The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1778-05-12 00:00:00, page 1

TO BE SOLD BY
LYNDEand MARBLE,
At their Store between the State House
and .Great Bridge,
DRUGS and MEDICINES,
Of almost every kind ; Aho, Coperas,
Alum, Brimstone, Red Lead, &c &c.
N B At the above ftpre may be had
best Bordeaux Ciaret, by the box dozen,
or single bottle. Also, excellent Rock and
Liverpool Salt.
A LL persons indebted to the fubferiber
" are desired to fettle and pay the fame
forthwith in CASH. JESSE ROOT.
April 20 17,78.
WILL cover this season, at Josiah
Burnham's stable in Farmington/
thefamous bay horse young wild dear, this
Korte is feveri years old, got by the old
wild dear' grandson to theold Godolphin
Arabian the best horse that ever was bro't
into England this horse is 15 hands high,
well proportioned, for beauty strength and
a&iVity none exceeds him price is eight
dollars the season ; be is the fame horse that
covered at Sandisfield last season.
STOLEN from the fubferiber the even
ing of the 26th inst. a dark bay mare
or? brown With a white blaze in her face
branded W on the near moulder; also one
White foot, about 13 and a haifbinds high,
7or 8 years old; also a saddle with a
brown houfij g. Whoever will take up
fiid mare and saddle and return them to
the fubferiber at Springfield,, mail nave 20
dollars reward and charges paid.by
April 2? 1778. Daniel Harriss.
QTRAYED from the fubferiber, about
• +h: # ~-h ro&u-t Aprs! a foire? fkme
horse, two years old past marked with a
il^pe in the face, and is dock'd supposed
to follow some traveller &c. Whoever
W Brake up and secure laid colt and fend
me word mill be handsomely rewarded
and charges paid by. Aaron Hoskin,
Bolton April 24, 1778.
ALL persons who in confidence of an
appointment from any general offi
cer tincethe 2<ft day of August lag have
added in the issuing commissaries depart
ment, within the limits of the Northern
department,and who may at present reside
in any of the United States, are hereby
• required to immediately bring in their ac
counts', with their vouchees to the issuing
deputy cOmmiJar; general's ®ffice in AL
bany.that a proper Settlement may be
made with the commifhoners of accounts.
By order of Ebenezer Winfltip Efy
Deputy Commiflaiy General of Issues for
the Northern d«p<r'ment.
Tho's Tolman iun: Clerk.
Idling Deputy-Commissary General's
Office Albany. 6 April. 1778.
N. B. The several printers are requeued
to insert the above in their papers.
Fotge at Colebrook, April 21, 1778.
WANTED immediately ,at this place
or as ibon as can be convenient,
one or two workmen that underhand
making Steel in the German method in
ah its branches fit for edge tools. I have
I t^e tied of Salisbury pigs, water plenty in
, the dryed 4fafon, good blah of wooden
lehoWs: if any industrious steady men
that are qualified as aforeftid will apply
as Ton 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 part fells for.
JACOB OGDEN.
TUESDAY, May 12, 1778.] , THE' cmb.694
CONNECTICUTC a N T,
HA R T FOR D : Printed by WATSON and GOODWIN, near the Great Bridge.
WILL COVER this SEASON.
At the stable of the fubferiber price three
Dollars the single Leap or five Dollars
the Season, the famous Horse
roUNG RANGER:
HE is a Horse of size. strength and
beauty equal perhaps to any in A
iherica, and of the true Barbary breed.
james nichols.
N. B. No ttuft.
TO be fold atra& of Land lying in
Salisbury not far from jewel's forge,
containing about 160 acres, with boufes
and a shop on said land, lately the proper
ty of Micha Hopkins ; for further parti
culars apply to James Waferhoufe, at oalif
bury, or Barnabas Deane or Joseph
Webb of Wethersfield.
April 30th, 1778.
ipIMOTH/ TIFFANYTof'Eyn^,
. ' would be happy to be engaged, this
season, (the sooner the borer) by any
gentleman to put up a quaatityof Elewives
for the Weft-lndia market ; his price for.
pitting up is two dobart per barrel,-- the
employer to find fait and barrels.--- Said
Tiffany can find fait and barrels being paid
a reafonakle price for them, if the employ
er choofes.April 3cth, 1778.
Just Published, and to be fold at the
Printing Office in Hartford,
Price THREE.SHILLINGS,
Catechin Pbjfico Medicum:
Being an EPITOME of the Theory and
Practice of PHYbICK, agreeable to the
best Authors both am lent and.modern.
TO WHICH is ADDED,
Some practical Rules & Observations,
arad a Dfrcoc^sE. o.^the Nature and#
Operation of MERCURY, as a Medi
cine.
