The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1783-03-18 00:00:00, page 1

DANIEL JON E 9, & Co.
At the Red Store opposite the Printing-Office,
have for Sale,
JAMAICA Sugar, per hogshead, barrel or less quantity.
Raifi^ and Rice, by the cask or ditto.
Weft India Rum and Bohea Tea.
Black Pepper and Rock Salt.
Coniac Brandy. ALSO,
A ver, good affortmenc of Dr, Goods.
Hartford, March I, 1783. ,
o'be fold and entered on the firft of Ma, next, a good
House, Barn and four acres of good meadow Land, Ir
ing in Wallingford in Connecticut, three miles from the
meeting house, on the post road to Hartford ; said land has
an excellent good orchard on it, of morethan one hundred
trees ; the house has been improved as a tavern for a num
ber of years, and is much wanted as fuch—-Alfa, fundr,
other pieces of Land, lying not far from said house, con
taining in all about fifty acres, properly divided into plow
ing, paftaring and meadow land, cuts about ten tons of
ha, ; all ora part of faidland ma, be purchased with said
buildings, and a licence to keep a tavern a year from next
May, it will be fold on reasonable terms, a good time for
payment alowed, and an indisputable title given, by apply
ing to AARON HAC KLEY.
Wallingford, Feb. 22, 1783.
ALL Perlons indebted to the estate of GERSHAM WOL
COTT, late of Wethersfield, deceas'd, either by Book
or Note, or for Rates, are hereby notified and desired to fet
tle with the Subferibers, who will attend on said business at
the dwelling house of the deceas'd, on the fecund, third and
fourth Wednesdays of March next, from one o'clock after
noon nil nine.
ELISHA WOLCOTT, ) Admini.
JOSIAH WILL/ RD, ) ftrators.
Wethersfield, Feb. 25, 1783.
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WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER.
THE Hon. Court of Probate for the diftn& of Hartford,
having allowed one year from the date hereof to the
Creditors to the estate of Mr. JOHN WEBSTER, late of Glaf
tenbury deceased, to bring in their claimsagainft faideftate,
the Subferibers, Administrators to said estate, hereby Noti
fy said Creditors, that unless their claims are exhibited with
in the time limited as afore G^ they cannot be allowed.---
And all persons indebted to said estate, are desired to make
fangicditate pa, ment to
STEPHEN TREAT, )Admini-
ELIZABETH WEBSTER)ftrators.
Glaftenbury, Feb. 4, 1782.
AT a Courf of Pronate herd at Elt Wmdfor, foe the dif
tri& of East Windsor, on the Bth day of February,l,B3.
Onnah Porter and Stephen Treat, administrators on the es
tate of JON ATHAN PORTER, late of Batt-Hartford; de
ceas'd, now move this Court, to'limit 2 time for the credi
tors to said estate to bring in their claims to said admini
strators, which this Court approve of Whereupon this
Court allows seven months to the creditors to said estate, to
bring in their claims to said administrators, after said ad
ministrators shall have posted up a copy of this or # der of
Court, in fomepublic place in Balt-Hartford, and causing
the fame to be inferred in the Connecticut Courant for three
weeks fucce ffivcly.
A true Copv of Record,
TO BE SOLD, At"
'BEARDSLEYS & FORKING Store,
Best FISH and BLUBBER OIL, on Reasonable
Terms.
Cash will be given at the above Store, for
Bills of Exchange on France, or in Exchange,
Medicines or a few articles of European Goods,
at a generous rate.
Hartford, March 4, 1783.
Ebenezer barnard, jun. gives notice ^o all people
that have ay demands on him, ading as Agent for the
State ofConne&icut, or on his own private account, to
exhibit the fame for settlement.
Hartford, February 27, 1,83.
TA/ii is to Notify the Non-Refdent Proprietors of the towrf
Hartland viz. Jonathan Bigelow's heirs, John Eafton
Olcott Doctor D niel Lothorp's heirs, and John Root, to come
and fettle their Rates, or their Lands will be fold at Public Ven
due the firft day of May next, at theSign-Poft, in Hartland at
One o'clock, afternoon. '
, JOEL^CK@, Collar.
Hartland, February /,„,
HARTFORD: Printed by HUDSON and G^WwTn; near THE — Great Bridc.i
T U E SD A Y, March 18,1783.
PARNASSUS No. VL
, Caufo latet, vis est notiffima. OVID.'
SOME general suggestions in a former paper
may require particular elucidations. I have
said, that gentlemen of known literary merit, in
office at College, had become objects of jealousy,
and been removed, or compelled to refigir An
account of their treatment by the Corporation
may be expeded. Regard to truth and the op
pressed should ever be Superior to considerations
of personal refped. Amicus Plato, Amicus So
crates, fed magis arnica veritas.
