The Connecticut courant, and the weekly intelligencer — Hartford [Conn.], 1778-10-13 00:00:00, page 4

ADVERTISEMENT.
WHEREAS Try dearest confot, Anna,
(Or Doll or Sue, or Nab, cr Hanriah,)
The vilest trollop in the nation.
Withour leaf? cause cr provocation,
From house and board and bed hath elop'd,
And after pit, ps arid Scoundrels gallop'd ;
And further frill in spite, of rcafon,
And loving prayers, rhy. very knees on.
Refutes e'er with me to dwell
Though better far than bound in hell.
These presents therefore, all forewarn,
fath pamper'd knaves and wretch forlorn,
Not once to harbour entertain;
T r credit deal with, or detain
This termagant, or vOife, or curse,
On pain oftlaW, cr Something Worse.
Here now I fland with arms wide Ipread,
To take , her to my board and bed,
Whene'er her own tout heart will let her,
(Or I leave off 'o teaze and fret her.)
Nay more ; I Solemnly avow,
I'l' treat her well as I know how ;
B' kind and loving, mild, and tender,
If fc her person will surrender :
'ct if these promises She (corns,
A d smears (he'll make me wear the horrify
Whoe'er (hall da e to even flop her,
S'ill not rece ve a finale copper.,
To prove my words are not in jell.
Here "ands my name, Tom Dick diftreA.
October 1778. _____
T O ES~O L D,
Excellent writingpaper,
by the Ream orQuire- Also to be exchanged,
was formerly, for Rags or any of the Necessaries
of Life, .at the Printing Office in Hartford^ _____
CLOTHIERS WORKS.
ELI^HALET RICHARDS, hereby informs the
public, and particularly his former customers,
that he again carries on the clothiers bufiuefs, for
witch purpose he has procured a good fopply of
press papers ; also dye fluffs necessary for dying
clarets red brown, light brown, dark brown, Lon
don brown, &c. He experts his Fulling Mill to go
in a few days ; and as he is furnifh'd with a Suffici
ency of help, will make it his Special care to ferVe
the public with difpatcb, and to their acceptance.
E. RICHARDS.
New Hartford, Sept. 8 1778.
s=o L~b,
-™,V John Howe of New Hartford, a sixty acre
' lot of land, lying in Tyringham, and situate a
a mile and three quarters from the meeting
cHe has likewise for sale, a few Classical
Becks, viz. Virgil, Horace's translations, two
Tallies, and some others.
Sept. 15, 1,78.
—f~(j —B~Ts OL D,
AVERY convenient dwelling house, almost
new, two stories hih, four rooms on the firft
floor, and three on the ftcond (not finished) with a
convenient cellar, cellar kitchen, pantry, &c. plea
santly fruated in Danbury, Rear the bridge, very
convenient for a tavern, trader or tradesman ; toge
ther with about two acres of extraordinary ood
land, on which said house stands, and about four or
livewares of ood wood land within two miles of the
|own. The owner livin on said premises, will
ive an indisputable title for the fame.
WILLIAM B. ALGER.
Danbury, Sept. 2, 17,8.
BROKE into the inclofure of the fubferiber, a
roan Marc colt, three years old. Whoever
proves their property, and paying charges shall have
her again. Daniel Robertson.
Fairfield, Sept. 1, 1778.
WE the fubferibers, being appointed by the
honorable judge of probates, for the diftri&
bf Middletown, commifiioners to examine and adjust
the claims of the creditors to the eftite of Thomas
Doolittle, late of Chatham deceased (said estate be
ing represented insolvent) do hereby give notice to
said creditors, that we shall attend said bufiaefs, at
the dwelling house of Mr. Gideon Arnold, innhold
er in said Chatham, on the last Monday of Septem
ber, the third Monday of November, and thelaft
Monday of December next, at one o'clock in the af
ternoon of each day.
BRYON PARMELEE,?
JOHN NORTON, % Commimonc .
Sept. 15, 1778- -
7„ Gfl T'and Fourteen Ounce TACK S,
3d. qd. 6d. Rd. and rod. Nails, to be
Sold by Benjamin Cheney.
< : hrtfe;d, Sept. 19, 1778.
LOST some time last march, in the road near Capt.
