The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1781-08-21 00:00:00, page 4

I^HE Select Mert, State Agents, and holders of public pro
vision, in the fevers towns in this State, are desired to
r like notice, that by my advertisement dated the iitli of
June Lift; refpeaing the returns and transportation of public
provision, was meant only the salted pork, beef and fish, put
up for public ufc.
RALPH POMEROY, D. Q. M.
The several Printers in this State are requeued to give
this advertisement a place in their papers.
Hartford, Augult ii, 1781.
Watts's Psalms and Hymns,
Neatly printed and bound, and warranted to be
correct, to be fold at the North Door under the
Printing-Office.
DRUGS, MEDICINE, &c.
SOLOMON SMIT H,
Druggist and Apothecary, in Hartford,
IN FOR MS his old Customers and others, That he has
now on hand a pretty general atfortment of DRUGS
andMEDICIN E, and that they can be fupplicd consi
derably cheaper than they have been for some years past.
He also retails, Madeira Wine, Weft-India Rum, Holland
Geneva, Mojaffes, White and Brown Sugar, best new Rai
sins, Bohea Tea, Chocolate, Coffee, Pepper and all other
Spices, Indigo, Allum, Lamp-Black, Hard Soap, belt Wool
Cards, Testaments, Spelling Books, Primers..
N. B. Said SMtTH has a consignment of the following
articled, and they are to be fold at his Store, viz. Bohea
Tea by the Chest, white and Brown Sugar by rhe Barrel,
Molasses by the Hogshead, Madeira Wine by the Pipe or
Quarter Cask, Holland Geneva by the .Tierce or Barrel, best
French Indigo by the Cask or hundred weight, 9 by 7 and
8 by 6 Window Glass, by the box, Cambrick by the piece,
white and coloured Barcelona Handkerchiefs by die Dozen,
and best Sewing Silk by the pound. Rock Salt to be ex
changed for Wheat Flour.
Hartford, August 13, 1,81.
THESE are to desire all perlons having any demands
on the estate of Mr. NATHANIEL WINCHELL,
late of Kensington deceas'd, to exhibit their accounts to me
the fubferiber, at the house of Lieut. Stephen Norton, innhol
der in Kensington, on the fourth day of September next.
BENJAMIN WINCHELL, Executor.
Weftfield, August 9, 1,81.
A Good HORSE, both for drawing and riding, to be
fold by DAN WELTON, of Waterbury, for Hard
Money only.
WH E II E A S the fubferiber some time since advertis
ed his Wife, and forbid all persons trusting her. I
do now hereby revoke and make void the fame.
BENJAMIN HOSKIN.
Torrington, July IT, 1781.
THESE are to request all persons that have any ac
counts unsettled in favor of the estate ofSAMUEL
COBB, Esq. deceased, to fettle the fame either by note or
ready pay ; a compliance herewith will save us trouble and
you cost, as the account must be adjulled and the estate fet
tled. Any persons that have any demands on the estate are
desired to produce them. We shall attend said business at
any time, Due more especially on the firft week in Septem
ber next, at our refpedive houses.
SAMUEL COBB,
JEDUTHAN COBB, Executors'
Tolland, August 6, 1781.
.STATES MONEY. '
The following Articles to be Sold for State's Money, if ap
plied for soon,
WA TT S's Psalms,
Primers,
Chefterficld's Letters,
Hunter's Reflections on Do.
Hifto, of the Netherlands,
Major Andre's Trial,
History of Little Goodv Two Shots,
Tht World turned upside down,
History of the Holy Jesus,
Fables for Children,
Tomb Thumb's Folio,
Song Books,
Slate Pencils,
Six Different Sorts of Pocket Books, &c. &c.
Watts's Hymns are now in the Press, and will be printed
in about eight weeks; those who want them bound with
the Psalms can have them at a reasonable price. Those
who will leave their names as fubferibers, at my shop a lit
tle north of the Court House Hartford, or at Mr. Bavil Web
fler's Printing-Office, shall have the Psalms and Hymns
bound together or separate, at twenty-five per cent cheaper
than they are fold at after they are printed. Those congre
gations who will fubferibe for a quantity, shall have them
very cheap.
