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ty Four Spanish Md/d Dollars; the Gold in a green
silk purse, and the Dollars roll'd up in a paper and
the whole tied up in a fine canvafr or brown linen
bga. A great number of the Guineas were dated
1776, & 17/7. and the whole pflc&ly new and
unsullied; the Dollars all, or nearly all of the newest
flamp Whoever Shall detect and difeover the
perpetrators of the villany, so that they or any one
of them be brought to justice and the money recover
ed, ffiali receive S EVENTHOUSAN D
DOLLARS Reward. And if any person con
cerned in committing the robbery, or any way privy
to it as a partner or accomplice, Shall be so honest as
to inform, and make . such difeoveries that the vil
lains may be taken, and the money recovered, he flhall
receive th, above reward in full, and be secured a
gai^ft punishment or profecuticn, by being witness
for tiie State, And if any one or more of tlie theives
will (before detea,d) return the money, they Shall
with the utmdft Security to their person and character
receive Three Thousand Dollars,
and no questions aSkid.
JOHN WATSO N.
B. Windsor, O&ober 31, 1779.
N. B. All gentlemen are defined to keep a look
out, for any fufptAed person, that n^y be seen to
haveahrge sum of such money as is above described.
SHEPHARD & HUN T,
A CQUAINTtheir former cuflomers, and others,
jfl that they have Irely received a pretty gene
ral assortment of MEDICINRS, which they
will fell upon such terms as (they doubt not) \t;l
give fitistaAion to the purchaser.
Northampton Nev. 22 1779.
READY Money given for Rags &t the
Printing Office and Pager Mist
State of I
Vermont./ Arlington,.OAober z 9, 1779.
PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, That
an Office is opened at my dwelling house in
Will town, for registering all former charters or
grants, or attested pspies of all former charters or
grants of lands within this Stale, which have been
made out, and duly executed by either the States
of Ma&chuhits Bay, New Hampshire or New
York, in order to enable me to make one general
map cf the whole, agreeable to my appointment for
that parpofe by the General Assembly of this State
at their kffiuns in June last.
The receipt cf charters, or grants, which have
been made out by New-Hampshire, ate carried off
,c continent by the late Governor thereof. All
l~ch charters, or grants that are exhibited to me at
my office, will be tendered at the expenceof this
statc. Such records will when entered, be ih fa
tare confideted in the title and Security to facb ori
ginal grants, whether executed by one, or either of
me S.ates afoaefaid ; and as there is always danger
of inch charters being defaced or defiroyed, by which
means many d.fyuies and; inconveniencies to the
prefect proprietors may in future arise, to prevent
which, I slitter niyfelf that any perlon or persons
being in pu&ffion of such charters, grants, or attest
ed copies of charters or grants, will cheerfully take
the exilian opportunity to exhibit them to me in or
det to their oang duly rendered and returned.
IRA ALLEN Surveyor General.
W A T CHE S, &c.
THE fubferiber, hitherto emboldened by in
dulgence from the public, therefore informs
them (his customers in particular) that he has re
moved his shop, (likewise the Pod Office) unto the
house lately occupied by Capt. Hugh Ledhe, oppo
file the State House, where he intends (in future) to
continue the Wach bufiaefs in as apposite a man
ner as the times will admit, and on as reafouable
term,. Con!lant attendance (every day) from nine
o'clock in the morning until fen down, by the pub
lie's raoft obliged humble Servant,
THO's HILLDRUP.
Harford, N v. 23, 1779.
Seven Thousand Dollars
Reward,
For detecting a Burglary !'
ON Saturday night, precetdingthe gifiOaober,
the dwelling house of the Subscriber, in E#ft-
Wiudfor, w^s broke open, a ddk. case of Drawers,
and evey place and thing in three rooms, rifled and
Aarchea; all the locks that could not be otherwise
opened, were broke open by boring with a gimblet
in a^ainft the bolts of the locks. Out of one drawer,
was taken One Hundred and Twenty Five Guineas,
Twenty Half-Guineas, Seven Half joes and Thir-
SCHEME of a LOTTERY,
FOR raifirg Four Thousand Five Hundred
Pounds, for the Purpefe cf re building a
Bridge over Houfatonuck River, in the Town of
Sheffield, on the great Read, leading frem Connec
ticut, through the County of Berkshire, to Albany,
and other Parts cf the State cf New Yck viz.