Whitney's tavern in Canaan, a pair of old sad
dle bags with a tin sugar box therein. Whoever
will return them to Major John Sedgwick, in Corn
wall, or Capt. John Watson in Canaan, shall have
two dollars reward, paid by either of them.
Canaan August 14, >778.
mrofflMtm'vß— t w ~ tfe ^^—- -==■—=mwwt-.raCT^
TAKEN upby David Ballard of Montague one
large yoke of oxen, supposed to be eight or
nine years old, are a pale red colour, with some white
about them, marked with a flit in the near ear, and a
halfpenny the underside the fame. The owner may
have them by paying cost of keeping, and of the ad-
Vertifement. David Ballard.
September i. 1778.
WE the fubferibers, being appointed commiffi
oners by the honourable court of probate,
for the di rift of Middletown, to examine the claims
of the creditors to the estate of Benjamin Baily, jun.
late of Haddam, deceas'd, represented insolvent, do
her eby ive notice, that We shall attend the business
of our appointment, on the last Tuesday of Sept,
instant, and the last Tuesday in October next, at
one o'clock afternoon, on said days, at the house of
David Brainerd in Haddam.
Phinba# B RArN a RD , ) commiffionen;
Samuel Brooks, J
September 10 1778.
T o B — E -—L~
A T private sale, one hundred and fifty acres of
land, lying in Murray Field, in the county of
Hampshire, and state of MaffachuSetts-Bay, by Enoch
Shepard, about seventy acres under improvement,
thirty acres more seeded down to pasturing; cut the
present year about forty tons of good hay, good for
mowing, pasturing, and all kinds of grain, well wa
tered, well fenced, partly with stone wall ; a large
house and barn. A good title will be given to said
lands, by ENOCH SHEPARD.
August 8, 1778. _____
S"""f RAYED or stolen from the fubferiber, out of a
pasture in Danbury, the niht after the 2d inst.
a dark bay Mare, black mane and tail, Several white
foots on her back, very Short fore top. natural trot
ter, branded with Con her left shoulder. Whoe
ver shall take up said Mare, and fend me word, so
that I may have her aain, shall receive a reasonable
reward, arid necessary chares paid by
JAMES STURDIVANT.
Norfolk, Sept. 5, 1778.
"STATE of VERMONT, August 15 1778.
WHEREAS application hath been made to me,
one of the assistants by the proprietors of
more than one sixteenth part of the tewnmip of Cla
renden, in the county of Bennington, and state of
Vermont, to warn a meeting of said proprietors ; in
consequence of Lid request these are therefore to
warn said proprietors te meet at the dwelling house
of the Widow Potters, innholder in said town, on
Wednesday the 4th day of November next, at nine
o'clock in the forenoon, then and there to aft in the
following articles, viz.
I. To chufe a moderator. 2. To chafe a clerk
for said propriety. 3. To chufe a Committee to as
sist said propriety. 4. To accept all legal Surveys
that are returned, that they may be put on record. 5.
To fee if they will lay out the undivided land, or
any part thereof. 6. To examine into the pretend
ed claims of those that possess lands without theNew-
Hampshire title. 7. To agree upon a method for
calling meetings for the future. 8. To aCt any
thing else that shall be for the benefit cf said propriety.
Given under my hand at Bennington date above.
JONAS FAY Assistant.
To BE SOLD, at PRIVATE SALE.
ABOUT 30 acres of excellent good LAND, for
" mowing and pasturing---Said land lyes within
half a mile of Suffield meeting-house. The above
faid land belongs to the heirs of Nathaniel Hazard,
Merchant, late of New York, deceased. Ifany one
inclines to purchase said land apply to Capt. Ephra
ira Peafe, at Enfield.
HE Subscriber having been'long absent in
I the army, takes this method to inform the
Public, that he has now returned, and carries on the
business of Weaving and Dyeing, as usual
WILLIAM MITCHELL.
New Cambridge, Sept. 8 1778.
STR AYE15 from the Subscriber, on the even
ing of the 15th inst. a small BAY HORSE
COLT, a Suckling, about five months old. Who
ever has, or will take up said celt, and return him
to the fubferiber, in Weft Suffield, shall have a gene
rous reward, and all charges paid by
JOHN HULBURB.
Su-ffiold, Sept. i@, 1778.