The fubferiber thinks it needless to solicit the friends to
their country to save Rags, for he flatters himfelf that they
are doing it every opportunity. He will give hard money
for old Bags, Sail Cloth, or any kind of Cotton and Linen
Rags, and has on hand to exchange for them Writing Paper,
Cartridge and Press Papers for Clothiers, Copperas, Allum,
&c. &c. &c. Those who fend only one pound, will have
the thinks of their most humble fervaat,
NATHANIEL PATTEN.
N. B. He has on hand a quantity of well printed Dill
worth's Spelling Books, & will warrant not to be erronious.
EA RT HEN WA RE,
To be Sold, Wholesale or Retail ; also,
A Number of APPLE-TREES, for Orchards,
[By ISRAEL SEYMOUR.
Hartford, August 2, 1781.
^rhe Officers and crew of the privateer Schooner Raven;
JL when Commanded by Capt Olmsted, are desired to
call upon their agent for their pri« mtney ^nd goods.
Hertford, August 2, 1781,
STOLEN from the Subferiber, on the „ft of July nlt.
a Dark Brown M A R E, fourteen and a half hands high,
leven or eight years old, a Ear in her forehead, left hind
foot white, a white spot on her right fide just before the hip
bone, paces and trots. Whoever will take up said Mare,
and secure the Thief, and give information to the fubferiber,
shall have a generous reward, and charges paid, by
ABEL RISING.
WcH-Suffield, August 6, 1781,
N. B. There was left in the pasture, from which the above
mentioned Mare was taken, a small brown Mare, very low
in flesh, about thirteen hands high.
TrARD-MONEYT
OR Good W RITING PAPER, given for clean
Cotton and Linen RA GS, coarse or fine, or old Sail
Cloth, at the Printing-Office or either of the Paper Mills in
Hartfoid, and by Mr. Nathaniel Stanly, Canaan ; Mr. Eben
ezer Burr, jun. Norfolk ; MefT. Jacob Beach and Nehemiah
Lewis, Goshen; Mr. Levi Thrall, Torrjngton.; Mr. Daniel
Hudson, Torringford; Mess William Seymour and Zacha
riah Watson. New-Hartford; Mrs. Avery and Mr. David
Austin Winchester ; Mefl. William Torry and Aaron Bunce,
Lebanon, Mr. Nehemiah Street, Farmington".
BROKE into the paitui eof the ^ubfciiber, one Brown
MARE, about 12 years-old, branded W on the left
shoulder, about 13 hands high, natural trotter.. Also, one
roan Horse Colt, almod white, 2 years old past, about 14
hands high, no brand, natural trotter. The owner is defil
ed to pay charges and take them away..
; IS AA C SHELDO N.
Hartford, August ~ 1781.
TH E Collectors of Sr^te Taxes in the Counties of Hart
ford and New-London on the weft fide of Connecticut
River, arc hereby notified that I shall call on them at their
several places of abode, some time the week after next, for
the purpose of receiving all the hard Cash they have or pof
flbly can collect by that time, agreeable to my appointment
by his Excellency the Governor and Council of Safety, for
that purpose.
„ , — % JOHN DODD.
Hartford, August to, 17$!.
NOTICE is hereby given, so all the non-commissioned
Officers and Soldiers, belonging to the Corps oflnva
lids, residing within, this State, or elsewhere, to repair to
Litchfield, without the Icaft delay, when they will receive
further orders ! —Those that negleftto comply with this
order will be considered as deserters, and treated as fitch.
EBEN. HILLS, Capt. Info Regt.
Kent, August 2, i„r.
N. B. The Selectmen in the refpe&ve towns, within this
State, are requested not to fuffer any delay in those soldiers
complying with the above order within their towns, as their
Service is immediately wanted.—The several printers within
this State are desired to publish the above in their next pa
pers as it is of public utility. E. HILLS, C. I. R.
THE several towns on the weft fideofConoeCticut river,
in this State, who have not sent forward their Men, to
serve until the firft 'of March next, at or near Horfeneck,
under the command of General Waterbury, are hereby noti
fied and directed, to deliver them to me at Litchfield, or
fend them to Lieut. Lewis, at the White-Plains, a< soon as
possible. JAMES STODDARD, Capt.
Litchfield, July 30. 1781.
AL L persons indebted to the Pi inters of this Paper, For
News Papers, Advci tifements, or any other account,
are requested to make immediate payment. Those who
have given obligations to pay in produce, and have neglect
ed to make good their conwafr, are once more, for the last
time in this way, desired to call and fettle them.