Number ed Prizes. Dollars Dollars.
I Prize cf - 50C0 is 50C0
4 Do. - 1000 - 'qoo®
4 Do. - 500 - 2000
4 Do. - 400 - 1600
4 Do. - 300 - 1200
20 Do. - too - 2000
100 Do. - 50 - §OOO
3200 Do. - 20 - 64000
I First Drawn 100 - 100
1 Lad Dawn 100 - 100
85000
33*39 P f i zes tc be paid without D^dufhon.
6661 Blanks : Not two Blanks to a Prize.
10,000 Tickets at 10 Dollars each, amount to
100 000 Dollars, or 4 500 1. for the ex
ecution cf the Purpose lor which the Lot
tery was granted.
THE foregoing Scheme is propeUd, in conse
quence of, and agreeably to an A— of the Great and
General Court of Massachusetts-Bay. As the Lot
tery is defined to eff:& a Putpofe of publicUiliity,
the Managers doubt not, the public Spirited and
patriotic part of the Community, will, from that
Motive, become Adventurers : They have also
made it their Study to concert the Scheme in such
Imanner, that felf Interefi may co operate with pub
lic Spirit, in a rapid Sale of Tickets. The subscri
bers date give the bigheft AHurance, that no Exer
tion for that Purpefe, Shall be wanting, on their
part. The Time and Place cf drawing, (which
will not be further diflant than three Months) wll
be seasonably advertised in the Hartford and Wor
ce^er Papers, and an accurate Lift, immediately af
ter the Drawing is fini&d. published in the fame.
The Prizes not applied for in fix Months will be
considered as generously given for the Purpefe for
which the Lottery is granted, and appropriated ac
cordingly.
JOHN FELLOWS.)
WILLIAM BACON, )
EZRA FELLOWS. /Managers.
JOHN ASHL'EY, fit. )
THEODORE SEDGWICK )
Sheffield. November 30, 1779.
DESERTED from %t. Gamaliel Painters
company cf artificers, one Arvac Carver, a
bout 20 years cf age, well fit -fellow, about 5 feet 7
inches high. Whoever will takeup faidCarver and
return him to his Captain At Frih Kill, Shall have
three Dollars Reward, and ell ncceffary charges.
JAMES TH OMSON, Lieut.
Middletown Nov. 9 1779.
TO BE SOLD, an elegant FARM, containing
176 acres, very pleasantly Situated within one
mile of the center cf the town of Harwinton; there
is finding thereon one large new dwelling-house
and two smaller ones, with a good well cf water at
each house, a large shop, three good barns, a fine
orchard, fu fficient in a common season to make one
hundred barrels of cyder, and a large numberof
young apple trees coming on ; a fuitaHe quantity
of plow land and the best ofpsflure, (efficient to sup
port fifty head cf cattle furcmer and winter ; a fine
brock running through said farm, and will ,water
upwards of 20 acres, a suitable quantity of wood
land, and the best of cheOnut timber, enough to
maintain said farm with fence perpetually ; the
whole cf said farm except a few acres within gocd
fence, and under good improvement, all very con
venient for a grand farmed or tiadefman, and may
be had at a low rate according to its quality, by ap
plying fcon to the fubferiber living on the premises.
JOHN MATTHEWS.
Harwinton, Nov. 22, 1779.
1N D I G~ O,
AND THE BEST OF
ENGLISH CURRANTS,
To be Sold under the Printing Office.
THE highest price will be given for Loan Office
Bills cf Exchange, payable in France, at
Thomas Hcpkins's Store in Hartford.
October 15, 1779.
TH E highfoft price given for BILLS on
FRANCE, at Josiah Blakeley's Store
under the Printing Oilce. Nov. 15.
ALL Pcifons. having any demands cn the estate
of JONATHANHULL, late of bahf
bury, deceas'd ; ate defied to bring in their ac
counts, immediately : And all persons who are in
debtcd, are defied to make speedy payment.