%^7E the fubferibers b€ng appointed coffimiffi^
oners by the honourable court cf piobate, for
the diftri& of Stafford, to examine the claims of
the creditors to the eriateof Eleazer Jones, late of
Seiners, decerfed, represented insolvent, dd hereby
give notice, that we shall attend the business of on!
appointment, on the last Thursday of October, and
November next, at one of the o'clock afternoon, ori
said days, at Mr, Noah Peafes in Somers.
Reuben Si^s, ) A
Jelhua p^roy, , Commit.
John Prentice, J fonff "
August 27, 1778.
STRAYED from the fubferiber,"about 'th^
tenth instant; twenty-one SHEEP, mark'd
with a crop in the left ear, with a flit in the crop and
a half penny on the ^per fide of the fame and a
half crop on the upper fide theright ear. Whoever
will take up and Secure said ffieep, and give infor
mation to the fubferiber, shall be generously reward
ed, by ELISHA WELLS.
Hanford Sept. 2§ 1778.
WHI T E'L-EA~D,—°
By the Hundred or Smaller Quantity, to be Sold
By CONSIDER BURT, in Hartford.
LOST in Hartford or Wethersfield, a POC
KET MEMORANDUM BOOK,
with fix or Seven parchment leaves, and a black lead
pencel, wuha new marble cover Slid into a black
flowered fhea^ , wort out at the corners ; con
taining ava ety f memorandums of consequence
to none but the owner, and particularly so to him:
Tho' unintelligible to any, yet, the perlon who has
found it is desired to be careful not to efface, but
to leave it with tie PRINTERS, who will re
ward generously.
WE the fubferibers, being appointed commissi
oners, by the honourablejudge of the court of
Probate for the difir a of Litchfield to examine the
claims of the creditors to the estate of White Gris
wold, late of Harwinton, deceased, (said estate being
represented insolvent ) do hereby notify the credi
tors to faide^ate that we shall attend to said business,
on the firft, second, and third Tuesday's of October
next, at one of the clock P. M. on each day at the
dwelling house of Major Abijah Cattlin, of Har
winton. No accounts will be allowed, except pro
perly a tefled.
WILLIAM ABERNETHY.
GEORGE CATLIN. (Comma,
JOSEPH COOK. J ftoners -
Harwinton, Sept, if, '77*.
'E N'OS'D o'o LTT-fT-E~
HAS just received a Supply ofWATCH CRYS
TALS and est jointed STEEL KEYS.
JOHN BURRIDGE, Hatter;
Ate South end of the Great Bridge, Hartford,
SELLS for aoi, or exchanges for good Wool,
belt Beaver Beuveret, Caster and Felt HATS, at
reasonable rates. He would go c encouragement to
any good Journeyman Hatte-r.
between the Court H)ufe inTiartford
and Wintonberry, about Thirty Continental
Brtis, and a Connecticut One Dollar Bill wrapped
upm a news paper. Whoever finds said money and
returns it shall have a handsome reward. Was found
a few Killings hard money.
_T HOMAS STEEL_
STRAYED from the fubferiber, in September, a
BAY MARE, about 10 years old, about ,3
hands high, a small star in her forehead, Shod all
round, natural trotter. Whoever will return said
Mare to the owner in Hartford, Shall havea reason
able reward, and charges paid, by
JAMES CHURCH:
Octebec 6, 17,8.
WE the Subscribers being appointed by the
Honourable Court of Prebate for the Diftri&
of Li(ehfield c Commissioners on the estate of Lieut.
Smith, late of Litchfield, deceased, represented in-'
Solvent, do hereby give notice, that we Shall attend
on that business at the house es the deceased, on the
second and third. Mondays of October inst. from two
te fix o'clock in the afternoon on each of said days,
Capt. John Orsborn
John Stoddor ( 'Ccnxnifficinm^
Stephen Baldwin, j
fitchfold Oa. 1 1778.
BROKE into the pasture, eFT^aemTHOMAt
Binney, ofTyringham in the count, of Berk
shire, and state of the MaffaChuf^tts Bay, about the-
I §th of May last ; a 3 year old stallion COLT, dark
brown, a small white streak in his forehead, branded
on his near Shoulder PB. The owner is desired to
prove his property, pay charges and take hra
away, THOMAS BINNHK