T~ O B~- E SO L~D, ~
(Opposite the South Meering-Houfe, Hartford)
TE A, Sugar, Indigo, Writing Paper, Bonnet ditto,
Leiper's best Snuff, Combs of all kinds, Chapel Nee
dles, Cap Laces, Edgings, Barcelona Handkerchiefs, wide
and narrow Tape, Ribbons, Pins, &c. &c.
Hard Money, or any of the above articles, will be given
for clean Cotton and Linen Rags, coarse or fine, by
ABIGAIL BROWN.
J AMES TI L E
Makes and has for Sale (not at a Clock Maker's & Brazier's
but) at his Silver-Smith's Shop,a little Eastward ofDoftor
Smith's Store in Hartford,
SILVE R Shoe, Knee and Stock-Buckles, Silver Spoons,
Gold Necklaces, Stone Ear Rings fee in Gold, Ditto in
Silver, Ladies Hat Pins, &c. which he will warrant to be
made of good Gold and Silver.
There are to be Sold at the Store adjoining said Shop, Tea,
Sugar, Coffee, Pepper, Whale Bone, Ogden's Steel,fwitable
for Plow Irons, and best English Pins.
A good workman at the Brazier's and Founder's business,
may have Shop room on reasonable terms, by applying to
said Tiley.
Hartford, July 24, 1781.
THE public are hereby informed, That Dr. WATT S's
PSALMS, lately advertised in the Press by A BEL
MORSE, of Wethersfield, are come to hand, and are rea
dy to be delivered to fubferibers, and others who may want
to purchase them Singly, or by the hundred, dozen or gross.
They are so good and cotreft an edition, that they need no
recommendation ; the HYMNS arc now in the Press and
will soon be published./
Said MORSE has for sale a variety of School Books,
Novels, Histories, &c. Also, Writing Paper by the Ream
or quire, Bonnet Papers, Tea, Sugar, Coffee, Chocolate,
SP ' C ' S ' ™" Linen, Gauze and Silk Handker
chiefs, Penknives, Sciffars, Snuff, Sewing silk, Holland and
Cambrick Thread, Powder and Shot, and sundry other ar
ticles. '
N - B ° ^> r s the Above articles, or Cash given for Rags.
Wethersfield, August 6, 1781.
Tea, Sugar, Indigo, Popper, Pins, Teft^mentftpelling
Books and Primers of the best kind, to be Sold or ex
changed for clean Cotton and Linen Rags, coarse or fine at
die Printing-Office near the Great Bridge, in Hanford,
A IL those that arc indebted to the (Rate of RICHARB
ALSOP, hiq. deceas'd, are once more desired by
cue lubfcriber co come and lettlc their book accounts, and
pay the intered due on their Notes of hand, if not, they will
toon be put into an Attorney's hands to #olleft.
MARY ALSO P, Administratrix,
Middletown, August 6, 1781.
To be SOL D, and entered upon immediately, if the pur
chaser or purchafas choofc; the following LOTTS of
LAN D, lying in Hartford, South Society, viz.
ONE LOI 1 lying in Wethersfield-Lane, and butting
on the eatt lide of die main rood leading from Hart
ford to Wethersfield ; contains 16 acres orupwards of excel
lent mowing and plow land; a good bearing orchard on the
fame ; an excellent building spot next to the fireet; with
many other conveniences to make it commodious : The
whole to be fenced into three complete lotts, by the prefeng
owner immediately—Said lot lies about one mile from die 1
bridge. Another LOT T, about a quarter of a mile
weft of the above mentioned lot, containing about 10
acres of excellent land, suitable for mowing, plowing and
pasturing; an excellent two acre orchard, fenced off from
the fame : Both lotts are within full view of each other.
Another LOTT, lying one quarter ofamile south of the
last mentioned lot; contains about 12 acres of good p„fture,
and well fenced : Is also within view of the last mentioned
|Ott.----Another LOTT, lying in the South-Meadow,
containirig one acre and a quarter; is excellent for mowing
or plowing.-—Another LOTT, lyii g in the Commons,
about two miles weft from the bridge, containing about 9
acres of good pafturc, and some wood on the fame.