NATHANIEL BUELL, Admin#!.
Salifb.iry; Nov. 4, 1779.
WHEREAS more thn ere fixteen.h pari cf the
proprietors of tie tcwn/hip cf Tinmouth'
have made application to ice the fubferiber that a
meeting of said proprietors be called. This therefore
is to warn a meeting of laid pr: prietors to he hcldt^
at Tinmouth, on /the sth Wodnefday of December
next, at tke house of Solomon Bingham in said Tin
mouih, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, to a& on the
following particulars. 1. To choose a Moderator.
2. To fee whether said proprietors will digest their
several accounts that have arisen in the proprietor
ship that are unsettled. 3. To fee that the public
rights be well taken care of. 4. To fee if said pO
- will agree to la'y out a fourth division, and
=nt a tax 011 the rights of said proprietors to defray
Barges if need be ; and §. To do any other busi
ness that may then be thought ncceffary.
CHARLES BREWST ER, Proprietors Clerk.
Manchester; State of Vermont, Oct. 20, 1779.
WHEREAS more than one fifteenth part of the,
proprietors of the township of RUI LAND
on Oi^r Creek, State cf Vermont, have made ap
plication to me to call a meeting of the proprietors
of said tewtfhtp. This is therefore to warn said
fcpna\or& to meet at the house of Mr. William Ru
bens in Did Rutland, on Thursday the 30th day cf
December next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, to
ad on the following particulars, v.z. 1. To choose
a Moderator. 2. To choose a Proprietor's Clerk.
3, To fee if said proprietors will confirm the for,
v^ys and layings out of liads of individuals in faid'
town, 4, To fie what provision said proprietors
will make for roads in said town ; and 5. To do
and tianfid any other bull ?efs that , may be thought
racefry. JOSEPH BOWKER, Affifiant.
Rutland, State cf Vermont, 0&. 9, 1779.
Stafford, sth November, >779.
WHEREAS the doings cf the late Confutation
convened in Weft Stafford, has caused great
uneasiness in the minds of that people § and as many
falfe aspersions have been spread about the country
refpeaing the doarines taught by the Rev. Isaac
Fetter; we pray the impartial public to suspend their
judgment, till they have a true and authentic ac
count of the proceedings cf that venerable body,
which they fall have conveyed to them aa fcon a^
may be, by which they will be better able to deter
mine with regard to the dc&rines held by Mr. Fofier.
Abd Johnson, Nathaniel Cufhma& Lemuel Cress
Jonathan Johnson, Nathan Johnson, Isaac Foot, Si
las Blodget, Jabez Kent, Timothy Clough, Jona
than Clough. Haniel Clark.
Colebrook, November 18, 1779.
THIS may inform my cuflomers, that I have
now a quantity of good Plough Iron and
Edge Tool Steely manufi&ured in the Geiman me
thod by a German that is a workman. Likwife,
Steel Sleigh Shoes ; I warrant the Steel to harden
well as any imported ; to be fold for Continental
Bills at the Forge at Colebrook, or Mr. JAMES
TIL E Y; in Hartford.
JACOB 06DE N.
EARTHAN WARE,
TO BE EXCHANG'D FOR
WHEAT, BUTTER & CHEESE,
By ISRAEL SEYMOUR.
Hartford, November 6, 1779.
STRAYED from the Subscriber; in April
last, two Yearling BULLS; one a black, a
bar in his forehead; a Small Spot of white on ere
fide. The other a pal.fh, red head and lees, a little
on the brown line, back, belly and the inside cf thd
hind legs white, a rirg cf white round cue or both
the bind legs, no ear mark. Whoever hath er will
take up said Bulls or either of them, and fend me
word, Shall be handsomely rewarded, and receive
the thanks cf their humble servant,
DAVID AUSTIN.
Wirchefler, Nov. 6, 1779.
BROKE into the enclosure of the Subbriber.
Sometime in November inst. a Roue HCRS^,
about thirteen and a half hands high, four yeert cld^
natural pacer, no ffices on, a white ring down by
each hind beef. The owner is desired to pay charged
and take him away.
JOSEPH CROFOOT.
Middletown, Nov 15, 1779.