A worthy gentleman had solicited to resign
the tutorship in the fall of 1777, but was urged,
beyond the power of resistance, to continue in
office. The College were dispersed by the tu
mult of war. This gentleman had been at about
151. expence, as money then passed, in fixing
himfelf and his class down near thirty miles from
College. He revered the character of Dr. Stiles,
then invited to the presidency ; and, from the
probability of his accepting the invitation, fond
of the class he had inftrufted, determined to
remove to New-Haven, fliould the Students be
ordered thither, his class having proposed to be
at the expence of removing his family. He went
to New-Haven in the spring to wait on the Cor
poration, being the firft opportunity he had to
know their decision concerning College. On
entering their presence, he was thus accosted.
" Well, we have determined to call College
to New-Haven. Will you come with your
class ?" Answer, "On the earnest request of
my class, and from my very great refpe& to the
President ele&, I had determined to come. But,
gentlemen, I hope your do not wantan immedi
ate, decisive answer. I have a family, am not,
at this moment, certain of an house to accom
modate them, and cannot resolve to remove them
into the street." —" We mult have an immediate
answer ?" "Then, gentlemen, I must resign.”
"We must have an immediate answer !"
The gentleman thought of his promise to his
class, and, though chagrined, being desirous of
tarfying at college, replied, " Gentlemen, can
you give me no time ?"—" We give you half
an hour !" He waited on his father in law, a re
fpe&able inhabitant in New-Haven, returned
within the time, and told the corporation that he
resigned.
Another, who had been a Tutor a number of
years, affed as moderator to a class of students
in a quarterly exhibition, in a vacation. Every
kindof exhibition had been forbidden in term
time. He was the only tutor who could, in pre
tence, be charged with disobedience. But he
and his fellow-tutors were all called in question,
and demanded what refpe& they had paid to the
interdiction aforefaid. As a punjlhment, the
class which of course belonged to the gentleman
we speak of, was ordered under the inftruftion
of the Profeffor of Philosophy. The foregoing
was, however, but the ofleufible reason for this
treatment of him. Another of the Tutors had
been antecedently told, in a fort of confidence, by
a member of the corporation, that it was the wish
of that board to be well rid ofthdm all ; (four in
number) adding that the tutors had become too
big for the corporation, and had turned all solid
learning into shew ; for they taught the students
Lowth's Grammar. Upon so broad an hint,
the gentleman to whelm it was given, (now a
very worthy clergyman) thought it most prudent
to resign. His fellow-tutors were ignorant of
this circurnftance till their collegiate death.
It is no disparagement to any to fay, that more
refpe&able characters have not been in the tu«
torffiip at the college, than the gentlemen refers
ed to. These examples are fufficient to explain
and Support ray general representation in a for
mer number. The friend to whom lam indebt
ed for my information in the above particulars,
might fay,
■ ^Uteque ipfe miferrima vidi,
Et quorum pars magna fui. —
Yet not having made memorandums of these
tranfaaions at the time, he cannot be confident
that no important circumstance has escaped his
recolledion, nor would affirm that he hah been
perfeaiy accurate in all the circumstances men
tioned ; tho' as to the substance he has no doubt.
Would it not have better comported with the Ra
tion of gentlemen, who have the care of a public
seminary, to have formed their treatment of their
servants upon the observation, Deshina emollif
mores ? It increafeth our obligation for a kind
ness, when it is done with a good grace; and an
injury is aggravated when done with an ill grace.
A faithful servant, on resigning his office, is en
titled to so cheap an acknowledgment as thanks
from # his master. The corporation have been
unmindful even of this small acknowledgment.
Were they associated with a circle of learned men
of other profeffions, they would fee many past
mistakes, and rejoice in the improvement deriv
ed from connections with gentlemen under bet
'ter advantage to know the modes and tempers of
mankind. They would not have objected to the
use the tutors made of Louth's grammer, had
they known the merit of the performance, and
that the learned Bishop who composed it, is es
teemed one of the firft scholars in the British na
tion. They would not have treated their servants
with fitch indelicacy, had they been acquainted
with the thorough difeuffions, which other pub
lic bodies give to points of such moment as per
sonal character and removal from office. Their
situation leads them to view one fide only. Fix
ed on one object, their eye doth not fee others ;
like Britain intent on the conquest of America
and blind to her own interest and honor. Could
I give a better account of the tenor of their past
conduct, equal justice would constrain me to do
it. Or if any gentleman will suggest a better, I
Should be glad. But whoever undertakes it will
remember, that his account must consist with
this faCt, that the corporation persevere in a sys—
tem of conduct which they have long known has
been most unacceptable to the government.
I would be understood to exempt^me members
of the corporation from an imputation of having
been deficient, either in point of gratitude or de
licacy, in the mode of treating the officers under
them. Some gentlemen there are who merit
much praise and honor-^-who, I believe sincere
ly regret the summary and ill-judged proceedings
that have been noticed, and feel the dishonor
hereby brought on the body. 1 w ish their in
fluence was greater; and will ye t indulge anhope
that their brethren may fee differently from what
they have done. Men, who on the whole mean
well, may be contracted in their views, and te
nacious of measures detrimental to the public.
Some who have strenuously opposed the present
revolution in America, have done it, no doubt,
in the full persuasion that they were pursuing the
welfare of their country. But doth it hence fol
low, that their country have no cause of com
plaint against them, or cannot be juftified in tak
ing measures to counterwork their designs?
|No. 947.)