Also to be fold, a HOMESTEA D, a fewrods east of
the South School-Iloufe, on the lane leading into the South-
Meadow, containing about j acres of excellent mowing; a
few fruit trees of an extraordinary quality on the fame; Alit,
a repairable dwelling house, a good new barn, and 2 cow
boules belonging to the fame, a well, &c. Said homestead
cannot be entered upon before the 20th of May next follow
ing. Any gentleman inclining to purchase the whole, or
part of said lands, may know die terms, by applying te
THOMAS TIS DALL, on said premises.
Said homestead is on an eminence, is a little retir'd, and
commands a beautiful profpea of the Great-River and
Meadow.
N. B. A few Farming Utensils, to be fold, by said Tifdall.
Hartford,, Tulv, 1781.
Lost, lalt Friday nigur, between Farmington and
Weft-Harefordj a silver WATCH, with a China face,
a black ribband iriftead of a chain, a brass key A gene
rous reward and charges will be paid to any person who will
leave said Watch with' the printers of this paper.
Hartford, July 24^ 1781.
J 0 HDwhL L, '
South of the COURT-HOUSE; HARTFORD.
Has for SAL E,
JAMAICA, Windward-I(land and New-England Rum
Best white and brown Sugary Molasses; Tea ; Coffee
Cotton, an Rock Salt.
WANTED, by said CALDWELL, Cprn, Oat#
Peas, Beans, and Flour.
TAKEN Up in the inclofure of the SubferiberTofTor
about the 30th of April last, a Sorrel H O R S E, bear
ing fomeching upon the roan, three years old, his hind legs
white. The owner is desired to prove his property, pay
charges and tales him away.
„ , „ JOHN GILLET.
New-Marlborough, July 2, 7781.
'i AKBN UP by the Subferiber, sometime in June lull,
A. a Black HORSE, Bor 9 years old, 12 or 13 hands high,
branded on the left shoulder S. M. and on the left thigh bur
the letters unknown, trots, paces and cankers well. The
owner is defined to prove his property, pay charges and take
him away. SETH SMITH.
New-Hartford, July 30, 1781.
THE PROPRI ET ORS of the Town of Fairfield, in
the State of New- Hampshire, are hereby notified, to at
tend on an adjourned Meeting of said Company, to tranfa&
important business, relative to their interest in said township,
on Monday the 27th of August next, at one o'clock in the
afternoon, at the house of Mr. Jabez Well, innholder in
Lebanon, State of Connecticut.
THO. WILLIAMS, Proprietors-Clerk.
Lebanon, July 28, 1781.
JU ST come to hand from Philadelphia, a Quantity of
the firft Quality of INDIGO and BOHEA TE A,
whici will be SOLD very reasonable for Specie or Bills
on France, by
TIMOTHY PALMER.
Suffield, August 7, 1781.
TH E S%bj enters once more inform the creditors on the estate of
' °."^ C~AELE, late of Glaficnbury, deceas'd, re*
p r ,fented inftlcent that ive shall attend to receive and examine
the claims of the creditors on said estate, on the zft, 2d and ;4
Tuesdays of September next, from one o'clock in the afternoon till
seven on each ofj^d daps, at the Dwelling house of Jtfah Hale.
JOSI..A H H^4LE,J Commif-
ELISHA H^LE,] fioners.
Glaftenbur, July 26, 1781.
STRAYED or 5 I O Lh.N troin the Sublcribei's in
clofure, about the 10th of July ult. a Broun HOKSF,
dark mane and tail, a dark ftre.ik on bis back, a white spot
in his forehead, branded on his fore hoof E. H. four years
old last Spring : Supposed to have gone towards Waterbury,
if strayed, where she was bred. Whoever will take up said
horse andreturn him to the fubferiber in Middletown, or to
Mr. Wolfcy Scott, in Northbury, shall have a handsome re-'
ward and ueccßary charges paid, by
ELIJAH HUBBARD.
Middletown, August 2, 1781.
STRAYED from the Subferiber, last Monday night) a
Brown MAR E, 13 hands and a half high, a small flar
in her forehead, her mane cut a little, paces and trots, shod
before, a fear on her near thigh. Whoever will return said
ftrav to the owner, shall have a generous reward and charges
paid, by
ELISHA ENOS.
Sim&aay, July jo, 178X1