mention fhafa treaty of alli
arree had been concluded for 30 years ' between the
Houle of Bourbon and your States; that your inde
pendency had @ f course been aknowledged and Mr.
n introduced and admitted at the court of
Verfalies as your Plenipotentiary. War will soon
be declared between England and the House of Bour
bon.
YORK-TOWN, March 28.
It appears by letters from Martinico, of the 28th cf
December last year, anft 26th es January p a st that