By a STUDENT in PHYSIC,
DEferted from Capt, Ezekiel P. Bel
den's troop, in Col.Elifha Sheldon's
regiment of Dragoons, Elijah Plummer, a:
pretty well built and good looking fellow,
about 23 years of age 5 feet 1 inches high'
dark complexion and a little pitted with.
thefinall pox ; also went with him one
Bass belonging to Capt. Webb's troops, it
is supposed they are gone on board the
Oliver Cromwell. Any person that will
secure said fellows in any public goal and
givenotice to the fubferiber. shall receive
forty dolla rs for bo(h or twenty for either
and necessary charges paid by
Ezekiel P. Belden, Capt. L. D.
April 30th 1718.
CCTPC ——-_ _
ALL per sons having any demans on th e
edate of Joseph Phelps, late ofSimf'
bury deceased are desired to bring in their
accounts for settlement to the fubferiber ;
and ^all those indebted are requeued to
make .immediate payment to save further
trouble. Andrew Hillyer, Admit.
J^imfbtiry, May 3, 1778.
IX/ E tbe subs fibers being appointed by
VV the court of probate for the diftri&
.of Simsbury, commissioners to examine the
claims of the creditors to theeftate of Josiah
Clark,late of Simibury deceas'd, do hereby
givenotice that we shall attend said busi
ness at the house ofMaj. Amos Wilcock's
on the lall tuefday in May and firft tuefday
in June at two of the clock afternoon on
each of said days,
Amos WiLebeKS,
Elfsha Moses.
Daniel Graham.
Simfoury, April 25, 1778.
.BOSTO N, April 27.
At the Superior Court held at Worces
ter, on the third tuefday of April inst.
William Brooks, James Buhannon and
Ezra Ross, were indi&ed for the murder
of Joshua Spooner of Brookfield andß^h
ffieba, his late wife was indeed as accef
fary thereto, by causing procuring aid
ing and abetting the fame. They wefe
set at the bar arid ' feverafly pleaded, ~ot
guilty ; Having counsel affined them,
the trial came on, and laded 16 hours,
wherein every legal indulgence was grant
ed them. They were all found guilty,
and received sentence of death accord
ingly. r
It appeared by the course of the evr
cUnce that Mrs. Spooner had for some
time conceived a great aversion to her
husband, with whom ihe had lived near
aboqt 15 years : His only faultappears to
be, his not fupporiing a manly importance
as head of his family and not duly regu
lating the government of it. It was very
uncertain what this aversion ofMrs.Spoon
er's mindat firft arose from ; but from the
general tenor of her conduct it is probable
that she cher flied a criminal regard for
some other person until, having followed
the blind impulses of wicked and unch^ft
desires, she loft all moral ferifibility, dis
carded region and confciente from her
breast and gave herelf up to the mofl in
famous prostitutions, and finally became
determined to destroy the life of her buf
band who seemed to check her Wanton ca
reer in no other Way than by preventirig
her waiting his whole eflate as she pleased.
In pursuance of this horrid design she, at
various times procured poison but never
gave it to him ; and that some time'befdre
the commission of tins cruel fa& Die lie
homes acquainted with Ross, to whbhi ffi^
made force amourous overtures arid tolcl
him that if he would kill bet hufcand ^
would becomehis lawful wife. 'lt appears
by the examination of Ross befcfe,the] lif
tice that his confcicnce at firft Parted "at
the appearance of so much gU^t ; tutup
onher further perfuafon'd,/ a^ ufon t'b^
fancied batyinefs of marryinga Woman so
muchabefe his rank in life, and tbeallure
ments of wallowing in Mr. Spooner's
wealth he fatally consented. Previous io
this.Rofs had been lick at Spooner's house",
and was kindly treated tl:ere ;' and that af
ter these guilty overtures, he carre aryl
tarried there some time, with freedom, as
one of the family, when Mr. Spbcre't
treated him with great civilities, and many
marks of particular friendship ; that while
he was there heput poison in his drink,
which was discovered; and that he rode
with him to Oakham arid Lancaher and
had engaged to poison him on the road;
that he bought arsenic to effed his death,
but never gave it to him.
Mrs. Spooner, tired with the deify of
Ross, made like overtures to Sergeant tu
hannon of the convention troops whom
flie directed to be called in, as he was
paging in the road. Bohannon and she
engaged one William Brooks, of the fame
troops to.cbminit .the murder promising
him the deceafed's watch buckles, and a
thousand dollars. Buhannon and Brooks
came to Spooner's about a fortnight be
fore his death, and flay'd in his kitchen all
night : $ He then being afraid they ' would
rob him, brought his money from the
chamber, and procured one of his neigh
bours to flay with him and set up all
night; but on his ordering them to go a
way in the morniag they went to the faro.